Turmanarmo: Alright here is the last chapter of this story. It has been a wild ride and I look forward to seeing your response to this chapter.

Shino: It sure is strange that you were able to get this chapter out this quickly. Why, because the previous one took you almost an entire month.

Turmanarmo: Well this was part of Chapter 14 but it ended up really long so I split it in half once I wrote the prank scene since it was the last part of the chapter I finished. Anyways, get on with the disclaimer Shino, oh and a big thank you to all of you who stuck with me through this whole adventure and a big thank you to all of you who have reviewed, followed, or favorited.

Shino: Turmanarmo does not own the anime and manga that centers around Naruto, why, because his name is not Masashi Kishimoto.

Tsunade sighed at the eleven Shinobi in front of her as she said, "Now that all of you are here but Sai, who is being taken care of by Danzo, we can begin. I have to say though; even if I should have seen this coming, I am somewhat disappointed in you all. You are some of my best upcoming Shinobi, so surely you could have done a better job of concealing who did the prank. Instead, it literally screams who did it; I hope you all do better at concealment when you do your missions. Plus now I have to do so much more paperwork since I have to formally write a report of the instance into all of your files, whereas if it had been more discreet I would just have to write up a single report for the prank and everything would be done. So, what do you have to say for yourselves?"

Shikamaru walked forwards and said, "As troublesome as all of that paperwork will be for you, we made it obvious on purpose. Most of us realized that if an untraceable prank were to be played on the village, the blame would all be redirected to Naruto and that was not our intent with this prank. When we were first planning this I thought it would be best if we made it obvious to those who still oppose Naruto that we all have his back. Sure they all know that you and Jiraiya-sama support him, but we just basically declared that some of the most promising members of the next generation have his back. It also helps that several of us are the heirs and heiresses of our respective clans which shows that he will have the support of those clans once our time comes."

Tsunade grinned as she said, "Oh I got that message loud and clear. It was rather humorous to see the faces of the elders when they realized the message of this prank as well. Despite their efforts to isolate the Gaki early on, he has managed to get the backing of many of the strongest members of the village's Jonin as well as the support of the next generation."

Tsunade frowned as she continued, "Unfortunately as I mentioned earlier I will still need to scold the lot of you for conduct unbecoming of a Shinobi of this village. So consider yourselves scolded, like I said, this will be noted in your record. Now as punishment I think I will assign you all some intensive training for the rest of the week you had off before you resume regular duties."

At this Tsunade smirked when she heard the combination of excited cheers, indifferent grunts, and one particularly loud groan from the group before her. Then she said, "However before you leave I have something else to tell all of you. But first, ANBU, if you would all leave and tell the others waiting outside that they can come in now."

The members of the Konoha 11 looked around confused for a second before they became even more confused when they saw Kakashi walk in along with Jiraiya. Once they all entered Tsunade said, "Okay Kakashi, if you would please sweep the office for listening ears while I erect 'his' privacy seals."

Kakashi waited for Tsunade to activate the seal before he raised his headband to sweep the office with his Sharingan as he asked, "Tsunade-sama, why are you using Minato-sensei's security seals, no one but myself, Jiraiya, and the Hokage know how to penetrate those, and that is only because he taught us how and we taught you and Sarutobi-sama. Surely whatever conversation we are about to have can't need that level of security?"

Tsunade frowned as she said, "Oh but it does Kakashi, since there are only a total of three living people who know this secret to my knowledge"

Jiraiya looked shocked as he looked over and said, "Surely you don't mean 'that' Tsunade-Hime. Sarutobi-sensei and I decided to keep it a secret because it was such a dangerous secret and we couldn't risk it getting out like Naruto's status had. The only reason Kakashi knows is because he was told by Minato beforehand and was two damn smart to be fooled when we tried to hide it from him."

