Chapter 3
After running away from the Hokage Tower, Tenzen found himself on a branch in the middle of the forest. He thought about going back several times now, but was too embarrassed of both losing and then running away a crying mess. He was TOO SLOW AGAIN. All he ever did was work on his speed and concentrating his chakra into his feet so that each stride pushed him hard off the ground. So essentially all he did was what most shinobi do when jumping through the trees but in quick succession instead of long leaps. He didn't think anybody could beat him in a race, but Minato had without breaking a sweat. What was the jutsu he used to move that fast, he had to learn it. He had to be faster. Tenzen's thoughts were interrupted by the appearance of someone climbing up the tree to join him.
"Hey there." Asuma said taking a seat on the branch next to Tenzen. The young Sarutobi looked straight into the yellow eyes of the last Seishin, and that look said it all. He knew about his families demise.
"So did the old man tell you?" Tenzen said looking away from his best friend so didn't have to look into those pitying eyes anymore. "I guess you had to know sometime."
"Why didn't you tell me." The sympathetic Asuma said trying to get an explanation without hurting his friend's feelings.
"What would I say exactly? Oh yeah by the way my whole family is dead." The Seishin said with anger in his voice. But, Asuma knew it wasn't towards him.
"It's come up before, Tenzen." The dark haired boy said still trying to sound sympathetic even though he was a little upset that his best friend never told him this secret.
"I know." Tenzen said his eye and face softening greatly as he realized his fault, and memories of his family came rushed back to his mind. "I just never wanted to think about, and didn't want you getting all 'oh poor Tenzen he has no family'." the Sarutobi took a slight pause to assess the whole situation before he said anything that might hurt his friends feelings.
"Well sure you do." The dark haired boy said while putting a big smile across his face to try and help the boy feel better. "Well, at least you have a brother." This caused Tenzen to immediately look up to his friend and see that he meant it. He didn't just feel bad for Tenzen. He meant it, every word. I big grin broke across the face of the last Seishin as the realization came to him. Then suddenly he was grabbed by the neck by Asuma who gave him a noogie.
"Even though you are a bit of a nerd." Asuma said as he continued to bully his newfound brother who was struggling to get away. The only thing that broke the two apart was a sharp "ahem" from bellowing symbolizing someone wanted their attention. Both of the boys looked down to see a clump of yellow atop the head of the main that stood below them.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything, but if you don't mind I'd like to talk to Tenzen." The blonde haired shinobi said walking a little bit away from the tree to now be hit by the two boys now jumping from where they were on their branch. He looked at both boy who looked a little confused on why he was here but they would soon learn.
"Come here to gloat Namikaze?" the white haired boy said folding his arms across his chest and closing his eye so to not look the yellow flash in the eye. "Look, I'm sorry about being a baby back there and running away." Minato chuckled a little at how the boy put it but at least he apologized even though he could care less about the boys outburst earlier. Originally, Minato expected to find the boy a teary mess, and he wanted to find the boy a coddle him and tell him everything was going to be okay. But, looking at him now you never would have guessed anybody he ever loved was dead. He reminded Minato of himself a lot, whether it was how the boys white bangs framed his face just like his blonde mess, or how he popped right back up after being kicked down. Either way the boy was something and Minato wanted to know just how much of something he could become.
"You know you never congratulated me on my victory." the Yellow Flash said with a slight smirk across his face. The boy showed his annoyance by rolling his eyes and giving off a long-winded sigh.
"Congratulations on your victory Minato-san." The boy said plainly with a bit of sarcasm in his voice. "Now what do you really want?"
"How do you know I just didn't want to hear you admit defeat?" Minato said his grin growing even larger as the boys frustration grew.
"Shut up! Maybe you beat me this time, but next time you won't be able to get close to me." The irritated Tenzen said with his fist clenched at his side "I will get faster, than you can eat my dust." Minato's grin broke into an all out smile seeing the boy's determination and fire. This is just what he wanted to see. Sure the boy was impressive for his age, but earlier he showed nothing but arrogance. The Yellow Flash needed to see the boy's true heart.
"Yes you will…" Minato paused to let the boy's sit in confusion for a bit before he continued. "And I'm going to help, if you let me." Both of the young boys eyes widened to stare at the Hokage in training. Tenzen had to admit Minato was FAST, and he seemed like an okay guy, even though he looked a bit girly.
