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Izel's eyes narrowed in the slightest not giving away any other hint that she did not want to hear that. She knew that her request would be denied but being the type of person who would much rather give people the benefit of the doubt she was still hoping for the best.
"Why, exactly are saying no to this? He doesn't seem to be wanted at that orphanage and you most certainly don't want him adopted by anyone."
"We do see it necessary to speak of these matters to an ignorant girl," replied another council member, "what could possibly understand when it comes to the decisions of the council."
Nara Shikaku cursed mentally as he heard those words spoken. The fool had just insulted a very old clan head and there was no telling what would happen within the next couple of seconds. His answer was about to be given to him when he saw Izel-sama's face turn completely blank.
Izel could not believe she had just heard that come out of the man's mouth. Either he was a new member of the council and did not have a care about who she really was or he was just plain stupid. Her clan was well respected for two main reasons in this village. One: her clan supplied them with money that was needed to keep the village afloat from going under economically. Two: in the main family, there is always one person who has been reincarnated since before the beginning of the Shinobi Era. This was why she was known as an "old soul", for in actuality she really was. She had experience in politics and a lot of insight on how everything they were trying to pull was the biggest load of bullcrap she had heard or seen.
"Ignorance is usually found in the one who claims it on another as an insult," was Izel's retort causing Shikaku to smirk while many other councilmen on the shinobi side chuckled. "I would also like to remove the monthly funding my clan has been assisting the village with Hokage-sama."
Everyone immediately sobered up at that last statement. They knew that they would never be able to last all that much if she were to pull out those funds especially with the resent attach of the nine-tails.
Money. Exactly as she had thought that is all these blundering baboons really desire. She actually couldn't believe how easy it had been set up for her. There was a contract between the village and her clan when it came to the funding, but there was one clause she had studied upon well. "If there is to be a day in which the clan head decides that investing in the village has become a loss in profit than if the head wishes to terminate the contract it is to be done." In other words, all she needs to be able to terminate the contract was to feel as if there was no give and take. And she just had.
They were willing to accept her money but they were not willing to give something she wanted in turn. Poor selfish bastards just caused their own ruin.
"Izel-sama, what exactly are you saying?" asked the Hokage even though he had a good idea what she was up to.
"I find that the village is unwilling to give me what I want when they have been willing accepting from my clan for generations."
"There is no way you can actually stop the funds from coming in," the pink haired troll stated coldly, as if daring her to continue speaking such demands.
"That is where you are wrong. You see the contract I hold with the village states that if I were to find you becoming a burden I could terminate it."
"She's right, Haruno," Shikaku said as he went over the scroll holding a copy of the contract he had received from the Hokage's secretary. "She can terminate it if that is how she sees things and given that it is that way we have no way of keeping her from doing so."
"But that money—"
"Is mine," Izel interrupted Haruno, "I don't see how it is fair for me to give and be denied when I ask for something in return. If you want to keep receiving money then approve the adoption."
The civilian council were stunned to say the least. How did this thirteen-year-old outwit them? They didn't want the monster getting out of their radar where they could have it punished for its transgressions. However, they were even more unwilling to have money get taken away from them. They murmured amongst themselves until the turned towards Izel.
"We accept only if you increase the amount of money you fund the village with," a graying old man stated with finality. Shikaku rolled his eyes while Hiashi Hyuuga just looked down at the table while shaking his head. The shinobi side all had one thought going through their minds. They are a bunch of idiots.
Much to the surprise of the baboons Izel started laughing. It was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. The gall of the council to ask her for more money, when she just threaten to take it all away. Amusing at best.
"No," Izel said when she stopped her laughing fit. She turned to the Hokage and said, "I wish to termin—"
"Fine!" Haruno interrupted, "we approve the adoption and the regular amount can be what we received."
Izel smiled as she realized she will be having a guaranteed heir after all. Good thing the council decided to leave as soon as the words left Haruno's mouth. All she had to wait for was the seal of the Hokage on the document and she could take Naruto home where he belonged.
"This little Ito is your new home. You will live here with me and my family which is now yours as well." Izel whispered to Naruto as they arrived to their home. He just stared at the place with wide eyes as he clung to her with his arms wrapped around her neck.
He was surprised that she had actually wanted and been able to get him away from the mean lady. He did not want to go back there ever again. He liked this girl. In his eyes she was his salvation, his protector. He has seen from a window how mothers protected their babies. There were other people who were bigger than the babies so that they wouldn't be stomped on or bumped into their mothers would carry them. Izel was carrying him right now, and she had done since they started their trek to this new home. She was going to be his protector, but he didn't know what to call her.
As they walked inside the compound the members were excited to see Izel-sama with a child. Now they wouldn't fear the loss of not having someone to take over her when she either passed away or retired. They just had to wait until his fifth birthday where the blood bonding ritual will be held so that the reincarnation will either follow his bloodline or Izel-sama's.
It was already just past six and dinner would be ready by seven as it was custom. She turned to Ro who had been unconscientiously following her all over the house as she made her way to her bedroom. He was such a good escort and bodyguard that he kept at it even without noticing it.
Izel smiled at him and said, "Ro you can go and rest now with your family and thank you for coming along with me today."
Ro blushed as always whenever she complimented him something. He bowed saying, "good night Izel-sama and it was my pleasure and duty to make sure you stayed safe and satisfied with the results of this day." He turned and left after that leaving a smile on his princess's face.
Izel took Naruto into the private bath she had and decided to get them both cleaned up for dinner. The bath was rather eventful as Naruto seemed to really enjoy the water and the bubbles. She thought it was strange but then he might not have been allowed to bath often and certainly it was not in a bubble bath. She pulled him into a hug and got out of the tub with him thinking that this will be a day she will remember always in her future lives.
That considering who and what she was. Her age was even a mystery to her. She cannot really remember when her first life had been.
Well actually it was around the time when the world looked completely different. There were giant buildings all over the place with things that were used for a means of transportation called "automobiles". There were these things called "planes" and the "Internet" whatever the hell that was. But the one thing that stood out the most and she just couldn't fathom was that the trees were almost all but extinct. Man had over stepped the bounds and at last the earth decided to take back what was hers. For some unknown reason Earth didn't kill off the human race, it left her great ancestor, Ilithea, and her mate alive as well as others who had shown Earth that they respected their home. When the oceans rose and the land split apart letting everything fall down to its depths to be incinerated, Ilithea and the others survived the catastrophe of what Earth had done by ending up on an island that was close to the mainland. They witnessed it all and scarred by the horrors of it the decided to never speak of it again.
What they didn't account for was that Earth had done something to Ilithea and her mate. When their children had started having children of their own; Ilithea passed away from old age. A couple of years later she was reborn again which was not discovered until the girl's sixteenth birthday. On that day she received all of her memories and realized that throughout her life as a child she had been slowly remembering all the things she experienced in a past life.
This is what Izel had been told by her mother since it had been her mother's grandmother who had been the reincarnation at that time when she was alive. Now it was her and she looked forward to her sixteenth birthday and the day Naruto bonds with her bloodline.