Ties That Bind
Like Father, Like Son
It's not long before Mito – who has now lost most of his baby fat and let his blonde, shaggy hair grow out – decides to take his mothers advice and hold the door open for a girl who happened to be walking behind him.
The act didn't make all that much sense to him, since the girl was in his year at the academy and perfectly capable of opening the door herself, but he did it. He did it, and he immediately regretted it.
. . .
No more than a week had past since Naruto had caught wind of his son's new-found popularity with the girls at the academy. He normally wasn't one to listen to gossip, since a lot of it has little to no truth to it, depending on when the Yamanaka's got their hands on it. But when Mito came racing through the back door after school, slightly panting and checking to make sure that he wasn't being followed, Naruto knew that this particular piece of gossip had at least a little piece of truth behind it.
Even after it had become a regular occurrence for Mito to sneak over the fence of their backyard in order to lose the gang of girls that tried to follow him home, it didn't cease to amuse his father. Naruto would often glance out the window at exactly 3:10, even if it meant having to stay back to make up for the amount of paperwork that he was putting off. But it was definitely worth it.
Naruto's skilled eyes tracked down the lone figure walking down the main street of Konoha as he past the Hokage tower. The shock of Naruto-esque blonde hair was impossible to miss, as was the group of at least seven giggling girls who seemed to keep at least ten feet behind Mito at all times.
The boy looked back at the group with a scowl, obviously irritated.
Naruto chuckled and sat back in his chair, watching as the figures which were barely larger than ants from high up in his office. Caught up in watching the scene before him, he only heard the light footsteps and felt the familiar chakra of his former teammate when she was turning the doorknob.
"Hey, Naruto. I've got some reports from the hospital and Shizune said you weren't too busy to look over them by tomorrow," Sakura sang out over a large pile of folders in her arms. She dropped them off in a heap on his desk and straightened her skirt, only now becoming aware that Naruto's chair was turned away from her so that he could get a better look of the street below.
Curiously, Sakura leaped over the desk and joined Naruto beside the window as he finally muttered a greeting. Mito took another glance back at the girls before putting the speed he inherited from his grandfather to use. In the blink of an eye, the blond-haired boy was gone and the girls were left noisily scavenging the street he was last spotted on.
Naruto finally glanced up at his former teammate with a mischievous grin the likes of which Konoha hadn't seen since his years in the academy.
"Like father like son."
Sakura let out a snort and forcibly turned Naruto's chair back towards his desk. "Whatever you say, Naruto. Just get back to going over these reports."
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Author's Note:
- No big author's note or comments this time, I just wanted to remind you to let me know what you think. : )