A sweet aroma fills the room and little Minato awoke from the smell, opening his eyes, a plate of food appears in his vision, he almost drooled "are you awake little one?" the man asked with a bright smile "g-good morning... sir" "oh! silly me" the man exclaimed, "i haven't introduced myself, my name is Menma

(no, not the bad guy Menma, just imagine a totally different person with the name)

".... Minato"
"hm, a pretty name for a pretty boy, even though I'm blind i could tell" Minato blushed "th-thank you" a tiny growl was heard, "hm hm, well eat up and afterwards I'll look into your wounds" leaving to room Menma then turns his head "oh and I'll be heading to the market later, if it's not too much trouble, would you mind looking after the house while I'm gone?" this man is a bit too trusting, Minato thought, is it because he's a child? dose he think that he was fragile..... Well.... Minato dose a bit, but that's still offensive "sure" nevertheless he answers, Menma smiles, "alright then"
Later that day
Minato was board, Menma had a few boardgames but he didn't know how to play any of em' and since he was out like he said, it was even more boring, 'maybe I could look around the forest for a bit' Minatos wounds weren't that seveire anymore thanks to that ointment, he should really give his thanks later, but he's still healing so he should still be careful, wearing his mostly torn up clothes, Minato scurries off into the forest

Sometime later
'Concentrate' sitting in crisscross position our little kitsune practices on his chee, making some energy balls out of his hands, with the help of the calm mother nature he was able to make some progress, tiny energy blasts was something, but little Minato wasn't having that, he wouldn't be able to protect himself with such a weak spark, with a frustrated sigh he gives up and lies down on soft grass staring at the sky in annoyance, he knows he's young but he wants to go over his limits, and he hates the fact that his limits is the size of a cricket! And even if he were to finally make one what about hand to hand combat?
"Humph! I hate being so weak" he says frustrated

Thinking that that's enough brooding he finally gets up, its almost sunset anyways and Menma must be worried of his were about, he also doesn't want to face the wolves again his wounds were close to healing anyways,
Snap
Minatos fox ears twitch at the sudden sound of a twig followed by foot steps, who would be here in this part of the forest? Turning into his fox form Minato follows the footsteps to a near by river, there was a boy who looks to be his age with white spiky hair and slightly big red eyes, those eyes.... They look... Sad, the boy was looking at the river as if it reminds him of something, he moves closer, a little too close 'he might slip' Minato thought watching him in a nearby bush, little Minato wanted to get a closer look at him but stepped on a small twig making a small snap that startled the boy to the point that he lost his footing and
"AAH!!" SPLASH "OH NO!"

Struggling to breath the little albino tries to reach the surface, unfortunately he couldn't swim, or he was too scared to, his sudden attempt of suicide was washed away (literally) replaced with fear and hurt, fear of dying and hurt that he was all alone 'little brother.... I'm sorry..... I'm so sorry' he soobed quietly remembering the tragic accident from a week ago 'looks like.... I'm facing the same fate... by my fears..' he was losing oxygen, the deeper he got the more he looses consciousness, there was no use, he couldn't swim, and even if he were to be found it'll be too late, 'tiered...' he thought he was seeing things but somehow he could see a silo wet of something coming closer to him, to tiered to make out what it was he finally closes his eyes hoping that, at least, he would see his little brother again.

"What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?!?!" Minato was panicking, the boy wasn't breathing and he didn't have much time, Minato tried pumping his chest many times but no response "oh kami, what should I do!?... I-... I don't want him to die!" Minato was almost close to tears the boy could die at any moment, he looked at his unconscious face and an idea came popped in his head, "I hope he doesn't mind" Minato moved closer until he was inches from his face, now's not the time to be embarrassed he thought, finally, he took a huge breath and breathed into the boys mouth giving him a mouth to mouth CPR 'please, don't die on me' after two more breaths there was a response "cough! cough! cough!" 'Oh thank kami!' Minato thought happily as the albino boy coughed up more water, after a few more painful coughs the albino tries to open his eyes, everything was a blur and his mind was pretty fuzzy but he could make out a child-like voice saying "hey you OK?" As his vision clears he could see big blue eyes staring back at him with concern and relief "you should be more careful! You almost drowned!" "Wh-.... Who are you?" The other boy asks weakly, but before Minato could answer, another voice called out "TOBIRAMA! WHERE ARE YOU!?"  Minato immediately runs off  turning into his fox form which luckily the other boy didn't notice, too tired to make out what's going on, however Minato didn't go too far, just enough to hide in the bushes as two other boys and an older girl comes into view, the albino, Tobirama was too focused on the bushes that other boy ran off to and the blue eyes that stared back at him, as if making sure he was OK, "you are smoked what happened!?" One boy with a bowl cut tanned skin and brown eyes asks in concern while the older girl covers him up with a jacket to keep him warm "I.... I... Slipped.. and feel" he answers slowly still staring at the blue eyes, "let's just take him home it's getting dark now, can you stand?" Minato watched as the 4 children walk away, Tobirama still staring back at the bushes until he was out of sight of the other. Content with that, little Minato heads back to cottage, there he sees Menma in a crisscross position, his head hung low, and a gloomy aura surrounded him, had he been crying? "... Sir? Are you OK?" Menma gasped and moved his head towards the voice "little one? Is that you?" He asked almost desperately "yeah it's me, why were you crying? Did something happen?" Menma rubbed his face a bit embarrassed that he saw that, "uh- no little one I wasn't crying and nothing happened, I was just wandering where you suddenly ran off to, I know it could be quite boring inside" even though Minato was young, he knew that the man was lying, and understood why too, "yeah it was kinds boring so I went into the forest to play for a bit" menma flinched "ah, just as I thought, I hope didn't play too roughly how are wounds by the way?" "Still healing but not bothering me much, I'd like to thank you for that" "oh please it's no problem, are you hungry? I bought ramen" "ramen?... What's that?" Menma looked surprised for a moment but then smiled"

Minato was floating on air the moment he tried the so called ramen "w-w-what is this.... d-d-delicious flavor?" "Do you like it?" "its the best thing I've ever tasted!!" Minato yelled with stares in his eyes "don't rush yourself now, you might choke" Menma says concerned at the sound of the food being gulped down fast, "are there any more!" Minato asks excitedly wagging his tale, since menma couldn't see Minato didn't bother hiding his fox ears and tale

See you soon!