Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and its characters. This is a collaboration work with my friend and beta Shirahane Aikawa.
Prologue
"Haruka-chan!"
Haru winced as a sudden blow just hit him (it felt like air escaped his lungs) when Natsu (his cousin) pounce at him all of sudden, annoyed he push his over energetic cousin away from him, "Get away from me Natsu. And quit call me Haruka-chan I'm not a girl." He said with an exasperated huff.
"Aww, don't be mad Haru-chan! Sowie…" Natsu apologized cutely to her favorite cousin (Duh! He's their only cousin) latching herself again to her cousin's arm.
Haru's eye twitch, "Minato get your sister off me. Now…"
Minato shrug his shoulder, "Get over here Natsu." It wasn't a request (or anything) it wasn't an obvious demand but the sound of his voice made Natsu follow her older twin brother with a pout.
"Aww you no fun at all oniichan and Haru-oniichan too"
"Oi Natsu you should address me like a servant will do to their masters." Minato said monotonously
"You meanie oniichan!" Natsu huffed her arm across her chest sitting down between Mitsuki and Chōchō They (Minato and Haru) might be her brother and cousin (respectively) but they aren't like her (while she's obviously bubbly and full of life) her older twin brother and cousin are her opposite. Both Minato and Haru are tsundere's)
"Hey hey is your cousin likes dangos? Can I ask him to eat with me after class?" Chocho whispered to her friend.
"Eh? Do you like Haru-oniichan Cho-chan?"
Chocho took a bite of her dango before answering, "Yeah, he's cute." At the same time Haru cringed on his seat.
"You jealous that your favourite cousin has found another fan in Chocho." Mitsuki whispered on her ear.
"Na ah! I'm happy Cho-chan likes Haru-oniichan but I'm worried since Haru-oniichan has too many fans."
"Don't worry Chocho can handle those girls…" Mitsuki was about to get closer to Natsu when a leg slammed in between him and Natsu narrowly missing their hands.
The two of them turn around to see Minato producing a menacing aura all over him.
"Oh, Minato so scary…" Mitsuki laugh.
"Get. Away. Mitsuki" Minato demanded lowly but dangerously as he grind his shoe onto the table. "Or you're dead."
"Che~ someone is getting overprotective here." Shikadai muttered underneath his breath.
"Ne oniichan you can't just put your shoes over someone else's table that's dirty!" Natsu frowned disapprovingly to her older brother.
"Sit down everyone class is starting." Shino said (their academy sensei) as he entered the classroom.
"Aww, I wish I can see uncle Sasuke later."
With Kiba injured Shikamaru insisted Sasuke to make the report to Naruto while he goes to the intel division to do a (reporting) of his own.
The reason why Sasuke joined the intelligence unit is to stay away from the village as much as possible opting to be on the mission every time. But this time it's a bit different.
"Geez this sucks!" Kiba wheezed in pain as he clutches his wounded ribs, this mission is supposed to be only a reconnaissance mission but it turned into something more when they were suddenly attacked out of nowhere. As a result he got wounded while defending themselves against the enemies who just disappeared after the tides turned against them.
"Those pricks are toast once I'm healed they're gonna pay for what they did!" Kiba growled in anger while Akamaru barked in agreement to his partner's promise of revenge, "No one messes with Inuzuka Kiba like this ow oww…"
"Oh come on now stop straining yourself when you know you'll end up hurting yourself even more." Shikamaru said while rubbing the back of his neck, "Stop being so troublesome."
"Shut up Shikamaru you're not helping my case here!"
"Hey guys I heard the news of your return so I came here as soon as possible…"
"Jeez, you're late Naruto."
"Sorry sorry…" Naruto apologized profusely, "It's just I got stuck with lots of paper works today. So putting that aside what about we get together later Rin will bring some lunch later."
Lunch time, Haru is enjoying his lunch savouring the taste of his mackerel onto his mouth and whenever he chew on it, it feels like heaven. (However) The moment of glory is cut short when suddenly he felt someone sit beside him.
"This is too annoying." Minato muttered underneath his breath while sitting next to his cousin.
"Get away from me." Haru said his chopsticks still holding on to his last piece of mackerel.
"Who cares? Just eat." Minato said while playing with his kunai (with a bored expression on his face)
"You're pissing me off Minato get away now." Minato can be idiot sometimes (No. every time!) he doesn't have any manners at all. He was about to voice out his irritation again but (was) interrupted when a girl (one of their classmate) approach Minato with a bento on her hand.
"Uhm, Minato-kun p-please accept this." She said while presenting the young Uzumaki a bento box (she made).
For a few minutes (of eternity) Minato just stared at the girl (their classmate) who's obviously nervous and shaking.
Everyone gasped as Minato turned around with weapon on his hand. Stopping in midway before the edge of his kunai reaches the girl's eyes.
