Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ In the beginning ( Prologue )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

I do not own Naruto…

Prologue

Time...Time and Power…are the two related? When I had originally started this jutsu, the one to seal the demon fox inside the body of my own son, I would have said no.

They are not related…

Time was the measure of life, and Power was something with so many meanings. The one that I chose to believe in was this one…that power was something you had when you were willing to share it with people.

But as I continued the seals, and felt everything starting to drain my life, as the Kyuubu started to fade from the magic. Something strange started to happen. Although I could fully sense mine and the demons chakra….I could sense another. One that was pushing rapidly against the energy rapidly…

Already the death god was coming to take my soul. I could see him reaching through to kill me and imprison me inside him for eternity.

So I prepared myself, only to find that the god struggling with collecting my soul. Then I saw it…other images around me…trying to replace the ones of what was going on at the moment.

They were of someone, who was fighting others; all involved were releasing immense power that flowed off the battle in waves.

As I began to pass out, the god shook his in anger…and instead reached far past me…

It is to be a trade then… Was all the death god said….

What does he mean by a trade?

With that said in the dark recesses of his mind…Arashi Uzamaki Kazama, 4th Hokage of Konoha surrenders to the blackness.

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Saurotobi, the 3rd Hokage of Konoha sighed, as he began to pass away. Forced to seal two of the resurrected Hokages from the past was something he did not wish to do. Failing to have defeated the sannin Orichamaru was worse in his opinion.

He had done his best though…sealing his arms forced him to wait. Doing that had forced him to not take the young Uchiha away from his friends and village. He smiled weakly at the thoughts of the young one, who was slowly beginning to change thanks to another.

Naruto…

Whether Sasuke would admit or not…he needed Naruto. And Naruto…well Naruto needed him…

According to Kakashi, the two had bonded, bonded the way of brothers, and ironically according to the white haired jounin. The two fought like cats and dogs, often forcing the Haruno girl or himself to knock some sense into one and telling the other to calm down.

Feeling his soul pulled away and his body collapse from underneath him, he gives in to fate.

Trade accepted…

Opening his eyes in confusion…wondering as he was taken by the god…he saw what was happening. Although his body was disappearing…another was replacing it.

One all too familiar…

For once, no matter what had happened…Saurotobi chuckles….

Maybe there was hope for Konoha after all...and maybe…just maybe those two boys will no longer feel alone.