Detour to Kusagakure!

Naruto, in Minato's house, got the memories of his Shadow Clone. He looked at Minato and said, "Jiji! Has called me, I will go and see what he wants."

Hearing this, Minato nodded at him and asked, "You have my Kunai, right?"

Naruto nodded and he disappeared from the place.

......

Before going to Hokage Office, Naruto opened his Mind's Eye and looked in the office. Looking at Hiruzen, and two other Ninjas in the room, Naruto smiled and went to the office.

Entering the office, Naruto looked at Hiruzen, Kakashi, and Yamato, and looking at them, he understood that the time for him to become Uzumaki Clan Head has arrived.

"Jiji, why did you call me??" Naruto asked as he looked at Hiruzen while keeping an eye on Kakashi and Yamato.

Kakashi, who saw Naruto, had a stunned expression, after all, Naruto looked like younger Minato now. Even Yamato was shocked seeing this.

As for Hiruzen, he smiled as he looked at Naruto and asked, "Do you remember the talk from before?"

"Which one?"

"About Uzumaki Clan."

Naruto nodded at it.

"Kakashi Hatake, and Yamato, you two are assigned an S-Class Mission. The details for this mission will be a secret and now one apart from you two should know about this." Hiruzen said as he gave the scrolls to them.

He looked at Naruto and then said, "Naruto, you will be going on a Six Month long journey to Uzushiogakure and look for anything related to Uzumaki Clan at that place. Six months later, you will be back and become the Head of a New Clan in Konoha Village, i.e. Uzumaki Clan."

Hearing this, Kakashi and Yamato, who had been listening to Hiruzen had a shocked expression.

"Hokage Sama, this mission..."

"Yes! This mission is secret, and apart from you three, No one should know about this. Also, you two leave and prepare for the mission, I need to talk with Naruto alone."

Kakashi and Yamato, looked at Hiruzen nodded, and disappeared after bowing. Now in the room, Hiruzen looked at Naruto, and asked, "Did you learn it?"

"What?"

"Flying Thunder God Technique!"

Naruto looked at Hiruzen for a moment and after thing, he answered, "Yes!"

Even though Hiruzen had expected this, his expression changed as he heard this, and then he sighed in relief and said, " Then every day be sure to send a clone to your house that will go to school."

Hiruzen became silent after hearing this, and then Naruto looked at Hiruzen and asked, "Jiji, what are you planning? You have changed, and I don't understand you now!"

"You don't understand me?"

"No!"

"It's good then, don't think too much. This time, I am going to do everything for Konoha."

Hearing this, Naruto's face cringed, and said, "Don't say these words, I don't like them."

"haha! Why?"

"Because certain one-eye freak also speaks them every time he wants to do something for himself."

"And how do you know about this?"

"Jiji! You are not the only one who has a way to peek at others. But I assure you that I don't use it to peak on girls!"

Hearing this, Hiruzen expression's changed as he saw the look in Naruto's eyes, and he removed the crystal ball from his table.

"Still, how did you solve the relationship between Uchiha and the village? I am amazed at their change. I had thought you and him would use this chance to...."

"Chance to kill them?"

"Maybe, I would have chosen this before meeting Minato and waking up, but after I heard what Minato said, and reflected on myself, I understood that I hadn't done much for Konoha, and I was a failure as Hokage."

"Hmm! You were!"

"You don't have to say it like this," Hiruzen said as he heard Naruto's blunt words.

"You might be a failure of Hokage compared to what others were, but among your generation, I can say that you were the best one. But, sometimes, when you should have acted as Hokage, you acted as their friend and those decisions always went wrong, making you a failure."

"And how do you know all this?"

Naruto looked at him and smiled. Seeing this, Hiruzen knew that he wouldn't answer this and he sighed and asked, "What is your current strength?"

"Don't know, never fought anyone, and most importantly, I have never killed anyone."

Hiruzen looked at Naruto, and then said, "You can go all out outside the village, Kakashi, and Yamato won't say anything about your abilities. I think I will try to make all Jonins learn Shadow Clone Technique and use it for practice. It really is an amazing technique."

Naruto nodded at his words and said, "It is, and Second Hokage, is much more amazing for creating a Technique like this."

"Yeah, you are right!" Hiruzen said as he looked at the portrait of his Sensei and guilt flashed in his eyes, which disappeared after a second.

"They are here," Naruto said and, then they heard a knock.

"Come in."

Kakashi and Yamato entered the room and saw Naruto and Hiruzen.

"Have you two taken everything you will need for the mission?"

Kakashi nodded and said, "What about him?"

"He will be going with you. Just think of him as your employer and hear what he will say. Besides, He knows everything, so you don't need to worry about anything. Anything he does in the mission will be my responsibility, Do you two understand?"

Kakashi and Yamato nodded at it.

"Hello, I am Naruto Uzumaki, I am sure you two must have heard of me. Nice to meet you."

"Kakashi Hatake!"

"Yamato!"

Kakashi looked at Naruto, and he felt weird while looking at Naruto's smile. He felt as if the boy was finding the situation amusing.

"I need a Sensor here, or I should have sent her too. After all, you are quite precious to our village." Hiruzen said and hearing this, Naruto chuckled.

A moment later, Naruto looked at the map of the world and then pointed at Kusagakure and asked, "Before going to Uzu, can we take a detour to Kusagakure?"

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