Kakashi finished up his scan and said, "There are no sources of chakra to indicate a hidden presence or listening seal, though since Sensei's seal is designed to flush all of those out and destroy them automatically I am not surprised. However I have to agree somewhat with Jiraiya-sama, are you sure we should be telling this to everyone. I am fine with telling him, but what about the others."

Everyone else present was looking on confused at the three before Naruto shouted, "Hey, what are you all talking about 'tebayo."

Tsunade looked over and said, "You will find out in a moment Gaki. Jiraiya, I plan on telling him regardless but I think you two should have more trust in those here. I could understand if we were talking about revealing this to someone else, but these are Naruto's closest friends, they would never willingly put him in danger by revealing any of his secrets."

Jiraiya and Kakashi remained silent for a moment before Kakashi spoke up, "You are right Tsunade-sama. But I must wonder, what brought this on all of a sudden?"

Tsunade snorted as she said, "Well it was a combination of things, it is partly as a reward for doing what we asked and partly because despite the fact that we were supposed to wait until he was a chuunin to tell him, he is past that level in ability and he may not have the opportunity to take the exams for some time due to the increased activity of the Akatsuki."

Naruto was getting frustrated as he said, "Okay seriously, this is annoying, why are you talking like we aren't in the room, can someone please just tell me what is going on already."

Kakashi sighed and said, "Naruto, I know this is frustrating but what we are about to tell you is important. And this part goes for all of you, this secret has the potential to put Naruto in just as much or more danger as the knowledge of his Jinchuuriki status does, so no one should reveal this to anyone outside of this room."

Kakashi seemed slightly nervous as he said, "I am afraid we have been lying to you about another part of your life Naruto, and it is time we came clean about it. We know who your parents were."

There were a number of gasps from the members of the group, but Naruto's response was the most severe. His mouth was opening and closing like a fish and he looked shell shocked before he suddenly looked up with slightly tinted eyes and whispered, "What?"

Tsunade sighed as she said, "You heard him Naruto, we know who your parents are. They died the day of your birth just like you were told, however, we are going to now tell you who they were and what we know of the event that led to their deaths. Honestly of those of us here Kakashi would know the most since he was actually in the village at the time of your birth so I think it would be best if he took control of most of this conversation, though Jiraiya and myself may add something if Kakashi forgets anything or doesn't know the answer to one of your questions."

Naruto had moved over to one of the chairs in the office, as had the rest of the group who all were now looking at Kakashi expectantly while Naruto sat looking down and trying to regulate his breathing.

Kakashi sighed as he dragged a chair over and sat across from the group before saying, "Okay, I think it would be best to start with your mother. Her name was Kushina Uzumaki and she was the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi before you."

Naruto's head shot strait up as he said, "The Jinchuuriki before me, how is that possible dattebayo?"

Kakashi stayed silent for a short time as he said, "Well given the fact that all of the people who were present at the time are now dead we aren't totally sure of the details. However, sometime after you were born the Kyuubi was somehow released from her seal and attacked the village. We know that her seal was slightly weakened due to the effects of her pregnancy, but Minato-sensei was there to keep the seal sturdy and so we believe that something else must have occurred that evening that prevented him from being able to redo the seal since the Kyuubi escaped."

Kakashi hummed as he said, "After that the Kyuubi somehow appeared inside of the village and began attacking before Sensei eventually appeared and managed to teleport himself and Kyuubi away using his Hiraishin. From here we know little of what happened until Sarutobi-sama managed to reach the location he had teleported to. Here he was prevented from interfering by a barrier put up by your mother. She had managed to survive the extraction just barely due to her special Chakra and was trying to assist in the containment of the Kyuubi. He witnessed Minato-sensei perform a seal known as the Shiki Fujin which allowed him to seal away half of Kyuubi's power inside himself at the cost of his own soul. He and Kushina were both going to die at this point and so when Kyuubi tried to impale you with a claw to keep from being sealed again they threw themselves in the way to protect you and after that Sensei performed the Eight Trigrams Seal and sealed the other half inside of you before they both died."

