Chapter 2
The day was like any day for minato and kushina they woke up got cleaned up after previous nights "fun" and then kushina prepared food while minato got ready for office. And the twins were also redyeing themself for the academy. But for some reason kushina felt hollow and empty. Like something important have been ripped from her yet she did not know. She thought for a while and counted for everyone important to her yet all of them were counted for even that perv jiraiya as perverted as he is he is still important. So she went on on with her routine as of nothing has happened. 2 weeks had passed since naruto had left and today was the day the ne shinobi are supposed to capture naruto to "train" him properly. It hurt her that she have to allow that but he was their blood so shinobi from other nation would try to capture him for his special abilities. Since they did not have time for him and he failed the academy they were left with little choice(to them at least) this way he will be safe and grow strong, she knew that she would condemn him to life of suffering but this way could least fulfill his duties to konohagakure and his family even if he is banished for political reasons he still is their son and she still loves him.
She sighted as she set the plates, he was to be "kicked" out today so she will atleast make him feel loved today. She knew they were not close ,that she pushed him completely out of family but to her least was for his own security since he posses the soul of kurama he cannot come close to either yin or yang part thus not her or minato as they are always by their site. She did regret her action but it has to be done for "greater good" as minato has explained to her. She did not care for such but she cannot see her children hurt just because they are close to each other so she with that in mind allowed it.
But now that she thought about it her action might seem she hates him and wish him suffering as she could have spent some time with him and cared for him much more but she always set a mask of cold indifference in his presence to make it easy for him to be alone in a sense. She sighted again as there was no use thinking of it know. She reached his room and sighted again she she saw dust in the handle sure she did not cleaned his room like others but she have assumed naruto would least do that but as soon as she she slid the door she coughed as dust was set flying ,she coughed for a while and saw the room was fairly dusty like it was not cleaned for weeks. She first dismissed it as naruto being a slob but then her ninja training kicked in as she noticed even the bed had dust meaning no one was using it. So she searched the room and found it strangely barren then she noticed the paper hanged behind the door addressed to her and minato.
Fear gripped her heart as she shakily took it and unfold it and started reading it
"To,
Minato and Kushina.
I first of all like to thank both of you for bringing me to this world. And taking care of me till now even thought it was not ideal parents and child relation at-least you did not misplaced your anger like the villagers did. And at-least shielded me from harm from others and you yourself did not abused me other than the coldness and dismissal of my existence, you depraved me of love and social relationship a "normal" person have. But for that i thank you for i now see clearly my purpose. And just to clear any misunderstanding i do not hate konohagakure or its people not even you both or those brats. But i cannot live here anymore i feel like a caged animal.
As everyone know my secret here i have no hope to find love here and my purpose takes me to many places for i wish to achieve true peace. If you love me any please do not send any of those ne lackeys or konohagakure anbu. How i know of ne well when there have no one to shelter you either grow up or die. Also a certain visit from a "crippled" old war hawk do help. As for my duties for "my clan and village" well i was never loved in the village as for clan i was never trained by either of you so i do not know any clan secret also i never had access to the library so all or any clan secret are safe as for konohagakure secret well all that is taught in academy is common knowledge to all hidden ninja village worth their salt. And also both namikaze or uzumaki clan do not posses any specific bloodline so I ultimately hold no duty to both clan as I was duly banished thus a person of my own according to konohagakure laws. I do know kushina was nearly abducted but she is pure-blooded uzumaki unlike me. Only case anyone can use me for breeding is when they have a pure-blooded uzumaki female "that" is highly unlikely. Only reason anyone will take interest in me would be to experiment on me even then I will be useless as only a person of orochimaru skill can get any positive result and I highly doubt he is interested in uzumaki clan.
Again I know these information is not common but are not restricted. Again thank you for everything. I hope you heed to my humble request to be left alone because I will not come willingly or without resistance. For I know what awaits me. Hope we never meet again.
Naruto
No longer uzumaki namikaze."
