Before anyone can read this there are several things I need to address. First, English is not my first language. Second, this story was originally written in Chinese, everything you read was google machine translated first (already at 90k in words count) and edited by myself, so it probably got a lot of grammar problem since my grammar is not very good. Third, so these first few chapter is merely a test (I'm gonna test post 5 chapters), if people do enjoy the story premise, I will continue on, otherwise, even just editing still takes about 2 hours to finish...I don't know if it's worth the time...

If this is okay, please enjoy.

Let me ask you an if question, how did you feel when you came home one day and suddenly found that your father, who had passed away for a long time and even appeared in Chakra form, suddenly re-appeared in your home?

Are you horrified? Or cannot believe your eyes? Or anger that would rise from the deepest side of your heart?

Uzumaki Naruto experienced all the above emotions (and some additional ones) in this instant, but what was finally fixed on his chest was indescribable joy and warm nostalgia, and the simple wish for this moment to last forever.

Prologue

"Kushina, I'll leave Menma to you for the time being." Under the blood-red moonlight, a handsome, slender figured blond man turn around and told this to the woman behind him.

"Hey, you don't have to worry about things here, Minato." After solemnly calling out the man's name, Kushina looks down at the blond boy who was still unconscious in her arms. "I will take good care of our child, but you, please be careful." The woman's tender eyes clearly showed reluctance, but she suppressed it forcefully deep in her heart.

"Ah, I got this. Regarding what happened here... please apologize to Tsunade-sama for me, and told her that I will try my best to come back as soon as possible..." At this point, the man couldn't help it but fall into silence for a few seconds then a warm smile bloomed. "Maybe this is a good opportunity to meet that child again... Speaking of which, I didn't ask his name."

Hearing her husband mentioning the "other side", Kushina's face, which was originally full of worry and sadness, relaxed a little bit. "...Well, if you really meet him, please say hello and thanks for me."

The blond man smiled slightly, then nodded before turning around and throwing a kunai at the bloody the sky split, the red light instantly filled the whole world.

"Stop it! Minato! Kushina!" At the time, the Fifth Hokage, who was rushing towards here—Tsunade and her subordinates also blanketed by this crimson light before they could stop it.

Preface 001

The outside world

Somewhere close to Hidden Rain

Twilight

In this land of lightning and thunderstorms, a bright thunder snake that could split up the sky landed on a high ground and created a loud "Thud!" noise. The huge roar was even enough to shake the entire space. Suddenly, a kunai, which was engraved with some strange markings flying right out the clouds, then "transforming" into a man.

'What is this rain! ? 'Ignoring the cold raindrops that wash over his whole body, that person twisted his body to make his posture more natural, and then threw the same kunai to the ground far away from where he was. Before his body was about to hit the ground, the previous kunai was safely striked into the muddy soil. Seeing that the timing was just right, the man disappeared again, and the next time he reappeared, he was already standing on the ground.

"Huh..." Finally he let out a sigh of relief, the man who is known as Namikaze Minato in this world looked at the sky sternly for a while and found out that not only moon is hiding behind the heavy clouds, but also the sky is completely unseen-able. He calmly shook his head. "If I'm not mistaken, I should be in the Land of Rain...but why is here of all place...Whatever."

Instead of stand in such heavy rain like an idiot, Minato decided to find a place to stay first and then try to look for a way to Konoha. Turning his head and looking at the endless plain in front of him, the man took the first step.

Chapter 1: A Reunion No One Foresaw

-i did nothing wrong !

The blond-haired boy Uzumaki Naruto looked at his friends from the same village as they walked past him with a bitter face, and involuntarily let out a sigh.

-Those Akatsuki members we meet not long time ago were all fakers, I only reported this to Granny Tsunade because that's the truth.

-It's not my fault that everyone's Jonin recommendations were rejected, why do they all look at me like I ruined their career? ? ?

But when he think about it, Naruto actually could understand the other's reactions. They thought they could use this chance to climb up in the world of shinobi, but in the end, everything was in vain because of him, even if it was not anyone's fault. So of course they are not happy with Naruto.

