As everyone sat at the table with Kushina in the kitchen getting the food, Haruki laughed as he pointed at Haruna, who was covered in dirt and leaves, with his left hand.
"Look at your hair, Haruna! You have so many leaves in it!"
Haruna growled as she glared at Haruki with her hair floating in the air, similar to how Kushina's hair when she's angry.
"Shut it!" She smirked as she remembered something, "At least I'm not still trying to keep a leaf on my forehead, unlike you."
Haruki stopped laughing and glared at the smug looking Haruna.
"Hey, that's not my fault! Mom said that it would be harder for me because my Kyuubi half was more," his face grew confused, wondering what the word his mother used to describe his Kyuubi.
Minato smiled and decided to fill in the word for his son.
"The word is 'potent', Haruki."
Haruki's face brightened up and smiled at his dad.
"Yeah! That's the word! Thanks, Dad!"
Haruna looked in between Haruki and their dad before she gained a frown, not liking that Haruki was getting so much attention.
"You're just making an excuse."
Haruki lost his smile and frowned at Haruna.
"No I'm not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!
"Am not!"
Before Haruna could yell out her reply, Haruki and Haruna shivered as they suddenly felt really cold.
They robotically turned their heads, while sweating, to the seat adjacent to where Kushina would sit next to Minato, who was also sweating nervously and chuckling.
Naruko smiled a creepy smile as a dark purple like aura surrounded her.
"If you two don't stop arguing, I will take action and trust me, you won't like what I'll do."
Haruki and Haruna shivered and started hugging each other while nodding.
"We're sorry, Naru-nee."
Naruko nodded in satisfaction and the aura disappeared, making Minato, Haruki, and Haruna release a sigh of relief.
Haruki and Haruna blinked and realized that they were still hugging. They immediately let go of one another and let out an "EW!", causing Naruko to roll her eyes at their childish antics, but could see a smile on her face.
Minato chuckled watching all his children acting so carefree. He heard the sound of a door closing from upstairs and when he heard footsteps getting closer, his smile grew.
Looking towards the entrance, Minato greeted his youngest child.
"Hello, Haruto. How was your day?"
Haruto smiled kindly at him and sat next to Naruko, who ruffled his hair in greeting.
"My day was good, father. I'm getting better with using my sword. I think by the next year or so, I should have a grasp on the basis for my sword style I'm creating."
Minato gained an interested look and Naruko looked curiously at Haruto.
"What type of sword style are you creating, Otouto?"
Haruki and Haruna looked across the table to Haruto, excitedly waiting for his answer.
Haruto chuckled, thinking that if anyone saw this, they would think that he was the older one out of the three.
"I want to keep it a surprise, but I'll give you a hint. I will be using multiple swords in this style."
This got the whole family wondering and guessing how much swords Haruto will use.
Minato even thought that Haruto somehow was able to recreate Killer Bee's 8 swords style, but thought it was unlikely because he didn't witness it first hand.
Haruki and Haruna started having crazy imaginations of Haruto growing extra arms and using 9 swords.
Naruko was the most reasonable as she guessed that he would be using 2 swords.
Before they could think about the idea some more, Kushina walked in holding a tray of steaming hot Ramen, which they served when it was a special occasion.
She placed it on the table and gave a big grin.
"Dinner is served!"
With that, everyone dug into their dinner without delay.
Haruto, in the middle of eating, paused and asked,
"Not that I'm complaining or anything, but why are we having ramen today?"
Everyone literally choked in the middle of eating their ramen and when they cleared their throats, Haruna stared in disbelief at Haruto.
"How could you forget, Haruto? It's our birthday! We turn 6 six today, remember?"
Haruto had the decency to look sheepish and if you looked closely, you would see a small pink blush on his face.
"Sorry, it's just I was so into training I guess I forgot what day it was today."
Minato also added his own input.
"Also, we're also celebrating the defeat of Kyuubi, so after we're done eating, we're all going out to join in on the festival and when we come back, Your mother and I along with some others will give you our gifts."
Haruki let out a loud "Hell yeah", where he was later hit in the head by Kushina, who said not to curse, Haruna did something similar, but didn't curse, scared of getting hit, and Haruto grinned.
After they finished their ramen, the Uzumaki-Namikaze family went to their respective rooms and changed to their yukata.
Kushina was dressed in a white kimono with pink ribbon, Naruko was dressed in a dark purple kimono with a yellow ribbon, and Haruna was dressed in a yellow kimono with a blue ribbon.
Minato was dressed in a white yukata with red sash, Haruki was dressed in an orange yukata with a yellow sash, and Haruto was dressed in a red yukata with a black sash that also held Wado Ichimonji on his left hip.
Making sure they had everything one last time, the family of 6 left their house and joined in on the festival.
