[Minato Namikaze[Near the End of the Fourth Year]

Me and Choza are currently helping food shelters and orphanages. Having inhumanly fast guys does help a lot. Now that more than a year has passed, I do understand that I overreacted...a lot during the Inoichi situation. It has been somewhat difficult to come to terms with but what I can infer from the situation is that I have ...major abandonment issues and they are unlikely to go away as I don't really want to let go of my obsession with my parents and my friends. My previous life has left a major impact on me... Funny how the world works. I became so much invested in this world to forget the one where I was a useless nobody but that past is half the reason of everything I am.

Granny Mito has been a great help and I genuinely consider her to be my Grandma after spending so much time with her. She has helped a lot with the issues I was ignoring till now as well. Shinobi don't really go to therapists as that destroys their delusional view of the world and that's something no shinobi wants.

Granny knew that and helped with one of the issues I didn't even know I could have. My nihilism was pretty much coupled with the fact that I was trying to perceive the world as a anime or something. That was another reason I broke down in the midst of that Fiasco. Honestly I couldn't have done fuck about it before it was too late had Granny not spotted the problem in one of our strategy sessions but that's a talk for another time. Seeing that my actions had negative consequences had pretty much shaken me. I was trying to view the world as a game/anime to spare myself from the truth that people can die...just like my parents.

That was what I was...am afraid of. If I thought of people as mob characters, it would help me ignore the fact that they were people too. It was kinda my subconscious doing that. I still can't wrap my head around that fact. It's just... overwhelming. The fact that I was trying to adopt the Gamer mentality by myself terrifies the fuck out of me.

I have read ...about Gamers and I know that there are some in the vast multiverse somewhere but Gamers are beings with non existent morality. Even the better ones are comparable to some of the worst Shinobi due to them seeing people as 'characters'.

Thankfully I avoided going into that rabbit hole. I hope-

"One grilled chicken please" "Coming...And here's your grill chicken sir"

Phew... Superhuman speed to the win. I like helping in these food shelters. It reminds me that training and becoming strong isn't all there is to the world. It reminds me that selflessness exists even in this cruel and dark world. I am not...a pessimist but I kinda believe that Naruto's fanatic optimism was the result of him not actually reading anything about wars and stuff... I am still not the ninja jesus that OG!Naruto would have been but It feels good to know that I am not going to become that one guy who only cares about his friends and himself.

After the fiasco with Inoichi, I started helping out food shelters and orphanages. Toning down on the Taijutsu got me enough time to help people in need. I toned down the pranks on the corrupt people a bit and me and Kushina started a pranking war between our friends...Fun times...

I am only free at the weekends but helping crippled people and orphans is spiritually healing. Granny also helped me realise that I don't really have a life out of training and hanging out with my friends sometimes. That was not a fun discussion at all even if she helped me realise that I was going on a self destructive path.

Honestly, 4 years of extensive training in my childhood and it's a godamnned miracle that I am not a sociopath. Even being a reincarnated young adult (?) could only help me so much. I started to actually chill out this year. Nowadays I don't really do pranks for stress relief. Instead they help me chill out.

One of the things I finally discovered about me is that I am a glutton AND a foodie... Yes, those two are different things. Choza is a glutton but NOT a foodie as he will eat almost anything if it's taste is ok. Foodies like to sample different kinds of foods and I love that. This world has so many types of food I have never tried. It's simply amazing.

"One miso soup here please, Big brother Minato!" "Coming!!"

And I instantly (from their perspective) get to the table of my favourite kids. Superhuman speed for the win. Hitoshi was the one who called me. These guys basically adopted me as their big brother due to me frequently visiting them all with toys and food. Honestly, I like having these kids smile. It puts a smile on my face as well.

Hitoshi had stars in his eyes at my speed(I like to show off on front of the kids). "I will become a powerful shinobi like you Big brother Minato!" says Hitoshi with a gaze that would be suitable on Natsu Dragneel.

I pat him on the head and say," Of course you would, you are the brother of the great Minato Namikaze, aren't you?" He and the other kids giggle after seeing the ridiculous pose. Jojo poses are a lot less dramatic IRL.

I go to serve other people after chatting a little with the kids. The kids have a little rose tinted view of the profession with their hero worship of me. Honestly I give it 2 years before anyone applying for the academy from the kids will be kicked out. I don't want to try and crush their dreams here as children are stubborn and most of them will try anyway.

Being kicked out from the academy will give them the satisfaction of at least having tried. There's no way any one of them passes with the academy curriculum being as tough as it is. Even most ninja in the genin corps are kids of ninjas. Civilian born ninja don't survive the academy without being actual geniuses.

The sounds of laughter from the kids and the general happiness in the area never fails to bring a smile on my face. The rest of the day passes quickly and suddenly it's time for my bi-monthly 'training session'(read: beatdown) at the hands of Granny.


I wipe the blood flowing from my mouth by licking and rush Granny immediately after stopping the skiddding.

I try to punch her in the abdomen with my right hand but it gets intercepted and is bent backwards. Ouch... But that wasn't the plan. I quickly roll the storage tag with the explosive tags from the sleeve of my hand. Granny spots it immediately and tries to gain distance but I have prepared for that this time. I jump immediately using my right hand as a support which is...painful to say the least but that provides me the opportunity to get the behind her. As I am about to land behind her, she round kicks me in the bloody chest.

It is only because of my experience in dealing with these forceful attacks that I am not pushed back. Granny gets an opening to move back but this is the moment I was waiting for. "Rasengan"

I use my signature Jutsu with my right hand grinning widely. Granny tries to back away quickly but my right hand is too close to her. I suddenly see her grin and I suddenly have a bad feeling...a very bad feeling.

She fucking kicks the Rasengan! I know this will break at least two bones in her feet but she..SHIT!!

I narrowly dodge the punch aimed at my face but-

"Ugh..." I get punched HARD in the chest. All the air is knocked out of me and I have fallen down...But this is my last chance. I lunge at her pushing away the momentary pain. She doesn't even look surprised and tries to punch me again but this...this will definitely surprise her. I grin imperceptively and her eyes widen as I release my explosive tags. As the tags blast in my vicinity, my final thoughts are of finally obtaining a fucking victory.


A/N: I am not able to churn out longer chapters and I don't know why... really sorry for that. The next chapter will continue on from Minato's POV and we will get Mito's POV aftter that. I tried to flesh out Minato's character a little in this chapter. Hope you all like it. I have tried to provide a decent reasoning for Minato's outburst in the midst of Inoichi fiasco. Also do note that I will expand upon the two major incidents that happened to Minato from Mito's POV. It will be easier to write for me and you all will get to see the fleshing out of Minato's character a little. The next chapter will focus more on the fuinjutsu aspect and Minato's progress while this one pretty much focused on Minato's character.

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