AN.

HAHA! I MANAGED TO BE CONSISTENT.

WARNING: POV SHIFT TO 3rd PERSON OMNISCIENT sans Tokina's thoughts. This might be the POV I'm going to use throughout the story to avoid you knowing of Tokina's plans...since it would be lame of me not to. I know this is pretty daring of me but hey, I'm trying. Just think of Chapter 27 onward as a second season or something.

ALSO 1/2 OF THIS WEEK'S DOUBLE POST. I'm going to post CH 28 soon but I KNOW it's not today.

"You're late." Kakashi deadpanned at the Uchiha boy with a dango stick in his mouth. Obito rolled his eyes and showed how he thought of his male teammate by throwing the stick at Kakashi like a kunai, the prodigy dodging it without much surprise at the sudden aggression. , Obito spat on the ground in distaste when his impromptu attempt to kill his teammate failed. "Ugh, you're such a mom. Why don't you go wash dishes or something?" Obito complained, rolling his eyes and taking a few challenging steps forward to jab Hatake in the chest.

…Despite Obito not being a challenge for the protégé.

"Thank you for calling me useful." Kakashi scoffed coolly, "Maybe one day, you'll be useful too."

Minato was confused.

He was pretty sure the Uchiha boy didn't have a mom.

"Wow," Tokina, who was already at the meeting place even before Minato and Kakashi arrived, admired the two boys with a tone of misplaced admiration next to Minato. "They're actually snarling at each other."

Shortly after, Minato heard the soft sounds of the boys…growling.

The blonde smiled exasperatedly at the Hyūga girl. "You aren't supposed to sound amazed Tokina-chan." He chastised the girl who responded with a small smile. He thought she was going to be the one that unites the team and stop the fights from happening. It sounded a little sexist and Kushina adamantly agreed with his statement but he really couldn't count on the two boys from playing nice if he had to take his opinions from the first time they met. Minato averted his gaze at the boys who were muttering curses and death threats to each other and favored the girl who was just staring at them with a genuine smile on her face, like she was just happy being there. Minato sighed and was about to diffuse the situation before the same girl took a small step forward.

"Hey," Tokina called to the two boys, sounding mildly offended "My mom's pretty great, excuse you." She crossed her arms and smiled at Obito who only had eyes for Kakashi until the girl made her presence noticeable, a mark of an experienced kunoichi. Obito instantly turned at the familiar sound of his best-friend, ignoring Kakashi altogether. He ran up to Tokina and greeted her by putting her in a headlock and giving her a noogie.

Minato, with a careful eye, saw how Tokina's fingers flinch, a viper instantly coming from her sleeve before her eyes widened at the realization of what she's about to do. The viper slithered back to the sleeve. All this in a few seconds of Obito chuckling with Tokina muttering an "Ow ow ow ow," moments after.

Minato would have been amused if it wasn't for that small timeframe where he was unsure if the girl was mentally capable in running a team with a genin, whether if she was friends with him or not. He, as a teacher, wasn't even sure if this girl could blend in with common society if she acts like this towards civilians.

Despite his thoughts, he still chuckled to make things seem normal.

They already knew each other from the looks of it and how Obito screamed for joy when her "mission" was to help out the team to become a formal three man cell sans Minato. It was interesting to see a Hyūga and an Uchiha on good terms and not comparing their eyes (still creeps Minato out slightly because it's an organ.) 24/7. What was also interesting is how the Hokage thought that two chunins and a genin—especially if one of them is an Uchiha and Hyūga—would be a good team composition. Minato thought of all this before he noticed his little apprentice glaring at the two nine-year-olds' horseplay.

Kakashi did not look amused.

Of course faith would give him the two people he didn't want as teammates. He was already okay with the thought of a team after months of coaxing from Minato but what did he get? These immature brats. Why did they even need them? He was perfectly fine with Minato. Those two, even if one of them is a chunin, are only going to slow them down. He directed his glare at the two who were now idly chatting while Tokina fixed her bun with a hair stick, letting two locks escape from it. Ninjas should be professional, not vain and immature.

And he wasn't just saying that because he had a grudge with the girl for showing him memories of his late father.

Minato ruffled Kakashi's locks to stop him from flooding even more killing intent that the two pointedly did not notice, instantly stopping the plans that involved cyanide in bento boxes and fake reports. Minato cleared his throat loudly, finally gaining the attention of the two.