Naruto looked torn as he said, "But why would she agree to let me be made the next Jinchuuriki if she was the previous one, surely she must have known what it was like to grow up as one so why would she have agreed?"

Kakashi sighed as he said, "Well knowing Kushina, she was likely very opposed to it. She likely wanted to seal the Kyuubi back into herself taking him with her to her grave. However, Sensei likely convinced her otherwise. As you know there would be two major issues that would result if the Kyuubi were destroyed in that manner. First and foremost would be the fact that he would reform eventually and likely cause more destruction wherever he reappeared. Second, there was no guarantee that a good host would be available the next time he appeared, but you were available at that moment. Kushina was chosen to be the Jinchuuriki due to her Chakra, it was exceedingly potent, even for an Uzumaki and so there was a chance she would have passed that on to you which would make you an ideal Jinchuuriki. Also, you would have been exposed to his Chakra in her system for the entire time of her pregnancy, giving you a head start on the potential resonance as well."

Kakashi took a deep breath before he said his next sentence fearing what the reaction would be, "Of course another reason Minato-sensei may have been able to convince her was due to the fact that he had some say in the decision as well since he was your father."

At this news the eyes of all those present grew wide and most of them were now looking at Naruto. Kakashi and Jiraiya were slightly on guard since they were unsure of how Naruto would react to the news that his father was the one who had sealed the Bijuu inside him.

Shock seemed to be the emotion that won out for a long time before Naruto finally looked up and said, "S-say that again."

Kakashi sighed as he said, "You heard right Naruto, the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze, was your father."

Naruto's face seemed to be torn between joy at knowing the identities of his parents and anger at the identity of his father. Eventually he settled on some mix of sorrow and rage as he looked at Kakashi with tears in his eyes before choking out, "B-but why? It wasn't even an order then, my own father willingly condemned me to this life. I get that it had to be done and I would never wish this on someone else, but what possessed him to do this to me, his own son, did he hate me that much 'tebayo?"

Several of the members of the Konoha 11 winced and Jiraiya looked like he was about to make a retort before Tsunade silenced him with a glare as Kakashi grabbed Naruto by the shoulders and said, "Never think that Naruto, both of your parents loved you dearly and it wouldn't have been an easy decision to make you the Jinchuuriki. There were only two other times Minato-sensei seemed even half as happy as when he told me that he was going to be a father, and those were when Kushina agreed to be his wife, and the day he was announced as the Yondaime. As I told you the other day, Sensei would have had a reason to seal the Kyuubi into you and one of those would have been because you were his son."

Kakashi squeezed Naruto's shoulders as he continued, "Honestly for him that would have been enough, the fact that you had the greatest chance due to your Uzumaki blood would have taken a back seat to the fact that you were his son and Minato always had complete faith in the abilities of anyone he considered his family so I am sure that applied to you as well."

Silence enveloped the room for a short time before Naruto mumbled something which prompted Kakashi to ask, "What?"

Naruto glared into Kakashi's eyes as he said, "What family, the only family he would have had would be his wife and I. As far as I know he grew up as an orphan and was never adopted, he had no siblings and no known relatives, so what family was there to have faith in?"

As Kakashi looked down it was actually Tsunade who spoke up, "I may not have been around when you were born Naruto, but I do know that while Jiraiya was training Minato he did exactly what you did. He made a family out of his teammates and sensei. Eventually his teammate's lives were taken by the wars of that time and he only had Jiraiya and his friend Kushina left when I left the village, but he always had confidence in their abilities."

Jiraiya spoke up next and said, "When he became a Jonin-Sensei Minato made his team his new family. This was especially true with Kakashi since Minato wanted to make sure that Kakashi had a father figure to look up to after Sakumo committed suicide. Soon after the Third Great Shinobi World War Minato finally married Kushina and began to make a family of his own."

Naruto looked confused as he said, "Wait, Kakashi was an orphan too."

