Author's Note:Before we start the next chapter, I would like to inform you that this isn't an update as many of you might have thought but a repost. This is also to let you know that the last few chapters have also been edited and reposted too, and here's a list of the changes that I made to the chapters:
Prologue: Other than becoming chapter one and a few small changes, there's a fight scene between Kushina and her kidnappers.
Chapter 1: Other than it becoming chapter two, there's some major chances, details about Minato's past, about Land of Whirlpools, about Kushina's reactions to her homeland being destroyed, and a small lemon.
Chapter 2: Other than it becoming chapter three, there only a few small changes. But unlike the other two, there aren't beta read, as the one who was doing so is busy and so unable to beta read this chapter.
Chapter 3: Other than it becoming chapter four, this will be the last edit chapter for this story. The rest will be new chapters, and the chapter that used to be chapter four, will appear later on. You see, I realized that Naruko was going to be a big part of Naruto's life, so I thought it best to write a few chapters about her. So after this chapter, I'll be having a few chapters about her and her part of the story, so we'll have some background on her. Because of this, I'll be removing the time skip that was in this chapter and be altering it and adding it into the next chapter.
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Chapter Four.
Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze - Part 4.
(Aftermath.)
11th of October 1900 - Land of Fire, Hidden Leaf Village, Hokage's Office:
Our chapter begins the following day of the attack on the Hidden Village by Kyūbi, it was early afternoon and the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, was in his former office meeting up with the Ninja Council, to talk about the night before. The Ninja Council was formed of the Elders, Danzō Shimura, Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, along with the Heads of the Four Noble Clans, Aburame Clan, Akimichi Clan, Hyūga Clan and the Uchiha Clan.
The Ninja Council was formed shortly after the last Shinobi World War. Third Hokage realized that before he was forced step down as Hokage, things was getting a bit too much. He was making mistakes, mistakes he thought if he had others to help other than the Elders of the Village, he wouldn't have made in the first place. So he formed the Ninja Council, so that he and future Hokage would have others to help them make the decisions needed, be it right or wrong ones. Sadly, he was still stuck with the evil that was paper work. At least they would have more options to go with, and hopefully do a better then he did.
The Head of the Aburame Clan, was Shibi Aburame, in fact he only became the new head this morning, when they learned that his father and the former Head of the Aburame Clan was killed during the attack the night before. The Clan is known for at birth, the members of this clan are offered to several special breed of insects as a nest, residing just under their host's body, acting as human hives for the insects. These insects will then live in symbiosis with their host from that point on. Because of this, its members are characterised by their use of insects as weapons.
Now Shibi, like all members of his clan, has his eyes obscured by dark glasses which feature a single tassel hanging down from one-side. He has very spiky short black hair and a thin moustache. He was wearing a high collared outfit, hiding the fact that some of the insects like wader out if their host and his choice of clothes prevent everyone from freaking out. It would seem that like his father, Shibi keep his hands in his pockets, usual Aburame trait they have.
Next was the Akimichi Clan, they are known for their techniques revolving around the manipulation of their body weight and size through the use of Yang Release. They even have their own Food Pills, convert excess fat into chakra, at the cost of one's health. It is also said that because of their techniques, it is rumoured that they would always have to be overweight, otherwise they can't use the Clan's Techniques. Now their Clan Leader was, Chōza, who like Shibi was appointed to the Head of the Clan, that morning when his and former Head of their Clan was killed in the attack from night before.
Chōza Akimichi is a tall, plump man with long, spiky red hair and purple markings on his cheeks - with the latter being a common trait in the Akimichi clan. He wears a samurai like outfit which entails a black suit completed with armour that has the kanji for 'food' on it. He also wears a rope belt, hand-guards, and instead of a forehead protector - a hachimaki tied around his head.
The next Clan was the Hyūga Clan, the members born into this clan possess the Byakugan, a kekkei genkai that gives them extended fields of vision and the ability to see through solid objects and even the chakra circulatory system, amongst other things. Members of this clan also possess the unique ability to expel chakra from any of the tenketsu in their body. They are considered to be one of the most powerful Clans in the Hidden Leaf Village.
The Clan Leader was Houzu Hyūga, who unlike the other Clan Leaders so far, was the current Leader for the last forty years, he is a man of short stature with long, grey hair that reaches down to his back, and like all members of his clan, he possesses featureless white eyes. He was wearing the traditional robes which consist of a loose fitting kimono that is held closed with a simple sash under a brown, waist length haori.
