The night was ablaze with chaos. The Nine-Tails, a monstrous fox with nine swishing tails, rampaged through the Hidden Leaf Village, its roars echoing through the streets. Buildings crumbled under its might, and the air was thick with the scent of smoke and fear.
Mikoto Uchiha clutched her youngest son, Sasuke, tightly to her chest. His small body trembled with each distant explosion. Beside her, Itachi, barely five years old, stood with a determined expression, his eyes darting around, assessing the situation.
"Mikoto, take the kids to safety!" Fugaku shouted, his sharingan glowed with intensity as he grabbed an emergency flare and rushed out of the house to gather the clan.
"Mother! Miyuki isn't here!" Itachi yelled, worry apparent on his young face. "She must still be at the training ground!" He ran out the door, the fastest he's ever run before, while yelling behind him towards his mother.
Earlier that ground, in the Uchiha exclusive training ground. Miyuki was panting while practicing her fire release. "Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu" she yelled while weaving hand seals at an incredible speed.
Taking a deep breath, Miyuki released a small flaming dragon from her mouth. Watching the jutsu hit the target, Miyuki put on a displeased expression. "What a waste of time. It can only travel straight, and it barely has a destructive ability similar to the fireball jutsu." She spoke while lamenting all her wasted practice time on this jutsu.
"The only good things about it are that it can travel along a wire, and that it looks good. However, I don't even know any shurikenjutsu that use wires! If I add wire to my current techniques, it will just mess up my throwing, so this jutsu is completely reduced to just looking good." Miyuki sighed looking at the scorched practice dummy.
Saddened by her wasted practice, Miyuki chose to take a rest and recover her chakra while looking around the training ground. 'If I had the shadow clone technique, I could make clones to practice alongside me and get more done.' As Miyuki pondered how to obtain the shadow clone technique, she overheard the conversation of two Uchiha jonin who were just arriving at the training field.
"Raiden, I'm telling you that I really saw Minato-sama panicking because his wife went into labor. He ran all the way to the Sarutobi clan and brought Biwako back with him!"
"Listen, Kaede, it's not that I doubt you, but maybe you saw wrong? Minato-sama wouldn't panic because of something as simple as his wife going into labor. He's a great ninja, something so simple wouldn't even faze him." Raiden Uchiha spoke to his friend before turning to Miyuki and waving.
Taken slightly aback, Miyuki chose to wave back. 'They're jonin so it makes sense that they knew I was listening.' She thought, 'But if what they said is true, then today is when the nine tails attacks... should I try to help out? The clan will be stopped from helping, but if I go now, I can make it. If I help, I can lessen the suspicion against the clan, but I'll be putting my own life in danger.'
Reeling with thoughts and ideas, Miyuki chooses to act now before she loses the chance to. Quickly getting up, she runs out of the compound and towards the outskirts of the village. 'Minato should send the nine-tails outside of the village, when that time comes, I just need to get there first. If I can be there and pretend to help out at a critical moment, then the clan won't suffer so much.'
Arriving at the outskirts of the village, near an abandoned house, Miyuki decides to wait here until the time comes to act. "Phew" She exhaled after arriving. 'This is so stupid why am I doing this? I could die! Well, whatever! I'm already here, I might as well continue on with it, I need to take action for the clan.'
Continuing with her strategizing and worrying, Miyuki is pulled out of her thoughts by a loud roar appearing and rocking her ears. Looking around, Miyuki spots the giant nine tails, beginning its rampage in the village.
Looking at the beast, Miyuki felt a great sense of dread. It's huge size and power, even from so far away, she felt scared by it. However, snapping out of her fear, Miyuki realized that this is what she was waiting for, and without further waiting, she ran into the forest where Minato will teleport the nine tails in only a few minutes.
Looking behind her once again, as she neared the forest, Miyuki saw a large toad falling onto the nine tails, pinning it down. "Shit I need to hurry!" She yelled as she picked up her pace and entered the forest.
Suddenly in front of her, she saw the massive nine tails appear. Looking at the monster from so close up, Miyuki felt her fear rush up again, even stronger this time. However, for her clan she knew that she needed to follow through with her plan and at least look like she tried to help.
'For the good of the clan, for the good of my family, I need to do this.' she thought to herself as her resolve strengthened and she sprinted forward towards the beast.
Coming up to the nine tails, Miyuki saw Kushina holding it back with her sealing chains, and Minato preparing the eight signed seal. Knowing that there was no time left seeing the nine tails preparing to strike at Naruto, Miyuki ran into the clearing towards him.
'I need to help block the nine tail's claw!' she thought as she sprinted to Naruto and saw the attack coming.
Minato and Kushina saw her run into the clearing, but they couldn't spare her any of their time as they quickly got into the way of the attack to save their son. Seeing them appear, Miyuki was relieved that her life wouldn't be in danger, so she quickly put her hands out in the direction of the incoming claw, making it look like she was trying to stop it from hurting the baby as well.
The attack came quick, Minato and Kushina were impaled, and Miyuki's outstretched hands were no better with the claw going right through her palms. Gasping in pain, Miyuki remained there and tightened her grip on the nine tail's claw. She put all her strength into stopping it, but she knew she wasn't really doing anything.
Minato and Kushina looked at her with disbelief, but they quickly put the heroic girl behind them and continued trying to seal the kyuubi. Performing the eight signed seal, the kyuubi began to compress and fly into Narto's body.
Seeing the Kyuubi slowly disappear, Minato and Kushina then looked at Miyuki in front of them. "Thank you for helping save our son." Minato said weakly with a smile on his face. "Me and Kushina are very grateful to you, but what you did was stupid. Fugaku always brags to me about how smart his children are, but it looks like it was all a lie."
"Minato's right Miyuki. I understand that my son is extremely handsome even as a baby, but don't you think it's too early to be trying to win him over?" Kushina spoke jokingly.
Hearing what she said, Miyuki was stunned as a red blush appeared on her cheeks. "I.. I wasn't trying to save him because of that I... I just acted without thinking." She stammered as she looked down towards Naruto.
"Haha Minato look! He's just been born and is already making the girls blush!" Kushina spoke as she puffed out what was left of her chest in pride.
"Y...Yeah, hey Miyuki, can you take Naruto to the village and hand him over to the third generation? He'll know what to do with him. We will be able to pass on happily knowing he's in good hands."
Hearing that, Miyuki wanted to refute, saying that Naruto's life will be terrible in the hands of the third, but she held back and only nodded towards the couple. When the last bit of the nine tails disappeared, Minato and Kushina collapsed, no longer having the claw supporting them up.
"Naruto..." Minato said weakly from the forest floor. Kushina too, looked towards her son and spoke. "We love you."
Watching their last moments, Miyuki watched in shock. Seeing parents with so much love for their son, dying to protect him, she didn't know what to do for a moment. But she soon came to the conclusion that she couldn't let Naruto suffer the same tragic fate as he did in the original.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure Naruto lives a good life." She said to the couple while reaching to Naruto. However, just when she was about to pick up the baby, she was stopped.
Looking at the person who stopped her, Miyuki saw the third generation hokage patting her shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll take him from here." He spoke turning his head from the fallen couple towards Naruto.