"What? What are you looking at?" asked Naruto, the problem in question.
"Uhm, are you color-blind?" asked Jun, the soul of tact that she was. "Cause that outfit is just awful."
"HEY! Orange is awesome!" declared Naruto.
Ui frowned a little as she walked around him, then nodded as she came to a halt in front of him again. "Okay, Naruto-sama! I know just what you need."
"'sama'?" asked Naruto in a small voice, realizing that the three girls had him surrounded and getting the feeling he was in danger but not entirely sure how. They WERE looking directly at him and they were smiling...
Things clicked and Naruto began panicking. That was HIS look when he was about to pull off a massive prank!
"MAKEOVER!" shouted two of the girls, grabbing his arms.
"Sorry, Naruto-sama," said the third girl, making an apologetic gesture. "This is for your own good!"
"Yeahhhhhh," said three other girls his age as they rushed forward.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" yelled Naruto as he was dragged off.
"I don't like it."
"But you look SO much better in that!"
"Still don't like it."
"Well, if you don't - you don't - but you look much better in that," said the one girl who'd been apologizing to him.
"WHAT IS THAT BRAT DOING IN MY STORE?!" yelled the shopkeeper, who'd apparently gotten curious about everyone getting noisy over here.
"HOW DARE YOU!" declared one of the little girls.
"Eh?" asked the shopkeeper, suddenly finding one of the little girls who couldn't be much older than ten suddenly actually putting out a fair amount of outrage.
"Ah! He got Ui mad! Duck and cover!" declared one of the others.
It was a village of ninja, suddenly the shopkeeper was thinking about kekkei genkai and prodigy ninja.
"This is the child of the Red Hot Habanero! Kushina Uzumaki! He is engaged by agreement to marry one of the surviving Uchiha Clan! It is only because of him that we are alive today! AND. YOU. DARE?!"
"What? That demon?" asked the shopkeeper. At which point all the blood ran from his face and a cold feeling settled into the pit of his stomach. No, an ANBU had not appeared and introduced a kunai to his kidneys. Worse. He was old enough to remember the Red Hot Habanero and to see something of her in the boy's expression. Oh hell. If...
"I have a mother?" asked Naruto innocently.
"Come on, the Uchiha Clan has NO need of such a shop that has forgotten basic manners!" declared Ritsu, seeing the chance for mischief and a dramatic exit.
"Right," agreed the girls. Dramatic exit no jutsu!
Naruto took the chance to bolt the moment he could get away.
Naruto blinked at the Hokage.
The Hokage sighed. "Where to begin?"
"My mom?" asked Naruto.
"Kushina Uzumaki. Naruto, you must NOT tell anyone this. Kushina Uzumaki made enemies. Enemies who would take vengeance on her by killing you." The Hokage sighed again.
"What's an 'engagement'?" asked Naruto.
"There are three families who were minor branches of the Uchiha family," began the Hokage.
"Eh?" asked Naruto.
"They are part of a large family, except there are few survivors of that family now. You know Sasuke Uchiha. There are also two survivors of the Hirasawa family. One survivor of the Akiyama family. Also one survivor of the Manabe family. You are engaged to three of them."
"But what's that mean?" asked Naruto.
"When you're old enough, you might end up marrying one of them," said the Hokage, sitting back and waiting for it.
"Oh," said Naruto as he thought about that. Then the expression of dawning horror appeared. "WHAT?!"
"Could be worse," said the Hokage. "Frankly I've had enough of blood feuds and the like. I'd much rather see this sort of thing."
It turned out that they were the same age but the reason he hadn't seen any of them in the Academy was that they weren't ninja. Didn't want to be ninja either.
How weird was that?
"Uhm, no our clan was a ninja clan and they got wiped out in a single night by one of them going nuts," said Ui when he asked about this. "Didn't do them much good, did it?"
"I suppose," said Naruto, poking the steamed vegetables that she'd put in front of him.
"Eat up, you don't want to be short forever do you?" asked Ui softly.
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