Chapter 22: Passing Judgment
As Hiashi and Naruto entered the council chambers they noticed that both sides of the council were assembled as was the Hokage and his advisors, Hiashi gave the Hokage a short bow and took his seat next to the other clan heads.
Naruto walked into the middle of the room gave a short bow, "My presence as requested Hokage-sama, Honorable advisors, esteemed clan heads." Naruto said completely ignoring the civilian side.
This served to irk several of them, and one man decided to call Naruto out. "Demon you should show us the civilian council some respect seeing how you are under our jurisdiction."
"And that is where you are wrong councilor I am not under your jurisdiction," Naruto said nonchalantly.
The same man than yelled out, "And what would a worthless demon…
"ENOUGH," The Hokage yelled out. "I will not have you blatantly insulting Naruto in my presence, and if you do it again councilor I will execute you personally on the spot, do you understand."
The man nodded while trying to keep control of his bowels from releasing, due to the generous amount of killing intent the Hokage was directing toward him.
"And by the way councilor Naruto is correct when he says he is not under your jurisdiction, while yes because the Senju have no active clan head than Naruto would have been under your authority… but as of 3 years ago Naruto's guardianship has been officially transferred over to the Hyuga's, thus making him an official member of the Hyuga clan so he falls under the jurisdiction of the Shinobi council."
A couple members of the civilian council grumbled at this news that they were clearly and obviously not informed about. Another male from the council than said arrogantly, "Regardless of his status he still broke the law and now he must be punished for it."
Hiashi with a raised eyebrow asked, "And pray tell what law did Naruto break?"
It was Sakiri Haruno that spoke next, "We warned the council 3 years ago, and you didn't listen to us now you can see what happened. This boy corrupted Itachi Uchiha and convinced him to slaughter his own clan for the boy's amusement. And when the boy found out that the great Sasuke Uchiha was able to survive his brothers attack on him, he made another attempt on his life today and had Sasuke not been as strong as he was he would have died from the uncalled for attack on his person."
Naruto narrowed his eyes and asked, "And what is your opinion of Itachi Uchiha councilor?"
"He was one of our strongest and skilled ninja, and don't forget he was amazingly charming, charismatic and handsome too, he would have made a great suitor to my daughter… HAD YOU NOT CORRUPTED HIM." The pink haired councilor said with anger in her voice.
Nobody expected what happened next when Tsume starting laughing out-loud and smacking her hand on the table, even Hiashi was fighting back a smile.
Fighting back her laughter Tsume said, "Are we talking about the same Itachi Uchiha…. Because while you are correct about how he was strong and skilled, he was anything but charming and charismatic. A block of wood has more emotion than the boy did. And a suitor for your daughter don't make me laugh Haruno, your obsession with marrying into a clan is no secret to anybody, 20 something years ago you failed and if your daughter is anything like you than so will she."
Ever since the academy Tsume and Sakiri had bad blood between them, Sakiri would always mock Tsume for being a stupid stinking mutt who should just go chase a cat, while Tsume would just throw her around during spars while calling her a banshee.
The pink haired councilor stood up for her seat and screeched out much to the displeasure of everybody's ears, "AND WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO SAY MY DAUGHTER HAS NO CHANCE, SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL AND INTELLIGENT GIRL THAT IS AN ANGEL!"
This time it was Naruto's turn to chuckle though he tried to hide it, too bad for him Sakiri had heard him. "WHAT WAS THAT BOY!" she screeched out.
With a slight smirk Naruto said, "Nothing councilor just noticing the similarities between you and your daughter, I'll give her that she has book smarts, but as for her looks and personality she is at most another fan-girl."
Fuming Sakiri clenched her fist and said, "THIS MEETING IS NOT ABOUT MY DAUGHTER THIS IS YOUR TRIAL! SO SHUT UP!"
Shaking his head slightly while still smirking Naruto said, "As you wish councilor, before I asked her what she thought of Itachi Uchiha. She told us that he was one of our strongest and most talented ninja among that some absurd statements," a couple of members of both sides of the council snickered slightly at that jab. "So tell me Miss Haruno how would I a lowly and worthless demon as some of you might call me be able to corrupt somebody as great and mighty as him?"
There was no response from the pink haired Haruno.
