This fanfic was written for Christmas! And an attempt to get out of me not having ideas for my "Red Thread of Fate"!
It's set in the time after Naruto met Kushina, his mother, during his training to control the Nine-Tails.
Let's just pretend there was a moment of peace after that, neh?
Anyways, here it is!
Chapter 1 – Who's being loud, huh?!
"Minato! Minato-ttebane! Where are we?" He heard a girl's hushed voice say, but he could see that there was urgency in her voice.
-ttebane? Is this a dream?
"Ssssssshhhhhh! You're going to wake him up!" He heard a boy's voice next, must be "Minato". "I don't know where we are, but from what I see outside the window, this place looks familiar..."
Naruto Uzumaki finally opened his eyes and rose from his bed like a zombie, and so abruptly that the girl shrieked and jumped in surprise, while "Minato" took out a kunai and positioned himself defensively in front of her. Naruto then turned his head toward the pair in a manner that Kankurou's puppets will be proud of. Well, what? Anyone disturbed from their peaceful slumber would react in the same way.
For a few minutes, nobody spoke; they just looked at each other. Naruto, barely out of his sleepiness, stared at them blankly; "Minato" and the girl fixed their glance on him, calculating what he'll do and taking action as needed.
Naruto slowly turned his head toward the window, only to double take back at the pair and jump upright on his bed; the girl shrieked.
"OI! WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING IN MY HOUSE-TTEBAYO?! WHO ARE YOU?!" Naruto pointed an accusatory finger at the pair. He now saw that "Minato" had blonde hair and wore his hair a bit like Ero-sennin, and the girl had long red hair, which she wore with a hairclip to keep her hair from her face.
"Wait, let me ex—" "Minato" tried to calm the teenager, however the girl with her dashed toward Naruto in a flash, and planted her knuckles on his head. "Minato" slapped a hand on his forehead.
"DON'T BE TOO LOUD-TTEBANE!"
"ITTE!" Naruto screamed in pain when he took the girl's hit, he's surprised that a girl like her could strike him like that (but then again, there's Sakura-chan).
"LOOK WHO'S 'TOO LOUD', AND RIGHT IN MY HOUSE TOO-TTEBAYO!" he angrily responded.
"Minato" unlatched the girl from him. He took her aside and whispered calmly to her, "Kushina, please, calm down! He might be able to help us."
Kushina?
Then he turned to Naruto and bowed as a sign of apology, "I'm sorry for the inconvenience, uh, nii-san." "Minato" did not know what his name is.
"Please let us introduce ourselves to you, my name is Namikaze Minato, and this is..."
"Uzumaki Kushina," the girl with red hair spoke with an air of arrogance, her eyes closed and arms crossed in front of her.
Naruto's eyes widened at the knowledge of their names. Tou-chan? Kaa-chan?
"And you are?" Kushina glared at him, despite his evident puzzlement at the matter.
"Na-Naruto." Should I—? "Uzumaki Naruto." He felt his body become limp the moment he said his whole name. Now, he just didn't know what to do. He sat on his bed.
"Are you all right?" Minato walked over to him, worried about his sudden lack of energy after all the ruckus he and Kushina caused so early in the morning.
"Mmm," was all Naruto could respond. What were his mother and father doing here? And they look different. They look like...children, around the age of a chunin.
Meanwhile, Kushina perked up upon hearing his surname.
"Uzumaki?" she placed her hands on his knees and looked him in the face intently. "You must be a relative of mine! I wonder how we're related..." she slacked off when she saw that he looked confused.
The two remained quiet, while Naruto processed his thoughts.
I guess... I'll just act like I don't know anything about them, at least until I ask for help from Tsunade-baa-chan and Sakura-chan and Kakashi-sensei.
When he was done, the first thing he thought was food. It's supposed to be breakfast after all.
"Anno, are you two hungry?" Naruto inquired.
"No, we just ate—" Minato replied, (he wasn't really, really, really hungry, but he is) and it soon became obvious that he was lying, when Kushina's stomach gurgled loudly. She blushed, and Naruto laughed.
"It seems you two have a problem, let's discuss that over breakfast and see what I can do, neh?" Naruto smiled warmly.
"I live alone, and I don't know how to cook, so... sorry if these are all I can serve you," Naruto apologetically said, while serving the two children and himself instant ramen and some crackers.
"Ramen! Itadakimasu!" Kushina exclaimed and proceeded to stuff her face with the food served to her. "Anno, do you eat this every day?" Minato asked worriedly while pointing at the steaming cup of instant ramen.
"Uh, yeah," Naruto blushed, embarrassed that his dad found out.
"But this isn't healthy you know, you should try to learn how to cook healthy meals, Naruto-nii" he scolded Naruto, and then he proceeded to eat, "Itadakimasu."
"Hehe," Naruto, ashamed, just grinned and scratched his temple. "By the way, if you thought this place is familiar, that would be because this is Konoha."
