[Fanfic] You'll find me here
Title: You'll find me here
Author: phoenix_bellamy
Characters/Pairings: Minato Namikaze/Kushina Uzumaki, mentions of Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: A set of fifty sentences, mostly pre-series, about Minato and Kushina.
Author's Notes: I translated these 50 sentences from Italian, since they were written for the Italian “1sentence” (1frase) community. I did my best for them to flow - sometimes I literally had to rewrite them - but since English isn't my first language my efforts might not have been enough and for that I am really sorry.
Still, I hope you will enjoy them and give me some feedback :) !
1- # 1 Soul
You weighted up the pro and cons quickly, leaving no place for miscalculation: selling your soul is a reasonable price for Kushina to die without regrets.
2- # 2 Second time
For the second time in your life, you meet someone who is intrigued by the bright red of your hair; for the first time you realise how huge is the emptiness left by the man who claimed to love every single strand.
3- # 24 Black
Maybe you should tell him your black hair is only temporary, but you just can't see why you should deprive yourself of such an insightful and articulated disquisition about the way red just suits you better.
4- # 3 Man
There's no point in denying that part of him was utterly terrified by his own reckless pursuit of her kidnappers, alone against a handful of ninjas who just might turn out to be more skilled than him by far - not to mention that he was plainly disobeying the Hokage, who wanted all the genins safe within the Leaf's borders; however the man he strove to be would never flee in the face of danger and this meant being punished for insubordination or killed by the enemies, so be it: the man who he strove to be, the Fourth Hokage, would preserve every single Leaf starting with its most precious bud, Uzumaki Kushina.
5- # 06 Master
This is probably the cheesiest thought you ever had, but you can't help it: even if you are no more than a young boy who has little to offer to the girl he loves, being short on money more often than not, whenever she is around you feel like you are the master of the world.
6 - # 30 Away
Although you have been away from home for so long that you almost forgot what you were fighting for, all it takes for you to remember is her bone-crushing hug.
7 - # 34 Worst
When you catch a glimpse of him, coming back from a war that never seemed to end, you know that the worst is over.
8 - # 04 Money
If you really want to save what you earn from your missions, you better stop insisting to take out Kushina for dinner: it is a truth universally acknowledged that money is never enough to fill an Uzumaki's stomach.
9 - # 05 Prayer
You kneel and hold her hands within yours, adressing your prayer to any deity might be merficul enough to lend an ear, because you might really need some help from 'above' to survive her wrath to the news that the Ramen shop was alread closed when you came home from your last mission...
10 - # 07 Waiting
Ten months waiting and now the fateful moment has finally arrived: today, the 10th of October, you are becoming parents.
11 - # 08 Best Friend
You can't quite understand why Kushina whitened, when you introduced her as 'your best friend' to Jiraiya-sensei and your team.
12 - # 09 Night
"Oi, Namikaze, you better make it through the night, 'cause I have still a lesson to teach you and well, I realize this might not be the best way to talk you into not kicking the bucket and maybe I should clarify that by 'lesson' I mean teaching you about my bloodline's seals and not beating you into a pulp, though you would certainly deserve it for ending up here 'cause you had to be the damn hero of the day, dattebane!"
13 - # 38 Promise
Trust 'blondie' here to remind you of a promise you didn't even make: first thing he asks me when he regains consciousness is about the timetable of our lessons and if he should call me 'Uzumaki-sensei'; he gets away with it only because there are witnesses around us and absolutely not on the account of a dazzling smile on his bruised face.
14 - # 10 Madness
My comrades think I'm crazy not to take advantage of my so-called 'reputation' to hit on a different kind woman - “more feminine and less violent”, they say - but if they only had the chance to get to know Kushina a little better they would realize that only a mad man would waste his opportunity to be hers.
15 - # 32 Memories
Some of them are sad, heart-wrenching, while others are happy and carefree: Minato being constant the latter kind of memories is just another proof that you should definitely marry the man.
16 - # 46 Answer
“Well, Namikaze Minato” she barks, pointing her finger at you “I am fed up with waiting for you to make a move, so don't bother asking: my answer is 'yes, you are more than welcome to become my husband.'”