With that the letter ended as kushina fell to the ground not minding the dust and started silently sobbing true she was not as attached to naruto as much she was with her other children but she loved him nevertheless to lose a child like this was harsh he even addressed her and minato by their name he did not even called them mother or father but address them with their first name. Like some stranger would. Soon she regained her composure and went to minato to address this issue. Minato was sitting at the table when he notice kushina approaching he smiled but it soon turned to frown as he noticed her state her dress, which was covered in dirt, dried tears in her face and she looked broken. So he excused himself from children and took hold of kushina and took her to their room so the children would not notice her is such state. As soon as he entered the room he placed a silencing seal so as to maintain privacy. Before he could speak kushina offered him a letter so he silently took it and read his eyes first widen then took a sharp edge then they became enraged.
The brat he ruined it his whole plan for him with him in root danzo would become loyal to him as he soon plan to make them official no point fight when they had same goal and he would not pursue his daughters for power also he would be rid of naruto for a while or good. It was not that he did not liked or loved his son it is just that he is a great security risk to konohagakure then orochimaru himself as he held the kyubi's soul and the soul attract the yin and yang and the seal naruto had was weak not meant to hold the chakra but the soul. But he did had the soul but now with him gone minato not only lost an asset as he could have used him as decoy for akatsuki but now he is more dangerous as just by reading this letter minato can conclude that he is more smarter than he showed and he did sated that he knows what awaits him. Also when akatsuki capture him he can reveal the identity of the true jinchuriki namely his sister or outright join them. And from what kushina had said he already had weeks lead and all the trails would have gone cold.
Of course he would not heed his request while his points are valid in every sense but he is a asset minato cannot lose as his presence secure his daughters identity but also shelter them from hate as it is directed at naruto. But if the brat approach the daimyo and present his paper of release from clans and failure from academy he would be a adult with no guardian and worse if he demonstrate his real skill the daimyo might recruit him as trainee guardian or even a mercenary under his protection then he would be untouchable not unreachable but if they would be caught there would be hell to pay. So he left a shadow clone for kushina and other for children and flashed to his office and ordered to get the anbu captain and danzo he would not be happy but he will compensate somehow but that for later but now comes capturing him before he reaches fire capital.
Soon the requested persons arrived minato noticed annoyance in danzo cold demeanour and thus quickly started after securing the room properly
"i have called you to address matter of grave importance whatever is to be discussed here now would be treated SS rank secret. And breach of that would be treated with proper punishment are we clear."
When both nodded he continued
"Roughly 2 weeks before naruto formally known as naruto uzumaki namikaze have left the village undetected and his absence is only noticed today by kushina uzumaki namikaze accidentally while we do not have any authority over him as he failed the academy then opted out and was then removed from both uzumaki and namikaze clan. But you both know he is to big a asset to loose. So your mission is to capture him as from my deduction I conclude that he most possibly would try to approach fire daimyo and seek refuge there but we cannot leave other possibilities so dog send two of your best infiltration and tracking team to track him as the trail is weeks old it would be hard to follow. This mission would be ranked as S rank as the mission would require these team to infiltrate enemy territory if the track leads there also keep two extraction team ready if required ,do not take the boy as a fool he was able to leave without being noticed and have shown cunningness and intellect beyond his age and estimated skill, treat him at least jonin level thereat, you are dismissed dog." with that the anbu captain left.
Minato the turned to danzo and continued, " I want you to use if possible all of ne to capture naruto, your forces are to head to the capital of Hi no Kuni if he had already got an asylum you are to capture him and bring him back if the ninja you send fail they cannot show any tie to konohagakure so be sure to take necessary precaution. Also here with this ne is official again but under my jurisdiction also the "final test" will not include death of the failure but they will be sent to academy final year to be part of normal force this way we do not waste resources. And you will remove all cursed seal applied and apply standard anbu seal to them also making them loyal to me too. Information regarding your organization would be treated SSS rank and aside from me only you would be allowed to access it ever, even the past and future hokage will not be able to access it. And the future recruit would be legally recruited and you will relax some of your harsh standards. But remember there is always way around words and rules they are never set on stone. We will discuss the finer prints and terms and condition later but we must hurry now time is of the essence here."
