The date was October 10 in the village of Konoha. The day had started out like any other day would. The shinobi went along with their business and the villagers did their own things. Children laughed in the streets and the elders tried to tell them how life used to be. However, that all changed when the Kyuubi suddenly appeared in the village.
The key to that was suddenly. How did a very, very large nine tailed fox sneak up on a village of shinobi? Only two people thought of that and knew the answer. The first was Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage of the village. However, he couldn't tell anyone else for he had just sealed the giant beast into his own son.
The other was Uzumaki Kushina. She knew how the Kyuubi appeared because she had seen it once before when she was a little girl. As she lay in her hospital bed she remembered it well as it destroyed her homeland and left nothing but waste. But, her father had killed the one who summoned it. Or, at least, that's what it seemed.
Then she saw him. He stood before her dressed in black with pins and bolts in his skin to preserve his life. His left eye was closed while his right was opened to reveal his Sharingan. It was him. The man who summoned Kyuubi in Uzu no Kuni. The man that her father killed along with himself. Uchiha Madara.
"It took a long time to find you," he said as he sneered at her. "I never would have thought to come back home."
"If you are here to finish what you started you are too late," said Kushina with no hint of fear. "My son is safe."
"For the moment," replied Madara with an ice cold smile. "He is a helpless baby. Killing him will be a simple matter for me." Kushina then started to laugh and Madara looked confused. "Tell me, what's so funny?"
"You think you have won, but you have lost big time," said Kushina with a grin. "Minato has taken your Kyuubi away from you and at the same time made sure you won't kill my son."
"Impossible," declared Madara. "There is no way he could kill the Kyuubi."
"Whoever said that the Kyuubi is dead," said Kushina. "Minato has sealed him into our son. If he dies, the Kyuubi dies as well. And knowing him, Minato placed a few safe guards on the seal so that Naruto will one day be able to control the Kyuubi's power." Madara, having enough of this, raised his hand and slapped her. But, she only glared back at him in response as his Sharingan began to change.
"For this defiance you will suffer forever," he said as space and time began to warp around Kushina. "Believe me when I say forever. Where you are going time has no meaning. You will live forever with the knowledge that I will find away to get back the Kyuubi. And when I do, I will bring you back so you can watch as I rip it out of your son." Kushina scream as she was sent into the space and time warp, leaving behind nothing.
A few moments later the hospital doctors came into the room to see what the noise was. Inside, they found nothing.
The Hokage was informed of this at once and Sarutobi order a search of the entire village and the outlining villages as well. He knew she wasn't the type of person to abandon her child and there was no way she could leave since she had just given birth. Minutes turned into hours and hours turned to days and they found nothing. The Inuzuka clan had their dogs all over the place and found nothing. The Yamanaka clan probed the minds of several doctors and found nothing as well. Every inch of the village was search and all they found were a couple of kids smoking.
Despite this, Sarutobi never gave up hope. He believed that she was still out there somewhere. Until then, he would watch over Naruto and do his best to fulfill their last wishes. Yet something's are not so easily done. The council and the villagers believed that Naruto was the Kyuubi reborn and screamed for his blood. The shinobi wanted to turn him into a weapon. Sarutobi tried to talk some sense into them, but it went in one ear and out the other. In the end he was only able to pass a few laws that he thought would help give Naruto a chance with the next generation.