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Chapter 11: Deception

Minato's POV

This week has been one of the worse weeks I have had.

No, let me rephrase that. This week has been one of the most stressful, life changing, miserable weeks I have ever had. Period. But, for some reason I couldn't help to feel even more hopeless I felt it was only going to get worse.

My week had started like any other week. It was a bright, pretty, sunny Monday morning when shit hit the fan. The sky was blue. The birds were chirping loudly. Konoha was the centerpiece for peace. Basically I thought on this day it was going to be the beginning of a great week. I just didn't know how wrong I was.

Not only my personal life was in shambles but I felt like I could not trust anyone. Not my sensei, not Tsunade, and I knew damn well I couldn't trust my own fiance.

I was presently at my desk trying to sort through my life before it became a disaster zone. Just thinking about all of the emotional shit I had been through this week made me an emotional wreck. My nerves was on edge. Damn! I wanted to kill something. Someone. Anything just to get my mind off the hell i was going through. Just thinking about the shit gave me a headache.

I put my throbbing head on the desk thinking of a way I could wrap my head around this awful mess.

"Damn it" I say to the empty room.

All i could think about what the two things this week that had changed my outlook on life. And it wasn't for the better.

Flashback~

Jiraiya burst into the room with Tsunade trailing close behind him.

Jiraiya didn't even say hello. He came in and went straight to the point.

"We know who tried to kill Uzumaki Kushina" Jiraiya declared.

My eyes got as big as saucers.

The killing intent started to roll off me.

I was dying to know.

"Who was it?" I asked ready to jumped out of the window to go choke the accused.

Jiraiya fidgeted slightly...He was about to speak when Kushina answered for him.

"Mikoto" was her single word.

I snapped my eyes to her hoping, praying, wishing she was lying.

"Get out" I told them

I needed to talk to Mikoto.

~End Flashback

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I opened my eyes slowly. I wanted to slam by head against the desk. Things just hadn't been going my way this week. I didn't want to believe what Jiraiya and Kushina had said so I decided to do a little investigating of my own. It was eventually came back to bite me in the ass.

The conversation with Mikoto stuck out more than anything words had changed my life forever.

~Flashback~

"Mikoto, how could have attacked Kushina like that?" I snapped at my fiance angrily. I didn't know the woman who was standing before me. I had thought of Mikoto as a patient beautiful, graceful woman. How could she have done this?

Mikoto now had her head bowed as if she was mulling something over in her mind.

"Minato" she said with her eyes full with tears.

"Tears are not going to get you out of this Mikoto. What you have done is a crime? You know what the punishment is for trying to kill another ninja while they weren't armed."

"What could you have possibly been thinking Mikoto?" I asked her now glaring down at her shrinking form.

She looked like she wanted to melt into the floor.

"I don't even know who you are anymore. Maybe I need time to think. Maybe you need time to think too. Maybe we should put off the wedding for a while" I told her out of spite.

Mikoto's head snapped up and she glared at me.

"You want to know what I was thinking? I was thinking about us. I was thinking about how you were in the arms of another woman when you promised me you were over her. I was thinking about how we are supposed to be getting married but you have been distant towards me...You haven't even told me you loved me since SHE has come back into town."

"I was thinking about........" she paused.

I glared at her determined to get a straight answer.

Mikoto now had a faraway look on her face as if she had made up her mind about something.

"You were thinking what Mikoto? What you did was unreasonable? I made a promise to you; I wouldn't break that" I told her

"You already did" she said quietly.

Mikoto stood up and walked past me apparently finished with the conversation. She held open the door and glared back at me.

"I was thinking about the baby, Minato" she said quietly

~End Flashback~

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Kami seemed to have a sick sense of humor because it was the last thing I expected

The last thing I expected was to be a 22 year old father.

"Shit" things were going so well. (sarcastically)

Everyone thought my life was so peaceful but little did everyone know my mind was still reeling.

I stood up to stretch my legs. I was looking out of the window admiring another beautiful day when there was a knock at the door.

"Come in" I responded expecting it to be some kind of emergency.

My body immediately tensed up. I was so used to bad news that I didn't know what good news felt like anymore.

I turned to the door with a stern look on my face.. It was the last face I expected to see.

It was my.......fiance, Mikoto.

She had been avoiding me since she told me about the baby. She had packed her things and moved back home while I was at work. There was no note or anything. I knew she was still upset.....Seeing me in the arms of another woman, wanting to call of the wedding, and carrying a baby had taken its toll on her. I was so sorry. I sent flowers, cards, candy. Anything to make her speak to me again...... I felt like an inconsiderate idiot. I wanted to make it up to her but I knew I had to prove myself to her.

Mikoto stepped into the office and closed it softly.

She had on a soft blue dress. It made me remember the day I told her I loved her for the first time.

She was so happy. She kept asking me to repeat it after I told her. We were so happy.

Her bright smile flashed through my mind.

I still remembered that day..I brushed the memory aside and looked at my fiance.

She was not smiling. In fact, she looked like she was in terrible pain.

She looked at me and there was tears in her blue eyes.

I had a sinking feeling. I immediately rushed to her side.

"What's wrong honey?" I said wrapping my arms around her. She melted into my arms. There was a long silence.

"Minato......I".......she said pausing.

I held her in my arms waiting for her to continue.

"Minato, I think there is something wrong with the baby." she said finally.

My mind stopped functioning.

My entire body shut down.

Even though I had never expected to be a father so early, I was starting to get used to the idea. I wanted to be a father.

I had all kinds of plans. I had even picked out my son's first kunai so he could be a shinobi.

"What are you saying Mikoto? There's nothing wrong with the baby": I told her soothingly trying to calm her down.

I always hated to see Mikoto cry. She rarely cried but when she did it was heartbreaking.

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"I lost the baby, Minato"....... she cried into my chest....It was a long time before she continued....

There was a confused look on my face.

Then reality gripped me....'She lost the baby?'

I think I lost it when............. Kushina attacked me the other day........"she finished with tears running down her face.

First shock then anger radiated through my body....

I wrapped her even closer in a hug.

I knew losing the baby had devastated Mikoto. Mikoto had always wanted to be a mother...That was one of the things I loved about her...

She was sobbing and shaking... She collapsed into my arms burying her face in my chest..

"Minato, I'm sorry" she choked out. "I........failed....you"

"No, I can't believe it" I wanted to melt into the floor.

I had to be strong for her. My chance to be a father had been stolen from me.

Snatched away like the rug had been pulled from underneath me.

A lone tear rolled down my face.

'I need to be strong for Mikoto' I kept telling myself even though I wanted to fall apart.

My mind was made up. My heart suddenly felt empty..........

I was going to make Uzumaki Kushina pay dearly for this.

If it was the last thing I ever did

Yes, I know boring long chapter but it is only setting the groundwork for what's to come. Check out the sneak peak..

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xxxxSneak Peakxxxxx

She wrapped her arms smugly around him knowing she had finally won.

Telling Minato Kushina had made her lose the baby was a stroke of pure genius.

She knew Minato would seek revenge.

But, little did he know he was seeking revenge on something that never really existed in the first place.

Mikoto smiled.

'So long bitch'

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