Legion of a ghost child

While the chunin exams were getting on their way in Suna, Konoha was dealing with their problems, mainly, Minato and Kushina. It seems that Minato had finally found out what Kushina had done to Naruto at the end of the video tap that they had been watching not so long ago. It had only been about a day since Minato found out, and he wasn't taking the news so well.

"Minato, I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me back then, I wasn't in the right state of mind! I didn't mean it, honest!" Kushina yelled up at her husband's window, while Minato happily ignored her, the redhead kunoichi frowned, "you can't do this to me! Those are my kids too, I have a right to at least see them, don't I?"

Meanwhile, inside the house, Narumi was watching as her mother yelled in the front yard. Narumi didn't know what was going on, or while her father had suddenly kicked her mom out of the house and forbade them all from seeing or talking to her. When she asked what her mom did, her father simply said, "she crossed a line that can't be uncrossed, ever,"  to this statement, Narumi was confused. What could her mother have to do to make her sweet and kind father throw her out of the house with all of her clothes and other belongings? It had all happened when Narumi was coming home from training with her godfather, Jiraya, or as she likes to call him, pervy sage. She had walked up to the house, very tired and fully intending to take a nice long bath when all of a sudden, a body comes flying out into the yard just a few away from her. To her shock, that body was her mom's, Narumi had looked up to the door to see that her father was standing there, angrier than she had ever seen him in her life. Before she could think of what just happened, her father started throwing all of her mom's stuff out onto the yard from the second story window, from that point until a few minutes ago, she had witnessed something that she had never seen her parents do before. They argued. Well, they've argued in front of her and her siblings before, but those petty little things were crumbs in the wind compared to the fight that had taken place right then. She heard that sometimes people use....colorful language to express themselves once or twice before in the village, but from where she was standing in the yard, she could attest to witnessing a whole new breed of colorful language. Her mother cursed her father to hell and back, while her father did the same, making it a just as bright and loud as her mother did. In fact, not only was the language bright and new to Narumi, but the information that was being given out was also something to behold. 

Apparently, from what Narumi could understand, her mother likes to be the man in more things than just arguments. It seems that, from what Narumi's eleven-year-old mind can comprehend, her mother liked to use a generous sized....stick to um....use to make her father's....donuts(?) creamy??? While Her father screams, as her mother puts it, "screams like a hot slut being raped by a horse for the first time."  To this statement, Narutmi couldn't stop her innocent mind from picturing how her father being raped by a mean horse while he was doing his work at the tower. It was then at this point that Narumi started crying for them to stop because she didn't want her dad to be raped by an anime that she once got to ride for her seventh birthday, the same day that Naruto had disappeared. Much to both parent's horror, they realized too late that their sex life had just scared the mind of their jinturiki daughter. Minato flashed down in front of Narumi, picked her up, then flashed back inside the house before Kushina could even get to their daughter, feeling sad and ashamed, Kushina sat quietly out on the grass. For about five minutes before she started yelling wanting to see her daughter and some other stuff, which brings us up to the present. It took Minato a full five minutes of comforting his daughter before she stopped crying, then he went to go check up the quadruplets who had waked up from their naps because of all the yelling, but he had been too angry to hear their cry, because of the yelling. So Naruto was left in the living from, staring out the window, watching her mother yell her head off until she got what she wanted. It was a common thing in the house, but it was rarely used by Kushina herself.

Two hours later

Narumi had fallen asleep from watching and listening to her mother yell in the front yard. It was getting late and the sun was about to set. Narumi looked out the living room window to see that her mom was still out there, it seems that in the time she was asleep, her mother had taken the time to make a fire and set up a tent in front of the house. "Is she going camping in the front yard? I wonder why she doesn't just come inside," the was a grumbling nose head from her stomach as she thought, "hm, I wonder what dad's cooking up for us tonight."  She got up from the couch she was sleeping on, noticing that a blanket had appeared on her during her sleep, setting the blanket aside, she made her way into the kitchen. She could smell something good coming from within the kitchen and for a split second, she thought that her brother had finally come home, she rushed into the kitchen with that thought in mind and looked around wildly for her twin brother. She was disappointed, however, when she still couldn't find him anywhere in sight.

"Honey? Is there something wrong?" Minato asked his daughter when he saw her rush into the kitchen, looking at her face now, he realized what was wrong. "Oh....sorry, I guess the smell of the food reminded you of Naruto again, right?"

Narumi nodded sadly, "yeah, it smelled like the famous meatloaf burgers that he used to make sometimes when M.J. was feeling down." Her head sulked as she went up to sit on one of the stools around the island counter, "I just, I just wish that he would come home already, instead of making us all worry about him so much."

