Chapter Text
“Harry Potter, the boy who lived… has come to die.” Voldemort hissed, Harry closed his eyes hoping this was the right choice, after all, the prophecy said ‘neither can live while the other survives’. He surprised himself on how calm he felt, he knew he was going to die but he didn’t feel fear, just total calmness.
He just felt as if he was going to take a rather long and well-deserved nap.
I only wish I can live a better life next time.
“Avada Kedavra!” Voldemort shouted and Harry felt a sharp pain on both his chest and forehead and knew no more.
O=O=O=O
In a messy and small room, the door slammed open revealing a ten-years-old blond boy, behind him, you could see houses, the streets and people walking by. The boy looked rather flushed his clothes were sodden and he was breathing rather heavily. With unfocused eyes; he tried to look for the small kitchen, as he walked inside the apartment he slammed the door shut with his foot. He reached for a glass and clumsily filled it with tap water and drank it, and another, and another. He stumbled to the single bed stuck to the wall. As he did so he removed his shirt and pants which were drenched in sweat and muddy water. He let himself fall unceremoniously on the bed. His breathing was shallow as if the air around him didn’t have enough oxygen, his head ached like if he was being stabbed kunai, repeatedly, he didn’t know what was happening to him, but he knew it was something bad.
He was scared, what if he died? There was no one who would take care of him. Because for some reason everyone ignored him; except the old man, he was the only one who gave a shit about him. But he couldn’t burden the Hokage into taking care of an orphan. He surely had more important things to do.
As he breathed deeply with the uncertainty of whenever he was going to wake up again he tried to sleep hoping that he was only tired and everything would be fine tomorrow.
“God, if I die please let me have a family in my next life.” he whispered to the empty room, a red mist enveloped him as he lost consciousness.
O=O=O=O
In a large damp and dark room, with pipes covering the walls and flooded in at least a two inches of water. A massive, colossal nine tailed fox snored behind bars made of what looked pristine iron. The gate was only held closed by a small paper seal with the word seal on it.
Then the world shook and debris started to splash into the water, the Fox opened one eye and the world shook again, this time a crack appeared in the opposing wall where the demon fox was. He looked annoyed for a moment as he opened both eyes and stood up the world shook again and more debris splashed into the flooded floor.
His annoyance changed into a concern. He pushed chakra out of the jail trying to heal whatever was afflicting the vessel. If it died, so did he, and he didn’t want that. He pushed and pushed chakra but the world continued to shake periodically. He started to feel fear for the first time in years. As he tried to come up with a plan to survive the seal on the gate lessened just a tiny bit.
It wasn’t as if he wanted to be jailed for the rest of eternity, clearly being free was preferable, but being jailed was preferable to being dead. But now with the seal losing its strength, he saw an opportunity to be free.
He tried to will the brat into the seal but his mind was almost lost so he sat on his hind legs and brought his massive front paws together and made a complex series of seals with surprising grace.
“Soul Call of the Demon Fox!” The nine-tails growled, the sound reverberating into the shaking sewer as more and more debris fell into the ground.
A small point in front of the fox appeared and started to grow more and more until it became a floating ethereal sphere of gold and red sparkles, there was a black spot in the sphere that seemed to suck in the little light of the sewer, it was surrounded by a bright golden-pink ring that seemed to keep it in place, but The Fox paid no mind to it.
The Fox started to whisper to the ethereal sphere.
“Rip it off” the sphere twitched
“Rip it off and set us free” the sphere turned and the Fox thought it was looking at him
“Come on, break the seal” the sphere floated to the iron bars where the seal was barely being held; almost half of it was dangling; from the sphere, a long ribbon started to grow, it was made of the same red and gold sparkles. The ribbon coiled and around the thin paper
“Yes, just rip it off! and we will be free” the sphere turned around as if looking at the demon fox and tilted slightly to the right
“JUST RIP IT OFF, BREAK IT, DESTROY THAT DAMN SEAL!” the sphere twitched and started to pull on the thin paper holding the gates together, the fox grinned showing a row of very sharp fangs. But in that moment a human hand grabbed the ribbon and the sphere let go the paper strip.
“Stop.” The blond and tall man commanded and the sphere stopped, the blond man looked at it and tilted his head. “Hey, what is this?”
“YOU!” the demon fox lunged and tried to claw the blond man but the bars of the jail made his massive paw stop just a few inches from the man. He looked at the paw with rather unimpressed expression. The demon fox let out a rage filled snarl. He tried to pounce again with his other paw but the result was the same. The man let out a sigh. And the world shook again this time stronger that the last. The blond man frowned
“Oi, what is happening?”
The demon fox grinned again in a way that made the blond man uncomfortable
“He is dying” the demon enjoyed the look of the terror on the man
“N-No that’s impossible.” said the man as he absentmindedly stickied the thin paper again into the gate. The demon frowned and let out a low growl
“We are going to die.” the demon said
“I’m already dead” the man responded in that moment the sphere let out a low chime and the blond man looked at it again “I know you don’t want to die; and there is no way in hell I’m breaking that seal, also you know I don’t want him to die so for the time being let’s work together… what do you think?” the demon fox let out a growl and crossed his paws in front of him “Right, what is this?”
