Naruto, Time of Dawn

"Why so long?"

Naruto had been tinkering in the kitchen for a long time. Sasuke originally thought that this guy would blow up the kitchen, but he actually made a few decent dishes.

"Ah."

Sasuke didn't intend to tell Naruto about Li Xiao. He nodded lightly and took the kitchen utensils from Naruto's hand very naturally and asked:

"What else do you want to eat? Is ramen okay?"

"Can you make ramen?"

Naruto's eyes sparkled with gold, as if he had discovered a new world.

Sasuke raised his eyebrows and said, "What? You don't believe me?"

"No!" Naruto waved his hands repeatedly and said very honestly: "It's not that you don't like to eat ramen." That's why I thought you couldn't make it!

However, Naruto did not dare to say the last half of the sentence.

"Fool."

Sasuke pretended to be angry, raised his hand and pointed at Naruto's forehead, and said angrily:

"Isn't it because some idiot is always shouting about ramen noodles?"

Naruto covered his forehead and giggled, then pointed in the direction of the living room and said, "Then I'll go and set the table first."

Sasuke nodded, took out the flour and started kneading the noodles. When Kushina arrived home, Sasuke's ramen was just coming out of the pot.

"Ah, it smells so good!"

Kushina rushed to the dining table, her beautiful big eyes flickering, so cute.

Naruto placed the dishes and chopsticks and said as if sighing: "You have to wash your hands first, mom."

"I know, I know!" Kushina walked into the bathroom and asked casually: "Did Minato say when he would be back?"

"Dad didn't say anything about this, but I asked Xiaojiu to follow me. The higher-ups probably won't embarrass dad too much."

Kushina: "Ah, who knew there would be such a rift between the Uchiha clan and the village? It's really troublesome!"

Naruto smiled and said nothing. Whether the Uchiha clan will stay or not is up to Nisan himself. He only needs to fully support Nisan.

"Eh?"

Kushina, who had just come out of the bathroom and saw Sasuke, was surprised and said: Who are you? "

Sasuke placed the ramen in front of Naruto and then said his name: "Uchiha Sasuke."

"Sasuke?"

Upon hearing the name, Kushina perked up and exclaimed: "He is indeed a beautiful boy!"

Kushina sat down and turned on the chatterbox mode without any airs of elders.

"When I first met Sasuke, I mistook Sasuke for a girl, but Mikoto laughed hard at me."

"mom!"

For some reason, Naruto subconsciously stopped Kushina, but Kushina seemed not to hear it. She held a bowl in one hand and chopsticks in the other, took a bite of rice and continued: "At that time, Mikoto and I made an order for you and Naruto. It's a kiss, but it's a pity that you and Naruto are both boys, otherwise I would be very happy to have a son as beautiful as Sasuke."

Sasuke raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "That's good too."

"I think so."

Kushina nodded seriously and said: "Although we can't get married, we can still be brothers. By the way, have you met Li Xiao? I haven't seen that child for a long time and I don't know how long it is. No?"

Naruto was unable to hold his forehead and suggested: "Mom, I think we can finish the meal first and then talk slowly."

"Ah, haven't you been too busy lately?"

Kushina didn't take it seriously, but instead warned Naruto: "But forget it and rest at home. Just after coming off the battlefield, you let the Shadow Bun 11 run to the Senju clan. What do you want? Think of yourself as It’s made of iron!”

"I agree with this."

Sasuke put a poached egg into Naruto's bowl: "People who are in poor health are not qualified to show off."

"Sasuke!!!"

Naruto stared at Sasuke with his eyes wide open, as if he was a little annoyed and angry, but Sasuke turned a blind eye, with a smile that could not be concealed in his eyes as deep as midnight, and he replied warmly:

"I am here."

"..."

Naruto completely lost his temper and had no choice but to stuff ramen noodles into his mouth dryly, as if he wanted to eat some annoying guy as ramen!

Seeing Naruto's deflated appearance, Kushina laughed loudly: "This is what a child should look like!"

Naruto retorted: "Mom! I'm 21 years old!"

