Meanwhile in the outside World.
Although the chakra that got leaked from Jack was minimal, it was felt by someone.
As there was a situation that they didn't pay attention to because of their excitement.
----Flash Back----
After Kakashi left Naruto he went to the Hokage building to report to the Hokage but when he arrived he saw with the Hokage the three other elders.
They have been sitting here waiting for Kakashi report.
----Flash Back inside the the back ----
When Naruto refined chakra successfully for the first time, the Anbu that was monitoring Naruto immediately sent someone to inform the Hokage.
Although Kakashi feel it at the time, he didn't mind it. Because he was going to report it anyway. But he didn't know the significance of Naruto succeeding in chakra refinement.
Hiruzen immediately called the council elders for a meeting after being informed.
After they arrived, Hiruzen informed them.
"The jinchuriki succeeded in refining his chakra about an hour ago."
Koharu immediately stood up shouting.
"Impossible, he is only 3 years old. Does he even know how to read or write?."
Hamoru also had disbelief look on his face, while Danzo looked at Hiruzen with a solemn face and asked.
"Did he lose control or the kyubi chakra leaked?"
"No. But that doesn't mean we are on the clear yet. As you must have remembered what I told you last time about the kyubi invitation to the mental space when he succeed in refining chakra"
The other three remained silent for a while then koharu said.
"Hiruzen, why don't you call jiraya back. The jinchuriki right now is too much of a risk to be left alone without the key being far away from it. There are too many variables that might happen, so we should call him."
Hiruzen this time didn't disagree as that was one of the possible countermeasures he thought of.
If the kyubi rampage and Naruto dies, jiraya may really go AFK(Away From Konoha)forever like tsunade.
This might lead the village to lose the kyubi, Jiraya and possibly Kakashi too.
Not to mention the death count that Konoha might bear if the kyubi rampage.
He thought that he had time as it's unheard of for a 3 years old child to refine chakra.
Even in warning state period, the children were 4 or 5 to successfully refine chakra.
Danzo however didn't care and immediately disagreed.
"I think you are all panicking for no reason. Even if the kyubi rampage, it won't happen overnight. The sealing is still going strong and even for a young child, the chakra leaked wouldn't be enough to confuse him.
As long as he doesn't over exert his own chakra, he wouldn't touch the kyubi chakra. So we should just monitor him and check the sealing every night or once a weak."
Hiruzen also agrees with Danzo. If there are really signs of kyubi chakra affecting Naruto or the seal weakening , he wouldn't have hesitated to call jiraya immediately.
Homaru kept silent for a while and said.
"Well, Danzo words carry some rationality. We also have yamato who can suppress weak bursts of chakra.
If we really noticed something, we can call jiraya immediately."
Hiruzen nodded after thinking for a while.
"But Hiruzen, how did the jinchuriki refine chakra so quickly. Even Hashirama sama refined chakra at four years old."
Hiruzen looked at Danzo who asked the question and after a while he replied.
"There are too many possibilities to count. So I will name a few of them
First, his Uzumaki linage is from the main family.
Second, this the first time the kyubi jinchuriki becoming one from birth. Previous jinchuriki were much older when they became the kyubi jinchuriki as mito sama became one at 24 years old and kushina at 12 years old.
The kyubi sealed in a developed mental space and in an undeveloped one might be different.
Third, the malice, hatred and discrimination the jinchuriki suffered may have developed his mental space earlier.
These are the obvious reasons that may have lead to that.
Kakashi being a better teacher than expected, Naruto being a genius, Minato or kushina when sealing the kyubi may have left him something .
There are too many possibilities as I said before."
"Then we should wait for Kakashi to come back and ask him directly."
Koharu said after hearing Hiruzen answer.
---flash back inside the flash back end----
When Hiruzen saw Kakashi he smiled towards him and asked.
"Good work, Kakashi. It was surprising to hear about Naruto success in refining chakra at such young age. Do you perhaps have a knack for teaching, Kakashi?."
Kakashi knew what Hiruzen was asking so he replied.
"Although I taught him carefully as he is still a child and had to explain somethings to him several times, I don't think that was the reason for his success."'
"Don't sell yourself shortly. It requires a great teacher even if Naruto himself was a genius to draw out his potential."
"Thank you."
"So do you think Naruto is a genius."
Kakashi remained silent for a while then said.
"No or not in the normal sense of who we call a genius. But that's also might also because he is too young or the kyub interference with his normal chakra.
But he has a large amount of chakra and he will need a lot of time to control it"
"Yeah, I heard that he had a jonin level of chakra. As you would expect from an Uzumaki clan members."
Hiruzen spoke with a smile on his face.
Danzo however asked directly.
"So Kakashi, why do you think the jinchuriki succeeded in refining chakra at such a young if he isn't a genius "
Kakashi looked at Danzo with a calm look then said.
