Eight and a half months later.
Day 05 of August.
[[Mission [Infiltrate Konoha] successful!]
The [Scroll with the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique] has been deposited in your [Stomach (Storage Space)]]
A beautiful baby with short golden hair, who had his eyes closed while being breastfed, opened them, revealing his beautiful golden eyes.
A mixture of confusion and intelligence shone in his eyes.
In a fraction of a second, Luka became aware of everything that had happened in the last months.
Taking his lips away from around the breast that was feeding him, he saw the beautiful crimson-haired woman look at him with maternal love.
"Already satisfied, Luka?"
She touched the tip of his nose with her index finger and smiled lovingly.
Months living as a baby made him an expert at it.
Babbling, he let out a little laugh as he said: "Ma-ma, ma-ma!"
She laughed pleasantly: "That's right, it's baby's mama – Dattebane~!"
After adjusting her clothes, picking him up in her arms, she left the room with him.
Luka lay with his head on her chest while reflecting on many things.
He thought: 'This took much longer than I expected, but the result couldn't be better!'
It was a gamble from which he came out victorious.
"Kushina, don't overexert yourself." A blond man who was talking with another man with long white hair interrupted mid-sentence, standing up and going toward her.
"You worry too much, Minato." She smiled: "I'm fine, really."
"Pa-pa!" Luka stretched his arms toward him.
Even saying that, she felt sweet inside, handing Luka over to Minato's arms.
Holding Luka with one hand, with the other he used to rub Kushina's belly, Minato says: "It's so big... It must be soon that our child will get to know the world."
It was possible to notice how excited and happy he was just by the tone of his voice.
Kushina laughed a little, touching Luka's face on Minato's arm: "Are you excited to become an older brother?"
"Kiki." He babbled.
"Kiki?" Kushina repeated those words, but didn't think much of it, smiling back
Minato says: "I bet he is, look how happy he seems."
Kushina snuggled against Minato's chest: "Yes, and the four of us will be a happy family~"
"Cough!"
Jiraiya who was there visiting, felt like he could get diabetes from how sweet they were being with each other.
'Damn, I want to get married too, I want to have a wife and children! Wait...' Jiraiya felt a chill down his spine, becoming frightened by his own thoughts.
For him, that was a scary thought!
Maybe not if he managed to marry the woman he could never forget over the years...
Clearing his throat, he forced himself to hide those confusing feelings deep in his mind.
"Sorry, Jiraiya-sensei." Even though he said that, Minato didn't seem guilty at all.
Stretching his arms toward Jiraiya, Luka babbled: "Jiji, jiji!"
"Look, Jiraiya-sama, your grandson wants you to pick him up." Kushina said with a smile.
Jiraiya was moved.
He went over to them.
"Come with Grandpa Jiraiya!"
Now, even he was part of the harmonious atmosphere that had formed.
...
A baby's life was not easy.
Luka was almost never alone.
Well, it was the choice he made, he was the one who wanted to adopt Kushina and Minato as his parents, that's why he doesn't regret anything he did, but now that he has recovered his memories, it became harder to keep acting like a baby.
Another thing. The eight and a half months of memory he had showed how much they loved him.
Now, only when night came, and his parents went to sleep, did Luka stay alone in the crib, in the room next to theirs.
Seeing that the door was half-open, he hesitated a bit before taking the "Scroll with the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique" out of the storage in his stomach.
Thanks to Kakuku, he was able to read what was written.
And, with his enhanced vision, even in the dark, he was able to see.
Minutes later.
'I see, so that's how it works...'
It wasn't difficult to learn this jutsu, especially considering that he was already very good at the clone jutsu.
He kept reading.
Almost an hour later...
[You learned: [Multiple Shadow Clones (Silver Lv.1 – 00%)]]
Before he could celebrate, Luka heard the sound of footsteps, immediately, he returned the scroll to his stomach, then pretended to be asleep.
[–0–]
Luka, who only wanted to pretend to be sleeping, ended up falling asleep for real.
When he woke up again, it was still dark outside.
Looking toward the door, using 'Mana Perception', he stood up, forming hand seals: 'Shadow Clone Jutsu.'
Beside him, two clones exactly identical to him appeared.
Immediately, the two clones transformed into dragonflies.
The mimicry was perfect.
It was as if they were two ordinary dragonflies.
Although he couldn't leave, that didn't stop him from sending his clones to a place where he could continue 'farming'.
'By the way, how are my status, did anything change?'
When his status page appeared, his eyes shone with excitement.
