Disclaimer: (See Chapter 1)

A/N: There will most likely be a time skip after the dinner scene next chapter. I'll be using the heights from the anime, so Minato is 5' 9" and Daisuke is 5' 6". This chapter is mostly about the friendship of Naruto, Kyosuke and Kirino. If you've read the story when it was authored by the (original) last author you may notice that he only had 2 chapters, sooo this is the first original chapter of my own creation. Without further ado lets get started.

Chapter 3: A Park, A Race and New Friends!

Minato along with the three kids started walking towards the park, or at least where Minato thought the park was located. After about fifteen minutes of silent walking Naruto turned to Kyosuke,

"Didn't we already pass that house before?" Naruto whispered.

"Ya, I think so. Does your dad know where the park is?" Kyosuke answered back quietly.

"Probably not, he tends to forget things easily." Naruto whispered back.

"I can hear you, Naruto." Minato said glancing back at his son. "I know where the park is, I just don't know how to get there on foot." Minato continued as he looked around.

"Then why didn't we drive here, Mr. Namikaze?" Kyousuke asked.

"I thought some fresh air and some walking would be good for us, but it would've been a lot easier to get there by car." Minato said as he pulled out his phone and looked up directions.

"No worries! Thanks to the advancement of technology we'll get there in a flash." Minato exuberantly said as he held his phone.

"So which way, dad?" Naruto asked as his father looked down at his phone.

"Hmmm, according to this it seems we were three blocks to far though I could've sworn that this was the right way. Oh well who am I to argue with technology?" Minato mumbled to himself before leading the four of them towards the park.

"How much farther, dad?" Naruto asked as they've been walking for what seemed like an hour even though in reality its only be fifteen minutes.

"Well all we have to do is make a right then a left then 2 more rights and-" Minato was saying before his phone died. "-Ummm...I'm sure we'll see it by then...hopefully" Minato finished whispering the last part.

As it turns out not quietly enough.

"EH?!, what do you mean by hopefully?" Naruto said.

"Uhhh...My phone died and I don't remember the directions, all I remember are the directions I said." Minato nervously chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.

He can imagine how downright angry Daisuke would be if his kids told them they got lost.

'I'll just have to get to the park and use the fun of the park to make them forget that we were lost' Minato thought.

"Are...Are we lost, Nii-san?" Kirino asked as she looked at her older brother.

"I think-" Kyosuke was beginning to say.

"-Not." Minato both interrupted and finished for Kyosuke.

"Weren't we going to the park? Didn't we pass the park?" Kirino asked as she pointed behind them.

Minato, being the tallest out of them, squinted in the direction Kirino was pointing, and lo and behold in the distance was the park.

"Good job, Kirino." Kyosuke said as he smiled at his little sister.

Kirino just blushed slightly from being the center of attention.

"How did I miss that?" Minato asked as they started walking towards the park.

"You were on your phone." Naruto said to his father.

"What did you even search that would lead us away from that park?" Naruto continued.

Thinking back on the search bar that was on his phone.

"Oh, I may have accidentally typed in Oark instead of Park, honest mistake really." Minato answered.

"But what matters is that we found the park and now we can have fun." he continued.

"Kyousuke." Naruto said looking at the boy.

"Yes?" Kyosuke answered.

"I'll race you to the park!" Naruto said already running ahead.

"Hey! No fair!" Kyousuke yelled as he ran after him.

"*Sigh* What am I going to do with them?" Minato asked.

He looked at Kirino and saw that she was torn between running after them or staying with him.

"Lets go!" Minato said as he picked up and placed Kirino and his shoulders and ran after the two boys and since he was significantly taller than both Naruto and Kyosuke easily caught up to them at the entrance of the park.

When he arrived he put Kirino down and they all walked through the threshold of the park.

"So, who won?" Minato asked as they found a bench to eat at.

"Naruto did, but only because he had a head start." Kyosuke said sending a mock glare at Naruto.

"Nuh uh, you're just too slow." Naruto responded back.

"Well you can always have a rematch, we are at a park after all." Minato said.

Minato stood up and motioned the boys to stand as well, after seeing them do so he made a line in the dirt and pointed to a jungle gym that wasn't being used.

"For this race, you both shall stand behind this line and when I say go you will run to that jungle gym and back and whomever cross this line first wins, ok?" Minato explained as the jungle gym he pointed to was about twenty-five yards away.

"Seems fair." Kyosuke agreed as he got ready.

"Ya, Let's do this." Naruto said.

Once both boys were behind the line with Minato making sure that not even a tiny part of their feet were over said line.

"Ok, we all understand the rules, right?" Minato asked as he looked at both of them.

""Yes!"" both boys yelled at the same time.

"Ready!" Minato started.

At this both boys got into a running stance.

"Set!" Minato continued.

Both boys felt their hearts race as the excitement grew.

"GO!" Minato yelled as he swung his arm down.

Both boys took off as fast as their legs could go, Kyosuke pulling a little ahead of Naruto, not to be outdone Naruto forced himself to go faster.

