Chapter 4: More Trouble
This is fic is loosely inspired after reading "councils folly" by "Agamemnon". I have changed it accordingly to suit my story.
I would like to give credit to the base plot to him.
I do not own Naruto or any of its character and if I did Naruto would have more tricks other than Kage bunshin and Rasengan.
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INSIDE The Hokage Chamber:
The Hokage's office was fairly crowded this morning and Tsunade could feel the headache coming from the news she was about to deliver.
Inside the office were the Konoha 12 minus team 8 as they had gone for a C rank mission and weren't due to return for another 2 days. Naruto looked the serious with his new outfit which she had bought him yesterday as she refused her son to wear the 'Orange Monstrosity'. Now Naruto was wearing a black muscle t-shirt over a dark blue zip up jacket and a black pant with black sandals with blue trimming, yet there was his usual warmth radiating from him.
Next to Naruto stood Sasuke who had a look of arrogance on his face and next to him stood Sakura who was fawning over the Uchiha.
Ino was looking at Sasuke dreamily but would glance at Naruto every now and then. Choji was standing there eating a bag of chips and Shikamaru stood like he would fall asleep any moment.
Tsunade cleared her throat everyone in the room looked at her attentively "I've called everyone here to make an announcement, its regarding the new treaty alliance with Suna. They have asked for an arranged marriage with one of our shinobi"
Hearing this silence occupied the room with everyone digesting the news and everyone had their own thoughts about this.
Choji didn't look concerned and Shikamaru was thinking about who the bride and groom would be while Sakura and Ino looked concerned thinking there Sasuke would be chosen as he was the 'Great Uchiha'. The said Uchiha was thinking that he would be chosen because of his clan name and he was already thinking of accepting as he did require a strong female to rebuild his clan.
The silence was broken by Shikamaru who asked "Hokage –sama who are the bride and groom?"
Everyone waited curiously for the answer
"The bride is Sabaku No Temari Yondaime Kazekage's daughter" Tsunade replied and waited to see the expression on everyone's when she would announce the groom's name.
Hearing Temari's name the girls paled as they knew the girls was strong as well as beautiful their concerns grew more when they saw how interested their Sasuke was. Shikamaru looked impassive but his mind was racing through the list of guys who would be the groom. Shikamaru had been impressed with the girl back at the chunin exams. Sasuke was delighted to hear the name as he too was impressed by Temari and knew that she was a very powerful kunoichi, the moment he had heard about the marriage proposal he had assumed that he would be chosen by Suna as even he knew that Suna would choose him as the groom.
Naruto didn't look fazed as he already knew about the whole affair beforehand from his mother.
Tsunade looked at the varying expression from all the rookies in the room and cleared her throat once again and said
"As I saying the bride will be Sabaku No Temari and the groom is Uzumaki Naruto"
Nobody said anything, silence reigned for a few minutes and the silence was broken by a loud shout of
"WHAT?"
Normally everyone would be thinking the shout would come from one of the Sasuke fangirls but how wrong they were it came from the most unexpected person in the room.
Shikamaru couldn't contain his surprise at the announcement, the news threw his thinking out of the box and this had caused the outburst from him.
Choji was more surprised by Shikamaru's outburst rather than the actual news of Naruto being chosen as the groom.
Sakura and Ino were surprised to hear the news and when the news sunk in both were happy that their Sasuke-kun was still available.
Sasuke was shocked and he was fuming inside not because he wasn't chosen but because Naruto was chosen instead of him and he wanted to ask them why they had chosen Naruto but was beaten to it.
"Sorry for the outburst Hokage-sama, but why have they chosen Naruto? I don't understand the logic behind it as it mostly expected to have them marry into a reputed clan"
Hearing this Naruto gritted his teeth knowing he belonged to the Uzumaki Clan but couldn't tell anyone about his heritage.
Tsunade flinched at hearing the clan remark from Shikamaru which went unnoticed.
"We don't know why they have chosen Naruto over the clan heir but we made the mistake of letting them choose the groom so we can't deny them of their choice" Tsunade replied
This still didn't answer the question going through Shikamaru's head but he kept quiet and just nodded his head.
After hearing this Sasuke excused himself and exited from the chamber, as he was leaving he gave a dark look towards Naruto and left.
After Sasuke left Tsunade made it clear to everyone present that Temari is to be treated with same respect as every other kunoichi is treated in the village and whoever shows hostile behavior towards either Naruto or Temari will severely be reprimanded.
After the announcement everyone was dismissed except for Naruto who stayed back to talk something's with his mother.
"So Naru-Chan what is it that you want to talk about" tsunade asked.
Naruto was happy hearing how is mother called it gave a sense of belonging to someone. He came near the chair nearby at sat down and asked
"Kaa-chan I wanted to know all the details of this marriage and wanted to know whether the marriage can be dissolved at a later date"
Tsunade was surprised hearing this but understood why Naruto asked that information.
