Sarutobi Hiruzen was highly efficient.
That very afternoon, after making his promise, he arranged for someone to clean the house that had once belonged to Minato, then gave Naruto the key and the property deed.
After that, he convened a temporary Villager Assembly and brought Naruto to stand on the rooftop of the Hokage Building, where he announced in front of everyone that Naruto was the Fourth's Son, dispelling the Demon Fox rumors that had spread through the village for ten years.
Standing beside the railing on the rooftop of the Hokage Building, Naruto looked down calmly at the many ninja and villagers below.
Neither sad nor happy.
After they heard Sarutobi Hiruzen announce Naruto's identity, aside from the tiny handful of people who had long had some idea of who Naruto was, the rest all stared at him in disbelief.
Deep down, they were unwilling to accept that the Demon Fox Brat they had hated for ten years was actually the child of the Fourth Hokage, the man who had saved the village.
But Naruto's familiar hairstyle and hair color, his face, and Sarutobi Hiruzen's endorsement at this moment all pointed to one thing: it was true.
Naruto, the Demon Fox they had cursed and shouted at, the one they wanted to kill to avenge the Fourth, really was the Fourth Hokage's child.
At the same time, this also turned another conjecture into reality.
If Naruto was not the Demon Fox, but the Fourth's Son, then he had to be the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox that had caused massive casualties.
Many people's feelings were now extremely complicated.
There was guilt over the cold treatment Naruto had suffered all these years, and there was also hatred for the Demon Fox inside his body.
That guilt, mixed together with