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Minato raised his hand to stop his son from leaving, if he did he would most likely not see his son until the day of the tournament. "Naruto wait!...There is one more thing."
Naruto turned back around to face the Hokage. From the look on Minato's face, he knew he would not like what the man was about to say. It seemed that this conversation would need to draw on a bit longer.
Minato sighed, knowing his son wouldn't want to hear what he was about to say. "I want you to retake to Uzumaki-Namikaze clan name...Konoha needs to show its strength during these exams and the village's strength is intertwined with the strength of their Kage...this includes their families."
The room noticeably dropped several degrees after Minato spoke those words. Words that everyone in the room knew he would not listen to. Even Jiraiya knew there was a reason why he changed his surname, though he would never understand it.
In that moment Naruto remembered all of the pain that his family had caused him over the years. Those words that he recalled Ace once saying were right, people never forget.
"I refuse...and I am not part of your family anymore Hokage-sama...perhaps I never was."
The words of the lone ravenette in the room broke the hearts of the females in the room, they wanted him back the most.
"This isn't a request! I am ordering you as your Hokage, not your father! You will take back the Uzumaki-Namikaze name and you will come back home so your mother and sisters can be happy again! Do you understand me!" Minato yelled as he stood up and slammed his fists against the desk.
Naruto's glare hardened, even going so far as to open his right eye and activating his sharingan from its neutral state.
"No I will not." Naruto stated sternly, earning a glare from Minato. "You may be able to give me orders when dealing with shinobi affairs, but this is a clan matter. You cannot force me into a clan that I am not a part of...also I may not have taken the name because I am partial to my current one, but I am under the protection of the Uchiha clan."
This statement caught the attention of those in the room. They had known he lived at the Uchiha compound with Satsuki, but they didn't think that Mikoto would go so far as to put him under the clan's protection.
Naruto continued, "You may be the Hokage but we both know that you don't have the authority to interfere in clan matters." With those words said, Naruto began to walk towards the door once more.
Minato looked down at his desk in defeat, tears welling up in his eyes, never before had any of those in the room seen the hero of Konoha look so weak and fragile. "...Will you at least tell me what the name 'Portgas' means to you?"
Naruto stopped mid-step. Those words brought back all of the memories behind the name.
Ace was never given the attention that his brother's were because of their use of chakra. Kaguya hadn't always tried to kill her sons, only after she began to perceive them as a threat and power corrupted her mind did she turn to that solution. His situation wasn't too different from Naruto's, he was cast aside for his brother's who had inherited all of their mother's chakra related abilities. Their father had died when they were still young, but he was the only one of his parents who could say that he loved Ace.
After Whitebeard's death, Ace moved away from home and lived in isolation. Away from his mother, away from the Otsutsuki, and away from his brothers. Ace didn't hat Hagoromo or Hamura, no he loved them like any brother would. But their mother had prohibited him from interacting with them. She feared that they would lead the world into war once more. As a goddess, she could not let that happen.
Chakra was not a power that humans were meant to wield, she never wanted Ace to get involved with chakra because of what may happen should his brothers grow too strong for her to control. She was secretly spending this time trying to figure out how to retrieve her chakra from her sons, but to no avail. She feared what the future would hold if more humans became able to use chakra. The world would be locked into a fate of constant war once more.
Ace didn't know any of this however. He didn't need her, he didn't need anyone. Or at least that was what he had thought for a time. That was what he thought until Otsutsuki Ace met a woman named Portgas D. Rouge. It was a chance encounter, Ace had thought nothing of the woman until she started visiting him everyday. She had seen the sadness and loneliness within him and decided that she would give him the happiness that he had never had.
Rouge had given everything that Ace had never received from Kaguya, maternal love, understanding, affection, and so much more. She gave him a place that he could truly call home. However, it was not meant to last.
Kaguya had finally realized that Hagoromo and Hamura were threats to her reign of tyranny and had decided to take back the chakra that was rightfully hers. She needed to find Ace too. She had loved him more than anything and only focused on Hagoromo and Hamura to make sure they didn't try to overthrow her because of their abilities with chakra. Ace was the only one she truly loved and she would bring him back to her at all costs.
However, she had found out that another woman had been taking care of Ace and had become something of a mother figure to Ace. Her Ace! She would not let some other woman try to steal her place as her child's mother. She was a god and he belonged to her and her alone.
The events from there onward were what would mark the turning point of Kaguya's rule. When Kaguya found Rogue she killed her in a rage of jealousy for daring to steal the one son that she still loved, however it was this action that made her lose Ace indefinitely. The murder of his mother and the death of Sabo not long after were the main reasons why Ace turned on Kaguya and decided to seek out the chakra fruits. He had decided to give up the Otsutsuki surname and change it to Portgas to honor the woman who was a mother to him when his own blood was not.
Naruto couldn't help but see the parallels between Ace and himself, Rouge and Mikoto. It was as if history was repeating itself. He would not it come around full circle though, he wouldn't let anyone ever lay a hand on Mikoto. Even if he had to burn down the entire world to do so, he would keep her safe.
"The name Portgas represents what a real family should be like...Hokage-sama, Kushina-sama, you may say that you want me back now, but where were you when I really needed you?...When I had nothing but hatred and loneliness consuming me?...Now you expect me to just accept you back into my life because you're sorry?...Do not fool yourselves, you mean as much to me as the civilians on the street...You two are nothing more than my sperm donor and incubator." With those final words said Naruto left the room, leaving behind those whose hopes he clearly just shattered.