"Since everyone is finally here," A pointed look at Obito who thankfully looked sheepish. "I guess we can have proper introductions and not just "hellos" and death threats."

A low-key scoff from Hatake.

He looked at his mess of a team. It might be a mess but it was his mess. He still couldn't get over it. Forgive him for being a little giddy about it but he always wanted to be a team leader. Minato needed to start small before he could aim for Hokage, after all. "How about we start things with a name and saying our likes, dislikes, hobbies, stuff like that." The seventeen-year-old finished with a smile like he was giving assignments as a kindergarten teacher. He nodded to Kakashi. "You go first, Kakashi."

"Okay." He responded mechanically, all buisness. "My name is Hatake Kakashi. I like dogs. My hobbies are reading and training. I don't like idiots who are late at the first day of being with a team."

Minato cringed.

Obito snarled while Tokina gave a nonchalant shrug.

This was not the first day he wanted for his team.

"Well my name is Uchiha Obito!" Obito exclaimed even when he wasn't even called by Minato. "I like fish sticks and dango. My hobbies are training to become the Hokage and hanging out with my friends." Obito abandoned Tokina quickly and favored jabbing Kakashi in the chest again. "What I don't like is bastards who think their better than everyone else!"

Minato, being the sensor-nin that he was, was not joking when he sensed a forest fire duking it out with thunder storm. These boys could be powerful when they grow up; no, he knows that they will become powerful. He can sense their potential. What he needs to do is to guide that power to a proper outlet and not at each other.

…You know, because they're supposed to be a team?

He probably could forgive the two. It was their first day after all. He could be a little lenient to them. Minato, instead, looked at the girl and gave her an expectant and patient smile. "Well, how about you, Miss?"

Tokina giggled at the blonde's attempt to do the whole introduction game despite it failing two times in a row. "Ah, sorry," she rushed out, playing Minato's game which made him feel less of a failure. "I'm Hyūga Tokina; I like my friends and my family. My hobbies are reading and taking care of my brother. I don't like…"

Minato's smile faltered a second as he looked at the small girl before him. Her eyes looked like she was battling something, her strange and indescribable chakra raging at the conflict before calming, the girl finally saying "…water."

His instincts told him that was not normal

Obito's eye twitched and he was sure it wasn't because Kakashi told Obito what exactly he thought of the Uchiha and their prestigious nature.

"Hmph, aren't you chunin?" Kakashi gave her an assessing look,"Water walking should be a reflex by now." Kakashi said in the straightest face imaginable. Obito's face morphed into pure anger. Minato kept his own features calm as Obito's chakra felt so hot that it could burn the entire world. It was easy to say that it dwarfed the humble lightning storm but, like an actual lightning storm, Kakashi was above the situation and was oblivious to the fact that he somehow crossed the line.

The girl lazily shrugged, muttering a low and suspicious "You might be surprised what makes people fear water." before Obito did anything he would regret. She might have whispered it but Kakashi stil heard it.

He just didn't think any more of it.

"Okay, now that that's settled—"Minato said in a no-nonsense tone to instantly diffuse the situation, gaining the attention of his unruly children. "I'm Namikaze Minato. I like my girlfriend and naming jutsus. My hobbies are creating jutsus and hanging out with my girlfriend. I don't like war." He clapped his hands with a forced smile. "Now that we have that settled, let's move on to the next step of our proper genin exam."

Obito's face instantly paled at the word exam.

…He did not bring a pen.

Minato took two bells from his pocket and jingled them in front of the kids' faces. "Take these bells from me before sun down." He challenged with a cheeky smile. "If you manage to get them, you pass, if you fail, regardless or rank or achievements, you'll be sent back to the academy." He threatened. Obito took the threat at face value while Kakashi just wanted to beat the challenge. "As you can see, there are two bells. That means only two people will get to stay in the team."

"W-Wait? What?!" Obito all but shrieked, looking back and forth to the Hyūga girl that was already in a Jyūken stance and Kakashi who was ready to draw his blade at any moment's notice. "Th-that's not fair!" Obito said a little bit scared at losing his rank.

The girl snickered.