17 - # 42 Will
The Will of Fire might cloud your judgment now, but she sees right through it as she always does thus accepting you are doing this for the sake of everyone, including her.
18 - # 11 Engagement
These days, fighting an endless war and living in fear of not waking up to see the sunrise ever again, you do not see why you should wasting time with nonsense like 'engagement' as you know by now that you want to spend the rest of your life with her: a few days after the proposal you are already married.
19 - # 39 Hope
The hope of a prosperous, peaceful, perfect place to raise a family is now reality and it's all thanks to the man you are proud to call "my husband".
20 - # 13 Boredom
Since you were chosen as the Fourth Hokage, your nemesis became that insurmountable stack of papers that keep piling up on your desk, only to be thrown on the ground at sunset, when Kushina comes visiting to subdue each other boredom...
21 - # 14 Indifference
His facade of indifference conceals his intents better than a ANBU mask and it is, for you, more lethal than a kunai plunged into your chest, tearing your heart apart.
22 - # 15 Bed / Read*
Even though you have carefully read the novels of that perverted teacher, trying to find some piece of advice on the proper strategy to win Minato's heart, you still ended up spending another night alone in your cold uncomfortable bed, damn.
*in Italian “bed” is “letto” but “read” (past participle of “to read”) is “letto” too, so in the original there was a wordplay.
23 - # 23 Sky
You were laying on the the ground, looking up to the sky above you but then, suddenly, all you saw was a yellow flash and his lips were kissing your mouth.
24 - # 16 Stars
Stars - and an ero-sennin, who was poorly hiding behind a bush to take notes - were the only witnesses of your first kiss.
25 - # 17 Minute
When you and Kushina finally met Naruto, well, that was the happiest minute of your whole life.
26 - # 18 Limit
You were certain you went beyond your limit, you were sure you couldn't even breath anymore; yet when you saw Naruto and Minato threatened by that claw, you acted on pure instinct and found to chain the fox again.
27 - # 19 Heart
As you surrender to darkness, you like to imagine that your hearts will stop beating together.
28 - # 20 Faith
You neither have faith in a God who could shield him from harm nor trust in the benevolence of Konoha's citizen - they won't accept him - yet you dare to picture a future where Naruto will eventually come to love you both.
29 - # 22 Rain
In spite of the pouring rain, you stand still like a statue and wait for him to flee in disgust at the disclosure of your Jinchuuriki nature; instead he stares at you in awe and says “Wow, you really are amazing”
30 - # 21 Summer
Summer heat is unbearable, but after all it has its perks: you can see more of her beautiful body body, otherwise hidden by heavy winter clothes.
31 - # 25 Doctor
"Minato, it's not some kind of obscure and incurable disease: I'm just pregnant; now would you stop bugging that poor doctor with all your nonsense?!”
32 - # 47 Clear
It should be clear, crystal clear, to me but I still am at loss: how come Kushina is expecting a baby?
33 - #41 Revelation
I am starting to wonder if Minato might need to retake the course on the dynamics of human procreation, held by the skilled and wickedly sexy Kushina Uzumaki, if it takes more than ten minutes for my - stunning? - revelation to sink into that usually clever brain of his.
34 - # 12 Life
Although you know that this is really not anything out of the ordinary, you are amazed to feel him kicking when you lay your hand on her tummy, realizing that new life is already so strong.
35 - # 26 Words
You still have so much things you'd like to say, but the words die on your lips and you can only hold his hand weakly relying that Minato can see, from that simple act, how grateful you are for his love.
36 - # 27 Killing
Given the opportunity, you've always preferred to spare the lives of your enemies and tried to understand the motives behind their acts; yet you don't want to hear anything from that masked man who jeopardizing the future of your family: you are dying to kill him in the bloodiest, cruelest and slowest way you can conceive.
37 - # 28 Place
The “Valley Of The End” is a great place indeed, though you have to admit that Minato undressing, to go swimming in the river, right before your eyes certainly gives it an added value.
