The sun, just like yesterday, and the day before yesterday, and probably tomorrow, was making its way through the cracks in the blinds, painting the usual streaks of light on the wall. Outside the window, the usual noise of the morning city could be heard – the hum of cars, the distant barking of a dog and the creaking of bus brakes. Everything was as usual.
Alex stretched, feeling a slight tingle in his cramped muscles. He was twenty-nine years old, and he had long since stopped expecting anything out of the ordinary from each new day. Today was another normal day.
He got up and wandered into the kitchen. Breakfast was as usual as everything else: oatmeal with berries and coffee with milk. While the water was boiling, he read his favourite story "Douluo dalu 1". Nothing new. Politicians argued, celebrities got divorced, cats did cute things. The world continued to spin in its usual orbit.
At work, where he worked as a project manager, everything was also ordinary. Morning briefing, routine tasks, endless emails. Colleagues discussed yesterday's series, weekend plans, gasoline prices. Alex nodded, smiled, and interjected a couple of phrases, but his thoughts were somewhere far away:
"When is it time to go home, at least watch anime or read, and not this!"
Lunch was at the usual cafe, with a conversation with a colleague about the weather. After lunch, a few more hours at the computer. When the working day was over, Alex felt his usual tiredness. Not exhausting, but rather background, like a slight tinnitus. He went home listening to music on the radio.
The usual silence awaited him at home. He warmed up yesterday's dinner and turned on the computer. He include the last episode of the second season of Levelling Up Alone.
And so, when the sun had long since disappeared below the horizon, and darkness reigned outside the window, Alex sat at his desk and watched the anime, with a thought:
"Another ordinary day has passed!"
He got up and went to the window. The city below was twinkling with lights, but at that moment Alex felt incredibly lonely.
"What if I don't want every day to be ordinary anymore?"
This thought flashed through his mind like a tiny spark. He didn't know what that meant, or what he should do next. But for the first time in a long time, at the end of that day, Alex felt something that was not ordinary.
He felt a sense of anticipation. The anticipation that maybe tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or someday, this ordinary day could be the beginning of something completely new, and this thought filled his lungs like a breath of fresh air.
At that moment, when he was about to leave the window, immersed in his thoughts, his hand accidentally touched a glass of water standing on the windowsill. The glass tipped over, and the water gushed directly onto the computer next to it. The screen flickered and rippled, and Alex tried to quickly wipe it off, but received a severe electric shock. He lost consciousness from it and began to fall, hitting the corner of the sofa next to him.
Somewhere in the void
It is unknown when and it is unknown how, but a faintly flickering light appeared in the void, which should not be there. It was a weak soul, a man who died from hitting his head on a table and did not want to end his journey!
Unknown village
It was the middle of the night outside, but one of the houses in the village was bustling with life. Because one gorgeous woman had just given birth to a sweet baby with bright yellow hair, unusual markings on her face and a sweet smile. Next to the woman and the baby, stood a good-looking man with the same yellow hair and blue eyes, watching the birth of this miracle in shock:
"He was born!" he uttered in disbelief, starting to cry. "I became a father!"
"Angry boy" the midwife told the man
"Naruto" the man shouted the child's name, trying to pick him up from the midwife!
"Step back, the mother will see him first."
"Naruto! I've finally seen you," mother said with a happy smile on her face when she saw the baby the midwife had brought.
After that, the midwife carried the baby to another room.
While the man was about to apply a new seal to deter. But at that moment, he heard a scream coming from the direction of the room into which the woman and the baby were heading. To see his child being held in arms of a mysterious man in a black and white mask with the midwife is dead.
"Minato, the fourth Hokage!" Get away from the jinchuuriki, otherwise the child's life will end without pumping!
After these words, Minato noticed that the seal on his wife was beginning to break!
"Or you don't care about your child," the masked man continued to say!
"Wait, calm down," Minato shouted!
"Speak for yourself, Minato! I'm calm!" he answered him, throwing the child high into the air to kill him, but Minato managed to intercept the baby in time!
"As expected from the yellow lightning! But I'll take care of that next time," the man said calmly.
