Chapter 9: The tenth

“Wait… just two years…?” Naruto muttered.

The two blondes could only stare.

“How long have you and mom been together now?” Naruto finally muttered.

“Uhm… Four years, five months, twenty days, thirteen hours and…”

“Okay, okay, I don’t need to know the minutes and seconds!”

In the back Hinata and Kushina giggled.

“How about you two?” Kushina asked the girl next to her.

Alarmed Naruto rapidly turned around to his girlfriend and looked at her as if he asked her ‘you told her?’. Meanwhile he was blushing, realizing his parents were the ones here.
Hinata was looking back at him, also blushing and her eyes told him ‘I told, I’m sorry’.

“Today… I think we should thank Idzuna for it,” the blonde finally mumbled.

“Today?” Minato asked.

“Well actually the today in the future…”

“So just one day?”

“Well actually a few hours,” Naruto told still blushing, “I asked her just before we came her. Kyubi said something about finding out what happened.”

“Wow oh wait. Kyubi said what?” his father asked confused.

“That we need to find out what happened,” Naruto repeated.

“But you just told he is going to attack the village?”

“He does, but not out of own will. He was summoned by someone,” Hinata now said.

“Who?” Jiraiya asked.

“We don’t know,” Naruto said.

Three people stared confused at Naruto and Hinata.
Knocking on the door broke the silence and when Minato didn’t reply the person who knocked decided to come in. But there happened to be two people.

“Minato, are you in for a break? You shouldn’t stay here all day. …oh, you have visitors.”

Naruto blinked a few times when he saw the Hyuga leader, although now with a younger face. Next to him stood a woman with a somewhat shy aura around her. The blonde quickly realized this was Hinata’s mother and turned his face to his girlfriend. Hinata was in shock, but pretty much succeeded in hiding it. Naruto hoped she would be alright, but he knew exactly how she would feel right now.

In the meantime Minato had gotten a sly smile on his face.

“Hiashi, you have been hiding the name of your kid for months now. If I guess it you will allow my son to marry her when they’re old enough?”

“WHAT?!” shouted Naruto, Hinata and Kushina while Jiraiya on the other hand started to snort a little.

“And who says they will like each other?”

“Answer my question first.”

Hiashi sighed, “Fine, whatever. It’s not like you can guess it anyway.”

“Oh… might it be Hinata?”

“How did you….?”

Minato smirked as he pointed over to the dark haired girl with Hyuga eyes.

“Because she’s over there. But I won the bet.”

Hiashi and his wife blinked a few times and then Hiashi laughed.

“Yeah sure, Minato. Nice joke, I almost believed you. But how did you know it will be Hinata?”

Minato couldn’t answer for he had to dodge and attack of Naruto. The Yondaime manage to dodge Naruto’s first attack, however when he made a Rasengan the older blonde was cornered and also hit.
Kushina laughed a little as she walked over to her husband.

“That’s what you get for such foolishness.”

“Uhm, who are these two anyway?” Hiashi asked still figuring out if it was true what just saw.

“Well, in fact Minato wasn’t joking when he said the girl over there is your daughter. The thing he left out is, she is from the future. As was as Blondie over there who just almost killed his own father with his own technique,” Jiraiya explained seriously.

“Eh…?”

Puzzled Hiashi looked from Jiraiya to Hinata to Minato and to Naruto.

“It’s true,” Hinata said, “we were send by Kyubi.”

“Yeah… and I’m gonna die tomorrow,” Minato said as he rubbed his head, “why does Kyubi want to know anyway?”

“Because the Demon council want to know what happened I guess.”

“Demon council?” Kushina asked surprised, “you went there?”

“Well yeah. When I heard you could summon demons I wanted to learn that so Idzuna-chan can be with her father more often.”

“Who’s Idzuna?” Jiraiya asked.

“Kyubi’s kid. She thought I was her father because she felt her father’s chakra coming from me. She stayed over with Hinata-chan.”

“You… can summon demons?” the Yondaime whispered in awe.

“Yes, took six months though… well in the Demon realm… in fact I signed the scroll this morning after being released from the hospital… how did I get in the hospital again?” Naruto mumbled at the end.

It more or less continued like that for about three hours. Then people started to get hungry and the decided to order some ramen.
That night Naruto and Hinata found their beds in the same room. They were staying over at Naruto’s parents. Yet, the beds were separated. Blushing the two looked at each other for a second and then turned their face away. Both feeling awkward they got changed, not looking at each other. After that Naruto collapsed on the bed and more less fell asleep directly after that.

