Minato knew many things throughout his life. He knew that he was a father, a leader, a husband… but he also knew this.
He was a failure.
Closing his eyes, he looked out the window of his home, wondering where his son was. He knew that he had to tell him this at some point that the reason why he was a late bloomer was due to a genetic problem. That it was something that had been given to another in their family once before so many years ago. He couldn't help but let out a soft sigh as he looked back out at the window.
He had seen so many things in his life, so many things that had made him the man that he is today. Yet, the blonde knew that he had to face so many things in his life as well. The one thing that he never understood, was his father's reasoning's but at the same time he did. The only reason why he removed him all those years ago, was because he had been a danger the family.
"Get out, you are no longer welcome in this family, in this pack! You shall never return, for if you do I'll rip you to pieces myself!"
That was the threat all those years ago, and as far as he knew, the threat still stood. But his father didn't, as the man died when Naruto was very young, too young to remember. He knew that, should he ever return that it could be trouble. There was no telling how far his mind had been torn apart. It was a fate that he never wanted for his son, but thanks to Kakashi, and even Naruto's friends they had been able to help the boy control himself.
Minato knew that he would forever be grateful, for it was something that he himself could never do for his son. It was a feeling, that he knew that he could never forgive himself for but, at the same time he was still grateful for it. Though it only upset him, that it wasn't him that could help his son in such a time. Closing his eyes for a brief moment, the young man took a deep breath in the hopes of calming his nerves.
It had just seemed that everything in his life, ever since that day had turned in on itself on him. One moment after another, it had seemed as if everything would turn itself on Minato, the only good things out of his life thus far was Kushina, and Naruto.
"Am I doing anything right?" Minato whispered softly, not really sure what he could do. Not sure what he could do anyway. It just seemed as if all of his choices would turn itself on him, throw something in his path until everything would tear itself in two. It bothered him, it frightened him and it also confused him.
Letting out a soft sigh, the young man shook his head before pushing himself away from the window and went to make something for dinner. Kushina had decided to take a day off so to speak, and went to a spa to relax and unwind. So it left Minato with Naruto, Kakashi, Iruka and Hinata.
It'll be nice, to be able to spend some time with his own little pack until Naruto could make his own. So far, he already had a mate chosen for him. Even though he himself would prefer to have his son's mate be another werewolf but, he couldn't stop when a wolf chose their mate. It was the way of things, it was the only way that things worked with a wolf. They picked one mate, and only one. That was just how the wolf mind worked.
Shaking his head, he went to chop up some veggies for dinner before he heard a knock at the door. Odd. Looking up at the time, he saw that it was still too early for Naruto to come back from school. Chuckling softly, he shook his head thinking that maybe his son was being brought home early due to another shifting at school.
"Are you back already? Did Iruka bring you home?" He called out, making his way over to the door. Yet, he started to notice something odd. Something strange the closer he got to the door. Something within him was telling him to run, telling him that he was near danger. The alpha in him was telling him that it was a challenge being directed to him. No, that couldn't be right, no one needed to challenge him, he wasn't a terrible alpha, that much he knew so, who was trying to challenge him?
Shaking his head, the young man took a deep breath as he made his way to the door. Looking at it, sniffing the air a little as he tried to find a clue as to who it was. The scent was rather familiar to him but he couldn't be sure as to what it was. Or, at the very least who it was.
Yet, a part of him knew who it was but knew that it couldn't be true. He shouldn't know this, shouldn't know that his father was dead. That the law had faded with him but at the same time hadn't. Minato knew that the rule, the banishment had to have remained so long as the new alpha was in charge. Narrowing his eyes, the young man snarled a little before opening the door and stared in shock.
There, stood a tall man, maybe just a little taller than himself. Blonde hair that wasn't spiked like his own or Naruto's but was weighed down until it looked straight, yet the ends maintaining their inherited spikiness. His eyes though, dark as the night, but it also showed Minato how dark and dangerous this man was. There was no way that he should be here. He couldn't be here! "Hello Minato." The man said with a smile on his face, still as dark and twisted as the man could remember from his teens.
"What are you doing here? You were banished when you attacked a human." Minato snarled.
"Now, is that anyway to treat your own brother?" The man said with a chuckle.
"You are no longer my brother Daisuke!" shouted Minato, his eyes glowing gold for a brief moment. "The moment you attacked a human, father had you banished because we had no other way of helping you! We tried, I did everything I could to help you!" Minato snarled at him.
