WHY I'M SO STUPID?
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, or its characters.
It has finally become five years since Naruto left with Jiraiya and most of the village is anxious for his return, while the rest that were glad to have him gone. Right now Tsunade was doing the bane of all kages, which is the never ending paperwork. Just recently she received a message from one of Jiraiya's toads saying to expect them to return real soon and to make sure to have the stuff they needed to face the council.
She was just looking over a few D-ranked missions when a small knocking came from her door. "Come in." She looked up to be greeted by her apprentice, "Hello Sakura."
"Hello Lady Hokage." Sakura said, with a small bow, "I got your message saying that you have some good news for me."
Tsunade was trying her hardest to keep a straight face because she knows how badly her student has been waiting to hear this news. "I've just received word that Naruto and Jiraiya are going to be returning sometime today." She couldn't help but chuckle when she saw the grin grow into a big smile on the pink hair girl's face. "But there are two things that I would like for you to do before he gets here." Just as quickly as it appeared, Sakura's smile vanished into thin air, "First of all, I know you're determined to try and become friends with Naruto again, but the thing is that you need to actually become his friend first because right now you are nothing more then a teammate to Naruto at the moment." When she saw her student give her a confused look, Tsunade knew that there would be no easy way to say this, "Can you name one thing before the exam, or when Naruto revealed his true self that you did to him that was like a friend?"
Sakura looked down towards the ground, some of the guilt returning. "No, I was too busy trying to fit in with the others that I never once thought for myself." She said.
"I know Naruto still has feelings for you, I can see it in his eyes, but he's not going to open his heart again to you until he knows that you are going to love him for him, not because he is the son of the Fourth or because the other girls are doing it." Tsunade explained, "The other thing I wanted to talk you about is to control that temper of yours." She said, while getting up to sit on the other side of her desk, "I know that you tend to let your emotions get the best of you to the point where you don't realize how much damage you have done until it's too late. If Naruto says or does something that you just have to take a swing at him, then try hard to resist because he won't be afraid to defend himself the next time somebody tries to attack him." She looked up just as a puff of smoke appeared in her office to reveal a chunin, "What is it?"
The chunin bowed, "Lady Hokage, Lord Jiraiya and Naruto Uzumaki has returned with two others, and they want to know if you are going to come to them or they should come to you. What should I tell them?" She asked.
"Tell them to get their lazy asses over here." Tsunade answered.
The chunin nodded at this, "Oh and Naruto said that if they were to come to your office, then you need to make sure everything is ready within just one hour and that the only people that need to be here are you and Sasuke Uchiha." She said before disappearing the same way she came in.
When it was just two again, "Sakura, please leave and to tell your friends to spread the word that there is going to be a crucial meeting and they need to be there by the next hour and tell Sasuke to come here immediately." Tsunade ordered her student.
Sakura knew better then to argue with her sensei, so she nodded and left. As much as she wanted to be there to greet Naruto, she knew that if he wanted to talk to her, he would let her know.
Just barely a minute after the doors closed a swirl of water, a swirl of leaves and a yellow flash appeared in her office. When they revealed Naruto, Itachi and Kisame, "Where is that pervert?" Tsunade yelled out.
"Last time we saw him, he was ogling those lady Chunins, so they should give him their response right about now." Naruto said, and just as he finished, Jiraiya came in the window looking all beat up, "You should be grateful that it wasn't Anko doing guard duty because she would probably castrate you on the spot with one of her snakes."
Tsunade would be laughing on the spot after seeing her former teammate becoming extremely pale allover at the thought, but now wasn't the time, "Naruto, before we get started, I wanted to make sure . . ." Just before she could finish asking that question, Tsunade took one look at Naruto, who had one of his eyebrows raised, and remembered who she was talking to, "Right, I just remembered who your parents were."
Naruto walked up to the desk and pulled out a scroll from his jounin vest pocket, (A/N Don't ask, I'm pretty sure even the guys who work on Naruto barely even know half the stuff they're doing considering the amount of information they leave out.) and handed it to the elder blonde. When he saw Tsunade look back at him with wide eyes after recognizing the seal on it, "Yesterday we paid a little visit to the Fire Daimyo and told him everything, including some of my theories, and he's agreed to back us up on this." Naruto explained, "Although I had to fight all Twelve Guardians in order to prove my worth and defeating all of them was enough to impress the guy."
Tsunade looked like a statue until a loud knock snapped her out of her thoughts, "Come in Sasuke." She said.
After Sasuke closed the door behind him, he walked up to see his blonde teammate and gave him a small nod before stopping dead in his tracks just as he saw the face of somebody he hasn't seen since that encounter at the hotel.
The hour has come and the council chamber is stuffed to the brim, with the clan heads on one side, the civilian council on the other, and the main council in the middle. Along the walls, a full audience was watching to see what was so urgent to cause the Hokage to summon this meeting among them are most of the Konoha 12, their senseis, their families, Kin, Karin, and Iruka.
When Tsunade took her seat in the council, "Why did you summon us on such short notice, Tsunade?" Homura Mitokado asked the blonde. Even though he and Koharu Utatane were teammates of Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, unfortunately they started to forget what it was like before they got to their position.
