Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Naruto; that honour is Masashi Kishimoto's.
Naruto grabbed his bag and shut his apartment door as he headed off to the village gate. In the last few days he managed to give his goodbyes to his friends leaving Sakura a few days back he explained to Kakashi the situation between him and Sasuke he knew the Cyclops was neither happy nor sad about his decision
"Training trip. This should be interesting." thought Naruto as he looked back to the Hokage Mountain. "Sorry, I couldn't make it in time, Jiji. I miss you and I hope you're resting in peace. Thanks for everything."
As Naruto was walking away, he pulled out a sealed envelope with his name on it.
To: Naruto Senju
From: Hiruzen Sarutobi
That was a letter that Tsunade had given him which was originally written by Hiruzen to him
Naruto decided he'd have to read it at some point shortly, but he'd do it during his trip with Jiraiya.
"So you have come after all," Jiraiya grinned as Naruto smiled back at him as they walked away from the leaf village Naruto once turned back and saw the Hokage mountain as his hand cringed into a fist at the face of the fourth Hokage and whispered "you'll see,"
It was around midnight the toad summoner duo had stopped in a nearby village to Konoha at a brothel
Naruto was sitting on his bed alone in his room. Jiraiya had left for their rooms and were sound asleep. Naruto dug into his backpack as he pulled out something. It was the envelope that Sarutobi had written to him.
"You going to read that now Naruto?" asked Jiraiya as he was also anxious to see what was inside as well.
"No time like the pres...EHH, ARN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE ASLEEP," said Naruto as he opened the envelope. It contained a letter Naruto opened it and read the first line.
Hello Naruto-kun
"Here we go." thought Naruto as he read through the rest of the letter.
I wrote this letter in hopes that I would never have to let you read it because if you do, then I am no longer alive.
This letter entails what I promised to tell you when you were 8 years old. Once you become strong enough,
I will tell you about your parents. You were more than strong enough a while ago but I kept prolonging telling you because I didn't know how you'd react. But no more of that because I promised to do it at the end of the Chunin Exams. Your name, Naruto, comes from the book of you and your father's sensei, Jiraiya. Naruto...you are the son of Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage.
I know it's hard to believe, but yes you are indeed his son. Minato couldn't choose someone else's child for the sealing if he wasn't willing to sacrifice his own.
Minato was a shrewd man, rarely doing something without reason. I'm sure there was another reason besides keeping the balance of power between the nations equal for placing the Kyubi in you. There was probably an enemy shinobi who took the Kyubi and set it on the village while your mother was giving birth to you.
Yes, your mother was the jinchuriki before you and the seal weakened during childbirth. We set up many security parameters to prevent that from happening. Not to mention that your father and mother were seal masters. It might have been hard to keep the Kyubi at bay, but I believe they could have done it. That's why I believe that there was another shinobi there who interfered with the sealing. But that's just purely speculation...maybe the Kyubi did just get free, we'll never know as we weren't there.
Your mother was a beautiful woman. Kushina was a very level-headed and often cheerful young woman. Even though she usually had a calm and kind demeanour, she did have quite a temper and occasionally lashed out at those who angered her. She was also fearless and more than anything, loved your father and you very much. Kushina is also special to Konoha as she is the first great-niece of Mito Uzumaki. This came to be because of her grandaunt, the village that housed the famous Uzumaki clan where Mito originated from. She was sent there due to the agreement between Konoha and Uzushio. Years later, as Mito, the first Kyubi Jinchuriki, was reaching the end of her lifespan, Kushina was sent back to the village to become its second Jinchuriki. She had the chakra and ability to restrain Jinchuriki just like her Great Grandaunt.
I didn't have a lot of time to write this letter as it's about an hour away from the start of the Chunin Exams, but I trust this answers your questions. I'm sure you're gonna grow stronger and even one day, surpass all of the Hokages. I entrust the village with you, Naruto-kun; please protect it always. I'll be looking down from above, so do impress. To help you on your journey, I've decided to give you a gift. A gift that was originally your lifetime of knowledge and my personal monkey summons will continue to serve you after me. Please use it well and be sure to continue your dreams.
