I do not own Naruto

I do not own Naruto

Chapter 48


Confrontation 5

Miroku had been sitting in silence along with Kakashi and Naruto in the dayss that followed. Uneasiness was as thick as if it could be cut with a knife between the two men and the younger one in between them.

Of course Naruto was not making it any easier either...

As this silence grew, no one noticed the two spirits that had been allowed to come and visit. In hopes that maybe there sheer presence would allow something to happen. The woman wanting so desperately to hug the young man in the bed as does the man beside her.

"Minato...I want to badly...so badly to hold him." Kushina whispered brokenly. The red head was just looking at their son with a desperation of hunger and motherhood that was denied her with her early death. Then turning to look at her younger brother, she wrinkles her nose in irritation at the same time.

"Not to mention beat the crap out of him."

A wry smile crossing Minato's features, his wings are spread out somewhat as they are what had carried them down to their son. "I know firecracker." The blonde replied with a sad and wishful look of his own. "I want to as well. At least he felt us that one time..."

"But I want more..." She whispered brokenly. "Even if only for a few moments, you got to hold him." The red head said softly. "Despite what you did you got to hold him. Got to see him look up and recognize you. It is a wonder he thinks of me at all."

"He does Kushina, don't think like that." Minato worded as he parts to tilt her chin up. "Don't ever think that our son does not think of you."

"Then how come he doesn't call? You have shared in his memories, because he always wants his father! He never wants me! He never wants his mother."

"Because courage as it is takes time to build to ask one who knows her." Minato said softly. "Many knew me...many did not know you."

A reluctant understanding coming across her features, Kushina cries softly with pain and regret. But it turns quickly to one of hope as a voice she has long since wished to share memories with asks an all important question.

"What...was she like?" Naruto asked softly. Kakashi beside him on the bed, the sheer presence of the copy nin was keeping Naruto from going ballistic as well as helping Miroku keep from bolting.

"My sister...she was temperamental and yet kind...warm and sometimes cool...she was a virtual rollercoaster." Miroku replied quietly. "I remember a time, when she had come home late from a mission during a storm..." He chuckled as the memories came forth. The spirit listening has already started to groan, but smile as she sees her baby seem curious. Even Kakashi was listening in his own way...

"Well what happened."

"Keep in mind, I think I was only 4-5 at the time and she was 12 for sure when it happened. I had woken up and it was storming in the Whirlpool Village... I went into her room just after she had apparently gone to sleep...and woke her up. The first thing I could say was...Sissy the lights were out." Miroku found himself laughing even louder, as the two looked at him in confusion.

Kakashi having a small inkling at where it is going finds himself smiling as a chuckle escapes his lips. "She hit you good didn't she?"

A sheepish smile crossing his lips, Miroku nods his head. "I didn't think I was going to live to see my next birthday."

"Naruto here is like that when it comes to his ramen." Kakashi replied with a mused gaze. "When Kiba as a joke told him Ichiraku's was out of miso ramen once..."

Growling in irritation, the blonde boy crosses his arms and looks vexed. "Yeah yeah...I am still paying his medical bills for that one."

Laughter in the air as the youth admits to it. Kushina finds herself giggling as she is able to share the memories with her brother and son. Especially when Kakashi goes into how she and Minato met.


The woman found Naruto lighting up with laughter as does her brother as Kakashi tells of how frustrated she got with Minato who grins sheepishly.

"Was I really that obtuse?"

"Minato honey...when I was pregnant with Naruto, you didn't notice until I was 4 and a half months along." Kushina stated with a giggle. "You thought I was just getting fat remember."


Looking well and thoroughly chagrinned, Minato gazes at Kushina with an embarrassed look... "I had a lot on my mind!"

"Righhhttt..."

Lightheartedness between them, neither one notices the gentle glow that radiates from them to surround the others in the small room. Their warmth having the effect needed, as Naruto relaxes and continues to ask questions of both the men in the room, the three surrounded by a warm memory or two of people long gone.