Save Me......

Chapter 1

Happy Birthday, Naruto!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

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~10 years ago~

-3:00 pm-

"Now Naruto, your mother and I are going back to my office at the Hokage tower to take care of something. Listen to your brother okay? " Minato said to the six-year-old Naruto.

"Hai dattebayo!" replied the small blonde. "Can you also buy take-out from Ichiraku?" he asked.

"Come on otouto, you just had ramen last night. Otou-san can't we eat something else?" the eleven-year-old Kurama asked. "No way!" Naruto exclaimed. "It's my birthday today and ramen is the food of the gods , right Kaa-san?"

"I agree with you Naru, but you can't eat ramen all the time, it's bad for you dattebane," Kushina replied causing Naruto to pout.

"Come on, please, please, please?" Naruto asked while using puppy eyes. "Fine since it's your birthday Sochi," Kushina replied.

"Yatta!" Naruto said jumping up. "Settle down." Minato said "We'll be back in a few hours. Ja!" Minato said and left with his wife.

"Kura-nii, what should we do?" Naruto asked while running circles around him. Kurama sighed. "I wonder how you can have so much energy. Let's watch tv." Kurama said and the small blond cheered.

-7:30 pm-

'What's taking Otou-san, and Kaa-san so long? They should've been back by now.' thought Kurama.

The doorbell rang and Naruto ran to open it. "Wait Naruto!" Kurama said getting off the couch and went after him.

"Otou-sa- Ero-jiji? What are you doing here?" Naruto asked Jiraiya. "Naruto I... I need you and your brother to come with me to the hospital." Jiraiya replied with a hint of sadness in his voice. "W-What happened?" Kurama asked noticing the tone of his voice.

"Your parents were driving home from Ichiraku ramen when a driver lost control of his car and crashed into theirs. Killing your father in the process. During the surgery, your mother passed away. I want both of you to see them one last time." Jiraiya explained. By this time both of them were crying.

-At The Hospital-

The trio arrived at the room where Minato's and Kushina's bodies were.

"W-Where's Tsunade-obaa-san?" Kurama asked. "She's in her office. She's really depressed. After all, this is the third time that she couldn't save someone close to her. First, it was her brother Nawaki, then it was her former boyfriend Dan, and now it's our daughter, Kushina. She couldn't take the stress and now is in her office trying to take her mind off of the incident." Jiraiya replied.

A while after seeing their parent's bodies, Kurama snapped and yelled at Naruto. "This is all your fault! If you didn't want ramen, Otou-san, and Okaa-san would still be here. This is all you fault!" Kurama said and stormed off. "Naruto, what your brother said isn't true. Don't listen to him. Stay here, I'll be right back!" Jiraya said and chased after Kurama.

Naruto slowly sat down on the floor and started crying again. "Gomen," he said. Then all of a sudden, he froze in fear. A woman with long white hair fazed through the wall and appeared next to him.

"Oh so young, so innocent, so.... vulnerable," she said caressing his face while he could only stare up at her. "Kaa-san, what do we do know?" a voice asked. "I'm not sure" she replied while still caressing his face. "You could always kill him here and now." the voice suggested. "Or I can make him suffer," she said. She then went through a series of hand signs, before Naruto started feeling a lot of pain.

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Naruto snapped open his eyes and jolted up from his bed. With a sigh, he ran his hand through his hair. He had that dream or in this case, nightmare again. Ever since that day, he and Kurama moved in with their grandparents. Kurama ignored and hated him. When he was 10, Kurama took his stuff and left without saying a word. Naruto hasn't seen Kurama ever since he left.

He looked at the clock. It read 7:45 am. Konoha academy didn't start until 8:30. With a sigh, he got up and went downstairs. Tsunade already went to work since she was made Hokage after Minato died, but you can still find her at the hospital sometimes and Jiraiya wasn't up yet.

He grabbed a bottle filled with pills and took two out. He closed the cap and put it away before swallowing the pills with a glass of water. Two months after the mysterious women appeared, Naruto started feeling weaker and was coughing a lot. Tsunade did check up on him and couldn't identify what it was. All she found out was that Naruto wouldn't live pass 16. The medicine he took only made the disease slow down letting him live an extra year more. While getting treatment he met 8 other people with similar cases but wasn't killing them. Naruto didn't tell Kurama because he didn't want him to know claiming it was 'karma' causing the brothers to get distant.

Naruto sat down on the couch to read a book to pass time. He then noticed a note on the table.

Naruto,

Happy Birthday! I know I tell you every year but I am going to tell you again. Stop blaming yourself. It wasn't your fault! We'll visit them after school. Then we'll have a mini party okay? I know you don't eat ramen anymore so we'll go with that pervert to BBQ okay?

Love, Tsunade

He looked out the window and let out a sigh. It was that day again. Today was his birthday. There was nothing 'happy' about his birthday. He stopped saying dattebayo and eating ramen ever since the incident because it was hurting too much.

'Today is going to be a long day.' he thought.

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A/N: Wow.... So this was supposed to be a prologue but since it was so long, I decided to make it a chapter. Anyways, to clear things up, Naruto is turning 16. The eight people he met where the other Jinchurikis . The bijus will either be an older sibling or twin. Just to be sure, Naruto is 16 and Kurama is 21. Minato and Kushina died 10 years ago ;-; . The reason I made Naruto not say his verbal tick is because first of all, I don't know how to use it in sentences and second of all it would hurt him too much thinking about his parents. If you have any questions, leave it in the comments and I'll try to answer as best as I can. Until next time, Ja Ne! ✌