The Fourth Hokage's Legacy.
Summary: What if the night of the Kyuubi attack Minato chose family over the village and saved Kushina's life but Konoha was nearly destroyed. Deemed a traitor Minato is stripped of his title and is shunned. He flees Konoha becoming a rogue ninja but leaves Kushina and his daughter in Konoha, his name and story is banned from Konoha and is basically erased from their memories. As Naru grows up and begins to get curious about the absent father and wants to hunt him down, but will it fix things or make it worse?
Genre: Family , Adventure
Warning: Violence, Mild Language, Death
Main characters: Minato N. , Naruko U.
Tags: Adventure, Choice, Death, Family, Fem Naruto, Hide, Hunt, Konoha, Kushina, Minato, Naruko, Naruto, Questions, Rogue, Run, Saved, Shame, Shun, Violence.
Information: Characters are Ooc
Ages Ooc
Minato didn't want to be Hokage.
Kushina is a princess so is Naru
Family is more important to Minato than the village
Kyuubi is fond of Kushina and Naru
Chapter 1: Dreams?
They wanted me to be the Hokage? Why? I mean I know my name grew fairly famous during this past accursed war but still. I didn't want to be Hokage, all I wanted to do was raise a family with my beloved wife. I didn't want to run the village, now had you of asked me 10 years ago, I would jumped in joy at the notion, I would of screamed in joy and been bouncing around like child with a sugar high, I would have been the happiest man in the whole world, but that was then …. this is now.
My family was the most important thing in my life now, it was my dream. Mainly because in this village was filled with blind, judgmental people who had very closed minds and hated anything different or not from here. And as much as I detested the thought of being Hokage, it wasn't like I could say 'No!', I was a Konohagakure shinobi who had a duty to serve my leader and protect my village, if that meant taking the Hokage title then I guess I had to. In all true honesty I didn't feel right for the job, I mean for goodness sakes I lost two of my students within the past year! I wasn't a good sensei so I suppose to rule and protect everyone now?
I let out a small huff and ran my fingers through my spiky, golden-yellow hair, I looked at the villagers and nodded in respect at the people who nodded to me. I arrived outside my house and saw the lights on, I let out another huff and walked up the steps and to the front door. I pulled my keys out and slid it into the lock and opened the door and was hit with a wave of delicious smells that made my stomach grumble in hunger. I pulled my shoes off setting them to the side neatly, I looked up at my wife who was cooking in the kitchen, she wore gray blue pants and an orange short sleeve shirt with a pale blue apron tied on her front, her long beautiful red hair was pulled into a ponytail, she was humming a quiet song and swaying with it. I smiled and stared at her for a few seconds, I let out a quiet sigh, she perked up and turned around flashing me her smile.
"Hi Mina!" She said, I chuckled at the pet name she picked for me.
"Hi." I said and walked up to her.
"So what did the Sandaime want? Hm? Did you get scolded?" She asked teasing, I gave a small smile and chuckled, I sighed.
"Well … no... actually he wanted to speak me about something." I said holding my chin and sighed. "He wants me to the Yondaime Hokage." I said.
"Oh? Well, I wouldn't pay much attention to what he says it's not that important." She said waving her hand dismissively before it clicked, she grunted and blinked. "EH!? What did you just say?!" She asked in shock, I nodded my head.
"I've been named Yondaime." I said, she blinked twice before a big smile lit up her face and she jumped on me hugging me tight.
"Congratulations 'ttebane!" She said, I stuttered with a blush as she wiggled in my arms before she grunted and pulled back with a blush. "Sorry, congratulations, thank you much." She said with a small bow, I sighed with a half smile and kissed her lips, she blushed and smiled leaning closer, I grinned and grabbed her hips yanking her up in my arms, she let out a squeak as I began to walk back to the room.
"Supper." She said and kissed me again, I walked back and flicked the burners off and carried her into our room, I laid her on the bed and crawled over her as she purred with a smile, I smiled and captured her lips again.
-o0o-Time jump-o0o-
I let out a sigh as I mixed the ingredients for the supper Kushina was planning tonight. Today was a pretty rare day, I got out of the office early and was finally able to spend time with my wife, or at least so I thought. When I got home she said she was going to the hospital to see the medic Senju Tsunade. Kushina had been complaining of an upset stomach for a few days, I guess she had enough of it. And when I tried to go with her she declined and told me to begin mixing the food for supper. It had been nearly a month since I was named Yondaime and been basically away from my wife and when I get it off I'm stuck cooking. I sighed clapping my hands getting some of the flour off of them, then I brushed them on my pink apron that Kushina bought me, I chuckled and pulled it off and hung it next to Kushina's blue one.
