"Usually it would, but with the loss of so many ninja recently, the elders want to make sure that the bloodlines have multiple ways to continue."
"Are they serious? It just doesn't make sense."
"I know, but the thing is that I don't want to cause a civil war, especially when the clans are getting along so well. As much as I'm in charge of everything, I can't force my will on everything."
"I get that. My problem is that I can't get why everyone is focusing in on me."
"You're the one who has fought to save the Village, and who has gone from the worst ninja around to become a real force to be reckoned with," the Hokage commented.
Whatever he'd be about to say was lost for a moment as what she said distracted him. A silly grin crossed his face, and he puffed up his chest in what seemed to be a sign of pride. There was a long moment when he was lost in whatever thoughts he'd come up with in the remembrance that the people around him actually liked him.
"Are you quite finished?"
"What are you.... Oh, right. Sorry, my mind wandered."
"I thought so," she commented, and let the side of her mouth quirk up. "The truth is that you really are so wanted that no one can agree on which family you should marry into."
"And so they figured that it'd be best for me to marry more than one girl?"
"At least you get to be with several girls, and the families get to share you."
"How nice. I just don't know how good this really would be," he muttered with his brow furrowed in confusion.
"Well, that's interesting," Tsunade drawled, her smirk going full on. "Most boys your age would be rather interested in having several girls at his beck and call."
"Right. Do I look like the Pervy Sage?"
There was a second when both of them acknowledged just what Jiraya would have thought of the situation, and then shared a look at each other in the quiet of thinking about him.
Then Naruto pushed that aside as he tried to figure out what he should do about having to get several wives, wondering just what sort of girl who would agree to something like that, while:
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