"One of our best ninjas has just returned from his training trip with Jiraiya and upon his request, I've decided to tell everyone his secrets." Tsunade said, "But first some good news, Orochimaru has finally been defeated and it was at the hands of one of our ninjas." Tsunade turned towards behind her, "Naruto and Jiraiya come in here."
When the pair came up, "So Jiraiya, you finally defeated the snake. Con . . ." Koharu started to say before she was interrupted by the Toad Sage.
"Guess again you old fart." Jiraiya said, before pointing towards his student.
While most of the room is in shock, "Prove to us that he was actually defeated." Danzo said, determined to get rid of the one person that can bring his plans to a screeching halt before it could bare fruit.
Naruto pulled a scroll out of his vest and rolled it out until he found the seal he is looking for. He drew a little blood from his thumb and placed it onto the seal. Out popped a familiar looking sword into Naruto's hand. "This is the Sword of Kusanagi, Orochimaru's personal sword, and if you want a second opinion, then I know who to go to." He said, before disappearing in a yellow flash only to appear in front of Tenten and her father, "Care for a closer look Masamune?"
Masamune was shocked since it's been eighteen years since anybody saw a yellow flash, but like his daughter, he can't turn down the chance to take a look at a rare weapon. After being careful enough to inspect the sword and his eyes grew bigger again, "It's the real thing. This is that snake's sword." He said, before handing it back."
"Thanks." Naruto said before return to the main floor, "Anyway, back to business."
Tsunade nodded, while trying to contain her laughter after seeing the look on the fools faces after seeing Naruto not only looking like Minato but also pulling off his signature move without using any hand signs. "Right, anyway, Naruto you want to tell everybody the truth about you know who, or should I?" She asked.
"I'll do it, but you have to explain the rest." Naruto answered. When he received a nod in return, "Okay this is the real story about what happened during the Kyubi attack."
"Don't you dare say a word you . . ." One of the civilian council members said, only to be stopped by an intense wave of killer intent coming from the young blonde, that brought the entire room into a hard sweat.
Naruto gave her a cold hard glare "Say those two words and I'll do something to you that would bring even the kyubi down to its knees." He said, before calming himself, "Anyway, as I was saying, the Fourth could never defeat the kyubi because it was immortal and even though he was amongst the greatest shinobi this village has ever scene, even he wasn't strong enough so he signed a pack with the death god himself that in exchange for his soul, that the fox would be sealed within a newborn baby and that baby was me. His last request was that I be treated like hero instead, well you know the rest." He said, while placing his hands across his chest. While most of the children were given there parents an angry look after realizing that they've been used for their parents own personal vendetta, the exception being those who already knew through Sasuke and Sakura, while most of the older adults had a guilty look on their faces, "And to let you know this is the real me. The one you saw, the dead last, the idiot, the one you all underestimated was just a mask I wore because, except for Teuchi, Ayame, Iruka and the Third, if anybody knew I was better then Sasuke, they would demand my head on a platter." He then looked at Tsunade a nod.
Tsunade returned it and sat up from her chair, "There is another thing about Naruto that he requested be told today and that would be who his family was." She said, getting everyone's attention, "Naruto Uzumaki's true name is Naruto Namikaze." This got everyone's attention, especially the clan heads, "Naruto is the son of Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, and Kushina Uzumaki. He is the last of both clans, but I'll let him decide how he wants to handle that." When she noticed the people's eyes growing in realization after taking a good hard look at Naruto, "Now you know the person you've been mistreating is the son of the man who you respected." This caused more guilt spread, except for the die hard old fools who are still criticizing the boy. Tsunade turned back towards her fellow blonde, "Naruto, time for you to give the final touch."
"What proof do you have that you are Minato's son?" Koharu asked only to receive a look so cold that it makes the winters in the Land of Snow more pleasant.
"What right do you have to use my father's name as if you respect him?" Naruto said, "He risks his life to save this village and the only way to repay him is to treat his only son like crap because the Third wanted to treat me like a person instead of a punching bag." He said, before pulling his sword out, "But if you're too dumb to not take the fact that I look just like him, then maybe this sword should do it."
Homura was about to give one of his 'respect your superiors' statement when he heard his old teammate gasp, "It can't be! Minato said he lost that thing years ago." He took a closer look at the sword and he just about croaked right on spot. There staring at those who were old enough to see it at least once is the Rinnesword. He looked up into Naruto's eyes and was even closer to having a heart attack. Looking right back at him was Naruto with a dojitsu that has never been scene since the days of the Sage of Six Paths, "Rinnegan."
Here it is, the latest chapter, sorry if it's a bit short, but besides allergy season, summertime is when my brain shuts down, and I'm just writing on fumes. Here are a few questions I want to run by you before I start the next chapter or two: Should I give Naruto one more (and I do mean one more) girl, or keep it NaruSaku all the way? If yes, then whom? And who should I couple Shino with, as well as the rest of the singles? Read and Review, and those who live in the States, enjoy the Fourth of July. Check the poll I put up on my profile page, and somebody just reported me for using an Author's Note as a chapter.