"See! Isn't he a cutie-pie? Our baby," Kushina looked gleefully at her son.
Minato looked at his son and said, "He has your blessed crimson hair, why wouldn't he be?"
She chuckled and said, "And your eyes, He has been asleep this whole time but Biwako had told me he had your beautiful eyes!"
"What should we name him? The war had only ended a few months so we didn't get much time to decide.."
Minato responded, "Oh? I've already thought of a name as soon as I laid my eyes on him." He paused and said, "Kaijin."
"What did you say? Why?" Her face showed a subtle disapproval. The meaning of 'Kaijin' was something she didn't entirely like.
"What do you mean, well, Kushina-Kaijin? It has a nice nice ring to it. And you must have noticed already as well..."
"How his chakra network is already open? Yes. Isn't that what we should be discussing first? We have to hide this. It's dangerous and I don't want my son to be used and thought of as a tool from the moment he is born."
"I see we share the same sentiment, I'll put a seal on him for now." He put his palm on his son's forehead and put a seal on him blocking and concealing most of his network, and making it seem like he was a normal baby.
"But Kaijin? I am still against it," Kushina said as she shook her head.
"Do you have a better suggestion in mind?"
"Hmm… Ryūjin, I like it better."
They went back and forth for a bit discussing a few more names. After a few more discussions they both agreed on the name Ryūjin.
"Ryūjin Namikaze."
"So, who was the attacker?" Kushina had been told to rest so she couldn't participate in the meeting that had just occurred.
"An Uchiha, or at least someone with implanted sharingans for all we know. He was wearing an orange mask and only one eye was showing. Most of all it was the Mangekyou Sharingan."
"Hm. This seems to be more complicated than it seems." Kushina fell into deep thought pondering on who it could have been and their purpose.
"Mangekyou Sharingan? The nine-tails!" she mumbled as her eyes widened.
"Speaking of Uchihas I heard the Clan leader recently had a son as well. Weren't you familiar with his wife?"
"Yes, Mikoto had a child only a month ago… Wait, you haven't met the baby? Mikoto was my preggo partner and the one who got me through during my last month and what to expect. Even though she herself just had her baby."
She smiled and continued, "She even wished both her baby and mine became friends when they grew up. In fact, I hope so too."
Minato nodded and paused for a moment carefully thinking his words and said, "More importantly, I don't think the Uchiha Clan has anything directly to do with this… But I don't know how to convince the elders… the council is currently split in half right now."
He sighed, "The possibilities are endless. But yes, we can all agree that the purpose of this visit was targeted at you, or more specifically, the nine-tailed fox. And here I thought we had kept your pregnancy hidden quite well."
He turned his head side to side, "It has only been a few months since the Third Great Shinobi War ended, albeit only officially. This very well could have been another village trying to take advantage of this situation, but the chances are unlikely."
Kushina sighed, "Because it was someone who had possessed a Mangekyou Sharingan and knew all of the details of my pregnancy. All evidence is pointed at the Uchiha. Which is exactly why, because of this reason it is not the Uchiha."
"That's right, exactly what I have to make those old fools understand." Minato looked outside the window and said, "It's late, you should go to sleep, you still need to rest. I'll be watching over you."
Kushina lingered for a bit longer and the two shared a heartfelt kiss.
Soon after, Kushina and her son, who was already fast asleep, went to bed together. The latter had already been fed breast milk earlier, so Kushina did not have to worry about that for the time being.
Meanwhile, Minato arranged 9 Anbu Elite squads of most of the village's Elite Jounin reserve, which was about 36 people—to guard the house. He himself created 20 shadow clones, each with only 1% of his Chakra to covertly patrol and scout the area. He then sat down in a meditative position, to recover all of his chakra more quickly.
At another place… In a dark, cavernous hideout.
"Damn it! Damn it, damn it, damn it!!! I couldn't do it… I..." He then stopped and noticed that tears had formed on his face.
"Boy, you failed?" A chilling voice sounded. "Weak."
"It's only been a few weeks since I almost died, and only one since the cell transplant succeeded. Not to mention… I fought my own sensei…"
"Power without purpose is chaos. Purpose without power is delusion. Only when both align does one become truly dangerous."
Madara laughed, "But it seems you are too weak in both power and purpose."
The 13-year-old boy glared at Madara with hateful eyes, but bit back his retort. After a moment, he looked away—then forced himself to meet the ancient man's gaze once more.
"Make me stronger."
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[A/N: The Third Great Ninja war timeline is a bit off, but it will all make sense later. I promise! And also for this fanfic to work I made both Kushina and Minato 20 when they have Ryūjin and so they will be a bit older than canon when they have Naruto. Also Kishimoto (Author of OG Naruto) had really messed up the timelines in the original, so even he didn't fully have all the things make sense in Naruto. Also, everything is happening for a reason, be patient and we will get the main character's perspective… later on… ALSO Madara is still alive because it's only been a week since the transfer of cells… he shortly dies a few days later.]