Kakashi laughed hollowly as he said, "You would notice that above all the rest of that information, wouldn't you. Ah well, technically I was already an adult when my father died since I was a chuunin by that time. Though I must admit, being nine years old when you come home to find your father dead on the floor is a bit shocking, even if I was a Shinobi during a war."

Naruto bowed his head and said, "Sorry, I didn't know, that must have been hard dattebayo. Wait, how were you a chuunin at nine, you can't graduate the academy until you turn thirteen so how is that possible?"

Tsunade sighed as she said, "It is an unfortunate fact of children born into wartime, if you show even the smallest amount of potential you are put on the fast track to graduate early and Kakashi had so much potential that he graduated at the age of five and became chuunin at six. Minato was actually the one to add the law to prevent children from graduating early, and since we were in peacetime when Sensei took back over he saw no reason to remove the law."

Naruto was shocked to hear this as he said, "Whoa, I can't imagine having been strong enough at age six to pass the chuunin exams. Say, when did you become a Jonin Kakashi-sensei?"

Kakashi sighed as he said, "I became a Jonin at thirteen Naruto, but that really isn't pertinent to what we were discussing, do you have any further questions about your parents?"

Naruto looked thoughtful for a few moments before he said, "Well, I know a lot about what my dad was like from the times Sandaime-Jiji would tell me about the Hokage and so I was wondering if you could tell me a bit more about my mother as an adult, and a bit about what they were like as children."

Jiraiya spoke up, "Well, Tsunade could probably tell you a bit more about Kushina as a child since they were distantly related and Kushina lived in one of the wings of the Senju clan grounds, but as an adult I know she was not only a very powerful Kunoichi but she was also smoking hot."

Tsunade punched Jiraiya into the floor and growled out, "He wanted to know about her personality, not your perverted opinion of her looks. If he wants to know what she looked like he can look at the pictures Sensei had stored in his desk. Now keep your perversion down or I will have Kakashi do it, he did spend about ten months watching her during her pregnancy after all."

Naruto snorted as he said, "I can't believe you watched me both before and after I was born Kakashi-sensei, that is hilarious. So anyways, as you were saying Ero-sennin."

Jiraiya finally managed to stand up as he groaned out, "Why must you hit so hard Hime. Okay, despite the fact that you look mostly like Minato your personality takes more after Kushina, she was a feisty one and she was a very emotionally driven person. Though she had a bit more of an anger issue than you, sure you get offended easy, but at least you restrict it to yelling at people instead of assaulting them. She was also a bit of a prankster in her day from my understanding and she was always one to try and have fun. She was able to be serious and stay calm when necessary, though she had a harder time of it if someone she cared for was in danger."

Kakashi hummed as he said, "Even if the rambunctious part of your personality comes from Kushina, the way you act in battle is a combination of them both. They were both quite adept in battle and could come up with creative ways to defeat enemies on the fly. You do the same since you often decide how to defeat an enemy while fighting them instead of relying on pre-planned tactics. Sure it doesn't always work out for the best, but it sure is better than being inflexible and dying because you weren't willing to improvise when your plan went south. Plus, I will let you in on a little secret Minato-sensei shared with me, you got your ramen obsession from him."

Jiraiya's neck made a snapping sound as he rounded on Kakashi and said, "What! Minato wasn't obsessed with Ramen, it was Kushina, she made the stuff all the time and he ate it because he liked her recipe."

Kakashi eye smiled™ and said, "Nope, that isn't quite the case, yes Kushina made it all the time, but that was because Sensei liked Ramen so much. He never told anyone because he was afraid people would make fun of him if they found out he liked such an unhealthy food. He told me about it during the pregnancy when I overheard Kushina yelling at him for causing her cravings for Ramen. Apparently Naruto liked his ramen even in the womb, Minato either made Ramen himself or ordered from Ichiraku almost every night for several months in there. By the tenth month Kushina was so sick of ramen she swore she was never making the stuff for Minato again to spite him, though Minato convinced her to at least make it every once in a while if Naruto ended up being a fan of it too."

