Intermission 36
- a love story in bits and pieces -
"Do you still like me?"
He turns.
"Did you say something?" he calls back.
She's standing at the center of the pool of water, chakra supporting her feet, while Minato's at the opposite edge of the water, a good twelve meters away. This improved chakra control is as far as Jiraiya's help can take her in two days, given her crude fuin seal's structure, but at least now the older man's got all the information he needs to learn more and maybe work on something better for tailed beast hosts in the future. In any case, she's grateful.
By giving a certain blonde goody-goody a chance, she can give the Pervy Sage one return favor.
She sucks in her breath.
"DO YOU STILL LIKE ME?"
He's sunshine gold in the early morning light and the white steam blurs his image. And all of a sudden, the Yellow Flash is scarlet.
Minato turns bright red at her exclamation, before losing his chakra balance and dropping into the water with a splash, thus confirming all accounts of his feelings.
Kushina laughs, genuinely happy, as a warm chakra seems to pulsate gently from her very core.
(Fill the vessel with love.)
'Is this what you meant, Mito-sama?'