Chapter 60 - Last Year 05.

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Third Person POV

Konoha, Year 36.

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The next day, being the more practical squid, Minato had arrived early, taking his place beside Mikoto, while Kushina and Tsuna joined the table next to them, forming a small group. They conversed normally among themselves when Hanabi Hyuuga entered the room. She walked to her usual spot, beside Mikoto at the end of the table where Uchiha and Minato sat.

"Good morning, Minato," she approached and said with a slight blush as she sat at the table.

Mikoto, Kushina, and Tsuna paused their conversation and looked at the girl oddly, while Minato responded with a welcoming smile. "Good morning, Hanabi. How are you?"

"I'm fine," she said, turning her attention to the notebook she just opened.

The group watched the exchange, visibly surprised. Kushina and Tsuna exchanged looks, while Mikoto raised an eyebrow, as Hanabi had always been quite quiet and anti-social to the girls. Her taking the initiative to talk to Minato was a big surprise to the girls.

"Since when are you two so close?" Tsuna couldn't help but ask quietly.

"We met by chance; she helped me with the training I was doing," Minato commented. He didn't mention the dinner because that could lead to wrong thoughts.

This earned some pretty sharp looks for the boy. Minato just smiled and continued with his things as class began as soon as Professor Fuuma entered the room. The day was normal, with some fights and exercises as everyone demonstrated their ability with the new jutsus until, at the end, as soon as Minato left the academy and went to his training space, but not alone, Kushina was following him with a clone, which Minato found really strange for the girl to think she could bypass his observation haki.

"What is this?!" She couldn't hold back and approached while he was making a small rasenshuriken with one hand.

"This is my new jutsu I'm working on. I created that A-rank jutsu, now I'm trying to make it enter S-rank by adding nature chakra to it," Minato spoke, though his voice was a bit muffled by the sharp sound of the rasenshuriken.

"That's amazing, did that Hanabi help with this?" She asked a bit displeased.

"True, she used the Byakugan quite usefully," Minato spoke and canceled the jutsu while looking at Kushina with a playful look. "You're not jealous, are you?"

"Who's jealous of you, Dattebane!" Kushina immediately turned red and tried to hit Minato with a punch, but the ninja was faster.

"Hahaha. Hey, Kushina. Why don't you come with your original to my house, I can prepare a special ramen for you, how about it?" Minato suggested.

"You cook?" She asked a bit surprised.

"I've never made ramen, but I have the recipe, how about you come and try?"

"Alright!" Kushina yelled, turning a bit red at the idea of going to Minato's house for dinner. She soon dispelled her jutsu, leaving Minato alone and a bit confused.

Seeing that she had left, he continued his training until the moment he went home. He found Kushina quite dressed up for a casual dinner but didn't complain.

"You look very beautiful, Kushina. Let's go in. I'll take a shower before preparing something for us to eat," Minato spoke calmly, as Kushina blushed at his comment and saw him entering, following him shortly after.

After cleaning all the dust from his training, Minato returned to the kitchen while preparing dinner for a waiting Kushina. She seemed so embarrassed that Minato turned his attention to her with a slightly raised eyebrow.

"Are you okay, Kushina? You're so quiet..." He commented.

"I'm fine... just hungry..." She commented. Minato didn't know, but for her, being with the boy she had learned to love over the last few years, alone in his house, was quite disconcerting.

Minato didn't care much after she said that and went back to cooking his seasoned spaghetti. He had picked up a recipe book in a bookstore, hoping he would get it right the first time making this kind of food. Finishing his dish, the aroma began to fill the atmosphere of the kitchen.

"That smells so good, Dattebane!" Even a quite embarrassed Kushina had to admit this out loud.

"I'm glad you like the smell, it's almost ready. Let's try it and see if it really turned out good!" Minato said as he finished his dish, placing it on the table.

Kushina and Minato began to serve themselves, Kushina seemed quite excited as she twirled the spaghetti on her chopsticks and put it in her mouth to taste.

"This is so good, Minato!" She exclaimed joyfully.

