Chapter 128 - Minato… and his life... (1/2)
Chapter 128
Title: Minato… and his life...
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-Minato POV-
I look around me and see a bunch of Jounin just getting drunk. I don't really blame them… honestly any of them could die in the coming war… actually most of them might die. Even, I myself might die… during the 2nd ninja war I didn't really participate in a lot of all out wars, usually Jiraya -sensei was around to help me and not let me die. War is so chaotic, one stray kunai and you could easily die, Kushina has been helping me lately sharpen my instincts even more, after all I don't want to teleport in front of a kunai and die.
My Shunshin and Hiraishin are my best moves right now. Since battles can last so long amongst a big number of ninja, I usually save chakra and use Shunshin or Hiraishin. That is how I earned myself the moniker Yellow Flash, I even have a bounty of 64 million. Though amongst the Konoha S rank I am quite new. Also I don't have a finishing move in my arsenal… I definitely need that. Plus I have Kakashi to take with me… I truly hope he survives this war… poor child… his father committed suicide and he was the first to find the dead body. Anyway I look at the clock and see that Yami will come in five minutes… he is very punctual about things like this and will always be on time… like exactly on time...
As I am currently sitting on one of the tables as I wait for Yami… now that is an amazing person if I have ever seen one.
Ever since I was young I was way better than all of my peers… I understood that… so I liked to help my friends be as good as me… after all having another friend watching your back is never bad. I even wanted to graduate with my friends… which would have been when we were all ten… but then I saw him… Yami Inuzuka.
Everything I did good, he did it perfectly, he easily broke through all of the records I had set in the Academy. Even while he did all that… I noticed that he didn't see any of these things worth his attention. He didn't even care that he was the best in his class. Since I am a long range sensor I was able to sense his chakra clearer when he was further away from me. He even had a higher chakra amount.
That is when I understood… I will never be Hokage if I don't give it my all. So I decided to graduate at eight years old, two years before the time I had decided previously. I decided to train with my Jonin techier Jiraiya as hard as I could. I wanted to put as much distance as I could between Yami Inuzuka and me.
And I made great progress and Jiraya -sensei even decided to make me the next Toad Summoner. I could confidently say that I had left Yami in the dust in just one year… but as soon as he became a genin… he caught up to me… and more… so you could say the rest was history.
But Yami is also better with women, the girls loved him. I remember the way Kushina used to look at him. She always had those dreamy eyes and longing expressions on her face when she saw Yami. But then that fated day came… when Kushina was kidnapped… we saved her… and for the first time I understood… no deep down I had known that a long time ago, but I simply didn't want to accept it….. Yami Inuzuka never even saw me as competition, I was just a stepping stone for him.