I should have just tagged this first part on the end of the last one. Anyway its so short I'll give you two for the wait of one. Hope you like it!

Zephrys

~Hawa~

After meeting his father in death before being brought back to life, Kakashi thought that there was nothing else in the world that could surprise him.

Sitting here, cross-legged on the floor, staring into the breathing face on his dead mentor, Kakashi decided he'd been very wrong.

"…The chakra signature's the same," Kakashi said finally, unable to believe his words himself. "It's much weaker than it normally used to be…but there's no mistaking it. It'd be impossible to mimic it after so long. This…is really sensei…"

His pink haired student was white with shock, and he could hear Shizune's soft sniffs as she cried. The silver haired jounin felt like joining the medic nin. A mixture of grief and joy, fear and elation, confusion and concern was swirling around the three, and Kakashi wasn't sure if he should break down in tears or leap for joy.

"What if this is like Orochimaru's jutsu?" Shizune whispered. "Someone could be controlling them. They could be planning to use them against Konoha! Oh, what are we supposed to do!"

"Calm down," Kakashi firmly told the panicking woman, though his mental state was about the same as hers. "We'll just have to wait and see. Until I can talk to them, I won't be able to tell whether or not they're being controlled, or if they're even the same people."

"He was awake when Naruto found them!" Sakura said, making both Shizune and Kakashi look up at her in shock.

"Did he say anything?" Kakashi demanded, his usually indifferent black eye now fierce. "Anything at all? Tell me everything that happened, Sakura!"

"H-He was…well he was in shock," Sakura admitted, stuttering a little under her teachers uncharacteristically intent gaze. "Naruto said he tried asking him questions…but he would only talk about getting help for his wife and finding his son."

At this both Kakashi and Shizune looked stricken, but Sakura hardly noticed as she continued on.

"Naruto had sent clones out to look…I guess in the clearing where he found them outside the walls. I asked him to get Shizune for me, and he was about to leave when he got up," Sakura gestured warily to the unconscious male. "He…he did something weird to Naruto. He…kind of attacked him, pulling up his shirt, and he made something appear on Naruto's skin, a…a seal…or something. Naruto got angry and pushed him away, but he had a sort of breakdown. He started…sobbing, but I couldn't understand most of what he was saying."

"What could you understand?" Kakashi said urgently. "Tell me everything he said!"

"He was apologizing, I think," Sakura frowned in concentration. "He was holding onto Naruto…and he kept calling his name. Sensei, it was like he knew-" the rest of her sentence was lost as all the color drained from her cheeks.

Shizune was practically sobbing now, and Kakashi's eyes looked dead as his former student took a shuddering gasp of realization. "You said…you said that he was the Yondaime!" she said shakily, looking with desperate eyes at the jounin. "Th-That means…he was the one to seal the Kyuubi into Naruto! That's why he recognized his name! But," Sakura seemed to falter, but then her eyes began to grow wide with horror. "His w-wife just…he kept saying…asking for…his son…" Sakura was starting to lose her composure, and a terrible sadness seemed to radiate off the two adult shinobi, confirming without words the truth.

"Sakura," Kakashi said, his voice holding no more life than his eyes. "This is Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina. Naruto's parents."

~Gwynt~

Naruto returned to the village empty handed. He'd searched the clearing for hours, but there was no sign of any sort of human life there, much less a newborn baby who wouldn't have been able to move on its own.

He trudged past the new guards who had recently rotated in from the new shift. He was headed to his temporary quarters, seeing as his his apartment building had been demolished by Pein's jutsu. He supposed he should go back to the medical tent, to report to Sakura and the two new parents that he hadn't been able to find even a trace of their child, but he didn't want to see the look of disappointment and sadness in their eyes. Also, if he was honest with himself, there was something…off, about the blond haired man and his wife that made Naruto wary to be around them.

He supposed he was being paranoid, after all, whatever had caused the man to act that way towards him…he supposed that anyone would be slightly unhinged after a great trauma like the one those two had seemed to suffer.

He tried to push the couple from his mind as he walked, and instead focused on what he was going to do about the missing baby. He guessed it must have been taken somewhere…maybe by an enemy nin or an animal. He needed a way to track the child…maybe be could ask Kiba and Akamaru or Kakashi and his nin dogs to get a hint of the baby's scent from the couple, and sniff him out.

Naruto had just decided to look for either of dog's best friends, when he felt the approach of one such friend, his former sensei.

"Naruto," Kakashi called, catching his attention. There was a serious air around Kakashi that he couldn't quite place, but he disregarded it.

"Kakashi-sensei! I really need your help," Naruto said with a pinch of relief at finding the help he needed so quickly. "There's a baby missing, somewhere outside the walls, I think, but I can't find it anywhere! Can you use Pakkun and the other nin dogs to help me track it down?"

"Never mind about the child," Kakashi waved the issue away instantly. "Naruto I need a vial of your blood."

"Wha-? Kakashi-sensei did you hear what I said?" Naruto asked incredulously. "There's a newborn baby lying out there somewhere alone! The sun's already going down and if we don't find it soon, it might die!"

"We know where the child is," Kakashi said impatiently, "so don't worry about it. Just give me some of your blood. Please Naruto I'm in a hurry."

"You do?" Naruto asked, completely confused now. "Where is he then? And what do you need with my blood?"

"We need to run a biological scan of the people you found, and we need your blood to do it," Kakashi tried to say calmly, but his anxiousness slipped through.

"That doesn't make any sense," Naruto countered. He may not be the smartest Shinobi ever, but he wasn't stupid. "And you didn't answer my question! How are you sure the kid's okay?"

