Author's Note: A new story. I love this pairing and I've wanted to write it for a long time, so here we go! There will be inconsistencies with the anime/manga. I'm not really following the normal plot line. Let me know what you think. Now, this is yaoi so please don't read if you don't want to read boyxboy! Okay? Thank you. Enjoy!
Warnings: Nothing really, maybe language.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the story idea. And any original characters that I do... create... yeah.
Word Count: 5,538
Minato made it back before Kakashi and Obito even made it to the cave where they were holding Rin. The toad he had left to watch over them alerted him immediately that they were going into something dangerous. Minato quickly displayed three well placed, super charged, Rasengans to cripple the bridge and left a kunai and another frog behind, just in case they end up needing him again. Opting for the faster route, he uses the Flying Raijin to get to the seal he placed on Obito. Both boys were hunched over, preparing to storm the cave, when the Yellow Flash appeared.
"Sensei!" Both gasp. Three eyes staring back at him.
Minato looks at Kakashi with widening eyes. He leans close and tilts Kakashi's face up to get a better look. "Your eye, Kakashi," he says softly, as if the boy couldn't possibly of knowing that there was something wrong with his eye.
Kakashi pulls his face away with a pout. "I know, sensei. It's no use. I lost it. But that doesn't matter now, Rin was kidnapped. She's in there." Kakashi points to the opening of the cave. Obito jumps up as Minato steps past them to go in and save her.
"Sensei," the young Uchiha says, "let me come with you."
"No, Obito," Minato says softly, his breath coming out in soft huffs. "Stay here and look after Kakashi. He's at a high disadvantage now with the loss of his left eye. He needs someone to help him until he can get over his handicap."
"No!" Kakashi snaps standing up. "It's my fault that she was captured in the first place, sensei. You left me in charge and Rin got kidnapped. I have to go in there and help. I..." he hesitates, then steels himself, staring up into his sensei's blue eyes. He squares his shoulders and balls his hands up into fists. "I owe it to Rin to try and help get her back. Please, sensei!"
Obito nods, stepping up next to his teammate, glaring with dark eyes to his sensei. "Me too, Minato-sensei. This is Rin we are talking about. There is no way you are leaving me behind. We can help you, sensei, I know we can. Please, let us make this right. Let us help get Rin." Obito's dark eyes aid in Kakashi's heavy gaze staring the older man down.
To say Minato was surprised by their words, is an understatement. Kakashi has never exhibited such passion before. For as long as Minato has known him, the boy was always had this air of superiority and boredom about him. But now, he stares at his sensei with the same fire in his eye that Minato often saw in his other male student, Obito.
And now here they stand, side-by-side united by a similar front. They will save Rin, whether they have Minato's blessing or not. They would like it, but Minato doubted he would be able to really keep them away. The blond haired man's heart melted a little under the happiness swelling up in chest. It took a long time, longer than he would have liked, but it still happened. Minato is happy.
He leans down, putting a hand on both of their shoulders. He nods once, assuredly. "Yes, Obito, Kakashi, you can help. But you must promise me that you will stick together. I will take care of the shinobi, you two get Rin out of there safely." Both boys open their mouths to protest but Minato shakes his head. "No, I know you want to help, and you are. Get Rin out, do you understand?" He looks between the two of them. Both boys look a little put out, but they nod obediently.
The three male members of Team Minato all charge toward the cave, they all arm themselves with their kunai. Minato glances back to make sure both boys are following him and his eyes lock with Obito's for just a moment, and his eyes widen at the sight of Obito's sharingan. He looks away, not wanting to embarrass the boy by suddenly stopping and pulling the young man into a hug as congratulations.
That and Rin needs them. She might be seconds away from death, precious seconds away that can't be wasted on hugging the confidence out of Obito. Once they make it inside, Minato heads right for the shinobi while the boys head straight for Rin. The two of them stop for a moment to consider what to do. Kakashi is the strongest of the two of them, but he's also the one suffering from a handicap.
Rin lay there, unmoving for the most part, with the exception of the gentle lift and fall of her chest. Finally, Kakashi bit the bullet and drops down to his knee and lifts her up effortlessly. This is probably the greatest compliment that Kakashi could ever give to Obito. He's trusting the hyper Uchiha to protect both himself and Rin. Kakashi, the same kid that has to do everything on his own to prove to the world that he isn't his father. He's more capable than the White Fang. And he's relinquishing that control for Obito.
