Naruto sat in a stunned silence. Lisa and Shibi smiled, Shino adjusted his glasses with a smirk.
On the table in between the two parties sat several documents and a scroll. Both are life changing in there own way.
"You don't have to accept, think about it first. We want you to be happy," Lisa said.
Naruto nodded. She stared in silence at the family in front of her. Tears came to her eyes as she smiled. "I don't need to think about it! I accept!"
Shibi hummed, "All we need is your signature, everything else will be taken care of."
The documents were swiftly signed. Naruto stood and bypassed the table. She was enveloped in a hug by the family.
Naruto sobbed. "I-I have a family now!"
Lisa started tearing up herself. She pat the little girl's head. The adoption papers now said that this was her daughter.
"Now that you're my sister, I think I'll call you little sis'," Shino said.
Naruto laughed in between sobs. She looked to Lisa and Shibi, "Does this mean I can call you mom and dad?"
The apartment looked weird empty of her things. Regardless Naruto smiled and locked the door. It wasn't like she had many things to bring to her new home in the first place. The thought brought a smile to her face.
The landlord took the keys with a scowl and quickly shooed her out. Naruto laughed and stuck her tongue out at him. Before she could see his reaction she turned and ran to where Shino was waiting. She dragged him to another street and stopped to catch her adjusted his glasses, "That was unnecessary. Anyways, we need to go home and set up your room."
Shino's words made Naruto tingle with excitement. "Yes," she shouted, "Let's go right away!"
Once again Naruto dragged Shino behind her. This time their destination is the Aburame main household.
Entering Naruto's room they saw Shibi and Lisa setting up a bed frame.
"Hello," Naruto smiled, "Mom and Dad."
The terms were still foreign to her tongue and she was slightly uncomfortable saying them. Lisa and Shibi nodded in acknowledgement.
"We're almost done here. Why don't you and Shino go play outside?"
Iruka glared at the little girl. Around her several kids whispered to each other and giggled. Naruto herself stared at the ground with a blush.
"Care to explain?" Iruka said. He hushed the other kids and gestured for her to speak.
"I-uh, it was an accident?" Naruto questioned, to herself and Iruka.
"She bought the paint this morning," Shino noted. Several kids giggled.
"Shino, siblings shouldn't ratt each other out!"
"On the contrary, I heard that is exactly what siblings do," Shino said while adjusting his glasses.
Naruto huffed, "Not nice siblings."
"Alright," Iruka interrupted, "you can get back to that later, right now Naruto has an essay to write and detention after school."
Everyone in the class laughed at her and she sat with a pout.
Coating Iruka's desk was green paint.
Toki clapped as Naruto held out a knife she made. It was done with great detail, one she could not have attained with one arm, not without her blacksmithing arm. It stood ramrod straight and it's grip could be adjusted with a small use of chakra. It only had one direction and that was forward and slightly down. It was hooked up to a metal socket which in turn was connected to a vest that helped her balance.
"You've been improving, keep it up," Toki said with a smile.
"I will," Naruto grinned.
"So, I've heard someone got adopted"
"Yup!" Naruto beamed.
"Someone got adopted? Who?" Kira said as he popped his head into the room.
Toki glared, "I know you can hear us through that wall. You know perfectly well who's getting adopted."
"Yeah, I know. I was just testing you," Kira defensively said. He crossed his arms over his chest and turned around. "Congratulations."
"Thanks," Naruto said.
"So you've been getting these bruises from walking into doors?" Sasuke asked skeptically. The bruises he mentioned are mostly on Naruto's hands.
Naruto nodded. A blush slowly crept across her face.
"Yeah, I'm not buying that."
"I'm serious!" Naruto said.
"Still not buying it."
"But I am!"
"Okay, what really happened?" Sasuke stared her down.
She squirmed and answered with a mumble.
"Speak up, I couldn't hear you."
"I got them while forging a knife."
"Oh," Sasuke looked confused, "Why hide that?"
"I want to be a good blacksmith, how can I show my failure so openly."
Sasuke thought for a moment. He came up with a solution. "Don't hide it then. Most people know that you can't instantly be good at something. Those bruises will show that you work hard to get better."
Naruto looked surprised, "I've never thought about it that way."
Sasuke smirked, "Of course you haven't."
"Hey!"
"Congratulations."
"For what?"
"You know what."
Sasuke stood from his seat on the swing. He walked forward a couple steps before turning to Naruto. "I have to get to my appointment, see ya later."
"You too," Naruto said as she also got up.
"You let the Aburame adopt the jinchuriki? The other clans will surely raise a fuss over this in the next meeting."
"I know. It was a necessary move that they will understand when I explain," the third hokage said. A white ring puffed out of his mouth. "She will be much more happy this way."
"Alright. You're the Hokage."
The hokage placed the pipe back into his mouth. His office was dimmed as he prepared to leave for the night. The other person in the room disappeared in a shunshin.
The hokage shook his head, "That Kakashi, always worrying. That incident must have scared him a little."
Naruto's first nights in the Aburame household were exciting for her. She ate dinner with her new family then got tucked into bed and kissed on the forehead goodnight. Lisa and Shibi made such a welcoming atmosphere and Shino helped by showing her around, not just the house, but the Aburame compound. She felt safe here.
This is what a family is. She could get used to this.
Her dreams that night were extremely pleasant.
Despite this chapter being short, extremely short, it was actually written fairly easily and I am happy with it. Now that I have this out of the way, I am going to skip to when Naruto is eleven, in the next chapter.
Thanks to those that follow, favorite and review! Just know that when I looked at my story and saw how many people read this it made me motivated to put this chapter out