Chapter 21 Pain
"He is your uncle." said Minato as everyone eyes widened.
"What?" asked a still confused Naruto
"My sister Calista fell hard for Haishi because he was so cool and dark, most popular boy in the class next to me." said Minato as he glared at Haishi "Of course my father disproved of the relationship but Haishi played my sister to try and get access to Namikaze power and wealth. He asked to marry my sister and they eloped. In response to the marriage my father banded my sister from the clan and all her rights as a Namikaze until she left him."
"Isn't that rough?" asked Sakura
"You have not been around Haishi have you?" asked Minato as Sakura shook her head "He treats everyone who isn't a Hyuuga man of the main house like crap and a woman is lower than crap. He used to slap my sister around and no matter how much I tried to protect her I couldn't. I tried talking her into leaving, a few times she actually did but she always went back to him."
"I can't believe I never knew that." thought Tsunade "Imagine if Hinata and Naruto had gotten together instead of Naruto and Sakura."
"Tell me Haishi is Calista alive or did she die in your mad quest for a son with the power of the Namikaze and the Byakugan?" asked Minato as he glared at Haishi.
"She passed away not before giving me two girls." said Haishi as he crossed his arms "Luckily one of them is useful but the other one is weak."
Minato looked down at the girl by Haishi's side. For a moment Haishi was taken aback she looked so much like Calista, if you replaced her Hyuuga eyes with the deep blue eyes of his sister then it would have been perfect.
"Is this my niece?" asked Minato
"Yes, the weak one Hinata." said Haishi before grinning "You should feel ashmanded you crushed her feelings for your boy that she had since she was a kid."
"Even if they were not cousins you wouldn't let them be together Haishi, you hate lower class people even more then the Namikaze clan." Stated Minato "And until Naruto learned about his family he would have been a lower class to you."
"Correct and the Namikaze and their weak ideas of treating everyone equal is just above those lower people." stated Haishi "The strong people and clans like the main Hyuuga house use the weak to do our bidding."
"Like you used my sister's love for you." Said Minato
"Correct and it cost her, her life." Stated Haishi
"I can't believe you." said Minato "You knew about her condition and yet you still did it."
"What condition?" asked Sakura
"My sister suffered an injury during one of her battles during the war." said Minato "The injury means that pregnancy was very risky for her. She died in childbirth didn't she?"
"Correct." said Haishi calmly.
Hinata's heart was falling to pieces and then breaking into dust.
"No….this can't be." thought Hinata "Naruto-kun can't be my cousin…he just can't be I love him. We are meant to be together."
"I am so temped to kill you Haishi." said Minato as he suddenly punched Haishi across the face sending him crashing into the ground. Haishi got to his knees blood running out of his nose and staining the ground "But I'll settle for punching you."
"You have no idea what I can do." said Haishi as he glared at his old enemy Minato
"You can do nothing to me you coward." said Minato "You never could and the Namikaze clan funds at least half your clan's business. Your do nothing because the only thing you love is money and because Naruto Namikaze is the last Namikaze he can pull the clans investments and crush your clan."
"Namikaze, I always hated you." said Minato as he looked at Hinata "Come on Hinata we are leaving."
"Don't think I am done, you will not harm Hinata." said Minato
"You can't touch me there Namikaze." Snapped Haishi "She is my daughter and in my clan I can use her however I see fit and like her mother she follows orders well."
Minato bit his lip, as much as he hated it he was right. There where laws in the leaf that allowed clans to do what they wanted. There was nothing he can do. Hinata lowered her head and followed her father into the darkness of the night.
Meanwhile in the demon world Sasuke stood looking at Karin, she had passed out almost the moment the stone snakes bit into her flesh.
"So Sasuke do you think she will survive the infusion of chakra?" asked Bilal
"Yes, she will." said Sasuke
"I am surprised you have that much faith in her." said Bilal
"I don't but I know she loves me for some unknown reason and that love will drive her to live." said Sasuke
"Using love to promote your own goals…very good Sasuke." said Bilal "However love can only take you so far."
"Yes, that is why I am here." said Sasuke "When I was going though that I could sense chakra even when I couldn't see or hear."
"So by you being her your hoping you think she will think that you are watching over her because you love her and that will drive her to live?" asked Bilal
"Correct I am using her like everyone else." said Sasuke
"Including us?" asked Bilal
"Yes, I am using you to kill my brother and Naruto." said Sasuke
"And our goal is to kill the Kyuubi's student so our goals are the same." said Bilal
"Correct." said Sasuke
"However I remember in our report about you something about restoring your clan." said Bilal
"What of it?" asked Sasuke
"Do you plan to use Karin?" asked Bilal "Combining the power of the Sharingan with the ability to sense chakra at extremely distance would be very useful in any off spring."
"Unknown." said Sasuke "However she is by far the most useful woman I have meet."
"I see." said Bilal
"Why have you come here?" asked Sasuke
"To give you this." said Bilal as he used his tail to hold up a sword, a snake sword. It looked very much like the sword he currently had, the one that Orochimaru had given him. However he could tell something was different about it. He lifted up the sword, it was far lighter than the one he currently had. He pulled the sword out of its black stealth only to see it was razor sharp.