"Hmmm... Really, I didn't think it would turn out this good since it's my first time making this dish." Minato commented, pleased, enjoying the taste of his own cooking.

Kushina ate her bowl and quickly went for seconds and thirds until she was really satisfied, and Minato also ate a second bowl with satisfaction.

"This really was good." Kushina said, now a bit embarrassed thinking she might have overdone it and Minato could have a bad impression of her.

"I'm glad you liked it, I didn't even know I could be such a great cook." Minato admitted, but was happy that Kushina enjoyed it.

They talked a bit more before Minato took Kushina home, after he left her at the Senju complex, he returned to his apartment and encountered that old lady again.

"Hmmm... a third girl... is there a place for me in this too?!" She said as Minato quickly entered and didn't respond, just making another clone that complained just as much as the night before.

Minato's cooking wasn't just with Kushina and Hanabi, as the next day while he was training and sending a clone to school, he was approached by Tsuna and Mikoto demanding his cooking. Minato had no choice but to take them to his apartment, making a barbecue for the girls, who seemed to love the food and ate as much as the last two. The woman showed up again at the end of the night and made more comments about Minato not being satisfied with just one woman.

"Minato..." The next day, Minato was approached by a shadow while he was sitting at his desk, Chōza was looking at him like a hawk.

"Hello, Chōza, what can I do for you?" Minato commented, feeling a bad premonition about this.

"I'm thinking of having a dinner at your house, would you like to attend?" She asked.

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Minato didn't know how to respond, wondering if he had heard right.

"What kind of question is that?!" Tsuna wanted to hit Chōza with that.

"Come on Minato, I invite you to go to your house, to make the dinner everyone says you can create!" He said excitedly.

"I... okay..." Minato said.

A rumor of Minato being a great cook began to circulate in the classroom, and people who had never spoken to him before started coming up to ask for food. Minato was really having his worst time at the academy, but in the end, he took more than 10 people to his apartment that day and made a big barbecue, something everyone ended up loving, with Minato wondering how his cooking could be so special, he seemed to do just the normal.

Minato didn't go to class the next day and went to a training field he usually didn't visit, where Hanabi was training.

"Hello." Minato greeted her.

"Minato?" She looked at him curiously.

"You just greet me every day, I thought you would come to my house yesterday like everyone else." Minato asked, he usually wouldn't care about the girl, but he seemed to care about this Hyuuga after hearing a bit of her story and her thoughts.

"I... thought I wouldn't be welcome." She admitted.

"Well, you thought wrong, after all, aren't we friends? The house is mine too." Minato spoke.

"I..." She seemed lost and looked at Minato a bit seriously. "Are we really friends? I don't think we are friends like that, just acquaintances." She said.

"Why can't it seem so simple? Friends like being in each other's presence and they help each other, to me, that defines a friendship. I like you, Hanabi, even though I find your concept of destiny that you seem to say you're trapped in, stupid, you still helped me." Minato spoke.

"You speak as if I could escape from my prison." She speaks with disdain suddenly, she might be surprised by Minato's words, but when she heard that he spoke as if she had a choice, she really got angry.

"Let's do it this way, then, I'll free you from that destiny, I will have that mark on your forehead removed from you." Minato spoke firmly, making the girl really shocked by those words.

"You can't be serious. You can't change the Hyuuga clan, my destiny is to serve the main family." She said with a somber tone.

"Well..." Minato smiled and his body turned into light, he appeared in front of her in an instant before she could react. "I'm Minato Namikaze, the man who will do extraordinary things in this world and put my name in the history of this world, not even a Kage will stop me or even a village, much less a clan, mark my words, in a few years I will end this tradition of the Hyuuga clan and remove that mark from your forehead, after all, what are friends for?" Minato commented, leaving the girl wide-eyed.

It wasn't a surprise that Minato didn't like the Hyuuga clan and he planned to remove it when he became Hokage, but now that he had met Hanabi and saw how this ideology had been ingrained in the girl's mind, he decided to act in the coming years.

Raccoon here:

Am I rushing things? I think we're going to start accelerating this year so that Minato finally goes to war as a Genin.

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