"So, he's protecting Konoha from the shadows? I see. That really is something Minato would do. Minato, who possessed the Will of Fire, never cared about the position of Hokage.
He sacrificed far too much for this village!"
The Third Hokage readily accepted Kakashi's explanation.
After all, Minato was his grand-disciple. He knew Minato's personality all too well.
Minato was absolutely the sort of person willing to sacrifice himself for the village. Otherwise, with the mobility of the Flying Thunder God Technique, who could guarantee they would be able to keep him there?
Rather than saying Minato had been killed by Madara Uchiha, it would be more accurate to say that he had sacrificed himself willingly!
The Third Hokage understood that very well too.
"Not only that, Third Lord. Besides protecting Konoha in secret, Sensei probably also intended to temper Naruto.
After all, we've treated Naruto as a war orphan. That was a good way to train his will to grow up independently.
If Sensei and his wife hadn't faked their deaths, Naruto's status and treatment would be completely different now.
But if that had happened, could Naruto still have grown to this point?
I don't think so."
Thinking of Naruto's outstanding performance, Kakashi became even more convinced of his own guess.
Even the Third Hokage's train of thought was now following Kakashi's lead.
"Indeed. Looking at it that way, Minato's thoughts and mine really do coincide without prior consultation!"
After hearing Kakashi's latest explanation, the Third Hokage was truly greatly comforted.
Because if things were really as Kakashi said, then there had been nothing wrong with his arrangements for Naruto's life.
At last, the Third Hokage could set his mind at ease about not giving Naruto the treatment he should have received as the Fourth Hokage's son.
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