Chapter 14 Minato's Pain

The air was tense as Naruto waited for an answer from his father, who still had his back to him his hands on the workbench.

"Why didn't you come for me? You could have escaped at any moment and yet for 20 years you did nothing." said Naruto as he glared at his father his rage building "What was I to you during that time, just some embracing reminder of your human life, something in the way of your new demon hood? Your new family? I was nothing to you wasn't I, you never loved me?"

Each word Naruto said felt like a knife was going though Minato's his heart.

"You could have escaped, I could have learned that my parents were alive but no I spent countless nights crying hoping that somewhere my parents were alive and they would come to save me, to love me." Snapped Naruto "I would even have been happy if my parents showed up and they being demons at least then I would know my parents cared."

Naruto's rage was growing with each possible moment as his father, his hero, the man he dreamed to becoming since he was a boy said nothing.

"You have nothing to say." snapped Naruto as Minato lowered his head even more. Slowly Naruto turned around and started to walk way "I don't know what is worst not having parents or parents who don't care about you."

"I have made two great mistakes in my life." said Minato softly as Naruto stopped at the foot of the stairs.

"Well I am one of those mistakes so what is the other?" asked Naruto

"Naruto…you mean the world to me." said Minato in a soft sad voice, it was a voice that didn't belong to the yellow flash of the leaf, a man who was feared by his enemies. "I love you like I have loved no one else, I know it is wrong for a father to say but I loved you the most. Maybe it was because I wronged you in so many ways, you being the first born or the memories of holding you the moment you were born. This perfect little life, the life I had helped create, a life I was sworn to protect."

"You did one hell of a job doing that." said Naruto

"The first mistake I made was falling for the demon's trick." said Minato as he remembered the screams coming from the battlefield as he prepared the deal god sealing justu, to seal the demon within his own new born son. "I decided to seal the Kyuubi within you, at the time it was the hardest choice of my life. Seal the demon to save thousands of lives at the cost of my own and leave you alone. I took hope in the fact that my sacrifice would save the village and you would have a future."

"But it was not to be. A second before I activated the seal the demons took me, pulling you from my arms." said Minato as he looked at his arms "Then the clone faked the seal before the Kyuubi sealed himself within you."

"That doesn't explain anything." stated Naruto "You could have come."

"Yes….I could have." said Minato "Naruto….you and I are in a rare class of Ninjas we can do legendary things, things that most ninjas could only dream of. We could make the portal and get to the demon world but your mother couldn't. I don't even think Sakura could make it either, could you leave her behind?"

Naruto said nothing as he looked at the ground

"You had twenty years to find a way and Adria found a way." said Naruto "You didn't try."

"We tried." said Minato "By God we tried….more times then we count and every time they caught your mother or they sealed the portal before we got though. One time we almost made it but they got your mother right at the portal and I got to the human world."

'What?" asked Naruto as he looked toward his father.

"I saw you before you where brought here Naruto." explained Minato "It was almost three years after we turned, we found this hole in their defenses….it was perfect we could get there and get to the human world, back to you back to the Leaf. We had just activated the portal, it took a few second and we thought we had made it when they grabbed your mother and pulled her out, I was sent to the human world and she stayed in the demon world."

"You made it back." said Naruto

"Yes.' said Minato "I made it to the Leaf and to you."

"What?" asked Naruto

"It was there I made my biggest mistake, one that still haunts me to this day." said Minato

Flashback

Minato stood by the edge of the bed looking down at the sleeping figure, the room was darkened the only source of light coming from an open window letting in the moon light. Minato smiled as he looked down at the sleeping figure, there was his son. He had dreamed of this moment for years, he was finally going to hold his son again. Slowly knelt down the moon light bathing both of them as he moved out to touch his son's hair, slowly he ran his hand though his son's hair. His face looked so much like his own only the whisker markers where difference.

"You are just making it harder." said a voice as Minato knew what was behind him.

"I will not let you get away with this." said Minato as he turned to face a single demon fox. He wasn't expecting a single fox, maybe a whole squad but a single fox.

"Minato you need to stop this and come back." said the fox

"No." said Minato

"Then you will lose your mate and second child." said the fox as Minato's eyes widened "Kushina is pregnant."

"What?" asked Minato as he remembered Kushina throwing up in the morning before they tried their escape.

"You are going to be a father again." said the fox "And if you don't come with us quietly and peacefully once your child is born we will take it away from Kushina. How would your mate deal with losing another kit."

