Chapter 2

Chapter twoRin jumped across the rooftops with a huge smile on her face, heading to her second home to tell her sensei the good news… She smiled and really hoped she wasn't waking him up or something especially since they have little Naruto now too. She landed on the elevated porch and could feel presences moving around in the house and felt relieved she wasn't waking them up as she knocked politely and waited with her hands clasped behind her back and bouncing onto the balls of her feet.

"Ah Rin. What can I do for you this late evening… You've just finished your shift at the hospital, am I right?" Minato asked, opening the door and instantly smiling, looking physically happier every time he saw his precious students come and visit him at home… He just wished Kakashi would do it more often.

"Yeah I have Sensei. I came straight over from my shift, I hope I'm not intruding." She said, stepping inside and taking off her shoes, following Minato into the kitchen where Kushina sat with Naruto feeding from a bottle in her arms in the connecting dinning room and Jiraiya stood calmly by the wall separating the two.

"No, you're not intruding, you could never do that. You know you're welcome here any time you want Rin, it always makes us happy to see you." Kushina said with her usual grin and Rin laughed and sat down next to Kushina and began to coo over Naruto who was falling asleep while drinking and the two ladies laughed.

"It's good to see you Jiraiya-sama." Rin greeted him after they were finished cooing over Naruto and Kushina was just burping him before she stood up to put him down to sleep.

"You too Rin-chan. Still looking as lovely as usual." Jiraiya charmed with his usual boisterous self and he laughed.

"So Rin why the spontaneous visit… You're looking happier than usual?" Minato asked, sitting down across from her.

"Oh right, I almost forgot. I was watching the kid today and it seems his pulse is getting faster and stronger. The doctors said they'll change treatment accordingly and he should be waking up within the week." Rin said with a smile and Minato smiled as well, finally they were getting somewhere to solve the mystery of his sudden appearance.

"That's great news Rin. How long do you think until he is coherent enough to get answers out of and send him home?" Minato asked but the smile slid from Rin's face slightly.

"The doctor said he probably won't be able to stay awake for more than a few minutes each day for a while since he had so much damage but by what I can see he should be awake and aware enough within three to four weeks of rest and completing his treatment." Rin answered and Minato nodded, feeling a little lighter over the whole situation.

"That's great. Thanks for coming right over to report Rin, I really appreciate it. Kakashi should be getting off duty soon as well… Maybe you should go to the gates and tell him the great news, I'm sure it will make his day." Minato said, standing up with Rin and leading her to the door and after a quick good bye, she was running across the rooftops again towards the gates to meet Kakashi and tell him the news.

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Kakashi's team landed at the gate to find another ANBU team there already waiting to take over. With a nod from both of the captains, the second group headed out and Kakashi's team scattered to go home after a silent good night. He slid his mask off and placed it into his pouch.

"Kakashi." Rin's voice called for him to wait before taking off home and she jumped down in front of him with a warm smile to greet him with. "Welcome back, how was duty?" She asked as they began to walk down the streets together… It had become a slight habit for them, Rin would wait for him to come back with his team and then he would walk her home before going home for the rest of the night.

"It was the usual… Running around in circles. How was your hospital shift?" Kakashi asked, not expecting any specific news, running a hand through his silver hair tiredly.

"It was great. It looks as though that kid will be waking up within the next week but he won't be fully coherent for a while so we'll have to be patient while he recovers." Rin said and Kakashi stopped dead in the street with surprise.

"That's… Great news. So he's going to be okay then?" He asked, continuing on walking and Rin could see his mind was a little at rest knowing he'll get possible answers soon.

"He'll be fine but it's going to take a while with his physical injuries being so drastic and such… Well thanks for walking me home. See you tomorrow?" She asked, hands clasped behind her back again with her usual smile and Kakashi sighed and smiled his usual eye smile.

"Sure. See you tomorrow Rin." He said, turning and walking away with a salute over his shoulder and hands going straight into his pockets while he heard Rin's house open and close with the usual locking sound afterwards. He hugged his red scarf closer to his neck as he breathed out a breath cloud of a sigh and headed home, feeling calmer after finding the kid the night before and not knowing shit about him but tonight he could sleep easy because soon he was going to get answers.

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Minato sat in his office early the next morning, feeling refreshed after a good night's sleep, signing paperwork with his usual vigour and at this rate he would be finished by lunch… If he didn't have any interruptions…

"Hokage-sama." A voice called and Minato sighed, this was the interruption he was talking about.

"Yes Kenju-san, what can I do for you this morning?" Minato asked the doctor standing there like he wanted to run and not be there right now so he gave him his best reassuring smile he could muster and gestured the man into his office and sit down in the chair on the other side of his desk.

"We have the test results from the remains the medic team managed to scrape up from the fire and… You're not going to like it." He said, already cringing into his seat but this caught Minato's attention and he sat up straighter with a serious expression.

"Go on. I can take it." Minato said calmly, taking a deep breath and waiting calmly, watching the doctor fiddle with pages in front of him and pulling out a specific one with lines on it, showing DNA they pulled up.