Obito mentally tells himself that he's never going to let Kakashi live this down. Now that the young Uchiha knows he can be friends with Kakashi, he's not going to stop for anything to achieve just that. They will be best friends, even if it kills him.
"Let's go, Kakashi," Obito says, sharingan blazing. The two tomo in each eye circling around the pupil menacing.
The gray haired boy nods. "Yeah, let's get out of here, Obito."
Obito glances over his shoulder to see his sensei battling the two shinobi that kidnapped her. The two boys, one carrying the small girl staring blankly at the ceiling, rush toward the exit. One of the shinobi manage to slip past the Yellow Flash as he deals with the other. Obito immediately moves to intercept. Minato takes a moment to look over at them, debating whether to abort his battle to interfere with the new one about to start. But his enemy manages to nail him square center of the chest. He stumbles back, winded. Minato grunts in pain and forces himself to focus on his fight. He's trained his students well. They can protect one another. He has to have faith in them.
Obito, armed with his sharingan and a kunai, he blocks the shinobi's initial attack. He dodges a kick and swipes at the man's feet with one of his own. Kakashi backs away, not wanting to get caught in the cross-fire. He kneels down, Rin draped across his lap. He put his hands together and then taps her chest lightly with his pointer and middle finger with a soft, "kai".
Rin stares vacantly at the ceiling of the cave for a few, tense moments, before finally blinking slowly. The rapidly, her eyes burning from being open without blinking for so long. She reaches up and rubs them roughly. Kakashi shakes her lightly. "Rin," he says, "you need to get up now. Obito needs our help." His eyes flickers up as he says the words and he knows that they are true. Their sensei's moves are slower and more sluggish than what they're used to, he's low on chakra. Obito isn't fairing much better.
At his words, Rin's brain snaps into focus. She looks at Kakashi, taking note of the bloody, messy bandages wrapped around his eye, and then over to Obito, struggling to avoid getting his head chopped off by the enemy shinobi. She looks back at Kakashi, nodding slowly. He helps her up and then both of them drop into combative stances. Rin sways a little uneasily, but manages to stay on her feet.
Kakashi and Rin both rush in. Rin grabs the back of Obito's shirt, pulling him back and out of the way while Kakashi zips forward and stabs his kunai into the man's chest. But it doesn't go as deep as he'd like. His kunai gets caught on the chest plate. Kakashi pulls back and snarls. He misses the swing in his blind spot, hitting him in the temple. Kakashi crumbles to the floor.
"No! Kakashi!" Rin calls, she runs over to her fallen comrade. Obito throws himself between his two teammates and the enemy shinobi. Thankfully, one of the man's hands are dedicated to holding closed the flesh wound on his chest. Obito jumps up and nails the man in the jaw, similar to the nice hit he got on Kakashi. The man stumbles back.
"Hold him down," Kakashi grunts, shaking away Rin's hands. "I'll get him with Chidori. I just need you two to hold him."
Rin nods, standing up. "Help me hold him, Obito!"
The young Uchiha nods. The two get to either side of the man and grab his arms. Each one pulling his arm out parallel to the ground, holding him as steady as they can. Kakashi wastes no time, climbing to his feet and performing the necessary hand signs to create the Chidori. He lines himself up perfectly with the man, looking at Obito, the boy nods once, then to Rin, she also nods, mouthing, "good luck".
Kakashi tenses himself before pushing off and rushing at the man. He regains himself and tries to pull away but the two kids plant their feet to the ground and hold it with chakra. Then he notices the boy charging him with lightning circling his hand. He calls out loudly to his partner.
Minato doubles over in pain from a well aimed kick to the gut. If he had eaten anything, he probably would have thrown it up. His staggering is enough time for the other shinobi to prepare a jutsu. Minato lunges at him and tackles him around the mid-section just as he sets off the jutsu, shooting three fireballs at the ceiling of the cave.
The cave rumbles and begins to fall apart. At that same moment, Kakashi's hand shoves right through his enemy's chest where his kunai had originally failed. All three students look up at the crumbling ceiling above them.
"Run!" Minato yells.
Rin moves out of the way immediately. Obito is quick to follow only to stop when he realizes Kakashi isn't right behind him. The white haired boy's hand is stuck in the dead man's chest plate. He turns and runs back, holding a hand over his head to deter any possible brain injury that the falling rocks might cause.
