Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ Chapter 71 ( Chapter 71 )

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Snowecat...- No beta and I simply work with my spell and grammar checker. Not to mention some personal issues...*sighs. As to when the other villages found out, it was not to long after the fight between Naruto and Arashi. Essentially with so many witnesses to that event, someone was bound to talk...

Baka-onna2003...- True she does but you must keep in mind for that kind of time period, she was raised to be a proper noble man's wife. Since Arashi is essentially the equivalent of a Lord thanks to his title as the Yondaime. That makes Naruto a noble as well. She is simply being how she was raised....

Rasengan86...- Well yeah. That's the thing. People have told me that was my worst habit as well. I try my best to make people feel so happy and so welcome....that it has become a liability of sorts. As to Kyuubi, who knows what the Fox is thinking, I don't. He's to busy ranting in my head....but I think he's going to say something.

Chuunin? The first half I would say not for at least another week or so. Pending if I don't get to busy.

Princess Lalaith...- You do have some good points there. But here's the thing, Arashi was an orphan (according to canon in the manga) and not the Yondaime at the time he and Yukita got together at first. To noblemen and leaders such as the Kages, Arashi was simply a commoner. Now if you go to look in any history books, no Lord would have allowed his daughter to marry a person of that class willingly. Because, if they were to do so, they would have to pay a heavy fine to the people that were rejected.

And Ryo demanded Arashi and Yukita's child to marry one of his own family in the future for he was the wronged party!

Chapter 71

Konoha village

Later the same day...

Naruto had sighed as he looked toward the Hyuuga compound with a quiet sense of longing. Despite whether he wanted to or not, the youth was stuck having to get to know the young woman who had been escorted, by the teams from Cloud and her father.

She was a good person at least from what he could tell. But she wasn't Hinata...

Hey brat, we keep getting screwed in someway don't we. I get used to being stuck with you and actually respecting your stupid tenacity. And you find a mate, which I can tolerate... Only to have some damn marriage contract wreck it for me....

And that lady irritates me! I mean damn, there's proper. And then there's PROPER!

Startled as he finds himself in the part of his mind that contains the Fox demon, Naruto sees for once that the demon has a look of pity mixed with annoyance on his maw.

“Yeah....got any ideas?”

Let me kill her?

Frowning at that Naruto shakes his head at the sly and hopeful smile the Nine-tails has on its features. The conditions that the demon lives in, has been much better recently because of Naruto's state of mind, but with this...

Even the Kyuubi was trying to think...

Being around humans for as long as he had since his sealing, the Fox Lord would reluctantly admit he has found himself becoming more human like every day. If he was to break free for example, he has an odd feeling that although he would keep this form.

It would no longer be his primary form...

Look brat, by now I would have gone on a rampage for being forced into doing something I don't like. But being stuck in your body, for 17 or was it 18 years now? No matter, being inside you for so long, parts of you have admittedly rubbed off on me. I am still the demon fox, don't forget that. But you and your friends have shown me that there are other ways to get around things...

The moment I am free, if I have a chance to destroy something, I will. But the way we seem to merging, and my power becoming yours I doubt that will happen.

So unfortunately like that blasted father of yoursstated. You have to find a way out of this mess on your own and by the book. You just got this seal to livable conditions in my opinion.

DON'T BLOW IT FOR ME!

Giving a small sound of annoyance as the Fox was being no help at all. He finds himself thinking again. A part of him though reluctantly agrees, with what the Kyuubi had said. He has to figure something out on his own...

Thinking quietly as he works out on some taijutsu, because of Kakashi and the others letting him escape thanks to this fiasco. He shortly finds himself joined by an older and yet different Hyuuga...

Neji...

“Naruto...what is this I hear about an arranged marriage?” The older dark haired youth stated. His tone angry at first, it softens a bit as the blonde pauses, a sad look crossing his features. “Supposedly its true...apparently my grandfather arranged it as a way of apologizing to my mother's former fiancée.”

“And your father can't do anything to stop it?”

“He is trying, but thanks to technicalities....”

“I see.... Uncle was speaking of that very thing.” Neji replied. “The Fourth was an orphan and not the Yondaime at the time...”

“Yes...he was just a mere ninja...not a noble...not a Kage.” Naruto said in a quiet rage. Anger enhancing his features he lashes out at the kicking post, and induces a chakra charged fist. Sending it flying clear and into the woods......

“So you do not wish this...” Neji asked with a sad tone.