Just returned from Madara's limited tsukuyomi a week ago, Naruto reported everything to Granny Tsunade with all kinds of emotions washing over him. Of course, this included his supposedly dead parents(not so much this time) in the other world.

Although they are not his real parents, Naruto is still very grateful to them for letting him feel the warmth of home for the first time. The joy of having parents still alive that will always worrying about him is such a beautiful memory that he will never forget.

That's why he is now trying to hide that jealousy and choose to face everything in his world with a positive attitude.

After all, he is the son of two heroes.

'Even in the bottom of my heart, I am still longing for them in that opposite world, longing for someone to greet me with "Welcome home" when I came back.'

It's so simple yet so impossible.

Slowly walking on the streets of Konoha under the afterglow of sunset, Naruto's aimless thoughts drifted to a strange piece of information he heard when he met Tsunade this morning.

"The country of rain...?" Naruto really doesn't have any good memories about this place. His mentor, Jiraiya, was killed when he infiltrated that village to obtain information about "Akatsuki", and then Nagato as Pain attacked Konoha but soon died afterwards. So now Naruto didn't know a thing about what happened to the Hidden Rain afterwards.

It is such a small country that has been gradually slipping away from the minds of people, but then suddenly decide to popped up again. And from the confused expression of Granny Tsunade, there is still a hint of something else.

Of course, Naruto didn't know exactly what happened there. Although he was a little curious, but the most important thing right now was the preparations for the decisive battle with Madara. So the strange events that happened in the Land of Rain were temporarily left behind his mind.

Walking back to his apartment, Naruto once again found something strange. Usually he would saw that the old owner of convenience store near his apartment would sit at the door and greet the villagers coming and going at this certain time. However not today for some reason. Some random old ladies nearby also gathered together and whispered to each other, though Naruto can't hear exactly what they were talking about.

Naruto looked around and found nothing else uncommon. He stared carefully at the street again, and then heard the sharp ringtone coming from the convenience store phone. The granddaughter of the owner also heard the bell sound and jumped up from the seat then rushed towards the room.

Blinking his eyes in utter confusion, the boy gave up the chance to explore the 'truth' whatever was happening behind his back and walked towards his upstairs room.

Standing at the door, Uzumaki Naruto closed his eyes and opened the door in a nonchalant voice towards his always empty house: "I'm back~"

Of course, he didn't expect anyone to return the greeting. Naruto slowly opened his eyes again.

Then, he met a pair of eyes with a similar colour as him.

"..."

"...uh...welcome home?"

The young man who made this answer was holding a dustpan in his left hand and a broom in his right, sweeping the garbage scattered on the floor into the dustpan. But he froze in mid-action after Naruto suddenly opened the door to say hello to him(?).

"Bah!" Reflexively slammed the door shut, and the teen returned to the outside world. Kept this stunned expression, before tremblingly tightening the grip on the doorknob again, Naruto slowly turning it around. While carrying out such a series of actions, he kept his eyes wide open, as if he couldn't even breathe normally.

Then the teen finally opened his apartment door again.

Not a hallucination.

The man who suddenly appeared in Naruto's house just now, his appearance was somewhat similar to his own, and he also looks quite familiar... No, the truth is, this the man he had met in the spiritual world not so long time ago. The truth is, this is his...

Seeing Naruto's dumb-folded reaction might last longer than he thoughts, the blond man put down his hand and straight up his back, then a bright smile appeared on his cheek.

"Sorry to pop up at your house without any early notice, but I also kind of want to meet you in person again...your name is Naruto in this world...am I correct?"

"...Dad...Dad...!?"

Letting out a scream comparable to seeing a ghost, Naruto pointed at the man in front of him with his trembling right hand.

"!" Realizing bigger commotion was about to be triggered, the blond man—Namikaze Minato quickly dragged Uzumaki Naruto who was standing stiffly outside the door into the room, and closed the door with a 'thud'.