Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
"Jiji!" Naruto pleads, stepping forward, "This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard—Sakura-chan—she can't go back there! That lady's crazy!"
"Naruto," The pink-haired girl hisses, pinching Naruto's inner wrist and ignoring his yelp, "Watch what you say."
Hiruzen can see what's happening under his nose. He knows, knows, that Manami is lying for she has always lied, ever since she swished up to him on the streets when he was barely twenty-five.
But Hiruzen looks at the little girl—Haruno Sakura—and sees opportunity.
"Very well." He says. Haruno-chan's head shoots up, her eyes wide. Her lip trembles and for one, miniscule moment he thinks that she is only a child, barely a teenager and he should not be doing this—
Manami's eyes gleam, and he is sold.
"She will stay with you."
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