NARUTO: The new chance

"Can you turn into a berserker creature that can level mountains?" asked Goku.

"I don't know why but, a part of me is completely sure that I can do it" responded Naruto a little weirdly, insulted how a mere mortal could question his power...what does mortal mean?

"Is that creature's power related to tails?" asked Goku.

"Umm...yes." responded Naruto, getting more weirded out.

"Do you like to dress in orange and blue?" asked Goku.

"Of course!" responded Naruto.

"There you go!" remarked Goku, "You are my son!"

"Daddy!" exclaimed Naruto hugging him.

It was the best day of Naruto's life! Son Goku, the strongest warrior of the Universe was his father! He couldn't wait until he taught him things like flying and the Kamehameha.

Wait a moment...if Son Goku is my father, then who is my mother?

The answer was immediately answered.

"Naruto; I finally found you!" exclaimed an angry Chichi while holding a booklet.

Unlike Goku, she didn't look very happy. Naruto recognized the booklet as his report card.

"Oh shit..."

"How is it that I find that you are the dead last of your class? This is going to change immediately; I'm going to lock you at home and you can't get out until you are a scholar! You will have to leave that Academy; they don't teach any useful stuff anyway. Now you will learn math, physics, foreign languages...real subjects, not absurdities like ninjutsu." said Chichi while she dragged Naruto away, who looked with teary eyes at Goku asking for help.

The man just looked at him with a hand behind his head.

"I'm sorry, but I promised your mother that our third son wouldn't be exposed to the dangers of handling powers that would rival gods while fighting powerful enemies who threaten the world." said Goku.

"How I wish I was still an orphan...", thought Naruto.

Naruto woke up in his room alone. He had an unhappy mood, thinking of what had happened.

"I had one of those dreams again...", he thought with a sad face.

This wasn't the first dream he had of his family returning to him. Some of his dream scenarios had his parents surviving the Kyuubi attack, and in others they came back from a long term mission. There was even one where the attack didn't happen and they lived together as a happy family. He loved dreaming them, but waking up in the cold, real world made him hate them, as they reminded him of what he didn't have.

But the dream last night was definitely the most painful of all; it felt so real. The Yondaime Hokage, his HERO, coming back from the dead saying that he was his father; the warm reassuring hugs; and the promise of never leaving him alone again...

Enough, he thought. If the Yondaime really was his father, the old man would have told him, the people would have treated him with more respect, and he would have had a house (and fangirls) like Sasuke-teme.

Unwillingly, he got up his bed. Not changing his clothes, he went to the kitchen to prepare a special ramen breakfast to cheer himself up. He decided not to go to the Academy that day, he was not in the mood for boring lessons and cold glares at the entrance of the building.

Then he noticed that something was not right in his apartment. The floor was without the used clothes that he left to be laundered and was completely mopped. Going to the living room, he also saw that the empty ramen packages that he left around the house were gone as well. Impossible! There was still a month left until his annual cleaning! The only explanation he had for this was that someone broke into his apartment and stole them; but who would steal empty ramen packages and clean the place they stole them from? There were also some boxes along the hallway, confusing the boy even more. Since when did thieves bring things into the household they stole from?!

He also noticed that someone was in the kitchen and tried to move as quietly as possible. Good, they were still there. He would show that intruders to mess up with his things!

He entered the kitchen and saw...the Yondaime?!

"Good morning Naruto-kun. Did my precious son have a good rest?" asked a smiling Yondaime.

While preparing breakfast, Minato thought about what had happened in the last few hours: the talk with Sarutobi finished better than he expected he was able to convince the man that he was really the Yondaime, although the reasons of his return were hard to believe, even for himself.

He spent almost all night watching his son sleeping, giving thanks for being with again.

"He looks so cute in his hippo pajamas!" he thought. If Naruto went out walking through Konoha with it, people immediately would stop scorning him and the female population would fight to squeeze and hug him", thought Minato. Kushina would have drooled at the sight of him and...

...thinking about her put him in a depressed state...

"NO! I must stop having these thoughts every time she comes to mind. Our son needs to have a better life, not a man brooding for what he lost. I must remember the happiness we had and bring that happiness to Naruto", thought the ex-kage.

That morning, he put his demi-bunshins to clean the apartment, while he went to the kitchen to start making breakfast.

"...Naruto is almost as messy as me when I was his age, quite normal for boys living without parents... but now that I'm here he should learn how to be more organized"

As his thoughts dwelled on the similarities of Naruto's life and his previous life as a child, he sensed Naruto entering the kitchen and moved to face his son.

"Good morning Naruto-kun, did my precious son have a good rest?" asked a smiling Yondaime.