Welcome all! Fans, new readers and everyone else! Richzetsu here starting probably the biggest, most complete and longest project I have ever done! This, is a fic about my true favorite couple in the whole series, Minato and Kushina! This fic is their life, from the first day Minato laid his eyes on her to whenever a good stopping point comes (can't say more without ruining the story!). This is the first of probably 2 or 3 fics in this small series. I might do some limes, possibly a lemon (maybe).

Minato and Kushina start at 11 years old, but Minato is slightly older.

Let it be known, that this story (at least for now) is in the third person POV of Minato, meaning it is not omniscient.

I do not own Naruto.

Please, Read, enjoy and review, I want this to be the best thing I have written before, so any comments are more than welcome!

~Richzetsu

BEEP BEEP BEEP!

THWACK!

Minato's arm landed on the button of his alarm clock as it rang to life. "Uhhgggghhh," seemed to be the only sound he was capable of making as he rolled out of bed, literally in fact, and landed on the floor. No matter what anyone said, no person in their right mind should ever have to wake up are 6:30 AM.

Why did I set my alarm? Why can't I sleep? Thought the half awake boy. What was going on again today? Something important… HOLY CRAP! Today is my first day at the academy! He realized with joy. Today, he would be one step closer to being a ninja than ever before! To think, no more would he play ninja with his friends, throwing cardboard shuriken at each other! Starting today, he would be one of the big kids, or at least not one of the kids playing with cardboard shuriken….

Without any other thought, Minato jumped off the floor and ran into his bathroom. He reached into the shower and turned the water on so it would warm up while he got undressed. Since it was late August, the weather in Konaha was quite warm, so Minato slept only in his boxers. Quickly, and modestly, he pulled them off and stepped into his shower, which was at the perfect heat. At first, he just allowed the water to flow over him, waking him up fully from his slumber. After thoroughly wetting his hair, he grabbed his bar of soap. While he was busy scrubbing himself, the only thing he could think about was "NINJA, NINJA, NINJA! I am gonna be a ninja! This is the most exciting day of my life!"

He decided to pay close attention to his underarms, because it just made him feel more manly, since he was starting to stink more there when he was sweating for whatever reason. He had like, seven armpit hairs total, so he was pretty dang manly at this point. A real man/gentleman would never let himself stink horribly if he could avoid it. In any case, after all that thinking, he had just finished washing his hair, so he turned the water off and grabbed a towel.

He patted dry his hair, leaving it still rather wet. He liked his hair to just do what it wanted, because he really didn't care about how it looked. When he finished removing the water from himself, he let the towel fall to the ground, and walked over to his dresser. He opened his top drawer and pulled out a pair of boxer briefs, not his number one choice of undergarments, but the support would be better if he was moving a lot, or so his father told him. He put on his cargo pants with some extra pockets for some epic weaponry and threw on his favorite black t-shirt.

Along with all that, he put on his white and green sweatshirt, even though is wasn't that hot out, since he just liked to have it on. Minato walked over to the mirror on his wall and checked out how he looked, and he thought he was pretty dang awesome looking. He ran his fingers through his long blond locks of hair and sighed. This was it! This was the day he had anticipated his whole life!

Satisfied with his looks, and content with his thoughts, Minato left his room, and walked downstairs. The smell of food instantly found its way to his nose, like pancakes, bacon and eggs. The delicious scents made Minato feel the hunger he realized he had, and it was not the kind of hunger a piece of toast could fix. Minato's mom knew her son all too well and had prepared the large breakfast for her only son's special day.

"Morning mom and dad," the boy said, walking down the stairs into the kitchen.

"There's my little ninja! Are you excited for your big day?" his mother asked, happy for her son.

"You know it!" he replied, sitting at the table. Next to him, his father sat reading the paper, sipping his tea.

"To think, my son, a ninja! This day sure took forever to come didn't it, eh Minato?" his father said smiling at his son. "I'm proud of you kid."

"Thanks dad," said the now beaming blond boy.

"Now eat up! No ninja can do well if he's hungry!" said his mom, placing a plate of food in front of her son. It was a large steaming plate of toast, eggs over easy (just how he liked it, with a tiny bit of yoke solid), some pancakes and of course, bacon! Along with a cup of orange juice, the boy started to devour the food the second doing so was possible!