"Hmm, you're no Jiraiya-sama but I guess you're better than nothing." The last Seishin said looking a bit unappreciative of Minato's offer. But, the blonde figured it was the best he was going to get.
"Alright now how about we go get something to eat, hmm." The young prodigy said the magic words. Tenzen's eyes went bulging out and his tongue shot out of his mouth and began to salivate.
"Okay!" the young ball of energy shouted a little to loud for Asuma's liking. The young Sarutobi put his fingers in his ears to attempt to block out the noise to no avail.
"I'm gonna head on home. Mom'll kill me if I'm not home for dinner. See ya." Asuma exclaimed before he walked off towards home.
10 Min later back in Konoha
"So where do you want to eat Minato-sensei?" Tenzen said as they walked side-by-side through the bustling streets trying to decide where to eat.
"Well… I hope you don't mind if I bring my girlfriend, do you? Because we had dinner plans tonight and she might kill me if I bail on her." Minato said with a sheepish grin while rubbing the back of his head. But then noticed the boy stopped in his and had a somewhat look of disgust.
"You're joking right?" the Seishin said looking straight into his new sensei's eyes. Minato just put his grin back on and chuckled slightly.
"Not at all. She can get pretty angry sometimes." The Yellow Flash said a little embarrassed by the whole situation. "I actually sort of forgot until just now." Tenzen could believe what he was hearing. Minato was one of the better shinobi in the village, and hands down the fastest with his Hiraishin. But, he was just as whipped as the rest. Tenzen let out a long sigh and looked back to his sensei who was still wearing his stupid smile
"Fine, wouldn't want my new sensei getting killed right after he asks to train me." The white haired boy said, overwhelmingly annoyed.
"Thanks." Was all the Yellow Flash said as he and Tenzen headed towards his girl friends apartment. God he hoped Kushina wouldn't be mad about bringing Tenzen along.
5 Min later other side of town
"Okay so when you meet Kushina, don't talk about her hair being red. She's probably going to be pretty mad already." Minato said in all seriousness, which caused Tenzen to let out another of his long sighs.
"You're unbelievably whipped Sensei." The yellow-eyed boy said still baffled by how much of a pansy his new Sensei was. "She can't be that bad." Minato just gave a half-hearted chuckle to the boy in response as they walked up the stairs to Kushina's apartment. When they got to the room on the top floor Minato went ahead and gave it a few knocks.
"Just a second!" someone in the apartment screamed, which Tenzen could only assume was Kushina. They heard playing with the locks and after a few clicks the door swung open, and what Tenzen saw would scare the hell out of any man with half a brain. The girl in the door way wore a nice traditional kimono with flower printing all over it, classy red high heels, and here hair was done up in a way that looked like it must have token hours or her to get just right. But, that is not what was terrifying. Her eyes twitched, her lips curled up into a snarl, and she held herself in a threatening demeanor, which made Tenzen's neck hairs stand on end. Everything about this woman was screamed 'say something stupid and I'll rip your man hood off.' She was exactly how Minato made her out to be.
"Minato, you are two and a half hours late." She said her voice low and threatening. "I'll give you five seconds to explain." To Tenzen's shock his sensei wasn't all the petrified by the sight before them. He just wore his 'come on you can't me, can you?' face began to speak in a even tone."
"I'm sorry Kushina-chan but I ran into some trouble, namely him." Minato said pointing at Tenzen, whose face was still stunned in horror. "Say hello Tenzen."
"H-h-h-h-h-hello K-k-k-k-kushina-chan." Tenzen said shakily still completely terrified.
"What the hell's wrong with him?!" Kushina shouted pointing towards Tenzen but looking straight at Minato.
"He just gets a little shy around pretty girls. You know how young boys can be." Tenzen's sensei said still wearing his cheeky grin to try and calm the raging woman down, to no avail.
"And how did he make you two and a half hours late?!" Kushina said not calming down at all.
"Well we had a race and well at the end I decided to teach the boy." Minato said grin ever present. Kushina slowly turned her head in the direction of the young boy. The boy shuddered at her gaze; he had never met someone so threatening in his entire life. She just continued to look at the boy expecting the boy to say something eventually.