"Obito!" Rin calls after him.
The Uchiha looks back, waving for her to keep going. "I have to get Kakashi!" She makes to follow. "No, Rin! I've got him. Go!" She hesitates for a moment before backing up slowly, but still watching them ready to bolt after them should they need it.
Minato straddles his combatant, holding him down with his body weight and punches the him three times, hard across the head. The man grips his arms tightly with the intent to hold him in place. Minato shoots a look over his should seeing Obito helping Kakashi pull his hand from the chest of the other enemy shinobi. Minato's forced back to his fight when the hands of his shinobi wrapped around his throat.
Minato arches his back away from the other shinobi, trying to stretch far enough away that his arms can't reach. In doing so, he spots Kakashi manage to free his hand and stumble back with Obito, both falling onto their butts. Obito reacts first to a large chunk of rock falling toward them. He opens his mouth to warn Kakashi when he realizes there isn't enough time. He grabs the other boy and throws him out of the way of the rock before jumping after him. The two boys scramble to their feet and run toward Rin. She nods and begins running away too.
The young teacher turns back to the Iwa shinobi. He summons his chakra to his palm and the Rasengan appears. The man's eyes widen and he opens his mouth, but Minato slams it into his chest and holds it there for a few seconds until the arms around his throat loosens until the drop limply onto the floor. Minato stands slowly, sucking in breath deeply, the Rasengan spiraling out of existence before jumping out of the way just in time for a large boulder to crush the man he was sitting on. Minato lands hard onto his left ankle. He grits his teeth and falls to a knee.
"Sensei!" Rin's voice can barely be heard over the sound of the cave collapsing. Minato turns slightly, eyes scanning through the dust to see Obito shoving Kakashi out of the way of a boulder, larger than all of the others, at least a ton, barreling down at them. Kakashi spins around and reaches out for Obito. And for that moment, everything slows down.
Obito isn't going to make it out in time. Minato has just enough chakra for one more teleportation, but he has to move back. Over the sound of his blood roaring in his ears, he can hear Kakashi yelling out for Obito to grab his hand. Obito reaches out, sharingan spinning, but he won't get out of the way in time. Minato jumps to his feet, ignoring the burning in his leg to use the Flying Raijin to get across the cave to Obito's side in the blink of an eye.
Hoping quietly that no one gets seriously hurt, Minato picks Obito up from under his arms. He spins around on his good leg, using the momentum to throw Obito at Kakashi, and using the force to push them both further out of harms way. Minato stumbles for a split second before he jumps out of the way of the boulder, yanking his feet up to his chest when the boulder hits the ground. Minato bounces slightly into the air and is pelted by smaller rocks. A particularly hard one hits him on the left cheek, then the ear.
Minato curls up, wrapping his arms around his head to protect it. Another heavy rock beats onto his shoulder and he cringes but doesn't move. Then something heavy covers his head and something else covers his stomach and legs. He peaks out to see Kakashi bent over his head, staring down at him with a determined gaze and he's willing to bet Obito is the other body flung over him.
"Kakashi, Obito, no," Minato rasps, reaching out to try and cover the two boys' heads with his hands. He can barely see Kakashi, who's face is inches from his through all the dust.
"Can you use the Flying Raijin?" Kakashi asks, the bandage over his missing eye is beginning to unravel.
Minato tries to summon up the minute bit of chakra he has left. Knowing he'll probably regret this action later, but knowing that they could be buried otherwise, he grabs Kakashi's hand and reaches for Obito's. He finds it a moment later.
"Do not let go, do you understand? You'll die if you do. Don't let go of my hand under any circumstance," Minato grounds out. His ankle is throbbing and his chakra supply is almost out. He squeezes both their hands tightly before performing the Flying Raijin and honing in on the seal that he placed on Rin, praying that he doesn't accidently trap them inside of a wall or blow Kakashi and Obito to pieces.
With one last, quick prayer to Kami, he teleports, taking his two male students with him. The cold air on the outside is a wonderful relief. All three of them sprawl out on the grass, coughing up the dust in their lungs. Rin falls to her knees by them. She lets out a relieved laugh.
"I thought for sure you guys were done for," she murmurs, covering her face with her hands. "I'm so glad your all okay."
"Sensei," Kakashi says, sitting up, "are you okay?"