The last Clan Member was the Uchiha Clan, who was the oldest of the Clan's there, as they were the ones that helped to found the Hidden Village decades ago. They were reputed to be the village's strongest because of their Sharingan and natural battle prowess, more so than the Hyūga Clan. Sadly after helping to form the village, the Uchiha grew increasingly isolated from the village's affairs, something the Third Hokage was trying to change. It didn't help with them being mistrusted by many because of the Clan's past and how they get their most powerful skills, to embracing hatred.
Now the Clan Leader for a few years, was Fugaku Uchiha, who apart for being Clan Leader, also lead the Konoha Military Police Force. Fugaku had short, brown hair that reached to his shoulders and onyx-coloured eyes, with visible creases below them made more pronounced whenever he adopted a stern look. He wearing the standard flak jacket, along with a black shirt with the Konoha Military Police Force symbol on the shoulders, shin-guards and a black, open-front apron with white diamonds on the bottom.
Now another clan member there was Shikaku Nara, but he wasn't there acting as a Clan Head, or any official connect to his Clan, but was there as the Jōnin Commander. Jōnin Commander was a representative of the regular shinobi forces, and they had a say in important matters such as choosing a new Hokage, and what goes on with the other Ninja.
Now, Shikaku was average height, with dark hair tied up into a spiky ponytail, dark eyes as well as a goatee. His ears were also pierced, whilst he had two scars on the right side of his face which were probably his most noticeable feature. He like the rest of his Clan, he was laid back and took his time in things. But when doing his job, he would take things seriously and had a strong resolve to get what was needed done.
There was one other member of the Council, Riku Watanabe, the Head Ninja of the Village. Which was why Shikaku was there, as you could say that Riku was the Third Hokage's right hand man and helped to control the other ninja. But with Riku on a mission for the Feudal Lord, Shikaku took his place.
"Before we begin this meeting, let's give a few moments of silence to our fallen." Began the Third Hokage, as the group give a few moments of silence to our fallen, after watch he asked, "Do we know how many are dead from last night's attack or how much damage was done?"
"Not of yet," Lord Hyūga told the acting Hokage, "we're still clearing the ruined buildings, so far we have about two hundred villagers and ninja dead. The village is severely damaged, and will take time and money to rebuild the homes and districts that Kyūbi destroyed."
Hiruzen sighed at this, whilst they had enough jobs coming in to keep the village running, but now with how damage the village seemed to be in. They didn't have the work coming in to fix the damage to the village, to do so, they would have to charge more for their jobs and take give little less pay to those who are doing the jobs to get the village fixed up.
"I know that we might have a situation when it comes to fixing the village, but I might have a way to help with fixing the village." Hiruzen began to explain, "Whilst some might not like it, until we get the village fixed, we'll have charge more for the jobs we do. And we'll have to give little less pay to those who are doing the jobs."
"Lord Third, you do know that there'll be an outcry about this?" asked Aburame, who didn't like the idea, but could understand why it had to be done.
"That I do Lord Aburame," admitted the acting Hokage, "but until we have a better way to rebuild the village, it has to be like this for a while."
"I might have a suggestion," Danzō spoke out, "some of the more wealthiest of the villagers have come to me, saying that they are happy to help us out."
"But for a price, right?" asked Houzu.
"Of course, Lord Hyūga," Danzō admitted dully, as if this was something they should all suspected anyway, "we don't do things for free. So why should they?"
As much as he hated it, Hiruzen had to sigh as he admitted that Danzō was right, they couldn't demand them to give money to the village without giving something in return. "So what do they wanting parting with their money?" asked Hiruzen, not sure if he was going to like the answer to this, and he wouldn't.
"To be part of the council, so that they have a say as to what happens to the money and a say in happens to the civilian life of things in the village." explained Danzō.
"But there's never been a civilian on the council since the village was founded." The Third Hokage told Danzō, "This village is a ninja village and should be run by shinobi and kunoichi. As they know better how to deal with other ninjas better than a civilian ever could."
"That is true, and I'll admit that's how it should be," admitted Danzō, allow with everyone else agreeing, "but the civilians don't mind that either. But what they do mind about is that we also have a say in how the non-ninja situations are run, and that's what is a lot of them is unhappy about. They want a voice within the council, someone to look out for them. To stop a Civil War from happening, I would say we allow a few, six at most to join council."
