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Council meetings and a little bit older

October 12th 7 a.m. 1653

Minato POV

I looked at the council as Hiashi took roll then handed control of the meeting over to me. I spoke, "some of you are probably wondering what went on during the fight with the Kyuubi," I told them. I saw the nods across the room and said, "I will tell you what happened but if I am interrupted I will not be telling you anything else." At the nods of acceptance I told them all about it.

Surprisingly they didn't interrupt me and at the end Danzo was the first to speak. "What do you plan on doing with the child, because if you want help raising him I wouldn't mind training him," the old war hawk offered.

"I will raise him myself, but on occasion if you want to help out with teaching him jutsu when he is older I wouldn't mind the help," I said. "I don't see the harm in him helping with teaching him, because as long as I give him root and enough missions to keep root alive and known he will listen," I thought.

"Don't you think the demon should be killed, I mean he killed our people," yelled out an ignorant civilian council woman. This caused the rest of the civilian side to start shouting out about killing the "Demon". Keeping my cool I shouted over the crowd, "silence."

Speaking to all I said, "I knew that the civilian side and some thick headed shinobi would have trouble understanding what I did to my son, so I brought a demonstration."

I pulled out one of my sealing scrolls and a kunai; I then proceeded to seal the kunai into the scroll I then asked, "I sealed this kunai into this scroll, what does that make the scroll?"

The civilian side looked insulted and said, "it is a scroll, why would you ask us something a child would know?!" While the ninja side had a look of complete understanding on their faces.

I sighed and pulled out a toy fox that had nine tails and then sealed it into the scroll, and then I asked them if the scroll was the stuffed fox. This time I saw understanding flicker across their eyes.

"So what you are saying is that you sealed the Kyuubi into your son and it can't influence him at all," Haruno, Dan said. "That is exactly what I am trying to explain, but most of your fellow civilian council can't look past the hate you guys feel for the Kyuubi to look at the facts and realize my son isn't endangering you, because as much as it hurt I would have to leave the village if he was."

Everyone in the room looked at me in shock. "What," I asked them, "as Hokage my job is to protect the village." "If that means leaving it then I will, because it is what needs to be done," I finished explaining.

"You can't leave, you are our Hokage," a random civilian council member said. "Oh I can leave you guys if I wanted to, especially if it keeps me son alive," I said. Lucky for you guys the seal is working like it is supposed to, so I don't need to leave.

The civilian side of the council then bickered amongst themselves before Haruno spoke up and asked, "So your child is containing the Kyuubi and he can't be influenced by the beast at all as he grows up?" "To be completely honest with you, the Kyuubi can influence him if he uses too much of it's chakra. You guys don't have to worry about the village being harmed because when it comes time to teach him how to use the Kyuubi's chakra I will have him trained outside of the village."

At that Haruno looked pleased, but I could see that some of the civilians became irritated and looked like they wanted to speak out so I told the civilian council to come up with more questions about their concerns while I answered any questions the shinobi side had and I would return to them in a minute.

I looked at the shinobi side and as usual it was Nara Shikaku who voiced the questions. "so Hokage-sama our only concern is will he be able to hold back the Kyuubi without falling prey to its influence and how does the seal work," the genius Nara asked.

I looked around and saw that this question had gained the civilian sides attention. I sighed as I answered, "The Kyuubi can't influence him unless he uses too much of its chakra without being at peace with himself, and to counter that I plan on teaching him to meditate and to know where he stands on all problems he has. The answer to how the seal works is that Naruto will absorb the Kyuubi's chakra that leaks out of the seal at a slow rate, making it to where the Kyuubi should disappear by the time my son is 16. The seal also Keeps the Kyuubi locked inside of Naruto unable to get out unless Naruto himself unseals the Kyuubi."

The shinobi side talked for a few minutes before Shikaku said that they were satisfied. I then looked at the civilian side and they too gave affirmation that they were satisfied and Haruno even apologized on behalf of them and also said that if it turned out my son became a threat he hoped that I would do what was best for the village as its Hokage before I did what was best as my sons father. I nodded in agreement before telling the Council they could leave.

"Fugaku could you follow me to my office, I need to speak to you if you don't mind," I told the Uchiha.

I walked to my office with Fugaku trailing after me. When we got into the office I told him to close the door.

As soon as I sat in my chair I asked him how the clan was doing.

"We are doing pretty good Hokage-sama, why do you ask," Fugaku asked me. "I have heard rumors of a coup de etat being planned; due to you guys feeling like the village is pushing you away and not trusting you," I told him.

To say he looked shocked was an understatement, but then he went back into his cool façade. He said, "We wouldn't dare plan to overthrow you, you are our Hokage."

