Ever since the day I was born I have been within my home. My mother died giving birth to me and my father did not want anyone to know about my birth so he kept me hidden within our home.

His name is Minato Namikaze and he is the Hokage of the shinobi village of Konoha. He has always told me wonderful stories of his life as a shinobi and I wanted to be one as well but he would not let me out of our home.

But he did train me when he had the chance and it made me very happy. There were times when he had to be gone more than a day at a time so he left some reinforced shadow clones that would stay with me and train me.

Sometimes on nights when I couldn't sleep he would tell me stories of when he had his team and the many missions that they would take. I once asked why he did not let his old team come visit and he said that he did not want them to take me away.

He trained me in everything and he also brought me some chakra paper from the tower to see what he would be able to train me in element wise. When I channeled my chakra into it we were both in complete shock when we saw what happened.

I had Wind, water, fire, earth, lightning, darkness, light and gravity as well, which we had no idea how something like that happened. He trained me in everything that he knew and was shocked when I mastered the Hiraishin by the time I was ten.

He also wanted me to sign the Toad contract but neither of us wanted Jiraya to know that I existed so he asked the toads and they were able to get the scroll and have me sign it without his knowledge.

Over the years my father had told me about my mother and when I asked him why he had not gotten married again he told me that marriage was something that he would ever consider because he still loved my mother.

I also learned many different instruments to pass the time at home and he always loved to come home after a long day to hear me play something soothing for him and eat what I had made for him.

When I asked him to teach me to cook so that they would not eat out all of the time father told me he did not know how so he would always go to the village library and bring me books so I could learn to make healthy meals for the both of us.

One time I was in the back yard of our home and saw a woman who had short purple hair and was wearing something so vulgar that I ran inside and told my father, who had stayed home since it was his day off.

After that day I never saw her again, which actually made me happy because it meant I was safe from people knowing I was here once again.

I love to spend my time here and love my father so I had no trouble always obeying him in what he asked of me. But one day I had to go into town to tell him something and it changed our entire lives.

My name is Naruto Minato Uzumaki Senju Namikaze and I like to call myself

The Fourth's Shadow...