3rd POV
Heavily Guraded Cave, Outskirts of Konoha
The night air was heavy. Hidden behind heavy barrier seals and rock, the delivery room inside this cave was secured by the Hokage's personal Anbu guards. They stood in the shadows of the trees and rock, silent and vigilant.
Suddenly, the space behind the squad captain distorted in a swirling vortex.
Before the Anbu could even turn around, a figure wearing a dark cloak and a flame-patterned mask appeared out of the vortex. A hand shot out, accompanied by the sharp sound of knife cutting flesh and muffled gasps. In a matter of seconds, the elite guards protecting the perimeter dropped to the ground, lifeless.
The masked man stepped over the bodies without a second glance, his single visible eye glowing a bloody crimson in the dark. He looked toward the cave entrance.
Inside the barrier, kushna the jinchuriki of hidden leaf and wife of 4th hokage was giving birth.
Inside the cave
3rd POV
Ahhhhhhh!
"Is she really gonna be okay" minato asked worried while holding his wife's stomach to keep the seal holding nine tails stable.
"Yes" Said Biwako sarutobi"You are 4th hokage, act like one and get a grip, women are much stronger"
Seal was visibly being unstable and weakend.
'Nine tail writhing to get out'
"Naruto come on!" Minato held on to the seal.
"I can see the head now" Biwako said sweating.
"Hang in there, you are doing great!" Taji her assistant encouraged Kushina
"Hurry up come out!" Minato said now sweating too.
Waaaaah! Waaaaah!
Naruto was finally born.
"I am a father today" Minato said in tears mix of happiness and excitement.
Minato tried to touch Naruto"Hands off, mother first, father second" biwako didn't let him touch and softly placed Naruto near Kushina.
"Okay" Minato relented.
"So Naruto, we finally meet" Kushina said eyes full of motherly love and tears of happiness.
Minato also came near kushina to see his son closely."His hair are blonde like mine but I thought he might have red hair like you kushina because of the mutation" Minato said touching his son's small hair.
"yeah, But as, I thought, it must be, because of the damn fox, see my baby has whiskers like him" Kushina said gasping for air.
Biwako picked naruto up"you will have more time"
Biwako took Naruto to clean him"There there my child"
"Kushina, Thank you" Minato said finally and preparing for resealing process.
"We need to reseal the nine tails" Minato said to kushina.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Suddenly they heard a loud scream and the voice belong to lady biwako.
Minato's saw the masked person holding his son with a kunai pointed at the baby, while biwako and taji were nowhere in sight. Naruto's cries filled the room.
"Move away from the jinchuriki, 4th hokage"The masked man said but at the same time the sound of baby abruptly stopped.
Naruto POV
Of course my life is pretty much shit, as I opened my eyes I saw was not my parents faces but a fricking kunai!! Not that I expected anything good from the moment I knew who I was supposed to be born as.
My eyes really quickly adapted to light, even after not seeing anything and my body being very weak compared to adultd, something I can only say mught be because of gamers body.
I am shit scared, even if i know original naruto I know of survived this but one thrust of that kunai can end my journey before it could truly begin.
Obito stared at me weirdly, why the heck is he staring at me like that, I could sense intent vaguely but I am not sure what and why is he staring at me like an idiot 'Obito, you are supposed to be taking me as hostage and dad you are supposed to be fastest person alive! Damnit!' I am really frustrated.
[Its because you were crying before this controlled by instinctive actions of a newborn, but after you woke up you stopped crying abruptly and he seems to be confirming that you are alive or not, If your dad moves it put your life at risk by the kunai]
Before I could understand what the system is trying to say obito threw me in and with my observation haki I could sense something sticking to back of clothes wrapping me, pretty sure those are paper bombs.
I am not sure what happened, it happened very fast but now I am outside in my dad's arms without cloth wrapping me.'That was really fast, so this is the speed of famed yellow flash of the leaf, I remember he could even out react 8 gates guy and removed truth seeking orbs from his path'
BOOOOOM!
The paper bombs inside the cave blows up, damn! my ears are ringing now.
We teleported to a safe house, I didn't vomit that usually happens in high speed movements, it must be truly instantaneous because I don't remember anyone in 4th great ninja war vomiting or any side affects, so those fanfiction were not right or maybe it was their AU element I am not sure.
