Naruto x Various Females

The Chains Of Youth

'What's going on?' She shook her head, clearing away the cobwebs. The last thing she remembered was Kushina giving birth, and then-

'Oh shit, no.' She looked around frantically, seeing the ruined village not too far away from her and Kushina's golden chains wrapped around her, a multitude of seals on her fur.

"It's good to see you back in your senses, Kurama." A soft, feeble voice reached her ears from below.

Looking down, she saw them. Kushina and Minato speared through by one of her own claws, their baby in front of them, and the Shinigami some paces away, waiting for the deal to be made.

She leaned her massive head down, her snout as tall as their bodies, "Kushina, Minato, I'm so sorry." A tear left her eye.

"It's not your fault, big girl," Kushina painfully said, the rasping sound wrong in Kurama's ears, "That masked bastard better hope he doesn't die soon."

"Kurama," Minato's own dying voice got her attention, "I want to ask a favor of you."

"Anything, Minato."

"Watch over our little maelstrom for us, okay?" He grinned at her, looking into her eyes, "I'll put part of myself and Kushina inside the seal with you, but it will be too little to watch over him as you could."

"I promise Minato," the gigantic fox said, closing her eyes, "I'll watch over him as if he was my own."

Minato nodded at her, unnoticed, before turning towards the Grim Reaper in front of him, "Shinigami, in exchange for my soul, Seal the Nine-Tailed Fox, Kyūbi, inside my son! Shiki Fūjin!"

She felt the familiar tug of being sealed, just as she felt a little of her friends go beside her.

'Don't worry, little Naruto,' she thought, 'I'll protect you.'

And her world went black.

TCOY - TCOY - TCOY - TCOY

"Yahoo!" Little five-year-old Uzumaki Naruto ran through Konoha's snowy streets, his eyes and smile gleeful.

There was just something about winter in Konoha. He didn't know if it was how the forests looked after the snowing, the snow itself, the air...

It could also be the fact there were a lot less people on the streets during winter.

He wasn't stupid; he knew the village's civilians didn't like him for some reason. The shinobi in general didn't have a problem with him, but he noticed the strange looks he got in the streets.

Not like he cared much, but sometimes he wondered what he had done to make them dislike him? Even the orphanage's matron had kicked him out last year!

He was lucky his jiji had been there to get him a place to live, and some of those masked ninja to look over him.

Come to think of it, he hadn't seen the orphanage's matron anywhere since he told jiji what happened; he wondered where she went?

A soft little voice brought him out of his thoughts.

"P-Please, leave me alone." It said, it came from the alley on his left!

Peeking in, he saw three bigger boys picking on a girl smaller than him! Who did these poo-heads think they were?!

"Aw, what are you gonna do, monster eyes? Go cry to your clan?" The biggest of the group said, prompting laughs from his friends. They couldn't be very smart, if they knew they were picking on someone from a clan, and kept on doing it...