Minato shakes the sleep from his brain, trying to sit up. His muscles protest against any and all movement. "I am," Minato says through gritted teeth. His eyebrows pull together. "Kakashi? Obito? Are you two okay? Any missing limbs?"
"I'm okay, Obito says, holding a hand over his right eye, a little bit of blood seeping out from under his hand.
"Me too," Kakashi says, then actually looks at Obito. "Hey, what happened?" he asks as he begins to rewrap the bandages over his eye. Rin opens her mouth to protest, telling him that he needs new, fresh bandages but then again, she doesn't have any more and she doubted that any of the others did.
Obito grins a little strained. "Nothing. I just got hit by a rock. I'm okay. I think it cut under my eye. My eye lid, I think."
Rin straightens and turns to her teammate. "May I see?"
Obito waves her back, laughing bashfully. "I'm okay, Rin, really." He blushes. "You should really check out sensei." He gasps dropping his hand to lean over the blond. "Are you okay? Sensei, you saved my life!"
Rin takes a moment to really make sure that Obito's eye was in no danger, which it wasn't it really was just a scrape, only to then turn her attention to her sensei. She immediately regrets taking so much time turning her attention to her sensei when she sees his pale pallor even under all the dirt and sweat. His face has lost all color and his eyes are having a hard time focusing.
Rin sets to work right away finding the gravest of his injuries. It's a combination of his throat, his ankle and his chakra system. She can do nothing about his lack of chakra, he's breathing with only minor difficulty but his ankle is already swelling and is a nasty, angry red. She tries to wiggle his foot out of his sandal. Minato flinches at the movement but doesn't stop the young medical shinobi.
"How is it looking?" Kakashi asks, peering down at the swollen joint. He cringes.
Obito gives him a sour look, removing his broken goggles. He inspects them for a moment before settling them on top of his head again. He nods toward Kakashi's scrunched face. "About that good, I'd say." The young gray haired boy glares without any real anger.
"And you'd be right," Rin says in her soft, airy voice. "There's no way sensei will be able to walk around on this for a while. And-" she stops, all four of them turning to gaze into the forest. There are multiple chakra signatures moving in on them fast. "Reinforcements!" Rin gasps.
Obito jumps up first, grabbing Minato's hand and trying to pull him up. "Come on, sensei! Get up, we have to leave!" Rin moves out of the way as Kakashi joins him, grabbing the other hand, both of their combined strength is enough to pull him to his feet, but he sways and falls back down again.
"He can't walk on it!" Rin says.
Kakashi and Obito share exasperated looks, neither knowing what to do. Minato stares bleakly around the area, looking for somewhere to hide. His sluggish mind is unable to grasp more than half plans, nothing concrete or sure of being successful.
"Go, you three," Minato finally says. "I can't run and I don't have any chakra to use the Flying Raijin. You have to get away."
"No way, sensei!" Obito says, pulling out a kunai, his sharingan flickering back to life in his eyes. Minato didn't even notice that it was gone. That just shows how far he's fallen to not notice something like that. "We are a team and we will never abandon you," he says assuredly, eyes narrowing in determination, "or each other." He looks at Kakashi and Rin. Both of them nod, pulling out kunai of their own.
"We will protect you, sensei," Rin says.
"Just like you protected us," Kakashi says, glaring into the forest with his good eye. All three of them are worn and tired. They are all low on chakra and have no delusions. This is probably the end for them. Five Iwa shinobi stalk out of the forest, having already pegged them minutes before they noticed the Iwas shinobi. Minato tries to stand, keeping all the weight off of his weak ankle, but he falls to his knees.
Minato grows to himself under his breath. He shouldn't be like this. Shouldn't be weak like this. He should be able to handle something like this, yet he's being taken down my a twisted ankle. Oh, how the mighty fall. Minato is the Yellow Flash and he was brought down by his ankle twisting strangely.
He can tell immediately that the enemy can tell who he is and his stomach drops even more. They know who he is. This entire thing just went from back to worse.
"It's the Yellow Flash," one of them says. Minato's head swims. His vision blurs and he thinks he's minutes away from passing out. Minato summons the last of his strength to push himself to his feet and stare across the twenty feet from them to the tree line. Minato sways drunkenly on his feet, trying to clear his mind but it's filling with fog.
"Please run away," he murmurs to his students, but none of them answer him. They all stay where they stand, staring down the enemy. Minato feels a swell of pride in his gut and does the same. He has to think of something, has to get himself and his students out of here. It's doubtful that they will leave without him, so he can't just send them away.
