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Chapter 2: A Cry for Father
Once Team Kakashi was seated in the ramen stand, Naruto and Mina were the first ones to ask for some miso soup. Mina observed his papa as Naruto conversed with Sakura, mostly bragging, but Mina didn't mind. After all, his papa was the strongest person in the world along with mama, Mina was so excited. He really wanted to see his papa seriously fight because he only played around with him and his siblings.
Mina's eye's widened as he remembered what happened to his elder siblings when they tried to protect him, Mina started to shake from sadness and guilt.
" Hey kid, are you okay?"
Mina woke from his thoughts as his father questioned him, Mina held in his tears and answered his father.
" Im fine! When is the ramen ready, Papa?"
" Hey kid, Im not your dad so stop calling me that dattebayo!"
" NO! Your Papa! Papa's Papa!"
Naruto and Mina stared each other down, and for the first time in his life Naruto lost in stubbornness.
" Here you go boys, enjoy"
The ramen was placed in front of them, Mina slurrped his noodle's up with satisfaction filling his face and sadness squeezing his heart. Mina remembered his life and how his papa had always eaten with the family even when he was busy with meetings and paperwork. Mina stared at Naruto in the corner of his eye, watching his father was something Mina was born doing. After all he wanted to be just like him because even if he wasn't the youngest of his siblings, he was the weakest.
" So Mina-chan, what would you like to do after this?"
Mina raised his head toward his aunt, she was probably one of the most prettiest aunties he had.
" Hm, I want to see you guys fight! Fight! Fight! Please!"
The ninja were surprised and were about to refuse until Mina used his ultimate move, Puppy dog eyes, and Sakura couldn't help but to give in.
" OK cutie! But I just had my nails done after our recent mission so we're going to go find a fighting partner for Naruto. Kakashi-sensei you don't have to co-"
Sakura did not have to finish her sentence in order for Kakashi to leave the ramen stand. Naruto and Sakura sweat-dropped in Kakashi's disinterest in tagging along with them. Mina smiled at his uncle's actions, for all his four years of life, Mina knew the man to be exactly like a lazy pervert. At least that's what his mother kept telling him. So Naruto, Sakura and Mina left the ramen stand in order to look for some training partners, Sakura led the way as she had an inkling in where some of her fellow ninja's were.
" Hey Sakura-chan where are we going anyway?"
" We're going to training ground 9, Im sure someone is training there and handing with our friends is a bonus."
They walked for 8 minutes until they reached there destination and Sakura was not surprised that they found their friends training there.
" Hey guys! I'm glad we were able to find you!"
Team 9 and Team 10 were surprised by Sakura's announcement as they had not been expecting team 7 to visit them.
" Oh Hey Naruto, Sakura!"
" Oh my beautiful angel!"
" It's nice to see you again after the last mission we had together"
Mina was happy at seeing so many of his uncles and aunts together but he couldn't recognize one of the guys. He looked like aunt Hinata so that means he had to have known him before but Mina still couldn't figure it out.
" Yea I know right! Oh I forgot, Look who is our mission right now"
Sakura grabbed Mina's hand gently and showed him to them.
" Oh My god! He's so adorable! What's his name?"
Ino started to pinch his cheeks which caused Mina to pout and run towards Naruto.
" My name is Mina U-U..."
Mina wasn't sure if he could say his last name, after all his name was the most known in the region.
" You don't have a last name?"
" Hm, It's..it's..it's chi, My name is Mina chi! And Im four years old! Nice to meet you!"
" Nice to meet you too cutie! My name is Ino Yamanaka and Im currently 16 years old. Shikamaru! Introduce yourself too!"
" Geez woman I was already going to do it anyway. Shikamaru Nara, 16 years old. Troublesome"
" (crunch) My name is Choji Akimichi (crunch) and Im 16 years old too! (crunch) Nice to meet you!"
" Oh how the flames burn brightly! My name is Rock lee! And currently 17 years old!"
" Sorry for my teammate, he can be a bit eccentric. My name is Tenten and I'm currently 17 years old."
Now it was finally for the last person to introduce himself, Mina waited for him to answer.
" I'm Neji Hyuga and currently 17 years of age. It's nice to Meet you Chi-san"
Mina's brows furrowed until a memory flashed in his mind.
" Mama why is aunty so sad today? Where are we going?"
The mother answered in a quiet and monotone voice.
" Today is the anniversary of the death of you're aunt's cousin, we are going to his grave to pray and wish him happiness in death."
" Mama... What's death?"
" Death is when a person is no longer able to speak and play like us, their souls go up into the sky to watch over us."
" Mama, please don't cry. Mama.."
The memory faded from Mina's mind but the feeling's stayed within his heart.
" Mina-chan! What's wrong!? Are you in pain!?"
