Chapter 15
[Konoha's Hospital Room #357]
...Asuma said, "You missed a lot, Kakashi."
"Oh?" Kakashi said, pulling out an Icha Icha book from nowhere
"Yes, apparently the boy you considered to be nothing, but a waste was the son of the man who was your teacher," Kurenai said
Kakashi's book dropped from his hand and landed on his lap, "What?"
"You heard me, Kakashi. Naruto Uzumaki is the son of the 4th Hokage, Minato Namikaze."
Kakashi turned pale as he recalled everything he did to Naruto as an ABNU and as his teacher.
"Oh God, what have I done..." Kakashi whispered in horror
Mighty Guy could only sadly shake his head at his once-youthful rival, knowing that karma was a bitch and she was back in heat.
Sasuke, on the other hand, doesn't give a shit and was growling as Sakura and Ino used him as a cuddle toy.
'The dobe doesn't deserve it, I'll have the council just force him to teach me everything and allow me access to the Namikaze library or else he will be banished. After all, Namikaze or not, he is still a dead last,' Sasuke finished with a smirk
[Present]
Asuma, Kurenai, and Guy left the room to check on their teams before leaving the hospital so Guy who went to the training ground to train himself into the ground to become more youthful while Kurenai and Asuma went to a restaurant to continue their not-so-secret dating routine.
Sasuke was heading towards the Hokage Tower after he called one of his ninja supporters to round up everyone on the council as he was going to make Naruto hand-deliver all of his power to him. Then all he would have to do was wait for the chance to rip off his brother's head and deliver it to his parent's graves on a silver platter before finally having all the pure kunoichi of Konoha line up to be impregnated with his seed.
[Council Room]
Sasuke stood in the council room with all the civilian council members and Elders all accounted for with all the ninja clan heads barely trickling in, making him fight not to growl at the show of disrespect.
Tsume was the first to question, "Where's Hokage-sama?"
"He is not here at the moment, but the real reason why you all are here is simple," Sasuke said with a sick smile
Shikaku groaned from his lazy position on his desk as barely looked up to look down at Sasuke and said, "Why are we here in the first place?"
Sasuke gave a wide grin and said, "You are to order Naruto Namikaze to give me everything from the Namikaze library and teach me everything he knows."
The entire room was silent to absorb the words that poured from Sasuke's mouth before loud shouts of agreement/outrage filled the room that could have been heard by all of Konoha if not for the silencing seals on the room.
Elsewhere, Kakashi Hakate was looking for the boy whose name was on everyone's lips, Naruto Uzumaki, now Namikaze as he found him standing on the roof of the hospital, sitting on one of the water towers, not bothering to look behind him as he called out, "Hakate..."
"Naruto...Are you really?" He trailed off
Naruto chuckled as he slowly turned his head to face Kakashi and said, "Even now, you still can't see what is right in front of you, Hakate? I'm not really surprised. Apparently, those who are named rookie prodigies have a lack of common sense that is normal for those who have brains, but then no one here besides a certain few could see the truth that was obvious."
Kakashi winced as he thought, 'Okay, I deserved that...'
He said, "I want to apologize for my treatment of you."
Naruto gave a harsh-sounding laugh that ran shudders down Kakashi's spine.
"What a load of crap," Naruto stated as his laughter settled into chuckles as he calmed down before he jumped off the water tower and stood on the rooftop, facing Kakashi.
"No, Naruto I-"
"Don't fucking lie to me, Hakate. You are apologizing only because Minato Namikaze's blood runs through my veins."
"Just listen to me, please. What do you want from me? Do you want me to get down on my knees and apologize to you? Is that what you want?" He said as he knelt down, now eye-level with Naruto.
Naruto snorted and walked towards Kakashi until they were mere inches away from each other and he leaned over to whisper in his ear, "No amount of your shitty apologies will ever get me to forgive you."
Kakashi was shocked at the boy that used to be his student and asked the question that had been on his mind since the end of the chunin exams.
"Naruto, what happened to you? What happened to the boy that wanted to be Konoha's greatest Hokage?" He asked as he stood up
Naruto gave a dark smirk and said, "He died when his cunt of a mother showed him the cruelty of the world and my precious one taught me that no one gives a shit, so why should you do so?"
"Is that what you really think? Or are you not who we thought you were?" Kakashi said as he took a step back, his hand reaching back for his kunais.
"Oh please, try to keep up here. My lovely friend isn't in control, but I would be glad to allow you to meet him, he is not happy about your treatment of me and he would just love to spend a good ten minutes with you."
