Chapter 9: The Engagement
This is fic is loosely inspired after reading "councils fooly" 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 Itachi would still be alive.
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The sun had started to rise and was starting to wake up the people of Konoha, the day held a promise of some peace between two villages, for today was the day that the treaty between Konoha and Suna would be officially signed and today was the day the lives of two shinobi would forever be linked together for the rest of their lives.
The said shinobi couples were sleeping peacefully in their house and dreaming about their respective obsessions that is one was dreaming about owning battle fans of different size and shapes with a huge collection of knitted dolls whereas the other was dreaming about a lifetime supply of free ramen from Ichiraku's and a swimming pool filled with ramen, just before they could indulge a bit more in their dreams they were disturbed by the loud knock on the main door.
Temari woke up cursing the one who disturbed her sleep and made her way to answer the door, as she came down and near the door she could see that Naruto had already beat her there and was talking with Shizune, as she neared she could pick up some of the conversation that was going on.
"Nee-chan, why do I have to go shopping this early in the morning"
"Because it's your engagement and you need to pick out a ring for Temari and I'm here to help you."
"But I don't want to spend time doing that when I could be training."
"Naruto, don't be so difficult just get ready and we'll go and finish this soon or do you prefer having Tsunade-sama accompany you."
Just hearing his kaa-Chan's name Naruto paled remembering his last shopping experience with his mother when they went to pick new wardrobe for him, he ran to his room shouting he'll be ready in 5 minutes.
"Ohayo Shizune-san" Temari greeted
"Ohayo Temari-san, sorry for disturbing you but I needed to take Naruto out for some shopping and inform you that the engagement will take place in the hokage tower at 11."
"Arigato Shizune-san, I'll be there with my brothers."
"Temari-san aren't your brothers staying with you I haven't seen them for the past couple of days."
"No they are staying at the guest house along with my sensei saying that they will just get in the way of me and Naruto bonding with each other." Temari shrugged.
Not a second late Naruto came rushing towards Shizune wearing a black t-shirt and brown shorts; he stopped seeing Temari talking with Shizune.
"Temari-chan I have to go shopping with nee-chan, will you be fine coming alone to the hokage tower alone."
'Temari-chan ha, nice at least there is still some hope for both of them' thought Shizune.
"It's fine Naruto, I won't be coming to the tower alone my sensei and brothers will accompany me." Temari replied
"Ok then nee-chan let's go."
Naruto and Shizune made their way out of the house towards the marketing district.
Temari looked once again at the watch and it showed the time as 8:30, she decided to get ready and go the guest house where her brothers were staying.
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Tsunade was humming happily as she made her way towards the hokage tower, she couldn't wait for her sons engagement ceremony, not many people knew but Tsunade enjoyed planning these kind of events and shopping.
Tsunade had sent the invitation for all the clan heads and the Naruto's classmates to attend the engagement and she also planned on rearranging the teams to improve the genin's skill level.
She reached the tower and sent summons to all the jonin Sensei's of Konoha 12 along with a few more Jonin's.
20 minutes later all the required Jonin's came to the office and waited for the Hokage to start.
"I have called you here to announce that I'm reshuffling the current rookie teams along with Team Gai, as you all know the current batch of genin's are some of the best genin's we've had but the current batch also holds some subpar genin compared to our village's standard."
"The results of the Chunin exams are more than proof of that, there wasn't a single kunoichi of our village in the finals, I saw the match feeds of the preliminary matches and I was very disappointed in the skill level of our kunoichi." Tsunade continued as she addressed the jonin's present.
"Hokage-sama not all of them are subpar some are highly skilled." Kurenai said to the Hokage
"I know what you are referring to and I will agree some are skilled but the problem is they are skilled in one particular shinobi art or none at all, shinobi or kunoichi need to be adaptable to the changes in the situations around them none of the kunoichi showed that skill."
The jonin sensei's winced at the remark as they knew the Hokage was right neither of the teams kunoichi had a roundabout skill.
"So seeing this I have decided to change the formations of the team and also assign some additional sensei's to the teams."
