It was a beautiful day in the village of Konoha and everyone was happy and going about their business normally. Deep within the SSS section of the Forest of Death was an absolutely gorgeous mansion that was surrounded by large gardens and training fields that were hidden by the large trees of the forest. The beautiful land belonged to the Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze and his late wife Kushina. No one had ever been in there including his mother Tsunade and his father Jiraya, even though they had wanted to. The reason he never allowed anyone to enter was because of a secret he had been keeping since his wife died.
He had an absolutely gorgeous baby boy that he called Naruto Minato. Baby Naruto had blond hair that was the color of the sun with big sapphire blue eyes and three whisker marks on each of his cheeks. Minato loved his son so much that he wanted no one to find out about him and take him away so he hid baby Naruto away from the outside world. That day Minato was sitting in the living room reading a book on one of his rare days off with his 8½ month old son crawling around him happily chasing a small toad Minato had summoned for him to play with: "Dada!"
Minato jerked his head up and his eyes widened in pure joy when his son smiled brightly at him: "Dada! Dada Dada!" Minato threw his book to the side and scooped his son into his arms, spinning him around as the baby giggled happily: "You said your first word Angel-Chan! I am so very proud of you my little angel!" Little Naruto giggled some more but then he looked out the window and started crying, Minato turning to see his father and mother coming through the trees: "Dammit! Why are they here of all days? I wanted to spend the day alone with my little angel." He quickly made a reinforced shadow clone and handed his son to it: "Take Angel-Chan upstairs and keep him safe while I see what the geezers want." The clone nodded and took the frightened Naruto upstairs to calm down while the real Minato went to see what his parents wanted.
He went outside and walked towards the border of his land where his parents were standing since they could not get any closer: "May I help you geezers? It is my day off after all and I wanted to spend it at home reading." "Stop calling us that Gaki! Tsu-chan and I wanted to take..." "How many times do I have to tell you that I am not going to go out on dates? Kushina-chan has not even been gone for a year and you are already trying to set me up with some wench who is most likely only interested in my name. Now go away and do not come back here or next time I will activate the seals that you are standing on." Minato looked at them for a moment and then walked back to his house, his parents looking down and their eyes widening when they saw the raiton tags on the ground. They just stood there looking at the house for a minute and then disappeared back to Konoha to tell the young woman that he was not interested as they had been doing for a few months.
Once he was back inside he went upstairs to find that Naruto had fallen asleep curled up in a ball around his favorite toad plush doll, the same toad from before curled up just above his head with a small scroll next to him. He picked up said scroll, dismissed his clone and opened it up: 'Minato-chan, Gamakichi really likes little Naruto so he will remain with him as a familiar.' Minato smiled widely and gave his son a kiss on the forehead before going down to get his book, a fond smile on his face as he heard the calm breathing of his son, Gamakichi having moved so he could be under the warm blanket as well: "I will never let anyone take you away from me my little Angel-Chan. You are the only family that I will ever need." Naruto smiled in his sleep and cuddled deeper into the blanket, Minato smiling before going back to his book.
4 years 3½ months later
Inside of his house Naruto was sitting on the porch swing drawing with Gamakichi sitting on his head: 'Naru-chan your dad is going to be mad if he finds out that you came outside without telling him beforehand you know.' Naruto gave his friend a piece of his cookie and said as he finished the picture by putting his name on it: "I know Gamakichi but I wanted to finish his birthday present without his seeing it." he put the picture into an envelope and went inside where he put the small toad on a pillow on the kitchen table with the rest of the cookies they had been eating earlier: "I am going to make daddy a pudding for his birthday and some chocolate milk to go with it!" Gamakichi smiled and watched as his friend went rushing around to make pudding, which was the only thing that he knew how to make at the moment: "OWIE! OW OW OW!" The small toad heard glass shattering and he quickly turned around to see Naruto sitting on the ground, his hands bleeding and a broken glass bowl at his feet, which were cut up and bleeding as well.
Gamakichi widened his eyes and said as Naruto started to cry: 'I am going to go and get your father Naru-chan so don't move okay? I will only be gone for a few minutes so be a big boy and stay right there okay?' Naruto nodded with tears in his eyes so Gamakichi jumped down from the center island he had jumped to when the glass broke and hopped as fast as he could towards Konoha, a determined look on his face, hoping Naruto would not be too frightened to be at home alone for a little bit.
At the Hokage Tower Minato was in is office doing some paperwork before going home for the day. Since it was his birthday his angel had said that he had a surprise planned so he could not wait to get home. His parents had come by trying to get him to go out with them on a double date but he once again refused and threw them out of his office with great annoyance on his face: 'Hokage-sama!' Minato turned towards the window and saw Gamakichi there, the poor little toad having twigs and leaves sticking out of his vest: "Gamakichi what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be..." 'Something bad happened and you need to go home now. It is an emergency!' The eyes of the Hokage widened in panic, he lifted the small toad and disappeared in a yellow flash, reappearing in the living room, the two hearing the wails of Naruto from the kitchen: "Daddy! Daddy where are you? It hurts!"
