CHAPTER 3

The month couldn't have passed faster for Naruto, every waking moment he thought about meeting his parents. Ay had continued to tell Naruto and Yugito everything he knew about Naruto's parents, but he also felt bad at the same time.

He knew that if he brought Naruto with him that he would obviously want to stay with his parents. If Naruto did stay with his parents, then he would have to leave behind both himself and Yugito while he lived in Konoha.

Ay sighed just thinking about what was to come. He continued to walk though as he went to the room that Naruto and Yugito shared. A smile did come to his face when he thought about those two though. Even after all the time that passed, those two refused to sleep in different rooms, let alone a different bed.

Ay continued to chuckle as he opened the door and entered the room. He came upon the sight of Naruto and Yugito packing the last of their clothes away into the bags that they were taking for their journey to Konoha.

Once both the kids noticed him Ay walked over to them and ruffled their hair. "When you two are done let me know and I will put your bags away in my sealing scroll." He said. Both nodded before they grabbed the last few things they needed and then gave their bags to Ay who sealed them away.

He then told the two to head outside and go wait with Darui and Bee who would be their escorts. Ay had both kids pack for ten days, it would be a three day journey to and from Konoha, and then at maximum they would be in Konoha four days.

Ay then went to his room and grabbed his Kage hat and sealed his own bag away. With that done he headed outside and met up with Bee and Darui who would be acting as his bodyguards/escorts. Now that everyone had gathered outside Ay picked Yugito and Naruto up and put them on his shoulders before he took off.

Over the course of the three day journey, Naruto and Yugito had a great deal of fun seeing all the new sights before them. They were both currently admiring the large gate in front of them that represented Konoha's entrance. Ay chuckled at their amazed faces before he headed over to the gate guards with the kids still on his shoulders.

The two chunins were awestruck as the Raikage approached them. Of course they knew who he was, everyone knew about all the kages. When he walked up to the gate booth though, they regained their composure.

"Do you have entrance papers Lord Raikage, if you don't we cannot allow you to enter." One of the guards said. Ay only nodded before he grabbed some papers out of his Kage robes. He then handed them over to the guard that had spoken to him.

After a little bit of time passed the guard handed him the papers back with a smile. "Welcome to Konoha Raikage-dono, please enjoy your stay in our village while you are here." The guard said. Ay took his papers back and nodded his thanks to the guards before taking off into the village.

Ay then looked over to Darui and started to speak. "Darui it will be your mission to find us a hotel to stay in while I go see Minato." Ay said. Darui only nodded before he took off to go find a hotel for their group. Once Darui had taken off Ay and everyone else headed right for the hokage's building.

Once they stood just outside the building Ay took in a breath before he let it out as a large sigh. He then walked in with Naruto and Yugito on his shoulders while Bee followed behind them. Ay quickly made his way through the tower until he came to the hokage's door.

Ay knew that once he crossed over into that room that everything would change. He was actually fearful that he would lose Naruto, but at the same time he knew that he had no right to hide Naruto from the grieving family. Ay took another large breath before he took the two kids off his shoulders.

Naruto looked like he could explode from excitement when Ay put him down, and that made him smile. Ay then set Naruto and Yugito in the chairs outside the Hokage's room. "Alright you two I am going to go talk to Minato, but I want to ask him some things before you two come in. what I'm going to do is have Bee stay out here with you until I call you alright?" He asked.

When the two children acknowledged that they understood Ay smiled and ruffled their hair before standing up. He then went to the door to the Hokage's office and knocked on the door twice. A minute later when Ay heard a brief "come in", he entered the office and shut the door behind him.

Ay was surprised when he entered the office and saw not only Minato the current Hokage and his rival in speed, but also his Wife Kushina Uzumaki. Minato himself was surprised when he saw that it was Ay in front of him.

"Ay you're rather early, I wasn't expecting you until tomorrow; what's with the early appearance, couldn't wait to get out of your village." Minato said with a smirk. Ay chuckled rather loud before replying.

"Ha-ha, you wish. No I just decided to leave early to show my family some of the sights along the way, and I wanted us to have extra time so that we wouldn't be late. It just so happens that we ended up being early." Ay said.

Minato just nodded in understanding until a thought came to him. "your family, if it's not too intrusive Ay I thought your only family after your father died in the third war was your adoptive brother Bee?" Minato asked curiously as Kushina only seemed to half listen to their conversation.

She was too absorbed in her own thoughts while she looked out the window of the office. Ever since her son had disappeared, she had been consumed by grief every time a team came back that they had sent to find him.

Ay only nodded to acknowledge Minato after he stopped looking at Kushina. "A couples years after I took up the raikage title, it had just been me and my brother Bee, but about three and a half years ago I adopted a little girl as my niece. Shortly after I had adopted her, our Nibi went out of control and she was deemed the perfect match for the bijuu, so she became the jinchuriki.

"About two months later I adopted a small boy and he became like a brother to me, just as Bee is to me. All three are actually outside the office waiting for me to call to them to meet you. Before that though, Minato Kushina, I know this will be difficult, but I want you to tell me about the night your son disappeared." Ay said.

Minato grew a dull look in his eyes while Kushina seemed to have a dead look in her eyes. Minato took a deep breath before exhaling lightly. "It happened three years ago on October the 10th, as you know Ay my wife Kushina was the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. She had gone into labor and was giving birth in a secret location away from the village.

"this was done as a precaution incase the Kyuubi found a way to escape her seal. Everything had gone well and Kushina had safely given birth to our son, but then everything took a turn for the worse. Kushina's seal had started to break and it was too damaged for me to repair, so seeing our son as the only option I convinced Kushina that transferring the Kyuubi to him would be safest." He said.