"An even if I were to cast a genjutsu on him, would his sharingan eyes not be able to easily to counter it. The fact remains that due to my special problem I have absolutely no talent in any genjutsu what so ever, so for me to cast one strong enough to even come close to beating the sharingan is just an absurd thought. And your lack of proof that I was in any way involved in the Uchiha massacre makes me wonder what this case is based on if not just pure rumor and speculation."
The Hokage nodded at this, "He is correct Haruno-san, and I can personally insure you Naruto-kun had no hand in the Uchiha massacre so that charge is dropped."
Seeing Naruto shrug pissed off Sakiri seeing that he was making it impossible to pin the Uchiha massacre on him, so she said, "Fine we accept you didn't corrupt Itachi, but your attack on Sasuke Uchiha is completely unforgiveable. From what my daughter told me he had broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder."
Naruto chuckled and asked, "So you went completely by what your daughter told you? And pray tell what else she told you?"
Sakiri answred in a proud tone, "And why not believe what my daughter says, she is a sweet angel and wouldn't lie, she told me you lowly attacked Sasuke behind his back and only beat him cause you caught him off guard with your cheap tactics."
Naruto shook his head at this womens ignorance and said, "Well I have to regrettably inform you that clearly your daughter lied to you in order to spite me. Had you gotten your information from a legit source…. Like Iruka-Sensei you would have found out that not only was it Sasuke that broke the rules and injured another student first, but also my fight with Sasuke was actually authorized."
Sakiri was mad now, not only could she not punish the boy. But he had embarrassed her and her daughter in front of the council.
Sarutobi was shaking his head in disappointment; he knew he should have never assembled the council for this farce of a trial. But he let his sense of justice overcome his sense of reasoning, he knew the trial was absurd the moment the council told him about the charges and he knew Naruto would have never had done any of those things….. Sarutobi sighed….. "The things I'll do to get out of doing paperwork." He thought to himself.
Sakiri knew she was beat she refused give the demon the pleasure of knowing he had defeated her. But sadly for her the boy had other plans.
"Now I personally won't press any charges for you wasting my time and falsely accusing me, but let it serve as a warning that unless you have substantial evidence. Try not to waste everybody's time some of the more important members of the council have better things to do than hear the rest of you ramble." Naruto said.
"What are you talking about boy!" one of the civilians asked while gritting his teeth.
With a mischievous smile Naruto answered, "I don't know about you but by forcing Hokage-sama and the other clan heads to be here you are risking the cities safety and wellbeing, Hokage-sama specifically has more important things to do like….. Paperwork," giving the old Hokage a slight wink who gave a slight grimace back at Naruto.
Than with a smile Naruto asked, "Since this trial is over might I be dismissed Hokage-sama, the bakery closes in an hour and I would like to pick up a few cinnamon buns for Hinata-hime."
Sakiri looked at the boy with slight loathing as he left the room after a nod from the Hokage, "She hated him not only because of the demon that he was, but also how he reminded her of how the other clan heads had acted toward her when she was younger. Sakura had told her on the first day that both Sasuke and Naruto were in her class so she told her to seduce if possibly both of them because they both had potential to become powerful, rich and influential. She fantasied about having both of them buying and showering Sakura and her with gifts and money while fighting over Sakura for her love…
Sadly for her that never happened the next day Sakura informed her that she wasn't the only one fighting for their attention because there were rows and rows of fan-girls also trying the same as her, and even than Sasuke showed no interest to any of the girls and Naruto seemed to only have eyes for one girl and that was Hinata Hyuga….
20 something years ago it was Hitomi that held the attention of all the boys ranging from Hiashi to Fugaku, and now Hinata was already in a relationship with the demon boy, So Sakiri told Sakura to divert all her attention to Sasuke and attempt to ridicule Naruto as often as possible as to let Sasuke see she was loyal to him.
But there was a thought that scared Sakiri how she hoped that Sasuke had no interest toward that paled eyed girl, and hoped that Sasuke would come to his senses and realize that Sakura was the one meant for him. Sakiri never realized how wrong she was, Sasuke wanted Hinata for himself for many reasons one being that it was completely destroy Naruto and the second was with all the talk about repopulating his clan Hinata was the perfect candidate to start she was beautiful, strong and influential. This made him believe that together they would breed powerful children that could bring the Uchiha's to higher levels of fame and power.
