I Told You I Can Take Care of Myself

Chapter 4

After that little experiment on Naruto, Kakashi noticed a familiar chakra signature coming from the house. Turning around he found the author of his favourite books watching amusedly at his godson.

"Jiraiya-sama" he acknowledged the man's presence.

"How's the brat? Aren't you getting a bit rusty eh? I've already been there since you placed that rock over there" he gestured to the rock which Kakashi put in the yard "If Minato was here, you'd probably be in big trouble" the sannin teased watching Naruto run around the yard.

Kakashi smiled at the man's teasing and replied, "He seems to be fine. He did look a little upset when I arrived but other than that all is good. Although there is something peculiar about him" he drawled.

"So you've noticed too huh? I knew before I left a few months ago that the brat was special" the older man cryptically said before stepping unto the yard and making his presence known to his godchild, leaving Kakashi to muse over his words.

'So Jiraiya-sama has also noticed things about Naru' Kakashi thought. He also thought about the things that would make the blind boy special in any way. Sure the boy was blind but he sure doesn't act like it. If you were to see him there frolicking around in the yard you wouldn't think the boy was blind to begin with. It's really as if he could see though it still seemed not that reliable, kind of just like an instinct to the child and only appeared sometimes.

That was what Kakashi tried to prove earlier by placing that rock in front of Naru. Mind you, the rock wasn't just some pebble, it was a full blown rock that a child would really have to avoid if they didn't want to get knocked down. With Naruto perfectly avoiding the rock it just proved to Kakashi that the boy was using some means to see. It's not everyday that a blind ninja would turn up and little Naru was the perfect example of it. Kakashi smiled and turned back his attention on the yard.

As Jiraiya took step by step in the yard Naruto flinched at something, halting what he was doing and turned his head around as if he could see. Naruto felt something odd as he took each step and was finally snapped out of his stupor with a loud yell from a familiar voice.

"Oi gaki! Is that anyway to greet you're godfather?!" Naruto beamed at the sound and he instantaneously dropped his toys to locate where the source of the sound was.

Cutting the kid some effort, Jiraiya decided to walk towards the kid but was surprised with a running blonde kid tackling towards him.

"Jiraiya-jiji!" the kid leapt onto Jiraiya's torso forcing the bigger man to carry him. Not that Jiraiya minded anyway. He was happy that the kid was so energetic despite his handicap.

"I missed you! You didn't visit for a long time! Kaka-nii said you were travelling" Naruto buried his face in his godfather's shoulder and gave him a hug.

The white haired sannin hugged back "Missed you too gaki" he carried Naruto in a way that he faced the blonde.

"So what have you been doing since I was gone?" he asked the boy who seemed really happy at telling the man his adventures for the past months.

Naruto squirmed out of his godfather's hold effectively planting his feet on the ground and looked up at his godfather with big blue eyes.

"Ne, Jiraiya-jiji." he called "Did'ya know, I saw granny Tsunade last month and she was all..." Naruto then went on to explaining his trip with exaggerated hand gestures making the two men in the room chuckle.

"Then she was also complaining about how you are a... ", Naruto pouted thinking deeply "b-bes...bas..bast!"

'It was bastard kit' the Kyuubi oh-so-helpfully supplied chuckling. Naruto nodded before finally saying

"Bastard!"

He finally said earning a cough from both Jiraiya and Kakashi. They thanked Kami-sama, that Minato wasn't here to hear what his son said or the next person would most likely be kicked all the way to the Hokage monument. Lesson learned, whoever left Naruto with a drunk Tsunade shall be killed.

"Naruto, don't let your father hear you say that word, it's one of those bad words your father warns you about." Jiraiya reprimanded. Naruto looked aghast and promptly slapped his mouth shut with his hands.

Jiraiya laughed "Now what were you going to show me?"

Naruto, remembering his previous story dragged Jiraiya to show him his toys and his 'ninja adventures'. Jiraiya played along with the boy and not long after that Kakashi finally kept his little orange book in favour of joining the two.

They played for a while enjoying the fun with the kit. They followed the little blonde's lead as they played all sorts of games the little blonde's head could come up with. It wasn't long after that, that Minato arrived smiling at the scene which he caught his son with.

"Naruto!"

Naruto hearing his father exclaimed "Papa!" and ran over to where he thinks his father was and hugged him. Luckily he picked the right direction. Naruto then let go after the hug and went towards the kitchen which he perfectly memorized.

With Minato arriving and Naruto no longer with them, Jiraiya and Kakashi dusted themselves off and went back inside the house to greet Minato.