"Yes, yes, yes." Kushina raised her hands in a gesture of surrender, but said unforgivingly: "But it's just that I'm older, and I'm still a kid at heart!"

Her eyes became soft and peaceful, and she thought to herself: Naruto, as long as Minato and I are still alive, you will always be a young boy who can throw himself into our arms and act like a baby.

"By the way, don't the Uchiha clan have anything to do?"

After finishing teasing Naruto, Kushina finally turned her attention to Sasuke, but this time it was different from the usual gossip, and it was more of a probing meaning.

"That's what father and the others need to worry about." Sasuke's expression remained unchanged, calmly as if he was talking about a topic that had nothing to do with him.

"Whether Uchiha goes or stays, they all have their own considerations in mind. All I have to do is wait for the final result."

"is it?"

Kushina smacked her cheeks and said leisurely: "What if you were asked to make this decision? How would you view this problem?"

Sasuke put down his bowls and chopsticks and said, "Each has its own pros and cons, but if you let me choose, I will choose to stay."

"why?"

"Because I have an important person who is still in Konoha."

"Just for one person?"

"Ah."

Kushina was a little surprised. She wanted to leave the entire Uchiha clan in Konoha just for one person?This is simply a big gamble!

"I said these are things that senior officials should worry about."

At this time, Naruto had already finished the ramen, so he picked up the rice porridge that was cooling on the side and stood up: "Just like Sasuke said, we just need to be patient and wait for the final result. So mom, don't worry about it. If you are really worried, you can also go to dad's place to check the situation, and you can just deliver lunch to dad."

After saying that, Naruto entered the bedroom carrying rice porridge.

Watching Naruto leave, Kushina couldn't help but sigh: "You have really grown up."

Sasuke also got up and entered the kitchen. Because he didn't know what the Fourth Hokage's taboos were, he had to follow his previous observations and make an omelette rice according to Kushina's taste and put it in the lunch box.

"Ah?"

Until Sasuke put the lunch box in front of Kushina, Kushina was still a little unable to react. After a long time, she said: "Thank you so much!"

After saying that, he picked up his lunch box and left directly, presumably because he couldn't wait to get the latest news from Minato.

………………

"I disagree!"

In the dark room downstairs from the Hokage, the three Hokages almost had a quarrel. The atmosphere had dropped to freezing point several times, and even now there was a tense situation.

Minato's many years of self-cultivation almost broke down at this moment, and he said bitterly: "Second generation sir, third generation sir, Lord Six Paths has already explained the origin of the tailed beasts before. We have no reason to deprive them of their freedom, let alone create another one. 'Jinchūriki'!"

Senju Tobirama: "Konoha is now experiencing internal and external troubles. If the Uchiha clan insists on withdrawing from Konoha, it will be difficult for Konoha to maintain its position as the number one ninja villager in the ninja world!"

Minato: "Second generation sir, don't you understand why the Uchiha clan and Konoha have fallen into such a state? If you just want to use the Uchiha clan but don't give them corresponding rewards and respect, then the Uchiha clan and the Konoha is bound to break up!

Yuan Fei Hiruzen advised: "Minato, one of the tailed beasts and the Uchiha clan must stay."

"Then who do you want to keep?"

Minato said: "Who among the Uchiha clan and Kyuubi can you keep?!"

Senju Tobirama: "Namikaze Minato, you are the shadow of Konoha. You should understand the current situation of Konoha. Whether it is the Uchiha clan or the Kyuubi, I will never allow them to leave! Is it Uzumaki Kushina or Uzumaki Naruto? You decide!"

Minato clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Is the title of the No. [-] Ninja Village that important? Is it so important that you can arbitrarily decide the fate of others regardless of their wishes?"

Thousands of Tobirama's expression turned grim, and he said angrily: "This is for the village!"

"Then what has this village brought to my wife and children?" Minato roared: "My wife and children have sacrificed so much for the village, has anyone ever understood their difficulties?"

"Minato!" Yuan Fei Hiruzen emphasized his tone and said: "This is for the village. It is impossible for Konoha to let the Uchiha clan leave Konoha, but the Uchiha clan is resentful of Konoha. If they have evil intentions, they will definitely attack again when the time comes. It’s a fierce battle!”

