I wasn't given all the time in the world to edit this as I'll be without internet for the next few days. If you find a spelling error please message me with the sentence! I'll try to change it as soon as possible.

"This place must be expensive." Minato observed starring at the fancy wall paper and chandeliers with actual candles in them. The people talked in hushed tones and Minato felt displaced immediately. He hadn't shaved in a while and his hair was untamed. Here the men were in nice shirts, polo's and khakis. He sighed deeply and thought about turning around. Jiraiya pushed him in anyway and made sure he entered. Minato looked back at him. "I don't have enough money for this joint. I barely have enough to buy a frozen meal."

"Don't worry about it." Sasuke said over hearing the conversation. He walked foreword and smiled over at the elderly man that was the waiter. Sasuke leaned on the podium getting his attention. The waiter jumped to attention and smiled with a huge wrinkled grin. "Hey, Craig. Table for four, in private if we have any left."

"Yes sir, this way mister Uchiha." Craig said and bowed. He began leading them to the back of the restaurant, they got stares from all over, people pointing and whispering. Naruto and Sasuke seemed undisturbed by they eyes watching them, but like him, Jiraiya was looking at them nervously. Minato leaned into his would-be father and whispered "Why are they glaring like that?"

"Sasuke's kind of a town celebrity because a family member. He's kind of like Paris Hilton without the rack." Jiariya said motioning to his chest day dreaming. Minato rolled his eyes and moved foreword to inquire to Sasuke himself.

"You come here often?" Minato asked the young man who seemed horribly attached to getting to a secluded area as quick as possible. Sasuke looked at him then grabbed a chair at a small table with half walls around it for privacy. He looked at his son and inquired. "What?"

"He owns this place; it was part of his inheritance." Naruto whispered leaning in to him. This earned a quick glance from Sasuke who read the words off his lips. Minato was stunned for a minute then shrugged it off. Naruto sat next to him and tried to explain in hushed tones. "Sasuke's not really… He…"

"I don't like to flaunt my money anymore." Sasuke interrupted. Naruto sat back and scratched his head like he was busted in some way. Sasuke just smiled calmly at him. "I grew up with two years of paying taxes. It's why I make large donations each year, though this business is very profitable so I keep it."

"I'll have your menus in a second, Mister Uchiha." Craig said. He bowed again and walked away. Instead of getting the menus off of the tray he headed into the back. Minato observed. 'Probably because the boss is here.'

"Well… you must like being called mister." Minato noted. "People usually like titles."

"I told him not to call me that, but he won't stop." Sasuke said a little bit unnerved. He regained his composure quickly and examined everything around him making sure the coast was clear. "So… Lot's of things to talk about. I guess the first should be obvious. Nine?"

"He's been hiding me in a small city in Mexico for the past two years. He hasn't gotten me past the drinking, but he's been making me work. I've been growing corn by hand for some responsibility building exercise while he was telling me over and over again why we had to get to you to save you from Orochimaru." Minato said and then looked around the table feeling like he had divulged too much. He blamed his drinking habits and moved on. "Let to say, helping him was like giving snake an egg to babysit."

"We've been able to avoid him a lot, we have spies in his organization, and it's mainly to keep Sasuke from Madara." Naruto said to his father. Minato just stared at him not understanding. "You know, Madara, you used to work with him."

"He was a calmly genius, why would you need to protect him from Madara?" Minato inquired. Everyone looked at him. "What happened?"

"Madara became entraced with living forever and murdered hundreds of people for his research." Naruto said quietly. "It's how Sasuke… anyway, everyone knows here since he's been on the loose for two years with Orochimaru. Since we need to focus on Orochimaru…"

"Orochimaru's not going to be in charge long. Our informant has been saying that Madara's getting pissed, and Orochimaru's loosing favor over the…." Sasuke saw his faithful waiter return and stopped talking and coughed to indicate that they weren't alone.

Craig quietly handed out the menus. He then stood back with his pad of paper waiting to take down their drinks. "Water, Coke?"

"Water for us all please." Sasuke said sweetly. He nodded putting the paper away and walked away.

"Orochimaru focuses too much on you. If he gets to you, he'll be able to become immune to the anti-virus that was accidentally put into you." Minato said darkly and then turned his head in somewhat disbelief to a copy of starry night and sighed. "And now that they have one of the leading genetics experts driven mad, Madara can use what's in you with what he knows to make a serum that will get him what he wants, but at a cost."

Sasuke coughed again and Minato muttered under his breath that they should just tell him to leave. Jiraiya nudged him and he turned more away into the painting. Jiraiya pushed him straight in his seat Craig approached once more to the table. "Do you need more time to order?"

"Yes please." Sasuke said in a cheerful voice. Craig nodded and Sasuke snapped to get Minato back on focus. It didn't work so Sasuke finished the conversation. "The cost is that he will become anemic, loose almost all his oxygen so he'll have to steal blood constantly. Since he has to hide away, and he needs his muscle, that means he'll take someone's blood, a murder a day. I've figured this out a while ago."

"Don't go into genetics, take horticulture, green energy. Humans are worthless and disappointing. Work on saving the planet, not people. They'll evolve soon enough." Minato said in a hot flash of anger. He was again fully back into the conversation. Minato opened the fancy menu to see that everything had nutrition counts next to it. Minato smiled and almost laughed. "This menu has calorie counts? That's too cool."