The Iwa ninja charge, throwing a wall of shuriken and kunai at them. All three of Minato's students create a protective barrier between him and the wall of weapons. Minato wanted nothing more then to push all of them down and take all the blows himself but his vision blackens and he feels himself hit the ground, knocking the wind out of him. And then he slips into slumber.
Minato is warm. Warm and cold. His face and ankle are cold while the rest of him is warm. He can hear people whispering around him. He can hear the sound of fire crackling just a few feet from him. There is something on his forehead. And he senses a very familiar presence.
"Master?" he rasps, flinching at the pain in his throat. It's like sandpaper rubbing against his adams apple. He swallows a few times, trying to lubricate his throat. He opens his eyes but immediately has to close them when he realizes he was staring into the fire. He tries to turn away but his muscles ache at even the slightest movement.
Something shifts on the other side of the fire and walks over to him, kneeling down next to him. "Don't try to move, Minato," his master says. His voice sounds like a breath of fresh air to the young sensei. "You've been out for about two days. And you have a high fever from infection. We're taking you to the nearest base."
Minato opens his eyes slowly, seeing as Jiraiya's body is blocking the light from the fire. The sky is dark, it's late. "Where are the kids? Are they okay?" He moves to sit up but a flash of heat through his blood makes him drop again.
"They're fine," Jiraiya says the same time as Rin calls out, "Stop sensei!"
A moment later, she's knelt by his side, pulling off the rag that slipped onto his chest in his attempt to get up. She dips it into the small bucket of water right next to Minato's head and then rings it out and placing it back. The cool rag feels wonderful against his burning skin. He sighs softly in relief, smiling faintly up to Rin. She smiles back in return.
"Thank goodness you're okay, sensei, we were worried sick," she says.
"We?" Minato says softly.
"Yeah, sensei," Obito says, appearing over Jiraiya's shoulder. Kakashi appears over the other one, his eye freshly bandaged. "We were worried. Just before those Iwa ninja got to us, Master Jiraiya appeared on the back of a huge toad." He grins brilliantly down at his sensei.
Minato's eyes come into focus on Obito's face and he frowns, reaching up to touch the bandage over Obito's eye. "What happened, Obito? Oh, right, you were hurt. A rock to the eye." Obito suddenly looks uncomfortable.
"Uh... I lost my eye, sensei."
Minato's eyes widen. "What?" He tries to sit up again but it's just as successful as the first time. He settles back into the makeshift bed. He looks at Obito worried. "What happened, Obito? I thought it was just a flesh wound."
Obito nods. "It was, until it got infected. Rin had to do immediate surgery or I was going to lose my eye and probably get infection of the blood. So she removed my eye to save it and healed the stem and socket. I'm better now." He smiles.
Minato shakes his head. "And your eye? Did you destroy it?"
"Not quite," Obito says sheepishly, he looks over at the white haired boy. "It's kinda on loan."
Minato looks between them. "What does that mean?"
"I have it, sensei," Kakashi says softly. "Obito said I should have it if he can't..."
Minato's shock must have been plain on his face because Obito looks bashful again. "No reason both of us should be cyclopses. Besides, I already have a sharingan and it would help him with his Chidori. I don't need it."
Minato's mind races, multitudes of thoughts cross his mind. An entire speech about the rights and wrongs of what he did working through his mind when he stops and then just smiles. "That was very kind of you, Obito." The young man looks shocked for a moment, before he nods, smiling brightly.
"Thanks sensei."
"Rest, Minato, you still haven't gotten over your fever. We'll be safe soon," Jiraiya says, reaching out to pat Minato's shoulder.
Minato's eyes grew heavy and he nods. "Thank you for saving us, sensei. Thank you."
Jiraiya chuckles, moving to stand up straight. "No need for thanks, Minato. We're all just lucky I made it there when I did."
"Yeah," Minato murmurs. "Lucky."
The war ended just a short few months later. Minato got the treatment he needed and his entire team made it back to Konoha alive. It was just three days after the treaty was signed that Minato was summoned by the Hokage. He left there feeling like he was floating on air.
Hokage, he was going to be the next Hokage. And then, just after he was given the title, he was given even greater news. Father, he was going to be a father. He went out that night with Fugaku Uchiha, Jiraiya, Shibi Aburame and Choza Akimichi, the only people who know him almost as well Kushina. They all went out that night to drink in celebration. For both his teammates and best friend were also going to be fathers. Fugaku again. His son Itachi was excited to become a big brother. Jiraiya was just happy to be able to share in their happiness.