Natsu who witnessed the scene along with Chocho immediately walk over to the centre of the 'crime scene'.
"M-Minato-kun you're cruel!"
"O-Oniichan w-what are you doing?!" she asked once the girl run out of the classroom. Crying.
"Wow soo cool and dangerous!" Chocho said with heart in her eyes staring at Minato (with admiration).
"Oi oi, I thought you like Haru-kun?" a classmate asked Chocho.
"W-Well I can like anyone besides both are hot!"
"Geez this is just so troublesome…"
..
"Oniichan what's go-…."
"Uzumaki Minato-kun in my office. Now." Shino yelled authoritatively (particularly) to the young Uzumaki.
Rin arrived carrying a basket full of food they all shared together, "Dear my brother sent me a telegram this morning telling me that he's coming home before the twin's birthday."
"Oh that's good it's been awhile since his last visit. It's about time." Naruto commented while sipping his tea.
"Aww, I just wish it's my due already I'm about to burst!" Ino complained as she rub her tummy.
"Then stop making more children, dummy." Sasuke muttered while he chew on his tomato.
"Hey I heard that! It's just happens you know! We didn't plan it," Ino pouted, "This is Shikamaru's fault!" she said now wiping her tears.
"Geez pregnant women really they can always change their mood so easily." Shikamaru sighed.
"S-Shut up Baka Shikamaru!"
"Aww, don't cry Ino-chan." Rin patted Ino's back (comforting the crying girl)
"So Sasuke about the mission how it go?" Naruto asked changing the subject.
"Well you saw Kiba earlier."
"It wasn't good I know but I want a full details. But well we can talk about that later."
"Sorry to disturb."
"Ara? Shino what are you doing here." Naruto asked once Shinno settled his feet onto the ground. "Do you want to join us?"
"No but I have something important to say."
"Oh yeah? What is it?"
"It's about Minato."
"What did he do this time?" Naruto sighed. Here we go again…
After lunch with Naruto and the others, Sasuke returned to his and Hinata's dream house, the house they agreed on having and place where they will start the family life together. Although beautiful and grand looking, Sasuke can't see any beauty in it for the place just reminds him of what he lost. He walked through the gardens seeing the sunflowers are already starting to bloom, as promised he made the garden according to Hinata's wishes when they talked about it before even planting the trees and flowers by himself.
"I did what you asked me to Hinata but why aren't you back yet?" He whispered to the wind before entering the main house.
The following morning Naruto gathered Sasuke and Shin (Who just arrived in the village) inside his office at the Hokage tower.
"I called you here because Shin has a news for us." Naruto said to Sasuke and urged Shin to speak.
"During my travels I happen to gather information regarding a mysterious village hidden from the five great nation rumour has it if you see the place all your deepest desire will come true ." Shin explained. The mention of 'deepest desire and come true' peek Sasuke's interest.
"So what about it this village." Sasuke asked, wanting to get more information from Shin.
Shin cleared his throat, "Rogue ninjas led by unknown organization are trying to get inside that village for their own gain."
"As you said Shin that village's existence isn't proven yet and…"
"Then we should go and investigate to see it for ourselves." Sasuke cut off Naruto making the blond Hokage raised his eyebrows.
Naruto smirked, "This is the first time Sasuke-teme showed interest in taking this kind of mission..." Sasuke is about to protest when Naruto suddenly declared his decision, "Okay shall we go investigate this the three of us together..."
In preparation for their mission, Naruto asked Shikamaru to research anything about hidden villages and tribes with mysterious powers and to look over the job of hokage in the village together with a clone he'll be leaving behind.
Later that afternoon the two (Naruto and Shin) with Sasuke properly said goodbye to their wives.
"Uncle Naruto will personally leave for this mission?" Shikadai, Shikamaru and Ino's son said rubbing his chin in the process.
"That is unusual for him to leave together with my father and uncle Sasuke." Haruka often called as Haru the son of Shin and Sakura said as he dropped from the tree where he was sitting.
"Exactly, what do you guys say?" Minato asked beaming in anticipation of sneaking at his father and uncles.
"Brother, don't you think mother will worry if we leave?" Natsu asked tugging on his brother.
"She won't we'll leave a letter besides with father, uncle Sasuke and uncle Shin nothing can go wrong right?"
"This is troublesome but fun count me in." Shikadai said and left.
"See you guys later." Haru followed Shikadai leaving the twins behind.
"This is going to be exciting...maybe in this journey I could finally meet my real dad!" Chocho exclaimed happily. Leaving the others especially Haru and Minato rolling their eyes.
"Cho-chan Uncle Chouji is your dad right." Natsu said nudging her friend.
"There's no way right?"
"Alright enough babbling let's prepare ourselves our first journey outside the village will be eventful I'm sure of it..." Mitsuki said with a confident smile plastered on his face.
Author's Note: As promised a sequel, please leave a review on your thoughts about the sequel. See you all again next week.