Naruto smiled widely and leaned over happily. "That was me… football and baseball, I have to keep healthy." He quickly flexed one of his biceps and both Sasuke and Jiraiya sighed at his pride.

"You're like your mother." In an instance it was like the table stopped breathing. The silence was still in the air, but Minato smiled as he looked down the menu. "She was always saying I shouldn't eat too many fried foods. Told me I was going to die of it one day."

Naruto remained quiet for a minute. He was afraid to ask the next question but already knew the answer. He gripped the napkin tight in his fist and looked at his father who had a little smile on his face. "So she is dead?"

"Yes." The smiled dropped quickly. Minato paid attention to the menu again. "She was very… She was a hippie. Painted the whole house orange and had plants covering every wall. Worked with charities all day. She wanted to become governor one day and start a naturalist movement. She was a ditz though too…"

"That time she bumped Tsunade's curio cabinet." Both Minato and Jiraiya froze in a time warp quickly then started giggling Minato had to cover his face from bursting out laughing. I took them a minute before they calmed down and Jiraiya explained to the two who weren't alive yet that: "She broke over a thousand dollars in stemware."

"That was her. God, I hadn't thought about that in years." Minato said somewhat refreshed by the memory. "So, I'm here to protect you… And to learn about you, Naruto. I'll never be much of a father, but I'd like to try."

"I'd like that." They smiled at each other before dropping the moment and going back to the menus. Sasuke observed them carefully, the resemblance was there, but Naruto seemed more free then Minato. He just stared and then blanked out.

Jiraiya clapped his hands together. "See Naruto, now you've got even more family, which means I am no longer…"

"You still have to buy me stuff." Naruto said quickly erasing the thought from Jiraiya's mind. Jiraiya frowned and Naruto stuck out his tongue quickly. "I know I'm a brat."

"Sasuke!" The call was sharp and minimalistic. It stretched just to the table and didn't disrupt anyone else. Itachi walked up in a suit and tie. "You have class in twenty minutes! We talked about this, you have to attend."

"You tracked me down to tell me that?" Sasuke said angrily standing up. "I can miss the first class of advanced physics, all they do is recover the basics today."

"And I got a promotion." Itachi smiled at him and Sasuke sighed muttering 'you tricky bastard' under his breath. "I am now in charge of all travels to the Caribbean and making deals with the hotels." Itachi said proudly. He crossed his arms and waited a second. "You wanted to go to Jamaica for thanksgiving right?"

Naruto sighed. "You make me want to switch my major sometimes."

"Don't. It was hard enough getting a good job, but the publicity from Madara got me where I am today, which is sad." He stopped for a minute and noticed a man he hadn't seen before but the resemblance to Naruto made him a little off set. He stuck his hand out. "Hello."

"Hi." Minato grabbed his hand and shook it firmly he dropped it and turned better to see a man in a nice silk suit standing next to him. Mianto Saw the Sasuke was nearly a mirror image of him."Minato Namikaze."

Itachi recognized the name from Nagato immediately. He looked at him questionably noting Nagato said he had been dead for quite sometime but that no one had ever known for sure whether he was or not. "Itachi Uchiha."

"This is my dad." Naruto said quickly. A sudden disbelief filled in Itachi's head. He suddenly became very protective of Naruto as he was to Sasuke. "I have a dad."

"That's cool." Itachi said and it followed by: "So where have you been at all these years?"

"Mexico, Chile, Brazil." Minato said then finally realized his mood towards him. He looked at him, his eys focusing in. "Hunting down Nine."

"Nine sent him to protect me from Orochimaru." Sasuke tried to interject quickly. It didn't cut any tension between them.

"How can we be sure that we can trust you?" Itachi said. And Minato stood up to still be looked down by a man who was barley an inch taller then him. "You just show up out of the blue."

"It's better then never." They both twitched. Each of their left hands caught their right hands."Protective much for someone in the same position as me?"

"Obviously more then you." Itachi pushed him off and Minato fell into the chair. "I have none of Nine in me."

"Itachi, come on. You can drive me to class." Sasuke said quickly shoving his older brother foreword towards the resturant's exit and away from a confrontation. Itachi wasn't one to be shoved so he turned and walked out on his own. He quickly dug his keys out and tossed them to Naruto. "Don't scratch it."

"I won't… much." Naruto kept the last part silent and was happy Sasuke didn't hear it. After scratching it last year in a parking lot, a place Sasuke told him to specifically avoid, he always warned Naruto. Naruto relaxed back in his seat and looked at Minato "I've scratched it before."

Jirayia sat their quietly for a second observing Minato's face. The Uchiha had struck a cord somewhere in Minato's psyche and it was rattling him something fierce. Jiraiya placed a hand on his head and messed up his hair until he looked up. "Itachi's… He's all Sasuke had for many years, he protected him from Orochimaru."

"He sacrificed himself so Sasuke wasn't the guinea pig of Orochimaru's early experiments. He thinks anything connected with any of them are no good." Naruto said quietly as he saw the waiter approach. "You need to give him some time."

Craig the waiter took out his pad of paper anyway and looked around. "Mister Uchiha left?"

"Classes." Craig smiled in a proud association type way. Naruto thought it was a little creepy and quickly spat out the first thing he could think of. "Can I get the spaghetti?"