Idea: After a third disastrous try at the dating game, Namikaze Minato gives up on finding love, only to find that a mysterious man has taken an interest in him and begins trying to court him This man, is really the Kyuubi and has been the one sabotaging Minato's romantic attempts. At first Minato rebuffs the man's advances, but soon can't resist. He's always known that he would have a child…
Summery: After three failed attempts to find an everlasting love fail, Namikaze Minato swears off love entirely believing that he will never find 'The One'. He rejects every offer, but there is one that refuses to be rebuffed. Minato always knew he'd have a child… Kyuubi/Minato, mpreg. Massively AU but still Ninja, if you don't like it, you are free to leave.
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Naruto but… * glances nervously at lawyers * …Maybe its better that I don't… *laughs*
Title: Kyuubi's Mate
(Chapter One: Meeting Obito)
The Kyuubi watched his chosen mate wallow in self pity sadly. The beautiful blond should smile, not cry! He was too perfect for any mundane human partner anyway. Too perfect, too powerful, Kyuubi didn't think that his blond was truly human. Ok, so he had slipped that Ren girl a love potion keyed to his blonds' blond friend but he hadn't messed with the brunette or caused that cute redhead's death. The latter being an unfortunate tragedy. But now his blond was depressed. Kyuubi didn't like his blond like this at all.
Inside the room, Minato pulled off his Yondaime cloak and set it on a hanger, he stared at it for some time, his eyes glazed, really looking at nothing. He sighed. "What's the point? I'm never going to find her am I?" he wondered as he woodenly unzipped his Jounin flack vest and shrugged out of it. His soul mate was most likely dead. "She was most likely Kushina…"
As soon as she had stopped breathing, a part of Minato had died with her. "I'm meant to be alone aren't I?" Minato asked the empty room as he pulled off his long sleeved shirt. "I'm just not going to look anymore… so much for my other dream…" He'd always wanted to have a family of his own, now that would never happen.
And no, his Sensei and two students didn't really count. Yes they were his family, but it wasn't the same as blood. Having a blood connection always seemed to make things more real to the last Namikaze, but maybe that was because he had always been an orphan. "Is it too much to want there to be someone out there made for just me?" Minato wondered sadly, almost wistfully, as he unfastened his pants and let them fall, stepping out of them when they puddled on the ground around his feet. "Maybe… Maybe it is." He muttered as he divested himself of his boxers, grabbed his towel and the sweat pants that he normally slept in and headed for the bathroom.
Kakashi lived with him still, had been since he was a little over six years old, and Rin had just recently moved in after losing her mother, the last of her family. Kakashi was nine, Rin, was eleven, and somehow, Minato wondered how he was supposed to take care of both of them. If it had just been Kakashi it would have been fine, but Rin was a girl and an almost green-around-the-gills genin, her whole cell had been killed in front of her eyes. It was a wonder that she was still in the program at all. Both Minato and Kakashi felt that it was a miracle that she had gotten away with her virginity intact. He'd been taking care of them both full-time for the last six months and he was still struggling to adjust fully to taking care of them both. Though he was paid well as the Hokage, his paycheck was stretched rather thin.
If Minato couldn't handle a woman his own age then how was he supposed to comfort an eleven-year-old girl? Sometimes Minato wanted to be the one to be held and reassured that everything would be ok in the morning. His kids needed him to hold them most nights to drive away the nightmares, sometimes Kakashi more than Rin, as even though he was younger than her, Kakashi had seen more, compared to Rin's trauma, they had only been killed in front of her. Minato had seen worse, his Kunoichi genin teammate, (he couldn't even remember her name anymore) had been raped before his eyes, over and over until she broke as he was held hostage and forced to watch. He had killed her himself because she asked him to before they had been captured near the beginning of the war. She had asked him to kill her before she could say anything; if she broke. He had promised her that he would, but up until that point he had never thought that he would have to keep it. That seemed to be all he was good at, killing. Jiraiya-sensei had rescued him not long after that and he had been nearly comatose, as that had been his first, the first of many, kills. Minato would never forget that his first kill had been his own teammate, even if he would never remember her name.
Minato had rigged the master bedroom with silence seals that he activated every night, to keep his students from hearing if he had any nightmares. There were also seals that let him know if his students were having nightmares of their own, (the first month of so after he had taken Rin on she had refused to go to him after waking from multiple nightmares and he'd had to coax her into telling him about them and had to reassure her several times that he would never do anything to her if she came to him and curled into his side to get rid of them). He had to be strong for them; it wouldn't do for them to hear. Knowing that your sensei had nightmares just as bad if not worse than your own was one thing, but to hear them was something else entirely. As the Yondaime, he could not afford to appear weak at all. Especially since he had only been Hokage for a little less than six months.
