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Kyubi thought in anger. 'DIE YOU, UCHIHA! TAIL BEAST BOOM!'
As Ryo closed his eyes, he braced himself for the worst. However, to his surprise, nothing happened. When he opened his eyes, he saw a figure standing in front of him, which brought a smile to his face.
"M-Minato, you're late..." Ryo said weakly.
Minato, with a serious face, said to his friend, "Take a rest. I will take off this."
Ryo raised one eyebrow, half-closing his eye as he responded, "Huh?... Haha..." The Uchiha chuckled one final time before losing consciousness.
Minato performed a hand seal as he said, "Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
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Hokage 3rd was shocked when the attack that was about to hit Ryo was gone in the blink of an eye. He said to himself, "What happened? Where's?"
The Anbu appears behind him as he yells. "HOKAGE-SAMA! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?"
Hokage 3rd nodded as he turned toward Kyuubi and replied to the Anbu, "Yeah, I'm fine."
Kyuubi roars as he charges his attack again, but suddenly, something appears on top of the Kyuubi.
A big smoke suddenly appears, revealing a giant toad on top of Kyuubi's head and crushing the fox beast.
Kyuubi growled in anger and thought, 'DAMN YOU, MINATO!!'
Random Ninja was shocked as he asked? "What happened? Where the hell is Kyuubi?"
Then they saw a big explosion come from the forest.
Hokage's 3rd eyes widened as he knew who that was. He said, "That's Minato! EVERYONE, LET'S GO TO THE FOREST. WE ARE GOING TO HELP HOKAGE 4TH! NOW MOVE!"
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After some time, Ryo regains consciousness as he checks his surroundings. He realizes he is still in the crack of the hill; his body has many injuries just from one strike from Kyuubi's tail. The Uchiha uses his Sharingan once again. He finds that everyone goes to the forest.
Ryo thought weakly, 'Everyone must be going to Minato. Well, I don't want to be late. My friends need me!'
The Uchiha tries to get up, but his body tells him the opposite. He couldn't get up to his feet as he said to himself, "Come on, leg! You need to work with me this time! AHHHHH!"
Ryo finally stands; he pushes his body to stand. He tries another technique that he learned from Minato, but he can't. He didn't have enough Chakra with him. The Uchiha tried again.
This time, he focuses on the technique he wants to use, saying, "Hang in there, Minato! Hiraishin!" He disappears in a red flash.
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Meanwhile, 10 minutes before Ryo awakes.
"You can't be serious! Minato! You want to seal Kyuubi, another half inside our daughter! I do not allow it! At least seal Kyuubi back inside me!" A redheaded woman was yelling at Minato.
Minato looked sad as he said, "Kushina, that's the only way! You can no longer be a Kyuubi container! If you do, you will be dead! Naruko will lose her mom! I will not allow it, so let me take care of the rest. I want you to be happy with her."
The husband and wife argue about who will seal the Kyuubi and make the sacrifice. Of course, one of them is willing to die for their family and village.
Kushina was crying now, "But if you do, you also be dead! Naruko will lose her father... I-I will lose you too..."
Minato tried his best not to shed tears as he said, "Same for me. I didn't want to lose you, too, so let me take your place so that you can take care of Naruko."
Kushina looked at her husband in the eyes while still crying and replied, "B-But..."
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Kyuubi is trap inside Kushina chain Jutsu. He heard everything that Minato and Kushina said. He got madder than before. He is stabbed on the moon, and later, he is controlled, and again, he is awake. Was he being attacked by Konoha Shinobi? Now they want. 'They want me to seal inside that baby!'
Kyuubi tries to break the chain as they are not valid, and he shrinks down a bit to lose the chain. The Kyuubi thought in anger, 'I WILL NOT GO INTO THAT, BABY. I WILL HAVE MY FREEDOM!!'
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Back to Minato and Kushina, they heard that Kyuubi was trying to break the chain.
