p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Loss Part 2/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"(-)/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"The second his father vanished, Minato moved to follow, but the Sandaime caught his arm. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You wouldn't want your father to be hurt by getting distracted at your appearance, would you?" The Hokage asked quietly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato shook his head. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Good, will you stay here then?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"After a long moment of hesitation, Minato nodded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"The Sandaime leapt out of the window, followed by all but one of the ANBU. Minato knelt in the center of the room, slipping quickly into what appeared to be meditation./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Without warning, the boy leapt to his feet and darted out the window, flying through the streets towards the thickest fighting near the edge of the village./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"He drew two tri-pronged kunai from his pockets and stopped between a blond man three times his size and a Konoha Chuunin who had just been forced to drop his katana./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""He's here!" The man shouted and the attention turned to Minato. Minato attacked, stabbing the man's knee just as a second hand closed around his neck. Twisting like a cat, Minato stabbed a kunai through the man's wrist and nearly severed his head with the other knife. Blood sprayed across Minato's face and he kicked himself away from the dead man. The man Minato lamed seconds before grabbed the boy's ankle and threw him at the nearest wall, but pure luck assisted the downed Chuunin in grabbing Minato around the waist and flinging him back towards his former opponent at a dangerous velocity. Minato stabbed a kunai through the man's eye as he passed over his head then crashed into one of the few stone walls in the village. The Chuunin stood and helped Minato to his feet. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""C'mon kid, let's get you to the shelters."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""No! I have to help To-san!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You're just a kid!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""There he is!" Someone shouted. Minato jerked away from the Chuunin and leapt to meet the new threat. Without the advantage of surprise, Minato found himself caught and disarmed within a few seconds. The Chuunin leapt to his defense and Minato screamed as the assailants killed him without a second thought. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Release my son!" Masao appeared. The woman holding Minato held a kunai to the boy's throat, the tip digging into the thin muscles of the boy's neck. Luckily for Minato, only Masao paid any attention to his twitching fingers until it was too late./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"One of Minato's kunai flew from the ground and stabbed the woman where her spine met her skull. She died instantly. A second woman grabbed Minato from behind and wrapped an arm around his neck, ready to break it. Masao slit her throat before she could move, spraying Minato's hair with blood. Both barely managed to disengage from the falling body when someone launched themselves at Masao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato screamed as the two men grappled for control of the kunai. Masao twisted out of the man's grasp, sending the kunai plunging into the ground at the lack of resistance. Drawing a second kunai as he continued to spin, Masao rent the man's back from his hip to his opposite shoulder, slicing the muscle and bone without interruption until it ripped through the man's subclavian artery and sliced through his collarbone. Blood sprayed and hovered in the air in a fine mist. He was dead before his head hit the ground and Masao was fending off another assailant. He released a powerful pulse of chakra that froze everyone in the vicinity. The brief reprieve was all Minato needed to drop to his knees and form a perfect dome of furious chakra around himself. A woman rushed forward to grab the boy, but the shock from the chakra was strong enough to stop her heart and fling her away. Minato doubled over, wheezing with the effort. Three of the four clan members focused on capturing Minato turned to his father and attacked as one. The man stumbled backwards, kunai glinting in the sunlight as he struggled to defend himself. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"He slowly backed out into one of the training grounds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""To-san!" Minato screamed so loud his voice broke, racing towards his father with chakra encasing his body like a second skin. Masao took another step backwards and his leg caught on the edge of a stone memorial. He instinctively swung his arms wide for balance and for the briefest of seconds was entirely undefended. That opening was all they needed. The middle assailant gutted Masao, the one on Masao's left sliced him from jaw to armpit, severing every major artery, and Minato landed on the shoulders of the third, driving a kunai into the woman's head. The other two were shocked with their unexpected victory and didn't even notice Minato until he had gutted them in return./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato landed on top of the memorial and dropped the kunai and the shroud of chakra. The cloth tied across his eyes was no longer white; it was soaked with blood, while even more dripped from his face. His hair was streaked with red and the shoulders of his haori were flecked with even more blood. A mixture of blood, dirt, and water from the street he had knelt in soaked him from the knee down. The grass had cleaned the boy's bare feet in return for staining them a mixture of brown and green./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""To-san?" Minato asked tentatively, his hand hovering over his father's head while he wiped the blood from his face with his sleeve. He slid down the memorial and dragged his father to the ground, where he lay unmoving and pale, even