"Ha..."
"What happened, Minato? Didn't you finally get to work with your dear big brother?"
"...What? Oh, it's Kushina."
I was wondering who it was. If it was Kushina, then never mind.
Sitting inside Ichiraku Ramen, Konoha's little sun let out a melancholy sigh as he looked at the Spicy Red Pepper behind him, who had given him a hard slap on the back.
The helpless, numb look on his face made a cross-shaped vein bulge on Konoha's little pepper's forehead. She smacked Minato Namikaze even harder across the back, nearly knocking him off balance.
"What's with that attitude?! At first, you said you liked my hair, and that you liked me too, but now you're acting like this. What, are you saying that once you've caught the fish, you don't need to care about it anymore? Are you already tired of me?"
"W-What do you mean?! When did you become some fish I caught?! Haven't we still not made our relationship official? Didn't we say we'd wait until I became Hokage?!"
"How long am I supposed to wait, then? Am I supposed to become a living widow in the future? If you're a man, just be decisive already. If Aizen becomes Hokage, should I marry Aizen instead?"
"...Where exactly are you reading all this nonsense?"
But she was right. I was at fault.
Seeing the little pepper standing there with her hands on her hips and a puffed-up, angry face, apparently not caring about what she had just said, Minato Namikaze's face reddened slightly as he apologized.
Kushina might have looked carefree, but when she saw Minato's slightly awkward appearance, she seemed to realize what she had just said as well. Without a word, she lowered her head, pulled over a barstool, and sat beside him.
"So? What does