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[After waking up just a short time ago and realizing that these journals serve as some form of communication for- well, wherever they are, a family of ninja decide that they need to search for important information.]

Why am I half naked in a forest?

[There’s a short pause before the blond teenager speaks again, for he has an even more pressing question that needs to be answered.]

WHY ARE MY PARENTS HALF NAKED IN A FOREST?!

[Granted, it’s a very important question but the consensus was they had more prudent information to gather. Like where they are, for example. And so a redheaded woman, Kushina, quickly shouts back over her son’s panic.]

Naruto! That’s not the right question to ask!

Oh-- right.

[Those questions can wait for now.]

Where is this place then? Or what is it? It isn’t like.. the afterlife, right? ‘Cause I don’t think I’m dead, so I can’t be in it! But my Mom and Dad are here too and they were dead, but now they’re alive, so how can they be here at the same time and why do we all have wings and OH GOD THIS IS THE AFTERLIFE, ISN’T IT??

[Suddenly, a fist is flying downwards and towards the top of Naruto’s head.

THWAK.]

FOCUS, YA KNOW!

OWW! THAT HURT Y’KNOW?!

[SUDDENLY AN UZUMAKI STANDOFF that Minato sighs and shakes his head at. Trust these two to be diplomats. It seems like the more Naruto speaks, the more Minato thinks he got so many things from his mother. With a lopsided smile, he calmly steps in between them and carefully grabs the journal from Naruto.]

I would like to apologize for that display. [Behind him, there’s an indignant ‘Hey!’ That said, Minato clears his throat and his expression turns a little more serious.] As it is obvious, we are in need of answers. To the citizens who might be able to lend a hand through this book that we have concluded to be a communication device, we will appreciate any help.

[The next words, he hesitates for a moment in saying, but he feels he might as well throw it out there too.]

Also, for anyone who might know my family and I, please contact us as soon as possible. Thank you. [And he ends that with a polite smile.]

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I wasn't going to do that. [But she having it easy wouldn't be challenging for her. She felt fine now even after childbirth and getting the Kyuubi pulled from her body.

It was strange but what else was new here? The thing was, Minato went through it all with her and he was just as healthy. And the same for Naruto as well.]

...I have a couple boys I have to watch over. I probably won't be overdoing it like that. [No matter how badly she wants a good spar out of it. Maybe Minato would help her get back up to speed too. It was always fun to duel against him with something.]

[She smiles, mostly in agreement.]

That sounds like good rules to live by. [Some she even had already to live by herself.]

The Malnosso...I want to talk to them. There's a way I can draw their attention?

At least when it comes to handling irritating boys.

Only maybe. [Grins.]

But most of the boys in my class weren't anywhere near as excellent as your class, it seems like.

Just as troublesome though.

[History on Kushina and Uzushiogakure derp derp

It's a really good guess, in any case. She blinks at his quick assessment before smiling again.]

Yeah, I was born there before moving to Konoha. [For reasons undisclosed. DONT ASK.]

But there's probably a lot you don't know about me since I wasn't in any of the stories they told at the Academy.

[It still flusters her, even as a joke! A hand comes up to rub her neck.]

Ahahaha, right. Sorry you had to see that.

[Sheepish smile. She probably shouldn't be punching her son EITHER but hey he has to be punished somehow for pissing her off. But like she had said before, he's so much like her that behaving probably won't come for another few years. Even then, Kushina slipped up at times with her hot-temper.]

Oh, what, they were lovey-dovey at some other time?!

Hey, don't sell it short. My heart reaches out for the prettiest and most charming of the fairer sex.

[oh no]

I... I think your heart got you mixed up. It should reach out to a girl with a name that isn't Habanero-san.

[And also not married.]

Yeah. We're the same age.

You probably knew my family when you were... uh... around.

Outside the barrier, mostly. They don't come in here often.

Yeah, well, the girls are more troublesome in ours.

We play go together sometimes, yes. And I know Chouji and Rock Lee as well. They're wonderful people really.

[So nice. He's so used to Tsunade bossing him around, it's kind of a relief. When the guy isn't reminiscing about dead teachers and relatives, anyways.]

Yes and no. For a while, I thought that maybe the world was drawing in people who were linked... As if there was a string tied to those we love, or have met, and it kept pulling on that. It seemed too strange that I personally knew most of the people who came here.

[He's seen every member of his graduating class at least once, by this point, and that's just to start.]

But I've since met others from our world who are housed in different enclosures.

I meant that metaphorically. People who are proud or overly dignified seem to draw them to...interfere...with their lives more than others.

[He laughs, a quiet heh.]

Not to my knowledge. [--though it's a possibility. Ugh. He can't help but remember his conversation with the General, and his expression turns serious again.] Originally, I was taken from the middle of a war meeting that day The Fifth woke up from her coma. I've gone home and come back here once since then.

Most people aren't, if it makes you feel better.

[Hell, his dad was a legend but most of the tales he heard were from drunken storytelling when his dad and his buddies got together.]

Still, maybe you could tell us more about it later on. There's time for that here.

[Chouji's only answer to that is a nod, another soft smile at the Fourth's agreement. It eases what little guilt remained at his own selfishness even after conversations with his teammates.]

The... the casualty rate was higher than anyone would like, but there hasn't been time to find out anything more specific than approximate numbers. [Except for the deaths he witnessed, of course. Even saying this, Chouji thinks, is probably too much, but he hasn't, he won't, go into specifics. Not so impersonally, talking with books between them. After all his compliments to the previous generation of Ino-Shika-Chou, the Fourth deserves more than that. Inoichi-san and Shikaku-san deserve more. Chouji will tell Minato in person or not at all.

He wonders whether Naruto knows about Neji.]

[Chouji doesn't have much response to that except a big grin. Being stuck here has its downsides, sure, but seeing Naruto reunited with the parents he's never had in his own life is pretty wonderful]

Come to the kitchen on the fourth floor of community housing building one when you make it to the village, and I'll have some ready! I hope it lives up to your expectations.

Good! I'll see you then! I'm making ramen for your mom, too. [Chouji's still grinning about the fact that Naruto and his mother have the same favorite food, even if they prefer different flavors of ramen when given the choice.]

I doubt that.

What about people that cause a lot of trouble?

[GETTING IDEAS.]

[NOPE. Apparently only Hokages count and that's dumb. Even if Minato really was great. Oh, and the Legendary Sanin too.

Plenty of time.]

--Yeah.

Except Hinata, maybe.

[And Tenten but whatever.]

Denial's a river that dried up long before you got here, by the way.

[Pretty dang wonderful, yeah.

They had a map from Ikki, so hopefully she would be able to find it. With Minato along with Kushina and Naruto though, they should be just fine. Hopefully he wasn't about to allow the two of them to miss out on some ramen.]

Sure it will! Like I said, any ramen is good ramen.

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