(A/N): Helloo everyone! Thanks for giving my story a chance! This is probably gonna be the last time I'll put my notes at the beginning of a chapter, but I want to make few things clear right from the start:

- English is not my native language. This means that there may be some grammar errors in the chapters or misspelled words. I'll try my hardest to avoid them, but I'm pretty sure I may not be able to spot them all.

- This story is AU-ish. That means that what happens in the story will happen in the world we all know, but there might be some changes. Since I haven't read Naruto in a long, long time I may not know all the plot twists etc. And this story being AU-ish also means that I might change up the characters ages, come up with completely new characters and so on. So this story WILL NOT follow the canon route.

- What you can recognize, is from Naruto. What you can't, is made up by me. Simple. So I do not own Naruto so please don't sue me (:

- This is only a Minato x Kushina fic, so there will be no other couples involved. Other couples might make an appearance later in the fic, but in no way will this fic be concentrated on any other pairing than MinaKushi.

Getting all those out of the way, I hope you enjoy my fic! PLEASE rate and review and leave suggestions of what is good and what could be done better!

No.

There was no way in hell that this was happening again.

She thought that she must be dreaming.

That this was all just a wicked nightmare from which she would wake up soon.

But she was wrong.

Uzumaki Kushina was wrong, once again.

The day had started in the most normal way anyone could imagine. Kushina and her team had finished off a few common tasks around the village of Whirlpool. In this case, meant killing a few rock nins. Simple tasks.

But words 'simple' and 'common' couldn't be used while describing the woman known as Uzumaki Kushina. Kushina was one of the most ungirly girls you would ever get the chance to meet. Actually, the only feminine parts of her were her long hair and well-shaped body. But her manners were in no level to a woman of her status.

Her father had always been the kage of her village, giving her and her two brothers, a certain status. Her two older brothers, Jiro and Saburo, were the two perfect sons anyone could ever ask for. Being well-behaving and good-looking, the two of them had no problems of finding a good wives for themselves. And that was all Kushina's father wanted: children who fit to his standards and produce a good offspring. With those two, he had had no worries. But then Kushina had entered the picture.

Kushina had always been the rambunctious kid. Growing without a mother figure and in the middle of a household where there were only men, she had tried to blend in, resulting her being the pain in her late father's back.

While her brothers had been married for a couple of years now; Kushina, at the age of 23, was still unmarried. In the ninja world, that was a huge deal. Most of Kushina's friends in Uzu had been married between the ages of 18 and 20. Since there was no guarantee that any ninja, shinobi or a kunoichi, would live to see any birthday next year, most of them wanted to get married and do it soon.

Once again, Kushina was not one of those. She was determined that if she ever got married, it'd be after a long career of being a kunoichi and serving her village. But her father thought otherwise.

So after getting back from her little mission, she was summoned to the Kage mansion, where her father had some interesting news to share with her.

''Kage, you wished to see me,'' Kushina said with a drained expression. She hated the kage mansion and wished to spend so little time there as possible. The mansion itself could be thought as her 'childhood home', but all the place ever gave her was a bunch of bad memories. So when she had hit the right age, she had moved away, leaving the mansion behind. The less things to remind her of the place, the better.

''I did indeed, Kushina. You see, I wanted to talk to you about marriage toda-'' he started, but was interrupted by Kushina.

''Hell to the no, old man. We have had this talk before, and believe it or not, my mind hasn't changed a bit. So the question is, who have you married me off to this time?'' She said, trying to sound as cold as she possibly could.

A couple years back, Kushina's father had started to really worry about his daughter's marital situation. Seeing no other options, he had started to ask from another village's men owning a high rank to marry his daughter. A few of them had said yes, and Kushina had been sent to meet those men, against her will of course.

The first man had been hideous. He had been a rich man in his late 50s from Kirikagure, who had had too much free time in his hands. When Kushina had arrived there, he had bluntly informed her how 'sexy and gorgeous' her body was, and how she should feel honored to be the 62nd wife of his and then he had proceeded on to tell her what he would be doing to her 'when the night would come'.

Before the man even knew it, Kushina had fled from there and was at home telling her father that there was no way that she was marrying that guy. Her father had been so angry with her, but she simply didn't care.

The second man was from Suna. He had been a lot more decent with her, but still the age gap was huge, and she couldn't see him as a possible love interest. Just to build his father's hopes up, she had stayed with the man for two months. After she came back, she swore she had seen a vein pop on her father's forehead.

After that she had hoped he had given up. For months she had heard nothing from his father, until now. Kushina was not happy to be hearing that that old man had found another man for her to marry, considering it was quite difficult, since her reputation had spread like a wildfire all over other lands.

When her father was done giving her a talk about how important good relations with other villages were, he proceeded to give her information about her 'future husband'.

''His name is Namikaze Minato, and he's from Konoha. You are destined to meet him in two weeks. If I hear a word that you have not met him in that time, or have done anything else to nullify this, there will be consequences. Have I made myself clear?'' He asked, and all Kushina could do was nod.

''Good. There will be a ferry tomorrow morning that will take you to the mainland, and from there you will have two weeks to get to Konoha. Give these papers to the guards at the Konoha gate, and they will direct you from that point onwards. And remember, there will be consequences if you fail to follow these orders.''

With those words Kushina exited the mansion and started to head towards her home. When she got to her apartment, she went in and flopped on to the bed.

''Huh… so it's time to meet the husband candidate number three,'' she thought and sighed.

But you know what they say: third time's the charm.

So there it is! I hope it's any good and you will stick throw the whole fic! It will (hopefully) get better XD

There will probably around 13 to 17 chapters. I've thought that each chapter would represent a day, so there will most likely be 15 chapters + an epilogue. But if I can't come up with any plot for each day, I might add two days to one chapter. Who knows?