Authors note: this chapter is really short... I would add more to it but that's all I can think of at the moment. Plus, I believe this leaves off at a great point in time for Naruto's and Minato's relationship. Ahaha making things cripplingly awkward is my specialty!
I wasn't going to update or post this chapter today, mostly because it usually takes me a week to come up with the ideas for the chapter itself. Unless I borrow some ideas from some one... Like Skeek622, thanks for the fireball idea, that was brilliant! Anyways, yeah, I wasn't going to post anything today, but then I got really bored and just began writing and this is what came out.
So I have hot water now! Yay! I can give you all hugs without the worry of smelling bad! Well I believe my little note has taken enough of your time enjoy!
"Naru-chan, where should we go? To the park or just wonder through town?" Kakashi asks his new companion. The small yellow and red fox yips it's response to go to the park. Hell Naruto wants to go to the park, he could go and get a tasty rabbit there since his meal was interrupted earlier. "To the park it is!" Kakashi declares to the fox, not really caring what the fox was in favor of.
"I'll race you there!" Kakashi yells to his foxy companion and makes a mad dash to the park with a grin.
Naruto barks his agreement to the competition and runs straight past the other and towards the park. Naruto slows a bit and decides to just run beside the boy. Soon the two make it to the park with their rapid pace. Kakashi lets out a slightly shaky breath and chuckles a bit at the seemingly energy filled fox. Naru-chan shows his teeth to the boy in the form of a mock grin.
Naruto begins a slow jog into the park and is greeted by several excited children. With widened eyes at all the attention, he backs up and hides slightly behind Kakashi, hoping to ever deity that these children won't pull out his fur. He knows how children are with curiosity, touch first and say good bye to all caution. The fox is then quickly picked up by a boy with orange goggles and cheerful obsidian eyes stare down at Naruto in clear enjoyment of the little ones shyness.
"Hey! Kakashi, when did you get a pet, much less a fox?" Questions the boy while Naruto tries to place where he has seen the boy and where he possibly heard that familiar voice. Something about the voice sets Naruto on edge a bit, nothing to serious but not something to ignore entirely. Naruto would have to look into it later.
"Naru-chan's not mine, she's Minato-nii's." Kakashi replies in a bored tone.
"Oh, I didn't know he had a pet. She's adorable!" Obits exclaims holding Naruto up and petting the fox's little head much like a dog. And with that Naruto melts in to the touch and purrs lightly.
Soon, other kids begin to join in the fight for Naruto's attention. The fox loves the massive amount of attention the kids are giving him. Oh, how the attention deprived fox wished this visit to the park would never end.
A stick is thrown and Naruto hears the common phrase of "fetch". After a couple of moments Naruto blinks and looks towards where the stick was thrown and glares at the object. "Come on, Naru-chan! Get the stick girl! I know you hold the power of a youthful fox inside you!" Naruto back tracks for a second and stares at the kid that dares to command him to fetch a stick like a mangy mutt. He is quickly shocked when he sees a familiar bowled hair cut and bushy brows.
Naruto swears he sees the sparkles around the boy he recognizes as Might Gai. The fox glares at the kid and then at the offending stick, back at the kid, then at the stick, the kid, the stick, kid, stick, kid, stick.
With his best foxy grin he walks towards the stick and picks it up with his tail rather than his mouth and accidentally breaks it in two. With a frown he attempts it again, this time he succeeds in picking it up without breaking the damn thing. He then walks up to kid Gai and begins to place the stick down to the ground innocently. Then he blows a puff of the tiniest amount, well Naruto's tiny, of fire chakra into the boy's face, burning off his bushy brows and singing his bangs a bit. Luckily for Gai, Naruto had managed to hold his chakra down much better, and left a burn akin to sun burn.
Naruto snickers at the face of the other and soon both Obito and Kakashi join in, though Obito is full out laughing and Kakashi is just chuckling. The fox then witnesses some large anime tears fall down the burnt kid's face, and seems to of put himself in a corner. Feeling slightly bad now Naruto jogs up to the kid and places his law on the kids knee. The anime tears fall down the kids face and with a blush Naruto licks away the tears as gently as he can manage.
"Yosh! I knew you were a youthful fox, Naru-chan!" Kid Gai excitedly exclaims enveloping the fox in a bone crushing hug, well bone crushing for everyone but a steeled half fox demon. Naruto awkwardly pats the kid back with his small gesture just prompts Obito to laugh a bit harder and for Kakashi to stop chuckling and to laugh.
After a couple more seconds of awkward hugs and pats Naruto is let go when he swears he hears several ribs crack under the pressure. The three boys converse with one another while the blonde fox decides to wander close to the tree line, keeping an eye out for his tasty treat. Suddenly the fox hears a rustle behind a bush and pounces on his could be pray. With a yip of joy he easily sinks his teeth into his victim. A small brown rabbit is held within his teeth and he shakes his head in a sure fire way to cease his pray's struggling. With profound joy he drags the rabbit out of the bushes.
