Danzo Shimura.

Danzo has short, spiky, ink black hair, tan skin with wrinkles and scars all over his body, he has bandages covering his right arm, shoulder and eye, though you couldn't see his right arm due to the clothes he wears covering it up, his only visible eye was coal black, he had a wrinkled face with an x-shaped scar on his chin.

Danzo is a man who does what he believes is best for konoha. He is a man who thrives best in the shadows. He is the hidden blade in the sleeve. He is the odorless, colorless poison in the sake. He is a man who tries his damness to hold every card in the deck, aces included, to get what he wants, how he wants it. When he had heard about a four year old boy able to take down four enemy jonin...BY HIMSELF! He jumped at the chance to meet him and manipulate him into joining his ROOT ANBU. Now danzo prides himself on his cautiousness and his ability to control his emotions no matter what. Though, even with all his training and experience, he was not prepared when the boy suddenly answers his door, looks at him, and says, "Ahhh...just the man I was expecting." And motioning for him to come in.

"You...were...expecting me?" Danzo asked with no small amount of uncertainty and incredulousness.

"Yup! Why wouldn't I want to meet the founder of ROOT?" Minato asks with a vicious smirk on his face.

Danzo flickered behind the boy, his cane revealed to be a hidden sword, ready to kill him. He never landed the blow, for he now finds himself on his knees having trouble breathing.

His sword all but forgotten laying a few feet away from him.

Fear.

All Danzo felt was fear. Pure. Unadulterated. Raw. Primal. Fear. He managed to look up, only for his blood to chill at what he was witnessing.

Minato is staring at him over his shoulder with a cold, lazy glare. His normally blue eyes now a sulphuric yellow. The air is thick with his sakki, killer intent, making it hard to breathe.

The effects of minato's sakki were different from the normal effects. The normal effects of ki brought out the victims fear, paralyzed them, showed them their death, and made it difficult to breathe. These effects differed with the amount of ki released, sometimes only one happened, sometimes all of them happened, but if there's enough ki the victim can even die. Minatos on the other hand, did all of this times a shit load. When he brought out your fear it was like he increased it by 1,000. It made you feel as though you were being watched. It made you paranoid. When it paralyzed you it wasn't like freezing up, no, it was like snakes, or tree roots, wrapped around you, constricting you, holding you in place, but not killing you. When it showed you your death it you didn't just see it, you felt it. Every stab, every burn, slice, punCH, KICK, TWIST, CRACK! You felt it all, repeatedly. What made the repetitive viewing of his death all the more scary was who exactly he saw doing it, his dead wife, the love of his life, the reason he is so cold, killing him over and over, all with the same yellow eyes Minato has. When it made breathing difficult, it didn't take your breath away, no, it kept it inside of you making sure you don't release it, none of this kills you, it doesn't even mentally break you, but that's what makes it even scarier.

Danzo knew, with just this killer intent alone, he could never hold a candle to minato's strength, the strength of this mysterious orphan, an orphan he thought he could control, this earned minato his fear but also his respect.

Danzo is a man who thrives on others' fear, he exploits it. He'll also get rid of it and every other emotion, just like he did his ROOT ANBU. Danzo also prides himself on never showing emotion, especially one like fear. So for someone to be able to instill such primal fear into someone like him then obviously they have his respect. Also it hurt his pride knowing a '4 year old' is scaring him.

Minato, seeing danzo in this state, smirks and chuckles, "Good now that I have your attention I can tell you why I've been expecting you." He says not letting up on his ki but increasing it, making it 10 times worse.

"You danzo, with your ROOT, have a very good spy network. Something like that would be most beneficial for me. You danzo, unlike your friend hiruzen, who I currently have under my control, are more useful to me. I will be providing you with soldiers to spread out and gather any useful information, information that will be reported immediately. Understand?" Minato says with a tone full of authority.

Danzo looks up and into Minato's eyes and nods. Minato's eyes turn back to their shining ocean blue and he smiles cheerfully, "Good!" Minato chirped.

Danzo breathed a sigh of relief when the pressure disappeared.

"What would you like me to do then...minato-sama?" He asks bitterly, feeling a little sour that he was brought to his knees by a '4 year old' of all people.

