Those Who Endure.
(Honorfics will be used, Jutsu will be used in their english names.)
Minato Namikaze was many things.
A prodigy with no equal, the most powerful shinobi to ever walk the land, the greatest user of Space-Time Ninjutsu. What was chief among them was that Minato was inventive, although most of his arsenal wasn't originally his, save for one jutsu, he improved them to the point he practically was their greatest user.
Currently his greatest project, one that he started a few months ago, was his main priority. It would cement as the greatest Hokage to have ever lived when he got elected to be such. This very experiment, and the repercussions it could have, can change the whole world!
"Okay," Minato groaned out as he stood up and dusted knees off. "Kushina-Hime's knowledge in writing seals really helped me out here."
He stood motionless, taking a deep breath, "Okay now time to add some Sage Mode."
He claps his hands together, staying perfectly still as he felt natural energy flow into him. His eyelids start to gain an orange pigment around them, and with it his senses exploded. Every small animal, every bee, snake, and insect could be felt by him. He was about to achieve it fully, but that's when his concentration got broken.
"Minato!" He heard a woman call out to him, "Minato are you out here?!"
His concentration broken, the orange fades away from his eyes. He sighs while opening them up. Grimacing as he thought about the failure. Even with Ma and Pa giving him pointers, he still gathered natural energy too slow to be effective in an ongoing fight. If he had preparation time, it could be used, but his entire way of fighting would be compromised for sitting in position too long.
He heard the woman calling out to him, and he answers her, "I'm over here Kushina!"
Kushina, a beautiful, fair skinned woman made her way out of some brush. She wore a spring dress with a green overall that went down the skirt. Her violet eyes shined with mirth and warmth, and her long flowing red hair swayed in the winds. She had sandals on her feet, which explained the small little cuts she got some bristle bushes on the forest floor.
In the clearing, which was surrounded by kanji writing and seals, she whistles.
"Wow, this is amazing," She commented while looking around. "Honey, have you been working on this all day?"
"Yes, let me present to you the end goal of all my work on The Second Hokage's Flying Thunder God Jutsu! What you are standing is the very first, of many, Space-Time Gates!" Minato declared while opening his arms wide out.
Kushina purses her lips in amusement, a smile gracing her lips, "So what exactly is it?"
"Think of it like a hub," Minato began to explain as he moved around to show her. "Every single kunai I placed around Konoha, every one of them all linked back to here and vice versa."
Kushina snaps her finger in realization, "Like a rail to a train station hub?"
"Close, but not exactly. You see the end goal is to apply chakra to one of these hubs and be transported to a kunai where your link your chakra! I've created a way to transport not just cargo around the village, but also a means of instant defense!" Minato stated excitedly while walking around.
He then tells the implications, "Imagine you're near the west gate but need to get to the east gate because the entire enemy army is there? You simply need everyone to step onto a hub, activate their chakra, and then bam! They're all there, ready to fight."
"Holy crap that's amazing," Kushina beamed as she looked around. "But I don't think an entire army could fit here."
He rubs his blonde hair, smiling, "Well that's because this entire hub is meant for a small group."
"Oh, you plan to make them bigger?" Kushina reasoned while rubbing her chin and nodding. "Yep, that makes sense I suppose."
He smiled, walking over to her, she couldn't protest and wouldn't. Bringing her into a very passionate kiss, they stood there for a moment. Letting themselves fall into the moment. However, perhaps they let themselves fall into the passion a little too much as Kushina deepens the kiss. Minato purrs softly before breaking the kiss and going for her neck.
Both of them pulling on each other, and then falling to the ground!
Meanwhile in an office, on the other side of Konoha. An elderly man was sitting next to his wife as he saw fire in his fireplace go out. He grimaced, looking over at his official clothing, and looked toward his wife.
"Is everything okay, dear?" She asked him while knitting a scarf.
"I don't know, dear. For some strange reason, I feel like I'm not retiring any time soon." He said while rubbing his chin.
She scoffs at his words lightly, "Please dear, in a few days Minato will be getting placed as Hokage Elect. You're officially going to be in your golden years."
"I feel like that young man has made a major error in something. I just can't press my finger on these feelings," He grumbled while biting his lip. "It's probably nothing."
"Is it the fact that him, and Kushina have been going at it anyplace they get privacy?" She questioned while grabbing some new yard.
He laughs while blushing, "Reminds me of when we were younger."
"You know Hiruzen, if you massage me…" she hangs in the air with a sly smirk.
