Death and Kurama

" Tou-san is extremely cool!" Naruto cheered. " Could you teach me that jutsu?!"

" Arigato, Naruto but I'm sad to say that I'm dead." This discouraged Naruto which caused Minato to feel guilty for a bit. " Back in konoha I taught three shinobi how to utilize the Hiraishin no Jutsu ( flying raijin)."

" Really?!" Naruto couldn't wait to return back home.

' can't allow the kyuubi jinchuuriki to learn Hiraishin no jutsu!' Tobi kept in mind.

" Why didn't I think of that?!" Mirai Naruto wonders.

Once the rasengan imploded, Minato's palm made contact with the cloak figure. The moment Minato lets go of the mastermind behind the kyuubi attack, the masked man flipped back. The cloak individual glanced down to his right arm melting off. Minato, not giving the man a chance to escape, appears in front of his opponent. Stabbing onto the man's torso. " Hiraishin no jutsu!! I see!! He must have put some sort of marking on me!!" Minato placed a fuinjutsu on the cloak man. Mid rampage the kyuubi stopped, his eyes reverted back to normal. " A Keitaku fuin!! Are you trying to break my contact with the kyuubi!? Now the kyuubi will no longer be yours to control!"

" No wonder you're the yondaime hokage. I'm impressed you were able to wound me and wrest the kyuubi from me. But the kyuubi will be mine once more..." The man quickly made his way away from Minato. Using his singular eye to prepare for departure. " I am the ruler of the world. I have many means at my disposal."

' That feeling. He's not lying'

' How is Konoha supposed to prepare for a man like that?' Jiraiya though. He praised Minato as the pinnacle of being a shinobi if Obito is close to Minato league, His running through the village.

" Mirai Naruto, how did you defeat the Akatsuki? " Kakashi questions remembering the event with Shin *Uchiha*.

" Can't say...Sorry." Mirai Naruto dismissed the question.

" Did you at least beat the masked man?" Gaara asked Mirai Naruto.

"..." Mirai Naruto kept quiet.

" Kuchiyose no jutsu!!(Summoning jutsu)" Out of the smokes a gigantic toad pinned down the kyuubi underneath it.

" Gamabunta!" Naruto was in awe of the toad. " Ero-sensei, you've never told me Gamabunta fought the kyuubi?!"

" I didn't know either!"

" Hold back the kyuubi for a little while!" Minato asked the toad. " Even I can't hold him back for long!"

" I'll need a lot of chakras to send something this big!" The kyuubi readies his bijuu dama on the bystander below them, the sandaime hokage prepares to block the bijuu's devastating orb of death. Underneath the toad the village-size fox disappeared. " Minato, where did he send the kyuubi!?" A mountain-size explosion alerted the shinobi to Minato's location. " Over there!"

" Un, What an explosion!!" Deidara cheered in delight. The crowd watched the blond akatsuki member strangely because of his comment. " What's wrong with admiring an art piece!"

" I remember him. He wanted me dead for having the sharingan." Mirai Sasuke reminisce on how the man committed suicide for his cause.

' It sounds like a Deidara thing to do.' Itachi though.

" Didn't you kill him." Mirai Naruto wondered.

" Hn, No. He die via suicide, planning to take me with him." Mirai Sasuke explained.

" Was he shouting " Geijutsu wa bakuhatsu da! (Art is an explosion!)" Kisame mention, the Uchiha women nod.

" Definitely deidara." Hidan laughs.

" Un, If you're alive, that means my sacrifice was in vain!!!"

" Pretty much." Mirai Sasuke answered.

" Could've said it nicer, dattebayo!" present Naruto remarks.

" I am not as soft as you, Usuratonkachi." Mirai Sasuke smirked a bit.

" I can still fight Minato!" Golden chains tear out the red haired women back which warped around the orange fox, restraining the fox. " I guess I woke him up. Sorry, Naruto! I'm going to the kyuubi in and kill myself that way. I can put off Kyuubi's resurrection. That's the only way the last of my remaining chakras can be of help to you. Arigato for everything."

" Kushina, you made me the yondaime hokage! You made a man!! And you made me this child's you-san!! And yet!"

" Minato don't look like that. I'm happy, you love me and it's his birthday today. Most importantly when I think about what our life would be like together If I lived. I can only picture happiness. If there's one thing I regret. It's that I won't get to see Naruto grow up."

Present Naruto began to tear up seeing two devastating scenes one after another mostly revolving around people that care for him.

" Naruto." The genin felt sad for the young ninja.

