NUMBER 3! I am terrible at writing fight scenes...

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CHAPTER THREE

Minato sat there staring at the blonde duo in his office. He had taken a chance to bring them here. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. He leaned back in his chair and lifted his hand to his mouth grabbing his chin to think. There was an awkward moment of silence as those words rang through everyone's mind, until Minato finally broke the silence.

"My son?" Minato repeated.

"Yes," Naruto said firmly, "and this is Boruto, my son and your grandson."

"My grandson," Minato repeated in disbelief eyeing the younger blonde for a moment.

Naruto didn't say anything.

"You expect me to believe that?" Minato asked.

Naruto shook his head, "not a first no, but maybe if I give you proof you will."

"That your from the future?" Minato asked.

Naruto nodded, "Almost 33 years to be exact."

"33 years?" Minato repeated.

"Yes," Naruto said, "You are my father, and Uzumaki Kushina is my mother. In fact I believe she is pregnant with me right now and if I am right on the date, my best friend Uchiha Sasuke was born this morning."

"Uncle Sasuke?" Boruto asked, and Naruto nodded in reply.

"How did you know that?" Jiraiya asked.

"Its July 23rd, is it not?" Naruto asked gazing a little longer than he should have at his old sensei.

"It is," Minato nodded, "When were you born?"

"October 10th," Naruto replied.

"Who are Sasuke's parents?" Minato asked testing the elder boy.

"Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto, head of the Uchiha clan. His elder brother is Itachi," Naruto said, "You can ask me anything."

Minato sighed, "Alright."

Naruto waited for Minato to say something.

"What number Hokage are you?" Minato asked.

Without thinking Naruto replied, "Nanadaime."

After answer Naruto realized what he said, swearing under his breath, making Minato smirk.

"7th?" Minato repeated shaking his head, "we go through three Hokages from now?"

"Unfortunately," Naruto nodded.

"Who were the fifth and sixth?" Minato asked.

Naruto shook his head, "I'm sorry I don't want to say too much about the future. I don't want to screw it up."

"Senju Tsunade and Hatake Kakashi," Boruto said.

"Tsunade?" Jiraiya said.

"Kakashi?" Obito said.

Naruto faced palmed, "Boruto!"

"What?" Boruto replied, "Maybe if we change it you won't be Hokage in the future!"

"Did you ever think that if we change it you might not exist?" Naruto asked.

"Uh," Boruto didn't know what to say.

"Of course not," Naruto shook his head.

When Naruto looked up he noticed the blue and orange clad shinobi in the corner, "wait a minute."

"What?" Minato said seeing Naruto eyeing his student.

"The future is already changed," Naruto said, "Are you Uchiha Obito?"

"Yes," Obito replied hesitatingly.

"You're still in here?" Naruto asked then realized it was a stupid question.

"Yes," Obito nodded, "why wouldn't I be?"

"What's wrong?" Minato said.

"Its kind of hard to explain," Naruto replied scratching the back of his head.

"Try," Minato ordered.

"Uchiha Obito was supposedly suppose to die during Kaka-sen… Kakashi's first mission as a Jonin," Naruto explain knowing he probably shouldn't go into detail about how Obito really never died, but Madara healed him and turned him into himself basically leading to the fourth shinobi war.

"You were about to call him sensei…" Minato stated.

"Yeah," Naruto said scratching the back of his head, "he was my Jonin leader when I was a genin."

"Huh," Minato clucked, "that's ironic."

"But wait," Kakashi interrupted, "I've been a Jonin for awhile now."

"I know that's why I'm a little confused," Naruto shook his head, "we didn't come here until yesterday there is no way we would have messed that up since it was a while ago."

Naruto suddenly stopped moving.

"Tou-san?" Boruto said.

"Hold on," Naruto said.

The next thing Naruto knew was that he was standing in ankle deep water, in a large orange tinted room, staring at a large fox in his stomach. Naruto let out a breath he didn't know that he was holding.

"Oh, good," Naruto smiled, "you are still here."

"Yes I am," Kurama smirked.

"But if you are still here, how is Obito out there?" Naruto asked, "he's the one who attacked my parents when I was born therefore making me a Jinchuuriki, right?"