38 - # 29 (to) Believe
You have to believe someday you will be given the opportunity to meet with him again, even for the briefest moment, otherwise this would be just too cruel ...
39 - # 31 Boat
Paying more attention to rowing might have been wiser than losing yourselves in each other eyes, yet when you the boat flips and you both fall into the water you can't bring yourself to care.
40 - # 33 Death
Death does not scare you but you wish you had the time to at least give to kiss him goodbye.
41 - # 35 Arms
Not that you need shelter - not anymore - but you love how his arms try to keep warm and safe in his embrace, as he falls asleep.
42 - #36 Electricity
A rush of sheer electricity runs through your whole body when his fingers began to touch, softly, every inch of your skin.
43 - # 37 Cells
Leaving red stripes on his back with your scraping nails, you silently give him permission to thrust inside you so deep that your cells with end up merging with each other.
44 - #40 Hole
You grew rather fond of that 'hole' that was your first apartment: it was dark, smelly and cramped but you had a roof over your heads, a bed to sleep plus a camping stove to cook and that was all you two needed.
45 - # 43 Easy
Judging from Jiraiya-sensei's books, you assumed it would be rather difficult task, since it took a well-though-out strategy but - in the end - it was much easier than expected to let yourself be driven by instinct in making love to her.
46 - # 44 Terror
The terror of watching the life you built with Minato falling apart, as helpless as you were when it happened to your native country, is always there; deep inside your heart.
47 - # 45 Fire
The flames of your passion have not been dampened, despite a long - and exhausting - wedding night; instead it seems that the fire you have within has been fueled by such a strenuous sexual marathon...
48 - # 48 Together
Together you will be strong enough to keep your dreams and hope alive, fighting tooth and nail to preserve them.
49 - # 49 Mind
The lie is so blatant you yearn for the ability to read the innermost thoughts of his twisted mind, to find a justification for such a clear falsehood.
50 - # 50 Road
You have walked side by side for years, along the same long winding road, and now that the way finally seemed to have smoothed under your feet, you are faced with a fork that requires you to proceed along two different paths.
Author: phoenix_bellamy
Characters/Pairings: Minato Namikaze/Kushina Uzumaki, mentions of Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: A set of fifty sentences, mostly pre-series, about Minato and Kushina.
Author's Notes: I translated these 50 sentences from Italian, since they were written for the Italian “1sentence” (1frase) community. I did my best for them to flow - sometimes I literally had to rewrite them - but since English isn't my first language my efforts might not have been enough and for that I am really sorry.
Still, I hope you will enjoy them and give me some feedback :) !
1- # 1 Soul
You weighted up the pro and cons quickly, leaving no place for miscalculation: selling your soul is a reasonable price for Kushina to die without regrets.
2- # 2 Second time
For the second time in your life, you meet someone who is intrigued by the bright red of your hair; for the first time you realise how huge is the emptiness left by the man who claimed to love every single strand.
3- # 24 Black
Maybe you should tell him your black hair is only temporary, but you just can't see why you should deprive yourself of such an insightful and articulated disquisition about the way red just suits you better.
4- # 3 Man
There's no point in denying that part of him was utterly terrified by his own reckless pursuit of her kidnappers, alone against a handful of ninjas who just might turn out to be more skilled than him by far - not to mention that he was plainly disobeying the Hokage, who wanted all the genins safe within the Leaf's borders; however the man he strove to be would never flee in the face of danger and this meant being punished for insubordination or killed by the enemies, so be it: the man who he strove to be, the Fourth Hokage, would preserve every single Leaf starting with its most precious bud, Uzumaki Kushina.
5- # 06 Master
This is probably the cheesiest thought you ever had, but you can't help it: even if you are no more than a young boy who has little to offer to the girl he loves, being short on money more often than not, whenever she is around you feel like you are the master of the world.
6 - # 30 Away
Although you have been away from home for so long that you almost forgot what you were fighting for, all it takes for you to remember is her bone-crushing hug.
7 - # 34 Worst
When you catch a glimpse of him, coming back from a war that never seemed to end, you know that the worst is over.
