In Need for a Housewife!

Chapter 1:

All I Want is an Ordinary Life?

Sorry for typos and mistakes

All I want is an ordinary life. I wanted to settle down and live peacefully with a family I can call my own one day. I want to be an admirable, fun, caring, and lovable father to my children. I wanted to be the one that would save the village one day, to be looked upon by the people, but, that is a little over the ordinary, wouldn't you say? So I ended up scratching that plan out when I finally came to my realization that I live in an isolated town surrounded by mountains, no bandits coming here anytime soon. If I can't be a hero to shine bright, I'll be just an ordinary family man. But I didn't want to be married to just any fine and young lady in the town, I wanted one that caught my eye since we were just small kids during the first year of middle school.

I was one of the louder kids, I wanted attention, and I got it. I had many friends that I still cherish today, but back then it was much harder to hang out with them, for reasons that I'll share another time. It was a bright and sunny morning that day if I recall, and we were all excited to get into groups for the rest of the school year. We'd get put into groups of three and whenever projects or work time came along, we'd get into our little groups and share our answers and teach each other new things.

But my group had only two members in it due to lack of students in the class, and I was paired up with the one and only Sakura Haruno. Before this all happened, I never really noticed Sakura much, only the fact that she was one of those loud and popular girls in the school, she was very similar to me, but I was doing it to fill in the lonelier side of myself, she, I never found out why.

I wasn't thrilled at first to get paired up with a girl, she'd only talk about the most girly things and gossip about other girls, but I was wrong. Sakura was a smart and intelligent girl, I guess that's why her foreheads so big (?) Don't tell her I said that. She would always get to work fast and help me on whatever I needed without hesitation. We'd score highest in the class for projects and we got the best of grades, and over time we were never seen separated. At that time, I had already known my feelings for her of course I would never tell her, why would I she'd never like me, the loud and obnoxious one, but I never lost faith even so.

And as the school year went by, we couldn't help but get closer and closer even more, we would visit each other's houses to either to homework, study, or just to mess around and have fun. She'd even invite the whole gang over sometimes, but I liked it most when it was just the two of us.

It was one day when I was mumbling in my sleep again, oh the joy, right? I was dreaming about confessing my feelings to Sakura in hopes that she'd accept them, and in my dreams, she declined. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I remember waking up to a crying Sakura and me escorting her out of my house. Guess my tongue slipped, but even after that time, we still stayed good and close friends, though I also never found out why she cried that day.

I always wanted her to be my wife, to start a family with her, but that all went down the drain when she I realized that this town had a special tradition. I'm sure there's another town or village out there that does the same tradition as us. But it's most terrifying to those of a submissive, which also means those of the less sturdy and that is usually determined by size. So likewise, even us guys can get terrified of it as well. It was horrifying, indeed. Usually, the women would get targeted since they can reproduce and we guys can't. Family men that want to get married and have kids would go to the extent of kidnapping women and making them their wives, and of course, this was legal. It is a tradition after all. Out of force, the men would grab women on the street or women that they've met already and take them home with them, sitting them down at the feast with his family and persuading her to say yes to the decision, but 'no' was never the answer. The women would cry all night long and all throughout the rest of her life, but it doesn't really happen with all the women, some were happy because of the fact that their boyfriends were the one who kidnapped them and not just some random stranger.

Sakura was kidnapped about a year ago by someone she never even knew. She was forced to marry this man that had the darkest of eyes and the most pale skin I ever seen. His hair was flat and not even a strand stuck upwards, it was gelled perfectly down. He had the money, the looks, and the blood line to make Sakura happy, but she didn't want him to be the father of her children. She fought for months trying to escape the house. Until one day the man touched her through force and she ended up pregnant at age eighteen, and when she couldn't take it anymore, she hung herself, taking the unborn child to death with her.

I remember the day of her funeral to be sad, but I wasn't just sad, I was angered. I glared at the man that brought her to her death, I should've been the one standing next to her grave and holding her portrait. I should've been the one standing in between her parents as they cried, and that man, didn't even frown, he stared at her body and shrugged it off.

And only a few months later, he'd gotten a new wife.

I would kill him if I had the chance.