"You son of a bitch." growled Minato

"And if you try anything like this again we will take your child away." said the fox

End Flashback

"I gave in." said Minato as Naruto looked toward him "I knew that Kushina couldn't take the lost of a second child, I had seen the look in her eyes for over three years it was the same look that I sure you have seen, when someone loses everything and they have nothing to live for."

"Suicide." said Naruto

"Yes, your mother cried almost every night so I made my choice and every day I regret it." said Minato "I choice to sacrifice you, my son to save the rest of the family. "

"What did mom think of your deal?" asked Naruto

"She doesn't know." answered Minato "No reason for her to feel my shame, so Naruto you can hate me but don't hate your mother unlike me she deserves your love. Me I don't deserve to be called your father, I made horrible mistakes that caused you pain something no true father would do to their child."

Naruto took a breath as he thought about it, as much as he wanted to hate his father for doing what he did he couldn't. Maybe it was the emotion of just having his father be alive or maybe he wasn't sure if he wouldn't do the same thing in the same place. Could he leave Sakura behind if he had to save the Leaf and all his other friends, he just didn't know.

"Why didn't you tell me this before?" asked Naruto

"When? You just got here." said Minato

"What about when I was losing control of the Kyuubi and you showed up to seal it back up?" asked Naruto as his father turned and looked at him, it was the first time he had seen his father during the talk, his eyes where watering as if he was fighting back tears.

"What are you talking about? I never talked to you until a few days ago." said Minato as Naruto raised an eyebrow

"But that is how I found out about my parents. I was losing control of the Kyuubi and you appeared and sealed it back within me." said Naruto as his eyes widened "Wait could it have been a trick, the Kyuubi taking your form."

"Sounds like something they would do." said Minato as Naruto shock his head as he suddenly felt a pain in his gut as he fell to his knees. Instantly Minato rushed to his son's side. "Naruto."

"What is going on." said Naruto as Minato did a quick scan of his son quickly spotting the problem.

"Hang on." said Minato as a ripping sound filled the air as Naruto's pain left .

"What happened?" asked Naruto as he looked at his father only to see a single tail coming out from himself.

"A tail grew in." answered Minato as he helped his son to his feet.

'Listen Naruto I don't deserve your forgiveness but….." started Minato

"Listen Dad." said Naruto as Minato smiled just being called Dad again "I think I can understand why you would do it, but I will need time to process."

"Understandable." said Minato

Meanwhile in the human world Shikamaru Nara ran as fast as possible alongside Temari of the sand running behind them at a slightly slower rate were other guards from the nations. Among them was the Samui one of the main students of the current general in charge of the occupied army Killer Bee.

"Now our first step is to take care of killer Bee." stated Samui

"How are we going to take care of Killer Bee?" asked Ao from Kirigakure as the top aid of the Mizukage.

"That shouldn't be as hard as you think it will be." said Samui as they neared the occupied country. A moment after she said that a female Leaf ANBU landed on the branch in front of them. Shikamaru and Temari knew instantly who was standing in front of them. The long dark blue hair and the fair skin was a dead giveaway even before she took off her mask showing her deep white byakugan eyes.

"Shikamaru what are you doing here?" asked the heiress of the Hyuuga clan Hinata Hyuuga as her teammates Kiba Inuzuka and his ninja dog Akamaru landed on a different branch, across from them Shino Aburame walked out from behind cover a single flying insect.

"It is strange for five high level ninjas one from each of the nations to be traveling as fast as possible." said Shino "So the question is why?"

"A situation has arisen and we need to send all the armies back to protect the villages." said Shikamaru

"Well Killer Bee is currently holding one of his stupid singing contest where he is the judge." stated Kiba

"No….it it hard to explain but Killer Bee is an unwitting spy and we need to take him out quietly." said Samui

"Killer Bee is a spy?" asked Hinata "That doesn't make sense, which is like saying Naruto-kun is a spy."

"In a way he was." said Temari as Hinata's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates "The Demons used him to spy on us?"

"What?" asked Kiba

"We are at war with the demons, turns out the tailed beasts where a fake there are demon races who are going to war against us." said Shikamaru

"What is their goal?" asked Shino

"There goal is to turn humans into demons, they did it with Naruto's parents along with others and they are likely doing it to Naruto and Sakura right now." Stated Temari

"What about Naruto-kun?" asked Hinata

"He is likely at this moment turning into a demon." stated Samui as Hinata looked as if she had been hit by one of Naruto's air bullet justu "We can't trust him even if he or Sakura does show up."

"Why would they take Sakura?" asked Kiba "I mean she is a great medic and it would almost impossible to replace her skills but she isn't a direct combat ninja."

