UK:GSW Chapter 304: Minato Namikaze: Naruto, my dear son, I'll prepare the study package for you right away
At this moment, Naruto and Minato Namikaze were very embarrassed. The two of them instantly went from being social butterflies to socially awkward and didn't know how to speak.
Minato Namikaze was flustered because the truth had suddenly been revealed and he had no psychological preparation for this unexpected twist, so facing his good son made him panic. It was the classic situation of a father who suddenly had to act like a dad not knowing how to communicate with his dear son—mainly because he was afraid that, once he opened his mouth, the other party would have an emotional reaction and also feared that what he said would be unacceptable, making him very uncertain.
As for Naruto, it was purely because the combination of shock, confusion, and embarrassment made his head buzz, and he didn't know what to do.
Since he had spoken yesterday with Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Kei, Naruto had been thinking about who his parents actually were and was full of the desire to meet his parents. He had constructed many possibilities in his mind about meeting his parents, which caused his emotions to keep accumulating.
Rich emotions with strong explosiveness was a character trait of Naruto and also a trait of every reincarnation of Ashura's chakra.
Therefore, when emotions accumulated they would inevitably erupt, just like in the original work when Naruto saw his father and mother respectively in the sealing space, which was an unreserved emotional outburst.
And after Sai's analysis made him think that Naruko was his mother, Naruto's emotions had a specific target. Even though he forced himself to control them, when he actually met Naruko, his emotions involuntarily erupted.
That was an emotional eruption of a wanderer returning home, a venting of a lonely child seeing his mother, and the output of emotions accumulated to the extreme.
Without a doubt, this reaction was very Naruto.
However, a problem also arose.
When Naruto let his emotions erupt, those accumulated emotions were to some extent released, and in this situation he suddenly discovered that he had acknowledged the wrong person. What he hadn't expected even more was that the uncle he already had a very good impression of turned out to be his real father.
This unexpected twist and plot reversal, which he had never imagined, directly made Naruto feel like his emotions had thrown out his back, leaving him completely confused.
This, then, was the reason why the father and son were awkwardly looking at each other.
However, the two of them were after all sociable. After silently enduring the awkwardness for almost two minutes, Minato Namikaze finally spoke to break the silence, showing an apologetic look and saying:
"Naruto, I'm very sorry. I didn't intentionally hide it from you. It's just that we don't know the situation in your world. Especially when you didn't know who your parents were, we couldn't be sure whether telling you the truth would put you in danger, so we chose to temporarily hide it."
Hearing this, Naruto froze for a moment. He opened his mouth then pursed his lips again, and finally asked, "So, Uncle Minato…" He paused, feeling that calling him Uncle Minato was no longer appropriate, while calling him Father felt hard to say, so he could only skip over it and say, "Did you actually already know that I was your child?"
Minato Namikaze nodded and said helplessly, "After you were captured by Orochimaru‑senpai and Sasori‑kun, Orochimaru‑senpai examined you and then discovered that your genes matched mine and your mother's.
"That was the reason why your Uncle Kei and I went to Roran to meet you. In fact, we came there specifically for you."
After hearing this, Naruto's mind brought up the various situations from before, and his face immediately showed a look of realization.
So that's how it was. Uncle Kei was Father's close friend and my Godfather, and when Uncle Kei was with my old man, their relationship was visibly good—it was the way I idealized being with Sasuke.
In that case, everything made sense, everything could be understood. With such a relationship, Uncle Kei being acknowledged by my father and mother and becoming my Godfather became a matter of course.
Great, I am gradually understanding everything.jpg.
It's just…
"Although I know you were worried about me, it's still a bit upsetting, being kept in the dark like this…" Naruto muttered gloomily, with a puffed‑up look.
To this, Minato Namikaze could only apologize repeatedly, without a trace of the authority of an old father. His attitude was remorseful and full of appeasement. His cautious appearance made it completely unimaginable that this person was the Fourth Hokage of another world.
After all, the Fourth Hokage had always been Naruto's idol. Although he had never seen the Fourth Hokage, the textbooks and legends from others had built in Naruto's mind an incomparably perfect, gentle yet dignified and wise heroic image—pure idealization.