" Huh"
Mina felt the warm tears flow down his cheeks and drop onto the dry green grass. Mina shook his head and rubbed the tears away from his eye's, feeling embarrassed for crying in front of them.
" Im sorry date- Im mean I just remembered something, sorry"
" Oh it's ok Mina-chan, everyone has to have good cry ever now and then. Right everybody?"
" Yea don't worry about cutie!"
" Troublesome"
Ino smacked Shikamaru.
" Yea (crunch) nothing to worry about"
Everyone nodded at Mina and Mina felt a bit more happy but his father hadn't said anything yet. Mina tugged at Naruto's pant hoping to get a reaction from the boy. Naruto turned his around and bent his legs in order to look eye to eye with mina.
" Yeah kid! Its ok to cry right now and then when you're bigger and stronger you can protect your precious things that make you cry right now."
Then Naruto rubbed Mina's head and gave him a big smile, Mina knew that the boy in front of him was not his father yet, but he would grow into the man he knew his father to be. Mina hugged his father with all his strength, hiding his tears in his fathers jacket.
" Hm Naruto I didn't peg you as a fatherly guy but then again you are good with kids."
" Yea Naruto, you're pretty good aren't you"
" Hey you know Mina-chan calls Naruto papa! It's so cute"
" Why does he though?"
" Apparently Naruto look's similar to Mina-chan's real father"
" Oh! That's really cute but where are his parent's?"
" Uh, I don't actually know, Tsunade didn't really tell us a lot of information. But, he is important enough that Tsunade made it a B-rank mission to take care of him"
" Ok, Than why don't we just ask him then, Im sure he won't mind"
Sakura thought about it then nodded. Mina released himself from his father and watched his aunties smile at him but in way that sent chills down his spine.
" Hey Mina-chan, can you tell us who your parent's are? And why we are currently taking care of you?"
Mina could not say who his parents are first, they would not believe him and second, he really needed to keep it a secret even though he did call Naruto his father. After all, he was born saying the words 'papa' and he would keep saying it.
" Um,... Papa is... Papa is Papa! Papa! And Mama is Mama! And I was in a hole that made a loud noise but I don't know why."
" Uh, ok wait, a loud noise? Oh where you the one who made that! I had barely gotten out of the shower when that explosion was heard! It freaked me out!"
" Yea I was polishing my weapons when that happened! I almost cut myself!"
" I was eating (crunch) breakfast at that time (crunch), really scared me"
" Hm, Do you know remember anything before you were found in the hole?"
Mina didn't really know what to say, he didn't want to remember but the burden was already placed.
" I-I..I don't know, Im sorry so can I see papa fight with one of you? Please?"
" Oh Im sorry Mina-chan! I totally forgot, we actually came here because Mina-chan wanted to see Naruto fight with someone. So does anybody want to?"
Team 9 and 10 looked at each other and smiled.
" Why don't Naruto and I have a rematch from the chunnin exams"
" Hehe Neji, I'll totally beat you like I did three years ago dattebayo!"
" Let's find out"
" Mina-chan are you ok with that?"
Mina stared at Neji, knowing one's future and the pain it brought made Mina uneasy. He simply nodded, not knowing what to say without sounding sad.
" Ok, everyone out of the way except for Naruto and Neji!"
Other than those two everybody moved closer to the trees and sat on the grass. Mina's nerved went everywhere, his excitement heightened, he was going to be the first one out of all his siblings to see his father fight seriously. Mina watched as his father and Neji shake hands, then for a few seconds they stood there observing each other. Then the next second they disappeared, and reappeared face to face, kunia to kunia. The battle started so fast, Mina could not get his eye's to follow their movements.
Mina was so amazed by his father's fighting, Naruto had even used Kage bunshin justu and managed to kick Neji. His father was so strong and fast, he was the coolest ninja, oh how he wished Mama could see Papa right now. Mina then remembered, where his was Mama at? Why wasn't Mama here? But he couldn't ask Papa or his aunty, after all that would be weird and suspicious.
Mina was brought out of his thoughts as Sakura called it a draw since Naruto could probably keep going on day and Sakura did not want to waste her day like that.
" You seen that kid! Im pretty awesome aren't I!"
" Naruto don't get a big head you idiot!"
" It's ok! Because Papa is awesome! Papa is the best Ninja in the world!"
" You really admire your father a lot don't you Mina-chan, but Naruto isn't your father so you should call him Naruto-nicchan or something like that."
" Troublesome, But Ino's right, Im sure you understand that Naruto isn't your father so you shouldn't call him that. But whatever's"
Mina shook with sadness and rage, a memory flashed but Mina refused to remember it.
" P-Papa is..Papa is the strongest and coolest and w-why can't I call Papa 'Papa'"
Tears ran down Mina's cheeks as his eye's tinged with redness and his heart cried out in pain.