"Dear Kami boy, slow down! No ninja can do well if he makes himself sick!" his father said chuckling.

Minato finished his breakfast, and slipped on his shoes. "I guess I'm gonna go, bye mom and dad!" Minato said.

"Don't you leave without giving your mom a hug! I don't care if you hate it, I love you!" the woman said bear hugging her 11 year old.

"Make us proud Minato," his father said smiling at his son. As the boy left the house letting the door shut behind him his dad sighed. "He's growing up I tell ya', yet, in probably the most confusing time of his life, he still walks into the future with reckless abandon. In any case, he's a late bloomer, puberty's gonna hit him hard," his dad said with a chuckle. His mom just nodded and smiled, laughing a bit herself.

Minato walked down the dirt road with a huge grin on his face. He was on his way to the academy! The walk was uneventful, but he was still excited. He arrived after about five minutes of walking. He saw a mass of kids his age and a few of their parents standing around in the school yard. Outside of the larger part of the crowd, was a ninja with a clip board. Since Minato saw most arriving students and parents go to him, he decided to go there.

"H-hello sir, I'm new, am I supposed to come you?" Minato asked the man, his voice cracking in nervousness despite his earlier excitement.

"Yep! Welcome to the academy! Can I have your name please?" the man replied.

"Yea, I'm Minato Namikaze."

"Hmmm, N, Nam, Namikaze! Here we are," said the ninja, "Aren't you Minoru and Saito's kid?"

"Yea! I am," Minato replied feeling calmer.

"Cool, Minoru is a good man, you are lucky to have him as a dad Minato," the man informed. His tactic worked as it usually did. When a nervous looking kid came along, he would try to strike up a simple conversation with them to help them chill out. "Ok then, everything is in order, your classroom is room 135, Tsaki-sensi I believe. Have a great first day!"

"Thank you sir," the blond boy said walking off.

Minato walked into the building past the crowd of people. There was a cloud of excitement floating around everyone in the building, Minato included! Now that he was finally going to his classroom, his jitteriness returned, NINJA, NINJA, NINJA!

The blond quickly found his classroom, it was a nice room, with rising levels of desks (Like Iruka's classroom in the show), a good window view of the running track outside, a black-board and a podium in the front of it. On the chalk board, the "TAKE A SEAT PLEASE" was written in large letters. Also, a normal teacher's desk was in the front corner of the room, a box sat on it labeled "LOADED HOLSTERS". Minato, who was sitting at a desk on the third level up, had his eyes light up at seeing them, real kunai and shuriken!

NINJA, NINJA, NINJA!

While Minato was freaking out, another student walked in. She really stood out from the rest of the students. Her hair was pure red! Red! Not even dyed, it was just red, and her skin was rather pale too. Minato turned and saw her, and couldn't take his eyes off of her! He felt himself blushing for reasons unknown to him.

"Hey! Look at her! Her hair is red! Hahaha!" a kid mocked. A few others joined him. "It's like she has a tomato growing on her head! Eww! I hate tomatoes!"

"Haha! Tomato! Tomato!" the kids mocked.

"SHUT UP!" the girl yelled. "My name is Uzumaki Kushina! NOT TOMATO!"

Just when Minato thought he was surprised, Kushina lashed her arm out and smacked the closest boy to her, and it literally knocked him to the ground! Then Minato was really surprised! He wasn't even aware that he was still staring.

"And what do you want blondy?" she yelled to Minato.

His face turned red, or red-er then it was earlier. To embarrassed to say anything, he just looked straight ahead at the board.

Just then, while tensions we pretty high, the teacher walked in. "I thought I had made it pretty clear on my blackboard. Everyone take your seats. NOW," he yelled. "I am gonna make a few rules clear. Number one, I am the teacher, the teacher is in charge, my word is law. Number two, you are expected to act like mature ninja, which I know you all can do. Number three, when we are using weapons, I expect you to be responsible and safe, anyone who can't do that is not fit to be a ninja, and you will fail for the year. Furthermore-"

Minato listened intently, taking in all of the information. He told himself that he would be the best ninja in the village, so in that, he had to be the best student in the academy. Nothing would stand in his way of being amazing and wow, her hair was soooo red. Like fire! How did she get it so long and straight? His was totally uncontrollable!

