Disclaimer: I cannot and will not take any ownership over the anime/games/or manga that will show up in this work of fiction.


A/N: This is a Naruto lives in the Oreimo universe. He has no powers, but I will compensate by having him be very athletic. I may jumble up some of the events in Oreimo, by either gaps in memory or by trying to weasel in Naruto. This will begin when Kirino(7) and Kyosuke(10) are children. Naruto and Kyosuke are the same age. Minato will be alive, but Kushina will be deceased. (I have hardly seen any Fanfic where Minato is an only parent, it's either both alive or Kushina is alive.) If you have any questions review or PM me. I have been given permission by the previous author (his username is too long) to rewrite and finish his story. We are friends in real life. So sit back, relax and have fuuuuuun! 90% sure that there will be no lemons on this tree.


'Phone'

'Thoughts'

"talking".


Chapter 1: The Start of a new day!


It was a bright and early morning on a Saturday in Chiba and the Namikaze household was just waking up, well one rambunctious ten year old was at least. This boy had shimmering pools of blue for eyes and vivid blonde hair. He was rushing up the stairs to see if his father, Minato Namikaze was home. Captain Minato Namikaze of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force was a very busy man, not only did he have a lot of paper work, he had long days and late nights making sure everything at his station was perfect for the next day, he also had to care for his ten year old son; Naruto Uzumaki, as well as deal with the headaches caused by the new move to Chiba.

They used to live in Fuchu until his wife and Naruto's mother; Kushina passed away from a heart disease. Naruto was two when that happened and Minato decided that a change of scenery was in order to get away from some of the memories that the house had held, so he and his son moved to Chiba. It also seemed that coincidences do in fact happen because his new neighbor was one of his oldest and closest friends; Daisuke and Yoshino Kosaka, maybe Daisuke's oldest son and Naruto could become great friends like they did.

Naruto burst through his father's bedroom door almost tripping on a couple of moving boxes scattered about the room.

"DAD!?" Naruto nearly broke the sound barrier with his yell.

"Hmmm? Wha? Na...Naruto? What time is it?" Minato groggily mumbled.

Looking over at his alarm clock to see that the blurry red LEDs eventually formed 6:23am as his eyes focused on them.

He just sighed as he turned to his son.

"Naruto, why are you up so early?" Minato asked.

'I thought kids loved to sleep in.' Minato thought exasperated.

"I wanted to see if you were home." Naruto cheerfully stated as he climbed onto his father's bed.

"Hahaha, just remember not to cry when you get tired." Minato chuckled as he ruffled his son's hair.

"I'm ten, dad, I won't cry." Naruto said as he pouted and looked away from his father.

"HAHAHA, Yeah, yeah, oh! remember we are going over to the Kosaka's house next door for dinner." Minato reminded Naruto. "...and before you ask, I don't know what we're having, think of it as a surprise." Minato said as he saw his son about to ask that very question.

"Stop that dad, it's almost scary how you know what I'm going to say." Naruto tried scolding his dad with his best angry face.

Minato's eyes started to water from trying to hold back his laughter only to fail as he fell on his back bursting with laughter.

"Sto...Stop laughing, it's not funny!" Naruto yelled out as he hit his father in the stomach.

"Ooof, Ok, ok, ok, I'll stop, I'll stop." Minato brushed Naruto's hit off.

"Oh!" Minato called out as he gently slapped the back of his son's head.

"Don't hit people without a reason, understand?" scolded his father.

"Yeah...sorry, dad." Naruto apologized as he looked down.

"It's fine, just don't do it again...Oh!, I almost forgot." Minato said while bopping himself on the head slightly while chuckling softly.

'Dad seems to be forgetting a lot since the move' Naruto thought.

"Daisuke has a son that's roughly the same age as you, soooo..." Minato left his question hanging as he looked at his son.

"Daaad! Don't force me to befriend people." Naruto whined.

Minato lightly sighed. "You need friends your age, I'm proud you train so hard in track and baseball, but you need to...uhhhh...what's the word again?" Minato said as all of his coolness factor seemed to evaporate.