The Jonin's present there were shocked with this news, it was a blow to their pride as their team's sensei.
"What I'm doing is for the benefit of your students and I'm not criticizing your teaching capabilities."
"The new teams will be as follows Team 7 will now have Uchiha Sasuke, Higurashi Tenten and Nara Shikamaru. Team 8 will have Hyuga Hinata, Aburame Shino and Uzumaki Naruto and before you argue I'll explain why the team formation has been done in this way at the end of the announcement." Tsunade said hearing the gasp and seeing the signs of protest from Kakashi.
"Team 9 will have Inuzuka Kiba, Yamanaka Ino and Hyuga Neji. Team 10 will have Akimichi Choji, Haruno Sakura and Rock Lee, as for the new sensei's.
Team7 will have Hatake Kakashi and Genma; Team 8 will have Yuhi Kurenai and Mitarashi Anko; Team 9 will have Sarutobi Asuma and Uzuki Yugao; Team 10 will have Gai and Yamato."
"Now any of you have anything to say please speak and clear it now." Tsunade said and waited for anyone to speak.
"Hokage-Sama I would like you to reconsider your opinion on shifting Naruto from the current team to team 8, he's an mid to close range fighter and more importantly a Ninjutsu specialist which is a talent I can bring out best." Kakashi stated.
"You do make a god point Kakashi but please inform me what all Ninjutsu you have taught him and brought out the particular talent n him." Tsunade questioned with a serious expression.
Kakashi flinched at this and tried to give his explanation "Hokage-Sama I still haven't had the time to teach him anything other than Tree walking to improve his chakra control."
The other jonins were shocked from the news that Kakashi only had taught tree climbing exercise to Naruto and let him enter the chunin exams.
"No time you say, what about the month long period during the chunin exams and I know for a fact you didn't help him when he asked for you, since you were busy teaching the uchiha and left him with an instructor." Tsuande said with an unnatural calmness in her voice.
"Hokage-Sama Sasuke needed the extra training as he was facing Gaara." Kakashi justified his choice
"Oh how did that work out for him and who was the one who defeated Gaara." Tsunade shot back.
Kakashi stood silently as he was caught off guard.
"I'll tell you the reason why I have rearranged the teams like it is, for team 7 Uchiha Sasuke is obvious I've included Tenten because she only has skills in weapons but needs to learn more in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu where Kakshi can help them both and Genma can help her in tactics and assassination skills and Shikamaru is include as he can support them from long range and this gives him more scope to learn Other type of Ninjutsu apart from his clan jutsu's."
Hearing this all the Jonin's nodded seeing the logic of such a team.
"For team 8, Uzumaki Naruto as his skills in genjutsu is nil which can be helped by Kurenai and Anko can help him in his Ninjutsu and Taijutsu. Aburame Shino same as Naruto only he will have more of Anko's help in dodging as his clan style need him to be stationary while attacking his opponents as for Hinata she needs some other skills apart from her Jyuken as some long range fighters might be able to defeat her hence Anko will be helpful for her by teaching dodging and poison's as Hinata has shown great skill in Helaing salves and Kurenai is already working with her and knows her best, it will be helpful for all the members to expand their skills in different fields."
Kurenai just smiled hearing the reason even though she was sad at losing Kiba from her team she understood the Hokage's reasoning.
"The same goes for Team 9 with Asuma can teach ninjutsu and tatics to the team and Yugao can help Ino to improve her skills and for Kiba he will lose his brashness and learn some tatics by competing with Neji and Neji, the same case as Hinata needs more skills apart from jyuken."
"Team 10 will have Gai who will help the team by increasing their skill level in taijutsu as Sakura doesn't have a defined style and Choji relies heavily on his clan's technique and Yamato will help their overall skill development in Ninjutsu and tactics, Rock lee is apprenticed under Gai." Tsunade finished.