"Virgil-sama." Corrected minato in a matter-of-fact tone.

"What?" Danzo asks in confusion.

"My real name is Virgil, but you can call me Virgil in private and minato around anybody else that isn't a ROOT. As for what I want you to do, I want you to do whatever you were already doing before and continue but I want to know what you are doing currently, what you've already done, and what you are going to do in the future, with monthly reports from either you or your ROOT about any useful information."

Danzo was inwardly happy, though he didn't show it, that he could continue to do what he is doing and what he will do. His mood was still a bit sour that he had to report to someone.

"Very well, is that all?" He asked.

Minatos form exploded into a massive maelstrom of what almost looked like white ash, but was actually small bits of ash colored tree bark, which then began swirling around the room obscuring danzo's vision then the tree bark began to compress in on itself and taking the shape of an adult man. This process lasted about 5 seconds before everything began to calm down showing Virgil in his human form.

Danzo was speechless, he just watched a kid turn into a grown man with little to no chakra used. His chakra signature is completely different from minato's. He had never seen anything like this before in his life!

"In this form, danzo-kun, I only go by Virgil. Understand?" Virgil asked

Danzo nodded but asked, "kun?" Confused by the use of that particular suffix..

"Yes, Danzo-kun, I am the oldest being in this realm. Everything is younger than me." Virgil said as he put emphasis on 'Everything', before retaking his minato form.

"Now Danzo-kun go and inform your ROOT on who I am, to you and to them. Every month on the 15th you will report to me any useful information. Now, off with you, oh, and don't forget your sword cane thingy on your way out, I just tidied up." Minato said with authority.

Danzo bowed and left. He, surprisingly, was quite happy with this deal. He knew now he couldn't kill Minato, he was too strong, and danzo got more good out of this deal than bad. Though he could do without the reports.

'Paperwork!' He inwardly shouted in disgust. But, surprisingly, he didn't care that much about reporting to someone. Maybe it was because Virgil is truly a god and will reward him for his service. Immortality doesn't sound too bad, and maybe being young again, he could do without all of the hip pains, thank you very much!

With Minato

Now that danzo was gone minato can finally go to bed, though there is one flaw with taking the form of a 4 year old and that being,

"oops, almost forgot to turn the hallway light on."

The dark was scary.

(Timeskip 1 1/2 years)

This past year and a half has been fun for Virgil. Being someone else, someone seemingly weak, was quite fun. He had 'accidentally' stumbled into the woman's side of the hotspring. Now that was, what a certain super pervert would call, paradise. All he did was put his feet together, hands grip his towel, head angled down while looking up, and said timidly, "u-u-um...i think I chose the wrong room." There was long silence before a shout of 'kawaii!' Rang out.

BOOM!

Boob heaven.

He also found his favorite food, RAMEN!!!! Everything about it is just so good. The broth. The noodles. The spices. The fishcakes. All of it. *dreamy sigh* why hadn't he tried this sooner!? The ramen makers are also really kind too. Mio and teuchi ichiraku are both really kind.

He also met the current jinchuriki, Mito Uzumaki. Now that was a fun encounter.

(Flashback 6 months ago)

Minato has been feeling one of his grandchildren in the village for a year now. He didn't go to it immediately because he was...umm...uhh...scouting and training, yup, totally not being lazy and enjoying ramen hehe. *nervous cough* Anyway, he finally decided to go and check it out.

He made his way to the senju compound where mito was and silently made his way inside. He saw Mito calmly sitting in a chair drinking tea. He made his way over and sat in the chair adjacent and poured himself a cup of tea and drank as well. He wasn't too worried about poisons, it's not like they could affect him at all.

He waited patiently for her to talk first, already well aware she knew he was in here due to the seal he purposely triggered on the windowsill. A few minutes passed before she spoke, "To what do I owe this pleasure, lord Virgil?" She spoke respectfully and softly, no doubt knowing who he is due to kurama.

She opened her eyes to see the last remnants of wood like ash forming Virgil's human form, and his yellow eyes looking at her curiously.

"I just came to check up on my grandson and to explain a few things." He spoke smoothly in a silk like voice, making a tiny almost unnoticeable blush form on her face, he, of course, noticed but didn't say anything.