"We ran this through our blood DNA system of everyone in Konoha and we found three distinct matches from the entire data base. The smallest match with only three percent is a young man named Tenzo…" He began, swallowing harshly and sweating profusely and Minato waited calmly to hear the rest. There was no point in speculating with only a small portion of the information so he nodded for the man to carry on. "The second was most intriguing as it was thirty percent of the DNA is of one Uchiha Madara but there was a lot of organic DNA mixed in with it that took us hours to separate from the human DNA. And the last one with a staggering forty five percent match is of one Uchiha Obito." He finished quickly and backed away from the Hokage for a second.

"Kenju…" Minato said, surprisingly calm as he stared off into the left, blue eyes seeming blank with hundreds of thoughts and emotions behind it. "Please run the DNA against Senju Hashirama as well and bring me the results as soon as you have them. Dismissed." He said, eerily calm. Kenju scrambled to stand up and bowed hastily before all but running out of Minato's office. Were those results a joke? How was that even possible, both Obito and Madara are dead and to have Tenzo's results come up… But he couldn't dwell over that until he gets the results for the Shodai matching up to the DNA from the fire. Just what exactly was that kid fighting and why outside of Konoha's walls if he wasn't trying to stop it from entering the village?

"Hawk. Please show yourself." Minato spoke, standing up and putting his coat on as the Hawk masked ANBU jumped down and kneeled in front of the desk, awaiting orders. "Please find Sandaime and ask him to read over the results and to take over the paperwork for the day… I don't think I can focus on it right now." Minato said with a slight shaky edge to his voice as his hands shook, straightening out his coat as Hawk left silently to comply with the order. With a yellow flash, he was out of the office and in the training grounds, slamming a rasengan into the training posts with a scream of so many emotions, pain, sadness, anger, confusion… He didn't know what to feel but he felt he needed to do something before he broke down… That kid that Kakashi saved possibly killed Obito again and he wouldn't forgive him if that were the case… No, he'd kill him himself, he'd make sure of that as he slammed another rasengan into a pile of rocks.

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Naruto began to cry suddenly and Kushina looked up from her coffee she was having with Uchiha Mikoto, her best friend. Mikoto looked into the cot to find Sasuke squirming uncomfortably as well and looking like he was about to cry as well and she picked them both up and walked back over to the table where Kushina was sitting and took Naruto into her arms and tried to calm him down.

"Mom, what's wrong with Naruto and Sasuke?" Itachi asked, running inside as fast as his four-year-old legs would carry him from playing quietly outside.

"I'm not sure, they both suddenly became really unhappy and now we can't calm them down. Why don't you go and find your father and have the police force check out the village just in case, you know how Sasuke very rarely cries unless there is something going on." Mikoto asked her son as he nodded with a determined face and ran out of the house again to find Fugaku and Kushina laughed.

"He's going to be a serious shinobi one day with his skills already." Kushina said to her best friend as they smiled at each other before turning their attentions back to their crying babies.

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Kakashi was startled awake by the serious chakra someone was pushing out. He looked down to see the boy still sleeping still but the heart monitor was beeping steadily and strong. He had fallen asleep yet again sitting by this kid's bedside and mentally scolded himself before gearing back up again and following the massive and angry chakra to the training grounds and snuck in carefully and quietly, watching for any sign of attack and such.

There was one last blast that shook the ground violently that it made the trees shake as leaves fell off and floated to the ground. The chakra vanished calmly as he proceeded closer to a dust cloud where the chakra was emitting from and hid in the trees patiently while the cloud vanished enough for him to see. There was a figure crouched or sitting on the floor as a wind came past and dissipated the clouds to see a very banged up Minato sitting there with his face set in an angry thought.

"Sensei… Is everything alright?" Kakashi called from his spot until Minato looked up calmly and Kakashi knew he could approach without being flat out attacked by the wound up man. He jumped out of the tree and landed on the rocky sand and walked over to his sensei slowly. His coat was gone and his standard jonin uniform had rips and tears through it with blood coming through some of them. His usual bright and sunny hair was dusted brown with some streaks of blood in it and he found that it must have come from his bloodied hands sitting in his lap. He stood in front of his sensei calmly as the man slowly stood up and took a deep breath and before Kakashi knew it, the man enveloped him in a bear hug, his body shaking that Kakashi took as a sign of him crying. Kakashi really wasn't good with these types of things as he sighed and awkwardly wrapped his arms around his sensei's back and patted him stiffly.

"There, there Sensei… let it all out." Kakashi said stiffly, parroting what Minato would normally say to him when he was upset. This was a time he wished he had Rin with him because she was the therapist of the group, being a girl and a medic she had experience with these types of things where Kakashi was the complete opposite. He was still trying to come to terms with letting himself feel again after Obito's dying words and it was awkward enough for him… He still didn't like touching people but this was his sensei and this is what he needs right now and so Kakashi will give it to him this once, hugging him a little tighter and allowing himself to relax a little in the embrace.