"Konoha... How'd you know we're from Konoha?" Kushina questioned him.
Naruto merely tapped her forehead two times and then proceeded to sit and start eating. He said, "Itadakimasu," quietly.
Kushina blushed at her slow poke thinking. Right, they were wearing their forehead protectors that day.
They ate in silence for a while, when Naruto remembered why the pair were here in the first place.
"Oh right, I just remembered, the problem you two have, what happened anyway?" Naruto asked.
Kushina beat Minato to it and said, "Well you see, this idiot here, he was testing this new jutsu he's formulating, when..."
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
"Kushina! Anno, can you go with me to Training Ground 3? I'm going to test the Hiraishin today!" Minato joyfully said.
"B-but, it's just a prototype, right? And worse, you said it was a space-time ninjutsu-ttebane! Who knows where we'll end up after this?!" Kushina nervously responded. She really wasn't sure about this, messing with space-time is not the most beautiful thing! She had heard many rumors about people trying to formulate such jutsus and they were never found, no corpse, no clues, nothing! And now...
"Don't worry! I asked Jiraiya-sensei to help me. He'll be with us the whole time. And this time, I'm more certain it's complete!" Minato was undoubtedly hyped.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
Why did I ever agree to this? Kushina crossed her arms, while watching Minato set up his jutsu, with Jiraiya-sensei standing at the side. Furthermore, this Ero-sennin... Kushina glared at the Frog Sage, she just can't believe this man is part of the Legendary Sannin; he indulges in the three shinobi vices!
Jiraiya finally felt Kushina's ominous glare, and nervously smiled and waved at her. Kushina immediately turned her sight on Minato's preparations. Presently he is setting up the special three-pronged kunai he made himself, all of which are marked with the jutsu formula. He stuck the kunai at the three wooden posts present at the Training Ground.
What did I ever do to her? Jiraiya thought, because as long as he can remember, he had always respected the little girl since his student Minato holds her dear.
"Done, but one last thing," Minato said as he approached Jiraiya. "Do you mind?" Jiraiya shook his head and Minato marked him with the Hiraishin on his arm.
Meanwhile, Kushina is pondering what Minato and Jiraiya were discussing, when Minato turned to her direction and asked her, "Do you mind?"
"What 'do you mind?'?" Kushina is even more puzzled, "I don't understand, Minato."
"Right, sorry, I'm going to mark you with the Hiraishin, is that okay with you?"
"WHAT?! I THOUGHT I WAS HERE TO JUST WATCH-TTEBANE!" Kushina expressed her rage so loudly the birds that inhabited the forest fled. Even Jiraiya who was standing 5 meters away from her had to cover his ears. Minato had to snap his fingers near his ears to make sure he hasn't gone deaf.
"Sorry, Kushina. For me?" Minato winked and put together his palms in front of him, "Please?"
Well, who could resist those puppy-dog, sapphire eyes of his? No one, not even Kushina.
She blushed, then sighed and threw her hands in the air in resignation, and finally consented, "I swear, if something goes wrong here, I'm going to kill you, Namikaze Minato."
Minato chuckled nervously and joked, "That is, if I don't die here first."
Kushina didn't like his joke, not a bit of it at all.
"Okay then, I'm going to start," Minato announced, as he returned to the center of his little group. "Please relax," he said, as he dodged a high-speed rock Kushina threw at him, followed by "Relax! How? Tell me!" Jiraiya laughed, and then immediately turned serious.
"Minato, you know this is no ordinary jutsu you're attempting to formulate, so focus your attention, and give it your all," Jiraiya warned his student, "Be careful and good luck."
"Hai!" Minato took a last look at Kushina before forming the hand signs, "Hiraishin no Jutsu!"
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
"And that's all I can remember!" Kushina exclaimed while finishing the last of her ramen.
"Haha, well apparently, something went wrong with the jutsu, and next I opened my eyes, were both here in your house, Naruto-nii, and Jiraiya-sensei is nowhere to be seen," Minato chuckled.
"THIS IS NO TIME TO BE LAUGHING-TTEBANE!" as Kushina made Minato's head the next target of her knuckles.
They're just like how I imagined them as kids, after what kaa-chan told me when I was training for the control of the Kyuubi...
"YOU IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN TO US?! HOW CAN WE—" Kushina's ranting abruptly stopped when Naruto rested his hand on her shoulder.
"You know, I'm taking you both to Tsunade-baa-chan, and ask for her help."
"Tsunade?" Minato and Kushina asked him simultaneously. "You mean Jiraiya-sensei's former teammate, one of the Legendary Sannin?"
"Uhh yeah, she's the Hokage of this time."
"Hokage!" Minato and Kushina incredulously exclaimed. After a few seconds of silence, Minato spoke up, "It's now clear. Apparently, we're in the future, Kushina." He turned to Naruto and expressed his doubts, "But Jiraiya-sensei said she will never, ever get back to the village."