as Minato held his father's hand against his chest. Two people grabbed Minato and dragged him away from the carnage. Something inside of him snapped as he lost his grip on his father. "NO!" The boy screamed. He hooked his toe into a kunai as he was dragged backwards and transferred it to his hand, where he managed to sever the tendons of one of the hands holding him. The second person tried to drop him, but Minato grabbed the woman's wrist and stabbed under her arm and into her heart. The person who lost the use of his hand tried to stumble backwards, but Minato kicked off the woman and managed to stab the man's left shoulder as he flew past. With a curse, the man tried to run, but Minato leapt onto his back and severed his spine, just above the man's shoulders./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Chakra flared around him and stopped two kunai from striking him in the chest as he pushed off from the dead man before he hit the ground. Minato caught them both and transferred one to his foot, attaching it with chakra before landing on the memorial and flinging himself towards the person who threw the kunai. In seconds she was dead. Three women arrived and after seeing him standing in the center of six kills, one ran, shouting an alarm, and the other two ran forward. Minato latched on to the arm attempting to land the first strike and disabled it with a swift cut and kicked the woman in the stomach, driving the kunai attacked to his foot through her spine. The second woman sliced at his neck even as Minato severed the head of the first, but his chakra shield diverted the strike long enough for him to latch onto her arm and kill her in a similar manner. Minato stumbled as he landed and fell to all fours./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"On the side of the clearing, a small group of clan members appeared, horrified by the carnage. Minato threw down the kunai in his hands and fled. Just before he reached the gates, a familiar face appeared in front of the boy. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Where are you going, kid?" Sakumo demanded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Get out of my way."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Academy students aren't allowed to leave the village except in emergencies while accompanied by a ranked shinobi."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I just killed sixteen individuals in my clan, Sakumo-san. Clan law says I'm exiled for a single, unsanctioned murder."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Konoha law states that as long as you're attacked first, no charges can be put to you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Our laws are our laws and they exist for a very good reason."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You're eight, Minato-kun. You can't survive for long outside of the village."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""That's the point!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I won't let you leave."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I'm eight and I've killed more than twice the number of people as years I've been alive. I'm not someone you want in your village. Let me go."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Sorry, kid, you're staying here."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"With a scream, Minato leapt forward and attacked. Sakumo knocked aside the first few punches with the flat of his blade, but on the fifth strike, Minato grabbed it, even as the blade cut deeply into his palms, and channeled chakra into it, forcing Sakumo to let go with a curse. Minato righted the blade in his hands and slashed wildly. With the metal plates on the back of his hands, Sakumo deflected the blade at wild angles. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato abruptly slipped into a different pattern, and flipped upside down, kicking at Sakumo's head and slashing at his knee. The blade nicked his thigh before he could leap away, but instead of landing on the ground, his shoulder caught on a tree and sent him off-balance. Minato landed on his chest and sent him crashing to the ground, blade at his neck./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""If you kill me, kid, you're dead."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I'm dead anyways."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't think you want to die."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't want to live!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't believe you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Just let me go!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""If you want to leave, you have to kill me."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato's hand started to tremble./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You kill me, you're as good as dead before you reach the village wall."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato wiped away the tears welling in his eyes./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't think you want to die."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato readjusted his grip on the tantÅ./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You can still build a life here, clan or not. I know you're not too far gone for that."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato did nothing as Sakumo slid the blade out of his hand and tossed it to the side, sitting up and wrapping his arms around the boy's shoulders./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You're not the only one to shed innocent blood." Sakumo murmured./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""But I'm going to stop it," the boy responded, resolved. He pulled away and met Sakumo's eyes steadily. "I'm going to stop the fighting and the civil wars and the big wars and I'm going to make sure only bad people die."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato took off his haori and stood up. Flames rose from the hem, licking up the fabric until the heat forced Minato to release the garment. It fell to the ground and burned until it was nothing but ash floating away in the light breeze./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You'll go far, kid," Sakumo said. "And you have my support."