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It was with no small amount of interest that the inhabitants of the Uchiha Head's home, were watching young Uchiha Sasuke. The boy had returned home from his first day at the Academy, with an intense look on his face. As if he was trying to work his way through a problem all on his own.

Sasuke's little hands clutched at his chopsticks with concentrated efforts as he ate his rice one grain at a time. He was so focused that nobody wanted to speak for fear of interrupting whatever was on his mind.

That adorable little dip between his brows was too cute to mess with!

But let it be known that they were all willing to help him should he ask for it.

Mikoto wanted to pinch his chubby little cheeks, but knew it was only serve to embarrass him. Itachi wanted to asked how his day had gone, but not at the risk of bothering him. And Fugaku... well, he just wanted Sasuke to have a good time at school and hoped it wasn't a legitimate problem.

Finally, after what felt like hours, Sasuke seemed to return his usual self. The doubt clouding his face had cleared and it was obvious to those watching that he'd come to some sort of conclusion and was pleased with himself. Whatever solution it was, they wondered if he was going to share the details of it with them, or if it was to remain a special secret.

"Tou-san," the boy began, taking a deep breath as if preparing himself for a difficult conversation, "I know who I'm going to marry."

The whole table stiffened at those words, but the boy's earnest expression did not lessen. in fact, there was a defiant edge to the jutting of his lower lip and the furrow of his little brows. Sasuke was serious about this. Eight years old and already thinking of marriage.

Despite the topic... Mikoto couldn't help but coo a little. He was just so cute!

"Is that so?" Fugaku murmured, reaching for his tea and downing all of it instantly. "And how, pray tell, do you know this already?"

And that was when Sasuke's whole face transformed into the usual, adoring hero-worship he tended to only reserve for his big brother. He was practically sparkling. "A student in my class who ended up sitting next to me is the prettiest person I've ever seen! Prettier than even Itachi-nii! When we looked at each other, it was like I had goosebumps everywhere and it got very warm and I could hear my heart beating in my ears!"

A crush?

Sasuke had a crush!

Mikoto couldn't remember Itachi ever having a crush. A look at her eldest showed that he too was baffled by this turn of events. A crush was not what they'd been expecting Sasuke's issue to be.

And to be 'prettier than even Itachi' was quite a tall order. Itachi had been getting marriage proposals for years already and he was only twelve. His genes were superior and had shown through by the time he was eight himself. Of course people wanted to secure him for their daughters. Such annoyances they were.

"So I wanted you to meet each other because I already asked and it went well."

Okay. Eight year olds didn't really understand marriage as it was. They all doubted that he understood what exactly being married entailed, but it was still adorable how insistent he was about it.

"You need to ask permission of the parents first," Fugaku pointed out. "As a clan child, you have to follow specific rules in these instances."

The look of concentration returned. Sasuke pondered his next course of action. "Do I have to go to the Konoha Cemetery to ask? Can they even respond? Do I just tell the graves and do what I want anyway?"

...Oh. The child in question was an orphan. There were no parents to ask, and probably no other family either.

Well, having no relations to worry about would probably make integrating into the clan much easier. A morbid thought to have about an orphaned child but it was true nonetheless.

Mikoto sent Fugaku a look, basically telling him to stay quiet while she handled this part of the conversation. "Declaring intentions is still important. If you're serious, then you can very well go and ask for their blessing. However, the best you can do is simply prove that your feelings are true, and you've only known each other for a few hours at best. I doubt anyone would agree to a proposal for their children so soon."

Sasuke hummed. "So then we can have a guest over tomorrow so we can all get to know each other better?" he asked, batting his adorable lashes and putting on his cutest begging face. "We'll be good, I promise, Kaa-chan."

"Of course," Mikoto agreed before Fugaku could say anything. Sasuke looked too happy and she refused to ruin this from him. Even if it didn't work out in the end, she wanted him to have good memories of his family supporting him, no matter how outlandish the request seemed to be.

Sage knows they needed positive moments in their lives at present.

"Thank you, Kaa-chan!"

The three Uchiha stared down at their guest with unreserved shock. Of all the people for Sasuke to be drawn to... it was Uzumaki Naruto.

The boys were linked arm in arm, though it was obvious that Sasuke was definitely more invested as he was practically hanging off the blond.

