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Bringing Home Back to You	By : eksimenrol Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 1395 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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- 1-Bringing Home Back to You
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�� Quick notes:� Alright, as far as I know most of this is
plausible cannon.� And by that I mean I
have tried to work with all the ages so that things make sense.� Basically this story takes place 9 years
before Naruto was born.� At this time
Minato is age 17 and Kushina is 16.� This
also takes place the year or a few months before Kakashi graduates the academe
at the age of 5.

Brining Home Back to You

I remember the first thing I said when I
laid eyes on her.� Hguah.� After that old pervert of a sensei of mine
fingered my tongue back into my mouth I was able to respond properly, if
inadequately.� Wow!� I don�t think I said
another word after that.� Well I don�t
remember saying anything else that night.�
I also remember his response to my reaction to that angel.� He clipped me across the back of my head with
his palm and told me that she was way out of my league.� She was the daughter of the leader of the Whirlpool Village.� That only made me want to try harder.

�� So
I asked her out.

�� At
first she laughed with all her friends.�
Ten straight minutes of laughing at me.�
When she finally stopped she looked at me closely and told me that there
would never be a day where she would stoop so low as to go out with me.� I was in love.� So I asked her again the next day.� And again the day after that.� Every day she visited our village I would ask
her out.� And every day she would turn me
down.� After five years of knowing each
other I hadn�t gotten her to budge one inch for me.� She was stubborn I�ll give her that.� But then again, so am I.

�� Every
time I saw her, I�d ask; every time she heard me she�d decline.� It almost turned into a perverse joke between
the two of us.� Then it happened.

�� Her
village was attacked.� No one was exactly
sure who it was that attacked them.� But it was thorough with a capital T.� Almost all of their shinobi had been killed
or maimed in the attack.� Most of the
villagers too had been slaughtered.� So
they fled to the only ally they had.� The
only nation they trusted more than any other in the world.� I remember that day more than any other.

�� I
didn�t even start my latest speech to woo her.�
I stared deep into her eyes, shut my open mouth and walked away.� Before I left thought I caught a smile
forming on her lips.� She was slightly
happy that I saw her pain and didn�t make it worse.� It wasn�t until later that I learned what had
happened to her and her people.�� I was
the first to volunteer to reconnoiter the village.� I was the only one to do so as well.

�� It
was three weeks before I saw her again.�
Three weeks she spent in solitude. Three weeks I thought she was getting
better.� So I asked her out.� And she snapped.� She was furious.� She beat me; she must have let out all of her
frustrations on me.� Her fears, her
anger, all of it.� When she was finished
I was left holding her, wiping away all of her tears.� That was when she asked me that
question:� why are you doing this?� Why was I helping her like this?� She told me that I should know by now that I
have no chance of ever being with her.� And
so she said it.� If I ever wanted to be
with her, she would only think about it if, and only if, I brought her homeland
back to her.

�� That
was three days ago.� Three days and I
can�t get that ultimatum out of my head.�
She wants her home back.� She
wants her home back and that�s the only way she�ll ever agree to go out with
me.� And as stupid as it sounds, that�s
what I�m going to do.� No matter the
cost, whatever it takes.� I�m going to
bring back her homeland or die trying.

�� Now
I just need to figure out how to do
it.� One man is not an army.� And trying to retake the land by force is
just stupid.� Besides, from what some of
the survivors were saying, half the village was flooded by a tsunami shortly
after they fled.� Now that made no sense,
Whirlpool is completely land locked.� The
only water around for miles is the lake with the whirlpool the village is named
after.� So how do you get a giant tidal
wave?� It had to be a water jutsu, but
why attack a peaceful village?� There are
too many questions and too few answers for this.� I need a fresh look at things.� Before I go running off without a plan, I�m
going to get some help.� Maybe I�ll talk
to sensei, he�s fairly wise, well when he�s not acting like a pervert that
is.� Or maybe I could talk with that Nara fellow, what�s his
name, Shikaku.� I heard he�s some kind of
genius; he even made jounin at his age, fourteen is still fairly early for that.�

�� What
am I thinking; he�s on that super team, Team Ten the Ino-Shika-Cho combo.� And they�re off on some mission, probably
trying to spy on some smalltime group with delusions of taking over the
world.� Well I guess I�m going to have to
go it alone.