And, if he had heard correctly (and he was sure he had), another traumatized genin would be given to him soon, he hadn't yet looked over the boy's file, part of him didn't want to, but to keep the boy in one piece he would have to read the damn thing. Part of him wondered, rather morosely, what had happened to the boy, as he too, like Rin, was the only survivor of his cell. His paycheck was about to be stretched even thinner…
Even Kakashi hadn't gotten out unscathed, though it seemed that nothing could faze the kid, Minato knew better, his poor student had been raped twice before he'd managed to find the seven-year-old Chuunin. Kakashi had slept in Minato's bed for three weeks in a row before he'd been able to come to terms with what had happened. Sometimes he still needed to crawl into his Sensei's bed to feel safe. Well, one of them, after the mission where he'd had to kill what's-her-face to protect the village; Jiraiya-sensei had tracked down both of his teammates, (Orochimaru-sensei and Tsunade-sensei) and begged them to help him train Minato so that he wouldn't lose his last student also. There must have been something in his eyes and voice, because Tsunade-sensei had immediately given him an exam and Orochimaru-sensei had started muttering about ways to speed up training and other things to do with keeping ninja alive. He'd been experimenting on young POW Shinobi and Nuke-nin since.
Minato was always ready to hold them (his students), but he also needed to be held sometimes, there were even a few occasions where he had wanted to find Jiraiya-sensei (or one of the man's teammates: Orochimaru or Tsunade, all three of them had become his Sensei after Jiraiya-sensei had begged them to, not wanting to lose his last student; god, Minato couldn't remember that boy's name or when they'd lost him…) and curl up next to the man/woman in his/her bedroll like he did for a good month after he had been forced to kill her, whatever her name was. His sensei was lucky to have both his teammates alive and well. Now that he was the Hokage, he couldn't do that anymore. (Besides, even if he wanted to, all three of them were out of the village at the moment.) He had to be his student's pillar from which they drew their strength. Even if he had no one to pull his own strength from; sometime he felt like he was being sucked dry and had no strength of his own, Minato hid these moments well. It wouldn't do to have anyone find out about them, especially not Danzou. If Danzou found out he would be eaten alive.
Minato got into bed and pulled out the boy's file. "Might as well see what's wrong with this one before we meet him tomorrow…" Minato muttered. He was about to open the file on one, 'Uchiha Obito' when the door to the hallway opened. The policy in the Hokage's Mansion was that if the door was unlocked, it was safe to enter. Minato's door was never locked. "Come in Rin, Kakashi." He called, having sensed their chakra outside the door, he never had to look up to see who it was anymore.
"Sensei…" Rin began as she entered the room.
"We had nightmares again." Kakashi finished for her as they came to a stop at his bedside. "Can we sleep with you, Tou-san?" Kakashi had started calling him that sometime during the three weeks right after his capture. Minato truthfully didn't mind. And it was only a matter of time before Rin followed his lead. He was glad that his bed was a king; otherwise there wouldn't be room for the new kid.
"Yes, I've always said yes haven't I?" Minato asked looking at his two students over the file, stealing a sideways glance at the clock as he did so. Half passed one in the morning, way passed their bedtimes, as usual… "I was about to go through our new teammate's file anyway; want to do it with me?" He often read reports with them; they put his kids to sleep rather quickly, although the reports were usually nothing really important…
Both Kakashi and Rin nodded, seating themselves on either side of their sensei. Once Minato was sure his students were settled, he opened the file. "Uchiha Obito huh?" Kakashi asked curiously.
"Isn't the Uchiha clan part of the elite? This boy should be pretty good then, right Sensei?" Rin speculated.
"One could assume so, yes." Minato answered. "Like you Rin, he is the only survivor of his cell. It says here that he was forced to kill them all by his captors in order to stay alive. It must have been quite the blow to his personal philosophy…"
Rin yawned, leaning against Minato heavily. "The poor guy, will he be moving in?"
"Most likely," Minato told her, giving her a look of parental affection. As usual his tactic for putting them to sleep was working… but a third student moving in when he could barely afford the groceries and the occasional treat of eating out already? He was trying very hard not to sound panicked. "Sleep now, you know that I will be here in the morning."