Minato dashed into the kitchen and he found his son sitting on the ground with blood soaking into his white clothes and the blood from his feet making very small puddles on the floor: "Angel-Chan! Oh Kami what happened to you?" "I...i just wanted to make you some pudding and chocolate milk for your birthday and the bowl fell..." before he could finish saying anything his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fainted because of the blood he had lost, Minato standing there panicking.
He carefully lifted his son and took him into the bathroom upstairs where he removed the glass from his feet and cleaned the wounds before bandaging his hands and feet and then laying him in the master bedroom before going to clean up the messes in the kitchen. Once he was done he turned to the table and saw the bowls and glasses that had been laid out, and envelope that had the words 'Happy Birthday Daddy!' written on it near his place at the table.
He carefully opened it and his eyes grew wide when he saw a picture of him, his wife and little Naruto sitting and laughing under one of their Sakura trees in the front yard, Gamakichi hopping around chasing a butterfly: "Oh my little Angel-Chan this is just beautiful. I also cannot believe that you ended up hurting yourself just to make me something for my birthday." He finished cleaning and wet back upstairs and lay down next to Naruto, who snuggled against him, a small twinge of pain on his face because of the cuts: "Happy Birthday Daddy." Minato sighed happily and said as he ran a hand through the hair of his son: "Thank you Angel-Chan it was beautiful." He slowly untangled himself from his son and went to shower and change into his bed clothes so he could go to sleep and have an early day tomorrow.
The next morning Naruto woke up and looked over at his father, who was sprawled over the bed snoring and mumbling in his sleep. Naruto sneaked away and into his room to get some more clothes and then went into the bathroom where he put his dirty clothes into the washer with extra bleach for the blood and then sat down to carefully unwind the bandages on his hands and feet, revealing the healed cuts that would most likely scar. He took a shower, carefully dried his hair because of his hands and put on a pair of white shorts that went to a little below the knee, a white shirt with a black spiral and white sandals with white socks. He slowly walked down the stairs so he would not irritate the wounds on his feet and went into the large room that he had claimed as his prayer room. It was there that he had an altar set up for each of the holy entities that were known as the bijuu and also one for Kami himself. Since he was three he had prayed to them and Kami to protect his father and the village that his father ran and loved so much.
He lit a candle at each of the altars and prayed in front of each of the for a good amount of time. When he had finished he lit a second candle and left the room, not noticing that a jewel appeared above the altars of the first three bijuu and connected to a necklace above the altar of Kami, said piece of jewelry glowing for a moment and then disappearing until it was ready for their most loved and loyal follower. Naruto quickly went into the kitchen again then used the plastic bowls to make the pudding he had wanted to do the day before but could not. He then made the chocolate milk and put the both of them into the refrigerator so they could stay cool until they ate and drank them. He then went to sit by the porch sliding door he had opened to draw another picture for his father while singing a song that made his father wake up and listen to.
'Child of the wilderness
born into emptiness,
learn to be lonely,
learn to find your way in darkness
Who will be there for you
comfort and care for you?
Learn to be lonely,
learn to be your one companion
Never dream out in the world
there are arms to hold you
you've always known
your heart was on its own
So laugh in your loneliness
Child of the wilderness
learn to be lonely
learn how to love life that is lived alone
Learn to be lonely,
Life can be lived
Life can be loved alone
Minato wiped the tears from his eyes and then went into the bathroom to shower and change into new clothes so he could get ready to go to the office. He had just come out of the bathroom and was tying his headband around his forehead when he heard a scream that was suddenly cut off: "ANGEL-CHAN!" He dashed downstairs and into the hallway where he found his son huddled in a corner facing the wall with Gamakichi trying to talk to him and calm him down. Minato looked out the open patio door and found an unconscious ROOT ANBU on the ground smoking from the security seals that he had placed around the house, a small scroll having fallen out of his pocket; "A...are they gone daddy?" "Stay over there with Gamakichi and I will let you know when it is safe for you to come out."
Naruto nodded and hid in the hall again while Minato picked up the knocked out body, walked towards the river and tossed the man in, the animals coming out of the forest to have the man as a meal: "Now I have proof to get rid of you and the civilian council Danzo you fucking asshole." He put the scroll into his seal protected pocket and flashed back to the house where Naruto came out of his hiding spot and jumped into his arms, his body shaking with fear: "T...that scary man tried to take me away daddy! Gamakichi tried to stop him but he was thrown to the ground hard and then the man fell asleep when those bright lights hit him." Minato brushed the hair out of the face of his son and his blood boiled with rage and hatred. His precious baby had a very bad black eye and a large cut on his lower lip as well as a bruise on his shoulder where the ROOT ANBU had grabbed him and hit him in order to silence him when he screamed.