�� This
is going to be quite fun.� That�s it not to self, don�t try to use
sarcasm, I can�t pull it off.� Okay
Minato, think!� There has to be some way
of getting her home back, what is it?� Sneak
in and kill everyone there before they see me?�
That would be the shinobi way, but what if refugees are there?� I don�t want to kill innocent people trying
to scavenge pieces of their broken lives.

�� I
don�t know enough of what I�m going into.�
And I can�t go asking too many
people about it because someone might catch wind of my plans and try and stop
me.� Hell I should be stopped, what I�m
doing is crazy.� But as dad used to say anything at all for the woman you love.

�� Maybe
I should just go running off and make it up as I go?� Usually that works for me.� Granted usually every plan I�m in gets
screwed up and I need to think on the spot to stay alive.� But how do I get out of the village?� It�s not like I can just leave and say I�ll
be back in a few days.� I need an excuse
for being gone.� An easy solo mission
would work, but it would have to be something that would bring me near that
area, or at least give me an excuse to add the few days it�ll take to get there
and back.� There are a few villages near
the border.� Maybe there�s a patrol going
through them that I can hitch on to.� I
better go see the Hokage.

�� You
want a mission that takes you to one of the villages near our border.� Particularly the ones near the easier
crossings to Whirlpool.� Is she worth
throwing your life away?�

�� Um,
wow I didn�t think you�d figure me out.�
Is she worth it, yes.� I would do
anything for her sir; I would risk my life without second thought.� This is something I have to do for her.�

�� The
man sitting at his desk gave a long sigh.�
�What made you come to your decision Minato?�

�� I�ve
loved her from the moment I laid eyes on her.�
It�s common knowledge that I�ve been turned down each and every time
I�ve asked her out.� The last time was no
exception, but she said to me that she would never go out with me in a million
years.� She told me the only hope I had was
to bring her home back to her.� The day
all the refugees showed up I saw the look on her face.� I don�t want her to ever have to look that
way again.� I want her to be happy
again.�

�� Even
if she won�t go out with you?� Even if
you can�t reclaim the village?�

�� I
have to try; I owe her my best shot.�

�� The
old man gave me a long hard stare.� He
looked deep into my eyes and I could swear he was searching my soul for a hint
of a lie.� After what seemed like hours
but was probably only minutes he cracked a small smile.� �Minato son, you�ve seem to have taken to
heart the one piece of advice I�d hoped Jiraiya would have learned from
Tsunade.� You�re thinking with your heart
in this matter.� Take this.�� He reached into one of the drawers of the
desk and pulled out a small package.�
�This has to go to the Village of the Sakura Blossoms, a mister Haruno
is looking for the information inside.��
His smile grew into a deep grin.�
�It should take out about 10 days to complete the mission, 13 if you run
into trouble.�

�� Ten
days?� What is he talking about, at the
most it would take me 3 days to get there, and that�s if I were walking and
camping each night.� I can make it there
and back in 3 days.� He�s giving me the
time I need to go to Whirlpool.� �Thank
you sir, you can count on me!�

�� I
was almost out the door when he called out to me.� �Oh and Minato, good luck and don�t take any
unnecessary risks.�

�� I
couldn�t help but grin at that.� �No
promises sir, I�d hate to go back on my word.�

�� This
is good.� All I have to do is rush this
package over to that Haruno guy and then make my way to Whirlpool.� Then all I have to do is figure out a way to
bring the village back.� Just have to
make the impossible possible.

�� Okay
time to pack.� I�m going to have to plan
like I would for a war.� I�m going to
need kunai, shiriken.� Alright, I think I
have enough weapons here.� Now all I have
to do is get the easy part of my mission over with, delivering that stupid
package.� If this was a normal mission,
I�d have brought a book to read on the way to the village.� Granted if this was a normal mission, I wouldn�t
be doing it alone.

