[4]
After everyone came home from school, Minato and Kushina were immediately packing up to leave again.
"Hey uh, we're gonna head out to see how this building is turning out." The blonde man explained.
The slayers nodded to him.
Kushina draped her magenta Edie Shoulder Bag 31 on her shoulder, waiting by the door for him. They slipped out together, hopping in his white truck, and backed out of the driveway taking off down the street.
"Uh," Gajeel reached to the coffee table, "Minato forgot his phone."
"Let me see." Natsu said, reaching for it.
He ran his fingers all over it, "Man, if they got money like this, when do we get ours?" he laughed.
"And get on a family plan?" Sting added, with a slight chuckle.
"With little minutes, them tracking who we talk to." Rogue chuckled.
"I want one!" Wendy said, hopping onto the couch to grab it.
"And, none for you." Gajeel said, snatching the phone back from Natsu.
"Hey!" She whined, making the boys laugh again.
A slight light came through the keyhole on the front door, it didn't catch anyone's attention. The door popped open slightly.
"Aw man!" Minato exclaimed, starting to look around the car.
"What's wrong?" Kushina asked.
"I left my phone back at the house, dammit." Minato said.
"We have time, just turn around and go grab it." She stated.
"Alright." He flipped the car around at the next intersection and made his way back down the street.
The slayers kept talking and talking unbeknownst to a presence standing behind them.
"So hey, what's for dinner?" Sting asked.
They all shrugged.
"Maybe Thai?" said a voice.
They all jumped up completely startled.
Danzo.
"Who are you?" Sting questioned.
Rogue moved Wendy behind him as Danzo closed his fingers together, touching tips.
"So, you all are the famous dragon slayers? Correct?" he asked.
They all remained quiet.
"Hmm, dragons. I always thought they were just so ancient, that any traces of them were long gone." Danzo stated slowly pacing back and forth.
The slayers kept their eyes on him.
"Let alone, any of their magic to actually be real. The power of dragons." He continued.
"What do you want?" Gajeel spoke up.
"I just wanted to...observe." he said.
Natsu glared, "You're Danzo." He said.
They all looked at each other and then him again.
"I am," He looked around. "I don't seem to see Minato anywhere."
Dammit! Now would have been a good time for a cell phone to call someone to help.
"You need to leave." Natsu said.
"I do?" Danzo questioned.
"Yes." Natsu stated firmly.
Danzo turned to Wendy hiding behind Gajeel, "Who is this?"
"Don't you even." Gajeel warned.
Wendy touched Gajeel's arm to try and calm him down.
"What the hell is this?!" Minato barked, suddenly behind Danzo.
He turned around to Minato immediately walking up to him with quick speed. Danzo put his hands up in defense trying to get outta the way of Minato's growing rage.
"What are you doing here?" Minato questioned.
"I wanted to see the new dragon slayers we have in town; I've only heard and gotten information on one. Now there's five more." Danzo explained.
"You are not going to get information on any of them! Get out!" Minato ordered.
"Minato, I know there's bad blood here, but these children, in your care. They have massive power." Danzo stated.
"Exactly, they are children. Teenagers. They don't need you coming in here and trying to use them as experiments." Minato snapped.
The slayers got a bit nervous. Old memories of their torture and pain were coming back into their minds from Mard. When he experimented on their bodies to see how deep the power went. Tested their abilities. Watching them on the field.
Minato turned to the teenagers, noticing how nervous they looked.
"Danzo, you've already costed me my life once. Now my life is being restored, you won't take my kids a second time." He stated.
Natsu raised an eyebrow in shock.
His kids? He considers us his children.
"I'm not trying to do that to you Minato, I'm not. But your sitting on a power source that could benefit so much." Danzo explained.
"Power source?" Kushina barked, "They are children, not just their power. These are our children now and I'm not letting you in my house again."
"NOW GET! OUT!" she barked, for the final time.
Danzo held up his arms, checked out the dragon slayers again, and then kept staring at Natsu. Natsu cocked his head to the side at him. When Danzo was out and closed the door behind him, Wendy ran to Kushina, wrapping her small arms around her waist.
Kushina knelt, "Are you okay? Did he touch you? Hurt you?" she asked, like a concerned mother.
"No, no. He just...frightens me." The little girl replied.
Minato rounded the couch to the boys.
"Did he do anything to any of you?" he questioned, holding Sting and Rogue's shoulders.
Sting and Rogue both gripped Minato's arms.
