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Title: Of Vacations and Family Bonding
Genre: Humor/Romance/Family
Rating: T
Summary: It's summertime! The time for swimming, playing, and – most importantly – vacationing with your boyfriend's parents, one of whom seems to hate you. It's gonna be a great two weeks. AU, SasuNaru, Alive!Minato
Character(s): Naruto U./Sasuke U.
Warning(s): Yaoi (boy x boy), AU, language, slight OOC, and overprotective fathers (a.k.a. Alive!Minato), Sakura Bashing
Pairing(s): SasuNaru, MinaKushi
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or its characters
I sincerely apologize for the wait; we had a power outage here and I just got internet back about 10 minutes ago. You guys were my first priority :3 Next is getting Kinectimals on my iPod and catching up on my Mangaminx and Pewdiepie XD
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DAY SEVEN (ONE WEEK LEFT)
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This is it, Sasuke thought, frowning. I really should have made my will - Naruto gets everything and Itachi can fuck off.
"Are you ready, Sasuke?" his doom called from the kitchen.
"Uh, yeah," he called back. As ready as I'll ever be to die. Goodbye, cruel, cruel world.
"Well, let's go then." Minato smiled and reached over, grabbing a light gray hoodie (just in case). Naruto - who stood on the staircase, intrigued - raised an eyebrow at the taller blond and glanced questioningly at Sasuke, who shrugged in response. "We'll be back by nine!" the blond called to no one in particular.
He walked out of the house with Sasuke not far behind. "And we're off like a herd of turtles."
The Uchiha snorted at the line and shoved his hands into his own hoodie, wondering why Minato had taken him - the bane of his existence - out for a walk.
"So...I wanted to talk to you," the blond started, his eyes cast downward at the sand and scattered hermit crabs.
"Yeah? You're not planning to kill me and dump me in the lake or something, right? If you are, can I at least have a last call? Actually, make that two - I have to call my brother, too."
Minato chuckled at the Uchiha. "No, I'm not going to kill you. I just thought...that we should get to know each other better...since it seems you're going to be here for a while...maybe." The blond smiled at the raven.
"Know me better?" he repeated, confused.
"Yeah."
"Well, I like turtles and the color blue - dark blue, to be exact. Oh, and tomatoes. If you want me to do something for you, offer me a truckload of tomatoes."
Minato chuckled and glanced up at the sky, watching as the sun faded behind the horizon and the thin, gray clouds moved slowly with the breeze. "I just want to know more about you. Kushina tells me you live with your brother? What's his name?" He decided that he would start off easy. He didn't think that Sasuke would be too happy with him saying, "So...you're parents. They were murdered, huh? Must be hard."
"Uh, yeah. Itachi. We live by ourselves in an apartment uptown. He works at a mechanic's part time and is graduating college pretty soon with a degree in business," the Uchiha answered, not exactly fazed by the question.
"Do you work?" the blond asked, watching the boy's face carefully.
"No, he won't let me; he says that I need to 'focus on my schoolwork.'" The raven scoffed and shuffled his feet slightly.
He seems to be trusting me easily enough with his private life...of course, it's not like I'm asking him anything too serious, but he seems to be answering with more than "yes" and "no" which is a start. "Well, it's good that he cares about your school career."
"Yeah, I guess."
There was a small awkward silence as the waves crashed softly and crickets chirped. "How...did you end up living with your brother?" he asked, hoping that Sasuke wouldn't yell at him for asking too many questions - he did say that he was learning more about the Uchiha, right?
"He won in a custody battle with my uncle," the raven responded immediately. "When my parents died - I'm sure you knew about that - he took the two of us in and when Itachi turned 18, he wanted me to stay with him permanently with the money we'd inherited. My uncle didn't want to just give me up, so there was a battle. Itachi eventually won and I've lived with him since."
There was another small silence - this one not as awkward - as Minato soaked in the information. "I see... So, you met Naruto in elementary?"
Sasuke was quiet for a moment before answering. "Yeah. We were on the playground and I guess I said something to Kiba and he came over and punched me in the face. We've had a sort of a love-hate relationship ever since... After a while, though, it started getting a bit better. Now instead of 'teme' and 'dobe' being insults, they're sort of like...pet-name, in a way - a term of endearment, if you will. I don't know about him, of course; he could still be insulting me."
Blue eyes blinked as Minato absorbed the new-found info - he was talking much more than the Namikaze thought he would.
"Oh."
There was even more silence as they reached a boulder that marked the area where they turned and headed back toward their own cabin. Minato envisioned his seven-year-old Naruto when he'd come home that day from school, claiming that he had a new sworn enemy named Sasuke Uchiha. His face and knuckles had been bruised from the fight they'd had about Sasuke being "a total jerk to Kiba."
Before he knew it, they'd arrived back at their lit cabin and the blond cursed under his breath. "I'd meant to ask you a few things on the way back, but I think I already know the answers." Minato smiled and turned to fully face Sasuke. "I'm glad I know a bit more about you now, Sasuke. But just so you know -" the blond leaned in a bit and whispered, "-I'm still going to act like I hate you - if only for appearances."
He stood straight again and winked, smiling brightly at the Uchiha before turning and walking back into the cabin.
And Sasuke followed, more confused now than he was when they'd first left.
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So, there you have it: Chapter 8. Huzzah! It didn't come out exactly like I thought it would, but oh well.
And fear not! There's more crazy Minato to come and some new characters ;)
Remember to review and I'll see you tomorrow.
Tah-tah!