Hiruzen knew this was long time coming, for a long time the civilians of the world who won't born with the ability to use the chakra within them, resented those who could. At first it was okay, they had those looking after them, but then came about the Shinobi Wars, where those who had no power was caught up in them. So over time ninja was despised by the fact they had power and that the civilians did not, ninja were blamed for the outcome for many things, and thought that without them, the world would be a better please. Even some shinobi and kunoichi thought the same. So it was no surprise that the civilians wanted a voice, but he didn't think it was the right thing to do, as they would get in the way of things.
Whilst Danzō was right, to stop a Civil War from happening they would need to have a few civilians on the council, the Third was against the idea. As it always been a ninja council, and it should stay like it, as there were some things that civilians know, or tell them how to run things. But times were changing and knew that he would have to change with them, so with a sigh he said, "I'll give it some thought, but don't expect me to agree with it, as this is a Ninja Village and so should be run by shinobi and kunoichi. But I can see your point too, so until we get a new Hokage, we'll let things be, and let whoever the new Hokage deal with it."
"Lord Third, whilst I agree that the village should be run by the ninja council only, we need to do something to stop a Civil War from happening with the civilians." said Koharu Utatane, the other elder in the room. Her grey hair was pulled back in a twin bun locked by a traditional Japanese hair pin with two pearls dangling off the side, and tassels were added to the other end. She also had long beaded earrings, and was wearing a simple long kimono, closed by an obi, a jacket, and a slash over it. Koharu was squinting at everyone like she normally does, as she barely open her eyes at any point in time.
What those there didn't know was that adding civilians onto the council, was part of Danzō's plan to take over the village. He knew that it would take time and would need others help to make it happen, the civilians would be his main problem. As until he got into power, whilst they had no power they make up in sheer number of people, and all they needed was one lucky hit or knowledge in fighting, and they could defeat a ninja with a good fight and luck.
So until he got where he wanted, he would need the civilians on his side, and once he was in power, Danzō would get rid of the weak and the useless of the civilians. There was another reason he wanted a few civilians on the on the council, to keep whoever the next Hokage is busy, and so that when it comes to a vote which he thinks is important to succeed or fail, he could use them to make it happen. For now they were just pawns in the bigger game he was playing.
"This wouldn't be a problem if you allowed the Konoha Military Police Force fight instead of dealing with the civilians, you wouldn't be having this problem." Fugaku Uchiha told the Hokage darkly, not happy with the fact that his Police Force was forced out of the fight.
"And that brings us back to the point of today's meeting, that last night's attack." Third told them all, before admitting to the Uchiha Leader, "As much as I hate to admit it, it is you clans past that stopped you from the attack Lord Uchiha."
"What has my Clan's past got to do with it?" Uchiha sneered angrily.
"It has everything to do with it Lord Uchiha," explained Hiruzen told him, "whilst your name didn't come up, we had a report of a masked man controlling the Tailed Beast. And what Clan has that kind of power?" He asked rhetorically, "Whilst we didn't know if anyone in your Clan was responsible or not, we couldn't risk it, or risk them joining whoever was controlling the Kyūbi. So instead of keeping you out of it altogether, I had Danzō have your Clan protecting the villagers."
Uchiha wasn't happy with the answer, whilst he couldn't deny it, his Clan did have a bad reputation because of Madara Uchiha doing what happened the night before. But that didn't mean anyone this his Clan responsible for what happened the night before. But he could see why the Hokage did it, even if he was insulted that the man think they would do such a thing. Sure they had their problems with the man and the village, but they would not risk their own like whoever was controlling the Tailed Beast the night before.
Not only that though, should his wife every found out that people knew that her friend was a Jinchūriki and tried to kill her to get the Nine Tails, will they would be having a slow painful death. Kushina and Mikoto were best of friends, should you hurt the other, well may Kami have mercy on your souls, as they sure would not. In the last few years, their daughters Naruko and Izumi have been playmates since they were born, and the mothers got even closer because of it. They were more like sisters than best friends.
Now whilst it was an open secret that each of the Great Five Nations had at least one Jinchūriki, what was not known was who that Jinchūriki was. For the safety for that Jinchūriki, unless they got into battle and used their powers, the identity of the individual was considered as a S-Class Secret. Revealing who the Jinchūriki was unless needed to know or revealed in battle, or the Jinchūriki tells someone themselves, had the penalty of death.
