"I love you too dad." He nodded and pulled me into a hug
"I hate it when you cry Naruto; it brings me so much pain."
"I`m sorry." He held me at arm's length to look into my eyes
"It`s not your fault…Naruto you`re my son and you will always come first in my life no matter what, but you also know that I have to look out for the village as well, and removing you from Team 7 after all the teams have already been picked would just mess up all the missions, do you understand?"
"Yeah, yeah I understand." He pulled me back into a hug
"Good."
"Did I come at a bad time?" we pulled apart slightly and looked towards the stairs to see Kakashi and my dad chuckled
"No Kakashi, we`re good here right Naruto?" I nodded and wiped my eyes
"I can to talk to you Sensei and I knocked but no-one answered and the door was open-"
"Relax Kakashi, it`s fine come to my office and we`ll talk, Naruto would you clear the table please?"
"Sure dad." I ran down the stairs and into the kitchen before cleaning the table. I picked up Sasuke`s plate only to find a note beneath it. I picked it up and read it
{Naruto
I know you didn`t want to talk earlier but I would like it very much if you would talk to me tomorrow during training
I don`t care about Sakura but I do care about you and your feelings
Please don`t shut me out
Your friend
Sasuke}
I sighed and tucked the note into my pocket before finishing cleaning before heading back up to my room
"Naruto come here for a minute." I looked towards my dad`s office to see Kakashi stood in the doorway. I nodded and walked in after him and sat down in one of the chairs
"Is something wrong?"
"You didn`t tell me." My dad said, I blinked a couple of times
"Tell you what?"
"You merged your chakra with the Foxes." I looked down at my hands and gulped
"Y-yeah."
"And mastered the Rasengan, it was a good one as well." Kakashi stated, I gulped again
"Why didn`t you tell me Naruto?" My dad asked
"I forgot."
"You forgot?" I nodded
"In his defence quite a lot happened yesterday." Kakashi stated
"Alright I will see to your suggestions Kakashi."
"Thank you, I think I will take my leave now." Then Kakashi disappeared with the body flicker technique
"You forgot?" Dad asked, I nodded
"Yeah, I`m sorry dad."
"When would you have told me?"
"When I remembered."
"That`s a good enough answer for me." I looked up in surprise
"Wait you`re not mad?"
"No, why would I be?"
"I just thought you would be, for me not telling you."
"Naruto you forgot, there`s no reason for me to be mad, now if you were intentionally hiding it from me then I would have been mad."
"Oh."
"Tomorrow you`re going back to training, and you`re going to talk to Sasuke and explain what happened."
"Don`t worry I was going to anyway, I`m more bothered about Sakura."
"Just ignore her and focus on your training alright? I might stop by and see how you are doing tomorrow, if I have the time."
"Really?"
"If I have the time."
"Alright, did Kakashi say what time he wanted me at the training grounds?"
"8am, I`ll wake you up." I nodded about standing up
"I`m going to head off to bed, night dad."
"Sleep well Naruto." I nodded and walked out of the office and into my bedroom. I got changed for bed and laid down before closing my eyes and falling asleep
"Naruto, Naruto time to wake up." I heard dad say, my eyes slowly opened to see my dad`s smiling face
"Rise and shine son." I smiled before sitting up and stretching
"Morning dad."
"Morning Naruto, hurry up and get dressed then we can eat breakfast and I`ll walk you to the training grounds."