"No, no. He didn't touch us; he was just creepy." Sting said.
Gajeel whispered to Natsu, "You heard what he said, right?"
Natsu nodded, "Yeah he considers us his kids."
"Should we ask him about his kids?" Gajeel asked.
Natsu licked his lips. The night went on with Minato on the couch after dinner while Wendy and Kushina were cleaning up the kitchen. Sting and Rogue made their way upstairs to shower up.
Natsu and Gajeel handed their plates over to Kushina, as they both made their way to the couch to speak to Minato.
"Hey uh Minato, can we talk to you?" Natsu asked.
"Yeah, sure what's up?" Minato answered.
"Uh, we don't wanna pry, but uh Danzo seems to be a vicious and creepy enemy. What did he do? Is he that dangerous?" Gajeel asked.
Minato licked his lips, and exhaled a deep breath. Kushina looked up from the sink.
"Um, Danzo is an enemy." He started to explain.
Natsu sat down on the coffee table in front of Minato while Gajeel sat on the other side of him.
Minato took a minute, but then started to explain, "When we lived in Konoha, Kushina and I were linked to a certain demon. A tailed fox one."
Natsu looked confused, and then turned to Gajeel.
"A tailed fox demon?" Gajeel asked.
Minato nodded, "Yeah. Pretty historic, like your dragons." He said.
"Mard said something about a fox demon at one point, I never knew what he meant." Natsu butted in.
"He talked about it?" Minato asked him.
"Brought it up, said it was a powerful demon and has extraordinary powers. He said he'd love to get his hands on it." Natsu went on.
Minato shook his head, rather annoyed at Mard. An annoying pest, like Danzo.
"My kids had that power. The power of the nine tailed fox demon. The only one who had the majority of it and the most control was my middle son, Naruto." He explained.
Natsu and Gajeel listened on.
"There were some people who felt that the nine tails should have been destroyed, but my kids had already grown close to him so they didn't wanna kill him. Not like they could anyway, so he was sealed away inside Naruto." Minato sighed, "People came for my kids, Danzo said he'd protect them while Kushina and I tried to find a route to get out. Danzo went back on his word, when we came back there was a huge explosion. They died in it."
Natsu and Gajeel noticed Minato's voice starting to drop cracking a bit. Kushina wiped her eyes, Wendy cupped her hand.
Minato closed his eyes and cupped his face with one hand. Natsu scooted a bit closer, trying to give some comfort. Gajeel patted Minato's back a bit.
However, something about the story didn't sit right.
"Minato, your back." Kushina said.
Minato then pulled his shirt over his head, which made Natsu and Gajeel look up in confusion. On Minato's chest, where tattoos were displayed. They were the Japanese spellings of; Naruto, Karin, Menma, Yahiko, and Nagato.
"Those are your kids." Natsu said.
Minato nodded, before putting his shirt back on.
This definitely hit close and deep.
Sting and Rogue had just gotten out of the shower when Natsu and Gajeel were seated on Rogue's bed with Wendy on Sting's.
"So, that's the mysterious way their kids died?" Sting questioned.
"Yep." Natsu answered.
"That's fishy," Sting said pulling on his shorts over his boxers, "The main one, Naruto, has some extraordinary powers of a demon. But they get taken out by...an explosion?"
"If they are so powerful, why would Minato and Kushina just accept that?" Rogue asked.
"Probably from the shock of hearing their kids are dead." Sting said.
"But still?" Wendy asked.
"I think it's Danzo. Now seeing who he is, maybe he made it seem like they died just so he could keep them alive and hidden somewhere." Natsu said.
"Sound familiar?" Gajeel added, hinting at Mard.
Minato laid in his bed, reading his book. He pushed his hand through his hair as Kushina came back into the room in a red, silk floor length robe. He looked up at her and smiled evilly.
"Mm, that's a nice color on you." He said.
"Mm, I wore it for a special occasion." She said.
She casually undid the robe showing a small slip of the same color underneath.
"Oh, now I'm intrigued." He said.
Kushina grinned evilly, and crawled on top of him, straddling him. Minato chuckled, leaning back for a moment.
"You and I have been stressed for while now," she said while pulling on the strings of his sweatpants, "Now we have time to unwind and indulge in some other "areas" per say."
"Ohh, well then maybe we should help in those areas." He said.
"Mmm." Kushina moaned a bit, readjusting herself on his lap.
She pulled the elastic out and wrapped it around his neck.
"oh." He grunted.
"So, satisfy me." She ordered.
