Idea: After a third disastrous try at the dating game, Namikaze Minato gives up on finding love, only to find that a mysterious man has taken an interest in him and begins trying to court him This man, is really the Kyuubi and has been the one sabotaging Minato's romantic attempts. At first Minato rebuffs the man's advances, but soon can't resist. He's always known that he would have a child…

Summary: After three failed attempts to find an everlasting love fail, Namikaze Minato swears off love entirely believing that he will never find 'The One'. He rejects every offer, but there is one that refuses to be rebuffed. Minato always knew he'd have a child… Kyuubi/Minato, mpreg, Massively AU but still Ninja, if you don't like it, you are free to leave.

Disclaimer: I wish I owned Naruto but… * glances nervously at lawyers * …Maybe it is better that I don't… *laughs*

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Title: Kyuubi's Mate

(Chapter Eleven: I'm Pregnant?)

The next morning Minato woke, curled up in the arms of the older demon. He almost attacked Kyuubi before he remembered why he was with the other demon in the first place. Attacking right after something as important as Acceptance was bad. He carefully wiggled out of the bigger male's hold and put his clothes back on. He'd have to make a run for it, there was no telling what could happen if he stayed. He had kits to get back to anyway, he couldn't stay here.

Minato left the cave, ignoring the fact that he was still in his female disguise. He was still tired and it would take too much energy at the moment to return to his normal form. He paused; his vest only partially zipped up to look back at the cave. Minato closed his eyes, shaking his head turning away; he had no time to worry about what had happened the night before. His kids needed him now.

He started jogging and then when he left the clearing behind, Minato ran as fast as he could to get back to his kids. He couldn't leave them alone any longer. They were vulnerable as they were; fast asleep in the middle of an open field. Even if they were surrounded by some of the most deadly Genjutsu and traps ever thought of. He didn't stop until he reached his Genjutsu and trap boarder. Upon reaching his Genjutsu and trap field, Minato got to work dismantling them. Since he was here now they weren't needed.

Minato shook Kakashi gently dispelling the Genjutsu, "Get up kit; it's time to go home."

Kakashi yawned as the Genjutsu lifted, "Yes Tou-san."

Rin stretched as Minato lifted the Genjutsu from her as well. "So, now what," she asked, "Are we making any stops before we go home?"

"No, we're heading straight home, one of the Bijuu is close by and we have to be away from here before it wakes." Minato explained as he settled the still-slumbering Obito on his back. "Break camp, do it quickly."

"Yes Sensei!" Rin and Kakashi hurried around the clearing, erasing any trace that the four of them had been there. Obito's health was in question as well; he was stable enough to move, so they had to.

Their mad dash to the village was nonstop. The four didn't stop to eat or sleep or rest. As a result, it took them two days to get to the village walls. Minato signed them in quickly before rushing Obito to the hospital.

After dropping Obito off with the medics, Minato headed back to the Hokage Mansion. He was dead tired, all Minato wanted to do was sleep, even if it was in the middle of the day. Minato yawned as he let himself into the house. ""I hate days like these…" he muttered as he put his house keys in the tray. When he looked into the setting room on his way to the stairs he stopped short, seeing the Elders sitting, a bit too comfortably, in his chairs and on his couch. "To what do I owe this surprise, Koharu-san, Homura-san, Danzou-san?" he asked in a hard voice. The Yondaime was tired, he didn't want to have to deal with these… these backstabbers yet, if ever.

The three gave him false smiles, Homura speaking first, "Where were you the last few days Minato-kun?" the old man asked irritably, they had allowed him out of the Village, but he should have been back a week ago. "You were supposed to be back in the Village a week ago."

Minato nearly snarled; this was why he hated the Elders so much. What he did with his time while on a mission was none of their business! It had taken a week to get to their destination, one day and one night for Acceptance and the rest of the time was spent stabilizing Obito so that the boy could be moved! "I don't report to you Elders, you report to me." the young Demon told the three humans in a tightly controlled voice that still carried a dark snarling undertone. "As such, you don't need to know anything that happens on my missions." It was still a day or two until his birthday and it was always easier to irritate him during his Heat. It didn't help that he still had one more month to deal with.

"Namikaze," Danzou began, "We merely wish to make sure that nothing happens to our Leader is all."

'Yeah right,' Minato thought sarcastically, inwardly sneering at the old war hawk, 'You want me dead so that you can be Hokage…' he wanted to shake his head but couldn't. Minato was careful not to let his thoughts show on his face or in his eyes.

"Get out of my home." Minato told them, "There is no reason for you to be here, get out." All he wanted to do was sleep. He wanted to curl up on his huge warm bed and sleep for the next few days. He was back in the Village now so the Elders had nothing to complain about. He left them there, speechless at his rudeness. Minato wasn't usually rude to anyone, including the Elders, right now he was at the end of his rope, which was about to snap. Damn Heat…

Minato didn't even wait to see them leave; he just left the room and stormed up the stairs to his bedroom. He knew that Kakashi and Rin were already resting, he wanted rest too, which he wasn't going to get if the Elders insisted on meeting with him now. Though Minato was tired he could still acutely sense the three Chakra signatures in the living room, they hadn't even budged.

