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Political Alliances
By : AgentGv01
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Political Alliances
Chapter 3: Preparations
It had been a few days and already, Temari was starting to feel the strain. The council hadn’t told her who she was marrying just yet as they wanted to get confirmation from Konoha that the new Hokage was appraised and her ‘fiancé’ as well. After that and there were no problems a message would be sent, and then she would be on her way to the Leaf Village. A part of her hoped that this fell through so she didn’t have to go through with it, but she knew what was riding on it as well. So for the past week she had been looking up and reading all about the village and those important in it. When she had gone off to the chunin exams her team had been given some of this before but now it was more in-depth.
She had already read up on the clans and now she knew more about some of them then she needed to know. She was bored out of her mind and leaning all this about customs, political figures and other such things that she didn’t want to think about anymore. Normally she went out to trail to blow off steam but after she had went a little overboard Baki had ordered her not to train for the next few days. So now she was bored and itching to destroy something with her fan.
She let out a frustrated groan as she put the scrolls aside and went out of her room. She went into the living room that she shared with her family, there was Kankuro sitting on the ground working on a new puppet by the looks of it. There were tools and parts all over the small mat he was working on. She hated how messy he got the place when he did this, and the worse thing was that he had his own little workshop for this kind of thing as well.
“How many times have I told you not to do that in here?” Temari snapped at her.
“Lost count,” he muttered as he finished screwing something together. “Besides we were just waiting for you to get out.”
“We?”
He jerked his thumb to the side and through the large door she could see, Gaara standing out a balcony looking over the village. It was something new he had started to do lately, it puzzled them both as Gaara never really showed much interest in the village before but now it was like he was studying it. It was just one more of his odd behaviour that he had started to do ever since after they had picked him up off the ground nearly dead with his fight with that blonde genin of the Leaf.
Although it was nice to see this change in him, he was calmer and even a bit nicer now. She had asked him what had gotten into him a few days ago and all he said was that he had been shown a new way and a better way to be stronger. He didn’t elaborate and it just left her even more confused what was going on in the head of her baby brother.
“So why were you waiting for me anyway?” Temari demanded of her other brother.
“We were told that the Hokage has sent us a replay and that the whole...uh...well you know, it’s still on.” He said a bit nervous. She was touchy if he used words like marriage so he avoided them. It was fun to watch her mad at others but not when she was furious at you. For a moment she actually pitied the poor bastard that got stuck with her given how much she hated this whole affair. But he was a ninja and he knew that this was a duty that they couldn’t get out of, that didn’t mean he liked it. They were a team after all and they were also a family, sure on the outside he didn’t let it show that it bothered him but he wasn’t very good at his feelings anyway. Plus they were more than a team they were a family and he didn’t want it to be broken up.
That’s another reason why he was toying with his new puppet, it helped to calm him.
“Do you know who it is?” Temari asked him. She had been dreading who it was she was being made to marry for awhile now. She guessed it wouldn’t be too bad if it was at least someone their own age group, most likely one of the ones from the chunin exams from her reasoning. They were the strongest members and there was no way her own council would marry her off to some weakling. So for the past week as she was studying up on the village that would become her new home, she was trying to figure out who it was she was marrying.
There was the Uchiha boy he was handsome and strong although his personality didn’t really seem all that great. That was the reason after her fist encounter she didn’t take much notice of him that kind of arrogance got old fast. There was also the fact that her brother had his sights on him and she knew that he wasn’t going to live for very long anyway, at least until he was saved by his teammate.
There was also the Hyuga boy she saw fight, he seemed very strong as well although he too had been defeated by that same boy that had beaten Gaara.
Another possibility was that boy she had fought herself, she would admit that it still pissed her off that throughout the entire match he had been actually one step ahead of her and she hadn’t seen it until the end. She was supposed to be a great tactician but he just played with her. And when he had her beat what does he do? He gives up! Although she had officially won she took it as a loss no matter what anyone said.
