🌌 Part 3: The Rescue
“I shattered history so they could live.”
Minato held me in his arms.
Around us, Kyūbi roared.
His tails smashed the earth, reducing mountains to dust.
Black flames. Screams. Collapsing buildings.
The village — their dream — was dying.
And him, the Fourth Hokage, stared at his son with blurry eyes and a tight throat.
He was going to die. He knew it.
Kushina was going to die.
And me — I was going to live.
But this life…
I didn’t want it without them.
Not this time.
[Alert: Emotional Overload Detected]
[Forced Unlock of Latent Module]
[Activation of Anchor Core: Primary Chakra – Reverse Fusion Mode]
A pain tore through me from within.
My chakra awakened like a raging sea.
It wasn’t a stream anymore.
It was an ocean.
My reserve exceeded the limits of my tiny body.
I couldn’t contain it.
But I didn’t need to.
I let it out.
A golden halo burst from around me.
My tiny body lit up.
My eyes glowed.
Minato jolted.
He pulled me back instinctively.
— “What… Naruto?”
He saw my eyes.
He understood.
This wasn’t normal.
Not human.
I slowly raised a hand toward him.
Not to touch.
To connect.
I couldn’t speak.
But I could show him.
Images burst out of me.
Memories.
Visions of the future.
Moments that hadn’t yet come to pass:
Naruto, alone on a swing.
Hinata watching him silently.
Sasuke hating him.
Pain destroying Konoha.
Jiraiya dying.
Kushina bleeding out on the floor.
Minato saw everything.
His eyes widened.
He fell to his knees.
— “No… No, this isn’t… Is this the future?!”
I sent him one final image.
Him. Kushina. Me.
Alive. Together.
And a single sentence into his mind:
“It doesn’t have to happen this way.”
He understood.
And for the first time…
He broke the script.
Minato formed a new seal.
A triple seal.
One fragment of Kyūbi would be sealed within me.
Another fragment, within himself.
The rest, in a sealed temporal vessel.
He wasn’t going to sacrifice himself.
He would carry part of the burden.
— “Kushina is weak… but she can live.
If I take a portion of Kyūbi and stabilize her chakra, she’ll survive… she will survive.”
He teleported to her.
She was on her knees.
Blood. So much blood.
But she was still breathing.
Her eyes opened.
— “Minato… you're… alive? Naruto?”
He held her tightly.
— “We’re going to live, Kushina. All three of us.”
She cried.
— “You’re just saying that to comfort me…”
He laid Naruto — me — in her arms.
And then… I acted.
I let my chakra flow into her.
I repaired her tissues.
I closed her wounds.
I stabilized her reserves.
I placed a reverse regeneration seal.
She moaned.
She gasped.
She trembled.
Then… she breathed.
Her eyes lit up.
— “What is this baby…?”
Minato cried.
— “Our miracle.”
Kyūbi saw them.
He roared.
He charged.
Minato planted the seal into the ground.
A barrier rose.
A perfect circle.
Me, in the center.
Them, kneeling.
And together, we chanted:
— “By blood, by heart, and by will… we bind the demon to the cycle of light.”
Kyūbi roared.
He was pulled in.
Split.
Balanced.
Everything stopped.
The wind ceased.
The ruins of Konoha stopped trembling.
Minato and Kushina collapsed to their knees, exhausted.
But… alive.
And I lay between them.
Surrounded by a warmth I never thought could be real.
A family.
That day, history was shattered.
Naruto Uzumaki was no longer the orphan.
He was the child of two suns.
His father lived.
His mother too.
And he carried a secret no one could ever discover:
He had rewritten the universe.
And nothing would ever be the same again.