Chapter 10 - Maybe A Little Bit Too Bloodthirsty? (1/2)

(Flashback - 9 Years Ago, October 10, 980)

After the fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki sacrificed themselves to seal the Kyuubi again, they left a single baby to Hiruzen and informed him to protect her at any cost.

Hiruzen agreed and took the newborn to his house, where she would be cared for, for a few days before deciding where she would go.

Inside the council meeting room, Hiruzen held the baby, Naruto, as he stood in front of the village council. The table was a long rectangular table. On each side of it was 7 seats each, with the right being where the clan heads and the village elders are and on the left is the civilian council.

Looking sternly at the council, Hirizen announced, ”From now on, since our beloved Yondaime died protecting our village, I shall retake the mantle of being the Hokage!”

The council nodded in agreement because it was within the laws that if the current Hokage died and the previous is still alive, he/she will retake the mantle of being the Hokage. But, if all the previous Hokages are dead, the council would choose a candidate that would take the mantle of being the Hokage.

One of the clan heads, Shikaku Nara, then spoke, ”If I may be bold, Hokage-sama, whose child is that in your arms?”

Hiruzen looks at Shikaku before looking again at the council directly and sternly announced, ”This is Uzumaki Naruto, he bears the burden of being the Kyuubi's prison! You all shall treat him as a hero who saved our village from the mighty Kyuubi!”

Almost all of them were shocked, but some clan heads understood what's going on. From the sun-kissed blond hair and an almost similar face to their friend Kushina, that child has got to be Minato's daughter.

Then suddenly, a shout came from the civilian council.

”What do you mean, Hokage-sama?! If that thing has the Kyuubi inside it, we should kill it!” It was Tsubaki, the civilian councilor.

The clan heads turned their heads towards her, they were disgusted that someone would really tell the Hokage to kill a newborn child.

Hiruzen never expected that someone would tell him that and asked, ”What do you mean by that, Tsubaki-dono?”

”That's exactly what I mean! Kill t-that thing!” she looked at the child as if she was disgusted by it.

Then, everyone on the civilian council's side stood up and started to follow her. They yelled, argued, but they all had something in common, they want Naruto dead.

Having enough of their useless yelling, Hiruzen slams his left hand at the table *bang!* and all of them quieted down before he said to them with rage, ”If you worthless people even try to lay a single finger on Naruto's hair, I shall slaughter you myself!”