When the tree leaves dance, one shall find flames. The fire's shadow will illuminate the village, and once again, tree leaves shall bud anew.
The letter came with a picture. A picture of a pregnant Kushina with Minato rubbing her belly. They both were looking happy and lovingly at Kushina's pregnant belly, which contained Naruto. Naruto cried a little bit as he looked the picture over.
"I really was loved...I had parents that loved me. Mom is so pretty. We have the same face and she has beautiful red hair. I had a mother and father that wanted me..." Naruto had several more tears fall from his face as he continued to look at the picture of his parents. There was a seal at the end of his letter but he hadn't bothered opening it yet.
"Naruto-" said Jiraiya until Naruto cut him off.
"You knew? This whole time?" asked Naruto. Naruto then remembered the last part of Sarutobi's letter and placed his hand over the seal. A poof of smoke later a huge scroll landed in Naruto's lap. "The Scroll of Seals?!" said Naruto as he recognized the scroll. "No that's different but it's awfully similar to it"
"it the Jutsu that Hiruzen was mad famous for his life savings,"
Jiraiya looked at Naruto as he said, "So you understand I'm your godfather."
"Yeah. It's pretty cool actually?" asked Naruto as he saw Jiraiya's shocked expression. "What?"
"You're not even mad or anything? I could have raised you?" asked Jiraiya as he picked back up his jaw.
"Meh," said Naruto nonchalantly. "Why should I be? There's no use crying over the past. I'm not going to be a chump and bitch about why you were never around. I never asked to be checked on; I just wanted to find someone to acknowledge me, and I got that with Jiji and a few others.
Plus, you had duties to attend to and probably your things to deal with since Dad was your student." said Naruto as he then took on a thoughtful expression. "Plus I couldn't imagine what I'd be like if I had you as an active influence on my life during my childhood. And now, at least I know who gave me my sweet little Gama-chan."
Naruto pulled out what appeared to be a wallet shaped like a toad and rubbed it against his face lovingly.
Jiraiya smiled down at Naruto. "You took that better than anyone could have expected, take. I'm proud of you," said Jiraiya as Naruto blushed.
"Well, great then, kid! Let's get on the road. And maybe we'll find a better way to conceal that scroll and you still need to sign the Monkey contract from sensei." said Jiraiya as Naruto nodded.
"Well, Orochimaru did seal a summoning contract on his arm. I'll probably put a tattoo on me to store the scroll in one hand and the Summoning in the other hand. Can you do something like that?" said Naruto as Jiraiya smiled.
"Of course, let's see," said Jiraiya as he started ramming his bag for the contract scroll Sarutobi had given him, he had previously spoken to the toad elders as they had no problem sharing the summoner with another friendly animal
Naruto did the same as he did with the frog contract months ago he signed 'Uzumaki Naruto' next to 'Sarutobi Hiruzen' as Jiraya finished the Summoning Tattoos on each of his hands as he sealed the scroll in left and used right for the monkey Summoning
Naruto used the necessary hand sighs for the Summoning jutsu as he slammed his hand on the ground and dubbed
Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)!"
Enma the monkey king came to the world of humans after a long time as he saw the Jinchuriki of Nine-Tails and Jiraya
Naruto wasn't someone he could forget after he fought his prisoner
"Enma it's good to see you," said Jiraiya as Naruto just stared at the newcomer he invited
"Jiraya-boy I must say it's good to see you as well, so I see our monkey clan has a new summoner," the haired ape said
"Hello I am Uzumaki Naruto," Naruto said politely Unlike anything like him
"Naruto from today you are the summoner of the Monkey family, we will teach and educate you in the ways of monkey style along with the corporation of the toad clan that is," Enma said and he turned to Jiraiya
"Make a training region that is divided between both the clans, I will assign Naruto a personal summon and help them build up teamwork and teach him the ways of Boo-jutsu,"
"As you wish Enma," Jiraya said as the newfound fire was lit in the blue eyes of Naruto Uzumaki
"Starting tomorrow you will be reverse summoned to East Monkey Temple of the Monkey Clan for training,"
