You know I was planning to upload Mondays but... I didn't ... again ANYWAY! It's here now. Now for this chapter it's important to know that

It's pointless

This chapter is really pointless but there was something I had to add to foreshadow so even though I struggled whether to add it or not I like to make sure all my strings are tied.

It took a bit of time for everyone to recover and within that time Naruto had long since dismissed himself with Shikaku following behind. And though Kakashi wanted to say something he couldn't think of anything, instead he watched the mysterious boy walk away in conversation,

"You didn't tell me you could use a jutsu like that?!"

"Well i don't have a lot of confidence that if i used it with you, you'd make it out alive,"

"Still you could have told me!"

"Well how about i tell you how inconvenient not have a left eye is, do you know how many times that guy tried to exploit it?!"

"... I'll figure something out"

And off the pair disappeared without waiting for anyone. And there was no one to say anything anyway after a fight like that.

Minato sighed as he picked up a wayward kunai flippantly looking it over and Obito finally after being stunned speechless recovered,

"Teacher!"

Minato turned to his smiling student and the one brooding next to him and walked toward them. The hyuga, Hizashi was it?, started walking toward them as well.

"That was amazing! I've never seen you go… what was that cool thing Nara said?"

"Sage mode, a sannin level technique"

Kakashi said with his arms crossed; Obito beamed,

"Yea! That was awesome! I still think you could have won but…"

"I would not"

All three males looked at the man they knew would be hokage one day,

"There was no way i would have won, i was set up from the start."

Obito looked at Kakashi but received no hint of what their teacher meant even Hizashi was confused; Minato smiled.

"Well this is as good as a teaching moment as ever i suppose."

Minato looked back at the broken battlefield that they had just fought on.

"From even before the fight began Naruto has probably been plotting."

Everyone listened even the elders stopped their chatting to listen.

"He probably knew he could defeat all the way up to jounin easily so he had to choose the best way to do it."

"Didn't mean to frighten you…."

"Scaredy cat"

"He defeated his opponents with defensive maneuvers and speed, utilizing chakra controlled strength"

"So that's why it hurt so much..."

Obito grumbled rubbing his arm and even Hizashi reflectively rubbed his still aching cheek.

"However he kept his ninjutsu abilities hidden and didn't even reveal his full level of taijutsu…"

"Ah! Like how he kept getting faster in each fight!"

Minato smiled,

"Exactly, he was showing the bare minimum so that anything he used in the final fight would throw his opponent off guard.

"But in that logic wouldn't he have wanted to finish every fight quickly and efficiently? With the Hyuga he even got injured."

Minato nodded,

"I think the Hyuga fight was a bit more personal to him that's why the time limit didn't matter however even in the hyuga fight Naruto still refrained from using any techniques."

They all thought about it recalling the brutish boxer way of fighting he had shown,

"Still i don't get how he set you up?"

Obito said with a crinkled brow, Minato nodded.

"Then let's focus on my fight. After hoping to seal his movements with the thunder god technique what did naruto do?"

"He created two additional clones"

Hizashi answered also wanting to know the answer,

"Exactly and why do you think he did that?"

Kakashi looked down replaying the scene,

"Even with his speed it would be hard to attack and defend so the clones were the perfect amount to cover him"

Of course the prodigy would know,

"Yes, not to mention i was being a little mean and tried to get in from his left side often… but the other clones covered any blind spots he had. Then what next?"

"He matched you. Clone vs clone, sage vs sage."

Kakashi said. Minato frowned as he looked back at the damage,

"Yes that's what i thought as well…."

"You mean he wasn't!"

Minato flinched at Obito's abrasiveness,

"At first i had thought that, and maybe he was thinking that mildly but matching me strike for strike was not his original goal it was all a diversion. He overwhelmed me with shock and confusion by the large amount because i hadn't known him capable of creating so many.."

"Cause he was hiding it.."

Kakashi followed,

"Yes but because of that i assumed the dispelling of his sage and creating of the large amount of clones the second time was to show off again but now i realize how wrong i was…. Simply look at it from this angle. After we ended sage mode i summoned 2 clones but Naruto once again summoned about 100 why?"

"To overwhelm you right?"

Minato watched the gears in Kakashi's head turning tirelessly as he ignored Obito's statement,

"But 100 clones would be too much. He could have just used 3 or 5 and it would have been easier to maneuver. With 100 clones it was clearly too tight, you even hit him right?"

Minato nodded,

"And this is where the plan comes in because though i did hit Naruto it was only because he wanted me to."

Hizashi thought back to his fight. After watching that last fight he was sure that Naruto could have defeated him easily without getting hit; but he hadn't.

