So after watching the Kdrama, I was instantly addicted to it. i haven't been writing fanfiction on here for a while but this story had been on my mind for a while now and I couldn't help but write it. If you haven't seen City Hunter, go watch it! It's so good! I love Lee Minho! He's so cute/sexy at the same time. LoL. The characters might be a little ooc, but I will try my best to keep to their original personalities.
This is a crossover between Naruto and City Hunter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or City Hunter. If I did, I'd be rich.
"Congratulations, it's a baby boy!" The nurse handed the wailing little bundle of life over to the mother who looked ready to collapse with exhaustion. "Where's the father?" She asked, looking around the room for any of the family members.
"Not here. He's coming." Kushina gasped, tenderly cradling the whimpering infant against her. He was beautiful. "Hush. Your father will be here soon." She stroked a finger down his soft baby skin, marveling at her miracle and joy. "You look so much like him." Already his little mop of blonde hair was starting to spike up in every direction and she had a feeling that his baby blue eyes were only going to lighten to a bluer hue.
Her baby made a gurgling sound in response, blowing spit bubbles at her.
"Kushina!" Minato burst into the room, eyes wide and face full of pride and joy. "Is he here? Was I too late? I'm so sorry! It's just that with the attack on the Hokage, I couldn't leave! Where is he?" He frantically ran towards her, a yellow flash. "Are you all right? Is he all right?"
"Calm down Sensei." Kakashi rolled his eyes at the antics of his mentor and crossed his arms over his chest. "You're going to make the baby cry again."
"He's right here." Kushina looked down at her son who dozed off in her arms. "What should we name him?"
Minato gently took his son from her, look down at the baby with all the love he had. Sure the baby was a little red and wrinkled, but he was absolutely perfect to him. "I dunno. Maybe a name out of Jiraiya-Sensei's adventure novels? I like the Gutsy Ninja one." He stared at his son in absolute marvel, completely entranced with the little baby. "Hi there! I'm your Daddy!" Minato cooed at his son who woke up with a grumpy cry.
"He's acting stupid again." Kakashi crossed his arms over his chest, flipping his uniform collar up so that it was covering his lower half of his face. "You know, he's been like this for nine months now." The young man complained to Kushina who laughed at him.
"Minato's just excited for the baby. He'll snap out of it… soon." They stared at Minato who started mimicking animal faces in hopes of quieting the baby. The frog one was the most convincing. "Hopefully…" Kushina said dryly, trailing off when Minato began to babble to their son like an idiot.
"Who's my cutest, smartest, ittle bitty little boy in the whole wide world? You are! You are!" He tickled the infant, completely wrapped around the child's finger already.
"Minato-Sensei!" Kakashi's curt voice cut Minato's tirade and a serious look replaced the previous goofy one on the blond man's face. "We don't have long." He reminded him, giving Kushina a half pitying glance. "I'll be waiting outside. Congratulations, Kushina-san." The silver haired man softly shut the door behind him, leaving the young couple to their own privacy.
Handing their son back to his mother, Minato's brilliant blue eyes gazed into her own with sorrow. "I have to go." He said softly, a hand brushing back a strand of bright red hair. "I'm so sorry that I have to leave you and our son now of all times."
"I understand." Kushina whispered back, blinking away her tears. "We can name our son when you return." Putting on a smile in spite of her emotions, she added, "That means you have to return to us, you hear me? We can't have our child be nameless for the rest of his life!"
Returning the smile, Minato nodded. "I promise." A gently hand cupped the baby's little head and Minato gave one last loving look at his child. "I love you both." He kissed Kushina's cheek and his little baby's forehead before drawing away. There had never been a more prouder moment in his life, as he looked at his small family.
"And I love you too."
Sarutobi held back a urge to sigh out loud as he saw Minato's bright yellow hair. He'd hoped that the man had refused this mission. It just didn't seem fair to make a new father risk his life on a dangerous mission like this one. If anything, the man felt like Kakashi was well able to handle leading this team but being the overprotective mentor Minato was, he was probably the first to insist his name be chosen.
He pulled the man aside, speaking in low tones. "You don't have to do this, Minato. You have a family now.
"As do the rest of my men." Minato replied, face solemn and somber. "They're someone's husband, father, brother, son… I have a duty as their leader to join them." In an effort to reassure his old friend, he smiled. "It'll be fine." He patted Sarutobi's shoulder once before straightening his back to address the men assembled before him.
"Sensei!" Kakashi was the first to stand up, saluting him. The rest of his team quickly followed suite.
"At ease men." Minato returned the salute, looking at his people with nothing but respect and understanding. "At 09 hours this morning, there was an attempted attack on our Niidaime Hokage. Intelligence reported back just two hours ago that Earth Country is responsible. This is a Sweep Mission. It is highly dangerous and covert. No one can know that Fire Country is responsible for what is about to happen."
