Chapter 20 - Dreams (2/2)

Letting them laugh and easing the atmosphere, Minato took a serious face ”You have to promise me that you will not leak this conversation outside”

”First, I will ask you, what are your dreams?”

A bit bewildered, they still answered. ”I want to become Hokage to be respected by Konoha people”(Kushina) ”I want to make my father and clan proud of me”(Mikoto) ”I want to become the strongest clan head that the Inuzuka clan has never seen”(Tsume)

”I see, so your dreams are for others”, said Minato a bit disappointed, but he did expect it. After all, they were brainwashed to give their everything since childhood.

”What do you mean for others? And what is your dream?” questioned Tsume

”Since my mother died, a lot of things happened, which caused me to lose bit by bit my emotions. More accurately, you could say I sealed them” Seeing that Minato was talking about his past, the 3 of them perked up and paid full attention

”She was betrayed by my sister and brother because of my father's family, so since then, I lost all my trust in people.” Knowing what they wanted to ask he told them.”Don't worry about them, something happened and they died”

”My dream, you can say is falling in love with someone that I know will never betray me and have one big happy family, and if I train so hard it's for creating a safe environment for them. And well, maybe trying to regain my true self could be good too. I have too much walls and masks that I lost myself”

”Waaaaaaaaah” ”Sniff” Kushina and Tsume began to bawl their eyes out and jumped on him, touched, and even Mikoto was borderline crying. How hard was his life if he has lost his true self at such a young age?

Patting their backs awkwardly, he began to console them to stop their crying. Seeing that, Mikoto was amused, the guy with the sad story must consol the listeners of said story. Having regained their calms, they sat back down and blushed embarrassingly.

”What I want to say is that you should all focus on the people that you love instead of proving something to people you don't care about”

”Kushina, you want to become Hokage because you seek the acknowledgment of people that don't care about you. In the beginning, it was just to make a good impression, but now that you don't have a home anymore, you want those people to accept you. Me, Tsume, and Mikoto acknowledge you and love you, so instead of thinking of others, you should think on how to spoil us” Kushina lowered her head, a bit ashamed that she was wasting time to prove things to people that don't like her instead of striving to help her friends.

”Mikoto, it's ok for you to make your father proud of you because he is your family. But tell me, does your clan care about you? Do they are worth your dream?” Mikoto began to mull over that, it's true that apart from her father that loves her, the others don't care about her. The elders even forced her father to marry her off to some talented guy for the future of the clan.

”And Tsume, it's the same as Mikoto. Do you really consider people that you bȧrėly know as acquaintances under the same name as your family?” Tsume began to think about it too.

Seeing that they were at least considering his words, Minato was relieved. The concept of 'for the clan' and 'for the village' are deeply engrained in people of this world that they often lose themselves.

”Do you know what a clan is? And what is a village?” Hearing the question of Minato, they were a bit clueless after what he has told them. Before, they would have answered that it's a big family, but will a family despise them, or force them to do things they don't want?