There was only two reasons that Fugaku and Mikoto knew that Kushina was a Jinchūriki, the first reason was that Kushina told them she was one. And informed them that they couldn't tell anyone unless they and those they told wanted to die because of it being a S-Class Secret. The only reason was that if it wasn't for Kushina telling him, was that when he became a member of the new Ninja Council, they were told about who the Jinchūriki was. Only because the Third Hokage wanted help to protect her should anyone find out what she was. Knowing what his wife would do to him, or those in their Clan should Kushina be found out she was a Jinchūriki, he had no problems keeping it a secret. He would prefer death by Hokage should he ever tell anyone, as death by his wife's hand wasn't something he wanted at all. He felt sorry for whoever did this should his wife found out who did this to her sister.
"You do understand how everyone is going to see this don't you Lord Third?" Fugaku asked the acting Hokage darkly, "As we won't part of the main attack force, defending the village from the Nine Tails, they'll think that we were part of the attack."
"Just tell them that I had Danzō have you looking after them, the villagers, just in case the Nine Tails attacks the settlers." the acting Hokage told him, giving him a cover story to use.
"Like that well make them believe that." sneered Fugaku, not liking this one bit.
"I'll back that story up if asked, if that isn't enough, I'm sorry Lord Uchiha." Hiruzen apologised deeply from his heart, there was so much he can do without everyone know it was possible that it was someone in the Uchiha Clan was behind last night's attack.
"I do have a question though Lord Third." Shibi acknowledged, "If it wasn't Lord Uchiha telling someone in his Clan about who the Jinchūriki," at this Fugaku give a sneer and a dark look towards the bug man, "as far as we know no one outside this Council knew that Kushina was a Jinchūriki. And seeing that this is a S-Class secret, with the penalty of death, it is unlikely we would say anything to anyone else. Now you may not like it Lord Uchiha, but as much as you hate to admit it your Clan has the means and the opportunity to do this."
"I wouldn't say anything to my Clan," Fugaku informed darkly at his Clan being accused of the attack, "if my wife ever found out that about it, she would slowly and painfully kill me and whoever done it for killing her best friend and sister."
"How would your wife know about Kushina?" asked Chōza, which everyone wanted to know, as they were worried that if she knew about it, anyone could have learnt about it.
"Because Kushina told us herself, as my wife and her got so close, Kushina decided to inform both of us. Well mainly Mikoto, but as I was her husband, she told me too." the Uchiha Clan Leader informed them all, resting some of their fears, "Anyway, what would our motive be for controlling the Nine Tails?"
"The past," Danzō informed them, "as they say some wounds can't heal. There could be some within your Clan who can't forget the past, and decided to use Kyūbi to destroy the Hidden Village. It is possible that whilst you might not have told anyone who the Jinchūriki is, they found out another way and so freed and controlled the Tailed Beast last night."
As much as he hated to admit it, Fugaku some of his Clan couldn't forgive the past Hokage for how he treated the Clan. Whilst he and the others tried to live and let live and not allow their Curse to control them, there were a few who want payback on the Village for the past. "In that case I'll begin a full investigation to find out who it was, and if it was a member of my Clan, they'll be punished accordingly."
"I have no problems with that Lord Uchiha," acknowledged Hiruzen, "but if or when you find them, I would like my ANBU Investigation Team question them. We need to know how they found out about Kushina, who they told about her and what else they might have found out and told about it."
Fugaku had no problem with that, as whoever did this done more harm than good to the Clan. He and other Clan Leaders had tried for a long time to make a better reputation for their Clan, but this one action done a lot of harm to their work setting them back a long while. Fugaku didn't know if they could come back from this and might have to go down another path. "As long it is painful and you give them back so my wife can deal with them afterwards, you can question them." Fugaku informed the acting Hokage, knowing that the village should be protected, and was upset that his wife's best friend was killed.
Lord Third only nodded at this, to acknowledge he would do this, Houzu Hyūga asked, "So what happened with Lord Fourth and his family?"
Here the Third Hokage knew he had to be careful as to what was said here, as he said, "As you know Lord Fourth was killed by the Tailed Beast. Whilst not killed, Kushina was placed in a medical animated stasis, that until we find a way to help her, she'll remain there until we can help her."
"What happened to her?" asked Fugaku, wanting to be able to tell his wife what happened to her sister.
