The Fifth village Hokage:Uchiha Douhuan

Chapter 247: Minato: This is My Son?

"Alright! Then, tomorrow we'll go to the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Rōran together!" Naruto decided, patting Gaara on the shoulder.

"Hey, Naruto, don't be reckless. Ah, forget it. Rōran has been deserted for so long, there probably won't be any major trouble." Jiraiya wanted to remind Naruto not to be reckless, but seeing that the boy had already made up his mind, he could only let it be. If this kid listened to advice, he wouldn't have given up the hot springs and young ladies of the Land of Hot Water to come eat sand in the desert.

The next morning, after Naruto and Gaara woke up, they set off for the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Rōran.

After approaching the site of the ancient kingdom of Rōran, Naruto looked up at the architectural ruins before him, which had been almost completely eroded by wind and sand, but from which one could still discern some of its former scale. Naruto was lost in thought for a moment, then turned back to look at Gaara.

"Gaara, do you know why this place became like this?" Naruto asked with some confusion.

"I don't know either," Gaara said.

"When the ancient kingdom of Rōran began to decline, you two hadn't been born yet, so it's normal that you don't know," at this time, Jiraiya spoke up to enlighten the two. "The former ancient kingdom of Rōran, relying on puppet techniques driven by some kind of special energy, built a splendid civilization in this desert. However, when their puppets lost their power source, they no longer had the ability to support such a large country. So, the ancient kingdom of Rōran declined to its current state."

After Jiraiya finished speaking, a look of melancholy also appeared on his face.

"Special energy?" A look of astonishment also appeared on Naruto's face. What kind of energy could support the establishment of such a large and prosperous empire, and then cause this empire to collapse after the energy disappeared?

For some reason, Naruto had a feeling in the dark that this matter was related to his father, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

At this time, a trace of reminiscence also appeared on Jiraiya's face, "It was probably not long after your father once came here to perform a mission. The Third also suspected that this matter was related to your father, but your father and the members of his team couldn't remember what exactly happened on that mission."

The trio wandered through the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Rōran. Before long, they came before a tall tower that, after being eroded by wind and sand, had only half of it still standing solitarily in the desert.

Naruto looked at the ruins of this tower, a daze coming over him. In the dark, a feeling urged him to hurry inside.

Naruto thought for a moment and then stepped into the tall tower.

Jiraiya and Gaara, seeing this, also followed.

After entering the tall tower and walking through the darkness for a while, Naruto arrived at the center of the tower. When he saw light again, Naruto had already walked into a room where the floor was covered with faded sealing jutsu runes.

Naruto looked down at the sealing jutsu formula on the ground, scratched his head and thought for a long time, then said with some uncertainty, "Is this... a Five Elements Seal?"

"Who on earth did you learn sealing jutsu from? This is clearly the Eight Trigrams Seal," after Jiraiya came in, he first observed the situation in the room for a while, then couldn't help but complain after hearing Naruto's words.

"Oh, so it's the Eight Trigrams Seal," Naruto said, sticking out his tongue. "No wonder it looked so familiar."

"It seems this is the place Minato came to back then," Jiraiya said. "After all, at that time, the only people in the entire ninja world who had mastered the Eight Trigrams Seal should have been your parents. But why does this seal look like it's already been broken?"

Naruto stared at the very center of the room, where the residual sealing jutsu runes converged. A special kunai was quietly stuck in the ground.

"The Sword of the Shinobi's Affection?" After Jiraiya and Naruto came to the side of the kunai, while Naruto was still curious about what this thing was, Jiraiya had already recognized this kunai first. After all, in the entire ninja world, this kind of three-pronged kunai was one of a kind.

"Is this... my dad's kunai?" Naruto turned back and asked Jiraiya.

"Yes," Jiraiya nodded.

After getting the answer, Naruto immediately reached out his hand towards this Sword of the Shinobi's Affection.

"Wait a minute!" Jiraiya hurriedly shouted upon seeing this.

