I saw it all (Naruto Fan-fiction)

Chapter 5: Broken bonds

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As I was writing the story I realized I was listening to a lot of music scores and I typically like reading while listening to them. So I came up with an idea to provide you with music that you can listen to while reading my story.

I made a Spotify playlist that will have a new addition to it as the story goes along. The fifth song on the playlist corresponds to this chapter. :)

You can find it here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2otIKWcR3th5fkswnUDXNe?si=67f0ff1aa8a1408d

Minato woke up in the middle of the forest clearing, a light headache still clouding his mind. The sky above them was dark meaning that it has been at least a few hours after Naruto poisoned him and that young Uchiha and fled the scene.

'How could this happen?' - Minato thought to himself, he felt his eyes sting, the tears of sadness and despair threatening to escape - 'I can't let this happen. I won't! I have to save my son from this darkness if it is the last thing I do'

Looking to the side he noticed a young black-haired boy still laying on the ground unconscious. Minato slowly got up determined to wake his son's young comrade up. As he was getting up he could feel his whole body ache still recovering from that poison. His chakra reserves weren't restored back either. It really was a miracle he could wake up as all given that he was, well, dead for so many years. He really didn't have time to lay back and relax after he was brought back to life. Truth is the only reason he was brought back to life was his son's murderous outburst. It really scared him, but somehow he could also understand, he saw all of that too. What Naruto went through...no child deserved to go through that. Minato blamed himself for all of that, Kushina begged him to stay with Naruto and protect him, but he thought he could protect them both and that plan did not work well, did it? And now his only child, his precious golden-haired boy was truly lost, a missing-nin, a rogue shinobi, a criminal in the bingo book. His sweet child succumbed to the darkness. He had to figure out a way to fix this, to save Naruto from this path of darkness he was now walking.

All these thoughts clouded Minato's mind as he walked towards the unconscious Uchiha.

"Hey, are you all right? Can you hear me? Sasuke is it?" – Minato gave Sasuke a little shake and saw the boy slowly open his eyes. Suddenly he jumped up and groaned suddenly realizing that he was still in no condition to stand up properly, so he tumbled down to the ground again and looked Minato in the eyes.

"Where is my friend? What did you do to him? Who are you?" – Sasuke bombarded Minato with questions a look of distrust on his face

"Well, you might not believe me if I tell you who I am, but trust me I really am telling the truth" – the blonde man said rubbing the back of his head – "My name is Minato Namikaze, but you might know me as the Fourth Hokage, I am also Naruto's father and I was sent here to save him from hmmm... well, from himself". With that Sasuke's eyes widened.

"So you are telling me you got back from the dead to save your son, who is apparently Naruto? That's, ughh, well that sounds like total nonsense, but at the same time you would've killed me if whatever you are saying wasn't your true mission, but maybe care to elaborate how you are here in the land of the living?" – with that the black-haired bay sent a stern and questioning look towards the Fourth.

"Well hmm, let's just say that I've been looking over my Naruto for a while and given the current situation after countless pleas, I was finally granted a wish and a chance to save my son, a second chance at life"

"Hn, so where is Naruto then? Seems like so far you are not doing your job very well" – Sasuke saw Minato's face form a frown. Ignoring the young Uchiha's jab at his obvious misstep, Minato looked at him with a sad and apologetic look as he said:

"I really underestimated my son; I didn't expect him to be so angry and so out of it. Care to explain what led him to that in more detail? I wish to know what really pushed him off the rails. As much as I saw parts of what happened to my son, I didn't see all of it and I want to understand." – Minato saw Sasuke's face suddenly hardened.

"It was my fault, Hokage-sama." – a single tear rolled down the young boy's cheek – " It was after Chunin exams, Orochimaru attacked the village during our final round. I was foolish and reckless, filled up with anger, determined to seek revenge on my older brother Itachi. I sought more power and Orochimaru promised to give me that. Even though Orochimaru killed the third Hokage, I still wanted to seek him out. I was willing to leave the village and become a rogue until Naruto stepped in. I was already out of the village when Naruto caught up to me. He tried to reason with me, but I was too stubborn to open my eyes to the truth, so I challenged him. That blonde idiot obviously wouldn't let me go so we fought. Our biggest fight ever. It was gruesome and tiring but in the end, he won. He won despite the fact that my jutsu put a hole in his chest. I could've killed him if it wasn't for the Kyuubi. But he won and he survived. He was so happy, but not for long...Upon our return, the elders of the village and the villagers didn't see Naruto as a hero but as a monster who in their eyes almost killed the only living Uchiha. It was disgusting and the treatment got even worse, and it completely went out of hand that night Danzo's ROOT ANBU attacked him, and he went all psycho on all of us. He escaped the next day and despite all protests from the elders and Tsunade, I followed him here. The rest...well, you know the rest"

"I see" – was all Minato could say – "I guess right now we have no choice but to come back to the village"

"What? You are not going to go after Naruto? Why would you just leave him?" – Sasuke exclaimed, a visible frown on his face

"We are not leaving him. At this point in time, none of us is strong enough to catch up to him and besides I can't even feel his chakra anymore, he masks it too well" – 'I'd be really proud of that fact in other circumstances but now is not the time' – Yondaime thought to himself

"Our only hope right now is that Naruto doesn't make too many mistakes on his way and keeps his cool. What we can do now is go back to the village and report to your Hokage. Tsunade? Really?" – Minato sent a questioning look and saw the young boy nod

"Oh well... where was I? Oh yes, our only plan right now should be to report to the Hokage and then rest and plan a search mission. Understood?" – the Fourth received another nod – "Well, let's go then!"

With that, the Fourth Hokage and the young Uchiha set their course towards the Village Hidden in the Leaf. 

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And doneee! Any thoughts? 

Wanted to focus this chapter on the brief backstory of why Naruto acted out so much in the first place. Now the next chapter will likely focus on Minato arriving to the Leaf and the one after that will bring us back to Naruto and the Akatsuki. After that we get to have a time-skip! Yay, I even made a sketch of my own version of the Akatsuki Naruto. Will post it in that chapter. So really can't wait.

Until next time :)