Suggested by Arianna Le Fay
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Wandering Mind of Mine
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Minato loved his wife, more than he loved learning or Konoha, but there was always a distant figure in the back of his mind. A woman similar to Kushina, yet as different as day and night.
The woman, he had forgotten her name after so many years, was part of the reason he got a crush on the fiery red head. He remembered her as his caregiver when he was younger, barely toddling, and he knew that his feelings for her memory were . . . unconventional. He knew it, and that made his feelings all the more tempting to succumb to, but he was a man that put the past behind him to look forward to the future.
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He saw her again when the kyuubi was pulled from Kushina, stopping the claw about to kill his newborn son. He watched with horror as she coughed up blood, a fatal wound that no one could survive from. He watched as the giant fox seemed to be horrified at what it had just done, but he forced himself to complete the sealing of the sentient chakra into Naruto. He took half of the kyuubi with him to the shinigami's stomach, leaving a small piece of his soul in the seal, the last thing he saw was the woman healing Kushina while she was bleeding out.
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Minato was disoriented but happy when he was called to help his son. Telling that little knucklehead how the seal worked was fun and it gave him time to bond with Naruto. After he got a punch from said son. The boy punched like he was used to demolishing mountains with barely any effort.
"So since I was a kid I've had mom and Morticia to help with my ninja skills, they put me through the ringer quite a few times!" Naruto said with a smile that was soft and full of memories. "It's because of them that I can almost do that seal you were famous for! Ero-sennin taught me the rasengan and I can almost add my wind chakra to it. Kakashi-sensei thinks that I can almost be considered a prodigy, but the only people that agree with him are mom and Morticia."
"Who is Morticia?" Minato found the name to be awfully familiar, but couldn't put a face to the name.
"Oh! Just a sec." a few handseals were made and in his son's place was a painfully familiar, pear shaped woman named Morticia. "She looks like this!"
Minato felt his expression falter, and his hands sweat as his heart felt relief and a weight the equivalent of a biju. The woman his heart had been after for years, his mother figure, was alive and raising his son.
Best not to go onto that tangent, it left his body starting to harden in the most embarrassing of ways.
"She's the one that saved Kushina on the night you were born." the older blond hesitated for a moment. "How are they?"
"Well, Morticia is fine. She rejoined Anbu after I became a chunin." a puff of spoke and the image of his wife stood before him. "Mom looks like this now, her hair got cut to her chin when she was on a mission in Iwa but it's grown to her waist. She retired when I started to date Hinata-chan."
"You're dating a girl? What's she like?" Minato asked, amused when his son started blushing like it was going out of style.
The conversation derailed from there, catching up and the seal were talked about.
He didn't ask about the two women he loved after that, just knowing that they were alive and well was enough.
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Minato actually stumbled when he was brought back via Edo Tensei, also he was startled to see the other three Hokage as well, and Senju Tsunade sitting in the Hokage seat.
"Why are we here, Orochimaru?" Tobirama, the Nidaime, demanded.
"All of you are here to help this war." Tsunade said. "I ordered him to bring all of you back, I'm sorry to disrupt your peace, but this dire! All of the nation's have allied together to stop Madara and Zetsu."
All of them were stunned when she got to her knees and bowed to where her head was touching the ground.
"Please, help us defeat him! Half of our forces have already been taken out." Tsunade pleaded. "Please help us!"
Needless to say they all agreed.
It took moments to get to the battle field. It was chaos, worse then any war that the Hokage had ever been a part of.
Minato focused, using his title of sensor type to locate his son, and dashed in that direction.
It was mildly surprising to find his son, wife and mother figure facing off against Madara, but knowing the first two's personalities it was only mildly shocking.
"Mina-chan!" Kushina shouted across the expanse from where she was kneeling. She rushed over to him and he met her in the middle, holding her tightly. He pulled back when she tried to kiss him.
He couldn't do it when the other woman he loved was there and alive.
"Dad!" Naruto shouted in warning, letting Minato grab Kushina and jump out of the way of a wayward fireball.
The battle was a blur, jutsus were thrown around like candy, curses rang through the air, a few people died, the "Eternal Tsukuyomi" was prevented, Madara was killed with a lot of effort, and Morticia killed the black side of the plant guy.
She then danced by his corpse/stain on the ground and shouted some things in various code languages from all the villages. Then, the loudest shout of all, "I'm gonna get laid tonight!"
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They stayed alive for a week, making sure that Madara was actually dead, unlike the first time.
"Listen to your motor mouth mother, and Morticia." Minato told his son as the jutsu was close to being cancelled. "Hinata is always right, even when she's wrong she is right. Always apologize after a fight, ramen is not an every meal type of food, try to not go drinking with Gamabunta because you'll get so smashed that you won't know anything until you wake up in a different country with a still drunk toad summon."
"Yeah, that kind of . . . already happened . . . " Naruto said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. Hinata giggled from her spot next to him, Minato's son had good taste.
"Bye, Mina-chan." Kushina said quietly, gripping tightly to Minato's Hokage cloak, the one she had stitched for him.
"Bye, Kushina-chan." he said while hugging her back, he still couldn't kiss her. He felt he was being unfaithful to her, even though he had done nothing, and he could barely stand to face her.
"Goodbye, Minato-chan." Morticia says from her spot on the wall, leaning against it with one leg propped up. It was a seductive pose, one that he forced himself to look away from.
"Goodbye everyone. It was great to meet my future daughter in law, and I'm glad I got to see all of you one last time." he says to his small family. At that moment he feels the link that held him to this world get cut, like a flimsy ribbon with a pair of sharp scissors, and he feels the slight tingle as his body starts to turn to dust. Minato turned to Naruto. "Happy birthday, Naruto. I'm glad I got to see you on your eighteenth year."
He falls completely apart after the last word, embracing the darkness.
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Minato is shocked, scared, and horrified that he is turned into a baby. It takes him a few days to calm down enough to realize that he has been reincarnated, probably anyway.
It doesn't take him long to learn the new language, English was what his new parents called it, because most of it had been used as a code language in Konoha. There are no indications that there is trouble brewing anywhere in this new world, so he takes his time with learning how to walk and other such things.
His parents and teachers call him a genius when he enters school, it's simple since all he had to do was understand the new way to write numbers and words. Although by the time he is in middle school, and this was revelation was so shocking he couldn't do anything or think for a few hours, he finds out that he is popular with the female students. He finally understands how most of the Uchiha felt, and he knew that these girls were very toned down compared to the budding kunoichis from his world.
He gets labeled as "asexual," which was something he had to look up, and all he can think is that these people are not Morticia and not even Kushina.
In his first year of high school he passes a small section at a book store and the title Naruto catches his eye. He picks it up and is slightly horrified, and then mortified at what he reads. He ends up buying all the books and watching everything of the anime and movies. If there is one thing he still remembers about space time manipulation, and he remembers a good deal of his other life, it's that you never step completely backward or forward, you always go to the side a little. All that he saw and read, that is what would have happened had Morticia never been there, had so many small things not changed. It leaves him depressed yet, at the same time, uplifted because she had existed.
At the age of twenty-two, in his final year of college, he accidentally bumps into a woman with black hair to her hips, deep eyes of grey, and a pear shaped body.
If there is one thing Minato knows, it's that a step is never taken fully in front or back, but always to the side.
Author's Note~
I hope you like this. Minato has Oedipus Complex in this fic, it is where you are in love your mother/mother figure. If you want more information on that just click the first wiki link when you google it.