He went on to explain everything he could and made her swear to never tell anyone about him, knowing uzumakis never go back on their word. And it was true, she even went as far as applying a seal on herself that would kill her instantly, erasing all knowledge she had of him, should she mention him.

Yikes!

Anyway, he discussed many things with her, things about kushina, fuinjutsu, their abilities, things like that. She also asked him if he could absorb the 1st and 2nd hokages bodies so no one could study them, Virgil knew If he did it immediately he could ruin some pretty useful plans. And he told her as such. Though he did say he could do it in the future, maybe after the war. She was saddened but agreed nonetheless. He assured her that all would be okay and kept her some company for a few more hours.

During that time he wanted to give her a gift but he didn't know how, he thought for a bit when all of a sudden an idea came to mind. He used a little bit of his power and probed her mind a bit, not so much that it would destroy her mind but enough that it'll slip through her mental barriers unnoticed. He poked around for a bit before finding what she really desired.

He stood up after leaving her mind and created three clones. The first clone took the appearance of a brown haired man in red samurai armor, a silly grin, a loving look in his brown eyes, and 6'2 in height, her husband. The 2nd clone took the appearance of a man in a black kimono with a white sash around his waist, with short, spiky red hair, deep amethyst eyes with a loving look in them, a small smile, and 5'11 in height, her father. The last clone took the appearance of a young woman in a white sundress, a kind, loving smile, silky, long red hair, deep sky blue eyes, and 5'4 in height, her mother.

Mito stared at the clones in shock, before going angry. She was about to lash out at Virgil, back pains be damned!, when she heard him say, "They're real. I had my clones take their appearance before placing their souls in them. While I was placing their souls in the bodies I explained the situation as best I could." Before looking at him in shock. He smiled almost...grandfatherly? Before motioning to the clones to come over.

Hashirama moved first, bolting over to his wife and engulfing her in a loving embrace and showering her in many kisses. After setting her down her father, seito uzumaki, and mother, sakiri uzumaki, came next pulling her into a tearful group hug.

Virgil gave them some time to say final 'goodbyes' and 'I love yous' before hashirama and seito made their way over to him, they didn't say anything, they just stuck their fists out. He silently put his fists against theirs and was quite surprised with the results.

He gained the memories of both of them. Hashirama's memories provided him with a wealth of the humans jutsu theory and an arsenal of jutsu themselves, taijutsu, genjutsu, kenjutsu, ninjutsu, senjutsu all of it, most of it he already knew though.

Seitos memories on the other hand were even more surprising. How did Seito manage to hide all of this? His memories showed powerful seal arts no one not even he knew, they showed powerful sword styles, and creative ways to use chakra. His memories were amazing and very informative. He couldn't believe someone was able to hide something from him, he'll have to deal with that soon.

When he regained his bearings he saw them smiling at him before dissolving into light particles and disappearing.

When he looked at mito she was smiling at him. He smiled softly before walking up to her and hugged her. She hugged him back and started to cry. She let go and stepped away and asked, "why? Why would you do this for me?" He looked at her for a moment before responding, "I don't know. Maybe I got a soft spot for redheads. Or maybe I don't like seeing my family sad. Who knows?" She shakes her head and smiles.

"Well would you like to speak to the kyuubi?" She asks Virgil, who nods.

"Eh, why not." He says, shrugging his shoulders.

He looks mito in her eyes before being pulled into her mindscape.

(Mindscape)

The first thing he sees once he opens his eyes is a large clearing with no signs of life. He walks a little further before coming across trees with glowing fruit, probably the representation of her memories, and a grassy clearing with kurama chained to the ground.

He walks up to Kurama who opens his eyes and stares at Virgil silently.

Virgil slowly approached Kurama and laid his hand on his snout before rubbing it softly.

"You've gotten so big kurama-kun." He said in a grandfather-like tone.

"And you look like a human old man." Boomed kurama.

"It would appear so." He chuckles good-naturedly.

"Kurama, do you know what artificial means?" He asks suddenly.

"Something made by humans as opposed to naturally, why old man?" Kurama asks, confused.