Daisuke chuckled a little before shaking his head. As if the whole thing just seemed to amuse him in some way or another. It made Minato sick to his stomach to see this happening.
"Now brother, you know that I only attacked because he just happened to be there at the wrong time. How was I to be blamed for such a thing?"
"You still attacked him! Now he has to live with this curse for the rest of his life! There is no going back for him!" Minato shouted at him.
Daisuke just laughed as he wrapped his arms around his stomach. The whole thing must have been funny for him as it seemed to have him folded over in laughter it seemed. Though, it just made Minato narrow his eyes. He knew how much it had burdened the man who was cursed, how much it bothered him to have seen him struggle day in and day out.
Closing his eyes, hoping to take a relaxing deep breath. Minato knew that if he lost himself, he would shift himself and attack his brother. Even though he knew that his brother was nothing more than a monster, the part of him that still wanted to believe that his brother was still in there somewhere, the boy that had been his best friend but, ended up becoming his worst nightmare.
Opening his now glowing golden eyes, Minato snarled as he said "You are not welcome here Daisuke. Leave, now."
"Not until I get what I've come for." He said with a smirk on his face. All laughter having faded from him. Minato wondered what it was that his brother had in mind. There had to be something wrong, there had to be another reason than what he was giving out. But he knew that he had to be careful still, there was no way that he would ever give his mad brother anything that he was after.
Snarling a little, the young man tried to think on what he could do. On what he should do, though if he fought in the house, there was a good chance that it could get himself seriously hurt. He'd have to try to find a way to get his brother outside.
"Get out of my house." Minato snarled. He felt his fangs growing, as were his claws, preparing himself to attack if he needed too. At least they were still close to the door, so he could easily tackle his brother out of the house should the need arise.
"I want to meet my family, is that so wrong?" asked Daisuke said with a smile on his face.
"You have no right to meet my family. You are still banished, and still not allowed to be here!" Minato snarled before he tackled his brother out of the house. Both of them rolling onto the grass as he tried to fight. Tried to punch his brother, tried to claw at him in the hopes of knocking the man out. Snarling, Minato shouted "You won't go near my family. I'll make sure to use up all of my strength to keep them safe!" Minato shouted.
"Oh, like that boy? No, he's a man now isn't he? The man that I cursed all those years ago." Snarled Daisuke, his eyes glowing a bright amber in colour before smirking. "What was his name again? Oh dear, I can't seem to remember, much like that other brat I had to deal with." Minato snarled in his brother's face, getting ready to kill the man before Daisuke pulled his legs up and slammed one into Minato's side.
The man yelped out in shock and pain before rolling onto the ground. Minato looked up and went to snarl only to yelp as he felt his brother punch him in the face. His skin stinging from the force of the hit but it wasn't enough to knock Minato out. He went to strike, kicked at his brother only for the man to just smirk. It was as if the pain didn't seem to faze him in the least.
What the hell?
"Pain means nothing to me brother!" Daisuke said with a crazed smile on his face as he punched Minato in the face once again. The brother yelled out in pain as he struggled to break free from his older brother's grasp. He tried to get out of this, tried to fight his brother off. Yet, no matter what he did, nothing worked. It just seemed as if his brother was immune to pain. That the very idea itself never seemed to cross him in the least.
Was it because, his mind had been so torn that he no longer felt pain. Only the craziness that was in his own mind after it had been torn apart all these years?
This was a fate that was far worse than anything Minato could have ever imagined.
He was thankful, that Naruto wouldn't end up like this. He had hoped that it was something that would never befall his son and now, it wouldn't happen but he also wanted to live long enough to see such a thing! "Get off of me!" Minato shouted as he went and slashed his claws at his brother's face.
The man yelped a moment only to snarl down at his brother. "You'll never get away with this Daisuke, what are you even after?!"
"I want my own pack and I need one member to help start it!" Shouted Daisuke.
"Dad!" shouted Naruto as he rushed forward and tackled Daisuke over. Minato stared in shock as he watched as his son managed to roll onto the ground with Daisuke, only to shove himself up before the older man could grab a hold of Naruto. The teen snarled at Daisuke as he said "What the fuck?! You again?"
He'll have to punish Naruto later for swearing. But right now, that was the least of their problems. Naruto snarled at the older man before his blue eyes all seemed to glow brightly. "Why are you here?!"