Too bad for him Hinata would never have any feelings for him what so ever, for she had already found the man of her dreams and even if she had to share with a few others she was beyond happy. And Hinata was eternally satisfied with just being around and holding onto Naruto,
But over the next year Hinata found out that she liked to experiment a little and act on her heart and not her mind sometimes, it was in the gardens when she had first mustered up the courage to go beyond just their usual interactions of hugging with each other.
They both sat on a blanket Naruto had laid out and were enjoy a nice little picnic after training. As usual Naruto was charming as ever always complimenting her and feeding her tiny pieces of a cinnamon bun that he delicately ripped off of. After he had refilled her cup with more tea Hinata said, "Thank you Naruto-kun."
With one of his loving smiles he just answered, "Anything for you Hinata-hime."
It was at this moment her heart swooned and purely fueled by instinct she leaned over to him and softly and innocently kissed him on his cheek, she had often seen Anko do it. But up until now she really felt no immediate desire to do it herself.
They both turned red and turned slightly away from each other, often shyly stealing a glance of one another. Naruto finally worked up the courage to crawl over toward Hinata and sat directly next to her, Hinata being lost in her own little world never noticed it and it wasn't until Naruto had placed his hand around her shoulders did she snap out of it.
She turned her head to look over at him just as he was leaning toward her so he could return her kiss on the cheek, not calculating that she would turn her head their lips collided softly for a brief second as both of their eyes widened in surprise and a twinge of enjoyment shot through both their bodies. Though neither of them wanted to pull away they did so reflexively. Hinata put her hand to her lips and giggled slightly while blushing like mad, and Naruto just stood up and pretended to pat some dust off his knees while trying to hide his own blush.
That slight flame had been lit inside Hinata and now she could see why Anko kissed him on the cheek so often, it was an amazing feel of love and ecstasy it was a high Hinata was now quite fond of.
So she stood up and elegantly walked over to Naruto and took his hand, which served to catch his attention as he turned to face her she grabbed his other hand as the too gazed into each other's souls through each other's eyes. While Naruto saw compassion and love in her eyes, Hinata saw safety and kindness in his.
Slowly the two leaned in on each other again, with a slightly glazed look on their eyes their lips once again touched innocently, this time remaining together for a tad longer than the first. When their lips separated Hinata also released one of Naruto's hands so she could bring her own to her reddening cheeks, she slowly dragged Naruto around the garden while smiling in joy and blushing.
That was until she worked up the courage and repeated the whole process of daintily kissing each time slightly longer, than dragging Naruto around the garden till she felt her blush go down enough where she wouldn't look like a tomato.
Little did those two know they were being watched by a giggling Hitomi Hyuga who said quietly to herself, "Hmm I think it's time for that 'talk'…. Now where's Anko." Hitomi said while her giggles turned to mischievous ones.
A couple of days later
Hiashi was sitting through one of the most unorthodox versions of the 'talk' he had ever heard of or seen, it didn't help that both his wife and Anko had bought and assortment of objects to help explain some of the more private parts of the human anatomy. They both also seemed to have a joint mission of seeing how many shades of red they could get Naruto and Hinata to turn before their little lesson was over.
It wasn't hard to make either of them blush especially when the first thing Hitomi had said was, "When and man and women love each other very much they start doing very personal things with each other, though It might start with just holding hands and hugging. If they truly love each other they begin doing things like 'kissing.'" For reasons unknown to Hiashi his wife seemed to put a lot of emphasis on the word kissing.
And for whatever reason it had achieved what Hitomi wanted causing them both to flare red and awkwardly steal glances toward each other, while bashfully smiling toward one another.
When it finally got to the part where the two demonstrated with a 3d model of the female anatomy and one of Hitomi's toys, Hinata was dwelling somewhere between trying to keep conscious and fainting from embarrassment. It wasn't any better on Naruto's part for Anko had suggested her body be used as a demonstration but that plan was quickly shot down by Hitomi, saying how neither of them was actually ready for it yet.
On continued the most awkward two hours of both Hinata and Naruto's life, while Naruto did read about both the male and female anatomies also the concept of sex. It was horrendously embarrassing when somebody actually explained it in such depth to you.