"Demon steal, lighter and stronger than anything you humans can possible make." said Bilal "The royal forgers are making weapons for you and your team as we speak, this is the first off the line."
Sasuke just held the sword before moving it around himself faster than even he believed possible.
"This is a good sword." said Sasuke
"Yes, and Naruto has a sword forged by the foxes so be ready for that." said Bilal "We wanted to put you on equal footing with him."
"I could be unarmed and still be above him." said Sasuke as he replaced his sword with his new one.
Meanwhile back on the grassy field Minato and the others still stood.
"I don't have much more time do I?" asked Minato
"No…just under 10 minutes." said Naruto
"Still it was good breathing the fresh air once more." said Minato as he looked at Sakura and the others. "No offence you all but I want to talk to Naruto alone."
"Understandable." said Tsunade as Sakura nodded. She just stood there and watched as Naruto and Minato walked off.
"Listen Naruto, I already know the answer but I have to ask do you love Sakura?" asked Minato as Naruto looked down.
"Do I love her?....Yes." said Naruto "I think I loved her before I knew what love was."
"I sense a but coming." said Minato as he looked at his son.
"When we were kids Sakura-chan used to love Sasuke." said Naruto
"And your worried that she really loves Sasuke and your second place?" asked Minato as his son nodded his head. "I don't think so."
"How do you know?" asked Naruto
"Because from what I can see Sakura is a lot like her mother and she looks at you the same way Rin looked at her husband." said Minato "And young girls in general don't know what they want when they are kids. They get crushes on the cool guy in school and it is only around this age that they actually come around."
"Maybe but am I really worthy of Sakura-chan. I am demon child." said Naruto as his father shook his head.
"No Naruto you're not a demon child you're my son and a hero." said Minato
"I am nothing compared to you." said Naruto as Minato smiled.
"That is what I said to my dad when I became a ninja." said Minato as Naruto looked at him confused. "You probably don't hear about him now but my father…your grandfather Altair Namikaze was a big hero during the 2nd ninja war."
"What?" asked Naruto
"I became a hero during the 3rd war." said Minato "And I became more famous than him and someday you will become more famous than me."
"I don't think that is possible." said Naruto as Minato smiled.
"That is what I said when my dad said that someday I would a bigger hero than him." said Minato as he rubbed the top of his son's head. "Someday Naruto you will be a greater hero than me and then the generation after you will look to you and become even greater still, that is how the Leaf works each generation is better than the last."
"I will try my best." said Naruto
"That is all I can ask." said Minato "And Sakura will be there every step of the way."
"Ya, I think she will be." said Naruto with a smile.
"Now Naruto I wish we had more time and I wish I could do more to help you but there is one thing I can do." said Minato as his tone got series "Naruto there when you get back to the Leaf and get to the Namikaze compound, find the record room. It is in the basement under the main house. If you go to the back right wall you will find a seal. Place your hand on the seal it reacts to Namikaze blood and it will open up. Inside your find the hidden justu of the Namikaze clan including the one I added the Flying Thunder God Technique."
"That's the just that gave you the name the yellow flash." said Naruto as Minato nodded.
"Also there are some medical scrolls that Sakura may like." said Minato with a smile.
"I'll give them to her." said Naruto
"I wish I could of teach you the Justus myself just like my father taught me but I can't do that." said Minato
"I am sorry that couldn't happen." said Naruto as he lowered his head. As he noticed a dark figure appears in a cloud. "Our time is up…Tod is here."
"It's time." said Tod
"Naruto just remember I and your mother loved you and have a good life." said Minato as he turned to look at the others "Goodbye everyone."
"Goodbye Minato." said Tsunade
"Sakura one last thing." said Minato as Sakura looked at him "Make sure Naruto has a happy life."
"Will do." said Sakura as Minato turned to Naruto who was once again crying.
"Son, I am so proud of you." said Minato with tears of his own as he hugged his son as he started to fade away.
"I love you dad." said Naruto
"I love you to son." said Minato as he disappeared from the earth once again.
For a while Naruto just stood there looking at where his father had once been.
"Naruto-kun are you alright?" asked Sakura as she walked up to Naruto.
"Ya, for the first time in a long time Sakura-chan I actually feel good." said Naruto with a smile "I finally know who my parents are…that they didn't abound me. That they loved me."
"I can't imagine the burden that must have been lifted off Naruto-kun." Thought Sakura
"Years of thinking that your own parents had abounded you it would weigh down on anyone." said Inner Sakura
"So Uzumaki you're related to the 4th Hokage." said Kiba trying to get a laugh.
"It's not Uzumaki anymore." said Naruto "its Namikaze…Naruto Namikaze."
I know the chapter is shorter than normal but I felt it was a good place to end the chapter. Now I would like to thank everyone who reviewed last time and I hope you do it again with this chapter. Now I have more surprise and drama up ahead so please keep reading and reviewing. Thanks Wilkins75.
PS My roommate Demon Hero wants to say he is sorry for not updating his only story lately but he has been swamped in school work…somehow even more than me and life problems. He wanted you all to know that and that he will update as soon as possible.