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[ Konoha Front Desk ]
Naruto had just arrived in the lobby of the hospital and was only a few feet way from the front desk when all of the nurses turned to him in shock
"Uzumaki-Namikaze-sama!...You're awake!...You shouldn't be standing you've been in a comatose state for a while now...you're body shouldn't even be able to function right now." The head nurse looked at him and saw that he was only wearing a pair of elastic shorts, "In fact your body was frail and weak yesterday. I don't know how you recovered so quickly. Even with medical ninjutsu that should be impossible."
Naruto looked at her with a blank face, "I am fine there is no need for your concern but thank you...now can you tell me how long I've been out for?"
The nurse looked shocked when he claimed to be fine, "Umm if I remember correctly you've been in a coma for a little four months now...Oh I need to contact your parents please stay here!"
With that the head nurse left the hospital and left only a few of the other nurses behind.
One of the other nurses decided to speak up, "She'll be right back after contacting your parents. If you have any other questions about what has been going on while you've been in your coma please feel free to ask us and we'll answer to the best of our ability."
Naruto looked at her thoughtfully, "...do you keep visitors logs for specific patients?"
The nurse looked at him oddly, "Um yes we do if fact yours should be...right around here." She reached under the desk and pulled out a small booklet of sign in sheets labeled Room 304.
He started flipping through the pages and predictably enough Nawaki and Narumi had only visited the day that he was brought in and he could count the times that Kushina and Minato visited on one hand. He smiled softly when he saw Hana's, Mikoto's, Satsuki's, Itachi's, and Shisui's names written down.
What surprised him the most was Natsuki. She had visited him everyday that he had been in the hospital, it made him a little happy that at least someone in his old family still cared about him. 'Perhaps she just feels bad that she was the one who put me in there...perhaps I should give her chance...we may never be family ever again...but that doesn't mean I should forsake her completely...after all a family isn't a group of people related to one another by blood...my memories of the Otsutsuki clan prove that. No...a family is a group of people who will do anything for each other and will love each other unconditionally...Hana...Mikoto...Satsuki...
Shisui...Itachi...they are my family.'
It was at that point hat the head nurse returned with Minato, Kushina, and Natsuki in tow.
'I figure I should just play as part of the perfect, happy, little family for now. At least a little.'
Minato and Kushina just stood their with happy little smiles plastered on their faces, not realizing his thoughts. However, as soon as Natsuki saw him, she charged him at her top speed and glomped onto him sobbing into his chest. He could hear the muffled cries of "I'm sorry" and "It's all my fault" as he lovingly rubbed the back of her head.
She looked up into his eyes, err eye, and sobbed even herder noticing all of his scars. The scars that she caused.
Natsuki was just glad to have him back and now they could become even closer than before.
Poor Natsuki. Her dream may have come true had Namikaze Minato not been their father.
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It was a cold fall morning for the people of Konoha in early October. It had been a rough month few months for Naruto especially. He had woken up from his coma two months ago and had their were several things irritating him at the moment.
The first was his physical condition. For some odd reason, or innate power, his body was in the same condition as it had been almost six months ago, but that didn't mean that he was without problems. Naruto had to begin his training from the ground up because his muscles had not beed used for any kind of strenuous activity for months. Though that problem was rather easy to fix after several weeks of physical therapy and starting back up on his training regimen again.
The second was Natsuki. She had become far to attached for Naruto's liking. At first he had thought that it was kind of sweet that she was worried for him, but now it was just pissing him off. She would cling to him whenever she could and her eyes would start tearing up every time that she had looked at his face because of the scar. And of course she was still blaming herself for it. Naruto knew that his 'accident' wasn't completely her fault and didn't really blame her for it, but it didn't exactly drive them closer.
Natsuki had started babying Naruto unnecessarily. Every time that he would try to leave the house she would try to stop him, thinking that she would lose him again. Needless to say, Naruto had to result to Shunshining everywhere just so he wouldn't have to deal with her.
Naruto had not been able to use his chakra at all while in his comatose state, so his training with Shisui had to start from the ground up once again. He could still remember their reactions to when he walked into the Uchiha Compound the day after his dismissal from the hospital.