"Having evil intentions?" Minato sneered: "Just what Konoha did to the Uchiha was enough for them to rebel hundreds of times! But did they take action? Even when you issued the order to kill the Uchiha clan, Fugaku Still trying to stabilize the tribe’s emotions, and still trying to repair the relationship between the tribe and Konoha!”

"Namifeng Minato!"

"What? Am I right?"

His cold eyes looked back and forth at the two of them, and he said coldly: "I say it again, I don't agree! Konoha will never want to make my wife and children into jinchuuriki again! They will no longer be tools in your hands to fight for power!"

"It's not up to you!"

Senju Tobirama didn't know when he moved his hand, but by the time Minato noticed, the surrounding space had been completely blocked!

"I advise you to stay calm. If something goes wrong soon, you will have to go back to Santu River again."

"you!"

Minato gritted his teeth. He didn't understand why Konoha became like this. Is this still the "Utopia" envisioned by the first generation?

"Sorry Minato."

Yuan Fei Hiruzen persuaded: "Once the Uchiha clan leaves Konoha, it will definitely arouse the covetousness of various ninja villages. Only staying in Konoha is the best choice for them, so Konoha must not lose the Nine-Tails at this time. , absolutely not!”

Minato remained silent, he could only hope that the First Hokage was not involved, otherwise his wife and children would become victims of this conspiracy again.

Senju Tobirama and Yuan Fei Hiruzen trapped Namikaze Minato in this dark room, and now, it was time for them to complete the next step of their plan.

Qianju Tobirama asked: "Where is eldest brother?"

Yuan Fei Rizhan: "Master said that he wanted to study Bai Jue cells. He should be in the hospital laboratory now."

Senju Tobirama: "Okay, I will place a seal around the hospital to temporarily isolate the outside world, so that the hands and feet of the people at the root are cleaner, and the child will be controlled. In addition, Uzumaki Naruto has already made the Kyuubi completely surrender." Control, Uzumaki Kushina is the best candidate, let the sealing squad be in place at the Valley of the End, and inform the ANBU that no matter what, the Nine-Tails and Uzumaki Kushina must be led into the Four Symbols seal."

"Hi!"

........................

When Kushina came back with the thermos box, she left the thermos box on the table, then plunged into the not-so-soft sofa and began to shut herself up.

Naruto came out of the bedroom and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Kushina had no desire to get out of the sofa at all, and said angrily: "Those guys said that the high-level meeting has not ended yet and they won't let me in."

"That's it."

Naruto, unaware of his presence, took the thermos box back to the kitchen and said:

"The village originally had a lot of sedimentation problems that needed to be solved. Now coupled with the post-war arrangements and the Uchiha clan's affairs, it will really be more troublesome, so there is no need for you to be so depressed, mom."

Kushina turned her head to look in the direction of the kitchen and murmured: "But I always feel that something is not quite right."

Naruto didn't think too much, he simply heated a glass of milk and put it in front of Kushina, saying: "Mom, it's better to go to bed early. I haven't slept all night, and the dark circles are coming out."

"Really?"

Kushina glanced at Naruto suspiciously, immediately got up and walked listlessly to the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

Hmm...it's really decadent.

"Ah, how annoying!"

Kushina was so angry that she scratched her head. The house where she and Minato lived had been bought by the higher-ups. The newly arranged house had not been cleaned and had no furniture. It was really annoying.

"Naruto, can you take mom in for one night?"

Naruto suppressed a laugh and responded, "Hi!"

Then he said: "I just have to let my mother sit on the sofa for a while."

"it's okay no problem."

Kushina waved her hands indifferently and said: "Even sleeping on the sofa is much better than the broken room that Konoha arranged! But Li Xiao hasn't woken up after so long?"

Naruto's shadow clone had told her about Li Xiao's situation before, but was it okay to sleep so innocently for so long?

"..."

Naruto suppressed his smile and said, "It's okay, mom can see him later."

Kushina immediately stood up and wanted to enter the bedroom to take a look, so frightened Naruto quickly stopped her.