Hiruzen laughs while rubbing the back of his balding head, "And throw out my back again?"
"Heh," she chuckled as she began knitting. "I guess random bouts of lovemaking is a young person's game."
"Speaking of that," Hiruzen thought for a moment. "My chair felt a little sticky the other day, I was just gone from the office for a few minutes."
"And you're sure that Minato was alone?" His wife inquired with smirk.
He thought about what she had said. Then blushed red before getting up, he needed to go shower. Because the moment was stuck in his head that he swore that the only other person in the room was a female ANBU. Then he remembered that he gave Nezumi the night off. His wife merely chuckled while she heard him yell in the background.
"You nasty, ass brats why couldn't you just wait! The chair was yours next week, Minato!"
Kushina and Minato began to adjust themselves on the ground. She rested her head on his bare chest. The duo had been laying like this for the better part of three hours now. Good thing she kept blankets sealed in small scrolls she carried around. Otherwise, their bare bodies would've been exposed for all the world to see!
She nuzzled up to him, kissing his neck, "Mmm that was amazing, love."
"Whew, you're telling me I've haven't been worked so hard in days," Minato breathed while rubbing her hair. "It was kind of hot for us to do this out here, in the middle of the forest."
She walked her fingers on his chest, kissing him, "I aim to please."
"And you most certainly continue to do so," he replied before leaning up. "I'm hungry, aren't you hungry?"
"Actually, for some weird reason I'm craving some fishcakes. Also, do you think the old man ever figured out why his chair was sticky?" Kushina questioned while having a feeling in her gut.
Minato lightly chuckles, and then looked at her, "That was your fault."
"I don't deny it," She then leaned up while grabbing a shirt off the ground. "Me and you went around the world in five minutes that day."
He laughs before licking his lips, "So where haven't we done it?"
"That's a very good question," Kushina remarked before thinking. "All four gates, Ichiraku Ramen's kitchen, The Hokage Desk, chair, on top of our apartment."
"Pretty much every single training ground, The Forest of Death, didn't we also do it in Ay's office while visiting Kumo?" Minato questioned while trying to remember, "I think I had to explain to him why exactly his chair was out of alignment."
Kushina blurts out laughing at that, "And you managed to silver-tongue your way into him thinking he actually needed to start going on a diet."
In another village entirely. A large man nearly fell out of his chair. He growls under his breath while straightening back up. The Raikage, a man of few words, and fewer enemies, just sat there. He noted that the story Minato had fed him was a load of crap now, thirty pounds later. Albeit he was now in the best shape of his life, he was getting an eight pack for Kami's sake.
"Who would've thought it that you, of all people, Minato Namikaze would deviant enough. Fucker, I'm going to find me someone, and I'm going to shatter your desk! That's right, I hope you can read my thoughts you yellow haired bastard, I'm breaking your damn desk on my next visit!" He raged while getting out some lean cut chicken and steak, absolutely no trimmings on them.
He took bite out of it, "And when I'm done, I'm going to thank Kushina for recipe, because it's amazing…I don't even care I was tricked into this, this is actually better some the chef's food."
"Hey," he looked at the blonde woman in front of him, "Yugito."
Yugito looked at him, raising an eyebrow, "Yes sir?"
"Would you like to come with to a trip Konoha next week, I got to congratulate my old rival?" He asked her politely while seeing her smile.
Yugito then purses her lips, and then smirked, "You just want someone who'll do maximum amount of damage and is shameless enough to admit it."
Ay just blushed a little, chuckling a little nervously, "No idea what you're talking about…"
"It is called dinner first, Raikage-sama." The blonde-haired woman told him before walking out of the room.
"Does that mean that's a yes?"
Minato shivers for just a moment, "Ooh cold chill, I think someone is talking about me in some form or fashion somewhere."
"Then you'd a be chittering mess, honey. I mean, next week is the big week you get elected Hokage. Hopefully after that we can start on the other project," Kushina purred sensually into his ear. "You and me making a baby."
He blushes while chuckling nervously, "I mean technically haven't we already been trying?"
"I mean yeah, duh, but still. We can always try a little harder." She whispered into his ear before kissing his neck.
Minato bit his lip, the temptation was hard to stand against, "But didn't you just say you were hungry?"
She bit his neck playfully, eliciting a hiss of pleasure from her husband. "Jerk, and here I was thinking of eating your fishcake."
