Legacy of Past Hokage's 10

I do not own Naruto or any of its characters' or am I processional writer and that is why I am using fan fiction and I do not know Japanese or will I ever claim to so please excuses any spelling mistakes and I am open to criticism.

It had taken less time than he had allotted for and Naruto had finally copied the entire ninja Library as well as finished reading everything in the civilian Library. This was not without setbacks however as Naruto quickly realized why this bunshin was so dangerous as the headaches that accompanied it if too much information was absorbed at once created a killer headache. During this time Naruto had completely immersed himself into the practice of chakra control and would himself keep no less than twenty leaves stuck to his body at any given time. While Naruto would sleep in class in an effort to ensure that people looked at him as pathetic his clones would be studying medical jutsu as well as studying sciences so that he could analyze his blood and learn how to run genetic cross examinations. This was only part of his strategy however as the remaining half were studying everything he had gathered on seals then proceeding to categorize and sort out uses and types for further research as well as to speed up future searches for specific seals. During his study's he came across the term jinchuriki finally as the clone reading this was so shocked he dropped the scroll on his foot dispelling himself and jolting the previously sleeping Naruto awake in class.

Disgruntled by the disturbance to his class Iruka asked why Naruto felt the urge to disturbed his class. Thinking quickly Naruto decided to show some signs of an inner intelligence and ask his teacher if he knew what a jinchuricki was and what happened to them when they passed on. This was a shock to the teacher as he knew for a fact none of that information was in any of the academy books and unless you had proper clearance or were a jounin that information was out of reach in part of the shinobi library for restricted use. Not knowing what to do with this new found question Iruka proceeded to ask what Naruto had been made aware of on the subject and how he had come across such information. Thinking quickly once again he said he had heard a villager talking about Konoha's own Jinchuriki and how they wished it would just die and free the village of its taint. While this was partially true Naruto had taken to mixing the words up and around a little to fit the situation best. Deciding it was best not to divulge any information on this subject Iruka said that what little he knew on the subject was of little consequence as several laws of the village prevented him from discussing the matter.

While not the information Naruto was looking for nor was it really any help he could tell just how uncomfortable the question had made the teacher and exactly how interested it had made the class on a subject that was considered off limits. So intriguing was the question that it had awakened the classes other sleeping occupant and got his brain working on digesting what would be so critical to the village that the teachers were not allowed to discuss. At this both students appeared to have gone back to sleep however both students were taking in all that they knew and with the blonde and red streaked ones knowledge on village laws and such was immensely useful in not only determining that he was the jinchuriki but also just how stupid the village was as it were what he was able to read was true had he been killed this past year not only would the beast have been released but it would have been released within the village thus destroying everything and everyone if the power of the beast was remotely close to anything he had read on the subject. What a foolish village this was not only to disrespect the man who saved them but to also cause so much damage and abuse to the very individual that was keeping them safe from the start of his life.

Believing he had gathered nearly enough data and his purpose for staying in the village was drawing to an end Naruto believed he could leave after the first semester provided he was able to obtain the last of the information he sought. Believing he had gained sufficient knowledge in the identification of seals and how he had been meticulously organizing the types and styles of all the different variations on seals Naruto determined it was time to make an attempt on the Namikaze residence to find out what secrets it held and if his suspicions were correct and he was the son of the Yellow Flash. If his suspicions were correct he would be leavening the village just before semester end using a iwa bunshin and kage bunshin to take his place in hopes that they would realize his disappearance for a couple of days after the new semester would start. Naruto was certain that this would work as he had his bunshins practice conserving their chakra and was able to get both bunshins to last up to three weeks prior to his current level of control in chakra manipulation.

