Alone No More

Suspicion

Minato had B rank mission the next day in one of the smaller villages next to the Konaha. The blonde jonin made sure to make quick work of his mission to return to the village as soon as possible to look for Kakashi. He still couldn't get rid of the terrible feeling he has since last night. But since there's no concrete evidence of a skirmish or signs of a real break in Minato couldn't get the Hokage to involve yet.

After he returned to the village and turned in his report Minato went on the hunt to locate Kakashi. The search started around 3:30 p.m. the stressed blonde search everywhere he could think of, but he couldn't find a single trace of the little Hatake no matter where he looked. He checked the training fields, the Hatake compound, the area around it, and every single store that he could find, especially the bookstores since Kakashi always has a book right next to him all the times. But there was nothing and Minato still couldn't find the boy. It was as if the nine-year-old just disappeared without leaving a hint of where he might have gone. By the time Minato stop looking it was about 2:40 in the morning and now was beyond worried.

After getting a few hours of restless sleep an exhausted Minato got ready and head over to the training grounds for today's training with Obito, Rin, and hopefully, Kakashi would be there too. Minato thought about canceling today's training, but he knows how serious Kakashi takes his training. It was the only place Minato could think his youngest student would be. If not, Minato's going to make a mad dash to the Hokage and make a report for a missing child.

Minato's heart felt as heavy as iron, as he continued to make his way to the training grounds. He got there about an hour or so earlier then he usually does. Minato was surprised, not only he was not the first one to reach the training field, but Obito and Rin were there with the little silver-haired Hatake next to them. Minato let out a heavy sigh of relief his mood brightens instantly as saw Kakashi. He noticed Kakashi looked just as exhausted as he did but overall, he didn't seem hurt, or well enough to argue with Obito about something.

"Kakashi where were you?" Minato demanded but had relief heavy in his voice.

"Is something wrong Minato-sensei?" Kakashi asks as if nothing was wrong confusion quickly covered what like fear in those onyx eyes.

"We went by your house last night door was unlocked and there was blood on the floor, what happened?" Minato replied not mentioning that he went to the house yesterday too.

"Oh, sorry about that," Kakashi apologized rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. Which was out of character for Kakashi and that rang a warning bell for Minato, but he let Kakashi continued his story.

"You see I had my ninken came over because I told them we could have dinner together, but Akino and Biscuit we're arguing and start fighting then they knocked over the fire poker which scratched Bull in the back hip, which made him mad and he snapped at the other two," Kakashi started explained with a hint of embarrassment.

Kakashi made a deep sigh then continued, "by the time I finally got the fighting to stop, I realized Bull needed to have stitches and Bull's okay with kunai knives, swords you name it, but when it comes to needles he runs for the hills, so I had a chase him it probably took me around two hours to catch him I was pretty much running all over the forest trying to get him." Minato knew Kakashi was lying because there was no blood on the fire poker, but he kept quiet to see how things play out.

Kakashi could see the doubt in his Sensei's eyes and asked, "did I miss anything, was there a meeting, or a mission that I did not know about?" Minato replied by shaking his head 'no.'

"Oh, no is Bull okay now!" Rin asked now in full medic mode.

"Ya, he's recovering with the rest of the pack right now he'll be fine," Kakashi answered trying to sound as normal as possible.