"Apart from being exhausted from children brath and the Nine Tails severely hurting her, she also had a severe case of Chakra Exhaustion." explained Hiruzen, "Not only because of trying to keep the Nine Tails within her, but been forced to defend herself. After her father healed what he could, Kazuo placed his daughter under an animated stasis jutsu. As she Chakra Exhaustion, and so her healing ability wasn't working as it would and unless there was a way to give her a huge chakra transfer, it wouldn't able to heal her."
"Can't we use one of the Chakra Transfer Jutsu to give her what she needs?" asked Shibi.
"Sadly no," the acting Hokage half-lied, "as there aren't many people who can do the Chakra Transfer Jutsu. And those who could, if they tried, they would have been killed and most likely Kushina still wouldn't been healed. As you all know, Kushina has a huge chakra reserve, more so than anyone else in her Clan and more than anyone in this village. And add to the fact of all the chakra she was getting from Kyūbi, she would need a lot more chakra than any other person to survive. So until we find someway to help her, she'll have to remain in the animated stasis jutsu."
What he didn't tell them was that he placed her within a Storage Scroll and hidden away so that should Kazuo ever find a way back into the village, it would be hard for him to find his daughter. Hiruzen wasn't a heartless man, but he couldn't allow the man to use the Jutsu he wanted to use to get his daughter back, nor use her to take Naruto away from the village. Like it or not, they needed Naruto in the village or they could be looking at attacks from other villages.
None of them knew what to say to this, not even Fugaku, so instead he asked, "What about Naruko and Kushina's unborn child, what happened to them?"
Seeing no need to lie about this, at least not inform them about Naruko, the acting Hokage said, "Naruko was taken by her grandfather to a safehouse, and Kazuo is banished from ever coming back to the village."
"What? Way?" asked Houzu, shocked to hear this, he was one of the most respected shinobi in the village.
"Because he wanted to take Naruto from the village, and not to return him Lord Hyūga." explained Hiruzen.
"What's wrong with that?" asked Chōza, "It's not like there's anything to keep them here, and it is Kazuo's right to do so. He's not a Leaf shinobi, he could take his grandchildren away if he wanted."
"What I'm about to tell you all Lord Akimichi, is now considered a S-Class secret." explained Hiruzen sincerely, "For the Fourth Hokage to defeat the Tailed Beast, he had to seal it into Naruto, making his son the next Jinchūriki for the Nine Tails. And as you know, for Land of Fire, or one of the other four key Elemental Nations, having at a Jinchūriki in their Hidden Village, is a sign of strength and a deterrent for the smaller villages from attacking us. If Kazuo took his grandson away, and the other villages learnt that there's no longer a Jinchūriki in the Hidden Village of that Nation. It would be a sign calling out to say come on and attack us.
"And whilst we might be able to defend against the weaker villages that don't have a Jinchūriki, what about those who do have one, or ally themselves to a village that as one. They would attack in full force and there would be nothing in stopping them, but with our own Jinchūriki here, they would have second thoughts about attacking us."
As much as most of them hated to admit, and would prefer Naruto to be with his family, they also saw how important it was for the newborn boy to be in the village. Whilst a handful see Naruto as nothing more as a tool now, and would love nothing more as a tool, the others see him a newborn who had been dealt a bad hand. And saw him as someone was keeping them from going to war, something none of them wanted. They also knew that whilst the Clan Leaders at the very least see him as a Warden keeping the Tailed Beast locked up, most of their own Clan and Villager would see him as Kyūbi Reborn. So it was a good thing that this was considered as a S-Class secret.
"I have to ask, what is stopping Kazuo from returning and taking Naruto from the village one day?" the Aburame Clan Leader asked.
"Seeing he was a risk to the Hidden Village, I was forced to use a Forbidden Banishment Jutsu that Lord Fourth created." explained the Third Hokage, "So unless I undo the seal myself, he would die within six months to a year. So seeing that he has to look after his granddaughter for the time being, it'll be a few years until he'll try something. Which by that time I hope we'll be ready for whatever he does, and able to stop him?"
"So what is going to happen to the young boy?" asked Fugaku, as he knew that if he didn't at least ask his wife would give him hell. "Mikoto and I will more than happy to take him in, in fact Mikoto would insist in taking him seeing how close she and Kushina were."
