Epilogue

Following his succession as the Fifth Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki named Sakumo Hatake as the new jonin commander.

Despite not being trusted fully in his early years as a Leaf shinobi in the Third Shinobi World War, Naruto was soon revered as great of a Hokage as Hiruzen Sarutobi was, though he eventually managed to surpass the God of Shinobi in that aspect.

This was largely a result of the Hidden Leaf Village staying at peace for the entire span of four decades that Naruto held the position of Hokage. The only villages that could have stood a chance at lasting more than a short while against the Leaf Village under Naruto's control were the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Mist Village, but neither of those villages were too eager to face off against a man that killed two kage in a single battle and was largely responsible for the death of the strongest of the nine tailed beasts.

Within five years of obtaining the position of Hokage, the Hidden Leaf Village had come to be in possession of the one-tailed beast and the seven-tailed beast through alliances, leaving the Hidden Cloud Village and the Hidden Mist Village as the only foreign shinobi with tailed beasts.

Within a decade of becoming Hokage, Naruto accomplished the closest thing to world peace that anyone had ever imagined in his world. The Hidden Leaf Village had become so powerful that it could quell any conflict in the Elemental Nations almost instantaneously.

Through him, the First Hokage's dream of peace had been accomplished, and it had been managed alongside the Uchiha clan, which had been content to be bonded to the greatest Hokage in history just as much as the Senju clan was.

Naruto and Mikoto Uzumaki both lived long lives and had two children- both boys. The first was obviously Sasuke Uzumaki, and the second was born six years after the Nine-Tails' Attack. His name was Minato Uzumaki, named after the fallen Fourth Hokage and friend of both parents.

Kushina Uzumaki never remarried, though she did move in with her son from the future and his wife. Her only child was the boy that Minato had named upon his dying breaths, Gaara Namikaze.

Though they were different in that time period, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, Shino Aburame, Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Neji Hyuga were all born, along with Rock Lee and Tenten.

Hana Inuzuka, on the other hand, was never born for reasons that Naruto had never considered.

It always brought a smile to Naruto's face when he saw the members of the Leaf Ninja Eleven and saw that they were mostly the same as from his time. Naturally there were difference, but there were more similarities than anything.

The ever present smile was last seen on his face on his deathbed. Mikoto followed soon after.

Naruto Uzumaki was ninety-seven years old. Mikoto Uzumaki- formerly Uchiha- was one hundred years old.

He survived fifteen years after passing on the title of Sixth Hokage to the child of Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi.

Author's Note: And there it is. Consequences is done. The only future update on this story will be to announce the publication of my first novel, but that won't be until July.

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Thanks to everyone who has stuck it out the entire way, and I apologize to everyone for the incredible drop in quality in the end. I found that I literally could not write anything more/better for Naruto fanfiction anymore. I'm thankful that this is done.

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