Meeting Yondaime

"words": speaking

words: thinking

"words": kurama speaking/ thinking ( NO DIFFERANCE)

Chapter 1: a strange man

Uzumaki Naruto. The five your old runs out of the gates of the village hidden in leaves, also known as The Hidden Leaf, into the wilderness of Konohagakure. Naruto had been running from the villagers, as well as ninja who have always beaten him and cursed him. Although Naruto was young, and not able to understand why he was treated the way he was, he knew he was a container for something evil. Everyday Naruto faces his day scared and alone. His only friend was old man third hokage. Yet even that wasn't satisfying enough, for the young boy's dreams of being a hokage one day, mostly because he thought it would never, ever, happen.

Naruto continued to run until he had no more energy in his physical body. Naruto began to cry, punching the ground as hard as he could as he fell on his knees. After a half hour of punching the ground, Naruto sat on the roots of a tree and rested, crying himself to sleep, unaware that someone was watching from above.

Naruto continued punching once he had woken, but now he was punching the tree. Blood leaked out of his knuckles. The ninja watching from above couldn't stand still any longer, he began to worry about the boy and jumped down from his hidden spot in the tree.

"You'll get a infection if you continue to punch that tree and hurt yourself" the shinobi said, blinking at Naruto. Naruto froze at the sound of the voice and slowly turned his head. The man he stared at had blond hair, blue eyes, and was roughly 6ft tall. Naruto realized that the man may have meant to hurt him and began to run, even though he knew it was probably useless. The man has flashed right in front of Naruto and grabbed his wrists as he squatted down to Naruto's height.

"Hey kid, I won't hurt you, I promise", said the man in a kind voice. "My name is Minato, Namikaze Minato but please don't tell anyone that."

"You promise?" Naruto responded, still unsure what to believe. For the first time… someone's being…. nice? Naruto thought.

"Yea kid, I promise, and if I do, you can take my kunai and stab me with it."

Naruto surprised by the statement gave Minato a hug.

"Hey, how old are you?"

"Six years, three months, twenty days" Naruto responded confused as he looked up at the man he was hugging. Minato smiled and quickly did the math.

"Your birthday is October tenth?" Naruto nodded slowly.

"Where do you live kid?"

"Konohagakure."

"Alright kid, how about this, I heal your wound, then I take you home." Naruto gave Minato a depressed look but didn't argue and held out his hands. Minato stared at Naruto's hands for a few long minutes observing the boy's abnormally fast healing rate. " It looks fine, let's take you home before someone starts to worry about you."

"We don't need to hurry, they won't come looking for me as long as I'm home by dusk." Naruto responded.

"Your parents know you're out here?" Minato sounding surprised, considering that most of the animals in the forest could kill a young boy out here by himself.

"I don't have any parents…"
"Then who are "they", that you just mentioned?"

"The ANBU shinobi"
"There are ANBU care shinobi now?"
"I live look after myself, The only people come to visit me are old man hokage and the ANBU to check on me for monthly supplies and money to live." responded Naruto as he climbed onto Minato's shoulders.

"What!" Minato said almost shouting.

-Later-

Naruto climbed down off Minato's shoulders depressed, then began running into the Hidden Leaf Village.

"Bye kid." Minato said as he slowly walked back into the forest, But before he was completely surrounded by the dark forest his curiosity got the better of him. "Hey kid! What's your name?"

"Uzumaki Naruto! Remember it old man!"

"Oi! I'm not old!" Minato yelled back before processing what he had just heard. Naruto? His Naruto? He was so close to his son and didn't even realize it until now. no. No. NO. NOO! Minato you baka. If only his wife Kushina was here, she'd know what to do. Minato was tempted to run back to the village but he resisted the temptation and headed off, knowing it would probably only hurt Naruto in the long run. After all, he was supposed to be dead, he was the Yondaime, fourth hokage, as well as the Yellow flash of the leaf, of which who has had many enemies.

Chapter 2: Unexpected visit

Minato had been waiting to come see his son once more for his seventh birthday. After all, it would be the second time Minato would see his son since the Kyuubi attacked. Minato was wearing a black cloak and a hat. Even though if it probably would be better the use a henge transformation justu before he reached the gates.

"I wonder how he's doing," muttered Minato under his breath.

"Halt!" Ordered a shinobi guard as Minato entered the gates to the hidden leaf. "Password, why are you here?"