With his rabbit locked in his jaw, he struts towards the three conversing boys and drops the little bunny. Obito screeches "That poor rabbit! No!". The other two boys just give the yellow fox a look.
"Look at that Naru-chan brought you a present, Kakashi! Hehe now..." Sakumo appears behind the gray haired boy who, upon hearing the all to sweet voice, freezes and slowly turns to meet the glare of his father. "Why did you leave without telling either me or Minato where you were going?" With that said a terrifying look crosses the older Hatake's features. With this the blonde fox attempts to back away from the two Hatake's only to be caught within the grasp of someone.
"Ne, Naru-chan? Why didn't you bark or let me know that you were leaving either?" With that being said the duo of that fled the prying eyes of their parents freeze and start to shake.
"Hey! Minato-kun, and Sakumo-kun! How are you!?" Luckily the two were saved by the poor, bushy browed father of burnt brows.
With this the two turn their glares towards the offending person and laugh when they see the man's child. The burnt eye brows are quite obvious from where the two were standing. With complete obliviousness, the adult and child stand side by side and bravely greet the, once pissed, ninjas.
"Hey, what happened to his eyebrows?" Minato asks trying to hold in his laughter.
With that being said the older looks down at his son and seems to finally notice the lack of eyebrows. "I don't know..." Admits the older.
"Oh, Naru-chan spit fire at me, when I tried to get her to play fetch with me!" The future leader of all in midlife crisis, tells the older men. This makes Minato send a disapproving look towards the fox who in turn looks a tad sheepish, while Sakumo just laughs even harder at this.
"Minato, please, tell where you got that fox! She is hilarious." Sakumo asks a disapproving Minato, who in turn blinks.
"Ehehe, it's a secret!" Minato holds a finger to his lips and grins slightly.
"Hehe, fine don't tell us." Sakumo says playfully.
Obito stands their awkwardly and decides to pick Naruto up once more with a grin laying across his face. Naruto yips in happiness at the prospect of being petted once more, forgetting his dead rabbit. Obito proceeds to pet his new friend.
"Well it's getting quite late, Kakashi should be heading to bed soon. See ya!" Sakumo breaks off the conversation with a wave and grabs his boy.
Watching the two walk away, Obito puts Naruto down. "I suppose Mom and Dad will be worried if I don't come home soon, bye, Minato-sensei, Naru-chan, and Might-kun!" Naruto sticks his tongue out at the boy and picks up his bloody rabbit.
"Hehe, bye, Obito-kun, Gai-san, and Might-kun!" And just like that Minato scoops up the little fox of his and walks off, scolding Naruto, who choses to remain quite.
Eventually the two get back to Minato's quaint home and walk in. Minato finally realizing that Naruto has a rabbit clenched between his teeth. "Naru-chan, where did you get that?" Minato questions the small fox.
"Oh, I killed it and was going to eat it when we came back." Was Naruto's simple explanation.
Taking the rabbit from Naruto's sharp teeth, Minato tells the fox "Yeahhh-no, there will be no cooking of cute forest creatures in my house."
"Oi! I only eat rabbits! They are chuck full of nutrients and provide good exercise in the process of catching! Also..." Naruto begins to go one about all the reasons why rabbit is much better than anything else.
"Yeah, yeah... So are you a female or a guy?" Minato finally asks.
This prompts Naruto to change back into his normal form and stick his tongue out. "I'm a guy. It's just that when I turn into anything besides a human I leave out the genitals, for they are virtually worthless at that point in time. I mean, it's not like anyone is going to question why a fox doesn't have a penis, if it looks like a 'guy', it's a fox. The people can't tell the difference!" This leaves Minato chuckling at the explanation.
"Yes well, you smell so go take a bath. I bet you haven't bathed in a month with the way you smell." Minato brings up his final issue of the night.
Naruto stays silent for a moment and looks down shyly for a moment. "Um... Uh... I-I..." Naruto stutters out.
Minato sapphire eyes show confusion at why the nine tailed boy is stuttering all of a sudden. "What's wrong? Don't know how to bathe yourself?" Minato teases with a playful smirk.
"No! I know how to its just... I might break everything..." Naruto denies with a blush and ends looking away shyly, poking his index fingers together much like a certain Hyuga of his time.
"Oh... Right..." Minato's face turns slightly red from forgetting the blondes monstrous strength. "Wait, you played with those kids without braking them!"
"That was different, I more or less let my self become a rag doll! I was scared I would break every bone in their body if I didn't! Actually how that I think about it I might or might not of broken Might's ribs..." Naruto admits looking to the side.
"Well... Um..." Minato looks to the side with a blush.