I might as well leave
now, everything is ready and there�s nothing holding me back anymore.� Well maybe a quick stop at the cemetery to
say goodbye to mom and dad.

So I made my way
the town cemetery, and entered the area I knew my parents rested.� �Hey mom, dad.� I know I don�t come by all that often, but as
you know I�m quite busy.� I�ve gone and
done something stupid again.� She wants
her homeland back, and I�m going to do it for her.� At least I hope I can.� I just wanted to come by and say goodbye to
you before I go.� Because I�m not sure if
I�m going to make it back.� That�s kinda
the other reason I came here.� I wanted
to ask for your help.� I�m not exactly
sure how I�m going to pull off the grand quest of mine, and if I do manage to
pull it off, it�s going to be impossible to do so.� I wanted to know if you could make the
impossible possible for me, just this once.�
It�s only been a few years since the house burned down, I hear they
built an orphanage on the land, kind of fitting don�t you think?� You were orphaned at a young age, so was
I.� I miss you guys a lot and I try to
think about you every day.� Mom, help
make sure I don�t turn out like Jiraiya, dad help me get the girl.� As you said dad, anything at all for the one
you love, she called my hand and I�ve got to show her the cards.� I hope I have a winner now.�� I couldn�t help but smile at each of their
headstones.� I missed them dearly, but I
know they�re out there watching over me, and if there is any way for them to protect
me then they will do it.� Mom always said
that family makes the impossible possible, she always seemed to pull the
impossible off too.

I hope that
trait is hereditary.

I quickly made
my way out of the village and took to the trees.� It�s amazing how peaceful it can be up here,
rushing through the trees without cares.�
So peaceful it would almost calm my nerves.� Well on a normal mission it would.� But this is life or death, well life or death
for my love life.� I have to pull this
off, or I�m going to be alone forever.

It�s amazing how
quickly that village is coming closer, I don�t think I�ve ever actually moved
this fast before, it�s almost like I�m cutting through the air.� Granted I�m a man with a mission, well a more
personal mission.� But still, I don�t
think I should be arriving at the village this soon.� It should have taken me almost a whole day to
get her; it�s only been a few hours.�
Something isn�t right here, I�m more tired then I should be for a
journey this long.� I�ve used far too much
chakra for only 5 hours of running.�
Maybe I increased my speed without knowing, sort of like subconscious
jutsu use.� I�m going to have to look
into this later.� It�s almost like I�ve
removed all the air from in front of me and used it to propel me at greater
speeds.� This could come in handy
sometime.

Alright, I can
see the village gate; hopefully I can meet this Haruno guy and leave within the
hour.� If I�m lucky, he�ll be the first
guy I meet.� I just need to ask someone
who it is I�m looking for.� Maybe that
old man there with the red hair will know.�
�Excuse me sir?� I was wondering
if you knew where a Mister Haruno is, I have a package for him from the Hokage
on behalf of the Village
of Konoha.�

I wasn�t
expecting the deep laugh that greeted me.�
�Boy, I�m the Haruno you�re
looking for.� The name is Takato, and I
asked for that package for my son, he wants to try his hand at being a ninja,
so I asked for some information.� I
expected the Hokage would send a messenger, but I didn�t expect a ninja to be
the carrier.�

I couldn�t help
but scratch the back of my head in embarrassment.� �Well I sort of had a personal matter I had
to take care of near here, and it gave me an excuse to be in the area.�

�� Ah,
that explains your hurry then.� Well son,
I wish you good luck in your personal matter as you put it, and I hope that if
we ever meet again you could stop in and say hello.�

�� I
would enjoy that Mr. Haruno, but I really must be off, I really need to
hurry.�� I barely resisted the laugh the
man had at my expense as I ran out of the village.� I needed to move.� Something
in me said that if I didn�t get to the Whirlpool Village,
and soon, that I would miss my one chance to pull this grand scheme off.