Naruto sweat dropped while saying, "Uhhh...be friendly?" Naruto offered.

"Noooo, that's not it, man, it's on the tip of my tongue." Minato answered.

"Hmmm...make frie-" Naruto started.

"Socialize!, That's what I was looking for, you need to socialize." Minato interrupted.

Naruto looked at his dad and said "Soo, be friendly?"

"Yup!" his dad cheerfully replied, not realizing that his son said that not some four minutes ago.

"Well, since we're both up might as well make some breakfast, what would you like Naruto?" Minato asked standing from his bed.

"Ramen!?" Naruto asked hope filling his young blue eyes.

"Nuh huh, sorry, but Ramen isn't a breakfast food, try again." Minato laughed as he saw that his answer caused his son to pout.

"Hmmm, How...about...Ramen?" Naruto tried again.

"Nooope! Ramen is not a breakfast food." Minato repeated with a slight chuckle.

"I want, for breakfast, a meal consisting of broth, noodles, green onions, eggs, an-" Naruto was saying.

"You mean Ramen?" Mianto interrupted

"Yeah, so get to it, dad!" Naruto cheered as he started to bolt out of the bedroom towards the living room only to be stopped by his father.

"No can do, little buddy, Ramen is NOT a breakfast food, so we shall have Okayu." Minato said.

"But...but okayu is so blaaand, come on let's have Ramen, because who knows what we're going to have at the Kosaka's." Naruto told his father.

"Fine...fine...we'll have..." Minato paused hiding the devious smile from his son.

Naruto hearing these words gained hope as he leaned in closely.

Only for his father to suddenly run towards him, pick him up and yell "OKAYU!" while laughing like a mad man.

His son just slumped in his arms.

After having a, in Naruto's case a very boring breakfast

Minato told his son "We will head to the Kosaka's at roughly 5:00 this evening, so since it's-" Minato checked the clock that was on the microwave "7:12, we have most of the day to ourselves, so what do you want to do?" Minato finished.

"Uhhh, can we go to the park?" Naruto suggested.

"Of course we can." Minato answered then came up with, in his mind, the greatest idea of the day...no of the week, "I'll see if Daisuke will allow his kids to join us."

Naruto sighed and just shook his head.

Minato seeing this asks "What?"

"Nothing, dad." Naruto replies.

Minato just shrugs as he walks over to his phone.

"Now what was Daisuke's number again?" Minato asked himself as he took up a thinking pose.

"There are numbers on the fridge, dad check there." Naruto answered back.

"Right, Right thank you for answering my rhetorical question." Minato replied as he looked through all the different numbers that were posted on the refrigerator.

"Rhetori...what?" Naruto asked in confusion.

"It's...uh...when...uhh...Nevermind." Minato tried to explain.

Finding and pulling off the right number he walks back to the phone and dials Daisuke's phone. After a few rings it's picked up.

'Hello?' Minato asks.

'Hello? Kosaka residence.' Yoshino answers.

'Ah, Yoshino, it's me, Minato Namikaze, Daisuke and your's childhood friend and now new neighbor, I was wondering if I could speak to Daisuke?' Minato both replied and asked.

'I know, Mianto you don't have to keep telling us your last name as well as your relation to us.' Yoshino deadpanned.

'Right, sorry hahaha.' Minato chuckled awkwardly

'Anyway, how are you and Naruto doing?' Yoshino asked smiling on the other side as she talked to her old friend.

'We're doing great, just ate some breakfast.' Minato happily answered.

'That's great to hear, hold on I'll go get Daisuke.' Yoshino asks as she calls to her husband saying that Minato is on the phone.

As Minato is waiting he looks over to Naruto only to see him asleep on table causing Minato to laugh.

'Hello? Minato?' a deep gruff male voice said on the other side of the line.