Danzo took the paper and carefully examined it once satisfied he nodded and took off even though he would be restricted but he no longer had to worry about the hokage or much secrecy as his organization is legal now with the SSS rank restriction he do not have to worry about his past action. But the hokage have suggested that they will bend some rules and do compromises it was fair trade to him. So he took off and ordered his men to do so and he himself went with them as this was matter of almost importance, his sharingan can come in handy. But little did danzo and minato knew they were just wasting time and resources as naruto has already left fire capital after getting making the daimyo his puppet.
[some time before with Naruto] [yes I'm messing with timeline somewhat and all guardian shinobi are alive]
Getting in the city was easy as he is "former" heir of uzumaki-namikaze clan and "former" son of hokage. But that would not grant him audience with the daimyo on immediate biases but time was something he did not have. So he sneaked past the guards and reached the throne room where the daimyo was seated. He was casually chatted with the only female guardian shinobi Tou if his memory served him right and he also noticed asuma sarutobi son of sandaime hokage. So he quietly reached where daimyo's subject would stand when being addressed by him and dropped the indivisibility as soon as he released his technique the guardian shinobi surrounded him weapons on ready but Tou stayed by the daimyo side as a last resort he guessed. He put up his hand in a surrender motion and said
" I'm sorry to intrude but I had no other way I am in grave danger and the time is of the essence. My name is naruto formally naruto uzumaki namikaze. I was recently kicked out of my clans and the 'family' because of my 'incompetence'. But in reality I hid my skills which I proved by infiltrating your castle."
He finished and waited for the daimyo to respond he nodded and silently commanded his guardians to relax and for naruto to continue. So naruto continued.
" currently konohagakure anbu and ne shinobi are perusing me in order to capture me. As they consider me too great a asset to loose but it goes against law's but they intend to do it anyway. As you know I'm holder of kyubi's soul he used me as scapegoat to shelter his daughters from hate the villagers they had for kyubi and intended to had me handover to danzo for 'training'. He also wanted to use me as a decoy against akatsuki."
The daimyo looked confused at the mention of akatsuki so naruto clarified
"They are a terrorist group made of exclusively of s ranked missing ninjas hailing from various villages they were recently used by the tsuchikage for some time. But their current motive seems to be capturing jinchuriki for their bijuu. Their intentions or reason to seek them while unknown are guaranteed to be ill for all of nations."
Naruto finished. The daimyo looked charm on the outside but naruto could see from his body language that he was furious no doubt minato had failed to mention this or outright lied to him. After some time the daimyo charmed down and said
"while I do appreciate the information the hokage failed to mention me, I do not see why you are here as you said so yourself you no longer are heir of any clan from my nation and you forfeited your citizenship thus you are no longer my concern what happens between you and konohagakure is between you two and not 'my' concern."
Naruto was seething on the inside the daimyo just proved how selfish, treacherous and hypocritical human can be. As what konohagakure was doing is against the rule the daimyo enforced yet he would allowed them to do so for his personal benefit. He would extract his price either from naruto or konohagakure. So, naruto put his offer up by saying
"By the law enforced by you even If I am former citizen of your nation konohagakure cannot do that me it is outright kidnapping if brought to your attention you are honour bond to stop it. But alas I know how the world works. Fine as you have seen I'm very skilled with infiltration no disrespect to your security or your guards I could have easily killed you if I so wished and I also have strong information network which I can employ for you all I ask in return is that you keep 'your' village in line make sure they do not add me in their bingo book or peruse me any further and you will give me immunity and protection under your name and authority. If you not I will simply take my services to one who is willing to pay me equivalent or better"
Naruto finished he looked at daimyo for reaction and saw he was laughing behind his fan. He looked generally ambushed. He said in a mocking tone.
"well you are brave if nothing else. You come in my castle uninvited disturb my peace. Then you have the courage to demand of me. Look around boy you are surrounded by most elite ninjas in fire nation and in a castle build to resist ninjas attack. Filled with my most elite men armed to the tooth and ready to fight army at any movement if need arises. I can simply kill you or force you to do my bidding."