"Sensei?" Kakashi questioned him, realization dawning in his eyes.
"This mission will be blacklisted. I am only asking for volunteers. Those who are willing to accept, please hand your dog tags to Sarutobi." Minato was the first to take his off, the slight jingle of metal the only indication that he handed it over to the older man. "If you die tonight, no one will ever know. Fire Country will deny your existence."
Kakashi was the second to follow, mimicking his teacher's actions. Obito and Rin, his best friends since boot camp added theirs to the pile. One by one, every person in the tent handed in their identification tags without hesitation. For Minato, they were willing to follow him to the ends of the earth.
"All right. Suit up." Minato clapped his hands together. "The objective is to eliminate Earth's General who is alleged to be responsible for this morning's attack." Earth Country's military uniforms were passed around as everyone began shrugging out of their own. Minato tried flattening his yellow hair so that a Captain's cap could fit over it. Tucking the last strands of his noticeable hair inside the cap, only his bangs were visible.
"Man Kakashi, you look just like a Stoner!" Obito laughed at Kakashi's outfit, which was identical to his.
"Go look at yourself in the mirror." He retorted, customarily flipping the collar upwards so it covered the lower half of his face. The young man re-holstered his handgun and knives into his new clothes. They felt itchy and a bit too big for him and the drab gray and tan colors looked just plain wrong. He didn't want to think about where Fire Country procured these uniforms; they looked authentic enough.
"Guys! We all look like we're from Earth Country, isn't that the point?" Rin, ever the peace maker calmed the two boys down with a sweet smile. "Obito, you're forgetting your goggles." She handed the orange eyewear to the dark haired young man who blushed when their hands touched briefly. "Or you might start to cry on the battlefield again." Rin teased him.
"I-I told you! It was just dirt in my eyes!" Obito spluttered, yanking the goggles over his head.
As Sarutobi and Minato watched the antics of the trio, the older man sadly shook his head. "They're so young." He commented.
"And you're so old. Your retirement is a well-deserved one. You served this country long enough on the battlefield." Minato told his old friend in a light tone. "Take care of those. It's who we are." He motioned at the twenty-one metal tags hanging from Sarutobi's hands. "We're going to want those back you know." It was a good time to joke, as it was too serious to do anything else.
"God speed Minato." Sarutobi clasped Minato's shoulders tightly. "I leave it up to you now."
Minato just nodded once.
"Luckily enough, the General lives close enough to the ocean for us to infiltrate the premises via water. We swim onshore and enter his house. Leave no witnesses." Minato hated missions like these where lives couldn't be spared but it had to be done. "Including children." He looked each person in the eye, not one turned away. "I will be leading the strike team. Once the General is dead, we immediately pull back."
"And if the mission becomes compromised?" Kakashi asked.
A grim expression flashed across Minato's face. "It cannot be. We must not let it." The heaviness of his words hung about the small room of the boat. "There is too much at stake here to let it." He thought of his newborn son and wife waiting for him back at home. If war broke out between Earth and Fire Countries than countless lives would be lost. It was his responsibility to stop such war from happening.
Everyone understood the message.
"Captain Minato… we've arrived."
Nodding, Minato smiled for everyone's sake. "All right men and women." He added for Rin's benefit. "It's been an honor serving with you. Move out!"
One by one, they jumped into the cold water and carefully swam to shore. They didn't dare risk using a flashlight so they only relied on the dim glow of the moon to see. Minato used a breast-stroke to get himself to the beach, the first soldier to reach land.
Stealthily running towards the mansion, Minato could already see the guards patrolling around the premises. Signaling his men to circle around, he slipped into the shadows and waited for them to pass by him. Just as they turned their backs, Minato leapt out and swiftly killed them with his knife.
Ignoring the blood on his hands, he motioned two of his men to clear the bodies as he moved on. So far no one noticed their brief scuffle and Minato planned on keeping it that way. According to his information, the General's room was on the top most corner of the west wing. Mentally groaning at the prospect of fighting all the way to the third floor, Minato readily killed another guard.
By the time they reached the second floor, there were more guards and Minato was forced to use his gun. Although there was a silencer on it, the gunshot sound let off more attention than Minato liked.
"Sensei!" Kakashi cried out in warning a little to late.
Someone came up behind him and slashed his leg.
Shit.
If there was one thing Minato was known for, it was his speed in combat- his mobility was cut in half now. Gritting his teeth in pain, Minato ignored the blood dripping down his leg and shot the enemy in the head. "I'm fine." He tried waving off Kakashi who disposed of another guard for him.
"You're bleeding." He helped Minato lean against him, looking at the nasty wound. It looked like it needed several stitches.