" Kushina, there's no need for you to die with the kyuubi. Use your remaining chakras so you can be reunited with Naruto! I will seal your remaining chakras inside Naruto with a hakke fuin (eight symbol seal). I will take the kyuubi with me since I'm not the host, I can use shiki fujin! (Dead demon consuming seal)"

" But with that seal you'll"

" There's one more thing. I can only seal half the kyuubi power. It's just not physically possible to seal it completely. It's not strategically feasible, either. If you take the kyuubi down with you, there won't be a host until the kyuubi is revived, and the bijuu balance will thrown out of whack with Shiki fujin, I can seal half the kyuubi forever and the other half." Minato went onto a long tangen. " I'll seal it within Naruto with hakke fuin!"

" I Know what you want to say but Jiraiya-sensei talked about the coming revolution and the catastrophes that will come with it! Today, I realized two things." Minato mentioned an image of the mastermind behind the attack crop up. "The masked man who attacked you. He will bring catastrophe upon us!"

" that bastard!" present Kyuubi roared inside the smaller naruto. " I'll tear him half!"

" Why didn't you kill him, you had the chance the minute your kunai pressed on that man's torso?" Tobirama grumbled, Minato sweat in the background.

' The Nidaime is strict.' Iruka notes.

" This child is the one who will stop him. As the host, he will clear the way to the future for some reason, I just know." Minato comforts the baby Naruto.

" Really has so much faith!" Mirai Kurama smiled in the mindscape.

' Tou-san and Ero-sensei were right in the end.' Mirai Naruto remarks.

" Have faith in this child." Minato weaves hand signs; Snake → Boar → Ram → Rabbit → Dog → Rat → Bird → Horse → Snake → in the end Minato claps his Hands together. A shinigami surfaces. " After all, he is our son!!" Kushina watched on.

" That's how the shinigami looks like." Madara was stunned by the presence of the figure.

" The shinigami?"

" The shiki fujin calls upon the shinigami." Hiruzen mentioned.

" You mean like the one that meets you when you die." Kiba was horrified.

" There's an entire jutsu that brings the shinigami to fight your enemy." Chouji didn't know what to believe anymore.

" But he's our son ! I don't want him to have to bear that burden!!!" Minato gazed down solemnly. " Why the shiki fuujin!? Just so I can see when he's grown up? It won't even be for that long, there's no reason for you to die for that!! I want you to stay with Naruto and watch over him as he grows up!!" Kushina starts to cough blood. " To preserve the balance between the bijuus? For our village? There's no reason to sacrifice Naruto!! You shouldn't sacrifice yourself for me!!"

" This is sad." Hashirama mumbled.

" Kaa-san!" Naruto continued to cry.

" Abandoning one's village that's the same abandoning one's child. As someone whose country was destroyed, you should understand that best shouldn't you? You know the harsh life that awaits those without a country. Besides, we are a family of ninja." Minato proclaimed. " Even if I live, I could never compare to you. Even if just for a short time. There is something you can give as his kaa-san that I never could. I'm not doing this just for you. I'm doing it for Naruto."

" Thinking like a hokage should." Tobirama applause.

" I am willing to die for my son that my role as his tou-san." The shinigami arm stretched out the yondaime stomach towards the kyuubi repeating out the bijuu chakra, as the shinigami arm retracted the chakra entered Minato's body, Minato stumbled down. " Ok for the hakke fuin. I'll seal the kyuubi inside Naruto."

' That's a ceremonial pedestal! Does he mean to seal me away again!? In that child!?' The kyuubi in a fit of rage his right arm freed itself away from the chain. Before his claw made it on Naruto both parents used their body to prevent the death of their child, blood dripping onto the couples jaw and the kyuubi claw.

" Tou-san!! Kaa-san!!" Naruto jumped out of his seat. A hand pulled him down.

" gomei, Naruto." Iruka stops the boy. The child turned to his academy teacher. Iruka can see the boy's dire need for comfort. The man pulled the child on his lap, wrapping his arm around Naruto. " Please calm down, Naruto. I know how you feel."

" I told you this is something even a tou-san can do."

" Then a kaa-san would be even better right?"

" Bastards!" The kyuubi growled, Kushina continued. " This is the first time. I've ever lost an argument with you, that's how I know you must be serious."

" Arigato, Kushina" Minato using the blood on his jaw to place on his palm. " Kuchiyose no jutsu!!(Summoning jutsu)" The toad viewed the situation. " WHOA!! The kyuubi!! Yondaime! What are you doing!!?"

" Gamatora, I'm giving you. The key to the seal, I want you to take it to Jiraiya-sensei and immediately store it inside him."