"Hokage-sama, I wish to know why the recommendation for the promotion of Nara Shikamaru to chunin was not considered." asked Asuma
Tsunade looked impassive hearing this
"I saw the recommendation of all the jonin's and the match feed but I could only see his brains working there, he didn't show any more of his other skills required in a battle, you cannot win with only your brain you need more than just tatics agreed a leader needs to have a level head during mission but is also required to demonstrate his team that he is worthy of leading them."
Asuma shook his head and replied "Hokage-sama with his analytical skills he can easily lead a team and successfully bring back the squad alive."
Tsunade just sighed and continued
"Yes, he can bring a squad back alive but what will happen when the mission can't be abandoned and his team is overwhelmed by opponents, if he doesn't have the necessary skills to fight the opponent, a member from the squad is required to protect him all the time to buy time for him to come up with a tactic, which can prove to be quiet a handicap for the rest of the squad, so I haven't given him the promotion."
Asuma conceded hearing the reasoning.
Tsunade dismissed the Jonin's and got ready to make her way to the hall to attend her Son's engagement.
Kurenai held a happy smile on her face as she was making her way back to her house; she was blocked by an equally happy Anko who was smiling like she had won a free pass for an all you can eat dango.
"So Kurenai you happy with the changes made by the Hokage-Sama to your squad?" asked Anko.
"Hai Anko, Hinata and Shino I know most of their skills,its just that it will take some time to integrate Naruto into the team and bring a sense a team dynamics." replied Kurenai
"Don't worry I will make the sure the gaki has no problems with the new team since his soon to be wife is apprenticed under me and will be helping the team from time to time."Anko said gleefully.
"That just creates new problem to our team."
"What do you mean?" asked a confused Anko
"Hinata" replied Kurenai in a sad tone.
Anko just smiled remembering the girl's introduction yesterday and how much work was to be done to help the girl.
"Oh don't worry about it; I'll make everything go smoothly with our team." Anko replied as she smirked and thought about all the fun she could have teasing the trio.
"Come on let's go and get some dango" Shouted Anko as she ran towards the nearest dango shop.
Kurenai sighed as she imagined having both Naruto and Anko to work together; she just sighed and followed her friend towards the dango shop.
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Hokage Tower:
It was around 10 30 as Naruto came to the tower along with Shizune, his shopping session had passed pleasantly as his sister had helped him buy the necessary clothes and for the ring it was pre-ordered and was retrieved today.
When Naruto entered the Hokage chamber he was greeted to the sight of his mother grabbed in official hokage robes with thewhite coat with red flames, he could see the irritation on his mothers face as she didn't like wearing the official robes.
"Hey kaa-chan you look really nice in these robes" Naruto said loudly to his mother's irritation.
Tsunade turned to see her son and a smile appeared on her face seeing him wear the kimono which she had bought him and to her he looked handsome.
"Even my little male storm looks very handsome in his kimono." Tsunade said giving Naruto a hug, she straightening his kimono at a few places and tried to flatten his spiky hair with her hand.
Naruto just blushed at the compliment and scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment. Naruto was wearing an Ocean blue kimono with Uzumaki spirals on them along with the Senju symbol on his left arm.
"So is the ceremony going to take place here?"Questioned Naruto
"No, come on I will show you the way to the ceremony hall." said Tsunade as she made her way towards the hall.
As they were going Tsunade asked "So did you buy all the required things?"
"Hai, nee-chan helped me buy all the necessary items and I sealed them inside the scroll."
As the trio entered the ceremony hall they could see all the required parties were already present. Inside the hall were all the clan heads of Konoha and the elders of Konoha.
On the other side of the hall were the Suna envoy along with Temari and her brothers, Naruto once again blushed seeing let out a small chuckle seeing Naruto's reaction to Temari while Tsunade just shook her head.
Temari was wearing a black kimono with silver lightning linings near her legs, the kimono hugged her figure tightly and it showed of all the natural curves she possessed.
When Temari saw Naruto gawking at her she couldn't help as a small blush crept over her face. The Hokage, Shizune and Naruto made their way towards the stage which set for them.
Once Naruto came up the stage soon Temari followed him onto the stage along with Tsunade.