By the time they were done both Naruto and Hinata needed a moment to digest all the information they had acquired today, they both exited Hiashi's office and sighed out loud, for they were both mentally drained.
Hinata suggested they go to the gardens and just lay down and think for a moment, Naruto instantly agreed but was stopped by Anko. With a sneaky looking grin she asked Hinata.
"Hey Princess you mind me and Naruto-kun talk for a minute in private?"
Hinata shook her head and said, "He's kind of your boyfriend too Anko-chan, I would be selfish to keep him all to myself wouldn't I. I'll be in the gardens Naruto-kun, and Anko-chan when you're done talking you can come join us."
Anko just shook her head and said, "Nah I have a mission to do a bit later."
With that Hinata just gave her a short nod and walked toward the gardens while Anko dragged Naruto into one of the lesser used hallways of the Hyuga compound. Once their Anko pushed Naruto against a wall, wrapped her hands around his neck and roughly mashed her lips against his much to Naruto's surprise.
Naruto's eyes widened even further when he felt Anko press her entire body against his causing him to gasp and open his mouth, much to Anko's delight which allowed her snake like tongue to instantly dash in and divulge in every contour of his mouth.
It wasn't until after a full 2 minutes before Anko pulled away, than moved her head into the crook of Naruto's neck whiling wrapping her arms around Naruto's torso and letting out a soft sight of satisfaction.
"Wow…" Naruto softly said while still having a slightly faraway look in his eyes.
Anko just smirked and said, "I wanted the princess to share her first mouth to mouth kiss with you before I did anything like that, I felt like she deserved it more."
Naruto wrapping his own arms around Anko and drew her closer and said, "I've have kind of been neglecting you haven't I?"
He felt Anko shift slightly in his arms than he said, "But I'm lucky you are strong enough to deal with it and look past it."
Anko just shook her head and said, "You know I'm not into the whole lovely dovey thing, I find all the complimenting and wooing you and Hinata to be kind of weird."
Anko than positioned herself and her face directly in front of Naruto's again and breathed hotly into his face than seductively exhaled out, "I prefer going straight for the down and dirty part."
Once again she mashed her lips against Naruto's who opened his mouth automatically to allow her tongue access inside and it was another minute before she ended their hot make out session in the hallway of people who could easily see through walls.
Just as she was about to detach herself from Naruto's grasp she rubbed her thigh against his growing erection and said, "I think your princess is waiting for you wouldn't want to keep her waiting." Then she turned and skipped down the hallway and out the compound.
Naruto just watched Anko's retreating form while waiting patiently for his erection to die down, it probably wouldn't be proper to walk around the compound with that sticking up.
While waiting he thought about the differences between the way Hinata kissed him and the way Anko would kiss him, Hinata did it more softly and innocently, while Anko just went all in. There would be no way for him to decide which one he liked more because both had their good points, so Naruto just ended up deciding that there was no point in choosing one to be better than the other, because they were both amazing.
When Naruto's erection subsided enough to properly walk through the compound without anybody noticing he headed toward the gardens that he and Hinata would often spend time in.
On his way there he passed by 2 female branch members who just stared at him while walking past him all the while giggling and whispering to each other, little did Naruto know they had seen everything that had transpired and even decided to have their own little lesson on the Anatomy of one Naruto Uzumaki-Senju.
When he reached the garden, Hinata was laying underneath a tree with her hands clasped over her stomach staring up at the clouds above. Walking over silently Naruto laid down next to her softly, Hinata turned her head slightly to look over at Naruto and asked, "What did you two do?"
Naruto just chuckled slightly and said, "Anko-like things."
Hinata's response was a giggle, after having the 'talk' her thoughts of what Naruto meant by Anko-like things had definitely taken a perverted spin.
Little had changed in the academy as the end of the first year had been nearing, it was near this time when the students' scores were first starting to be posted, and to no surprise to anybody and too the disappointment of some Naruto was currently ranked a undisputed number 1 in his year,
Hinata on the other hand was ranked 5th in total and was 3rd highest for females, while Hinata was clearly smarter and more athletic than the other girls and even the boys. What dragged her grades down was her attendance record, as a Hyuga it was sort of a tradition for the Hyuga females to skip out on 2 classes that were taught in the academy, one being etiquettes and the other being seduction. The fact of the matter is that Hinata already had more in-depth etiquette training within the clan and the fact that Hyuga's never ever seduced because clearly it was below them.
