"This is the room we prepared for you. Take a look and tell us anytime if there's anything you still need."
"No, Minato, why be so polite?" Kushina pulled out several bills and stuffed them into Naruto's hands. "This is Mother's allowance for you. Buy whatever you want yourself!"
Naruto held the money. The amount written on it no longer mattered. This was the first time he had ever received an allowance. When he was little, all he had was a stack of living expenses Third Hokage left on the table. Once he grew older, he had his mission rewards—and sometimes those shameless guys would take them to spend on drinks and women. Still, he had been lucky, always somehow winning prizes that filled up his Little Frog Wallet...
But this was allowance from Mother...
He could already earn his own money. He was not short on money at all. Yet he still wanted, pathetically, to save it properly.
Minato scratched his hair. "That's true. Our storage room is downstairs. Just go find whatever you need yourself..."
"Mm!" Naruto nodded hard and tucked the bills close against his body. So what if he was pathetic? What was wrong with being a little useless in front of his father and mother?
Minato mysteriously hooked an arm around Naruto's shoulders and whispered into his ear, "But don't make a mess while you're looking for things, or Mother will beat you up."
"Huh?" Naruto recalled the punch he had taken when they first met, and the back of his head began to ache faintly.
"Miiinatooo." Kushina looked at the father and son with a kindly smile. "You two are acting all sneaky. Are you talking bad about me?"
"How could that be!" Minato immediately denied it. "I was just telling Naruto that he