"It's fine, Obito." She reassured, her pale eyes glistening at the bells, summoning snakes and letting them coiling around her bandaged hands. "That means we don't need to play fair, too."

Without warning, Minato attempted to kick the girl square in the stomach. Tokina deftly stepped to the side and grabbed his the foot that would otherwise cause her a massive stomach ache that would have hurt today and tomorrow. There was a small pause, letting the suddenness of the situation and wind settle from both of their speed. She gave him a challenging and self-satisfied smirk as the veins around her eyes bulged and her eyes flickered into white.

Minato let out an impressed chuckle. Sure, he was holding back and he will continue to do so but he would have expected a support-nin not to have the reflexes to dodge that. They usually let themselves go. He was satisfied knowing that Tokina wasn't that naïve. With a smirk, he finally said.

"Begin."

He dislodged his foot from her grasp when he noticed snakes slithering up his leg in speeds he would have doubted they could do. Kakashi narrowed his eyes before drawing his tantō, running at his jonin sensei intent to beat him while the girl fell back and threw senbons whenever she got an opening, which was rare since Kakashi didn't let her have one. She pursed her lips in thought, stopped throwing needles at the man and fell into deep focus.

"Obito, you should distract him. I have an idea I'd like to try." She smirked before doing a few hand seals and ending it with a clap as butterflies fluttered around her, reality seemingly being rewritten as Tokina disappeared before his very eyes.

Obito blinked before putting on his orange goggled to protect his eyes from the fire and dirt. He trained for this moment! He was going to prove to them that he might not be as good as them but he will surpass both of his teammates! He was going to be Hokage of all things! How can he let these two outshine him?! He won't be the distraction but the threat!

"GET READY FOR UCHIHA OBITO!" The successfully hyped up Uchiha yelled, doing the hand seals that every Uchiha knows and aimed for Minato who was busy fending off Kakashi, not caring if either of them got singed in the process.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball!" He blew in and hot breath came out from his lips. Kakashi disengaged, glaring at the Uchiha, while Minato jumped back, the jutsu missing entirely. He body flickered behind Obito, the two now locked in taijutsu combat. Minato was faintly impressed at the genin's reflexes, able to react instantly to his speed that he made sure was equivalent to a chunin. The kid tried punching and kicking while Minato blocked and deflected them all with one hand as they moved back. A dark red fluttered past them before a loud ensemble resounded throughout the whole Training Ground Three.

Obito smirked and disengaged, leaving an alert Minato in the new, obviously fake environment.

The green and brown training grounds melted away into monochrome, the sky turning into what can only be described as moving cages while he and the rest of the training grounds turned black, somewhat hiding the presence of Obito and Kakashi. He could guess the two boys preparing really painful jutsus just for him to enjoy which helped but he couldn't help but fear that it would hinder his plans on Friday night.

He didn't want to cancel his reservation. Minato planned that surprise date for months. He didn't want to deal with burnt hair or singed skin.

So he released.

This seemed to be bad idea, surprisingly,

Something erupted from behind his back, a large red torch with a sun replacing the flames as a loud ensemble began playing with its sad tune. One single black silhouette was there in a kneeling position, focusing. He could tell it was Tokina by the way the chakra seemed to be coming from her. He was about to release again when snake like things seemingly erupted from her body. He knew those were living things by sensing their definite chakra.

Unless it was a really good genjutsu hit otherwise he didn't want to risk getting hit by the strange snakes with different animals for their head. If he focused enough, he didn't need to feel the pain of the genjutsu animals that Tokina was making but if they were real snakes that were coated with genjutsu, then he would be poisoned. He clutched the bell and prepared a kunai to fend off the strange shadow creatures.

But he knew otherwise.

He released the genjutsu.

The shadow creatures howled and streaked through the air, aiming to bite and ravage him. He body flickered and used his Hirashin to escape their grasp, sometimes slicing at them when those creatures got into the three-pronged kunai's way. He ducked in time when a black and hot ball of flames targeted at him. He couldn't tell if it was a Fire Release masked in a genjutsu or just part of the genjutsu.

"Impressive." Minato let out as more fireballs and shadow creatures tried killing him. He let out four three pronged kunai and threw them on all directions to dodge the incoming volley of fire. If he couldn't break the genjutsu—which was the case—then he just needs to damage the source, the girl who was causing it. He threw a Hirashin kunai just above her head, readying a kunai to cause her enough pain to force her to stop casting.