"Naruto, I have to go and rescue your mother right now" Dad said, somehow not really feeling weird now maybe because of blood connection? Or maybe because he saved me?He is older than me its not too much difference from by age in past life but he is much more mature than me, I never felt like this before, I really never cared about anything but seems like something changed.
'Dad! Dont waste any more seconds, every seconds are precious, you should not waste it on me who is not supposed to understand them!.' I think I am really emotional today because I am trying to change the fate that I am not strong enough to change it.
Saying that he vanished from the spot. I tried to calm myself and think logically, thats what I am good at.
After around 5 minutes, a distant roar came from outside and followed by pressure or malicious chakra that I remember sensing in my mothers womb.'Looks like its inevitable now'
After a moment Dad teleport with Mom to safe house and lay Mom on same bed as me. Lets check her condition 'Observe'
[ Name = Kushina Uzumaki
Level = ???
Title = Nine tails jinchuriki, Red hot-blooded habanero
Age = 24 years
Race = Human (Otsutsuki Descendent)(full uzumaki)
HP = ???/??? (Vitality decreasing rapidly)
Energy (Chakra) = ???(Tailed beast extracted)]
[Cannot Observe level and power of anyone beyond 100 level above you]
'I don't even have a single binder mark nor I am strong enough to bind them right now but I should keep my focus on getting stronger so one day I could bring them back to a relatively better and safer place, yes that is what i am going to do'
Obito I remember to pity you while watching anime but now that I experienced myself I don't think I can ever forgive you even if you were manipulated by madara because you didn't attack village on madara's order it was your own choice to weaken the village.
"I will be right back"I heard Dad say, anger in his voice was recognisable. I guess its time for his fight with Obito. Saying that he vanished into thin air.
Looks like I can only live few minutes with my family, I hate being helpless, I can't even speak! Gamers mind cannot help me in this situation it only kicks in whenever my emotions reach too high for me to think about something else or I am in constant threat from something.
After about 10 or 15 min the sound of roaring and the intensity of malicious chakra suddenly increased astranomicaly, it must be time for sealing process. Drops of small tears gathered at corner of my eyes'Its not hard for me to get used to being orphan again nor I would have to be orphan forever. Its just that I had a tiny hope that I could have a good life when I knew I was going to reincarnate after that meaningless death, but the moment character selection hit naruto I knew I would get worse life than I had atleast at start and I am not even sure If this world is one of those fanfiction in which Naruto/I get betrayed by friends'.
' If i had any ability to speak right now I would have told dad that even part of nine tails chakra can possibly stabilize mom and save her but what could I even try to say, at this point my most of body don't respond to me. I can barely open my eyes to see and I can't even see at far distances.'
Minato POV
After defeating the so called 'madara' and releasing nine tails from his control. I teleported to konoha and saw nine tails was charging a second tailed beast bomb that might surely destroy whole village if I let him complete it.
[Summoning: Food cart destroyer technique]
Suddenly a giant toad dropped onto the nine tails pinning him to the ground. He activated his sensory abilities.
'Something feels off, number of jonin and special jonin are clearly very low about only 1/4th or lower than it should be in such situation.'
He knew some village higher ups were unhappy of him being chosen as hokage but he never would have thought that they would try to lower the defences in such situation to get rid of him.
Total number of shinobi in Konoha are around 20,000 and both chunin and genin are given roles to protect the civilians but even so there should have been around 10 to 20 elite jonin, 50 to 75 normal jonin and around 100 special jonin available in village but clearly the real numbers came were less than that should be.
Almost all of them are around protecting civilians and he knows that they aren't doing by their own will the are ordered to do so.
He sighed deeply.'So they don't want me as their leader anymore, I just hope village stays safe after I am no longer here. Bloody politics.' He knows everyone who could be behind this especially danzo shimura. He teleported nine tails to a location far from village.
He had already decided to use reaper death seal even before this because he can't let kushina suffer in shinigami stomach even if she is already dying as his responsibility as a husband nor he can leave village defence less without its tailed beast as his responsibility as a hokage.
'Maybe Naruto will be able to defeat that masked man and protect the village, I will seprate nine tails in 2 parts both yin and Yang and seal yang half of nine tails chakra inside him and yin half inside myself' Preparing himself he teleported to the safe house Naruto and Kushina were in.
3rd POV
Minato teleported near nine tails with Kushina and Naruto.
"I must erect a barrier now" Minato said to kushina.