" I see! So Minato is making his own son the host in order to save the village!" Hiruzen watches from afar.

" I have the key! So now I'll go." The toad pouf into smoke. " What a relief.."

" Kushina, you're not going to last much longer. You won't see him for a while so tell him anything you want to say now."

" This is extremely sad." Sakura didn't really want to continue watching his teammate parent's death.

' Minato-sensei..Kushina..' Kakashi emotionally broke inside.

" Minato if I could've helped." Jiraiya felt frustrated.

" Naruto..Don't be a picky eater... eat heartily...so you grow big and strong! Take a bath every day and keep warm... and... Don't stay up late..get enough sleep..!!"

" Lately you've been breaking one of your kaa-san words." Mirai Sasuke poked at Mirai Naruto who was sweating, knowing it was sort of true. He's been overworking him and staying up. " Your sort mostly lived on ramen."

" And.. make friends.. You don't need a lot... but...! Just a few friends you can really trust...! And... I was never good at it myself... but study hard and practice your ninjutsu...! But..Everyone has things they're good at and things they're not... so if... You have a hard time...Don't let it get you down... Respect your senseis and senpais at the academy...!" The woman tried her best to smile through the pain. " Oh... And one more important thing about the three ninja vices... be especially careful,,, When lending or borrowing money and save... The earning... from missions and don't drink you're 20..And drinking too much is bad for you so take it easy! As for women.. I'm a woman.. So I don't really understand, but... Anyway there are only men and women... So you will find yourself interested in women... But just don't... Fall for a strange one! Find a woman like your mom!! Speaking of vices..One more thing, watch out for Jiraiya-sensei!"

" Jiraiya?"

"Naruto... you're going to experience a lot of pain and suffering. Remember who you are! Find a goal... a dream... and don't stop trying until it comes true. There's... there's so much more that I want to say... to teach you... I want to stay with you... I love you." Kushina paused. " Minato, I'm sorry for talking so much..."

" Naruto as your father. I'll just second... everything your chatty kaa-san said..."

' Hakke fuin!'

" I promise I'll try my best!!" Naruto shouts while still sniffing and crying on Iruka's lap.

" Naruto, are you okay!" Mirai Sasuke began to worry for Mirai Naruto. " Yeah, don't worry I'm fine. Plus, I was already told this."

" I wish Naruto could have his parents alive." Chouji mumbled.

' Damn, I feel sorry for those adults who bullied Naruto if they figured the boy was the yondaime child.' Kiba though.

" How hasn't no one noticed the massive similarity between the yondaime and Naruto." Ino mentioned.

" Let's continue."

[...]

The orb open up with the Nibi (2-tails), Sanbi (3-tails), Gobi (5-tails), Rokubi (6-tails), Nanabi (7-tails) towering over guy and Kakashi. An exhausted and sweaty Naruto from the sideline watches the bijuu.

" Are those the other bijuu?"

" The other villages finally decided to attack Konoha?"

" I told you nii-san that was a horrible idea." Tobirama barked at the god of shinobi.

" Hey!" Hashirama went into a depressed state.

" Gai-sensei!!" Lee was worried for his mentor.

" Please! Kakashi-sensei survives!"

" This is bad, no matter how you look at it. Plus you're exhausted." The kyuubi remarks. " Yeah, I guess." Naruto made his way into his mindscape. " If you want me to lend you my power. I could even do it...Naruto"

" It seems you talk a lot to me lately. I'm happy if you want to lend me your power but there is something I must tell you before that." The fox was left confused. " Arigato, for you lending me your power when we face against the other Madara that saved me!"

" Other Madara! you're still alive. We should have checked his grave. " Tobirama yelled in anger that they never checked Madara grave precisely.

" There's no way Madara is alive." Hashirama defends the Uchiha.

" If you pay attention, do I look alive. " Madara asked the two.

" Seeing you in that ghostly form, No. " Kakazu replied.

" It's possibly someone impersonating Madara. " Hashirama concludes.

" Don't thank me. It makes me feel sick!! I did that only because it seemed to me that you are better than Madara! In the first place the quantity of chakra I can give you because of this cage is minimal! This time I just wanted to look at you fight a little more! That's right, just to waste time."

" What is the kyuubi talking about?" Gaara was stunned by the beast's generosity.

" What the hell am I saying?" The kyuubi in the younger Naruto didn't understand his older self.

" Why did you get so angry even though I thanked you!!? Even fixing that expression on your face you should fix that way of talking!??" Naruto went on a rant eventually stopping once the kyuubi brought his arm past the cage, placing his fist next to the blond. " Let's put our chakras together."

