THE NEWS
Sunday has always been a festive day at the Uzumaki-Namikaze residence and as always a family lunch together is expected. After all Sunday is family day.
Everyone in the family is always looking forward to this day as they are busy with their own respective affairs during weekdays. This is the only time to catch up on each other. A young man is setting the table making sure everything is perfect because his mother is a little OC when it comes to table setting, and he doesn't want to give his mother a chance to practice her loud mouth blabbing about everything, he knows he won't win an argument with her so it has to be perfect. And while he's doing the preparation checking every detail and making sure his finger prints isn't visible in any of the tableware the phone suddenly rings. "I'll get it" he shouted.
Naruto is the only son of the infamous lawyer Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze a business tycoon. Both have a well-known reputation in their chosen field.
"Hello! Uzumaki resident…"
"Hello! Is Minato home?" said the voice on the other line.
"Hold on.. uhm.. and may I know who's this?" "Yes.. Please tell him its uncle Jiraiya" "oh! Pervy sage it's you I didn't notice your voice it's a little lame today… hehe.." but the man on the other line didn't say a word or return the joke which he usually does. But Naruto didn't mind at all so he yells to call the man's attention "Dad! Phone its uncle Jiraiya" and Minato appears in a flash, he passes the phone to him.
"Hey! Uncle Jiraiya what's up?" he greeted happily. He listens to the man on the other line and upon Naruto's assessment what they are talking about seems to be something serious because after hearing what Jiraiya has to say Minato's face went blank and all of a sudden he drop the phone unintentionally while his face turns pale.
After seeing her husband's reaction Kushina rush to his side and can't help but wonder what went wrong "What's wrong?... are you ok?.." she asks out of concern.
"Dad! Why? What's the matter?" Then all of sudden a single tear falls from his eyes, he was shock at the news. It hits him like a thunder cutting through his heart. He cannot believe what the man had told him. He starts telling his son and wife what news that call brings to them.
"Uncle Jiraiya called to inform us that the old man Sarutobi just passed away" the two went blank in unison. Both of them are shock, it's very sudden they weren't prepared for something like this. It's heart breaking. Silence is now filling the room. Tears start flowing from 3 pairs of eyes, and only the sound of pain and sorrow is heard, they are breaking into pieces. The news hits them really bad and the wide loneliness welcomes them in solitude.
Mr. Sarutobi was the legal guardian of Minato, after his parents died in a plane crash on their way to a business trip. And as a business partner and a good friend to his parents he took the liberty to adopt him. He practically raised him to be the man he is now. He owes his life to the old man, and he never let him felt like he doesn't belong to his family, he treated him like his own son. The old man has a biological son which was only 2 years older than him, and they treated each other like real brothers. 3 years ago when that brother died he was devastated. He hasn't really moved on from that and now hearing the news that the old man pass away too, felt like death is playing with his family. Why so soon? He doesn't understand. Life is unfair.
"I need to be in Hong Kong for the funeral and to fix some things" Minato said sadly. There's a lot of un-finish business he needs to take care of. The old man is also running his own company back in Hong Kong along with Jiraiya.
Naruto off-course wanted to come and be there for the old man since he views him as his real grandfather, they share some good times together. Unfortunately he can't come with his parents because of his classes at the university.
A week have pass, Kushina and Minato is now back from Hong Kong and Naruto is just excited to see his parents.
"Welcome back… How was it?" Naruto asks. He still sees the sadness in their eyes.
"Well it was sad but we have to accept the fact that the old man is now gone." Minato replies sadly. He can see the sorrow creeping in his father's face but he is trying to be strong. He knows how painful it is especially for his father.
"But our family will be having some new members.." Kushina interjects, trying to ease the deplorable situation.
Naruto's face went to a question, he thinks now is not the time to drop some pregnancy news, and because no matter how much he wanted to have a sibling it's just a bad timing. Couldn't his mother try to wait a few more days to finish mourning before she drops something like this? And he knows that babies could be troublesome. The idea of having a baby in the house bothers him, he is so use to be the only child. "When did you find out?" he asks in a low tone. Kushina already sense the bitterness in his sons tone. "Son I'm not pregnant" she said smirking. His eyes widen in curiosity.
"You're not? Then how…" but Minato cut him off before his over acting imagination went further.
"You remember that old man's granddaughter and grandson whom parents where both died in an accident 3 years ago?"
"Yes.. yes.. I remember! Why what's with them?"
"Well the old man is they're only family left and now that he's gone no one will take care of those two so your mom and I will be adopting them"
"Wow! So I will be having an instant brother and a sister.. Well it should bring us more life here at the house right dad?" he said excitedly. 'Phew that was close'
"I knew you would be glad" Minato smiles at his son.
Naruto is a very nice and understanding type of son, and he always wants happiness in the atmosphere. "When are they coming?" he asks "hmmm. 2 months from now, they still need to finish their school so they will be arriving here in time of vacation, in the meantime uncle Jiraiya will be watching them" he said calmly.
"Well I'm a little excited dad I use to have a crush on that girl, you know but since she's going to be my sister I should act as he's proud brother hehe." He said jokingly. His father now feel a little more better knowing that his son is always here to brighten up every dark times of his life. He is the best thing that ever happened to him. He is his light and he is very proud of him. "Well you better take a rest son it's a little late" Kushina murmurs.
1 and half months later(at the school)
"YO! Sasuke-teme!" Naruto shouts at his best friend excitedly,
"Yo! What's up dobe?" he grins, the foul terms of endearment don't bother them anymore, they're very much use to it. "What's the plan?... I mean you know it's almost vacation time and we should really do some cool stuff" Naruto said coolly
"Well I don't know. You know that I'm not the person to ask when it comes to planning or organizing events for the group, Baka!"
"Alright I'll ask the others then… sheeshhh you don't have to be so grump" he said jokingly.
At the site of Neji, Ten-Ten, Hinata and Sakura walking towards them Naruto's excitement went up. "Hey guys how's it going?" Ten-Ten ask as a greeting. Before the two guys could answer Sakura whole heartedly hug and greets her ultimate crush "SASUKE-KUN! Nice to see you" as he tries to get away from that hug.
"We just saw each other a while ago, so you don't have to be that mushy!" the irritated Sasuke replies. He hates it when she acts like this, it sends him to the foul-mood-mode.
"Oh Sasuke-kun I know you miss my presence."
She continues hugging him, which irritates him more 'not even in my dreams!' he thought bitterly, the girl doesn't know how to read signals. Sasuke is very famous for his good looks and fan girls are everywhere admiring his every move.
He has this mysterious aura in him that made them wants him. They think that entering his mysterious world would be 'every girl's heaven'.
But unfortunately no one is good enough for him he avoids them, not taking any interest in them. It's like he is allergic to this so called 'fan girls'.
The only thing that makes him and Sakura together is that they both share common set of friends.