�� Okay,
now how should I enter the village?� For
the most part there�s one entrance to it, but when has that ever stopped a
ninja?� I should probably follow the
river into the main square, and then climb to the outermost ring of the central
whirlpool.� But if I�m seen doing that
I�m screwed.� But it�s the most direct
route available to me, unless I climb the mountainside and enter along the
coast.� Damn, now I know why it�s never
been attacked before, there are really too many places you can be seen from
before you enter the village.� Hopefully
I can make it by nightfall, which should give me some cover.

�� Again
I noticed the trees flying by me far faster than usual.� I must be seeing things, loosing track of
time or something.� There is no way I can
be moving like this.� It�s impossible to
move this quickly.� I must be too focused
on what I have to do and not paying attention to how much time is passing, it�s
already getting dark, and from the looks of it that large jutting rock up ahead
could be the village.� Looks like I�m an
hour or so away from facing my destiny, looks like this is it.

�� One
hour.� That was how long it took me to
get to the river entrance.� In that
single hour, so many thoughts passed through my head that I wasn�t sure what I
should do when I actually got there.� So
I looked around.� I looked for any sign
that would show me a sign of who or what had done this.

�� The
village was devastated; not a building was left standing in its entirety.� Water was pooling in the many craters and
sink holes in and around the area.� Each
ring of the village was more damaged as you got closer to the core. The core
itself was a large stagnant pool, with large rocks and remains of buildings
jutting out.� It was odd, only days had
passed from when it was attacked, but there was more damage than I could ever
imagine.� It would take years for this to
happen, that or someone is still here!

�� It
was sudden, I felt sharp pin prick in the back of my neck and I was out cold.

�� As
I slowly became accustomed to consciousness once again, I realized I had made
the most rookie of mistakes.� I didn�t pay attention to my
surroundings.� And now I have to sit
through the worst part.� Where the guys
who caught me gloat over their skills and smarts at capturing me.

�� Or
in this case the two girls who
captured me.� I don�t even think they�re
aware I�m able to hear them, actually I�m starting to wonder why I�m not
listening in on their conversation.� Man
that red head sure has a whiney voice.

�� I
don�t care how horny you are, we were told to throw the bodies of anyone we
find into the water to make it look like they drowned.� So stop saying you want to fuck him.�� Wow, she wants me.

�� It�s
not that I want to fuck him Senta,
it�s just that it�s been so long since I�ve seen a man, and he�s not that bad
of a looker.� Please, just give me a few
minutes; I�m sure he could get me off by then.�
After that I�ll let you throw him in.��
So they�re just going to throw me in the water?� That won�t work, all I have to do is swim
away and I�ll be safe.

�� However
that would be very hard to do when I can�t move!� They must have paralyzed me with
something.� �No, we don�t have the
time.� We�re late already; if we take any
longer the boss is going to punish us.�
And you know how he likes to do it too.��
The two of them shuddered as they got up from their small camp and
walked towards me.

�� Crap,
they�re getting ready to kill me.� I need
to get out of this.� Struggling isn�t
working.� It�s really not working, and
it�s giving me a cramp.� Then I was hit
with something else, the Senta woman lifted me over her head with one
hand.� She must be really really strong, I�m not too sure I want to face her.� And if she�s this bad, what about her friend?� �Help me out here will you, you�re in my
way.�

�� She
was walking towards the edge or a precipice.�
And now she�s going to throw me over it into that large pool of
water.� I still can�t move!� I�m going to drown.� This is not good, not good at all.� I need a way out and fast!

�� Too
late, Senta decided to throw me in.� Now
that I�m able to look out, I�m able to notice just how high I was when she
threw me.� I must have been on top of one
of the tallest buildings of the outer rim.

�� As
I fell I couldn�t help but think one thing.�
I let Kushina down.� I did my best
and it wasn�t good enough.� She�s
probably going to hate herself because of this.�
She�s going to blame herself for my death.� I don�t want her to do that.� I have to live!� The water was freezing cold as I plunged into
the water.� As I drifted to the depths of
the water I struggled as hard as I could to free myself.� Nothing was working, and everything I was
doing only seemed to make it worse.

