The Hokage felt like slamming his head against his desk. When he thought the paperwork had finally eased up slightly thanks to Naruto and his family, they had to go and make more as well as drag him into the middle of what could very easily become a very serious diplomatic incident. Blood tests that had been done by the T&I department had confirmed that the people who had shown up at Konoha's gates were indeed Uzumaki as the ones who were Uzumaki by blood all shared genetic markers that were unique to that clan.
While there would be far less paperwork if he threw the defectors and their relatives out of the village, he would never hear the end of it from Naruto, and it wouldn't be worth that particular headache. It was a pity that he couldn't make the people who generated the paperwork do it themselves, as there was too much stuff that was "For Hokage's Eyes Only." which usually translated to Danzo having had a peek at it before he saw it, and the secretary reading it for his or her own personal amusement.
"While I will allow you to live in Konoha, you will of course be on probation for a number of years, and your children won't be eligible to attend the Ninja Academy." he said to the men who knelt before him with their relatives arrayed behind. "Their children will however be allowed to enrol in the Academy as full natural born Konoha Citizens."
"Thank you." the eldest member of the group said, speaking for the rest who had remained silent throughout the exchange, which seriously had to be absolute torture for an Uzumaki.
"You're welcome." he replied as he got out a scroll and started to write. "Take this letter of introduction to the Uzumaki Clan Compound. I have no doubt that Naruto will be glad to see you."
After the scroll and directions had been handed over, the Uzumaki got up and left. If only it could be so easy on his end.
"Bring me the necessary forms." he sighed to his secretary who was nosing through a stack of reports that he had a feeling were "Top Secret".
Danzo snickered as he watched a secretary enter the Hokage's office with a massive stack of papers. It seemed that the Uzumaki curse had struck again. Considering how long it had been since there had been more than one Uzumaki in Konoha, it was understandable that his old friend would have forgotten. Papers relating to the Uzumaki siblings warranted an entire filing cabinet for each of them. Uzumaki Mito had her own filing cabinet as well, though that had taken much longer to accumulate in an era where there had been far less paperwork involved in being a Shinobi.
He had done research on the Uzumaki that had made their way to the village from Iwa via Wave and determined them to be of little to no concern. The patriarch of that family had settled down to run an inn after serving in Iwa's shinobi forces for a few years. The man's son was a rather average shinobi from the region, hadn't lost nearly as many people during the war as most, and had managed to come through with his entire family intact. The patriarch's daughter had married an innkeeper and they had run the family inn while her father retired from that as well. Only two of the grandchildren had attended the Academy, one Uzumaki Kinmaru who was now deceased and the youngest granddaughter who had not graduated before the family had defected.
All in all, they would be little to no trouble to Konoha. Especially considering the fact that Kinmaru had been killed by his own village, leaving the family with a grudge against their former home that was much larger than any they may hold against Konoha. Especially considering the fact that the Patriarch of the family had grown up considering Konoha to be an ally.
Uzumaki Masao winced when he saw the "Uzumaki Clan compound". The place was something of a dump. Not only that, it was mostly pink. Though it looked as if someone had started painting it orange recently. If he hadn't seen the barred metal security door with the Uzumaki spiral on it, he would have thought that he'd gotten lost and ended up at a run-down apartment building. Swallowing his reservations, he walked up to the security door and knocked loudly.
"Whaddya want?" the gate guard that vaguely resembled a cousin of his said when he finally answered the door after about a minute and a half of knocking.
"The Hokage said that I was supposed to give this to the head of the Uzumaki clan." Masao replied, holding out the scroll he'd been given.
The man took the scroll, examined it closely, opened it as if he were checking it for traps, and read it.
"Naruto, Get down here! A bunch of relatives just crawled out of the woodwork!" the man yelled up the stairs.
"Are you the head of the Uzumaki clan?" Masao asked, hoping and praying that the answer would be no, considering how rude he gate guard was. He'd heard that the new clan head's name was Naruto, but this guy was ordering the Naruto person around and there didn't seem to be anyone else about aside from the Gate guard and the Naruto person who'd yet to show up.
"Nah." the man whom he was relieved to discover was apparently just a gate guard who had inherited his manners from one of the more uncouth lines in the clan replied. "Thanks to a whole bunch of legal crap, Naruto is."
It was at that point that a young blond boy who couldn't have been much older than ten or eleven walked down the stairs leading to the barred gate that served as the main entrance to the Uzumaki clan compound. When the boy reached the bottom of the stairs, he looked up at Masao and his family who were standing just outside the gate and studied them curiously for a while as if he were searching for something. Eventually, a wide grin stretched across the boy's face as his eyes lit up.
"Hi! My name's Uzumaki Naruto!" the boy introduced himself enthusiastically.
He could hear his son groan behind him. He knew exactly how the man felt. The head of their clan was a recent Academy Graduate who was about the same age as his grandchildren, and not only that, but the boy looked like a cross between an Uzumaki and the Yellow Flash.
"I just realized something." the gate guard said. "You're from Iwa, right?"
"Yes." his son replied.
"You won't mind that Naruto's father was the Yondaime will you?" the gate guard asked. "I don't want to be cleaning up the blood of my relatives so soon after meeting them, and I don't think Naruto would be too happy if I killed you guys."
Great. Masao thought. He should have known that this was a bad idea the instant he'd learned that Naruto was one of Seiki's descendants. He should have buried those scrolls with his grandson, and settled in Wave.
Edited 2-27-17.