Kakashi paled in horror as he looked at the dark look on Naruto's face, clearly stating he would willingly allow the Kyuubi to tear him to pieces. He inwardly gulped, knowing he landed himself in deep shit and it was sucking him in like quicksand.
Naruto said, "I'll leave this for your train of thought, you know the seal that Minato used to seal the Kyuubi inside me, correct?"
Kakashi slightly nodded and Naruto squinted his eyes to hide his upcoming amusement for his next sentence.
"Apparently he made some modifications to the seal, adding a good portion of chakra under the order to help me if the fox tried to do anything funny or if I was on the verge of releasing the fox..." He trailed as he opened his eyes to look Kakashi directly in the eye as he finished, "That chakra would only come out if I was in extreme danger, but let me ask you something, does having a blood-thirsty mob trying to skin you at four-years-old isn't life-threatening isn't it?"
Kakashi thought he was going to be sick as he started to tremble as Naruto continued, "Well, the poor bastard came and he was at first ecstatic at seeing his son but wondered how he could be in danger at such a tender age...When I explained it, he didn't want to believe me, but then he walked into where I kept all my memories, all my pain, all my suffering, where I pushed it to the dark corners of my mind. I left him there and said, See what your so-called innocent villagers did to me during all my time alive and tell me if your wish was granted."
Naruto smiled as he bit his lip at seeing Kakashi's eye looking glazed over as if all his past memories were coming back to haunt him.
Naruto finally buried the knife into him when he said, "He has been watching everything since then...including you, Kakashi. Every. Single. Wrong. you committed against me, he has seen it all and felt my pain as his own."
Kakashi fell back on his knees as he looked up at the sky, his despair overwhelmed him like a dark mist surrounding him and Naruto slowly absorbed it as he watched Hakate drown in his despair and whispered one last thing to the grieving man.
"One last thing before I go, you see all your failures, your crimes, you may as well hang yourself and then you can be with your father, but unlike your father, he was a man, he was actually honorable, choosing to save his ungrateful friends who turned on him the second things got too heavy for him and he killed himself out of misguided shame, even though all it would have taken was just one compliment from you to keep him from ending his life. You, on the other hand, have none. Taking out your frustrations on me, using me a target for your jutsu and your hand in all my birthday mobs...All of them, killing you would be a mercy but at the same time, your death would be your worst punishment. What would your friends say, especially your precious sensei who treated you like a son? Who was there for you and you repay him with the shit you have done? Well, dear Hakate, you have proven your worth and it's lower than shit, enjoy," Naruto finished before leaving with a mad cackling laugh
Two nurses would find Kakashi still kneeling there, two hours later, unresponsive to the world as Naruto's cold words echoed into his ears and he would be later checked in to the trauma ward as a patient.
Naruto had a massive smile on his face as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop as he made his way back to his compound and he flashed back to his conversation with his father.
[Mindscape/Flashback]
"Hello, you poor bastard...How was your trip down my memory lane?"
'N-Naruto...'
"Hello Fourth Hokage, or should I say...Father?"
Minato Namikaze pulled himself up to lean against the wall of Naruto's memory room as he looked at the state of his son. His cold empty eyes, drained of any respect for life or fellow man, his glee at shoving a person so deep into despair it would literally lock them into a nightmarish coma. It was all his fault...
The man looked like he aged twenty years as he slid to the floor as he looked at his son who was staring blankly at him.
"I'm such a fool..." He whispered
Naruto sighed and said, "I would have to agree with you, but I wish you didn't make that assessment, I was hoping you would still be blind, it makes it much easier to rip out your guts and feed your Kyu."
Minato chuckled and said, "Yeah...I'd probably deserve it, hell what's stopping you from killing me? If I was you, I would have sent a Rasengan to my head and watch as I buried it deep into my skull."
"Flashy and messy, but your death would be too quick, though..." Naruto trailed off in thought
Minato absorbed the young man in front of him, wondering what would have happened if he never saved Konoha. Would Kushina still be the lovely woman I thought she was before? Would Naruto take after myself or her more if he was raised properly...
'I guess only God knows that answer...' Minato said with closed eyes
"So..." Naruto said, bringing Minato back into reality
"What shall I do with you? Killing you is much too simple..." Naruto whispered as he thought before he stopped and a smile nearly split his face in two.
Minato said, "You're planning on destroying Konoha...Aren't you?"
Naruto glanced at him and said, "Am I that obvious?"
"No, for the most part. Though I won't blame you if you did."
"You aren't going to stop me? No speeches about how you can be better than them and just them to rot in their own mess?"