Minato's face turned serious as he said, "We don't have much time." He made a hand seal. Fuinjutsu: Shiki Fujin!"
Then they heard Kyuubi roar. Kyuubi thought in furry, 'I WILL NOT YOU TAKE MY FREEDOM AGAIN!'
The beast breaks the chain, and he strikes his long nails toward Naruko. Kyuubi yelled, "DIEEEE!!!"
Kushina and Minato yell at the same time, "NO!"
With Parents' instinct, they jump right in front of their newborn baby. They both get stabbed by the beast's nails to stop it from reaching their baby. When it stops, one single blood drop falls on their daughter.
Kyuubi said in anger, "Damn you!"
Minato ignored the beast and leaned closer to his wife.
Minato smiled as he said, "K-Kushina, I will seal our last Chakra to Naruko. Maybe you should talk to her for one last time, okay?"
Kushina gives her husband a nod. She knows this wound will separate her from her daughter forever. She makes a bloody smile and a sweet smile on her face, as she says. "N-Naruko, I want you to eat well, don't eats too much fast food isn't good for your healthy, sleep well if you get tired, get rest, don't push yourself, learn well, don't be afraid to learn something new, don't be afraid to find new as many friends you can, be love, find someone that makes you happy, laugh, I prefer you find someone like your, father, and the last thing always remember Naruko that I-I always love you from you the day you exist inside me, don forget that Naruko..."
Kushina is crying not because of her pain but from a broken heart that she will not raise her daughter. Minato touched Kushina's shoulder. A smile appears on his face, like Kushina when she talks to their baby.
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Minato smiled one last time as he said, "I will say the same as your mother, and remember that I also always love you, Naruko. Fuinjutsu: Hakke no Fūin Shiki."
He seals Kyuubi's half of his body to Naruko's body and the other half to himself, and a bright light starts to glow. When the light dims and disappears, both of Naruko's parents are on the ground. Minato is already in the afterlife. He uses his last Chakra to seal the powerhouse beast. While Kushina is waiting for her death, suddenly, someone appears in a red flash in front of Minato Kunai; it's Ryo.
"MINATO! KUSHINA!" Ryo yelled as he ran toward them and saw both conditions. "O-Oh, Kami, I was too late... I'm sorry, Minato Kushina." He said under his breath.
Ryo saw a blond baby in a carriage.
"R-Ryo-Kun..."
Ryo heard Kushina's voice as the Uchiha quickly turned toward his friend "Kushina! Hang in there! I will call for help!"
Then, in the blink of an eye, Hokage arrived in Shunshin with the Shinobi army.
Random Ninja saw Ryo with Kushina as he pointed toward them while yelling. "Look, that's Hokage 4th, Kushina and Ryo!"
Hokage 3rd was once again shocked as he ran toward Ryo, "Minato, Kushina, Ryo!"
They walk closely to defeat the Shinobi. They saw the lifeless body of Minato and barely alive Kushina while Ryo was kneeling beside her.
Ryo looks at the Hokage as he asks for help, "Hokage-Sama, p-please help her."
Ryo shocked the entire Shinobi when Uchiha bowed to the Hokage, asking for help in public.
Hokage 3rd nodded and understood that Ryo and Minato were like brothers, so seeing Dying Kushina is like losing a Sister, "Kushina... How does this happen? Medic, I need medical attention NOW!"
Medical Ninja runs toward them and tries to heal her.
Kushina coughed as she weakly said, "W-when... I already gave birth to my daughter... a man... I think the man is Uchiha... He has Sharingan in his right eye, and he also wears a mask. He knows that I'm in a weak state. He undoes my seal and pulls out Kyuubi inside me..."
Every Shinobi was shocked by the news.
Hokage 3rd nodded as he responded. "So I guess Minato seal the Kyuubi Inside, that baby." He points to the baby.
Ryo looked at the baby. He had heard from Minato that Kushina was pregnant, but he had never seen her because he was busy with his mission. He asked for confirmation, "It's that baby?"