However, in the next second, Naruto suddenly felt the chakra in his body resonate with the little bit of chakra still remaining in this kunai, and a blinding white light flashed before his eyes.

An unknown amount of time passed before the three slowly woke up.

After waking up, the three first observed their surroundings.

"Is this... the same place as before?" Jiraiya barely recognized that this was the room where the Sword of the Shinobi's Affection had been stuck just now. But now, both the Sword of the Shinobi's Affection and the residual sealing jutsu formula on the ground had disappeared. And the furnishings in the room looked much newer than before. More importantly, in the area where the Sword of the Shinobi's Affection had been, a purple pillar of light stood, emitting a huge chakra fluctuation.

Suddenly, a clamor of human voices came from outside. It sounded like a bustling crowd. Seeing this, the three all showed incredulous expressions on their faces and exchanged a look.

"Are there other people in this place?" The three quickly rushed towards the source of the sound. However, when the three of them walked out of this tall tower together, the scene before their eyes deeply shocked them. The previous scene of a dead land had disappeared, replaced by numerous tall buildings of peculiar shapes.

However, before the three could be shocked for long, three sounds of something breaking through the air followed.

"Be careful!" Jiraiya shouted a reminder.

Three huge puppets attacked from behind the three of them. The three dodged the sneak attack from behind, then turned back to look at the attackers.

"Puppets?" Jiraiya couldn't help but frown as he looked at the large puppets that had surrounded the three of them. "So big?"

While Jiraiya was still marveling at the size of these attacking puppets, Naruto and Gaara had already engaged their respective opponents.

Naruto, stepping on a gale, dodged a wave of attacks from a puppet. Then, his right leg, wreathed in a wind blade, kicked heavily at the puppet. On the surface of this puppet, which looked like it was made of refined steel, a trace of a crack and a cutting mark instantly appeared, but the momentum of this puppet attacking Naruto did not diminish in the slightest.

"Sand Coffin!" After Gaara simply formed seals, countless grains of sand surged from the ground, wrapping around the attacking puppet in a few breaths. Subsequently, Gaara, who was controlling the sand, also sensed the immense struggling force of this puppet transmitted from the sand.

Gaara frowned slightly, and the hands he extended clenched forcefully. The sand binding the puppet suddenly tightened. The immense pressure made the sand wrapped around it continuously emit a teeth-grinding creaking sound.

However, Gaara also discovered that this move of his, which would directly crush an ordinary Jonin into meat paste upon being hit, seemed not to work very well against these iron lumps.

"You two! Don't use brute force! Find the chakra threads connecting these puppets! And then cut them!" Jiraiya had a bit of a headache as he watched the fighting style of these two Jinchuriki. The basic knowledge of these two children as ninjas was severely lacking. They didn't even know the basic common sense of looking for the chakra connection threads first when facing puppets. And, it was one thing for Naruto not to know, but for Gaara, a Jinchuriki from the Sand Village, which could be said to be represented by puppetry, not to know either, it seemed the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, really didn't raise him as a normal ninja.

"Chakra connection threads?" Upon hearing Jiraiya's words, Naruto also began to carefully observe the situation of the puppet he was facing. It didn't take long for him to discover that behind the opponent, there were indeed several thin threads glowing with a faint blue light. These thin threads were very difficult to spot under the sunlight if one did not look carefully.

"Damn it, who on earth is controlling these puppets?" Jiraiya's brows furrowed deeply after continuously jumping to dodge the puppets' attacks. The durability of these puppets alone was much higher than any kind of Sand Village puppet he had ever seen before. And what was even more bizarre was that, according to common sense, the distance between a puppet and the puppeteer controlling it should not be too far. After all, there would definitely be some loss in the process of chakra being transmitted through the chakra threads to the puppet.

However, no matter how Jiraiya looked, he could not find the master of these three puppets.

But after Naruto and Gaara received Jiraiya's reminder, they quickly cut the chakra connection threads of the puppets in front of them. The huge puppets fell with a crash in front of the three of them, and the three also breathed a slight sigh of relief.

