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Enter Tetsuya Uzumaki
It was just an ordinary morning in a remote cave located on the outskirts of the Land of Fire where one shinobi is getting ready to do his daily training routine. Before he went out to start his training, the shinobi was getting the tears out of his eyes because he had wept in his sleep the night before. This shinobi was tall in stature with red hair who had hailed from the legendary Uzumaki clan, originally from the Land of Eddies, and his name is Tetsuya Uzumaki. For sixteen nearing seventeen years now, Tetsuya had been in exile away from the Leaf Village because he had gone through a severe period of grief due to an incident where Tetsuya had lost the most important people in the shinobi world. These people that Tetsuya had cared about the most were his older sister, Kushina Uzumaki and his closest friend, Minato Namikaze, otherwise known as the Fourth Hokage. The incident that had occurred was none other than the Nine-Tails assault on the Leaf Village and unfortunately this happened on the same day when Tetsuya's nephew was born whose name is Naruto Uzumaki. The result of the Nine-Tails incident was that the Fourth Hokage along with Kushina had sacrificed their lives to seal half of the Nine-Tails inside of Naruto which made him the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails. This was the main reason why Tetsuya for sixteen long years has been crying on and off because he could never forgive himself for what had happened.
After the Nine-Tails was sealed into Naruto there was a secret meeting held between Tetsuya, The Third Hokage, and Lord Third's trusted advisors concerning about what had happened. During that meeting Tetsuya who was in a state of shock said to them in a calm matter, "Lord Hokage if the entire village wants to keep the secret from Naruto one day finding out that the Nine-Tails is sealed inside of him. Then I want to add one more condition to this decree is that no one in the village can tell Naruto that I'm his uncle. The reason I specifically want this added to the decree is that I'm going into exile for a while so I don't know when my return to the village will be but make sure to keep Naruto safe within the village until the day I return." As the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi who had been like a father figure to Tetsuya ever since he came to the Hidden Leaf village was calm with his response stating, "I know how you feel Tetsuya because of everything that has transpired and will accept your request so when are you planning on leaving the village." Then Tetsuya replied, "After the memorial service for the lives lost due to the Nine-Tails attack." So a few days after the meeting took place the funeral services for the shinobi who gave their lives in the attack including Minato and Kushina occurred. During the services Tetsuya walked in front of the memorial where his newborn nephew was at and held him in his arms with tears flowing down in his eyes saying, "I'm so sorry Naruto, this is goodbye for now and no matter what happens I will always love you." After Tetsuya had said this he then approached to Kakashi who was a student of Minato's and came up to him to say, "I am very sorry about the loss of your sensei and he was a great teacher as you are fully aware of that Kakashi." So then after that Tetsuya left the Hidden Leaf Village to go into exile where he could train a lot harder in order to prevent another incident like the Nine-Tails assault from ever happening again.
In the present day, Tetsuya during his training session then ponders on a thought, "I wonder if it's time for me return to the Hidden Leaf village because my training has paid off and also am curious to see how much Naruto has grown." After he got done with his training exercise Tetsuya packs his things up from the cave and decided to return to the village that he called home long ago. So with that the long journey to the Hidden Leaf village began for Tetsuya and along the way he remembers the first time that he ever entered the Hidden Leaf village. This particular memory had occurred about thirty-three years before the present day during a time of war.
It began when Tetsuya was four years old and he was escorted out of the Land of Eddies which had been the homeland of the Uzumaki clan alongside his older sister Kushina to long-time allies in the Hidden Leaf village. Upon arriving in the Hidden Leaf village was when both Tetsuya and Kushina had met the Third Hokage who was making sure they had made it here safely. The reason for both Uzumaki siblings being in the Leaf Village was kept a classified secret from everybody else. That secret was the Jinchuriki of Kurama also known as the Nine-Tails at the time, Mito Uzumaki also known as the wife of the First Hokage was dying and that the next person to be the vessel of Kurama was Kushina. Tetsuya and Kushina were terrified when they heard about the secret from the Hokage himself. Before the Nine-Tails was transferred into Kushina, Mito had something very important to say to Tetsuya which went like this. "Tetsuya from this day on your sister will be the vessel for the Nine-Tails and as a request I want you to watch over her to make sure she don't succumb to the Nine-Tails hatred." Mito said in a calm voice. Then Tetsuya replied back in an assuring tone, "I promise to make sure that Kushina is going to be safe no matter what and which I will give my life to honor anything she desires." Once this had transpired Mito died after the Nine-Tails was extracted from her and sealed into Kushina for she became the second Jinchuriki host of the Nine-Tails. It also became the day in which lead to the beginning of a path that had forever changed both Tetsuya and Kushina's lives. Now with the path laid before a young Tetsuya in which he motivated himself to be one of the best shinobi in the entire village while trying to make sure nothing bad would ever happen to his sister at the same time.