He blushes before getting up, putting on his previously discarded undergarments and pants. He reached over for his shirt, which Kushina handed him. She got herself looking decent, despite her messed up hair. Stretching while resealing the blanket with puff of smoke into a small scroll. She then looked around, grabbing a necklace off the ground that broke off.
"Damn it," she cursed while holding the broken necklace. "You and your aggressive necking."
Minato got into her face with a sly smile, "You know you love it."
"Okay, but seriously my stomach is growling now. Do you think Ichiraku sounds good?" Kushina asked him while straightening out her hair. "Some extra narutomaki in my ramen doesn't sound too bad."
He agrees with his wife, and then snaps his fingers, "Want to try out the Space-Time Gate?"
Kushina thought about it, and then shrugs, his seal writing was perfectly earlier. She walked over next to him, wrapping her under his. He got out a Flying Thunder God kunai, the seal glowing on it. He threw it into the ground, watching as the writing glowed. Slowly, but surely a black dot forms in front of them. It then fully opened up, like a black liquid sphere.
She couldn't believe it, looking into it, "Is that supposed to happen?"
"Honestly," He nervously looked into it, "I'm not too sure."
"Well, you did say it was a like hub," Kushina weaved a hand seal and generated a clone. "Go check it out!"
The clone saluted its creator before jumping in, within a few moments it dispersed itself. Kushina groans a little as the information feedback hit her. She looked at Minato, nervously, and then bit her lip.
"So, my clone dispersed itself, and inside of there is like a room with a bunch of strings." She commented before Minato's eyes widened.
Minato looks at her, and then looked into there, "I know that place. It's weird, it's a like glimpse every time I use the Flying Thunder God Jutsu."
"Didn't the Lord Second invent it?" Kushina inquired while walking with Minato toward it.
"Yeah," Minato confirmed for her before thinking. "In his notes he stated that he based a lot of his Jutsu on Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu. "Didn't you say that your clan actually fought a civil war?"
"Long ago when Mito was alive and young. Apparently, it was over some type of discovery," Kushina remembered as she spoke aloud. "Well, nothing ventured nothing gained I guess."
"Wait a minute, Kushina, what if something happens?" Minato implored her to stop, only for her to suddenly trip while turning around!
Kushina fell into the black sphere, with Minato running after her. Both of them emerged crashing into each other. They were inside a room, hundreds of strings weaved around a sphere in the center. Minato noted that though he felt walls there was none to be seen. It all looked foreign to him, save the room, which he glimpsed thousands of times when using the Flying Thunder God.
The room infinitely large it seemed, yet for some reason felt so confined. A room of opposites, contriving against itself. Kushina was astonished at they were seeing. She saw strings connecting locations, some of those strings trailing off into the void beyond their part of the room. Minato noted the feeling from some of the strings, like those weaved specifically by him in some way or another.
He then came to a rather startlingly conclusion when he one of the strings he touched let him mentally see the image of where a kunai was. It was a very different design than that of his own, having a single flat blade instead of blade with side prongs. It was also surrounded by a large forest, filled with trees similar to Konoha's but at the same time also having one with strange needles for leaves.
"Minato, look!" Kushina yelled out which made him snap his head up. "The doorway!"
Minato watches in stunned horror as it flickered, closing, leaving them trapped in the room. He looked over at Kushina who was staring at where the doorway used to be, now simply looking deeply into a blank spot. She reached out, unable to feel it.
"Kushina, look at that, in the distance." Minato called to her, making her turn around.
In the distance was a large tree, it held many branches. Several large spheres were atop the tree, swirling around it, connected to moving roots. Minato noted that some of the spheres were farther out than others and squinted his eyes a little.
"Do you see something else weird?" She questioned while holding herself, still spooked.
Minato realizes what he was looking at, "I think were standing in some kind of hub alright. I mean, this looks like strings leading to this room. Yet, if you look past our room some strings lead out of it. Some even go to the tree in background."
"Okay, so what is this place, and what is that?" Kushina inquired while pointing at the moving roots of the tree.
"I think it's an Orrery," Minato answered while looking at it. "It could be a model of our world at large…but something doesn't feel right."
Minato stood there, bringing his hands together, "Release!"
A wave energy flooded the room, but instead of the jutsu releasing the strings in the room changed around. Minato looked genuinely confused as he felt their room shift, seeing strings rotate around each other, and the clear walls coming down. The contriving nature of the room became one that they were familiar with in depth alone.