“Yeah...uh...he told us who it was alright,” he trailed off not sure how she would take it.
“Well who it is?” Temari demanded.
“It’s that Naruto kid, you know the one that beat Gaara,” Kankuro finally said. Although he hadn’t seen the battle he heard the story and had seen the shape, Gaara had been in. He had never seen his little brother in that kind of shape before and anyone that could do that to him was scary.
Temari was thinking the same thing she had seen that insane battle. She had never seen a battle on such an epic scale like that before and truth be told she was actually a little scared of the little blond genin. He had done the impossible at every single battle, he kept beating opponents that he shouldn’t have been able to, he acted like a goof and an idiot but during those battles she had seen something else in him. When he got serious it was like he was another person, she couldn’t remembering seeing his eyes but his whole body spoke volumes.
And now she was going to marry him, she wasn’t sure what to think at the moment. The boy was too much of a mystery to her and the fact that he was stronger than he let on was another thing. She had to sit down at the moment as she was thinking about her future husband was going to be. He came off as such a loud mouth idiot but given what she saw was it just all an act? She looked to see that Kankuro was a bit at odds with it as well as he too didn’t know what to think of the boy that defeated their once murderous little brother.
“I approve.” Came a slightly gravely voice and everyone turned surprised to see Gaara was now in the doorway looking at them with that neutral expression of his.
“W-what!?” Temari asked him.
“He’s a good choice,” Gaara said in the same dead tone.
“B-but...after what he did?” Temari asked him. She honestly didn’t get this at all of all of them Gaara shouldn’t even like the boy after defeating him. But he had been a changed man after the event but still to just actually accept this didn’t make any sense.
“Gaara?” Her older brother asked the younger.
“He’s a good person,” Gaara simply said and turned back to stare out at the village again leaving his family just as confused as they had been without anymore explanation.
Temari just never understood her youngest brother and now she was even more confused than ever. What could he mean that, Naruto was a ‘good person’? Just a short time ago he was a murderous monster and now he was all of a sudden saying and doing things that constantly surprised and confounded her. And he approved? That didn’t exactly go well with her did that mean that Naruto was even worse monster than he was?
No, that didn’t make any sense at all.
“At any rate, Temari with this final confirmation you should start packing. You’ll be leaving for the village soon,” Baki told her.
She sighed as she slumped down a bit she cast a look to her family. Who knew when the next time she would see them, well the wedding of course but after that she wouldn’t see them all the time. She got up and headed for the door if her time was limited in this village then she was going to go for a walk. She wanted to have some memories of her home before she left and to have one last good look around her home. The next time she saw it, who knows how much will change when she next visited anyway.
-Konoha-
Naruto never liked school it was very boring at times although Iruka had made it kind of nice, that is when he didn’t get into those boring lectures. So now Naruto was feeling he was right back in school as he was sitting at his kitchen table looking over his books he felt like he’d rather do what Shikamaru did and fall asleep.
“Naruto are you paying attention?” Kakashi asked him across from him. The man was leaning back looking lazy as he had been teaching Naruto all the things he would need to know. So far it hadn’t be going very well, Naruto was always restless and it took, Kakashi a few days on how to actually teach Naruto this kind of stuff. After getting some tips from, Iruka he had made some progress but still the boy was having troubles.
“Oh come on, Kakashi-sensei this is boring. Why do I have to learn all this stuff anyway?” He moaned.
Kakashi sighed as this wasn’t the first time he had to go through this, “Okay well first it’s good to get to know where Temari is coming from for a deeper understanding of her culture. I mean what if there is something that’s offensive to her culture but isn’t to ours? You really don’t want to piss her off for the wrong reasons right?”
Naruto thought about all the times he had accidentally pissed off, Sakura and Temari was just as scary. Plus she had that huge metal fan as well and he suddenly got a mental image of an angry Temari slamming her huge fan onto his head. Naruto broke out of the daydream with a shiver.