"I'm fine." Minato repeated himself, not quite sure if he was trying to convince himself or Kakashi more.
"If the public ever finds out about this, we're done for." Homura testily spoke out, glancing around the four other occupants of the room. "We'll have war on our hands."
"Which is why I propose that we erase all evidence of this mission." Orochimaru spoke smoothly, golden eyes glimmering.
"That is unacceptable!" Sarutobi raised his voice, his hands trembling slightly with anger. "We owe it to those men to bring them safely home!" Minato's smiling face and his waiting family flashed in his mind's eye and he almost lost his temper. To think that his own former student would even propose such notions!
"Sarutobi, consider the options here. Twenty-one men for the sake of an entire country." Fugaku smoothly waved aside Sarutobi's burst of anger. "It's easy to see the choice we have to make."
"At what cost?"
"Sarutobi. If Earth country ever links the events of tonight to us, we can have a third world war here. As a survivor of the last world war, you can attest to how devastating another one so soon would be." Danzo tried to reason with his former comrade in arms. "The mission tonight must never have happened."
"These are good men with families!" Sarutobi raged, slamming his hands down on the table. "I will not stand by and let you do that to them! It's our responsibility to bring them back home!"
Koharu interrupted Sarutobi. "And it is our responsibility to the citizens of this country to keep them safe! I'm sorry old friend, but this must be done to preserve the peace. We can have a vote. All those in favor."
All but Sarutobi raised their hands.
"You cannot do this." He said, knowing that he was helpless in this situation. Five against one, he was easily overruled. "You cannot do this." Repeating again, he realized the futility of the situation. "I will not just stand by and allow you to let these men die!"
"Then you find yourself with treason." Danzo threatened Sarutobi. "What will it be?"
Sinking down, Sarutobi felt wearier than he had ever had in years. "I am against this. We will have blood on our hands that we will never be able to wash away." He repeated himself but offered nothing else to show his resistance. What could he do? He was powerless against them. Minato, forgive me. He though, tears pricking his eyes.
"They got him. Come on Sensei, let's go!" Kakashi helped Minato limp back outside, never once leaving his side. "We're almost there! Pretty soon, we can go home and you can see your family."
Minato grunted in response, focusing solely on just walking else the pain was to much to bear. The way back was met with less resistance since most the guards were either dead or run away and he had no problems shooting.
The salt water was not going to be fun, he realized when his leg burned the moment he got into the water. "Ouch…" He gnashed his teeth together, trying not to yell out in pain.
"You're being such a baby Sensei." Kakashi started swimming, pulling on Minato. He ignored at how much blood the other man had lost and was still steadily loosing. "Obito's not being a help like always…" He rolled his eyes when Obito breezily started doing backstrokes past them. They could only assume that Obito didn't see how injured Minato was or else the dark haired young man would've put up a loud (and unwanted) commotion.
"Hah… don't mind him Kakashi. Obito's always been… like that." Minato struggled to string together his words, feeling light-headed and so tired. He knew that it was because of all the blood loss but at the moment all he could do was float cooperatively while Kakashi tugged him along. Just the thought of moving his injured leg was enough to have him wince in pain.
"Wait until Rin sees you. She's going to have kittens…" Rin was their field medic and whenever anyone got hurt, she made you feel bad enough to start apologizing to her for getting injured.
"I don't… doubt that… for a second." Minato gave a shaky laugh. "I see the boat. We've made it Kakashi…" Relief flooded his system and his lingering misgivings faded.
Quiet cheers went around the team and Shibi Aburame reached out first to climb aboard. He reached up for the first rung when someone came on deck. Minato knew the sound of a safety clicking off, even from at the distance he was across the water and the noise of the waves. He tried yelling to warn Shibi but it was too late.
The man body fell backwards into the water and his team broke out in confusion.
"Wait! We're on your side! We're from Fire-" Rin cried out.
"Rin!" Obito pushed her aside, catching her intended bullet.
"Obito!" She screamed, and a second shot silenced her forever.
Frozen in horror, Kakashi could only watch as his teammates died one bye one. He couldn't even try to swim away because his body refused to cooperate. Later he realized that it probably was the reason why he didn't get shot at first. "Obito… Rin…" He whispered, watching as Chouza died next. The big and kind man was always the one who insisted that everyone ate out for dinner once in a while. "Why… Why is this happening? We're supposed to be one the same side!" He yelled out.
"Kakashi!" Minato heard the gunshot first, his body already moving with the little strength he had left. Dunking Kakashi underwater and using his body as a shield, he felt the bullet pierce his upper left chest. The younger man struggled to get free, but Minato somehow held him underwater.