As they walked in the streets, people of the village greeted them, with Haruki, Haruna, and Haruto being congratulated a "Happy Birthday". Many teenage boys gazed at Naruko lustfully, but were prevented from doing anything by killer intent or KI from Minato and Kushina as well as their girlfriends, sisters, and mothers slapping the back of their heads.
When they reached the area with the stands, Minato and Kushina allowed them to go have fun and meet back at the top of the Hokage Monument to watch the fireworks.
Haruki and Haruna immediately ran from the group and spent most of their time having competition in each stand, trying to best the other in the festival games, such as dart throwing, fish catching, and etc.
Naruko sighed, deciding to follow them, to make sure they didn't cause too much trouble.
Haruto, like his siblings, decided to visit some stands, but unlike them, he visited stands that sold some food, clothing, and stuff like that.
Haruto walked away from a stand that sold some fish balls, thanking the owner of the stand, who gave him some extra fish balls for his birthday.
He smiled as he enjoyed the sweet yet salty taste of the fish balls, but was startled when he felt something bump against him.
Looking down, his left eyebrow rose in curiosity when he noticed it was a girl, who looked no older than 4, in her hands was a paper bag that was steaming, which he deduced to be bread inside the bag.
The girl backed away from him and looked slightly scared, but she literally froze when he heard a yell of what sounded like an old man.
"Get back here, you little thief!"
Haruto brought his head up from the girl, who still stood there frozen, and saw that it was in fact an old man around the age of 50-60 running towards their direction.
Haruto placed his left hand on the girl's shoulder, causing her to jump, and asked her a question.
"Did you steal that?"
The girl looked straight into his eyes and he saw pain and fear in her eyes. The girl didn't even answer him and just brought the bag closer to her chest.
Haruto sighed and turned in the direction of the old man at the same time said man reached them.
The old man was glaring at the little girl and was going to yell at her, until he noticed who was next to her.
"Namikaze-sama! I didn't notice you there!"
Haruto yet again sighed at being addressed with "sama".
"It's fine. Please, just call me 'Haruto'."
The old man replied in an excited tone,
"Of course, Haruto-sama!"
Haruto just accepted that was the best he would get and decided to get back to the problem at hand.
"Can you tell me why you were chasing this girl?"
The old man regained his scowl and glared at the girl, who shrunk trying to hide herself behind the bag in her hands.
"This little girl came to my shop and when I was with another customer, she grabbed one of the bags of bread that was meant for someone else and ran away."
Haruto now confirmed that the girl did indeed steal the bag and decided to solve the situation.
"How much was this bag?"
The old man looked confused, but answered.
"Well, Haruto-sama, one bag of bread would cost just 500 yen."
Haruto took out the price for the bread and gave it to the old man, shocking him and the little girl.
"Here, now, you don't have to chase this little girl anymore."
The old man tried to argue with him, stating that he couldn't accept it, but Haruto convinced him that it was alright.
The old man, after thanking Haruto profusely, left back to his shop.
When he was gone from his sights, Haruto looked back down at the awed looking girl.
"Now, can you tell me why you had to steal this bag of bread, instead of paying?"
The girl decided to answer Haruto because after Haruto paid for the food for her, she saw him as a nice guy.
The girl looked down in shame while she answered,
"I don't have any money and I was really hungry."
Haruto already figured that out and so he asked more specifically.
"Why don't you have money? Don't you have any parents here with you?"
The girl looked even more depressed than before.
"I don't have a mommy or daddy. They died when I was a baby."
Haruto noticed her state of clothing which was just a large rag and felt incredibly bad for the girl and said,
"I'm sorry, I didn't know that."
The girl heard how bad Haruto felt and she looked up quickly, shaking her head.
"No! It's not your fault! Don't be sad!"
Haruto stared, surprised, at the girl's sudden shout before he chuckled.
"I forgot to introduce myself," Haruto stuck out his right hand, "I'm Haruto Namikaze. What's your name?"
The girl looked smiled, happy to see he wasn't sad, and answered,
"Hi Haruto, I'm Mitsuki!"
Haruto smiled as he thought the name "Beautiful Moon" matched the little girl, who looked really cute with shiny black hair and bright amber eyes.
"That's a beautiful name, Mitsuki."
Mitsuki blushed cutely because that was the first time anyone ever complimented her for her name, but gasped as she realized something.
"Oh no! I forgot!"
Haruto wondered what made her gasp and asked her about it.
"What's wrong, Mitsuki?"
Mitsuki looked apologetically at Haruto.
"I'm sorry, Haruto, but I have to go. My friends are waiting for me."
Haruto breathed a sigh of relief after he discovered it wasn't life threatening and smiled kindly at her.
"That's alright. I was actually done looking at the other stands so why don't I go with you?"
Mitsuki smiled brightly at Haruto.
"Sure!"
Mitsuki then grabbed his left hand with her right hand and started to drag him with her as they ran through the crowd of people, who were watching the whole scene with smiles on their faces, thinking how nice of a boy Haruto was.
