This takes place outside the walls of Kohona, Minato would've been called to deal with Dante since the ANBU couldn't stop him.

"All of you get away. I'll take care of this."

Dante stopped his punch at the ANBU in front of him to looked over his shoulder. Standing near the gate was exactly the person he was looking for and he smirked.

"Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage."

Minato didn't look happy as he looked over the small battlefield with ice blue eyes. He had spiky blond hair with the Kohona headband over his forehead, slightly covered by the bangs, and his clothes were consisted of a standard Konoha-nin uniform with two bands each on both of his sleeves, a leaf green flak jacket, and blue sandals. He was also wearing a short-sleeved long white haori over his normal attire, decorated by orange flames-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Fourth Hokage" written vertically down the back, and closed on the front by a thin, orange rope.

"Who are you? And what village do you hail from?" Minato asked, locking eyes with Dante who gave Minato his full attention.

"My names Dante Price. As for a village, I don't come from any of them. I am, however, interested in fighting you."

"Why?"

"Two reasons. One, I want to join this village."

Minato narrowed his eyes. "Why?"

"Well, that's telling, so how about this? You fight me, and if you beat me, then I'll tell you why and answer any questions you may have."

"And if you win?"

"Simple. You let me join the village, I don't particularly care at what rank, and...we sit down and talk, which is my second reason for coming here."

Minato debated it for a second before nodding. "Very well. But leave anybody else out of this. Only you, me, and whatever tools we have on us."

Dante nodded. Minato gestured for everyone to get clear and they all did so, leaving the field between Dante and Minato empty. They stared each other down for a minute before Minato moved quickly.

He threw out his right arm, hurtling a number of tri-pronged kunai around and at Dante, who knocked them aside with his own kunai. Once they were all scattered and set, Dante smirked. "The stage is set. Now let's get fast."

He popped up the dial on the Utramatrix and selected the power he wanted before slamming the dial and making the red flash. Minato tensed, anticipating a Jutsu, but when the flash died Dante looked the same.

"First move is yours." Dante nodded.

The blonde decided to try and end this in one move and vanished, aiming for the kunai behind the teen. What he didn't expect was for Dante to already be there swinging a kunai at his liver, forcing him to block with his own in a loud clang of metal, leaving them at a stalemate. As they're arms shook from the pressure, Dante smirked, as did Minato.

"Interesting. You can keep up with my technique?" Minato noted.

"It's not a question if I can keep up. The question is, can you?"

They both vanished again and the only thing those present heard was the constant and fast pace of metal against metal as the kunai all around the field were being scattered and dust kicked up everywhere. It eventually kicked up too much to see easily.

Minato stabbed at Dante's head and he leaned to the side, aiming a left hook for the head which was blocked with minatos right hand. Not deterred, Dante thrust his leg up to smash his knee into Minato's stomach, making him huff out. Pressing his advantage, Dante delivered a right cross to the face, making the blond's head snapped back and blood fly out from a cut in the mouth. He was sent flying before getting his feet underneath an skidding back to a stop at the gate, one knee down.

He wiped his mouth, checking to see how much blood was there. Seeing a small amount, he ignored it and looked at Dante, who was grinning widely in enjoyment.

"You're quick, I'll give you that." Minato snorted in amusement as he got up to full height.

"And you live up to your reputation as the yellow flash." Dante returned with a respectful bow of the head.

Everyone who was watching the battle couldn't close their mouths. This boy, who didn't look older than 19, was not only keeping up with their fastest and most deadly ninja, but he was actually getting in hits against him.

"Shall we keep going?" Dante asked.

"Of course."

20 minutes later

Both fighters were panting slightly as the fighting had long since escalated and they had been forced to move away from the village lest they inadvertently damage the wall and endanger the civilians. Long since then they had also gotten in several decent whacks and punches at each other and both were on their last legs.

"You're good. One of the best I've ever fought." Dante panted, looking up at Minato while wiping his brow of sweat.

Minato chuckled and said, "You too. My Master Jiraya would have a field day with you."

"I'm not getting within a foot of that super pervert, unless it's only to kick him in the nads."

Minato chuckled through his exhaustion and Dante said, "I only got enough in me for one more attack, and I'd bet you're not doing much better. So what do you say, let's wrap this up?"

"Yeah."

Both of them drunkenly got to their feet before getting into a rough fighting stance as minato began gathering chakra to his palm, making a swirling blue-white ball.

"Rasangan!" Minato shouted while he charged forwards, Dante doing the same with his right fist cocked. They met in the middle and Minato thrust his rasangan forwards while Dante thrust his fist forwards. As they were about to connect, Minato thought, 'I win...'

Dante's fist then blurred and before his wide eyes, passed through Minato's rasangan to deliver a knockout punch.