Kushina weakly nodded, "Y-Yes... It's mine." Once again, she got water in her eye.
The medical ninja shakes her head; she can't heal her. Kushina's wound is critical, and she cannot do anything about it.
Ryo was furry as he grabbed the collar of the medical ninja. "No! At least try to stop her bleeding!" He looked at the medical ninja with activated Sharingan.
Medical Ninja tried to escape as she said, "I-I can't..."
Ryo roared, "YOU USELESS BITC-"
Kushina cut him off. "R-Ryo-Kun, can you promise me..."
Ryo looked at his beloved friend and held her arm.
Kushina weakly said, "P-Please promise me... to take care of Naruko for Minato and me..."
Ryo was shocked at her words as he saw tears fall down her cheek.
Kushina once again cried as he begged, "P-Please, Ryo-Kun... Without us on her side, she will be hated by the village. Onegai(Please)..." She held his arm tight.
Ryo gave her a smile on his face as he said. "I Promise, Kushina. I promise you and Minato that you will take care of her. I, with Yuri, will treat her like my own daughter, I promise..."
Kushina gives a weak smile "T-Thank y-you..."
Kushina exhales her last breath and follows her husband to the afterlife.
Ryo, Hokage, and other Shinobi witness her death. Ryo holds her arm tight, tears streaming from his eyes; he has lost his two best friends. Then he wipes his eyes and stands up.
Ryo, Hokage, and other Shinobi witness her death. Ryo holds her arm tight, tears streaming from his eyes; he has lost his two best friends. Then he wipes his eyes and stands up.
Ryo looks at his two friends and makes a promise deep inside his heart: 'I promise to you, Minato, Kushina.'
Random Ninja suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Hokage-Sama, are you just gonna leave the baby with the Uchiha?"
The other Random Ninja nodded as he said, "Yeah, did you hear Kushina say the man who caused the chaos is from Uchiha?"
Random Uchiha's eyes twitched as he yelled, "You got a problem with Uchiha, punk!"
Then another random Ninja said, "Yeah! And that baby is not a baby. That is a Monster!"
Hokage is about to silence them. But he is cut off by Ryo's voice.
Ryo got his anger high enough as he roared, "ENOUGH!" He looks at everyone with a bleeding eye and his new Sharingan form.
Hokage 3rd was shocked as he said, "S-Sharingan, change..."
Random Uchiha was also shocked as most of the Uchiha knew what that eye form was, "M-Mangekyou Sharingan."
Ryo looks at the idiots' shinobis as he yells, "Naruko is not a Monster! She is the child of our Hokage 4th and Miss Kushina, and I promise they will take care of her. So I didn't want you to talk shit to the baby ever again. But if I hear it, I PROMISE YOU IT WILL BE THE WORSE PAIN THAT YOU WILL EVER FELT!"
When Ryo said the last sentence, a yellow aura came out from his body. It started to form into a giant yellow skeleton.
Hokage 3rd decide to end the conflict for now as he yells, "EVERYONE LISTEN TO ME! I WANT ALL OF YOU IN HERE! I WANT YOU TO KEEP A SECRET ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE AND HOKAGE'S 4TH CHILD! IF YOU DISOBEY THIS ORDER, YOUR PUNISHMENT WILL BE DEATH!"
A Random Ninja said, scared, "S- Sorry for the confirmation, Hokage-Sama. S-So is this going to be S-Rank Secret?"
Hokage 3rd rub his temple as he yells, in response, "YES! ALL OF YOU, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!"
Every Shinobi gives the old Hokage a nod. Ryo's eyes turn back to his normal black eyes, and he walks to pick up baby Naruko with him.
Hokage 3rd needs to tell Ryo about something before the baby becomes one of Ryo's children. "Ryo, come here for a second. All of you, you give us some space to talk alone."
All of the Shinobi near Hokage disappear, and Ryo goes closer to Hokage.
