Lawl and Order: Konoha Unit
A/N: This is an AU. The characters showing up in this story may be twisted and misplaced, pairings will be numerous and changing, and the story will swing from amusing to dramatic whenever I feel like it. It is also written completely in prompted drabbles which may be a few pages to a few paragraphs long. Feel free to give your own prompts. :D
29. Abscond
Minato's tired. One of his people is in the hospital for the next week, two more for overnight, and another seven needed minor medical attention. He's got six dead gangbangers, three more of them hospitalized for a few days, and four in custody. There's already a mountain of paperwork on his desk and he suspects it will reach the ceiling by morning. The DA won't stop grumbling in his ear and making veiled accusations. Minato hates Danzo on a good day already without having to listen to his conspiracy crap. When he finally manages to politely hang up the phone, he wants to throw it across the room.
It was a successful job in the sense that they apprehended Orochimaru but Minato hates that so many people were hurt. He can't help but think himself responsible. So he busies himself setting up interrogations, directing officers, and handing out various assignments. But he knows he hasn't been getting enough sleep the last few days and if he wants to be of much use to them, he needs some rest.
Splashing his face in the bathroom to try and wash away some of the grim guilt, Minato heads out to do a few last minute jobs and chats with Kushina a bit. She's going to stay and finish up some paperwork but tells him to be awake and alert when she gets home. The little quirk to her lips tells him why. Minato returns it and then he goes home.
All illusions of what might happen later are gone. The front door is smashed open. He can see a broken lamp and a spread of scattered cereal on the floor. Minato swallows thickly and draws his gun.
The house is eerily silent. Minato adds as little noise as he can. His eyes are sharp and wide, taking in everything he can see. The place has been torn apart but it doesn't seem as if they were looking for anything. He finds another smashed lamp and it looks as if someone might have been thrown into his television. It's useless scrap now. A spill of orange juice in the living room. He'd told Haruna not to eat in there-
Haruna.
The only sign of her is in the damage. Haruna's a fighter. She'd have done everything she could to free herself. He's pretty sure most of this mayhem is from that.
Minato sees red when he enters the guest room. Red paint streaked over the walls in a pattern of two sets of straight lines. Whiskers.
Foxes.
Those bastards hit his home while hitting the lab-
Minato jerks out his phone and calls Naruto. There's no answer. He's not quite hysterical when he gets to Kushina but it's a close thing. She hasn't seen their son either. Chouji's surprised but he assures him that Naruto must still be at the scene. Things were crazy. He'd lost track of his partner.
The only one still there that he has a number for is Lee. Lee confirms that Naruto's not there. That's when Minato finds it hard to breath.
The foxes took his children.