“A human soul, I needed someone to break the seal because I couldn’t get the brat’s consciousness to do it” the blond man frowned
“You mean this is a human soul?” the blond man looked again at the sphere and noted the black spot and the golden ring. A human soul if he could… it was a crazy idea but the hardest part was already done by the demon fox.
“Isn’t that exactly what I said? You dumb monkey”
“Can you try to delay whatever is killing my son? I have a plan but I need as much time as I can get, the demon fox huffed and a stream of red chakra started to seep through the jail bars.
The blond man made a hand seal, a loud sound preceded a cloud of white smoke, as it dissipated a pretty redheaded woman appeared in front of him her eyes widened as she saw the man.
“Mi— Minato?” she reached and hugged her husband “What’s happening?” she pulled away and looked around as the world around her shook.
“Not much time to explain, Naruto is sick and the Kyuubi can’t heal him, he is dying” the woman eyes widened as they filled with tears “I have a plan” Minato pulled the soul and the woman finally looked at it
“Is that?” her eyes widened
“Yes.” his voice grave knowing what he was asking his wife. “There is no other option” the woman nodded and they got to work.
O=O=O=O
It had been several hours since they had started working on the soul, they had decided on the appearance of the physical vessel as the same of Naruto’s Sexy Jutsu. Thanks to Naruto’s constant use of the Jutsu it was the easiest way to mold the chakra needed for the physical vessel. Plus there was no time to find the soul’s original appearance.
“About this black spot…” Kushina said
“It’s troubling,” Minato answered. “I can feel the evil chakra emanating from it but also a deep knowledge, maybe it’s something like the demon fox’s yang.” Minato looked at his wife with a troubled expression “I wish I had more time.” he looked at the demon fox who was visibly panting “If we leave things as they are it’s possible that the golden ring will keep it at bay, but if it ever fails it may put Naruto’s life at risk”
“More if she really becomes Naruto’s sister” Kushina frowned, Minato procured a small brush and a strip of paper and drew the Kanji for ‘seal’, and then he drew the kanji for ‘path’ and the one for ‘knowledge’. A hand seal later the paper strip burned and a blue and yellow ring appeared inside the golden ring keeping the black spot at bay.
“Everything is ready,” said Minato as he started a series of complex hand seals
“Wait!” Kushina said and Minato stopped, she touched the soul and a warm feeling seeped through her body “we know we are being unreasonable, and forcing you into a role you may not want, maybe you just wanted to go to the other side and meet with your family and loved ones” tears started to pool on her eyes as Minato looked at her “Naruto, my son, he needs someone to take care of him but more than that he need someone to love him and tell him that everything will be all right” she let out a small sob “we were supposed to be the ones doing that, but we had to sacrifice ourselves to save his life and the life of millions of people” now her tears were flowing without shame, and Minato’s eyes became watery “And we were forced to seal a demon inside him” she fell to her knees and bowed so low that her head touched the water on the ground. “Please take care of Naruto!”
Minato also fell into his knees mimicking his wife “Please take care of Naruto!” they both felt the low light the soul emanated increase as they looked up the sparks that made the soul were moving faster than before. The soul bobbed up and down once as if nodding. Both Kushina and Minato smiled and stood up. The world shook and Minato’s face became grave.
He started the hand seals after about thirty or so seals.
“Ying Release: Soul Vessel!” Both Minato and Kushina wavered as if they were reflections in disturbed water, then an instant later, they weren’t there anymore, in their place two small orbs one blue and the other violet fused into the larger red and gold soul, leaving two smudges of the same color, the soul shook and started to stretch then it shoot through the roof leaving behind a tired looking nine-tails.
O=O=O=O
In the messy room, Naruto convulsed on his bed, thick red chakra enveloping him, from the cloak a small strand of the red energy started to seep into the floor beside Naruto’s bed. Over time and little by little the pool grew until it started to take a roughly human form. The blood red human blob solidified from one moment to the next, then, the next second a blond girl was in its place.
She was naked, her face looked vaguely like one of Naruto’s Sexy Jutsu, with the same whisker birthmarks, but she was a little bit thinner and her nose was smaller and her eyes were rounder, she looked more like Minato than Kushina, but she had facial features of both, her skin was deathly pale, she wasn’t breathing, she looked like a fresh corpse. Then she grasped for air and color returned to her body.
Her body ached terribly and she felt nauseous she probably would have thrown up if she had anything in her stomach. She crawled on the floor, her eyes closed patting the floor as if looking for something.
“Oh! right!” She said her voice hoarse for the lack of use
She opened her eyes and they were green.
AN: Revised for errors on 4/27/2017
Grammarly Pass on 6/18/2017