Reflection

Summary: Who knew that you would go to war and find your reflection starring at you from the other side (and his brother is in love with your son)

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, we would all know who Pain really is (honestly I was so f-ing pissed when dies as Pain's identity is about to be revealed uggggh)

Rating: M for violence, torture, language, and yaoi. All the usual stuff ;)

Pairings:

SassuXNaru

Thanks again to all those who reviewed. I just got back from my band trip to the fiesta bowl. We got 5th place out of 10 bands, and the 4 that beat us where California bands and the 6th place band was from Arizona. Illinois represent yo! Lolz. And thanks to Beck, Nirvana, David Bowie. Dragonforce, Deep Purple, and Muse for providing me with music while I wrote this.

Ch. 2 Culture Shock

Darkness. A seemingly endless abyss of nothingness. That was all Minato could see. Soon a fading image of a crimson haired woman appeared before him. Upon seeing this maiden, he sprinted after her. The blonde attempted to scream out her name, but was all for naught as only dead silence echoed through the darkness. Minato soon realized that the woman was not getting closer, despite the fact that he was sprinting with all of his might. As the beauty disappeared, with tears in his eyes, he cried out her name one last time.

"KUSHINA!" Minato exclaimed as he shot up from his bed; his body covered in perspiration and his face stained with tears. For several minutes the blonde just sat there panting.

'It was a dream,' the blonde thought as he wiped the lingering tears out of his cobalt eyes. He looked over at his alarm clock that flashed '5:57'.

With a sigh, Minato got up to go to the bathroom and took a shower. As the warm water cascaded down his nude body, his mind was cascaded with the thoughts of the dream that awoke him from his slumber.

'I haven't had a dream like that since I left Japan, after she died,' the blonde thought as he reached for the body wash.

"Kushina," Minato said solemnly as he began to wash himself. After all the suds where washed away and he washed his blonde locks out with shampoo, Minato stepped out of the bathroom with a white towel wrapped around his slim waist. The blonde then wiped off the beads of water off his body and put on a pair of boxers along with a pair of blue jeans. Minato then pondered what shirt to wear before deciding on his Metallica …And Justice for All album shirt. Once the ordeal of picking his outfit was complete, the man of twenty seven put on a pair of socks and his black high tops as he walked through the living room to the kitchen. After falling over a few times and a rainbow of curse words, Minato eventually got to the kitchen and began breakfast by putting two pieces of bread in the toaster and starting the stove. Whistling Muse's Knights of Cydonia, the blonde got out a skillet along with eggs and cheese to make an omelet. The whistling soon became off key and high pitched singing.

"No ones gonna take me alive! The time has come to make things right! You and I must fight for our lives! You and I must fight to survive!" the blonde whaled as he cut the omelet in half and turned off the stove before breaking out into a random guitar solo; ending it with a power slide exclaiming "Fuck yeah!". Minato then opened his eyes to see his son standing in the doorway, looking at him like he had just grown a second head.

"Hey…buddy," Minato said, equally as shocked as Naruto was.

"Hey dad…uh…Whatcha doin' there?" Naruto asked.

"Um…just uh…rocking out, and yelling out words you should never say," the father said sternly as he got up from the kitchen floor.

"Okay?" Naruto asked in a befuddled tone.

"So, how long have you been up," Minato asked his son as he got out some plates and glasses.

"Since you started shrieking," the four year old said as he climbed up into a chair.

"Very funny," Minato said as he brought Naruto his breakfast that consisted of an omelet, toast with jam, microwave sausage, a vitamin, and a glass of milk.

"Dad why do I have to drink milk?" Naruto asked as he attempted to glare at the milk, but it just looked as though he was pouting cutely at it.

"Because it makes you grow up big and strong," Minato said with an encouraging grin.

With a grumble and a mutter of "stupid milk", the younger blonde literally chugged the glass of milk.

"Now was that as bad as you thought it would be?" Minato asked his son.

"Yes," Naruto simply stated.

"Well tough," Minato replied as sipped his coffee.

The two continued to eat in a comfortable silence as the sun began to break over the all consuming horizon, once again beginning the daily ritual of transforming the cold black void of the night into the white hot inferno that is the desert. In any other place the sun represents awakening. But in the desert, it is just the opposite. If a flower where to be planted in the desert, it would whither away slowly and die; but some life forms come to the desert in order to just that. Sometimes they aren't even aware of it.

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It was an unusually long breakfast for the two blondes; a whole two minutes it took for them to engulf the breakfast. After they where done, Minato along with his son began to pack for his hunt that would take him half a world away. But unbeknownst to him, his prey was also preparing for his arrival.

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End chapter 2. Read and Review please! Also, read The Hunchback of Norte Dame by Victor Hugo. It has influenced my writing heavily and it is a great book with a lot of hilarious moments.