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Here's Chapter 11!


Chapter 11 – Day 3 (Part III) and Day 4 (Part I): Ryoushin.

What?! Minato momentarily froze.

"The Kyuubi?!"

The mere mention of the Tailed Beast knocked the air out of the red-haired Uzumaki.

That's… How… she couldn't even explain how she felt at the time.

"Just how far… in the future have we gone Minato? They had found another… another Jinchuriki!" Kushina shook with anger, "And for your own father to seal the Kyuubi in you too!"

It's just… it's… he had to suffer the same fate as I did…

"Kushina, calm down…"

Though Minato wouldn't admit it, he also shook with the same anger, because he knew how Kushina was treated by the villagers, for being both an 'outsider' and a Jinchuriki.

"There was a good reason, ka—Kushina-chan."

In fact, you told me the events of that day.

"Here you go, I hope no one interrupts this time," Naruto said, laughing weakly, "Hold your breath then!"


"Kaa-chan revealed to me, that on the day I was born, there was a huge crisis in the village: the Kyuubi went loose and was wrecking havoc everywhere.

"Everyone were trying their best to fend him off the village, yet… so many people died… so many families forever torn…

Including mine.

"Kaa-chan and tou-chan, each fought hard…each in their own way… to protect me, as my parents… and the village, as shinobi…

"But in the end… they were just people who have limits, I understand that… they were too spent to do anything anymore… but the Kyuubi, the problem, was still there.

"It was tou-chan's idea to seal the Kyuubi in me. Of course kaa-chan was strongly opposed to it… but to the very last, the circumstances left less and less options until it was the only one left… and so they went with it…

"The Kyuubi was sealed within me… and I was orphaned before I ever got the chance to know them…

"All of it was to save me… and the village.

"But before they died… they left something important to me… I realize that now.

"What they left me… it's much, much greater than the Kyuubi…

He paused for a while, and said what he really felt.

"It is love, worth all the years, all my life, that they won't be spending with me anymore…

"And entrusted me hope that I would be able to use the monster, who sowed nothing but despair and suffering, sealed inside me and turn it into something… something that will be for the better of everyone and the whole shinobi world.

"Fill ourselves with love" was what Mito-sama said right? He was filled with love from the start… Kushina mused, seeing the words of the old lady hold true for another person sharing the same fate.

"I grew up and managed without parents… met people who love me as I am, my friends… learn all sorts of jutsu… encounter all sorts of things… hehe…

"And all of that… all the opportunities to live my life…

"All of that would be because kaa-chan and tou-chan loved me, that they gave up their life for me… and entrusted me with the future.

"And I'm happy… happy that they loved me.

"I love them very, very much… I wish I could have had more time with them… and have them watch over me… and see me make my dreams come true," Naruto ended, pulling the two, his unknowing young parents, closer to him.

With the conclusion, the three of them found tears running from their eyes.

Both children hugged Naruto tightly, conveying thoughts and emotions they could never say.

"Mou, there's no need to cry… I know… I know that they're… happy… wherever they are now… I know because they told me," Naruto smiled.

"But still…" Kushina could say no more as her small body was racked with tears.

"That's the greatest expression of love I have ever heard…" Minato was in the same state.

"Yeah… Really you two," he laughed a little, attempting to cheer them up before they went to sleep, in spite of his own overflowing tears, "Sorry I thought you were ready for this kind of stuff…maybe I really shouldn't have told you—"

"NO!" came from the both of them.

Naruto was stunned at the reaction, "Eh?"

Kushina was the first to defend the answer, "They are one of the best parents ever!"

To which Minato agreed, "They should be… idolized, they're perfect role models! Not only as shinobi… but as parents as well!"

"Thank you, that you think of my parents that way. I'm glad you now understand."

If only you knew…haha. he chuckled.

"Well… That's roughly my life story! Let's keep it a secret?"

They replied with an, "Okay…" and hugged him even tighter.

He responded by pulling them even closer.

"Let's forget about the sad feelings for tonight, neh?"

After a while, both nodded and Naruto wiped their tears away.

"Let's go to sleep then. Oyasumi."

Oyasumi, kaa-chan and tou-chan. Sweet dreams… he thought as he closed his eyes, and a teardrop or two silently escaped.

"Oyasumi," they replied, and both pairs of eyes fluttered shut.

There were still sniffles after a while, then all was silent except the rain beating down outside.


"Ah!"

Naruto awoke with a start from his deep slumber with the sound of the thunderclap.

He sat up and shook his head.

Mou… Such a good sleep too…

He turned his glance on his sleeping young parents.

Minato had curled up into a ball, since the blanket got tugged over to Kushina's side.

He took a look at his alarm clock.

What time… 3am? Goodness… It's a good thing they didn't wake up…

The storm seems to have reached its peak, for the wind and rain outside were harsher and wilder than ever.

The intervals between lighting and thunder had shortened. he observed as he looked out the rain-streaked window to his left.

Still no electricity, huh… Seems like they'll fix it in the—what?

He froze.


This is one of the shortest chapters I have ever written.

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Tell me if you think I ended it quite unceremoniously.

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Reviews appreciated!