Ok, I see some people are getting confused. Well lets get this straight, Minato was voted to be hokage, but he doesn't want to take the position up yet so the old (well used to be old) man is currently occupying the position at the moment until Minato want to take it back. Makes sense, I hope so. And thanks again for the reviews guys and if there are any mistakes that you find in this chapter or the whole story, don't hesitate to tell me. I learn from my mistakes.
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Chapter 3
Sarutobi looked at the boy in front of him and then up at Minato and then back at Naruto again. He leaned back on his chair, a smirk constantly making its way across his face. This ought to be interesting. Minato has a lot of explaining to do.
Sarutobi signalled for the present ANBU guard to leave and they complied, a puzzle look on their faces, looking at Minato and the young blonde.
Naruto stared at the Hokage before stepping back, hiding behind Minato. That wasn't the old man. The old man was…well, old…not young. Maybe he was using a special jutsu? Naruto thought. That could be possible, after all; the old man knew a lot of jutsu's.
"Ah, who is this?" Sarutobi questioned, raising his eyebrow. He smiled at Naruto, making the kid dug behind the older blonde again. Minato smiled and crouched down, ruffling Naruto's hair.
"Hey kid, why don't you go wait outside? I'll tell you when to come in, kay?" Minato said and Naruto with hesitation nodded his head slowly. He didn't want to go outside by himself but he guessed he had no choice. God knows what could happen. Naruto sadden and Minato saw it. "Don't worry Naruto; the ANBU would be there with you." Minato reassured. Inside Naruto grimaced. He didn't quite like the ANBU much. There weren't nice people, at least not to him anyways. He admired them but sadly, they were just like the rest.
Naruto took one more look at the Hokage before walking out, keeping his head low and avoiding eye contact with the ANBU guard. He went and sat quietly on one of the bunch and just kept his head low.
"Sorry about that," Minato pulled a nearby chair and sat down, a smirk engrave on his own face. "So how is the paper work going?"
Sarutobi smirked and rubbed his temples. It was just typically of the blonde to tease him about this accursed paper work. He knew how much he hated it.
"Dammit Minato, why are you making me suffer?" Sarutobi demanded, slamming his fist on the desk rather playfully, but serious at the same time.
Minato leaned back on his chair and shrugged innocently. "I told you, I'm too young for this kind of stuff," Minato replied. This job required a lot of time spend sitting down and signing your name and getting bored beyond belief, Minato didn't think he was ready for that yet. Besides he has a life to live after all and he's not the type of person who would like to be stuck in an office all day long. It just wasn't his kind of thing.
Sarutobi snorted and glared at Minato who just grinned sheepishly at him.
"What, and you think I'm not too old for this?" Sarutobi questioned, amused. Minato eyed him for a while before slowly shaking his head and smirking.
"Nope, sorry but I don't see any grey hairs just yet," at that, the former Hokage couldn't help but laugh. Minato's sense of humour never failed to amuse him but that was still sly of him; making him doing all this paper work when he could be enjoying a nice holiday somewhere by now. He could be enjoying a very nice hot spring bath to loosen his sore muscles…any maybe even have a few pretty women to keep him company. Even if Minato was probably just saying that as an excuse; he was still young. This was no way for him to spend his life. Goddamit, where was his brain when he agreed to this thing?
"You'll have to take back your position someday,"
Minato sighed and nodded his head. "Yeah, I know."
Sarutobi laughed and leaned back on his chair again, looking towards the door and then back at Minato, a small smirk spreading across his face.
"Minato, you didn't tell me you had a son. Where have you been hiding him for all these years?" Sarutobi asked curiously, raising his eye brow at the young sensei in front of him. He knew that the kid couldn't possibly be Minato's but either way, he was still curious. He hadn't seen the blonde-haired boy in the village before, and it's not every day you get to see a mini Minato. The resembles between those two was enough to put the idea of them being father and son into anybody's head, or that fact that they are related somehow. But the boy was not ordinary, that he had notice. Sarutobi sensed a weird presence within the child, one he didn't like at all. What it was that rubbed him the wrong way, he could not fathom. His chakra was like nothing he had felt before. He wondered if Minato had sensed it too.
Minato blinked, surprised and caught off guard. "Oh, you mean Naruto," He questioned, having assumed that Sarutobi was talking about the child. "Nah, he doesn't belong to me, sadly," Minato whispered.
"He bumped into me when I was on my way to my apartment, and for some reason he had seemed scared," Minato continued thoughtfully and Sarutobi nodded, signalling him to go on.
"He told me he had no parents and his clothes were torn so I took him to the orphanage, since I couldn't take him to my apartment because that's not allowed," Minato ran a hand through his naturally spiked blonde hair, "anyways I got the kid some clothes to change into but he didn't want to, and he refused to eat anything I offered him even though he looked like he was starving," Minato sighed and looked at Sarutobi who was listening, looking quite interested. "I don't know, but I think I was giving him the wrong things anyways, how am I supposed to know!" Minato sighed again in defeat and Sarutobi chuckled lightly.