"I can still do it" Kushina replied and used her chakra chains to hold nine tails in place."Minato, let me take the nine tails with myself to death, that way I can save you both thats all that's I can manage now." Tears gathered at corner of her eyes while blood dripping from her mouth as sign of impending death."Thank you for everything"
"You cannot do that kushina, you were the one who made me fourth hokage. You also the one who made me his father" He touched naruto's face, "I want him to become a strong shinobi in future and to protect himself and leaf on my behalf. I will use reaper death seal and eight trigram seal to seal yang half of nine tails and a part of both of our chakra inside him to guide him in future"
"Remembered that jiraya sensei told us about child of prophecy dissapering from the sight of great sage gamamaru and being considered an anomaly, I believe that maked person being one to bring catastrophy on ninja world and this child will be one to bring peace to whole world.... or destroy it" Minato looked at Naruto.
"Please forgive me Naruto, I am sorry to force this upon you, but you will need this power, the village will need it, your mom will help you control nine tails and I will come whenever nine tails tried to control you to unseal itself" saying that minato began forming hand seals for reaper death seal.
Naruto POV
I wanted to say something. Tell him that he didn't need to sacrifice himself. I cannot bear hatered of whole village when I know the reason. Hiruzen will not keep his promise. As he completed the seal, he showed a confused face while I saw a red glowing screen infront of my face instead of usual blue one.
[ Alert: Dimensional summoning of reaper has been permanently blocked due to player safety protocol.
World check: Naruto(AU-526): Confirmed
Alternate Universe Difficulty Level: Hard
Character selected: Naruto Uzumaki(Protagonist)
Race: Human(Uzumaki)
Timeline: Nine tails incident(Cannon)
Alternate threat detection: No threat detected specific to alternate universe in nearby area.]
'Wait...What? This means reaper won't be summoned but thats good thing for me or bad?'
[World based function detected :
Jinchuriki Creation(No Level requirement)
Activated:
Due to host's recent unstable emotions the conformation stage has been bypassed.]
'What do you mean, you don't need my conformation?!'
[Energy required to seal nine tails is very high. Host doesn't have enough energy.
Requesting nearby trustworthy individuals.
Detected,
Minato Namikaze
Kushina Uzumaki]
'... Hey you can show yourself but atleast ask-
Minato POV
As I finished the last hand seal of reaper death seal... nothing happened?. I was supposed to have chills on my back and feel grip on my very soul. Maybe I messed up in some hand seal? Or maybe I need to do some specific actions that previous users used and forgot to state it in scrolls and died before they had a chance?
As I was thinking about it, I saw something appear infront of my vision. I immediately took my kunai out. It was glowing red translucent screen that seemed to be some kind of genjutsu.
But as I see surrounding world, everything was frozen in place as if time had been stopped. Nine tails stopped moving, chakra in the environment stopped in their places.
'A visual genjutsu?' I was confused, how someone manage to cast it on me when I remembered abilities of the masked man. He was an uchiha of course he might have genjutsu ability. Its normal to use small visual distraction to confuse the target.
I tried dispelling it with my chakra.'kai' Nothing changed. It was not any ordinary genjutsu, it seems its much stronger for its kind that just trying to distract me.
I saw that kushina was also confused, I think she was also seeing same thing.
[ Individual minato has recently tried to use sealing jutsu: reaper death seal, it was unsuccessful due to safety protocol initiated by the gamer system of user Naruto Uzumaki. The gamer system has to seal the tailed beast named Kurama into the user Naruto Uzumaki to make him a jinchuriki]
I didn't feel any disturbance in my chakra, so I put hand on back of kushina's neck and released a chakra pulse.
"Did the.. genjutsu disperse kushina"
Kushina shook her head"No minato, it doesn't seem genjutsu, it didn't even had a slight change"
I had a strange feeling about this. 'Maybe this isn't a genjutsu, maybe its real, maybe his is an ability naruto inherited as the anomaly prophacy, maybe he really is the child of prophecy... or I am just overthinking it because only other explanation for this.. thing is that its Genjutsu on S rank or even higher'
"What is even point in this if I can use sealing jutsu to seal nine tails myself inside my son to make him jinchuriki" I asked, I need more information to decide my next step if i am trapped in a genjutsu, I likely already would have been already killed by that masked man, its my first time coming across such a situation.
[ The advantages are
1) The tailed beast cannot interfere with users chakra till user himself gives permission.