The last three weeks of the semester flew by as Naruto ready himself to leave by sealing up all of his belongings as well as his complete library. During this time Naruto had visited the Namikaze residence on a nightly basis after cracking what was simply a combined blood chakra seal to keep all none related individuals out of the compound. While it may have been surprising for most that such a simple seal would baffle the villages seal master's it wasn't that hard for Naruto as the village's only two real seal masters either didn't want into the compound or were out of the village near permanently. The remaining so called masters if you could call them that could barely make adequate paper bombs or storage seals if what he had seen in the stores were anything to go by and that when he would bring in his own seals to sell to the stores they would practically beg him for more as his seals were defect free and required less chakra to activate and could in the closest comparison hold five times as much gear as any of the other seals made available in the village.

Naruto once again realized that thanks to the seal he had discovered at least half of his heritage by simply gaining access to the Namikaze grounds began to once again sort and seal everything in the compound mimicking portions of the compounds seal into what would be his new storage seals that would only permit him access to their treasure. While going through the belongings of his father Naruto came across several books that had been customized by his father on the finer aspects of seals as well as books that he had written himself on seals so far advanced beyond what the library contained he found himself having to reread everything he had learned about seals from his father's personal library on seals just to simply understand that what was in the library's books was simply put the bastardized version of seals. The books weren't the only valuables Naruto found in the library he had found two letters from his parents to him.

First letter

Dear Naruto

I know this is a lot for a father to ask his son but I hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive him for not only abandoning his son at birth but for adding to that burden by forcing you to carry with you the very beast that will cause my own death. I realize that by asking my successor to keep your parentage a secret my seem harsh but with the enemies I have made I can only hope that now that you are eighteen and a ninja of the village you can understand that I couldn't ask another family to carry a burden I was unable to carry myself. You are probably wondering why I asked that you not know that I was your father until you had turned eighteen well it has mostly to do with my signature jutsu as you can't really use it until your body has reached this maturity or else you would risk destroying yourself while using it. I can only pray that the village listened to my last wish and you were granted a pleasant childhood but I know that is unlikely as I discovered in my research on jinchuriki that with the exception of Kumo villages either see these individuals as weapons or scorn them believing they are the beast they carry. Kumo is slightly different in that I discovered that their current jinchuriki of the Hachibi is considered the village guardian and a last line of defense alongside his brother E. I don't know how our village will react I can only hope that you can find peace and acceptance. Let the will of the Fire be passed on through you.

Love Minato Namikaze

Second Letter

Dear Naruto

I had such great plans for raising you my son but it seems my time is drawing short I can only hope that another mother can see what I see in you and raise you as her own. You won't find any information on me in the village as I was never truly a citizen. The Uzumaki family is originally from Whirlpool and we were wiped out during third war. I believe that I am the last of my clan much like your father as Iwa and Kiri destroyed our homeland and our family out of fear for what our family was known for and that was our tremendous chakra reserves and ability to practically spam battlefields with high level jutsu making it difficult to for other countries to conquer our lands as we were the last of the clans to maintain our own land with the creation of villages and do so without the backing of anyone but our own clan. In hind sight this was probably a bad idea but it enabled us to remain truly free and granted our family the right to decline any missions that we believed went against what we stood for. It seemed that one reason I was able to survive the onslaught to our village was that I was perhaps one of the few in the clan who believed in rounding out my arsenal as gained the name red death from Kiri in their bingo books as I took out three of the seven swordsman on my own before collapsing in exhaustion and saved by your father and brought to Konoha. I leave you this letter in hopes that you can forgive me as the hospital has been swamped and the medical staff seems to be unable to stop my bleeding and informed me I wouldn't survive the night. Live strong my son and use my sword well I had your father seal it at the bottom of the scroll with all of the instructions to our family's style the Hiten Mitsurugi. This style is considered the pinnacle of swordsmanship and has only ever had one master at any given time the last being your great grandfather.

