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Warning: this chapter is strange. Read at your own risk.
Chapter 2: The date
As Kushina opens the door she come face to face with a happy looking Minato rolling back on his soles while holding something behind his back. Kushina almost rolls her eyes. Like she didn't already know what he was going to give her. Though she must admit he looks very handsome in his black cargo pants and un-tucked pale blue shirt. The slightly panicked look in his eyes was almost cute too.
"Hello." Minato's voice was surprisingly calm and deep in contrast to his nervous movements and slight twitches.
"Hello…" and as it did not seem like Minato would remember on his own to give her the present she continues innocently "what's behind your back?"
"Oh, well…I brought you a gift." Minato shyly exclaims as he reveal the object behind his back that is…a scroll.
"A scroll?" Kushina deadpanned, as she has never afraid to show or say what she felt.
"Well, yes. Since I know you don't like it when people pick flowers for no reason at all or chocolate, I decided that I'd give you something else."
…Okay, so he does not deserve a beating…yet. Kushina thought silently to herself.
"So…this is a scroll containing an awesome jutsu designed by yours truly!" the blonde man finished proudly as he bowed a bit shakily. Proving that showing-off is not his thing.
Kushina had conflicting emotions at this point. She had been expecting him to treat her like she was one of the most girly people around on their first date (a thought not entirely unpleasant when it involved Minato) but on the other hand: he has made a frickkin' jutsu for her! Okay, so he's possibly the best guy around. And he's taken Kushina snickered satisfied inside her head as she pounced Minato to give him a kiss and taking/ripping the scroll out of his hands.
"What does it do?!" she could not help but squeal a bit as she took a closer look at the innocent looking yellow rolled-up paper.
"Well, it's sort of a summoning jutsu."
An excited nod.
"You bite your thumb to draw blood."
Kushina proceeded to almost bite her thumb off.
"Then you open the scroll and spread blood on it like this."
Minato took hold of Kushina's arm and helped her draw a line of blood over the signs within the scroll. A small cloud and a very non-impressing 'poof' could be heard then:
"See!" Minato exclaimed proudly
"…" Kushina just stared blankly at the scroll before her. There before her was in neat writing what the title claimed to be "a summoning jutsu". Well duh.
"So that we can get in touch whenever you miss me!" Yep, Minato was in love alright.
After a few seconds of looking at the scroll and sensing Minato's excited eyes upon her, Kushina decided that it was a sweet and thoughtful gesture (that make her feel a bit more loved) and therefore Minato did not deserve a beating. Besides, he was HER nerd. Though someone probably should tell him the rules of this dating-thing, because he's totally lost she decided.
In the end a gentle smile emerged on Kushina's face, making Minato's face almost break in two from his wide grin. "I like it." she confessed softly. This made Minato's day. Simple as that.
"Would you like to come in for awhile? I'm not quite ready yet."
"Sure."
And this is how Minato found himself located by Kushina's kitchen table, having a staring contest with the photo of Kushina's dead parents. This started innocently enough with Minato jokingly thinking that if her father was here he'd tell Minato not to lay a finger on his daughter (because that's what Minato imagined all dads to say when someone was dating their daughter). However, this soon got out of hand as Minato actually think he saw her father's grey paper-eyes follow him as he bent down to pick up a forgotten senbon on the floor. In the end Minato decided that it was quite logical that the parents would watch over their only daughter. So Minato stared right back at them, determined not to show any weaknesses (essential if you're fighting an invisible enemy, and ghosts are invisible and besides Minato was not afraid of ghosts anyway).
At one point he asked himself what her father would be able to do if he DID go beyond kissing Kushina tonight. It's not like her father could do anything to him. Heck, Minato could molest Kushina as much as he wanted (as long as Kushina agreed and she was more into that stuff than he was anyway) and her father would not be able to do a thing. At this thought Minato cracked a smile. However, that smile froze when the eyes of her father suddenly seemed to glow a fiendish red and grin madly at him. Minato's poor heart tried to save its owner by stopping its movements entirely (it wanted to be quiet).
And this is how Kushina then later found Minato. Pale, rigid and staring at her shelf with all of her photographs in fear. In the end she kind of enjoyed the deep respect Minato seemed to suddenly show her. He was a complete gentleman during the whole evening and listened to everything she had to say, he even agreed on most of it too! Though it got annoying when he stood one meter away from her during the chaste good night kiss (and not one of those hot, tongue kisses they usually share) before quickly saying good night and speeding away quickly in a fashion fitting the man nicknamed "the Yellow flash of Konoha".
This is why it took awhile for Naruto to be conceived. Perhaps the outcome of the Kyuubi attack would have been different if Minato had not gotten into eye-contact with Kushina's long-time deceased father that fateful day. We'll never know for sure.
