Hello to all of those who have been waiting for this story! I am sorry for keeping you waiting but I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to do a certain thing in this chapter. But I should be posting another chapter after this one so please wait for it and on with this story!
At the tower Minato was reading some papers his new family had sent hi when he heard an urgent pecking on his window. He turned around and saw a bird desperately pecking on the window and trying to get inside. He opened the window and the bird flew in, turning into Sakumo once he was inside all of the way: "Sakumo! What..." "Hokage-sama we need you to come home right away!" "Why? What is the matter? Is there something wrong with my Angel-chan!?" "Please just come with me because there is a major problem!" Minato widened his eyes in concern and they took off through the window and then Minato put a hand on the shoulder of his friend and they disappeared in a yellow flash, neither of them noticing that Kakashi was on his way to the office and saw what had just happened: "Father?"
At the house the two reappeared in the living room: "PAPA! PAPA! PAPA!" The two ran upstairs and into the bedroom of Naruto where the clone of Sakumo was trying to hold a thrashing Naruto down, a kick finally making it disappear. Minato rushed forward and held his thrashing son tightly, ignoring the pain when he was hit: "Calm down my little Angel-chan daddy is here. You are safe with me baby so please calm down love." Naruto slowly stopped thrashing and calmed down, Sakumo and Minato seeing that he was still comatose. Minato created a shadow clone and replaced himself with it then went with Sakumo into the room across the hall where he saw the three strange boys lying asleep on the large bed: "So these are the boys who you found in the room with my Angel-chan Sakumo?"
Sakumo nodded and said: "I was downstairs making something to eat when Naruto-sama started screaming. I came upstairs and saw these three lying unconscious on the ground and he was thrashing around on the bed. I had to go and get you because I had no idea what to do with these three." Minato nodded and moved forward to remove the sleep inducing seals but not the chakra suppression seals. The three boys slowly opened their eyes and they widened in fear when they saw the two unfamiliar figures standing there looking at them. They huddled together on the bed and one of the brown haired boys asked in a quiet yet slightly frightened voice: "W...where are we now and who are you? H...how did we get out of the library?"
Minato sat down next to the bed and asked in a stern voice as Sakumo watched them with caution: "Who are you and how did you get by all of my security seals? Why were you in the bedroom of my son?" The three sat in silence for a minute but then one of the brown haired boys sat up a little and said: "We had to escape our world because it was collapsing on itself. We thought we would be lost within the corridors of time but then we heard voices and followed them until we found ourselves in a library. A being who called himself Kami sent us here and now we are here." Minato just stared at them for a moment but he saw no lies in their eyes so he took the seals off of their foreheads and said in a calmer voice: "I can see that you mean no harm to my Angel-chan so you are welcome to stay in our home but do not go near his bedroom without our permission because he has a certain condition that makes him ill when he gets too close to strangers."
The boys nodded and Minato turned to Sakumo: "Put them in a room on the first floor and come for me should something else happen to my Angel-chan. I will leave my shadow clone here and if you need to send me a message tell it to him and pop it so I can get the information and you do not have to come into Konoha again." Sakumo nodded and was going to say something when they heard: "Daddy?" Minato whipped around and tears came to his eyes when he saw his son standing in the doorway wiping the sleep from his eye, the patch actually shining on his face: "ANGEL-CHAN!" Minato went across the room and took his son into his arms, the tears rolling down both of their faces: "I missed you so very much daddy!" The two slowly moved out of the room and Sakumo said to the three boys: "None of you are to leave this room until Yondaime-sama says that you can leave the room." The boys nodded and he left the room, the door closing and the three breathing out sighs of relief.
Downstairs in the sitting room Naruto was curled up next to his father as Minato held him tightly: "Oh Angel-chan you have no idea how much I have missed you." "But I have been here the entire time daddy." "But it was as if you were not here. You just looked so small and helpless in that bed and it made me angry that there was nothing that I could do to help." Naruto gave his father a tight hug and he said: "You were actually able to help me a lot daddy. I could feel it when you would hold my hand and tell me stories and when you would kiss me on the forehead before telling me good night, so do not say that you did nothing to help me while I was comatose. Just hearing your voice calmed me while I was training." Minato wiped a tear from his eye and they just sat talking about everything that had happened in the last few years.