-Meanwhile with Minato and Kirino-

"So, Kirino who do think is going to win?" Minato asked as he focused on the race.

"Nii-san will win for sure!" Kirino cheered.

Minato chuckled as he saw that the boys were running back. Naruto was ahead by a small distance but he was tiring as he felt the muscles in his legs burning from exhaustion. Kyosuke seeing Naruto slowing down a little took this as his chance a pushed ahead. When they were ten feet away from the finish line, they were neck to neck trying to pass one another.

"Umm... ?" Kirino asked, causing Minato to turn around a look at her.

"Yes, something wrong Kirino?" Minato replied.

"No, its just I'm hungry and I wanted to know when we can eat?" Kirino asked.

"After the race we can ea-" Minato started to say.

"Who...won, dad?" Naruto interrupted panting from exhaustion.

"Hmmm? Oh! right sorry I got distracted and didn't see." Minato chuckled as he notice the two glares he received from both boys.

"Annnywaaaay, I'm sure you will get another chance soon enough, but for now let's eat." Minato said as he brought out Yoshino's food.

Inside were four bento boxes that consisted of some curry and rice. Minato handed each of the children their own dish as well as a bottle of water.

"Well, then lets eat!" Minato said.

"Itadakimasu!" they all said in unison as they began to eat.

After finishing up and packing everything away, they all sat relaxing as the gentle breeze blew across their faces and the sound of nature and full stomachs made them drowsy.

"So, uhh, Mr. Namikaze?" Kyosuke started to ask.

"Yes?" Minato responded.

"What is your job?" Kyosuke asked.

"Oh, I'm a Captain in the Air Self Defense Force." Minato responded with a broad smile while also puffing out his chest.

"What does a Captain do?" Kyosuke inquired.

"Well...uhhh...I mostly do paper work and make sure everything is running smoothly." Minato responded after thinking.

"...Oh...Sounds boring." Kyosuke said as he deflated at Minato's answer.

"Hey! Not everything has to be adventurous and filled with action, I mean your dad does a lot of paper work." Minato said.

Before Kyosuke could respond Naruto stood up.

"Anyway, instead of talking lets go do something fun." Naruto said as he started to walk towards the jungle gym.

Kyosuke and Kirino got up and followed after him while Minato moved to a bench at the edge of the playground. After playing for a couple of hours Minato decided it was time to go as the sky was turning red.

"It's getting late and I don't want to worry your parents, so let's head home." Minato said as they started walking out of the park.

"Do you remember how to get back, dad or are you going to get us lost again?" Naruto said as he looked up at his father.

"One, I didn't get us lost...we...uh...Just took the long route to get there and second, of course I remember, how easily do you think I forget things?" Minato said.

"Too easily" Naruto whispered to himself.

"What was that Naruto?" Mianto asked with a strict glare at his son.

"N...Nothing, Dad!" Naruto said as a shiver went down his spine.

"Good." Minato answered with a smile.

After awhile of walking they passed a store that had a TV in the front window that was playing an old anime called Menma.

"Ahh, This brings back memories." Minato said as he stopped to watch it.

"What is it?" Naruto asked having to look up to see it.

"It's about a young ninja that has to prove himself through hard work determination and he has all these crazy adventures. I remember I used to watch when I was a teen, It was awesome." Minato said as he recalled some of the episodes.

Naruto and Kirino were both entranced by the program.

"Hahaha, I guess you two like it?" Minato said as he noticed Kyosuke not really looking at the screen.

The two kids nodded unable to speak as they kept watching.

"I remember this episode, Its where Menma." at this Minato points to a black haired character that was standing in a field. "Fights against a traitor that killed the leader of his village, though if I remember correctly after this it was mostly filler episodes." Minato explained.

"anyway, sorry kiddos but we have to go soon or I'll probably get yelled at by Daisuke." Minato said as he dragged Naruto and Kirino away from the TV just as Menma was getting empowered by a strange energy.

"Aww come on dad I want to see what happens." Naruto said as Kirino just nodded.

"Maybe later, We still have to get ready, since we will be eating at their house." Minato replied.

After walking for five more minutes they finally reach their house. Knocking on the door Minato looked to see that Naruto and Kyosuke were arguing about who won the race. Yoshino opened the door with a smile.

"How was everything" she asked as Kirino and Kyosuke walked in the house to get ready for dinner.

"Good, they had a lot of fun and got along pretty well." Minato said.

"That's good, do you want to come in?" Yoshino asked.

"Nah, We need to go home to get ready, though we'll be back shortly for dinner." Minato responded.

"That's fine, see you at dinner then." Yoshino said as he waved and shut the door.

"Well Naruto lets go get ready." Minato said as he and his son walked to their house.

A/N: That is it for Chap. 3. How did I do? hopefully well. Anyway next Chapter will be the dinner and a time skip. Yes, the anime that was on the TV was a reference to Naruto's other self in the Road to Ninja movie, it also will act as the catalyst for Naruto and Kirino in regards to liking anime/manga. so until then Thank you and Ja, mata! Space Jester Signing off!