The Child of Prophecy

└ C4 ┐

└ Painful memories are what help us make it to tomorrow and become stronger.   —Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail) ┐

"Well, Lord Third? Is o-our child okay?"

Minato's wide eyes met Hiruzen's calm ones.

"Lord Fourth, calm down, child," the latter stated, making him frown but he obeyed.

"So? Is.. Is Naruko going to be okay? Is she?" The blue orbs of the blonde now remained focused on the newborn sleeping inside a crib.

It has already been two days since the kyuubi had escaped Kushina's seal and somehow.. turned their baby into its jinchuuriki. And, Minato had already examined the seal in Naruko's stomach for about six times a day, yet he found no fault in its design. In fact, it was quite the masterpiece, strangely similar of Minato's prototype that would have been used in a worst case scenario.

Now, the Sandaime Hokage examines it here and there, tries to find fault in the strange seal, but fails as well. Yesterday, Minato had asked (forced)  Jiraiya, who had unusually been in the village, to bring Tsunade to examine Naruko.

Of course, the toad sage had quite the soft spot for his student and he was also Naruko's godfather, so he had left to search for his ex-teammate. Hiruzen thinks that they'll probably be here by this afternoon or tomorrow. Kami-sama knows where the First Hokage's granddaughter had been gambling again. It'll definitely be a difficult task, even for Jiraiya, to bring her here but he simply has to.

After letting out a sigh, Hiruzen nodded his head, "Yes, your child is okay. I see no anomalities with the seal."

Hearing this, Minato slumps down into his seat before stressfully covering his face with his hands.

Seeing the depressed look on his successor's face, Hiruzen frowned before glancing at the whiskered baby in the room.

"You know Naruko looks like a boy, right now. Why did you make her wear that bright, orange bodysuit, anyway?" He questioned, changing the subject to lighten up the current hokage's mood.

"We had no clue about her gender," Minato answered, honestly, but still did not budge from his position.

"You could've just asked the medics to examine Kushina, you know," Sarutobi let out a sigh, before he stared at Minato with a serious face. "Anyway, Lord Fourth.. You do know that you need to do it, right?"

In an instant, the blonde-haired male looked up to the older, and nodded his head with much reluctance.

Even if he doesn't want to, he has no choice. Had he returned the Kyuubi into Kushina's seal, then Kushina would've died. And besides, the Kyuubi was the one to enter Naruko. And right now, he still had absolutely no clue about how it happened.

So, with a sigh, he made up his mind and stood up, "I.. I now declare the jinchuuriki status of Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto. The circumstances surrounding her birth shall be an S-class secret. If dispersed amongst the masses, the penalty will be death."

And so it has been concluded.