"Now I mix the filling." I muttered reading over Kushina's notes, I picked up the orange bowl and began to mix it thoroughly.
"Minato!" Kushina's voice cried out, I jumped and came around the corner, she stood by the front door wearing her usual off duty clothes which consisted of a high-collared, sleeveless blouse under her long, loose-fitting green dress and her red hair was down. She had a giant smile on her face.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"We're pregnant!" She said, I blinked a few times before my eyes widened as it sunk in, I stuttered and a smile slipped across my face.
"A baby? We're gonna have a baby?" I asked.
"I'm gonna be a mom!" She cried out in joy, I let out a shaky break.
"I'm gonna be a dad.." I said in shock.
"A mom!" She said louder. "A mom 'ttebane!" She said.
"I'm gonna be a dad." I said and gulped and walked up to her, she ran up and hugged me, I returned it and we laughed, I blinked back tears, she smiled holding me tight. I sighed holding her with a giant smile on my face before if faded away and I thought about how complicated things were going to get...
The next morning I woke up at my usual 7am and got ready quietly so Kushina could sleep in, I placed a gentle kiss on her stomach then her lips and walked out. I grabbed some breakfast on the way and headed to the office. I nodded at some of the villagers that were out, I sighed seeing the fathers with their children, that's what I wanted to be, I wanted to play with my child, spend time with my wife not sit behind a desk all day signing papers and talking then hoping to see my baby before they were sent to bed. I let out a huff and rubbed my head. I blinked as I felt the familiar chakra of my only remaining student appear behind me in the shadows like normal.
I opened my office door and paused. "Come in." I said to him and walked in and sat at the desk, he walked in and shut the door and stood a few feet from my desk at attention. I looked at him now he was still 13 but was hitting a growth spurt hitting 5'6'' already he was going to be taller than me by time he was an adult. His muscle mass was slowly growing but not by much. His silver hair jutted out from behind the red and white anbu mask, his right eye hole was dark while his left was dark but if you looked hard enough you could see a red glow in the darkness.
I sighed and formed some hand seals. "Mitsudan no jutsu." I said and felt the seals that were built in the wall of this office pulse with chakra signifying that no one could see or hear what was going on in here until I broke the jutsu. "Remove your mask, want to talk to you Kakashi." I said, he gave a small grunt and untied the mask and slowly removed it and hooked it to his weapon belt. His left eye that had the long scar running through it closed instantly hiding the gift from my other student at his untimely death; the sharingan. His right eye that was his normal steel gray eye stared ahead with no emotion, absolutely nothing in it. I let out a silent sigh at that sight, the boy was in a dark place ever since the incident of his other teammate Rin who committed suicide by Kakashi's hand, the boy was suffering from PTSD so when I became Hokage, I turned him into an anbu who was going to my right hand man hoping it would help but it wasn't at all.
"What is it Hokage-sama?" Kakashi asked his voice in that still childish and yet man voice.
"I told you to call me Minato-sensei." I lightly scolded in which he simply blinked, I sighed letting it go for now. "I have a very important mission for you to do. It is not an anbu mission which means you'll be temporarily leaving your anbu rank." I said, he blinked. "Kushina is pregnant." I said with a smile, he blinked a few times in shock.
"C.. Congratulations." He said.
"Thank you." I said with a nod. "But as you know Kushina is the jinchuuriki for Kyuubi no Kitsune." I said, he nodded. "And during the pregnancy the power that holds him inside Kushina and keeps him dormant is weakened to help the child grow. I know Kushina says he's on her side and is nice but I don't want to take that chance." I said, he nodded his head. "So when Kushina goes into labor Kyuubi could break free or be pulled from her." I said. "So your mission is to be her bodyguard, stay by her side, guard, protect her everything that I should be doing." I said somewhat bitterly. "I want you to be there when I can't." I said.
"Yes sir." He nodded, I smiled and nodded back in return and sighed, he pulled his mask back on his face and disappeared in a swirl of green leaves, I let out a sigh and leaned back in the chair rubbing my head where this headache was forming. 'What should I do?' I thought.
