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Chapter 1 : The Diary of the Third Hokage.
Naruto was absolutely angry, no, furious.
In his apartment, under the light of a simple lamp, he could not believe to what he was reading.
It's the dream of every orphan, to know who your parents were, to know what are your origins, and finally, after a very long research, he found his answers in the personal diary of the now deceased Hiruzen Sarutobi, Third Hokage of Konohagakure.
Flashback – 1 month before
Naruto, his master Jiraiya of the Sannin, and finally Tsunade Senju, soon to be Fifth Hokage, were in the Hokage's office, in the Hokage's tower at the center of the village, with Tsunade who was putting away her personal belongins in their respective places, in that office which, before the end of the week, would have been hers. -It's sad to see this place without the old man Hokage...- Naruto said with a sad tone -The only thing I wish is that... that he would have told me about my parents, before he died fighting that damn snake of Orochimaru- to that Jiraiya flinched imperceptibly, but Naruto dismissed the fact believing it was for the mentioning of the name of the traitor. -Naruto, now you're dismissed, myself and the pervert must talk of important things, for jonin and higher ups ears only- Naruto nodded and went out, closing the door behind his back. He had just closed the door when he heard the voice of Tsunade -Uzumaki... Naruto. He's Kushina's son ?- Naruto could not believe to his ears, after thirteen years finally a name -Yes- answered the voice of Jiraiya -I see...- Tsunade said, Naruto exited from the tower, Shizune was entering the office, finally he could search for a name.
End Flashback
He had spent the last month looking in every archive, in all lists, even the war memorial, taking and using all the free time he had between missions and training. Without finding anything, annoyed at every dead end. The thought of that name had become almost obsessive, he was also slightly angry with the Third Hokage, with Tsunade and with Jiraiya, if they both knew... damn it, if even Tsunade knew, which was not part of the village for years, why it was not possible for the Third knowing anything about it ? Every time he asked was the Third lying to him ? In the end he decided that : if he wanted informations he had to search inside the archive of the Hokage's Tower. If he entered there in the past because of Mizuki, who told him to stole the scroll of seals, before he even knew about the skills of a ninja and before even becoming a genin, he could do that again now. With the cover of the night, passing some Jounin who was put in surveillance, he reached the archive and found his answer in the personal diary of the Third Hokage, which promptly hid under his clothes before running off to his apartment, he then began to read .
He wasn't some random orphan, absolutely, his last name, Uzumaki, belonged to an entire damn clan, the Uzumaki clan of the Village of the Whirlpool, the ruling family there in the land of the Whirlpools.
His mother, Uzumaki Kushina, was none other than the Daimyo's daughter, a guy named Uzumaki Taiyo, who for his part was the smaller brother of Mito Senju, formerly Uzumaki, and the First Hokage's wife. He was like a damned prince, he was supposed to be treatead like that and not like scum, not like a plague, not like a leper who was to be avoided. He discovered that he wasn't the only to bear the bijuu, Kyuubi no Yoko, he was in fact the third after Mito and surprisingly his very same mother, he discovered that the fox freed itself from the seal on his mother and then went on a rampage on the village during the night of his birth, he discovered another fact : his hero who also condemned him to live the life of a Jinchuuriki, was his very same father. Minato Namikaze, Fourth Hokage of the Village of the Leaf, was his father.
Part of him was happy, finally some truth and not the same lies but part of him was also very angry, he was crying, he knew that, but he continued to read the diary of the Third, he learned something who made him want to free the fox in that very moment, destroying everything in his path, erasing the village down to its roots, he would have released the seal had it not been that, in doing so, he would surely also have decreed not only his own death, but also that of the few people that he still held dear, the Ichirakus, Iruka-sensei, Konohamaru, Udon and Moegi, Sakura and finally, even the hated Sasuke.
