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Everything was quite in Konoha that morning. No one could imagine that anything weird or strange was going to happen but if they only new how wrong they were. At 6:00 am a loud cry was heard from the most unlikely place in all the village. This crying it appeared to come from the roof of the Hokage Tower. Why would a baby be heard crying his heart out from that place. In the end it did not matter to most people, but it was giving the Sandaime Hokage a pounding headache. I guess drinking so much sake with 2 of your own students tends to give you a real nasty hangover, and the crying he was hearing was not making matters any better. "Anbu go and check where in all places is that crying coming from! or so help me I will find a way to make you feel what I feel right now!" The anbu guarding the office did not need to be told twice. What he found was astonishing, in the middle of the roof was a crying baby wearing nothing except a large piece of cloth bearing the uchiha fan. Some sick person abandoned this child where the Hokage would be the first person to find him.
"What did you tori?" the anbu did not know how to answer except simply placing the bundle on top of his desk. "Mind telling me where did infant came from and why did you place him on my desk?" The anbu was simply smiling and answered, "That baby was on the roof of this building, Hokage-sama." Hiruzen was taken back by the sheer cruelty of someone abandoning a child where there was no one to feed, clean or take care of him. But the thing that made him almost fall on out of his chair was when he saw the symbol that was on the cloth that the boy was wrapped in. There was no mistake about it. The symbol was the Uchiha Clan Symbol, the Uchiha Fan. The question began to go around in his head. "I don't think anyone would be foolish enough to abandon a child from a noble clan. It would be sheer suicide to even do this to make a child be part of a noble clan. The clan head would most certainly want the guilty party found and punished severely if they did. What do we do with a child who appears to be a member of the Uchiha noble clan? Do we dare place him in an orphanage? I know one thing for certain if we did without discussing it with Kagami he would be so angry that I might want to talk to some of the women Jiraiya was peeking at while in the hot springs, at least they would show some mercy."
You would think that after the Second World War that there was nothing that could scare a Hokage of his caliber. That there was no situation that could possibly be so difficult that he would go into cold sweat just by thinking about the solution. A problem that made him think the solution was as pleasant as having his tongue pulled by Tsunade while she yells at him what was wrong with him. But there was a problem that big and that scary. For you see as soon as he called Kagami to his office he was sitting with a baby wrapped in what would be called a large piece of cloth bearing his clan symbol and the Hokage had absolutely no explanation as to where, how and who this child even was.
"So let me get this straight, Hokage-sama. This infant was found on the roof of this very building wrapped with this very cloth and you have no idea how he got there?" Hiruzen simply nodded. "And you are asking me what should we do with an unidentified, supposed uchiha newborn? If you are even thinking of sending him to that godawful orphanage you better think again! I will not subject one of my clan to that place while I hold life in me!"
Kagami was more concerned that the Hokage had first imagined. At first he was thinking that the Uchiha clan head was going to be angry that someone could be doing all this to unload an unwanted child onto a clan with prestige and social standing. But will the outburst he was not angry about what it meant to the clan, he was angry at the possible mistreatment of one of his own. The questions that kept repeating in his mind was, 'Why did Kagami believe right on the onset that this child was an Uchiha? Why did he not question it? Why did he not demand that they conduct some test and find this child's parents?'
"Kagami, could you please answer on question for me?" Kagami having calmed down a little simply nodded. "Why are you so sure that this child is a member of your clan?" Kagami could not understand the reason for the question. The answer was quite obvious, the cloth was inlaid with a message, the clan symbol carried all the markings and signs of authenticity. The message was clear as day, this was the grand child of Madara Uchiha, the message clearly stated it. "Hokage-sama am i to believe that you can not read the message that is on that cloth?" Hiruzen was taken back, "What message?"
Kagami simply picked the cloth and he spread it evenly on the desk, as he pointed at the cloth. "That message, it is as plain as day. Maybe because you don't have our doujutsu. Very well let me and read it for you.
To my honorable clan:
My name might not be as welcomed, or liked as I once was but I ask that you hold it not against this child.My name is Madara Uchiha, and this child is my beloved grand child. For reasons beyond my control I had to leave my grandson but I made certain that he would be at the most secure place and easy for him to be found. If the current clan head finds him or is reading this I humbly ask you to not abandon my grandson or blame him for his relation to me. I request that he be raised by a kind and caring family of our clan so that he might have a normal and happy childhood. His mother, my son-in law and more than likely myself will no longer exist in this plane of existence, but this will not allow my soul to rest in peace until my grandson is safe. I ask and beg you to tell the Hokage of this message and fulfill the final wish of a dying man.
Madara Uchiha
The hokage was amazed to such a long message on the cloth. "Why write the message on the cloth and not a scroll?" Kagami simply smiled, "The message was written using and old Uchiha technique, the use of chakra and blood as ink. This message will not fade unless the cloth is burned by the flames of amaterasu. This man calling himself Madara Uchiha must have really loved this child."
"Well who do you think should raise the child?" Kagami simply looked at the blood child and could not help but to feel this child was such a small, innocent baby. "I believe that this child will be raised by me and my family. I will make certain that his grandfather's final wish is fulfilled. Plus he can be a god sent to my little girl, Mitoko can get some early experience in the care of children." Hokage could only laugh. "She is only 5 years old and you are already trying to play match maker? What would you tell that controlling wife of yours?"
Kagami hearing this he too laughed, "Hiruzen, I will simply tell her an old friend and his family died due to natural disaster in a village outside of Konoha and that we had decided if that his grandson became an orphan I would take responsibility for him and raise him. As to being a match maker, who knows. The might see each other as siblings, but if this child grows to be a strong, kind young man. Consider who his grandfather is? He will be strong, and if this child could eventually make my daughter happy why wait? This child might be the savior that my clan needed all long."
And so began the life of Naruto Uchiha in the head family, would Mitoko see him as a friend? a brother? or something else? And would this stop the evil schemes of Fugaku's parents. Kagami did not get along with them so well. They would do anything in other to get power and get ahead. Only the heavens could know what was is stored for Naruto, but if his smiling face was any indication Kagami did not have much to fear.