"mom!"

Seeing that Naruto was a little flustered, Kushina said in a deep voice: "Naruto, let me see him!"

Naruto lowered his head but refused to let go. The two of them were in a stalemate like this. After a long time, the bedroom door creaked open.

The little guy's eyes were red, he was leaning against the door, and his face was not very good: "Dad, grandma."

Kushina was startled, and immediately squatted down and picked up Li Xiao, then turned her gaze to Naruto and asked with her eyes: "What's going on?"

Naruto sighed, stepped forward and raised his hand to rub the little guy's hair, but Li Xiao grabbed Naruto's sleeve and looked at him pitifully and innocently with a pair of big watery eyes.Naruto was stunned for a moment, and was about to hug him over, but the little guy shrank into Kushina's arms, but the hand grabbed Naruto's sleeve almost stubbornly and refused to let go.

Kushina couldn't help but be a little anxious, and ignored Li Xiao's presence and asked directly: "What happened?"

Naruto's expression was sad and gentle, he gently held Li Xiao's hand with his backhand and replied softly: "He knows."

The inexplicable answer made Kushina confused, but Li Xiao lowered his head quietly, curled up into a small ball, which made Naruto's heart hurt, and he called out warmly: "Li Xiao."

"Ah."

Li Xiao responded and leaned into Kushina's arms again.

Stupid dad, give me some more time, I'm not as brave as you, I don't have enough courage to face you.

Kushina was furious, her voice raised an octave, and she said hatefully: "What's going on with you guys? Did you talk about him?"

However, before Naruto could react, Li Xiao cried first.

The little guy seemed extremely sad and cried so hard that he seemed to want to vent all his heartache and unwillingness.

Seeing Li Xiao's appearance, Kushina glared at Naruto fiercely, softened her voice and said: "Don't cry, Li Xiao, don't cry. Tell grandma why Naruto bullied you? Grandma will help you teach him a lesson." !”

"No!" Li Xiao shook his head vigorously: "It's my fault. If it weren't for me, everything wouldn't be like this. It's all my fault, wuwuwu..."

"???"

Kushina was completely confused, what was this and that?You're crying like this and you still say you're not good?

Naruto took Li Xiao from Kushina's arms and comforted him warmly: "Okay, don't cry anymore. Li Xiao is not bad. Li Xiao is the best child his father has ever seen. We won't cry anymore." OK?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry, stupid dad."

The little guy wiped his tears randomly, crying so hard that he couldn't even say anything, so he just kept apologizing.

"Okay, Li Xiao is not wrong, my Li Xiao is not wrong, so there is no need to apologize."

Naruto freed up a hand to gently wipe away the tears from the corner of the child's eyes. Both his expression and movements were so gentle.Under Naruto's comfort, Li Xiao gradually stopped crying, but she couldn't stop sobbing, and her tears continued to fall one after another.

Naruto gradually showed a smile and chuckled: "Okay, if you cry again, you will become a little rabbit!"

Li Xiao retorted: "It's not a rabbit!"

"Who says it's not?" Naruto deliberately angered him and said, "The little eyes are red, isn't it a rabbit?"

"No, no, no!"

Li Xiao lost his temper and emphasized very seriously: "My eyes are the same blue as my father, not red!"

Kushina, who had witnessed the whole process, felt a little bad. Why was her little grandson crying so sadly?How come she returned to normal without understanding anything?

………………small theater………………

Let's go back in time to when Sasuke just left. Not long after he left, Li Xiao woke up. At that time, Naruto was looking at the scroll and didn't pay attention. It wasn't until Li Xiao's eyes on him became more and more intense that Naruto realized that Li Xiao had woken up. Xiao has woken up.

Naruto put down the scroll in his hand and skillfully checked Li Xiao's physical condition.Li Xiao stared at Naruto blankly for a long time before speaking: "Dad is 'mother', right?"

Naruto moved for a moment and quickly returned to normal: "You know."

Li Xiao didn't answer until Naruto completely stopped what he was doing and sat down by the bed before continuing: "I heard the conversation between Dad and Uncle Sasuke yesterday."

