A few hours had passed since Naruto's fight with the shinobi Iwa Gakure, the blond man was still unconscious in the hospital room. Itachi informed Minato about the whole situation, who together with Kushina immediately went to the hospital to see Naruto. When Minato and Kushina got home, they immediately called Menma.
"Did something happen?"
"Tell me, Menma, have you been training all the time?" asked the Hokage
"Of course"
"And why didn't you help Naruto when he was fighting Rika's kidnappers?" Kushina replied this time
Menma was surprised when he found out that someone had kidnapped his sister "I didn't know anything about Rika being kidnapped"
"You would know if you were more interested in your family and not just training, dattebane!"
Menma clenched his fists in annoyance and then walked towards the door
"And where are you going?"
"I'm leaving," Menma replied, slamming the door behind him
"Really, what's going on with him, dattebane?"
"It's probably a youthful rebellion and it will pass with time." Minato tried to calm his wife down
"May you be right"
It was evening, Menma was walking through the village, at some point a man with half his face bandaged stood in his way.
"Hello Menma-kun, your family won't let you reach your potential"
"Who are you and what do you want from me?"
"My name is Danzo Shimura and I came to you with an offer to join my root squad"
"Why should I join your unit?"
"Since I see your potential, someone like you would certainly be useful in my ranks. Besides, you could develop yourself as a shinobi," Danzo said
Menma passed Danzo moving on "I don't care about your root, I'll become strong enough on my own to show my parents what I'm capable of"
"We'll see"
Next day...
Naruto began to wake up, the first thing he noticed was that he was in a hospital room
"Hospital, what am I doing here?"
"After you used my chakra, you lost consciousness. Uchiha brought you here"
Kurama explained
"I see"
At that moment, the door from the room opened, Rika, seeing that her brother was conscious, immediately rushed to Naruto, hugging him
"Onii-chan!"
"Rika-chan, are you okay?"
Before Rika could answer, Minato and Kushina entered the room "We should rather ask you"
"How are you Naruto?"
"Okay, I think I've gone a little overboard lately"
Minato and Kushina exchanged glances and then the Hokage said "Naruto, we are proud of what you did and that you managed to save Rika, so when you recover, I will help you in your training"
Naruto was excited to hear that "Really, great!"
Somewhere in Iwa Gakure...
"So the Hokage's son killed my brother," some boy said clenching his jaw. "Wait Naruto Namikaze, I'll make you bitterly regret it."