To the start of the Third Ninja World War, the Village of the Whirlpool was destroyed by an alliance composed of the Village of the Cloud and the Village of the Rock, in both Lightning and Earth country, who feared the force of the Uzumaki clan and the force of the village itself. Its destruction would not had been happened, had it not been for one particular person : Shimura Danzo, a member of the elders councilors, an important political figure in the Village of the Leaf and chief of a secret organization, Root. Him with his "human drones" of that organization was suspected by the Third of the destruction of the Village of the Whirlpool, even with no proves. The third suspected than that was a political maneuver : by blaming the destruction oh their allied village on the Third and his supposed incompetency in the position of the Hokage, by blaming it on his age and saying he was even becoming senile, Danzo would have pressed the Daimyo of the Land of Fire to remove him from the office, placing himself as an alternative for the Hokage position. Then a miracle happened. Minato Namikaze, a student of Jiraiya, one of his pupils, created a very particular and difficult jutsu : the famous Hiraishin no Jutsu. He made himself a name in the war against the Rock Village, as the "Yellow Flash" of the Village of the Leaf, surprisingly, the jutsu was a creation of him and his girlfriend, again surprisingly : the Jinchuuriki, both were students of his pupils, Kushina was on the team assigned to Tsunade. After the war, he stopped Danzo by appointing Minato, who was viewed then as a hero, as the Fourth Hokage of the Village of the Leaf. Then, not even after a year and half, the fox freed itself from the seal and attacked the village. He might not know how but he knew that Danzo was involved. Afterward, Danzo blamed the attack on the Uchiha clan, maybe he wanted to cover his tracks with that. The Third suspected that perhaps Danzo had maneuvered the heads of the clan in planning a coup, and then, playing a double game, he pressed for the demise of the clan. In every scenario the Third had imagined the Uchihas would have lose the coup, in doing that or not, but the Third knew that that was another political maneuver, covering his tracks was only the peak of the iceberg. If the Uchihas had continued in pursuing the coup Danzo would have pressed once again the Daimyo into nominate himself Hokage. Itachi however stopped his plan, offering himself like a sacrifice, exterminating the Uchihas by order of the elders councilors, even with the Third's opposition and becoming a missing-nin by doing so. Itachi sacrificed everything but not his little brother Sasuke, he prevented the start of the Fourth Ninja World War.
He learned that Danzo wanted him to become one of his personal human drones in Root, but the Third prevented again his plans, saving him from a future as a slave. The Third remained in the office as Hokage, reassuming his position despite is age and assuming expensive treatments to fight a losing battle against his own body for saving his humanity. And not only his own. The Third in fact was protecting also Sasuke from Danzo's grasp. The old Hokage lied about his parents but for a good reason. If Naruto had said that by mistake, that he was the son of the best shinobi of the Leaf after the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, nothing would have stopped Danzo, who, with the support of the elders councilors, would have pressed the chiefs of the ninja clans so that he was entrusted to his "care". He learned that the Third again suspected Danzo to have caused the leak of information about his status as the Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi no Yoko to the civilian and to the shinobi populations. He caused him pain, he was the cause for his ostracism. His gain ? He wanted Naruto to see him as a shoulder to lean on, he wanted to broke him, but he, Naruto, wasn't so weak...
In the last page were written a few lines, addressed to him.
Diary of Hiruzen Sarutobi, Third Hokage.
Tomorrow will probably be the last day of my life, i know that Orochimaru and his allies of the Village of the Sound and the Village of the Sand will invade us.
Tomorrow I hope to put an end to my errors, with Jiraiya I leave Naruto in good hands, I know that him and Naruto will make Tsunade coming back here to the village...
Naruto, if you're reading this then I am dead and you're the Sixth Hokage. I am proud of you and also I am sorry, I am sorry for every mistake and every lie i made to you in all my life. Like I said to you very often, the hate is difficult to forget, the hate is difficult to erase. To now you'll surely read the first novel made by Jiraiya, not the Icha Icha made by my foolish student, but the very first : Tale of the utterly gutsy ninja. You'll understand what i'm saying. Your apartment, even though you do not know it, was one of the houses of your parents, I have set a seal that will unravel only with your blood and your chakra, your legacy is there, protected from those who would like to put their hands on it. I gave the order to Jiraiya and Tsunade to give you this diary when you have become the Sixth Hokage. The seal at the bottom of the page will bring up the seal containing what belongs to you.
Forgive me...
Hiruzen Sarutobi.
He was furious but after those words could not hate the old Third Hokage and not even hate the village itself, he could only pity most of the people in it for their ignorance, for that they had been manipulated by Danzo. He finally decided that he would leave Konoha to head towards the village of the Whirlpool, where he would rebuilt the village from the ground up, of course, he would have said the truth even to Sasuke...
He dissolved the seal on the diary, in a blue flash another seal appeared in his bedroom, on one of the walls, then he dissolved it with the same method. In a cloud of white smoke appeared a scroll, which he had then opened, finding in it many other containment seals, he had already seen one like it, to the Chuunin's exam, used by the teammate of Rock Lee and Neji. He applied some chakra to some of them, after again some smoke he discovered some other scrolls, one containing one of the techniques in his possession, the Rasengan, in another yet another scroll containing some money, a lot judging by the big seal contained therein, in another various weapons including the famous three-pronged kunai for the Hiraishin no Jutsu and a richly decorated Ninjato, whose red sheath had a golden line that rose spiraling up to the guard, also in red, to which knob, needless to say ironically, a nine-tailed fox in gold, probably used by his mother, other scrolls containing descriptions of various ninjutsu, from Suiton to Fuuton and finally Katon, in the last scroll he found some styles of taijutsu and kenjutsu. He resealed everything, then he placed in another containing seal some robes and some pre-cooked Ramen rations. The morning light was entering from a window, he had just finished with the seals when he heard some knocks from the door. He opened the door and found Shikamaru, in Chuunin's robes -Naruto, we have a problem. Hokage-sama want to see us-.