Team Otsutsuki

Five

Naruto wanted to see Hinata, hoping that they can stay friend but he never did since that day two years ago. He also remembered Hamura-jii-sama after meeting the Hyuuga and had carved a memorial tablet for him too. Hiruzen had raised brow when he first saw it, "Who is this?"

Naruto introduced the ancient brother of his ancient father, "Hamura-jii-sama. He went to the moon. He's also father of the Hyuuga and the Kaguya..."

Hiruzen didn't know that, "I see..."

Naruto also informed him, "Hamura-jii-sama went crazy once because Obaa-sama mess with his head, 'ttebayo. I guess that the Kaguya got that from him," Apparently Minato has been teaching the boy about clans from around the continent as well as reading through historical text. He treated the text like an epic tales and Naruto soaked up the information with great interest.

Naruto's chakra control has improved in leaps and bounds as he kept going smaller and smaller. Hiruzen and Kakashi had both watched with great interest when Naruto had spouted a flowering shrub from a seed and then reversed it in quick succession. The two living elders enjoyed the vegetables he grew, feeling healthier even with the chakra infused greens. In fact, Hiruzen swore he looked a year or two younger since he started eating Naruto's vegetable produce.

Minato had the boy practice his tree-walking on the walls of their home and then water walking in the bathtub. Naruto's Fuuinjutsu also grew more and more complex that it can't even be recognised as a seal. It's so complex that some seals move in peculiar kaleidoscope-esque patterns!

Today, Naruto will be entering the Academy for formal lessons. He fidgeted in his orange hoodie, nervous. Naruto only ever ventured out of his home at night until a few weeks ago when he practiced going out in the morning. He's still nervous about running into Indra's incarnate that it took him years to regain the confidence to come see Konoha under the light of day.

Basically he was avoiding his most painful past and no one can blame him.

Hiruzen couldn't go anywhere near his home where he once lived with his late Biwako for years too, feeling that the house was haunted by her. It was only when he finally seek out Minato and asked about her that he found closure as she had moved on to the Pure Land. This avoidance was the reason why people swore he lived at the Hokage Tower as he only returned home when he really couldn't focus on his work anymore, just to black out on his bed after cleaning himself and fixing some food.

Kakashi moved out of his family's home as soon as he's able and before Naruto's supernatural revelation, spent hours just staring at the KIA Monument. Reading the names of his family comrades over and over, immersing himself on what-if or could-have-been. Now, he recently fixed his home, almost emptying his coffer to renovate the land and home.

Just earlier this year, Naruto moved out of his apartment to live with him. With the bigger land, he started growing plants and other greeneries in earnest. What started as chakra practice has become a hobby, the Hatake's home once barren and neglected ground now surrounded by a miniature forest and teeming with life.

Kakashi never knew he could feel so relaxed in his old home where so much memories; once painful memories but now filled with fondness and nostalgia, surrounded him in every corner. He gave Naruto the room with the door leading to the backyard as it's the one with the most sunlight due to how his plants overflowed from his room to the garden.

Now, Kakashi bid Naruto goodbye as the boy make his way into the world.

Unseen by anyone but Naruto, Minato shed a tear of happiness and pride. He didn't expect Naruto to ace everything, just not fail and give his best. But he also worry as the Uchiha's also here which meant the one trigger to Naruto's trauma would also be here. He never thought that Mikoto's little baby would cause his own son so much pain.