He smiles at kurama's answer, "Correct kurama, and while I was in the in-between a little while ago, I discovered that you and the other bijuu were made artificially. You see when the scientists were experimenting on me, they wanted to create an infinite energy source that would, coincidentally, power everything up forever." He said smiling at his little joke at the end. He continues, "they found a way to combine solar energy(actual sun beams not solar generated electricity), electricity, nuclear energy, and various other sources of energy, to create the perfect infinite energy. But they thought ahead, even though my body, in its constant state of evolution and adaptation, would be able to assimilate it fine, there still needed to be a way to control it." He said before sighing and taking a deep breath to begin again. "So they created a control chip with a chip being a very tiny computer, you could say, that had a control system to regulate the flow of the infinite energy in my body." He explained to Kurama, upon seeing his questioning look.

"To help with the control of my energy. What they didn't take into account, was that my body would assimilate the chip and basically give me full control over the energy. I took that very same concept with the chip and created the juubi chip. Hagoromo unknowingly created the bijuu chip(which also came with their own personalities thus creating a.i's, or artificial intelligence) after splitting up the power of the juubi chip. He also created a small problem." At Kurama's concerned look, he explained a little quicker.

"Nothing too serious, just that by doing that he basically started killing you slowly, I, however, came up with a solution that would fix that. When the time comes for you to combine so I can have my power back, I'll take the power you were made from and create a mindless duplicate of the bijuu chips to turn into the juubi chip thus allowing you all to grow your own power and give me back mine." He finished cheerfully, as if he hadn't told his grandson he was going to die because of his father's actions.

Kurama shook his head in amusement, his grandfather is strange, 'indeed' he heard from his head, just remembering he had a connection with the others so they more than likely heard what he said.

"Well, my grandchildren, I hope you all remember your parts for my plan to begin in one year. Understand, all of you?" He heard them all, in unison, say 'yes sir!' He nodded before saying goodbye and leaving mitos mindscape

(Real world)

In the real world only a second passed. He nodded thankfully at mito, who smiled.

"Thanks kid and remember your part. Anyway, I must be off." He says before leaving out the window he entered through.

Mito smiled before laying down and getting ready for bed. Maybe she should go and get some ramen tomorrow? Yeah, that sounds good. She closed her eyes started snoozing happily.

(Flashback end)

He had visited mito quite a few times over the past six months to compare seal theories and techniques or just to keep eachother company. He had also learned quite a lot from danzo, information wise, that is. Danzo had a lot of juicy information that would be useful in the future. But enough about that, he has ramen to eat.

RAMEN!!!

(Timeskip six months later)

Today is the day.

Today is the day Kushina comes to konoha. Today is the day he can begin his plans. He needs to get ready because he also starts the academy today.

Minato starts by making his bed and getting his clothes ready, after that he starts the shower and waits for the water to warm up, while he's waiting he begins to brush his teeth, after that he gets in the shower, and to save time he pees in the shower...it's not like anybody can see so don't judge him.

After the shower he finds himself in front of his full body mirror wearing his new clothes, "I look good." His new clothes consist of a sea foam green colored hoodie with three darker green lines on each sleeve, black shinobi pants with black shinobi sandals. After checking himself out he sets off for the academy.

(Little while later at the academy)

Mimato' s currently sitting in class waiting for his name to be called for introductions. So far the only people of importance who have been called were choza akamichi, tsume inuzuka, shibi aburame, hiashi hyuga, and hitomi hyuga.

He was literally about to blow up everything just waiting for his turn, that is, until he felt it.

A very strange chakra signature has just entered the academy. It felt kind of shy but also fierce and fiery. It felt nice.

Pretty soon the classroom door opened and in walked a cute redheaded girl with ocean blue eyes and a cute round face. Even though she was a kid, Minato still felt a small blush on his face.

The teacher introduced her as a transfer student and the class, save for minato and the future clan heads, immediately started making fun of her red hair.

He didn't know why he was angry or why he wanted to shout at them when he was interrupted by a shout of, "I'm going to become the first female hokage, dattebane!" Which made the class, save the ones mentioned earlier, begin laughing at her harder.

After this the class finished introducing themselves and the teacher gave them the rest of the day to get to know each other.

