Naruto the REAL Fifth Hokage by Traban16

Chapter 15: Got No Strings on Me

Chapter 15: Got No Strings on Me

"So, did you guys here? Konoha has a new Hokage, and get this; it's Minato and Kushina's kid; Naruto."

A turned around from his seat in the bar like everyone else as they listened to the Head Cloud Jonin as he brought news from the Council. It had only been a few months since the death of his father, the Third Raikage. Everyone had assured him that the title of Fourth Raikage would be his no matter how long the Shinobi Council deliberated on the matter. He, like everyone else in the bar, was in a state of shock.

They had all known the Yellow Flash had a child, no matter how long Konoha had tried to hide the fact. They had seen the boy during the Chunin Exams, and the Feudal Lords and clients had spread the word of the last Uzumaki boy. It wasn't very hard for the ninja to connect the boy with his late mother, Kushina Uzumaki. It you had ever heard anything about Kushina then you would know three things right away. One was that Kushina was not a woman to be messed with, unless you were suicidal. Two was that she harbored an intense love for Minato, and a burning hate for any woman trying to get her man. And lastly three, Kushina screamed at the top of her lungs that she and Minato were having a child. Truth be told, that was when everyone, living and dead, found out that she was the loudest woman in the history of the world.

Now when she ran from village to village telling everyone the wonderful news, in which Konoha ANBU and Minato had to stop her, they were all extremely worried. But then came the unexpected Kyuubi attack, and the death of both mother and father. The world had mourned, and yet, celebrated the death of both. Hey don't look at them like that! They were enemies of Konoha after all!

It wouldn't be for another twelve years that the world would hear from another Uzumaki. The tale of Naruto Uzumaki, Savior of Wave, had spread like wildfire throughout the ninja world. The villages had grown worried since they knew no orphan kid would just be named Uzumaki without a good reason. They had all done digging and found out that the boy was born on the very day his parents died, and that he was the Kyuubi Jinchuriki.

It would be a few months after the boy's saving of Wave that he'd reappear as gossip again for his supposed battle against Orochimaru in the middle of the Chunin Exams. Though they had all brushed that aside as gossip, they had gotten a rude awaking to the boy's growing power when he defeated Neji Hyuga, a supposed prodigy within the Hyuga clan, and later that same day Gaara of the Desert, the Jinchuriki of Shukaku.

They did more digging and found out that he was indeed the son of Minato and Kushina, so the village had grown wary of battling Konoha. It would be another two months when the rumor of the boy's defeating Orochimaru alongside the other two Sannin would surface. They had all taken that rumor more seriously since seeing the boy in the Chunin Exams, so now with the news of the kid becoming Hokage, they were shocked, but not surprised.

"So the brat really is just as powerful as his parents then? I wonder if those other rumors are true?" One of the Kumo ninja in the bar said as A only grunted a downed his sake.

"Well I hope not, it'd be tough dealing with a kid that had Kushina's Charka Chains and the Elemental Star abilities." Another ninja said as A stood up.

"The kid's nothing special! I'll crush him just like his dad if I ever get a hold on him!" A exclaimed as one of the nearby ninja scoffed.

"You couldn't even catch Minato, A-sama. What makes you think this kid isn't faster?" The ninja said as A turned to him.

"Because F, his father was a failure, and the kid will be too." A snapped as F sighed.

"Let it go, A. The kid's got nothing to do with that." F said solemnly as A glared at the man while the rest of the bar grew silent.