♫ It's the moooost wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeeear ♫ [Private, English, Kakashi's apartment Warning for supreme awkwardness and possible chocolate milk.]

Yeah. Minato just hung out in his back seat. Not being jealous at all.

The engine was turned off, and they both exited, Kushina with a few difficulties, though. Kakashi, meanwhile, went to open the trunk and take out Kushina's suitcase.

Minato, of course, hurried to help her out as soon as he saw her troubles. "Sure you don't need the crutches anymore?" He held her a bit longer than necessary once she was out of the car, enjoying the feel of her in his arms again.

She nodded. "Yeah. I'm just walking a bit slower than usually." a weak grin.

Kakashi took out Minato's sports bag and computer backpack as well, closing the trunk, locking the car, before he handed the bags to Minato.

"Thanks," he said, then reached for Kushina's as well before realising that was probably a bit stupid. He shuffled over to offer her support in walking instead.

Kakashi just smiled and began walking in the direction of the nearest elevator(there were two in the front and two near the garages).

Kushina, with Minato's help, followed, a thankful smile directed at Minato.

While Kakashi was in front, back turned, he stole a quick kiss. "Missed you," he told her quietly.

"You too." she smiled and leant a bit against him while Kakashi went away for just a minute or two, returning with his mail. "Bill, bill... Ooh. Letter from Raidou." he muttered to himself, smiling at the last. Then, they entered the elevator, getting off at the 6th floor, while Kakashi took out his keys. The first door on the right, and he began unlocking the door.

Minato pretty much just followed, supporting Kushina all the way (and noticing how god damn expensive everything was.)

And now, they entered the hallway, first of all, getting rid of jackets and shoes, Kakashi locking the door behind them. Next room - the big, combined living room, dining room and kitchen. Walls beige and dark brown, ceiling white, floors black. In the part serving as a living room; big, light couch, dark wooden sofa table, two while armchairs, big flatscreen tv, white rug. In the part serving as a dining room; Black table with 6 chairs, a white rug underneath, white chandelier hanging over the table. And the part serving as a kitchen; White table with four chairs, kitchen modules dark brown with black surfaces, in-built oven and microwave.

Okay, he'd known Kakashi was rich, but just how rich... Kushina must really love me since she's still with me, knowing I'm totally broke.. he thought to himself, and smiled. He was able to tell Kakashi "Damn, this is a nice place!" without any hint of jealousy... well, almost.

"Thanks," he grinned, and basically threw himself onto the couch. "But most of the decorations and basic interior design - that's Kushina and Rin's doing." Maybe Kushina's cheeks went just a little red.

"I don't know anything about decorations, but it looks really cool," Minato complemented, and kissed Kushina's cheek, perhaps just a bit possessively.

He just smiled, and got around to opening the mail, first of all the bills. "Yeah, no wonder the electricity bill is this low... I'm barely using the place after all..." he muttered to himself, then looked at the other, which was for his tv channels. Then, the letter from Raidou, written in Japanese, of course.

"Heh... We had fun with it." Kushina grinned.

"Did you just decide everything? Why doesn't it look more girly, then?" Minato teased.

"It needed to fit 'Kashi, right?" she grinned. "And I still like the design myself, too. You've seen my room at the school, too. It's not because my part of the room's overly girly." she grinned.

"Not at all." He wasn't sure he liked the pet name for Kakashi, but he didn't want to go down that road of thinking. Nor the road of thinking where she might know Kakashi better than she knew him, Minato. "It's cool," he said for the fifteenth time. "Which bits did you decide?"

"... The kitchen, mostly. And the fireplace. And chandelier." she grinned. "Rin had fun with this part." Kakashi gestured to the part serving as living room.

He immediately preferred the kitchen. And the fireplace. And chandelier ... why was there a chandelier in a flat that didn't belong to an eighty-year-old baroness something something? "Nice."

Kakashi stood back up, stretched. "Since Kushina knows where it is, but you don't, why don't I show you to the guest room?" he smiled. "Then you can get rid of the luggage there, too."

"Yeah, sure." He got his bag and Kushina's, and his arm nearly fell off. "What's _in_ this thing?!"

Kushina blushed. "Uhm. Stuff?" was all she said, though, grinning.

Kakashi just smiled and began walking - just behind the kitchen, a small set of stairs. The apartments in these buildings were in two floors each to save space. Kakashi'd made it so that the staircase was a bookcase, too, books hidden in all steps.

Minato was panting under the weight of "uhm, stuff" and not taking in much of the decor. "Uh, upstairs?" he managed.

"Yup. If you want me to take her suitcase again, just say so." he glanced back at Minato, from about halfway up the staircase.

"Nah... I'll... manage," he grunted as he hefted the damn thing up the stairs. How long did she pack for?!? FInally, he pushed it up the last step and had a mini-collapse up the wall.