"That's because we aren't in your past," Kurama said.

"What?" Naruto looked at him with a confused face.

"You were never that bright," Kurama shook head.

"Hey!" Naruto shook his fist at him.

"Anyways, Gaki," Kurama said, "I think there are different time lines, so we traveled to a different time line, meaning you can say whatever you want here and it wont mess up your future when you get back but it just might make the future here better or worse, you never know."

"Ah, poor Boruto, I'll still be Hokage when we get back," Naruto laughed then stopped, "hey, wait, what do you mean worse?"

"I'm not explaining it," Kurama rolled his eyes.

"What? Why not?" Naruto glared.

"Figure it out your self, Gaki," Kurama murmured laying down, "use that Hokage brain of your."

Naruto looked at the large orange fox while he inwardly thanked kami that Kurama was still here.

"Thanks fur ball," Naruto chuckled, "I'm glad I still have you here."

"Yeah, yeah," Kurama murmured.

Back to reality, Naruto opened his eyes and found everyone looking at him.

"You're back," Boruto said.

"Ah," Naruto nodded, "I was figuring something out."

"What?" Minato asked.

"We are in a different time line," Naruto explained.

"I was just about to suggest that," Jiraiya said.

"Care to explain?" Minato asked both his sensei and his supposed son.

Jiraiya explained how the different time lines work and the fact that Naruto and Boruto couldn't go back to their past since is already gone but they came to this time instead, so when they go back to their time, nothing should have changed. Although Jiriaya explained that he wasn't sure if any time was passing while Naruto and Boruto were here.

Naruto nodded, "so basically I can tell you anything I want to but its not going to change my future, but it could change yours."

"Exactly," Jiraiya said.

"I say the more information I have the better," Minato said, "but I do want to do one thing before we go any further."

"What's that?" Naruto asked.

"A DNA test," Minato said.

Naruto nodded and agreed.

Minato didn't realize how late it was as he looked at the clock. He was supposed to be home for dinner in five minutes. He looked between his supposed son and grandson and made a rash decision.

"Naruto, Boruto," Minato asked, "Would you like to come home with me for dinner?"

Naruto smiled, "Of course. Boruto?"

"You mean, you as Hokage, actually go home for dinner?" Boruto asked.

"Of course, why wouldn't I?" Minato replied taken aback slightly.

"Don't even start with me, Boruto," Naruto's voice deepened like it normally does when he was scolding his children, "You are in enough trouble as it is."

Boruto was about to rebuttal, but gave it a second thought and shut his mouth. Minato looked at the two of them trying to figure what was going on.

"Something wrong?" Minato asked.

Naruto just shook his head and Minato dropped the subject.

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"Kushina?" Minato called as he walked through the door.

"Welcome Home!" Kushina called poking her head around the corner, then she noticed the two other blondes and started releasing an insane amount of chakra.

"Oh hell, now I know where I get all the chakra from," Naruto laughed, but then he noticed Boruto was having a hard time with the chakra.

I forgot she's a jinchuuriki. This chakra is mixed with Kurama's. Boruto's not used to it like tou-san and I am.

"Kushina," Minato called eyeing Boruto as well, "please they are guests. I invited them for dinner."

"But those are…" Kushina said pointing a kitchen utensil at them.

"Yes they are but I will explain everything over dinner," Minato smiled trying to get his wife to calm down.

"She reminds me of Aunt Sakura," Boruto said regaining his composure.

Naruto laughed and followed Minato to the dinning room, "that she does."

As the four of them sat down around the table, they quietly start eating but Kushina never took her eyes off of Naruto.

"Kushina," Minato called.

"Hm?"

"Let me introduce Uzumaki Naruto our son," Minato said, "and Uzumaki Boruto, our grandson."

"WHAT!" Kushina said standing up.

"I know," Minato waved her off, "I didn't believe it at first but I am starting to."

Now that his mother was standing up right in front of him, Naruto saw the slight bump of her stomach.

"That's a very weird sensation," Naruto said to himself.

"What is?" Boruto asked catching both Minato and Kushina's attention.