And now, with the real Minato Namikaze in front of him, being so cautious shattered that idol filter at once.
However, in its place was something else: the beauty of family affection and the fantasy of the thing one yearns for becoming real, making Naruto feel unreal, as if situations that would only appear countless times in his dreams were now interwoven and blended with reality.
In the end, Naruto clenched his fist as if he wanted to do something, but he still didn't. He only shifted his gaze to the side somewhat sullenly and said in a complaining tone, "All right, you don't have to keep apologizing. I know you mean well. Besides, after all, you are indeed my father, but you're only my father from a parallel world. My real father is another you, so you don't have to keep apologizing to me on his behalf…"
Though he said that, Minato Namikaze could tell that Naruto was a bit upset; the words he said were complaints, but they were also his true thoughts.
In response, Minato Namikaze simply gazed at Naruto with his blue eyes, then suddenly raised his hand and rubbed Naruto's head.
Then, amid Naruto's confusion and embarrassment, he showed the cheerful smile of the Little Sun and said, "So, what difference does it make? I am Minato Namikaze—that point isn't wrong—and the person I love is also Kushina Uzumaki. That means that the child of your mother and me will always be you!"
Hearing this, Naruto's pupils trembled; without a doubt he was moved, but shy emotions were also stirred, making him turn his gaze to the side embarrassedly. "What, saying things that sound really cool, seriously, so the real Fourth Hokage is like this…"
At this point, Naruto suddenly paused, and Minato Namikaze didn't notice, because upon hearing him say "Fourth Hokage," he couldn't help showing a wry smile and said, "So, Naruto, I've already said, don't call me the Fourth Hokage here; that would cause a lot of problems."
Hearing this, Naruto snapped out of some state and nodded subconsciously. "Mm, I know…" he said, still seeming absent‑minded.
At this, Minato Namikaze noticed something was wrong with Naruto and couldn't help but ask with concern, "Naruto, what's wrong?"
Upon hearing this, Naruto pursed his lips and then lowered his head, saying, "So, in my world, I'm actually the Fourth Hokage's son, right? Then why? Why did no one tell me this? I've always wanted to know who my parents were, always wanted to know the truth, yet no one was willing to tell me. Why is that?"
This question made Minato Namikaze's eyes move slightly, and then he said, "Actually, I discussed this with Kei yesterday. The reason is probably that after the Nine‑Tails' Rampage, the Leaf was too weak."
Naruto froze for a moment and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
Minato Namikaze gazed at Naruto: "Naruto, in your world, the Third Shinobi World War happened, and I over there became the Fourth Hokage after the Third Shinobi World War, right?"
Naruto nodded: "That's right, that's how it's written in the Leaf's textbooks. Everyone also says that the Fourth Hokage is the hero of the Third Shinobi World War and made achievements for the Leaf that no one else could match."
Minato Namikaze gave a sound of acknowledgement and then asked in return, "Naruto, you also know it was a war. Then how many people do you think I, as the Leaf's hero, had to kill in the war in order to be hailed as a hero of the Leaf?"
Hearing this, Naruto was immediately stunned.
Killed how many people?
On this point, Naruto didn't know and had never thought about it in detail.
However, he had once heard from his teacher Jiraiya that the Fourth Hokage was so powerful that the other villages issued orders that if they saw the Fourth Hokage during a mission, they could abandon the mission immediately.
Having trained outside the village with Jiraiya for several years and seen many things, Naruto, although still straightforward and rough in personality, was no longer the ignorant ninja academy graduate he once had been, and naturally understood that the shinobi world was a place filled with killing and hatred.
And someone like the Fourth Hokage, who could accomplish such things, must have killed people like chopping hemp and carried countless hatred.
Then, while Naruto was absent‑minded and his brain sank into contemplation, Minato Namikaze continued, "Although I don't know exactly what I did in the Third Shinobi World War in that other world, to surpass other candidates for Hokage based on merit, one must establish achievements that others cannot match in order to convince everyone and defeat other opponents.
"Someone like that would have had to kill at least thousands of enemies, possibly even tens of thousands. And someone like that—how much hatred would he carry?
