Naruto: The Life Changer

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Naruto chasing her had secretly been rather flattering for the pinkette. It had confirmed that yes, in spite of Sasuke's indifference, she was attractive and desirable. This made putting him down and smacking him when he got too persistent a little awkward for her. She had still done it, but every so often the guilt got to her and she had stoically endued his wooing of her in order to assuage it.

Caught up in her thoughts, she only realised that they were in front of the Hokage's Office when Neko knocked on the door.

"Hokage-sama, I have brought Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura, as ordered." Neko said as she entered before vanishing into thin air.

Naruto and Sakura entered the office to see not only the Hokage as expected, but also Sakura's mother, Haruno Mebuki, the Head of the Haruno Clan. Tall, regal, with short cut brown hair, and dressed in a red kimono with the white circle symbol of the Haruno on the centre of her back and over where her heart was, Mebuki was an intimidating sight.

'What is going on here?' Sakura thought in frustration as she opened her mouth to greet her mother and the village leader.

With Naruto

Naruto watched as Sakura bowed to his Jiji and greeted him respectfully before doing the same to her mother.

"Hey Jiji." Naruto added in after she was done, "Good day, Haruno-san."

"Sakura. Uzumaki-san." Mebuki replied stiffly as she beckoned her daughter over to her side. Naruto walked over to the chairs opposite them and takes a seat as Sakura's mother continues to speak, irritation clear in her voice, "Now then Hokage-sama, the children are here, so could you kindly explain why you have summoned us all? I was in the middle of the monthly audit when your ANBU messenger entered my room and delivered your message."

The Haruno Clan was a small civilian Clan that had many mercantile interests, Naruto had been told by his Jiji the previous day. Smart and savvy, they had their fingers in a lot of pies throughout Hi no Kuni. Shops, caravans, auction houses…all bearing the circle crest of the Haruno Clan and taking a hefty share of the profits. They donated generously to the village, contributing 2% of its annual income, which was phenomenal for any civilian Clan, let alone one that had less than seventy people in it.

"At approximately midnight the day before yesterday, Haruno Isuca was discovered in the middle of attempting to smash Naruto-kun's window by members of ANBU set to discover who was responsible for the serial vandalism that was being visited upon Naruto-kun's apartment and she was taken into custody." Sarutobi said firmly, making both Mebuki and Sakura freeze in disbelief as the old man continued, "Under questioning by Mitarashi Anko, she confessed to having been responsible for acts of harassment and vandalism against Naruto-kun going back five years."

"Wha…what…kinds of vandalism?" Mebuki choked pout, her face white.

"She smashed my window once, perhaps twice a week for the last five years." Naruto answered for the Hokage, "Recently she took to throwing rotting dog crap through my window as well."

"Urgh!" Sakura wrinkled her node at the thought.

"I had her questioned again this morning based on something Naruto-kun mentioned to me yesterday." Sarutobi said softly, his eyes as hard as flint, "She confessed to organising two groups of people to ransack Naruto-kun's apartment thee and four years ago respectively. Under some pressure, she admitted to also organising the gutting of Naruto-kun's apartment yesterday while he was at the Academy. She had arranged it the previous day and has given us a list of people's names, of whom all are now in custody.

So then, the charges are multiple counts of Harassment, three counts of Conspiracy to Destroy Private Property, multiple counts of Destruction of Private Property and eleven counts of Littering, although those last ones are non-incremental charges and are thus not included for any reason other than how much damage Haruno Isuca has done."

The faces of the two members of the Haruno Clan were a picture of a mixture of different emotions. Sakura was shocked, horrified and dismayed by what her cousin had perpetrated, while Mebuki's face was seemingly blank and unemotional. It would have fooled anyone were it not for the fact that her emerald green eyes were sparking with panic, fear and anger.

She knew of Naruto's burden and had cautioned Sakura to be careful around him. Mebuki had known the Yondaime Hokage and trusted his skill with the little-known art of Fūinjutsu completely, so she knew that Naruto was not the Kyūbi no Kitsune. Still, being careful around him wasn't a bad precaution.

Sarutobi Hiruzen had made it known twelve years ago that he would come down like a ton of bricks on anyone found to have harassed or attacked Naruto in way that wasn't a Taijutsu spar or playground antics, so proven when half-a-dozen civilians got thrown in jail for throwing stones at him when he had been four.

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