Kushina went out with her girlfriends that same night, including Mikoto and Tsume and Kushina's elder cousin, Tsunade Senju. Kushina was the only reason that Tsunade even cared enough to return to the village.
"Congratulations, Minato!" Jiraiya says, putting his arm around his young student's shoulders. "You're going to be a father. Have you and Kushina thought of any names yet?"
Minato shook his head. "No, it's too early. Kushina is really superstitious. She wants to wait until we know the sex before even considering naming him or her." He shrugs his shoulders then looks at his friends. "What about you guys? Have any of you talked about names?"
"My old lady wants a boy," Choza says. "She's in love with the name Choji. I don't really care if it's a boy or girl. So long as their happy and happy."
"My wife and I haven't thought of any names yet," Shibi says, sipping at his sake. "We've talked but haven't quite found one for either gender that we like."
Fugaku nods in agreement. "If tradition holds, I'll have another son," Fugaku says. At the table participants curious looks, he leans forward to explain, "My father has two other brothers. He had four sons. Each of his brothers had at least two sons and no daughters and all of my brothers have had all sons thus far." He shakes his head, smiling faintly to himself. "It'd be a miracle if we had a girl."
"Yikes," Choza says, eyes wide. He laughs. "Now we know why there is so many male Uchiha! It's near impossible to have girls!"
Fugaku shrugs. "Yeah, well, not much I can do about that. But Mikoto has been humoring the name Keisaki for a boy's name and, on the off chance it ends up being a girl, Giana." There is a long silence, all of them staring at him. Fugaku sighs, "I know, she can't name things worth shit."
Minato laughs, grinning at his best friend. "The girl's name is a little cute, but the boy's name is really bad." He nudges Fugaku with his shoulder. The Uchiha giving him an exasperated look.
"They are both shit names, hopefully the girls can talk her out of them or I may have to sacrifice my marriage and do it myself," Fugaku says, pursing his lips. The table fills with laughter.
Something touches Minato's shoulder lightly and he turns to see Kakashi staring back at him. No longer does he wear those bandages around his new sharingan eye, but instead has his headband cover it. Fugaku was originally upset about hearing Obito's decision to part with his eye and for giving it away instead of destroying it, but Minato and Obito sat him down and explained that while unfair familial-wise, it was Obito's choice. It was his eye. So now they had to deal with Obito learning to fight missing his left eye. On the bright side, Fugaku was happy to hear that Obito had gotten his sharingan activated.
Kakashi shifts nervously from one foot to the other, avoiding eye contact with the other adults at the table. He shifts uncomfortably while Minato waits patiently for him to speak up. After a moment or two he gathers his courage. Kakashi broadens his shoulder and looks into Mianto's eye with his single showing one and nods once. "I heard that you were going to be a father, sensei..."
Minato smiles. "Yes, who told you?"
Kakashi's eyes shifts slightly to Fugaku before returning to Minato. "Obito overheard the Lord Uchiha was coming out here to celebrate with you about your newfound parenthood. So... yeah. Congrats."
Fugaku makes an annoyed noise but Minato is beaming. "Thank you, Kakashi, that means so much coming from you. But there really was no need for you to stop what you were doing to congratulate me. I do appreciate it though." He reaches out and pets down Kakashi's hair. The boy fidgets slightly, his cheeks coloring. He clears his throat and shrugs.
"No problem, sensei. Uh, I'd better go now." He bows respectfully to the other men before running out of the Akimichi restaurant.
"Poor boy," Jiraiya says, shaking his head and throwing back a shot of sake. "He's got hero worship really bad."
Minato turns back to the rest of the table, he tilts his head. "Who? Kakashi? Who's he got hero worship for?"
Fugaku pours himself another cup, sloshing it around for a moment before drowning it down. He lays it down firmly and gives Minato a level stare. "That would be you, Blondie."
Minato laughs, his cheeks coloring. "You shink so?" That cause the others in the room to laugh. Minato clears his through and repeats himself slowly. "You think so?"
"I think your drunk," Fugaku says and that draws out more laughter. Minato shakes his head and raises his cup into the air.
"Cheers!" He says drunkenly.
The others raise their glasses and clank them together and echo, "cheers!"