A breeze blew by as the royal cart was being carried by enough people to support Minato the King, and his two sons, the eldest being Naruto and youngest Menma. The King sighed heavily. He poked his head out from behind the curtain and shouted for the guards to stop and place them down. Minato got out from the cart and stretched his arms and legs smiling. "Boys come on out. Let's walk the rest of the way." Naruto hopped out, a smile plastered onto his face. Menma grudgingly dragged his body from out the cart, his arms hanging by his side.
"Why did we have to come and Sasuke didn't?" Menma questioned annoyed. His father laughed, his hands balled into fist as he placed them on his hips. He bent forward slightly.
"He's on punishment for disobeying the rules. This is supposed to be fun! Come on Menma, be happy, let go." Minato coaxed. Menma looked at his father and his eyes narrowed slightly as he forced a smile onto his face.
"Come on, dad we said we'd be there by 2 and its already 1:36. We don't want to be late. Can we jump from the trees , we'll get there faster." Naruto urged as he glanced at his watch. He was a ninja just like his dad but due to their roles, couldn't go out on a lot missions till they were of certain age. He tried to get as much training as he could.
"Sure Naruto." Ecstatically Minato responded. He jumped to the trees with his boys in tow after he ordered for his little entourage to bring the cart behind them. Naruto went quickly never missing a beat. He was a skilled ninja. As he jumped from tree to tree, he thought about his mom doing the same right in front of him holding Menma. A memory he had before his mom died. He was just a little kid then.
His father had been holding him and their mom, Kushina, holding Menma tightly as they were making their way home from the carnival. A man with a mask had morphed in front of them. He put his hand out and Kushina dropped Menma as her arms were pulled to her side, Minato reacted quick catching him. Minato landed on the ground and placed the boys down. He teleported quickly with the boys to the safe house. He teleported back. The enemy had her in his grasp and Minato jumped to go and grab her but was to late. The enemy stabbed her in the chest with his hand and threw her to the ground roughly. Minato ran to her side.
"Kushina! Are you okay?" Minato asked panicked, worried for her and because of the fox she had inside of her. Kushina coughed. She smiled softly and placed her palm on Minato's cheek.
"Beat him Minato. Im okay for now." Kushina panted. Minato nodded his head. He stood up and faced the enemy.
"Are you ready yet?" The enemy asked as he let his body hang and his head drop. Minato stood confused for a moment but shook it off. He lunged at the enemy as he yelled at him.
"Who are you?" Minato raged. The enemy laughed comically.
"Doesn't matter. You'll be dead soon away." He ran at Minato and they dodged kicks and punches. They were fighting hard. The rogue let Minato's punch phase through him aiming Kunai at him before Minato could dodge and got him stuck to a tree trunk. Minato grunted in annoyance. The rogue made his way to Kushina disappearing and reappearing at her side. He place his fingers on her stomach and a seal appeared. He twisted it quickly. The nine-tailed fox was released. He roared loudly. He hit trees aimlessly causing Minato and the rogue to finish their fight quickly before they were destroyed by the fox. From above, Minato flew down at the rogue punching him away from Kushina who groaned in pain. The rogue ran at Minato. Minato ran at him and threw a kunai at him which the rogue phased through but just as he was about to punch Minato. Minato disappeared. He reappeared above him with the rasengan in hand and the masked assailant was forced into the ground injuring him deeply. The rogue disappeared. Minato ran to Kushina and teleported her away. Minato arrived at the safe house with Kushina. The boys sat on the floor stunned.
"Naruto, come here quickly." Minato ordered as he placed Kushina down gently. Naruto ran to his father while Menma just sat on the floor. Minato teleported with Naruto. Minato summoned a ceremonial throne and had Naruto sit in it. Minato perform the 8 trigram seal and the Fox was pulled into Naruto. Naruto cried out in agony at the force and strength of the Fox's chakra being pulled into him.
"Dad, what did you do to me?" Naruto cried. He didn't want this beast inside him. This thing full of hate. Naruto could hear it talking to him. Trying to make him feel bad. He didn't like it. Minato stretched his hand out to place on Naruto's shoulder but he smacked it away.