"What just happened?" Kushina asked while looking at the changes. "Did you just try to release a jutsu or something?"
Minato nods while looking at the strings, "Yeah I just did."
"Something is wrong though, right, how did we even end up in a place like this?" Kushina wondered while walking around and noticing a string. "Minato, I think this the strong connected to our hub!"
He walks over to her in a hurry, "How so?"
"I don't know, it's going right where the doorway used to be." Kushina said while shrugging, "It's a shot in the dark."
Minato grabbed the string, feeling it, his mind flooded with images of the seal patterns. He then felt like an idiot for the first time in a long time. Right where they had decided to nap a part of the seal was damaged. Apparently, something made the damage worse, which meant that the doorway closed when the seal was too damaged to maintain. He blushes a little bit, and then turned to Kushina.
"So…um…" Minato started before looking at the other strings. "We might be here for a minute."
"Oh no, its bad isn't it." Kushina groaned while looking around, "Damn it all!"
"Honey, relax, I'm pretty sure that I can just teleport us out of here. After all, I mean these strings are connected to kunai I've thrown, the Lord Second's, and a couple others it seems. I mean, we're not sitting horrible." He reasoned with her, walking over to her. "Besides, we'll be home in time for a lot of ramen!"
She took a deep breath, "I hope you're right, Minato."
"Okay, let's see here…" Minato reached up at a string, "Hey this one I think!"
Kushina walked over to him, grasping his hand, he got a kunai out. He thought about it, placing the seal part of the hand on the string. Slowly, the string began to glow a bright yellow color. Minato then looked and his eyes widened as it the string shines well past their room. Kushina just looked at him, a raised eyebrow.
"Oh crap, today is very big off day for me." Minato groaned while readying himself, "I'm sorry Kushina I really am."
"Minato…?"
"Kushina, I think we're getting ready to be tele-…"
Minato managed to blink once, then twice, and he felt air rushing over them. They emerged out of a bright yellow flash in the sky. He looks around, noting where they were, and weren't. In air was not a good sign, nor was the fact that Kushina was falling below him. She opened her eyes, and then screamed bloody murder as they both fell toward the ground.
He dived, straightening out his body as much as possible to get closer. He caught her in his arms as they dive through the air, he makes himself upright with Kushina in his arms. She held onto him tight, noting that landscape around them was filled with snow, and mountainous.
"Minato?!"
"I don't know Kushina! Hang on!"
Both fell down into a large patch snow, with Minato and her tumbling down. He hit himself on rock, nearly losing consciousness as blood trickled out of a head wound. Kushina stopped when she landed in rolls into a patch of strange bushes. He didn't stop until he ended almost slamming into a tree with needle like leaves.
Coughing up a wad of blood, he groaned while clutching himself. He looked up, seeing small black dot in the sky before it faded out. He struggled but managed to get up. He hobbles over to Kushina, watching as she got up with minor cuts. They began to quickly heal, steam rising off them from the increased heat as her chakra system went to work.
Minato dusts snow off her, looking around. She coughs, hugging herself closer to him to get warm. They noticed that the skies were bright, meaning that it was still midday! She looks around, noting the strange needle trees, and took a deep breath. She and Minato look around, seeing mountains as far as the eye could see. Snow covering them, with the bitter air touching them.
"Something tells me were no longer in Konoha." Kushina said while looking around, "Think we teleported to the samurai country?"
Minato shook his head, "No I've been all over that country, and never seen tress like those."
"Maybe we should get moving, we're not exactly wearing winter clothes." She suggested while hugging closer to him.
"You're right," he agreed before both of them started to walk down the mountain. "We need to work on getting off the mountain, temperatures should start rising the closer we get to the base."
Minato grabbed her, holding her bridal style. She just rolled her eyes, and then smiled slightly. Even though they were in a foreign land, he still treated her like he always had, a princess. It didn't hurt that he was also getting body warmth from her. He shrugs off the pain in his lower back, running down the mountain at blistering speeds.
Animals nearby only saw the blur of red and yellow. Minato didn't find any trees yet able to support them, but eventually them came down the mountain. Finding a game trail, Minato figured that if there was game in the area, civilization wouldn't too far from it. He followed the trail down from the mountain, coming across signs. He furrowed his brow, but those signs were definitely not written in Kanji. He walked up to it, allowing Kushina to look at it as well.
They looked at it together, trying to discern what it was saying.
