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Day after the Kyubi attack

Minato was sitting in his desk chair, arms on the desk and his face buried in them. Shikaku Nara was on the right side of his desk staring outside the window. Shikaku wanted to tell his friend something but didn't know what to tell him, he didn't want to give him false hope and he also didn't want to say what probably happened to his friends child either. "What a drag" thought Shikaku.

There was a knock on the office door. Minato looked up and revealed his tear lined face, he quickly wiped them away with his sleeves and gave the ninjas permission to enter his office. The first one to enter was Tsume Inuzaku, the dog trainer of Konoha and her loyal blue and white companion Kuromaru, followed by a man wearing a white kimono, white eyes, and a stern face that Minato recognized as Hiashi Hyuga, and last a man wearing a clay colored, buttoned up trench coat that covered most of his lower face, sunglasses, and a large pot on his back, Shibi Aburame.

"Team Tsume reporting in Hokage-sama" said Tsume. Hiashi huffed at the team name but didn't say anything.

"What did you find?"

"We followed the trail into the woods but couldn't go any further because who ever took them crossed the border to Iwa."

"What else did you find?"

Hiashi spoke next "There were four ninja, they all were wearing a black one piece training suit and over that a white shirt, I wasn't able to make out the symbol on their head bands."

Minato nodded, "You're dismissed" and the three tracker ninja left the room, but before Tsume left she returned the white blanket to Minato. Minato looked at the blanket but didn't touch it.

He looked at Shikaku and said "What do you think?"

The genius thought for a second "I doubt that whoever took him would go straight back to their country, they probably passed through Iwa knowing that we couldn't follow then headed to where ever they came from."

Minato nodded again. Shikaku couldn't help but notice that his friend wasn't his usual self, but what sane man would be after having their son abducted and taken to god-knows-where.

Minato got up from his seat and told Shikaku "I'll be back, Kushina needs me right now." Shikaku nodded and Minato left the room.

Kumo: Raikages place

The Raikage was looking at the four ninja in front of him, they had their masks off and their injuries were on display to the Raikage. The ninja on the far left, the only female in the group, had a black eye, and a swollen cheek, she was the least injured, the Raikage looked at her and asked "What happened."

The ninja bowed, stepped forward and said "We were attacked by two people, one male and the other one female, they identified themselves as Kisuke Urahara and Yoruichi Shihoin. Kisuke wore a green and white bowler hat, and had shoulder length dull blonde hair, Yoruichi had brown skin, long purple hair that was tired into a pony tail that went to her mid-back and she wore an orange sweatshirt. They said that they were shopkeepers. Yoruichi was the one who attacked us, she either moved too fast for us to see or she used some kind of teleportation, we have no knowledge on the fighting style of Kisuke." She bowed again then stepped back into place.

The Raikage was shocked that someone else besides himself and his brother Killer Bee could move that fast. He had to take action these people know his secret and they don't belong to his village. He looked at his advisor and told her to get a squad of hunter ninja, then he ordered the four ninja to draw a picture of the two people.

The hunter ninjas were kneeling in front of the Raikage about 10 minutes later, the Raikage slid some papers across his desk and told the ninjas to stand. They took the papers and memorized them then put the papers on the desk. The Raikage spoke "These are your targets you are authorized to kill on site do you understand,"

The hunter ninjas nodded.

"Good, we have very little information on these people, the Jonin behind you will fill you in on what we do know. Good luck." The Raikage stood and left the room, he heard some rumors about his brother about to have a concert in his yard and the Raikage was not about to make his people suffer through his brothers terrible rhymes.

Hokage Mansion

Kushina was sitting at the foot of her and Minatos bed holding Akane in her lap and Kenji sitting next to her with his head on her shoulder. Kushina was crying ever since she found out that one of her children was kidnapped.

Flashback

Kushina awoke in a white hospital room with flowers and cards all over the place. She slowly tuned her head to the left and saw that Minato was sitting next to her holding her hand begging for her forgiveness. Kushina was still feeling weak but managed to say "Mina…to what's…wrong" Minato looked up and his grip on Kushina's hand tightened. She tried to squeeze back but she was still too weak. "Kushina, please forgive me, someone snuck in during the Kyubi attack and took Naruto." Kushina was horrified by the news. "What about… Akane?" she asked.

"She is still here, they only took Naruto."

Minato nodded and returned 5 minutes later with Akane in his hands, he carefully put Akane next to her mother. Kushina put her arms around Akane and started to hum in between sobs. Minato was about to leave when Kushina's voice stopped him. "Wait Minato please don't leave me yet."

Minato looked at her and asked "You're not mad at me?"

Kushina looked at her husband and said "How can I be, you were protecting this village if you left to save Naruto the village probably would have been destroyed."

Minato walked back to the bed and lay next to Kushina.

End flashback

The next day Kushina was released from the hospital and went back home. Minato told Kenji to look after his mother then left to take care of something's at the Hokage tower.

Kushina heard the front door open, a few seconds later Minato walked in the room. "Have you eaten yet, the doctor said that you need a lot of carbs and protein." (AN: I don't know what doctors want females to eat after just giving birth and releasing a demon, just bear with me.)

Kushina shook her head in a "No" manner.

Minato offered to make her favorite food, beef ramen. Kushina just nodded her head in an approving way.

After Minato left to make some beef ramen a 7 year old Kenji asked what was on his mind. "Where's Naruto?"

Kushina looked at her oldest child, put on a fake smile and said "Naruto was taken by some bad men but don't worry dad will bring him back."

Even the seven year old could see through her fake smile, he responded by saying "Don't worry mom I'll bring Naruto back, if he wants me to or not."

This time Kushina had a real smile on her face and thought Kenji is right I can't lose faith yet.

About three minutes later Minato came back into the room and saw the look in Kushina's eyes, it was one of determination and hope, Minato couldn't help but to smile at her.

Kushina took the bowl and greedily started to eat the ramen, her manners were less than humble as broth started going in all directions splashing Minatos face and clothes and even spilling some on Kenji who wasn't even close to her. When she finished she held out her bowl and said "MORE!" in an almost animalistic voice.

Minato grabbed the bowl quickly filled it back up, he was afraid of making Kushina angry.

Sorry this one wasn't as long as my first, I didn't want to put the 8 yr time skip in the same chapter as the after battle. As you know criticism is welcome, and relationships are open for votes.