Team Otsutsuki

One

Ashura looked up to see two Kurama looking at each other. Beside him, Minato attached himself to the chakra he left behind inside Naruto. The man saw Ashura looking at him and the former Heir of Ninshu saw the tears dripping down his pale face, "Naruto's dying,"

Ashura stumbled to his feet, "What? Why?"

"Because of us,"

Ashura looked at the two Kurama, "Why is that?"

Minato sobbed, "The seal...and Naruto's chakra is too immature. Kurama's Yin half being trapped inside him is slowly corroding his chakra," He gritted his jaw in despair; "I don't know what to do! I just want to be there for him and yet all I ever give him is misery!"

Ashura stared at his feet, the water lapping at the sole of his shoes and sighed. He looked at his brother, even separated they're one, "Kurama...I will disappear,"

The fox flinched, "What?! I just saw you again and you're already leaving?!"

Ashura smiled, "You're within me, brother. I didn't leave, merely evolve into something new,"

Understanding lightened his fox brother's face and yet his eyes shed tears, "This is really goodbye then?"

Ashura grinned, "It seemed so...besides, it was always meant to happen," He turned to Minato who looked at him in confusion, "I understand...I had once been a leader. There's only so much we can do to protect our precious people. Sacrifice is a must in our position, be it our family or us. I can't hate you for only doing what's right,"

Ashura slowly glowed like the sun and began to fade, "Namikaze Minato, I am proud you're my father. Even if the decision hurt you, even when you're aware how the road to hell is paved with good intentions, you still did what is right and honourable," He looked at Kurama, "Brother, please do not carry our Grandmother's hate. I am here now, different yet not. Help me, as we once help each other,"

As his glow intensified and his body started breaking, he advised Minato, "Take off the seal," The man looked torn and Ashura reassured him, "He will be fine. I am here and I am he. We are one..."

"Trust in me...trust in him..."

Minato listened as the voice drifted away into an echo and Kurama rumbled, "I am slowly returning into one. The seal won't hold,"

Biting his lip, Minato steeled himself and tore the seal he made, unlocking the great gates.

The once dreary place glowed at the same time the gates opened. Minato blinked and watched as his son once traditional blue chakra interspersed with Bijuu red transformed into nebula white and then gold. It was gentle but strong, full of life. More than his wife's vitality could ever hold a candle to and that was saying something because Minato has never met vitality like Kushina's, not even when another Uzumaki was around before the fall of Uzushio.

Kurama, now one, rumbled in amazement, "Otsutsuki's chakra," He looked at Minato, "You should go out and see what's up with our little kit,"

Minato did just that and saw Naruto being held by Dog, Kakashi, as the latter leapt for the nearest hospital. He followed like a ghost, undetected by the living. But he couldn't follow any further as ghosts of the dead began to follow his son. They can feel Kurama within him. Furious, he leapt ahead and stepped before them.

He glared, "What do you think you're doing?"

The largest ghost glared back, "Move! I must avenge my family! That thing did this to us! How can it lives while we are...this!" He gestured to himself in distaste.