"You, blondy, third step up, what's your name?"

Minato snapped back to reality, just then noticing that he had stopped paying attention to the lecture. "N-Namikaze Minato sir,"

"Well Minato, you would do well to pay attention, got that?"

"Y-yes Tsaki-sensei,"

"As I was saying, when throwing a kunai-"

The day dragged on, Minato felt so ashamed of himself. His first day and he was already getting yelled at? For the rest of the class, he made sure he paid attention. Dang red head girl making him loose his train of thought, with the creamy pale skin and the-NOPE! No, he wouldn't get distracted! Back to learning how to throwing kunai straight.

*A FEW HOURS LATER*

"So, that is everything you need to know about simple weapons, and it looks like the school day is over. On the way out please grab a kunai and a shuriken holster. Practice what you learned today at home. Tomorrow, we will see how much you really learned with a quick throwing test, then we will move onto chakra and scroll basics if we have time. Train hard! Have a good rest of the day everyone," Tsaki said dismissing the class. Minato stood up and stretched his stiff limbs. He walked down to the exit of the classroom and excitedly grabbed a tan shruiken pouch and attached it to his belt and a blue kunai holster and put it on his leg.

Once he was off the academy property, Minato ran all the way home, so excited! He finally had real ninja weapons! Running into his house, he said "Hi mom!"

"Hey, there's my little ninja! How was your first day?"

"It was pretty cool! Look! I got real shuriken and kunai! And stop calling me little, geez..." the boy replied.

"Oh, you know I can't help it! You will always be my little boy," she said with a smile.

"Hmph…. Hey, where's dad at?"

"He's out on a mission, he will be back tomorrow," she said.

"Ok, I'm gonna go practice with these" he said gesturing at this holsters.

"Alright, dinner is in an hour, and be careful! Lady Tsunade at the hospital has enough to worry about, and a kunai stuck in an eleven year olds leg isn't something she would want to have to take care of," Saito said.

"Yea yea mom," Minato said walking out the back door. The blond went out to his fenced in back yard, a wooden dummy his dad set up for him stood in the middle of the grass. Minato opened up his kunai holster. He stood in the throwing stance Tsaki-sensei had talked about that day and, after taking aim, threw the knife, which instead of flying in a straight line, it spun wildly and buried itself in the wooden privacy fence. Sighing, Minato tried again with his other kunai which did the same thing. The shuriken were easier to throw accurately, but he still missed every time…. He decided he needed more practice, a lot more.

By the time his hour was up, he was able to throw relatively straight, but his aim was something to be desired.

"Minato! Come in for dinner!" his mom said.

"Coming!" Minato yelled back.

Minato came inside and washed his hands in the kitchen sink and sat at the table. His mom place a bowl of rice and a plate of dango (one of his favorite foods ever) in front of him. His mom sat on the opposite side of the table with rice but just ate some seaweed salad instead, which Minato hated, claiming she wasn't all that hungry.

Dinner was pretty uneventful, and they only had some small talk about Minato's day. He left out being yelled at by the teacher though, he still got a stomach ache thinking about it. The thought made him loose his appetite.

"I'm not really hungry anymore, I'm gonna head upstairs," he said.

"Ok, are you feeling alright?" she replied.

"Y-yea, I'm just tired,"

"Well, ok then, get some rest, good night,"

"Night mom," Minato said walking up the stairs.

Minato got into his room and closed the door. He took off his shirt and pants leaving him in his boxer briefs, relieving him from the heat of the weather. For the sake of comfort, he took them off and put on a pair of boxers. He sat on top of his bed and shut his eyes, thinking about his day. Finally, after years of waiting, he was learning to become a ninja! A real ninja! One day, he would be protecting the village like his dad! He would be stronger than any other kid in the entire academy! Not even that girl, what was her name? Kushina? Yea, that was here name. Not even Kushina, with her long red hair, that shined in the sunlight, her violet eyes that sparkled when she spoke, not even with her pale skin that was creamy like milk…..

Minato fell into a deep sleep, a slight smile on his face.

Well, that was chapter one! I had more fun writing this than anymore of my other stories! Please! Tell me what you think! If I don't get some kind of feedback, I will just assume no one like this, so review, PM me, please!

Thanks!