Difficult Engagements

Prolog

Itachi's POV

As I was walking to meet up with my friend Kisame, a man with silver hair walked up to me. His wolf ears are a more white than silver and unusually he was in the regulation maid uniform. The uniform consists of a dark blue short sleeve top, a dark blue skirt, and a frilly apron. He stopped me in my tracks, and then he bowed to me.

"Itachi-sama, your father wishes to see you in the tea room. He says it's very important that you come there right away." a maid said to me, his eyes diverted to the ground in a respectful manner. I can tell the man is nervous because he is tugging at the end of his navy blue, regulation, mid-thy skirt.

"Then I shall go there. Inform Kisame where I am, so he does not have to wait long." I say as I walk past the silver haired wolf. He scampers off as I go to my clan's tea room.

My father has not called for me to speak to him in years. After he felt I could take care of myself, he stopped. I am very grateful for this; my little brother gets talked to at least once a week. Sasuke lacks what father expects him to be great at. I feel bad for him for having to follow in my foot steps.

I arrive at the doors of the family tea room. The oak doors are heavy so they can withstand an attack.

"Come in Itachi." my father always knows when someone is there before they announce them self. It's a very easy thing to do once you know what to look for.

I enter the beautiful dimly lit room. This room was made for relaxing; making business deals go down easer. The light tan walls give off an earthy vibe.

"Itachi, there has come great news for the clan. We're going to do a matting bond with the Kyuubi clan. I am glad that they finally accepted the idea and have agreed with the terms and agreements." I now understand why my father has asked me to join him; here he wants me to mate some kitsune. Most likely it will be some one lower down on the food chain in the Kyuubi Clan.

"This agreement will make us stronger, we will have the Kyuubi's support. When you have his son as your mate our clan will once again be at the top." my father said I'm mating Kyuubi's son. I am going to be with the son of the Kyuubi! Wait son?

"This is not a discussion; you will become the mate of a kitsune. Because nether of you are at mating age yet there will only be a pre-mating ceremony, in a week. You must have a marking item to give you future mate; something with our crest will be best. You don't want people taking your mate." He explains what he wants me to do.

"Yes father." There is no auguring with this man, it is always his way.

"Good, now you may leave," I leave at his order. I leave the compound as fast as possible. I want to think this over.

Outside the doors is Kisame, he is leaning on the tree waiting for me. His head shoots up when he notices I'm there.

"Hey, Itachi what's up?" my friend Kisame asked me as we walked out of the yard. We are in the town around my family's compound. I decide to tell him what I just learned.

"I am engaged." the look on Kisame's face was enough to know that he disapproved of it. I hope he doesn't make a scene in the town.

"You can't be engaged! I would have met the bitch you are engaged to!!" Kisame up roared. I do not wish to talk about this subject, but it seems to be the only way to shut him up. Why did I bring it up?

"I am. My father just told me I am to be engaged to the only son of the Kyuubi. Don't call him a bitch; I do not want to cause a war because my friend can't keep his opinions to himself." I point out that, hoping he would stop.

"How would you get into a war because of me calling Kyuubi's son a bitch? You and I know that there is no way you can be the bitch." Kisame explains to me, wanting me to see his point of view. It's true I would never be the submissive type. I also heard that his son was younger then me; so he will probably become the submissive by default.

"Insulting the son of the Kyuubi is not a smart idea. Listen, Kisame I need to be alone for awhile. I need think about what I am going to do." I tell him. I want to think over my situation.

"Yeah, I would, too if I where forced to mate some bitch I don't know." Kisame left me.

I am going to the only place I feel at home, the forest. I started to wonder around the lush green forest. Its not that odd that my father is making me mate some one I don't know. I have only herd about the only child of the great and powerful Kyuubi.

There is only one reason a male is going to become my mate, he is a carrier. My father would not mate me with a male if that wasn't the case.

It has been said that Kyuubi's mate was one of the few male demons that can give birth to children. These demons are called carriers, they can not birth big litters like a women can but they can birth extremely strong children. After Kyuubi mate gave birth he transferred his ability to his child, but this is only a rumor that has been circulating around ever since the boy was the only one born.

Another rumor that has been circulating around is a potential mate who was rejected by Kyuubi and in a jealous rage she attacked the woman who actually became his mate while she was giving birth. It was said she posed as a maid in the palace, and attacked Kyuubi's mate while she was giving birth alone. Only one of the children made it from the attack and Kyuubi's mate lost her birthing organs.

There are many rumors about there only being the only Fire Kingdom heir; I am starting to believe the first one because Kyuubi is allowing another male to mate with the only heir whom is also male.

While male on male mating is not uncommon in the demon world, they usually acquire themselves a female to birth a child for them (if they even want a child), or one of them happens to be a carrier. Kyuubi's blood line is strong as well as the Uchiha's blood line; to cancel both of them out would not make sense.

I don't know how it's going to be with the kitsune as my mate, but I hope that it goes on well. I know I don't have a choice, but I don't want it to be a horrible choice.

"Nyuuu, Nyuuu." I hear someone crying in the forest. I decide that it could be a good distraction from my predicament. I use my hearing to search for exactly where this crying is coming from. It's not that far from here. It is about a quarter mile from where I am standing. I speed up my pace to reach the crying person.

I get to the crying noise I am about three feet from this ball of gold fluff. The little demon child must be using this as his only defense mechanism. He really needs to know when the right time to break down is. Any predator could take him at the moment, for their own reasons.

