After spending the past two weeks together, Minato had formed an excellent impression of this cousin who had fallen from the sky.
He put on no airs and was very pleasant to be around.
Moreover, he kept public and private matters separate and never brought personal affairs into his daily work.
Everyone who worked with him praised him, saying he was efficient and steady in his work.
Yet within the clan grounds, he acted like a living treasure. Though he was a few months older than Minato, he looked more like a child than an adult.
But it was precisely this personality that made everyone like him.
"Ah, Uncle can't take it anymore. Let me rest a while, then we can play again."
Ran lay in the snow, speaking in some accent he had picked up from who knew where.
After hearing him, little Naruto copied Ran and lay down on the ground as well.
"That won't do. Get up, quickly."
Ran hurriedly pulled Naruto out of the snowdrift. "You're still too young. What if you catch a chill? You can't copy everything Uncle does."
Little Naruto reluctantly got up from the snow and ran back into Kushina's arms.
His face was full of displeasure.
Kushina pinched Naruto's chubby little cheek. "You child, Uncle Ran is doing this for your own good."
But Naruto still turned his head away after hearing that, clearly angry.
Ran was getting a bit of a headache, but Naruto was easy to coax. He would be fine in a little while.
The heavy snow gradually ceased, and the thick clouds slowly dispersed. Sunlight shone upon the ground, and the sky had become clear.
It had snowed all night. When the villagers awoke that morning, they all came out of their homes and went into the