Hello again, this will be my third story and this time I will be dealing with a bit of history. As to whose history this is you will have to read to find out.

So onto the story now and don't forget to R&R.

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Hiruzen Sarutobi jumped from tree to tree as quickly as he could, he was followed by his two teammates and two platoons of ANBU. A few hours ago Konaha had received a carrier hawk with an urgent request for help from one of their old allied ninja village. The message had come from his old friend Isamu asking for help in the civil war that was taking place in their village. Hiruzen had heard of of the civil unrest that had plagued the village for the last few months. Isamu and his son, Masao had come to disagreement on who should be the leader of the village. Isamu and the elders thought that his son was too brash to lead the village in these times of relative peace just after the First Great Ninja war and wanted someone a bit more peace minded to lead the village. Hiruzen had met Masao only once, and he reminded Hiruzen of Danzo Shimura, but just a bit younger and much hastier than him. Danzo usually planed all his moves so as to minimize the loss in life as even Danzo knew that if the village lost too many ninja it would weaken the village, Masao, on the other hand, was the type who would just go ahead with his plan without any care for any loss in life the people under him would suffer as long as in the end the village won.

When his son heard what his father had planned he immediately protested as he believed in this age just after the First Great war the leader needed to be ready to take firm decision even if it meant losing a few ninja, and when the council selected Akio Kurosawa even after his protest he began to berate the new leader in public. He started playing with the fears that the villagers had with the recent shinobi wars and started planting doubts on whether the new leader could lead them to victory if they were attacked by another village. Isamu feared for what his son was doing to his dear village, he feared for his son and more than that he feared for his unborn grandson that was still inside Masao's wife. His fears came true when withinn a few months the entire village was divided into two , one that wanted Masao to lead them and the other that supported the decision of Isamu Namikaze, and the elders, and wanted Akio to remain the leader. There were continuous clashes between the two groups in their small villages, but the tension never got high enough or the clashes brutal enough to cause deaths.

All that changed last month when Akio Kurosawa was assassinated by a ninja in broad daylight. The clashes that took place that day caused the first casualties of what would turn out to be a bloody civil war within the village. From the very next day the village was a warzone with the two sides killing each other. Isamu and the ninja loyal to him managed to push Masao and his followers out of the village but at great loss of life. While Isamu had hoped Masao would leave them in peace this was not to be as Masao started using guerrilla tactics in order to weaken the village. Recently Isamu had come to know of his son's plan to launch an all-out attack in order to take over the village and that he was ready to kill everyone in the village in order to do so, including his wife and his unborn son. When Isamu found his out he immediately sent out a carrier bird to Konaha to ask for help.

And tate was the reason why Hiruzen was running through the trees with his two teammates and some of two entire platoons of ANBU. As he wondered all this Hiruzen thought back to when he first met Isamu. Hiruzen had first met Isamu when their village had sent 3 genin teams to Konaha in order to deepen the friendship between their villages and also for Konaha to teach the genin teams few tricks. This was a move that the Shodiame Hokage had decided on in order for konaha to improve its relations with other villages. While this had not been the first genin teams from a different village to arrive in Konoha, it had been the one that with which Hiruzen had been able to quickly form bonds with and among thme was also the first time he met a ninja who was able to fight him to a draw. Of course Hiruzen had grown much stronger since then, but Isamu never again fought him as he was all too happy to tell to anyone that would listen that he had fought the great God of Shinobi to a draw. This thought brought a chuckle out of Hiruzen as he tried to reach the village as quickly as he could and hoped that his old friend was alright.

Hiruzen quickly jumped down from the tree to land on the ground as he finally reached the village gates. As he looked at the broken village gates he started to fear that he had been too late to arrive there and that his friend had lost and he was already dead. But as he walked the streets of the village his fear turned to dread as he realized that what he thought might be false as well as true as in every direction that he looked there were bodies. There were bodies lying in the middle of the street as well as hanging from the rooftops of the various buildings present in the village.