"No Sochi the marriage cannot be dissolved as you put it because this is an political marriage it needs to be upheld and as for the details, Temari will stay with you in the same house and when she reaches the age of fifteen a marriage ceremony will be held and you have to consummate the marriage that night and produce an heir before she reaches the age of seventeen" Tsunade said not liking the idea of her son becoming a father at such a young age. Naruto stood still and didn't give a single reaction.
Seeing no reaction from her son tsunade went near Naruto to knock him down and when she went near him and saw him she started to laugh.
Shizune who saw this wondered what happened and went near Naruto and when she reached she saw the huge blush on Naruto's face his eyes had rolled back and he had pulled a True Hinata hyuga style faint no jutsu.
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Inside The Senju Compound:
Naruto sat there on the sofa with a huge blush on his face as he had just received the "The Talk" from his mother and sister.
When Tsunade and Shizune found out that Naruto had been left out of the sex ed class in the academy and never knew how baby's were made they took it upon themselves to give him 'The Talk' as they didn't want some guy to give it to him and turn him into a pervert.
"So Naru-Chan do you have any question?" asked Shizune
Naruto still had his head bent downwards and just shook his head unable to see his sister in the eye.
"Alright Sochi, I'm going to give you some money tomorrow to buy some supplies for the house since Temari will be joining you in a week" Tsunade said to Naruto.
"Kaa-chan I don't know what all things need to be bought for a girl and moreover no shop is going to sell things to me" Naruto replied with a deadpan expression
Tsunade just pinched the bridge of her nose; she couldn't believe how the village her grandfather had built had fallen.
"I'll try my best to change that from now on but for tomorrow take Shizune with you she will know what to buy and the shop owners won't dare try anything with her"
"Hai, arigato kaa-chan"
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Two days later:
Team 8 had just returned from their C ranked mission, it was an escort mission of some nobleman. As they finished the briefing in the hokage tower they were on their way home, Kurenai stopped her team and said
"Alright team you have tomorrow off, rest well and meet at training ground 8 day after tomorrow at 10 in the morning"
"Hai, sensei" chorused every member of team 8 and went their separate ways.
As Hinata was going towards her clan compound she saw Ino and Sakura sitting in the park and chatting, she particularly like Sakura as she didn't like the way Sakura treated her love and she was jealous of how her crush was behind the pink haired girl.
As Hinata was about to pass them Ino saw her
"Hinata! When did you get back?" Ino shouted to Hinata
"I j-just came b-back from our m-mission" Hinata replied with her usual stutter
"Oh that's good, hey did you hear the news about Naruto?" Sakura asked
"No I J-just c-came back, what is-s t-this news a-about Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked with asked with worry clearly evident in her voice.
"Naruto is getting engaged in a week's time with that Suna girl from the chunin exams" Sakura said a bit too happily.
Hinata's world shattered in the moment the words left Sakura's mouth, tears formed in her eyes and started to spill as she ran from there towards her house.
Sakura looked confusedly in the direction in which Hinata ran, as she was watching Ino elbowed Sakura lightly and said screamed
"Forehead you really should watch what you talk and how to tell something important to others"
"What do you mean Ino pig?"
"I mean Hinata has a huge crush on Naruto since academy and you didn't even think how she would feel when you said Naruto is getting engaged" Ino replied angrily
"Oh, it's her problem anyway, I'm going home now I need to prepare for tomorrow's training" Sakura replied with no hint of remorse of her action
Ino just shook her head at Sakura's attitude and made her way home and stared to think about 'How to make Sasuke fall in love with her'.
At the same time Hinata had run inside her room with tears in her eyes and curled into a ball and cried herself to sleep that night.
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In the Hyuga compound:
Members of the Hyuga clan had seen the state in which Hinata had returned to home last evening, the main branch members thoughts cemented more as she had shown weakness openly by crying whereas the branch members felt pity for her.
The sun was just rising when Hinata woke up to the knocking of her door, as she woke up she remembered the news of her Naruto's engagement and her face lost its liveliness.
"Come in" she told the person who was knocking on the door
The slid open and a Hyuga branch member came inside and said
"Hinata-sama, Hiashi-sama has requested your presence in the training dojo and he has asked for you come prepared for a spar with Hanabi-sama"
Hinata's mood sunk even further hearing she had to fight her sister again.
"Hai I-I will-l be there in a few-w m-minutes" Hinata replied with a dejected tone.
As the branch member made his way out of the room Hinata moved to the Bathroom and took a bath and out on her training clothes, after a few minutes made her way towards the training dojo.
Inside the training dojo sat Hiashi Hyuga the clan head of the Hyuga clan one of the most prestigious clan and noble clan of Konoha, Hiashi was a strict person by nature and always thought of the clan before himself. He sat there waiting for his eldest daughter to arrive to see if she had improved in the clan's taijutsu.
