"Little Chen? You're back!"
"Brother Minato." Senju Chen stood up and greeted with a smile.
After the simple greetings, Minato Namikaze naturally walked to the kitchen carrying the dishes. "You guys talk first, I'll make dinner."
"Huh? No!" Kushina immediately stood up and grabbed the vegetable bag in his hand, "I'll do it today! I want Little Chen and Anko to see my current cooking skills!"
"Kushina..." There was a trace of embarrassment and worry on Minato Namikaze's face. He took his wife's hand and persuaded her softly, "The smell of oil smoke in the kitchen is too strong. You feel like vomiting when you smell that smell. I'd better do it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the air in the living room became quiet for a moment.
"Want to vomit?" Anko's big and smart eyes blinked, looking back and forth between Minato and Kushina curiously, "Sister Kushina, are you feeling unwell? Are you feeling sick?"
Kushina's cheeks suddenly turned red, spreading from her cheeks to the roots of her ears. She glanced at her unabashed husband with some embarrassment, and then nervously touched her still flat belly.
Under Anko's inquisitive gaze and Senju Chen's probing gaze, she took a deep breath, as if she had made some determination, and her face glowed with a mixture of shyness and incomparable happiness.
"Um... I, I'm pregnant."
"Eh--?!" Anko's exclamation almost broke the roof.
Senju Chen was also stunned. He looked at Kushina, whose face was flushed with happiness, and Minato Namikaze, who was watching his wife tenderly, as if there was a thunder in his mind.
Pregnant?
Kushina... pregnant?
In other words, the protagonist Naruto Uzumaki will be born in less than a year...
Thinking about the original work, except that Minato Namikaze has not yet become Hokage, the timing is right.
Putting aside the plot, Senju Chen looked at Kushina and Minato Namikaze in front of him and felt happy for them from the bottom of his heart.
"Great! Congratulations, Sister Kushina! Bro Minato!"
"Congratulations! I want to be a godmother!" Anko also reacted and excitedly rushed to Kushina, carefully trying to touch but not daring to touch her belly.
"Since it is such a big happy event, we must celebrate it properly." Senju Chen rolled up his sleeves with a smile and took the bag of vegetables from Kushina, "Let me cook the meal tonight."
Upon hearing these words, Kushina and Anko's eyes instantly lit up like two stars.
Kushina even swallowed unconsciously. She used to be Senju Chen's "exclusive taster" and she knew Senju Chen's cooking skills very well.
"No, no, Little Chen just came back, how can we let him cook?" Minato Namikaze waved his hands quickly, with a look of regret on his face.
"Minato! Otherwise... let Little Chen do it!" Kushina still couldn't withstand the temptation.
"Yes, yes, Senior Minato, let Chen do it!" Anko also nodded in agreement.
Looking at the expectant eyes of his wife and friends, and looking at Senju Chen's gentle smile that could not be refused, Minato Namikaze was finally defeated.
"Sister Kushina, Bro Minato, you are going to have your own baby soon. This is a great joy." Senju Chen carried the dishes and walked to the kitchen. He turned around and said with a smile, "There is no distinction between us as host and guest. This meal, even if I am the younger brother, I will celebrate this good news for you."
The simple words made Minato feel warm in his heart. He no longer refused, and his blue eyes were full of gratitude and smile.
"Then... it's up to you, Little Chen."
Soon a delicious aroma wafted out of the kitchen.
Senju Chen's movements are smooth and smooth. Whether it is the knife skills of handling the ingredients or the precise control of the heat, there is a kind of calmness that is pleasing to the eye.
Minato Namikaze still wanted to help, but Senju Chen smiled and persuaded him to go back to the living room, asking him to stay with the "key protection target".
Soon, a series of home-cooked dishes with full color, flavor and flavor were brought to the table. Golden and crispy tempura, rich potato stew, delicious and tender chawanmushi, and a plate of sweet and sour tomato scrambled eggs specially made for Kushina.
"Wow--!" Anko and Kushina almost had stars in their eyes.
"I'm starting!"
Anko was the first to pick up a piece of tempura fried shrimp, put it into his mouth without caring about burning it, narrowed his eyes happily, and praised vaguely, "It's delicious! It's so delicious! Chen, the food you cooked is so delicious!"
Kushina couldn't hold it anymore and immediately started using her chopsticks. The just-right sweet and sour taste of the tomato scrambled eggs instantly opened her taste buds, which were a little dull due to pregnancy. She sighed with satisfaction, and her face was filled with a halo of happiness. "This is the taste... Little Chen, if you don't come back, I will forget what really delicious food is."
"Eat more if you like it." Senju Chen smiled and put some more stewed meat into her bowl.
Minato Namikaze looked at his wife's happy appearance, and then looked at the sumptuous dishes on the table. His blue eyes were full of gentle smiles and gratitude. "Thank you for your hard work, Little Chen."
"Bro Minato will make me angry if you say such things again." Senju Chen said half-jokingly, "How can cooking a meal for your family be considered hard work?"
A warm atmosphere flowed on the dining table. At first, everyone talked about relaxed household matters. For example, Anko complained that it was too hard to sort out experimental notes with the teacher every day, while Kushina was happily planning the layout of the future baby room.
When Anko put down the dishes and chopsticks with satisfaction and began to focus on the dessert after the meal, Minato Namikaze hesitated for a moment and still brought the topic to the unavoidable question.
"Little Chen, what are your plans when you come back this time?" He looked at Senju Chen with a more serious expression, "You should have seen the situation in the village."
The air in the living room quietly changed with this question.
The smile on Kushina's face faded a little. She glanced at her husband with some worry, then at Senju Chen, and then naturally pulled Anko aside to chat.
"Yes, I saw it." Senju Chen put down his chopsticks, his expression still gentle, "The newspapers are very lively, and the streets are also discussing it. Everyone's support for you Brother Minato is quite high."
Hearing this, Minato Namikaze did not show the slightest bit of satisfaction. Instead, he smiled bitterly and shook his head, "That's just some of the excessive praise everyone has given me. In terms of qualifications and merits, Lord Orochimaru deserves to inherit that position more than me."
"From the resume point of view, Teacher Orochimaru is indeed impeccable." Senju Chen's tone was very calm, as if he was stating an objective fact.
"Also, Brother Minato, I heard that Elder Danzo seems to have been active recently."