Naruto laughed and pointed at his mother's stomach, "I'm sensing my own chakra in someone else."

Minato laughed, "That would be very weird."

Kushina just looked down at her stomach and rubbed it gently with her hand, "so you're a boy?"

"October 10th," Naruto said.

"What?" Kushina asked.

"October 10th," Naruto said, "that's my birth date."

"October 10th," Kushina repeated gently, rubbing her stomach.

"I never did ask you how you got here in the first place," Minato thought out loud, "care explaining?"

Naruto looked over at his son then shook his head. He reached into one of his pouches and threw something at Minato, "look familiar?"

"Its one of my kunai," Minato looked at it.

"No," Naruto shook his head then pointed to his son, "its one of his."

"You're able to do the Hiraishin?" Minato asked a little surprised that a genin his age could do such a jutsu.

"Sort of," Boruto replied hesitantly.

"I've been slowly teaching him," Naruto said, "We haven't gotten very far."

"I see," Minato nodded, "but how does that relate to how you got here?"

"Look at the marker on the kunai. Does anything look out of place to you?"

Minato looked at the kunai a little closer, "two of the characters have been swapped. Oh…"

"Yeah," Naruto sighed, "I didn't think it was possible to time travel by accidently swapping those two characters."

"I didn't think so either," Minato said slowly, "but apparently it is."

"Apparently," Naruto agreed.

Minato handed the kunai back to Naruto who placed it back in his pouch, making a mental note to store it in a scroll so he wouldn't accidently use it. Kushina and Minato continued to grill both Naruto and Boruto about the future until dinner was over. Kushina told Boruto there were extra clothes that Kakashi and Obito used to wear in the dresser in the guest room. She urged him to get ready for bed so that Naruto and Minato could talk. As soon as Boruto was gone, Minato turned serious.

"What's going between you and your son?" Minato asked.

Naruto sighed and leaned back in his chair crossing his arms, "it's a long story."

"I'll go make some coffee," Kushina said.

When Kushina returned with a few cups of coffee Naruto started his story, "I married my wife when I was eighteen years old, and by the time I was nineteen, she was pregnant with Boruto, then a few years later my daughter came along."

"You have a daughter?" Kushina asked.

"Ah, Himawari," Naruto said with a slight softness to his voice, "she takes more from her mother than from me. But both her and Boruto ended up with my blue eyes."

"Who is your wife?" Minato asked.

Naruto laughed, "You'll never guess."

"Who?" Kushina pushed.

"Hyuuga Hinata, heiress to the Hyuuga clan," Naruto said.

"Hiashi has a daughter?" Minato asked.

Naruto nodded, "Two actually. I believe Hizashi just had his son Neji?"

"Yes, he did," Minato nodded with a smile. The more Naruto said the more convinced he was that the elder blonde was his son, "I can't believe Hiashi is going to have two daughters. Whatever will he do?"

"I can't believe that they let you marry the heiress to the Hyuuga clan," Kushina said, "let a lone have two children with her!"

"Well, that's another story for another time," Naruto huffed and shook his head.

"Go on with you story," Minato urged.

"When my kids were both born, I was still an active Jonin. When I became Hokage, Boruto was around ten and Hima was around six or seven. In fact the day I became Hokage, Hima activated her Byakugan for the first time and knocked me out cold. They were both so excited to have the Hokage as their dad, but little by little my time started focusing more on the village and less on my family. I didn't have time to train Boruto anymore or help Himawari with her academy entrance exam," Naruto explained, "And slowly Boruto began to resent me, and resent the Hokages all together. There would be days were I didn't get home until after everyone was a sleep and be gone by the time they woke up. I missed my own daughters birthday last year."

Minato and Kushina did say anything as Naruto continued.

"I don't blame Boruto or Himawari, or even Hinata for resenting me. I put my duties as a Hokage ahead of my family because I viewed the whole village as my family," Naruto shook his head, "then six months ago everything came crashing down."

"What do you mean?" Kushina asked.

"Six months ago, Konoha held the Chunin exams. Boruto and his team participated. He was doing so well. He passed the first and second exams with flying colors. I was so proud of him and his team. But…" Naruto paused.