One Week Later...
Obito was coming back from a mission to Whirlpool when he noticed how happy Minato now looked as opposed to how he had been the last few years: "You seem more lively than you have been in years Minato-sensei. Did something goo happen to you while I was gone?" Minato closed the door, activated his unbreakable privacy seals and said happily: "Angel-chan woke up a week ago!" Obito widened his eyes in surprise and said as Minato leaned back with a big smile on his face: "That is just good news Sensei! How has he been doing?" "He is still trying to get his muscles and limbs back to normal from lying in bed for nearly five years. But I do have some good news that concerns you though. His 'episodes' are gone and he would like to meet you some day soon. But you do know what will happen if you tell ANYONE about him." Obito nodded at the scary look in the eyes of his Sensei and Minato said once he had calmed down and the seals had been deactivated: "So how was your mission Obito?"
Obito handed him the mission report and said with a small smile on his face: "It went as well as could be expected. King and Queen Uzumaki are going to come to the village in a month to celebrate...well you know what I am talking about. They also need to give you the royal crest tattoo to mark you as an Uzumaki prince." "NO!" the two turned towards the window and saw Jiraiya sitting on the window ledge with a look of desperation on his face: "Please don't do this Minato! Your mother and I can make it up to you just please don't have yourself marked as the child of another!" Jiraiya jumped into the room and tried to grab his son but was suddenly grabbed by snakes and pinned into a far wall, Obito glaring at him with his Sharingan activated and the snakes coming from his sleeves: "How DARE you attack the Hokage Jiraiya-san! I should throw you to Ibiki for this!" Jiraiya started to cry and kept struggling but he kept tightening the snakes until the struggle started to weaken: "Don't leave us alone please Minato! We just wanted you to be happy!"
With that going on in the Hokage Tower Naruto was in his prayer room doing his usual prayers. For a week he was able to get himself used to being around those in the house but he was barely able to keep from passing out when around them but he was able to hide it well. He managed to make friends with the three boys Tsubasa, Syaoran and Kimihiro and Sakumo as well. And during prayer time he was able to spend some time with his beloved Kami and their nine sons, all of whom kept trying to get his attention in different ways and making the two laugh at what they were doing. Once he had finished his prayers he lit an extra candle on each of the altars as he always did and used his cane to leave the room to shuffle into the kitchen to make lunch for those in the house and a special lunch for his father who had to go into the office in the morning after staying home with him for four day straight after he awoke from his coma: "What in the name of Kami-sama is going on here?"
The noise in the kitchen stopped and three heads slowly poked out from the other side of the center island covered in flour, chocolate and soy sauce, which was also all over the walls and other things as well. Naruto took some calming breaths and Kimihiro said in an embarrassed voice: "We are so sorry about this mess Naruto-sama! I wanted to make something for lunch and Syaoran came in wanting to help. But then Tsubasa came in trying to put soy sauce in everything and it all went downhill from there." Naruto shook his head in amusement and had the three of them clean up their mess before going upstairs to clean themselves up as well. When they came back downstairs almost forty-five minutes later they went back into the kitchen and their jaws dropped in surprise and shock. The table was set for five people ad had a large platter of beef steaks, some steamed vegetable, tempura fried shrimp, white rice, miso soup and a white chocolate ice cream in the freezer for dessert. Sakumo was already sitting at the table almost drooling over the food on one end while Naruto was setting down a pot of mint tea: "Lunch is ready so please come and sit."