"Well you see," Naruto began his explanation while he stood up to collect the ramen cups and throw them in the trash, "I was the one who convinced her."
"You did? How?" the pair asked.
"It's a long story actually, and that's not what's important right now. Oh, wait here for a bit, I'll just be changing my clothes, neh? Then we're going," Naruto left the pair at the dining table, fetched some clothes from his modest closet, and went to the bathroom. Well usually he would just strip his pajamas and be in his boxers right in the middle of his room, who cares, but he would not do that in front of his parents. When he was done, he returned to his cute pair of parents and announced, "Let's go!"
"You mean you mastered the...Rasengan, was it, in just a week to convince her? Just that? Nothing more?" Minato could not believe what Naruto was telling them.
They were now walking toward the HokageTower, the center of the village, near the HokageMountain.
"Uh, yeah, along with other things..." Naruto is used to boasting his "achievements" to others, but yeah, you guessed it, he's not doing that right now because of his parents. Naruto turned his glance on the HokageMountain, at his father's face...
OH, right I forgot! I'll just wish tou-chan won't notice that the fourth head up there looks like him!
"Oi, Minato, that fourth head on the Mountain looks like you. Or Ero-sennin."
Naruto could only stare in shock at his mother, who noticed what he was wishing they wouldn't.
"Kushina, don't be silly. That Mountain's for—" Minato was cut short after he took a glimpse on the Mountain.
OHHHHHHHHH! This is not good! "HEY! How about we eat for Ichiraku's for a while? Come on let's go! Hehe," Naruto hastily pushed the two kids toward the ramen shop.
"But we just ate ramen, Naruto-nii," Minato planted his feet on the ground, and refused to budge.
No choice then.
"EEEEEEKKK! NARUTO!" Kushina blared at him, not even bothering with the honorifics and the fact that he is trying to help the two of them. Naruto could feel the whole village look up at their little group, skipping over the rooftops.
Naruto had swooped on the pair the moment Minato refused to go to the ramen shop, so now here they are, him carrying the pair, jumping over houses, and going as fast as he can to the HokageTower to prevent any more questions he just can't answer.
Kushina is trying to wriggle out of his grasp while Minato could see he's trying to hide something.
"Please wait here a moment, uh, Kushina-chan and... Minato-chan," Naruto told the lost pair. It's the first time he's called them by their names, and with honorifics appropriate for people so much younger than he is at that!
Why does this have to be so difficult for me? he sighed as he knocked on the door.
"Come in," came a voice from inside. Must be Shizune-san.
Naruto opened the door slowly, closed it gently, then ran up to Tsunade so suddenly; she almost spat the tea she was drinking.
"Baa-chan, help me! YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME!"
"W-wait Naruto, I don't understand..." Tsunade is still startled by his urgency, then an answer dawned on her. She suddenly stood up, and said, "You didn't peek in the women's bath, now did you?!" She now exuded a killing intent on him, while she cracked her knuckles.
"NO, NO BAA-CHAN, SSSSHHHHHHH!" Naruto backed away from her desk whilst trying to calm the fuming Hokage. "'They' might get the wrong idea! PLEASE CALM DOWN! Shizune-san, help me here, please?"
Tsunade calmed down quickly (surprisingly), probably because she could sense that Naruto is in a serious (REALLY serious) problem.
"Baa-chan, please, don't shout while I'm in the middle of explaining, or do anything that will alert 'them', ('THEY'RE' OUTSIDE!). You could let your jaw drop, pound the desk, roll on the floor or anything," Naruto pleaded, "But please, nothing that will make 'them' run away!"
"Just who are 'they'?"
Naruto then proceeded to explain, calmly and as quietly as he can. He could see the effort his baa-chan is putting up just not to startle his time-travelling parents outside.
When he was done, Naruto sighed and plopped on the floor, Tsunade drank down her remaining tea (which has gone cold by the way), and Shizune was stroking Tonton to calm herself.
"So...can I bring them in now?" Naruto asked permission from Tsunade.
"Sure, bring it on."
Naruto stuck his head out of the door and called for the pair.
"Hey, she says you can come in now... No, no, nothing's destroyed... Yes I'm fine..." was all Tsunade could hear from the trio's little conversation.
The pair finally walked in. Tsunade's eyes widened in shock, Naruto forgot to mention they were children.
"Ohayou, Tsunade-sama," young Minato bowed before her, whilst pulling Kushina to do the same.
"O-ohayou. Naruto already told me about your problem. Space-time jutsus are a pain to deal with…"
Minato cringed at her reaction.
"See, Tsunade-sama seems to agree with me, Minato," Kushina scoffed at him.
Minato smiled nervously. "So… Do you know how we could get back, Tsunade-sama?"
"Yes, but I believe finding the scroll for it in the Library will take a few days. We will begin soon after that. This happened before with—"
"With whom?" Naruto asked.
"Never mind, you two could go now. Naruto, stay for a while."
OH~ So who is it?
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Tell me how was it!
Reviews appreciated!