Minato chuckled as he looked the young man who looked so much like him and said, "They don't deserve that. They should have honored my first wish but didn't. They spat on it, forming mobs to kill you and mistreat you in my name. Hell, traitors to their country were treated like heroes in comparison to you, I would have killed myself years ago."
"Believe me, it's harder than you think," Naruto said in a cool voice
"So it seems. So what now? Are you going to kill me now?" Minato asked, calmly
"No."
"No?"
"No. I have much bigger plans for you."
"Ah, well, I just have to go along for the ride, won't I? But..." Minato trailed off as he stood up and walked towards Naruto.
He knelt down and pulled Naruto into a hug, making him violently flinch as he immediately pulled out a kunai and started to stab Minato in the stomach with a cold hiss of "Let go of me."
Minato didn't notice or care that his son was stabbing him, It didn't really hurt as much as he expected it to, 'Probably because of all the beatings I felt in Naruto's place made me nearly immune to pain...'
After Naruto stabbed Minato 28 times, he dropped the kunai and felt Minato's warmth around him as he felt something stir within him.
"Let me go, dammit...I'm not a kid who needs his father to hug him," He hissed
Minato only tightened his grip and said, "I know you hate me. Hell, even I hate me for what happened to you, but you need to know that I love you. I love you so much, even if you never forgive me, even if you slaughter hundreds of people I will still care for you, but... I have to ask you one thing. And that is to have everything that I have ever worked for, it is all in the Namikaze compound and my ashes. I don't want them to fall into the wrong hands. Live the life you want to and know I will love you in the past, now, and forever," He whispered until Naruto couldn't feel Minato's arms wrapped around him anymore.
Naruto closed his eyes as he pushed down the feeling of peace he felt from his words as he disappeared from his own memory room and back into reality.
[Flashback End/Reality]
Finally, Naruto appeared in front of the hidden compound, the massive iron gate with the reverse symbol of the Uzumaki spiral, the Yato clan symbol. He pushed past the gate and made his way inside.
His family...made way for him and he asked one of his cousins who was reading 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu, a practical childhood story for all of the Yato clan to vaguely memorize most if not all of the thirteen chapters the book had to offer.
"Naruto..." He said, glancing at the blond as he put down his book
"Is Junko here?" He asked as he leaned on the couch
"No, she's still meeting with the Hokage, why?" He questioned, marking his page in the book as Naruto had his full attention
Naruto didn't speak but showed his arm, lifting up his shirt sleeve making his cousin's eyes light up with glee at the mark on his forearm.
The mark is the symbol of the number 4, a number that is translated to death.
"So~, you finally got it. Tell me...Who was it?" His cousin asked, taking in the sight of the black mark that was on Naruto's right arm.
"Hakate...Kakashi Hakate, as of right now he should be nothing but a miserable vegetable, barely clinging to life, but longs for and is extremely fearful of death," Naruto grinned.
"Good work, now meet me at the training grounds, it is time to see what your power of your four is."
The two stood across from each other and Naruto said, "What now, Akira?"
"Flare your chakra, spread it out only around this training ground and see what it affects."
"Sure," Naruto said as he concentrated, his chakra circling around him before he wrapped it around every part of the training ground.
The two boys waited for a minute before a large shrieking caught their attention and they turned to see a large tiger eating a baby doe.
"How did Jake's tiger get the doe? It's been chasing that damn thing for a month?"
"Maybe it wanted a snack and didn't want to play around anymore," Naruto shrugged
"Hold on for a second, do it again. Flare your chakra again," Akira said with his arms crossed, his mind running rampant with ideas.
Naruto repeated it just as a bird started to sing and a strike of lightning struck the bird immediately, finally sealing Akira's assessment.
"Misfortune...That's your power...The power of misfortune and it can strike things around you."
Naruto grinned, "That's so fucking sick..."
"Want to work on it now or later?" Akira asked
"Later, I have to go, I have two girls I intend on turning into quivering piles of goo."
"Ha! Have fun," Akira smirked when Naruto went back to his room to change while his cousin went back to read his book.
Naruto then changed into his clothes but then he was called by one of Junko's animal summons, a lynx who told him, "Naruto-sama, you are needed at the Hokage Tower with Junko-sama."
"I'll be there," Naruto answered
The lynx bowed before disappearing in a puff of smoke as he spoke, "Looks like I have more work to do before I can have my damn drink."
Ending it! The second part of the meeting and Kushina's explanation is in the next chapter. What a bitch move ending... I am sorry... But I really needed to explain what happened between the time Naruto left Hiruzen's office and Naruto going to the Black Cherry. Naruto and Sasuke will meet in the council room. Don't worry.
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