907Death's Deal
2005
Summary: The Fourth Hokage, instead of dying when he offered his soul to the Shinigami, was thrown out of the Elemental Nations and into another world – The Wizarding World. Too bad he had to leave his newborn son behind, or did he? Challenge fic. AU
A/N: I thought I would do a challenge fic for NaNoWrMo and found one I could make something of it. Frau hadn't liked when I veer off from doing Harry Potter stories, but I needed to do something as a stress relief and this is it.
As for the challenge – See details of the challenge by White Angel of Auralon below, along with terms used in this chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter franchise or Naruto. They belong to their respective writers, artists and producers.
So special thanks for White Angel of Auralon for beta/editing this for me.
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Death's Deal
Chapter 1
A tall blonde looked down at a man-made valley bathed in the glow of a full moon.
Home. He was home.
It had been his home up until five years ago. It had taken him until this night to synchronize time with his old home world to his new one. But still, he was finally looking down at his former home.
The Elemental Nations existed in a pocket dimension, anchored through portals situated around this world's Nihon (or in English Japan). The problem was that it took five years since the birth of his son to figure out the arithmancy of time to return. Thankfully, his research gave him the right answers.
Closing his eyes, that night's memory flashed across his mind.
He had been battling a giant nine-tailed fox, trying to protect the very village below, his wife, Kushina, and new born son. Kushina was already dying from being attacked, as she gave birth to his son, Naruto.
He regretted using that thrice-damned ritual to seal the Kyubi within his newborn son. He was all set sacrificing his life to save his family and his beloved village, but the Shinigami had other ideas. Instead of taking his soul and half of Kyubi's, like he had expected it to do, the deity had a different deal.
That was unexpected as all the documentation from the Uzumaki clan about this specific fuinjutsu came with a high price and that price was one's soul. However, the Shinigami decided to hurl him outside of the Elemental Nations through a portal to a distant land. He had to wonder yet again, who made the better deal.
The memory ended with the hollow laughter of that powerful and unforgiving spirit as he, Minato Namikaze, Fourth Hokage, was hurled through space and time to a different part of the world.
The inhuman laughter shocked the former Hokage back to the present. The laughter gave way to familiar night sounds.
Minato knew he was wasting time. He needed to find his son and return to England before the night was over. Tonight was the only night he could do this.
A grin graced his face and he was gone in a flash of bright yellow.
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The Kyubi Festival was in full swing. It had been five years since the Fourth Hokage defeated the monster fox known as the Kyubi. A milestone year. Sake and good cheer was flowing like water.
The only one not enjoying the festival was a small blonde child. He had never enjoyed this night in his entire life, even if it was his fifth birthday.
He, instead, was running for his life, while an angry, drunken mob raced him through the darkened back streets.
As the child tripped and fell, the mob caught up with him. "No! No! Go Away! Leave me alone! Why are you doing this?" the child was screaming, curling into a protective ball.
"Die Demon!"
The anger of the mob drowned out the child's scream for help and of pain. No one saw the tri-pronged kunai sailing over them and landing just on the other side of the child.
Suddenly, a flash of yellow stopped the angry mob and before them was a ghost – a man out of the past. Minato Namikaze stood before them and he saw the child and was not happy.
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A shinobi wearing a grey hooded robe and a dog mask stood, stunned on the roof of the building that bordered the alleyway. Wisps of silvery grey hair escaped from the hood. He was an ANBU – the best of the best among ninja and a member of the black ops corp. Nothing should surprise him. However, seeing his dead sensei standing in the mouth of the alley below him holding the container of the Kyubi in his arms, lovingly and protective did just that.
He jumped down, landing in front of the man that looked like his late sensei and flashed a hand signal to end any chance of this being a sick and twisted illusion.
"Sorry, ANBU-san," the man commented with a slight smile. "Or should I say Kashi-kun. But I am taking my son out of here. I see that my last wishes are not being fulfilled. I am very disappointed in Lord Third's decision to deny my precious son his Namikaze birth right. Now I must go. My time here's very short. I only have until dawn. If you have any feelings for your old sensei, I would ask that you say nothing of my visit until after you talk to Jiraiya. He knows everything. Afterwards, I can't stop you if you must report it."
Kakashi was torn. This was no illusion. He could feel the man's chakra and only a few people knew of the container's true history.
Suddenly, in the back of his mind, came the voice of his old team mate: "It is true that those that don't follow the rules are scum but I believe those that betray their comrades are worse that scum."
"SSSSSSensei? HHHHow?"
"Remember what I said, Kashi-kun." The man moved and there was a bright yellow flash and he was gone with his son.