“Now then you should also familiarize yourself with certain diplomatic things as well.”
“Well the first part I get but why that?” Naruto asked him.
“Naruto this is going to be a major political marriage which means that you two will eventually have to meet and great with several of the clans and members of the council in official functions. As she’s also a representative of Suna, she’ll be most likely be used as a link to her village for official means. So that also means that you’ll be going with her to Suna at times on official business and you need to know this so you don’t make any major political embarrassments.”
Although he knew that would be a miracle as Naruto always seemed to have a way of getting into trouble even when he didn’t mean it at times.
“Oh man,” Naruto grumbled.
“Naruto you want to be Hokage one day right?” Kakashi asked him knowing this would get his attention. “Well a Hokage also knows about this, all this political stuff are things that you’ll have to deal with all the time. A Hokage runs the village and had to make a lot of decisions like with Tsunade-sama’s with this whole affair.”
Naruto looked at the books and sighed he really did want to become Hokage and he never thought that he would need to learn all this stuff. He just thought a Hokage did paperwork and protected the village like all the Hokages before had done.
“Think of it as training then to be a Hokage,” Kakashi gave him that usual ‘eye-smile’ of his.
With that Naruto perked up as he grinned at his teacher, “Well why didn’t you say that to start with? Let’s get this training underway!”
Kakashi only chuckled as he started to teach Naruto more of the history of Suna. Later he would get him up to date on the tea ceremony, proper manners, and later on he would give him a break for ramen to help him relax a bit. While he started to study Kakashi took the time to think on this whole affair. He didn’t like the fact that Naruto would have to be put through this but he knew how things went in the ninja world, all things being said there were a lot worse duties that a ninja had to do. He had seen and done a few back in his time in ANBU, one of the reasons why he left it to be honest was that he didn’t want to do those kinds of jobs anymore.
But Naruto was another matter, while looking at the blond he couldn’t help but see his father. There were times he wished he could tell, Naruto about his parentage but he was under orders from the Third. He couldn’t tell him no matter what until he was strong enough to defend himself and he wasn’t. But he tried his best, the training and missions he had them do was a way to start off. It was obvious that Sasuke was more advanced but then again he had help when he was younger. Sakura he wasn’t sure what to do about, she had great chakra control and would be great for genjustu but other then what he got from his sharingan to see through them he didn’t now much unlike Kurenai.
Then there was, Naruto who always wanted to be trained and took to it with a dedication that he liked to see. If only he’d calm down and relaxed when he learned things it would come a bit more easier for him.
There were times when he felt putting his team in the chunin exams had been a mistake but they were a good team and it had brought out in them their inner strengths. He did wish he could have helped, Naruto more but honestly he didn’t expect him to beat Neji, do good yes but he had wished he could have seen that win. But after he saw what happened to Lee he had to train Sasuke or the boy would have gotten killed and he owed too much to Obito to let the last of his clan die.
The teacher he had found was the only good one he could find, although he learned he found a better teacher it was a good thing too. Naruto was always full of surprises and he was wondering that maybe he should keep that in mind in the future. At any rate he was worried how Naruto would handle this, this was a major step and despite everything he wasn’t exactly the most mature person. He only hoped that Naruto’s ability to touch the hearts of people worked on Temari as well because he didn’t want to see his student trapped in a loveless marriage.
Plus there was the problem with Sasuke as well, after that trip from the hospital he noticed that the boy had taken a few steps backwards in his social progress with his team. He was also worried about that seal on the boy as well, it seemed to be reacting stronger for him then it was with Anko who had been given on too. He was worried that Sasuke would seek out Orochimaru whish had been another reason why he had trained him in the chidori to show him that he didn’t have to leave the village to gain strength. But after that meeting with his brother which he found out from Jiraiya while in the hospital, he noticed the change in the Uchiha boy.
As Kakashi continued training, Naruto he was a little worried for the future for all his students.
