Sakura, Rin, and Hinata were all having tea at the Uzumaki house when they heard a loud thud come from the bed rooms. "What was that?" Rin asked raising an eyebrow.
"Minato and his new friend." Sakura said holding back the giggles.
"The Nii girl?" Hinata asked quickly. She could keep herself calmer now than when Itachi first disappeared but she was still on edge.
"Yes." Sakura said shaking her head quickly. "I've told them when they're studying in his room the door is to remain open."
"Good." Rin said taking a sip of tea.
"So what was that sound?" Hinata asked.
"I'm not sure." Sakura said quizzically.
"Minato." Rin called without getting up. "Could you and your friend come in here."
After a minute the blond boy and his new companion came out of the room. "What was that sound?" Hinata asked her curiosity starting to get the better of her.
"She hit me." Minato said rubbing the back of his head.
"Why?" Hinata asked confused as the other two women smiled at one another.
"He asked me what it was like to live in a village with a woman for a Kage." Kasai said crossing her arms. "It was a dumb question and I'm not apologizing."
"I like this one." Rin said to Sakura.
"You would." Hinata said closing her eyes and thinking of how her daughter would react if she knew about them.
"It wasn't that dumb a question." Minato said still rubbing the sore spot on your head.
"It kind of was." Sakura interjected leaning on the table. "There was a time when your father wasn't the Hokage."
"Oh yeah." Minato said chuckling to himself.
"Dunce." Kasai said rubbing her eyes. "I doubt the previous Kage of this village would've ever said something so stupid."
Without warning Rin and Sakura burst out laughing, even Hinata chuckled to herself hearing the lunacy of that statement.
Sakura calmed down wiping a tear from her eye. "Naruto and Obito Sensei were both boys at one point in their lives, and from what Lady Tsunade tells me even your grandfather did dumb things." Sakura said gesturing to Minato.
"So what you're saying is that all boys are idiots?" Kasai asked the woman.
"Yep." Rin said nodding with a smile.
"Pretty much." Sakura said blushing as she thought about her own idiot.
"Exactly." Hinata replied taking a sip of her tea.
"Join us." Rin said pulling a seat out for Kasai to sit at.
"Thank you Lady Uchiha." Kasai said sitting down.
"Why do I feel like I'm being ganged up on?" Minato asked the women.
"Because you are, now sit." Hinata said pulling out the chair beside her. While not her own child, because of how close their families are she would say she knew the blond boy well enough to tease him.
Minato grumbled as he sat down in the seat beside his aunt.
"So, if all boys are idiots why be with them?" Kasai asked the women. She had these kinds of conversations with women but she never thought of her father as a dumb boy so her mother was a bad person to ask.
"We love them in spite of that." Rin said smiling as her mind was pulled back to Obito. "Kakashi's father was actually the last place student in our class."
"You mean Lord Sixth?" Kasai asked taking a sip of the tea that was given to her.
"Yep." Rin said smiling. "I still remember the first day of class."
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A younger Rin was sitting in the ninja academy, it was her first day so she didn't know anybody; on top of that her family was all civilian so nobody even knew about her.
A man was standing in the front of the class that had a long blond ponytail. "I'd like to welcome all of you to the Ninja Academy, I'll be your instructor Inoza Yamanaka." He smiled at the entire class room. "Why don't we all go around and introduce ourselves." He spotted a boy that most of them would know and pointed to him. "Why don't you start us off."
A boy with jet black hair stood up and all the girls in the class looked at him with stars in their eyes, all but two that is one with piercing red eyes, and the other with gentle brown. "My name is Asuma Sarutobi of the Sarutobi clan." He said before immediately sitting back down.
"It's good to have you Asuma." Inoza said smiling at the boy that was probably used to people kissing up to him. "I'm looking forward to seeing how you compare to our other students."
"Yeah, yeah." Asuma said waving the man off.
"Now how about…" The Yamanaka said looking around the room when he saw a hand stick up in the air. "Ok how about you." He said smiling as the boy in the blue jacket with goggles on his head stood up.