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Dawn found Minato at the hole he made in the barrier that keeps him from staying in his home world. Five lonely years have kept him out and away from the little being sleeping in his arms.
As he stepped through the portal, just as the sun peeked through the trees, the portal behind him closed for another year.
Minato smiled as he checked the seals that helped create the portal. They were drained. Now only time will allow them to recharge, a year's worth of time.
"Soon Naruto. You'll love living with me and playing with your younger brother," he whispered.
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Kakashi finally found the white-haired sannin doing 'research' at the village's hot spring. The man was a self-proclaimed 'Super pervert,' but was his sensei's teacher.
"Jiraiya-sama," Kakashi greeted quietly as he landed beside the sannin.
"Shhhhh! Keep it down," the white-haired ninja waved Kakashi off as he peeped through the small hole in the fence.
"I saw Minato-sensei during the night of the Kyubi festival tonight," Kakashi informed him softly as not to draw attention to his news and holding up Minato's special kunai.
Jiraiya jerked back from the hole into the hot springs to stare at the weapon. He sighed, having his 'research' interrupted. "Let's get out of here, then we can talk."
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The white-haired sannin had known about Minato's kekkei-genkai* since the boy was on his genin team. He had accidentally witnessed Minato perform a strange summoning technique.
Then Minato told him about magic and how it ran in his family. The teen had been home-taught until his parents died and he was sent to the Fire Nation to a distant relative. Then Minato made his teacher promise not to tell anyone. It was dangerous for him if the wrong people knew.
Jiraiya had had some misgivings but he had to admit that his student was something else.
"There's a good chance, if I marry the right person, that any child I have will inherit my abilities. How strong they will be, depends on his mother's gifts," Minato had told him.
Kushina was, indeed, strong and talented. She had some latent magically talents, but it wasn't active. Their, then unborn, child would inherit both of their talents.
It had been disappointing that he had to leave Naruto in the village. Minato told him that his son may or may not show any accidental magic. But even he, as a sannin, couldn't disobey a direct order of the Hokage, his sensei, who had taken back the hat after Minato's supposed death.
Jiraiya had a feeling that Minato may not be dead. Some of what happened that night didn't make sense to him. But he kept his silence, hoping that his feeling was right, and he would one-day see his student again.
Taking the kunai from Kakashi, he could detect some of Minato's special chakra on the weapon as well as his magic.
After telling Kakashi what he knew, Jiraiya told him, "I knew Minato had returned, as he had sent me a message. He couldn't meet with me last night, as he was going after his son, he didn't have time to do both. "
He paused and studied the elite jonin and former student of Minato for a moment.
"Look, Kakashi, I know you're very loyal to Konoha, but you cannot say anything to anyone that Minato's alive. Not even Sensei. And I'm very certain that he was the one that took Naruto tonight."
"Why can I not tell Lord Third?" Kakashi asked confused.
"The man's old, and he's allowed the village to ruin Naruto's life since that night. How many times have you saved that boy's life from angry villagers? or how Kushina and Minato has made too many enemies. And let's not forget Danzo who wants to turn Naruto into weapon. It is for the best that Naruto is with his father."
Kakashi thought for the moment and nodded. "Agreed. Will he come again?"
Jiriaya shrugged. "He did say we can meet up next year on the same night as the Kyubi festival at the place where the barrier's keeping him out is the weakest. It'll only last one night. He'll tell me more then.
"I am coming with you next year," the silver haired ANBU captain stated, firmly. He wanted to see his former sensei, to reassure that he was still alive.
"As long as you tell no one. I mean it, Kakashi," Jiriaya informed him, seriously. "Minato made too many enemies and he is still Lord Fourth even if he is in exile at the moment. No one must know."
Kakashi agreed. Now he had a reason to live. He was no longer alone. Maybe his life in the ANBU will take on a new meaning.
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A/N:
In my opinion, the HP genre has very little new ideas by decent fanfic writers being published. At least in my mind and sorry, as it is my opinion, I refuse to argue the point with any one. I do read the occasional HP story that catches my eye, especially from my favorite writers, but again good HP stories are getting fewer and fewer.
kekkei genkai – bloodline limit, meaning the ability is passed down genetically.
Jonin – a high rank within the Shinobi ranking system
Also you can find the challenge White Angel of Auralon's profile page:
1 Minato Namikaze a wizard and Jiraiya knows. Check
2 Minato uses a port-key after sealing the Kyubi into Naruto and survives check
3 Coma and rehab Sort of
4 Can't go back because someone put a barrier up to keep him out. check
5 Helps with the War against Voldemort. Check
That's it for now. I'll post the rest of challenge later. I don't want to give too much away this early.
