Life's a game – Prologue II
Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it. - Anonymous, 'O Magazine', The Shy Girl's Guide to Sex, February 2003
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Back at the Hokage Tower
"Tsunade-sama, Hyuga Hiashi is here to see you" came the secretary's voice over the intercom. Tsunade grinned. This was perfect.
"Send him in" Tsunade sent back and took her seat behind the large desk.
"Hokage-sama" greeted the Hyuga clan head, an uncharacteristic smirk on his lips.
"Hyuga-san" returned Tsunade. "I see you heard about his return, came to tell him personally?" she asked.
"With your permission" answered Hiashi relaxed.
"Sure, but first I have to inform his of his legacy. I propose that we relocate to the Hyuga estates after that so you have time to discuss the situation with Naruto and to deal with your council".
Hiashi's smirk turned sour for an instant at the mention of the council, before it returned to its previous condition. If he played his cards right and he assessed Naruto right, the council members would get the shock of their (old) lives.
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Meanwhile back at the Hokage's office back room, Naruto awoke from his unintentional slumber (a ninja doesn't faint, he rests instantly).
"Ungh...what happ..." groaned Naruto, before his talk with Tsunade came back to him.
-Welcome back kit, had a good rest?- drawled Kyuubi from inside his mind.
-Nice to see you caring...that wasn't just a dream, wasn't it?- thought Naruto back.
-As if I'd care...and no, that was real...a pity-
-Maybe for you baka...I'm...glad- answered Naruto, before cutting off the connection to his inner demon.
With that thought in his head Naruto began to orientate himself, finding out that he was in the the back room of the Hokage's office, but Tsunade was not here.
"Well, she's probably in her office...might as well go" Naruto told himself.
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Hiashi and Tsunade were just finishing the next steps they had planned for Naruto, as the mentioned Genin entered the room and announced his presence with a loud "Baa-chan!".
Only the many years of experience as the Hyuga clan head saved Hiashi from laughing out loud at the Hokage's expression and his untimely death at said persons hands.
Naruto on the other hand wasn't so fortunate.
"GGGAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
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A few minutes later had the odd trio sitting in the Hokage's office, Tsunade with a twitching eyebrow, Hiashi with an unreadable expression, but a certain amused twinkle in his eyes and Naruto, nursing a large bump on his head.
"Well Naruto, now that you are listening" this was accented by a death glare from Tsunade that told him to NOT open his mouth "I have many things to work out with you, and after that Hiashi-san wants to talk to you about a problem that has to deal with what I want to talk about you first..." explained Tsunade.
Naruto rocked his head left and right for a moment, before he answered.
It was going to be a loud hour at the Hokage Tower, as Naruto was told about his legacy.
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As Naruto left Tsunade's office accompanied by her and Hyuga Hiashi he was silent...that enough was saying a lot. In the span of an hour he found out who his parents really were, namely Kazama Arashi, the Yondaime Hokage, his father and Hyuga Natsumi, his mother, an ex-branch family member who got her seal removed shortly after marrying his father. This piece of information was accompanied by a bunch of clan-political gibberish, something about the Hokage being able to act independent.
Now he was on his way towards the Hyuga grounds to discuss the latest change in his life with the Hyuga clan head and the council to avoid having the Hyuga Juin placed on his forehead, something, many of the elder council would love to do. But as he was told, the Yondaime and his wife had already worked out a plan to avoid this, before he was even born. A plan, that was well known to the Hyuga and the council was working very hard against and that they would succeed if they didn't act now.
Clearly, Naruto wanted to avoid ANOTHER damned seal.
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They reached the Hyuga estates after a short walk and the three went to Hiashi's office to go over the details of the plan while waiting for the council to gather.
After the three sat down in Hiashi's office, he immediately dropped the bomb.
"Naruto-san, what do you know about political marriages?" asked Hiashi out of the blue.
Whatever Naruto expected to happen didn't even come close to this.
"EEEEEEHHHHHHHH?"
"Allow me to explain Naruto-san" interrupted Hiashi, before Naruto could start a barrage of (mostly) useless questions. "Your father knew that the council would most likely use his children against him, if they were forced to wear the Juin, so he arranged a marriage contract with me, the Hyuga clan head, so that all of his future children would marry into the main family to avoid the seal and those married would then belong to the Kazama clan, which from then on is independent from the Hyugas, even if they carry the Byakugan bloodline limit" began Hiashi "But the council knows about this pact and they tried to marry off Hinata for the last one and a half years, since your lineage became known to the public, and I can only hold them off for so long. So I want you to start your duties as the Kazama heir as the fiancé for my daughters as soon as possible, namely today." he finished.
And for the second time that day Naruto was out like a light and hit the floor with a dull thump.
The noise was mirrored from the other side of the door, but with a startled "eep".
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