“No...Not in the slightest. I even tried bringing up the fact that it was Cloud, who had the whole incident with your clan. But it did not matter... this contract was seen as a way to bring peace.” The blonde states bitterly. “Especially even more so now....if my guess is right....”

“The council....” Neji said softly as he realizes what the blonde is referring to. “They would want this peace with Cloud despite what they have done to us. Personally, considering the fact that some still don't like me, because of the furball....”

“You think they are using it as an excuse to get rid of you.”

Nodding his head wryly, the blonde sits down upon the ground. His back to the tree stump, it is only moments later that Neji joins him in contemplation. As does a couple of others....

Sasuke and Sasami both have come, searching for their despondent brother. Sasami, having successfully prevented Ayeka from following, the little girl was indeed becoming a strategist bordering on Shikamaru's level. The older youth was actually becoming relieved at that notion, because he was getting tired of all the work...

Maybe if she passes the Chuunin, he can get a real vacation for a change, he had mentioned in passing. Never realizing that Tsunade was listening, the poor Chuunin was finding himself swamped with work in organizing the exams...

Both of the newer Uzamakis, upon joining Naruto and Neji on the ground, do their best to cheer up the two sitting there. Sasuke with occasional insults, earning himself a good spar with both of them. And Sasami...who was busy healing and yelling at all three of them to behave.....

None of the four though were aware of someone watching them.

Someone, whom unlike Ayeka was quietly seething as he has overheard the comments made by the youth to the other one, a hated Hyuuga....

Ryo was upset. He knew that Arashi would not take to this kindly, as would the children. But the fact of the matter was that his daughter's fiancée at the moment was fraternizing with a Hyuuga. This Hyuuga in particular had vexed him many times in the past...or should we say his father did.

Yes, he was also one of the others there that day believing that they had received the body of the Hyuuga clan had Hiashi. But to be honest, he had been more or less hoping for the one who was of the branch family and was delighted when he had gotten his wish.

This one's father was a thorn in his side much during the Second great Shinobi war. Although not the clan head of the main branch, Hizashi was formidable man in his own right. Especially in espionage.....

Many times, it was this man, who had taken out spies left and right. Seemingly he had an apparent instinct for those who would betray his village and possibly destroy his clan. But it turned out that was not the case...

Cloud had a spy amongst their own ranks, during the war, he had found out recently to who it was. A woman...

Suiya Kinomoto....a woman very much in demand by all the clans of the Cloud Village, and one he himself courted in hopes of getting her heart.

A woman of exquisite beauty, much like Yukita had been so long ago. She had dark brown hair that went to her hips, and deep blue eyes. Intelligence and grace of a lady, it was her that had told Hizashi about Cloud's plans and dealing, in hopes of ending the war.

Because much like her friend and his former fiancée.....

She had fallen for him and she was the last of her clan, one with a small but unique blood limit, which would only show in her children's strength. Her blood line only became noticeable if she married into the weaker branches of previously established ones. Like the Hyuuga branch family...

She married Hizashi and had a son...

Neji Hyuuga was the first of the branch family, to have a Byakugan just as strong and powerful as the Main branch. It had been fully demonstrated despite his loss, when he had mastered skills on his own, which were supposedly reserved for the Hyuuga clan head and his family. Skills, this boy had, almost took out Uzamaki years ago....if not for his determination and his ability to draw upon the Fox inside him.

He had lost two women that were suitable for his family, to the leaf. The one he will only ever truly love had married Arashi Uzamaki. Naruto should have been his son! Not that damn blasted ninja's!

And then Suiya, who gave birth to this Hyuuga boy. Two strong ninjas, both women are from Cloud.

The only thing he had was a wife who was indeed a proper and beautiful woman. But had failed to give him the strong son he had desired not once but three times, it was because she was not of Cloud. But of Iwa, his older two daughters were married, to powerful men in Iwa and Kiri...

But because of the fact, that they did not have children right away, it was through Ayeka he would start planning his revenge. Although she was a good and innocent daughter, she would be the one who would bring him power. Because through her, and the reputation that the Fox vessel has gained these last few years.

If Konoha was foolish as he deemed it to be, despite the power of its shinobi, and alienate the youth. It was guaranteed said youth would be welcome in Cloud as the next Raikage.

Even if he was welcomed as the next Hokage according to his boastful bragging that even he has heard about... Ayeka would be in a prime place to give him power as his wife...

It was a win-win scenario for Ryo. Sooner or later he would have the power he seeks and he would gain it through Naruto Uzamaki.

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Okay....Ryo is NUTS!

Just had to say that tee hee...