Thanks to those who reviewed. Let me say while writing this I had no relationships in mind other than that which has been stated in canon (oh and a hint of a JiraiyaTsunade). Also let me say this one little thing, I am not going to be updating as fast I have been with past stories. The main reason behind this is I'm in college, and I want to get good grades this semester. I'm really grateful for your reviews and keep them coming.

Here is the next segment of the story.

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Naruto was returning with Sakura from a recent mission. Sai and Kakashi were behind them by a few minutes. Naruto stopped right in front of Sakura. She was going to ask him why he stopped when she looked in front of them. There in the middle of the road was a blond hair man that looked slightly familiar. He looked at Naruto strangely. He, then, staggered and began to fall forward. Naruto raced forward to catch this stranger. He caught the stranger before he hit the ground. Sakura raced to where the Naruto was. Sakura looked at the strange when she was closer. At this distance the familiarity of this stranger was even more familiar. She, then, looked at Naruto. She, then, quickly looked at the stranger.

'What is going on? This stranger looks like Naruto,' Sakura thought to herself.

Sakura examined the stranger.

"It's okay. He just fainted. But we should bring him to the hospital just to be sure," Sakura told Naruto.

"Bring who to the hospital?" Kakashi's cool voice replied from behind them.

"Oh, Kakashi-sensei, here was this man in the road and he fainted. Sakura wanted to bring him back to the hospital just in case," Naruto responded, holding the man in his arms.

Kakashi looked at the stranger. He looked at the man for a few second more before responding. "Take Sai with you. You, then, can go home. I'll make the report to Tsunade-sama," Kakashi responded.

Naruto and Sakura nodded. They never liked giving reports to Tsunade. They ran to Konoha and the hospital. Kakashi bolted away to see Tsunade.

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Tsunade was in her office doing paperwork. 'I hate paperwork. Why did I ever agree to be Hokage?' She heard a knock before Kakashi came in.

"Yes, so how was the mission?" Tsunade asked grumbling.

"It went good. The job is done. But we have another issue. Someone important showed up out of nowhere outside of the village's gates. The thing is though he is supposed to be dead."

"And who would that be?" Tsunade asked curiously.

"My sensei."

"You are sure it was Minato-san. Absolutely sure?"

"Yes. I am sure it is my sensei."

"Where is he?"

"I had Sakura and Naruto take him to the hospital and then I said they can go home. You see the man fainted or something."

"Well, then, lets go to the hospital," Tsunade said standing up.

They walked over to the hospital. They found out where he was. Before they even entered the room, they could tell that he was awake. Tsunade entered first. She looked at this man and instantly recognized him as Namikaze Minato. He looked at her with an even more shocked face then the one that was on her own.

"Tsunade-hime, what are you doing here?" he asked.

"The more important question is what are you doing here?" Tsunade asked back.

"I don't know what you mean by that."

"What she means by that, Minato-sensei, is that you died over 17 years ago," Kakashi responded. Minato looked at him shocked. This was his pupil Kakashi Hatake alright. The scar through his left eye proved it.

"What do you mean died? I'm here alive and breathing, aren't I?"

"You died 17 years ago saving our village from Kyuubi no Kitsune. As for the second question, yes, you're here alive and well. We don't know why though," Kakashi answered.

"If what you say is true, what happened to my son, Naruto?"

"Well, he is now 17 obviously. He is a ninja, a very powerful one if I may say so. Looks like you in appearance, acts like Kushina though in personality. In fact, it was him who dropped you off here," Kakashi replied to Minato's question.

"That was him? I remember seeing someone that looked like me before I blacked out. Does he know about who I am and where he comes from?"

"No, he doesn't. Sarutobi- sensei was going to tell him when he was ready. But now that he is gone , I have decided to wait until he is 18," Tsunade responded.

"Wait, Sarutobi-sama died?"

"Yes, nearly 5 years ago in a battle against Orochimaru," Tsunade replied sadly. "Now what do you say, we get you out of here."

"That sounds alright to me."

Kakashi offered his hand to Minato, which the blonde gladly took. He was led through the streets on the rooftops sneakily of course as not to alert people of the Yondaime's return. When they got to Tsunade's office, Minato noticed that the office hadn't changed all too much since he last resided there. He looked at the picture of himself on the wall.

"I never really liked that picture. Kushina said it made me look too serious," Minato replied looking at the picture.

There came a knock at the door. Kakashi looked at Tsunade who in turn looked at the clock.

