Perspective

Sakura Haruno was a smart girl. She may not be the best ninja, and she may be a Sasuke Uchiha fangirl, as well as the fact that she couldn't see the obvious even when it was right in front of her, but she was book smart.

Watching Sasuke walk down the market street, Kakashi-sensei and Naru-Baka trailing behind her, she couldn't help but fell proud at all the attention she was going. She liked to think that it was all because she was with THE Sasuke Uchiha, but knew it was also because she had passed the genin exams.

They had taken the survival test yesterday, and had passed. They were meant to take the test in another couple of days, but after loads of pestering, Sakura had managed to get them to take the test early.

Sakura couldn't help the feeling of smugness when she thought of how her teacher went easy on Naruto. It was obvious to her that the Jounin didn't believe that Naruto was capable of much, and had gone easier on him than her and Sasuke-kun.

They had just finished another mission, chasing and capturing the demon cat Tora. Naruto was holding the cat, as he seemed to be the only one the cat actually liked. It was their first mission and Sakura was annoyed that it took from one o'clock in the after noon to five in the evening. But she was also rather glad that they'd gotten their first mission out of the way.

As they walked up to the missions office, Sakura wondered about her teammates.

Sasuke was the most awesomest ninja EVER! He knew loads of ninjutsu and taijutsu and even some genjutsu! HE was gorgeous and Sakura loved his 'hard to get' attitude. She knew, though, that if she tried hard enough, she'd get him to agree to date her, and she would officially beat Ino-pig and all the other girls once and for all.

Naruto was an idiot. She had only been on his team for two days, but that was enough to see that he was weak, untrained and stupid. Sakura thought that he didn't deserve to be a shinobi. As far as she knew, he was also an orphan, which meant that he had no help what so ever on techniques, nor did he have encouragement.

If she stopped to think for a moment, she would of realised the resemblance between her idiot teammate and their beloved Hokage.

Kakashi-sensei was powerful. She could feel it. But he was lazy, too lazy to utilize his power, and a pervert. He was always reading that horrid orange book that her mother had warned her against. But he was also the Hokage's student, and to be that, Sakura supposed you had to be powerful, because from what she had heard, the Yondaime was rather demanding.

Walking in front of Sakura, Kakashi looked back worriedly to see his three genin behind him, Naruto at the back, pale and tired. Slowing down slightly when he saw the mission room, he let out a breath of relief when he sensed his sensei's familiar chakra.

Knocking twice before opening the door, Kakashi led his team into the room. Sitting behind a long desk in front of them was Iruka, doing the mandatory few hours at the missions desk for a Chunnin, and the Hokage, taking a few hours out of his day to give out missions to his shinobi. The large frame of the Fire Daimyo's wife, Madam Shijimi.

Minato looked up when he heard the door open, and smiled when he saw his student come in. Kakashi's genin team trailed behind him, and the legendary Yellow Flash frowned worriedly when he saw his son. The younger blond looked even sicker than he had when Minato had let him leave this morning. His son was holding Madam Shijimi's cat, Tora, and when she saw it, the large woman ran as fast as her legs could carry her over to her beloved cat, and Minato had to refrain himself from standing up as she rushed at his son. Even though he knew she was going for her car, Minato could feel the worry creeping into his mind as she grabbed the cat out of the blonds arm, nearly pushing Naruto over and causing some horrible scratches to be made on the small hands.

Taking a deep breath, Minato ignored the protective feeling rising in his chest, and instead asked Kakashi how the mission had gone. No matter how small the mission was, it required a verbal report and a written report.

"It took us four hours to capture Tora. We found it multiple times, but it managed to evade us. We finally caught it in the surrounding forest. Naruto was the only one that wasn't scratched when he touched Tora." Kakashi reported lazily, taking his book out of his weapon pouch and bringing it up in front of his face.

Minato resisted the urge to face palm as Madam Shijimi glared at the silver haired nin.

The Madam then hugged her cat closer to her chest and started cooing at it.

Biting his lip, Naruto stepped up the woman, carefully putting his scratched hand on the womans arm. The Daimyo's wife looked down at the blond, questioning him with her eyes. Although she hadn't when she had taken her cat from him, she now recognised him as the Hokage's son, and knew that she had to respect him.

"If you don't hold him so tight, and support him a bit better, he'd be more comfortable and would stop trying to get out of you hold."

She almost smiled at the soft voice. She had heard many stories of the boy from her husband and visiting dignitaries, but had never had the chance to meet him herself. Most people told her that he was a sweet, quiet, pretty thing who wasn't to be messed with.

Doing as the blond advised, she grinned when her beloved kitty stopped struggling, purring when she started stroking down her back.

Turning to the Hokage, she picked a money bag out of her pocket, and out it on the desk, still grinning happily. Turning back to the blond genin, she held onto Tora with one arm, and with the other one, pulled the blond tightly to her chest.

Watching as his son was hugged, Minato smiled as he watched Naruto earning the respect of the Daimyo's wife. When the hug hadn't stopped two minutes later, Minato frowned. A minute later, Minato saw Naruto's arms flailing slightly and could hear his baby's ragged breathing.

Feeling his over-protective daddy feelings over ride the thought that he should be nice to the Daimyo's wife, Minato stood up, slaming his hands on the desk, causing a crack in the wood.

Sakura jumped in surprise when she heard the loud bang, and glanced away from where the youngest member of her team was being hugged by Madam Shijimi, to the Hokage, who was standing behind the desk, which looked in danger of being broken in half.

The hokage stalked around the desk, and Sakura couldn't help but admire her powerful Hokage. She grinned, though, thinking that the hokage was going to berate Naruto for telling Madam Shijimi what to do, and then letting the important woman touch him - a demon.

But instead of doing as Sakura imagined, Minato stalked up to the woman who he had temporarily forgotten was important, and forcefully pulled her off his baby. Grabbing hold of the woman's biceps, he tightened his hold to painful and pulled them away from his son, before wrenching the woman away from both him and Naruto.

Madam Shijimi stumbled, tightening her hold on her cat, which had somehow stayed in her arms. Looking at the silver haired jounin, she saw him look at her before jerking his head in the direction of the door. Quickly inching her way around the two blonds, she let herself out of the door, smiling at the guards as she walked out of the tower.

Back inside the mission room, Sakura gaped as she watched the Hokage manhandle the Daimyo's wife of the demon, before he started patting the smaller blond up and down his body.

Minato dropped to his knees in front of his baby, frantically checking him for injuries. When he found none aside form a few scratches, the worst on Naruto's hands, he pulled the younger blond into his arms and hugged him tight to his chest. Pulled so tightly to him, Minato could feel Naruto's chest rising and falling in an irregular rhythm as he tried to control his breathing. Minato jumped as Naruto started coughing, and pulled away from his son so that Naruto had enough room to get the fit over with.

Sakura watched with shocked eyes as her Hokage kept a hold of Naruto as he coughed,.

Sasuke pursed his lips and had to refrain from going to his blond best friend himself.

Kakashi sighed as he watched his father figure fuss over his little brother.