Naruto: Fourth Hokage

"You got it," Tails said excitedly as he held the kunai and speedily flew off away from Naruto to the skies until he was no longer in sight.

Kyuubi-teme could learn a lot from that playful little fox, Naruto thought.

"Don't disgust me kit," Kyuubi retorted sourly, "I never actually took a liking to that little two-tailed twerp anyway. Though Tails is a very smart and gifted kit however his childish demeanor sickens me."

Which makes me fond of him all the more, Naruto shot back before Kyuubi snarled beastly in response. Saying nothing else, Naruto turned his attention to his earlier thoughts about the seals he was studying back at the Hokage study office.

…Studying, revising and making seals of that magnitude was a headache, Naruto sighed as he made his way out of the Hokage tower and into the opening.

'Yet discovering, making, studying and mastering seals were among the things us Namikazes were good for my son,' Yondaime spoke, 'I'm amazed that you managed to come up with a way to completely modify the ancient Shiki Fūjin and integrate it with the Eight Trigrams Sealing Style and the Four Symbols Seal, ultimately creating a whole new fūin kinjutsu ougi.'

It was your idea, Naruto retorted, Revising the old ways to fit the needs of new generations. I modified that ancient seal and create a whole new modernized seal. If all goes well, it should work as effectively as if the original, if not better.

'You're making me proud seeing you live up to our legacy.'

Naruto tried to fight back a blush that crept up on his face.

"Uuugghh," Kyuubi bellowed in disgust, "Such tender moments between you two makes me nauseous. You damn humans…"

Shut up Kyuubi, Naruto retorted in annoyance as he started walking from the Hokage Tower.

"I can't believe you seek to help that waste of a human life," Kyuubi said, "He's a lost cause kit. If I know Shukaku, he made that boy's life a true hell thanks to whomever made that defected seal on that boy. I'm sure that's complemented with how the people from Sunagakure might have treated the boy."

What do you mean, Naruto inquired.

"What I mean kit is that Jinchuurikis like yourself and Gaara aren't always treated like humans," Kyuubi shot back, "They're often feared, hated and treated as though they're the bijuus themselves. You've been spared Gaara's fate for the simple fact that Yondaime used a different sealing jutsu through dumb luck and sealed himself into you along with me…"

Naruto stopped walking as Kyuubi continued…

"If the situation was different and Yondaime wasn't sealed into you, his foolish ideals of you being seen as the hero who saved Konoha from me would not have been honored by the villagers or the council as his dying wish. You'd have been treated as a plague and received indescribable accounts of abuse, neglect, scorn and inhuman mistreatment from your so-called precious people. Sandaime may have tried to intervene in your behalf, but I doubt that even he would have been able to change the way the villagers would have viewed you as. They would have never seen you for what your father wanted you to be seen as by the people.

"Take my word for it kit; humans are good for betraying their own faster than other creature on this planet. Your 'precious people' would have forced you to atone for crimes and atrocities that I've committed and use you as a human scapegoat to vent their blinded anger on, as if you were responsible for all the misery that befell them when you had nothing to do with it.

"Parents would never think of adopting you; in fact they would see to it that their children never came near you and inculcate their hatred of you into them. Shopkeepers would have run you out of their stores. You would have had to salvage through trashcans for food and clothing as a homeless. Your teachers at the academy would have made your life difficult and see to it that you never became a ninja. They probably would have even tried to kill you in fact, or trick you into performing crimes for them so that way when you were caught, it'd be easy to pin the blame on you.

"If anything, you might have resorted to pulling stupid pranks on the villagers just so you can get their attention, not caring if you were being yelled at or scolded just so long as they acknowledged your existence. You would have been beaten up, teased, ridiculed and scorned by peers of your old age group on a daily basis. You'd have suffered and lived a most lonely, bitter and pitiful life with no family or friends. You'd have been seen by everyone in all of Konoha as the human incarnation of me, not as Uzumaki Naruto."

Naruto contemplated on what Kyuubi was telling him. The blonde started wondering what life for him would have been like had Yondaime not been sealed away inside him. Naruto's head lowered, shooting his gaze down to his feet as he visualized life in the manner Kyuubi described it to him. He couldn't help but see truths in what the great fox was telling him. Yondaime himself remained silent as he too knew that Kyuubi was telling the truth as much as he hated to admit it. It felt like an eternity as Naruto stood fixated where he was silently. A cool breeze blew passed him, causing his white, red flame-designed vest and hair to flow with the wind. After a long moment of silence, Naruto mentally retorted…

You're right Kyuubi. My father's dying wish would not have been honored. It would have been quite the opposite really. All that you said would have indeed happened to me without question that much is true.

Yondaime lowered his head in dejection on hearing those words.

However, Naruto continued, You're wrong about a number of things Kyuubi!

Yondaime's head shot on hearing those words…

Not all humans are treacherous! I'm more than certain that there would have been those who would have seen passed the ridiculous notion of me being you incarnate! Though I would have been treated like garbage by the villagers however, I would NOT stoop to their level or retaliate in some vicious manner to prove their points! NO! I would have done everything in my power and work hard to prove to everyone that I wasn't you and that I'm my own person!

True such a feat would have been looked at as impossible, still, if even a few looked at me as a human being and not as you or another Jinchuuriki, that would have been more than enough to show that I had a chance to prove to everyone that they were wrong about me and how they treated me. In time, I would have made some real friends and earn the respect and recognition I felt I deserved from everyone. I would prove to all of Konoha that I wasn't or will ever be you, but the hero my father wanted me to be and seen as! And even then, I would have strived to become Hokage to prove that to everyone!

Kyuubi snarled at Naruto before retreating back into the darkness of his cage. Naruto for his part continued his walk through the village, while Yondaime looked on at Naruto with more respect and admiration than before. He couldn't feel more proud of his son.

(Some Time Later; Back At Forest)

Kankuro and Temari found Gaara standing on top of the large boulder in front of them. What the two Suna siblings saw was an area that was once a forest turned into a desert. From the look of things, it's clear that Gaara was going through one of his episodes with Shukaku. Realizing this, the Suna nins approached him cautiously.

"Hey Gaara," Kankuro greeted, "We've been searching for you for a while now. Is everything OK?"

The red-haired nin didn't give a reply.

"Gaara," Temari stated, "Kankuro and I came here to…talk to you."

The youngest Suna nin turned to look at the two older nins square in the face.

"About what," Gaara asked dryly. Nervously, Temari replied, "Your decision to see Naruto tomorrow."

The older Suna nins now felt strong bloodlust generating from their youngest brother much to their fright.

"You dare question me again about this," Gaara spoke with a dark tone. Temari cowered from him while Kankuro reasoned, "Listen, you're setting your hopes too high on someone we don't even know. Just because he's a Jinchuuriki like you doesn't mean we should automatically trust him."

"Yet Naruto trusted us first," Temari mumbled in an undertone which was heard by Kankuro.

"Temari," Kankuro started.

"Think about it," Temari said, "No one in Konoha but the Hokages and the Konoha council knows about Naruto's dark secret yet Naruto willingly chose to share this with us even though we're total strangers and foreigners. Doesn't that at least tell us something about him?"

Kankuro remarked, "That he's-"

"That I'm what," asked the voice belonging to the person entering the scene. The three siblings turned to see Naruto making his way towards them.

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