"Something happened?" Minato suggested.

"Yeah, during the final stage, the individual battles, Boruto managed to beat his opponent but he used several jutsus that a genin at his level just shouldn't have been able to use," Naruto continued, "and I got suspicious. I asked my wife to use her Byakugan to check out Boruto and make sure he wasn't cheating."

"He was," Kushina assumed.

"Yes," Naruto nodded, "before the Chunin exams started my research and development team came out with a device that attaches to your wrist and allows you to use any jutsu that has been sealed into a scroll. Even those that aren't physically possible for some people, so I strictly forbid any genin to use this device during the Chunin exams. Yet Boruto used the device."

Naruto paused for a moment and his parents gave him a minute.

"I don't regret my decision but I do regret how I carried it out. I embarrassed Boruto in front of all of Konoha and the other Kages. Right after Hinata caught Boruto cheating, I went down to the center of the ring, exposed his cheating and disqualified him from the exams."

"In front of everyone," Kushina whispered in a slight bit of disbelief.

"Yes, but not only that," Naruto shook his head, "I stripped Boruto of his shinobi status for disobeying a direct order from the Hokage. I pulled off his hitai-ate and dismissed him from the ring. I regret doing that. I was so mad at him at the time that I wasn't thinking. I stand by my decision as Hokage, but as his father I have regretted it ever since."

"So that's why you and Boruto aren't really getting along right now," Minato said.

"It doesn't end there," Naruto said.

"Oh, no," Kushina whispered.

"That evening Hinata and I sat down with Boruto. One thing led to another and in the end Boruto had said he wished he wasn't my son. It broke my heart and pushed me over the edge, and I snapped. I told him if that is what he wished then so be it. Up until yesterday, Boruto and I haven't spoken," Naruto finished leaning back in the chair and running his hands through his hair.

"You haven't spoken in six months?" Minato asked.

"No," Naruto said.

"Naruto, it sounds like you have tried to be a good father, but I don't understand why you did that?" Kushina said.

Naruto shook his head, "my reasoning goes deeper than where Boruto is involved."

"Naruto, nothing you say to us will change our future," Minato said, "you said it your self earlier that this time line is already different than yours."

"You're right," Naruto nodded, "the fact the Obito Uchiha is alive and still in Konoha changes a lot."

"What do you mean?" Kushina asked.

"Don't freak out," Naruto said, "But because of Obito, I grew up without parents. I was an orphan. Both of you died on the night I was born."

"We die because of Obito?" Kushina asks, "On the day you were born?"

Naruto nodded, "I don't want to go into detail, mostly because I don't know all the details, but the fact that Obito didn't 'die' during Kakashi's first mission as Jonin means, that you most likely wouldn't die during my birth. And if I haven't gone home by then I will make sure of it."

Kushina smiled at her son, "I know you will."

"I'm sorry, Naruto," Minato said, "that you grew up without us. But it seems to me that you grew up just fine."

Yeah, except for the terrible childhood…

"You became Hokage!" Kushina said, "I think that is better than just fine."

"Yeah, but growing up without parents…" Naruto started.

"Wait, wait, wait," Minato said.

"What?" Naruto said.

"Why did any of my friends take you in?" Minato asked, "Like Shikaku? Or Fugaku? Or Inochi?"

"Because the Sandaime wanted to hide that I was your son to protect me," Naruto said, "in fact I didn't know who my parents were until I was sixteen."

And no one want the Kyuubi's jinchuuriki as a child.

"You didn't know who we were until you were sixteen?" Kushina repeated.

Naruto shook his head, "No, I wasn't suppose to know until I was able to protect my self from your enemies."

"I see," Minato nodded not fully accepting that answer.

I wonder what happened to the Kyuubi….? Kushina thought.

"What does this have to do with what happened with Boruto?" Kushina asked.