"I'm sorry but that won't be possible," this came from Danzō, "we don't know if one of your Clan was behind this attack or not. And if they were, we don't know how they found out if you didn't tell anyone about Kushina. So until we know fully how and why the attack happened, and until who is behind it and who helped, it would be unwise for anyone to have the boy, especially your Clan."
Fugaku was about to protest a Danzo's decision when Hiruzen stops the Uchiha Clan Head. "I'm sorry Lord Uchiha, until the investigation is done, I have to agree with Danzō." Hiruzen unhappily agreeing with Danzō.
"Fine." sneered Fugaku, not liking this one bit and upset they would think he was behind this when he had done everything in his power to keep peace between his Clan and the Village. "But you are the ones going to explain it to Mikoto when she wants to know why she can't adopt her best friend's son."
"So what is going to happen to the child?" asked Houzu.
"For now Lord Hyūga, he'll be placed into the orphanage where he'll be raised there." the acting Hokage informed them. "But will be on discreet surveillance by one of my trusted ANBU, knowing that most of the village do not see things our way."
"You do know people will want to adopt him as soon as they find out that he's the son of Lord Fourth?" Shibi pointed out to the Third Hokage.
"I do, which is why I'm making it a S-Class secret to who Naruto's parents are," Hiruzen informed them all, "as just before he died, Lord Fourth told me via shadow clone that he wants his child to have a normal childhood. So from here on out, he'll be known as Naruto Uzumaki."
There was many of an outcry by the Clan Leaders, hating the fact they were been forced to hide the identity of Naruto's parents, and mostly his birthright. Its something all four of the Clan Heads could agree with, whilst Namikaze wasn't a Clan, he was the Fourth Hokage and Minato was Naruto's father, something that shouldn't be hidden. Not only that, but the Uzumaki was an old Clan, one that help build the Leaf Village, and rumoured to be related from Legendary Senju clan. It wasn't something to hide away, Naruto had the rights to know about his ancestors and what they did for the Hidden Village, and what happened to his Clan.
"Come on, you don't think people will realize who he is just by that name?" Chōza asked sceptically.
"And why should we hide who his parents were?" asked Houzu.
"First off, as to why to hide who Naruto's parents are, that's because of who his mother and father were," the acting Hokage inform them, "as not only because he was the Fourth Hokage, but his actions during the last Shinobi World War. As for his mother, because of her Clan and her abilities. They both made many enemies, and although now dead, they'll want to pay Naruto back for the sins of the father and mother. So it is for the best that he doesn't know who they are, until he is older to be informed, or should he become a shinobi, until he becomes a chūnin."
As much as they hated to admit it, that did make some sense, for that moment they did forget about the Fourth's enemies. So it made sense that Naruto waited to learn about his family, as it made sense in a way.
The Third Hokage went on to say, "As for people know who he is because of a name, that is easily explained off. As you know, it is common practice to name orphans with no known family name, the name of people or Clan who are well respected. So we just tell people we named him after Kushina or the Uzumaki Clan if they ask."
Whilst they didn't like the idea of hiding Naruto's identity, they could see why it would happen, and a way to explain away that he wasn't the Fourth's son. For the child's protection, it was better this way. Anyway, with nothing else to say, Houzu asked, "Do you know who's going to become the Fifth Hokage now that Lord Fourth is dead?"
"That hasn't been decided yet, Lord Hyūga." this came from Shikaku who spoke for the first time in the meeting, he was a person who didn't interact unless he had all the information or had something to say. "But after this meeting, me, Lord Third and the Elders are heading for Entei to talk to the Daimyo to talk about it." Entei was the capital of Land of Fire, it was a huge city, with a huge torch in the centre of with a huge flame burning from it, and also decorated with statues of Guardian Lions by the City's gates and the Daimyo's castle.
"So if there's nothing else for today, I'll declare this meeting adjourned." Hiruzen asked, wanting to finish the meeting.
There was nothing else to say at the moment, they all still had to deal with the aftermath the attack night before. Trying to find out who is dead and finding any survivors if there was any. Once they knew the full effect of the attack, they would meet with the new Hokage to talk about it all, and what to do next. Once they done that, they left as Hiruzen and the Elders got ready to meet the Feudal Lord at Entei.
To be Continued!