-Across the Village-
In a section of the village that was under repairs the genin teams were already hard at work fixing up the home to be used for Naruto and Temari. The home wasn’t too bad although it was missing a whole side of it and the lawn had been town up pretty bad not to mention the brick wall around the property as well. The backyard was pretty most a write off as well but after a week things were looking better. Apparently one of the giant snake summons had gone through the area and the previous owner had been crushed under it. Finding the blood smears had upset a few of the kids but that was long gone now.
Currently they had fixed the missing pieces of the home, cleaned up the yard although there were some little improvements that still needed to be done it was largely finished. It had been a long week full of work and the genins were taking a much needed break.
“Man this has been a lot of work, still can’t believe that Naruto is getting stuck with this whole deal,” Kiba said as he lightly petted Akamaru sitting on his lap.
“Kiba, perhaps that is not a good topic for the moment,” Shino said as he glanced over at Hinata. Kiba looked over and winced as the girl had been depressed all week long. They had been trying to cheer her up all week but without much success.
“Well I for one hope that, Temari can at least keep him in line,” Sakura sighed as she sat down with a box lunch. “He could use someone in his life will make him more mature.”
“Oh man don’t start that,” Shikamaru sighed as he walked over with his team. “My mom does nothing but nag me and my dad all the time, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone although she did seem to be the bossy type of woman.”
“That’s not a nice thing to say!” Ino yelled at him.
“And I got two bossy women in my life as it is,” Shikamaru sighed.
“What was that?” Ino said in a dangerous tone of voice.
“Well at least he’s getting a nice home out of it,” Tenten said as she was walking with Neji towards the group. “I mean that’s in improvement isn’t it, Sakura?”
Sakura had been to Naruto’s apartment a few times, although she saw that he had a decent place with nearly a full top floor it was kind of lonely. She frowned a bit remembering how besides the messes he sometimes left there wasn’t much other than the usual stuff. But then again it was just him living there so of course it was pretty simple living without much clutter that got accumulated from a family living in a home. She looked at the house and it was a nice place, not grand or anything but the type of place she might like to live if she could ever afford it but houses were expensive in the village.
“Yeah I think that he’d like this place,” She said to them all. “I mean he’s got no family and at least now he’s not going to live alone anymore.”
“Yeah but she’s basically a stranger,” Choji told them eating his large lunch. “I mean we barely know anything about her.”
“Mainly all we know is what we saw in the chunin exams with her and her brother,” Neji said thinking about the Sand Trio.
Sakura bit her lip as she thought about something else, “Hey how is, Lee doing? I haven’t been able to visit him lately with all the work.”
Tenten and Neji shared a concerned look before Tenten spoke up.
“He’s doing okay...considering the doctors told him originally that he would never be a ninja again with his arm and leg so badly damaged. Then Tsunade-sama told him about all the bone fragments that are close to his spine.”
Tenten and Neji were both told the full story by Gai who wanted his team to know just how serious the injuries were for Lee. Tenten felt sad that Lee would never be a ninja it was heartbreaking really when she heard the news given how much training and effort put into it. He was already at a disadvantage without being able to mold chakra enough to use ninjutsu or genjustu skills. But he put his heart and soul into training to show the world that you could be a ninja even if you were like him.
Neji himself had to admit that he actually missed, Lee a bit. True he and their sensei could be annoying but they were a team and it wasn’t until just recently when he started to see just how much his team meant to him. After, Naruto had beaten him and showed him that fate could be changed, and reading the final words of his father given to him by his uncle, he had a lot of time to think on things. One of them was his treatment of his cousin, he had been wrong to blame her for the rift between the main branch and his branch. Looking at his cousin now he actually felt for her pain and he also had a lot of time to make up for all the years he had been clouded by his anger.
Another recently was that Lee was the closest thing to a best friend he had, not that he would ever admit that to anyone. But the boy kept pushing himself and the skills he saw in the chunin exams showed him just how far Lee had come in such a few years. He actually admired Lee’s dedication and skills and how it seemed that, Lee would never be a ninja again and it actually made him angry at how cruel life was. He knew of course how cruel life could get but something like this just didn’t sit well with him.
