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A Son's Path: the Last Namikaze

Chapter Ten: I am the Last Namikaze

The two sat there in silence for a bit. They were thinking about the conversation that they just had.

"Kakashi? Am I really like them?"

Kakashi was taken back by this question. He was shocked, not by the question it's self, but by Naruto as he asked it. He was so innocent and child like when he asked. His eyes glistened with hope. For that brief moment he seemed untouched by all the hardships he had growing up. He was saddened by the fact that he knew what Naruto's parents had been like while he never would. And he felt guilt for not being there for him more like his parents had been there for him.

"More than you will ever know. Everything thing that you are now, is what they were."

"I understand what happened, and why. I just really wish that I could know them like you and Jiraiya. I didn't think it was possible to miss people so much when you never even knew them." Naruto said with such a heartbreaking sadness.

They sat in silence once again. It was oddly comforting for Naruto to be in his old sensei's presence. Being around someone who knew his parents made him feel better. It proved that they were real and not something he made up. He could feel tension rising from Kakashi.

"Kakashi, I know what you are thinking. I don't hate you. You did the best you could at the time."

"I don't know how you cannot hate me. After finding out that I knew who you were."

"Hai, I won't lie. That was pretty shitty, but I think there are some people who deserve another chance. Just keep your head out of your ass from now on and I think we will be ok."

"Heh. Deal." Kakashi smiled. "What did you return for?"

"To the point as always, eh Kakashi?" Naruto returned the grin briefly before a serious look over took. "I am here for what is mine. What was mine by birth and what I have been denied for far too long now."

The air that surrounded Naruto oddly fit him perfectly. He was serious and determined. He had truly developed into an interesting person in the five years he was away. He was a man like his father. A man that a ninja could follow until the end of their time.

"It's time for my meeting with the council." Naruto said as he jumped off the post he was sitting on. Kakashi followed suit and faced the young ninja.

"Hai, Namikaze-sama. It is rightfully yours and I will honor my late sensei and fight along with you to make sure it is yours."

"Thank you Kakashi. Now, let us go. There is a room full of old people waiting for us."

The role of leader is something that fitted Naruto well. Kakashi followed Naruto towards the council's meeting area in the Hokage tower. He did not feel strange walking behind him. As his battle jacket flowed in the breeze, Kakashi couldn't help but feel as if he were following Minato. He shook it off. He wasn't following Minato, he was following Naruto Namikaze, the leaf's last Namikaze and next Hokage.

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The council had gathered in the small meeting room. They all sat around waiting for the announcement as to why they had been summoned. Tsunade entered the room and a hush fell over the room. All eyes were on her and they waited for her to speak.

"Honored council of Konoha, we are here today to attend to some business that had been 17 years in the making. A young man has returned seeking to claim what is rightfully his."

Murmurs went through the room about the Uchiha.

"The Uchiha has returned?"

"How come we weren't notified?"

"Wouldn't we have known if he had?"

"Who is he?"

"Please calm down. He is here, wishing to speak with you. I ask that you do not judge him for what he was, but the man he has become." Tsunade said eyeing the council wearily. After a brief pause, "Please enter."

The doors to the meeting room swung open and in walked two ninja. One that they easily recognized at Kakashi Hatake and the other one that looked like a ghost. The whispers began once again.

"Yondaime-sama?"

"There is no way that is him."

"How is Namikaze-sama walking amongst us?"

The tall blond walked into the light so that they could all get a look at him. When their eyes feel upon his, they were shocked. They began to examine the man that stood in front of them. Then as they noticed the whisker markings on his cheeks, they all gasped.

"How can this be? How does the demon brat look like Yondaime?"

"What is he doing here? I thought he was exiled!"

A middle aged man stood and looked Naruto in the eye.

"What business brings you back into our walls? You have much to answer for." The man stated.

Naruto, Kakashi and Tsunade bristled at the man's words. Tsunade began to speak but was cut off by Naruto. Both Kakashi and Tsunade were curious as to how he would address this man.

"Honored council, good sir. I do not know what you mean by 'I have much to answer for'. I have done nothing but follow what I was told since the time that I was able to understand. I was given the chance to choose to leave my home with my honor. Being as naive as I was when I left, I thought I had honor. But I soon figured out that I had none. I was denied my honor. I was denied my heritage." Naruto stated in a very serious manner.

"What do you mean your heritage? You are the Kyuubi, you have no heritage."

Naruto threw his head back and laughed. The council stared at the man as if he had gone mad.

"Please sir, I do not insult your intelligence, do not insult mine. I am not Kyuubi, I am merely the container of the Kyuubi. I keep the bastard beast at bay so you can be safe. But let me ask you this. Where did the Fourth look to find this infant to seal away the Kyuubi? Do you think that I won some damn contest? No. And I also know that the council has always been in the background. That you all have your ways on knowing what goes on in this village. You all knew that Jiji took me, protected me and renamed me for my safety."

"What are you saying? That you are the child that Kushina Namikaze was carrying? Please!"

"You know damn well who I am. Look at me for Kami's sake!" Naruto growled as he was starting to loose his cool.

"Looks count for nothing. That could be a henge." Another council man said.

"I have two people here who know my birth parents. Jiraiya-sensei will be here shortly. And for the hell of it, " Naruto held out his large hand and created a perfect sphere of swirling chakra in his hand. "My father's Rasengan."

Tsunade and Kakashi stood there in awe when he preformed it with one hand and very little effort. The last time that they had seen him do the Rasengan, he needed a clone's assistance.

"Look, I have followed the rulings of the council for as long as I was here. I followed Lady Tsunade, hell, I helped find her so she could become the Godaime! I have studied under Kakashi 'The Copy Cat' Hatake and Jiraiya one of the Legendary Sannin; I think I have proved that I am not this devil that you all think I am. But I am here to say, that if you don't give me what is mine, then I will take it! Whether you like it or not, I am Naruto Namikaze, the only son of the Yondaime Hokage, and the last living Namikaze. And will so be hence forth."

"You can't just take it!"

"The hell he can't! It is his to take! And you will not keep my student's son from it anymore!"

All eyes turned to see Jiraiya jump in through the window.

"It's his and I can prove it!"

"How can you prove such a thing?" a council lady asked.

"By his blood."

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