"Yes Sensei…" Rin drifted off to sleep.
Kakashi yawned heavily. "Do you think he'll fit in here?"
"Most likely it will be that he doesn't fit anywhere else. You should sleep too Kakashi, you need sleep even more than Rin as you are younger than her." Minato told his first student quietly, brushing his nose against the younger boy's in a show of parental affection. It reassured the last Hatake, and showed how much more comfortable Minato was with his first student.
"Yes Tou-san…" Kakashi murmured as he drifted off to sleep.
Minato smiled softly as he gazed down at his sleeping students before turning to read through the file two more times before closing it and joining his students in slumber. Tomorrow, he had a sinking feeling, would be rather long.
The next morning when Kyuubi looked into his chosen mate's bedroom he found his blond cuddled between two very young looking kits. The younger one was curled up against his blonds' chest while the female hugged his back; the two kits seemed to take comfort from his blonds' simple presence. This proved that his blond would make a wonderful mother; he couldn't wait until the beautiful blonds' belly was heavy and round with his kits. The scene made him smile.
Inside, Minato stirred first, like he always did when his students came to him for comfort. He looked down at them both with a small sad smile on his face. Today he would be getting a third child, heaven help him he could barely deal with the two he had now! "It will be alright, I know it." Minato breathed, not noticing the Demon's presence disappearing form his windowsill. [1] Minato nuzzled both Rin and Kakashi.
Rin stirred first. "Time to get up yet T-u-san?" she asked groggily, her words slurred with sleep.
Yes Rin, go change and get ready for the day, I'll wake 'Kashi and then you are both coming with me to meet Uchiha Obito-kun."
Rin nodded, slipping out of the bed obediently.
Minato nudged Kakashi a bit harder, "'Kashi, it's time to get up."
Kakashi playfully swatted at Minato's nose before opening his eyes and stretching. "'K Tou-san."
Minato chuckled as Kakashi stumbled from the bed and out the door to his own room and a change of clothes. His kids were so cute in the morning. It was these peaceful moments in the mornings that he cherished with his kids, (waking to them nestled on either side, asleep and so trusting before he woke them for the day), that made him thankful that he had taken on first Kakashi and then more recently Rin. He stretched rolled out of bed and also changed. Minato picked up the file on his way out before going into the kitchen where he opened the file to review it one last time as he made his students breakfast.
According to the file, Obito's mother had died in childbirth and his father recently died of heart failure. On top of that, Obito was so different from the rest of the clan that the Uchiha clan as a whole wanted nothing to do with the poor child. All of his grades from the Academy had been average, except for his grades with traps. Those had been through the roof. The deal with the clan itself was probably enough to give the boy nightmares, despite the fact that he would be having nightmares anyway having had to kill his cell to stay alive. "I should probably pack something light for the boy, just in case, he probably hasn't been eating…"
Rin came down first. "Good morning Tou-san."
"Good morning Rin, can you set the table for me?" Minato asked not once turning to look at her as he mixed pancake batter.
"Sure." It was their usual routine, whoever got down the stairs first would set the table and the other would do the dishes. Minato always cooked.
Kakashi ran down a few minutes later and sat down. "So I do the dishes today?"
"Yes 'Kashi." Minato answered as he flipped several pancakes onto a plate and put it in front of Kakashi. After setting another batch in the pan, Minato began heating up some leftover chicken noodle soup that they'd had a few nights ago for his new student. In the mansion, there was no distinction of who was and wasn't family and this was the first time it was so. With the first three, you were either family, or you were a servant. In the Yondaime's mansion it was just the three, well soon to be four, of them. Obito was going to have to get used to that quickly in order for him to fit in. (Even if he had wanted to, Minato would not have been able to afford servants, unlike his three predecessors; he didn't come from a big, rich clan, he was an orphan adopted into the Namikaze Clan, a small, mostly civilian [2] clan).
There were a few very simple rules that governed his household:
Never touch Sensei's seals experimental or otherwise.
Never touch or play with Sensei's three-prong Kunai unless he freely gives one to you, he will know.
Locked doors are to be left alone.
Always follow Sensei's orders, no exceptions!
And finally:
Don't bother Sensei if the elders are in the house, his headaches are bad and he will lash out.
Kakashi had been very quick to try to teach Rin the rules. She, only caught on in the second month, had almost picked up one of the said Hiraishin Kunai to examine it when the younger child had lunged at her, catching her off guard. And then there had been that one time where Rin had had a question for Minato and had waited until the elders were in the mansion. Minato had almost attacked her. And finally, she had come across a locked door, with a seal on the knob. She had, rather stupidly, now that she thought back on it, tried to open the door.