As he was about to slam the butt of the kunai on the girl's head, the genjutsu broke with a resounding "What the—?!"

His eyes widened in mid-air and teleported back to the ground. He turned around in alarm as Kakashi pushed the girl who was creeping up at him away and lunged for the bells. Minato narrowed his eyes at the silver haired boy and punted him away with an unceremonious kick to the stomach.

"Oomph!" Minato heard the boy grunt before the force blew him away.

…maybe he put too much chakra in that kick.

Eh, Kakashi can handle it.

He drew out a normal kunai from his holster and blocked the incoming shuriken barrage from Obito. He ducked from Tokina's Jyūken strikes and kicked Kakashi away yet again.

Sloppy, he should know better not to commit the same mistakes.

Kakashi rebounded and began trying to slice him open with his tantō while Tokina gave Kakashi a scowl that looked unsettling thanks to her general demeanor and budging veins. Obito began readying his shurikens when she couldn't help but rant.

"What is wrong with him?" She huffed, preparing her senbons in one hand and snakes in another continuing her rant with a small voice. "Here I am trying to create a distraction and he pushed me away when I was about get the bells? Well sorry if I didn't invest in long ranged ninjutsu. That isn't exactly my problem, Hatake." The Hyūga girl continued to steam to the emphatic Uchiha. "It's your fragile ego." She finished up, running to the fray, throwing her arsenal solely at Minato, the left overs for Kakashi.

Obito chuckled, knowing that she wasn't supposed to say that out-loud. She's been doing that often and he wasn't correcting or complaining. It was funny. He finally threw shuriken at the blonde, not caring if he hit the overzealous Hatake in the process.

The two stopped mid-charge when it was Kakashi that sabotaged their efforts, grabbing the kunai and shuriken they threw mid-air and redirecting it to Minato while slashing the snakes that got in his way.

"Does he want the bells or sensei's life, I really can't tell." She rolled her eyes which made for a strange image considering her enflamed white pupils and her bulging veins as she crossed her arms, snakes already slithering and coiling around her.

"Well, we can't let that bastard show us up! C'mon, Tokina!"

"Obito, wait—"

She watched as the energetic boy rushed into the fray with a single kunai and a lot of heart. She couldn't help but cringe at their sorry excuse of a team fends off the blonde. That's right, they—the two boys—were defending themselves against the tall blonde's onslaught of kunai and jutsu.

They looked like they were playing some deadly variety of Dodge Ball, Minato being the monkey, dodging the balls which where Kakashi and Obito who were aiming for each other and not the target.

Minato was just in the middle of the crossfire.

"This is painful to watch." Tokina muttered out loud again and bit her thumb and slammed it on the ground.

"Summoning: Sudden Snake Glare Spell," she muttered. Large boas slithered from the ink, dug through the ground and erupted like angry worms. They tried wrapping themselves around Minato before, in a blink of yellow, disappeared. Kakashi blocked the kunai to the head courtesy of Obito.

"You're in my way!" Kakashi snarled at the Uchiha who returned the favor with another attempt to behead Kakashi. "Oh really? That's rich coming from you!" Kakashi deflected the kunai with his blade and dodged Obito's slashes and ran off to find Minato, Obito shortly following and re-engaging combat.

Tokina stared blankly at her two teammates and the mess they were making. "I am their teammate, not their mother." She groaned to herself. "Calm down, Tokina. You replaced Rin knowing this would happen. You managed to entice the Hokage. You could maybe manipulate Obito and self-righteous Kakashi to cooperate." She stopped for a second and realized what she was doing "And I'm talking to myself again, stupid Kiri."

She deactivated her Byakugan and sighed in frustration, approaching the two boys as they were having a figurative dick measuring contest.

"—can't even land a fireball."

"—whose the one missing all his slashes?!"

"—doesn't have the Sharingan."

"—is that tantō just for show?!"

She intercepted in between them, her training with Jyūken allowing her to catch Kakashi's blade in between her index and middle finger without much of a scratch and successfully stopping the blade and using both of the snakes she summoned to coil around her best-friend's arm, stopping them as Obito stared at the faces of two very cranky boas.