Both of them were currently unbeaten in spars even though they didn't win them all, out of the 50 spars in total they had during the year 5 of them had ended in a draw. And those 5 were whenever they matched up against each other
Though they never went at each other at full strength it was still more than enough to wow and amaze their class mates, but it also attracted a lot of unwanted attention for one Naruto's fan-base easily dwarfed Sasuke's because not only did Naruto beat Sasuke in any event the two faced off in whether it be academic or athletic, but also there was the fact that Naruto wasn't a complete block of ice when it came to showing emotions.
While Naruto never returned any signs of romance to them, he at least smiled and said hi or thank you for the compliments to him, while Sasuke on the other hand just grunted or completely ignored you.
And speaking of Sasuke he was Hinata's biggest problems, he would constantly make advances toward Hinata especially when Naruto wasn't around. And she would always deny them, but this just severed to make Sasuke come back the next time with more fervor.
Hinata remembered there was one day when she had to eat lunch without Naruto, because Iruka had asked him for some help after class. So Hinata sat at one of the tables with Ino and Kiba making small talk with them, it was at this moment Sasuke decided to stroll over with his loyal fan-girls following behind. Hinata tried to ignore him as best as she could but Sasuke just didn't know when to give up, first he attempted to sit next to her at the lunch table.
Which prompted Hinata to immediately stand up and take a seat in between Kiba and Ino on the other side so Sasuke wouldn't be able to sit next to her, but all that served to do was allow Sasuke stare across the table at her. And it was 5 whole minutes of awkward eating for the trio before Sasuke said something,
"Hinata I've watched your spars with the other students, and I'm greatly impressed with your skill and strength."
"I appreciate your compliments, Uchiha-san." Hinata said monotony while never taking her eyes off her food.
"I was wondering if you would like to spar with me sometime outside of the academy, as to improve each other's skills and our standing with one another." Sasuke said finishing with a smirk, he knew she wouldn't reject his request. No female would ever dare reject him. So the next words that came out of Hinata's sent Sasuke crashing down to earth.
"I respectfully decline your offer." Hinata said than proceeded to take another bite of her food, all the while never looking up from it.
"WHAT! And why not?" Sasuke forcefully asked.
Swallowing the piece of chicken she just put in her mouth she said, "Because I have no interest in either sparing with you or improving my standing with you."
"How dare she," Sasuke thought to himself. Nobody denied him anything and he was going to have her regardless of what she said. Sasuke reached over and violently swept her bento box off the table causing the contents of it to spill all over the floor, everybody with the exception of Hinata gasped in surprise at this violent outburst.
Sasuke ignore them then attempted to place his hand on-top of Hinata. But just as he made the tiniest of contact with the back of her hand he found that her hand was now gone and he had just palmed the wooden table, and right in between his index and middle finger was a kunai deeply imbedded into the wood.
Hinata daintily wiped her mouth with a handkerchief than stood up and glared at Sasuke, "You forget your station Uchiha….. I am the
Hyuga Heiress and what you did just now was not only assault on my person and my property but also borderline sexual harassment. You can be sure that my father and the Hokage will be hearing about this."
As Hinata turned to leave she heard Sakura screech from behind Sasuke, "What do you mean Sasuke-kun sexual harassed you, he did no such thing right guys." Sakura said as she turned to the other girls hoping for their support all she got was a few quiet murmurs from the almost non-existent Sasuke fan-club.
Hinata turned around and narrowed her eyes at Sakura than said, "Maybe you didn't notice Haruno, but he touched my hand without my consent."
"That's not sexual harassment he merely just grazed your hand." Sakura said while secretly hoping Sasuke would touch her hand.
"Maybe to a commoner like you that was just grazing of hands, but like I said before I am the Hyuga Heiress and my clan would definitely consider that so called graze inappropriate." Hinata responded
"And so what in spars we are always touching one another, so should everybody be charged with harassment?" Sakura finished with a smirk believing she had beaten the Hyuga.
"No, a spar is an authorized fight, but what happened just now was definitely not sanctioned in anyway. So Uchiha next time you attempt something like this again. I will make you dearly regret it."