Author's Note - PLEASE READ TO THE END: Here ends the edit of the fourth chapter, I thank you for reading the story, and I hope that you enjoyed it. There wasn't much to edit in this chapter, as much of I wanted was already here and didn't need to add much. Now sadly this chapter hasn't been beta read, as the beta reader I was using has become busy and so can't help at the moment and he doesn't know when he can. As he got his own work and real life to deal with, and he also beta reading for someone else and can't do mine at the moment.
I know I said this in chapter two of the edits, but if you haven't went back and read it, I'll say it again here. I'm planning to add a few Sex Ed chapters, so that he learn and get an interest in sex, otherwise he'll be like the brat in the show which I'm trying to change. I got a few ideas as why he hasn't learned it so far, but if you got any thoughts about it, please let me know. So if you got ideas or stories I could use to help me with the Sex Ed chapters, I would like to hear them please.
So you know, I'll be going to bash a few character, will not bashing per say, but write them the way I see them and to fit the needs for the story. They aren't going to be evil or bad guys, but they won't be written in a favourable light by me. First is the villager of the Land of Leaf, they aren't evil/dark, but more misguided than anything. Whilst it didn't say how badly, they did treat Naruto badly, but I'll be highlighting a few things that could have happened. Some of them will be dark than others, but nothing too bad other than a few people who are drunk and can't think straight mainly. The actions of the drunken fools will be the worst of what the villagers will do, the rest will bully them in their own way.
Here's a few things that the villagers will do: letting their children pick on Naruto, name calling, over pricing him for items, giving him out of date, or bad product for higher cost, or not serving him at all. (Some might say that's not bullying, but others would call it mental bullying.) Then there will be the teachers, they'll won't be teaching Naruto the way they should be. Then ANBU, was going to have them give a blind eye to some of the things that the villages do to Naruto. As for his team, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno, I'll be working on Sakura's hatred for Naruto, and Sasuke's, or my female version of him need for power and his path to be alone and don't want to deal with others.
Either way, there'll be four people that I'll be going into detail more than any of the rest of the villages. These four are the Third Hokage, Kakashi, Jiraiya and if I add him into this story, Yamato. In the next few chapters at the end of each of them, I'll give you reasons as to why I'll be sort of bashing them. I'll be doing one in each chapter instead of all at once, as I'll be going into detail as to why I'm going to write them in a bad light. I'm also doing this so that you can give me your thoughts, and if possible ways to write them in a better light, or give me a reason for what they did so I can give more detail to the story.
The first person I'll be bashing is the Third Hokage:
Don't know what the writers were thinking, but everything can found back to this one man.
Now before you go on and tell me that he has a village to run, and is always busy and so can't look after one man, I understand that. But the thing is, even as a busy man, with a few simple words and actions, a lot could have been changed. Now let's start:
1) Why didn't the Hiruzen do anything to stop the villagers from hating and treating him the way they did. Hiruzen could have made a big speech about it saying not to shun Naruto, but say something along the lines of 'This child is the reason we were able to stop the Kyūbi, he should be regarded as a hero, he IS NOT the fox, he is the foxes prison.' He didn't have to say who Naruto's parents were, and so keep that a secret still. All he did was ban any discussion of these events, which allowed their hatred grow and grow as they won't allow to talk it over with someone.
I'll admit that admit that things might not have changed if the Third Hokage talked on behalf of Naruto, and allowed people to talk about their feelings. But I do feel that it would have been a good start, and have a lot less people hating the young boy who done nothing against the village.
All Hiruzen did was that if Naruto get into too much trouble, was to cover for him and make sure he got off somehow. He done nothing to prevent Naruto being treated like shit, nor train him. And if you want to say that he got special treatment with a free home, money for food and such, that wasn't special treatment. By the looks of things, all orphans at a certain ages gets a place to live, money for food and such, look at Iruka and Sasuke.
2) Why didn't the Third have someone train Naruto? Some might say that Hiruzen didn't have to, as he would be like any other child who wasn't in a Clan. I'm sorry, but that's bullshit, there was a few reasons as to why he should have been given training and not because he was an orphan but because of who his family was, and what was inside him.
Some would say that the training that he got at the Academy was enough for Naruto, and that it was Naruto's own fault that he didn't learn anything with all the trouble and pranking he got into. That's not fully true, if the villagers didn't treat him horribly, Naruto wouldn't have been the attention seeking prankster who was severely undisciplined. If he was treated better he would have learnt more. And I don't know if it was lore or fan based, but it was stated somewhere that he was a Kinesthetic Learner and so would need to learn differently than what he was taught at the Academy. So he would have more problems than a normal student.
