Don't Pet the Village Golden Retriever

Pairing: Minato × Kushina

Canon pairings are broken up

[Blurb]

Kawakawa Tsukiyo met a little golden retriever.

He was adorable.

He loved to learn.

He was smart.

He had a real talent for ninjutsu.

His chakra was warm, and he was so pure of heart.

That day, she finally understood what it meant to pass something down. She taught him everything she knew and gave him everything she had. He was so well-behaved, and even called her Sensei. What a sweetheart.

“Hey, I’m telling you, don’t suddenly come so close.”

Now, the golden retriever was a real nuisance.

He was still grinning brightly at her. “Tsuki, what are you doing?”

She saw stars. “You have no manners! Once a teacher, always a teacher. Don’t call me by my name!”

“F-Fourth Hokage, sorry to interrupt.”

Her companion made a quick escape.

She: “...”

What a headache.

She was the one who’d trained him, and now he wouldn’t listen to her and had even become Hokage. What was she supposed to do?!

He looked dejected. “Why did Tsuki ignore me and come eat with another man...?”

She: “...?”

Aren’t you a little too involved?

And that’s my companion...! Not some other man! We just happened to run into each other!

But with that sunny, handsome face, he looked at her so pitifully, as if she’d done something terrible to him.

This was harder to deal with than an S-rank mission!

Even stranger, faint wisps of ominous black smoke seemed to be rising behind him...

Wait!

No!

Is there still time to leave the village?!

SOS!!

Theme: Facing hardship head-on and overcoming difficulties