"Minato, I think the sign is saying that there is some sort of settlement nearby. I at least hope so, I've never seen that language before." Kushina stated while observing, still being carried in his arms. "You know if you're getting tired you can put me down."
"Heh, no way, why would I ever get tired of holding you?" Minato replied, but he was still sore from the impact earlier. "Kushina, do you hear that?"
"Sounds like running water," she said while listening. "That's good, maybe we should head to it!"
He nods, running into the forest toward the sound of water. Occasionally he found a tree similar to the ones back in Konoha, leap frogging them by kicking off their bark to gain momentum. His wife's hair and clothing flutters in the wind. Adding to the noise he was hearing with flaps her clothes. Both came out of the wooded area, and near a river.
Minato walked them over to the rocky shore of the river. Letting her down, he into his vest. He withdraws a vial from a pocket, with a chemical pouch. He lets water enter the vial before testing it with the chemical in the pouch. When the water didn't react, he smiled.
"Water is safe to drink, its one hundred percent fresh water." Minato stated to Kushina before bending down and taking some into his mouth.
Kushina followed suite, taking greedy gulps of the precious ice-cold drink. Both her and Minato rose at the same, gasping for air from the amount of time they just spent drinking the mountain water. She sat down on the rocky shore, looking at it. It was hauntingly beautiful, she felt dark spots in her senses though.
That part bothered her tremendously.
"Minato," Kushina called to her husband. "I sense something in the woods in front of us, about two hundred meters away. It's dark, whatever it is, the energy feels similar to chakra, but isn't."
Minato focuses on the spot she pointed at, using his own sensory abilities. He confirmed what she was saying, it was if chakra had been condensed into a form. It moved about rapidly, aggressively hunting something in the woods. Minato could feel natural energy around him, meaning wherever they were chakra existed here. He began to think about the sign from earlier. Sighing, he thought about trying to recreate the hub matrix if he could find a pristine clearing.
"It would be a monumental risk, because if I can't find any of the strings I've created in the hub world, we could accidentally fall into a much worse situation. Better the devil we know now," Minato pensively thought to himself while getting out a canteen from one of his pouches.
He fills it up with water before seeing a large fish jump out of the water. Smiling, he got a kunai out, and saw it jump out again! He launches the knife. Watching as it whistles in the air before slamming into the large fish. It flopped helplessly on the shore before becoming still. He ran over to it, running across the water, and grabs it. He ran back toward Kushina, who smiled.
"I guess lunch is all natural, remember when were kids? We used to these things all the time." Minato reminded her while she got a rather large flat rock in front of her.
She bit her lip, smiling as she looked up at him. "I remember us going by the river and eating all the fish we could catch together."
"It's also where we first, you know," Minato remembered before blushing. "Here, I'll cook it for us."
She smiles, getting up and moving away as her husband weaved hand seals. He ended on the tiger seal before blowing a small stream of fire from his mouth. The fish crackles on the flat rock but searing from the red-hot heat. After a few minutes, Minato stopped before handing Kushina flat knife. Both sat down, tearing the fish into pieces before dividing it up.
She got the lions share and began to feast on it. Minato took passive bites, noting the flavor of the fish was slightly different than what he normal ate at Konoha. He saw her, wolfing it down greedily, but when she looked up with a mouth full of food he smiled. She was beaming, her beautiful eyes closed, but teeth shining bright from the smile.
It was these small moments that made him glad they found each other in this war-torn world.
She was about to finish her last piece when she looked up into the sky. The food dropped from her hand, her eyes widened and shrank back. Lips quivering, she moved back away from Minato, as if the very thing in the sky was the predator coming to take her life. Minato looked confused, and then he turned around, any food he had in his hand immediately fell.
In the sky, despite it being midday, the moon rose above the mountain horizon. He saw that it was much bigger than that of their world! It was also shattered, torn asunder on one side, otherwise they'd seen a hole right through the celestial object. He instead just stood up, protectively in front of his wife. Minato took a moment to realize what the situation was truly, and horror dawned upon him. It hit him like a ton of bricks!
They didn't just teleport to another part of their world, they teleported to a different dimension entirely!
"M-Minato, please tell me that isn't the moon!" Kushina begged loudly before getting up. "Wh-what the hell happened to our moon?!"
Minato shook his head, "Kushina-chan. I don't think that's our moon."