"yes."

Naruto lowered his head and did not dare to look at Li Xiao. He had not explained Li Xiao's life experience to Li Xiao not only because he did not know how to explain it, but also because he was afraid that Li Xiao would not be able to accept it.

Other children have a father and a mother, but he was born from two men. To ordinary people, he is a forbidden son!Just as he was called a "fox demon" and a "monster" when he was a child because of his identity as a jinchuriki, he was afraid that his children would be harmed because of it.

Li Xiao looked out the window and said softly: "What kind of mood did dad have when he gave birth to me? What kind of mood did you have when you know clearly what consequences my existence will bring to you?" What mood brought me to this world?"

Naruto took Li Xiao's hand and squeezed it and asked: "Don't you blame me? Because of me, you are likely to be ostracized, laughed at, and sometimes have to bear their ill will towards you and me. Li Xiao doesn't Do you blame me?"

"Do not."

Li Xiao shook his head firmly and said: "I will never blame Dad. But Dad, what will those people think of you? It was obvious that all you had to do was abort me at that time. Dad's medical skills are so good and all he needs is a little medicine, no, Nothing will happen with just a few injections, so why does it have to go to this point?"

"Li Xiao!"

Naruto let out a long sigh and said, "You are my child!"

"But I feel my father's despair and depression."

Li Xiao finally turned his gaze to Naruto, his expression calm, but the deepest confusion and sadness were trapped deep in his eyes.

"I haven't told my father yet, right? There was a period of time before I was born. I was conscious. I felt my father's sadness and despair, so my father didn't want me to be born at first."

"no!"

Naruto interrupted Li Xiao, his warm voice firm and powerful, his blue eyes full of disapproval.

"Li Xiao, maybe your arrival made me at a loss, but the sadness and despair you felt in me was definitely not because of you."

Naruto tentatively approached, and after a long time he took Li Xiao into his arms.

"Li Xiao doesn't know my other name yet, Da Jian Mu Asura. That was my name thousands of years ago. But I didn't know my identity just after I was born as Uzumaki Naruto. I just I know your existence, because Konoha's top management has been keeping a close eye on me and Mother-in-law Tsunade was worried that the top management would be unfavorable to me and placed me in the dark room downstairs of the Hokage in the name of my serious injury. Later, I chose to leave on my own."

Naruto held Li Xiao's hand and said: "I was ambushed at the border of the Land of Fire. When I was brought back to Miaomu Mountain by the boss, I had already half-stepped into the Santu River. It was then that I remembered I am Asura, and I think of Nissan and the Ninja Sect. Li Xiao, everything Hei Jue said on the day of the battle is true. I really killed Nissan with my own hands."

The sad memory was mentioned again, and Naruto's voice couldn't help but choked with sobs: "So Li Xiao, I never felt desperate because of your arrival. I was just angry with myself. Even in the end, it was because of Li Xiao that I Only then can I have the courage to continue living and end this conspiracy."

Li Xiao was silent. He heard clearly what Hei Jue said that day, but it was not until now that he truly understood how much his idiot father blamed himself. The guilt that he wanted to destroy himself was enough to show how much his father felt. How sad.But he still poked his father's scarred heart and questioned him!

What right did he have to question him?

His existence is like an untimely bomb to Dad. Once it detonates, what will the people around him think of him?How will they talk about him?At that time, will these people who are protected by Dad still remember everything Dad has done for them?

No, they will only remember Uzumaki Naruto as a monster who can give birth to children!They would look at their father with strange eyes, and while doing the most vicious things to him verbally and verbally, they would also use the so-called justice to shine through themselves, as if all the achievements they had done were eternal and self-satisfied.

This... is the truest human nature!

Tears fell from the corners of his eyes, and he cried silently.

Li Xiao shrank back into the quilt and said in a muffled voice:

"do not look at me."

"Please, dad, don't look at me, don't leave me, just stay with me like before, okay?"

Naruto let out a long sigh, patted Li Xiao across the quilt, and said, "Okay, I'm here to stay with Li Xiao. I'll always be here no matter what."