Sasuke twitched as he heard another comment of "Just like his father" come from one of the villagers who hadn't stopped gossiping since the invasion as he helped rebuild a house as part of a D Rank that was intended to get Konoha back on its feet. He'd apparently opened this whole can of worms when he'd tried to prove that Naruto wasn't the Yondaime's son, and people started seeing a resemblance that just wasn't there. It certainly didn't help things when the Chunin Exams had ended in an invasion which Naruto had helped fight off, defeating the strange monster that the boy who had been his opponent in the final phase of the Exams had become in the process.
The fact that Naruto had somehow summoned the Toad Boss Gamabunta who had last been seen near Konoha when the Yondaime had been fighting the Kyuubi during that fight didn't help either. Just about everyone became convinced that Naruto was the Yondaime's son then and there, and there was now a great deal of gossip about the Yondaime and Naruto's mother who the ninja had all called Habanero flying about the village. He'd tried pointing out that anyone could summon Gamabunta if they signed the Toad Summoning contract, but had gotten looks of pity in return, when he wasn't receiving looks of fear, or wary looks as if the person looking at him thought he was about to snap at any second and go on a killing spree, or when mothers weren't pulling their children away from him more frequently than usual. If the villagers who didn't think he was a raving lunatic who should be locked up for everyone's safety were to be believed, he wasn't trying to be logical about the whole thing, and was just insanely jealous over the fact that he wasn't the most important member of his team. They seemed to think that he liked being the Last of the Uchiha for some strange reason.
Following the invasion and its aftermath, Naruto had gotten rather paranoid when the villagers actually started smiling at him and greeted him politely, and had holed himself up in his apartment which he had surrounded with a massive number of traps. Considering how unusual it was for the villagers to behave that way towards the Dead Last who had been almost universally hated for as long as he could remember, he didn't entirely blame the other boy. He'd probably have done the same if he were in a similar situation himself. Just because the Uzumaki had wanted the villagers to be nice to him for his entire life didn't mean that the poor stupid bastard would know what to do when they finally were.
As he was painting the exterior of the house he'd helped rebuild under the watchful eye of the contractor who'd been grumbling about Genin labor not being what it used to, someone came running, saying something about Itachi showing up in order to kidnap Naruto.
Great. Even the bastard who had betrayed and murdered their clan had jumped on the "Naruto is the son of the Yondaime" bandwagon.
Wait? What?!
Edited 4/2/13