[Dissolve (Bronze) Lv.5 – 18% ➔ Lv.9 – 55%]
[Absorption (Bronze) Lv.5 – 19% ➔ Lv.9 – 57%]
[Superhuman Physique (Gold Lv.1 – 21%) ➔ Lv.2 – 98%]
[Yin Style (Iron) Lv.2 – 50% ➔ (Bronze) Lv.7 – 32%]
[Yang Style (Iron) Lv.3 – 22%➔ (Bronze) Lv.7 – 35%]
[Natural Energy (Iron) Lv.4 – 42% ➔ (Bronze) Lv.1 – 99%]
[Chakra (Bronze) Lv.8 – 11% ➔ (Silver) Lv.1 – 40%]
A total of seven significant changes.
'All this just because the one who breastfed me was Kushina?'
There's no other secret; that was the only plausible answer.
It's no wonder that when he created the two shadow clones he didn't feel overwhelmed as he had imagined he would.
It turns out that he had changed quite a lot; even his own chakra had evolved one rank.
Another thing... His level and points didn't change, which means that without using 'Predation', no matter how much he improves, that won't change.
Even so, that didn't bother him.
It would be great if it had changed, but, in the first place, he didn't expect anything to change. Therefore, everything that happened was, in the end, a happy accident.
Ah yes, almost forgetting... Besides these changes, the name registered in his status changed to: Luka Namikaze.
[–0–]
Kushina was breastfeeding little Luka who had his adorable golden eyes tightly closed.
She showed a loving smile while running her fingers through the strands of his golden hair with her free hand.
"You know, mommy has already told you this before." She said softly, gently: "You are my little treasure – Ever since you entered our lives, everything changed for the better..."
Her eyes seemed to be seeing something beyond this time.
[–0–]
A few months earlier.
On that day, Kushina was having another terrible day.
It had been months since she and Minato were trying to have a child, but she came back once again disappointed from the hospital.
As soon as she arrived, she began the usual routine, alone in that house that seemed very big and silent.
She never blamed Minato, after all, he made their dreams come true, becoming the Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village.
However, although she felt very proud of him, sometimes, just sometimes, she imagined what it would be like if Minato were not Hokage and had more time to spend with her.
Maybe if they tried more, she might even already be pregnant...
That was when she heard a cry – The cry of a baby.
She was washing the dishes, dirty from what she used to prepare dinner.
When she went out and saw a basket with a baby inside, she became a little indignant.
She wanted so much to have a baby, and here was someone who achieved what she desired most, and yet, chose to abandon it.
To her complete surprise, whoever did that managed to disappear without leaving a trace.
She returned, standing in front of the basket, crouching down and saw the baby.
She was a little surprised: "Wow! Aren't you the cutest little thing in this world? How cruel or desperate does someone need to be to have the courage to abandon you?"
When she picked him up in her arms, the crying ceased and, with his hands waving in the air, he began to laugh while trying to reach her face.
When Kushina held him in her arms, and he stopped crying, something inside her seemed to have started as a simple drop in the ocean that soon became a tsunami.
"Hello, little friend, aren't you a cutie?" She smiled, speaking in a very soft and gentle tone.
In response to her words, the baby began to laugh.
That laughter brought another wave of happiness that filled the void that was forming in her heart.
She then laughed a little, a restrained but sincere laugh.
At that moment, perhaps, she had already made her decision.
Bringing the basket and the baby inside the house, she didn't deny that she came to think it could be a setup.
It was a bit suspicious, but maybe not that much.
Looking at the adorable child in her arms, she could imagine that this child's parents were simply in a difficult situation and couldn't raise him, so they placed all their hopes on him being raised by none other than the Hokage's wife.
"Could it be someone who saw me at the hospital?"
It was possible.
If so, if they accidentally heard her saying that she wanted a baby, seeing if there was any problem, etc. It was possible that the mother, or who knows, the father of this child, saw in her the hope of not having to simply abandon this child in an orphanage.
"Huh?"
Inside the basket, Kushina saw a piece of wood with something carved on it.
[Luka]
"Is that your name? Luka?" When she noticed the baby react to that name, she smiled: "Then, I will also call you Luka."
[–0–]
"Kushina, my love, I'm home."
Minato's voice brought Kushina back to the present.
A gentle smile adorned her lips.
Seeing that the baby had fallen asleep while she was breastfeeding him, very carefully, she made him stop nursing, then after adjusting her blouse, without a bra, she placed him in the crib and went to receive Minato.
"Welcome back." With her hands lowered at the sides of her thighs, she asked him: "What do you want first, take a bath, eat, or..."
She displayed a mischievous smile: "Me?"
Although it wasn't the first time she did this, Minato was still caught off guard, narrowing his eyes dangerously, but upon seeing her mischievous and provocative smile, then her prominent belly, he swallowed dryly, then laughed out loud, saying: "Then, how about first a sweet kiss from my wife?"
"With great pleasure~" She practically threw herself into his arms, hugging him.
Minato hugged her back, holding her as if she were the most precious thing in the world, placing a tender kiss on her lips.