1 Burning Duel, Humble Beginnings

"Hashirama!"

"Madara!"

Two men clad in red Senju armor attacked each other one last time in their final duel, both using their respective fists to make the other fall. Then they clashed amidst the burning wood and the tired and injured body of an orange nine-tailed fox. Hashirama got off his punch and Madara falls down, unconscious.

"Goodbye, Madara, my friend."

Hashirama said this with a solemn face and a single tear streaked across his face. He walked away without finishing the job. Perhaps he thought his friend died, or maybe thought the fire would kill him.

After a few minutes, with Hashirama gone, a young blonde-haired woman appeared at the scene of destruction and looked at Madara with shock. She shook her head and took him back to where she was from, the Land of Rice.

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He was on a bed and the same blonde woman is concentrated on using the Mystical Palm Technique to heal him. Madara, covered in bandages that weren't there before, looked at the blonde woman.

"Who are you?"

He asked, 'She is properly the one who saved me.', he thought.

"My name is Naomi Namikaze and you need rest!"

"Listen, lady, I am th-"

"I don't care, you need rest to lie down!"

He sighed and decided it was too... troublesome. Damn, am I becoming a Nara?

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[5 years later]

"Checkmate."

I looked at Minato who seemed disappointed with the result. I pat his head.

"Cheer up son, this is only your 4th time playing."

I said with a smile on my face.

"Says to one who is proud of beating your 5-year-old son." He said while pouting.

I felt an invisible arrow hit my heart. Suddenly, a familiar voice rings from the kitchen.

"Madara! Are you bullying our son in chess!"

A blonde woman ran out of the kitchen and Aawawaawawaw!

"Stop, stop, stop!" She kept pulling my ear. Naomi stopped and glared at me. Goddamn sadist... not that I mind.

"Dinner will be ready soon!" And she ran back into the kitchen. Minato chuckled at our antics.

(AN: Can we have a silent pray for Madara for having an... *energetic* wife?)

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[Sealing of the Kyuubi]

"Na..ruto... Don't stay up too late, eat your vegetables... Sleep well and... be a good person." A red-haired woman was holding a baby who had a seal on his stomach. After her speech, she gave the child to a blonde-haired man that looked very similar to Madara.

'How am I going to tell Naruto about our lineage? I know! I will put the scrolls Dad gave me along with my mom's scrolls with many others! And I will give Naruto my visual powers so that he won't go blind while putting Kushina's and mine chakra inside the seal... Please be a good kid, Naruto!'

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A man that looks around 50 something years old is holding the same baby that has the Kyuubi.

They are currently in the Hokage office, with stacks of papers on the desk the Third Hokage was sitting at. The baby was currently sleeping peacefully in the Hokage's arms.

"What am I going to do? None of the clans or any family wants to adopt him and I have my hands full with my Hokage duties..."

At that moment, a man that smelt of snakes walked into the room.

"I believe that since no one wants to adopt the child, I will."

He said. The Hokage is in shock due to the snake person usually being interested in immortality and creating new Jutsu.

"Are you serious, Orochimaru?"

"I am, master. Also, you know I am not one for jokes."

The Hokage sighed and looked at the baby who had a miniature smile on its face. He smiled a wry smile back at him and gave the baby to Orochimaru.

"I will fill out the paperwork, just take good care of Naruto."

"I will"

Then once Orochimaru got outside of the Hokage office and couldn't sense any secret ninja's lurking, he smirked.

'Finally, my perfect vessel will be realized.'

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In a completely barren and white space, with nothing in it, like it has no personality, or that it represents the mind of an impressionable infant.

"Fucking shitty seal!"

A voice full of malice rang out from behind steel bars that are to only objects that have any color in the 'mindscape'.

'If I kill this brat, I can get out.'

But the weird nine-tailed fox only thought this and didn't act on it because even though it was a demon it had morals, albeit a little sadistic.

The cries of the child kept ringing and the child was inside the cage. Slowly, the tails of the Kyuubi gently picked up the baby, cuddling it in its soft fur. The baby suddenly stopped crying and hugged the tails.

'At least the kit is adorable when sleeping.'

The fox thought while wrapping the baby in its tails.