A/N: Kind of a filler chapter, I suppose. Filler chapters are relatively short, right?
Live or Let Die"Who are you, and what the hell have you done to Naruto?" Minato shifted in the hospital chair and stroked his beard. Before he'd gotten to Konoha, he'd rethought his Henge and decided to uncover his nose piercings and beard changing the orange hair of the beard to the same blonde color of the rest of his hair. Minato gave Tsunade a pleasant smile, the one he knew she loathed, and shrugged saying, "I haven't done anything to the poor kid. I'm a hermit…live in the forest. Happened by on my way home, and saw him. Looks like he got into it with a bear or something." Minato felt comfortable telling her this as most of it was true. So he hadn't been going home when he heard Naruto scream, and so what if he knew that whatever Naruto had fought was most likely a minor bear demon. He didn't think she'd find anything wrong with it and, somehow, figure out who he was. He mentally snorted. Hell it wasn't like they were looking for him.
"When I was looking him over, I noticed bandages on him. If you just found him today, the where'd he get those?" Minato gave her another pleasantly condescending smile. Tsunade growled and glared at him. He shrugged.
"I never said I found him today. I discovered him a couple of days ago." Minato nodded. "Gave me a fair bit of lip, this one did." He gingerly stroked the bridge of his nose, careful not to touch one of the still tender studs. He saw Tsunade nod, a small smile pulling at the edge of her mouth.
"That sounds like Naruto alright." The Fourth turned to the unconscious Naruto and stared, concern bleeding into his cobalt eyes. Tsunade noticed the concern and gazed at the man. He looked slightly familiar, but she couldn't quite put her finger on who he reminded her of.
"What's your name, hermit?" Minato looked at her with unreadable eyes, a fake name that he felt was ironically accurate ready to be spoken. He smiled unnervingly at her.
"Me? My name's Loki." Tsunade nodded and turned retreating to get away from the strange man, muttering as she went, "You smile too damn much."
This time, he grinned.
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--- Short I know! And it makes little sense to me. Maybe it'll make better sense to you all. And yeah I know his name is Nordic but who said their names had to be Japanese? And now I can finally move on with the other chapters!
