Disclaimer: It is unfortunate, but I do not own Naruto neither do I Pride & Prejudice. That honor belongs entirely to Kishimoto sama and Jane Austin.
A/N: This is my take on the shonen-ai, Naruto version of Pride & Prejudice screenplay by Deborah Moggach. I gave much thought to the casting call, and I hope you all approve. Mpreg will be implied here, but only because those men who are born able to bare children are something of a hermaphrodite or a third sex and are treated, in this world, just the same as women, even though they are addressed as men.
Chapter 1
One early morning, Naruto Uzumaki could be found walking bout his family's grounds, reading a book. When he had finished the book, it was about mid afternoon. Reaching the back quart yard, he had to zigzag his way around all the laundry the maids had hung on the drying lines. Upon his return home, he could hear one of his sisters, most likely Hinata, playing the piano. He also heard a little of his parents' conversation through a window.
"My dear Mr. Uzumaki, have you heard? Nether Field Park is purchased at last. Do you not want to know who has taken it?" Iruka Uzumaki asked is husband.
"As you wish to tell me, my dear, I doubt I have any choice in the matter," Kakashi Uzumaki calmly informed him.
Naruto smiled and continued his trek inside the Uzumaki household. He then spied his two youngest sisters with their ears pressed to the very door of the room, which their parents happened to occupy.
"Temari, Ino, what have I told you about listening at the door?" he asked scolding.
"Shhhhh. Never mind that. There's a Mr. Lee arrived from the North," said Ino.
"Five thousand a year!" Temari was just as excited as Ino.
"Really?" Naruto could not help but be most interested now, for five thousand a year was a lot of money.
"He's single!" Temari and Ino exclaimed in unison.
"Who's single?" their eldest sister, Sakura, asked upon her arrival.
Naruto answered her, "A Mr. Lee, apparently."
"Shhhhhh." Temari tried to quiet them all.
The door was open ajar and they could all hear their parents quite clearly. "How can that possibly affect them?" Kakashi was not one bit interested in match-making.
"Mr. Uzumaki, how can you be so tiresome? You know he must marry one of them."
"That is his design in settling here?"
"You must go and visit him at once."
Kakashi had walked around the room towards the door, and when he opened it, he found four of his five children standing there.
"Good heavens. People." Kakashi's daughters respectfully curtsied to him as he exited the room.
Iruka came running after his husband and followed him across the dinning room and into the living room. "For we may not visit if you do not, as you well know, Mr. Uzumaki."
Everyone else followed right after Iruka. "Are you listening? You never listen," exclaimed Ino.
Hinata's piano could barely be heard over the hurried shuffling of feet and swishing of dresses.
"You must, Papa!"
"At once!"
Kakashi turned to his family. "There's no need. I already have."
"You have?" asked Iruka.
"When?" asked Sakura.
"Oh, Mr. Uzumaki, how can you tease me so? Have you no compassion for my poor nerves?" Iruka was a pro at playing the victim.
Kakashi sat down in one of his favorite chairs and folded his hands. "You mistake me, my dear. I have the highest respect for them. They've been my constant companions these twenty years." Naruto sweetly laughed to himself.
"Papa." Temari wished for Kakashi to get back on the subject of Mr. Lee.
"Is he amiable?" asked Iruka.
"Is he handsome?"
"Who?" asked Hinata. She had just walked in to see what all this ruckus had been about.
"He's sure to be handsome." Ino skipped around the room happily. Temari giggled.
"With five thousand a year, it would not matter if he had warts and a leer."
"Who's got warts?" Hinata was still clueless as to who the entire conversation had been about.
"I will heartily give my consent to his marrying whichever the children he chooses," Kakashi stated.
"So will he come to the ball tomorrow, Papa?" Ino had sat down in front of her father, for she seemed to be the most 'boy crazy' one of them all.
"I believe so." Kakashi answered his daughter, but not before a slight suspenseful pause. His girls all cried out and jumped in delight.
Iruka ran up and kissed his husband repeatedly and cried, "Mr. Uzumaki!"
For the rest of the afternoon, the two youngest Uzumakis bargained with their eldest sister for her finest clothes.
"I have to have your muslin! Please Sakura!" Ino was determined.
"I'll lend you my green slippers!" Temari said, fighting just as hard for Sakura's attention.
"They were mine." Sakura said kindly.
"I'll do your mending for a week," said Temari while pulling on Sakura's arm.
"I'll retrim your new bonnet."
"Two weeks I'll do it for." The two youngest girls continued to shuffle Sakura around and around. Naruto could only watch and laugh at their feeble attempt to persuade his beloved sister.