"Both of you are acting like civilians." She stated in a cold irritation, successfully getting their attention and both of them instantly wanting to defend their honor. "Do you want to keep your positions or not?"

"Tell that to the other guy!" Both of them exclaimed in synch which earned another glare-off from them, the two refusing to back down.

She promptly asked the Lord for patience.

"I'm sorry; I thought I was paired up with another chunin and the future Hokage? Not brats who can't work together for a singular objective that could affect their rank." She said as blunt as possible.

Only Obito looked a tad bit humiliated, while Kakashi just scoffed at her and dislodged his blade from her fingers, causing Tokina to bleed a bit from her stunt, not that she noticed.

"Don't get in my way." He warned them, sheathing his tantō and body flickering away.

Obito snorted. "Who does he think he is?"

"Well, at least it proves your miles better than him by a landslide so we could actually come up with a plan." She sighed, smiling at Obito who was right beside him. "Of course I am!" He exclaimed like it was a common fact.

Obito smile faltered when Tokina gave an unsettling smile. She looked at him straight in the eye and said: "So, I have a plan that involves butterflies, fireballs and manipulating Kakashi."

Minato walked through the forest in the sunset. It was relaxing and deceptive. He began disrupting his chakra every two or so minutes to check if nothing was actually happening and the atmosphere wasn't a genjutsu. Because of the Hyūga girl, butterflies made him a tad bit worried. So he was paranoid? Sue him for not wanting to be trapped in that strange monochrome stage.

It had good music, though, he admitted to himself. He had to stop himself from humming that strange, foreign yet beautiful tune. What kind of instruments produces that sound, anyway?

He sidestepped a kunai, his head still entertaining his previous thought.

Kakashi appeared from his side, his tantō gleaming as he tried to slice him up a new stomach. He sighed inwardly, drawing out a kunai to block the metal.

"The same trick won't work twice." He informed, a tinge of disappointment lacing his voice. Kakashi remained silent, focusing on overwhelming the man which he should have known it was only for naught. Minato widened his eyes and tried to move away from the incoming fireball that was too fast to be a Grand Fireball

The hot fireball singed his left arm ever so slightly. When he sensed another one coming he teleported to the tree he impaled before, giving him a view of what the situation was. That was close, even for him. He watched as the fireball maneuverer around the trees, splitting in surprise. The Uchiha was nowhere to be found.

He had 1.5 in ninjutsu!? Bah! That fireball was half the size of the trees around here! The papers lie! He teleported to the kunai on the field to find the Uchiha that blasted him.

"Now!"

He all but froze at the sudden flux of genjutsu induced terror while a black seal formed under him. Minato tried jumping away but a boa dug its teeth on his ankle, making him falter. As he was falling, another boa quickly caught him mid-air, using the first boa as a pole to tie him to. He tried teleporting away before he saw Obito rip the seals from the kunai, tearing the seal.

"That was my Saturday morning!" He screeched, undignified. The Uchiha snickered as he haughtily marched to him, Kakashi all the while wearing a shocked expression. He was about to teleport to the other one and found that he couldn't. He stretched his neck to see Tokina emerging from the woods and ripping the last of his Hirashin seals to pieces like it was an electricity bill she didn't want to see. She raised her arms, summoning a large array of butterflies from her sleeves, seemingly turning into the very creatures herself. Minato watched in fascination as the rainbow engulfed them. When one of them landed on his head, it felt like they weight twelve tons. Slowly but surely, the others landed on him. It felt like he was being crushed by a boulder. The snakes uncoiled, letting his body fall to the ground in a thud.

At the back of his mind, he couldn't help but praise the girl's genjutsu skills when he couldn't break away from conventional means and his body weighed too much to even think of moving his arms to get a kunai and harm himself.

...Right now, he was just worried that the fall would cost him his Friday date.

Obito gave Tokina a self-satisfied smirk before shoving his hand inside the cluster of butterflies. "'Scuse me, Akinosuke." He heard him mutter as he got the bells in triumph. The butterflies dispersed from Minato, the weight being lost insect after insect, and fluttering next to Obito, forming the self-satisfied girl.

"Nice plan, 'Kina-chan." He chirped, jingling the bells as they shared a high-five. "Sensei totally fell for it!"