"I know not the password," lied Minato. "But I have a mission request for your hokage."

"Missions you say… very well follow me" ordered the guard once more. Minato realized that he would have to make up a C rank mission or higher just to stay undetected. Minato quickly formed the henge hand seals and POOF he was a 20yr old man, with brown hair and green eyes, and still had his cloak and hat on. He'd copy the look from a young shinobi in the land of wind, not that Minato was old, he was only 26. When they'd finally reached the hokage's office the guard knocked.

"Come in," said a voice from inside. They entered to see a silver haired ANBU kneeling before the hokage with a dog mask on and gear much like… Kakashi?

"Yes sir!" said the ANBU whom Minato suspected to be his former student Kakashi Hatake, before he vanished.

"This man wants to request a mission, sir." said the guard kneeling before the hokage.

"What is this mission then? But first, please take off your hat and cloak please, sir." ordered the third hokage, Sarutobi. Minato did as ordered and reviled his henge look. "Now then, what is your mission request?"

"My village is being ruined by gangs and murders, I wish for you to send some ninja and rid of them so that my village may go back to being a peaceful village," lied Minato. I'm in for it now once they figure out it was a lie… thought Minato wearily.

"Done, we will send some genin home with you tomorrow, please take rest here in one of the hotels," requested the hokage. "For free." Minato nodded and walked out the door and headed for his son.

"Kuchiyose no justu," said Minato, waving the hand signs then pushing his hand on the ground for the seal. Suddenly enough, a few small toads appeared. Minato showed them the picture he scketched of his son, then explained the toads about Naruto's hair color and eyes. "Find him." Sure enough, a few minutes later a toad came back and told Minato of his son's location. "Thanks," Minato said as he released the toads and walked towards his son's house.

Minato walked to the door that Minato had been informed about by his toads and knocked. Then realized it was the same apartment he himself had lived in before the Kyuubi attacked and Minato supposedly died.

Naruto, alerted by the knock, walked towards the locked door and looked through the hole in the door. He unlocked the door and opened it. "What do you want?" said Naruto bitterly. "Come to hurt me?" said Naruto closing the door.

"No I just came to visit."
"I'm not allowed to have visitors."

Feeling foolish Minato waved the hand seals for releasing the henge appearance and quickly grabbed the door handle and opened the door before Naruto completely closed, and locked it.

"Hey kid it's me!" Minato said, smiling. Naruto's face lit with delight and let Minato in.

"You're here!" squealed Naruto excitedly. Minato laughed.

"I brought you a present, Naruto."

"You did? And why are you here?" asked Naruto as Minato pulled out the little wrapped gift.

"Well, I remembered your birthday so, I decided I should stop by and visit. I had nothing better to do anyway," Minato said smiling. The second half was a lie though, he did have some stuff to do but it could wait one day. "Anyway, here's your gift." Naruto ripped the wrapping paper on the gift and opened the box. "Happy Birthday, s-Naruto."Naruto beamed in joy, and gave Minato a hug, crying. Minato had almost said son, which would probably bring up some suspicion in Naruto. "Why are you crying? Has no one given you a gift before?"

"Old man come and gives me games to play with me when he visits, but other than that no. Plus it gets boring cause he rarely visits anyway. I like yours the best. What is it?"

"It's a kunai, one that I can teleport to. If I ever hear of danger in konoha, I will come." Naruto smiled, when suddenly someone knocked on the door and came in without waiting for a response.

"Naruto?" the man asked. "Were you just talking to someone?"

"No, I wasn't Old man."

"Alright, I just thought I heard someone I used to know… I'll continue my walk now."

"You can come down now, Minato," said Naruto to the man standing upside-down one the ceiling.

"Phew that was close," Minato said jumping down. "What do you want to do now? How about the celebrations?"

"I.. I don't like…"Naruto paused. "I don't like going out on my birthday…"

"Oh… well that's ok." Minato started looking though his son's house. Didn't like going out on his birthday? Did the village dishonor my last wish? For my sun to be a hero? Minato sighed "How about we play some board games then?"

"Sure!"

-Hours later-

"Kid, I'm sorry but I have to leave now."

"Already…" said a depressed Naruto. "Will you be back next year?"

"Sure," Minato lied. If I come back, things will only get worse… sorry Naruto. And with that Minato vanished from the house to a kunai in the land if wind.

To be continued