Hinata entered timidly inside the dojo and greeted her father
"Ohayo Otou-sama, Imotou"
"Hinata I've heard that your recent mission was a success and your sensei praised your part in the mission, I wish to see these improvements so you will have a spar with your sister now" Hiashi said without even considering Hinata's greeting
"Hai" replied Hinata
"In this spar usage of chakra is allowed but only for your taijutsu" he said for both his daughters
As both Hinata and Hanabi took the traditional Jyuken stance and readied themselves for the spar
"Hajime" Hiashi called
The Spar was totally one sided and ended in a matter of few minutes with Hinata lying on the floor with most of her tenketsu's closed. Hiashi was thoroughly disappointed in his daughter and it could be seen on his face.
As Hinata struggled to stand up Hiashi congratulated Hanabi on her win and asked her to return to her room.
"Hinata I'm very disappointed in you" Hiashi said this as he was making his way towards the door.
Just as he was about to leave he heard Hinata tell something to him, he turned around and saw Hinata sitting on her knees with tears flowing down her cheeks saying something, he was angered by Hinata's outward show of emotion and screamed
"Whatever your saying speak loudly"
"O-Otou-sama please kill me" Hinata said just audible enough to be heard by Hiashi.
When Hiashi heard those words he felt as though he'd been slapped on his face, his body went stiff for a moment and tears formed in his eyes.
His body collapsed on to the ground, no words came out of his mouth when he tried to speak. His brain couldn't comprehend what he had just heard. His daughter had asked him to kill her, did she think he was such a cruel person.
Just when that thought came in his head, he saw the memories of Hinata crying and how he was the cause of it in the past and how after his wife had died he never once consoled Hinata, nor be there for any of her special moments in life be it her first day of academy or the day of her graduation.
That's when it dawned on him; he had pushed his daughter far away from his reach and had been so cold towards her that she would think her father would not be fazed by ending her life.
"H-Hinata why are you talking like that" Hiashi asked
"O-Otou-sama I s-saw how-w you looked at me-e after the spar, I'm a dis-appointment to-o y-you and the c-clan, I-I can't beat Hanabi-chan, my one motivation in this w-world is forever-r out of m-yy reach-h" Hinata replied
"What motivation Hinata" dreading to hear what her daughter couldn't reach.
"N-Naruto-kun, he is my motivation-n, I always believed that I would grow strong enough to walk beside him and tell him my feelings for him but now I don't even have that chance. O-Otou-sama I'm tired of everything, the ridicule being the disappointment of clan and fearing for a life without Naruto-kun, please kill me" Hinata said crying without any stutter during the last part.
Hinata didn't know what came over her she had just told about her feelings towards Naruto in front of her father; she didn't if it was the stress from the constant failures in her life or the thought of losing Naruto forever from her life.
As she finished talking she felt exhaustion take over her as she hadn't eaten since yesterday afternoon and soon feel forward with blackness taking over her and the last thing she saw was her father running towards her.
Hiashi couldn't take it anymore he ran towards Hinata and hugged her all the while apologizing to her for his cold treatment towards her.
When he looked at Hinata and saw that she had exhausted herself and had fallen asleep in his arms. He carried her to her room and laid her on her bed.
"Rest my daughter I will bring your happiness back if it's the last thing I do" Hiashi whispered in Hinata's ear.
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Hiashi came out of Hinata's room and entered the clan's garden and sat down, he couldn't believe that he had caused his daughter this much misery in her life at the same time he couldn't believe that his daughter had fallen for the village jhinchuriki and was devastated by hearing the announcement of his engagement.
He knew of the crush his daughter had for Naruto but always thought that it would fade away after sometime. It was kind of his fault as even he could understand why his daughter had fallen for the boy, with the boy's never say die attitude.
Now he had to make sure of his daughter's safety, as he knew that his daughter might be lost to him if he didn't act now and he had to think of something to help his daughter.
It had been a few hours since Hiashi had left Hinata's room, as Hiashi was thinking one of the branch members came running towards him and said in a panic stricken voice
"Hiashi-sama, Hinata-sama is not waking up. One of the servants went to her room to give her some food but when she tried to wake her up Hinata-sama wasn't responding, the branch members have taken her to the hospital"
For the first time after his wife died Hiashi felt fear, fear at losing his daughter. He ran towards the hospital to see his daughter.
Hiashi reached the hospital and went to reception and asked
"In which room Hinata Hyuga is getting treated?"
"Hyuga-sama, Lady Hinata is being treated in room 404"
As soon as he heard it he made a beeline towards the said room, as he reached the room he saw Ko Hyuga standing outside the room.
Hiashi saw the doctor coming out of Hinata's room and went towards them.
"Doctor what's wrong with my daughter?" Hiashi asked with concern in his voice
Both Ko and the doctor were surprised to hear this much emotion in Hiashi's voice.
"I'm afraid it isn't good news Hyuga-sama, your daughter is in a mental coma, it's almost as if she has lost her will to live. Physically she is fine I can't help too much here but my advice would be to have Tsunade-sama to check her once"
After hearing the doctor Hiashi asked Ko to get an appointment with the hokage for a meeting for he needed to talk to her for all the problems.
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So how was the chapter and for people thinking about Hiashi changing his attitude in minutes. It happens people parents cannot comprehend when their child dies but if child asks its parent to kill him it's a whole new story.
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Till next time
Ja Ne