Ordinary Naruto (On Hiatus)

Chapter 1

12Chapter 1: The Beginning

It was a cold night in Konoha, there were no clouds yet there were also no stars to be seen. A cold wind swept through the night air, giving a foreboding chill down the backs of whomever was awake.

That night will forever bring fear into the hearts of those who survived. It was the night of October 10th, the night our hero's story begins.

*To a cave outside Konoha*

Deep outside Konoha was a large cave, it was inscribed with multiple seals and surrounded by ANBU. Inside was the late hokages wife Biwako and the current hokage, Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina who had just given birth to a baby boy with blond hair, blue eyes and three whisker marks on each cheek.

"It's a healthy baby boy" biwako smiled as she handed kushina her baby. Kushina and minato were smiling as she held the new addition to the family.

Kushina looked exhausted but she looked up to minato with a tired smile "He looks just like you" she looks down and rubs the baby's whiskered face.

Minato looks at his wife and son and gives her the biggest smile he can muster "I suppose but I'm sure he'll be just like you" he teased. Though there's still work that must be done. He still needs to maintain the seal and tighten it once again.

Biwako takes the baby to clean the child off and minato goes to work on tightening the seal. But before he can begin the hokage hears a scream from behind him.

He swiftly turns around to see biwako with her throat slit on the floor and a masked assailant holding his child.

Minato's eyes steel over "who are you?" he asks calmly. The masked figure stays silent for a moment and looks up. With the hood no longer obscuring his face, through the hole in his striped mask a lone sharingan glows ominously "Who I am does not matter, but unfortunately for you; you have something I need" the figure speaks just as calmly.

In that moment the black marks spread through kushina's body "AARGH" a scream tears through her face as the seal on her stomach bulges and flashes red.

Minato glances at his wife anxiously knowing the Kyuubi is trying to break free.

They both tense knowing what happens next. Minato leaps into action, throwing his Hiraishin kunai and appearing in front of the assailant with his kunai aimed for the masked figures throat only for it to pass through.

Confusion Marrs Minato's face but has no time to process as the masked figure throws Naruto into the air and re-appears next to kushina. Minato catches Naruto and quickly notices the explosive tags; throwing the blanket and teleporting to his home he barely escapes the explosion 'damn it, he separated us' he grits his teeth.

He lays the crying Naruto in his crib he sighs in relief that he's ok and sets out, leaving his son one last glance as he disappears in a flash of yellow light.

Meanwhile the masked man has bound kushina with a sealing array. Standing in front of her "I'm going to extract the Kyuubi, and when I do it will lead to Konoha's destruction" the man says sadistically. Kushina recoils in shock "what?" she tries to break the restraints but to no avail.

The man looks into kushina's eyes and the last thing she saw a glowing sharingan.

*Inside the seal*

"You" a voice thunders around him. The man says nothing as he looks into the eyes of the kyuubi and before him the kyuubi's eyes changed into a sharingan as well. The nine tails was under his control; And the seal broke.

*Back outside*

The kyuubi is free and kushina falls to the floor. The towering biju slams his paw onto her, seemingly killing her, until minato flashes to a tree with her in his arm. "Minato... is Naruto ok?" she asks weakly. The blonde hokage gives her a weak smile "yes, he is fine." She sighs in relief as he flashes to his still intact home and lies kushina next to Naruto.

"Thank you… minato" she looks at her husband as he throws on his haori. He looks back and gives her a soft smile "everything will be fine. Ill be back in a flash." He states as he disappears.

The next ten minutes are a blur as the nine tails is released into the middle of Konoha. Many fought, and many died until the kyuubi was about the annihilate the village with a bijudama. though before it reached the ground the fourth hokage teleported in miles away and saved Konoha.

Before the biju could begin another bijudama the third hokage pushed the kyuubi out of the village with his staff.

Subduing the biju with gamabunta and kushina's adamantine chains, the biju tried one last attempt; one that costed the lives of kushina and the fouth hokage. Still alive though, minato and kushina speak their last words to their son.

In a last moment decision Minato decides that it would be safer to seal the yin and yang chakras into the belly of the Shinigami as there's no way anyone can reach it there. Having faith in his son to defeat the masked Uchiha he seals the Kyuubi into the Shinigami while sealing some of his and kushina's chakra into Naruto to meet him when he's sixteen.

With the deeds done he and kushina's corpse fall to the cold grass. Immediately the third and his anbu are on the scene. Minato, still barely alive looks at Hiruzen "Please, take care of my son, Naruto." with this he breathes his last breath and goes limp.

Hiruzen nods sadly, acknowledging his successor's last wish. He picks up the baby and looks to his anbu "Let's go." He says gravely and the anbu nod. Accepting this he takes off to the hokage tower with the anbu tailing with the bodies of the former hokage and his wife.

That night the third hokage re takes the position of hokage after he discusses with the council in an emergency meeting. He now stands in front of the village preparing to break the news.

"Konoha" he starts "I know most of you must want to know what's happening, so I will explain." He pauses" minato, his wife and child have perished last night in order to defeat the kyuubi." The crowd started murmuring and most could be heard crying.

"To Minato, Konoha wasn't just any other village, this was his home. Every year there are many ninja born and raised here in Konoha… We live, fight to protect this village and what is precious to us. We would go to our death. He one told me "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.". Even if we are not related by blood, those of the village are, to me, my most precious, most important… family!" He booms "When the tree leaves dance, one shall find flames. The fire's shadow will illuminate the village, and once again, tree leaves shall bud anew." He finished, and the mood lifted hearing screams and cheers from the crowd.

He bids them well and steps back into the office. He sighs feeling his old age, he looks over to the crib that holds Naruto Namikaze; now Naruto Uzumaki to protect him from his father's enemies.

The sighs again as one of the greatest hokages children is now just another orphan of the attack on the village, he turns to look at the hokage monument 'Minato I promise I won't fail you'.