Chronicles of Naruto Namikaze 7

A/N: HI everyone!! Sorry for being so late with updates. It looks like NaruHina is the winner, although MinaKushi and MinaShizu is still in a tiebreak. I would also like to thank all of you for making me or this story in your favorites, I feel so honored, and by so, I'll try to give my best to your favorites.

Today was October Tenth. The day Minato had been waiting for days to come. He wanted to see if the villagers dared to say those things again when he was on Naruto's side. So today, he left earlier from Naruto always did and hid under his henge as Arashi. He stood up in a tree and hid his chakra as well. Minato didn't want anyone to know his appearance in the village especially the Hyuuga Clan, Jiraiya Kakashi and Tsunade to know that he was there.

The moment he waited finally came. He saw Naruto walked in the village. But the scene he saw almost caught him on a heart attack. He didn't wear his usual orange jumpsuit or even his hitai-ate. He wore a white shirt with a long black pants and instead of a hitai-ate, he wore a very old yet ugly google which once used by him in the academy. Instead of seeing him in his teenage prm, he saw his son in his terribly 5 years old and there were no whiskers in his cheeks. Naruto's hair was not a spiky bright yellow, but dark brown. He walked along the street and just sit in a corner. Minato hesitated whether to visit him or just let him be like that. Then he saw a bearded villager came approaching him. He was thinking positively that hs son would be praised. But instead of doing that, judging the little boy's dirty look –Naruto-, the man kicked him in the gut s. Minato's face turned shocked. '

He wanted to jump down so bad, but if he did that, then that would all be useless hiding his chakra this far. He kept the urge to jump down and started to see the scene he didn't wish to see. After several minutes, the man left the spot and left Naruto on the road. Minato wanted to cry. He felt the anger flowed through is mind. If only, he weren't born in Konoha… If only he had been born in another village, he would have killed that man. Naruto started to get uo, this time, when he saw nobody around, he henged into the normal 5 years old Naruto. More people came to the spot, but this time he got rougher and harder beatings. Minato clenched his fists. He had ordered Itachi to look after the boy if the boy would do things like this, but now where is he? Itachi was nowhere to find at his sight distance.

'If I find him, I will have him Naruto's personal guard,' swore Minato in his heart.

After he saw the beatings, next he saw a teen ninja with a chuunin vest came approaching the boy. At first, Minato thought that he would give him beatings again. The teen quickly lifted the boy up and jumped branch to branch to a distant horizon. Minato followed him close behind and he saw the teen pulled out a kunai. The ex-kage jumped quickly between them and blocked away the kunai.

"Who are you?! And why are you hurting this boy?!!" shouted Minato.

The stranger didn't say a word and began charging at him. Minato doged and dodged, till he finally out of breath, consumed by his own anger towards the stranger.

"Why?!! Why you of all people in this village are all angry to Na-this boy?!! Why?! Did this boy ever do such bad and harmful things to the village?!"

"He killed our Fourth Hokage! He killed one of our best kage ever and attacked the village. He is the Kyuubi no Yoko!!" answered the teen ninja. Minato's heart was filled with rage.

""Is it just because he killed your famous Fourth Hokage then he deserves to die?!"

There was a long pause before he heard the teen ninja answered slowly, "Yes,… he deserves to die for killing his own dad…"

The teen ninja suddenly changed into a puff of smoke. There appear Naruto, while the poor boy was Itachi himself. Minato looked at them in disbelief when suddenly Naruto ran and hugged him tight. Itachi bowed his head.

"Why did you do that,Naruto?" asked Minato dumbfounded.

"I already knew that you asked Itachi to watch over me while you would be wandering in the village in disguise. I don't know why, but I asked Itachi to help me test you. I-I'm sorry dad, I didn't mean to make you hurt or even mad, I just want to make sure that you really love me."

Minato looked at his son sadly. He ruffled Naruto's hair then looked at Itachi who still bowed his head. He signature Itachi for an answer and he stood again. Unknown to Naruto, Itachi knocked him out and brought him on his back to the apartment.

"I already know that, Naruto-kun…" whispered Minato slowly.

Minato cocked his head to the Hokage Tower and headed there. He had things to ask to the blond haired woman. When he reached there, Shizune said that Tsunade had not been there since oring because she's in the hospital, treating a new wound from a shinobi. The wound was said to be dangerous and that Tsunade will handle this herself. For some time, the Hokage job shall be handled by Shizune. Hearing this, Minato went back to naruto's apartment and sat at the bedside for sometime before placing a gift next to his son. Then he sat on the rooftop and waited for the night to come.

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In a hideout, in Otogakure no Sato, there were two people stood up looking at the clear sky that day. One of them made a handseal and more people came.

"So, I guess it worked as planned, no?" asked a female voice.

"The space and time jutsu was made in time. Thanks to him we could survive his illusion."

"Yes, but although we are now survived, we need another plan to make immediately before Leader returns from his observation."

"Don't worry about it Konan. The Jubi will be revived soon. How many bijuu are there that we caught?"

"We have caught the Rokubi last night but we haven't extracted him yet. We need the Shichibi, Hachibi, and Kyuubi."

Pein turned his gaze to the purple haired woman and gave his usual blank expression.

"I'll be searching for another hideout. These Oto nins will make us in a trouble if they ever noticed that the Akatsuki is here. In worst case, the shinobi of Konoha found our trail and chased us here."

Rain started to fall from the sky and Pein jumped out from the small place. Konan saw his back and just turned her gaze back to the other Akatsuki members.

"Well? What now?" asked the shark-like shinobi, Kisame.

"Shall we wait until Leader is back, go back to your place and find further information about the Shicibi and Hachibi Jinchuuriki."

"And what about you?" asked the explosion maniac, Deidara.

"I'll find the information of the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki."

"What if Leader is back?"

"I have everything in order, now just go," answered Konan in her usual cold voice which got other members approval. Then she dissolved into thin air and turned into a butterfly origami and flew out of the cave.

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Minato sat on the apartment's roof and watched the stars. Suddenly Itachi came and approached him.

"What is it Itachi?" asked Minato, not looking back to the Uchiha heir.

"Please forgive my rudeness, Minato-sama. I got a report from my spy network in Otogakure. They said that there had been strange activities happened in the village. There was also more migration of villagers from other village outside the Otogakure."

"Does this have anything to do with Naruto?"

"I'm not really sure with that, but I've got a bad feeling. "

"What do you mean with that?"

There was a long silence before Itachi closed his raven eyes and shook his head.

"It's nothing, Minato-sama…"