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Minato had been distant lately. She wanted to know what was wrong, but he refused to tell her.

She sighed and sat next to Haru. 'What's wrong babe?' he asked.

'Nothing'

'Its about Minato isn't it?' Haru guessed.

Kushina sighed and nodded. 'Yeah, well something's up with him lately. I-I'm just worried I suppose.'

Haru nodded. 'Oh, your worried about another guy, should I be worried?' he asked.

'W-What? N-No I-I w-' Haru laughed and pulled her close. 'I was kidding,' He murmured as he pulled her into a deep kiss.

Kushina smiled and returned the kiss, only to pull away and se Minato staring. She gasped in surprise and saw a flash of hurt cross his face. But it was only brief so she might have just been seeing things.

'M-Minato,' she stuttered.

'When you are done making out with your… boyfriend-' Minato tried not to choke on the word. '-Would you like to meet my genin squad?' he finished.

'Oh yes, I'd love too,' she smiled.

Minato nodded and walked off. Haru then stood up and turned to Kushina. 'I have a feeling that Minato doesn't like me much.'

'no Haru, he… he just doesn't have a lot of friends… I'm sure he'll-'

'I'm sorry Kushina but I should go… I feel like I'm not welcomed here…'

'No Haru, you are very welcomed her!' Kushina pleaded.

Haru shook his head. 'He just… we've had a conversation where he's said insulting things about me and… I'll just catch you later Kush.' Haru pressed his lips to Kushina's and left.

Kushina then stormed up to Minato's room and threw the door open. 'Minato, what the hell!'

'Huh?' Minato asked in confusion as he looked up from the scroll he was reading.

'How dare you!' she hissed.

Minato frowned. 'How dare I what-'

'Oh don't play dumb with me Minato. I know that you insult Haru, make him feel like he's not wanted. You should be ashamed of yourself!' She shouted.

'I do not insult Haru!' Minato said defensively.

'Well Haru reckons you have.'

'Okay, sure I hate the guy, but I would never tell him that,' Minato replied with a frown.

'Why do you hate him so much?' Kushina asked.

Minato stayed quiet.

'No Minato, tell me!' she yelled.

'Because he has you!' Minato growled, gripping her by the shoulders. 'I hate him because he has you…'

Kushina was confused. '… Minato, I-'

Kushina was cut off when Minato pulled her close, upped her chin and placed a soft Kiss to her lips.

Minato then pulled away. 'I-I've got to go…' he muttered before walking off.

'…Minato…'Kushina whispered to herself as she touched her lips.

Kushina was shocked by the whole thing. While she liked Haru, she still had feelings for Minato. If she had known how Minato felt, she'd be with him right now…

She shook her head and jumped to her feet, running after Minato…


Minato stared at the ground as he dragged himself through Konoha. 'Why'd I haveto kiss her? I've probably ruined our friendship…' he sighed at the thought.

Minato eventually arrived at the training grounds. Hearing yells of "Shinobi should always be on time" from Kakashi and "You're even later then I am!" from Obito, whilst Rin just sighed and shook her head.

'Sorry…' Minato muttered. 'I just want you two to spar today… so go knock yourselves out…'

Obito, Rin and even Kakashi were surprised at this action. Usually Minato was happy cheery and always spared with them to test them.

'I bet it's a girl,' Obito whispered as the two genin and Chunin walked off to spar.

Minato just sat under a tree and try to rid himself of any thoughts of Kushina. But it was hard not to think of her… he just didn't know what to do.

'Minato?'

Minato jumped and spun round to see none other then Kushina. 'K-Kushina?'

The said girl sat besides Minato. 'Yeah…'

Minato closed his eyes. 'K-Kushina I-'

'Why didn't you tell me earlier?' she asked quietly, cutting him off.

Minato sighed and looked at her. 'By the time I had realized how I felt, it was too late. I was going to tell you but you had bumped into Haru and…' He sighed and looked into the distance to see Obito and Kakashi fighting to the death. 'Excuse me for a moment,' he muttered as he went to stop them.

Kushina watched Minato get his genin team in line. She smiled a bit as she saw Minato, trying to get the two males to stop fighting. He hand his left hand against a one kids head and his right against the others. Minato was in the Middle yelling at them as they tried to attack each other. (Hmm… can you picture that? I can lol).

Then the kid with goggles used some jutsu and got Minato instead of the masked kid.

Kushina walked over, seeing that the fight was over and knelt next to Minato. 'Are you okay?' she asked.

'M' fine,' he said with a forced grin. Minato then called over the girl with brown hair, so she could heal him.

Kushina enjoyed her time at the training grounds. Obito and Rin were nice, whilst Kakashi was a pain in her ass. He kept judging her because she was a villager at their training grounds.

Kushina looked up to see Minato staring at her. 'Yes?'

'I-I want to apologize about this morning… it was wrong of me.'

Kushina gave a small smile. 'It's fine Minato… its just that… If I had known… I would… I would be with you right now because I have feelings for you… but now I'm with Haru…' She looked down.

Minato gave a downcast smile. 'I know, and I'm not going to try and break the two of you up. As long as your happy…'

Kushina hugged him. 'Thanks Minato…'

'It's fine.'

Kushina didn't believe him. 'I'll meet you back at the house then…' she said slowly.

Minato nodded. 'Okay, bye.'

'Bye…' Kushina replied before walking off.

Oh her way to the house, Kushina got an odd feeling. She felt as though someone was watching her.

She continued to walk down the deserted street only to get the feeling again. There was defiantly someone following her. She spun around to find no one… but as she spun around again, she felt a hand cover her mouth, and metal pressed to her throat. 'Come with me, quietly…'


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