Jumping Fox

Chapter 1: Prologue

This is a crossover. But the crossover happens in the future so normally you would have to be patient and wait for the crossdimensional merriment. However I felt playful making this so for the first arc I plan on alternating between past and future per chapter.

This is for you Nocturne Kitsune, late but here nonetheless.

Oh, and I do not own Naruto or Teen Titans. They are property of their respective owners and even my ownership of this story probably would not stnd up in a court of law so I am trusting you readers not to steal my ideas without permission.

There once appeared in the land a Nine-tailed Demon Fox. One swing of its mighty tails could crumble mountains and raise Tsunamis. To face the Demon the people assembled the Shinobi but only one could stand against the Demon. Yet even he could not destroy the Fox. That shinobi sacrificed his own life to seal the Demon within a newborn infant. He was the Yondaime Hokage.

Prologue

 14 Hours after the Sealing of the Kyuubi.

Sarutobi Hiruzen sat behind his new old desk, tobacco fumes wafting from his pipe. It had been years since he smoked. Tsunade ever the medic had always hated his habit, even if regular treatments of healing chakra kept his lungs healthy. His excuse had always been that the tobacco helped relieve the stress of his duties. Not one to give up she had made him promise he would give it up when he retired. Though Tsunade herself might have forgotten, he had kept that promise.

Now he was unretired, with the hat back on his head and his body behind the desk he had thought he had escaped. This was not good, power is meant to be passed down the generations as time passed, for the old to replace the young is a sign of trouble.

True enough Konoha was in trouble. Disaster had been averted but their victory over the Kyuubi was the very definition of Pyrrhic. Another battle like this and they would be ruined. If they had not been the dominate power before the Kyuubi they would be crippled as it was they needed to show strength least the other Kages smell blood in the water.

So now he had been confirmed as acting Hokage until the crisis lessened to a degree to formally select a ruler for the Village. Sadly it looked increasingly like he would be restored as leader of the village. He was tempted to shake his head at the tragedy, of it all. It should not be like this, he had once pondered which of his students would be the best suited for the mantle of Hokage and now he was at a loss to find a successor at all.

There were those who aspired to the mantle. Uchiha Fugaku had been very bold in his bid. The man was ambitious as was typical for the strongest of Konahoa's Shinobi Clans. However, he was not truly on the level of a Kage and while commoners revered the Uchida they drew hatred and envy from the other great clans. Also the Uchiha held too much power as it stood, no single branch is the greater than the tree. He did not trust Fugaku to put the interests of the village before his clan.

Hiashi Hyuuga had also more discreetly been proposed as a candidate by his father. The heir to the Hyuuga was perhaps a better choice. He seemed to have been shaped into an embodiment of that clan's values for good or ill. The rigid conservatism left something to be desired, but his loyalty to the village was certain. But the Uchiha would not stand for one of their rivals to surpass them and the sealing policy alienated too many.

Jiraiya was actually the best suited to take the mantle. But he would not, especially so soon after the death of his surrogate son. To push the issue would only run the risk of further alienating the only Sanin still loyal to him.

Minato had high hopes for Kakashi, but it would be years before he could stand for the title, and it was no certainty he would be fit then.

No the only viable option was for him to take back the mantle he had passed on.