By the time they stopped running, they reached an alleyway and the sight that met Haruto's eyes made him feel so sick.
4 children, 3 boys and 1 girl, in the same rag-like clothing were seen sitting around, looking absolutely miserable. They all looked the same age as Mitsuki and that was the thing that made Haruto feel sick, that 5 four year olds were living on the streets instead of in an orphanage.
When Mitsuki yelled out a "Hey Guys!", the children lost their looks of misery and gained looks of hope as they saw the bag of bread in her hands.
They quickly rushed to them and Mitsuki started to divide the bread equally amongst them and herself, each one getting 2 bread for themselves.
Haruto watched as they ate and saw how happy they were to have something to eat, even though it was just bread.
This made Haruto feel even more bad for them and his eyes grew determined to help out these kids anyway he could, despite himself being a child as well.
Mitsuki, after she and the rest of the other kids finished their bread, realized she never introduced Haruto and quickly got the other kids' attention.
"Guys, I want you guys to meet the guy who made it all possible for us to have food," the kids perked up and she motioned to Haruto, who they never noticed until now, "This is Haruto. He bought this for us and he didn't want anything in return! He's a really nice guy."
Haruto smiled kindly and waved.
"Like she said, I'm Haruto and I don't think I really did that much."
Mitsuki shook her head side to side.
"No, you really helped us. If it wasn't for you, I would probably be in big trouble."
Haruto sighed, deciding not to argue. He knew he would never win an argument with a girl.
Mitsuki smiled seeing that he accepted her thanks and turned to the others.
"You guys should introduce yourselves too."
They nodded and the first to approach him was a boy with black hair and green eyes that showed intelligence.
The boy politely bowed and stuck his hand out.
"I'm Daichi. Just Daichi. I don't really know who my parents are, but that doesn't bother me. Thank you for your help."
Haruto accepted his thanks and shook his hand.
Daichi stepped back and the next boy to approach him had brown hair and equally brown eyes.
The boy didn't seem to be the type with manners, and that showed with his sloppy bow and him scratching the back of his head with his left hand and a blush on his face.
"I'm Genki. Sorry, I'm not used to being so proper, but yeah like Mitsuki said, thanks."
Haruto chuckled as Mitsuki scolded Genki for introducing himself in such an improper way.
Haruto watched as the last boy walked up to him.
The boy had black hair like Daichi and bright blue eyes.
When the boy looked up at Haruto in the eyes, he brought his head back down with a blush and bowed.
"I'm Tatsumi. Thank you for your help."
Haruto told him that it was no problem in a soft tone, seeing as the boy seemed really shy.
The last of the group who didn't introduce themselves walked up.
She had long dirty blonde hair and, surprisingly, grey eyes.
She had her head down, with her hair casting a shadow over her eyes.
Haruto was about to ask what was wrong until she took him by surprise and hugged him, shocking him slightly and making him freeze.
He broke out of his shocked state when he felt her shaking and his shirt got damp.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you…"
Haruto concluded that she was more emotionally in pain than the others and that this was probably the first time that anyone has helped them.
Looking at the others' faces, he saw how they looked sadly at the girl currently hugging him.
He hugged her back, telling her comforting words, and when she finally calmed down, the girl backed up and wiped her tears away.
The girl gave him a small smile with a blush, embarrassed that she lost control like that and said,
"Sorry about that, but I really am thankful for you helping us. I'm Saya, by the way. Even if you feel that you didn't do enough, you did more than anyone that we've met."
Haruto scratched his cheek with his left hand in embarrassment.
After all the introductions were done, Haruto watched as they talked about how great it was to finally eat and how they laughed, enjoying just talking to each other.
His eyes grew determined as he remembered that he planned to help these kids. Looking inside his wallet, which he had within the left side of his yukata, he noted, thanks to the allowance he got from his parents, that he had enough money to buy food for a family of 10. Having parents like Minato and Kushina, it's not surprising with the amount of money that he had.
He, unlike his siblings, saved his allowance money, not really knowing how to spend it, until today.
Gaining their attention, Haruto gave them a big smile.
"How would you all like to have fun at the festival? Play games? Get new clothes? Eat? Of course, it'll all be on me."
They looked at him in awe and shock before Mitsuki said,
"You can't do that, Haruto! We're happy enough with the bread that you bought for us. You don't have to do this for us."
The others also agreed, but Haruto shook his head and his face grew stoic, slightly scaring them.
"You're right I don't have to," he lost his stoic appearance and regained his smile, "but I want to. So what do you say? Just so you know, I won't be taking a no from any of you."
They stood silent until Saya started crying tears of joy with a big smile on her face that was followed by everyone else.
Haruto grinned.
"I'll take that as a yes?"
They gave out a big cheer and left to enjoy the festival.