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"strongspan style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"(-)/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"The second his father vanished, Minato moved to follow, but the Sandaime caught his arm. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You wouldn't want your father to be hurt by getting distracted at your appearance, would you?" The Hokage asked quietly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato shook his head. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Good, will you stay here then?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"After a long moment of hesitation, Minato nodded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"The Sandaime leapt out of the window, followed by all but one of the ANBU. Minato knelt in the center of the room, slipping quickly into what appeared to be meditation./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Without warning, the boy leapt to his feet and darted out the window, flying through the streets towards the thickest fighting near the edge of the village./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"He drew two tri-pronged kunai from his pockets and stopped between a blond man three times his size and a Konoha Chuunin who had just been forced to drop his katana./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""He's here!" The man shouted and the attention turned to Minato. Minato attacked, stabbing the man's knee just as a second hand closed around his neck. Twisting like a cat, Minato stabbed a kunai through the man's wrist and nearly severed his head with the other knife. Blood sprayed across Minato's face and he kicked himself away from the dead man. The man Minato lamed seconds before grabbed the boy's ankle and threw him at the nearest wall, but pure luck assisted the downed Chuunin in grabbing Minato around the waist and flinging him back towards his former opponent at a dangerous velocity. Minato stabbed a kunai through the man's eye as he passed over his head then crashed into one of the few stone walls in the village. The Chuunin stood and helped Minato to his feet. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""C'mon kid, let's get you to the shelters."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""No! I have to help To-san!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You're just a kid!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""There he is!" Someone shouted. Minato jerked away from the Chuunin and leapt to meet the new threat. Without the advantage of surprise, Minato found himself caught and disarmed within a few seconds. The Chuunin leapt to his defense and Minato screamed as the assailants killed him without a second thought. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Release my son!" Masao appeared. The woman holding Minato held a kunai to the boy's throat, the tip digging into the thin muscles of the boy's neck. Luckily for Minato, only Masao paid any attention to his twitching fingers until it was too late./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"One of Minato's kunai flew from the ground and stabbed the woman where her spine met her skull. She died instantly. A second woman grabbed Minato from behind and wrapped an arm around his neck, ready to break it. Masao slit her throat before she could move, spraying Minato's hair with blood. Both barely managed to disengage from the falling body when someone launched themselves at Masao. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato screamed as the two men grappled for control of the kunai. Masao twisted out of the man's grasp, sending the kunai plunging into the ground at the lack of resistance. Drawing a second kunai as he continued to spin, Masao rent the man's back from his hip to his opposite shoulder, slicing the muscle and bone without interruption until it ripped through the man's subclavian artery and sliced through his collarbone. Blood sprayed and hovered in the air in a fine mist. He was dead before his head hit the ground and Masao was fending off another assailant. He released a powerful pulse of chakra that froze everyone in the vicinity. The brief reprieve was all Minato needed to drop to his knees and form a perfect dome of furious chakra around himself. A woman rushed forward to grab the boy, but the shock from the chakra was strong enough to stop her heart and fling her away. Minato doubled over, wheezing with the effort. Three of the four clan members focused on capturing Minato turned to his father and attacked as one. The man stumbled backwards, kunai glinting in the sunlight as he struggled to defend himself. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"He slowly backed out into one of the training grounds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""To-san!" Minato screamed so loud his voice broke, racing towards his father with chakra encasing his body like a second skin. Masao took another step backwards and his leg caught on the edge of a stone memorial. He instinctively swung his arms wide for balance and for the briefest of seconds was entirely undefended. That opening was all they needed. The middle assailant gutted Masao, the one on Masao's left sliced him from jaw to armpit, severing every major artery, and Minato landed on the shoulders of the third, driving a kunai into the woman's head. The other two were shocked with their unexpected victory and didn't even notice Minato until he had gutted them in return./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato landed on top of the memorial and dropped the kunai and the shroud of chakra. The cloth tied across his eyes was no longer white; it was soaked with blood, while even more dripped from his face. His hair was streaked with red and the shoulders of his haori were flecked with even more blood. A mixture of blood, dirt, and water from the street he had knelt in soaked him from the knee down. The grass had cleaned the boy's bare feet in return for staining them a mixture of brown and green./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""To-san?" Minato asked tentatively, his hand hovering over his father's head while he wiped the blood from his face with his sleeve. He slid down the memorial and dragged his father to the ground, where he lay unmoving and pale, even as Minato