Minato sighed in defeat, what would it take to get them off his back? They had no business sticking their noses in his affairs. It must have been obvious that something had gone wrong since Obito hadn't run ahead with Kakashi and Rin. What was worse; was they wanted to know every single detail of how the mission went, which was not their business anyway.

They did not need to know about his meeting with Kyuubi, or anything else that had to do with the Bijuu. The Elders weren't very tolerant at all, if they knew that he was a demon they'd oust him as the Hokage, that is, if they didn't kill him outright for it. The Elders hated all demons, it wasn't really fair. With the Elders in the house, his sister had to be extremely careful.

Minato decided to ignore the Elders and just take a nap; hopefully, they would leave if he left them hanging for long enough. He stopped by his sister's room to check on her. "Are you alright, Nee-chan?" Minato asked tiredly.

Kaiko looked up at Minato's voice, "Deidara and I are fine Minato; how was the mission?"

"Tiring and frustrating," Minato replied bluntly. "Kyuubi made an appearance too."

"I see, so it was inevitable then?" she asked with sad eyes.

Minato nodded. "Yeah, it happened. The Elders down stairs want to know what happened and why the mission ran over, but there is no way that I am going to say anything." He sighed as his sister pulled him into a hug, leaning into her warmth, he became half-asleep. "Nosy old farts… Wish they'd leave me alone and stay out of things that don't concern them…" He mumbled into her shoulder.

"I know Minato, it's alright." Kaiko breathed as she opened her door and help her brother down the hallway to his room. "You get some rest, the old geezers can wait; they don't need to know anything you don't want to tell them. They are too nosy for their own good. And if this were a Demon Village then you would be well within your right to kill all three of them."

"But we aren't in a demon village Nee-chan." Minato muttered as they reached his room. "However tempting as killing them is…"

"I know," she replied. "I believe though, that they should still roll over and just die."

Minato giggled quietly in response, "I agree, at least in Danzou's case. The other two aren't so bad when they're on their own, but that's very rare. It doesn't really help that I have to keep what I am a secret. As open minded a village Konoha is… They still hate demons with a passion, and though my friends wouldn't care, I'd have to win the favor of the rest of the populace back." Minato sighed, "And that is something that I don't want to do, it would be very… troublesome." He gave her a tired smile as the door opened and he went inside.

"Indeed," Kaiko replied, watching her younger brother from the doorway, "Did you get that saying off of one of your human friends?" she asked with a grin.

"Yeah, my old buddy Shikaku," Minato answered, as he settled on the bed yawning, "He lets all of us use it 'cause he's cool like that…" Minato snickered tiredly, curling up to rest.

"Good night Minato, have a nice nap." Kaiko told him as she closed the door.

"I'll try," was his response. When he next woke up later that afternoon, the Elders had indeed left. Much to his delight, they had no place here, unless they were advising him on something. Minato was trying his very hardest not to lose his considerable temper with them, but now, in his third year of being the Hokage he was sure he knew most of the ins and outs of the job. And yet, the Elders still treated him as they had in the beginning, as if he knew nothing!

The next two weeks were awful, each night Kakashi and Rin would wake in the middle of the night screaming, their dreams were filled with horrible visions, memories of the mission and 'what ifs'.

That first night, Minato's eyes snapped open at the knock on his door, he had expected this; one or both of his students had had a nightmare. The door opened as he sat up, revealing Rin and Kakashi, "Come in you two, nightmares?" Minato asked, knowing that he was right.

"Yes Tou-san…" Kakashi mumbled he didn't want to relive the mission in his mind; it had been plaguing him since Obito's injury.

Minato sighed, waving his two students over. He had been expecting this really, not that he would ever turn his students away… "Come here, it will be alright." He tried to comfort them as they clambered into his bed and cuddled into his sides.

"Is it my fault Tou-san?" Rin asked painfully, "I didn't mean to get caught…" Rin sniffled as Minato wrapped his arms around her.

"No, it will never be your fault Rin-chan…" Minato tried to reassure her. "If you want to blame someone, blame Iwa, they are the ones that hurt him after all."

Rin nodded into his chest, still crying. She wished that Obito was at home with her and the rest of the team, not in the hospital. She knew that Kakashi was probably feeling the same way as she was. Kakashi reached around so that he could hug her too, causing her shaking to stop slowly. But she didn't stop sniffing.

Minato began to hum quietly, to sooth his student's fraying nerves he didn't want them to break down even more. He lay down, pulling the kids with him. "We can visit him in the morning ok?" He asked as his hum turned into a purr. "Neither of you are at fault, there is no reason for you to believe otherwise."

After that the three of them fell asleep.