In the Hokage Tower they had managed to calm down Jiraiya but now he was in a chakra suppression cell underneath ANBU Headquarters, Tsunade in an interrogation room with chakra suppression cuffs on her as well. Ibiki sat in front of her on the other side of the table and asked in his hard voice: "Genin Tsunade, why have you and Genin Jiraiya been after Hokage-sama and trying to get him to do things for so long? You are constantly after him for one reason or another and never approved of his marriage to Lady Kushina." Tsunade wiped the tears from her eyes, looked down and said: "There was a prophecy given by the Great Toad Sage that a most powerful child would be born to our son and would bring great prosperity to Konoha. Kushina could not give him a child so we tried to have our son fall in love with someone who could give him a child so we could fulfill the prophecy and have Konoha become great once again. But if Minato gets marked as an Uzumaki prince then it will never come to pass!"
On the other side of the two-way mirror Minato froze and glared at his mother through the mirror, Obito at his side with a pissed off look on his face and his Sharingan blazing: "They tried to ruin your happy life just to bring something to pass and bring Konoha to greatness?" Minato pushed a button on the side and said as Ibiki smiled as if Christmas had come early: "Ibiki you have free reign to do what you want with them but be sure that they at least live to suffer the consequences of their actions." "Yes sir Hokage-sama! Uchiha-gaki get Hokage-sama out of here. He does not need to see or hear this." Obito pouted at what he had been called but nodded and left with the Hokage in a swirl of leaves to get back to the Tower where Minato sank down into his chair behind his desk while Obito sat down in one of the chairs o the other side of the desk.
Obito was going to say something when there was a poof on the desk and two plates of food appeared, two mugs of steaming tea sitting next to them with two sets of chopsticks next to the plates as well. Minato smiled and said: "I guess that he knew you were going to be here Obito. Now let us enjoy lunch and leave this awful business behind us." Obito nodded enthusiastically and the two said a short prayer before digging into their food, their eyes turning into stars at the wonderful that were dancing over their tongues: "Oh dear Kami I have missed this! This food is just heaven for my mouth!" They dug into their food with even more gusto and in no time they had finished everything and set the used dished in a neat pile on top of the small seal. A moment later they were gone and two medium sized covered bowls appeared in their place, two spoons at their side and two glasses of ice cold raspberry smoothies next to them.
They carefully uncovered the bowls and almost squealed in glee when they saw the white chocolate ice cream with whipped cream, marshmallow sauce and a candied cherry on top. Minato and Obito each picked up their bowl and slowly ate their sweet treats, their eyes almost rolling into the back of their heads because of the delicious flavors: "Minato-sensei where do you buy this kind of ice cream and toppings?" Minato made sure his unbreakable seals were activated before popping his cherry into his mouth: "Angel-chan makes everything that we eat at home. We have an indoor underground garden under one of our training areas and he grows all kinds of fruits and vegetables down there. The only things that I buy are like sugar, flour and other things like that." Obito nodded and the two continued eating their dessert, happy smiles on their faces as they did so.
Back at the house later in the day Tsubasa was walking by the entrance to one of the lower level training rooms when he heard the sound of fluttering wings and the clash of blades, which made him curious on what would be able to make that noise. He put a hand on the door and slid it open quietly, slowly making his way down the stairs while the noise was getting louder and louder. When he reached the bottom he turned a corner and froze completely, a look of awe on his face and stars in his eyes. Standing on the far side of the room was Sakumo, a sword that seemed to be glowing white in his hands but that is not what got his attention. Naruto was on the side he was standing on wearing a flowing and glowing white tunic, white sandals that covered his entire foot with his blond hair flowing behind his back like a golden waterfall. And what surprised him the most were the ten layer set of wings on his back that were the purest white he had ever seen. He was thinking that if there was a little bit of blue in the outfit that he would look like the Guardian of the Clow Yue: "Tsubasa-san?"
Tsubasa broke out of his stupor and saw Sakumo standing there with curiosity on his face but Naruto nowhere in the room: "I could have sword that I saw an angel a moment ago." Sakumo smiled slightly and said as the two walked back up the stairs: "I believe that you may be seeing things Tsubasa-san. Now you should go back to the ground floor while I go back down to clean up what I was doing before going back up." Tsubasa nodded and went up the rest of the stairs while Sakumo went back downstairs to find Naruto coming out of the back room with his cane tapping against the floor and a strange sound of metal following as well but he did not see anything: "I was hoping that no one would see that form yet Sakumo." "You don't need to worry about anything Angel-sama. I believe that I convinced him what he saw was a figment of his imagination." Naruto breathed a sigh of relief and took a hidden passage to his underground garden to collect some of the ripe vegetables and giving an excuse of where he had been in case the others asked where he had been.