The locked door was the door to Sensei's seal workshop. He had yelled, actually yelled at the poor girl for going near his experimental seal workshop and laboratory. His students weren't allowed in there unless he was giving them a lesson on seals, which, at the moment were few and far between. Seeing her even trying to get into his workshop had scared him badly, all of the experimental seals he was working on were unstable and very dangerous.
Rin had learned that you had to earn Sensei's trust; he didn't automatically trust anyone, but his own Sensei. It took two weeks for her to earn his trust.
After breakfast Minato packed the soup and some chopsticks before ushering his students out of the mansion. Rin and Kakashi had to dive out of the way when something hurled its way towards their Sensei. Said thing, was actually a woman. A woman with pink hair.
"You are?" Minato asked blandly as Rin and Kakashi watched.
"Miki, Haruno Miki, Namikaze-sama," [3] She answered promptly.
"And why pray tell did you feel the need to ambush me and my students outside our home?" Minato asked almost scathingly. He didn't recognize her name, she must be a civilian. The tone he was using was a tone that he usually used with the council, the elders and Danzou, something that Rin and Kakashi didn't hear too often, as the elders avoided the house when at all possible. The elders had only come to the mansion twice since Rin had moved in with them. But they had never heard Sensei speak that way to a woman before.
"I… well… I was wondering if you could, maybe… you know… go to lunch with me? Please?"
"I'm sorry Miki-san, but I must decline." Minato pushed passed her gently but gave her no mind. "Come my kiddies, we have a teammate to pick up." Minato called back to his students calmly. The only ones he needed were his students. They needed him more than any fan girl or woman would.
Kakashi and Rin scrambled after him, wondering what had just happened. They both knew that their Sensei was really lonely. So, why had he not accepted? But he had used that tone that he only used with the elders so, rule five was in effect.
"I hope the meeting goes ok…" Rin whispered to her younger teammate who nodded.
"I know; me too." Kakashi confided in her. At age seven, before he had been captured and subsequently… tortured, Kakashi had been into only following the rules and codes of the Shinobi, afterwards… he just hadn't been the same. For three weeks he had clung to Minato-sensei, who had steadily become Tou-san after that. His whole attitude and outlook had changed, now he was all for safety first and attack first ask questions later, attack meaning kill most of the time.
Before her own trauma, Rin had been interested mostly in Genjutsu and only did a tiny bit of studying of ninja medicine out of curiosity. She was now also of the kill now ask questions later mentality and had switched her self study completely to ninja medicine. She was really good at it too. She had picked up on the fact that Kakashi called Minato-sensei Tou-san, and even found herself following his example, even if she didn't know why, she had never felt the need to enquire about it.
They didn't know what Minato-sensei, or rather; Tou-san now, had been like before his first kill, which he still hasn't said much about. And their new teammate, Uchiha Obito was a complete unknown. If there was anything Team Minato hated, it was the unknown.
They found a fidgety twelve-year-old outside Minato's office. "You Uchiha Obito?" Minato asked, more sharply than he intended
"Y-yes Hokage-sama…" The Uchiha flinched, shivering slightly.
"Have you been eating?" Minato asked more gently than before.
"N-no, I can't keep anything down…" Obito admitted shamefully, hanging his head. Not that it was his fault, and his rescue team had certainly tried to feed him… he just couldn't hold it in.
Minato held out the warm container, "come inside Obito, I brought you something light for breakfast, I expect you to eat what you can, slowly."
Obito looked down at it. "What is this? …Hokage-sama?" He was trying extra hard to be as polite as possible. He wanted to make a good first impression for his new sensei, Fugaku-itoko [4] had told him not to worry, Hokage-sama; Minato-sensei was his best friend but… Obito still worried.
"It's some left over chicken noodle soup that we had a few nights ago," Minato explained to the jumpy teen, "It should still be good. Here, some chopsticks for you to use. I want them back when you are done."
Obito almost lost his voice. "Y-yes sir…" He took the chopsticks, (they were finely made, what else could he expect from his Kage and new Sensei?) and slowly opened the container of soup. (Could Fugaku-itoko have been right all along?) He was so hungry that he wanted to bolt it down. He was about to when a small hand caught his wrist. He looked at the smaller boy curiously. "What?" Could this be one of his new teammates?
