He knew that Kakashi would visit him for dinner, like every year.
His best pupil didn't want him to be alone, and no matter what mission he was assigned to, he always managed to get back in time, scrounge some food and playfully bully Naruto into doing all the dishes.
He was still in Anbu, but the dark aura that surrounded him since Rin's death had vanished. He once confessed that it was because he was not alone; he still had his precious teacher.
As expected, the Copy Ninja came, ate, played with Naruto and gossiped about fellow Anbu members. Who screwed up during missions, who slept with whom, who got into a fight and why.
Minato gave up long ago with trying to make him stop; since his fellow student had discovered the infamous Icha Icha book, he had also developed a passion for real life gossip, claiming that it was a source of information that no shinobi could ignore.
The Fourth Hokage hoped his guest would not become like his sensei.
Jiraiya was a great writer, how could he decide to write those perverted books?
Kushina would have laughed at him for being such a prude, he thought, and all of a sudden the hole was calling for him.
He tried to hide it by asking about Uchiha Itachi. The future leader of the clan had recently joined Anbu, an unusual choice for a clan who run the entire Konoha Police Corps, and preferred staying out of Konoha's direct influence.
He never harbored ill thoughts against them, but he knew it was his fault that many did.
During the Nine Tails' attack he had to work on the seal. Everything else was entrusted to Danzo Shimura and the former Hokage. Fearing the relationship between sharingan and the fox, Danzo had decided to prevent the Uchiha from any action, a choice that later marked the police corps as arrogant cowards.
He should have managed the aftermath better, but there had been a lot to reorganize.
Besides, the Uchiha had promptly accepted to be confined into their own part of the village, as if they had secrets they wanted to keep.
This particular Uchiha was incredibly young and talented. Even Danzo praised him, saying that he was not arrogant like the rest of his clan.
Obito, wasn't arrogant either. His cheerful and boisterous personality reminded him of Naruto.
And Kushina.
Again, he struggled to stay out of the darkness.
He focused on tangible matters, that could easily be solved.
He needed a bodyguard. After Kakashi had become Anbu captain no one had filled that position. Maybe an Uchiha would have been a good choice.