Chapter 6 - Mr. and Mrs. Uzumaki

Seeing the black Mercedes in their driveway, Minato parked to the side, giving the vehicle plenty of space to back up when Neji wanted to leave. He and his wife, Kushina, grabbed the grocery's they had left to get and entered the house. As expected from game-weekend, they weren't greeted by their cheerful son, and they didn't see the faces of any of his friends, all of whom were undoubtedly there.

The sound of gunshots reached their ears, and they smiled to each other, but sighed quickly after. They were happy that their son had friends, but they were incredibly loud...They had agreed though that if Naruto had to be addicted to something, it was better that it was some video game instead of drugs.

"Should we bring down the chips Naruto wanted?" She asked offhandedly as she began putting away the food.

"Let him come get it. It might be our only chance to see him in the next twenty-four hours."

"True. Him and those stupid games..." She rolled her eyes, reaching on her tiptoes to put the newly acquired bag of flour on the top shelf of the pantry. Minato stepped behind her, took the flour, and put it on the shelf for her, kissing her hair to hide his smirk. As independant as she was, it was nice to know that he was needed some of the time. Even if all he was needed for was putting things in high places.

"I like those stupid games." He muttered, mock offended.

"You're as bad as the children." She said, not unkindly, and turned to kiss him on the lips.

"Ew..." They parted as their son expressed his aversion to their 'public' kissing. Anywhere where people could see them was considered public to Naruto, even when there was nobody there to see.

"Hey baby, how's the game coming along?" Kushina asked.

"I died." He muttered bitterly, but his bright smile immediately returned, "Haku blew me up with the grenade launcher. Why is it that the one in a dress kicks our asses? Oh, mom, did you get the chips?"

"Yes, sweety, they're in the cabinet."

"Can we backpedal for a second?" Minato said with his finger in the air, clearly thinking about something, "The one in a dress? Like, a real dress or are you referring to his...femininity?"

Naruto grabbed the bag of chips and emptied it into two large bowls, "A warning. Haku's a girl now. Or, I think so. I don't really get it, but he's in a dress so..." He shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. He left the empty chip bag on the counter and began to make his way out of the room, "I'm off to avenge my being blown up, so..." He let the sentence hang, waiting for them to say something.

"Have fun, honey." Was all Kushina said, and Naruto returned to the basement to join his friends and hopefully avenge himself...

"I don't get it."

"It's okay. You don't have to." She kissed him to shush him, then she beamed at him, "Now, let's go watch Glee!"

"But we watched that last night..."

Kushina dragged her husband to the living room to watch one of her favourite television shows, the show hardly drowning out the sounds coming from the basement, but it didn't have to. She'd seen the episode several times already, and she knew that the noise wouldn't be quieting down until the late hours of the night, or early hours of the morning, so there was no point watching anything that would take too much concentration.

She and Minato went to bed at around eleven o'clock that night, and they'd seen none of the boys. There was a washroom in the basement, and thus they had already suspected as much. With food, a toilet, and a floor to sleep on, they weren't coming out of there for quite some time still.

"Did you see that?" Naruto exclaimed, "Your dude fell down like ten stories!"

"Sorry, I missed it. I was too busy falling down ten stories." Neji replied sarcastically, waiting for his character to respawn. "After this round we should get going. We were both supposed to be home by now."

"But we're getting to the good part!" Kiba protested, "Why don't you spend the night?"

"I...You work at noon tomorrow, right?" Neji asked his friend, who nodded, not taking his eyes off the television.

"I can text my dad to let him know I'm staying here, and you can let Hinata know you're not coming home."

"I suppose. Lee, take my phone and text Haku's dad and Hinata to let them know we're staying over at Naruto's. If you use chat speak, I will beat you over the head with this controller. Got it?"

"Do not worry, Neji. I will not fail you!" Lee took the cellphone he held out to him.

Neji and Haku were teamming up against Kiba and Naruto, while Lee and Sasuke watched, having lost the last match. They weren't as good as the other boys, but they held their own. With the help of lady luck. And rocket launchers.

Both received 'okay's to remain, and so they continued to play the game until the early hours of the morning. As they were the only two working the next day, Neji and Haku crashed in Naruto's room sometime around four in the morning, and Sasuke drifted in and out of sleep from his spot on the sofa, but the other three remained attentive to their game, no signs of exhaustion appearing on their always hyper forms.

Minato and Kushina woke up around eight o'clock, the former went to prepare the coffee while the latter got dressed. As he turned on the coffee maker, Minato sighed upon still hearing the sounds of guns being shot and things being blowing up coming from the basement. To save his son from his mother's anger, she would be upset to know he hadn't slept, he went downstairs to send him off to bed.

"But dad! We're just about to beat our high score!" Naruto whined, shooting the head off somebody's shoulders. Minato was tempted to compliment him on his good shot, but witheld himself. Kushina, he kept telling himself, would skin him alive if he got sidetracked.

"I'm sorry, Naruto, but it's eight o'clock in the morning and none of you have gotten any sleep. You have school tomorrow."

"Can we at least finish this level?"

"I suppose, but...You're mom's gonna be getting her coffee any minute now and she won't be happy if she hears this." He said, gesturing to the video game.

"We'll lower the volume." Naruto took the remote and lowered the volume, "See?"

Minato sighed, "Continue to play if you want. But if your mother gets upset I'm not going to take your side."

"Like you ever do..." Naruto muttered, sending a quick grin to his father who ignored both the look and the words, "Thanks, dad."

"No problem, kiddo." Doing a quick head count, he realized the absence of two of the kids, "Where are Neji and Haku?"

"My room. Sleeping. They're both working tomorrow. I mean, today."

"Oh, alright. Be good."

Minato returned upstairs to get his coffee and greet his wife, who glared at the door leading to the basement momentarily. He could tell that she was debating going down to check on the boys, but he distracted her with a kiss and the mention of needing new work shoes. Being the town mayor, as much as he loved it, was also an exhausting job. Merely the idea of always having to appear well groomed was tiresome enough on its own, but thankfully, he had Kushina as his chief of staff.

Without her he'd be lost in so many ways. There were times when she was a little...much for him to handle, but he did, and he was glad. When people questionned if there was such a thing as soul mates, or true love, or a future in teen romance, he just looked at his wife and smiled. Sure, such a true love was difficult to find, but he knew there was no such thing as impossible. Especially when it came to love.

AN: Hello peoples! It's been a little while. I was in a good mood so I decided to write a chapter to this, (this story is my good-mood-story), and tadah! I hope you liked it! Glee is my favourite television show, which is why I mentioned it and I believe that's all I wanted to clarify on so...

I'd like to thank AUehara, EatEmUp, and Reeserella for reviewing the last chapter! It truly means a lot!

Thank you for reading,
-MewMew