Tsunade chuckled before saying, "Well that explains why she suddenly developed a taste for ramen when she started dating Minato, regardless, when she was growing up Kushina had an even shorter fuse than she did as an adult if memory serves. It was during her time in the academy where she first developed her nickname, the Red Hot Habanero, because she was extremely violent and would beat up anyone who gave her crap about her hair or her status as an outsider. I also remember her ranting about this boy in class who she thought looked like a total sissy who was always staring at her."

Jiraiya looked disgruntled as he said, "Minato couldn't help it, he was smitten by her since he had a thing for redheads and at that point in his life he was a bit on the shy side."

Ino was the one to respond to that as she sputtered, "But how could she think he was a sissy, he looks so strong in all the pictures?"

Tsunade smirked as she looked at Jiraiya and said, "Show them the picture."

After much grumbling Jiraiya pulled out an academy picture of Minato and showed it to the room eliciting several snickers from Naruto's friends and caused Naruto to say, "Wow, Mom was right, Dad did look like a sissy back then, hard to believe how much cooler he looks later on 'tebayo."

Tsunade snorted as she said, "I know right. Regardless, after she and Minato became friends she eventually realized why he was always staring and they started to date. That helped her to mellow out quite a lot and she was finally able to understand the meaning of the advice my grandmother gave before they transferred the Kyuubi from her to Kushina."

Naruto looked up and asked, "What advice?"

Tsunade smiled as she said, "I believe it was something along the lines of, 'before you can house the hatred of the Kyuubi, you must fill your vessel with love. Do that and even the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki can live a happy life.'"

Naruto smiled slightly as he said, "I think that was great advice, I know that the love of all my friends and my precious people has definitely made this burden easier to bear. So, anyways, we know Dad looked like a sissy when he was in the academy, but what was he really like."

Jiraiya hummed as he said, "Well, when I first got Minato on my team he was very reserved for a child and he didn't have a whole lot of skills outside of being fast. However he was determined to become the world's fastest Shinobi since the Nidaime and so I continued to train him to increase his speed and Taijutsu skills. Later I discovered that he had an insanely analytical mind and decided to hone that as well. When he started dating Kushina he began showing an interest in Fuinjutsu as well and so Kushina and I taught him all that we knew and he picked it up like a sponge, Kushina even jokingly said that he must have had a little Uzumaki in him given how well he picked up sealing."

Jiraiya laughed as he said, "Honestly Minato didn't change much from childhood to adulthood except that he gained more confidence in himself as time went by. He was always calm and cool in everything that didn't involve Kushina and it was honestly hilarious to see the way he would change around her. So Naruto, do you have any other questions about your parents?"

Naruto shook his head as he said, "No, not really, though I do have something to say to Kakashi. Since Dad became your father figure, does that make us sort of adoptive brothers? Hmm Kakashi-nii."

Karachi chuckled as he said, "I suppose it does Naruto, though you can't call me that in public my cute little student. So, most of you have been quiet during all of this, do any of you guys have anything to ask or say in regards to this revelation."

Naruto glanced back at all of his friends who seemed pretty shocked for the most part before Shikamaru sighed and said, "Honestly you may need to give some of them a few minutes before they can process the fact that our lovable baka is the son of one of the greatest geniuses that our village has ever produced."

Naruto nodded before asking, "Hey why aren't you like that Shikamaru?"

Shikamaru smirked as he said, "Well I had kind of expected that to some degree. When you told us about the Kyuubi it got me thinking and I realized you looked so much like the Yondaime that it might not be a coincidence and when they said that the identity of your parents could get you killed it pretty much confirmed it for me."

Jiraiya grumbled, "You darn Nara and your intelligence. If you figured it out then there is a good chance your father realized it as well quite some time ago. Well at least he is smart enough to keep the secret since he would realize the danger in it."

