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Chapter 3: Spilling the Beans

5 months before infection, Tokonosu city, 9:45pm.

"Okay, so, Naruto, Yuuki. What's all this about, is something wrong?" Yuuki's mom asked as she sat on the huge couch with Naruto's guardians, across from the two teens.

Her name was Miku Makoto, born from a Japanese father and an American mother, she used to live overseas in the states until the accident that killed her boyfriend and unborn child, then learning that she couldn't try to have any other children because of the damage that had been done to her internal organs.

She was around the same height as her adopted daughter, with brownish black hair and green eyes, she worked as a nurse at a small clinic for children in the downtown Tokonosu area. She loved kids, so it was exactly the job she was looking for; when she had gotten home earlier that night she didn't find the time to change clothes so she still had on her uniform. A black dress skirt that went down to just above her knees and a white blouse with her name tag attached.

Crossing her legs, Tsunade continued to stare at the two teens as well. "Well, we're waiting, Naruto."

Naruto sighed, he felt confident before, but now that he was actually sitting across from them it all seemed a lot harder. Honestly, what was he suppose to say; 'Oh, it's nothing really, I just knocked up Yuuki, is all' ...nope, it wasn't going to be that easy. He took a moment to try and find the right words, then he spoke in a very calm voice, though it was easy to hear the nervousness if you listened well enough.

"Uh ...you see, Obaa-san, Jiraiya, it's like this, I sorta told you to come here because I wanted to tell you something. You're my family after all, and Miku-san is Yuuki-chan's mom so it involves her too." Naruto paused, thinking of his next words. "...The other reason is because we need your advice; and I thought that we could come to you guys for support. But, the thing is, Yuuki ...she's, um, she's-."

"I'm pregnant." Yuuki muttered out with a frustrated sigh.

Naruto starred over at her with wide eyes, he wasn't expecting her to just come out and say it. "Yuuki! I had it, what the hell?"

"What, all you were going to do was stutter for five minutes. It better to get it out now, remember."

"But ...did you have to be so blunt about it?"

Yuuki raised an eyebrow. "Was there really any other way to say it."

The blonde was about to retort, that was until he heard Yuuki's mom talk. "Wait a minute! Be quiet, the both of you!" Makoto shouted, she did know what she was more of; pissed or shocked, sure, she knew Yuuki was having sex. She'd be a fool to think that she wasn't, but her daughter had always been protected, hell she had birth control pills, so to hear something like this from her. "Yuuki ...is that true? Are you-?"

"Yes, mom," Yuuki answered, frowning. "I'm pregnant."

"Oh god," Makoto groaned, putting her face in her hands.

Jiraiya let out a sigh, this was not what he was expecting to hear. "When did this happen, how long?"

"About a month or so, Yuuki told me the day after she found out herself." Naruto said, "we ...we didn't mean for this to happen; it was an accident. We were stupid, no, I was stupid."

"And, have you decided on what you were going to do, yet?"

"Yeah, we both talked it over a while ago," the blonde answered, glancing over at Yuuki, taking her hand. "We're keeping it."

"Are you sure that's what you want to do, raising a child isn't easy, Naruto," Jiraiya said, leaning up from his spot on the couch. "It's hard work, ya know. You'll have to make lots of sacrifices, both of you will."

"We know that, Jiraiya-san, but I didn't want to abort it or anything," Yuuki said. "And I didn't want to put it up for adoption, either. So that only left one option, we decided to keep it and raise it on our own."

"You know how hard that is, don't you," Tsunade said, suddenly. To Naruto, she didn't sound as angry as he thought she would be, the blonde woman was oddly calm about this. "Raising a child is difficult even under normal circumstances, not only that, but you're both are still in school, you don't have a job, no money, nothing. So how are you going to raise a child and still go to school and get a job, school lasts all morning and half the afternoon, the best you'll be able to get is a part-time job until to graduate." She stopped to let what she said sank in. "So how are you planning to raise a child, Naruto?"

Naruto sat there in thought, he knew she was right, raising a baby would be difficult considering that they weren't even out of school. But, just because something was hard didn't mean it would stop him from doing what he had to do.

"I know what you trying to say, Obaa-san. I get it, but I'm still gonna at least try," the blonde said with determination. "Regardless of rather were in school or not, even if I have to get five jobs; I'll still help Yuuki out, no matter what!"

Tsunade let out a heavy sigh. "I should have known you'd say something like that, you're just like your mother," she muttered, somewhat annoyed. "Fine, if your both so dead set on raising the brat; I won't stop you. Just know that the road your going down won't be easy."

Makoto glanced over at Tsunade, then back at the two teenagers. "I still can't believe this ...my baby's having a baby, and your both so young."

"Miku-san, this is my fault," Naruto said, giving her a small smile. "I'll take full responsibility for this, I won't leave Yuuki or anything, if that's what you're thinking."

Makoto gave a small nod. "I never said you would, Naruto, you've always been good to my daughter. more so then most boys I've seen here with." She said, running her hand through her hair. "I still can't believe this though."

Tsunade stood up from her seat and walked over towards her spiky haired godson. "Well, now that we've got that settled, there's just one more thing to do." She said, cracking her knuckles. Naruto blinked up at her, looking nervous.

"W-what are you talking about, Obaa-san?"

"I mean this you idiot!" Naruto was caught off guard, letting out a loud yelp in pain as Tsunade's fist came crashing down on his head. Everyone else who were there winced, especially Jiraiya, feeling lucky that it wasn't him this time. "What! Did you think you could knock up a girl, say you'd take responsibility and still not suffer the consequences, Naruto?"