"Naruto, the shinobi world has never lacked crazy people. When the Leaf underwent the Nine‑Tails' Rampage, and the other me died in battle, the Leaf became incredibly weak. At that time, the identity of the Fourth Hokage's son was destined to bear the blood feud the Fourth Hokage had created and become the object of countless people's hatred and desire to kill.
"A weakened Leaf could not protect the Fourth Hokage's orphan. To protect that child well, the best method was to conceal his identity and let the outside world think that the Fourth Hokage had no child.
"In this situation, the priority of keeping the Fourth Hokage's son's identity secret was even above that of the Nine‑Tails' jinchuriki."
After hearing Minato Namikaze's words, many images appeared in Naruto's mind—people bearing hatred and pain, struggling to survive in the shinobi world, or being driven to do bad things under the drive of hatred.
This made Naruto lower his head unwittingly. "So, is the shinobi world destined to be a world entangled in hatred?"
Upon hearing this, if it were the "original" Minato Namikaze, he would certainly have said that Naruto needed to find the answer himself, because in the "original" during their meeting in the sealing space, the chakra of the Fourth Hokage and Naruto had a similar conversation.
However, the Minato Namikaze here had studied further and theoretically far surpassed the Fourth Hokage of the other world in this regard, as well as surpassing all the Kage.
So Minato Namikaze shook his head and said, "A world entangled in hatred? That is just a superficial appearance. In reality it is interest demands, class solidification, and the tragedy created by the upper class's exploitation of the lower class. The so‑called hatred is merely an accessory to the cruel exploitation of the masses by the exploiting class, forcing the people to spontaneously seek a way out and resulting in mutual killing and plunder."
Hearing this, Naruto instantly came out of his sad emotions and, replaced by confusion, showed a perplexed "huh?" expression, with a head full of "What's this and that? Why can I understand it when it's split up individually, but when it's put together I have no idea what it means?"
Seeing Naruto like this, Minato Namikaze knew that his dear son, like himself in the past, only thought that the tragedies of the shinobi world were brought about by the cycle of hatred and only understood the superficial appearance.
But there was no help for it; they were all Jiraiya's disciples, and Minato Namikaze knew very well what level Jiraiya was at in this kind of theory.
So Minato Namikaze, with a serious expression, patted Naruto on the shoulder and asked, "Naruto, you want to change the tragedies of the shinobi world, right?"
As soon as he heard this, Naruto immediately nodded. "Yes, I want to change the cycle of hatred in the shinobi world! I want the shinobi world to usher in true peace!"
Minato Namikaze was happy for his son's ideal, smiled and said seriously, "Good, remember your dream and don't let it waver. I will also take you to study hard so that you truly understand the core of the shinobi world's tragedies, and I will also let you truly understand what to do to end the vicious cycle of the cycle of hatred ."
Upon hearing this, Naruto's eyes lit up. He immediately clenched his fist, full of enthusiasm. "Really? Good! I will definitely study hard!"
Mm, Naruto right now had no idea what he was going to go through; the legendary study hell was about to descend on this poor student.
In any case, seeing his son's full enthusiasm made Minato Namikaze very touched and gratified. He also made up his mind to ask Uchiha Kei to present his good son with the strictest study package, determined to have his son learn and become a talent as soon as possible so that when he returned to his original world he could bring true change to that world.
Of course, there was no rush with this matter; next Minato Namikaze planned to take his dear son to see his girlfriend Kushina Uzumaki.
After all, since the identity had already been exposed, next should be the time to acknowledge each other; no need to continue hiding it.
On the other side, Uchiha Kei, who had secretly watched the whole thing through the screen, said that he had watched a good show and then commented, "Nawaki exposed himself too quickly; he should have performed another trick before there would be more fun."
But that couldn't be helped—who told Naruto's reaction to be so intense that it directly frightened this spirited young man Nawaki?
Although he had transformed into a girl, that didn't mean that Nawaki's heart truly became that of a girl. Being hugged by a boy like that, it was only natural for Nawaki to lose his composure—otherwise one would have to suspect whether this guy's orientation had gone wrong.
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