"Naruto, the other half is sealed inside of me. We're alike now, you and I. I can help you learn to control that power inside of you. Alright?" Minato informed as he reached his hand out for Naruto to take smiling brightly at him. Naruto took his hand and slowly a smile formed on his face as Minato transported the two back to the safe house. Minato ran to Kushina and lifted her head, he ran his hand through her long red hair.
"She's dead." Menma muttered. Naruto glared at him through his tears.
"Did you even try to help her?!" Naruto yelled as he lunged at his younger brother. Minato was crying over Kushina but he got up and ran to the boys stopping them in their tracks before they started fighting.
"Your mother wouldn't want you to fight Menma, Naruto." Minato stated calmly as tears ran down his face as he eyed his two sons.
"Naruto! Naruto! Naruto!" Minato yelled shaking his son by his shoulder snapping him out of his daydream. Naruto blinked his eyes and shook his head. He rubbed the nape of his neck and chuckled.
"Sorry dad. Guess I got distracted." Naruto laughed as he wiped his eyes while Menma just grunted with his arms crossed.
"Are you alright Naruto? You were crying a bit." Minato informed.
"I'm alright. Let's just continue on our way." Naruto reassuranced his dad as he led the way jumping from tree to tree. Minato quizzed the duo on some royalty information they would need to know as they made their way to their destination. They arrived before 7 minutes before 2:00. They walked to the entrance of an orphanage. Minato opened the door letting his sons enter first before he did. A woman with glasses and light brown hair stood up from her position at the desk and greeted the King and princes bowing. Minato laughed as he raised his hand for her to stop bowing.
"Hi, we're here for a young girl. Her name is Sakura Haruno. My advisor should have told you about us taking her to work for us." Minato announced. The woman checked something on her clipboard and yelled for Sakura to come to her. A girl appeared from the hallway entrance, her long pink hair flowing behind her. She looked no older than the twin princes. She had on ragged clothes. Her green top torn with multiples holes and her black shorts were ripped on the side showing her thigh. She had fair skin and green eyes. She didn't wear any shoes.
"Yes ma'am?" She questioned. Looking curiously at the three men who stood before her.
"Sakura, dear this is the king,' The attendant eye Sakura scowling at her for not bowing, 'You will be going to work for them." The attendant explained. Sakura took a step back as Minato walked closer to her and bent down to her level reaching his hand out. Sakura glances between his hand and his face before reaching her own out. Minato grabbed her hand and smiled kindly at her.
"Hey there, you can call our home yours now. We'll provide everything for you, room, food, and even clothes." Minato informed her as she relaxed a bit. Minato thanked the attendant and had told Sakura to get her things but she declined since she had nothing. Minato went outside where their cart was waiting for them and the three kids followed him. He had told Sakura that she could sit in the cart on the way home while the boys jumped from the trees. The journey home was a lot faster and calmer. They arrived at the fronts gates and were greeted by Sasuke and his ANBU guard Kakashi.
"Who's the girl?" Sasuke inquired looking at his adopted father.
"I'm Sakura." She answered quickly.
"Who told you to speak?" Sasuke retorted. Minato places his hand on Sakura's shoulder before she could say anything.
"Mind your tone Sasuke," Minato ordered, 'This is Sakura. She will be your hand servant. You are to train her so don't get upset if she does something wrong the first time. Kakashi keep Sasuke in check when it comes to her until she learns the ropes." Minato dictates as Kakashi nodded his head in understanding and Sasuke scoffed. They all proceeded inside of the castle and went their separate ways. Minato followed by Naruto and Menma went to the throne room for royal training while Sasuke went the opposite way towards the direction of his room with his guard and new hand servant in tow. Sasuke showed Sakura to a bathroom and had her shower. She came out refreshed and clean but with the same clothes.
"Servant, name?" Sasuke requested. Sakura looked at him as he faced her. His eyes black with hate his tone icy, and his posture stiff.
"My name is Sakura Haruno." She replied as she brushes a stay hair behind her ear.
"What's with you hair being pink? It's weird. Dye it a darker color and find some new clothes right look disgusting like that." Sasuke insisted. Sakura looked down and started fidgeting with her hands embarrassed.