It was the outcome of being the popular girl, everyone knew who you were, and behind your back, everyone wanted you.

So after the funeral that happened only a month ago, I sat on the wooden floor in front of my courtyard and stared at the water that fell from the fountain and into the pond, making the koi fish jump from excitement. I sighed and took another bite of the watermelon my mom cut about five minutes ago. It was a hot summer day and my dad was out to work again. He was the mayor of the town and he was always busy but I loved the fact that he would still make time to come home for dinner and spend time with us as a family.

I heard my mom's footsteps echo throughout the corridor of our house as she walked closer to me. Her feet stopped behind me as she looked out and over at the sky," Beautiful day, isn't it, Naruto," she didn't really put it into a question more of a fact she wanted me to agree with.

"Yeah, sure is," I agreed as I took another big bite of my watermelon," Mom?"

"Yeah?" she replied quickly as she ran a hand down her dress and sat down next to me and our legs hung next to each other. She took a small slice of watermelon and took a bite, waiting for me to tell her what she needed to know.

"Me, Kiba and the gang are going to go to her grave today, and then go out and get some drinks," I informed her, not wanting to worry if she found out I was gone unexpectedly.

"Alright," she nodded her head and chewed on the watery and juicy watermelon," but I want you to be careful, I don't want you to end up like her," she said with a shaky voice," she was such a kind and beautiful child," my mom shook her head in sadness," oh yes," she said as she put her slice of watermelon down," I want you to give something to her parents," she stood back up again and started to walk away and up the stairs.

My mom was Kushina Uzumaki. She was a beautiful mom and I admire her and my dad. She had striking, long, beautiful red hair and wonderful grey eyes. Unlike most women, my mom wasn't kidnapped to marry my dad. My dad simply proposed to her after five years of caution and dating and of course she agreed. My mom had the days were she was wacko crazy and the days were she was calm and collected.

I guess today she doesn't feel like tackling dad down at the door for a happy and cheerful "Welcome Home, Honey!" as she would laugh and smile with dad on the floor and I would sit at the table smiling.

My dad, as I already said was the mayor of the town, Minato Namikaze, different last names, I know, weird, but they're my parents. I get most of my appearance from him, and mom said it's a gift. He has bright blond hair that extends all the way to his chin in a spiked up style with tan skin and bright blue eyes as well. My dad was more of a go with the flow person, if everyone was laughing and in a cheer, he'd join them in their joyous moment. If something was depressing, he'd would be as silent as the night.

After going upstairs, getting dressed, fixing my hair and walking back down again, I met my mom at the door with her holding a square package.

I bent to grab my shoes as I slipped them on and met my mom's height again. She smiled at me and gave the box to me," It's just a small little treat with a letter from me inside, make sure you get it to them. Okay?"

I grabbed the box out of her hands and smiled back going to the door and sliding it open. I looked back and waved 'bye' to her," Will do, Mom, see ya later!" I smiled one more time and started to dash off down the dirt roads.

"Be careful okay?" she yelled as loud as she could for me to hear as I let her know I heard with the wave of my hand again.

It was a hot day today. I had only been running for about three minutes and I was already sweating. The sun was blaring into my skin as it made my hair gleam. I was already panting as my t shirt stuck onto my skin and my jeans rubbed against my slick legs. I looked to my left and saw the town's one and only lake. I was huge and expanded for miles.

I looked forward again to continue my jog to Mister and Ms. Haruno, Sakura's parents, until I heard that low and loud voice that emitted from behind me in a sharp tone," Naruto!"

I stopped abruptly, making myself almost tip forward and slam my face into the ground. I panted for a couple of moments before stretching my back and turning around to see that cocky grin and those red tattoos that belonged to my best bud, Kiba. His arm was high up in the air, waving towards me with his other hand holding a leash that connected to his dog's neck, Akamaru.

I smiled back and waved as he jogged over to my spot as Akamaru barked, making me wince at the loud sound.

"Are you heading to Sakura's?" He asked me as he took a breath, looking down at me for a response. I always hated the fact that most of my friends were so much taller than me. I'm nineteen for God's sakes and I'm only five foot five, that's not a good sign, which is one of the reasons I have to be careful around here.