In the garden Naruto grabbed a large basket from his supply area and went to the very large vegetable patch, limping slightly because he put his cane off to the side so he would be able to work well with the vegetables. Once he had picked what he was going to need he went to the corn stalks on the other side of the room and got some white and yellow corn to boil for a nice snack since he had ran out of raisins. Once he was done he grabbed his cane and slowly walked up the stairs, holding the basket and cane at the same time: "I should have gone to ask if someone could have brought this up for me. I cannot wait until my leg is completely healed and I can get rid of this metal annoyance." Naruto was almost to the top of the stairs when the door jerked open and Minato appeared a happy smile on his face: "Surprise Angel-chan!" Naruto jumped from the sudden noise and his face was suddenly filled with fear as he lost his footing, the basket falling and causing him to tumble down the stairs, the young man landing head first on the hard ground and being knocked unconscious: "ANGEL-CHAN! SAKUMO PLEASE COME QUICKLY!"
The door to the indoor garden jerked open and Sakumo looked in, his face in shock when he saw Minato on his knees next to Naruto, whose head was bleeding from where he had hit it on the hard floor: "Angel-sama! Hokage-sama what in the worlds happened?" Sakumo grabbed some towels and dashed down the stairs to try and stop the bleeding wound on his head and the one on his side that he got when he landed on a discarded gardening tool that was by the stairs: "I...I just wanted to s...surprise him with the treat I bought for him in the village this morning and h...he lost his footing on the stairs because he was holding a large basket of v...vegetables and his cane at the same time!"
Sakumo tried to calm Minato down but before he could say anything the two wounds started to glow white and healed before their eyes, the good eye of Naruto slowly opening to look at them: "Ouch..what just happened to me? Daddy? What are you doing home from work already? It is only a little past lunch time." Minato squeezed his son tightly and Sakumo said: "He bought you something from the village this morning after he left but when he appeared not long ago you were unprepared and tumbled down the stairs, getting wounds on your head and side in the process." The eye of Naruto widened but then he saw that his pant legs were still in place so he breathed a sigh of relief and hugged his father tightly: "Do not worry about anything daddy I am just fine. I should have had someone take the basket upstairs for me instead of trying to make my way up alone."
Minato let Naruto go and said as he wiped a tear from his eyes: "I was so scared that you were going to fall into a coma again Angel-chan. Nearly five years was enough to suffer through." Naruto smiled and Minato helped him stand and handed over his cane while Sakumo gathered the fallen vegetables and took them into the kitchen to wash while Minato hugged Naruto once more: "I put your surprise in the pantry if you are going to look for it later. I have to go back to work now and I may be a little late because there are some things we have to organize for the arrival of the Whirlpool royal family in a month. Konoha is also hosting the Chunin exams this year so there is much to do and people are already arriving so be careful okay? The second phase is going to take place on the other side of the barriers in the Forest of Death."
Naruto stopped short and turned around to face his father, a worried look in his eye: "D...does it have to go through the Forest of Death daddy? I am barely getting used to Sakumo, Kimihiro Syaoran and Tsubasa being so close. I do not even want to think of what might happen with all of those strange signatures going through the Forest so close to home." Minato gave him another hug and said: "I am so sorry about this Angel-chan but we need to test their survival skills and no other place in Konoha can do that." Naruto did not say anything bit when the two pulled apart Minato noticed the nervous twitch in his body and the fear shining in his eye, his skin paling slightly and making the bruise on his blind eye more apparent, the both of them knowing that something was going to happen that was going to change their lives as they knew it.
I hope that you enjoyed this segment and I hope to post another chapter in the next few days or so. And just a warning the next chapter is either going to get you pissed off at Minato or me, depending on your mindset. Now I hope you read and review and see you again next time! Obi-Chan