The night of change, the night of the great attack, it had been the night of tragedy and the night of death and destruction. The night had started with an unknown attack by an unknown masked man. Of course few if anyone ever would know of that small fact. Those who would know wouldn't talk about it so openly as it would fall into the file of great government secrets. Hiruzen took a deep breath. This had been one of the most costly ones in his whole life. He looked up at the destruction. He then looked at the baby who had been delivered to him by the ANBU who had found him with the corpses of the Hokage and his wife.

He looked at the young boy. He knew who the boy was, the son of Minato and Kushina. The son of the Hokage, the holder now of the nine tails demon. He was going to have a hard path in front of him. He knew the boy would have to deal with the hate of the village. They would look at him as the reason for why they lost their family members. Well, that was if they knew the truth of the boy. It wouldn't be fair, and it was possible others would target him. Like the people who had caused the attack in the first place. Hiruzen lost someone more close to, his wife Biwako. She had been killed during the start of the attack by the masked man. The masked man who was still possibily out there targeting the boy.
He looked at the poor baby now an orphan before he was a full day old. What to do with him, what could he do with the boy. He could have the village just not talk about the fact that he was the demon. That would work as it would allow the boy to grow up not knowing and perhaps having a normal childhood. Yet what was he kidding, the people would remember what they had lost this day. It would only make sense, as that would be the logical thing. Now, he couldn't just let the boy grow up isolated in the village that would never work. He couldn't have his son or Kakashi look after the boy, they were both to young. He had to give the young man a good role model to flow and help him in his times of troubles, though.

His mind thought about finding Jiraiya and having the frog sage himself and his former student raise the boy. It was the son of his own student after all. He thought about that for a good moment. Ultimately he chose against that idea. As Jiraiya wasn't the type to settle down and the boy would have to grow up between villages traveling. He also wondered if Jiraya was the best rolemodel for a little boy.Would he have to send the boy to an orphanage? He considered that for a good moment before deciding against it as it would be the worst situation of them all.

Hiruzen picked up the boy as he held him in his arms. It reminded him of his two boys and when they were young. He looked at him and paused as he saw the innocent look on the boys face. He took a deep breath as he thought about the boy and his future. As well as his own. He had not thought he would be the hokage again, he thought he was retired. It would seem that fate had another idea in its mine than him living out a quiet life. He looked at the blonde for a good moment.

Hiruzen knew what he had to do, he was thinking of ways to get away from the duty that was also his now. He took out a folder after putting the young baby in the basket next to him. A paper of adoption to be filled out by him. It was the duty of the new hokage to clear up the things left over by the old one. In this case, he was going to take the young boy into his own family, and he was going to raise him as his own son. This night reminded him he wasn't dead, and he had a lot he still had to do for the village. Raising Minato's son was the least he could do given how Minato and Kushina had given their lives to save them all.

What was he getting himself into, could he handle this kid? He wasn't sure, but he would need to work hard as both a new father again, and a hokage again. At least he could rope his son, Asuma into helping as well as Kakashi. He figured they would be more than willing to help out for time to time. It would be a situation where the boys could help out and also work to learn how to be adults. He knew someday they would either be fathers or have their own gennin teams. This would help with that a lot.

Finishing the paperwork, he signed it. It was advantage for being the boss of the village to be able to get away with what he would want from time to time. He would have the events of the night kept from the boy. He would also leave the fact that the boy was the holder out of the public eye to prevent them from being seen as a problem. He would be known as the orphan son of the former hokage. He would be treated with more respect, though. Hiruzen would make the boy earn everything he could and prevent him from having the easy path.

Hiruzen was tired and worn out from the day. It was still early in the morning as he got up. The sun was straighting to raise. He knew the funerals would be starting to be prepared, that he was going to be very busy as he picked up the basket the boy was in. He would take the baby to the hospital to make sure he was taken care of and that he was healthy. He would have the boy watched, and when he could he would collect Naruto and take him home. He would then have a talk with his son Asuma into helping out as his other son had already moved out of his home.
As he headed out, he wondered how this would change both his life as well as the future of the village. Was he right to adopted the boy. Only time would tell, but it felt like the right move and the most moral choice. One thing was for sure, he couldn't retire any time soon.

A/N- Just an idea I had in my head, that I figured that would be fun to write down and make into a bit of a story. Hope you enjoyed this, and that you have a good day.