"Prince Sasuke, she isn't dying her hair and you should be the one to get her something new since your her master." A husky voice stated. It was Kakashi. He stood tall with his arms crossed over his chest. He had a fox mask on but it wasn't covering his face unlike the other mask that covered most of his face leaving his eyes uncovered. His eyes were dark but calm and heavy lidded. He had spiky silver hair that oriented to the left. Sasuke growled but led her to a closet full of female clothing that were open to the female workers to use.
"Pick something out and hurry up and change in there." Sasuke ordered as he pointed to a small closet to the right. Sakura nodded and looked through the clothes picking something quick and making her way to the closet. Sakura came out wearing a red sleeveless top and black shorts underneath a short pink apron skirt. She also had black gloves and low-heel, knee-high black boots. She had a red ribbon in her hair to hold it from being completely in her face. "You look presentable." Sasuke complemented in a different tone than Kakashi was used to hearing which made him glance at Sasuke in curiosity. Sasuke led the two to his room. He entered with Sakura following behind and he shut the door in front of Kakashi's face. Kakashi cursed under his breath. "Sakura, clean my room." Sasuke commanded as he jumped into his bed. Sakura sighed and argued that she shouldn't have too. She stood firm. Sasuke smacked her for talking back. She yelled at Sasuke for hitting her but he just did it again. Kakashi was waiting outside leaning on the door. He listened to Sasuke as he gave orders to Sakura. Sakura picked up the laundry placing them in the basket, she put things back where she thought they should be and when she was wrong, Sasuke chidied her. It went on for a couple of hours as the two argued back and forth. Sasuke ordered Sakura to bring some dishes down to the kitchen and as she was just about to go and open the door she dropped a glass cup. Sasuke moved so quickly to Sakura, slapping her in her face. Sakura gasped as she hit the door slightly causing Kakashi to get bumped a bit on the other side. Sakura ended up dropping all the dishes on the floor as she let go to hold her red check. Sasuke grabbed her roughly pulling her close to him. His face inches away from her, he growled lowly. "Your going to clean all this on your hands and knees."Sasuke spat as he threw her down into the mess of glass. Kakashi opened the door slowly as to not hit Sakura with it. She moved out the way.
"Prince Sasuke, this is wrong. It was an accident. On your feet, Haruno." Kakashi stated, his tone strict.
"But she-" Sasuke started but was stopped by Kakashi raising his hand.
"I heard it all through the door. Haruno, go get those cuts cleaned up. I'll get someone else to clean this up." Kakashi informed as he let Sakura out of the room first. As Sakura and Kakashi went to go complete their tasks, Menma walked towards Sasuke watching the scene unfold before him.
"Wow, your guard is really strict and follows rules well." Menma stated annoyingly.
"Shut up." Sasuke retorted. Menma entered Sasuke's room and closed the door. He sat on the bed and Sasuke in the chair by his desk.
"She's pretty now that she's all cleaned up." Menma announced as he sat with arms against his chest and his eyes closed.
"She's to bright. I don't like it. I want her to change her hair but Kakashi said no. Other than that I guess she's alright but to new. We should teach her to obey like the last one." Sasuke suggests.
"Alright, let's do it the next time dad calls the guards for their reports. We'll corner her and Shikamaru can join this time." Menma plots as he continues to tell Sasuke the plan.
Kakashi hummed along as walked down the corridor. He went to a room labeled staff. It was a room where the staff went for their short breaks. Kakashi opened it and peered into it seeing who was available. "Tenten, come with me." Kakashi spoke in a commanding but clam and easy tone. Tenten stood up and walked towards Kakashi as he made room for her to exit the room. She stood in front of him and bowed respectfully at her superior. He led her back to Sasuke's room and had her clean up the mess that was left by Sasuke's door. An alarm started ringing and Kakashi's head snapped in the direction where the noise was coming from. "Finish up here, then your free to go." He informed as he started running in the other direction. He ran past Sakura who seemed confused by the noise. He stopped running for a moment. "Just go back to the prince, there's nothing to be worried about." He commented as he rushed off to the King's side.