Minato took a deep breath before continuing. "I convinced her to do this, because if we transferred the Kyuubi instead of just removing it then she would be able to live and help raise our son. Everything had gone great and the Kyuubi was safely transferred to my son by using four of my special four symbols seals creating a 16 trigrams seal on his stomach." He said.

'so that is what kind of seal Naruto has, no wonder my seal master couldn't understand it, that level of seal is definitely far above anyone besides his and Kushina's level of understanding.' Ay thought to himself. Once Minato started talking again, he put his attention onto Minato.

"After that the mysterious man I told you about in my letter attacked us, he was able to get a hold of my son and try to use him as a bargaining chip to get Kushina. He wanted the Kyuubi that she had, not knowing that I had just transferred it to my son. Quickly attacking to get my son back caused the man to drop my son, and when I almost grabbed him the man used a time-space jutsu to teleport him away.

"After my son disappeared I quickly beat the man until he answered my questions by telling me that he had no idea where my son had ended up. He told me that the jutsu he used was a transportation jutsu and that he was trying to hit me with it, but instead it got my son. After that the man disappeared and I have been looking for him ever since, with no luck yet." He said greatly saddened at the end.

Kushina who had moved over by Minato now had her arms wrapped around his neck to comfort him as she also cried a little bit with Minato. As Ay took in the sight, he couldn't help but truly feel their pain as he now knew the whole story behind what happened.

Ay took in a deep breath. "I don't want to be any more intrusive then I have, but before we talk about the treaty polices, I have to ask. You never once said your son's name, what is it?" Ay asked gently. Minato let a small smile onto his face.

"No, it's quite alright Ay; his name is Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze." Minato said with pride and sorrow at the same time in his voice and eyes. Ay only lowered his head. 'it's as I feared, he really is their son, I don't know what I will do if I lose him, I really love that little spaz ball.' He thought to himself.

Ay then took in a breath and raised his head. "Minato Kushina, I am glad to tell you that your search is over." Ay said with a slight quiver at the end. Minato and Kushina looked at Ay in confusion until he turned to the door. "Bee, Yugito, Naruto you can come in now." He said.

At the last name Minato and Kushina looked at the door in hope. Could they have heard wrong or was their son really on the other side of that door. Both of their eyes had lit up with hope, and Ay could even see that Kushina was barely restraining herself from rushing to the door.

That ended though when Naruto came rushing through the door in uncontrolled joy and excitement. "Tou-san Kaa-chan!?" Naruto all but shouted but also seemed to question. Kushina couldn't believe her eyes, it was him, she could feel it in the deepest pits of her stomach, this was her baby.

Once she knew that for sure she couldn't control herself, Kushina practically tackled Naruto when she ran to him and hugged him tightly to her chest. Kushina couldn't help herself, she was practically soaking Naruto's shirt as she cried tears of joy onto him. She did look over to Minato though, who was still at his desk, but he had stood up and was just looking at Kushina and Naruto.

Kushina couldn't tell what was wrong with him, he seemed to be afraid. "Min-kun?" She questioned. Minato broke out of his catatonic state and looked over to his wife as she opened her arms for him to join her and their son. Minato slowly dragged himself towards his wife and child as he continued to look at Naruto.

Once he was finally right next to Naruto Minato collapsed onto his knees and looked into Naruto's shining cerulean blue eyes now that he was at eye level. Minato hesitantly reached forward and cupped Naruto's cheeks. He fondly rubbed Naruto's whisker marks that he knew only his son would have, then he lightly put one hand on Naruto's hair and the other he put behind Naruto's head, right near the base of his neck.

Minato then slowly pulled Naruto's head to his chest as he gripped him tightly and let out some of his own tears. Kushina had then slid her way over to the two boys and hugged them both tightly to herself so as to not let them go. Kushina held especially hard onto Minato's hand that was holding Naruto so she could feel that he was still there.

Ay and Bee both stared at the family with both joy and sadness, while Yugito looked at them with both joy and confusion. She looked at them with joy because she was glad that Naruto got to meet his family; but she also looked on with confusion since both her uncles were looking at the family with sadness in their eyes.

After several minutes of no one saying anything as Minato and Kushina continued to hug Naruto, Minato did eventually look up to Ay. "How did this happen, how did you find him, why didn't you tell me sooner?" Minato asked in rapid succession.

Ay only sighed understanding where Minato was coming from with all his questions. "How it happened is exactly as you described it earlier, when you said you saw Naruto disappear in a swirl, he appeared the same way to me. I was just sitting in my office, then a swirl appeared above my head and then there was a baby in my arms.

"shortly after that since he got along so well with me niece I adopted him as my brother. As for why I didn't tell you sooner, the truth is I didn't fully know he was yours until I received your letter a month ago. I could have said that I had him, but I wanted to come here first and confirm my theory through you. Once you said that your son's name was Naruto, then I knew that I was right so I called him in here." Ay explained.

Minato only nodded before he let go of Naruto and stood up. He then walked over to Ay and stuck his hand out. Once Ay took the hand and shook it Minato spoke. "I can thank you enough for finding and bringing my son back to me." He said.

Ay then sighed before looking over to Kushina and seeing that she wouldn't let Naruto out of her sight. Ay then turned to Bee. "Bee, can you take Yugito with you and go show here the sights with Darui." Ay said even though it sounded like a question. Bee nodded in understanding before he took Yugito's hand who was reluctant to leave without Naruto.

Once those two were gone and Kushina with Naruto and Minato had moved back by his desk Ay started to speak. "I actually need to speak to the two of you about Naruto and this peace treaty. We have a lot to discuss, and I would prefer to not do this with Naruto here, but I don't have an option." Ay said to the two.