Naruto sighted at the mans arrogance and then his eyes hardened he did a hand sign and there was a explosion then another and then another. It seems that it was true human mostly only respond to threats not to kindness or need of others. Once the noises stopped he then said
"well I tried to be civil! You see your castle is protected by fuinjutsu that of a uzumaki clan from time when they had alliance with konohagakure before of-course it was destroyed because of konohagakure's treachery. I can reduce this castle to dust before any of you can react and I am but a clone original is already miles away from city with your family. Had you helped me like a honourable man should have I would have placed them back where they should have been and they would have no recollection that they were ever kidnapped but you forced my hand. Now my 'demands' are as such you will force konohagakure to stop the perusing me. Then you will reduce funding to konohagakure by 50%. Then you will force minato off his position in lieu of these files 'naruto throws some file on ground in front of him' and reinstate sandaime till he is ready to give position to someone I approve. Then you will transfer fund to the account I will give you and return to me all uzumaki clans scrolls, relics and valuable plundered from the destroyed village also giving me detailed account of which nation got what loot and release the land of uzu to me. These conditions are non negotiable. To give you more motive to not be a smart ass I have planted bombs all over the city and any attempt to diffuses or detect them will cause them to explode. The bombs have 1 month timer set in them which me or my clone have to reset. Also your family will stay with me for extra insurance your daughter looked ripe and untouched, I wonder what will happen if I were to just drop her in middle of a bandit camp hmmmm…."
Naruto finished and waited for the man to react first he seemed furious then the true meaning of what he said set in and he looked terrified and looked at him with pleading eyes then fell to his knees and said
"No please no not my princess. Have some mercy you are endangering many innocent life here. And I cant possibly fulfill all your demands. You are asking me to hand over the land of fire to you."
Naruto seemed ambushed at the sudden change in the mans attitude and said
"Movements ago you were sitting there looking at me as if I was a insect, a mere insignificant bug at your feet to be squished if you deemed so. What gives now hmmmmm…. it seems it is true man truly only responds to threats. No matter you will do as I say or I will make good of my promise any attempt to show your intelligence will result in painful death of males of your family or a drop off to a bandit camp in case of females or perhaps I should blow this castle take your seat by force after I reduce rest the city to rabbles."
The man looked more and more terrified by each words he started looking left and right looking for something anything to take him out of this situation but he found nothing so he sighted and slumped further down and nodded his head in consent. He just lost his lordship if what the boy said was true if he stayed true to his honor he would never in this position now his father's word ring true. But alas it was too later as he was just a figure head a puppet at the hand of this boy no older than 14.
Naruto seeing that the man conceding was satisfied and pulled a document and presented it to the daimyo and said
"Approve this with this I'm the official daimyo of this land and you are just a substitute that will just look at day to day administration but any and all decision would be made by me my summons will occupy your office and will be a mean to keep you at check and your way to communicate with me. Try to sway them or harm them in any way the bombs will go off and then the boss summon would be summoned to destroy what is left. This arrangement will only last for a month then I will declare my lordship and appoint a proper guardian to take my place while I'm away. You will be moved to a safe location where you will stay with your family if they are alive till then that is, that depends on your actions from now on. Also I will be taking asuma,chiriku and Tou with me while other stay here and act as your protection."
With that said naruto shoved the document in his hand and had him approve it by signature written in daimyo's blood and his personal and state seal making the document iron clan naruto had him repeat the same process with other two copies one was filed with the state other he kept himself and the third was with maya in her realm. He had signed the fox contract which maya after a long rant allowed. True he can simply bind the strongest being to him with his rinne sharingan but he would not he will not as he would be no different than the humans themself. So, he had to take more nagging and belittling from maya but it was worth It he can sign more contracts if he wish due to his status, he will do so but he need proper summons to do so toads were beyond help they were corrupt even before human corrupted other but in toads case they did the corrupting even the snake were misunderstood as they act as their summoner says who is orochimaru and manda well there are some bad case but we cannot condemn all for action of one before giving them chance to prove them self. He wanted to find all the lost summon scrolls such as the chameleons, salamander and many more but that comes later or when opportunity present itself. So he left the capital under the care of other trusted 9 tails from kyubi's clan and with asuma ,chiriku and Tou in tow with their new daimyo towards kirigakure after locking the great city down tightly no one is to go out or come in for the month.