�� This
is getting me nowhere, and all it is doing for me is wasting air.� There�s no way I can force my way out of this
paralysis, so I�m going to have to wait it out then.� Which means I�m going to have to find a way
to breathe underwater or grow gills.�
Damnit why couldn�t I have learned some water jutsu?� All I need is to make an air bubble, just a
simple pocket of air.

�� Maybe
that�s it.� Maybe I can push back the water
around me and make a bubble of air.� I
just hope this works.� All I have to do
is create a sphere of chakra and slowly expand it.� I just hope I have enough chakra left to pull
this off.

�� I�m
running out of air, this isn�t going to work.�
I�ve made the sphere, but it isn�t getting much bigger than three feet
wide.� Damnit, if my hands weren�t locked
at my sides I�d be able to pull it off.�
It�s using all my concentration to get it this big, damnit!� I�m screwed, no
matter what I try, I�m a dead man.� There
is no way I�m going to get out of this now.�
I might as well try and go out with a bang.� Maybe I can restart that famous whirlpool
this place is known for.� I�ll just spin
the shell of chakra and watch the water twirl.

�� Wow,
that�s a fairly large funnel forming from my sphere.� It�s almost big enough to reach the surface;
I may just restart this thing after all. Maybe they�ll rename it after me, The
Great Namikaze Whirlpool.� That has a
nice ring to it.

�� But
damnit, it isn�t working!� It�s too
small.� That�s not going to last, hell it
won�t even be worthy of being called a whirlpool.� I should just give up.� I�m starting to see spots.� Crap I�m out of air.� Well I guess it was a good life, for how
short it was.

�� That
when it happened.� My attempt at saving
my life flared out and failed, collapsing in on itself.� The resulting shockwave from the water
rushing in on itself was amplified by the rotation it was undergoing and
radiating outward to the unstable rock face.�
The effect was immediate, utter destruction and I had passed out.�

�� It
was hours later that I awoke to discover I was both alive and able to
move.� I also was able to realize the
luck I had at avoiding death when I broke the dam as it were.� I managed to remain in the bowl shaped
bottom.� I noticed around me the damage
done to the village proper, either I had done more damage in my rescue stunt
that I thought, or Senta and her people were really effective.� But first things first, I�m going to learn
from my mistakes and keep an eye on my surroundings.� No one�s going to sneak up on me again.

�� I
guess no one thought to check on me after I was thrown in, that or they were
gone shortly thereafter.� I need to get
out of this village and get back home, there�s nothing I can do here, and even
if I could by the time I come back with repair crews this place will be lost.

�� Damnit!��
Damnit, why the hell does this have to happen?� I gave her my word that I would bring this
place back to her.� And now, it�s so far
gone that the best I could do is grab a stone and take it with me.

�� My
my, what do we have here?� It seems one
of my girls failed to kill you.�� I had
to wince at my luck. Twice in one day
I�m caught off guard by complete strangers with the desire to kill me.� Do I have some sort of target on my back or a
sign that says kill me?� �You should
probably just save me the trouble and kill yourself now, you don�t stand a
chance kid.� Heh, like this village
you�re doomed to be destroyed.�� His deep
voice was starting to get on my nerves.�
I mean honestly, is it a rule that if you are and evil sadistic bastard
you need to have a really deep and creepy voice?

�� I
have to ask, who your voice coach is, he does good work.� Everyone who�s tried to kill me pulls off the
same tone.�� I looked up to face him and
paled at his height.� Why did he have to
be 7 feet tall?� �I mean that voice save me the trouble and die it�s
perfect.� You should do radio.�� I just need an opening, a simple opening.

�� What?��
And that bewildered expression will do nicely.

�� I
took the chance to stand.� �Radio, you
know.� You sit in a booth and talk to
people.� It�s easy, and with a classic
voice like that you�d be a big hit.�� I
slowly made my way to the edge of the bowl.�
�Really, you should give it a shot.��
Almost there.� �I mean what could
be the harm?�� almost there.

�� What?��
I think he�s in a loop.� And that
look on his face is priceless.

�� Well
I�ll let you think it over and get back to me on your thoughts.�� I leapt towards the first ring of the
city.� And only one thought was going
through my head.� I can�t believe he fell for that.