'Ya, it's the one and only Minato Namika-' Minato was saying exuberantly only top be cut off by Daisuke 'Great, what did you need? You know it's-' there's a slight pause as he checks the time '7:17 in the morning?' Daisuke continued in a slightly annoyed tone.

'Aww, I knew you'd remember me.' Minato exclaimed.

Daisuke just quietly grumbled "It's too early for this."

'Anyway, as you know, we finished unpacking most of our stuff, so Naruto and I were going to head to the park and I, being the great father and genius, that I am, wanted to ask if you would allow your kids to come along?' Minato finished as he waited for his friend's answer.

'What time would you be heading out?' Daisuke asked.

This caused Minato to silently cheer as he know Daisuke will most likely agree, since he didn't immediately shoot the idea down. 'I was planning to head out at about...9:00, so in roughly an hour and a half?' Minato said as he calmed down.

After roughly 15 seconds of silence on the other end he heard a low sigh followed by 'Fine, but you better keep an eye on them at all times.' Daisuke demanded.

'Of course, I'm a father as well you know, I'll treat your kids like I treat Naruto.' Minato assured.

'...Ok, I'll be at work but Yoshino'll be here-' Daisuke was saying as he paused and talked to his wife.

'She'll make lunches for you and the kids.' he finished.

'Great! Tell her thanks and I'll see you and the entire family tonight.' Minato cheerfully stated over the phone.

'Ya, see you tonight, Minato.' Daisuke said.

Minato said his goodbyes and hung up.

Minato walks up to his still sleeping son, leaned in close to his ear and yelled "Hey, WAKE UP!"

The yell caused Naruto to leap in the air.

"Wha...what's going on? Dad? Why did you yell in my ear?" Naruto yelled back.

"Calm down, calm down, I just wanted to say that at 9:00 you, me, and Daisuke's kids, Karino and Kuisuka? no...Kirano and Kiryosuke? that's not it either, oh! Kirino and Kyosuke are joining us." Minato told his son

Naruto just sweat dropped as his father couldn't remember his best friends kid's names.

"Go get ready, I'll clean up here, make sure you wear shorts, I read it's going to be 30 degrees Celsius today." Minato told his son.

Naruto ran up the stairs to the second story bathroom. As Naruto was taking a shower, Minato got a devious smile as he started doing the dishes. While doing the dishes Minato thought of how he and Naruto arrived in Chiba.

'After I was promoted to Captain a couple of years ago, we moved to Fuchu. A couple a months later Kushina started showing symptoms of a unknown heart disease. She was then bedridden a year later, her heart too weak to allow her to be active. Naruto was only two when she passed away.' Minato sadly thought as tears started to fall from his eyes and he squeezed his hand into a fist hard enough that his knuckles started to pop.

'My only regret is that I wasn't there for her final moments, I feel like I failed as a husband, and as a father because I wasn't there to comfort Naruto as he didn't understand why his mom wouldn't wake up.' Minato continued to think as tears now freely fell from his eyes.

"Dad? ar...are you ok?" Naruto, now dressed in his normal clothes, asked as he slowly reached his father.

Minato didn't say anything as he crouched down and embraced his son as he tried to stop crying.

"I...I'm...fine, just thinking about your mom." Minato said as he hugged his son tighter as he felt Naruto start to tear up.

They stayed that way for a couple minutes before Minato stood woodenly, wiping the tears away.

"Wel...well, I guess you can go watch TV, while I get ready." Minato said as he patted his son's head before slowly climbing the stairs.

Naruto stood there for a while.

'Dad tries so hard, I...I'll try to make friends, I'll make both Mom and him proud.' Naruto thought as he walked to the couch in front of their 55" TV and started flipping through channels.


A/N: That's Chapter one. I added some new dialogue but mostly just fixed inconsistencies and the like. Review/PM what you think. Hopefully I won't change to much. Ja, mata! As you can guess from the clue in the Story Naruto will be in track. PM/Review. If you want to suggest pairings go ahead, I will listen and think about them. Naruto will turn into an Otaku (Not 'as bad' as Kirino, but more than Kyosuke.)