"Sensei" Minato was the first one to greet his former sensei with a smile.

What he wasn't prepared for was the incoming headlock that he found himself in courtesy of Jiraiya "That's all you have to say to your sensei whom you haven't seen in 6 months?!" Jiraiya teased laughing at Minato's expression whilst Kakashi just watched, amused at the both of them.

"Sorry sensei" was what all Minato managed to say before Jiraiya released him from his grip. "No problem. So how've you been these past months?" Jiraiya inquired.

They stood for a while catching up on things with Kakashi joining in occasionally. They spent a little bit of time standing there before they remembered that Naruto was all by himself in the dining room. Then they made the wise decision to leave and check up on the kid. Who knows what kind of mess he might make?

Peering through the door of the dining room, they found Little Naru on his tippy toes locating where the ramen was on the counter. The adults watched him by the door for a few moments as he finally located the ramen, albeit burning his hand a bit through the process cause of the ramen.

Minato suppressed himself from rushing to his son's aid to know what Naruto was going to do next. 'My son is fine...he is fine...he is fine' Minato developed a mantra.

To their surprise the blonde kid was actually in deep thought. Naruto seemed to be contemplating with himself on what to do. A few seconds of contemplating and a grin broke unto Naruto's face as he headed towards the dining table and located a chair and pushed it in the direction of where he thought the ramen was.

Minato thinking he's watched his son enough decided to help him and before Naruto knew it he was carried by his father. "Papa?" his son asked with wide blue eyes.

He smiled fondly at his son and set him down on a chair by the dining table as he prepared the ramen. The other two adults found a chair by the table and settled themselves, eyes softening at the father and son.

As soon as ramen was placed in front of Naruto, he immediately got into slurping it. Now, you may think that because Naruto was a five year old blind kid he wouldn't know how to eat or would just make a mess but apparently over the years his papa taught him how to distinguish the food and eat it and Kyuubi secretly taught the kid how to use his nose to discern food.

Naruto happily ate while the others were focused on some idle chat. Sure, sometimes he could understand what the adults were talking about but most of the time he didn't so instead of wracking his brain to understand he'd rather just focus on ramen. After all he's just a child.

"Jiraiya-sama" Kakashi suddenly called out halting the conversation they were just having "About what you said earlier..." he purposely dragged his words

"About earlier? Whatever you're thinking about, it's correct" The white haired man said laxly, stretching his arms and digging into more ramen.

Minato, confused about the conversation, turned to Jiraiya for answers. The man shrugged and ate not before passing a look at Kakashi telling him to be the one to answer.

"Sensei" Kakashi turned to Minato "I have noticed that Naruto is really special" he stated with no malice or whatsoever like he was stating a fact.

When Minato didn't reply, Kakashi took that as a sign to continue "Naruto he- He has his own way of seeing things right? Only it's not that developed yet."

Minato sighed and smiled fondly at his son. Of course he noticed his son was special, even more special since the day he was born and had the nine tails sealed in him but he was just trying to protect him.

"I noticed Kakashi, he's my son how could I not. But developing it may try to lead to more danger and I've tried to keep him protected. I know being the Hokage isn't the safest job around, that's why I'm not delving him much into it" Minato said dejectedly.

"I know Minato, it's just that I'd hate to see him waste that potential he has. He could become something great even with that little handicap of his, if trained properly" Jiraiya put down his plate and smiled at his former student.

"But being Hokage, I'm busy enough as it is. And if people start getting suspicious, my son might..." he didn't finish his words in fear of it coming true.

"That's why I'm offering to train him. Privately, of course. And I'm sure Kakashi won't mind helping out a bit too, right?" Jiraiya laughed gathering his bowl and putting it on the sink.

Kakashi put on his signature eye-smile "Of course. It'll be fun to train little Naru. By the end of it I'm guessing he could also be a ninja" seeing the expression Minato darken he added "If he wants too that is."

Wiping the mess off of Naruto's face (did you expect a five year old blind kid to eat cleanly?), Minato's eyes softened and he thanked his former sensei and student.

"Thank you, Kakashi, Sensei. I'm really grateful for you to do this"

Jiraiya gave him a hearty slap on the back "No problem kid! I'm his godfather after all."

Kakashi nodded "It would be a pleasure sensei"

And all of them broke into laughs as Naruto shouted "Seconds!"

It's times like this where Minato wouldn't trade it for anything. It was these times where they can just forget the problems and take comfort in each other. Definitely one of those times.

Yey! A new chapter! Thanks to Anime8 lover for the help. :D I read a review asking for a longer chapter. Dont worry the chapters will steadily get longer...i think?

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