Adopted by Minato

"Does that mean the man is dead?" A blond-haired Jonin stood beside a hospital bed in Konoha Hospital, looking at the sleeping baby lying on it.

"Yes." A Chunin beside him nodded. "He was already on the verge of death when he collapsed at the entrance. He practically held on by sheer willpower just to make it here."

"Have you found out who he was?" the blond Jonin asked.

"He belonged to the Insoro Clan, a secretive family on the border of the Land of Fire. The clan specialized in Wind and Lightning Ninjutsu. The entire clan was wiped out yesterday. We still don't know who was responsible. The dead man was a servant of the Insoro Clan, and this baby is the only survivor. He was just born."

"The Insoro Clan?" The blond Jonin furrowed his brow. He'd never heard of that clan before.

"They're a reclusive clan, so they rarely showed themselves. I only learned the name from Lord Hokage. It's classified information."

"Sounds like a lot of trouble." The blond Jonin gave a wry smile. Anything involving classified information was never simple.

Clack...

The hospital room door opened.

"Lord Hokage!" The Chunin hurriedly greeted the person who had opened the door.

"Mm." The visitor was an old man with snow-white hair. Though he looked quite old, he still had plenty of vigor.

"Lord Hokage, what brings you here?" The blond Jonin greeted him too. In Konoha, the Hokage didn't have to personally handle every matter. He'd been assigned to investigate this case, yet the Hokage had still come himself.

"This concerns the Insoro Clan, so I thought I should take a look." The Hokage nodded as he spoke. He was Konoha's Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"What exactly is the Insoro Clan?"

"Please step outside," the Third Hokage said to the Chunin beside him.

"Yes." The Chunin answered and left. Now only the Third Hokage, the blond Jonin, and the baby remained in the room.

"Minato, this world is vast. In the past, the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan weren't the only powerful clans." This had all happened a long time ago.

"Besides the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, there was another powerful clan. They didn't rely on any Kekkei Genkai, yet they could stand against both the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan."

"The Insoro Clan?" Minato Namikaze was startled. So there really had been such a powerful clan.

"Mm." The Third Hokage nodded.

"But the clan didn't want war or to fight for power. They went into hiding, and few people knew of them. These records were passed down through the generations by the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan. If I weren't the Hokage, I might never have learned about them."

"But how could such a powerful clan have been wiped out? And who did it?" Minato looked at the baby on the bed, puzzled.

The Third Hokage shook his head. "I heard that the man who led the clan back then was named Insoro Hen. He was a shinobi with the ability to prophesy. He predicted Konoha's founding, the reconciliation between the Uchiha Clan and the Senju Clan, and the battle between Madara Uchiha and the First."

"P-prophecies?" Minato was even more astonished. As far as he knew, the only one who could make prophecies was the one at Mount Myōboku. And this Insoro Hen hadn't merely made prophecies—he'd made incredibly detailed and accurate ones.

"Regardless, we'll have to keep investigating. Until then, I'm leaving this baby in your care, Minato." The Third Hokage looked at the baby, then gazed solemnly at Minato.

"Eh? What do you mean...?" Minato was taken aback.

"You'll raise this baby from now on." The Third Hokage looked at Minato without changing his expression.

"Are you serious? Kushina and I just got married, and she's only just become pregnant... Now you want me to take a child home?"

"Haha, she won't suspect you of having an illegitimate child. You should also start preparing to take over as the Fourth Hokage." The Third Hokage patted Minato on the shoulder, then left the hospital room with a laugh, leaving Minato utterly bewildered.

"What a headache..." Minato looked at the baby on the bed, patted his forehead, and picked him up.

With a helpless sigh, Minato lifted the baby from the hospital bed and left Konoha Hospital.

As Minato walked along, the baby in his arms opened his eyes and looked at the handsome man in front of him.

What a headache. I'd only just opened my eyes, and already I've been through life and death and become Minato Namikaze's adopted son. The baby lay in Minato Namikaze's arms, thinking.

Minato Namikaze found him a headache, and he found Minato Namikaze a headache too.

Actually, he'd woken up while the Third Hokage and Minato were talking. When he heard the name Insoro Hen, he was sure that Insoro Hen had also been a transmigrator. There was no Insoro Clan in Naruto. How could an ordinary person have established a clan capable of standing against the descendants of Indra and Asura?

Fortunately, he'd studied in Japan for three years and could understand Japanese.

Insoro Hen must have known the plot of Naruto very well to have thrived during the Warring States period.

That era wasn't all that long ago, compared with the present. Insoro Hen was his great-grandfather, and this baby was the young master of the Insoro Clan.

Sigh...

The baby let out a deep sigh in his heart.

Minato seemed to feel the baby move in his arms. He lowered his head, smiled at him, and reached out to tease him.

Since he was in a baby's body, he could play along. He happily grabbed Minato's finger and smiled. That smile made Minato like him even more.

"When we get home, Kushina will like you too," Minato said with a smile.

Of course she'll like a baby, the baby silently replied. There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a cute baby.

Before long, Minato carried the baby to his front door. Although he and Kushina weren't married yet, they'd been living together for quite some time.

As he opened the door, Kushina's voice came from inside. "You're back!"

"I'm back!" Minato called in reply. Footsteps sounded inside as Kushina came to the door to greet him.

Minato took off his shoes and was about to step inside. The next moment, their eyes met, and Kushina's smile froze.

Minato gave an awkward smile too. Kushina's expression... This didn't look good.

"Minato..." Kushina kept smiling as she looked at the baby in his arms, but her beautiful smile somehow seemed dangerous.

"Let me explain, Kushina..." Minato said, still wearing his awkward smile.

"Mm... mm..." Just as Minato was about to speak, the baby in his arms whimpered twice and reached his little hand out toward Kushina.