"Yes ma'am." He said flipping them over so he was on top.
Kushina giggled pulling her husband to her lips.
The boys stayed in the living room for a minute, until they heard some sounds coming from upstairs.
"What's that?" Natsu questioned.
It sounded like a moaning sound.
"Is that-?" Sting started to question.
They all looked at each other, and then slowly crept up the stairs quietly. The boys kept Wendy behind them as the moaning sound got louder as they got closer to Minato and Kushina's front door. Natsu placed his hand on the door, looked back at his brothers, and slowly pushed the door open a bit.
"Oh my god." Natsu said quickly as he straightened up while Sting, Rogue, and Gajeel either quietly laughed, or covered their mouths.
All they saw was Minato on top of his wife thrusting his hips back and forth in her lap.
"I think I might literally vomit." Gajeel said making a gagging sound.
"What is it?" Wendy questioned, trying to see.
"No no no no." Sting said moving her away.
Kushina then slapped the bed, and rolled on top of Minato.
"Gimme some of that." She growled.
"Mm!" Minato grunted.
"And on that note." Natsu pulled the door shut, without either one of them catching him.
"I'm scarred, I'm literally scarred for life." Gajeel said.
Rogue kept laughing and then so did Natsu. Sting lead Wendy back to her bedroom.
The next morning, Wendy hurried down the stairs in her little pink Rabbit Print Ruffle Hem Night Dress. She ran to the fridge, and threw it open to grab for the milk.
"Mmm, last night was amazing." Kushina said lying on Minato in her white Vintage Princess Nightgown Pyjamas Women's Lace Ruffles Sleepwear; Lady Royal Long Nightdress Lolita Pyjamas Loungewear Nightwear.
"We haven't been that intimate for a while. What brought that on?" Minato asked, kissing her forehead.
"Mm, I don't know. I guess... because for a while now I felt comfortable. Like we're safe." She said.
"With our dragon slayers down the hall?" he questioned, rubbing her arm.
"Yes. I feel like they are getting comfortable, like the slow feeling of being of a family again." She said.
He smiled brightly, agreeing with her with a single nod.
Wendy drunk the milk from the carton while her brothers were still sleeping upstairs. She moved the carton away from her lips looking towards the front door. There by the door's window, was a nightmare returning to her eyes... Mard Geer.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Wendy screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Wendy?" Kushina questioned from the bedroom.
Minato jumped up from the bed in his boxers and ran for the door. The other boys woke up in shock from Wendy's screaming. He hurried down the stairs with Kushina right behind him. Wendy was sitting down on the ground in front of the refridgator with her knees pulled to her chest.
"Wendy? Wendy hey hey." Minato hurried over to her, "What is it? What's wrong?"
Wendy shook as she just buried herself in Minato's arms. He wrapped his arms around her little body as she shook rapidly in his arms.
"Wendy honey." Kushina said.
The slayers came running down the stairs, one behind the other.
"Ma...Mar...Mard was in the door." Wendy shook pointing to the door.
Minato looked up and saw the faint shadow of someone outside.
"Kushina, stay with her." He said making his way to the door.
"Minato! Minato!" she shouted as she cradled Wendy who held onto her.
The slayers followed Minato to the door, who threw it open and saw Mard Geer directly outside of his house.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Minato barked at the man.
Mard ignored Minato to the slayer boys coming up behind him.
"I believe you stole something that belongs to me." Mard said.
"And what would that be?" Minato barked back, stepping up to Mard.
"Them." Mard said pointing to the slayers.
The slayers grew nervous, but Minato blocked their view from Mard.
"I didn't steal them from you, I gave you money for them because you weren't there doing god knows what." Minato barked.
"Well that doesn't matter." Mard said pulling legal papers from his back, "I rather sue you."
The slayer boys gasped.
Minato took the stack of papers and dropped it next to him on the floor. Mard turned to the slayers.
"Make sure you have some DNA ready for me. We will be continuing." Mard snapped, making the slayers grow nervous.
Minato got in front of Mard, "You won't be taking them anywhere. Over my dead body for that matter, we can settle this later. Until then, get the hell off my property!" he barked.
Mard backed up, took a last look, and started walking off.
"Nice place." He called back.
Natsu grabbed Minato by the arm, "You said you'd protect us! You have to! We can't go back with him!" he begged.
"You won't be," Minato ran his hand through Natsu's pink hair, "Besides I know exactly how to shut him down with these legal documents. He won't be getting anything."
And that's a promise.