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Title: Chibi II

Rating: U

Prompt: Smile

Summary: Minato doesn't know what to do with crying children

Warning: Panicked!Minato, child!adorable!Harii, OMFG THE FLUFF

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Oh Kami! Oh Buddha! Oh Rikkudo Sennin! Oh SHIT!

"D-don't cry, oh no, please don't cry!" Minato begged, hands fluttering desperately as big fat tears began to shiver in his tiny lover's big green eyes. Oh Kami, he shouldn't think of Harii as his lover right now, he was five! He wasn't a paedophile! Oh god, what happened? The child trembled and his bottom lip followed as his cheeks flushed. Minato felt like crying himself. He didn't know how to handle kids!

He reached out to pat the poor boy on the head, it must have been pretty scary to end up in a completely alien place and not know where your family were or what was happening. If Minato recalled Harii's history correctly, he never even knew of magic until he was eleven and anything supernatural was punished.

He froze however when the child flinched and cringed away, instantly slamming his eyes shut and biting down so quickly and hard he actually cut through his lip and blood dribbled out from between his tightly clenched lips.

Something flipped in Minato's stomach and all the instincts of a father rushed to the fore as he swept the five year old up and cradled him against his chest, rocking him gently like he had whenever Naruto scraped his knee and refused to stop crying. It didn't seem to change or help much though. Harii tensed horribly in his arms the second he was touched and remained stock still as Minato's attempts to comfort him fell on deaf ears.

Figuring he was doing more harm than good, Minato made his way back to his desk and sat the boy down on top of it, leaning back and smiling gently at the huge bewildered green eyes that peered up at him from under a wild black mop. Already he could see the man this child would grow into but at the same time, it was hard to believe something as cute as a button would become the man that Minato... erm, best not to go there.

"Now, Harii-chan, I'm sure you're very scared right now but please don't be worried. It's my fault you ended up here and I'm really sorry about it," he explained as carefully and gently as possible. "See, I was working on a new experiment and I got a nasty cut, my experiment activated and it took you away from where you were before and swapped you with someone from here." That was simple enough. Best not go into Fuuinjutsu, Minato had many a fond memory of teaching that to Harii when he was a lot older and allowing his more mischievous side to show through – such as the Seal that vanished all inorganic material within two feet of it. Leaving both him and Harii naked as the day they were born.

The boy shifted, "I got swapped?" he asked quietly and Minato nodded. "Uncle Vernon is angry, your person might get shouted at," he whispered fearfully and the Kage had to refrain from scooping the five year old up into another hug. He had absolutely no idea that Harii had been so adorable at this age.

Minato smiled, "That person is someone I trust very much. Because its you."

Green eyes went, Minato was surprised it were possible, even wider at this revelation. "Me?" he squeaked.

The blond nodded, "You when you're all grown up. We're very good friends when you're a big boy. That's why I know he'll be alright, Uncle Vernon won't be allowed to shout at him or he'll end up in the naughty corner." Minato grinned wryly at this, even he'd been forced into the naughty corner for swearing in front of Naruto, Jiraiya-sensei had been forced into it as well and to say nothing of the time when the spit-fire Wizard ordered the Sandaime into said corner for smoking in the living room. Harii was the undisputed lord and master of the house when it came to instilling manners and control into their hellion of a son, more often than not he had to resort to using a sticking charm on the hell-raiser and forcing him into the corner.

"I'm your... friend?" little!Harii whispered in shock.

Minato nodded and couldn't stop himself from smiling slightly at the smile of wonder that broke out across the child's little face.

"I... I have a friend."

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So kyuoooote. D8