Love Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze

To say that Naruto was shocked would be an understatement Not only did both his parents love him but it seemed that his greatest burden was also their reason for leaving him as one died protecting the entire village and the other as a result due to the influx of patients coming into the hospital. Sealing the remainder of his family's belongings into scrolls Naruto knew that at the end of the week operation freedom would commence as he would take off in search of a life and love like his parents. Naruto could only hope his parents would understand his abandoning of a village that despised him and in his opinion would never respect him. The final piece of Naruto's escape would be a prank on the village followed by a mass pursuit to test the villages tracking abilities. Naruto knew that the three clans known for tracking would make this difficult as he would have to find a way to fool the all seeing eyes of the Hyuga, the noses of the Inuzka, and the bugs of the Aburame. While the nose and bugs would be easy as he would simply add his sent to his bunshins and the clones already possessed his chakra so that would in essence fool the latter half of the village trackers but the Hyuga presented a problem in that they could see the differences in the Iwa and Kage bunshins making them the most difficult to fool. So to test some theories of his own during the night Naruto had his bunshins cover the village moving everywhere and leave his scent and chakra makers everywhere to confuse the majority of the trackers and then just run and hide to test his own skills of evasion and speed against the trackers of the village. While his clones worked on his evasion plans Naruto proceeded to paint the Hokage monument with Masked faces and adding whiskers to his father's face to make his father look more like him rather than the other way around.

When morning hit and orange clad blonde could be periodically seen outrunning his pursuers and confused members of the Inuzka and Aburame clans trying to figure out why their partners were telling them that their target was everywhere and nowhere at the same time as every single trail that they followed lead to a new dead end. Villagers were outraged by the mockery of the village s the demon brat seemed to be rubbing it in the villages face that he looked like their beloved deceased leader Minato. The Sarutobi was amused as he felt it was an accurate display of the past leaders as his face resembled that of the mask he wore on his black op missions as a young boy despite the added nose bleed and the first and second were painted with trees and waves representing their affinities and special abilities. Despite his amusement the Hokage was concerned as to why Naruto would have painted the fourths face to look like his own and better yet why some of his best trackers had yet to bring said charge to his office so that he could question the boy.

It wasn't until it was time for class to start that any true leads could be found on Naruto and the culprit responsible for the morning activity was captured by one Iruka and taken into class for the daily torture that his students called lectures. As the day progressed and the red streaked blonde appeared to be sleeping through class Naruto was actually processing all that he learned on the trackers of the village. What Naruto learned was that he was in fact correct in his assessment of the weaknesses of each of the village trackers included and that tomorrow he would create his replacements for classes after the break maximizing the chakra he would infuse the two bunshins with before calling it a day to rest up and make his army that he would have scatter out in all directions leaving the village while he would take off for Kumo. If Naruto was correct in his assumptions he could make it to the border of Kumo in two weeks time and with a week lead time combined with the false leads his clones would lead the search parties on any addition time his clones could provide in the academy were practically unnecessary as catching him would require knowledge only he and his Kage bunshins possessed and that was the information on where he was going. Add that into the fact that the village sensor was only able to locate him after he stopped suppressing his chakra to hide from the pursuers and provide greater disturbances was only matched by some of the villages top Anbu operatives in Weasel and Inu who had caught Naruto in the night painting and simply let he be as they thought it was a simple prank and wanted to see how things turned out. The two were stunned when despite wearing a kill me orange jumpsuit Naruto not only evaded but seemed to confuse all the top trackers of the village for four hours before seemingly giving up and stopped suppressing his enormous chakra stores and allowing one of the villages actual sensor types to locate him and take him to class.

Both of the Anbu had been impressed with the blonde's ability to not only wreak havoc on the village but the minute effort he seemed to exude while trumping all attempts at capture and skills in evasion seemed to be on par with their own. Had they not been masters of suppressing their own precence they were certain that they would have never been able to follow let along track the mischief maker. Inu thought it was hilarious that the supposed dead last of his class in that one night showed skills on par with if not beyond all of the new recruits. Inu believed it was time to talk with the Hokage on having Naruto tested as his latest stunt proved that he was already beyond anything that could be learned in the academy and he would enjoy taking the boy under his tutelage and train him to be a member of Anbu.

Sweet I seem to have finally gotten back into the grove and broke some of the writer's block that has been troubling me if this chapter is anything to go by and to think I could keep going on this chapter for longer but will stop and pick up in the next chapter.