However, just at this moment, a kunai shot rapidly towards the area where the three were.

Naruto and Gaara locked onto this kunai in almost an instant. However, just as the two were about to counter-attack, Jiraiya, who had also noticed this kunai, pressed down on their shoulders. But at this moment, a thick look of disbelief was on his face.

Just as the kunai was about to reach them, a golden figure flashed past, grabbed the kunai, and then, before Naruto and Gaara could react, this person who had appeared out of thin air grabbed Jiraiya's arm.

In the next instant, the four of them disappeared from the spot together.

...

After Naruto came to his senses, he found that he had been taken to a hidden alley. Only then did he get a clear look at the person who had taken them away. The person had a head of golden hair and wore a special mask on his face.

The person slowly took off the mask, revealing a face that made Naruto completely freeze upon seeing it.

"Jiraiya-sensei, what are you doing here?" Minato Namikaze asked, looking at Jiraiya.

"Mina... Minato?" Jiraiya looked at this familiar face and was also in a daze for a moment. However, Jiraiya soon also discovered something unusual.

[No... this Minato looks much younger than when he took office as the Fourth Hokage. So... this is the past?]

"Jiraiya-sensei? Why are you looking at me like that?" Minato Namikaze was a bit puzzled by Jiraiya's gaze. He didn't notice anything from Jiraiya's appearance. After all, this person Jiraiya looked 40 when he was 30, so now at 50, he didn't look much older than before.

"Dad... Dad?" At this time, Naruto suddenly spoke up, calling out to Minato Namikaze.

Although the person in front of him looked a bit younger than the father he had once seen in the Nine-Tails' seal space, the chakra fluctuation on his body clearly told Naruto that the person before him was his father.

Minato Namikaze: ???

What's wrong with this kid? Why is he calling everyone 'dad'?

Naruto's address directly stumped Minato Namikaze. After thinking for a moment, Minato Namikaze looked at Jiraiya, "Jiraiya-sensei, these two children are?"

"Uh, Minato, they are..." Jiraiya hesitated a little. Mainly, he wasn't sure if revealing the identity of their group to people from the past would have a negative impact on history and the future.

However, at this moment, Naruto blurted out, "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, and I'm your son, the Fourth Hokage!"

"Hey! Naruto!" Jiraiya was greatly alarmed upon seeing this and hurriedly wanted to stop Naruto from continuing to expose himself.

"Uzumaki... Naruto?" Upon hearing Naruto's words, Minato Namikaze also looked at Naruto in disbelief. At this time, he finally noticed that besides having the same golden hair as him, the facial features of the child in front of him also faintly showed the shadow of his lover, Kushina Uzumaki.

[So, what this child said might be true? Is he really my son?] Minato Namikaze also fell into a daze as he looked at Naruto's face.

"Uh, Minato, so as not to affect history and the future, I won't go into the specific details. In short, we came back here from about 20 years in the future," Jiraiya, seeing that the situation was already like this, decided not to hide it anymore and revealed the origin of his group.

"I understand," Minato Namikaze nodded. However, from the expression on his face, it was not difficult to see that he was not so calm at this moment. After all, he and Kushina were still in the honeymoon phase of their relationship, and there was still some time before they would actually get married. But now, a big son of this age had suddenly appeared. To be honest, anyone would find this kind of thing a bit hard to accept.

"Minato, can you tell me what your mission here this time is?" Jiraiya said. Now, he also understood why the mission report Minato had submitted about this mission back then was so vague. It was probably because of the intervention of the few of them that Minato, in order not to let this memory affect the future, took the initiative to seal this memory.

"About this mission, Jiraiya-sensei, you come with me first. I'll explain after we meet up with Choza and Shibi," Minato Namikaze said.

"Alright," Jiraiya nodded.

"So, this is... the past, 20 years ago?" But just at this moment, Gaara, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his head and asked everyone.

(End of chapter)

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