Chapter 2: An Ally in Sirius Black
Minato woke up the next morning, completely refreshed, around 5 am. He materialized a training ground connected to his sitting room and did some morning workouts to keep his body in shape. He did a ten-kilometer run, push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups. He was done with his morning regime around 6 am and got into his fridge to look for breakfast. He ended up making miso soup and rice, with milk. He ate his breakfast and then put on his Hokage cloak so that he wouldn't be cold on the way to the Potter's mansion. He put his hands together in a seal and vanished from the training room in a swirl of leaves. About 20 minutes later, he stood in front of the Potter Mansion; he saw Sirius' flying motorcycle sitting in the driveway. He formed the henge seal and transformed into what he had looked like as Harry Potter; he left his ninja clothes in view though, he didn't want to transform his clothes to the uncomfortable ones he had worn before. He walked in the front door and heard James talking to Sirius in the living room, so he went and listened, "The boy's up in his room, he was ill this morning."
"Has he talked yet, James?"
"No, I think he's stupid and mute; he follows me around like a dog that doesn't know where to go."
"That's too bad; he looked intelligent as a baby." Minato took this moment to walk in.
James and Sirius looked his direction and he saw James' face contort in anger, but before he could say anything, Minato was at his throat with a kunai. He slipped sideways and kicked James backwards with a side sweep of his leg. As James was falling, Minato gave him a solid right hook under the jaw, and James flew across the room and dented the wall. Minato walked up to the man gasping for air and in a state of shock and spit on his feet, "That was for every time that you beat me for no reason, you arrogant fucking prick. I'm disgusted by you; you spoil your fat-ass son while beating the other, you shove your face and starve your own son, and you're disgustingly unfaithful to your comatose wife. If my wife was in a coma, I would sit by her side and do everything I could to cure her; I would wait for her. I wouldn't fuck every woman that I could get my hands on, using my name for fame and I sure as hell wouldn't leave her in the hospital and never check on her and never give any support to the staff to find a cure. You're an arrogant, selfish, unfaithful, fat, abusive, asshole and I bet your precious son turns out the same way as you. I'm leaving; don't expect to hear from me ever again." With this, he backhanded James one more time sending him flying through a weak wall, stood up from his crouched position and disappeared in a swirl of wind.
In reality, he went into the rafters and removed the henge and waited to see what Sirius would do; he wasn't disappointed. Sirius was looking at James in disgust as he struggled to get up from the rubble of the wall he had flown through. "You beat your son, STARVED HIM, AND YOU CHEATED ON LILY REPEATEDLY. Harry was right, you are a worthless prick. I remove myself from the position of Godfather and you are no longer worth my time. I have to go try to find and raise Harry, because you never did. Good-bye, James." Minato smiled and flashed out the door as Sirius opened it.
Sirius walked outside and went over to his motorcycle. He was stopped by a small blond kid holding out his hand. "Before you even start looking for me, I'm right here Sirius" 'What?'
"What are you talking about kid and what's your name?"
"I'll give you one clue; it starts with an H."
Sirius stared at the kid in disbelief as the solution came over him, "Y…You can't be Harry."
The kid smiled, "Got it in one."
"There's no way, Harry has black-hair, green eyes, and paler skin; he's also shorter."
The blond was now smirking, "How 'bout we go to Gringotts and I'll explain."
"A…Alright, let me grab my bike" Sirius felt faint, as if he would fall over any minute. The shock of a three-year old beating James into the ground for crimes he didn't even know he committed and now this, they were too much. Sirius tipped over and fell in a dead faint; Minato caught him and set him on the ground before going over to the motorcycle. He pulled out the biggest sealing scroll he had and sealed the motorcycle into it, before slipping it back into the pocket of the jounin vest he was wearing. He then went over to Sirius and henged into an older version of himself to carry Sirius easier. He picked Sirius up bridal style and set off in the direction of the bank, jumping over the rooftops.
Sirius woke up about ten minutes into the trip. "What the Hell, how are we going so fast?" and then he looked at who was carrying him. "Holy shit, you're older than before and are we…running?"
Minato smirked at him, "Yup, you passed out at James' house and I figured that you didn't want him to find you when he crawled out of that hole I put him. As for the older body, I'm actually 26 years old. This is what I really look like."
"What about my motorcycle and where are we going?"
"We're going to Gringotts like I said and don't worry about the motorcycle, I've got it covered."
He stopped and set Sirius down, "We're here"
"Did we run all the way here? Holy shit, how long was I out?"
"You were out about ten minutes and yes, we ran all the way here."
"Ten minutes? And you ran for about ten minutes after I woke up? You ran all the way to Gringotts in 20 minutes; that's faster than my motorcycle can go!"
Minato chuckled, "Yes, I am called the Yellow Flash for a reason. Now let's go inside, Ragnok is probably wondering where I am, and you probably want an explanation" He lead the way inside and the goblins in the bank took one look at him and bowed as he passed. He went to the doors that lead out of the main bank area and in the direction of the King's chambers. "Where are we going, we shouldn't be back here; it's punishable by death."
"Let's just say that I command a certain respect to the goblins; their king owes me a life debt."