Some bullies took this time to go and pick on her. They strode up to her and cornered her before they started saying, "how is a damn tomato like you going to become hokage if no one likes you?" Before laughing with his friends who began calling her things like "tomato" or "fat face" and things of the sort.

One of the kids tried to touch her hair which prompted her to start beating them up and then proclaiming she didn't like tomatoes either.

Minato chuckled out loud at that which made her turn to him and yell, "what's so funny dattebane!?" He looked at her before giving her a closed eye smile and saying, "I love tomatoes." With emphasis on love.

Kushina blushed and tried to sputter out a retort which made him chuckle again, so she just settled for a head turn unaware she was smiling with a small blush on her cheeks.

A little later that day she got into a confrontation with one of the bullies' older brother which prompted another patented kushina beat down. The older brother, who is a genin, called her an outsider and said she could never become hokage and then walked off.

She spots Minato in the trees before yelling, "You didn't help me because I'm an outsider, huh!?" A little hurt that the guy who complimented her didn't help.

"I didn't help because I knew you were strong enough to take on that weakling on your own, you're strong after all." He said sincerely.

Kushina blushed again and looked down at her feet, she never was good with praises.

"Would you like me to walk you to the Senju compound?" He asks calmly.

Her head snapped up and she yelled, "how did you know that's where I live?!" Making Minato raise an eyebrow.

"Well you are an uzumaki so I would assume you would want to be with someone close to you, say mito-sama for example." He says calmly.

"You know aunt mito?" She asks surprised.

"I have tea with her every week and have been doing so for a year, anyway let's go." He says before jumping down from his branch and walking beside her.

They made it to the senju compound in no time. When they arrive they see a smiling mito on the porch apparently expecting them.

"Hello kushina-chan, minato-kun how are you both?" She greets warmly.

"Good." They replied in unison.

She smiled and motioned for them to come inside.

(Timeskip 4 years later)

Everything had been relatively the same for Minato and kushina. The academy has been "training them into the ground" because it was war time. Some of Minato's cruel and cold but warm and kind personality rubbed off on Kushina, ensuring any would-be bullies would leave her alone. Her and Minato became friends though she wanted something more, not that she would tell him that, yet anyway. She became the new jinchuriki of the kyuubi and witnessed mito die, afterwards minato comforted her. But none of that is important right now, today they are graduating and going to become ninjas. Though Minato also said he was invited into ANBU after impressing the commander. That dampened her mood a bit.

A little after the exams the teams were being called.

Team 1 (not important) Team 2 (not important) Team 3 (not important)

And so on and so forth, now we get to the actually important teams.

"And the rookie of the year, Minato Namikaze, apprenticed to Jiraiya of the sannin." The teacher said with a warm smile.

"And finally the top kunoichi of the year, kushina uzumaki, apprenticed to tsunade senju of the sannin." Also said with a warm smile.

Pretty soon both tsunade and jiraiya came and picked them up, before heading different directions.

(With jiraiya and minato)

Both minato and jiraiya are sitting in a random training ground relaxing when jiraiya says,

"Well gaki, how about we introduce ourselves. I'll go first since I'm the sensei. My name's jiraiya no surname, I love my recently deceased wife, researching *giggle, writing, my team, sake and red bean soup, I dislike traitors, and my dream for the future is to bring peace to the elemental nations. Your turn, kid." He motioned for Minato to introduce himself.

"My name is Minato Namikaze. I like Kushina, reading, training, learning, inventing, fighting and RAMEN!!! *clears throat* sorry, I dislike traitors and scientists, my dream for the future is to be free." Minato finishes with a determined nod.

"Heh...alright then kid let's begin." Jiraiya says before standing up and taking a taijutsu stance.

Minato smirks before saying, "get ready jiraiya-sensei." Before charging.

(With tsunade and kushina)

Both of the women find themselves at a random training ground and start introductions.

"My name is Tsunade Senju, I like my team, drinking, gambling, dango, medical ninjutsu, and my daughter figure shizune, I dislike blood and fangirls. My dreams for the future are to have a happy life for once. Your turn kushina." She said and waited for Kushina to start.

