"Kakashi-sensei, tell me your history with my father and mother. I want to hear it out of your own mouth," Naruto requested, getting straight to the point. Kakashi knew this would happen someday, but he was a little surprised that Naruto chose now to do so.
"Tell me how you found out about your parents," Kakashi said.
"Did you ever plan on telling me about them, or were you expecting to die with the truth while leaving me in the dark?" Kakashi was about to respond, but Naruto didn't give him a chance. "And please spare me the crap speech about my parents having many enemies outside Konoha. I heard that abominable excuse from jiisan already before I told him off for lying to me all these years while allowing the stupid ones of Konoha to have their way with me," he retorted before Kakashi could even speak. Kakashi eyed Naruto carefully and found that the Naruto standing in front of him wasn't to be lied to or played with, and he had already come close to killing him two months ago.
Sighing, Kakashi began, "Minato-sensei was like a second father to me after the death of my father, Hatake Sakumo. My father, as you already know, was once a strong, highly respected and renowned shinobi. He believed in being there for his comrades and friends, and considered betraying your comrades as being one of the vilest acts anyone could do. But one day, during a mission, his teammates were ambushed and he was caught between fulfilling the mission or saving his comrades. He chose to rescue and save his comrades. That led to not only the mission ending in failure, but it also led to the deaths of several people he and his team were sent to rescue.
"My father was disgraced by the Konoha council and he lost face with everyone in Konoha. He fell into a deep depression and committed ritual suicide in front of me when I was around six years old. I was a Chuunin at the time. I was considered an extraordinary prodigy during that time, but, after my father's death, I concluded within myself that rules and completions of missions were of greater importance and priority than the wellbeing of teammates and others. This continued even after I was part of Minato-sensei's team with Rin and Uchiha Obito as my teammates. I was thirteen by then, and I was a Jounin. It was Obito who changed my way of thinking."
"How so?" Naruto inquired.
Kakashi explained, "It was during the Third Shinobi World War. Konoha and Iwa were at war with each other, and the deaths from both sides were mounting before Minato-sensei tipped the scale in Konoha's favor, giving us victory. Before that, however, our team was sent to Kusagakure to destroy a bridge over there that was being used as the main supply route for Iwa ninja. During the mission, Rin was captured, and Obito suggested we rescue her. I opposed the idea and stated that completing the mission was of more importance than rescuing Rin. With some disgust and disapproval of me, Obito told me that many say that those who don't complete the mission are trash, but in his opinion, those who abandon their teammates are worse than trash. I eventually followed him to rescue Rin, and in the scuffle that occurred, I lost my left eye. Obito, however, had awakened his Sharingan.
"Though Rin was rescued shortly after, we were ambushed again, and Obito was fatally wounded by a boulder that fell and crushed most of his body. With his last breaths, he asked Rin to surgically transplant his remaining left eye into my left eye socket. Hurt by his death, I went out to kill the men who had ambushed us. I didn't get far, but Minato-sensei arrived in the nick of time to save Rin and me.
"After the war, with Konoha gaining victory over Iwa, Minato-sensei became the Yondaime after Sandaime-sama stepped down as Hokage. Rin and I continued training under Minato-sensei, but Rin later died on a mission with me. But her body though was never found."
"Were you aware that an Uzumaki clan once existed, a clan my mother and I are descended from, a clan that helped build our village? The very spiral you wear on the back of your Jounin flak jacket is my clan's symbol. The Shodai Hokage decreed that all Konoha ninja were to wear my clan's insignia along with the crest of Konoha as a representation of the ties the Senju clan shares with the Uzumaki clan. It's insulting that Konoha's ninja wear the symbol belonging the very clan they offended through their abuse and mistreatment of me," Naruto spat.
"I was aware of your clan's existence and its destruction by enemy nations that feared them," Kakashi alleged.
"I meant to ask jiisan this, but where was Konoha when Uzushiogakure needed them before my clan's foreign enemies engineered their destruction?" Naruto asked.
Kakashi sighed lowly. "…It was a turbulent time and the Shinobi World Wars were horrible. Konoha was dealing with Amegakure, Kumogakure and Iwagakure. Konoha lost many members of the Senju clan as a result. Though Tsunade is alive, we don't know her exact whereabouts. What the Sandaime did to try to help the Uzumaki clan, I'm not really sure."
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