"Because I grew up with out parents, I worked harder to become stronger and even my wife struggled growing up," Naruto said, "so we spoiled both our children because we didn't want them growing up like we did and I think that's where we went wrong. Boruto always cheated, or took the easy way out, or took a short cut, so by taking away everything from him, giving him no way to cheat, I was hoping it would force him to work hard and climb his way out. I never officially took him off the shinobi ranks. He is still listed as a genin, even if he is on leave. I still have hope for him but I want him to work for it, not take it as a hand out just because he is my son. However I think I went about it the wrong way and pushed him too far."

"Ya know, right now you aren't Hokage, he is," Kushina said pointing at Minato, "So, use this time to work with Boruto. Tell him you'll give him a second chance at being shinobi. Train him until we figure out a way to send you home."

"I never thought about it that way, " Naruto smiled at the thought of training with Boruto again, "ah, damn it, Konohamaru already taught him the Rasengan."

"The Rasengan?" Minato asked.

"Yeah, Ero-Sennin taught it to me," Naruto smiled.

Kushina started laughing really hard, "Ero-Sennin?!"

"You are her son at least," Minato laughed.

"I can see that," Naruto laughed.

Minato eyed Naruto, "I want to see what you can do. I have this feeling you are a lot stronger than me."

"Probably," Naruto shrugged.

"Me too," said a voice from the stairs.

They all turned to see Boruto leaning over the rail.

"How long have you been there?" Naruto asked giving him a slightly disapproving look.

"Not long, since baa-chan started laughing so hard," Boruto shrugged.

"Oh now he's done it," Minato said.

"BAA-CHAN?!" Kushina hollered.

"She's more like Tsunade than I thought," Naruto laughed.

"Tsunade?" Minato said as he watched his wife chase his grandson up the stairs.

"Yeah, has she left the village yet?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, a while ago, after Dan died," Minato nodded, "how did she ever become Hokage?"

Naruto laughed and shook his head, "now that's a long story for another day."

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Boruto sat up on the bed. He couldn't sleep. Glancing over he saw his dad was dead asleep next to him. Unfortunately Minato and Kushina only had one guest bed and neither one of them wanted to sleep on the couch. So they had to share. The small room was well lit by the moon shining through the window. Staring at a the large moon, Boruto thought back to what he heard his father say to Minato about their relationship and glanced back at his sleeping father.

He didn't hate his dad, really he didn't.

He hadn't realized that his father felt bad for what he did. Boruto wondered if his father would actually try to mend their relationship or not. He didn't know whether he wanted his father to even try. He did resent his father, and the whole idea of the Hokage. Why did his father have to be Hokage? Originally he thought it would be cool to have his dad be the Hokage. He thought his dad wouldn't be going out on missions any more and would be home all the time. But he was wrong. He saw less of his father now, than he did when he was just a Jonin.

Boruto sighed and turned towards the window again.

"I really am sorry, Boruto," Naruto whispered scaring his son.

Boruto whipped his head around, "You're awake?"

Naruto sat up and looked at his son, "yeah, I felt you sit up and naturally shinobi's are light sleepers."

"Right," Boruto said looking down in his lap.

"I know you heard me talking to my father," Naruto said very quietly.

"You knew I was there?" Boruto said talking as quiet as possible.

"Yeah, I did," Naruto nodded, "But I wanted you to know all of that. Boruto, I'm sorry for what I did. I shouldn't have embarrassed you at the Chunin Exams like that. I was upset with you and I wasn't thinking. For a while, I didn't realize how my absence was affecting you and Himawari. Until I saw you using that damn device, I realized it was partially my fault. If I had been around more, maybe you wouldn't feel the need to cheat like that.''

Boruto continued to stare into his lap. He didn't know what to say.

"I want us to have the relationship that I've always dreamed of having with my father," Naruto said smiling, "I'm going to try, Boruto. I really am."

Boruto was speechless, but Naruto knew what he said he affected his son by the slight smile on his face. A sense of relief filled Naruto. He would be able to mend his relationship with his son. There was still hope.

"Get some sleep," Naruto said lying back down.

Boruto did the same and then did something Naruto wasn't expecting. The younger blonde had laid down facing his father instead of way like normal. He even moved closer, so Naruto laid his arm over Boruto's head in a protective manner.

Once Naruto knew that his son was asleep he whispered, "I love you, son."