"Well, my name is kushina uzumaki, I like minato, training and RAMEN 'TTEBANE!! *clears throat* Sorry, I dislike bullies, waiting, and tomatoes. My dreams for the future are to be the first female hokage and start a family." She mumbled towards the end.

"Alright kid, let's start training." Tsunade says seriously.

"Alright!" Shouts kushina before charging.

(Timeskip 2 years)

The last 2 years have been quite eventful. First, he fixed kushina's seal which now allows her to talk to kurama though she only knows him as kyuubi. Second, he joined ANBU about two months into his apprenticeship with jiraiya, at both jirayas and kushina's insistence. Third, he became an ANBU captain at eleven, fourth, he began crafting a new sword for Kushina, though it isn't complete yet. And the fifth started a little earlier today.

(Flashback)

Kushina got back from a boring mission and came home searching for Minato, only to find the compound empty.

'Probably on a mission or something-' her thoughts were interrupted by what sounded like footsteps, she called out, "minato? Minato, is that you?" When no reply came she grew scared, she started backing up only to bump into something. As he turned around to find a man, kumo shinobi to be exact, grinning at her, before she ran away shouting, "someone help me!" Only to be knocked out and tied up. They began escorting her sneakily out of the village. What the shinobi didn't know was that Kushina was awake and pulling out pieces of hair, leaving a trail hoping someone came for her.

"Minato, please save me." She says in her head.

(Meanwhile with minato)

Minato just got back from an ANBU mission and reported to the hokage. Right now he is currently dressed in the clothes he had in the academy, only bigger, and is searching for kushina. He went home only to find what looked to be signs of a struggle and a trail of red hair, which he immediately began to follow.

He found Kushina, tied up, being "escorted" out of the village by kumo shinobi. He quietly sneaks up behind the third one and knocks him out before pulling his body into the bushes, he takes the second one out by kicking him into a tree head-first, and knocks the last one out by slamming his knee into the man's head. He scooped up Kushina in a bridal carry while simultaneously cutting the rope binding her hands.

"You alright kushina?" Minato asks smoothly.

"Yes, but how did you find me?" She asked shyly.

"I just followed the trail of your beautiful red hair." He said causing her to blush, he's always said he liked her hair but never called it beautiful.

"Why did you save me? I'm just an outsider." She says bitterly, only to receive a flick to the nose.

"Why wouldn't I save the girl I love?" He asks in an almost rhetorical fashion.

Her eyes widen before they start to water and her face breaks out into a blushing teary eyed grin before saying, "I love you too." And kissing him, a kiss he returned.

"Let's go report this to the old man." He said before shunshining there.

(Flashback end)

(Later at home)

Minato and Kushina have just finished cleaning up the compound and are cuddling on the sofa.

"It's been an interesting 2 years hasn't it kushina?" Minato asked.

"It has, minato." She said quietly.

They both sat in a comfortable silence before drifting off to sleep.

(Next morning)

"HAHAHAHAHA!!! Pay up jiraiya!/tsunade! I told you they would get together this year/they would get together after a traumatic event." They said at the same time.

"Actually since you both lose I get that money." Virgil said before he snatched it making both the sannin eyes widen comically.

Tsunade then narrowed her eyes and growled out, "give me back my money minato." While raising her fist menacingly.

"Nope, I'm going to use this money to take kushi-chan on a ramen date." He said smugly, not intimidated in the slightest.

Kushina got hearts in her eyes before giving minato a big kiss on the cheek, with minato grinning a goofy grin and a blush on his cheeks.

Tsunade was shocked. Why was he still grinning? He should be cowering in fear at the sight of her feminine fury! And she asked him as much, to which Kushina giggled.

"I'm just not afraid of women. Now, if you'll excuse me I got a date to get ready for." He said cheerfully, walking past a stunned tsunade and an awed jiraiya.

(Timeskip 3 years later)

Many things have happened in the past three years. Minato requested Kushina for ANBU the day after her attempted kidnapping and she got accepted. He finished his girlfriend's sword and is planning on telling her the truth about himself later, as it was her birthday today. But before he does any of that the young 15 year old ANBU captain must turn in his report for completing his mission.

"Report wolf!" Commanded the hokage as he looked at the kneeling ANBU captain.