"Yeah, wanna come?" I offered up to him," only as long as Akamaru doesn't tackle me to the ground," I laughed.

"Akamaru doesn't tackle, he's just overly excited most of the time,"

"Which leads to tackling most of your friends to the ground," I continued to laugh as Kiba flared with anger.

"Yeah whatever, I'll come with you, you know, just in case you get kidnapped with your size," I stopped laughing immediately as he saw my face and snickered at me. My face was probably red as a tomato as Kiba couldn't stop laughing and Akamaru was rolling on the ground barking.

"S-shut up, I won't get kidnapped, I've lived up this long without getting kidnapped I can do it the rest of my life here!" I shouted at him.

"Yeah, yeah, sure," he stopped laughing and ruffled my hair as he started to walk away," come on, the other are probably going to be there soon, don't want to be late right?" he smiled as he started to jog," Imma leave you behind!"

I sighed and looked at the lake again, watching the children splash water at each other and chasing after the birds as I started to jog over to Kiba.

Back then, I couldn't believe I didn't notice the car that was behind me.
I knew there was a bad feeling that day.

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"Hey, Naruto! Stop!" Ino, my blond friend yelled at me as I splashed that cold and relaxing water on her, getting her wet.

Ino Yamanaka was one of Sakura's closest friend back when she was alive, they were always together when Sakura and I weren't. They were always there for each other no matter what, even if they would get into stupid fights and random things. Ino was torn when she found out about Sakura getting kidnapped and made into a wife for some stranger. She thought she'd never see her best friend, and she guessed right. Back then, I was the only one who saw her around. I had found out the man's address thanks to my dad, and would visit her whenever that man left the house. Ino looked like she wanted to kill herself when I told her I found her body hanging off of the ceiling with her swollen stomach.

But after a while she was able to get everything together and was back to her old, happy, cheerful self, the self I liked the most.

"You can't get me!" I laughed as I splashed another large wave of water at her as she growled at me again and started to chase me in the water, our feet making sloshing motions.

"Hey, Naruto!" I continued to laugh as I turned my head over to the right to see Tenten, another friend of Sakura's, smirking at me with a bucket of water in her hands, as she laughed and threw the contents inside at me.

I shrieked and tried to run away but Ino caught up and tripped me into the clean and clear water," Ah!" I fell making a loud and big splash in the water. But that splash was covered up by the two girls' comedic laugh.

"Gotcha Naruto," Tenten laughed and dropped the bucket in the water.

"Troublesome," I sat up in the water and shook the water off of my hair as I looked to my left and found Shikamaru, a friend of ours walking over to me and lending out a hand to help me up. I smiled and grabbed onto his arm, pulling him down and making him fall over next to me. I would've laughed loudly, but Ino and Tenten beat me to it.

"Naruto I suggest you stop your idiotic acts and get up," Neji walked by with his arrogant act and his long and brown hair tied up in a ponytail with his lavender eyes staring down at me. I growled and glared up at him as Shikamaru groaned and stood up next to me.

"You're so troublesome," he rolled his eyes and yawned

I laughed and got myself up as well. I slapped him roughly on the back and smiled," No, I think it's just you who thinks that,"

"Don't be stupid Naruto, everyone thinks you're troublesome," Kiba snorted and looked at me.

"Hey shut up Dogbreath, I can smell your breath from all the way over here," I mocked, pinched my nose and laughed at his gapping face, even Akamaru was snickering and splashing water with his tail.

"Yeah, yeah whatever," Kiba grunted and walked over to where Gaara, our redhead friend was standing closer to the shore with his brother and sister, Temari and Kankuro.

Ino and Tenten giggled before Hinata, another friend and Neji's cousin, came over and started a conversation with the other girls. I sighed and smiled, starting to slosh my feet through the water and walking over to dry ground to get a drink.

I went over to a bench that all of us put our bags and things on. I went over and sat down, reaching for the orange bag that was only a few feet away from me. I wrapped my arms around it and unzipped the zipper, grabbing out the cold Pepsi bottle from the inside and untwisted the cap to take a small sip.

I sighed and relaxed in my seat, looking out at the lake and watched Ino, Hinata, and Tenten splash water on each other, Shikamaru and Kiba talking not too far away, and the rest in a small group talking about something minor.

