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In the aftermath of the Nine-Tailed Attack, Minato Namikaze chose the village over the grave, trading his grief for the heavy mantle of the Hokage. Now, six years later, the Uchiha Massacre has been averted and the village is flourishing—but the cost of peace is paid in Minato’s absence.
While Minato battles political fires and rising tensions with Kumo from behind a mountain of paperwork, six-year-old Naruto navigates a world where he is "The Hokage’s Son" in name, but a ghost in practice. Raised in the silence of a sprawling estate and guarded by masked ANBU who cannot replace a father, Naruto enters the Ninja Academy with a heart full of hope. However, he quickly learns that while his father is a hero to everyone, Naruto is an outsider to his peers. After a day of subtle rejections and a ruined paper crane, Naruto returns to an empty home to practice the one skill he’s mastered better than any ninjutsu: smiling so perfectly that no one—not even the Yellow Flash—notices he’s breaking.
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