"Well!?" Kushina shouted at boy, which caused him to jump. He didn't know what she wanted him to say. Was he supposed to just shake his head in agreement with his Sensei? Or did just want something else?
"I think your hair is pretty." Was all the young boy could think to say. Minato took in a harsh breath and held it terrified for the boys life that was now at Kushina whim. Why did he say that!? The one thing Minato told him not to bring up and he did. But then, her expression softened to a look of confusion and she immediately went to grab her hair and play with it.
"Really? I think it's too red." Kushina said with a whole new look about her, more calm and inquisitive. Tenzen knew he needed to jump at this chance to get both himself and his sensei off of the red heads hit list.
"No not at all. I love the color. See look I even wear it all the time." The last Seishin then turned around to show the young woman his clan symbol on his back, which just happened to be a red orb radiating more red lines the Seishin clan symbol. "It's my favorite color." Kushina whole demeanor did a 180 and now she was as sweet as a kitten. But, she also couldn't help but notice the clan symbol he wore. But, choose to ignore in her love for praise.
"Oh stop it, it's much to red." She said with a hint of a blush on her cheeks.
"No way! If I could I would dye my hair that color. But, I'm too afraid it might turn pink with the white." The young boy said making the fiery red head giggle in delight of praise.
"You're too cute. Hi I'm Uzumaki Kushina." She said putting hand out to shake the boys.
"Seishin Tenzen, it's very nice to meet you. Minato-sensei couldn't stop telling me about you on the way over here." The dim whited boy said not thinking
"Oh he did, did he?" The fire returning the Kushina's eyes, but Tenzen hadn't notice to glare she was giving Minato.
"Mhm. He told me how you were very kind, giving and hot." The young boy continued. A smile returned to Kushina's face as the boy said all the kind thing her love had said about her. Completely ignoring how she called her crazy and angry.
"So, where do you want to eat?" the young boy asked realizing that he hadn't eaten since breakfast and he was starving. Kushina's eyes once again caught ablaze and she stared dead into Minato's soul.
"So, Minato-sensei told we were all going to dinner on his last night before he leaves with the old man to write smut?" Kushina said putting a lot of sarcasm behind sensei. "Don't your parents expect you dinner?" the boys eyes immediately shot to ground.
"No." he said he voice almost a whisper. Kushina's look turned to confusion and shock, what was he so sad about? She looked over to her lover only to find him looking to the ground as well with a seldom look across his face.
Minato walked over to the boy and went down to his level and put a hand on his shoulder. He just stayed into that position for a while until the boy finally lifted his head to make eye contact with his sensei. His is rimming with tears that he quickly pushed away. The two just stood there and stared at each other until a smile cracked across Minato's face. The boy simply nodded and the they both returned to their original posture, and looked to Kushina.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to ruin your time with Minato-sensei." The boy said sounding genuinely sincere. I the short time that Kushina had known the boy he went from petrified, to happy, to sad, and then now she couldn't help but give the boy the biggest hug possible. "You and Minato-sensei can go to dinner without me."
"Wait." Kushina said grabbing the boy by the shoulder to make sure he didn't walk away. "I'll go change, and the three of us will go see what all the fuss is about with this Ichiruku Ramen." She then turned around and walked into her house leaving the door open for Minato and Tenzen to come in. Minato heralded Tenzen through the door, then followed. They both went and took a seat on the couch in the living area. They waited there for several minuets until the door to the bedroom opened and the fiery red head stepped out. Now she wore her hair down, which nearly reached her ankles. She had on a little less makeup than before, and instead of the formal kimono she wore and green Sunday dress the went over one shoulder with a white t-shirt underneath.
"Ready to go boys?" she said looking at the two with a smile that Tenzen had yet to see on the young woman. "Lets go celebrate the two of yours last day in Konoha."
"Oh yeah! By the way I'm not going on Jiraiya-sensei's trip anymore so that I can train Tenzen." Minato said while rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment. Kushina proceeded to pummel him.
"Why the hell didn't you say something sooner, you idiot!" she said while holding her fist up Minato's face. Tenzen just laughed at the two, maybe hanging around them wouldn't be too boring.
End Chapter 3
Alright! Tenzen and Kushina have met. How will their relationship work out? I really like the violent women in Naruto they always strike the fear of god into all! Please review let me know if I suck, or not.