"One minute! One minute."
Everyone in the helicopter nodded while Marcus got a final update from TOC. He quickly pulled out a white board and began drawing a quick sketch of their entry point.
"The teacher and the girls are at the door with Nasry. We got no visual on Rip, we assault through the bay doors. This is a hostage rescue so watch your shots. Watch your shots! Thirty seconds!"
The helicopters flew closer to the target and the SEALs could now see movement on the ground.
"RPG!"
A rocket came flying at them and they all held on as all three helicopters split off from their formation and avoided the missile. Before another one could be fired the copters gunner unloaded his machine gun and took out the man with the RPG, allowing the bird to land.
"Move! Move!"
The team quickly got off the helicopter and laid down in the grass behind it using it for cover.
"Break right! Break right!"
The helicopter began taking back off and Marcus gave the next order.
"Move! Move!"
Delta team quickly surged forward to new cover while Naruto and Fish held their position giving the rest of the team cover with smoke cannisters and cover fire from the SAW.
"Echo touching down on the building."
"This is Bravo Team, approaching southside of the compound. Bravo one, prepping to breach at primary entry."
"Buddha smoke."
Buddha nodded and threw a smoke cannister and Marcus turned to Naruto and Fish.
"Move! Move!."
The two took off and Naruto could feel the bullets whipping past him as he ran to take cover with the rest of his team. One of the SEAL's behind him wasn't so lucky and he took a round to the knee.
"Man down!"
The downed SEAL gritted his teeth as he began dragging himself across the dirt to cover but luckily Fish was able to make it back to him and drag him next to them. Naruto looked down his scope and saw a man on a balcony and pulled the trigger on the SAW, hitting the man a few times before his body fell to the ground. The blonde SEAL quickly took cover as more bullets rained down on them.
"Fox Two Two this is Bravo one, fouled breach. Moving to secondary entry."
"All stations, Echo has two wounded and is holding position up top."
Marcus heard that and grit his teeth.
"Break right! Break right! Move! Move!"
Marcus, Buddha, Fish and Caulder rushed forward while Naruto continued to provide cover fire. The team took position behind a corner and Caulder wasted no time throwing a frag that took out multiple hostiles. He then followed it up with some smoke that allowed Naruto to join the team as they prepared to make entry into the factory.
"Delta making entry."
The team entered the building and quickly began clearing the front room, finding nothing but a handful of bodies. They continued clearing the building where they discovered the body of who they assumed to be the groups boss. They continued in silence until they heard a gunshot from deeper in the factory. More shots were heard as the team continued forward onto a walkway where they saw Rip being dragged away by a few men, clearly wounded, and a girl on the ground curled in a ball shaking with fear. The men started shooting at the SEALs and the girl let out a terrified scream as she was now caught in the middle of the fire fight.
"I'm moving in."
"Uzumaki no!"
Marcus's words fell on deaf ears as the blonde moved forward with the SAW trained on the men, using it to provide cover fire and allowing him to surge forward. When he got to the girl he picked her up and began running back to his team but he felt a sharp pain in his back that made him stagger forward but before they could advance on him Marcus and Buddha were at his side raining down bullets on the remaining hostiles.
"Uzumaki you good?"
The blonde nodded at his team leader through gritted teeth.
"Yeah, plate took it, I'm good."
"Good cause when this is over I'm going to make you wish you actually got shot. Next time I tell you to stay put, you stay put. Copy."
"Yes sir."
"Good now stand up, one got away with Rip."
"I see. Rip."
"Then go! Me and Uzumaki will stay with the girls."
Caulder nodded and led the rest of the team after Rip while Naruto and Marcus walked over to the girls with Naruto carrying the one he saved. The girl held onto him tightly and let out all her tears as the other girls surrounded them.
"It's ok, your alright. Your alright."
Marcus couldn't help but smile as he watched Naruto stroke the girls hair. His mind flashed back to a few nights ago when he was trying to sleep and his wife kept blabbing his ear off. One of the things she asked him was if he thought Naruto was going to be a good father. Hus response was he didn't know, but now, watching the new SEAL run out into the line of fire to save that girl, he knew.
"You'll do fine kid."
Marcus was broken out of his musings by a call over the radio.
"All station, we have Taggart. I say again, we have Taggart."
Marcus gave a sigh of relief. "Delta one copies. That's our cue. I'll take the front, Uzumaki you bring up the rear. Let's get these girls out of here."
The blonde nodded and followed his team leader out of the factory.
Two Days Later
As soon as the jet landed back in Virginia Naruto jumped off it as fast as he could. He nearly knocked Jones to the ground when he burst through the door to the cages.
"Jones? What are you doing in here?"
The young woman smiled sheepishly. "The Senior Chief's wife dropped this off for you. Told me to tell you better not be late or she would kill you, after your girlfriend killed you."
Jones held up a garment bag which Naruto knew contained the suit that Hinata had picked out for his dinner with Hinata's parents, which was in two hours. The blonde quickly grabbed the bag and ran to the showers and before long he was zipping through the streets on his motorcycle Hell bent on not missing dinner. By the time he arrived everyone was already seated.
