Hiruzen Sarutobi Panics

"What? How could this happen?"

Minato Namikaze listened to Kanami in disbelief.

"What do you mean Naruto seemed happy on the surface but was sadder behind the scenes?"

He furrowed his brow slightly and asked Kanami worriedly.

"Exactly what it sounds like," Kanami said, with no intention of hiding anything.

He had no desire to cover for Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others.

As Naruto's father, Minato had the right to know all of this.

Even if Kanami did not tell him, someone else eventually would.

"Do you know what kind of life Naruto lived after you and Kushina Uzumaki died?"

Kanami asked even though he knew the answer.

Minato smiled bitterly.

"I don't..."

"Do you want to know?"

"I do. Can you tell me about Naruto?"

Minato asked gently.

"Since you said you want to know, I can tell you."

After confirming it, Kanami told Minato everything that had happened to Naruto from childhood to the present in one breath.

Even after condensing all those years of experiences as much as possible, it still took a full half hour.

That was, an entire hour, before he finished telling it all.

After hearing everything Kanami had said, Minato stood frozen in place.

His expression shifted constantly.

He kept murmuring, "How is this possible?"

"How could they treat my son like this?"

"I was the Fourth Hokage. My son was the hero who sealed the Nine-Tailed Fox that nearly destroyed the village. How could he be ostracized?"

"Shouldn't people have surrounded him with support?"

"Then why did I seal half of the Nine-Tails inside him?"

"I don't know why you did it, but the result was that Naruto endured things ordinary people could hardly bear. That is why I said he had become someone capable of standing on his own."

Kanami spoke