The Orange Reaper of Shadowed Blades

Prologue

A/n: This idea has been in my head for a long long time. Like when Bleach was yet to be finished kinda long. After letting this idea marinate in my head for a decade at this point, I'm finally going to write it down. While I am writing it for myself, I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I'm going to enjoy writing it!

Also! Spoilers for Bleach in the future chapters!

Minato had made a severe miscalculation.

He looked on, skewered on a giant claw as he was, as the masked man in front of him replaced his mutilated limb with black goo, which contorted to form a fresh left arm.

'This is fucking bullshit', thought Minato, unknowingly mirroring the exact thought that his opponents had when facing him.

Four hours ago:

'Whoa! Is that his head?! How's his head so full of hair already? Aren't babies supposed to be bald?'

"Minato-san!"

He faintly heard someone shout.

"Minato!"

He was too preoccupied, however, looking at Naruto (his son!) being born. He could hardly wrap his head around it still! He was going to be a father! Tears welled up in his eyes at the mere thought of getting to teach him some building destroying and potentially life threatening ninjutsu!

"Minato!"

'Oh how I'm going to spoil h-'

His internal monologue was cut short as a foot was firmly planted on his face.

"Quit staring!", yelled Kushina, her face almost as red as her hair. "This is the first and only time I'm going to give birth, damnit!"

"Don't do that, Lady Kushina! Just focus on pushing!", cried an attendant, moving in order to hold Kushina's leg in place.

"Fuck this shit!", yelled Kushina.

'Seriously...this is pretty traumatising', echoed the Kyuubi from within the confines of Kushina's mind. 'You humans really drew the short straw in evolution, what with being able to reproduce...'

"Not helping!", Kushina cried out loud.

"What isn't helping?! Do you need something?!", in just a moment's notice Minato was beside his wife, checking over her.

Kushina smiled at her husband, seriously, he was such a softie. 'This is why I married him...' she thought, her smile growing fonder 'I really ought to reward him after this...extensively.'

'Ugh...'

"Being delirious is a pretty common occurrence during childbirth, Minato-san", said another attendant, leading Minato away from Kushina.

Just like that her smile was gone.

"FUUUU-"

Three hours ago:

"How dare you try to blow my son?!", said Minato, his voice had a certain edge to it, a quiet fury that only a parent could possess.

"Huh? Now wait a minute, I never blew your-", started the masked man, only to be interrupted by a kunai that flew straight through his face.

"Your attacks won't ever truly reach me! No matter how relentless, they will only serve to deplete your own stamina!", he laughed mockingly as Minato ran towards him.

"That's what she said!", cried Minato.

"What?!"

The sheer shock at his enemy's statement caught the masked man flat-footed, letting Minato land a Rasengan (Spiralling Sphere) right in his face.

Two hours ago:

Minato was currently standing on his head.

'Heh! Youngest Hokage! Suck it Fugaku!', he thought while trying to think of a way to deal with the nine-tails that was exclusively trying to destroy the Uchiha Clan district.

Unbeknownst to him, Fugaku would be having a similar thought hours from now: 'Youngest Hokage to die! Suck it Namikaze!'

Present time:

"No matter! Hiruzen-dono will deal with you!", said Minato, looking at the masked individual in front of him.

"I was originally going to go and let you seal the Kyuubi but I can't risk you getting a happy ending, sensei!", cried the masked man. His voice was hysterical, to say the least.

"I'm currently a human kebab, along with my wife! How's that a happy ending?!", said Minato, clearly exasperated.

"Wait- did you just ignore the part where I called you sensei?" Asked the man, pointing an accusatory finger towards the Yondaime Hokage.

"I already knew it was you, Obito!", said the man, his tone dull as lead, "Only you'd be able to get yourself hit while having the power to be intangible!"

Not letting the man continue, Minato made some hand signs, his hands flying through the motions.

"Fūinjutsu: Shiki Fūjin (Sealing Technique: Reaper Death Seal)!"

"Not so soon!" Cried the masked man, removing his mask. Showing his half-scarred face to the world.

"Kamui (Authority of the Gods)!" He cried out, focusing his right eye at the scene in front of him.

Just as Minato executed his technique, it was enveloped in a strange vortex.

In the midst of the chaos, the Kyuubi tried to wrench it's claw free only to suddenly stop as he felt his Chakra get drained at a rapid rate. His eyes widened, afterall, if he actually felt drained then it was an outrageous amount indeed.

There was a loud explosion as everything around a thirty metre radius was blown away.

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Hiruzen arrived at the scene of destruction, his worst fears confirmed as he saw the dead bodies of his successor and his wife.

He then turned to see a baby, sleeping soundly on the scorched grass, a spiral seal on his abdomen.

"Minato...", he looked sadly towards the lifeless bodies once more, "I'll take care of your son."

His grave expression softened as he went to pick up the young boy in his arms, the shinobi whom he had come along with already working on retrieving the bodies of the boy's parents.

Hiruzen carefully picked up the child, gently wrapping him in the strange flowery pink kimono that lay beside him.

A/n: Well it turned out to be a bit more humorous than I had originally intended it to be but I'm happy with what I have written. Plus my editor liked it, so hopefully you do too!

Just a heads up, the tone of this story is going to be somewhat serious so it's definitely NOT a crack-fic (I'm not nearly talented enough for that). There are also no pairings.

I have had a decade to mull this idea over, so rest assured I have some great plans for the future of this story! The estimated length of this story is going to be something between 400k-600k wods (roughly) so this is going to be a long project as well!

Anyways! I hope you enjoyed! The first chapter is currently being edited so I'd say it will be published in a couple of days, hopefully.

Leave a lot of reviews for me to read! I love them all to death!