3 | Ichigo Namikaze ( 2 Years Old )

Inside the house of Kakashi and Kushina we can see a toddler running around with Kushina hot on his tails.

"Ichigo, come on, you need to take a bath." Kushina said.

"No." Ichigo replied playfully and ran towards the front door.

Before he could reach the door, two hands picked him up and turned him around to look at his face and Ichigo said "Ka-chan caught me!!" with a smile.

"When are you going to stop running around?" Kushina asked with a sigh, escaping from her.

"Never." Ichigo said with a beaming smile.

"Hai..." Without another word, Kushina took him to the bathroom and started to bathe him.

Inside the tub, Ichigo was playing with the floating toys he had, a shark and a duck.

Looking at Ichigo, Kushina said "Hey, Ichigo."

"Yep."

"Don't you want to see your Tou-san?" Kushina asked him.

"Mmm I do." Ichigo said.

"Then why are you still not whining about him not being at home?" Kushina asked Ichigo even though she knows that he doesn't know it himself.

"I have ka-chan." Ichigo said that with an innocent expression.

Hearing that Kushina smiled and said "Of course you do... and I have Ichi-kun with me too. Right?"

"Right!"

After the bath was finished, Kushina started to wipe the water on Ichigo with a towel.

Then they went to the kitchen to eat dinner. Placing Ichigo in his seat, Kushina started to make a meal for two, since Minato said that he had an important mission today. Sighing she thought 'When will this war end?'

Thinking that she started to do the prep work for the food. As she was doing that Ichigo was playing with his toys, this time it was a kunai toy.

After she was done with the cooking she took a spoon and fed the food to Ichigo, and he ate it merrily. As they were eating the door was opened by someone, hearing the sound Ichigo said "It's Tou-san!!"

Saying that he jumped down from his seat and ran towards Minato who came inside with a haggard face. But seeing Ichigo, he just smiled and picked him up. His change of face did not go unnoticed by Ichigo so he asked "What happened Tou-san?"

"Nothing.. Did you eat?" Minato diverted his attention. And walked towards Ichigo's room.

"Yes." Ichigo said.

As he neared the bed, Minato told Ichigo "Good, then go and sleep. As I've said before 'A healthy body... '"

'needs a good sleep.' I know." Ichigo finished it for him.

"Alright then. Go and sleep." Saying that Minato tucked Ichigo in his bed.

"Goodnight." Ichigo said to Minato and started to sleep.

"Goodnight." Saying that Minato closed the door to the room and went to sit besides his girlfriend.

Looking at him she asked "What happened? Wasn't the mission successful?"

Taking a deep breath he said "It was. But.."

"But what?" Kushina asked, getting impatient.

"But, Obito lost his life." Minato told her.

"What? You're kidding right?" Kushina asked him with disbelief.

"No. Obito sacrificed himself to save Kakashi and Rin." When he said that tears started to pour out of his eye, and while sobbing he said "I... couldn't... get ...*sob* there on time...*sob* to save him Kushina.... *sob* They call me the fastest man....*sob*...but I couldn't...*sob*....my student."

Saying that he started to break down. The world feared this man for his speed but he was too late to save one of his students and he died saving his other students.

Kushina didn't say anything and also started to cry, as Obito was one of her favourite students of Minato. And she saw him as her little brother at some time. She was hurt, just like Minato is hurting in his heart for not being able to save his student.

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The Third Shinobi War continued, the war between Iwagakure and Konohagakure started to slowly decrease after the feat performed by Minato by killing thousands of Iwa Shinobi.

On the Kirigakure and Konohagakure battlefront, Might Duy rescued his son and his teammates, Ebisu and Genma Shiranui from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist who had confronted the trio. Though his son argued that he was no match for the Kirigakure-nin, Duy reminded his son that he still had the Eight Gates technique and would use it under the very same condition of use he created — the protection of someone precious to him.

Duy's efforts ultimately killed four members of the famous group, they were Jinin Akebino, Kushimaru Kuriarare, Jinpachi Munashi, and Hiramekarei's wielder.

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