Chapter One
Baby blue eyes opened slowly, blinking to get rid of the haze that had built up and adapt to the brightness of the room. When they could see properly they had a good look around the room that they were in.
It wasn't a big room; just enough to fit the single cot the stranger was lying on, a medical cabinet full of supplies and a table with a chair.
The stranger tried to get up off the cot but found that he couldn't, looking down he saw that his wrists were attached to the cot with cuff and his Chakra was cut off with separate Chakra binding cuffs.
Obviously the enemy knows I am a ninja, but who has captured me? Iwa? Suna?
At that moment someone entered the tent, it was a girl with short pink hair, wear a red and white short sleeved top with a black skirt. The stranger wasn't sure if she was a ninja or not because she wasn't wearing a headband.
"I'll just get some supplies and then I can leave you alone." She said without even looking at the stranger, she was carrying a basket which she started putting medical supplies from the cabinet in.
"Could you at least tell me where I am?" The girl looked at the stranger in astonishment, she had assumed this person to be a spy but what confused her was why he was asking where he was, surely he knew that already.
Unless it's a trick to let my guard down and then strike me down when I don't suspect it. Eying the stranger suspiciously she decided to give some courtesy and tell him where he was.
"You're in Konoha the Hidden Leaf Village." She said shortly
"That's not possible! My own village wouldn't do this to me." Growled the stranger indicating to the situation he was in right now.
"I told you what you wanted to know, now excuse me I have duties to complete." With that she began to walk out with the supplies in hand.
"Wait! Before you go, could you at least find out if my son is alright? That's assuming you're telling the truth and this really is Konoha."
"Fine, what's his name and I'll see if I can find out if we have anything about him, but it might take a while."
"Thank you. His name is Naruto, do you know him?" This turn it was the stranger's turn to eye the girl suspiciously because as soon as he had said his son's name, her eyes had widened in recognition.
"I don't know what your game is but the only Naruto in this village is an orphan and he has been since the day he was born sixteen years ago." With that the girl stormed out of the tent leaving the stranger in a state of shock.
It's been that long! No wonder she was edgy around me, she thinks I'm a spy but she didn't really explain what happened to my son. I guess I'll just have to wait for someone else to tell me. Laying down properly the stranger closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep, dreaming of his son and what he was like as a man, dreaming of his beloved wife who had died to make sure that their son could live his own life and dreaming of the village he once knew and how much it would have changed since he was gone.
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Sakura exited the medical tent with the supplies she needed, the stranger had really rattled her. Not only did he look like their deceased Fourth Hokage but he was asking about her friend and claiming to be his father. She needed answers and the only person she was going to get that off was the only person in the village that might tell her was Shizune.
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Shizune had just finished patching up an injured Chunin's leg when Sakura walked in.
"Are those the spare supplies I needed?" Sakura merely nodded as Shizune took them off her as the Chunin limped out of the tent.
"What's the matter? You're not usually this quiet."
"That spy we captured, said something to me that's really bugging me."
"Oh and what was that?"
"First he asked where he was."
"What's so bad about that? If you want my opinion he was only saying that to catch you off guard and it looks like it worked." Shizune said but frowned when Sakura nodded in agreement.
"That's what I thought so I told him he was in Konoha and he started saying that his own village wouldn't do that to him, but what really bugged me was what he asked me next."
"And what did he ask?"
"He asked me if his son was ok and when I asked for his son's name to check, he said it was Naruto." Shizune dropped the medical supplies that she had been holding when she heard what Sakura had said.
Shizune knelt down to collect the supplies that had fallen out of the basket and to stop Sakura from seeing her shake from the information she had just received.
"What did you tell him?"
"Just that I knew a Naruto and the one I knew had been an orphan all his life, why do you ask Shizune?"
"It's nothing. Sakura, I need you to take care of things here. There are some things that I need to take care of and they're important." Before Sakura could argue, Shizune had pushed the basket of supplies into Sakura's arms and left before Sakura could utter a single word.
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The stranger woke with a start, instantly he could tell he was being watched so he looked around he saw a woman with short black hair, wearing black robes was sitting at the desk watching him. Looking at her he couldn't help but think that there was something familiar about her.
Slowly she edged closer to the cot but she made sure to keep out of his range of touch.
"I need a blood sample from you. To prove that you're the person who you look like."
"Fine with me, the quicker you find out that I'm telling the truth, the sooner I can see my son." Shizune stared at the stranger, if he was an impostor surely he would have refused a blood test but he didn't. Maybe he's bluffing, thinking that I wouldn't do it if he agreed.
"What are you waiting for go right ahead and take the blood samples. I assume you're going to want more than one so that you can re-check the results." The stranger held out his arm his arm as best he could for Shizune to take the blood.
"I would also like to ask some questions while we are doing this, so I can test the probability of what you say being the truth."
"OK, ask away. I want this done just as fast as you."