"Hai, hokage-sama,'' he says before standing and begins his report, ''The mission was a success, I managed to dispose of any would-be attackers that tried to bring harm to my charge. After he was delivered he told me he was impressed and that he would be sending requests for all ranks of missions from now on." Wolf says in a drone-like voice.

"Good wolf you are dismissed." The hokage says

"Hai." Wolf says before disappearing.

(Later at minato's apartment)

Minato walked into his apartment dressed in civilian clothes. He couldn't hear kushina at all, as he was about to call out he suddenly turns around and catches kushina and brings her into a fierce kiss. They broke apart giggling and chuckling.

"I've 2 things for you, one, is to tell you something very important and two, is a gift. I'll give you the gift first." He said, handing her a storage scroll.

She sets the storage scroll on the table and unsealed the contents within, releasing a plume of smoke and a metallic thud. When the smoke cleared Kushina felt a little disappointed, because laying in front of her was a seemingly normal looking katana. A sharp silver blade with a wooden hilt, no guard.

Minato laughed a little at her expression before saying, "looks can be deceiving kushi-chan, this sword is a zanpakuto and a very powerful one at that. I created it with the use of your soul, life force and the spiritual side of your chakra, or reishi. Right now it is in its sealed state, for the shikai release the spirit inside will test your resolve, for the bankai state the spirit will test your determination."

"The spirit's name is "..." She is very strict and will only let you wield her if she herself finds you worthy." He said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"What was the name of the blade?" She asked, his voice cut out as said the name.

"Hmm...so you can't hear or read her name yet, not unexpected, you haven't proven yourself yet. Go ahead, channel your chakra into the blade." He surmised before urging her.

She nodded, determined to prove herself worthy, and began channeling her chakra in the hilt of the blade. At first nothing happened but then she heard something, "What do you fight for?" It must be the way she can prove herself, so she answered truthfully, "I fight for myself, i fight for my family, I fight for my future, but most of all I fight for my precious people, including my baka of a future husband." Kushina spoke with such conviction it shocked the zanpakuto spirit, she heard a giggle in the back of her mind and the words, "you are worthy, wielder." Before she stopped channeling her chakra and said instinctively what came to her mind next.

"Awaken, Benihime!" She shouted before a blinding light overcame the room. The light lingered for a few seconds before disappearing leaving kushina with two noticeable differences, no longer was she in her civilian clothes consisting of a big white shirt and a pair of black booty shorts, but she was now in a crimson kimono with a black sash tied around her waist, the other change was her zanpakuto which now looked like a sleek, medium-sized sword. The hilt's grip, which has a gentle black-decorative wrapping, bends forward at the end, with a pommel shaped overlap three times and a crimson tassel dangling from its base. Instead of a tsuba, there is a U-shape guard covering three inches of blade, with a flower petal design. At the base of the guard is a red strand of...hair? wrapped thrice around the hilt, with a three-loop bow on the back side and a folded paper decoration on the front side. The blade's hamon is straight, colored black with a silver edge and is somewhat thicker than the normal sword. It remains straight and slim with a somewhat short size, with the tip ending in a slanted razor-like edge instead of tapering to a point. And on both sides of the blade are the blood red kanji for benihime.

Minato whistled, causing her to blush, before saying, "damn you look sexy, I guess we got another thing to train you in. But before that, back to what I wanted to tell you earlier. Release your shikai please." He told her before sitting down, Kushina deactivated her shikai and sat down with him.

He told her literally everything and left nothing out. He told her who he really was and showed her his true form, how he's related to the bijuu, the creation of chakra, the first dojutsu, his mates, the future, the realms, all of it. By the end of it he was nervously waiting for a response from his blank-faced girlfriend, hoping beyond hope that she would accept him (even though he has future vision he avoided watching all of this so as to make it fun) and not leave him, he had truly come to love her.

What he didn't know was that she was sensing his emotions and was brimming with joy at the amount of love he has for her. After a few moments of silence she launched herself at him giving him a fierce kiss and a strong hug.

He released a breath he didn't know he was holding and kissed her back.

"Thank you." They both said in unison, both for different reasons. For Kushina, it was him finally opening up to her. She always knew he was hiding something. For Minato, it was the fact that she accepted him and didn't leave him.