"Can't a man see his younger brother?" Daisuke said with a grin on his face before looking at Minato. "It seems you didn't tell your brother about me."
"Huh?" Naruto sounded rather confused, not that Minato blamed him. Naruto looked back and forth as he whispered "Brothers? I have an uncle?"
"Naruto?"
"Hinata stay back!" shouted Naruto when he saw her coming closer. Next to her was Kakashi and Iruka, though it seemed that Kakashi was shielding Iruka from any kind of harm, as he was also doing the same for Hinata. Naruto looked over at Kakashi as he said "Keep them safe Kakashi." No, more like Naruto ordered him to do as he was told. Had Naruto already become an alpha without knowing it?
"Of course you have an uncle! I'm your uncle, my brother, your father must have wanted to make sure I was never remembered around here or at the very least mentioned." Laughed Daisuke before giving a crazed smile on his face. "I only returned to get one thing, someone who is like me. Who would have thought that it would have been my own nephew!"
Minato stared with wide eyes before shaking his head. "Naruto don't listen to him!" shouted the man, hoping that his son would never believe him. Or, at the very least, that his son wouldn't hate him.
"Oh? Naruto is it? Right, I should tell you this then. I am like you, I was a late bloomer as well." He smirked darkly before laughing. "Yet, because of how I was, my father, your grandfather, banished me. I'm rather surprised that Minato didn't do the same thing to you." Minato tightly shut his eyes, it was something that he never wanted his son to know. For his son to learn the truth about their family.
Even though his son knew bits and pieces about a late bloomer.
"I don't care!" shouted Naruto, causing Minato to look up in shock. "So what if you were banished? I'm sure he had a damn good reason for doing such a thing. I haven't done anything wrong, not to the point where I would need to be banished!" shouted the teenager, his eyes still glowing as he marched forward. "I won't let you hurt my family, I won't let you hurt anyone else." Naruto snarled before rushing forward to attack.
Minato couldn't believe it. His son didn't care about things of the past. It just seemed, as if everything that happened didn't matter. Naruto was learning to move on with his life instead of fearing it. Minato didn't think that he could have gotten more proud of his son before but, here he was. His heart swelling with pride at the man his son was becoming.
"Carefully pushing himself up, Minato groaned a little as he rubbed his face at the pain. Everything hurt, even his side. He'd have to relax once they got his brother to leave.
Shaking his head, Minato took a deep breath, only to wince. "Minato you okay?" asked Iruka, the blonde looked over at his friend and saw how much the man trembled. It seemed that Iruka knew who this man was, and that was what scared him. Iruka didn't deserve this, didn't deserve to see the man that had cursed him to such a life as this. "Is it…?"
"It is, and I'm fine Iruka. There is no way that he'll attack you." Minato promised, though he wasn't sure if he could keep such a promise. Looking up, Kakashi looked like he wanted to help Naruto fight off Daisuke, but it seemed that he was also driven by the order to keep Iruka and Hinata safe. "Kakashi, go and help him. I got Iruka and Hinata."
"But, look." Kakashi said, causing Minato to look over and watched as Daisuke snarled at Naruto. It seemed that the man couldn't beat Naruto. The older man glared before mumbling something to himself and ran off. Minato couldn't believe it, his brother had taken off. It was rather shocking and amazing.
"Dad?!" Naruto shouted as he rushed to his father. Minato looked up and blinked at his son. "Dad, you okay? What the hell just happened here?" Naruto asked with a frown on his face.
Minato knew that he had to speak, that he had to say something at the very least. Letting out a soft sigh, he started to answer his son's question. "That was my older brother. Daisuke, is a late bloomer like you are Naruto. Only difference, he lost control, his mind tore to the point that it could no longer be repaired so to speak. The final straw, was when he scratched Iruka, cursing him. It is one rule that we all have to follow. We are to never kill or attack a human no matter what."
"He broke that rule."
"Because he lost control, his mind having torn far too much and now, he is back and it seems that he is after you son." Minato said with a sigh before looking at his son, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I am so sorry, I should have said something sooner. But, I didn't think he would ever come back. He is going to come after you again, I don't know when or how, but he will come back for you."
"Then I guess I'll just have to be prepared for when that day comes. I'll make sure I have total control over myself before he even gets close to hurting us again." Naruto said with a smile on his face.