"This may seem stupid but what is your name?"
"I know why it would seem stupid but I get it and my name is Minato Namikaze and my wife was Kushina Uzumaki before you ask. My son's name is Naruto but I don't know what his surname would be, likely the Third Hokage changed it so that my son would be safe from my enemies."
Shizune stared in shock at the stranger some of the things the stranger had said was classified information but that wouldn't throw her off. She had gathered enough blood to complete a blood test now and had just finished using a jutsu to test it, but it would take a little while so she turned back to the stranger.
"If you are Minato Namikaze then tell me when did you become Hokage?"
"A little after my 23rd birthday, Kushina was jealous of course she wanted to be the first female Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village but at the same time she was happy for me. We both wanted to become Hokage since we were young and I think when she blurted out that she dreamed of becoming Hokage that's when I noticed her true beauty, not just in looks but personality." The stranger laughed thinking back to the times when he was young.
"Apparently Naruto did the exact same thing during the Chunin exams, shouting at the whole class that he would become Hokage even if he was a Genin for the rest of his life." The stranger laughed thinking how the behaviour was like his wife when they were young.
"So he's a Chunin, good for him."
"Actually the Chunin exams were cancelled due to an invasion lead by both the Sound and Sand Village and no one but Shikamaru Nara was assigned Chunin status."
"Never heard of the Sound Village, is it new?" Shizune stared at the stranger, How could he not know about the Sound Village?
"It's not an official Village, its lead by a man named Orochimaru."
"Jiraiya-Sensei's team-mate?"
"Yes, he gains people trust by promising them what they desire but in return they have to serve him." The chakra that Shizune had been using for the test returned to her indicating that the test was finished. She had completed three tests to make sure that there couldn't be a mistake.
The first test was a sample of the known Fourth Hokage against the stranger's blood, the test showed to have a 100% match.
The second test was the same as the first and showed the same results. The third test was a test against Naruto's blood as they would have certain gene matches making sure that it was true. The third test showed that there was a 98% chance that Naruto and the stranger were related in some way.
"How?" Shizune didn't know what to say the test proved that this person was Minato Namikaze but how was he here since he had died sealing the nine-tails within his son.
"I'm guessing that the test showed I was telling the truth, but I don't know myself, all I know was that when I woke up I was in this tent there was a voice saying that it was giving my son a second chance at peace and that I shouldn't blow my chance of showing him true happiness." Minato said as Shizune took off the cuffs attaching him to the bed but left the Chakra binding ones on.
"That sounds like Pain's doing." Minato merely rubbed his wrists and nodded, he didn't have a clue what she was talking about but he knew that would all be explained with time. "I'm leaving those cuffs on, the tests may have said that you are Minato Namikaze but I can't trust you straight away."
"I understand, I would be exactly the same in your position. But I have a question that's been bugging me since I woke up, well two questions." Minato said sitting up
"What are they and I'll try and answer them as best I can."
"Ok well the first I have to ask is why are we in a medical tent and not Konoha hospital?"
"Konoha was destroyed in the Akatsuki's latest attack and we are rebuilding as we speak. What was the second?"
"I want to know how my son is, Naruto is he safe?"
"Naruto is perfectly fine, he was the one who brought down Pain. But he's on a mission to collect some herbs right now. Kakashi Hatake is assisting him."
"How is my old student doing?"
"Kakashi is next in line to be Hokage or so the rumours go."
"What happened to the previous Hokage did they die when the Akatsuki attacked?"
"No, Lady Tsunade the Fifth Hokage used up all her Chakra to protect the village and is now in a coma. We still don't know when or if she'll ever regain consciousness and a Kage summit has been called so we need a new Hokage for the summit."
"I would have thought that Jiraiya would be asked to be the next Hokage but I guess I wrong."
"You weren't wrong he was asked but he turned the elders down saying that Tsunade would be better than him. But he was probably saying that so that he could get away with spying on girls in the hot springs."
"That sounds like the real reason, can I see Jiraiya-Sensei? There's so much we have to catch up on." Shizune hid her face if this really was the Fourth come back from the dead she didn't really want to tell him that Jiraiya was dead but it seemed like she was the only one. "I'm afraid that Lord Jiraiya was killed about a month ago."
Minato just seemed impassive to what she had said but on the inside he was distraught, his sensei had been killed before he had been brought back. Minato was about to reply when a commotion was heard outside. Shizune and Minato moved to the door of the tent where Minato stayed while Shizune walked out.
Making sure he could see without being seen himself Minato watched, there was a disturbance from which one of the villagers was arguing with a few of the villagers. Minato moved closer to hear what was being said and from what Minato could tell the villager causing all the trouble was drunk.
"All am sayin' is that that monster is no hero. It's only pret'ndin to be nice so tha' when our backs turned, BAM! It'll turn on us all and kill us."