"Maybe he is a chakra refining genius."
"So you don't think the kyubi affected or helped him?."
Kakashi frowned as he asked.
"What do mean elder Danzo."
Hiruzen looked at the rash Danzo and sighed then said.
"Actually Kakashi, there's something that I didn't mention to you when I gave you the task as we also don't know what the meaning of it.
When Naruto entered the mental space, he spoke with the the kyubi who taught him how to enter and exit the mental space. He also told him to come back after refining his chakra.
Although it's a suspicious behavior, we still don't know what it means, and as we previously thought that we still have one or two years before naruto succeeded in refining chakra, we just put it aside for now. So elder Danzo thinks that the kyubi is helping Naruto in refining his chakra as to make him enter the mind space to manipulate him."
" although I'm not an expert in this field, Naruto seems ordinary for child his age.
He has a pure heart, an easy to read emotions that surface on his face and no malice or hatred towards the village. His dream is to become a Hokage after all."
Hiruzen smiled with a sincere and kind smile.
He heard from Kakashi yesterday how he manged to convince Naruto to inherit the will of fire and didn't doubt him at all.
"Yeah, maybe we are really worked up for nothing. Naruto has already inherited his parents will and I'm sure that he will grow up to be a fine shinobi.
Okay, Kakashi. Is there anything else you want to report."
"No Hokage sama. But I have an Anbu mission tomorrow night, so I'm wondering if you will arrange someone else to teach naruto while I'm away "
Danzo asked.
"Why do ask, are you afraid that if we do that, we might discover something"
Hiruzen looked at his friend with hopelessness who is still holding a grudge against Kakashi for refusing his offer to join the root three years ago.
"No, it's just that I think I should introduce them myself before leaving as to not make their relationship complicated and it will be easier for Naruto to accept it."
"There's no need. You will go to the mission and when you return, you can continue to train him."
"Understood, then I take my leave."
After Kakashi left , the council remained silent for a while then koharu asked.
"Hiruzen, is there really no need to worry.?"
Hiruzen took a puff from his pipe then said.
"There's no need but tonight just to be sure, I will send a yamanaka shinobi to monitor naruto tonight. If nothing happened, then that's it for and just check once a week to be sure the seal is intact."
"What if it's not."
"Then we will have to see."
-----flash back end----
The yamanaka shinobi who was monitoring naruto felt a small surge of chakra that felt and also didn't feel like the kyubi .
Yamanaka clan are proud of their sensory abilities and considered themselves to be second to non.
The reason for his confusion is that he felt the chakra of the kyubi during the nine tail attack. That chakra wasn't something you can forget.
It was full of hatred and malice that it gave a creepy and eerie feeling like being stranded at midnight on a cemetery .
But the chakra he felt was warm like the sunrise on the beach . It didn't make sense to him, making him doubt if it was the kyubi's chakra that he felt.
While confused he went to the Hokage to report it.
After arriving to the Hokage office. He saw the third Hokage sitting there doing some paperwork.
Hiruzen lifted his head and asked.
"Is there something inoshu. Did you the kyubi chakra."
"Yes third hokage, although it was a small amount, it was definitely there but...."
Hiruzen looked at him with a doubtful look as why would a trained anbu stop middle sentence when reporting.
"And what, inoshu?."
"....While the chakra felt like the kyubi's it also didn't feel like it was, it felt different. I don't know if it was the amount was too little making it feel different but I didn't get the same feeling I felt on that night three years ago."
Hiruzen looked at him and asked.
"So did you get another feeling or was it that you didn't feel anything.?"
"It was another feeling that's why I feel confused. The feeling that night was overwhelming, eerie and disgusting. But tonight was exactly the opposite warm, pure and light. So I don't know if it was the kyubi's chakra or something else like the kyubi's."
Hiruzen stood in silence for a while, not sure what to do.
He and the council have agreed that if the kyubi's chakra were to be felt, they would discuss countermeasures like summoning jiraya but now the result were inconclusive.
After staying silent for a while he asked again.
"What about the seal, is it still intact.?"
"Yes Hokage sama, the seal is still fully intact and isn't weakened at all."
"Okay, you can leave."
After the Anbu left, Hiruzen stayed silent at his office for a while.
He thought of different possibilities and in the end came to the conclusion that he needs to meet Naruto tomorrow.
-----Flash back end-----
Inside the mental space.
Kushina and Naruto had cried enough but they were still hugging each other and wasn't separated.
As they were pressed on time, Minato came to kushina after Jack looked at him with a look that has meaning of , go and separate them, we can't keep wasting time and said helplessly.
"Kushina, we have matters to discuss and things to do. You have the entire future with him but now is a critical time."