"Rule number four: Always follow Sensei's orders, no exceptions!" The younger boy told him. "Sensei told you to eat slowly."
"Thank you for introducing your new teammate to the rules of our home and family Kakashi, I'll leave his introduction to the rest of the rules to you and Rin, I have work to do." Minato eyed the paperwork on his desk critically. "There isn't a lot here this morning, if there are no interruptions we should be able to go out to lunch before I assign you a mission this afternoon…" Minato promptly sat and got to work.
Obito looked at the girl (Rin Sensei called her) and the little boy (he must be Kakashi) who appeared to be his teammates. "Um… w-what did Sensei mean by that?"
"There is a very simple set of rules that you have to live by if you want to live under Tou-san's roof." Rin started the explanation softly.
Obito nodded, turning to Kakashi who had taken up the thread of instruction.
"There are no servants in Tou-san's house, only family." Kakashi told him. "The first rule is that you can't touch any seals in the house, they're Sensei's work, and quite a few are experimental, thus very dangerous."
"The second rule," Rin continued, "is: Never touch or play with Sensei's three-prong Kunai unless he freely gives one to you, he will know. Those are the Kunai he uses for his ultimate jutsu: The Hiraishin. He can sense what is going on around them. 'Kashi and I both have one in our rooms at the mansion; we are only allowed to carry them if we are on a mission outside of the village. Being allowed to carry one during a mission means that you have earned Sensei's trust, it isn't easy to do. The only person he trusts instinctively is Jiraiya-sama, who was his Sensei." [5]
"Rule three," Kakashi picked up after Rin, "Locked doors are to be left alone. This means that if you come across a door that won't open, leave it alone. Tou-san's room is never locked."
Rin nodded. "Kakashi already explained rule four, so the final rule, Rule Five: Don't bother Sensei if the elders are in the house, his headaches are bad and he will lash out. I learned this the hard way. I just could not wait until they were gone, if he hadn't checked his punch at the last second, Tou-san would have shattered my ribcage." Rin whispered. "I was lucky enough that he waited until after they had left to lash out."
By the time the lengthy explanation was finished, Obito had finished the soup and was keeping it down. "Why do you call him Tou-san?"
"Because he is the only family we have." Rin answered.
When I graduated at age five, he became my sensei." Kakashi explained, "A year later my father was disgraced so badly that he took his own life. Sensei moved me into his and Jiraiya-sama's home, a medium large estate that belonged to Sensei's clan and sort of… took over as my father. I didn't start acknowledging it until a little over a year later after I was captured by enemy nin and tortured. Over the next three weeks after Sensei rescued me it just slipped out and he's been Tou-san ever since."
"Oh…" Obito blinked, slightly subdued. "What about you Rin-san?"
"A little over six months ago I witnessed my entire cell get killed, it was supposed to be a routine C rank mission, my first one actually." Rin explained. "We were ambushed by the enemy and I was forced to watch my squad die. I was lucky that they weren't good at sensing chakra or I would have been up the creak without a paddle. Right before the Sandaime died of illness and Sensei was chosen as the Yondaime, Sarutobi-sama assigned me to Team Minato."
"What about you?" Kakashi asked, "Why were you recommended for Team Minato?"
Obito began to sweat, feeling as if he was in an interrogation (there went his good first impression!). He could no longer hear the quiet stamping of the official seal or the occasional dip of brush into the ink pot and from there to the scrolls. "Well… A little over a month ago maybe, (I lost track after I was captured…) I was ambushed with my own team, kind of like with you Rin, my father died of a heart attack maybe the day or so before so I wasn't in the best of shape to do any really hard missions. We were supposed to escort this merchant to one of the nearby towns. The mission was a fake. Iwa nin were waiting for us and for a month I and the rest of my team were tortured in the end, they told me that to make it stop, all I had to do was kill them."
"Your teammates?" Rin asked.
"Y-yeah." Obito told her. "At first I resisted but… as the torture wore on I found myself considering it. It looked like Mako was going to break at any time, my Jounin-sensei and Anmaru weren't much better off… Sensei gave me a look the day before it ended, the look said to just do what I needed to do to protect the village. That night, my teammates broke and I had to slit their throats before-before…" He stiffened when a pair of arms wrapped around him.
"Hush, it's ok." Minato murmured into the nearly broken child's ear. "You did what you had to do."
"But I feel like scum!" Obito argued.
"Those were your first kills?" Minato asked.
"Y-yes… I still feel sick thinking about it…" Obito confessed.