"Naruto so glad you could finally join us."
The blonde smiled Hinata's sister Hanabi, she had long dark hair that went down to her back and pale eyes just like her sister.
The blonde turned to Hinata's mother and father.
"It's a pleasure to see you both again."
Hinata's father, Hiashi, gave the blond a nod while her mother, Hitomi, gave him a polite smile. Once everyone was seated Naruto gave everyone a polite smile.
"I really, again, am sorry for being late."
Hinata took his hand and gave it a gentle squeeze.
"Coming from overseas and only seven minutes late, your good."
Hiashi raised an eyebrow. "Where overseas?"
"I'm not really allowed to talk about it."
"Well, wherever it was, it looks like they had you playing in the dirt."
Hanabi chuckled at Hitomi's words while Naruto moved his hands under the table once he realized he still had a little bit of dirt under his nails.
"Mom."
Hinata gave her mother a small glare and the older woman simply shrugged.
"Uh, yeah, they did, in a sense. Wine anyone?"
Everyone but Hinata nodded, and the sole blonde waved down a waiter. Everyone but his girlfriend was quickly shocked when the SEAL ordered a bottle of wine in French.
"You speak French, Naruto?"
Hinata smiled at her boyfriend. "Naruto speaks four languages."
"Yeah, I learned Spanish in high school. I took French in college while my dad taught me Arabic and my mother taught me Japanese. My father actually speaks seven different languages."
"So how does it work between you two now, with the amount of time Naruto is gone, fighting?"
"Do you have any control with your schedule?"
Naruto rubbed the back of his head. "Um, no not at all. My team and I are called and we go."
Hiashi scoffed. "You just go. Follow the order."
"It is the military, sir."
"Doesn't sound like that would make for a very stable home life. Seems unfair to ask that of a woman. All that worrying, fear of losing you while you're out following orders in the field, doing whatever craven politicians tell him to do."
"Okay, Dad, I thought I told you not to-"
"Hinata it's ok. Your right I do follow orders just like my father did, and like his father and my god father before me. And it's true, as I'm sure you know, there are some terrible people in our government. But I do this so the people I love, like your daughter, never have to see the things that I've seen, that my father has seen, that my godfather has, seen, here on American soil. I don't plan on doing this until I'm dead. I want to have a stable future with your daughter…I want to have kids."
He turned to Hinata and the two smiled at each other.
"I want to try and maybe even run for office one day. You know, see if I can try and unseat one of those bad eggs you're talking about and maybe make this country a little bit better."
Hiashi leaned back in his seat and Naruto continued.
"Y'all can see me as just a pawn. That's fine, but I'm still gonna love Hinata, and that's never gonna change."
Hiashi took a sip of his water and shrugged his shoulders.
"All well and good Naruto, until you come home in a box. What about Hinata then?"
The SEAL was at a lost for words but Hinata gave his hand a gentle squeeze.
"Your right, when Naruto is gone, I do worry. But. Thanks to the help of Kushina and the other spouses I don't let that worry consume my life. And I won't let it consume our child either."
He placed her hand on her stomach and her mother's eyes began to water.
"Is this true?"
Hiashi looked at Naruto and the blonde nodded.
"Yes sir, we are pregnant. You're going to be grand parents."
One Week Later
"When you proposed to Christina how did you know you were ready?"
Marcus shrugged and Buddha laughed. "You can't ask him because he's one of those knuckleheads who marries their high school sweetheart straight out boot camp."
"Hey there's nothing wrong with knowing what you want."
Everyone laughed and Fishbait watched as the door opened.
"ROOM ATTENTION."
All laughter stopped and everyone was quickly outside of their cages at the position of attention.
"At ease gentleman this is a social visit."
Minato walked into the room carrying a box.
"As you all know, the Taggart rescue was my last mission. Next week I will be named Rear Admiral and will more than likely be given command of a ship while the current DEVGRU Commander finishes his term."
Minato set the box down and pulled out a metal sign that was shaped into a large Special Warfare pin. It was already littered with signatures.
"I asked everyone in DEVGRU who played a part in the mission to sign it. You guys may not be DEVGRU but you are all fine SEAL's and it was a pleasure for my last mission to be with you all of you, especially you son. I know under the leadership of Senior Chief McCall and this squad you'll go far."
Everyone began signing Minato's going away gift and the blonde SEAL turned to Marcus.
"I wanted to thank you personally Senior Chief. For keeping my son safe and giving him the tools he need's to succeed."
Marcus smirked. "Your thanking me? Thanks to you the kid is the most well prepared rookie I've ever seen. The whole squad knows he's gonna make it to DEVGRU one day and we've all agreed to do everything we can to set him up for it."
The two experienced men gave each other warm smiles before Marcus grabbed a marker and signed the gift.
And Done!
Long time no see, hope you guys enjoyed the new chapter. Currently working on a new chapter for my Chicago PD story as well as my NBA story. Hope to have both up by the end of the week.
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