Re; Naruto

A Terrible Man

Naruto shivered as he sat on the roof looking at the sky. Now it's been two years since his arrival in this world. The mug of hot cocoa had long gone cold in his hands. Obon had just ended and though it was bittersweet for him and Minato, Naruto is also mourning for himself. It was weird and Kurama has yet to tell him how he ended up inside Naruto again when this body was not really build to handle a living mass of chakra.

He heard Minato slowly made his way to his side. The man huffed as he threw a thick self-heating blanket around Naruto and himself. Naruto grunted in soft thanks towards the man but said nothing more. Minato sipped his hot tea, wondering what had gotten into Naruto. The boy has been quiet since Obon. But now that he think about it, there must be a lot of names that Naruto wanted to pray for but he couldn't because it would look weird.

Naruto quietly whispered, "When I was 16, there was a world ending war..."

Minato looked at him, "16?"

Naruto nodded, "Yeah. My world is...complicated, dangerous, bloody, restless but also wondrous with talking animals with more wisdom than any men combined," He snorted, "Did you know that I confessed to my wife on the moon?" He looked at the full moon, "We were on a mission to save the planet from being destroyed by the falling moon. Her sister was stolen and we have to do everything we could to save her and the whole world...again. It was...unplanned and...well I guess the scenery was just setting up the mood but...it was certainly not the right time," He chuckled, "I just...it just slipped out of me..."

He looked down, sniffing, "Sage I miss her and I didn't ever think I could love another after her...and yet..." He looked at Minato, "Knowing my true age, don't you think it's disgusting that I fell in love with someone the same age as my great grandkids?" He sobbed, "I think I'm disgusting. But...she's just so much like her that I kept feeling young around her, like I am the age of this body I inhabit. It's...not right..."

Minato frowned, understanding his confusion. Naruto's ancient by his standard. Even the oldest person recorded in this world only lived up 122 but Naruto lived double that, his first life ending at 139 and only because he was killed. Adding that to the two years he's alive in this world and that made him really old. He has a young body and without knowing his true age, no one would think twice about him dating a girl his 'age'. But for Naruto, even the oldest person would feel like a child to him for him to date.

Minato was just teasing Naruto when he pushed Hinata to sit next to the blond, since he knew that Hinata nursed a crush on Naruto. It was quite obvious of her. But perhaps he should have thought this through. It must be really awkward for Naruto. And if all the grumbling he heard from the others were true, Naruto was swarmed with confessions every other day.

Minato will probably feel just as weird if kindergarteners kept coming to him asking to date him. That's probably how Naruto feel whenever that happened; part amused and part horrified.

But Naruto also admitted that this girl made him forget his mental age...

Minato asked, "Is it Hinata?"

Naruto sighed, "Was it that obvious?"

Minato chuckled, "You're always a little sweeter on her than with anyone else,"

Naruto grumbled, "She's stubborn. I even told her about...well...about me and my past and my actual age, even..."

Minato jolted in surprise, "Wait. You told her?"

Naruto shrugged, "I don't know. She's so much like my wife that I just...couldn't lie, you know?" He snorted, "I can survive being thrown over a ravine but I won't be able to survive if Hinata ever look at me in disappointment,"