For the Greater Good Chapter 4

"Naruto are you ok, what the hell happened here?" Spoke Minato out of concern for his son, shocked that his little boy had slaughtered a group of such high class shinobi and was laughing at the work that he had done, he was quite disturbed.

"Oh hey father, I saw that the Kumo ninja were trying to kidnap Hinata here, so I decided to go after them and test myself. And I must admit I am kind of awesome right." Said Naruto, proud of the façade that he had made up, a young kid trying to prove himself to his father, and trying to test his own power, it was perfect for the behavior that he was exhibiting before.

Minato, Hiashi, and the Anbu that had accompanied them were all looking at the boy in shock, it would take a couple of Jonin alone to take on the Head Ninja, but this kid decimated him and the 12 Jonin that were accompanying him, it was mind blowing. But back to the more important matters, he had saved the Hyuga heiress and had stopped the Kumo ninja from stealing any secrets they may have had, and the Byakugan. They would talk about the details of Naruto's rescue operation later, but for now they needed to decide how this would affect their alliance with Kumogakure, it was obviously off now, they would never be allied with people who betrayed their friends like that. But what would be the repercussions, would Kumo just deny that their ninja were working for the Raikage, or would they blame Konoha for the betrayal and blame them for making an unprovoked attack on their ninja. If so the Hokage wouldn't take it, he would tell the truth and make it his goal to show just how untrustworthy and dishonorable Kumo was, nobody would betray his village after extending a hand of friendship, and then blame them for the betrayal. Minato made this very clear in his message to the Raikage that he sent via messenger bird, along with the bird was a storage scroll that held the bodies of the 13 dead Kumo shinobi.

On to what happened with Naruto, Minato demanded an explanation and he was surprised to hear what he was told, his son told him that he just planned it well, but not only was he strategically smart, he was also strong and versed in various aspects of shinobi arts. This was a major slap in the face for Minato, how could he be so ignorant to not see his son advance so far and become so strong. At least that was what Naruto made him think, Madara taught Naruto a lot of things that he could do with his ocular powers, things he would have never dreamed of when he first unlocked them such as bringing people back from the dead, making meteors fall from the heavens, and summoning a giant statue that could hold the chakra of all the Bijus combined. But accompanying these powers was mind control, something that Madara had taught him and Obito when they were making their move in Kirigakure, trying to eliminate the blood line users through their control of Yagura. Minato was vulnerable to it as was almost everybody else in the world, it was the power that allowed them to control tailed beasts such as how Madara subdued the Nine Tails to fight Hashirama.

With the Hyuga incident settled Minato could now focus on what was going on with the Uchiha, Danzo and the rest of his advisors except for Hiruzen wanted to wipe the Uchiha out but they had a dilemma, they didn't want one of the most powerful clans in their village to go extinct and along with them the Sharingan. Instead they opted to agree with Itachi's offer on that he would take down his own clan, in exchange they would spare his brother Sasuke, and he in time would revive the Uchiha while they molded Sasuke to be loyal to the village and nobler than those that existed at the moment. With those characteristics instilled in him, all the Uchiha that came after him would hopefully inherit those ideals and not turn out to be assholes that considered themselves superior to everyone else. Itachi would also join an organization that Jiraiya had told them about, a new up and coming group of S class criminals called the Akatsuki.

The attack was supposed to take place in three days, and preparations for the defenses of the village in case other villages tried to attack in the chaos were being set up. It pained Minato to have to do this but he had to place his village above all else, just like when he put the Nine Tails in his daughter for the village's sake, he would need to authorize this horrendous deed and pass it on to one of his most outstanding shinobi.

