Hola! I just finished my Spanish homework. Gah. It's harder than it looks people. And I'm really sorry for not updating for a while. I'm publishing two new stories! One of them is Yugioh, the other Kyo Kara Maoh.

Anyway, this chapter may be short (I don't know anymore, the last chapter was longer than I thought it was going to be. But then again, you guys probable don't care about that…). It'll be a conversation between Minato and Naruto. So that should be fun.

Oh, and I do apologize for my sad sense of humor, or lack of it. And, as some of you may/may not have wondered, I'm going to pull Itachi back into the flow, as he'll have important roles within the next couple of chapters. Anyway, Onward, and enjoy! (Chap 11-10)

p.s. Naruto isn't meant to be super powerful. He's really strong, yes, but he isn't perfect. He has his flaws.

~Recap~

The three looked at the duo, watching as Minato happily played with Naruto, who was laughing. Yes, if only the kami would give Naruto that one gift, to at least have a father during his childhood.

And when Naruto met their gazes, they, if only for a moment, didn't see the eyes of happy little 8-year-old that Naruto was currently acting like. No, they saw the eyes of their Hokage, who was shedding unshed tears, wishing for the exact same thing.

~End Recap~

The lunch was enjoyable. Minato had had fun during lunch, listening to his son's antics (Naruto had returned to his 14-year-old state, not wanting to be glomped by the female population anymore, to which everybody at the table laughed at.). They had even managed to get out a few stories in which he snuck into the ANBU HQ. Now those were stories worth remembering. Ones he'd never let his ANBU forget, considering the stories he told during lunch were when he had manages to travel into the past.

But that was another thing. His son's amazing skill with fuuinjutsu. It was amazing how he could create the most unexpected- yet brilliant- seals within a matter of minutes (or seconds, depending on the situation). To say the least, his son could be considered a genius. But then there was the fact that he wouldn't reveal any of his techniques. And as a fuuinjutsu master and a dad, that wasn't good.

Now, he knew his son had quite a rough child hood. And while he didn't want to open bad memories the trust, or lack of, was concerning him. They had lived in the same household for over a year, and if Naruto didn't trust him enough to tell him about one seal, what did that say about him as a person?

It was on their way home (Minato had Naruto on his shoulders, as the latter had henged into an 8-year-old again (Minato had no idea why he kept on doing this. 'Mood swings, maybe?' He thought to himself) so he could ride the shoulders of the former.) that Minato had decided to ask Naruto about some of his skills.

"Hey kiddo," Minato called, his eyes looking upwards. Naruto looked down, proceeding for his father to go on.

"What exactly are you good in?" Minato asked. "I've trained with you, but only to an extent. Ita-san probably knows more than I do."

Naruto chuckled at the nick name for Itachi. As Minato had realized that he had Uchiha Itachi working for him as an ANBU, and that the Itachi who had come to live with the Namikaze's had looked exactly like each other, he had to call the elder Itachi 'Ita' as to not confuse him with the younger ANBU Itachi. Little did his father know that the two Itachi's were in fact the same person, albeit the age differences.

"Let's see. What do you want to know?" Naruto asked. He knew he'd have to answer these questions sooner or later. It might as well be sooner.

"Hmm…" Minato hummed in thought. "What are your best skills?" He asked.

"I have a lot of things that I'm good at, and I'm not bragging." Naruto replied.

"Alright then. Why don't I say the skill and you tell me, based off your own analysis, what level you're at?" Minato asked, turning the corner, and heading down the long road that would take the two back to the grounds.

"Alright," Naruto agreed. 'This'll be interesting.' Naruto thought to himself.

"Ninjutsu?" Minato asked.

"Kage level." Naruto replied.

"Fuuinjutsu?"

"Master. Kage level or higher."

"Taijutsu?"

"Kage level."

"Kenjutsu?"

"Kage level."

"Senjutsu?"

"Up with the Nara's."

Minato blinked. To be as good as a Nara? That's pretty damn impressive.

"Genjutsu?" Minato asked, figuring it would be the same as the other skills he had.

"Non-existent." Naruto replied.

"'Non-existent'?" Minato asked, stopping in surprise, and looking back up to his son.

"Yup." Naruto replied, somewhat sheepishly. "I've never been good at Genjutsu. I can disrupt it, (they usually don't work on me) but I've never been able to cast any."

"Wow," Minato replied. But then he thought of something. "Wait. If you can't use genjutsu, how was that picture you had in your room hidden from me this whole time?"

"Oh, that was a genjutsu." Naruto simply replied.

Minato frowned. "But I thought you said your genjutsu skills were 'nonexistent'?"

"They are nonexistent." Naruto replied again.

"Then how were you able to keep up a genjutsu over the picture?" Minato asked, confused and slightly irritated. His son was avoiding the subject, but he would not let Naruto get off the hook so quickly.

"I had inside help." Naruto said.

"'Inside help'?" Minato asked. Naruto nodded. Seeing as Naruto wouldn't say anything for the time being, Minato thought about who was good enough to make a genjutsu that even he couldn't sense.

'I'll have to ask Itachi,' Minato thought to himself. 'He's knowledgeable on gen…jutsu…' Minato's eyes widened.

"Naruto… This inside help wouldn't so happen to be Itachi, would it?" Minato asked. Naruto smiled, and nodded. 'To a certain extent, though,' Naruto grinned inwardly. 'After all, you did help create the genjutsu, didn't you, Kyuubi?'

'That's right, I did. But you're Uchiha there also helped a lot as well. It's probably one of the most complex ones I've seen in a very long time.' Kyuubi replied.

Naruto grinned, unbeknownst to his father, on which shoulders he was still riding on, that he was talking to what he had referred to as 'inside help'.

'He won't suspect a thing,' Naruto thought to himself and to Kyuubi, filled with mirth. 'And he won't know at all…'

And that's it! I am going to post another chapter later this weekend, so don't you worry. It'll be the beginning of the end (sadly). But you never know what might come out of it… xD