Shikamaru and Temari looked at each other trying to figure out how to saw why the demons wanted human and maybe why they took Sakura however that idea may set Hinata off. Both of them knew that Hinata loved Naruto and the idea of him with Sakura may be too much.

"Well for breeding." stated Ao as Hinata looked at him.

"What?" asked Hinata

"Well according to what Shikamaru told us on the way here, they want humans because they lose the ability to have kids and they want their race to live." said Ao "They may want Naruto and Sakura to have kids."

"No.' snapped Hinata "My Naruto-kun would never fall for the woman who used to beat on him as a kid."

"I don't know Hinata." laughed Kiba "Some guys like that."

"Shut up." ordered Hinata in a tone that sent Kiba back and Akamaru's tail down between his back legs.

"This isn't helping we need to move….we don't know when the demons will strike." stated Samui as she pushed past Hinata "If they haven't already."

In the demon world Sakura had walked toward the bathroom after a talk with Adria. She already had a feeling what was happening but she need to see it for herself as she sat down on the toilet before taking off her boots. She could hardly get the boots off without wincing in pain as finally pulled them off. She looked down to see that her leg from where the boot stopped down was now covered with black fur, but that wasn't all as her toe nails had grown out into sharp black claws. She watched in horror as her big toe moved up her leg forming a dir claw.

"My God." said Sakura as flexed her toes, her now fox toed curled. Instantly Sakura looked away as she grabbed her boots and tried to force them back on but it wasn't going on.

"Adria where is Sakura?" asked Naruto's voice from the other side of the door as Sakura pulled on the top of her boots trying to get them on only to have a load ripping sound fill the air.

"Crap." said Sakura as she looked down to see that her toe claws had cut the side of her boot in half. In frustration she threw her boots aside.

"Looks like you have no choice but to walk around bare footed." said Inner Sakura as Sakura threw her destroyed shoes into the small trashcan beside the sink. She placed her foot on the tile only to have a shiver run down her leg as the cold tile touched her padded foot. Sakura shock her head as she walked out the door only to see Naruto's back a single blonde tail tipped with snow white fur. His father was standing nearby his tail moving slowly as the two of them looked over the map. Sakura took a second to look at the two of them just comparing father and son. At a glance they almost looked like clones but there were some differences apart from the whisker marks. Naruto was just a hair taller than his father and the fur on the tip of his tail was a little brighter white then his father's. Something more in line with his mother's fur color then his father.

Sakura took a step only to have her new claws click against the wooden floor, that sound got Naruto and the others attention as they looked toward Sakura.

"Looks like you're not the only one to have something change." said Adria as Naruto looked down at Sakura's feet.

"Let's not focus on the change." said Sakura

"Ok, but if you feel a pain in your leg sit down at once." ordered Minato

"Why?" asked Sakura as Minato looked down at his own leg, his lower leg around the part where the blonde fur turned black was a second joint which pushed the leg back a bit.

"Because when the second joint comes in your fall flat on your face." answered Minato "However when the point comes in you will be able to run faster."

"We will need all the speed to get to the portal before they lock it down." said Adria

"We will not be going anywhere." said Minato as Naruto looked at his father there was a look in his eye which normally didn't belong in Naruto's eyes, a slight distrust it was something Adria wouldn't notice but Sakura saw with ease. "Not yet at least, not like you two like this."

'Like what?" asked Naruto

"In-between human and demon." answered Sakura as Naruto looked at her. "They would spot us in an instant but if we wait and turn demon on the outside we can blend easier."

'Well you will be a little harder to blend in." said Adria "I don't think there are more than two pink foxes and none of them your shade of pink, still it stand out less than a human."

"We will also need to convince them you are embracing Demon hood, it may make them lower their guard." stated Minato

"How do we do that?" asked Adria as her father shrugged.

"Sleeping together." said Kushina Namikaze as she walked down the stairs, as Sakura and Naruto looked at her. "If you want to make them think you embraced Demon hood make them think you two are mated and then Seth would report it to the higher ups."

"You want me to sleep if your son?" asked Sakura as Inner Sakura danced for joy.

"I said let them think you two are sleeping together." stated Kushina as she looked at Sakura "They would think the two of you are enjoying demon hood and they don't know Sakura's mind is protected by that inner self."

"That could work." said Minato as Naruto and Sakura looked at each other.

First I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I hope you liked this chapter and the reason why Minato never came for Naruto. I will be spending Christmas with my family so I will not update again till next Friday. Until then please keep reading, Thanks Wilkins75.