Minato needed to spend time with his family, it always cheered him up just to be in proximity to them, and he could quite possibly begin to train them, even at the age of 6 both were really smart and could probably get a couple things down easy and work towards advanced techniques by the time they became Genin, it would be cool to spend time with Naruto and Naoko with their mother helping him as well. Maybe they could be prepared for the chunnin exams by the time they graduated the academy, he was already wondering who he would assign to be their sensei. Flashing to his family compound he heard something loud coming from their training ground in the back, going to see what it was he saw his small son fighting about 50 solid clones of himself, surprised he wondered how his son knew a Jonin ranked forbidden jutsu that took large amounts of chakra just to make a few, but he was currently fighting 50, even more surprising to him was that he had black chakra chains coming from his body, a technique he thought only his wife could use, also his eyes were spinning and they looked like the Rinnegan and Sharingan combined.

Sensing his father Naruto stopped, he turned to look at him and dispelled his clones in the process seeing Minato with his mouth slightly agape.

"Hi father."

"Naruto your eyes, they're the Rinnegan and Sharingan!" Minato said still trying to accept his son had the eyes that the Sage of the Six Paths had, and within them were the eyes of the Uchiha clan.

"I know."

"What do you mean you know! Do you know how you have them?"

"Because I'm a descendant of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, and in turn the creator of all Jutsu the Sage of the Sixth Paths."

"How do you know so much Naruto?"

"You underestimate me father, you have for a long time."

"But you're only six for goodness sakes."

"I know."

"How are you so calm about this and how long have you had them?"

"I'm calm because I've had them for two years, I've coped."

"My goodness, well what can you do with them?"

"A lot actually, but don't worry father, you will probably see everything in due time, but here let me show you a taste," Naruto made Minato kneel down to his height and placed his hand over Minato's head, sifting through his mind he saw what Minato had come home for and wanted to help his father, it made him uneasy to know that his father had once ordered the Uchiha clan massacre, but now it made sense, he was doing it for his village " I would love to train with you father, but I'm probably stronger than you so don't go easy on me." Said Naruto with a smile and jumped back getting into his battle stance.

"I'm the Fourth Hokage Naruto, the Yellow Flash, I'm pretty sure I can take you easily."

"Well bring it on."

Both ran at each other with speeds that would be slightly faster than the Raikage in his Lightning Release Armor. Reaching each other in less than a second they went to punch each other but their fists connected in midair, they tried to knee each other after but both connected in midair again. Jumping backwards simultaneously, Minato threw a three pronged kunai at Naruto which in turn Naruto blew away with a Shinra Tensei. Not wanting to show how strong he was to his father Naruto knew he had to lose this, so he rushed forward to punch his father and engaged in a taijutsu match that left various openings in his stance. Minato saw these openings and could tell that his son was skilled, with a bit of practice he knew his son would become a great shinobi, even maybe the Hokage, at six he had killed 13 Jonin, and could almost match the Yellow Flash in speed he was already beyond genin level. Minato thought he had evaluated Naruto enough and so finished by kicking Naruto in an opening that he had left.

"Wow Naruto, you're pretty good, how about we begin your training and you'll be amazing by the time you make genin." Said Minato with a smile.

"Sure father." Replied Naruto with a similar smile.

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6 Years Later

Naruto was sitting in his seat at the Academy all the way in the back corner, he was wearing what he normally did, black long sleeved shirt, black anbu pants, shinobi sandals, his hair had grown much larger to the point where it was almost at his lower back, part of his hair was over his left eye. Some may say that it was girlish but not after Kiba Inuzuka said it, he was insulting the son of the Hokage just to get noticed and he had paid for it dearly with a few broken ribs from one punch to the boy's chest that had sent him into a wall. But now people steered clear of him mostly, he was one of the cool kids in the class, the other one was Sasuke the last Uchiha in Konohagakure, six years earlier his entire clan was massacred by his brother Itachi, he had vowed revenge on him and had made it his life's goal to kill his brother and revive his clan. But just because it was his ultimate goal didn't mean he would let it consume him, he was cared for by many, mostly by Minato and Kushina who looked out for him from time to time, he became almost like part of the family after the death of his own, but his pride wouldn't let him have them take him in, he didn't want a new family, he just didn't mind that he was being cared for, it kept him from going into darkness, and the rivalry that he had begun with Naruto was one of his motivators.