Hinata looked at the blonde with a smile before she turned around and went to sleep herself.

The next day was the big day. Well the worst day actually. Early in the morning there were running footsteps in the hallway. There was shouting everywhere.

“He’s coming this way?!”

“Hurry, bring everyone to the front. Prevent him from coming any closer!”

Naruto and Hinata quickly stepped out of bed and rushed to the door while they heard Idzuna’s voice.

“Now you won’t be seen or heard anymore.”

Confused Naruto and Hinata exchanged some expressions and then looked into the hallway. Naruto saw his parents standing not far away from them. His father looked worried at his mother.

“Kushina-chan, is everything alright?”

“N-no… I think it’s happening.”

Minato nodded and lay a hand on her shoulder as he kissed her, soon after that they disappeared.

Naruto and Hinata quickly changed into their clothes and rushed outside.

“Where do we start?” Naruto asked, not knowing what to do.

“Well, Kyubi is being sealed in you so what about the hospital?”

“Uhm… right…” Naruto mumbled.

Though he wasn’t making any move. Hinata grabbed his hand and looked at hime.

“Come on, let’s go, Naruto-kun.”

She pulled him along and got into the hospital. Looking at the list to see where they could find Kushina they then rushed over to the third floor.
Finally finding what they were looking for Naruto started to feel weird.

“I am looking at my own birth... don’t really want to see it. Looks painful.”

Hours passed as they saw a giant fox approaching the village through the window.

“Kyubi,” Naruto whispered as he saw the familiar demon killing people.

“He looks so angry,” Hinata shivered as she looked at the Kyubi.

Naruto, standing behind the girl, wrapped his arm around her.

“Don’t worry, I don’t think he can harm us, but he can harm others.”

He turned when hearing a crying sound, then saw himself as a younger version. He saw the nurses gently wrapping a blanket around him. After the woman give the new born to the mother and left.

“Minato do you really have to?” Kushina cried.

“I explained it to you yesterday, I’m sorry Kushina-chan,” the fourth whispered in great guilt.

“Isn’t there an option in which you don’t die?”

Minato shook his head, “This is the only option. Don’t worry, our son will be a hero from the day he’s born.”

Kushina nodded with a smile and received one back. After that they shared their last kiss. And when they parted Kushina handed over their son to her husband.

“Be strong Naru-chan. You too, Minato-kun.”

Minato nodded and had suddenly disappeared.

“Shoot, where did he go to?” Naruto whispered.

He stared at his mother who couldn’t see him anymore. He started to wonder what happened with her.

“Hinata-chan… would you please stay with mom while I go after dad? I want to know what happened to her… how she… died.”

Hinata looked at her boyfriend with compassion and nodded.

“Be careful,” she whispered as he jumped out of the window. She then turned he gaze back to the woman in the hospital bed.

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Naruto jumped from roof to roof.

“Dad must be where Kyubi is, but where exactly…?”

“Remember what I tell you now. When you look at the Hokage mountain you go to the right when standing out of the main gate. When you see a giant rock shaped like a turtle you turn a little to the left and will see a huge tree. Climb it, it’s the best view there is.”

“The tree!”

Quickly he went to the place Kyubi had told him and jumped up the tree. He then saw Gamabunta with his father on top and Kyubi who was swiping his tails dangerously.
Then the Yondaime started his jutsu as Naruto stared at all of it. Memorizing everything he saw.

His father was finished with the hand signs and now Naruto found out he had been holding him… well the baby him, all along.

“He has no idea of what he’s putting me through by doing that,” Naruto whispered as he slowly saw the Kyubi disappear and bright light cover the area.

The wind was blowing strongly and Naruto covered his face by his arms. He saw Gamabunta placing his father on the ground and then disappear.
For a few minutes the blonde didn’t move, merely stared into nothing. Then he slowly went down the tree, but suddenly heard running footsteps and looked around to find the source. To his big surprise it was his own mother.

“But she shouldn’t be able to run,” Naruto muttered.

“Naruto-kun!”

When he heard his name he quickly turned his head and found Hinata running over to him.

“I’m sorry, I lost sight of her. She drank something and after a few minutes she could move like she hadn’t been pregnant at all and then suddenly vanished.”

Naruto turned back to look in the direction his mother was running, but she was already gone. The blonde then jumped out of the tree. And as soon he touched Hinata’s hand the environment started to change again.