Hokage sighed as he said, "Ryo, I want to tell you that you can't give Naruko his last name; you know that, right?"
Ryo nodded as he responded, "Yes, Hokage-Sama, I'm aware that Minato is the 4th Hokage. If I name Naruko with his last name, it will be a great danger to her, and she will have assassins try to kill her every day."
Hokage 3rd smiles as he asks, "I'm glad you know. So, will you put your last name to her?"
Ryo smiles sadly, saying, "No, I think I will put her last name, Mother, instead of mine. That should be okay, right?"
Hokage 3rd nodded, "Yeah, it will be okay." The old man smiles at him.
Ryo looked at Naruko as he said, "And one more thing, Hokage-Sama. I guess the rumours about Naruko will spread sooner or later, and when the day comes... I will give them a lesson that they will never forget!"
The Hokage smiled and said, "I know Naruko is in good hands. Take care of her for me, too. I will take care of your friend's funeral. Go home and rest. You earned it." Once more, the Hokage smiled at him.
Ryo gives a bow to the 3rd Hokage as he says. "Thank You, Hiruzen-Sama. I take my leave now." Ryo disappears in a red flash with Naruko in his arms.
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'I hope Ryo-Kun and the others are okay.' Yuri thought, as she was worried about Ryo and her friend when she saw giant destructive power explode outside the earth's atmosphere. Baby Kyo is in her arms. She applied first aid to her right thumb, which she had cut on the broken glass. Suddenly, she heard the hall door knock.
The mother goes to the door and opens it.
"T-Tadaima(I'm home) Yuri-Chan," Ryo said weakly.
Yuri gasped at her husband's appearance. He had a dry blood strain on his face with cuts and bruises all over his body. The wife also notices that her husband carries a baby with him.
Ryo weakly looks at his wife as he says, "I'm Sorry, Yuri-Chan. I can't protect our friends... I-I..."
His words cut. Yuri put her finger on his lips and stroked his cheek. Tears are streaming down her cheek.
Yuri gives a sweet, sad smile as she says, "Don't you blame yourself."
Ryo couldn't hold back his tears. He felt anger, sadness, hate, and anger that he wasn't strong enough. He was sad his friends were no longer with him, and he hated feeling like this.
Ryo falls to his knees and starts to cry while still holding Naruko in his hand. Yuri also drops to her knees while holding baby Kyo in her arms. She can't take it when she sees her husband break down like that, so she goes to Ryo and tries to calm herself.
After 10-15 minutes, they stop crying and light up a little bit; Ryo is the first to speak.
"Yuri-Chan, I want you to meet our friend's daughter, Naruko. We will be her guardians from now on. I promise Kushina that I will take care of her." He shows the baby Naruko to her. Naruko is asleep same as Kyo. Yuri notices that Naruko has blonde hair and whiskers on each cheek.
Yuri smiled as she slowly stroked Naruko's cheek. "She got her father's hair and Kushina's face. You are not alone, Ryo-Kun. I would also love to take care of Naruko with you and Kyo beside us."
Once again, Ryo cried tears of joy as he said, "Thank you, my dear."
Yuri wipes his tears away, and she says. "So what's her last name going to be? Uchiha? or something else?"
Ryo shook his head as he said, "No, I can't give her our last name. That is going to ruin her life. Because you know how our clan will react; they don't like it when outsiders have Uchiha's last name, and she has blonde hair that will make it worse for her when we try to cover it up. Luckily, Kyo has black hair and black eyes. It will be much easier to confess to them that Kyo is our son."
Yuri begins to wonder as she asks, "So? What is her last name, then?"
Ryo looks down at Naruko, smiles at her, and says, "Her name will be after her mother's clan."
Yuri's eyes widen. "Uzumaki?" She asks.
Ryo nodded as he looked at sleeping Naruko, "Yeah, Uzumaki, Naruko Uzumaki."
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?To Be Continue?
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