A/N: So I thought I'd write about stages in Minato and Kushina's relationship, this first one being right after they met for the first time. Tell me if you like the idea! Please, please, please review!!
Jiraiya had sent Minato off to have lunch with his friends, and there was a new girl in the village who he thought Minato should know. That girl was a handful, but she was apparently quite talented. And she was Minato's age, about eleven. And now that lunch was over, Minato had come running back with a bloody nose.
"Minato, did someone beat you in a fight?" Jiraiya laughed, surprised that Minato had let that happen.
"No!" the young boy exclaimed.
"Then what happened?" Jiraiya asked.
"Some girl punched me," Minato sighed, ashamed of himself.
"I told you not to come on too strong!" Jiraiya reprimanded him, thinking of all the times he himself had done that.
"I didn't!" Minato insisted. "I just introduced myself to her, she's the new kid!"
Jiraiya put his arm around his student and gave him a napkin to stop the bleeding.
"Well you can't have all the girls," Jiraiya told him, watching in amusement as Minato made a disgusted face.
"I don't want this one Sensei," Minato replied.
He couldn't believe that his teacher would even think that! That girl was incredibly annoying, and she had punched him in the nose for no reason! He was definitely going to stay away from that Uzumaki girl. And that was final.
"Think before you say that Minato," Jiraiya warned him. "That's only what you say now, but someday…"
"Sensei I have thought all I need to," Minato assured him. "And I will never, EVER, like that girl."
"Whatever you say," Jiraiya smiled.
Minato wished he could wipe that grin off of Jiraiya's face but contented himself with forcefully wiping the blood off of his nose. He would never like that girl. Never.