Prologue - Hokage's Request Kumo Adoption
Prologue: Hokage’s Request, Kumo Adoption
It was the day that the Yondaime Hokage of Konoha was waiting for the most, meant to be the happiest day of his life, but it turned out to be the saddest instead.
"Alright the preparations are done, don't worry Kushina, we both shall see him once more when I do not know but we will one day… I promise this to you." Leaning on his bloodied back was his dead wife Kushina who died pierced by the nail of the Kyuubi trying to protect her new born, 'Naruto'.
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Elsewhere a few miles away was a squad of Kumo shinobi who were on a mission. They were hearing loud noises and jutsu sounds and their sensor could also sense people dying at a rapid pace, one that had not been seen since the war. They came to investigate what was going on and found the Yellow Flash & Red-Hot Habanero with gaping holes in their stomach next to a crib with a small baby. As A saw this he told his squad to stay back and then went ahead himself, to try and figure out what was going on with his long-time rival who looked to be dead even though he did not know of any shinobi who could do this to both him and Kushina Uzumaki.
As he went to check on them he saw that Kushina was already dead however Minato was still breathing, however shallow or ragged it may have been. When Minato saw him approaching however his expression changed, he was not an optimistic or naïve man who thought the village would accept Naruto, so when A approached him he saw an opportunity he quickly took out a scroll and told A "Hello my old rival, I do not have enough time to explain what is going on there are more important matters at hand, you are the only one I trust with this, please take this scroll it contains the letters we wished to give our in case he never knew us, it also has a few gifts for him should he choose the ninja life. Please make sure my son receives them, no one but he can open them, I am writing another scroll to explain the events of tonight to you. Please take both of these scrolls as well as my son to Kumo and adopt him."
A is completely flabbergasted not expecting this in the least and asks "Why me though? I would imagine as your son he would be quite celebrated in Konoha, especially with Jiraiya taking care of him, do you think he would abandon your son."
"As much as I would like to believe he would not, I am sure he will say that his spy network is more important, I cannot leave everything to him and let my son grow up alone, he is the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi I do not trust the village enough to let him stay there where people may ostracise him thinking of him as the Kyuubi. Hiruzen is too soft to do anything because he is worried that the village may accuse him of favouritism. Please I beg of you take him and raise him as your own, should he decide to be a ninja then you can follow the instructions for him in the scroll when you start his training, it will benefit his training greatly, I do not mind if he is a shinobi of kumogakure. For as long as he is honourable and fights for the protection of others.”
"Very well Minato I will do as you ask." said A. "Thank you very much A, I hope he makes you proud, he certainly has made me proud. In the scroll there is a storage compartment with 2 sections, one for instructions should he choose to become a shinobi and another he should get at either at the age of 8 whether or not he is training to be a ninja, or whenever he starts his shinobi training should he choose the path of one, it explains the events around his birth for him. I can sense Sarutobi coming here, leave before he knows you are here. Let him assume my son is dead." As he said this, the Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, the greatest shinobi of his generation, an SS-rank shinobi with a 'flee on sight' order, died." A prayed for Minato and then took both scrolls and Naruto, who stopped crying at seeing A, and left. His heart filled with sadness at the thought of Minato and Kushina not being able to raise their son.
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He arrived back at the location of his team and told them "We are leaving immediately, no breaks till we reach Kumo, let's go." then sped back to Kumo while wondering just how he was going to explain this to his father who was the raikage. At the same time even though he should have been pleased that powerful shinobi from other villages were dead he felt nothing but sadness for he had lost his greatest rival and his village owed Kushina quite the debt for the actions his father’s council had taken without speaking to him, his father had killed all involved publicly in his anger. He hoped that doing his best to raise Naruto and adopt him would help pay off the debt they owed.
After staying up for almost 36 hours they finally reached Kumo, while A’s body seemed to finally be off autopilot and his brains seemed to register that they were back in Kumo the squad he was leading seemed ready to embrace death with open arms. The only breaks they had taken were to get Naruto some water and food, while doing this he realised they had no food Naruto could eat and he made sure they knew by crying far too loud for any of their liking so he told one of his men to run to a nearby town to get some while the rest of them waited and regained some energy. A on the hand was still full of adrenaline and his body was running on autopilot while he himself tried to process the events that had occurred during his mission.
A was about to barge through his father’s office door when he realised doing so while holding a baby might not be the best idea .And so as calmly as he could given the circumstances he walked through his father’s door while his mind raced wondering what his father would, would he yell at him for causing possible war with the Hidden Leaf village, would he agree to adopt the child, and then on top of it was the political repercussions of such a thing should someone find out, especially Jiraiya, considering he was the boy’s godfather. He walked into the room slowly getting a sadistic pleasure in tormenting his father who likely knew he was here but had to wait for him wondering what caused him to come to his office after such a menial mission since he would barely bother to report such missions until he has relaxed a bit, so his father had to sit wondering just what had happened on this mission to cause him to come directly to his office, and after he had heard of the shape the ANBU who returned with his son were in he was most likely going crazy not knowing what had happened.