Naruto Naruto's parents (plot bunny)

[ttestagr]

I've been thinking about Naruto's parents. It's a very cliched fandom to have him be the son of the fourth and not be told because of his enemies. I really am starting to dislike that little bit of storytelling.


What popped into my head is to have the fourth as his father and the older generation in the village knows that. The popular thing to do is to have the villagers not hate him anymore if they learn who his father is, I think they would still hate him because he still has the fox in him and is a good skapegoat.


This would cause a few changes though. Why would Naruto not be told about his parentage? The idea I have is to have his mother be the previous Kyuubi Jinchuuriki. When she was alive she was either a pariah like Naruto or feared like Gaara, but either way she was the village's weapon and not treated like a human. The Yondaime wasn't supposed to get involved with her, but he did, and she died at Naruto's birth releasing the fox who immediately went to destroy the leaf. Yondaime managed to escape with his son back to the village using Hiraishin, and he prepared to reseal the beast.

Naruto isn't told for a few reasons: The council and villagers don't want him to find out about them using the fox as a weapon; in their minds he is the fox and if he learns this was how he was treated, well they are scared shitless of it being found out.

Sandaime and those that agree with him about Naruto don't tell him for a few reasons: Once her finds out, since it was his birth that killed her and released the Kyuubi they think he'll blame himself for the entire event (one of the reasons the village hates him so much), they also worry about him leaving the village if he finds out his mother's story, and they can't tell him about his father because it would lead him to learn about his mother (their coupling was a scandal and too well known for Naruto to not find someone to tell him about her, which is also why Naruto wasn't just told about his parents without telling about the Kyuubi).

Kyuubi doesn't tell Naruto because of how it views humans. It can tell Naruto is the child of another human like we would be able to tell that an ant came from one specific queen on sight. So it doesn't know Naruto is the son of it's old host. It doesn't tell him about it's own imprisonment and slavery simply because it sees Naruto as a useless bug and it doesn't understand humans enough to realize it would really disturb him.


The story idea: Naruto finds out...

 

[Mighty Bob]

I like this idea alot actually. I've always wondered why Naruto's so god damned set on proving himself to a village that has (for 99.9% of the population at least) treated him like shit for his entire life. I suppose it makes sense in the fact that it's the setting Kishimoto set up, but thats generally not how humans react to that kinda situation, Gaara is a helluva lot more realistic in that sense.

If Naruto's mother was the previous vessel, how was the Kyuubi sealed that time (same seal the Fourth used, or some other unique set of circumstances?) And if they treated Naruto's mother like a thing/weapon/tool and not a person, why exactly didn't they do the same with Naruto? I mean, if you go with the logic that the Third stopped that sort of shinanigans from going on, then why wouldn't he have stopped Naruto's mother from being treated that way?

If Naruto's mother was the previous vessel and used the Kyuubi like a weapon, does that mean she had specific jutsu and attacks that perhaps were recored on scrolls and could be found/used by Naruto?

Very very interested in where all this could go :snigger:

 

[FH_Meta]

Is it bad that I had a somewhat simular idea?

On your idea though, you'd probably need some other seal to have been used on Naruto's mother, perhaps one that siphoned off some of the power of the Kyuubi and kept it quiescent.

She dies giving birth, fox wakes up, realizes who was draining him, and attacks.

Unless you wanted to do some funky battle where the Fourth was fighting the escaping fox, leading it further out of the city and had his son with him all the time.

 

[zeebee1]

I would guess his mother had a different seal, considering the Kyuubi was free upon her death. If Naruto had the same seal he would probably be sent to hidden Cloud with a slow acting poison. With luck, after he killed everyone there, the Kyuubi would go in the opposite direction than the Leaf. Even the Sandaime wouldn't let a timebomb like that stay in the villiage. It's likely the only reason NAruto's mother would have been allowed to stay in the viiliage was because no one knew her death would release the Kyuubi.

 

[Lufio]

There's always the option of mixing in Orochimaru. He's experienced with seals. He's got an eye for powerful nin that could be useful as a future vessel. Why not have him be responsible for the Kyuubi being released from the previous host?

His exile and branding as missing-nin was the result of his revenge on the Fourth Hokage. He'd been quite good at keeping his experiments secret. Hadn't been found out yet. He kidnapped the pregnant lover, thus having two ways to hurt Jiraiya's apprentice. Up in the air whether or not the baby would have been discarded or kept.

Experiments done to determine if his personal seal could work on a host and if improvements can be done. Something goes wrong. Demon released. Orochimaru is found out. Confrontation between the Third and Orochimaru. Orochimaru escapes, and it's Jiraiya who goes after him. The Third handles the defense of the village, while the Fourth leads the attack against the Kyuubi.

How the pregnancy is handled determines things. Did the experimentation with the seals result in the release of the bijuu and the premature birth? Did the attempt at abortion result in the demon being freed? Up to the author to decide.

 

[ttestagr]

There's always the option of mixing in Orochimaru.? He's experienced with seals.? He's got an eye for powerful nin that could be useful as a future vessel.? Why not have him be responsible for the Kyuubi being released from the previous host?

His exile and branding as missing-nin was the result of his revenge on the Fourth Hokage.? He'd been quite good at keeping his experiments secret.? Hadn't been found out yet.? He kidnapped the pregnant lover, thus having two ways to hurt Jiraiya's apprentice.? Up in the air whether or not the baby would have been discarded or kept.?

Experiments done to determine if his personal seal could work on a host and if improvements can be done.? Something goes wrong.? Demon released.? Orochimaru is found out.? Confrontation between the Third and Orochimaru.? Orochimaru escapes, and it's Jiraiya who goes after him.? The Third handles the defense of the village, while the Fourth leads the attack against the Kyuubi.?

How the pregnancy is handled determines things.? Did the experimentation with the seals result in the release of the bijuu and the premature birth?? Did the attempt at abortion result in the demon being freed?? Up to the author to decide.

Well, I thought of the idea because I was annoyed with the fanon treatment of Naruto's parents. Orochimaru being the cause of Kyuubi's attack is a close second fanon event and similarily annoying to me.

I might just use a variation of of a kyuubi-Jinchuuriki mother in my fic, but I'm already too swamped with other ideas to make a fic with this as the focus.

 

[cilrais]

yeah I'm extremely tired of having Orochimaru cause the Kyuubi attack. Maybe reverse it, and somehow have Kyuubi be the cause of Orochimaru going bad... but that's another bunny for another topic.

 

[zeebee1]

This version of Orochimaru being the cause of the Kyuubi's attack is remarkably fresh, because it was an accident. Orochimaru is rarely seen making a mistake.