Bright blue eyes stared up at them with very obvious and deserved fear. It wasn't a secret how people treated him after all. Not with what happened with him and the Kyuubi. He was used to terrible treatment from the villagers, but then again, so were the Uchiha. Being victims of circumstance was truly unfortunate.

"Tou-san, Kaa-chan, Itachi-nii, this is Uzumaki Naruto. Isn't he pretty, just like I said?"

Mikoto could easily see Kushina in the shape of the boy's face and eyes, but Minato's coloring took total control overall. He was like a mini Yondaime and she wondered how no one had managed to notice that bit. Or maybe they did and chose to overlook it because it made them uncomfortable.

Indeed, the boy had gotten the best of both of his parents and was very pretty underneath all the dirt and threadbare clothing he wore.

Uzumaki Naruto gave a small wave of introduction, but chose to let Sasuke do the leading. "Naruto and I are going to get married and then Naruto will join the family and live with us and won't have to go back to his lonely apartment and gross food," Sasuke decided with a firm nod. "My bed is big so we'll both fit."

The blond beside him looked baffled but didn't argue. He just clutched as Sasuke's shirt and waited for the verdict to be decided.

Itachi turned away slightly and coughed into his fist to hide his laughter. Fugaku just seemed like someone had offended his personal principles. As usual, it was up to Mikoto to be the only sane Uchiha around. "Why don't you take Naruto-kun inside for a bath," she suggested with a soft smile. "We must be clean for dinner after all. I'll set out some robes for him."

"Make sure that the Uchiha Mon is on them, Kaa-chan." Sasuke grabbed the boy's tanned hand and began dragging him inside. "The bathroom is really nice. I'll wash your hair for you, Naruto."

"You don't have to do that, I know how to wash my own hair. -ttebayo!"

"Husbands take care of their wives," was Sasuke's reply.

"Why am I the wife when you're prettier?"

"Because I kissed you first, and then you kissed me back."

Three jaws dropped instantly as they all watched the boys disappear into the house.

"I can kiss you first anytime!"

"But you haven't yet."

"Well... why do we have to kiss anyways? It feels weird and tingles."

"Married couples do it all the time," Sasuke huffed like this should be obvious to Naruto. "They play other games too but I don't know enough about them other than the fact that they do it before they go to bed."

Fugaku sputtered and Itachi's face flushed immediately.

"We have to play those games too?"

"Yeah. Both only with each other because we're mono- manog- monogo- we're only married to each other and nobody else, okay?"

Naruto seemed to think about it for a moment, before nodding. "Okay."

Mikoto followed after them in order to give them proper supervision and make certain nothing improper happened.

Her baby boy had his first kiss already! A Talk needed to be had and Sage knows Fugaku won't do it justice.

A/N: FINISHED!

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A/N: Hello, people!

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Sasuke couldn't help but be distracted. While he liked to be attentive in class and prove to everyone who mattered, that he was a good student and cared about what he was learning, he couldn't take his mind or his eyes off of the boy in the seat right beside him.

The teacher had introduced him as Uzumaki Naruto. A boy with tanned skin and bright blue eyes, but the most distinguishing characteristics he had were the whisker marks on his cheeks, and the bright blond hair on his head. A shade Sasuke had never seen on anyone in Konoha.

And he was sitting in the beam of sunlight coming in from the window. The sun made his hair shine even brighter and kept catching Sasuke's eye.

Sasuke wanted to touch it. It looked soft, and the light breeze that filled the room made all the spikes wiggle a bit.

While his favorite color was red, Sasuke suddenly found a new appreciation for yellow. His ears were full of his own heartbeat and his arms broke into goosebumps!

And then Uzumaki Naruto smiled for some reason or other, and Sasuke's mouth went dry.

Pretty. Like Itachi-nii. And he was looking at Sasuke, blue eyes bright and smile lopsided. The whiskers were cute.

He spent the entire morning distracted.

When they were released for lunch, Sasuke noticed instantly that the new boy, Uzumaki Naruto, did not have a lunch. Not like everyone else did. While the kids split up into groups of friends, he simply sat on the lone swing out in the yard and watched everyone eat and play.

The young Uchiha looked down at his bento. His mother always gave him more food than he could hope to eat. There were at least two more onigiri than he needed, and his apple slices could be split in half easily.

Resolved, Sasuke stopped at the water fountain to fetch a paper cup full of water before going to join Uzumaki Naruto.

"Hi."