As Hinata turned around to walk away Sasuke ran over to her and attempted to grab her arm to turn her back towards him, and he would have succeeded had Naruto suddenly appeared out of nowhere and grabbed his wrist, "I would keep your hands to yourself Uchiha, or this time I will do worse than just dislocating your shoulder." Finishing Naruto squeezed Sasuke's wrist with enough force to get his point across than shoved him away.
Hinata turned and hugged Naruto around the waist while rubbing her face against his chest, "Naruto-kun you're done with helping Iruka-sensei?" in a pleased tone completely different tone from the monotone one she had used responding to Sasuke.
With a smile Naruto, "Correct as usual Hina-hime, though next time I might decline Iruka-sensei if he ask me for help. Clearly you can't seem to have a peaceful lunch without certain people bothering you."
Naruto said while sending a glare at the angry Sasuke who was rubbing his slightly bruised wrist.
Turning her head so one side of her face was resting on Naruto's chest Hinata bought her hand up and softly massaged his chest while saying, "I would be most gracious Naruto-kun, though I wished there was some lunch left over for you."
Naruto softly ran his hand across Hinata's cheek and said, "it's okay Hina-hime, we can get something to eat at the bakery later."
Smiling Hinata replied, "Really Naruto-kun!"
He just nodded his head as Hinata began to steer him away from the group.
Sasuke watched as they left toward they usual hang out spot near the forest, "That should be me she's cuddling up too, not that dammed Uzumaki." Sasuke thought to himself as he left to brood on how he would separate the two and make Hinata fall for him instead.
So afterschool Sasuke took off to find some of the civilian council members to see what they could do, as he walked into the market district he noticed a couple of the council members walking together toward the chambers. Sasuke hurried over to them hoping to find some way for them to punish Naruto, but just as he reached them one of the council members said in a not to happy tone,
"Sasuke we were just going to send somebody to look for you, you are wanted at the council chambers it seems that you have pissed off the entire Hyuga clan."
Sasuke clenched his fist in anger he didn't realize that Hinata would actually follow through on her threat, but also he couldn't comprehend the fact that somebody was actually doing something about it.
The Hokage sighed as he watched Sasuke walk in like ran the place, "This boy was in need of some serious discipline." He thought.
Sasuke strolled in and saw that aside from Hiashi being present but also what must have been some of the Hyuga elders sitting beside him. Smirking slightly Sasuke saw this as the perfect chance to make Hinata his. Completely ignoring the rest of the council and the Hokage he just walked over to where Hiashi was sitting and said, "Hyuga-san I have an offer that neither you or your clan can refuse, I request that you allow me to court your daughter and arrange a betrothal contract between us." Sasuke finished with a huge grin knowing nobody was stupid enough to deny the chance of joining with the Uchiha.
And for the second time that day Sasuke was completely blown away when one of the Hyuga elders said, "No such thing will happen boy!"
Sasuke smirked and said, "I don't believe I was talking to you Hyuga I was talking to your leader, so how about it Hyuga-san? Though I demand that you remove this fool's head after our betrothal contract is signed." Pointing at the Hyuga elder that foolishly wanted to deny him.
Hiashi said nothing to Sasuke, as he shifted through a few papers on the table in front of him.
Sasuke's patience grew thin and he sucked his teeth, "Hyuga-san did you not hear me, I'm talking to you!" he all but yelled out.
In a flash Hiashi had smashed the table in front of him with a juken palm and had dashed over and lifted Sasuke up by his collar. With his Byakugan blazing he said to the boy in a cold tone. "Don't you dare suck your teeth at me boy, I am not one of your fan girls. Also it's Hyuga-'sama' to you I can careless if one day you are the Uchiha clan head which you are not yet, and even than your deceased father knew his place and regarded me as such."
Than he threw Sasuke to the floor and took his seat behind the remnants of the destroyed table, Sasuke while massaging his throat slightly, "My apologies Hyuga-sama, now about your daughter's betrothal contract…..
Sasuke tried to say but was cut off by Hiashi, "I don't believe my council member stuttered when he told you that no such thing would happen!"
Sasuke asked with shock apparently, "What! And why not I'm an Uchiha we are elites, only fools would deny an offer like mine."
