Chapter 6

AN: This is right after the meeting.

"Okay, Naruto, let's train now that all of my village issues have been resolved," Minato suggested.

"Sure, Dad!" Naruto agreed.

AN: This is during training.

Naruto charged at Minato, with rasengan. Minato also performed rasengan, and he wanted to see how strong Naruto's was. A huge explosion erupted, and you could see Naruto struggling to keep his jutsu working.

"Come on, Naruto, you can do it!" Minato encouraged. Naruto thought about being with his Dad, and how happy it made him. Suddenly, his rasengan overpowered Minato's, and Minato had to end his jutsu.

"Awesome job, Naruto!" he praised.

"All I had to think about, was having you as my Dad, and that our bond will get even stronger through the years," Naruto pointed out.

"That's what a true Uzumaki should think about. Don't ever think about how alone you were the last decade; I want you to forget I wasn't there for you. Everything will be fine now, Naruto," Minato reassured while ruffling up Naruto's spikes.

"Hey! I like my spikes the way they are!" Naruto tried to say while laughing like he usually does. Minato grinned, just like Naruto's, and started laughing. Naruto suddenly got serious.

"Dad, why were you so serious with me, the first time we met?" Naruto asked, as his curiosity got larger by the minute.

"Naruto, I didn't know if you'd believe me or not, so I had to be formal, and a bit tense. That won't happen again, unless I am assigning you a serious mission, I promise," Minato replied.

"Yeah, it'll be weird having you as Hokage," Naruto thought out loud. That means sometimes Dad would be doing paperwork, too, he thought.

"I just hope I don't have to assign you missions where you might die," Minato worried.

"Don't worry! I will be perfectly fine," Naruto bragged.

"How is Kyuubi doing for you?" Minato wondered.

"He gives me loads of power. I kinda made a deal with him that I'd let him live in my body, as long as he gave me a little bit of his strength," Naruto said.

"I didn't really want to seal him inside you, Naruto, but I had to, to save the village. I heard from Tsunade that the villagers hated you for having the demon inside you. They basically thought you WERE the demon. I'm really sorry for that, Naruto. If I didn't seal him in you, you would've been brought up with a lot more friends, even without me," Minato apologized.

"It's okay, Dad. Kyuubi helps me a lot! He probably is one of my tickets to becoming Hokage," Naruto replied.

"No, Naruto. You tickets to becoming Hokage are your ability to work hard, your soon to be arsenal of jutsu, and you experience fighting against me," Minato said. "Just please, don't rely on Kyuubi to become Hokage. If you were to lose him, probably by the Akatsuki's doings, and you couldn't become Hokage, I would never forgive myself."

"There are many things that you are worrying too much about, Dad!" Naruto chuckled. Minato laughed, but he still worried very much about what a threat the Akatsuki would become to Naruto, later.