It was dark and hard to see. The sniper wouldn't be able to see Kakashi like this, Minato reasoned with his foggy mind although if he held him underwater any much longer, he might accidentally drown him…
Kakashi finally broke free of Minato's grasp and surfaced with a loud gasp. Greedily sucking in air, he felt himself being dunked under by Minato again but this time the blond could only half cover him from the sniper's line of sight.
After what seemed like eternity, the boat's engine hummed to life and it sped off. It was finally over.
"Ka…kashi…" Minato's whisper was feeble and weak, blood trickling down his chin.
"Sensei!" Kakashi cried out, holding onto the blond as if he were his lifeline. "You're going to be okay!" He desperately wanted to believe that everything was going to be fine but he knew that it would never be.
"L-listen to me… Please K-Kaka…shi." Minato breathed, struggling to keep his eyes open. "Please take care of Kushina and my son. Promise me…"
"No, you take care of them yourself!" Kakashi didn't care if he was crying now. Who else was going to see anyways? Dimly he realized that he couldn't see out one eye now, a bullet must've grazed it.
"The moment… I got hit with that knife… I knew that I wasn't going to make it out of this one alive… I'm prepared." He gave Kakashi that damning smile, the one that would assure him that everything would be okay. "So please… Promise me."
"I-I promise." Kakashi could feel Minato slipping away. "I'll take care of Kushina-san and your son." He parroted back, feeling numb.
"Good." Minato closed his eyes, body going limp. "That's… good to hear… Thank you, Kakashi…"
"Sensei? Sensei!" Kakashi's broken voice was only a whisper above the noise of the ocean, but to his own ears, it sounded like he was screaming. He didn't know how long he was in the water, or when he let go of his beloved mentor's dead body. All he could remember was the steady thought of revenge coursing throughout his mind.
Sarutobi pulled out the twenty-one dog tags out from a manila envelope, sorrowfully going through each one until he found Minato's. "I'm so sorry. I've failed you." He said softly to no one in particular as he sat in the darkness of his office. "I didn't mean for this to happen." Suddenly the cold metal's edge against his throat made him realize that someone else was in the room.
"They're all dead because of you." A harsh tone murmured through the dark.
Even without looking at his attacker's face, Sarutobi knew whose voice it was. "I'm truly sorry." He didn't even bother to struggle, as he knew that if he did, Kakashi would easily kill him anyway. "I couldn't stop them. It was five against one… I deserve to die."
"Who are they?" Kakashi pressed his blade a bit harder, but not enough to draw blood yet. "Name them!"
Before Sarutobi could answer a loud knock interrupted them. "Sarutobi? Are you in here?"
"Act as if nothing is wrong." Kakashi slowly released the man. "But the second you give me away is the second you die."
Sarutobi held no doubts to Kakashi's threat; after all, Minato was the one who personally trained him. "Come in!" He cleared his throat, fingers brushing over where Kakashi held his dagger against the skin. "Homura…" Of all the people to visit him…
"Hiruzen… About tonight…" Homura began, sitting down. "I think it's best if matters can be swept under the rug. After all…"
The deadly glare from Sarutobi momentarily stunned him into silence. "I will not forget twenty-one soldiers who died for their country, the very same twenty-one we've betrayed!" The tension was so thick that it could be cut with a knife.
"Well then…" Homura nervously fidgeted, standing up. "Ah, there's this party that I have to attend to in the morning… I best be off… Good night." He quickly fled the room.
Sarutobi looked behind him where he last saw Kakashi hide himself, but saw that he was alone again. There was no signs that Kakashi had even visited. Perhaps Minato trained Kakashi a little too well. "Oh Kakashi…" Sarutobi released a breath he had been holding. Gone from his desk were the dog tags of the fallen soldiers and in it's place was a scribbled note, Don't think this is all over. "I'm so sorry…" Sarutobi apologized to the emptiness of the room.
"Hush now. Daddy's going to be home soon." Kushina set her newborn son down on the patio to hang the laundry up. It had been a few days since he left them and she was discharged from the hospital. Although she should be taking it easy, she felt restless and she started doing the laundry.
Her little son waved his tiny hands up and down, trying to get her attention.
Looking down at the scene before him, Kakashi quickly squished the bubbling feeling of guilt before it could change his mind. He needed to do this, his Sensei needed him to do this, andhis deceased teammates needed him to do this. The people responsible needed to pay. Creeping stealthily down, Kakashi quickly swept the baby into his arms while leaving a note in his place.
It wasn't enough to explain the entire situation but it had to do for now.
"Sweetie?" Kushina heard silence for the first time in days. "Sweetie?" She was starting to panic now. The baby was missing! "Where's my baby?" Kushina cried out, frantically searching. Spotting the letter, she read it and started screaming hysterically. "Give my baby back! Give him back!"
By the time she ran out of the front gate, it was too late. Kakashi was long gone with her son.