Hiashi said raising his voice, "Are you implying I'm a fool boy! I truly hope not and as for your offer I can care less for what you Uchiha's want or offer my answer will be no!
Before Sasuke could say anything back, the Hokage said. "That's enough Sasuke we are here to talk about your actions today in the academy. So let us focus on that"
Scowling Sasuke walked toward the middle of the room and crossed his arms in front of him.
Than the Hokage said, "The Hyuga will now present the charges against you."
The same Hyuga elder stood up and said, "Today we were informed by one Uzumaki, Naruto that not only did destroy our heiress's property, but you also made an attack on her person and harassed her on multiple occasions. What do you have to say about this Uchiha.
"WAIT," Sakiri screamed out. "You said Naruto told you, how you know the boy wasn't lying. It is definitely something he would do in his feeble attempts to make himself look better than Sasuke-kun." Ending smugly
"I have the evidence that Naruto wasn't lying, there were many spectators to the altercation. Key witnesses being multiple clan members some of them being clan heirs. Just to name a few there's Kiba Inuzuka, Ino Yamanaka, and Shikamaru Nara." The Hokage answered to Sakiri's displeasure
"I was trying to associate with her, how is that wrong" Sasuke yelled out
The same Hyuga elder that denied him responded with, "Even though she has told you many times that she does not wish to associate with you, yet regardless of her wishes you still bothered Hinata and even went as far as assaulting her. We of the Hyuga clan will not allow this to go unpunished Hokage-sama."
"Yes quite Sasuke here needs to learn the concept of no means no, but seeing as this is his first offense would it be okay with the Hyuga's if the punishment wasn't too severe?" The Hokage asked.
The Hyugas whispered something to Hiashi who just glared at Sasuke and nodded occasionally.
Then after a few more minutes of discussion between the Hyuga's Hiashi said, "We accept this Hokage-sama, on two conditions."
"And what are these conditions," the Hokage inquired.
"One that when it comes time to assemble genin teams, Sasuke Uchiha will 'not' be placed on the same team as my daughter." Hiashi stated to which the Hokage responded with, "Yes that makes sense it would ruin team chemistry.
"WAIT," Sasuke yelled out "And just like that you are going to dismiss what could be a powerful team, As a Uchiha we are known to be the strongest and once I activate my Sharingan it will just further that, and combined with Hinata's skill and Byaku….."
Sasuke tried to continue but he was interrupted by the Hokage, "Sasuke please do not speak out of line and regarding your suggestion, the Byakugan and Sharingan combo has been tried before and has failed due to a multitude of reasons so you will not be matched in the same team as Hinata my word is final."
Sasuke sucked his teeth but didn't say anything knowing better than to argue with the Hokage.
Turning back toward Hiashi the Hokage asked, "And the second condition?"
"The second condition is that any mission that assigns them to work together will be heavily analyzed by you Hokage-sama and we would like at least one Hyuga approved escort to go along." Hiashi said.
Sarutobi stroked his beard deep in thought; this was definitely one of the weirder situations he had been put in. What the Hyuga's were asking for was almost unheard of, but could see why Hiashi went so far for the safety of his daughter.
Nodding his head the Hokage said, "I accept both conditions the Hyuga's had brought forth" then he turned to Sasuke and said. "As for your punished Uchiha, Sasuke you will pay the amount of 5 thousand ryos to the Hyuga clan for personal and physical damages done, furthermore you will attend sensitivity classes on weekends till they are deemed unnecessary by the assigned mentor and after school you will report to the mission hall for unpaid community service for two weeks."
Sakiri gasped, "Isn't that too much Hokage-sama, can't Sasuke just pay the fine and let the rest go they are children after all."
Sarutobi glared at her and said, "I hope you realize Haruno-san these are not your average children, they are Shinobi in training. Not only has Sasuke's punishment already been toned down from what the Hyuga's first asked, but I will not tolerate undisciplined Shinobi in my village, even if they are just in-training so my ruling stays.
Sasuke just had a scowl on his face he thought this himself, "Why should I be punished for just trying to take something I that should belong to me any way…. One day Uzumaki you will pay.
"Am I understood Uchiha?" The Hokage asked.
Trying his best not to glare at the Hokage Sasuke just said, "Understood… Hokage-sama."
