A new place of residence.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was shocked to see the little hyperactive blonde he vieewed as his own grandson standing outside drenched and dirty with a sad air about him. Which was surprising as the boy was usually smiling his bright smile and talking a mile a minute whenever he met the boy every week. When he asked the boy what the matter was he was enraged to hear what the matron had said to him and realized that though he had stopped any physical abuse from taking place naruto was still highly ostracized and not many people even interacted with him making him socially awkward as he didn't have parents to teach him about acceptable and unacceptable behavior. He then decided to do something he should have done from the beginning and decided to take naruto home and have him stay with his family till he reached the age to enter the academy as the boy very interested in becoming a shinobi when he first told the boy what his job was. When he told naruto about his decision the clear joy on his face eased his heart. He took naruto to the Sarutobi compound and had him settled in a guest room and ordered one of his anbu to get a full wardrobe of clothes for the boy from a store. His daughter in law Kanna was very happy to have a child in the house as the compound was becoming very desolate with his younger son Asuma becoming a fire guardian to get out of his shadow and his older son having died on an S rank mission just a few months back leaving his pregnant wife alone. Kanna was also an anbu member before she became pregnant and quit the shinobi forces in order to take care of the baby. Kanna was very happy to take care of naruto and teach him everything his parents would have had they been alive as he didn't want naruto to waste his potential without proper guidance.

The next day Hiruzen had to deal with the whining and demands of the civilian council about repercussions of adopting naruto when he had had enough and told them in a tone that brooked no argument that naruto would be staying with his family for the next three years till he was of age to enter the shinobi academy. Even Danzo didn't protest this as he had no interest in naruto as the seal Minato had used didn't allow naruto to use the Kyuubi's chakra, it only increased his already high healing factor due to his uzumaki heritage to a phenomenal level, according to Jiraiya naruto could heal from everything except losing his limbs or critical strikes; but he wouldn't put it past Danzo to try to recruit naruto into his private army or try to rip the kyuubi from naruto and seal into another child who could use it's chakra and mold it into his weapon. From Danzo's point of view naruto was a defective weapon as he was a Jinnchuriki who couldn't utilize his Biju's chakra.