I put the bottle back in my bag and threw the orange sack over where it used to be and threw my head back.

After going to Sakura's grave and dropping off something at Mister and Mrs. Haruno's household, we decided to go to the lake and play around after we got something to drink and eat.

Visiting Sakura's grave wasn't as sad and depressing as I thought it would've been. We stayed there for about half an hour and talked to her grave. We said was day it was, what was happening in our lives, how her parents were doing, everything she would've been interested in, which is everything. I still like to shed some tears for her whenever I think about what it would be like if she was still here, living and breathing, walking around with us, hanging with us. I like to imagine what our lives would be like with her around again.

The temperature has cooled down and now a light breeze blew by and made my hair flow everywhere. I was still soaking wet and was still able to get a cold if I didn't dry off, but I didn't care, I didn't bring and extra pair of clothes and even if I did, I would still be too lazy to go off and change somewhere.

Kiba and Shikarmaru both turned around and started to walk over to where I was, both looking down at the water with their hands in their pockets.

Kiba snorted at some statement Shikamaru said and looked up at me, the smile that was on his face drowned and was replaced with a gape. His eyes widened in a split second and Shikamaru looked up as well and his expression was the same.

It was at that moment when I thought that my life was slowed down, Kiba's arm slowly raising with his hand stretched out wide towards me in a reaching motion as they both started to run towards me. I remembered looking at them with an eyebrow raised high. I looked at their eyes, and they weren't looking at me, they were looking behind me. It only made my eyebrow stay where it was as I turned around and it took me longer than I wanted to process everything in my mind, but a whole group of men stood behind me, they were so close to me, I never noticed them behind me until Kiba and Shikamaru looked over.

After that, it seemed like that slow motioned life I had that instant, was back to normal, and one of the men put his arm around my neck and pulled back, chocking me. Two other men came over and grabbed my legs into their arms and lifted me off the bench.

It was then when I finally realized what was happening and I screamed off the top of my lungs to Kiba and Shikamaru," Kiba! Shikamaru!" after those two names, two other men came assisted the others and grabbed my arms, covering my mouth as well with a plain rag. They all carried me away from the bench as I tried to free my arms and legs. I pulled back one of my legs and kicked it back at one of the men, but he was too quick and dodged the predictable attack. I tried to free my mouth from the rag, shaking my head violently and ignoring the throbbing of my brain as I did so, but it was a lot harder when one man's arm was around my neck. I looked off to the side and saw all of my friends running along over. But Gaara stopped all of the girls from advancing, and I'm glad he did so. The rest of them were sprinting over as I was still continuing to struggle, I looked off to the other side and we were close to this small black Mercedes.

"Naruto!" I heard Ino shriek and struggle in Gaara's arms, trying to escape the redhead's hold on her," let go of me!" she demanded

"No! You'll just get caught and in the way of the others!" he yelled at her harshly. My eyes narrowed as I bit the man's hand over my mouth as hard as I could and he cursed and finally let go. More determined than ever to get out of it all, I arched my back and pulled one of my arms out of hold and swung my body across, brining my arm a long with me and hitting the another man with it. I looked up and noticed my neck was still being held and I used the two men who gripped my legs roughly and pushed off from them, giving to man with the shades a hard head butt and he let go with a loud curse as I quickly fell to the ground with my legs still in the air. I turned my torso around a hundred and eighty degrees as hard and swiftly as I could, and their arms twisted painfully and I was finally set free from them. My whole body was on the floor now and I got up fast and started to run over to Shikamaru and Kiba but arms wrapped tightly around my waist and pulled me back making me yelp and scream again.

"Help me!" tears stung at the corner of my eye as I was quickly dragged over to the car.

"You little bastard! When we get back, you'll pay for that head butt!" I heard the man yell at me.

"Let go!" I struggled in him arms and clawed at his skin, drawing blood, but he didn't move, he just kept on pulling me back.

My heart skipped a beat when another man grabbed my legs again, but was only thrown off to the side by a white blur. I quickly looked over and tears of joy and fear strolled down my face as I smiled," Akamaru!" the dog growled and bit down hard on the man's arm once more before letting go and coming over to me.

