In a cold night where the moon shine brightly, a group of man meet beside a lake that reflect the beautiful round moon like a perfect mirror. One of the hooded man holding a bundle. In front of him, stood an old man that known as the third hokage.
"we'll entrust him to you for a few years as his wish. If anything dangerous happen to him, we'll take him back immeadiately. If not, we'll come at his 12th birthday and let him decide"
"you better take a good care of him, sarutobi"
"i will. I'm grateful you let us have a second chance"
"you better thank naruto-sama. after all those hell you allow to befall to him, he still granted your request" one of the hooded man said grumpily. He's still against the idea of letting his naruto-sama back to the hell live.
"i know. He has a big heart" he look at the bundle that contain a sleeping boy. His whiskered face has a peaceful appereance and look cute. his blond hair is untamed and wild spike every where. He looks like around 5 years old.
"let naruto-sama choose which group age he want to enter. I have feeling he'll choose his age, 10. But we'll never know his thought"
"indeed. We'll watch from far and want report every month about his progress. If we deem it's too dangerous for him to stay anymore, we'll fetch him" he said in no room to argue tone
"of course" sarutobi take the sleeping boy before depart to konoha
A year later.
Naruto has failed his exam and tricked by mizuki to stole the forbidden scroll. Iruka who had accept him after few months inspecting the container, had come and rescue him like the canon. The team had announced and taken to take the true test. Naruto who in team 7 with sasuke uchiha and sakura haruno was in traning ground 7 waiting for their sensei kakashi hatake.
They were told the bell test and were trying to take it. It went like the canon except naruto go blank for awhile when he's tied and they're eating. Kakashi was waiting in nearby tree to see what will they do. To his disappointment, his team do as they're told. They're not sharing anything with naruto and go home after they're done.
Kakashi sigh in defeat 'well. it seems this one also failed. What will the council say about this? Asked me to pass the last uchiha? Take him as my appereantice?'. He walk to naruto in thought not even once notice naruto went blank once again before a gentle wind blowing around him, cuting the rope that tied him to the post. 'what the? Enemy ?'
Naruto who had freed from the post walk in daze toward the stream that quite deep. Kakashi just stood there while calling him "naruto, come back here. it's the wrong way" but ignored "huh... what a drag. Naruto" he make an attempt to grap him but failed as the ground shake only where he is.
When he gained his balance, he saw a couple of hooded man already has naruto in their arms. One of them said in angry tone "i should never agree to let my baby stay at this disgrace village"
"i know. As much as i hate to admit, i agree. If i know what will happen to him, i'll let the kyuubi destroy the village and take you safe"
"who are you?" kakashi ask in offence mode
"relax. We only come to take our precious son away from this disgrace place. i think i have done too many mistake, such as take you as my student hatake" the man said with venom in the last part as wind blow his hood away
"i think obito-kun and rin-chan also ashamed to has teammate as him" the women with red hair said while adjusting the cloak on naruto that still dazed
"sensei? Kushina-sama" kakashi manage to shutter out when he saw a blonde man thats his deceased sensei
"i agree. Let's go home" and in yellow flash three of them disappear confirming that's his sensei as the only one who could use the hiraishin as far as he know is him. in panic, he go to the hokage office to report the development.
While kakashi on his way, the third sigh in disappointment as he saw what happen in his crystal ball. He glad he follow his instinct to watch the test and sad that his unofficial adopted grandson go away from him for the second chance. He knew he can't and doesn't has the right to complain as he had been given the second chance which wasted. He could only hope that someday when they meet again, he could still interact with naruto if his guardians allow him which he knew would be difficult.
Kakashi manage to reach the office and give his version of what happen. Fortunately for him, he doesn't add anything personal and bias about it except his guilt that he doesn't care about his sensei's son these few years. Sarutobi glad that he doesn't has to deal with too personal kakashi, as if he sugared it to sasuke's favor he'll forbid kakashi to take team forever. When kakashi finished, he feel like he had escaped certain doom but can't place his finger on it and ignore it.
"what you saw today will stay at this office and never go out" he said with authority. When kakashi nod, he ask the test question "so, how did their peformance?"
"sasuke has few good ninjutsu for a genin. But he lack the will to work with others as he too focused on his revenge and ambition to kill itachi. He doesn't care about others and feels draged by others. Sakura... let's say she should never graduate. Naruto..." he said the name with sadness and guilt but manage to continue "he's unpredicable. He doesn't act strategically, prefering head first and think later. Suprisingly, he can do the kinjutsu kagebunshin"
"so? What is the result?"
"they failed to retrive the bells. I give them second chance hoping sasuke and sakura would share their lunch with naruto who tied on the post. But they don't as i told them to and go home like a good puppy, following all my order to the dot. So... i have to fail them as they also lack of member besides posess zero teamwork"
"is it your final decision?"
"yes, hokage-sama. but what about the council? They won't like the last uchiha failed and will order me to take him as appreantice"
"the council be damned. You'll refuse if they order you to" he pause for a moment before "or you have the idea too take him too?"
"at first as i owe it to obito. But after what sensei told me that he's regret to ever take me as his student, and kushina-sama said that obito and rin might ashamed of me..." the hokage said nothing "i have to agree"
"i see. i espect you'll come on time tomorrow?"
"yes, hokage-sama"
"very well, dismiss"
As promised, kakashi arrive on time shocking the jounins. The report went smooth and only team 8 contain hinata hyuuga, shino aburame, and kiba inuzuka under kurenai yuuhi and team 10 contain second generation of chou-shika-ino combination passed. It caused murmurs among them as the team contaning the last uchiha, team 7 failed.
"it's because he's teamed with the demon" and it's variant is the most common comments. They shut up when ki was distributed to them courtersy of the sandaime. Still in ki active, he told kakashi to sum up his report
"why don't you sum up your observation kakashi?"
"hai, hokage-sama. the uchiha is too arrogant to work with the others and feel that he own the world. The haruno basically is useless fangirl. How they become the top students i don't know"
"what about the demon? He make them failed"
Kakashi emit his ki also before continue his interupted report "if you let me finish, you'll know. Naruto has the will to work with his teammates but declined harshly by both. In the end they failed the test before naruto was taken away by his parents?"
"demon don't have parents"
"then you'll have to recheck your mind. About how you come to the world, if you don't know you can ask anybody else. Before they gone, his father left message"
"i bet he said he's ashamed of him to has a demon as a child"
"yes. He's ashamed" the many laugh before quiet because his next word "of this village and should have let the kyuubi demolished us and take his family away to safety"
"what? who did he think he is?"
"the hero whose last wish had been ignored by us for these years. Whose child we always ignore or abuse. A child we don't deserve" the hokage said with a sad tone. Many jounin still clueless, but a few who has clear mind connected the dot and gasp earning the attention
"you mean, he's..."
"yes, kurenai. You're right. Naruto uzumaki's true fullname is naruto uzumaki namikaze, son of the forth hokage" earning gasp and followed by guilt faces as many of them ignored and abused the child in the past many times.
"so it means"
"yes. All this time, we hurt, ignore, abuse and whatever done not supposed to do to child to the forth's heir. His son, his blood, his flesh, his treasure. He had sacrifice himself and his treasure for us and only asked us to care his treasure but we do the opposite"
"we don't know this" one of them try to defend themselves
"but you ignored his last wish. Now he's taken back, there's nothing we can do. We could only hope that we'll meet him someday and could atone for our sin even when we don't deserve it" kakashi said before poof out the room leaving the others when he saw the hokage nod his unasked question to go out the room.