"Y-yeah ...I sorta did, Obaa-san," Naruto admitted. He winced slightly when he touched his sore head, feeling a bump starting to form. He didn't notice it, but Tsunade actually held back some of the force when she hit him, though not by much; it still hurt like hell.

"Well, you thought wrong, brat. Now, both of you run upstairs, the adults need to talk."

"Hey, we're close to adults too, Tsunade-san," Yuuki said, frowning. "We're not little kids, if it involves us we should at least be here to talk about it too."

Tsunade sighed, her eye twitching as she turned to the orange haired teenager. "Look, as much as you want to, we; as in me, Jiraiya and your mother need to talk about a few things. And not all of them have to do with you and Naruto, because rather you like it or not, you two are going to need our help at sometime when the child is born." She said, before pointing a finger at her, "and don't think that just because your mother's here I won't knock you over the head too, your just as much at fault here as the idiot next to you! Now go upstairs!"

"Hmph~, fine, let's go, Naruto." Yuuki pouted, grabbing Naruto's hand and dragging him up the steps, his other hand still on his head.

As they walked into Yuuki's bedroom, Makoto called up the stairs. "And please, don't do anything shameful with Naruto, Yuuki!"

"I know, mom, jeez!" Yuuki yelled back, before muttering to herself. "I wouldn't do that while you were here anyway." She closed the door and walked over to the mini-frig in her room, taking out an ice pack and placing on his sore skull as he sat on the bed. Things would get better, at least that's what they hoped.

Naruto hissed slightly as Yuuki placed an ice pack on the blonde's head, as painful as it was; he knew it could have been a lot worse considering who it was that hit him. For once he felt lucky to have such a hard head. They both sat up in Yuuki's room on the bed, while his girlfriend's mom and his guardians talked about the current situation.

"So, how's your head?"

"It's fine ...just a bit sore, that's all," Naruto answered, holding the icepack on his bump. "I all truth, though; I was sort of expecting that to happen."

Yuuki raised an eyebrow at the blonde. "You were expecting to get hit over the head? A normal person would've been knocked out you know," She stated.

Naruto sighed ...that was sorta true, he witnessed it countless times. "Well, I guess I'm lucky I have such a hard head, huh."

"That depends, what head are you talking about, exactly?" The orange haired girl said jokingly with a smirk. Naruto got the joke right away and chuckled, she sure did have a way of trying to lighten the mood.

"Hehe~ okay, I'll admit, you got me with that one," Naruto said. "...I wonder what they're talking about down stairs, I mean did Baa-chan really have to send us up here like that." He stopped for a moment, then continued, frowning. "You don't think they'll make us get married or something, do you?"

"What? No! No ...my mom wouldn't do that; at least I don't think she would. What about Jiraiya and Tsunade? Would they do that?"

"I have no idea, I don't think the perv would, but Baa-Chan's a different story. Though, I don't think she'd go that far ...then again, who knows, she is hard to read sometimes."

"Though, honestly ...I'll admit I'm not really marriage material."

Naruto nodded. "Well, that makes two of us."

They both sighed, as they sat on the queen sized bed. Naruto couldn't help but think back to when they actually told them the news; it went a lot calmer then he thought, though it might have been just because Yuuki's mom and Jiraiya was there.

~ ~(Elsewhere/Shanghai, China)~ ~

"Are you sure this is the right place?"

"Yeah, just have a little patience, would ya."

"Fine, I just hope your right this time, we've been chasing this guy all over Shanghai."

"Trust me, Minato, I'm just as annoyed with this as you are, besides I see him on the security cam; you should be able to get him through the window."

"Good. keep me informed if anything changes," and with that the young blonde closed his cellphone, pulling out his sniper rifle from the weapons-case next to him.

Namikaze Minato was a man of many talents, he was good with most weapons from firearms to blunts. He was calm, collected and hardly ever let his emotions control his actions. He had spiky blonde hair with two bangs framing both sides of his face, and his deep blue eyes were focused through the scoop of his rifle as he aimed at his target in the building across from him. Like most of his missions, he was picked to do a hit, the man he had to kill was about to go on the list of others who had suffered the same fate.

The man was named Yao Ling, a leader of the local triad group who smuggled drugs in and out of the country. His employer was one who believed in justice, that the evil had to pay, one way or another, the blonde was part of a larger group; those who sought to change the world, to cleanse it of the scum who were making it rot.

The dawn of a new age was almost in reach, in just a few months, maybe more, the world would be cleansed of the evil it held. Even if a few sacrifices were necessary to get the job done.

No time to worry about that now, though. Minato thought, glaring through the scoop. I've got a job to finish up ...then, I can get outta here.

He had to have been waiting for a good hour or so in the rain, onto of a fairly tall building waiting for the triad leader to come into view. He was posted right across from where it looked to be the targets bedroom, it was easy to tell through the scoop since it was the only room that looked expensive enough.

Lucky for him, it only took a good ten minutes for his target to walk onto the room next to the window, with a girl clinging to his arm no less. He waited for the girl to walk away from him before aiming at the triad leader's skull, he was obviously high on something from the way he stumbled around. Minato breathed through his nose, then out his mouth slowly; before pulling the trigger. The man's head exploded in a mist of crimson before he fell to the ground motionless, Minato's gun was silenced so there was close to no sound when he made the shoot.

He heard the screams of the woman, and some of Yao's men came flooding into his bedroom. not that it would do them any good now, it was already too late.

With the hit done and over, Minato stood up from his crouch and walked away from the ledge, so as not to be seen; and pulled out his cellphone. The job was done, now all he had to do was call it in to his employer and collect the cash.

Well, that's it for this chapter, the next one will be out soon, also remember to review and leave suggestions, they really help.

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