By this point, Naruto's loud voice had attracted the attention of more than a few curious ears. Kakashi glanced around quickly, and with a sigh decided to move the conversation elsewhere.

"Naruto I'll explain if you follow me," Kakashi said, and Naruto could finally hear the strain in his voice.

Nodding reluctantly, Naruto left the curious spectators behind, following his unusually serious sensei.

Kakashi led him into a tent he knew to be connected to the main tent. Somehow, knowing how close he was to the mysterious couple, Naruto suddenly felt very uncomfortable. "What's going on sensei?" he said, wanting to get straight to the point.

"Naruto…those people, when you brought them in, did you…notice anything…familiar, about either of them?" Kakashi said carefully.

The question surprised him. He was fairly certain that he'd never seen them before…then again… "Uh…not really," Naruto said sheepishly. "I thought they must have been traveling to our village when they were attacked."

"But why would anyone want to travel to Konoha now?" Kakashi countered instantly. "Right now, we're about as useful to outside people as a dull kunai."

"Well I don't know," Naruto said exasperatedly. He was quickly tiring of Kakashi's evasive attitude. "Maybe they used to live here and came to help out!"

"Naruto," the silver haired jounin seemed to be stealing himself to speak. "That man…he bears an identical resemblance to Namikaze Minato…the Yondaime Hokage."

The words took a moment to digest. "The…the Yondaime?" Naruto gaped.

"Yes," Kakashi said with a defeated look, "and his chakra signature is the same as my old sensei's as well."

Naruto still couldn't believe what he was hearing. Had he really found the Yondaime Hokage? His hero from childhood, and the one he was determined to pass…the man who had supposedly died after condemning him to a life of isolation and hatred from others.

"Is it…is it really him?" Naruto questioned disbelievingly.

"All the evidence points to it," Kakashi answered, not quite meeting Naruto's confused eyes. "We just need your blood, and then we can scan his and we'll know for sure."

"But…that still doesn't make any sense," Naruto said stubbornly. "Why would you need my blood to check his? Can't you check his against his file?"

"All files were lost in the attack," Kakashi said, but Naruto had seen the small twitch of his fingers when he'd heard Naruto's first question.

"But why do you need my blood!" Naruto demanded angrily.

"Oh, hell, Naruto! Why do you have to be so bull-headed?" Kakashi said in frustration. But Naruto's glare did not diminish. With an angry sigh, Kakashi buried the small visible portion of his face in his hand. "Shit…I never thought I'd be the one to have to tell you this..." he muttered to himself.

"Tell me…what?" Naruto pushed, but suddenly that unexplainable fear was stirring restlessly in his gut.

"Understand this, Naruto," Kakashi said, and in his voice was a plea for Naruto's silence. "Sandaime-sama decided to keep it a secret because of the danger you'd have been put in if the news had spread."

Naruto's hard stare bore into his teacher. There was another secret? Wasn't it enough that there was a giant nine tailed demon fox living in his gut?

"He was going to tell you when he was sure you'd be able to defend yourself," Kakashi continued. "And after he died, Jiraiya said he'd tell you on your sixteen birthday. I guess I assumed Tsunade would tell you after that…but there's no avoiding it now," Kakashi's hand fell away from his face, and he looked up to meet Naruto's eyes.

"Naruto, your father was the Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, Namikaze Minato, and your mother was his wife, Uzumaki Kushina."

It felt as though a weight had dropped suddenly into his stomach.

"Th-That's not funny…Kakashi-sensei," Naruto said stiffly. "Don't joke about something like that, saying false things against a Hokage."

"Naruto, I'm not joking," Kakashi said seriously. "Your father…was my mentor. You…you're almost his spitting image. There's no doubt that you're his son."

"That's a lie!" Naruto shouted. "If that were true…that would mean that he sealed the Kyuubi into his own kid! And that's just…just…he just wouldn't do that!"

"The reason he picked you was because you were his son!" Kakashi stressed, and his met Naruto's disbelieving and angry eyes with his pained. "He needed a young child who hadn't had their chakra coils fully developed yet, and who better than his newborn son? Besides…those from the Uzumaki blood line always had exceptional chakra, meaning they were ideal for jinchuuriki's. Naruto, you were the only choice he had."

"That's BULLSHIT," Naruto yelled furiously. "People hated me! No matter where I went or what I did! And I didn't even know the reason! I was completely alone until Iruka started to care…and even then I still had no friends! Everyone still treated me with the same damn contempt! And now…I'm supposed to believe, that my own father was the one to cause that?"

The silence that fell after the end of his rant seemed to bristle with the jinchuuriki's pent up anger. Kakashi didn't know what to say. He'd never really known much about his former mentor's son. With the way he always smiled and carried on, Kakashi realized for the first time that he'd been completely blind to a scorned and neglected child.

"Give me the damn vile," Naruto whispered after a moment, looking away from the jounin.

Wordlessly, Kakashi took a small glass container from the pocket of his jounin vest, and handed it to Naruto. The blond boy took it, biting the tip of his thumb with his sharp canines. He squeezed the appendage until the vile was nearly full with crimson blood, and he capped it.

Shoving the glass vile into the copy nin's hands, Naruto turned on his heal and left the tent without another word.

So now I'm having bouts of time when I can't sleep at all. Really, I'm getting frustrated here. Well wishes are appreciated, and I even got a little bit done on this story today.

For any of you who read my storyThe Loudest Silence You can expect an update very soon! even if it is a bit scattered.

Please wish me better!

~Ducky