22nd rebirth [RL with Naoto]
[Much as Minato tried to be calm and at ease at all times, family still gave him pause. He didn't want to strain his tenuous link with... Naoto, not Naoko - by detailing the way the community worked. Ordinarily, it wouldn't have bothered him if she didn't believe what he said; but here, now, after everything that had happened, family was beginning to take on a new meaning.
What that meaning was, he didn't know. He put it out of his mind as he knocked on the door to her hotel room, shifting his weight slightly from foot to foot and removing his headphones.]
What that meaning was, he didn't know. He put it out of his mind as he knocked on the door to her hotel room, shifting his weight slightly from foot to foot and removing his headphones.]