LOG: It's Showtime! At Minato's Crib!

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Summary: After Minato lawfully adopts Sasuke as his true son, he wants to make more efforts to bond with him before he leaves out of town by doing a Disney-style movie night at his condo. ♥ Things take an interesting turn when Minato adopts Neji as his foster son, too! So he invites Neji and Rock Lee over to watch Finding Nemo together

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Clock struck 7:54 PM on the wall clock. Six more minutes until Sasuke was supposed to arrive over at his house. Minato was more excited than he should have been by the teen coming over, and it had a lot to do with the fact that he went through a whole day of bouncing back and forth to make Sasuke his own true son. So tonight was important to him. He wanted to know as much about Sasuke as he possibly could-- sans alcohol this time.

The older blond paced back and forth nervously, biting on his thumbnail and peering like an anxious housewife through the blinds next to his front door. He'd light up a Marlboro but Sasuke hates smokers. The house was clean because Sasuke likes a tidy house. Minato bought his next arsenal of assault for the teen's affections earlier yesterday: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete's Dragon, Finding Nemo, and Mary Poppins. All the DVDs were still in the same store bag, all unopened and security stickers still in tow. Minato wanted to see Sasuke's face when he showed the DVDs to him. He hoped there'd be a smile on

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As punctual as he personally allowed, Sasuke slowly turned and parked his silver Eclipse on Namikaze's front parking lot. A long day of school, work, and maintaining his cool composure took a visible toll on him. Not only was Sasuke completely exhausted, there was a likely chance he would swallow his pride and ask Namikaze if he could crash here for tonight.

... Not that the man would protest such a request. Sasuke still wasn't all comfortable with calling this strange man "father," yet he had no choice but to play along till he can get his retraining order in effect.

Oh, yes. He filed one anyway.

Sasuke jangled and fumbled with his keys in a palm as he walked meekly towards the front door. He stilled to pause and heave a long, loud sigh... only to see a shadow and two briliantly blue eyes peering intensely through an opening in the front window.

"..." Sasuke quickly forced himself to the front door and pressed the doorbell, not even bothering to wonder how long he's been stared at out here.

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"SON!" The front door swung open immediately a second after the door buzzer rang, revealing a very happy and smiling Minato. Giving absolutely no chance of the youngster to escape, Minato widened his arms and gave Sasuke one of the most intense bear-hugs he has given in a long while.

"I thought something happened while on your way over here!" Minato said in the crook of Sasuke's neck.

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"..." Sasuke could do nothing except accept this... clinging, warm thing to do as he pleased.

And Minato hugged very tightly.

"... Could you let go," he said quietly, fighting urges to squirm free, knowing the man will just help himself once again. "I can't breathe."

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"-- Oh! Course I will! Sorry?" Minato knew Sasuke wasn't used to hugs. So he respected the teen's request -- for now. Sooner than enough, Sasuke will be used to Minato's highly afectionate nature. Maybe Sasuke will even turn affectionate himself through time and LOTS of experience?

Minato pulled Sasuke free from his embrace at a snails pace, innately pouting that he had to let go of Sasuke so soon. "Come on in! I got everything prepared! Have you eaten yet? You look hungry?" Minato poked at Sasuke's stomach in curiosity.

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"No, I haven't," he snapped, batting away Minato's hand. Sasuke stepped inside the house, and mentally chided on how clean and immaculate the place was. He's only been at Namikaze's house a few other times, and only to do some gardening (donning a... plush duck hat, due to the man giving Sasuke the nickname "Ducky" just to annoy him even further). But its a completely new thing to see Minato's place so clean.

"I see someone hired a maid," he added as he walked into the living room and plopped loosely on the sofa.

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"Yes, I - ah.... - admit I did!" Minato scratched the back of his neck at the confession. Sasuke didn't say anything bad about how the place looked. Good sign! At least? "You like a clean place so I took the liberty to hire someone good to make it clean enough for you!"