Ino raised her hand and said, "Actually, that brings up a question I have, why would others knowing about Naruto's parents be a bad thing? Surely those in the village might treat him at least a little bit better if they knew he was the son of their beloved Hokage."

Tsunade laughed as she said, "Well, even if you were right and his relation to Minato made any difference to the villagers I am not convinced it would necessarily be a good change. He would most likely have many of the same people that currently hate him, trying to suck up to him and gain influence with him if they thought he was someone important. Besides that response though, there would be many who either wouldn't care or would hate him more. Minato had many enemies both inside and out of the village. Could you imagine what Iwa would do if they found out that the man who single handedly killed hundreds of their Shinobi had a living child. That was why they decided that things would be better for Naruto if this connection remained a secret."

Lee was the next one to ask, "Okay, I get why others can't be told, but surely Naruto could have been allowed to know this information earlier. And what about his mother, no one knows that they were together so why would it be harmful for him to know about her."

Kakashi sighed as he said, "As you may know, when Naruto was younger he wasn't the best at being quiet when he needed to. The only reason he was able to keep the secret of the Kyuubi was because he was terrified of losing you guys if any of you knew. With the knowledge that his father was the Yondaime he might have very well chosen to tell others in an effort to get them to stop looking down on him."

Kakashi sighed before saying, "As to his mother, I tried convincing the Sandaime to tell him about Kushina, but he believed that telling Naruto that secret could be as dangerous as telling him about Minato. If anyone were to find out who she was they may be able to make the connection back to Minato. Sure no one knew for sure that Kushina and Minato were married, but many people knew that they were good friends and often spent a lot of time together and with Naruto's uncanny resemblance to Minato it wouldn't have been too far of a leap to realize they may have had a child."

Shino spoke up next, "Then it would also be illogical to use the clan name Uzumaki, why, because she was the only known Uzumaki living in the village at that point."

Jiraiya chuckled before saying, "Yes that may be the case, but Naruto is a bit of an anomaly in the Uzumaki clan. The majority of Uzumaki have that unique trait of bright red hair and so without that trait many people likely assume that he was just given the name since the clan is mostly extinct and extinct clan names are often given to orphans. Though I must admit, we seriously considered giving him a generic name for the reasons you gave, but in the end we decided to let him at least have a small connection to his family, even if he didn't know about it. For once we were thankful for the ignorant hatred of the villagers since they could never bring themselves to believe he was the son of any of their heroes unless the Hokage came out and said it."

Tsunade hummed as she said, "Well, do any of you have any more questions? … Okay, then I think we are done for now, remember not to tell anyone about what you learned today, and if you are interested in seeing pictures of them come by my office later Naruto. I only have one more thing to say before you all leave. I don't know what all your futures will hold but those of you here today have Wills of Fire on the level of a Hokage, and Naruto has the strongest Will of Fire I have seen since my Grandfather. We may be in for some hard times to come with the Akatsuki being as active as they have been, but no matter what happens remember your bonds and support one another and you will be able to make it through."

Eleven Shinobi left the office of the Hokage with a determination to get stronger as a group and to devote themselves to protecting and helping one another. The bond of these Shinobi would be tested often over the coming months and years, but despite it all they remained together and Konoha prospered because of it.

Alright, this story is finally done. I hope this turned out well and you all enjoyed reading this story. I am thankful for all the reviews, follows, and favorites as well and I wish you all well. I am not sure whether or not I will write another story after this but if I do I will probably try and write a good portion of it before posting anything unlike with this story so it will likely take quite some time before you see anything else from me.

Anywho, this chapter was 5103 words long this time. Ironically, this chapter was done before the previous one, I just couldn't come up with an idea for the prank and so I kept writing the rest of the story hoping the prank would come to me later. In the end, it worked out though so here it is, I have had fun writing this little story but I am glad I am finally done with it, goodbye.