KM, KM, KM

The next morning Minato shot into a sitting position, a hand flying to cover his mouth. His sudden disappearance woke his students.

Kakashi and Rin both sat up rubbing their eyes yawning. "Minato-sensei…" Rin called, calling him by name, which at this point was unusual, "Are you ok?"

Both students got out of bed when they heard no reply. Kakashi looked up at Rin in concern. "Do you think Tou-san is ok?"

"Only one way to find out…" Rin replied, "Let's go see."

They were greeted with the sight of Minato hunched over the toilet, struggling to breathe as he emptied his stomach of what little contents it had. It looked like he was already on dry heaves.

"Sensei? Are you ok?" Kakashi asked quietly.

Minato flushed the toilet as he pulled back. He nodded as he wiped his mouth. He, like his students didn't understand what was going on. He pushed himself up, leaning against the wall when he was hit with a bout of lightheadedness. He washed his face and rinsed his mouth out before turning to face his kids. He voiced what all of them were thinking. "What was that?"

KM, KM, KM

Kaiko held Deidara, standing there in the kitchen calmly as Minato sat at the table after breakfast and explained what had happened. She sighed sadly. She hated being the one to break the news, male Submissives were rare, as such, their pregnancies just as rare if not more so. In any other village, Demon Village anyway, Minato's pregnancy would be celebrated. He'd be congratulated and showered with gifts and everyone would pitch in to help keep him healthy. But that wouldn't happen here. And he needed it. "I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and it really shouldn't be bad news but… Minato…" Kaiko looked him dead in the eye. "…You're pregnant."

(End Chapter Eleven)

A/N: I'll say it again, flames SUCK! You know who you are… You can complain about Kaiko being useless all you want, the truth of the matter is that she isn't here to protect Minato from anything, she is a MINOR Original Character who's only purpose in this fic is to act as Minato's teacher in all things that have to do with demon kind. She was never going to be really important, she was created to be Minato's teacher; she literally has no other part in this fic, other than as a tool to also introduce Deidara.

As for her being unable to do anything to protect Minato? One, that's not her role; that is ultimately Kyuubi's, two, I thought that I had already established how the Bijuu are one-of-a-kind? The point was that even if she had wanted to Kaiko still would not have been able to save Minato from his fate.

If you think that my writing is weak that's just your opinion, a lot of others like how I write Minato, and to this point in the Manga and the Anime, we don't get to see Minato when he is at rest, only in high-stress level environments where he has to be cool and clearheaded. Except maybe once in Jiraiya's one flashback. Sure we can tell in Kushina's flashback that he is ecstatic that Naruto is about to be born, but he also has to worry about Kyuubi breaking out of the seal on his wife's stomach. Kushina must call him a flake for a reason, but we never see him acting any other way.

During Kakashi Gaiden, he's on a mission. Enough said. And even then we don't see much of him as this is Kakashi's past that's being focused on, not Minato's.

And the third (first timeline wise) time we see him he's more worried about passing on the information that he has along to Naruto, of course we can tell that Minato loves Naruto dearly from his expressions and the way he talks to Kyuubi: "I never wanted to see you again, Kyuubi. But I suppose it's a fair trade; because I get to see my son…" that's paraphrased of course but… *shrugs*

From these three meetings we get maybe a fifteen minute glimpse into his character. Way too little to make much of a difference, I am working with basically a clean slate and can make Minato's character act any way I want. We know that Minato is physically strong, he's the freaking Hokage after all, and there had to be something that made him better in Sarutobi's eyes than Orochimaru. We can conclude a lot from just that alone, Orochimaru was creepy (we knew that from the beginning!) and was obsessed with not only power, but immortality as well. We can conclude then, that Minato had to be friendly and approachable at the very least. And he proved himself to be the better choice because he died to save the village. If he knew that Naruto would be ignored he probably would have turned his beloved son into the Jinjuuriki anyway. That's not to say that he wouldn't have done anything different though. What I am trying to do, (and succeeding hopefully) is show that Minato isn't just physically strong. That's what the whole situation with Kyuubi is about!

Kyuubi raped Minato. So? I labeled it; there is no reason that you can't skip it if you don't like the topic! The whole thing with Acceptance and what he told Kakashi was another part of that. It must take a ton of courage to simply tell someone/confront the person that you were raped (by); to let them touch you again would have to take an astronomical amount. It takes a different kind of strength to do that. I hope I've proved that Minato has it. The whole fic has to do with character development. …I'm not very good with fight scenes anyway (which is why there's a lack of them), if you guys want to see some fights I will certainly try though.

Minato has to learn to let go and to love again (Kushina's death and his obsession with her). Kyuubi has to learn to be 'human'. (Not listening to Minato.) There aren't a lot of characters because if I have a huge cast that I have to deal with, the plot and story line will disappear on me. That is why Characters will appear and seemingly disappear.

Sorry about the rant… this needed to be said.

Yeah, this was like pulling teeth, sorry about the long A/N.

Neph