She irritably grumbled, "Yes, come in."

Minato looked back at the door. In came a young pink hair woman. She looked slightly familiar to him.

"I'm sorry, Tsunade-sensei. I thought maybe you had time to help with some medical stuff that I had questions with but I see you are talking with the guy who fainted," Sakura said.

"It's alright, Sakura. I'll help you when I get done visiting with this guy," Tsunade replied.

"How did you know I fainted?" Minato asked

"Because she was there," Kakashi replied for Sakura who was standing by the door still. "Minato-san, I would like you to meet one of my students, Haruno Sakura. Sakura, this is an old but good friend of mine, Namikaze Minato."

"It is good to meet you, Sakura-san," Minato replied bowing his head which Sakura returned with.

"It is also an honor to meet you," Sakura replied before she left and close the door.

Minato looked at Kakashi and Tsunade. "She must have had some potential if you decided to teach her personally," he replied to Tsunade.

Tsunade shrugged, "Well, Team 7 seem to picked out for potential by us Sannin, so it was appropriate for me to take her. I couldn't take Naruto since Jiraiya already took him in. Besides his chakra control … not that great."

"Naruto got trained by Jiraiya?! How did that happen?" Minato asked shocked.

"Well, it was back when he was 12 and he was training for the finals of the chuunin exams. I was busy with another one of my students, the last remaining Uchiha in Konoha. Naruto sort of ran into Jiraiya. Jiraiya realizing who he was decided to take him on," Kakashi answered. "Jiraiya was a better teacher for him, I'll admit that."

"You said last remaining Uchiha, I didn't realize there was that few Uchihas left after the Kyuubi attack," Minato said shocked.

"The Uchiha Clan did not die off because of the Kyuubi attack. The clan was murdered 6 years after the Kyuubi attack. Only 2 survived, the perpetrator and his younger brother," Kakashi answered in a quiet, serious tone that Minato took to mean there was something more but that he shouldn't press.

"So how is my son?" Minato asked changing the subject. Kakashi and Tsunade looked at each other before one of them answered.

"Well, Minato-sensei, Naruto right now is doing good. He has close friends, that know what he carries and they seem not to care that much. One of them is Sakura, the girl that was just here. His life hasn't been the easiest, however," Kakashi answered.

"Yeah got to admit that golden hair prankster has made an impression on everyone he meets. He has with me, that's why he has my necklace around his neck," Tsunade said in return.

Shizune knocked on the door and then came in. She looked at Minato with a shocked look but continued on. "Tsunade-sama, Team 10 is here for their meeting; and they would also like to get a new mission."

Tsunade looked at the clock and sighed. "You better get out of here, Minato. I don't want to have to explain you to this team when they see you."

Minato nodded. He didn't know what was so special about this team but he didn't want to stay to find out. Kakashi led him out of the door. Minato looked at the team that was approaching them 'Looks like this generation's Ino-Shika-Cho,' he thought to himself. He also noticed that the Naara looked at him in his usual bored, slightly annoyed fashion. The other 2 looked at him with a more open shock on their faces. Minato pretended to ignore them but discretely looked at them. He noticed, though, that there was no older ninja w/ them to be their guide. When they got out of the building, Minato looked curiously at Kakashi.

"Why didn't that team have a Jounin sensei? They look too young to be on their own," Minato asked Kakashi.

"Their own sensei was killed over a year ago. I have been filling in as their part-time leader. It flips between me and Gai but its mainly me since I have Yamato filling in sometimes on my team. Of the four team leaders that lead the Konoha 11, the group your son is in, only 2 of us are still full-time. One was killed and the other is right now, only part-time, due to taking care of her only son," Kakashi answered quietly. Minato could tell that Kakashi was not going to talk about the 'past' too much with him. Kakashi walked towards the Hokage's living residence. They walked up the stairs of the building. Minato remembered this house welled. He had lived here for a year when he was Hokage. Kakashi showed him to a guest room.

"You shouldn't get too much disturbance. Tsunade is almost always in her office; working, drinking, or sleeping one of the above. Sarutobi Konohamaru used to live here but he moved out a year ago. I might see you tomorrow morning."

With that, Kakashi left Minato suddenly felt very tired. He looked at the bed which looked very comfortable right now. He changed into his pajamas and went to bed.

Well hope that keeps you happy for awhile. It might be a while before I update again but it should happen before the end of the month. Anyway you know what to do, hint Read and Review, it makes the author extremely pleased.