Minato quickly made a reinforced clone and told it as he handed his son over: "I am going to go and ruin those bastards for hurting my Angel-Chan. I need you to stay here until I return so that they are not alone. And when I do return the seals around the house and grounds will be tripled, reinforced and the stone walls are going to go back up. We do not need another incident like the one that happened with Anko last year." the clone nodded and took Naruto and Gamakichi upstairs to treat their wounds. A few minutes later Naruto looked up from where he was holding his bandaged familiar: "Clone daddy can I ask you a question?" "Of course you can Angel-Chan what would you like to know?"
Naruto put a hand over his bruised eye and asked: "Why is this eye all dark? I can't see out of it at all." The clone widened his eyes and then kneeling in front of the young man: "Move your hand and let me see it Angel-Chan. Don't worry it will not hurt one bit." Naruto nodded and moved his hand away, Gamakichi on his shoulder resting and watching what was going on. After a little while the clone dismissed his diagnostic jutsu and said with a sad smile on his face: "I am sorry but you will not be able to see out of that eye again Angel-Chan." Tears came to the eyes of the little boy and he started to cry, the Minato clone taking him into his arms, holding the sobbing boy tightly, Gamakichi sitting on the bed sadly because he had no idea what to do with what happened to his friend.
When the little boy had cried himself to sleep the Minato clone lay him back down on the bed and left his toad familiar to watch over him in case he had a nightmare of what happened. He then went downstairs and paced back and forth on the porch mumbling to himself before going to the basement training rooms. He had locked himself inside, activated the sound barriers and started screaming to the heavens: "WHY? WHY DID YOU TAKE THE EYE OF MY BABY AWAY KAMI? HE HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG TO WARRANT THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT!" the clone ranted for a good amount of time and then went back upstairs where he saw that Naruto was still asleep, tears falling from his closed eyes, Gamakichi in his arms securely, the toad asleep as well.
Later that night at around seven in the evening Minato dragged himself into his home and lay down on the sofa, a tired look on his face. He had executed all of the civilian council members and Danzo when he found out that they were trying to take his power away and then trying to take over Konoha as well. They had lost the two elders as well so now he had to find two new advisers and some trustworthy people to make up the civilian council: "Boss I have something that you need to know so I am going to dispel myself. Angel-Chan and his familiar are also in the playroom drawing so you may want to go and see him afterward." Minato sat up and nodded so when the clone disappeared and he had gotten the memories of earlier he dashed to the playroom where he saw his son and toad familiar drawing. Naruto looked up and tears came to the eyes of Minato when he saw the white eye-patch of his son: "Welcome home daddy! I am glad that you finally came back home."
He moved away from the table and hugged his father around the legs, said man sinking to his knees and holding his son tightly, the tears pouring down his face: "Oh Angel-Chan I cannot believe that you have lost your right eye! If those bastards were not already dead I would go find them and kill them again." They stayed like that for a little while and then Naruto said: "Daddy I made something for you! Come to the kitchen so we can show you!" Gamakichi jumped onto his head and the little boy carefully made his way down the hall then held the hand of his father as they walked down the stairs where Naruto had once again set the table with Gamakichi sitting on his special pillow in his own spot.
Naruto opened the refrigerator and pulled out a large jug of chocolate milk that he put on the table. He then went back into the refrigerator to pull out a beautiful chocolate and raspberry pudding that had a sprig of mint on top of a candied raspberry: "Angel-Chan this is absolutely beautiful! How is it that you were able to make something like this?" Naruto put the bowl on the table, went to the library down the hall and brought back a cookbook: "I found it in here daddy. I wanted to make you something special for your birthday but knew you would not let me use the oven, even if a clone was here with me." "Most certainly not! But this still looks absolutely delicious Angel-Chan so thank you." Naruto smiled widely and slowly served each of them a bowl of the pudding a large glass of the chocolate milk, said young man putting a straw in the glass of Gamakichi so he could drink it as well.
Minato took some of the pudding and closed his eyes after he had eaten it: "Oh Kami this is outstanding Angel-Chan!" he also took a drink of the milk at the same time and then cried tears of joy: "Oh this is absolutely heavenly!" they finished with everything and when all of the dishes were done and put away Naruto pulled another envelope out and said: "I made you another picture daddy so you have something to open. Now if you will excuse me I have evening prayers and I do not want to be late." Naruto gave his father a quick hug and then went into the prayer room while the small toad went to the playroom to finish his drawing.
Minato took the paper out of the envelope and his eyes widened when he saw the beautiful picture of Kushina with the wings of an angel and her red hair flowing in the wind as she flew: "Oh Kushina-chan how I miss you. And I know that you would have loved our beloved Angel-Chan as much as I do." He went into the master bedroom and pulled out an empty picture frame to put the picture in: "This is going to be put on my desk in the Hokage Tower. Hopefully no one will ask where it came from." He smiled at the picture and then went downstairs to plan out a training regimen for his son so he would be able to defend himself if something like this happened again.
Damn this took longer than I thought it would. I hope that all of you enjoy this segment of this story and please rate and review on it. And just to let you know I am not going to be pairing Naruto with anyone but there will be many one sided love interests when he finally reveals himself. Good-bye for now! Obi-Chan.