Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
This story takes place when Minato and Kushina were kids. And there will be Narration.
"Hello. My name is Otaku Hyūga. And I was born into one of the Four Noble Clans which resided in Konohagakure... The Hyūga Clan. The Hyūga Clan are really strong in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu and possess one of the Three Great Dōjutsus known to people. The Byakugan, which can see through adamant objects and it can discover people's chakra networks. I have the potential to awaken the Byakugan, along with the rest of my Clan, but I have yet to do it, due to lack of training. I was born within the Branch Household of the Hyūga Estate. Meaning, that every member of my household has to protect the Main Household and the secrets of the Byakugan from outsiders. It's more of a part-time job, if you think about it. But I was never into training and wanting to get stronger. I am more of a bookworm."
"Otaku! Otaku! Otaku
Otaku's pure white eyes shot open as he had gained consciousness. He had gasped after hearing a feminine voice cry his name multiple times. He looked around within his small traditional Japanese room, which had a number of learning scrolls left open. Otaku then glanced upward to see a taller feminine woman with long smooth black hair that she tied loosely and let sit on her left shoulder. She also has fair skin and blank eyes staring down at me. She was dressed in a feminine black kimono and the woman stood over Otaku and stared down at him in a bit of disappointment. "Oh, h-hi, mom." Otaku sat up from his white Japanese futon mattress and greeted his mother, named Tomoko Hyūga. Otaku yawned a bit. "What time is it?"
"It's almost Eight thirty in the morning!" Tomoko pointed toward Otaku's circular clock, as she stared down at her son.
"Almost... eight thirty?" Otaku rubbed his eyes a bit.
"Yes! If you don't hurry, you're gonna be late to the Academy, again!" Tomoko yelled.
After Otaku heard what his mother, Tomoko had told him, Otaku then gasped in horror. His eyes grew big in fear. "I-I-I am?" Otaku then looked at his circular clock and noticed that the longer arm of his clock was on the number ten and the shorter arm was almost on number eight.
"Yes! If you don't hurry, your father is not going to be pleased with you being tardy, again!" Tomoko warned her son, Otaku.
After taking the information in, Otaku then jumped out of his futon mattress and started cleaning up his room in a fast pace, like his life depended on it. "Oh no! I can't afford to be late to school, again!" A minute after cleaning up his room, he then changed from his brown pajamas into his black gakuran that his mother makes him wear to school. 'Disappointing father would be the last thing that I ever want to do!' Otaku thought.
"You don't have to worry about breakfast as I already made it for you." Tomoko said as she crossed her arms as she watched her son, Otaku dress up. "You can take it, while on the way to the Academy."
"T-thank you, mom!" Otaku yelled as he buttoned up his gakuran, then ran to the kitchen. He looked around a bit, until he saw a bento box with his name on it. Then he grabbed the bento box, and tried to run out of the Hyuuga Estate.
"Hold it!" Tomoko yelled, causing her son, Otaku to stop in his tracks.
Otaku slowly turned his body around and faced his own mother, Tomoko. "Y-yes, mom?"
Tomoko quickly jumped in front him, leaving a four feet gap between them. "Aren't you forgetting something?" Tomoko asked Otaku, while staring at him with her activated Byakugan.
Otaku sweated a bit as he stared at he stared at her. "N... no?" Otaku slowly looked at Tomoko's activated Byakugan, which intimidated him. And without warning, Tomoko grabbed Otaku's cheeks, leaned her head in and kissed Otaku on his forehead. This threw Otaku off guard when he felt his mother's lips make contact with his forehead.
"Have a nice day." Tomoko smiled and removed her hands from his cheeks.
"Eh... yes!" Otaku shook his head in a fast pace, before leaving the Hyuuga Estate and running to the Academy. "Thank you, mom! Gotta go!"
"While you're there, please do your best to stay away from trouble!" Tomoko yelled as she waved Otaku goodbye.
Otaku ran through the streets of Konohagakure toward the Academy. He tried his best not to bump into people or trip over adamant objects as he ran.
"That woman you all just saw was my mom. Tomoko Hyūga. She was a very strong Shinobi, when she was my age. I heard that she was once a guard for the Fire Daimyō, before she decided to settle down and marry my dad. She's really kind. But whenever she gets angry... her fury would rival that of a Bijū. You know what they say about women. Hell has no Fury, like a woman's Scorn. So, I do what I can to never make her or my father upset. Who's a Jōnin."
Fifteen Minutes Later...