�� Then
as I was halfway towards my goal, he grabbed my leg and stopped me cold.� I winced as he threw me towards the cliff
face on the third ring.� Bracing myself
before it hit, I reflected upon how fortuitous my circumstance was.� The exit was on the third level, I�m closer
to my goal.

�� Or
I would be if I wasn�t suddenly flying backwards with his hand still clasped
around my ankle.� He never let go of
me.� He threw me 50 feet and never let go
of me.� Who is this guy?� And what kind of jutsu did he use that allows
him to have 50 foot long arms?

�� You
thought you tricked me?�� He slammed me
into the ground.� �You thought you were
so smart?�� He switched directions and
tossed me the other way, sending me back to my first crater.� �You�ve never faced me before, or my Rubber
Arm Jutsu.� Allow me to introduce
myself.�� He punctuated his words by
sending me flying into the ground yet again.�
Jumping into the air he pulled me close toward him.� �My name is Kojiru Hotoshima, and no one has
ever escaped me once they�ve entered my arms.��
And he proceeded to throw me high up into the air and slam me into the
ground on the first ring.

�� And
he let go of me and I lay there paralyzed in pain.� He must enjoy playing with his prey because
I�m fairly sure that I haven�t broken a bone yet.� I groaned as I looked up from the
ground.� There, right before me were two
beautiful orange flowers that had barely bloomed, surrounding them were a
broken tree and ruble from surrounding buildings.� I was livid.�
He landed a few feet away from me and started laughing as he walked over
to me crushing the tallest flower under his heel.

�� It
was bad enough that you killed everyone, destroyed everything.�� I stared deep into his eyes as I rose from
the ground.� �You destroyed everything
this village had to offer.� That on its
own is evil.� But the one thing I will
never stand for is that you made her cry.�
For that I will make you pay so help me god!�� I launched myself at him with all the
strength and speed I had.� I caught him
so off guard that it sent him flying over the edge of the ring and into the
empty bowl.� I put all I had into that
left hook and all I got in return was a few broken fingers and a few extra
seconds to make my escape.

�� I
turned my head towards the remaining flower and made up my mind.� If I couldn�t save the city, I�d save its
last living inhabitant even if it would kill me.� Reaching deep under the flower with my good
hand I removed the flower root and all from the earth.� I spared a quick glance at the man I had sent
flying.� He was slowly picking himself up
off the ground.� I didn�t have much
time.� With as much speed as I could
muster I made the leap to the third ring.

�� I
had made my way just outside the gates when I heard and angry yell from behind
me.� �No one ever gets away boy.� No one!��
I spared a glance to see him leaping to the trees just as I had minutes
earlier.� This wasn�t good, I�m injured,
bruised and beaten, I have one hand immobilized by broken fingers and the other
is cradling a flower.� This is not a
situation I want to be chased in, least of all by an arm extending giant with
an evil overlord complex.

�� Thinking
back to how fast I was moving on my journey to this place I threw what chakra I
had to spare into my feet sending me faster through the trees.� However it wasn�t near fast enough by the
string of curses that fell from my pursuer every time I felt the breeze of his
passing hand from behind my ankles.� He
was catching up and in a few minutes he would have me.

�� Again
I spared a quick look back to my opponent.�
And I saw the look of sheer delight at chasing down his prey.� I needed to move faster or else I was going
to be caught.� As a last ditch maneuver,
I threw every ounce of energy and chakra into one last leap from the nearest
tree branch.� I wasn�t expecting much,
maybe a few more seconds of distance between us.� But I triggered it.� That hidden boost I had received on my
earlier travels picked me up and sent me hurdling through the trees at speeds I
had never experienced before.� And it all
started with a bang.

�� It
was terrifying and thrilling and amazing.�
I was scared as hell and having the best time of my life.� And I couldn�t control a damn thing.� The trees started merging into one long green
blur.� My feet weren�t hitting the
ground, hell they weren�t even hitting the tree branches.� This isn�t right, I�m traveling far faster
than any man should and I have no control over where I�m going.� If this is how I was traveling before at full
power then it isn�t exactly the greatest skill to have, sure it boosts your
speed but go too fast and you won�t stop.�
Hell I�m not even sure where I am anymore.� It�s only been a few minutes since I left
Whirlpool, so I shouldn�tt have gotten too far away from it, but at whatever
speed I�m traveling at, I could be halfway or more on my way to Konoha.