"So let me explain everything now. Naruto set up precedents in the beginning to make me think he was matching me. He knew that by doing so i would have to do something i knew he couldn't match; namely my rasengan. So he taunted he and attempted to force my hand. I didn't have to fall into his pace but because i was not aware of his full abilities i got stuck in the mindset that he was showing off… When actually those clones were boxing me in…"

"Boxing?"

Hizashi raised a brow,

"They weren't just fending off my clones...they were breaking my thunder god seals,"

Obito and kakashi's mouth dropped as their teacher held out a kunai he had picked up, the seal cut and broken,

"Naruto used the large amount of clones to break off the outer kunai seals in order to seal me in the radius he wanted… Then he showed me his technique…."

Everyone recalled the blue orb of condensed chakra. The high frequency it gave off, the power it released, that was no simple jutsu. Minato had been trying endlessly to complete that jutsu, to add his affinity to it but no matter what he did it always failed; and there it was.

Being held in his hand like it was a normal technique and not the s class one that it was.

"But you got away…"

Obito muttered, Minato sighed,

"Actually i got stuck. There was a grove in the ground that had steadily gotten bigger throughout every fight and my foot had gotten stuck in it. I had spent too much time in awe of Naruto's techniques that i hadn't noticed he had broken my seals and by the time i had, i had gotten stuck; honestly it would have been the end of me."

Kakashi couldn't tell who he was rooting for. Surely his teacher would be an appropriate choice because he knew his level of skills and respected him but Naruto…? The man was slowly raising toppling everything he knew. Naruto sometimes seemed childish and then old but clearly he was a genius in his own right.

"But you still got away!"

Obito said. He got it, Naruto was awesome; but still! The fact was even though Minato said he would have lost he had gotten away from the attack unharmed! Naruto clearly hadn't trapped Minato as well as he thought.

"That was all Naruto's decision because you have to remember something even i forgot in the midst of battle. Naruto wasn't fighting just for the sake of winning, he was simply proving that he was strong. If that attack had landed… While i'm not entirely sure what would have…"

"It would have ended you"

They looked to Hizashi's down cast eyes,

"Million of chakra strikes…"

"Oh! You mean those pin things?"

Kakashi didn't have the eyes to see what they had seen and tried to understand,

"More fine and much more precise than any hyuga chakra strike to your system. Even if the attack didn't paralyze you, you would never be able to use chakra again."

Silence fell over them at the critical information,

"I see… In any case Naruto was not out for blood so he gave me one. way. out."

Everyone thought back to how Minato appeared behind hizashi,

"Naruto essentially told me that either i bite back my pride and take the path he laid for me or…. Fall."

"But wait! You got out thanks to your thunder god technique! What does that have to do with Naruto!?"

Obito yelled, Kakashi tried to think,

How could Naruto have helped teacher?

How did he give him a way out?

When had he even had a …!

"When you hit him…"

Minato smiled but Obito was still confused,

"There was one time during the fight where Minato landed a solid hit on Naruto! We assumed it was carelessness and bad decision making but what if he wanted to get hit!? What if the hit was his opportunity to take teacher's kunai and put it in a safe distance where he wouldn't be in range!"

Obito was catching up but one thing still bothered him,

"But wait wouldn't teacher know that his seal had been moved? Surely he would know while Naruto was doing that."

"Not if he had disrupted the seal, if the seal had been shut out for at least 2 minutes that i was aware of, it would not have it registered among my arsenal…"

The other elders were walking closer having heard everything as well,

"But after he summoned his second multitude of clones he didn't have that 2 minute time limit to move the kunai under the radar."

Hizashi said, he had gone through the theory and he still couldn't see it.

"There was only one time where Naruto picked up a kunai that we are aware of that would have given him enough time for that limit.."

Shikaru said with a smile. Minato could see that he understood everything at this point,

"You bastard if you think putting these sh*tty seals down will help you…"

Eyes widened

THE VERY BEGINNING!

Naruto had initially pick up a kunai if he disrupted the seal with his chakra at that point no one would have thought twice because he had seemed so angry but now it seemed like it was all a ploy. All he would have to do was simply remove his chakra from the seal so that Minato could use it again.

In that moment Minato would grasp everything because he knew he had not put a kunai behind Hizashi… so he would have to take Naruto's help if he want to get out.

Four fights. All important in their own sense simply to prove a point,

"I say this only due to one fact and that is that i would be there as well on the front lines."

He was strong.

He wasn't underestimating war or the likes, he was just confident in his own abilities. And even if they denied him they now also realized that they would not be able to overcome him. He was most likely still hiding skills and holding back, and if they stepped the wrong way he would do things himself.

The escape for Minato was not only an escape but a metaphor to all the clan heads and leaders,

I'm the only one who can change this future if you don't want to die swallow your pride and follow me.

Danzo clenched his fist,

This was not a part of the plan.