There was a short moment of silence before Shikaku spoke up, "Chouza, Inoichi and I knew Minato and Kushina. We also worked alongside them from time to time before he became Yondaime. We even went on missions with them on a few occasions. But we weren't aware of Kushina being pregnant with you.
"A couple of years after their deaths, I started noticing the unmistakable fact that you resemble Minato and Kushina. I had often wondered why Minato sealed Kyuubi into you specifically. We knew the kind of person Minato was and he wouldn't have just chosen a random child, orphan or not to become the Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi. And his strong sense of justice wouldn't allow him to just ask any parent if he could use their newborn son or daughter to become a Jinchuuriki to Kyuubi. That was when I realized what Minato did…He used his own newborn son to become a Jinchuuriki.
"When I realized this revelation, I explained my findings to Inoichi and Chouza who found what I discovered to have made complete sense. We made our way to see the Hokage and requested that one of us be allowed to adopt you into our clan."
"You're kidding right? You three really requested that one of you guys be allowed to adopt me?" Naruto asked in disbelief.
"It's true Naruto," Chouza spoke up.
"We did request that one of us take you in," Inoichi said.
Naruto turned to the Hokage with narrowed eyes. Hiruzen sighed, knowing that Naruto's respect for him had once again dropped several notches. Hiruzen knew that it would now take longer for Naruto to fully forgive him.
"They did come and made this request of me, Naruto. If anything, I was willing to allow it," Hiruzen said.
"Then why wasn't it carried out," Naruto asked with an arctic tone.
"He was overruled by the council and hierarchy. It was too big a risk having a Jinchuuriki being tied and loyal to one clan," Danzo answered.
"Excuse me?" Naruto replied with a tone laced with acid and venom.
Unaffected by Naruto's bloodlust, Danzo continued, "A Jinchuuriki must not be loyal to a single clan because there's always a chance that a clan the Jinchuuriki is adopted into could use that loyalty to rebel. Therefore the motion of either Shikaku, Chouza, Inoichi or any other clan leader adopting you was rejected for fear of them possessing a power that could help them win a rebellion should such an act happen.
"Of course, Hiruzen was strongly against this and motioned that a vote be carried out in allowing you be adopted into one of the clans considering that even regular families refused to adopt you after it was discovered that the orphanage put you out. The motion of the vote was carried out and in the end, he was voted against by the majority for reasons mentioned earlier."
"You speak this crap with no proof to show for. Show me what proof you have of the previous two Uzumaki Jinchuuriki rebelling," Naruto demanded.
"Two previous Uzumaki Jinchuuriki? When was this?" a man of the civilian council asked.
"We never heard of such a thing," a woman of the civilian council stated.
"What nonsense are you making up?" a second civilian council member asked.
Naruto turned to the civilian council with a lethal glare and stated firmly, "Don't any of you dare insult my Uzumaki ancestresses who gave their lives for this village of disloyal ingrates!"
"What was that?!" another man barked.
"Enough!" Hiruzen ordered as he raised his hands towards all the members of the civilian council giving them a look that told them to say nothing further.
"It is true. Naruto is the third Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi and there were two others before him, both of whom were of the Uzumaki Clan," Hiruzen confirmed. This news was a revelation for everyone in both the shinobi and civilian council. Only the higher-ups of the council knew of this.
"You mean to tell us that there two others before Naruto and they too were of his clan!" Tsume asked in shock.
"That's right. Their identities and status as Jinchuuriki were never disclosed to anyone outside myself, Koharu, Danzou, the previous Hokages, and their advisors," Homura said.
"If that's true, then who were the two previous Jinchuuriki?" Hiashi asked.
"I'll tell you myself," Naruto said, "It's only fitting since I'm son of the second Jinchuuriki."
"What!? You're telling us that Kushina was the Jinchuuriki before you!" Tsume asked.
"That's right! And before her was Uzumaki Mito, who was the wife of the Shodai," Naruto added. This bombshell caused an uproar in the meeting chamber. They couldn't believe that the wives of both the Shodai and Yondaime were not only Jinchuuriki but also members of the Uzumaki Clan and the fact that Hiruzen himself confirmed it only made matters more complicated.
"How can that be true? How is it that every Jinchuuriki was an Uzumaki," another civilian council man asked.
"Because only an Uzumaki can hold Kyuubi; anyone else would die in the attempt to become a Jinchuuriki of Kyuubi. Our special and massive chakra and longevity is what allows us to contain the creature. No other clan possesses these attributes but the Uzumaki. In other words, if it wasn't for the sacrifices of my brother and people, you all would be dead now. If my brother, along with myself and the rest of our scattered Uzumaki brethren are wiped out off the face of the world, Kyuubi will return with no one having the ability to seal him away again. Even if a person can contain some of Kyuubi's chakra, he or she, without having Uzumaki blood by natural descent, can never contain the creature in its entirety," Honoka explained.
Many in the room found it difficult to argue against Honoka's logic. Even Danzo knew she was telling the truth thus his silence.
"When Uzumaki Jinchuuriki reach of the end of their life, they must find another Uzumaki to contain the Kyuubi. This was the case with Uzumaki Mito, thus the reason why my mother Uzumaki Kushina was brought to Konoha to become the second Jinchuuriki. As with the case of Mito, my mother's status as Jinchuuriki was classified and no one knew of it but my father and a few others," Naruto explained.
Tsume turned to the Hokage and asked, "If that's true, Sandaime-sama, then why did you reveal Naruto's status as a Jinchuuriki the night of Kyuubi's attack?"
"It was his father's last wish that Naruto be acknowledged as the hero who saves Konoha everyday by jailing the Kyuubi. But we all saw how that turned out as everyone used Naruto as a scapegoat for their loss and looked at him as if he was a weakened version of Kyuubi. It's both stupid and foolish honestly because even a weakened Kyuubi would have more than enough power to slaughter everyone and level all of Konoha to ground," Hiruzen said.
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