"That's not true and you know it Naruto has always protected the village even when the village looked at him with hate!" came Sakura's voice, she had just gone to see how Tsunade was doing when she went to see what the commotion was about.
"What would you know little girl, you probably don' even what it is."
"Oh I know and Naruto is my friend and if you think you can bad mouth my friend in front of me, you got another thing coming."
"I'm with Sakura, Naruto's a good person. Right Akamaru?" said another boy about Sakura's age. He reminded Minato of his student Rin. What with the two red streaks on the side of his face and the brown hair. He was standing next to a large white dog with brown on its ears.
Soon all of Naruto's friends were defending him, but the drunk still wasn't finished with trying to get people on his side. Soon he turned to a teenager with long blue hair and whitish lavender eyes.
"Miss Hyuuga surely you know what I'm talking about, you nearly died because of it."
"I wanted to Protect Naruto even if it meant dying for him and I would do it again for him." Hinata said without even stuttering which shocked everyone, usually she would stutter when she was talking about Naruto.
"What's going on here?" asked a new voice everyone turned to see a tall masked man with silver-grey hair walking towards them. Minato instantly knew that this was his student as a man. Behind him Minato could see a happy blond with sparkling blue eyes wearing an orange and black jumpsuit.
"And here's the monster 'imself come to cause more destruction." Minato watched the blond's reaction to what was said. The blond merely showed a sad smile but Minato knew it wasn't because of what the man had said it was because the blond pitied the man.
Sakura who had had enough went to punch the man for saying those things about Naruto but before she could land a blow she was stopped by the blond, who had grabbed her by the waist to stop her going anywhere. The drunk merely shook his head and went to take his leave.
"This don't mean anything, so don't expect me to say thank you or anythin'." When the drunk had left Sakura turned to the blond.
"Naruto, why did you stop me? He was saying those things about you."
"And you hitting him wouldn't solve anything, it would only lead to more fighting and more casualties, besides there is always gonna be someone who doesn't like me but I'm used to it." Naruto smiled to Sakura but Minato could instantly tell that it was just a mask to hide his real feelings.
Shizune ran up to Kakashi and began whispering hurriedly to him, Kakashi's one revealed eye widened when he heard what Shizune was saying to him. He looked to Naruto then to the tent and then nodded. Shizune walked back to the tent as Minato sat back on the cot.
A few minutes later Kakashi walked in with Naruto following close behind, Naruto and Kakashi both looked at Minato as if he was a ghost. Kakashi walked up to Minato and pushed him which caused Minato to fall back on the cot he was sitting on.
"You're real?" Exclaimed Kakashi, he had thought Shizune was joking when she had Minato had come back from the dead.
"Yes Kakashi I'm real." Minato said but he wasn't looking at Kakashi he was looking at the quiet blond in the corner who was staring at him in shock. "Although it's good to see you I'm much more interested in the young man who has yet to say anything." Kakashi who had just remembered that Naruto was in the room turned to him.
"Naruto this is the Fourth Hokage and he is also your father."
"I know who he is; I spoke with him when I nearly released the nine-tails. But I don't understand how are you alive?" Naruto spoke for the first time, Minato didn't answer the question instead he got up off the cot, went to his son and embraced him in a hug.
Minato couldn't contain the tears that had built up but he didn't care that he was crying, all he cared about was that he could see his son and that he was alive and strong in front of him. Naruto was in a similar position as his father, he gripped Minato's coat tightly allowing the tears to flow freely.
Shizune knew there was no doubt that this man was Minato Namikaze now, no one could fake the joy and sadness that this man showed now. Kakashi smiled at the affection that his sensei was showing his son.
"I'm so sorry Naruto, I wish I could have been there for you growing up and your mother wanted the same thing but we never got to have that chance."
"It's ok I know why you did it and I don't blame you."
"Naruto I love you so much and now that I'm here we can be a family if you want to that is, I would understand if you didn't." Minato's fear was that Naruto would reject the idea; after all he had been the cause of Naruto's pain and suffering if the drunken man was anything to go by.
"I want that more than anything, I want to be a family." Shizune and Kakashi had left by this point to give the father and son some time to bond.
"I wish you all the happiness Naruto Uzumaki and I believe that you will bring peace to this world of hatred." Came Nagato's voice but Minato was sure that only him and Naruto could hear it.
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I think I fixed the problem with the Italics and I apologise to everyone that read the first chapter it was fine when I uploaded the chapter but suddenly the Italics spaced close together and it really bugged me so I just hope that this worked and that you can see the proper result.
Hey guys hoped you liked it. I've been writing this story for a while now but I haven't been able to complete it until recently.
I wanted a happy moment right at the end and I wanted people to know that Minato was the real deal and not some impostor pretending to be him.
But now that Naruto has his father some aspects of the storyline will be a bit different. (No Duh!)
Anyway keep your eyes open for the next chapter coming soon to a computer near you!