Minato looked down at the pot he was stirring just before Narumi came into the kitchen, he breathes a sigh out of his nose, "well, I'm sure he had his reasons for leaving. I'm not so sure about Hinata and Shikaku's boy, but I know that Naruto had to have a good reason. You know he's not the type to just run off without saying anything," he shook his head as he turned off the stove and checked the oven before walking over to the island counter. He took the seat next to his daughter, looking straight ahead, he said, "I wonder how he's been doing all these years if he's still alive," he was mostly thinking out loud. He did have faith that his son would no doubt take care of himself and his younger brothers, after all, he has been taking care of them since they were born. "Did we give a four-year-old so many responsibilities to do back then? Man, when you think about it now, Naruto seemed to be the one that was holding us all together for all that time. He did the dishes, made the food, cleaned the house, took care of the garden in the backyard, watched the triplets when no one else was around to do it and took care of all of us too. I can't remember the last time anyone else in this house had done half as much work as Naruto did while he was here....if I didn't know better, I would have said that he was already an adult in a way, but that's impossible, right? He was still a kid, he would have had at least some friends come over to help him with some of the work, right?" He looked over at Narumi, "hay, Narumi, do you know if Naruto had any friends? I mean, other than Shikamaru and his little fox friend, what was his name again?"

"Hmm? No, Naruto didn't have any other friends other than pineapple head, why?" Narumi asked bored as she looked at her father.

"Sweetheart, it's not nice to call people names," Minato lightly scolded, Narumi shrugged, he sighed, "anyways, do you know why he doesn't have any friends?"

"Uhh, n-no, Nah-huh," Narumi said looking away from the older blond's piercing blue orbs. 

Minato raised an eyebrow at that, "oh? Are you sure about that, Narumi?" Narumi nodded, still not looking at her father, "you wouldn't be lying to me now would you, Narumi? You know how I feel about lairs, right?"

Narumi paused before nodded again slowly, "I-I'm not lying daddy, honest."

"Then why can't you look at me?" Minato asked, leaning more towards his daughter, "you're not hiding anything from me about Naruto, are you?"

Narumi gulped, "n-nope!" She quickly hopped off the stool she was on and ran to the door, "well, gotta go! I have this, uh, thing, yeah, this thing to do for the pervy sage and, uhm, I need to go do that thing now. So um, uh, bye!" She ran out the door quickly without looking back, wanting to get away from the kitchen, and her father's question, as soon as possible. But she knew it was only a matter of time before her dad found out her secret.

Minato sat staring at the swinging door to the kitchen before getting up from his seat, he walked over to the door to stop it swinging, "I wonder if anyone else is hiding something from me. If it has to do with Naruto and why he ran away, then I defiantly want to know everything that went on before he left." He turned away from the door to check the oven again before turning back on the stovetop, "on the way or another, I will find out every last secret that this family seems to be hiding from me, good or bad, it will all come out soon." He stirred the post slowly as he glared at its contents, "whatever it takes, no one's getting away from their crimes."

Meanwhile, with Ryu (Minato and Kushina's second son)

Ryu was staring at the back of his second boyfriend, that's right, the second boyfriend. Ryu wasn't one to be tied down to anything, but he was loyal, maybe not to some people (as you have just read), but to most people and his village. He was most loyal to his dad, the Hokage, and his team in the ANBU. A few years back before his little brother, Naruto, went missing the first time, he had, sort of, fell in love with a nice guy in his ANBU squad. They had dated for about two or three days before Ryu got bored with the man, so they broke up and the guy transferred out of their squad, leaving an opening for a new member. The next guy on their squad lasts a few months before Ryu decided to sink his claws into the 'new meat'. This guy ended up lasted about two weeks before Ryu dumped him, breaking his heart in what some might say, a 'cold' manner, which was how the roamers of how Ryu's heart was made of ice started. After guy number two was out of the picture, another new person came into the group, another guy, which prompted their team leader, dog (they don't use real names to great each other in ANBU) took the chance to talk with Ryu. The dog had taken the time to inform Ryu that this new guy was straight for once, so if Ryu wanted to try his luck with a straight target, he was more than welcomed to try, but the dog had his doubts that the redhead would. It was a fool's mistake. The new and very straight guy on the team went by the code name: weasel, he was younger than the others and Ryu thought didn't like dating younger guys, it made him feel like a pedophile. So thankfully, the weasel was left alone, for about a year, which was a record in book mind you, it surprised everyone on his team, as well as the rest of the ANBU division. After a year of watching the new guy, Ryu found that he was very smart, he also found out that weasel had a little brother that was Naruto's age, from what he had sen, weasel got along smoothly with his younger sibling than Ryu did with all of his. 