"My name is Obito Uchiha!" The boy loudly cheered. "And I'm going to be the next Hokage!" He shouted with his fists in the air.
"You have to get out of the academy first." Came the patronizing voice of a silver haired boy with a mask on his face. "And from what I can tell you might not even get that far."
"And who exactly are you?" Obito asked holding his fist towards the other boy.
"My name is Kakashi Hatake." The other boy said not looking at the Uchiha or getting up. "I enjoy reading and long walks, can we move on?"
"No!" Obito shouted. "If you think you're so cool why don't we just see who's better?"
Kakashi sighed and looked at the ceiling. "I don't see why. Everyone in here knows I'd beat you."
Rin watched in anticipation. She knew that the Uchiha clan was the strongest in the village and she was also aware of the Legendary White Fang.
"So you're a chicken?" Obito asked crossing his arms. "Guess it makes sense that you're scared to fight one of the legendary Uchiha."
"I'm not scared." Kakashi said calmly and looking at the ceiling. "I just don't feel like wasting the energy on you."
"Now, now." Inoza said to the boys. "We'll get to spars eventually."
Obito sat down in his chair in a huff and puffed his cheeks out. "Ok Sensei." Obito said grumbling.
Rin looked at the two boys and noticed how they couldn't be any different if they tried. Obito seemed to be out to prove himself, while Kakashi was already aware of his abiltities and didn't feel the need to.
"How about you?" Inoza said his gentle smile directed at Rin.
"Um." Rin said blushing as she saw everyone turn to look at her. "My name is Rin Nohara." She said hiding behind a book she had in front of her.
"Well it's nice to meet you Rin." Inoza said smiling at the girl. "It's nice to meet all of you." He turned around to the chalk board. "Now who can tell me what chakra is?"
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"Lord Sixth challenged someone the first day of class?" Kasai asked in shock as Rin poured more tea into the girl's cup.
"Yep." Rin said with a proud smile.
"And he beat that proud boy right?" Kasai asked.
Rin chuckled to herself. "Oh no. She said smiling at the girl. "He got his butt handed to him."
Kasai looked on in shock. From what she had heard her mother was gifted since she was a child and was the best in her class even before she started learning about Matatabi.
"Naruto was even worse." Sakura said laughing at the memories.
"Oh Kami." Minato said slumping in his seat.
"I remember." Hinata said smiling at the thought.
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"My name is Iruka Umino and I'm going to be your teacher." The brown haired man said happily to the room of kids. "It's become a tradition where everyone goes around and introduces themselves, so let's start there."
Without waiting a boy with a brown shirt with a red swirl and a pair of goggles on his head stood up shouting. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'm going to be the Hokage!" He shouted to the room that all started to snicker and laugh at him.
"Now let's not rush to judgements." Iruka said calming the room down. "That's a big goal Naruto."
"Doesn't matter!" The blond shouted putting his foot on the desk. "I'm going to be Hokage no matter what!"
The class again began to laugh at the boy who turned around and yelled at some of the ones that were pointing at him. Three sets of eyes all looked at him curiously though. A white set looked at him with admiration, a green set with contempt, and finally a black set with curiosity.
"You never know who could be Hokage one day." Iruka said to the class room. "There have been many students that haven't done well at first that worked hard to become some of the greatest ninjas in the villages history."
Hinata narrowed her eyes at the blond boy and admiring his strong determination.
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The former Hyuuga smirked at the thought of her former crush having accomplished his life's goal. She turned to look at the blond boy next to her that had so much of his father inside of him.
"What?" Minato asked confused as to why his Aunt was looking at him funny.
The front door opened and Naruto saw the table with women all sitting and drinking tea and his son looking defeated. "What did I just walk in on?" He asked the group that started to laugh at him.
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Shikadai was sitting on a park bench watching the clouds roll by. He had never had to deal with the conecept of death until now. His mother lost her mother at a young age and when she was a teenager her father died, so she had been through enough tragedy. His dad seemed to be able to handle any problem mostly logically so he didn't know where that left him.
