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Chapter 2 My Woman, My Woman, My Wife
Tsunade held the list she had finished last night, there was no time like the present so she had summoned all involved to make her announcement. Of course there would be arguements but it had just had to be done time was a commodity that was slipping away. She heard the voices as the first arrivals could be heard coming down the hall, 'it's now or never' she thought, taking a deep breath.
The group looked around each one curious as to the strange gathering, if this was a mission the team was sure mixed strangely. Each one had received notice to be here this morning, for what exactly wasn't specified. There were jonin, chunin, and even a few medical-nin. Tsunade waited until all had squeezed in to start her announcement, each one trying to deal with there thoughts.
Kakashi was feeling nervous, he didn't know why but he felt the need to run and hide, he usually listened to this feeling but he couldn't leave without causing some serious trouble. He knew whatever it was he wasn't going to like it.
Genma was scoping the kunoichi, several were a little on the young side, but hey he was equal opportuniy kind of man, and unless this was a mission, which with this group seemed unlikely, he was going to need company tonight. Maybe getting up this early wouldn't be so bad after all thought the night owl.
Ebisu couldn't believe he had been summoned with this group there had to some kind of error, after all they all seemed fairly ordinary, with the exception of Lady Hinata, these people probably didn't know not to eat with there elbows on the table. He hoped this wouldn't take long. He had much more important matters to attend to then sit around with common ninja.
Gai who couldn't wait to hear what their illustrious leader had to say, was thinking of what exercises he could pack into his afternoon and which ones would be cut due to this youthful endeavor of the Hokages. Ah the Lady Tsunade was still waiting were there more to arrive.
Iruka hoped this was important, his class was losing a really important lesson on taijutsu, but it sure wouldn't hurt for them to work on their transformation jutsu today. He felt like the low man here, several were jonin and this looked odd, maybe the Hokage was just needing some help with the upcomeing festival. Well he would find out soon, and with that he looked over to notice that Sakura, Ino and Hinata were sitting nearby, he smiled at them and thought, how much they had all grown. 'I'm getting old' he thought, I'll have their kids running around soon.
Anko looked up, 'well this sucked', Tsunade needed to get the lead out, she didn't mind work but sitting around wasn't her cup of sake. And what was up with this group even that prig Ebisu was here. Not that he didn't do a good job, he just always made here want to kill him before they got back. Well she would rather work with a perv like Genma or Kakashi then him, hell even Jiraiya had his entertaining moments.
Hinata was nervous, she was happy to see Sakura, and Tenten, even Ino, but there were so many men here and what could she do to help. The shy girl took a deep breath, whatever it was she could do this, she was ready, her work at the hospital had given her alot of confidence, especially one on one it was only when she was the spotlight, or crowds which made her nervous now, she saw Kakashi wave, and smiled elbowing Sakura, blushing she nodded toward the girls former sensei to show her he was here.
Sakura felt the nudge and looked up at Hinata, she saw the shy girl nod over behind her and looked up to see a grinning Kakashi, well his eye was grinning, did that make sense. She gave a wave and smile of her own, his friendly rival seeing her gave her a smile and his trade mark thumbs up. Sakura who had been distracted with the fatigue of just coming off the nightshift, couldn't help but grin. Gai and Lee maybe strange, but you just could help but smile around them.
Ino couldn't help but think they had been here forever, she was really needed this morning they had a flower shipment coming in around 10 and that was only an hour from now. 'Well, atleast there was some eye-candy here', Genma, Kakashi, even Iruka sensei was a cutie. All the girls thought she was kind of slutty. She couldn't help the fact that her mind jutsu left her hearing all kinds of things, and men thought about sex constantly, Ino really hadn't even been in a serious relationship, but when she told her Mom about all the kinky things in men's minds she just told her to remember that she just had to think of it as secret insider information on what men wanted when she got married, Well, she wasn't doing what Genma was thinking no matter how good looking he was, three women at once, puh-lease, he was dreaming!
Tenten looked around too, so many people in one room, Gai sensei was here along with most of her friends, at least the female ones. There were a few she really only knew by reputation Anko, Shizune and that snobby guy with the sun glasess, Ebisu, right? It was actually kind of nice to have a morning off, but she did have some weapons to clean this afternoon, she was on curved knives today and wanted to check each one for damage and clean them. Snobby pants probably had someone to do that for him, but she loved her weapons and no one was touching her babies but her.
Shizune did a head count, well everyone was here except the Toad Sage, was it her imagination or did it seem pretty even ratio of men and women, what did Tsunade have rolling around in that Sake drenched brain. Well whatever it was she could kindly leave her out of it there where too many pervs in one room for her taste and barring Jiraiya, Genma was king. She leaned over to whisper to Tsunade, "Well all but your pervy sage are here now, do you want to start without him?"
Tsunade raised her arms and her voice to gain everyone's attention, "Well thank you for all coming on such short notice, I have an announcement to make and need you all to listen with interuption. The decree, that was excepted by the council this morning, is already documented so there is no need to feel like it's debatable, I don't want to hear your arguements, it's already a fact, I'm only informing you of." the crowd all grew silent, this did not sound good. Tsunade continued, "Due to the loses of life we have had during the war, I have decided to arrange something that will insure our villiage it's future. Peace is once again ours but we all know peace is fragile and at best... temporary. So with that in mind the council and I have decided that arranged marriages with bonuses for children born to the couples were are only solution." This gave her a crowd with mixed reactions the smarter ones were already looking like they'd been sentenced to hang, while the naive, were looking confused. "So I won't make this harder than neccessary, here are your future spouses and so as not to delay this I will be performing the appropriate paper work BEFORE you leave here, am I understood?" With this she glared at the horror stricken men, letting them know that other than death, there was NO way out. "Hatake Kakashi and Hyuga Hinata, Maito Gai and Haruno Sakura, Ebisu and Tenten, Shiranui Genma and Shizune, Umino Iruka and Yamanaka Ino, please come forward and join hands." The couples in shock really slowly came forward to nervously look at the person he or she were going to have to spend their lives with, yes shocked was an understatement. Kakashi looked down at the petite young woman who slowly joined hands with him, she was pretty, but she was pretty young too. Gai tried to give his trademark smile to his intenteded but just got kinda shy when her small hand took hold of his, he had given up really on ever marrying and this was amazing, in a good way or bad he wasn't sure of yet. Ebisu was standing there with his mouth hanging open much like he had when Naruto had performed his Harem no jutsu years ago, Tenten walked over and used her thumbed to push his jaw back up, then took hold of his limp hand pulling him over toward the front. Genma didn't think anything could cause him to cry in public but seeing a very aggrivated Shizune coming toward him made him want to sit down and bawl. She grabbed his hand roughly and dragged him into position. Ino blushed as Iruka gently took her hand in both his hands to guide her up front as well, he felt confused but felt he definitely could have ended up in a much worse pairing than this. Tsunade looked at the couples and was about to start with the signing of documents, when a very drunk Jiriaya stumbled through the door looking wildly around shouting, "Ok you crazy woman I'm here, which one of these beauties is mine?" Everyone turned to look at who was left and they all couldn't help hear Anko when she looked at him and muttered loudly, "Well shit! Guess that would be me, huh?