Kushina opened her eyes that seemed red from crying too much. Then separated from him.
She looked at Naruto who asked her with a weak voice.
"Are you really my parents, or am I just dreaming."
Kushina eyes turned moist again and just when everyone thought she will cry again she began to curse.
"Third Hokage , that fucking hypocrite old man. How dare he not to tell my child about me or showed him some of my photos.
Minato may had enemies. But I didn't . I didn't even kill a person in my entire life."
Minato trying to calm her down said.
"Well, the third hokage had issues that he needed to consider. And while you weren't active, we were known as a couple, so they might know that Naruto was my son."
Minato just completed his sentence and was punched by kushina on his head.
"How dare you defend him. Did you not see the hell my son went through while he was only three years old.
I know that jinchurikis are discriminated against in every village, but to have a three year old child live by himself is beyond child abuse. This is slothorn misdroom"
Jack heard her yelling and corrected her words.
"Stockholm syndrome not whatever it is you just said."
Jack saw angery kushina looking at him and immediately shook his head while saying.
"Not important, I actually agree with you and that Hiruzen is totally in the wrong."
Naruto saw this scene and immediately laughed and then said with admiration.
"Mom is so strong "
Minato saw naruto laughing at him and felt he was being looked down upon by his own son so as a father, he wanted to save some face and gain some admiration too. So he said
"Actually I'm not defending him but as the fourth hokage, I can understand some of his thoughts"
Naruto was shocked when he heard that as this was his dream now so he asked.
"You were the fourth hokage?. So I'm the son of the fourth hokage?"
"Yes, Naruto. I'm the yondime and as you are my son, so you are the son of the fourth hokage."
Naruto was happy for a moment but then paused for a while then trembling he said.
"So I'm dreaming in the end."
Jack and the others were taken back but then understood. Kurama not understanding asked
"Why do think this a dream."
Naruto saw it was the huge fox that he met him before and even though he was afraid, believing it was a dream he answered.
"Because if I was the Hokage's son, how could the villagers hate me so much."
Minato was about to speak but kushina hugged him and said.
"It's because of us. I'm sorry Naruto, I'm sorry. If I...."
Minato interrupted her saying.
"No. Kushina. I was the one who took that decision. Let me explain the reason to him."
Naruto looked at kushina that was crying and felt he shouldn't have said that even if they were in a dream.
But when he heard his father saying that he knew the reason, he looked at him with expectation appearing on his eyes. From young age , he was always hated and he never knew the reason so he always wanted to know why so that he can change himself.
Minato looked at Naruto with complicated eyes as his son was too young to understand anything but he knew he must tell him something so that he can believe them.
"First of all naruto, I want you to know that this isn't a dream. It's easy for you to confirm that. You just need to be use the method kurama taught you on how to enter this place after you go out.
Second, the fact that you are my son is hidden for two reasons.
1)I had made many enemies that wanted to get revenge on me, so as my son, after my death, you might be targeted.
2) even if the villagers knew you are my son, their treatment for you wouldn't change. It's not because of something that you did but because of something I did.
When you were born I sealed kurama inside of you to prevent some enemies from destroying the village using kurama.
The villagers don't understand kurama as kurama is too powerful. The people hate what they don't understand and discriminate against it. This called prejudice which means that you judge someone or something before you know it.
Just like you feared kurama when you first saw him. You just looked at his appearance and felt fear. It's not just you who felt that but also me and all of the people of Konoha. Even before Konoha, kurama was always misunderstood.
Also before I sealed kurama inside you, The enemies used him to kill many people that day inside the village.
But because kurama is sealed inside you, their hatred is transferred to you."
Naruto looked at kurama and even though he understood somewhat, he still asked some what with some hope.
"Then did you know that they would hate me and treat me like this."
Minato answered with a solemn voice.
"Yes, because all the jinchuriki in our village like your mother and even in other villages are hated by the people."
Naruto stayed silent for a while then moved towards him and he reached him , he punched him then immediately erupted and shouted
"If you knew, why did you seal him inside of me knowing I would be hated."
Naruto was young so his punch didn't carry any strength as he couldn't even gather chakra to punch him with it.
Minato looked at his son fist that was on his placed on stomach and then smiled saying.
"Because I believed in you. I believed that you would be able to overcome it and be a friend to kurama . I believed that you would grow up and be a much better shinobi than I'm. And when you face those enemies you will need kurama strength to help you."
While saying that he touched his head.
Naruto started crying after hearing his father words. He was filled with pride then said.
"Of course I will be. I will be better than you the fourth hokage and the third hokage and even all the previous Hokages. I will be the best Hokage of all times."
Jack heard this classic saying and smiled because he was happy that Naruto could understand his parents feelings. But at the same time he swore that if he were to reside at Konoha in the future, he must make Naruto change his dream.