Hidden Emperor Of The Naruto World

Smiling at the sharpness of Mikoto, Minato nodded "Of course, even if you're angry, revenge and destruction are useless. It's true that what's they did is bad, but in the end, all of this is a result of the village's system. Instead, we should control Konoha, and later, all the other villages."

"But how should we do that?" exclaimed Tsume, a bit perplexed.

"For that, we must first control all the big clans of Konoha, and one of us should become Hokage. And if Danzo and those greedy elders had an accident, it would be for the best no?"

A chill went down their spines, it seems that Minato truly has a plan to control all of Konoha. Here they were thinking of proving themselves while their own classmate was preparing some domination plans.

"In the end, you're not forced to help me. You're my friend, if you want to back out, I have made some seals that will erase the last thirty minutes of your memories" Explained Minato in a serious tone. 'It was a hassle to make them. But I already asked Mito to help me with those anti-betrayal seals, if I were to ask her for more she will begin to suspect things. She only accepted because she knew I mean no harm to Konoha.'

The three of them began to talk to each other, after all, it was no joke, a wrong move and they will all be branded traitors. But in the end, it's better to control than to be controlled. And if Minato lied to them? He has no reason to do that at all, and they trust him. In the end, their small group of friends is more of a family than their own, so it's hard to not trust each other. For his strange knowledge on Hashirama and Madara, they attributed it to Mito telling him. And for how he knew so much on the time before the Rikudo Sennin? Every family has their secrets, and from what he said earlier, his family seemed to be powerful if people schemed against his mother. So it's not farfetched to think that he could have some records from that time.

"We will do it" they exclaimed in unison.

"Good, you know that even if I cherish you, I still have trust issues because of my past. My heart trusts you three but not my mind. And not even speaking of the fact that we're in a ninja village where only sealed secrets can be kept. So here" Taking 3 seals outs of his lotus tattoo, he spread one before each of them "Mito helped me to do them, if you push chakra into those seals, you will be unable to betray me anymore. You will still have full liberty over your actions, but if you do or say anything in the goal of harming me, the seal will erase all your memories of me" 'And I will come to exterminate you, but you don't need to know that' "And if you're caught and mind-r.a.p.ed by a Yamanaka, all the memories that you have of anything relating to my plans will be hidden till the person exit your mind."

Kushina hesitated but still spoke, "It means we can't even try to beat you?"

Laughing, Minato replied "Don't worry about that, I speak of a real threat, not fight between friends. Even if you beat me half dead, if you can that is, it will not do anything if you do not have real nefarious thoughts against me"

Hearing that, Tsume and Kushina nodded at each other, thinking the same thing 'We will definitely beat him to the ground one day, we must have our revenge on all the pranks he played on us. All our acts of revenge till now were seen through by him, but with his training, maybe we could discover the secret to his intuition'

"And can we still go against you if someday we disagree?" Mikoto asked this sensible question.

Minato smiled "Sure you can. Like I said, the only thing you can't do is harming me. If someday, you don't agree with some of my decisions, you're welcomed to do anything you want. From pounding some sense into me to leaving me. The only thing you're not allowed is to expose me"

The three then look deeply in Minato's eyes, searching for something. Having found that he was saying the truth and that he indeed cherish them, they put chakra into the seal, activating it. They knew that it was their only chance to gain his full trust, and they will choose anyone of this small group before the village after what he had told them. And it's not like Minato wants to destroy the village, so they have no real scruples in entering 'his care'. He won't destroy their clans, so it was fine for them. Despite growing a dislike against them, Mikoto and Tsume still harbored some affections for their direct family, so if Minato's plan was violent, they would have at least hesitated.

Kanjis then began to climb up their arms, finally forming a small whirlpool tattoo in the center of their c.h.e.s.ts. The seal was in itself pretty simple, situated in the middle of the whirlpool. But to unravel it, one would have to have more chakra than Mito, the Kyuubi Jinchuriki, or being a better Fuuinjutsu master than her. And there is only one such person, the Rikudo Sennin, a dead man looking over his sons' reincarnation, so not a problem for the time being.

Seeing the seals taking effect, for the first time in a long time, Minato's heart skipped a beat. His guarded mind relaxed, choosing for the first time to follow his heart and placed his full trust on those 3 friends of his, that he is sure will finish in love with.

"Welcome to the family, Tsume, Kushina, Mikoto" A warm smile broke out Minato's face, stunning the three, having never seen such a pure smile. It's like the innocent part that he kept intact by hiding it finally came out of his shell knowing that it will not be tainted.

Looking at their faces, Minato laughed joyfully 'I still can't believe all of this is real. I can finally love someone else and stop being lonely. Not only that, I now have a completely healthy body not sterile anymore.'

Thinking of that sterility made him grow somewhat absentminded. It's true that he lived in a world where all the mysteries were more or less resolved, but even then he never successfully had a child. He said he was sterile but it was not in the same sense at what others think. The baby was conceived, but each time no soul enters the body, making it just an empty vessel. Despite searching high and low, the doctors and scientists never found what was the problem, deeming him as another mystery of the soul.

Knowing that Minato would have conceived Naruto later down, he was not really worried about not having babies anymore, and with chakra, even if he was still cursed he could somehow pull it off.

He learned pretty soon that he could not have babies, and it was the final nail that drove him to a ruthless life. He did all sorts of sc.u.mmy things, like using people and women for his benefits and growing his empire while indulging in vices when he was down.

He searched through the whole entertainment industry to find something that could make him hope again, and it's here that he discovered the mangas. One would think that two thousand years after it was invented, it would have flourished. But after the destruction of the earth, the highers-ups of the universe chose what to develop and what to bury. The mangas were in the category burial, deemed too dangerous because people could try to act like the protagonists with intergalactic weapons, and that could lead to the creation of some dangerous sects.

Thankfully, it was easy for him to retrieve said buried things when he became the emperor, and since then he began to enjoy those anime, which lead him to the crazy plan of entering the black hole for a do or die gamble. It's also thanks to those that he didn't completely extinguish his 'light', choosing to just hide it behind barriers, for the black hole was his hope that something out there exists, and that he could one day destroy those barriers and live a fulfilling loving life.

Multiple times, his light was on the brink of collapse, because of the remorse and self-hatred that he had. He did a Kakashi, thinking that if he had done things differently, his mother would still have been alive. But now, having opened his heart a new time, he knew that his mother would never have wanted him to live such a disgusting life. He can't nor want to shed who he became completely, but he can at least do it for those three cute girl friends future wives.