Chapter 29: V.2 Chapter 1
-5 Years Later, 1 year before the third war started- (Yukan and Minato are 18)
Dark clouds covered the whole sky, not letting even a single ray of sunlight through. It was morning but the chirping of birds was nowhere to be heard. In such a gloomy atmosphere, an eerie breeze blew.
Yukan and Minato stood in the graveyard, looking at a tomb.
Behind them, Sakumo, Kushina and Kiyome stood looking at the two with a guilty expression.
"I-I am sorry Yukan." Kushina walked closer to Yukan and said while looking downwards and crying.
Yukan turned around and hugged Kushina. In a sad voice, he said," It's not your fault, Kushina. Don't worry."
Kiyome, who had also approached Minato waas comforted by him.
The two left the girls where they were and walked to Sakumo together. Behind Sakumo stood Kakashi and another boy with blonde hair.
The boy with blonde hair was saying," Nii-san, I-" but was interrupted by Yukan's cold glare.
His gaze clearly said that he did not want to hear what the boy had to say.
The boy then looked at Minato, hoping that he would at least hear what he had to say, but before he could start speaking, Minato said," Don't say anything, Kozuki."
Yukan then looked at Sakumo and asked in a cold voice," Where are they?"
Sakumo was silent and said nothing for a moment, but then, he said," Where he always is."
Yukan disappeared from there. He was so fast that Sakumo had a lot of difficulty seeing him leave.
As Minato was also about to leave, Sakumo grabbed his arm and asked," What are you both going to do? Don't do something that wi-"
Minato pulled his arm away from Sakumo and said," That is for us to decide."
Minato then disappeared and appeared again beside Yukan. The two stood at the edge of a hill and looked at a large group of shinobi below them.
Back in the graveyard, Kozuki asked Sakumo,"Uncle, what is going to happen now?".
"I don't know. Haah, come on, Kakashi, Kozuki let's go home. Kozuki will stay at our house today." Sakumo said as he put his hand on Kakashi and Kozuki's backs and gave them a very light push.
Everyone who was previously there had left and only Zetsu, who was hiding in a bush while looking at them, remained there.
"It is indeed going as I planned." Zetsu giggled and went under the ground.
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Back to when everything started, 2 years earlier. (When Yukan was 15 years old)
Sakumo had long since found out that Danzo was behind the things that happened on his mission but he had no concrete proof so he was not able to do anything to him.
Yukan was now known in the other villages as a powerful young ninja.
He was now at the Kage level but there was a big difference between him and someone like Sakumo. Not because of strength, Yukan had that more but rather, experience.
Though Yukan had been on the battlefield for four years, Sakumo had been on it for nine.
Sakumo was still able to beat Yukan but that was not something he did easily.
Though Yukan was already that strong, only Hiruzen and Sakumo knew about it. Yukan was still a jonin in official records.
If a 16 years old Kage-level powerhouse emerged in Konoha, Konoha would have more assassins than civilians.
But, none of this was big compared to what happened to the Norio family a few months ago.
One day, Minato came to Yukan's house to eat dinner. He came to Yukan's house for two years continuously and that day, he said," Only if I lived in this house too, I wouldn't have to walk so much every day to eat home made food."
Minato spoke in a sad tone, he expected some sympathy from Aayu but when Minato looked at her, she was almost crying.
Her motherly instincts were awakened. She had gotten attached to Minato after meeting him every day for two years and treated him as her son too.
Finally, after a few days of discussion and by Yukan's agreement (Which did not matter), Minato was adopted by Aayu into the Norio family.
With this, Minato became Minato Norio and also got a nickname,' Sweetie'.
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