Who is the best?

Time passed unnoticed, and Makira is about to turn 5 years old soon. Hiro, as always, went on assignments, not forgetting to bring various gifts, which made the boy happy. Minato became his only and best friend. They practically enjoyed each other's company for days, to such an extent that over time a certain rivalry appeared in their lives.

And then one day, two people stood facing each other with serious faces and two had a face full of determination. Not far from them stood Hiro who was reading something in his book, not paying attention to the two guys in whose looks you could see sparks.

He looked up from his book and then looked and said, "Well..Great, the traditional shinobi sparring begins.." - as soon as the words were uttered, the two did not rush at each other, but ran towards a high steep cliff, which could not be climbed in a simple way.

Pouring the chakra into his legs, Makira pushed off from the ground with all his strength in the direction of the rock and quickly ran along the rock until a whistling sound was heard from the back, followed by a kick in the back, from which the guy sharply dodged, while having time to grab his ankle, he spun Minato's body throwing to the side, on that Minato pulled a kunai tied with a wire as thin as a thread from behind his back and threw it towards the wall, leaving the kunai hammered into the crack.

Twisting his body so as to quickly reach the rock, Minato moved his hands with all his strength, fully concentrating his chakra in his hands, he quickly leaned on his feet becoming proportional to the rock and quickly ran towards Makira pulling out shurikens from his bag, he threw with all his might hitting one of them in the leg, leaving a small cut.

Feeling the pain in his leg, he grabbed two kunai in both hands, pushing off from the wall and darted down towards Minato at high speed, who was already ready for this sharp attack and with his kunai he repelled the other two, leaving a loud sound of metal grinding along with sparks that did not stop for several more seconds due to constant attacks at the same time, they both did not forget to climb to the top.

Seeing the blow aimed at his right hand, Minato quickly moved towards the attack as his friend liked to do to take the enemy by surprise, but Makira already knew that he was going to make his own movements, he changed the trajectory of movement to the other hand, completely sticking kunai into him, but instead of the expected result, instead of the wounded Minato which he was ready to see, he noticed only a wooden block and after him he felt a strong blow in the back, causing him to fly down.

Minato, who was getting up with a confused face, shouted to him, "It was a ninjutsu called [Kawarimi no Jutsu], which replaces my body with an object nearby."

Realizing that his friend had used ninjutsu, he also decided to keep up with him, folding his hands in the cloning seal, he said [Kage Bunshin no Jutsu]. His copy grabbed his hands, fully concentrating his already small amount of chakra, he spun his own body, throwing it towards Minato, who was about to climb to the top.

But unfortunately Minato was not at a loss for a second and taking out more kunai, he threw them towards Makira, forcing him to repel them when attacking due to the inability to stop and this allowed him to jump up first and get to the end of a high mountain. By the time they were both at the top, they quickly fell to the ground with their arms outstretched to the side and lying in the shape of a star.

Out of breath, Minato flashed a smile and said: "This time it was mine, now we have a score of 29-29 in a draw, I didn't know that you could perform the cloning technique, when did you learn?"

- "Recently, but Hiro told me not to use this technique because of my small reserve of chakra, so I saved this technique for a last resort," said Makira, getting up and looking at his injured leg and said to Minato with full confidence in the words: - "Next time, I will definitely win and Then, I'll be ahead of you again."

Hiro, who had been waiting for them at the top for a long time, looked at these two children, who surprised him again and again all the time, he carefully put his book in his bag and clapped his hands to distract them from his conversation: - "You are well done, for your age you are very strong. In a few months you will have to go to the academy, where you will be taught the basics of ninja, which I do not want to teach you in any way, since I hardly have much time for this."

- "Well, you've had enough for today, but for now go and take a walk, I still have things to do elsewhere" - saying this, Hiro disappeared from his seat, leaving two children.

Makira, who was still trying to catch his breath, felt his stomach growling and looked away at Minato, as if hinting at what he wanted to offer, to which Minato simply stood up and said: - "Let's go have a snack"

They both got up and headed towards Konoha village. It was evening and people were gradually returning to their homes. There was a quiet atmosphere outside, making everyone feel safe.

After a while, both of them were already standing at the stall where the old woman was selling. Minato quickly climbed through the queue and respectfully said: - "Can we have two dangos please" - to which the woman agreed with a smile and handed over two skewers, but noticing behind the blonde Minato, she saw a boy in dark clothes and jet-black unruly hair that covered his left eye, leaving a view only for the right, she slightly she was scared because of his cracked face, allowing her hands to tremble and drop the chopsticks that Makira managed to catch them with dexterity.

Minato, who noticed the frightened look of the woman, realized what had happened, he politely apologized to the frightened lady and handed over the money. Taking Makira by the hand, he led him away to find another place to eat.

These cases occurred very often, which is why Makira stopped going to different establishments. People believed that he was a cursed child and tried to stay away from him, but due to his similarity to the Uchiha because of his black eyes and black hair, they did not dare to mock the boy openly, so they could only whisper, but the boy heard everything perfectly and this chest pain that was getting stronger left there are deep wounds on his heart, which have become deeper and deeper over time.

If it wasn't for the existence of Hiro and Minato, he would have been lost in the darkness for a long time, not knowing what it means to be needed or loved by someone. Sometimes people's words can cause much more pain than what people get with physical damage, because a wound can heal at any moment, and a mental trauma can not be healed at all in their entire life.