Naruto: The Fourth Hokage is my dad?

"You are...?"

Upon hearing Naruto Uzumaki's questioning voice, Minato Namikaze's heart tightened.

Has it finally come to this?

They've reached the point where they need to recognize each other.

"Bang bang."

His heart began to race.

It's getting faster and faster.

After a moment's thought, Naruto Uzumaki spoke, "You are... my mother's brother?"

Minato Namikaze's lips twitched instantly, "..."

elder brother?

Wouldn't that mean they're from different generations?

And it's not exactly morally right either!

No, it's not...

Minato Namikaze spoke somewhat awkwardly.

"Kushina Uzumaki is my wife."

Upon hearing this, Naruto Uzumaki nodded slightly. "Oh, my mother is your wife..."

"..."

"..."

"!!!"

What?! My mother is your wife?!

Naruto Uzumaki's eyes widened instantly.

"Th-th-that!"

He excitedly pointed his index finger at Minato Namikaze.

"You, you, you're my father?!"

"Right."

Minato Namikaze looked excited.

He nodded quickly.

"The Fourth Generation Lord Hokage is my father?"

Naruto Uzumaki muttered to himself.

"Yes, Naruto, you are my son."

Minato Namikaze opened his arms, ready to embrace him.

Just then, Naruto Uzumaki punched him in the stomach.

"Cough!"

Minato Namikaze was caught completely off guard and took the Naruto Uzumaki's punch.

His expression showed pain.

But he still gently wrapped his arms around Naruto Uzumaki.

"Naruto..."

"..."

After a long silence, Naruto Uzumaki trembled, "Why...?"

"Why are you doing this to me...? Since you're my father, why didn't you let me know anything?"

Naruto Uzumaki's eyes were red-rimmed, with tears welling up and swirling within them.

Just as he was about to tumble down, Naruto Uzumaki pushed Minato Namikaze.

She quickly turned around and wiped away the tears welling up in her eyes.

Do you even know what I've been through all these years?!

"When I needed you most, none of you showed up. I endured the pain and loneliness, and just when I was ready to keep you in my heart, you suddenly appeared!"

What exactly do you want from me?

Listening to Naruto Uzumaki's roars and complaints, Minato Namikaze lowered his eyes.

He didn't know how to face his son, Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto Uzumaki's words stung him deeply.

But part of the reason his son suffered all of this was because of him.

This is undeniable.

"Naruto, I'm sorry... Dad is late."

"..."

Naruto curled his lip and turned his head to the side. "Hmph, it's already impressive that you even came, considering you're already dead!"

"I'm sorry, Naruto..."

Minato Namikaze still felt Killer Bee guilty.

"Hmph, thank goodness it's now! If it had happened a few years earlier, I would have given you a good beating!"

Naruto Uzumaki bit his lip, trying to hold back his tears.

Although that's what he thought, he actually started thinking about it much earlier.

He wanted his father, Minato Namikaze, to appear when he first entered the Ninja Academy.

He also wanted to be like others, with his parents picking him up and dropping him off on his first day of school.

Just one day is enough.

That one day was enough to show all his friends that Naruto Uzumaki also has parents and is not an orphan.

That way I won't be ostracized, right?

At least that's what he thought.

"But... aren't you already dead?"

Naruto Uzumaki asked, his eyes red.

Minato Namikaze rubbed his eyes and spoke gently, "This is because I am already dead. My current body is not that of a living person; it is still that of a dead person. It is Impure World Reincarnation Body technique, a Forbidden Jutsu capable of bringing the dead back to life."

"Oh..." Naruto Uzumaki nodded blankly.

He didn't understand any of what was said before.

But he understood the last two words!

Forbidden Jutsu!

Isn't that the Ninjutsu recorded in the Scroll of Seals?

He learned and mastered the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu there.

So I still remember it very well.

"The Forbidden Jutsu in the Scroll of Seals... I know those, but I never imagined the later Forbidden Jutsu could even resurrect the dead..."

Naruto Uzumaki sighed.

If I had flipped through a few more pages back then, would I be even better than Kanami now?

"Third Hokage, you tell us about what happened back then."

Minato Namikaze Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had been standing there like nothing was wrong, which had made him very uncomfortable.

It's like watching him and Naruto Uzumaki make a fool of themselves.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's body stiffened immediately after being struck.

"Congratulations on your reunion, father and son... I know less than you do four generations ago."

He said awkwardly.

Naruto Uzumaki looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi with a puzzled expression. "By the way, Third Hokage, since my father was the Fourth Hokage, why didn't you tell me about my parents' identities when I asked them?"

This made him even more puzzled after he learned that his father was the Fourth Hokage.

Since his father was the Third Hokage, why didn't he tell him about such a powerful identity?

If I reveal this identity, I'm unlikely to be ostracized by my friends, right?

Hiruzen Sarutobi was speechless upon hearing this.

Why didn't he say this back then? How could he possibly bring it up again in front of Naruto?

Wouldn't that mean that Hokage's status as the Naruto would be completely destroyed in front of him?

"This..."

"Because you are..."

"Third Hokage Lord, you know what you should say, right?"

Minato Namikaze spoke coldly.

He didn't want to hear Hiruzen Sarutobi lie.

The next second, Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed.

"Sigh... Oh well, I'm already dead anyway, so there's no point in worrying about saving face."

"Naruto Uzumaki, the reason I won't tell you is that your father was the Third Hokage is because only in this way will you be ostracized by the villagers of Konoha Village."

"You only feel lonely when the villagers ostracize you. It's only when I appear during this time that you see me as the only person who cares about you."

"That way you'll be under my control, or at least you'll listen to me."

Upon hearing this, Naruto Uzumaki felt as if the world had collapsed.

My brain was constantly buzzing.

"Wh... what?"

"How is this possible... How could my Third Hokage grandfather be such a person?"

"Does this mean that my Third Hokage grandfather has been deceiving me all along?"

"Including grilling fish for me when I was little... watching the stars with me, was it all to control me?"

Why did you do that?!

Naruto Uzumaki asked, trembling.

Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head slightly. "Sigh... because you are the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails Fox."

"For the village, you are the most important force. You must be controlled by our Konoha Village. Ideally, you should be without independent thought, like Danzō's Root, who only obeys Root."

"But because you are the son of the Fourth Hokage, I cannot hand you over to Danzō, otherwise you will become a weapon without emotion!"

"Then why did you lie to me! What you did, keeping things from me and making me suffer, is no different from what Danzō."

Naruto Uzumaki looked at Hiruzen Sarutobi with fear, "... You're even more terrifying than Danzō."