That evening I sat silently on the Hokage mountain staring out at the bustling village, I had managed to shake my anbu tail and sneak away for a few minutes, I simply let my feet carry me and ended up here, so I sat on the ground and sat in silence. I rubbed my face and looked over at my hitai-ate laying on the ground next to me and let out huff.
"You sound troubled." I turned to see my sensei Jiraiya standing behind me, I looked back out.
"Hi sensei." I said, he walked up and sat down next to me.
"So what's troubling you so much you'd sneak away and cause a panic with anbu?" He asked, I chuckled and shook my head in a 'nothing' response. "Uh huh. Minato you forget I can read you like book. Something is troubling you, now talk." He said, I sighed, damn he was too good sometimes.
"I don't know what to do." I said quietly.
"Hm?" He said.
"I have a duty as Hokage to the village and it's people but …. but I also have a duty to my family." I said.
"You didn't want to be Hokage did you?" He asked, I sighed.
"Not really." I shrugged.
"What changed that? Because from the moment I met you, you said you wanted to be Hokage, it was your dream." He said.
"Dreams change sensei. Kushina changed my dream." I said. "That night when she was kidnapped, I saved her and she finally fell in love with me." I said with a smile. "That night I made a promise to her and to myself that she would come first, that I would protect her and my family." I said and pulled my knee up and set my chin on my knee. "Now we're in family way and I'm expected to protect everyone, I couldn't even protect my students!" I said. "I'm confused because ….. sigh... I don't even know." I said.
"Minato why didn't you talk with Hurizen before hand? I'm sure he would of found someone else."
"One I have a duty to my Hokage." I said. "I couldn't exactly refuse." I said. "Plus he told me that there was problems and I needed to be Hokage because of shadows or something." I shrugged, I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. "I had a duty-"
"Okay shut up with duty thing." He sniped, I blinked. "Minato, you could of said something like you weren't quite ready, or you didn't feel right about it." He said, I sighed.
"Sensei, I had to." I said. "And I guess it's better than me going out and risking my neck on a mission far away from Kushina." I shrugged and stood up.
"Minato-" He started, I grabbed my hitai-ate.
"I gotta get home to Kushina." I said curtly and walked away quickly berating myself for saying as much as I did. I don't think sensei would turn me in for what I said, but I shouldn't of taken the risk. It was going to cause problems and that is the last thing I needed right now.
I got home and found Kakashi's chakra in the shadows of the house, I unlocked the door. "Come in for supper." I said, I felt him hesitate. "Now." I said, he walked out pulling his black hood off his head followed by his mask, I smiled and ruffled his silver hair, he didn't even respond, I really did screw him up.
We walked in and Kushina turned smiling at us both. "Welcome home you two!" She said, I walked up and pecked her lips, she smiled then sighed as I dropped down and pressed a gentle kiss on her stomach, she sighed. "Are you gonna do that all the time?" She asked.
"Every time I see you." I said standing and tapped her nose before kissing her lips again, she giggled.
"Fine." She huffed. "It's good to see you Kakashi-kun." She said, he nodded, I chuckled.
"I thought he'd enjoy some of your delicious supper." I said, she nodded and turned back and grabbed the pot, I grabbed it with a wink and set it down, she grabbed the dishes and set them out and grabbed the drinks and sat down, I sat next to her and Kakashi sat across from us, I smiled.
"So Kakashi-kun how are your missions going?" Kushina asked, he blinked.
"Oh, good Kushina-sama." He said, she reached over and flicked his head, he yelped quietly and rubbed the red spot. "Wha?" He asked.
"Don't call me sama!" She said. "You call me Kushina, or aunt Kushina." She said, he blinked and sighed. "Say it." She said with a grin.
"Good Kushina-san." He said hesitantly, she huffed
"Not right but good enough for now." She said, I smiled watching Kakashi squirm at his obvious uncomfortableness at calling her anything by Kushina-sama. It was funny because technically according to Kushina's blood she was a princess with her clan the Uzumaki clan, she was considered royalty and yet hated to be called Kushina-sama or be called Kushina-hime or anything remotely close to that.
I sighed as Kakashi sat quietly answering Kushina's questions politely as possible, he was a polite boy who did as he was told. That worried me because I wondered what would happen to him? Would he do as he's told his whole life? Would he ever have his own dream?