Tsunade cleared her throat once to get attention of everyone present in the room. Once everyone's attention was gained she asked both Naruto and Temari to give each other rings officially declaring the engagement between the two.
Temari was shocked whn she saw the ring that Naruto had bought for her, the ring had an princess cut diamond. The cermony was completed quickly and lunch was served to the all the guest.
After which the document pertaining the treaty between the two villages was signed by the Hokage and Baki as he was appointed as the acting Kage till a new Kage was chosen.
Once all the formalities were completed Naruto took Temari to introduce her to his friends.
As Naruto was about to search for his friends Hyuga Hiashi came near him along with Hinata. Hiashi wore an elegant gray Kimono with the Hyuga symbol on his back whereas Hinata wore a lavender colored kimono with the Hyuga symbol on her left arm.
"Congratulations on your engagement Uzumaki-san."Hiashi greeted Naruto
"Arigato Hyuga-sama"Naruto replied as he gave a small bow to the clan head. When he looked up he saw Hinata and a smile formed on his face.
"Oi Hinata-chan there you are I was about to look for you and all of our friends, I wanted to introduce to Temari." Naruto said as excitedly.
"Temai this is Hinat-chan one of my friends from Academy."Naruto introduced Hinata to Temari.
Hinata blushed at the affectionate suffix that Naruto had used with her name.
"Congratulations on your engagement Naruto-kun, Temari-san" wished Hinata with a hint of sadness and jealousy mixed in her voice.
"Arigato Hinata-chan."Naruto replied with some embrassment.
"Arigato Hinata-san." Temari replied as she sized up the girl who was behind Naruto's heart.
"It's an honour to meet you Hyuga-Sama." Temari bowed slightly to Hiashi and Hiashi greeted her with a nod of approval.
Temari saw that Hinata was very shy and needed a lot of work if she wanted any chance of winning Naruto's affection.
"Hyuga-Sama we need to take our leave we stil have people to greet." Temari excused gherself and Naruto politely.
Naruto and Temari moved through the hall as Naruto started to introduce his classmates Temari.
Temari observed that Nauto never used the term friend to any of his classmates apart from Hinata, Shikamaru and Choji.
She did not like Kiba and Ino, Kiba was obviously jealous of Naruto but Naruto was too dense to notice it and she knew about Ino's fangirl episode to stay clear of her.
Naruto at last came near his teammates "Temari this is Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke my teammates."
"It's nice to finally meet you Temari-san" Sakura greeted with a smile on her face.
"Same here Sakura-san" Teamri greeted Sakura politely.
"Temari I wanted to ask know why did your village not pick me as the groom." Sasuke asked bluntly.
The question got Naruto's temper to rise up and Sakura was shocked.
Temari was pissed at the arrogance of the Uchiha and the blatant disrespect he showed towards her, she saw that Naruto's temper was rising and was about to shout at the Uchiha for his remark; she turned towards Naruto placed a hand on his shoulder to calm him and shook her head telling him to stop.
"Uchiha-san my brother Gaara was the one who picked Naruto as the groom as for why he didn't pick you, he said he wanted someone strong to protect me and that apparently wasn't you as you were unable to defeat him during the battle." Temari replied smoothly with a mocking tone.
Naruto busted out laughing while the Uchiha seethed in anger ans activated his sharingan on rfelex. And was about to attack temari when a tendril of sand wrapped around his arm and started to squeeze his arm. Sasuke turned his head and saw that Gaara as standing behinf him with a scowl on his face.
"Uchiha it would be best if you leave this function now beracuse if you don't I won't be responsible for your death." Gaara said in a tone with anger clear in his voice.
Everyone had stopped talking and turned towards the group when they felt killing intent in the room.
Sasuke controlled his anger as he saw everyone's attention was focused on him.
"Hnn" Sasuke grunted as he left the celebration.
"Gaara that was awesome!" Naruto declared loudly as he ran at Gaara to give him a high five but was blocked by Gaara's sand.
Temaei just giggled at her fiance's antics.
The afternoon went on smoothly for the couple as they greeted everyone present.
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