held his father's hand against his chest. Two people grabbed Minato and dragged him away from the carnage. Something inside of him snapped as he lost his grip on his father. "NO!" The boy screamed. He hooked his toe into a kunai as he was dragged backwards and transferred it to his hand, where he managed to sever the tendons of one of the hands holding him. The second person tried to drop him, but Minato grabbed the woman's wrist and stabbed under her arm and into her heart. The person who lost the use of his hand tried to stumble backwards, but Minato kicked off the woman and managed to stab the man's left shoulder as he flew past. With a curse, the man tried to run, but Minato leapt onto his back and severed his spine, just above the man's shoulders./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Chakra flared around him and stopped two kunai from striking him in the chest as he pushed off from the dead man before he hit the ground. Minato caught them both and transferred one to his foot, attaching it with chakra before landing on the memorial and flinging himself towards the person who threw the kunai. In seconds she was dead. Three women arrived and after seeing him standing in the center of six kills, one ran, shouting an alarm, and the other two ran forward. Minato latched on to the arm attempting to land the first strike and disabled it with a swift cut and kicked the woman in the stomach, driving the kunai attacked to his foot through her spine. The second woman sliced at his neck even as Minato severed the head of the first, but his chakra shield diverted the strike long enough for him to latch onto her arm and kill her in a similar manner. Minato stumbled as he landed and fell to all fours./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"On the side of the clearing, a small group of clan members appeared, horrified by the carnage. Minato threw down the kunai in his hands and fled. Just before he reached the gates, a familiar face appeared in front of the boy. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Where are you going, kid?" Sakumo demanded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Get out of my way."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Academy students aren't allowed to leave the village except in emergencies while accompanied by a ranked shinobi."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I just killed sixteen individuals in my clan, Sakumo-san. Clan law says I'm exiled for a single, unsanctioned murder."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Konoha law states that as long as you're attacked first, no charges can be put to you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Our laws are our laws and they exist for a very good reason."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You're eight, Minato-kun. You can't survive for long outside of the village."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""That's the point!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I won't let you leave."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I'm eight and I've killed more than twice the number of people as years I've been alive. I'm not someone you want in your village. Let me go."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Sorry, kid, you're staying here."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"With a scream, Minato leapt forward and attacked. Sakumo knocked aside the first few punches with the flat of his blade, but on the fifth strike, Minato grabbed it, even as the blade cut deeply into his palms, and channeled chakra into it, forcing Sakumo to let go with a curse. Minato righted the blade in his hands and slashed wildly. With the metal plates on the back of his hands, Sakumo deflected the blade at wild angles. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato abruptly slipped into a different pattern, and flipped upside down, kicking at Sakumo's head and slashing at his knee. The blade nicked his thigh before he could leap away, but instead of landing on the ground, his shoulder caught on a tree and sent him off-balance. Minato landed on his chest and sent him crashing to the ground, blade at his neck./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""If you kill me, kid, you're dead."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I'm dead anyways."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't think you want to die."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't want to live!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't believe you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""Just let me go!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""If you want to leave, you have to kill me."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato's hand started to tremble./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You kill me, you're as good as dead before you reach the village wall."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato wiped away the tears welling in his eyes./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""I don't think you want to die."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato readjusted his grip on the tantÅ./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You can still build a life here, clan or not. I know you're not too far gone for that."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato did nothing as Sakumo slid the blade out of his hand and tossed it to the side, sitting up and wrapping his arms around the boy's shoulders./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You're not the only one to shed innocent blood." Sakumo murmured./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""But I'm going to stop it," the boy responded, resolved. He pulled away and met Sakumo's eyes steadily. "I'm going to stop the fighting and the civil wars and the big wars and I'm going to make sure only bad people die."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"Minato took off his haori and stood up. Flames rose from the hem, licking up the fabric until the heat forced Minato to release the garment. It fell to the ground and burned until it was nothing but ash floating away in the light breeze./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;""You'll go far, kid," Sakumo said. "And you have my support."/span/p