Back in the class room, today was their final exam to become genin which would consist of a written exam and then practical exams that would evaluate whether they were ready to become the next generation of defenders for Konoha.

Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage began to make his speech that he hoped would inspire them to give it their all. "Today you are going to be tested on whether you have what it takes to become the next bearers of the will of fire, to be selfless in your objective to defend your home, your village, and your precious people that reside within it. Good Luck young cadets, I hope that you all succeed so you may begin your path to becoming the next legends of Konoha. Thank you for your time and do well. You may take it from here Iruka, Mizuki." With a smile Minato flashed away leaving most of the students except two shocked and even more determined to pass this exam, they wanted to be cool and strong like the Hokage of their village.

"Alright cadets, you will now be given your tests, try your best, and good luck." Spoke Iruka with confidence, he was confident with this year's batch of probable shinobi, he had many promising candidates. In his class sat the future clan heads of the Nara clan, Akimichi clan, Inuzuka clan, Hyuga clan, Aburame clan, the last surviving Uchiha, the son and daughter of the Fourth Hokage and many other brilliant kids that had the potential to become great shinobi. Passing out the tests he saw the fan girls of the class wish Naruto and Sasuke good luck and blow them kisses and mutter how much they loved them.

"Silence please."

The room got silent and they began to focus on their tests, the tests weren't some foolish questions about history and theory although some of that was included. A few years ago when Minato gave Naruto the test to see what he knew, Naruto completely bashed how easy the test was and Minato couldn't help but agree, so he tuned it to make it more appropriate putting in situational questions and advanced questions that would be more fitted for future shinobi than any random person with a decent knowledge of history and idea of the shinobi arts. Minato also changed the curriculum to focus more on the physical and upgrade the intellectual, but still tried to give the students the pride, loyalty, nobility, honor and caring ideals of the village.

After about half an hour the tests were finished and it was time to move on to the practical so Mizuki and Iruka began to lead everybody outside for the shuriken/kunai toss, the spar with the instructors, and the jutsu demonstrations. Naruto and Sasuke performed everything perfectly but Mizuki went a little way harder on Naruto than the others when it came to the spar, enough to where they were both fighting beyond the abilities of any genin. This surprised Naruto, Mizuki, Iruka, Sasuke, Naoko, and the rest of the kids that came from shinobi families. However when Iruka saw it was going to get out of hand he stopped it, and looked at Mizuki with a scolding face.

"Are you ok Naruto? Why did he go so hard on you?" Questioned Naoko worried for her brother.

"I don't know but I'm fine Naoko, we both know I can take him out without breaking a sweat."

"Ok big brother."

And it was true that he could take on Mizuki, he could take on several Kage level shinobi until he would have some difficulty, Mizuki was nothing compared to him, but he was wondering why he had gone harder on him, and he knew Mizuki was actually trying to hurt him but he didn't know why. After everybody was done sparing they performed their jutsu test which most students passed, it was the basic Bunshin, Henge, and Kawarmi. Finally after the day had ended most of the class had shinobi head bands to show off to their parents. Looking for their parents Naruto and Naoko began to walk further out of the Academy gates and final caught sight of them.

"Mom, Dad, we're over here!" Naoko waved at their parents.

"Hey guys, you guys made it congratulations we knew you would, how about we go celebrate!"

"Sure let's go get some Ramen." Suggested Naoko.

"That's my girl." Said Kushina with a big smile on her face.

Both Naoko and Kushina loved ramen while Naruto and Minato hated it from having eaten so much. Before they left they saw Sasuke on a swing that was close to the Academy. Minato began to walk over to him.

"Sasuke come on we are going to celebrate with ramen."

"I don't want to impose Lord Hok-"

"I'm not taking no for an answer Sasuke, you're practically part of the family now lets get going." Minato said not letting the young Uchiha reject the offer.

"Thank you sir."

Soon Minato and Sasuke joined Naruto, Kushina and Naoko, they were all beginning to walk down to the Ichiraku Ramen stand when Kushina suddenly remembered that she had her camera on her.