"I see," Sarutobi confirmed. So the young child had no parents that still didn't answer his suspicions. Minato ran his hand through his hair again and stretched his arms, feeling his tense muscle's loosening.
"There's something strange about Naruto though," Minato added. He still remembered that fearsome chakra that he felt swirling around the child. It was very hard to pick up and only a very skilled ninja could sense it. Whatever it was, it was troubling him.
"Ah, so I see you've sensed it too," Sarutobi leaned forward slightly in his chair. Minato scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah, but I'm still not sure what it is," Minato admitted and shifted uncomfortably in his chair. It was obvious he didn't like sitting down for a long time, even though he has only been there for about twenty minutes or so. The Hokage nodded in agreement. He was baffled by the strange chakra too.
"We will have to find that out later, but in the mean time we need to keep an eye on him," Sarutobi suggested and watched as Minato stood up from his chair, stretching. He wondered how long Minato would last if he did finally decide to take back his rightful position as Hokage. How he would pity the young man.
"Well, I should bring him in then," Minato turned his head towards the door. Minato walked over to the door and grabbed the handle; he then stopped and turns his head around, grinning.
"One more thing," a sly smirked appeared on his handsome features, "If you let Naruto stay with me, then I'll take back my position as Hokage, but only after I take care of a few things first," Minato offered, nodding his head at the pile of paper work that was resting in front of Sarutobi, waiting for him. He found it very good blackmailing material. Sarutobi rubbed his chin thoughtfully and considered Minato's offer. It was a good one and he had nothing to lose. He narrowed his eyes and eyed Minato suspiciously. Why was he so interested in this child that he would even offer away his freedom? Sarutobi shrugged. It meant he was going to be free of those accursed paperwork at last, so what was he worrying about.
"I will see to that later, but first we need to find out more information. He might belong to a different village and therefore you can't keep him, so he will be staying at the orphanage until further notice," Sarutobi said and Minato smiled approvingly at him before opening the door. It was very shellfish of him but he hoped that Naruto didn't belong to any village.
Naruto, after almost half an hour of sitting down quietly with his head low, looked up slowly. There was an ANBU guard standing next to him. Naruto fearfully dared himself to look at him. The ANBU had a mask on and Naruto couldn't see his expression. The guy stood firmly, his head held high. Naruto concentrated on his masked face for a while, wondering if he could see with that thing on. Naruto didn't know why they even wore masks, it annoyed him because then he couldn't tell what they were thinking about him; whether they were glaring at him or not. The ANBU-Chan's that usually brought him food wore masks too. He couldn't tell their expressions too but their fast departure was enough for him.
"Hey, Naruto!" came a deep clear voice. Naruto jumped and turned his head. Minato stood at the door way and was waving Naruto over. Naruto slowly stood up and began walking towards him. He wondered what had took him so long. He was still cautious of Minato, but the man hadn't tried to do anything yet so he thought he was ok. Minato smiled at Naruto as soon as he came and he led him back into the Hokage's office.
Sarutobi gestured for Naruto to sit down and he complied. The third Hokage smiled, making Naruto blush shyly.
"So what's your name son?" He asked. Naruto blinked at the questioned and looked up to meet the Hokage's gaze before turning away. Didn't he already know his name? Naruto was sure he did but he answered anyways.
"I-I'm Naruto…"
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After the meeting with the Hokage, Minato took Naruto back to the orphanage. Somehow the Hokage had managed to get the child to change his clothes and also convinced him to at least eat something. Minato was bewildered and wanted to know the old man's secret. This whole kid -business thing he had yet to learn about.
The journey was awfully quiet and none of them said a word.
When they had arrived at the orphanage, Naruto clung to Minato's cloak and had refused to let go. It was obvious the child didn't want to be left alone. The older blonde reassured him that he would be back in the morning and that the lady here at the orphanage was really nice so he should be ok.
Naruto let go of Minato, pouting and blushing shyly.
"Well Naruto, guess I'll see you tomorrow in the morning." Minato reached out and ruffled Naruto's blonde hair. He gave him a smiled before leaving.
Naruto smiled sadly and he looked out the window. He was alone again.
Yeah, I another chapter finished. I hope that this chapter cleared up some confusion, if not, please let me know. I'm trying my best to update whenever I can and I'm also trying to stay away from writer's block. I'm so happy that people take some time to review, thank you everyone who reviewed. For those who haven't reviewed, I would be very very very very very very very very (insert a lot of very here) happy if you guys do.
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I hope this chapter was long enough. And I'll practice my art of speaking.
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