It was a sunny day in Konoha, as it ever was since everyone knew rain only appeared during funerals, though it never stopped trouble from happening. The Sandaime Hokage knew it very well, which is why he wasn't very surprised when one of his ANBU showed up to bring him bad news.
"Hokage-sama, we have just detained one of the nurses taking care of the Uzumaki toddler, it appears she was regularly letting his head be knocked around, the damage was minimal and he should be able to recover from it but if it had happened much longer it could have had lasting consequences. After interrogation, she declared and I quote 'I might not be able to tell anyone or get rid of it for good, but I don't see a problem with turning that demon into a bumbling fool', what should be done to her?"
"Check if she hasn't done any other harm to the baby and if she is aware of any happening from other nurses and then silence her", was the Hokage's order.
After the ANBU left to do as ordered, the old man sighed and considered the situation. It had only been three months since the defeat of the Kyuubi no Kitsune and the death of the Yondaime Hokage but it seemed the anger and fear from the attack of the demon were still growing strong. Sure, the damage and the loss were rather heavy but they had prevented the beast from reaching the village itself, the ninja who gave their life fighting against the demon to stall for Minato to make it to the beast had ensured that.
Normally, he would have kept the existence of the container a secret as it had been since their alliance with Uzushio, but it had been Minato's wish for the child to be seen as the village's hero. He owed his successor enough that he would respect his last words and so did the village. So, why? Why did the villagers, after following the Hokage's will for so many years, have to start questioning their decisions now of all times?
Their irrational anger almost made him lose his faith in the village, but no, it was his duty to protect them even if it was from themselves, he would have revealed the parentage of the child and it would have definitely appeased them if the consequences wouldn't have been so much worse. The death of the Hokage and of so many competent ninja had severely weakened them and if Minato's enemies heard of the existence of his son they wouldn't hesitate to start a war just to erase the threat of his lineage, particularly at such a weakened period.
No, even though the situation was unpleasant in more ways than one, at least he could deal with internal affairs, external ones not so much. And so he declared threats against the boy's life as punishable by death, and to ensure the parents wouldn't poison their children with their hatred when at such a susceptible age, he forbid them from revealing what happened to the Kyuubi to those unaware of the law in question.
Hopefully, with time the feelings of the adults would cool off and the children would be more reasonable
Author's note : Yep, here's a new story which I'm sure won't make you very confident considering my history with those, still at least I matured, right? And I mostly got tired of those stories because I was putting in some ridiculous clichés, they were fun but not really thought out, that and dumbass Naruto was getting on my nerves not to mention Itachi who wasted his brother's life out of love considering what he did to him was worse than just killing him which would have been a mercy. Tell him to focus on hatred and vengeance you dumb genius, would you? That's going to make him feel so much better, right? Anyway, it's this kind of behavior from the Narutoverse characters that pushed me to do this kind of story, this way maybe I'll stop wondering what kind of mental disorder they all have, because seeing Naruto's abnormal behavior the one thing he's not is sane, at least you can understand why Sasuke went mad considering his trauma and how Itachi kept making it worse.