2) The tailed beast cannot cannot influence users thoughts due to in-game skill gamers mind.
3) The tailed beast cannot break the seal by force or be extracted till the user gives permission.
4) The chakra of tailed beast will be sealed in different dimension with infinite space called inventory while consciousness is sealed in host's subconscious state, so the full beast can be sealed without any worry
5) Both of the souls of individuals Minato and Kushina will be stored in separate dimension only accessible to user and see his entire life as their wish but you can't interact with the user.
Do you agree with the conditions? Yes/No
Warning: The moment you agree your entire chakra will be depleted and both of you will die!
I considered if I should agree, the deal was too good to be true. First 4 points were something he lacked in his own seal, my seal was supposed to have a leak so Naruto's body could adapt to it, but it also had risk of nine tails sabotaging his progress and influencing his emotions. The.. gamer system or whatever can also seal full nine tails in the infant's body so this will balance the power between tailed beasts.
The last point was the was just readymade for them as if they knew we will want it. He and kushina both wanted to see Naruto grow up from bottom of their heart. He know that Naruto's life might become similar to the life other jinchuriki had in their own villages but he can try everything in his own right to make his son's life better if he can.
I looked towards kushina "What do you think Kushina" I wanted to know her openion on this. I knew she has more experienced the life of jinchuriki even if it was better in konoha because of lady mito's legacy she knew the burden of a jinchuriki more than I did.
"I agree minato, I think I will like to see my baby grow up than live in some pure land that might be just white void and nothingness" Kushina was happy with seeing her son grow up she couldn't ask for more.
Minato decided that he had already planned to die so why just not see his son's life after his death, it would be much better than fighting with others souls for eternity in reapers stomach.
So he created a scroll and wrote a message to 3rd hokage and master jiraya and sealed it with a strong seal that only master jiraya could open it.
"Its not like I have any other option Okay, I accept"Just as the words left my mouth I felt sudden depletion in my chakra and the screen vanished from my vision. Slowly darknees took over.
Naruto POV
-me about.. it?!' Just as I was complaining, I felt sudden rush in my chakra and I saw nine tails turn into pure mass of red chakra that flowed into me. The rush was temprory and my chakra subsided. Blue glowing screen appeared infront of my eyes showing my status screen.
[ Name = Naruto Uzumaki
Class = None
Level = 0 (exp 0/10)
Title = Reincarnator, Nine tails Jinchuriki
Age = 0 years (20 years)(day 1)
Race = Human (Otsutsuki Descendent)(full uzumaki)
HP = 360/360
Energy (Chakra) = 8400/7000
STATS:
STR = 10(12)
DEF= 10(12)
AGI = 10(12)
DEX = 10(12)
END = 180(216)(Variable)(Due to status as jinchuriki)
INT = 10
WIS = 29
CHA = 10
LCK = 5
PERKS:
Blank's Essence
Archmage Essence
Binder's Essence
Broker's Essence(Conditional till 30)
SKILLS:
Gamer's Mind(Level Max)
Gamer's Body(Level Max)
Observe(Level Max)]
Meditation(Level 7)(23%)
Chakra control(Level 4)(53%)
Observation haki(Level 5)(76%)
New perk aquired:
Jinchuriki cloak :
Whenever user experiences stronge negative emotions at certain levels the nine tails cloak will manifest and physical stats are enhanced according to the strength of negative emotions, user may supress the hatered in chakra to prevent himself from going berserk state.
Note:- If the enhancement is higher than user's body could handle, the user will be inflicted with 'damage over time' status effect that might cause user to lose massive chunks of HP per minute.
Jinchuriki's Vitality
You have very high regeneration level regeneration compared to normal human due to your status as a gamer as well as a jinchuriki
Gives : passive regeneration HP/1000 per second
END×1.5
]
Only changes were in Title, EnduranceStat and new perk it was not very surprising considering I was literally Naruto and Nine tails chakra cloak was his original starter ability that, I like to say, was basically his early plot armour.
"Lord hokage I sense chakra of Nine tails there" I heard someone shouting. Seems like 3rd hokage has arrived finally.
I used observation haki to my limit but only thing I found was dead bodies of my parents. At some point between rush in chakra and my status screen they died.
'I didn't like to cry but I need to take these emotions out for once. I am technically responsible for it afterall, from my birth to myself becoming a jinchuriki was just me responsible for it'.