Hiruzen-"So then, let's hash out the details of your payment,status and official statement inside the village."

Hazel-"Payment?"

Hiruzen-" Yes, payment. You didn't think I'll make you work without pay, right? We may be a militant village, but doesn't mean we can do whatever. Plus the nature of your appearance dictates that I give you full protection of an ANBU squad, but that will raise questions with the council of advisers and that is a can of broken senbons I do not wish to open. If you had enough money to pay the taxes for the status of hime, that would have been splendid. Nobody will look at your abilities more closely, they'll be more focused on your monetary assets. But alas, let's just work with what we've got. You can gradually amass money and use that later."

Hazel-" But I do."

Hiruzen-" Do what ?"

Hazel-" Have money."

Hiruzen-" I do not think that will be enough, what ever money you've had on your person won't be enough to pay the tax every year and a initial deposit of 5 year advance tax."

Hazel just calmly raised an eyebrow and pulled out 3 gold bars and 3 rubies from inside the cloth bag. All the ninjas had their jaws dropped and eyes bugged out. Shikaku recovered 1st and whistled appreciatively. Inoichi reached out to poke a gold bar tentatively trying to see whether it's real or not. The hokage simply took a puff out of his unlit pipe and said,

"This is enough money to make you a hime for 2 different clans"

Shikaku-" But hokage sama, we can't have her be from a civilian clan. Then we'll have to deal with the daimyo and the pesky council. We need her to be from a shinobi clan. If her features were not so distinct, me or Inoichi could have claimed her to be a long lost from our clan. But to actually give her a hime status, she needs to have money, history, heirlooms etc. to be credible not to mention her lack of etiquette ."

Hazel-"Excuse you! I am a lady of 4 ancient houses with at least a history of 1000 years and one is even related to the royalties of Albania. I have etiquette, I just don't like to be formal."

Shikaku-" 4 houses? That's quite a lot."

Hazel-" Oh I got 2 from my father, one from my god-father and one by rights of conquest."

Hiruzen-" Do we have any shinobi clan that we can use? What about the Kurama clan ?"

Shikaku-" They still have a member alive, a little girl. Besides, their ties with the Yuhis will be difficult to fake. That also rules out the Kaguya too. We could have used the Uzumakis coz of her hair, but with her low chakra, that's not gonna fly."

Hiruzen-" That's it. The clans from Uzu. If I remember correctly, there was a vassal clan to the Uzumakis called Kuronami. They specialised in tracking seals. And the best thing is not many adults alive will remember about them. Everybody only knew of the famous Uzumakis and not of the others. We can use this. What else do we need Shikaku?"

Shikaku-" We can't give her hime status with a minor clan. We can try to make her an illegitimate daughter of the royal Uzumakis, but that again poses the question of chakra and will draw a lot of attention to her. What of the Uzu daimyo?"

Hiruzen-" The daimyo's family was hit 1st and perished with the rest. That we can use freely. Their family name was Kaiyou. So, what do you say Hashibami san? Do you wanna be an illegitimate royalty,born to a shinobi clan? It'll give a lot of freeway in a lot of places, especially with the civilian side of things, which'll make my job a lot easier."

Hazel-"What about my living arrangements? And the contract for me staying here, can I be the one to enchant it?"

Hiruzen-" What is this enchantment you speak of?"

Hazel-"Well, all the terms and conditions that we agree on will have to be signed by us. I'll put a spell on it so breaking any of the clauses will have some consequences for the offending party. And I want you to sign it Mr. hokage. Normally I don't bother with these things, but right now , Teddy's safety is my priority, not my morals. I know how valuable you think I am, and I am gonna milk it all. "

Shikaku-"You are stupidly honest , aren't you? Will we be able to read your written language and vice versa?"

Hazel-"Hey! No. You won't."

Shikaku-"Then there's no way we'll let you write the contract in your language and you sure aren't gonna let us write it. so how is this going to work then?"

Hazel-"Oh . The pervert can just proofread the contract for me. I trust him."

Anko and Kakashi both exclaimed at the same time,

"Pervert!"

"Are you dumb?"

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean you asshole? Here I am , giving you my wholehearted trust and you throw it back on my face! See if I ever do you any favor." With that she stuck her tongue out at him again and turned away.

"Look here. Do you realise that I am a shinobi of this village and I will always look out for the village, even if it hurts you or the brat. If I am ordered to lie to you, I will do it you know."

"Hearing that makes me wanna trust you even more." Hazel said with a soft smile on her face which surprised him and the others. He turned his face away with a light blush on his face. Unfortunately, or fortunately for Kakashi, the tender moment was not to be. Anko suddenly butted in asking again, "Pervert?"Kakashi let out a sigh of thousand years of misery and reopened his book to hide behind.

Hazel was startled and answered with a guilty look towards Kakashi,

"Well he did tear open part of my clothes."

"He did what? My my Kakashi kun, I didn't know you had it in you."

