As Kakashi dashed home to get change as fast as he could, when he reached the ramen stall, the blonds just have themselves settled in.
"Kakashi!" Naruto waved at the silver haired man, "I have just order you a miso ramen!"
As the young boy shouted, he drew a large portion of the attention in the stall. Although some of the attentions were simply admiration, some were actually hateful, if Kakashi has to put a description next to it. He knew it well, as that's what he got from some of the kunoichi. Even though it has been more than 5 years, some of the women felt that they may have a chance to take care of Naruto, and hopefully, one day, they could move into the Namikaze's house for permanent. But as Kakashi agreed to take over Naruto's guardianship partially, and the fact that he was doing it well; it destroyed the hopes that those women were dreaming for. He ignored the stare and focused on the hyperactive boy instead.
On the other hand, Minato actually, well, finally felt the unwanted attention and looked at the kunoichi with a rather cold grin. The women shivered and moved their gaze quickly away from the three. They remembered that Minato was the Hokage in first after all, and that he was a family man by second; and the man that they did not like was the world known Copy-nin, one of the greatest shinobi in generations.
After dinner, Naruto quickly grabbed Kakashi's gloved hand as well as his father's warm large hand. He pulled the men closer to him and grinned happily. He remembered that when he was three, his father and Kakashi always came to Ichiraku together. But since he went to the academy last year, Kakashi has been assigned to more long period missions. He wanted the man to stay around for longer, but he knew that he couldn't as both adults have put their village in front of anything else; for which he wanted to grow faster and help them to guard the place that they have loved.
"Ne… can you come to have ramen with me and dad for more often, Kakashi?" Naruto asked, while making a puppy face.
With the whiskers, Naruto's face was more like a cat than a dog, Kakashi would have thought. He bent down and ruffled the boy's hair with his free hand. "You don't like my cooking, Naruto?" he asked, pretending he was hurt by the boy's words.
"No! I meant…" Naruto slightly loss of words and turned to Minato to ask for help.
Minato grinned and decided to give his son hand, "he meant that he wanted to hang out with us more."
"Yea, as a family! As you are always in the kitchen when we are at home." Naruto added cheerfully, as he finally settled on what words that he was looking for.
Both adults flushed slightly, but it was barely visible on Kakashi's face as the mask covered his face. Although Minato was planning to say, 'I guess we are,' he hesitated as he was not sure whether it was wise to say so. Therefore, he rubbed his skull uncomfortably, hoping the situation would be dissolved naturally.
As if Kakashi was thinking the same, he simply smiled and placed a masked perk by the boy's forehead. "Let's go home and watch TV together, shall we?"
"Yeah! Dad, are you gonna watch?"
Minato smiled, "of course."
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Although Naruto claimed that he could finish the film without falling asleep, he did not manage to fulfil his claim as he felt asleep on Kakashi's nap, while pulling his favourite orange blanket around his body in the first quarter of the movie. Kakashi felt the same and he actually felt asleep later, in the middle of the film.
Minato only turned his attention to the younger men when the film reached its end; and he was surprised that both of them were already fast asleep. He looked at the pair lovingly. As what his son has said, he wanted the man to be part of his family. No, actually, he already treated the young man as part of his family when he took over the boy's mentorship. He was always part of the man's life. He was, for always. But just then, in these two months, he realised that he wanted something more. He wanted the young man as his partner, not just his protégé, his shinobi and his ANBU. He stood up and tried to pull Naruto up in silence.
But as an active shinobi, Kakashi woke up straight away, though his eyes were bit dreamy, as he felt safe with the Namikazes' charka solely, "Min-nato?"
Minato froze when he heard the way that Kakashi purred his names. He felt blood rushing down alone his spine. It was the second time of the day that he felt teased, simply by the way that Kakashi called his name. He cleared his throat, "tea, Kashi-kun?"
"That will be great, sensei," Kakashi blinked and cleared his mind. "Let me put Naruto to bed."
"I will put the kettle on," as if Minato felt Kakashi's urge to be left alone, he walked to the kitchen, leaving the man with his son.
Once he reached the kitchen, he leaned against the sink, trying to calm himself down. All his sense were attracted by the young man and he was began to afraid that he would do something stupid, something that he would regret. He wanted to know the truth. If the young man only wanted to treat him as his sensei, his friend, or his Hokage, then at least he knew where he stood.
When Kakashi reached the kitchen door fame, he heard the soft moan from his sensei's sexy lips. "Are you ok, sensei?"
"Yea…" Minato rubbed his neck. "Have Inguru sent you the notice?"
"Yes. Early in the morning by his eagle, which woken both of us up," he paused as he just felt that he has included too much information. "Here," he pulled out a dining chair, "let me give you a massage," he said, while pulling his gloves off.
"That will be great," Minato smiled, while placing his butt graciously on the chair. He felt a bit tense when the soft pair of hands placed on his shoulder. Although Kakashi's palm was soft, his fingers were hard and coarse due to the hard and lengthy practices that he did when he was young.
Kakashi was skilful and Minato felt his muscles relaxed and melted under Kakashi's body warmth. He tried to keep his mouth shut, but obviously he could not. He moaned softly, not too sexually. But then, he felt the pair of hands hesitated a little, and so he opened his eyes and turned, "this is lovely, Kakashi-kun. Thank you."
"Not at all," Kakashi quickly replied, trying to iron the atmosphere. "I should be get going anyway… Oyasumi-nasai."
"Oyasumi." Minato replied and let his protégé disappeared in a heap of smoke. He sighed, as he has told himself not to do things that would affect the relationship between himself and the young man. However, it seems that he has placed a hardship on himself instead.
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Author's Notes
As promised, an update during the weekend. ^_^!
Firstly, thanks for reading and your comments.
Secondly, I am cracking the next few chapters, hoping to end the story by chapter 20, [finger X],so I am throwing a few scenes of YamaKaka before the story will then divided into two sections. If I manage to write them in a good pace, then I will upload both endings together; if not, I have decided to upload the MinaKaka ending first as it's a typical fairy tale, happily ever after, while the YamaKaka would be more melancholic, at least for Minato's prospective, I suppose...
Anyway, I have been busying with The Big Egg Hunt in London, any readers live in London too?
Yours,
Vi