"Fugaku, please don't lie to me," I stated. "As Hokage it is my duty to listen to the villagers, and I can't do that if they won't tell me what is wrong; you know that I am a fair Kage and will help I can, but I am not a mind reader," I told him.

"Fine you want the truth Hokage-sama," Fugaku asked. "The truth is that we feel cut off from the rest of the village and we feel like they think it is our fault that the Kyuubi attacked," Fugaku continued, "and we also think that you and the third are slowly isolating us by that move into our own "personal" district."

"How could you think that old friend," I questioned him, "I would never isolate you I figured that like the Hyuuga's you would want your own personal place to train and raise your clan so that your bloodline was safe. "I never thought that you guys felt isolated, or I would have removed you from that one area instead of keeping you in the area the third put you in," I told him.

"We felt fine with it until the village started to treat us rudely, and today they have been worse than usual," Fugaku stated.

"Fugaku can you do me a favor and tell your clan to give it a three years and if you are still treated the same I will move you guys back into the village, I think they are blaming the Kyuubi attack on you guys," I stated.

"Three years is a long time Minato I honestly don't know if they will wait that long, and there is only so much as the head of the clan that I can do to control them," Fugaku said then added, "The best I can do is act like I am against you so that I can still attend the meetings and find out the information they are saying."

"Then do that and it will count as an s rank mission and I will see what I can do to fix the tension while you feed me inside information on how to help, though there is only so much that I can do to help" I told him.

"Anything you can do to help would be amazing Hokage-sama," Fugaku said. "Okay then you are dismissed," I told the Clan Head.

As soon as he left I went into the hidden room I had designed and after heating up a bottle, I woke my son up from the genjutsu I had placed to keep him asleep for the few hours it took for both meetings to finish and fed him.

I did feel very guilty about placing the sleeping genjutsu on him but I needed to in order to get my work done.

That reminded me I needed to speak to the village about the attack.

I brought Naruto back into my office and placed him in his swing that I had left in here for said purpose, and after starting it I sat down and seeing it was almost noon I decided to just do paperwork until Emiko arrived so that I could tell her to schedule a village meeting in front of the Hokage tower so that I can make a speech.

Time skip to May of 1654

I smiled as my seven month old son took his first steps across my office floor to my out stretched arms. When he reached them I swung him up to his extreme delight.

I walked into the secret room and put him amidst his toys saying "daddies break is over so it's time for you to play alone okay?" He seemed to nod his head at me, but I always just assume it is my eyes playing tricks on me.

It surprised me when he started trying to walk a few weeks ago, because I knew that they didn't start walking until around one. It makes me think that he will be a great ninja prodigy one day.

As I started the paperwork I couldn't help but think back to when I gave the Kyuubi speech….

Flashback begin

I stood on the roof of the Hokage tower and started speaking. A few days ago the Kyuubi attacked. It was a dark day where we defeated the Kyuubi at the cost of many lives. All of us lost someone precious, for me it was my beloved wife Uzumaki Kushina, who died after giving me my newborn son. Whether it was a wife, brother, cousin, husband, sister, grand parent, or mentor we all lost somebody; but we all have the will of fire in us so we will continue on. The day the Kyuubi attacked will live forever on in infamy. For those of you who want to mourn your loved ones the bodies have been buried with markers and I have made a memorial stone to honor those who died on the battlefield. That is all. A lot of people cheered as I left the roof and went back to the office and held my son.

Flashback end

It was kind of rough that day, but since then it has calmed down reasonably well. It is about to get easier since my little Naru-kun is starting to walk and soon he will be talking and getting potty trained.

I also remember when I gave another village speech a month after that about the way they were treating others.

Flashback begin

It has come to my attention that this village has been treating the Uchiha clan quite coldly since the Kyuubi attack and I would like to formally state that they had nothing to do with it. They weren't moved into the district because it was their fault; some of you forget that they were moved there so that like the Hyūga clan they could be allowed to train away from prying eyes. Like the Hyūga's they have some training secrets that must remain within the clan.

Another reason that I have called this meeting is to declare that there will be a meeting with Iwa to come up with a better treaty and the delegates will be here in a few weeks, so I want everyone to behave in a welcoming manner. The tree is only as strong as its roots and you guys are the leaves so you must take care to ensure that the roots are not weakened or you will fall. That is all so please be safe on your way home and good bye!

End flashback

After that relations with the Uchiha clan improved greatly and the villagers were more than welcoming to those of Iwa. We managed to get out a treaty that should work very well.

AN: And cut! So here is the second chapter! Leave a review telling what you thought and if you have any constructive criticism that will help please don't be afraid to tell me, but don't flame me because I will simply delete it and not respond to it. I have decided to slow down the story line a bit and I have made some slight changes to the story for the sake of it actually being a good story. Hopefully you guys will like it. Otaku is out