“So...he’s never going to be a ninja again?” Sakura asked shocked to hear this. She felt so bad for Lee for the same reasons.
“Well...I heard that Tsunade-sama is working on it,” Tenten hoped if anyone could heal, Lee it would be her idol.
“Yeah I heard that’s one of the things that Naruto brought her back to the village to do,” Shikamaru stated remembering a meeting with Naruto after he had been made a chunin. Hence why he was in charge of this little project while their jonin teachers were off doing who knew what. Naruto had been taking a break from his studies and they caught up a little before he had to go back for his lessons.
“Well then I hope, Lee gets better than,” Sakura said.
At first she hadn’t liked the boy but it was just another thing that had changed during the chunin exams, it seemed that moment had changed all their lives in some way or another. She had seen how hard Lee fought to not only save her but during that fight with Gaara. Suddenly something hit her as she looked at, Tenten and Neji.
“Hey are you two going to be okay with Temari? I mean after what her brother did to Lee and all plus she did beat you too Tenten.” Sakura asked worried.
Neji crossed his arms with that usual unreadable expression on his face, “I may not like her or Gaara but she’s being forced into this as well I would think. She’s being forced to leave her village to one where she will most likely face hostility as I doubt many have forgotten or forgiven Suna.”
Tenten sighed, “Okay so she beat me, I may not like it-or how everyone keeps talking about it!- but he makes some good points. She’s going to have a hard enough time as it is and I can’t blame her for what Gaara did.”
Sakura still was scared of Gaara, she had seen him transforming into that monster until she had blacked out. She wasn’t sure how to react around, Temari and she really hoped she didn’t have to see, Gaara anytime soon.
‘She didn’t choose this,’ Hinata thought to herself. ‘I’ve been so sad that I’ll never get the chance to tell Naruto how I feel that I never thought about, Temari. She’s being forced into this most likely and she’ll be alone in a village that will most likely hate her.’
‘It’s not like she’s stealing, Naruto or even had her sights on him. I don’t remember her even looking at him all that much. I shouldn’t blame her for things beyond her control either. I’ve been blaming her for this just like how most will blame her for how her village betrayed ours and attacked.’
Although she was still hurting over this, it wasn’t right to just ignore others. She knew that, Naruto didn’t like the idea and who would? Although she would have secretly loved the idea of being arranged to marry, Naruto it just seemed like that dream was gone forever. But the thing she admired in, Naruto the most was getting right back up and keep on trying as he never gave up. Well she shouldn’t give up either, she may never have, Naruto’s feelings for her but she didn’t want to ruin the friendship she had with him.
Yes she would hurt but she should be there for them as well.
“W-we should be nice to her then,” Hinata said as she surprised everyone at that moment. “S-She’s going to be all alone and both her and Naruto-kun will need support for this. W-we’re his friends and this isn’t easy for him either.”
“Yeah guess you got a point there,” Kiba said throwing his arms behind his head.
“Hey where is, Sasuke-kun?” Ino asked looking around to see that he was the only genin not here.
“Well I asked if he wanted to join us but...” Sakura always asked him and every day he said no.
“Awww, why won’t he join us?” Ino sighed.
“Because it’s too troublesome for him,” Shikamaru muttered. For the entire time the attitude of the Uchiha was getting on his nerves. It wasn’t that he wasn’t doing the work he was in fact it was just that the boy made it no secret that he would rather be training then doing this, even if it was for his own team mate.
Shikamaru was just glad this was nearly over with, a new coat of pain and a little maintenance work and it should be good to go, at least he hoped.
-Two Days Later-
Naruto Uzumaki had been having a nice dream about all you can eat ramen, he had been on his thirty-second bowl when one of the most evil creations in the world went off, his alarm clock. The hellish ringing woke him up with a start and a minor heart attack as he yelled out in surprise. While struggling with his blanket he got entangled and fell off his bed onto the floor. He sighed taking this as a sign that this wasn’t going to be a good day.