Just then he heard the howling of creatures. Also, that of a man screaming, Minato looked down at Kushina. Helping her up, placing her on his back, he moved to the sounds of screaming. Quickly over the river, he went deep into the tall trees, launching himself into the canopies of the sturdiest. There he looked down, seeing a man with a small group of people fending off a small horde of large wolflike beings.
He was elderly man, smashing a cane into one of the beasts. Minato decided that he needed to act and did so. He sat Kushina down on the tree, launching himself at the offending beast that nearly had the man pinned down. He appeared at such a speed that all others didn't even notice. Until that wolf demon found itself being burnt alive from flames launching Minato's mouth.
It screeched in pain, filling the air with death howls!
"Oh, thank the Gods," The Elderly man stated while getting up. "Mistral finally sent us a Huntsman!"
"Mistral…Huntsman…" Minato recorded in his head mentally before forming clones.
He didn't dare speak, knowing that any words he said would sound foreign to these people. His clones quickly dispatched the rest of the demonic horde of wolves. He turned to the people, who were in shock at what they had just witness. The remaining beasts retreated, growling at them, but Minato made sure to stand his ground which made any attempts at counterattacking a foolish notion for any being that dared!
"Look they're retreating!"
"That Huntsman saved us!"
"Mistral really does care about us!"
Minato heard those words, Mistral, and Huntsman again. He looked behind him, seeing the old man with the cane. He had his hand out, not noticing that a redhead woman stood at the edge of the woods. He smiled at Minato, continuing to offer his hand, which the young man tentatively took.
"Thank you, sir, may The Gods bless yer kindness. Are you with anyone?" The Old Man asked while looking around, and finally noticing Kushina. "Is that woman with you."
Minato turned to where he had pointed, seeing Kushina. Not knowing what else to really do he turned back toward the elderly man and nodded. The elderly man was slightly perturbed but didn't think anything of it. He took a deep breath and looked at Minato in the eyes.
"Thank you, son, I really mean it! Are you hungry, is your partner hungry? We were setting up camp, and these monsters attacked us. Thank you for saving us, I know I'm saying it a lot, but we were goners until you came along." The Old Man stated before watching the blonde man motion toward the redheaded beauty in the woods.
He waited for Minato to say something, but he didn't.
"Not one for much talk are ya lad," The Old Man commented while stroking a white beard on his face. "My name is Vern, Vern Renard."
"Vern…Renard…" Minato sounded out the words, he pointed at himself, "Minato."
"Minato, huh are you a bit…never mind that's rude to continue. Please, we would be honored for you to join us at the campsite." Vern implored him and watched as the woman walked up to him. "Are you, his partner?"
Kushina just stares blankly at him, "Um…"
"Are you two having trouble speaking to us, because your sick?" She and Minato didn't respond to The Old Man's question.
The Old Man sighs, "Forget about it, but just follow me. Please, let's at least put food in your bellies on this cold winter's day."
Minato looked at Kushina, she noted the presence of small children. Her eyes caught one with a pair of fox ears on top of their head! Her eyes widened a little bit when moved organically, and she looks at her husband. He took a deep breath and sighed as the group they had saved got further away. Eventually Minato made a choice, he motioned for Kushina to follow. Normally he would carry her, but on the off chance this was a trap, she'd be able to escape rapidly while he focused on fighting.
Kushina just grabs his hand, holding it tightly, "I'm scared."
"I know, I am too hime…but wherever we are, it's best that we learn to adapt for the time being." He suggested while bringing her closer, "I promise nothing will ever happen to you, I love you."
"I love you too…boy how we going to explain this Hiruzen?" She asked while leading him now.
In Minato's mind he gathered all the information from the brief moments of being in this world. He analyzed these chances and concluded one thing that nearly broke him and his heart. Kushina was always optimistic, the biggest shining light to him when it came to keeping him grounded and away from misery.
His thoughts, filled with sorrow at what she said, and he could think to himself…
"If we can even see him again, Kushina."
Those Who Endure.
Wow what a first chapter, I suppose. Minato and Kushina are our loveable hellish planet of Remnant. As you can see there's a few barriers between them being able to fully communicate, but that's fine. Because rest assured Minato always has a plan for even the worst situations.
This story is a remake of Shinobi. I'm taking more realistic approach with combination of more adult humor. I'm struggling what to rate this story, because honestly the references possibly push it to M. However, I'll upload this first chapter as rated T. If you all suggest that I should update the rating, so it shall be!
Thank you for continued support!
Next week is possibly my first break from any writing, college, and work for the first time in over a decade. Honestly, I can't wait.
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