They were now in the hallway that the chambers were in and Minato headed to his own and went inside. Sirius hesitated a moment at the doorway, but Minato grabbed his arm and yanked him inside, closing his door.
"Come sit down" he went to his couch and Sirius sat down next to him.
"Now, are you going to explain everything?"
"Yes, first though let me get a snack." He got up and went into the kitchen. He made himself some rice and grabbed Sirius some crackers out of the cupboard before going back into the sitting room.
"Alright, let's get one thing straight right away. The night that Voldemort attacked, Harry Potter died."
"What, but-"
"Let me explain and then we can talk about it. On that night, another man was fighting a demon and got fatally wounded, across something we call the veil. His name was Minato Namikaze, and he was the leader of the Elemental Nations. Do you know what those are, Sirius?"
"Those are just a fairy tale. They are described as a place where ninjas called shinobi lived. Apparently the ninja were really powerful and the Hokage was the strongest of them all. I don't know who the Hokage is; just that he was supposedly very powerful. Why?"
"The Hokage is the leader of the Elemental Nations, and what if I told you that the Elemental Nations were real?"
"That's ridiculous, they're just fairy tal-eek" He stopped as he felt something cold and sharp against his neck.
"They are real, now as I was saying. Minato Namikaze was the fourth Hokage and he was fighting the demon-fox known as the nine-tails and he was fatally injured at the same time that young Harry was killed by Voldemort. As the Yondaime was dying, a Shinigami removed his soul from his body. Minato made a deal with the Shinigami; a Shinigami cannot bring back the dead but it can transfer a soul. Harry Potter died when he shielded his twin brother from Voldemort's spell, so Minato made a deal with the Shinigami to enter Harry's body with all of his memories and skills intact and when he turned three, he would regain all of his power as well. The thing was that Voldemort was still alive and his soul was travelling unhindered on the Earth so the Yondaime's job would be to eliminate Voldemort and in exchange the Shinigami would show the Yondaime a way to go through the veil so that he could care for the son he left behind. Minato and his wife, Kushina, gave their life to save their son, Naruto, from the demon's claws. I wish Kushina could have come with him."
"What does this have to do with you being blond and 26 years old and why were you pretending to be Harry if that other guy, Minato, is Harry?"
"Would you like to know where Minato is now, Sirius?"
"Yes, I would"
"Why?"
"I want to ask him why; why he would agree to kill Voldemort if he has already sacrificed his life once to fight a demon. Why would he take our problems all on his own?"
"I did it simply because it was the right thing to do and because I would get to see my son all grown up. I did it so that no innocent people would die. I put up with James' shit for 2 years so that I could save the people that didn't deserve to die. When I swore myself in as Hokage, I made a deal to protect those who could not protect themselves. That is why I agreed."
Sirius had tears in his eyes, "You mean that you are Minato Namikaze?"
"Yes, I am the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze"
"But, you're so young and yet you would endanger your life for those you don't even know, who you've never met, and in James' case, those you hate."
"Yes, that is what a shinobi does; he protects those who cannot protect themselves."
Sirius' eyes cleared up, "You set a fine example for those who need it, I think that I would follow you."
"Would you? If I trained you, would you follow me in my fight against Voldemort?"
"But, what about Dumbledore?"
"Dumbledore is a manipulative, scheming old bastard. Do you know that he told James to keep me so that I could be cannon-fodder to protect the famed boy-who-lived. He was going to take my magic when I turned 5 and give it to Jack due to his serious lack of a strong magical-core."
"Sirius' face grew enraged, "HE WHAT?! I'LL KILL HIM."
Minato grabbed his arm and stopped him from doing something rash, "That is why I offered to train you in my way of fighting. If you would follow me, that is?"
Sirius took a deep breath and smiled weakly, "Hey, if you can lead an entire nation of people, then I'll sure as hell follow you. Wait a minute…you said you are the fourth Hokage! That means that you are the most powerful shinobi!"
"Yes, can you keep a secret?"
"Yeah, sure"
"My body that I'm in right now is actually only three years old. I plan on staying with the goblins until I turn eleven. The Shinigami told me that he would show me how to get back to the Elemental Nations."
"Are you leaving for good when you turn eleven?"
"No, the Shinigami wants me to go to the school Hogwarts, so I will only go there over the summers."
"How are you gonna stay with the goblins for that long; they hate humans."
"Like I said before, Ragnok owes me a life debt and we're quite good friends"
"But what about me? If I agree to train with you, then where will I stay? Dumbledore will surely come after me when he learns of my 'break-up' with James."
"You can stay here, with me and the goblins. Here, just look at that wall over there and think of how you would want your bedroom and it will form. We can share the rest of the house and I've already got training grounds. I give you this warning now though; my last students called me a sadist in training."
"Do you plan on going back as your older self when you go visit the Elemental Nations?"
"I plan on taking an aging potion when I turn 9 so that I'm at the age I was at when I 'died'. I can always use henge to look younger to go to Hogwarts."
"Okay, I'll train under you, though that will surely be weird because I'm pretty sure that we're the same age."
"Good, now make your room. We start training tomorrow." Minato said with a satisfied smirk.
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