As soon as these words were uttered, the building they were in exploded!
"Thank God Naruto is safe!" Minato said with a smile, sitting on the ground not far from the exploded house
"I had to use the Flying Thunder God technique. His target is Kushina," he thought to himself, taking out a large piece of board from the house from his leg.
"He managed to separate us! I have to hurry!" Minato said to himself in a much more serious voice, throwing a piece of board aside and moving to another place!
At the same time, in a different place, Kushina, who was tied to tall stones sticking out of the ground, discovered that the masked man wanted to remove the seal from the two-tailed fox to destroy Konoha!
"I'm going to pull the Kyubi out of you and destroy Konoha! Since the seal of the Kyubi weakened after giving birth! You know how long I've been waiting for this!" the man told her!
Skipping time
When Minato found a safe place for Naruto and teleported to Kushina to save her from death, as the Kyubi was pulled out of her, he gave Naruto to Kushina before going to defend the village.
Returning to the village, Minato saw how the nine-tails, under the control of a masked man, was destroying the village and was about to send the "Ball of the Tailed Beast" toward Hokage Rock. At the last moment, he managed to teleport the ball to another location.
Due to the fact that Minato is trying to thwart the masked man's plan to destroy Konoha, a struggle ensued between them. At first, Minato tried to hit him, but after several unsuccessful attacks, he finally struck him with a Rasengan and placed the seal of the Flying Thunder God on him, which allowed him to teleport to Tobi whenever he wanted. He then suppressed Tobi's chakra to release the Nine-Tails from his control. But Tobi managed to escape!
No longer under control, the Nine-Tails began to retreat from the village, although he continued to attack the pursuing ninja. When he was preparing another Ball of the Tailed Beast, Minato dropped Gamabunta, the main toad of Mount Myoboku, on him to stop him. He ordered Gamabunta to restrain the Fox Demon while Minato gathered the chakra needed to transport the Nine-Tails to the place where Naruto and Kushina were. By moving him, Kushina was able to stop Kyubi and erect a barrier so that he could not escape. After which Kushina said:
"I'm going to restrain him until I die!" And I will delay his rebirth!
"I'll save you all!" Even with what little chakra I have left. Thank you for everything you've done for me!
"Kushina, thanks to you, I was able to defeat the Hokage. You made me a man and you made me a father. And now..."
"Minato, don't look at me like that! I'm happy that you fell in love with me... And today is the baby's birthday!"
"If I'm going to regret anything, it's only one thing..." she began to speak with a smile, breathing heavily, from loss of blood and chakra, just that "I would not see Naruto grow up, as I would have liked to see it!"
"Kushina, there's no need to die with the nine-tails!" Minato said with a firm voice that brooked no objections, but with tears in his eyes, realizing that today was his last day!
"Use the remnants of your chakra to see Naruto later!" Wiping away tears, he continued
"I will seal your chakra in Naruto, it will awaken as part of the "Seal of the Eight Elements." Then I will take the nine-tailed one with me using the sealing technique. This is the only way out for non-jinchuuriki with the "Seal of the God of Death"
"But if you use this technique..." Kushina began to speak in a panic, but Minato interrupted her.
"One more thing, I can only seal half of the nine-tails. It's physically impossible to contain all of his power, and it's also not strategically wise!"
- As for the other half of the nine-tails... I will seal it inside Naruto using the "Seal of the Eight Elements," he replied, looking at the baby, not noticing the horror and shock in his wife's eyes.
"It's not for nothing that Jiraiya Sensei is his godfather. And Naruto, the jinchuuriki who will bring light to our raging. I just know this," Minato finished, after which, ignoring what Kushina wanted to tell him, he began to stand up and make various seals with his hands!
"The Seal of the God of Death" shouted Minato, after which the forces of the God of Death appeared behind him!
Minato used the seal to cut the chakra in half, sealing half of the Yang in Naruto and half of the Yin in himself. But something went wrong, at the moment when a part of Yin was supposed to be sealed in Minato, it simply disappeared, evaporating, as if she had never existed!