I wonder what got him to cry like this. I don't know why, but I hope that he's ok. It seems like the boy finally notices me because he tenses up.

"Don't worry I am not going to hurt you. You're going to be safe." I try to comfort him with sweet words. It seems to be working because he is less tense than he was before.

"Do you need any help?" I ask him. I reach out my hand and touch one of his three golden tails, gently stroking it away from the boys' body. This boy looks so much like a girl its scary, big light blue eyes, round chubby cheeks, and a slender body, that loosely resembles a female hour glass figure. If I could not sense that he was in fact a he I would suspect that he was a she.

He has tear stains on his cheeks, he must have been crying for a long time. I want to make him feel better. He shouldn't be crying.

"Little boy, what's the matter?" his face seemed to brighten, a bit, after I called him a boy.

"My daddy thinks I am a girl, but I'm not. I am a boy, but he treats me just like a girl." the boy sobs out. I noticed than that his clothing was torn to shreds, I automatically suspect the worst, but hope for the best.

"What makes you think he thinks you're not a boy?" I ask I must know why he is in this state.

"Daddy makes me wear girl dresses. Daddy also makes me do girl things. Mommy doesn't do anything to help me. Daddy even calls me girl names in front of people. My name is Naruto, not Naru." The boy I now know as Naruto just spoke.

"So Naruto-kun, why are you out here of all places?"

"To get away from daddy. Daddy wants me to do something I don't want to do. So I ran away." Naruto is still crying while talking to me I can tell he no longer wants to talk about this. I embrace this young child into a hug, to calm him down, he hugs me back. I softly rub his back to relax him. Realizing that he is only wearing a torn frilly pink dress I decide to give him something better to wear.

"Naruto-kun, do you want to change out of that?" I ask him.

"Yea, but I got nothing to change into." Naruto says shyly while looking down upon his half naked body. His ears and tails went down, pressing against his body. I remove my shirt, the blond fox child flinches slightly, and I realize what I did wrong.

"Don't worry Naruto-kun; I am just going to give you something to change into." I use my most gentle voice to relax him; it's not the best because I was trained in battle not in taking care of children.

"Ok mister." The blonde says to me. Oh right, I haven't told him my name.

"My name is Uchiha Itachi; if you want you can just call me Itachi." I decide to tell this child my name so he feels more comfortable about being around me. I want him comfortable enough to change in front of me ((He is not a pervert (yet), he just wants to see if Naruto has any scars or bruises covered.)).

I hand him my shirt. He does not know how exactly to get out of the frilly thing, I help him with his problem. When all of his clothes are off I inspect his body for any bruises or marks. I want to make sure his 'daddy' didn't go too far already.

I am relived that he hasn't, I don't know why I am concerned over a stranger, but I think I should be. I don't think anyone should go through that.

I pull my black shirt over Naruto's head, and pull his arms thorough the arm holes. I adjust the shirt around his body it covers up to his knees. I untie my hair ribbon, my hair is no longer in place, and I want to know if it's long enough to have around Naruto's waist. I am glad it is, I tie my red ribbon around his waist and double knot it, it's the best I can do for him at the moment.

He smiles at me; it's a very beautiful smile. Naruto looks like the human description of an angel. He has soft spiky blond hair flowing around his head, which makes a halo effect. His cheeks are a light hue of pink, because of him just crying. It's a magnificent sight to see.

Two men appear, I knew that there where other demons around but I did not suspect that they would be looking for Naruto, because it was two males and Naruto only talked about his mother and daddy.

"Naruto, come with us, your father wants you back," the stronger of two men told him. He had looked like he had his share of battles. He has spiky silver hair, a scar over his left eye, and muscles that were clearly visible under his tight black shirt. It was obvious he was in the A class.

The other man who was with him didn't look quite as strong, but strong enough to be in the B class demon league. He had dark tan skin, a deep scar across his face that went from one cheek to another over his nose, and had his brown hair tied up in a pony tail.

"No, I no want to go!!" Naruto screams and buries himself in my chest.

"You have to Naruto." the man with the pony tail says in his a very soft voice, witch I must admit is much better than my own, trying to calm Naruto down. Tempting him to go over, it almost works, but he seems to notice that his pink frilly dress on the ground is torn and knows what awaits him.

"Why does Naruto have to come with you?"

"It's a simple reason Naruto needs to come back to his family so he can be taken care of properly." The brunet spoke.

I was about to speak, before Naruto interrupted me, "I will go Iruka-san; just give me a minute with my new friend."

"Fine Naruto but you only have a minute." The silver haired man says. Both of the men walked away from where we were, but they where still in distance where they both can take control of the situation if anything where to happen.

"Ita-Ita-kun I gots to go now, you are a very nice person. I wish we could be friends but I don't think daddy would want me to be friends with you. Daddy doesn't like new people around me." Naruto said, than Naruto hugged me. "Bye bye."

Even if it didn't seem like Naruto did not wish to go he left with the two men that came to get him. He eventually disappeared out of my sight.

Now instead of thinking of my situation, I'm thinking of that little boy's. Maybe I should follow them.

In the end I decided against that. I don't know what I would do if it was the worse case

I'm currently editing my previous chapters, because I've noticed mistakes in them. I'm also doing this to help write the next chapter. A lot of stuff has been going on and I need to make sure that I don't mess it up more by contradicting what has happened in the story already.

I will be doing this to all of my chapters, so it will take some time. Hopefully by the end I will be in the mood to write what happens next.