"Get that mutt!" the man dragging me yelled at all of his henchmen. I glared at him and abruptly stomped on his foot hard as he couldn't help but let out a cry of pain, but it only made his grip tighten.

"Hey!" I jumped when Kiba came over from the side and punched the living daylights out of the man and his grip loosened, finally letting me out of his arms. Akamaru ran over to and I fell to my knees and held onto him tightly.

"Thank you, Akamaru!" I said as I buried my face into his soft and clean fur, soaking patches of it with my tears.

Akamaru barked and his tail wagged, growling here and there when someone got too close. Neji and Shikamaru finally reached us and they all beat the others to a pulp. It took them a good ten minutes to get all of them because of lack of help, but I wasn't able to do anything with the state I was in then, traumatized and scared shitless.

When the men were scared out of their minds and ran back to their car, Kiba grabbed the biggest rock he could find and threw it as hard as he could, hitting the car's back window and causing it to crack. Kiba started to laugh loudly as Ino and everyone else came over to me kneeled on the floor.

"Naruto are you okay!?" Ino screamed at me worriedly as she checked if I had any bruises or cuts.

I nodded and let go of Akamaru, noticing how tightly I was gripping him before and petting him once more before looking at Ino," Yeah I'm fine, Ino."

"No you're not!" Ino said as her eyes became watery with tears as she grabbed my right forearm," your wrists and arms are all bruised, your neck is bleeding, we need to take you home,"

"I'm fine Ino, really, this is- it's nothing," I laughed, trying to calm her down, even though I was the one who needed to be calmed down.

Ino sighed and looked at the dirt floor. She quickly looked up at me and embraced me, wrapping her arms around my neck," I was so worried!" she cried into my arms as I rubbed my hand up and down her back.

"I'm sorry,"

Tenten came over and quickly got down next to us, doing the same as Ino and hugging me as well," Oh my God Naruto, you scared me to death, you should be more careful than that!" she lightly scolded me," you know what it's like here, you have to be on high alert," she said as she let me go and looked at me with a worried smile.

I nodded at her and smiled back," I'm sorry, Tenten."

Ino let go of me and wiped her tears with her hands," Let's all get you home…," I looked around and everyone nodded, Kiba lending a hand out to help me up as I accepted it. I dusted myself off and we all walked over to the bench to grab our stuff. Ino and Tenten put a jacket over their wet selves and we put on our shoes and started to head home with Akamaru at my side.

We were almost half way there and it was silent, the only thing I was able to hear of was our footsteps that jumped into rhythm with the cicadas' chirps.

"Naruto…," Kiba called out my name, making everyone jumped at the sudden call," sorry, but," he continued," I think you should be careful from now on, don't go outside without one of us with you," I looked at everyone, wanting to see their reactions and they all nodded," after today, I think we're all sure that someone is planning to come after you," I nodded as well I looked up at the sky.

"I know,"

"I'll tell my dad about this, see if he can find out who is it that is going after you-,"

"No," I cut Neji off. Neji's dad was a part of the police department and his dad has been helping people with crimes since before we were born," he won't be able to help, Neji..,"

"What?" he asked me quickly," my dad is the best cop in this whole town-,"

"I didn't mean it that way Neji," I assured to the Huyga.

"What he means is that, he has no power over tradition, it is the town's tradition and it is legal here," Shikamaru explained. Everyone sighed as we all continued to walk to my house.

"How about tomorrow, to get everyone's head out of the gloom, we all go to Naruto's house!" Ino suggested," we'll have a little party there, just for the fun of it since summer will be ending soon and school will start," Ino looked around and we all smiled at her. Kiba patted the girl on the head.

"Nice one, blonde," Kiba gave her a thumbs up.

"Don't call me blonde, Kiba!" she growled.

Wow that actually took a long time for me to write, probably about a week to write this, but yeah…
I hope you enjoyed it! I'll try to update all of my stories that I have as frequent as I can because grading period is coming up soon, and I have a lot of unfinished work. And for a project I have to help with making a thousand cranes and a cannon for a school festival we have. So I'll be busy, busy , busy!

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Sorry for typos and mistakes.