8 - # 04 Money
If you really want to save what you earn from your missions, you better stop insisting to take out Kushina for dinner: it is a truth universally acknowledged that money is never enough to fill an Uzumaki's stomach.
9 - # 05 Prayer
You kneel and hold her hands within yours, adressing your prayer to any deity might be merficul enough to lend an ear, because you might really need some help from 'above' to survive her wrath to the news that the Ramen shop was alread closed when you came home from your last mission...
10 - # 07 Waiting
Ten months waiting and now the fateful moment has finally arrived: today, the 10th of October, you are becoming parents.
11 - # 08 Best Friend
You can't quite understand why Kushina whitened, when you introduced her as 'your best friend' to Jiraiya-sensei and your team.
12 - # 09 Night
"Oi, Namikaze, you better make it through the night, 'cause I have still a lesson to teach you and well, I realize this might not be the best way to talk you into not kicking the bucket and maybe I should clarify that by 'lesson' I mean teaching you about my bloodline's seals and not beating you into a pulp, though you would certainly deserve it for ending up here 'cause you had to be the damn hero of the day, dattebane!"
13 - # 38 Promise
Trust 'blondie' here to remind you of a promise you didn't even make: first thing he asks me when he regains consciousness is about the timetable of our lessons and if he should call me 'Uzumaki-sensei'; he gets away with it only because there are witnesses around us and absolutely not on the account of a dazzling smile on his bruised face.
14 - # 10 Madness
My comrades think I'm crazy not to take advantage of my so-called 'reputation' to hit on a different kind woman - “more feminine and less violent”, they say - but if they only had the chance to get to know Kushina a little better they would realize that only a mad man would waste his opportunity to be hers.
15 - # 32 Memories
Some of them are sad, heart-wrenching, while others are happy and carefree: Minato being constant the latter kind of memories is just another proof that you should definitely marry the man.
16 - # 46 Answer
“Well, Namikaze Minato” she barks, pointing her finger at you “I am fed up with waiting for you to make a move, so don't bother asking: my answer is 'yes, you are more than welcome to become my husband.'”
17 - # 42 Will
The Will of Fire might cloud your judgment now, but she sees right through it as she always does thus accepting you are doing this for the sake of everyone, including her.
18 - # 11 Engagement
These days, fighting an endless war and living in fear of not waking up to see the sunrise ever again, you do not see why you should wasting time with nonsense like 'engagement' as you know by now that you want to spend the rest of your life with her: a few days after the proposal you are already married.
19 - # 39 Hope
The hope of a prosperous, peaceful, perfect place to raise a family is now reality and it's all thanks to the man you are proud to call "my husband".
20 - # 13 Boredom
Since you were chosen as the Fourth Hokage, your nemesis became that insurmountable stack of papers that keep piling up on your desk, only to be thrown on the ground at sunset, when Kushina comes visiting to subdue each other boredom...
21 - # 14 Indifference
His facade of indifference conceals his intents better than a ANBU mask and it is, for you, more lethal than a kunai plunged into your chest, tearing your heart apart.
22 - # 15 Bed / Read*
Even though you have carefully read the novels of that perverted teacher, trying to find some piece of advice on the proper strategy to win Minato's heart, you still ended up spending another night alone in your cold uncomfortable bed, damn.
*in Italian “bed” is “letto” but “read” (past participle of “to read”) is “letto” too, so in the original there was a wordplay.
23 - # 23 Sky
You were laying on the the ground, looking up to the sky above you but then, suddenly, all you saw was a yellow flash and his lips were kissing your mouth.
24 - # 16 Stars
Stars - and an ero-sennin, who was poorly hiding behind a bush to take notes - were the only witnesses of your first kiss.
25 - # 17 Minute
When you and Kushina finally met Naruto, well, that was the happiest minute of your whole life.
26 - # 18 Limit
You were certain you went beyond your limit, you were sure you couldn't even breath anymore; yet when you saw Naruto and Minato threatened by that claw, you acted on pure instinct and found to chain the fox again.
