You lay there smiling... Why are you smiling? Why would you smile when you left your own son? He's all alone left to cry over your corpse. The crimson liquid staining his clothes. He lay weeping, his tears staining his usually stoic features. Why would you commit this crime? Why did you leave me to pick up the pieces you created? I gathered the boy up into my arms. He continued to weep and I froze... This boy was my pride just as he was yours and this boy was now left alone without a mother or a father. I felt his tears gather at the crook of my neck, felt your blood stain my hair from your child's grip.
I held him close to me , he would break should I let go and should I leave this boy here by your broken side I would hate myself
Forever...
Forever... That would be how long you would leave your son. And as the sobs slowly begun to die I let a tear fall past my eyes, yet my grip on the boy never faltered and his grip never left me as he floated off to the "what if's" and nightmares you left him. He would forever have those...
I will never forgive you old friend. Never forgive you for leaving him alone, never forgive you for taking your own life, but I am thankful you brought this boy into being and into my life. But as ANBU begin flooding in to inspect your fallen body I look down at your son sleeping in my arms.
"I cannot hate your father and I know you can't either, but I'll be here for you...
Forever..."
The words left my mouth of their own accord and they fluttered softly into his ears. I felt him grow hope that everything would be alright and that made me happy.
I look one last time at your corpse, before I begin to walk off into the night towards my home with your son, Sakumo, hoping to pass on your Will of Fire to brave little Kakashi. And though others shall shame me... I will keep your little one safe, because that us my duty as his Sensei and because he has become precious to me. And as I heard the little six year old breath a "Thank you, Minato-sensei" I felt my heart swell with a love that only a sensei could understand.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