She smirked—a smug smirk that the Hyūgas do when they prove that they have exceeded expectations as if it was foretold in some prophecy that was embedded by stone and chisel. "He did, didn't he?" She grinned at the man, giving him a hand to lift him up even if he did weigh twice as her.

Minato smiled at the group taking the hand, the girl trying her best not to be overwhelmed by the heaviness of the teen and manage to lift him up. Minato, then watched his team, Tokina snickering as the silver-haired kid rolled his eyes at their antics once more while trying to mask the look of well-deserved betrayal. Obito continued the fanfare, ignoring the pointed looks Kakashi gave them when he mentioned the masked kid's name followed up with a sarcastic thank you .

It might have taken them all day but they passed nonetheless.

Teamwork might be rough but it was just the matter of them proving themselves to Kakashi.

"It probably won't take long." The blonde man thought hopefully. He gazed at the boy glaring at the duo, the Uchiha jingling the bells and waving his arms animatedly.

"HA! Take that, Bakashi!" Obito jingled one of the bells in front of the Hatake boy, who just looked really pissed off. "Now you'll go back to the academy! BAH HA! How embarrassing!" Obito covered his mouth like a noblewoman.

Minato scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, about that…"

"MINATO!" A girlish scream resounded through the field with ease that was scary. Kakashi and Obito flinched at the sound. Obito didn't know what compelled him to follow Kakashi of all people into hiding behind his sensei. This was something worse than killing intent. Obito knew it was worse than it but he didn't know how to explain this sudden fear of getting crushed. Tokina looked around, finding her friend not beside her "Wha—?"

Suddenly, with a speed that could be compared to the Yellow Flash himself, Tokina was being crushed with the force of the whole Hokage tower as Minato's girlfriend encased her with her deceptive slim and slender arms.

"Uuuugh—" was the poor girl's reaction.

"You must be one of Minato's new, cute little students!" She began flailing her like a rag doll. This is not good for her psyche. Or maybe it was. The Uzumakis were known for…talent in counselling and their general happy disposition. Maybe it'll rub off her? He knew that she was…troubled to say the least, considering her mission report. There was a large gap in between her mission to Kiri and now since this is counted as a mission despite it being a gag one. Further research told him that there was also a large gap between her exit to Konoha and her coming back. It didn't take a Nara to figure out what happened.

Oh, who is he kidding?

It didn't work on Kakashi, and if it didn't work on him, it wouldn't work on Tokina. He cringed as he saw her visibly turned green. "Please stop..." She begged weakly, covering my mouth.

She didn't hear her, much to the girl's distress. Kakashi looked relieved it wasn't him (as usual) while Obito watched in fear for her friend.

"You are so cute!" they heard the red-head compliment the girl as they were still spinning.

"Kushina-chan, she looks discolored." Minato said, slightly panicked. Well, not slightly. He was panicking. Kushina is the type of person who doesn't know how to hold back. She always gives her one-hundred-and-one percent on everything she does and that's why he loves her so he always gives her his one-hundred-and-two percent as well. And this is one of the times he wanted her not to.

"How mean, Minato-kun! Don't judge a girl by their appearance; you should know that by now! She looks beautiful! Right, Kakashi-kun?" The hyper Uzumaki scolded the exasperated and slightly panicking blonde.

"She's not normally green, Kushina-san." Kakashi casually informed his sensei's girlfriend. Obito immediately looked at Kakashi who seemed to think about of something, his dark eyes gleaming with something akin to mischief. "But she might be turning green because of her contracts with snakes."

Obito repressed a gasp. That was evil.

…She looks like she's about to puke, though.

"M-maybe you should put her down, Kushina-san!" Obito waved his hands.

She looked at her in curiosity, "Woah, sorry! I was just so enthralled to finally meet Minato's students!" She cheered and gently put the dazed girl down.

Minato crouched down to her and petted the poor girl's soft hair.

"I am so sorry." He whispered, with a light tone. Tokina blinked in affirmation before closing her eyed and sighing, looking like a tired old man.

"I feel like I'm about to puke everything I ate since I was a baby." Tokina muttered to herself. Minato's eyes widened in genuine panic for the girl. She shook herself as if it would shake away the nausea.

She covered her mouth while her cheeks inflated and her eyes popped open. Her eyes watered before a loud, disgusting gulp was heard.

"I'm fine. I'm fine." She reassured herself and closed her eyes again.