"I only did that so I could treat the wound on her back.I mean It's not like I could take her dress off."

"You thought about taking off my dress? You scoundrel. I really shouldn't have cooked you food."

"Will you stop over thinking. I'm really starting to regret saving your life."

"The feeling's mutual mate. Now I owe you a life debt. annoying... what? What are you blushing for, you weirdo?"

"Yo-You called me your m-mate."

"Yeah. What of it? It's just another word for dude, or man, or friend."

"Oh. So that was another word for a friend."

All the others chuckled a bit except Ibiki and Anko who howled in laughter. Hiruzen then took pity on the poor copycat and explained to the oblivious girl, "May be you shouldn't use that expression any more my child. It can cause unnecessary misunderstandings." Hazel belatedly realised what the misunderstanding was and turned tomato red at the blunder she made.

"It wasn't... I mean I don't... That's ...Ugh This is ridiculous. I seriously need the wit sharpening potion. This is really embarrassing."

Shikaku then asked," What is a life debt?"

"A life debt is when somebody saves a witch's or wizard's life, they owe the person saving them a debt. They can not intentionally wound the person mortally. They can not do this because it'll damage their core. If they do it often, it might turn them into squibs, people born from magic but without the power to wield it themselves. That is what I owe Kakashi, so rest assured, I can never betray him."

"I don't think you owe me a life debt. You saved my life 1st. That avalanche was almost eager to bury me alive while I was down with chakra exhaustion. Your snow dome saved my life."

Anko frowned at this," Are you getting rusty copycat? An avalanche is enough to kill you?"

The hokage and Inoichi shared a discrete glance at this new info. Their communication went something like this,

' Do you believe me now , hokage sama?'

' Yes I do Inoichi kun.'

'Permission to put him on the emotionally unstable list?'

' No we can't do that.'

'You do realise that he's showing suicidal tendency, right? If he had enough chakra to move and save her life afterwards, he had enough to move out of the way of the avalanche. He clearly is eagerly waiting to die.'

' I know. But we need to make sure he doesn't get wind of our plans, or he'll try to take even more dangerous missions once he's back out of sheer stubbornness. I can't always screen his missions.'

' Then let's ease him into it.'

'Yes, that will be for the best'

"Let me check that." With that said hazel got her wand out and chanted, "Lorg fiacbreatha" while doing a motion for infinity over her heart. It showed a maroon chain going from Hazel to Kakashi. "See, I do owe you a life debt. Huh. Your life must not have been in mortal peril like you thought. I really need to repay you back for it."

' That decides it. I am kicking the brat out of ANBU soon.'

Shikaku-" Why can't I understand what you said just now?"

" Well it's in Scottish Gaelic language. I don't even understand it myself."

Hiruzen-" you have more than one language? Interesting. How do you communicate properly then?"

"We have atleast 10,000 different languages and dialects in our world. Don't even get me started on countries like India. They have over 800 different language in one country."

"How do they manage to communicate then?"

"I have no idea. But most people are bilingual there."

Kakashi-" How about I teach you our language and then you can sign the contract yourself. Till then we sign a rough draft."

Hazel-"That works for me."

Hiruzen-" Then be here at 9 tomorrow. Here's the address where you'll be staying for temporary period. Kakashi and Anko will be your guard till you learn our language. Kakashi, come by tomorrow evening to get the notes on Hiraishin from me. Till Jiraiya arrives in the village, you'll be doing a review on all space-time jutsus and looking for any clues."

"Wakarimashita, hokage sama"

"Hashibami san, Kakashi will escort you to your temporary residence now. Anko will get you your baby supplies and groceries. I implore you to not interact with anybody in the village to keep your real identity a secret. We will be having the rough draft of the contract tomorrow, and hash out some other details. Your son looks tired. You should go home and rest."

"Thank you Mr. hokage. I'll be here at 9 prompt."

"Anko,go buy her supplies. Inoichi, take down the barrier please. Ibiki, I don't think I need to remind you that this recording does not leave your sight?"

"Iie hokage sama."

"Excellent. Let us be off."

With that Inoichi took the barrier down and started to leave, only to run into an invisible wall with his nose smashed flat. He looked mighty confused. Even though he had taken down all the tags, what's this barrier doing still up? Hazel immediately apologized, " I am so sorry, I had erected a barrier of my own just to be safe. Here I'll take it down. 'Finite Incatatem' That should do it. Sorry again." She picked Teddy up and said, "Well pervert, are you coming or not?" Kakashi grumbled low, " This spell really causes some funny misunderstandings." while Anko snickered in the background.

Reviews:-

TheBeauty - Don't worry. I don't intend to make her work without benefit.

Lavendor Queen - Thanks, but I like this free style. I have no intention of being a proper story writer. I am happy with only poems.

Guest, Silvermane1- Thanks

KateKat1992 - Thanks. She can't do that unless they all sign a contract with her where her magic touches each of them individually.

1968 - She will run into Naruto, soon. Have patience.

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