Kana [ Kakashi Hatake / Naruto ]

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"Sunflower Boy"

The Fall of Kurama

  The sound of screams, injured townsfolk and even ninja could be heard in every direction of the village. Pain, suffering, death, it darkened the atmosphere with it's poison and the people of Konoha could only watch in horror as their homes were torn away right before their eyes while they could do nothing more than cower and pray.

  Deep in the way, an exhausted Kushina Uzumaki lied her tired head against her husband's shoulder, the red head using every last bit of willpower to keep her eyes open but it was becoming significantly more difficult, "you have-," she heaved a dry cough, "you have to do it, Minato. I-it's the only way."

  "Your family already owes her, Kushina," Minato reminded his wife with a hint of desperation in his response, "you bear the mark of your family's debt, along with Naruto, who knows what will happen if you call on her again."

  "It's our- it's our only play," she rasped, shaky hand coming up to his cheek and lovingly caressing his smooth skin, "please, my love, for me," she pleaded softly, ".. for Konoha."

  Minato Namikaze took one look at his family, his life, and if his tired wife's look of encouragement wasn't enough, the innocent expression their blue eyed baby gave was. Naruto's shining orbs blinked innocently at his father who couldn't even find it in himself to smile at the sound of mindless babble coming from the newborn. He had to do it, he knew that much, but the black ink on his son's chest was a visual reminder of why his wife's final idea hadn't been his first. The double helix on Naruto was the same one Kushina harbored between her breasts, the mark of a pact made long ago by none other than Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki himself. And here they were, about the make the same decision he had, well, that is if the fox deity didn't decline, or worse...

  Minato was forced out of his thoughts by something being placed in the open palm of his hand and he looked down, his wife's fingers unclasping from around the bone that had been passed down throughout her family. "She left it for a reason," she told him, curling her fingers over his to make him grasp it, "this is that reason. It has to be."

  He couldn't say no to her belief, not when it had managed to bring them this far already. "Okay," he whispered, placing a delicate kiss onto her damp forehead as he gently removed the bone from her, "okay."

  Despite the absolute horror he had to run through, bloodied bodies, raging fires and piercing screams, Minato somehow made it to the woods unscathed and with the help of the full moon, and the fresh cut on his palm, he quickly began his prayers.

  "Inari, hear my ple-

"This is the second time I've been called here in less than a millennium," a feminine voice spoke from behind before he could even finish his first chant causing the hairs on the back of Minato's neck to stand, "you ninja sure know how to keep a girl busy."