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Here is the second chapter to Pink Thread of Fate. I can't believe it actually took me thing long to update. I AM SORRY!

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Namikaze Minato could hear murmuring. Mumbling something incoherent, Minato buried his face into a pillow, trying to block out the light which was shining directly onto his closed-eyelids.

"Minato-Kun," Someone whispered. The voice was familiar and soft. "Onii-Sama,"

Kushina! He remembered her screaming in pain. It had been absolute torture to hear.

Minato's eyes snapped open and he sat up. He reached out to Kushina, who was standing beside his bed, and pulled her against his chest into a tight embrace. "Kushina-Chan... Are you okay?"

"Onii-Sama," Kushina said, her words mumbled by Minato's chest. She squirmed in his embrace and moved around so she was sitting in his lap. "I'm fine, Onii-Sama."

Minato slightly loosened his embrace. "Good..."

"Finally," A voice said. Minato looked up and his eyes widened. Standing in the doorway was Tsunade... Only she was younger-looking. "You are awake. She refused to talk to me until you awoke."

Minato looked down at Kushina then back at young-looking Tsunade. "What's going on..?"

"That's what I would like to know." Tsunade said, crossing her arms and raising a single blonde-brow at them. "We have a lot to talk about."

Tsunade sat at her desk in the Hokage's office, observing the two strangers standing before her.

The teenage boy was tall and lean. He had spiky, blonde hair with jaw-length bangs framing his face, fair slightly-tanned skin, and blue-green eyes. He was either fifteen or sixteen – Tsunade wasn't sure.

The little girl was petite and small. She had unusual reddish, pink hair – more pink than red, though – which flowed down her back and past her waist. Her skin was pale and fair and she had large, beautiful green eyes. She was either six or seven.

Tsunade was shocked – they both looked like a combination of Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina, Uzumaki Naruto, and Haruno Sakura.

"Who are you?" Tsunade demanded.

Minato stiffened at Tsunade's tone. He knew what Tsunade was like when she got demanding and angry. It was bad.

"Namikaze Minato."

Tsunade was on her feet in an instant, slamming her hands on her desk, causing the desk to crack and bend. Minato moved immediately, positioning himself in front of Kushina. "You are lying!" She shouted.

"I am not." Minato replied, his tone cool and collected. Despite his usual attitude – exuberant, brash, and joking personality – when it came to serious situations, especially ones which evolved Kushina, Minato could be calm, collected, and highly perceptive if he needed to. And right now – he needed to. "Why would I lie? I have no reason to. And lying in this situation would not be helpful on my part. I am telling you the truth. My name is Namikaze Minato." He then gestured to Kushina. "And this is my little sister, Namikaze Kushina."

Tsunade sighed in frustration and sat down in her chair. The boy – Minato, if that was truly his name – made a valid point.

"How did you get into my office, boy?" Tsunade questioned him. "The guards stationed outside the Hokage Tower didn't see you enter. None of the guards stationed within this place did."

Minato shifted in his spot, thinking. As he had walked from the hospital to the Hokage Tower he had noticed some things. Konoha was different. Extremely different. Firstly, the face of his father wasn't carved into the Hokage Mountain like it should've been. Secondly, Konoha was noticeably smaller. Thirdly, the Cherry Blossom Hospital (1) – a hospital dedicated and built for his mother, Namikaze Sakura, from his father – was not anywhere to be seen. It was the largest hospital in Konoha, it just couldn't disappear. And fourthly, people Minato knew and recognized were all younger-looking.

...

'The scroll!' Minato thought suddenly. The mysterious black scroll, which he had found in his father's office, with the kanji for time written in crimson red, with delicate brushstrokes, on the side of the scroll – it had been a time-travel scroll. Minato had heard of them before, but he didn't think they existed.

"A time-travel scroll," Minato muttered out loud.

Tsunade raised a brow at Minato.

"I found a time-travelling scroll in my father's office and I accidently activated it." Minato explained. "That's why Konoha is so different. This is the past. We are from the future."

"So," Tsunade spoke. "You are telling me you are from the future."

Minato nodded his head.

"Who are you parents...?" Tsunade asked, hardly believing the fact that she was considering the possibility of everything which was transpiring.

"Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto and Sakura," Minato stated. "Dad is the Rokudaime Hokage (2) and is the strongest Hokage to live. And Mum is his second-in-charge as well as the head of Cherry Blossom Hospital. She is the best medic-nin in Konoha, as well as through the Shinobi lands."

Tsunade took this all in. If this was all true, it would explain why these two looked like Naruto and Sakura and Minato and Kushina, as well as why they were even named after them.

"What did this time-travelling scroll look like?" Tsunade asked.

"It was black, with the kanji for time written, in crimson red, along the side." Minato explained the description of the scroll. "They are extremely rare in the future. Even now, I assume. They are unheard of."

Tsunade leaned back in her chair. "I have heard of them." She told him. "But I merely though they were a legend, created by the delusional." Tsunade paused. "But with you two standing here before me, I must now acknowledge the fact that they are real. You both look like a mixture of Naruto and Sakura and Minato and Kushina."

Minato stiffened posture relaxed and he bent down, picking Kushina up. He rested her against his hip, supporting her with one arm. "How do we get home?" He asked.

"I do not know." Tsunade closed her eyes for a minute or two then re-opened them. "That will be difficult. If what you said is correct, then finding these time-travelling scrolls will be difficult. But while we search here, we can assume that future-Naruto and future-Sakura will be searching for a time-travelling scroll as well. That will double the odds of you two returning home. Hopefully."

Minato nodded his head. "What do we do until then?"

"I can give you an apartment for free. I can also set you both up with fake identities and backgrounds" Tsunade said; she began to shuffle through papers in her desk drawer. "How old are you two?"

"I am sixteen and Kushina is six."

Tsunade nodded her head and pulled out a handful of papers. "I will also need to find an explanation as to why you look like the Fourth Hokage and Uzumaki Kushina, as well as Sakura-Chan. That will be more difficult, but I shall make it work." She peered over at Minato and Kushina, studying their features. "You, Minato, have a mixture of Naruto and Minato's facial features. A little more Minato, though. Kushina, on the other hand, has facial features more similar to Sakura, with a slight touch of your Grandmother Kushina. This will be troublesome..."

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(1) - Cherry Blossom Hospital is cheasy, I know, but I couldn't think of anything.

(2) - Danzo was never counted as the sixth Hokage, really, as he died before he made it into the office as Hokage.

Oh my, I can't believe I am actually posting this! I thought I would never do it!

Sorry for the long wait!

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