I DO NOT OWN DREAMING OF SUNSHINE OR NARUTO
I am merely making use of their characters, settings, and themes to tell a different story.
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Well, I think that covers all of my bases, so with that out of the way, on to the fic!
Chapter 4: Introducing: Team Lucky 7!
"The Sixth Hokage, sir."
Now, under normal circumstances, Minato likely would have responded to such a statement in a placating manner while covertly signaling for his ANBU to incapacitate the imposter in order to have them shipped off to T&I where Inoichi and Ibiki could better ascertain their motives. Under the present circumstances, however, not only was Minato certain that the individual before him was more than capable of evading his ANBU, but he had also just seen her summon the Shinigami, converse with it, and then seal part of the Kyuubi into his son - without dying, something which should have been impossible given the conditions of the technique she just used. Taking these things into consideration, even if he didn't believe her claim to be true, he had little choice but to employ a more diplomatic approach when dealing with her.
Pasting on his best people pleasing smile, Minato deliberately situates his body to in such a way shield Kushina and Naruto from the woman's view - an action that certainly didn't go unnoticed by the woman, though given the slight upwards twitch of her lips not one she was offended by either.
"The sixth Hokage you say? I'm glad to see that the village continues to endure." He demures
Rather than offer a response to his statement, the woman instead shifts her gaze to a few meters left of where Minato and his family stand. Upon following her line of sight Minato is initially greeted by nothing but empty space, only for that to change when mere moments later four men appear in a shunshin.
With everything going on Minato had already been utilizing his sensor technique to act as a sort of early warning system, so he had felt the approaching signatures moments before they first appeared. As a result, Minato had already adopted that deceptively relaxed posture that all shinobi developed upon reaching a certain level - the one that would allow him to engage in combat at a moment's notice. In the back of his mind, he added ' advanced sensor capabilities ' to the ever growing list of skills he had seen the woman use, as she had clearly detected their approach well before himself.
Taking in these new arrivals, he was quick to abandon all pretense of relaxation in favor of an actual combat stance as soon as he recognized one of them as his wife's attacker. Had Kushina not been in as vulnerable a condition as she was at the moment, he likely would have attacked the newcomers as soon as he realized who was among them. In her current state however, he was loath to leave her or Naruto exposed to any of these unknowns.
In the end, it was probably for the best that he hadn't attacked this new group. Based on the relaxed manner both the woman and the men had towards each other, Minato suspected that they were at the very least familiar with one another, a suspicion proven correct only moments later as the dark haired one spoke (Minato carefully didn't allow himself to linger too long on the all too familiar shade of bright yellow one of them sported. His hair color - and in turn this new arrivals as well - was particularly unique in the elemental nations. That this man had this exact shade…well, the possible implications were troubling)
"Hokage-sama, we've succeeded in our objective. The target has been rendered unconscious and had his chakra sealed. He awaits transportation to T&I." He said, bowing his head respectfully as he finished speaking.
As the dark haired man had spoken, the blond's expression had grown progressively more confused. Now clearly finished delivering his report of their successful mission, the blond decided to speak, "Eh? Sasuke, why're you talking like that, it's weird."
Minato could practically see the tick of annoyance appear above the man's - Sasuke's - brow as he reached over and smacked the blond on the back of his head.
"We're in front of a foreign Kage you idiot!" Sasuke hissed at his companion.
At this point they had both dropped the hold they'd had on the man who'd attacked Kushina, causing his unconscious form to fall limply to the ground as it lost its support - not that either man seemed to pay it much mind.
As the men began to trade increasingly nonsensical insults, the gray-haired man casually walked to stand beside the woman, amusement clear on his face ( his masked face, Minato absently noted) even as the woman ran a hand down her face before looking towards the sky as if pleading with the heavens to grant her patience.
Just as it seemed that Sasuke and his companion would come to blows, the gray-haired man finally decided to intervene.
"Mah, Naruto, Sasuke, please consider our current audience."
The sound of the man's voice caused both men to freeze before jumping apart and adjusting themselves as though they weren't a pair of fully grown men who had only moments ago been arguing like 10 year olds. Behind him he could hear Kushina's no doubt valiant attempt to muffle a giggle behind her hand at the two men's antics. Like himself, she would also have realized that the entire confrontation had taken place in an attempt to get them to lower their guards around these strangers - an attempt to paint themselves as amusing and immature to distract from the fact that they had both just showed up carrying the unconscious body of a man Minato himself would be hard pressed to defeat, much less capture.
All of these thoughts raced about in the background, but in truth there was one particular detail about the gray haired man's statement that stood out above all others. The blond man… he had called him Naruto .
(The womans introduction echoed in his mind: The Sixth Hokage, sir)
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