He wasn't like Hino who wore his emotions on his sleeve, or even Chocho who could eat her emotions away. A part of him wondered if he even had those emotions to begin with. Sure he missed Mirai Sensei, but he wasn't going to cry about it. Why should he?
She was a good ninja and she died like one. If anything he should be proud that his sensei was a ninja all the way to the end. Her parents had a reason to grieve just like his parents would if he died. But why didn't he feel what everyone around him was feeling?
"Move your legs." Came the sharp response of Minato Uzumaki sitting beside him on the bench.
"Rude." Shikadai said shifting his body so the Uzumaki could sit beside him. "What's up?"
"My house has become infested by girls." Minato said with a groan. "I got out while they were distracted by something dad did."
"Sound strategy." Shikadai said nodding his head. "How are the Uchiha's handling Itachi missing?"
"They aren't talking about around us." Minato said looking up at the clouds too. "But I can see that it's all Uncle Sasuke is thinking about. He's only here in the village because he knows he'd probably waste his time looking in the wrong place."
"Probably." Shikadai said. "Dad thinks if the enemy is able to sneak in and out of the village without anyone knowing than there's no way to really track them."
"Yeah." Minato said with a groan as he grabbed onto his hair.
Shikadai looked at the boy and saw the additional muscle definition that was developing. "You're training again aren't you?"
"What?" Minato asked blushing at the Nara. "What are you talking about?"
"You don't need to lie to me." Shikadai said smiling. "Your secret is safe with me. Even after what you said when we were in that desert, I knew it was just a matter of time before you wanted to get back into the game."
"This isn't a game." Minato said clutching his knees. "People die and people get hurt, and I want to end all of it."
"Oh?" Shikadai asked looking at the boy. "What do you mean?"
"They're trying to hide it but I can see that my parents look at me differently now." Minato said looking back at the sky again. "They treat me differently because Itachi disappeared. I know they'd never admit it or even consciously think it, but they're glad that it was Itachi that disappeared and not me."
"And what do you want to end?" Shikadai asked narrowing his eyes at the boy.
"People die and get hurt every day and it's just the world we live in." Minato said as he felt a fire starting to burn in his belly. "Our parents grew up in a world of pain and taught us that's all it ever would be, but what if it wasn't?"
"I'm still not following." Shikadai said shaking his head confused.
"I'm going to end this system of ninja that allowed all of this to happen." Minato said standing up. "It was this system that stole my grandparents from my dad, it was this system that stole Uncle Obito from everyone, it was this system that left me broken, it was this system that took Kakashi Sensei's best friend and I'm done with it."
"How are you going to end the ninja system?" Shikadai asked the boy. "It's been going on for hundreds of years, there's no way it could just stop."
"And why not?" Minato asked shocking the Nara. "Hashirama and Madara broke the rules of the ruling states by coming together and declaring the Leaf Village a safe place. What if we did that for the entire world."
"The Feudal Lords would never allow it." Shikadai said laying down realizing this was all happy thoughts.
"Then we kill them too." Minato said clenching his fists.
"You can't be serious." Shikadai said shooting up and seeing the confident look that Minato had. "You'll be killed before you even get close."
"We don't have to kill them all." Minato said shaking his head. "We just tell them that we're done and the Leaf is a safe place. Eventually the other villages would see how great life is here and ninja will be a thing of the past."
"That sounds like a lot of talk." Shikadai said narrowing his eyes.
"I learned something." Minato said turning to look at his friend. "My dad and Uncle Obito decided when they were children they would be Hokage; they had goals to drive them forward the rest of their lives. And this is my goal, I won't die until I see this world a safer place so kids don't have to give their lives for the sake of men they'll never meet."
"Troublesome." Shikadai grumbled as he stood beside Minato. "It sounds insane but I like the sound of it." He said looking ahead with the blond. "I'll be there with you to see it all end than."
Minato smiled as he looked to the Hokage monument. "I'm going to finish what they started."
AN: I'm going to admit it, I wrote this chapter because I missed Obito. I will never be over his death in canon. Any other fanfic I read where he's alive and I wasn't expecting it I get super excited.