"Wait guys I want to take a picture! Put your headbands on."

Putting their headbands on the three of them got into position with Naoko in the middle and Sasuke and Naruto on her sides, all smiled gently for the camera. Those three had great potential, they were going to be legends when they grew up, they radiated destiny. After the photo Minato treated everybody to Ramen which put a major dent in his wallet when both Naoko and Kushina were eating.

"So how did you guys do on the tests, did those six years of training make it look like something you could do in your sleep?" Said Minato.

For the six years since Minato's spar with Naruto he began to train both Naruto and Naoko alongside with Kushina, and a while after Sasuke's family was killed he joined them when Minato invited. Together they learned things that were way beyond the level of things they should be learning at that age. Minato taught his kids techniques and put them through immense physical training while helping Sasuke with his clan jutsu, also helping Naruto with some of the Uchiha clan jutsu since he had power over the Sharingan that greatly surprised Sasuke. Then with permission from Tsunade, the last Senju technically on paper, he got permission to teach Naruto some of the Senju clan techniques, and they were very high powered. Kushina also taught Naruto how to use his Chakra chains more effectively and taught Naoko how access the Nine Tails chakra and control her biju.

"So dad are we all gonna be on the same team because that would be so cool! I mean we've trained with each other for six years, we would have amazing teamwork!" Said Naoko enthusiastically.

"Yea, I pulled a few strings and you guys will be paired together with your sensei being Kakashi my former student and former Anbu captain, how about that huh." Replied Minato with a smile, they would make a great team.

"Oh really that's awesome!" Naoko had to smile, she was on a team with her brother and a good friend, and their teacher was going to be one of her dad's students so he must be awesome and powerful.

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It was beginning to get dark and Naruto was just walking around the village evaluating his progress and things that he would need to do, he was finally in his shinobi years and this was when things were going to get more important, for the first six years he was stuck in the confines of the village and had trained to the bone and got as much knowledge as he could while he was here. But something that Naruto was not able to get his hands on was the Forbidden Scroll in the Hokage Library that was constantly guarded by Anbu. His opportunity would come soon enough when Mizuki would present himself to him and give him an "assignment to steal the Forbidden Scroll to achieve the rank of Chunnin, an exam only given to the rookie of the year of every class" as Mizuki had put it last time. Like clockwork Mizuki showed himself and made the offer, saying that he went hard on him just to test that he was worthy and Naruto agreed to it just so that he could inform his father and catch Mizuki red handed and extract information from him.

Not wanting to put Naruto in danger, Minato gave him the real scroll which Naruto began to read over in the forest, his eyes recording everything that he saw surprised at the Jutsu that was kept in this scroll, that scroll was extremely dangerous and jackpot to anybody who wanted to become powerful.

Appearing on a tree branch Mizuki shouted out to the twelve year old boy, "Good job Naruto now give me the scroll!"

From behind him came the response "I don't think so Mizuki." And with that Naruto placed his hand on Mizuki's head and extracted all the information that he could, then he pulled his soul out of his body. Before Mizuki fell off, Naruto grabbed him and then picked up the scroll that was on the floor where he teleported from and teleported to his father's office. In the office was Minato and a couple of Jonin like Kurenai, Kakashi, Asuma, Gai, and a couple of others all shocked that the Hokage's son just teleported in with a dead body on his shoulder and the Forbidden Scroll on his back. Minato was unfazed by this.

"Hey Naruto, what did you find out?"

"He wanted the scroll for the Sannin Orochimaru, Orochimaru promised him power in return for the forbidden scroll, but Mizuki didn't know where he was going to be, Orochimaru just said to grab it and escape, that he would find him."

"Damn it that snake had a spy in the village and we don't even know where he is going to be, fine Naruto thank you, you did a good job, this will count towards you record as a B ranked mission."

"Thank you father, I'll take my leave, have a big day tomorrow don't we Kakashi sensei."