" Could it be that you want to pull out my chakra like you tried the other!?" Naruto smirked. " You idiot, I'm telling you that there is no need to do that! Well I have time to spare here. So we can do that again if you want!!" Naruto stopped his smirk which shifted into a small smile. Naruto's lift his fist tapping the kyuubi's one, giving each other a fist bump. Generally surprising the jinchuriki yet causing the blond to smile happily, the fox in his cage smiled as well.

" Are they giving each other a fist bump?"

" Naruto-kun you're really amazing."

" The fox smiling?" Kushina was awed.

' He really will change the world!?' Jiraiya smiled.

' This is bad.' The entire akatsuki agreed.

" A friendship is about to be formed." Gai and Lee shouts in excitement.

" Cool." Shisui said.

" Let's go, Bee." Naruto from outside spoked with the Hachibi standing behind him. " I'm the main component of the two man team Naruto, you should just switch to the support."

' Gyuki' Kurama was surprised to see the Hachibi aiding humans. ' Not only him, but I'm helping this boy. His is the prophecy child the rikudo sennin spoke of – A boy that'll unite the bijuu.'

" Bee is still alive." Minato notes.

' I'm saying that because our opponents are 5 bijuus. You cannot be in the front if you can't access your bijuu!'

" Naruto listens to the hachibi." Kushina was scared for her child who's about to charge 5 bijuus.

" Bee, you and hachibi are injured already. So you cannot do neither the support or the attack! Let's go together!"

" Naruto."

" We are probably both a two man team already."

" Could it be you and the kyuubi.." Inside where the kyuubi reside. Naruto began to lock the seal. " I'll acknowledge him.' a voice states.

" Because he is the damned fox." A younger Naruto is shown hiding with a scroll on hand. " But Naruto is not like that. He is an excellent student that acknowledges me. He is a hard worker. Acknowledges him because of his awkwardness.' Iruka laid beside a tree. " He already knows the sorrow that is within a person's heart. He's not the fox. He's Uzumaki Naruto of konohagakure." The younger Naruto tears up on those kind words.

" You still remember."

" Uh, it still gives me the courage to face obstacles, dattebayo."

" You are not a monstrous fox anymore. You are my partner of konoha, you are Kurama. Ok let's go now!!!" Outside a surge of golden chakra enveloped Naruto's body which morphs. 'Naruto could it be you?" Bee wonder. The five bijuus are ready to blast both konoha shinobi to ash. " Naruto, they are in a bad situation!! There are 5 bijuu dama at a really close range."

" This is bad."

" Guy, don't make any useless move!! I will use the kamui in my left eye!!!"

" Your eye power is useless against such a number of opponents!!" Gai warned. " In this case I have to use the eight gate."

" Gai-sensei you can't use that!!" Both Neji and Lee were worried.

The bijuus fired their bijuu dama, a wave of golden chakra relocates 5 other bijuu dama from Kakashi and Gai direction. The explosion of the bijuu dama craved a nearby mountain. ' What?? So fast!!"

" Se..!!" Kakashi imagined his mentor before realizing who the golden figure in front of him was. " Is that Naruto!?"

" So this is the power of his bijuu!?" Gai noticed the explosion from afar. " They destroyed a mountain."

" Did he just slap 5 bijuu dama!!" Deidara and Hidan choked.

" The power of the kyuubi."

" Naruto, strong isn't he." Gaara was awed by the performance.

" Minato's decision was the right one!" Hiruzen smiled.

" Konoha just gained an immeasurable power."

" The tale of the kyuubi being the strongest wasn't just false?" Tobirama lifted his brow.

' Since when did the dobe get this much power?' The younger Uchiha felt jealousy at the boy future accomplishment,

" Of Course I'm the strongest." Kurama growled.

' He was able to repel everything!!? Then!" The masked figure from sixteen years ago clenches his hands together.

' Is he the cause of this as well?' Itachi though.

" seems he's enacting his words." Shisui proposed.

The five bijuus charge at their enemy. " Let's go, Kurama." A bijuu size chakra avatar of the kyuubi swipes away the incoming bijuu leading to a few stumbling over or sent flying away. Inside the head of the avatar the scene ends with the full revealed of kurama mode - Naruto's pupils becomes slitted, the whisker-like markings on his face become thicker, and the chakra shroud's shape alters to resemble a full-length haori, similar to the one Minato usually wears.

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3335 overall words

Naruto chapter: 503, 504,570, 571

3/15/2022

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Sorry, I haven't upload this week. My illness from last week came even worse than before. I spend a majority of the time ether sleeping or complaining.

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