27 - # 19 Heart
As you surrender to darkness, you like to imagine that your hearts will stop beating together.
28 - # 20 Faith
You neither have faith in a God who could shield him from harm nor trust in the benevolence of Konoha's citizen - they won't accept him - yet you dare to picture a future where Naruto will eventually come to love you both.
29 - # 22 Rain
In spite of the pouring rain, you stand still like a statue and wait for him to flee in disgust at the disclosure of your Jinchuuriki nature; instead he stares at you in awe and says “Wow, you really are amazing”
30 - # 21 Summer
Summer heat is unbearable, but after all it has its perks: you can see more of her beautiful body body, otherwise hidden by heavy winter clothes.
31 - # 25 Doctor
"Minato, it's not some kind of obscure and incurable disease: I'm just pregnant; now would you stop bugging that poor doctor with all your nonsense?!”
32 - # 47 Clear
It should be clear, crystal clear, to me but I still am at loss: how come Kushina is expecting a baby?
33 - #41 Revelation
I am starting to wonder if Minato might need to retake the course on the dynamics of human procreation, held by the skilled and wickedly sexy Kushina Uzumaki, if it takes more than ten minutes for my - stunning? - revelation to sink into that usually clever brain of his.
34 - # 12 Life
Although you know that this is really not anything out of the ordinary, you are amazed to feel him kicking when you lay your hand on her tummy, realizing that new life is already so strong.
35 - # 26 Words
You still have so much things you'd like to say, but the words die on your lips and you can only hold his hand weakly relying that Minato can see, from that simple act, how grateful you are for his love.
36 - # 27 Killing
Given the opportunity, you've always preferred to spare the lives of your enemies and tried to understand the motives behind their acts; yet you don't want to hear anything from that masked man who jeopardizing the future of your family: you are dying to kill him in the bloodiest, cruelest and slowest way you can conceive.
37 - # 28 Place
The “Valley Of The End” is a great place indeed, though you have to admit that Minato undressing, to go swimming in the river, right before your eyes certainly gives it an added value.
38 - # 29 (to) Believe
You have to believe someday you will be given the opportunity to meet with him again, even for the briefest moment, otherwise this would be just too cruel ...
39 - # 31 Boat
Paying more attention to rowing might have been wiser than losing yourselves in each other eyes, yet when you the boat flips and you both fall into the water you can't bring yourself to care.
40 - # 33 Death
Death does not scare you but you wish you had the time to at least give to kiss him goodbye.
41 - # 35 Arms
Not that you need shelter - not anymore - but you love how his arms try to keep warm and safe in his embrace, as he falls asleep.
42 - #36 Electricity
A rush of sheer electricity runs through your whole body when his fingers began to touch, softly, every inch of your skin.
43 - # 37 Cells
Leaving red stripes on his back with your scraping nails, you silently give him permission to thrust inside you so deep that your cells with end up merging with each other.
44 - #40 Hole
You grew rather fond of that 'hole' that was your first apartment: it was dark, smelly and cramped but you had a roof over your heads, a bed to sleep plus a camping stove to cook and that was all you two needed.
45 - # 43 Easy
Judging from Jiraiya-sensei's books, you assumed it would be rather difficult task, since it took a well-though-out strategy but - in the end - it was much easier than expected to let yourself be driven by instinct in making love to her.
46 - # 44 Terror
The terror of watching the life you built with Minato falling apart, as helpless as you were when it happened to your native country, is always there; deep inside your heart.
47 - # 45 Fire
The flames of your passion have not been dampened, despite a long - and exhausting - wedding night; instead it seems that the fire you have within has been fueled by such a strenuous sexual marathon...
48 - # 48 Together
Together you will be strong enough to keep your dreams and hope alive, fighting tooth and nail to preserve them.
49 - # 49 Mind
The lie is so blatant you yearn for the ability to read the innermost thoughts of his twisted mind, to find a justification for such a clear falsehood.
50 - # 50 Road
You have walked side by side for years, along the same long winding road, and now that the way finally seemed to have smoothed under your feet, you are faced with a fork that requires you to proceed along two different paths.