What You Wish For [Complete]

My Purpose

Chapter Six: My Purpose

"What is going on?" Naruto snapped as Minato and he moved to a more secluded place. Minato sighed. He hadn't wanted Naruto to find out this way, but how long did they really think they could keep it a secret? It was a miracle that something like this hadn't happened before now. "Why are you even here?"

"I have a seal on him that activates when he activates the fox's chakra," Minato explained slowly. "I am to gather someone that can activate the Dark Phoenix Prison and take them to him. Neji was the first one that I found." Naruto glared at his father angrily. "Don't look at me like that."

"What is happening? Do you know those kids?" Minato shook his head. "I was in the meeting where it was decided that Karin's daughter would have it! We decided to keep it in the Uzumaki line! This was decided when mom got sick! Karin was even moved into the village and given a house!"

Minato closed his eyes. "That was originally the plan," Minato muttered. "We had already contacted Karin and she had agreed to it. Your mother agreed to it and it was all arranged, but things changed. There's a lot of things I never told you about."

"Well, now is a perfect time to tell me," Naruto snapped.

"I guess it is. Ansei doesn't really exist," Minato muttered. Naruto blinked. "According to all records, Ansei, Hinata and Kabuto's son, does not exist. He had been wiped from every registry. His birth was not even recorded."

"But... Why?" Naruto asked.

"Because the Hyuuga wanted it. When Hinata gave birth to Ansei, the elders were angered that she had a male heir. They pushed Hanabi into an arranged marriage with Tori, who was considerably older. Obito came to me when he found out about them basically forcing Hanabi to give birth, but she said that she had agreed to it, and you know we try not to interfere with them as much as we can." Naruto nodded slowly. Minato knew his son had always wanted to change the Hyuuga clan, but there was always a war to be fought and no time to clean up the problems in their own village.

"So, she got pregnant, but her pregnancy was laden with problems. She ended up in bed rest for the last three months, and her son was born a month early with multiple deformities and a weak immune system. He was a sickly child that they weren't sure if he would live. It was, however determined that all his birth defects were not due to any genetic problems, so his genes are still good."

Naruto bit his lip. "Why did she only have one son?" he asked. "Surely they would want her to have a child that did not have so many problems."

Minato looked at his son sadly. "Her organs were damaged during the pregnancy. Her body was too young to handle the stress of carrying a child."

"She can't have any more kids?" Naruto muttered.

"No, she cannot. That child would be the only heir they would have. Around this time was when Kushina got ill and the doctors told us that there was nothing they could do. The Uchiha had already approached us about having the fox in their Clan, but we denied them to keep the rivalry between the Hyuuga and the Uchiha down. Giving the fox to either clan would anger the other." Naruto opened his mouth to point out the obvious, but Minato held up his hand to silence his child. "Yes, you were in the meeting to decide where the fox would go and we were prepared to give the fox to Karin's son, but the Hyuuga came forth and demanded we give the fox to Hanabi's child. They believed that he would gain his strength with the fox.

"They were denied, of course, for the same reason that the Uchiha, but they were more persistent than the Uchiha. After the Uchiha asked, they let it die, mostly because they had an Uchiha as Hokage, but the Hyuuga needed the fox. They argued with us for weeks about it, until finally they came to the conclusion that they would leave the village if we didn't give them the fox."