NARUTO: The new chance

"So that's the reason becauseI willwear this mask, Naruto", said a black dressed man with matched cloak and mask.

"Yes, now I understand, he,he,he... do you think I'm going to need one too?" said a smiling Naruto.

"Probably as soon as I start walking through the streets without mine... You, know people shouldn't enter other's houses without invitation" said the cloaked man to Iruka.

"Iruka-sensei!", said the happy blonde without noticing the glares between his father and teacher, "I want to introduce you to someone: this is Min— I mean Arashi Uzumaki, formerly known as Arashi Kazama, MY DAD! He lost his memories in the Kyuubi attack and was wandering through the world and then, when he regained them, came back", he said triumphantly.

"Dad, this is Umino Iruka, my teacher, he also babysat me occasionally when he was a genin", Naruto said to his father.

That last phrase only reminded Minato of the years of his son he lost forever, deepening the wound in his soul.

"Glad to meet you, Iruka-san," said Minato in a forced tone.

"Same goes for me, Arashi-san" responded the chunnin in the same mood.

"Naruto, go to the stand without me, your teacher and I have to talk about some things", said the masked ninja.

"Ok dad, don't be late... oh, Iruka sensei, sorry for not coming today to class", said the happy jinchuuriki leaving the building, not noticing the tension between the two adults.

"Well, Iruka-san now that we are alone you can start with your questions...", said Minato.

He couldn't help but feel a mix of gratitude and resentment to the man before him, gratitude for looking after his son and resentment for taking the role of father figure that should be his.

Said man stept forward and before he noticed, gave him a punch to the face. Now the proportion of resentment was raising.

"How you dare to come back and act like nothing happened!?", shouted a furious Iruka while a gave a punch to the gut, and after that punch, came another, and another...

Minato didn't said or did anything while he received a beating at the hands of the teacher.

"You know what the kid you call son had to pass!?" said Iruka with rage in his eyes.

The masked man didn't say anything while he received another punch.

"Being shunned by the parents of the kids he wanted to play with..."

"Ignored by the people, forcing him to do pranks to recall their attention..." said sadly.

"Waking up alone in the mid of the night for a nighmare and not having nobody to comfort him" said with flaming eyes.

"Those eyes... are these the eyes that the Sandaime saw in me?", he started to laugh.

"WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING!", Iruka grabbed the man by the mask with the left hand and gave him a punch with the other, sending him to the other side of the room leaving the mask in Iruka's hand. "AND WHY THE HELL YOU DON'T FIGHT BACK", yelled.

"I'm laughing because I'm happy to know that Naruto had you looking for him...", said getting up "...and I don't fight back because I deserve the beating for what I did to my son", said Minato showing his face.

"You are the...", then realization hit the teacher. "Y-You, s-sealed the fox in your own son, sacrificing your life..."

"Yes, I did", said the Yondaime with a disgusted face, taking back his mask. "As Hokage I couldn't take another child having my own; kages can not demand to their subordinates something that they wouldn't do.", said painfully.

Iruka realized the nobility of the sacrifice that the man did, giving up his life and his son's happiness for a village that didn't respect his last wish, he felt dirty for being part of it and he also realized in horror that he tried to kill that man in an attack of anger and jealously.

"Hokage-sama, forgive me!", said the chuunin kneeling before the Yondaime with tears forming in his eyes. "I thought you left him all those years and then I saw him talking happily with you like nothing happened, I couldn't stand it..."

"Iruka-san, I told you I deserved it", said Minato pulling out a paintbrush from his pouch. "You must have a lot of questions for me", said while he wet the brush with the blood from his cheek.

Then he discovered that Iruka was also an enthusiast of chained questions.

"Naruto knows that you are the Yondaime? How are you alive?... What are you going to do, are you going to be Hokage again?" asked a nervous Iruka.

Minato answered the questions while drawing something in his mask.

"Yes, he knows that I'm the Yondaime... I'm not in the mood of telling again the history of my comeback so ask the Sandaime, I told him yesterday... and about your last question my response is NO, I won't lead this filty town after they did to my child", said with contained rage.

"I... understand Namikaze-sama", said Iruka remembering his name from the books.

"Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage is dead...", said the blond man, "...he died the day that the Third's Law was necessary to protect his son from the hate of those he saved..."

Then he put back his mask and continued talking.

"...All that remains is Arashi Uzumaki, the father of the future Hokage".

The mask had now six red whisker marks, thicker than Naruto's, made with his own blood.