Minato and Itachi sat on the couch waiting for Naru who had gone into the kitchen to fix some tea for them. She didn't seem very suprised to see them, an at he same time she was'nt very happy about seeing them either. Her expression had been calmly blank. Her tone was neither cold, nor welcoming when she spoke. She was noting but polite manners over barely concealed rage.

"Oh my god Itachi it justhit me tha our little girl is not only a married woman, but the fucking Hokage of our village." Minato suddenly said with a tone that bordered on hysterical, frankly as a parent of a child that niether of them had been aware of, Itachi felt rather proud tha his daughter had made somethng great of herself, and as far as mates went Kakashi was a good kid whom not only loved Naru but was apparently deathly afraid of her too.

As he should be. Itachi thought sadistically as Naru walked back into the living room carrying a tray with cups, and a tea pot. She set the tray down on the table between her chair and the couch then poured and handed the tea cups to them both before sitting down. "Now, what could have brought the two of you here?" She muttered to herself despite the fact that she already knew the answer. The damn old man was going to get a really nasty suprise in the next day or so, and since she was no longer a ninja, she had all the time in the world to frighten and bully him to her black heart content.

Damn stupid old man. She thought darkly as the two men suddenly looked nervous. "Well, we were just in the neigborhood and-"

"What the hell happened to your walls over in the corner?" Itachi asked curiously cutting Minato off. Naru gave him a sickly sweet smile.

"Kakashi's lack of kitchen skills nearly burned the place down. That's why he's learning to cook. It is inexcusable for someone so talented at killing to be so damn clumsy in the kitchen." Naru said as Kakashi yelped again and swore. He had cut his hand again while listening to Naru speak. The woman was fucking cold and once h was out of the kitchen he wouldmakeher eat those words while he warmed her up a bit.

"What is Kakashi doing in there?"

"Learning a valuble lesson." Naru said with a sunny smile. Minato gaped at her while Itachi tried to supress the shiver that was working it's way down his spine. Wow, that was mean. No wait, that was cruel and unusul, almost inhumane way to punish someone.

"Let's cut to the chase, gentlmen. Why are you really here?"

"We just found out that you are our daughter. Is it true?"

"And was Minato the uke?" There was a loud clatter in the kitched followed by an alarmed scream, and running water. Just how many times did Kakashi have to cut himself before he finally figured out to watch what he was doing?

Naru blinked, what the hell were they talking about? Were they saying that th blood test indicated they they were both her parents? She thought about it for minute or so, she would'nt know what to say t them unless she saw the results for herself.

"We'll take that as a yes. Was it Orochiimaru?" Minato asked worriedly. Naru's eye twitched a little bit at he mention of Orochmaru's name. Why were they asking her about that viper? The last time she had see him, was when she had blown him and his secret lab sky high after she had been kidnapped and taken there to be made into his meat puppet; since Sasuke had been so unwilling that he had had to give up on him.

He had figured that he would use her instead. All in all his plan had'nt worked so well for him. "I'm sorry but I honestly don't know what to tell you." Because I have no clue what your talking about?

The two men looked at each other. "Then would you tell us how we did when we raised you?"

Naru was very quiet for several minutes and Kakashi decided to abandon his post in the kitchen to lend some emotional support. He stood behind her chair, one hand on the top of her head, his fingers winding and unwinding a few of the long silken strands around his fist. Oh shit, they were'nt going to like this part of their bonding time were they?

"What is it Naru? Were we bad fathers?"

"I didn't have anyone. I was alone from he day I was born until I hooked up with Kakashi when I was eighteen. I didn't have a father, or a mother. No family or suport of any kind. Everyone wanted me dead, or in chains; and there was nothing that I could do about it. I can't begin to tell you how many years I suffered from physical and emotional abuse, the beatings, the starvation........I honestly don't know what you want me to say to you."

"Where were we?" Minato asked, his heart aching painfully in his chest. Naru looked at them both with such a sad expression, massaged her temples and stood up.

"I think that this is enough for now, I have a headache. Please leave." Naru said as she walked past Kakashi, down the short hall way to the bedroom and closed the door and flopped down on the bed. Oh god her chest hurt.

Minato looked at Kakashi anxiously as he stared at the door with a strange expression on his face. He would leave her alone for now and let her rest. This visit must have taken a lot out of her.

"Kakashi? Why is she shutting us out?" Itachi asked his tone slightly sharper than usual, he was worried.

"She isn't, she just doesn't know what to do. She used totell me when she was a kid, 'I'd like to have a family Kashi, someone that no one could take away from me. And I wold like my daddy to be there too, but I know deep down tht if I had those things.....they would find a way to destory them. And I woud have no choice but to watch my rose colored world turn red with their blood.' She wanted that so much. She still does. We were trying to have a baby when we died. I hope things will be different this time-"

"So do I, Kashi. So do I." Minato said gently. Itachi looked thoughtful.