Hidden Emperor Of The Naruto World

The next day, after the academy, in Minato's living room, their group was reunited. Apparently, the girls wanted to talk to him privately.

"So, what do you want from me?"

Having discussed it before, Kushina was the one who asked the question "Hum Minato, could you train us? "

Furrowing his brows, he began to ponder if the time was riped or not.

Seeing him brows furrowed in his thoughts, they thought that he will reject them and was searching an answer to not hurt them, and they became a bit depressed.

Minato opened his mouth "I can train you..." Seeing their hopefuls faces, he added "But, there will be conditions"

"We will do anything that you ask from us if we can, right girls" exclaimed Kushina, with Tsume and Mikoto acquiescing.

Having made his mind, Minato made his chakra pulse in a small lotus tattoo on his right hand, and from it came out a paper full of Fuinjutsu symbols on it, signifying 'Soundproof'

Using chakra to activate it, he placed it on the table between them, and a small invisible fluctuation occurred, making the surrounding 3 meters soundproof.

Kushina gasped, and exclaimed "Was that a storage seal Minato? How did you do it?"

"Well, like you already know I spent a lot of time with Mito-sama during that one month, and we didn't just sit there while looking at the walls."

"You're so lucky, I wish I have such a cool tattoo storage seal" pouted Kushina, a bit jealous that Mito didn't give her one.

"Well, I could help you have one later" Seeing that she was going to bounce of happiness, he hurriedly continued "This is a silencing seal, nobody will hear us now."

Mikoto was the fastest to catch on it "You're saying that there are people watching us?"

"Hm, yeah, but it's not important, I just want to prevent the conversation that we will have today from leaking out. And if you leak it outside this room..." Minato made an ominous face, making them gulped down nervously "I will spank you to death."

"Pfft...Hahahaha" Kushina and Tsume cackle loudly, rolling around the couch, while even Mikoto was shaking from laughter, with her hand on her mouth to not appear undignified.

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?