“Hey wait wasn’t there something I’m doing today?” Naruto muttered to himself. When he got up and looked around he saw that his place was cleaner than normal and lots of boxes.
“Oh right, I’m moving today,” he sighed.
Apparently the new home was finished and he was to be moved in and get it ready for Temari as they would be using it. He sighed, although the idea of owning an actual house was really cool for him he would miss this place. Sure it wasn’t much to look at but he had room, a small garden that he liked to take care of and no one really bothered him. It had been the only home he had known all his life that he could really remember but now he had to say goodbye to the place.
“Well one last meal,” Naruto smiled as he did his usual normal rituals before going to the kitchen and making a cup of instant ramen. After he was done and did some final cleaning before he waited for the others to show up, they were to help move him in not that he really needed it as he could always make an army of shadow clones but he didn’t know the way to his home anyway.
He waited around until there was a knock on his door, he opened it and smiled seeing his team mates there.
“Hey there, I’m all ready.”
“That’s good to hear,” Kakashi said walking in and seeing everything was ready. “Ah good job packing up.”
“So can we get this over with?” Sasuke asked.
“Yeah I might as well move in, I want to get in some real training before, Temari comes.” Naruto said excited to get this over with.
“Sure, sure,” Kakashi said picking up a box. “Well now you two get something, Naruto you think you can handle the rest?”
“You know it!” Naruto grinned as he created a small army of shadow clones. He gathered up everything as they made their way to his new place. Naruto wanted to know if he missed anything so he went to Sakura to talk to, given that she was a girl and they liked to talk and of course Sasuke wouldn’t talk much anyway. It was nice talking with her but he kind of missed being able to try and impress her and trying to get her to notice him in a way that she would agree to a date with him. He interlay sighed knowing that he would have to give up his feelings for the girl, it wasn’t easy after all he liked her since they started school together.
“Hey Sakura-chan?” He asked suddenly cutting her off from her telling him about how the others were doing.
“Yes, Naruto?”
“Can you promise me something?”
“Uh...okay what is it?”
Naruto was silent a moment looking at the ground at his feet, “Promise me that no matter what...that we’ll still be friends and teammates.”
Sakura blinked a few times at the question before she made a small smile, “Of course you baka, we’ll always be friends and teammates no matter what.”
Naruto gave one of his rare real smiles at that, it was nice to know that no matter what he could count on his friends.
They continued on and just when the shadow clones were starting to complain about all the stuff they had to carry they arrived. Naruto looked on at the place to him he couldn’t believe he was living here. Sure it wasn’t like the houses you find in the richer parts of town but to him the place was great. When he asked his sensei if this was the place and he was told it was he took off running through the gate. He couldn’t believe if but he actually had a yard, he could train all he wanted now. In the back there was a larger one that could easily be made into a neat little training area too.
Then he went inside and although it was mostly bare as many of the furniture was lost in the damage what was left was more then he needed. He had his clones start setting things up as he started to explore his new home. There was a major bathroom on the second floor with a few empty rooms. One was a large bedroom that was mostly stocked up, he decided to give this room to Temari as he had his clones put his bedroom stuff in the room next which was a bit smaller.
There were two empty rooms on this floor that were part of the reconstruction so they had nothing in them. He wasn’t sure what to do with them maybe they could turn one into a room where they kept all their ninja gear? He had never had so much space to work with so he was at a loss. There was a kitchen with a dining room next to it, there was also the large living room area, a couple more small empty rooms and a smaller bathroom. This only had a shower instead of a bathtub like the one upstairs.
“So what do you think?” Kakashi asked him coming up behind him.
“I think it will do for the future Hokage,” Naruto grinned up at him as his teacher smiled back down ruffling his blonde hair.
Next up chapter 4: Meeting the Bride to Be
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Political Alliances