Minato pursed his lips and watched as Sasuke helped himself to his couch. "So-- you said you didn't eat anything yet? I don't know what kind of food you like, heh." The older man gave a pointed look down at Sasuke for hopes that the teen would give him hints on what to offer him. Minato didn't want to go down a list of what he had in his fridge already. He wanted Sasuke to tell him what he wanted.

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"Mm." He didn't dare acknowledge the man's effort. As a matter of fact, Sasuke was unsure as to why Minato took it so seriously that he personally liked a clean house.

The only reason he teased Minato about his lax housecleaning habits was to annoy him. But he needed to remind himself that there is no real method to really annoy Minato. All the cursing, ignoring, legal threatening, and blatant cruelty towards Namikaze all left to unfruitful results.

This clean house only made him more comfortable. It reminded Sasuke of Itachi.

He started to shift uneasily on the sofa. "Pizza will do," he finally answered.

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"Pizza delivery, coming right up!" Minato chimed. The older blond seated himself just as sloppy next to Sasuke on the couch, with his cell phone in one hand. Minato made extra effort to get closer to the teen by shimmying closer till their legs and shoulders mashed together.

"So what kind of pizza, Ducky?" Minato asked in a softer tone, propping his chin on his own shoulder to aim baby blues at Sasuke. "Pepperoni, Meat lovers, cheese, Deep dish, Mediterranean style?"

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Out of instinct, Sasuke shifted away from the person breaking through and invading his personal space. It made him a little too exasperated, sometimes. Minato's clinginess. He just wasn't used to someone like him. At all.

"I-..." he started, looking down at his lap at a balled up fist. "... Cheese. On thin-crust."

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"Coming up!" Minato pressed "3" on his speed dial for his favorite pizza place. While shimmying even closer to Sasuke as the teen pulled away. Minato will do all he can to make Sasuke used to him, so he added an extra push by leaning his head on Sasuke's shoulder.

"Yes? Hey! I wanna make an order for delivery! Yes, this number! That's the right address! --..... No I wasn't the one who prank-called earlier. Ah! Good! I want a large cheese with thin crust, and add in two number fours with that! Ah.... give me three diet Cokes, and one Mountain Dew. You don't have Mountain Dew? Fine, finnnne. Let me have one Nestea. One hour? Great! Thanks a bunch!"

Minato turned off the phone, and crossed his legs. "One hour and it'll be here! So you want to get started watching movies till it shows up?"

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The same balled fist on his lap tightened to a point where his fingernails stung notably as they seeped deeper and deeper into his paled skin, dangerously close to drawing blood.

"... Sure," he replied breathlessly. Anything to get you off of me. Please, just get off of me.

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"First, why don't we talk a little bit? Doesn't that sound good?" Minato comfortably nuzzled into Sasuke's form and closed his eyes, completely content. He wondered why Sasuke was all quiet tonight? Usually he's all "Shut up, idiot!" and "Leave me alone, freak!" But the teen was so quiet. Wonder if something happened to him today that made him upset?

"What did you do today? Anything exciting?" Minato bobbed his leg up and down while giving his ears Sasuke's complete attention.

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Sasuke raised both eyebrows at such a question. Well, this was a first. Its been a long time since anyone has asked him that. Such a simple, friendly question... and he wasn't even used to even that. Pathetic.

"... Had an oral presentation today. Think it went well," he started hesitantly. The balled up fist loosened without him realising it as he continued on. "The professor gave me a high mark on it. Excellent, considering that I was far too stressed out about how I'd do. After that, had a small fight in the parking lot. Security had to break us apart." I'm a lot stronger than I thought I was, Sasuke mused. "Anyway. Had work. Then showered real quick and came over here."

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"DUCKY GOT BUSY WITH HIS FIST?! Whoooooho!" Minato exclaimed and held up his hands in mock. "Did you punch their lights out? What was the fight about? Did security have to taser you? Details, details!"

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He actually snorted at Minato's reaction. Snorted. Then that snort turned into a slowly widening smile.

"Just some guy trying to be a badass. Little did he know that I took years of Tae Kwon Do back in Japan," he said with a smirk.