We all know that the main reason that Naruto wasn't told about his parents, was because of who his parents were and that they both had enemies wanting to harm them. Even if they died, the die hard people who want pay back no matter what, would go after their child. So if that's the case, why wasn't he trained beforehand? What if one of their enemy entered the village spotted Naruto one day, and realized who his father was? It was said that Minato and Naruto looked alike, so wouldn't be hard to add two and two together and get four. So it would have been a great idea to train him so that if anyone found out who Naruto's parents were, and went after their son, Naruto could have protected himself. It is shown that the village can easily break into, look at those who tried to kidnap Kushina and Hinata.
That's one reason why he should have training as a child more than any other student, the next was that not counting the Kyūbi, but because of his mother, he would have a huge amount of chakra. This is why the Nine Tails are sealed within an Uzumaki, because they have a lot chakra. And it was stated somewhere, that more chakra you have more trouble you have controlling chakra. This was something the Third Hokage knew about, seeing that Kushina was part of the village. So to add Kyūbi's power along with Uzumaki's chakra, he needed a lot more training than any normal student.
There is one more thing I would like to add about training, but I'll get to that in a sec. Now Hiruzen himself don't have to train Naruto he can have someone else train him. Some would say, who would want to train Naruto because of what was inside him, no one. That's where you are wrong, I give you Ebisu for example, he admitted that if it wasn't for the Third Hokage ordering him to do so, he wouldn't even think about training Naruto. So, who says there's no one else that the Hokage could have ordered to train, and they felt that they had to do so because of who Hiruzen was. I'm not saying everyone would, but I would have thought there would have been a few.
And finally on the topic of training, you have thought that the Third Hokage would have someone teach Naruto something so that he doesn't lose control of Kyūbi's chakra and go on a rampage. It was said that strong emotions, like hate and anger, would make Naruto lose control Kyūbi's chakra. If that was the case, why didn't someone teach Naruto how to control his anger so it wouldn't happen? With the way the Village treated Naruto, I'm surprised he didn't let his hate/anger get the better of him once in a while and lose control of Kyūbi's chakra. It is like someone placed a seal on him, so that he don't feel hate and anger so easily.
3) Now I don't know how orphans are treated, seeing that Naruto, Iruka and Sasuke all lived alone after a certain age. But with Iruka and Sasuke, they become orphans when they were older, like eight or so, so it is possible that they are too old to adopt and so the village allows them to live in an apartment somewhere.
If that's the case, who looks after the orphans that are babies and aren't old enough to look after themselves like Iruka and Sasuke? I ask as I would like to know who looked after Naruto as a baby. I'm guessing he was in the village orphanage, in which case why wasn't he adopted? I know that before the Uchiha Massacre, things seemed to be fine, he seemed to have one or two friends.
Now people might not want the to adopt Naruto for whatever reason, the main thing I can think of is because of so many orphans there was because of the Nine-Tails attack. But I would have thought that there could have been a few who might want to adopt Naruto, as he was a baby and I would have thought people would want a baby more than a more older child. So I have to wonder why Naruto wasn't adopted before the Uchiha Massacre.
After the Uchiha Massacre, everything went to hell from what I can gather and it was all down to Danzō. As in a light novel I think it was, we find out that it was Danzō who let the Village know what Naruto was. Which stopped most wanting to adopt Naruto, and people started to hate him. So the question is, did the Third Hokage done something to stop people adopting Naruto, or is there something else that I missed?
We know that Hiruzen has two sons, Asuma Sarutobi and an unnamed son who's the father of Konohamaru. So if he wanted to make sure that Naruto was cared for and loved by someone, why not allow his unnamed son and son's wife look after Naruto? Konohamaru would have a big brother to look up to, and he could have been different and better outlook in life sooner.
Either way, there might be other ways that the Third Hokage's actions or non-actions caused problems for Naruto, but these are the three that I can think of. The only thing that he done for the young boy, was to keep him out of too much trouble, other than that, from my point of view he done very little. He lied about not knowing about Naruto's parents, and done little to protect Naruto. Yes he is a busy man, but he had a family that could help me, and give Naruto a family that he needed.
Sorry for making this so long, but I wanted you to see my thoughts about Hiruzen, and ask if there's anyway to explain some of it away. I'm also hoping that if I missed something, you can tell me what and maybe I'll add it into the story.