"Shh…" Minato hushed him. "You will never forget, but what you are feeling is good. Feeling like that makes you human and means that you cared. The killing will get easier, but you will never forget your first."
Obito whimpered when Minato pulled away and got back to work. "Introduce yourselves to each other, names, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and what your goals are."
Kakashi went first. "I'm Hatake Kakashi; I like Minato-sensei and not much else. I dislike the stupid villagers who believe that my father did the wrong thing when he saved his teammates. …I suppose training would be my hobby and my goal is to become a competent Shinobi under Sensei's command."
Rin went next. "I am Yagami Rin, I like Minato-sensei and studying shinobi medicine. I dislike traitors and ambushes. My hobby is learning more about the human body so I can put my knowledge to better use and my goal is to become one of the best medic-nin this planet has ever seen."
"Why not the best?" Kakashi asked her.
"No one can be better than Tsunade-sama," was the simple reply.
"Oh." [6]
The two turned to Obito who gulped. "I am Uchiha Obito. I-I'm not sure what I like anymore, other than my cousin Fugaku… but I know that I hate traps. Hobbies would be… I suppose… training and learning more about the family Doujutsu. My goal is to master my Sharingan."
Minato put the brush and stamp down as Obito finished speaking. "What a coincidence, I've finished my paperwork in time." He smirked. "Let's go to lunch."
His team stood silently, following him out of the Hokage Tower. On the way out, a mob of women formed around them, asking Minato to go to lunch or dinner with them. He declined all the offers.
Kakashi and Rin stared at him in shock. This was so unlike him… Minato swept through the crowd of women expertly causing his team to run to catch up to him. "Umm, Sensei…" Obito attempted.
"What is it Obito?" Minato asked soothingly.
"Why were those women…?"
"Those, Obito were shallow fan girls. They will do anything to get the one they admire to like them back." Minato turned to his three students, walking backwards. "I've given up on that. I'm not looking, and I'm not interested."
"…Oh…" They could see that he was still lonely as ever, but the usual light in his eyes, his never ending search for the perfect partner, was gone, abandoned.
"Obito, how long have you been back in the village?" Minato asked.
"I o-only just got back t-this morning…" Obito replied nervously.
(End Chapter One)
Some things you guys will probably want to know:
This is MASSIVELY AU! All the characters are acting very different than they normally would. That is because this story is very different to all my other fics that contain Minato.
Also, Obito's teammates? OCs, they are only there to die, and to show how different the timeline is. Rin's team? Also OCs that will remain nameless. The same with Minato's.
This Minato saw Kushina die. And yes she did die here; she wasn't a Jinjuuriki so that couldn't save her. Ren is an OC that I'm using in another fic as well, we don't ever learn Ino's mom's name do we? Anyway, Ren is Ino's mother, just needed something to call her by.
Yes I know I'm being Mean to Minato. *pats muse's head* when I first got the idea for this one I had no idea it was going to go the way of the dark, yes Minato is without Kushina here, I have other plans for my second favorite blond ninja. Yes… he is very good at playing daddy; raise your hands and squee if you agree with me.
Don't kill me for hurting 'Kashi, Rin-chan, and Obito-kun please. … It just sort of came out that way… *nervous laughter*
Footnote(s):
[1] Minato is the Yondaime, as such he should have the best senses right? Well, keep in mind that he is still only eighteen, (he has a lot of growing to do and hasn't hit his prime yet). Also, the fact that Kyuubi is not a threat to him, the village or his team might also have something to do with it. Or maybe Kyuubi is just that good.
[2] There is more to it than that, Minato really is a Namikaze, and they are a small mysterious clan that appeared in Konoha just before Minato was born. They usually stay out of both demon and Shinobi business. His parents died before he could remember them, as such, he never found out what he was.
[3] This person should be obvious, but for those of you who don't get it, this is Sakura's mother. Yes she is trying to flirt, but don't worry… Minato will never accept.
[4] I hope I don't need to remind you, but this is A/U, in this fic, Fugaku and Obito are close and Obito is the only Uchiha (other than Mikoto obviously) that Fugaku tolerates/actually likes.
[5] Rin and Kakashi don't know about the thing with Tsunade and Orochimaru yet, they will later though, as will Obito.
[6] This by-play shows just how different this Kakashi is, as does his introduction, it shows how this Kakashi has bonded with this Rin without Obito's influence. A brother-sister thing is starting to develop between them, which Obito will contribute to later.
Wow 10 pages, not bad, but it never seemed to end! Remember to review!
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