Minato heard a distinct voice being thrown around. "K-Kushina! Put Obito-kun down!"

Sage Training did not prepare him for this.

"No fair! I want students too but no, it's always "Your better in the front lines, Uzumaki-san! Please understand, Uzumaki-san!" Hmph!" Tokina heard Obito groan and collapse beside the girl and instantly took his hand and squeezed. He squelched and closed his eyes, hiding from the pain. Kushina crossed her arms, totally unaware of the suffering of the two children. "Can't wait 'till this stupid war is over!"

"Tokina-chan? Are you there?" He said dazedly next to the girl beside him. She let out a groan and a gurgle. Minato watched all this unfold as she attacked Kakashi next. The silver-haired kid managing to look oddly dignified being tossed around like that.

It was obvious that he was used to this kind of treatment, which was added to the list of "Why I hate Kakashi" list in Obito's head.

Minato held his hands up to the two children. Obito took it without hesitation while Tokina sighed before taking his. They both looked fed up. They both stood up steadying each other. The children were about to run, how Obito's body tensed while Tokina's pale eyes glinted before warm arms strangled them again, the odd eyed girl was smack dab middle at the Team Minato sandwich. "Such cute kids!" She crooned.

"I'm sorry." Minato apologized to them genuinely. "She's just excitable, I swear."

He heard Obito gag then saw the black haired kid cover his mouth. "I'm fine."

"It's too hot." Tokina complained

"Stop pushing me, Bakashi!" He pushed the girl to return the push Kakashi, who looked absolutely done with the antics.

"You're the one that's shoving." He returned the favor, not caring who he was pushing just to get back at the boy. Kushina looked amused at the bundle of trouble in her arms.

"Guys, please, stop, it's so hot." Tokina all but begged.

"Yeah?! Am I shoving now?!" Obito loudly screeched.

"You are, and now you're screaming." Kakashi returned, groaning.

Her eye twitched.

Minato watched as the girl tried her best to compose herself.

Which ultimately failed after the two tried chocking each other in a choke hold.

She seemed to have disappeared in a kaleidoscope of large butterflies, much to the surprise of her audience. She rematerialized a few feet away from them.

It was probably a genjutsu meant to shock and surprise.

"I'm sorry." She apologized, not meaning it. "They were being strangled." The excess butterflies fluttered away as she dusted off the dirt from her clothes, the boys doing the same. Kushina let out a sound of admiration.

"Woah, your Orochimaru's apprentice, aren't you? They did say she had butterfly summons. That's you, right?" She smiled to the girl that was formerly bundled in her arms.

"Yes, Kushina-san. The Hokage made him a jonin sensei to lead Mitarashi Anko, though." Tokina shrugged "I don't know why, though." She answered.

"Enough taking for now, I'm hungry!" Kushina declared. Yes. Food. Obito thought, already excited at the free food. "C'mon, children! Let Kushina-chan feed you the best ramen in the world!"

"Yeah!" Obito cheered. "Free food!" He looked at the girl who freed him from his shackles. Kakashi sorted and Tokina took her place next to the excited Uchiha. "I still like dango better, though." He whispered next to the girl.

"Taoyaki and beef is better." She retorted.

The red haired woman glared pointedly at the two non-believers of the great religion known as Ramenism.

"Welp, that Ramen isn't waiting forever!" He announce cheerily and purposely loud to tick off Bakashi and to save his skin, making the younger girl snicker. Kushina nodded a "got that right" nod and the two went off to the new Ramen stand that recently opened.

Which had the most heavenly ramen in existence,

Kushina smiled to herself.

Minato wanted this so much. She couldn't just not be happy for her boyfriend-and-maybe-future-fiancé-then-maybe-husband. They might not be blood relatives but she already made a promise that she would take her child to the ramen stand she found.

She just didn't know if she'll live enough for that.

AN.

FUNFACT: I had to edit this two times, the first one in my computer which worked for about two hours before dying seconds after I could upload and on my dad's computer which he LET ME. Anyway, hoped you enjoyed this chapter and Enjoy Life! :)

PS: TY FOR THE REVIEWS! I know that there is a review that spotted a continuity mistake and I'll edit that out...this week. Graduating Class. Last Quarter. Pretty Hectic. So...yeah, have fun.