Faithfully
It was a warm day outside of the small ANBU outpost where Minato was stationed. Birds chirped in the forest as the wind rustled the leaves. He opened the small leather journal that Kushina had given to him for his birthday and began to hum an old love song. Kushina was certainly on his mind today. All of a sudden he felt the inspiration for the best idea he had ever had. He scribbled frantically as words flowed onto the page. She was going to love this.
When his rotation was over, he headed straight to the Senju compound where Kushina lived. As the door opened, he smiled. The sixteen-year-old was in frog pajamas with her hair tied in a bun. She was still the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen.
"Minato? Are you okay?" she asked, shifting the toothbrush in her mouth to one side. "How was rotation?"
He closed his mouth when he realized that he was gaping at her. "I uh… I made something for you."
"Oh? Come on in, then. Quiet, though, I think Tsunade had Dan sleepover. You would've thought they had heard of a privacy seal. I heard them on the other side of this place." Minato turned red and shook his head quickly. He didn't want to know what those two were up to.
Kushina walked to a bathroom and finished brushing her teeth before coming back out into the living room.
"You had something?" she prompted. Her eyebrow arched as he went over to the record player and popped on an old romance song. He took her hands in his and danced as the music played.
When the lyrics started, he sang over them. Kushina gasped when she realized what he had done. "Minato? You… translated it? The whole thing?"
"Yes. I wanted you to hear it in Uzushio." He continued to sing in a soft tenor voice as he held her and moved them around the room. "I'm forever yours, faithfully." She felt his callused hand caress the edge of her jaw before he dipped in and kissed her deeply.
"Can you sing it again?" Pink dusted his cheeks as he walked over and reset the record. He pulled Kushina back in as he sang the song he had translated and practiced for hours. The music suddenly stopped. The pair of teenagers turned around to find Tsunade smirking behind them.
"Now now, enough of that." The woman gave the couple a predatory grin before pulling out a stack of pamphlets from behind her back. "Now that you're here, Minato-kun, we really should talk. About safe sex and birth control."
"Oh, you know what, Tsunade-san, I just remembered I have to go, uh… sharpen my kunai. Thanks anyway! Later Kushina!"
"Sharpen your kunai? That's the best you came up with?" Dan Kato laughed as the teenager tried to make his escape. Minato's face turned bright red as he fumbled with the doorknob.
"Really, Tsunade?" Kushina huffed before walking off. The older couple laughed hysterically together.
AN: Thank you so much for reading! If you have the time please leave a comment and favorite this fic. The song inspiration for this was 'Faithfully', by Journey. At the chorus where he says "loving a music man isn't all it's supposed to be," change that to "loving a shinobi isn't all it's supposed to be…"
Beta'ed by: The Magnificent Moonlady9! (She's on Ao3 and has a lot of delicious smut!)
Part of The Game of the Gods' Universe. Follow along in "The Game of the Gods'" to see more MinaKushi action. Or read the prequel, "The Stolen Soul".