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Kushina's POV

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I was pacing up and down the kitchen, thinking to myself about Kasumi. My heart was full with sorrow and my spirits were low, as were Minato's. I guess you could say that Kasumi's relationship with her father was very close. She was definitely Daddy's little girl, but she was also Mummy's little girl too. Minato had wanted to have been very close to his daughter, especially when she was growing up, maybe because he didn't get to have that bond with our son, Naruto, or maybe he just wanted to protect her.

I'll admit that we were both very overprotective of our little Kasumi, not allowing her out after dark, one of us would always walk her to school or take her and her friends out somewhere. But she never questioned why we were so overprotective. She just accepted it, but she must've known or suspected something.

I looked up slowly, noticing the closed door of Kasumi's bedroom. My heart skipped a beat, and I found myself walking towards the door, reaching my hand out to open it. I stopped and glanced at the door frame, where lines had been scratched into it, by Minato's kunai, measuring how tall our baby girl was growing each day, each month. My lip trembled slightly, as I turned to open the door. It swung open with ease, revealing my daughter's bedroom.

It was quite a small room, but Kasumi had been so small, it never seemed to bother her though, she never complained or asked for a bigger room. There was her bed, pushed up against the windows, a small cabinet by her bedside. Her treasure box lay under it, the golden cover gleamed from the sunlight coming through the window. She had a smallish set of drawers where her clothes were kept and a wardrobe. Her little dressing table was looking out onto the village. She and I use to sit here for hours, styling and braiding each other's hair, telling stories and sharing our dreams. Minato would pop in and out, or sometimes it would just be the two of us, mother and daughter.

I tip toed over to her bed and sat on it, picking up an old bunny toy, Kasumi's little Woo Boo Bunny, as she used to call it. I clutched it to my chest, hugging it tight, as if it was the only thing I had left of her, the only thing to remember her by. My eyes began to brim with tears and I heard myself sobbing.

I felt a pair of arms around me, and I knew it was Minato. He rubbed my arm and let me cry into him.

'Kushina, I promise you, we'll find her,' he struggled, his eyes welling up too.

'I just miss her! You know?' I sobbed, he nodded.

'I now darling, I know. Me too,'

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Okie dokie! I haven't updated in a while, gomen! Well I want to involve minato and kushina in the story more, so you can expect more chapters and details about them and their side of the story. Anyway plz vote, fan and comment! Oh my fudge nuggets I love getting comments on my stories!! ^^ it's the best feeling! Bye bye amazing readers and fans, this chapter is dedicated to everyone who reads it, whether you're having a good day or a bad day. Enjoy!!! ^^ >.