The Hokage signaled the ANBU platoons that came with him to spread out and search for any survivors they could and to be as quite as possible. As the Hokage and his teammates reached the village centre his dreads were finally confirmed as the entire center was filled with bodies, some had the village headband while some had a cloth tied around their heads with a lightning drawn on it, Hiruzen deduced that it was what Masao had decided would be the new symbol for his village. It was clear that this was where the ninjas loyal to the father and son respectively had made their final stand as he could see far fewer bodies after the village center than there were before it. As Hiruzen and his teammates continued walking among the dead bodies he tried to find the body of his friend Isamu but was unable to do so. This filled him with the hope that maybe Isamu had escapedor was at least was still alive, but this news was also filled with a little trepidation as Masao's body was also not present among the dead bodies. He hoped that his ANBU platoon would be able to find Isamu as he moved towards the central building of the village.

As Hiruzen reached the central administrative building he noticed that the body count suddenly increased, Hiruzen understood the why thought, the central administrative building was the one of the most important building in the entire village, if it fell it could demoralize the village troops causing them to make mistakes and lose their lives. Hiruzen entered the building as the thought this and noticed the inside was even brutal than the outside with entire hallways blocked by bodies. Hiruzen and his teams mates searched the building for any survivors but found none. Just when Hiruzen was about to give up hope after searching the entire top floor he heard a small sound coming from one of the rooms. He quickly started searching from where the sound was coming and was surprised when it was from one of the rooms that he had already searched. He nevertheless entered the room to search it once again.

As he started searching the room once again he heard the voice again, this time coming from the walls and soon it clicked in his mind, this room had secret door hidden somewhere. He berated himself for not thinking about secret room earlier. He soon found the secret door and soon as he entered the room he was hit by the strong smell of blood and he had to cover his nose in order to go further in. From what he could see it was clear that had been a great struggle that took place in this room. There were a total of 7 bodies that he could make out in the room, six ninjas and one pregnant female. The first body that had been killed near the door was a Masao loyalist. The other 5 ninja in the room had died in battle with the pregnant woman dying in child birth. He left analyzing the battle that took place in this room for later as he tried to search for the sound that he had heard. As he neared a body at the far end of the room he heard the sudden cries of a baby from under the body.

Hiruzen slowly lifted the body out of the way to find a baby warped in clothes under the body. The baby's face was covered in blood as it started crying for its mother or father. As he once again looked at the woman at the center of the room he realized that the woman was Masao's mother and he had most probably sent ninjas here in order to get his child back.

As Hiruzen picked up the baby boy he noticed the presence of three people behind him, two were his team mates and the third was one of the ANBU platoon leaders.

"We found the body of the Isamu-sama just outside of the village just beside a crater, Sir. " Said the platoon leader.

"What about the body of Masao, did you find his body?" asked Hiruzen.

"No."

Homura and Koharu slowly walked up to him and placed their hands on his shoulder.

"Who is this baby?" asked Koharu.

"He is the grandson of Isamu, he wanted to make me his godfather." Hiruzen replied as he looked down sadly at the baby boy in his hands.

"What are we going to do about him?" asked Homura.

"This boy will be taken back and be raised as a ninja of Konoha, I will tell him about his true heritage once he is old enough." said Hiruzen.

"Are you sure about this?" asked Koharu.

"Yes!"

"Well then we need to give him a name, don't we?" said Koharu as she smiled at the baby boy in Hiruzen's hands.

Hiruzen looked down at the boy in his hands and smiled and he didn't know why but a name just popped into his heads.

"Minato, he shall he called Minato Namikaze." And as Hiruzen looked into the eyes of the boy in his hands he could feel that it would be a name everyone in the world would soon know.

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And there you have it, My own story explaining why there are no more Namikazes. Just a heads up to all the haters who will no doubt come, I have not watched the fillers episodes so if the fate of namikaze clan was already explained in it then you are more than welcome to ignore my story and just watch that again.

Well now back to this story, there was a lot more that I wanted to add but I am just too lazy.^^

That's it from me for now, don't forget to R&R.

Hasta La Vista Amigos.