It was safe to say that Ryu wasn't a person that got along too well with other kids, even though he grew up with more than just a few of them himself. Still, Ryu got curious about the weasel and tried to get to know him, but weasel only kept him at arm's length. this frustrated the Namikaze to no end and he did everything short of stripping naked in front of the younger man to get his attention. Yet weasel was unmoved by the efforts that Ruy was making, it seemed to have pushed the younger boy away. Shortly after that, we went to his family to see if they had any ideas on how to deal with something like this, surprisingly, it was Naruto who had given him the advice he needed to get closer to weasel. With the words 'just be yourself' ringing in his head, Ryu had made another attempt to get to know his younger teammate and it turned out quite well, it seemed that even though weasel was fairly straightforward for the most part, his was mainly bisexual. With this revelation, Ryu pursued weasel for a while, only to have said boy change his ways completely. Weasel wasn't like the others that Ryu had dated in the past, he was smart enough to know what felt real and what was fake, he was kind enough to help Ryu realize what was wrong with his past relationships. Weasel seemed like the perfect guy for Ryu, they didn't even have sleep together for about six months after getting together officially, by this point, Ryu had been converted into a person that, or he was starting to believe he could start believing, was ready to settle down. Someone that could start a family and live happily together with just one person for the rest of his life. He started to think about the future more and more as long as weasel was by his side. This, until the day of the massacre, when all but one Uchiha had survived Itachi's wrath. It was on this day that Ryu felt some sort of karma fall upon him as he was told he was to hunt down the one guy that he was falling in love with.

From that day on, Ryu never had a relationship that lasted more than five to six months. Ever since Itachi, Ryu could never bring his heart to love anyone else, but instead of telling all his future boyfriends this fact, he ends up having multiple boyfriends at once. When he gets tired of one, he moves on to another, then another, and so on. Because of this, he had become the master of breaking up with people, which was why he was looking at his current second boyfriend right now. "Hey, can we talk?" Ryu asked as he walked over to the man sitting on his bed.

"Hm? Ah sure, but make it quick, I've gotta get back to HQ to turn in my papers to become a jonin again," said the man who had been getting dressed before just a moment before. "What is it?"

"Well, you know how I said that you weren't like the others and that I might like you better than them?" Ryu asked.

The man nodded, "yes, you told me that about two and a half hours ago before we had sex." He raised his eyebrow, "what did something happen to you in the bathroom?" The man's face, even though most of it was covered, took on a look of worry, "you're not pregnant are you?"

"Hell no, you think I can raise a kid right now? I'm not ready for any of that shit!" Ryu exclaimed as the other man breath a sigh of relief.

"Okay, good, I'm not looking for any of that either," said the man, "so, what did you want to talk about?"

"Well, I don't think this is working, so could you like, I don't know, try not to stock me or something outside of work? I don't want people knowing that you and I were a thing," Ryu said coolly.

The other man stared at Ryu before shrugging his shoulders, "okay," then he got up and walked to the door, leaving a shocked Ryu in his wake.

Ryu wasn't expecting the man to be so cool about him breaking up with him, he had expected something like tears, questioning and, most common, anger. However, he didn't get any of that with this guy, "wait, what?" He asked dumbly, "you're not going to ask why or whatever, you're just going to leave just like that? like none of this ever happened?"

The other man paused in his walk to the door, he turned his single eye onto Ryu, "was I supposed to get attached to you at some point during our six-month bout in the sheets?" He asked turning around fulling to look at Ryu, "did you expect me to fall in love with you or something like all the others did before you broke my heart too?"

"Well, no, bu-"

"Then what's the problem? We're not in love with each other, or at least, I wasn't in love with you. I knew what this was when I entered this relationship long before we started having sex almost daily."

"But, th-"

"No, I knew this was coming and so did you, however, I didn't think that I would be the one that would have lasted the full six months. I knew that when this month came, you would want to end things, just like in all your other so-called relationships. But one thing that you didn't count on was the fact that you would get pregnant and then want to get rid of me before you start catching feelings for me as you did with Itachi before he left. Oh don't give me that look, I know you had an abortion done last month, but what you didn't know as that I paid off you doctor to falsify your papers when he read your results. The fact of the matter is, you were starting to fall for me because I reminded you of Itachi somehow," the man turned away from the shocking redhead, "you know that once your boy goes past a month, you can no longer get an abortion. Minato-sensei told me how your bloodline worked back when I was still on his team, so I know how it goes," he started walking out of Ryu's apartment, "think of this as revenge from all the guys you've broken with this little game of yours. Have fun with the kid," he paused at the front door, "maybe know you'll learn to grow up a little," then he opened the door and left.

Ryu watched the door for a while before falling to his knees and started crying, after about an hour of crying, he wiped his eyes of the tears he shed. "Right, there's no time to start crying, I've gotta go tell dad about what I found out about Naruto," he thought as he started to get up, "but first, I need to clean up."