Otaku Hyūga had finally made it to his classroom within Konoha's Shinobi Academy, but he was short out of breath.
"Otaku Hyūga. It's good to see that you have come to class, late. Again." Shuichi said, acting nonchalant.
"I'm sorry that I'm late, again, Shuichi-sensei!" Otaku apologized to his homeroom teacher. He panted.
"It's fine. Just take an open seat." Shuichi told Otaku.
"R-Right!" Otaku quickly bowed his head, then looked around the classroom for an open seat.
"I'm not always late to Class. Sometimes, I over study and I end up falling asleep without finishing and setting an alarm. That's why I'm late."
As Otaku had looked and tried to find an open seat, he spotted his childhood friend, Minato Namikaze sitting in one of the middle rows of the classroom. 'Hey, it's Minato!' Otaku waved to Minato, who smiled and waved back.
"Minato is one of my best friends in the Classrooms. We've known each other, since we were kids. He was the smart, talented and cool kid in the class, while I'm just... smart. Minato would always excel in Ninjutsu and Taijutsu. Minato would often catch a lot of attention from girls that are from different classes, while I catch attention from bullies who want to pick on brainiacs, like me. Minato is nice enough to tell bullies to lay off and stop picking on me. But that's only when I'm around him."
'Okay, so where should I-' Otaku looked around the classroom to find an open spot, until he stopped and spotted a redheaded girl kneeling on top of a tanned boy with dark brown hair in the upper back and punching the back of his head. Otaku couldn't take his eyes off her head.
Otaku had completely froze.
"I thought my day at the Academy would be normal, like any other... But then, everything changed, when I met a girl with long smooth red hair. Someone I have never seen or heard of, before."
"Huh?" Kushina had noticed Otaku Hyūga.
Otaku gasped when Kushina made eye contact with him. His body was still frozen.
"Why are you staring at me like that? Who are you?" Kushina caught Otaku staring at her, she slowly stood up from kneeling on one of her bullies and slowly approached Otaku Hyūga. "Are you gonna make fun of my hair, too?"
"Eh... wait, what?" Otaku started to feel nervous as when Kushina approached him. "No, I-"
"I wanted to move, but my body was twitchy and my mind was too nervous to think about moving."
"Because, if you are planning to make fun of me..." Kushina yelled, as she grabbed Otaku by his Gakuran collar. "Then I'll show no mercy to you!" Kuahina yelled as she was about a throw a hard right punch toward Otaku's face.
"N-no! I think your hair is actually beautiful!" Otaku blurted out loud in a fast pace, then covered his mouth in embarrassment and closed his eyes shut.
After hearing that last sentence, Kushina's entire body paused. Her right knuckle was a few centimeters from making contact with Otaku's face. "Huh?"
Otaku slowly opened up his left eye and saw Kushina's right fist lowered and her face blushing a tiny bit in front of him.
"Could you say it... again? I don't think I heard it, right." Kushina muttered.
Otaku paused as Kushina stared at him with a tiny blush on her face.
"I really thought that I was going to get punched by a girl that I had just met. But instead... I ended up complementing her hair."
He took a second to gulp, before slowly opened his mouth. "I... I sa-"
But before Otaku could repeat what he said, suddenly, the classroom burst in laughter. Most of the boys and some girls were laughing at the scene happening between Otaku and Kushina. Some of the bullies that Kushina had beaten had gotten up and laughed at the duo.
"Aw, look! The blind nerd has a crush!" One of the bullies teased Otaku, while pointing at him.
"How stupid is that?"
"She's probably gonna ask him to do her homework!"
"What an idiot! Complimenting on an outsider's hair!"
"I think you two would do great, together! An outsider and a branch boy!"
"Look at them! They're both pink!"
"I guess that's what you get when you mix white with red together!"
Otaku covered his face and started shaking his head no in embarrassment. 'What did I just start?'
"Mmph! Shut up, you guys!" Kushina yelled, still feeling embarrassed and irritated.
"I was going to compliment her hair, once more to earn her trust. But then the entire classroom just laughed at us. Well, most of the class did."
As most boys of the class kept laughing, Shuichi, the teacher of the classroom tried his best to bring them all to ease. Minato Namkiaze and a few other people in the classroom didn't laugh at all. Minato frowned a tiny bit as he looked at the duo, Otaku Hyuuga and Kushina Uzumaki.
Author's Note: Otaku Hyūga was inspired by Deku from My Hero Academia. There will be more.