Sakura started to open her eyes and realized she was in a dark room. She tried to focus but was finding it hard to do so. "Why?" Came Naruto's voice from the dark.

"What?" Sakura asked rubbing the back of her neck. "Naruto what's going on?"

Naruto clicked on the light next to him revealing they were in his office. "Why were you going to leave?"

Sakura stood up. "Because the bastards that hurt our son are still out there!"

"Sakura the man who hurt him is dead." Naruto said calmly. "We couldn't be there for Minato when he was attacked, and now that he's home and we can be there for him you want to run off and be a ninja again."

"Because I don't know how to help him." Sakura said. "All I know how to do is fix people's bodies, and if that isn't the solution I'm a ninja, that's how it's always been for me." She said standing in front of Naruto's desk and pointing at herself. "So if I can't heal him then I go after the people who did this."

Naruto took a deep breath. "Sakura, that isn't going to solve anything. What Minato needs now is for the two of us to be there for him." He stood up from his desk resting his Hokage jacket on the back of his chair. "Why don't the two of us go home and we can spend some time together as a family." He said pulling her into a hug.

"I'm scared." Sakura admitted holding onto him.

"So am I." Naruto confessed. "This is nothing like going to war." He rubbed her back with his hand. "Let's go home now."

"Ok." Sakura nodded as the two of them left the office.

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Naruto and Sakura opened the door to their home and looked inside to see a smiling Minato with a mouth full of cookies talking to Rin.

"And then I went home." Minato said through his full mouth.

"And no one ever found out it, was you?" Rin asked wiping the tear from her eye as she laughed.

"What was him?" Naruto asked walking into the dining room.

"Nothing." The two said at the same time not looking at Naruto.

"I missed the days when I was the one keeping secrets from you." Naruto said looking at Rin.

"I did the mom thing, now I get to be the fun aunt." Rin said smiling.

"Yeah, yeah." Naruto said sitting down with them as Sakura took the seat next to him. "So how're you feeling?"

Minato shrugged his shoulders. "The skin is a bit tender and it's sore but other than that I'm fine."

"With physical therapy, he should be able to walk without any help in a few months." Rin said leaning back in her chair.

Minato bit another cookie. "But the doctor in Sand said that running is a bad idea." His face didn't show any sadness confusing both Naruto and Sakura.

"How else are you feeling?" Sakura asked rubbing Minato's back.

"Fine." The boy said with a shrug. "I'm a bit bummed I won't be on Team 7 anymore, but I'll figure out what I'm going to do."

Sakura looked at her blond son in shock. He wasn't letting any of it get him down and was even looking to the future. "Well I'm glad to hear that." Sakura said confused but trying to hide it.

Minato looked around the table before slowly standing up. "Whoa there." Naruto said standing up in front of the blond. "If you need something let me help you."

Minato chuckled before gesturing for Naruto to bend over and listen.

Naruto did with a curious look on his face. Minato whispered into Naruto's ear and with a laugh Naruto said. "You're on your own with that one."

"Thanks." Minato chuckled grabbing the crutches next to his chair and walked past them as Naruto sat back down.

"What was that about?" Sakura asked confused as to why she couldn't hear what Minato had to say.

"He had to poo." Naruto said laughing to himself.

Sakura held her face and shook her head while Rin laughed out loud.

After calming down Rin looked at the two parents. "He's a tough kid, he'll get through this. Don't worry about him too much." She said standing up and giving a quick hug to Naruto. "He'll bounce back soon enough. Now if you'll excuse me I have my own baby to go and worry about." Rin said pointing behind herself as she left the house.

Naruto gently grabbed Sakura's hand. "If he can shake this off then so can we."

Sakura smiled at her husband. "Thank you for talking some sense into me."

"With how many times you've had to talk sense into me it was bound to happen the other way eventually." He said smiling back.

Minato came out of the bathroom and hobbled back to his parents. "Those cookies were great but I could use some dinner."

Naruto quickly stood up and put his hand on his son's shoulder. "To Ichiraku Ramen!" He said pointing in the general direction of the restaurant.

Minato blushed at his father's overenthusiastic behavior, but looked to his mom because he had to admit ramen sounded good.

"Fine." Sakura said raising her hands in surrender. "I suppose it couldn't hurt to get some ramen."

"Yay!" Naruto cheered pumping his fists into the air. "Ramen!" He before disappearing in an orange light.

"When is he going to realize, he forgot us?" Minato asked.

"Give him a second." Sakura said crossing her arms.

Another orange light appeared showing Naruto. "My bad." He said rubbing the back of his head.

"You already ordered, didn't you?" Minato asked looking up to his father.

"Shh." Naruto said putting a finger to his lips and glancing over to see Sakura tapping her foot on the floor.

"Are we going or not?" She asked the blond.

Naruto smiled coaxing one from his wife and put a hand on her's and Minato's shoulder before the three disappeared in an orange light.

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Sarada was sitting in her room pouring over medical scrolls. She never saw the huge need to learn any medical ninjutsu but after the attack that crippled her teammate she knew that wasn't an option.

"Need to do better." She said to herself as she started to write down what she had read to make her remember it better when her pencil snapped. "Stupid, stupid!" She shouted hitting her own head.

"Do better." She said pulling out a kunai to sharpen the pencil. Her eyes focused in their Byakugan state and she could see that her mother and father were in the study talking and Itachi was in his room already asleep.

She started to work more on the work but was finding it harder and harder to focus so she checked one more time where everyone was before she snuck out of her window and made her way to the nearby park.

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"Are you here?" She asked looking around the dark park when she saw a mass of chakra bulging out of the nearby tree.

"What do you want?" The annoyed man with a Venus flytrap surrounding him asked.

"I made a mistake I'm sorry, I know you've been training me to be better and I failed." Sarada said starting to tear up.

"I thought you wanted to be the Hokage some day?" The man asked looking down on the girl. "Are you stupid or something?" He shouted at the girl.

"No." Sarada said quickly and looking at her feet.

"Look at me you white eyed freak!" The man screamed at her. "You are going to do better or else I'll move on and find someone better."

"I'm sorry Zetsu Sensei." Sarada said trying to hold back the tears in her eyes. "I didn't know any medical ninjutsu and the scrolls aren't an easy way to learn I was hoping that you could teach me."

Zetsu scoffed at the girl. "Surrounded by the most powerful medical ninjas in the world and you can't perform a simple healing jutsu. I'm sure your father could've done this when he was your age."

"I'm sorry, but can you teach me?" Sarada asked.

"I will teach you." Zetsu said nodding. "But as your punishment you cannot be nice to that blond friend of yours."

"Minato?" Sarada asked scared. "But he's family."

"And why should that matter?" Zetsu asked. "You want to learn from me, and I gave you a simple task." His voice grew darker and angrier. "You will do as your told or you will be disposed of along with your precious family."

"Yes Sensei." Sarada said lowering her head. A scroll landed in front of her.

"Start with these, you can't find them in the Leaf's library, they're stolen scrolls from the Sand." Zetsu said not moving.

"Thank you." Sarada said bowing to the plant man before picking up the scroll and walking away.