Plans Part 2
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Minato awoke feeling like an overgrown pillow as Kushina's arms and legs tightened around him and she drooled slightly into her own hair. Obito's surprised yelp followed by something clattering to the ground, Kakashi's annoyed growl and Rin's giggle had Kushina off him in an instant and in the kitchen scolding his team for stealing her underwear. Holding back a laugh, Minato shrugged on his clothes, followed her at a pace much more acceptable for the morning and finished waking his wife with a lightning-charged poke in the side.
"You didn't really steal my underwear did you?" Kushina asked, unembarrassed by the fact she was barely dressed, and sending a pointed glare at Obito. The mortified and frightened team shook their heads quickly. "Good. In that case, I'll get dressed while an adult makes breakfast, not clumsy Genin."
"They're Chuunin, Kushina," Minato reminded her and tripped Obito before he could march forward and earn Kushina's wrath with an inappropriate comment.
"When they start acting more like a Chuunin team, I'll call them Chuunin. Until then, they're Genin."
Minato kicked the elbowed out of Obito before he could respond and no doubt land himself in the hospital.
"Sometimes, I really think you just enjoy beating me up." Obito growled angrily.
"Sometimes, I really do," Minato retorted.
The Uchiha's eyes narrowed.
"But overall, I enjoy having you as a student more than I want to murder you." The Jōnin barely caught Kakashi as he tried to make a break from the room in anger and consequently run flat into Kushina. "You're not going anywhere, Kakashi, until both Rin and I declare you medically fit to be on your own."
Under his mask, Kakashi's jaw flexed angrily. "I'm fine," the boy snapped.
"No, you're not," Minato argued as Kushina took his place making breakfast. "Go sit down."
"Make me!"
In a movement too fast to see, Minato grabbed Kakashi's shoulder and dug his fingers into painful pressure points. "Sit," Minato ordered.
"Or what?" Kakashi grunted back. "You have no authority to detain me here—"
"First, I have legal custody of you as your sensei. Second, I am certified as an inactive medic. Third, I have the ability, even if you don't respect my authority."
"Mr. Perfect is in trouble!" Obito taunted.
Both Minato and a now-fully-dressed Kushina threw a kunai towards him. A soft clang marked the kunai colliding and altering the other's flight just enough to land them in the chair on either side of Obito's neck. Had the trajectory of either kunai been the slightest bit different, both Minato and Kushina's respective kunai would have killed him. As it stood, they effectively silenced the Uchiha. Minato dragged Kakashi back to the table like a reluctant child.
"Minato, are you going to tell them about their new mission now or wait until later?" Kushina asked as she placed breakfast on the table.
"The scroll is in the other room."
"I'll get it," Kushina jumped up and left.
A minute later she returned with the three scrolls Minato brought home the night before. Minato shoved the last of his breakfast into his mouth as she took his plate and replaced it with the scrolls.
"My role in the mission is to get close to the students and teach for two weeks. The day before their official Genin test, your role in the mission will begin. You are to help stage my assassination. Kushina will be leading you in this since she has more experience in attempting my murder than anyone else, foreign shinobi included. Their reactions and their performance on the Genin test the next day will determine whether or not they will graduate and be placed on teams to assist in the war effort. Your second role is to prevent word from spreading beyond the Academy."
"What rank?" Kakashi asked over Obito's indignant shout.
"It's a B-rank. Konoha needs fit Genin who can function on their own to man the supply lines."
"They're just kids, you can't do something like that to them!" Obito's shouts turned into angry words.
"Experiences like theirs will be are normally staged by Jōnin senseis. Jōnin senseis are in short supply and they don't have time to train. We can only accept those who can function in high-stress positions."
"What are you talking about? You never gave us any test like that!" Rin snapped.
"You're right, I didn't because as soon as I got to know you, I realized you would pass the test without a problem so I never gave it to you. The Academy students however, don't get the luxury you did because we are at war right now. The Genin teams will be led by whatever Jōnin are in the village at the time, they will have out-of-village missions where they have no superior officers on the field with them. We can't afford to have those Genin slaughtered by their own mistakes."
"That's cold, Sensei," Obito growled.
"It's cold or dead, Obito," Minato snapped back, patience thin. "Are you going to take this mission, or am I going to have to find a replacement?"
The team nodded. Obito and Rin clenched their teeth in disgust, but they still agreed.