A Sacrifice for Another

Chapter 7

Then Kushina and Minato walked in and sat down at the table. Minato seemed as if he had been up for hours and wasn't tired whatsoever. Meanwhile, Kushina looked as if she was the living dead. Well, a barely living dead person that is.

"Hey mom, not much of a morning person, are we?" Naruko said as she fussed with Haku's hair.

"Ugh..." She said.

"That means 'yes'." Minato translated.

Christina got Minato, Kushina, and her plates and set them down. They ate a nice breakfast and Naruko had decided that Haku would come with them when they trained and just do simple things like read while they practiced. The only time he wouldn't would be if Kushina or someone else wanted to spend time with him. Kushina however, was leaving on a mission that would last several weeks, so they saw her off and then went to their training ground.

When they arrived, Kakashi was already there and they could sense Rin coming up soon. So Naruko sat Haku down underneath a tree and told him not to walk into any of the spars or jutsu that they might be practicing with. She gave him a backpack that had several scrolls for him to read and a couple of snacks, just in case he got hungry.

She got up and for some reason, she felt eyes on her. She turned and saw Kakashi was looking at her, though once she turned, his eyes flashed away. 'Huh, weird.' She thought. Then she walked back over to them and Rin quickly came running up. They decided to just start training, after all, it would probably be up to an hour before Obito showed up.

They started with Naruko and Minato working on fuinjutsu while Rin and Kakashi sparred in a team battle against Christina and Neji.

Naruko and Minato were working on creating a new seal that would allow papers to be copied from a distance in case they ever wanted information that was written down. It was taking quite a bit of thought. They had tried several different patterns and seals, but so far they hadn't even been close. The closest they had gotten was they figured that they had the correct structure and a few of the kanji in the right place.

Obito showed up around then, it had been about half an hour, and the others were still in their spar, since they had agreed on strictly taijutsu, it was lasting awhile. Christina jumped over to Obito. She pulled on his ear, much to his anger and reprimanded him.

"I told you to not be late anymore!" She yelled.

"I'm sorry, but I was about to leave the Uchiha district, when these guys jumped in front of me and took me to my Uncle's house and then he told me to invite all of you over for lunch." Obito said.

"Okay, we'll be there, you can count your life on that, ttebayo!" Naruko yelled. Then she paused. "It's okay if I take Haku-kun, right?"

"'Course! I bet my little cousin Itachi would love to have a playmate!" Obito said.

"Cool, ne and Haku-kun will be there!" She confirmed.

"I'll go. What about you, Neji-kun?" Christina asked.

He smiled and said, "If you're going, do you even have to ask?"

Naruko snorted, "Jeez, you guys are just like that song 'Stuck like Glue' by Sugarland, honestly, I believe that they wrote that song about you two!"

They laughed, after all, she was right. It was rare to see them apart other than on missions that they had been assigned while in the Anbu.

"Anyways, yes I'll go." Neji said.

"Sure Obito, I'd love to go." Rin said.

"What about you Kakashi?" Obito asked.

"Hn. I suppose." He said.