�� This
is really not good.� How am I supposed to
stop?� Hell the way I�m going I�ll
probably stop when I fly straight into the gates of Konoha.� Wouldn�t that be a sight, Minato Namikaze,
famed student of the great Sanin Jiraiya kills himself by running into the
gates of the city at super speed.� I�m
sure a few people would get a laugh at that headline.

�� I�m
not sure how I didn�t realize it sooner, but I wasn�t feeling any wind on my
face.� As fast as I was traveling,
everything about my body appeared as if it were standing still. And if that�s
the case then something is creating a bubble around me where everything is
staying still, and the bubble itself is traveling at these insane speeds.�� So if I pop the bubble I should start to
slow down.� Assuming that is that I�m
correct about this.

�� So
how did I create this bubble, I guess I just pushed out with my chakra and pull
it back.� That�s it, I in my desperation
I pushed as much chakra as I could to give me more speed.� I must have push out against the air I was
rushing into with my wind nature.� I must
have formed a bubble around myself to protect me from the air rushing in around
my push.� And when that air came around
behind me it pushed me forward.� And if
that�s the case it�s going to increase exponentially from the beginning.

�� I
could be seconds away from Konoha and never know it before I go splat.� I need to pop this bubble now, but how?�
How do you pop a bubble of your own chakra that you didn�t knowingly
create?� Make another one and push it
out!� Okay, first I have to make one with
the little bit of chakra I have left.� 3
feet is still the best I can do, but it just might be enough.� I took the giant orb of chakra and thrust it
against the edge of what I assumed was the bubble surrounding me.

�� The
result was sudden and immediate.� There
was a booming pop as the wind rushed in to meet my face.� I had done it.� And not a moment too soon.� About 20 yards in front of me was the very
gate I was afraid of colliding with.� And
a mere 10 feet in front of me was a large tree and no hope of avoiding it.

�� So
I collided with in on my left side.� I
felt the pop as my arm dislocated itself at the shoulder.� I heard the cracks the bones shattered on
impact.� The pain was indescribable; I
wasn�t even able to scream as I broke through the dense foliage.� I bounced roughly as I hit the ground and
pain coursed through my left side. Each time I collided with the ground I
cradled the flower in my good arm keeping it from harm.� Slowly I rose from the ground and look upon
the open gate to the place I call home.

�� The
duty guard had rushed towards me before I got up, asking a slew of
questions.� Was I okay?� Did I need help getting to the hospital?� I can�t do that yet.� I have to see her first.

�� So
I walked past him, smiling as he gawked at me from his post.� I ran as hard as I could with what little
energy I had left.� My vision was
tunneling as I climbed the stairs of her apartment complex, belatedly
remembering that it was once the site of my parent�s home.� I stumbled at her door and fell against it
heavily.� She must have heard my commotion
as the door opened quickly, dumping me on the floor of her entryway.� Looking up into her eyes I tried to put words
to my predicament.� �Sor-� I failed to
finish my apology as my vision faded to black.

�� I
woke up in a stark white room.� I�d swear
that it was a hospital, but it smelled too nice.� �You�re an idiot Minato.�� I must be dead.� I�ve never heard those words sound so nice
from her lips.� �What were you thinking
going back there?� You could have killed
yourself.� Hell you showed up at my door
half dead already.� When I said I�d never
go out with you unless you brought back my village, I didn�t mean literally.� Well I didn�t really mean it, I just wanted
you to shut up and leave me alone.�
Honestly, what were you
thinking?�

�� I
looked over as Kushina as she sat in the only chair of the room.� I gave her a very goofy smile.� �I don�t think I was thinking when I decided
to do it, or at least I wasn�t thinking with my head.�

�� She
gave a very unladylike snort at that comment.�
�Men, always thinking with their dicks.�

�� I�ve
loved you from the day I first saw you Kushina.�
And I couldn�t stand the look on your face that you had when you told me
you wanted your village back.� You were
in so much pain I had to do something.�
So I followed the advice my father gave me years ago.� Anything at all for the one you love.� I would do anything to make you happy,
anything at all.�

�� You
could have gotten yourself killed!�� Is
she crying?� She can�t be.� �You stupid idiot.�� We sat there for quite a while, her quiet
sobs breaking the silence at random intervals and my sheepish smiles calming
her down from a full out breakdown.� Or
as much as I could smile with the way my face felt.� �Er, um that is, thank you for what you did.�

�� But
I failed.� Your village is destroyed and
there�s no hope of reclaiming it now, I failed.� I looked away from her in
shame, turning my head towards the open window.�
Where sitting on the small ledge before it was a simple orange flower in
a small glass vase.

�� You
rescued that flower, which is more than enough.�
My mother and I planted those flowers when I was just a few years
old.� It was one of the last things she
and I did together before she became sick and died.� I always thought that the only reason those
flowers survived was because her spirit willed them to.� You brought me back a piece of my mother, and
I can never repay you for that.�� She
looked hard at me.� �You better get
better soon Minato, or else I just might not go out with you like I
promised.� You may not have planed it,
but you brought me back a sense of home, and for that I�m going to agree to one date.� Anymore than that and you�ll have to earn
it.� I�ll leave you in the healing hands
of Lady Tsunade here, and I�ll see you tomorrow.�

�� And
then it happened, she smiled.� That same
happy smile that grazed her face the day we met.� As she said I might not have planed it but I
made her happy, and that�s good enough for me.�
I was glad that she left my room happy, mission accomplished.

�� JARAIA
YOU PERVERT!�� Unfortunately it seems
that nothing else had changed at all.� It
seems my sensei still didn�t understand Tsunade.� But all in all everything was right in the
world.� I�ve got a date with the woman I
love as soon as I get out of here, and she doesn�t hate me.� I followed dad�s family motto and everything
worked out, I guess he was right.

�� Anything at all for the one you love.

�� Good
words to live by.� Good words to teach my
kids.� Good words to teach the village.

Okay!� So I know a few people are wondering what the
hell was going on in some parts, so here�s a quick run through.

�The super speed he was using on first
travelling to the villages was a very weak Flying Thunder god Technique.� Essentially as I see it Minato is naturally
gifted with wind natured chakra.� He used
it in this instance to cut the air in front of him and remove all the air from
in front of him and have it gently push him forward from behind.� Sort of like running with the wind and having
it push you to go faster.

�� Later
on when he�s escaping Whirlpool, he actually activates a half finished version
of the jutsu.� The bang that is mentioned
is him breaking the sound barrier.� My
theory is that he propels himself so fast that there really isn�t much he can
do to slow down at those speeds.� So he
later creates a second part to the jutsu, where he channels his chakra into a
seal and applies it to a target location as a sort of anchor.� So that when he launches himself off, he can
do so in any direction and will always be drawn to that spot and only that
spot.� And once he reaches that spot he
is essentially glued in place until such a time as he deactivates the seal.

�� The
Mr. Haruno that is mentioned is not Sakura�s father.� It is her grandfather.� My theory is that because I have not seen or
heard of her parents in the manga (to my knowledge) and she lives in the
village, is that her father came there to be a ninja.� After a few years of doing missions he
retired when he met a nice merchant girl and they married and had a wonderfully
strong daughter.� She wanted to be a
ninja so they enrolled her into the academe.�
Shortly before she graduated the family was forced to leave their
daughter in Konoha and return to the Village of the Sakura Blossoms to take
care of the father, one Takato Haruno, Sakura�s paternal grandfather.� This would explain why they are never seen.

�� Lastly
is the move Minato used to escape the water bowl.� It is the first step in his creation of the
Rasengan.� Tsunade made reference that it
took him 3 years to master the move.� So
I assumed that he had to come up with an idea for the move, and what greater
form of inspiration is there than desperation.
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