One Drunken Night chapter 7

Chapter 7

After what happened the last day, Naruto was rather confused. He was laying on his bed in his apartment staring at the ceiling thinking what the reason could have been Hinata had kissed him on his cheek. He laid his hand on the cheek again. He only received two kisses, or actually, three. But the first one wasn’t one he wanted to remember and also didn’t count as a real one for he had been pushed into it. So the first one was the one Tsunade had given on his forehead after saying he didn’t see her as a Hokage. The second had been yesterday, given by Hinata.
He rolled over to his side and saw the time on his alarm clock. The blonde pushed himself up from his bed, shook his head to get the event out of his head. It wasn’t one he wanted to share with others than Hinata and Tsunade might find out if he kept acting that he was spaced off.

Ten minutes later he strolled down the streets to the Hokage tower. Another ten minutes later he entered Tsunade’s office without knocking. “Hey, baa-chan!” the boy shouted, hiding his confusing behind his shouting. “Naruto, would you stop calling me that!” the blond woman shouted back.
Naruto noticed Jiraiya was in the room as well and wondered why that was. “What’s so important?” he asked. “Sit down first,” Tsunade ordered. He looked at her for a moment, before he sat down in an empty chair. Then he looked at the two sannin again who had such serious faces that it made him nervous. Tsunade looked over at Jiraiya and nodded once to him. Jiraiya nodded back as reply and looked at Naruto. “Naruto, we think you are now old enough to know this.” “To know what?” the boy asked confused. There was a silence, and he could hardly breathe. “Who your parents are,” the white haired man then said.
Naruto almost fell of his chair when hearing that, but was able to prevent that from happening. “Wh-what are you saying?! You mean you knew them?! Why have you never told me before?!” “Like Jiraiya just said, you weren’t old enough to understand,” the slug explained calmly. “And practically everyone knew them, but no-one knows you’re their kid.” This confused the blond boy. “Why’s that?” “To protect you, that’s also why you’re wearing your mother’s surname and not your father’s.” “P-protect me from what?” “Your father had a lot of enemies and they would go after you and kill you, if they found you were their kid.” “Th-then why did they agree with Kyubi being sealed in me?” Naruto stuttered with a very white face.
Now this was a question they had hoped it wouldn’t come yet. The slug and the pervert glanced at each other with a difficult expression on their face.
“Why did they agree?” the normally hyperactive one repeated. “We will answer that question in a moment,” Tsunade finally said. “Then who were they?” Another silence until Jiraiya spoke. “Your mother was Uzumaki Kushina, she was from the former lands of Whirlpools. As for your father…” Naruto kept on looking at his sensei, waiting impatiently for his father’s name. “… his name was Namikaze Minato, but he is better known as the Fourth Hokage.”
Naruto made some movement and it made him fall backwards. His head bumped on the floor as he stayed laying on the floor looking up with a shocked expression, not believing what he just heard.

‘The Fourth? N-no way, i-impossible.’

Tsunade had stand up and looked at the other side of her desk. “Naruto?” “Wh-what?” it sounded weak, but Tsunade sighed, glad he hadn’t passed out. “Wh-why did h-he seal K-Kyubi in me?” ‘Back to the same question so soon… but who can blame him. His own father sealed it in him,’ Tsunade thought. “Jiraiya, Minato was you’re student, you know more about it than I do.”
Naruto remained on the floor, not moving an inch. “Naruto, I wish I could answer that question more precise than I am about to, but unfortunately I cannot do that, for even I don’t know and your father never had the change to tell. But I will tell you what I know.” The blonde replied with a hoarse ‘okay’. “First of all, the Fourth split the chakra into two halves. A dark and a light side, the light side is what is sealed in you, the dark side is sealed away somewhere else, what is not important at this moment. You ought to know, that your father was considered a genius and he would never do something without a reason. This is, as I said, unknown to me and you have to find it yourself, but I believe you will when needed.” “Find it out myself? H-how?” said Naruto still staring at the ceiling and still shocked.
“You don’t have to search for it I think, but don’t forget we will always help you if needed,” his sensei said. There was another silence. “Then… the reason… people are starting giving me confused and surprised faces… is because… I look like my father?” Naruto reasoned, remembering the Fourth from pictures and all. “So you noticed it,” Tsunade couldn’t help to chuckle at that. She expected from him to shout but there only came a simple ‘hm’ from him. That scared both sannin a little. “So… Namikaze Minato, or Fourth Hokage was my father and he sealed the light side of Kyubi in me for an unknown reason and my mother is Uzumaki Kushina who is from the former land of Whirlpools?” Naruto summed up monotonic what scared even Jiraiya, even though he had seen the boy serious and sad more often.
“Yes,” answered Tsunade after a short silence.

To their surprise Naruto came up, they hadn’t seen his expression for had been laying on the floor and they couldn’t see, but now saw it was confused and still shocked. “I…I want to be alone for a while,” he said and that was the very first time in his life he actually wanted to be alone. “Naruto, don’t leave the village,” Tsunade said a bit stern. “I won’t.”
With that the boy stood up and left the office. While going back to the exit he passed Sakura, Lee, Neji and Tenten who had just come back from their mission. “Hey Naruto, what were you…?” Sakura trailed of when Naruto just kept on walking as if he hadn’t heard. The four looked confused at his back until he turned around the corner. “What happened to him? I think he hadn’t heard me at all.” But the other three couldn’t give an answer.