Naruto looked up at him in shock. "You talkin' to me?"

Sasuke held out the water. "Wanna have lunch with me? I'm Uchiha Sasuke."

Naruto stared at the water for a good minute, before taking it carefully in hand and staring down at it like it was something special. "I don't have a lunch though. I got no money for food."

"I have extra," Sasuke explained, opening his bento so the other boy could see the six onigiri and all the apples his mother had went through the trouble of cutting up. "See? The apples are rabbits."

He grabbed Naruto's hand and pulled him off toward the school, so they'd be further away from the other kids, and also out of view of the fangirls. Sasuke didn't want another lunch period to be ruined by giggling girls.

Once they were both sitting cross-legged around the corner of the building, Sasuke placed the bento between them and gestured for Naruto to begin. "Half for you, half for me. Kaa-san says sharing is caring."

"I don't have a mom," Naruto murmured as he grabbed one of the onigiri. "Or a dad. I was told they died during the Kyuubi attack."

Sasuke frowned, feeling sad at the thought of not having parents. He didn't know what he'd do if he didn't have his family to come home to, but he knew he wouldn't be okay. Naruto didn't seem too sad about it, but maybe not having family for so long was something you get used to?

"Where do you live? I live in the Uchiha Compound."

"I just moved out of the orphanage! I'm a ninja-in-training now so I get a sti-pend which is basically money for rent and food, but food is expensive and always bad whenever I try to go shopping."

Hm. "Where do you shop?" The Uchiha sourced their produce from a very specific shop outside the Compound and if someone they knew was selling expired or rotten food, that he could warn his parents and they would probably look to take Uchiha business elsewhere.

"Niwa's?" Naruto mumbled. "The old man there is pretty mean, and he sold me rotten chicken yesterday, then wouldn't give me a refund when I pointed it out. Then he kicked me out and won't let me back in until next month."

Madarame Niwa? Not a partner of the Uchiha at least, but still, that was wrong. Sasuke wondered if there was a way to help Naruto to get better food. "Is there nowhere else to go?"

"Nobody will sell me anything. They don't like me." This seemed to make Naruto sad, which in turn made Sasuke sad. "My landlady only agreed to let me live in my apartment because Hokage-jiji is making her. She told me we have no heat and no hot water which is a total lie 'cause my neighbor has heat just fine. -ttebayo!"

The blond's cheeks warmed with a pretty shade of pink. "Sorry- I'm trying not to do it all the time but it's hard."

"I like it," Sasuke murmured around a bite of rice. "It's cute."

Naruto blushed even harder.

Yes, Sasuke liked him very much.

What he did not like was how Naruto described his life at home. Or maybe, at his apartment. Sasuke's mother always said that a home is a warm place full of people who love you. They don't always have to be related to you, but they do have to care.

Sasuke had people who loved him and a good home where they all lived together.

Naruto didn't get anything like that.

If he could share his family and home with Naruto, then everything would be solved!

A flash of light caught Sasuke's attention, taking his mind away from Naruto for a second to watch as two fangirls, Yamanaka and the pink one, were making up an imaginary scene where Sasuke of all people would propose marriage to them. They were arguing over whether Sasuke would want to kiss to seal the deal, or if he'd be more traditional and wait until the big day.

Even as his nose scrunched up in disgust, his mind was already working through such information.

Marriage. Two people come together to make a family. They sign a paper and then they kiss, and sometimes they exchange gold rings but those were expensive. Then, depending on the status involved, they move in together and share everything they own with each other.

If he married Naruto, then as he was marrying the second son of the Uchiha Clan Head, Naruto would have to move into the Main House. As per tradition, Sasuke's bedroom would become their bedroom and Sasuke's clothes and toys and weapons would all be shared too.

And Naruto would get a family and good food and, he cast a disappointed look at the state of Naruto's clothes which were covered in dirt and full of holes or patches, nice clothes on top of it all. Heat, hot water, good food, good clothes, it all seemed worth it in Sasuke's opinion.

"I got it! Naruto, will you marry me?"

"Sure! What's that? -ttebayo."

Oh. He had no one who could teach him about that, huh?

Sasuke would just have to teach him.

"It's how two people join their families to become one big family."

"But I don't have any family."

"You had family at some point and that's good enough. Once we're married, you can move in with me and my family and everything will be okay."

Naruto hummed, staring down at the empty bento. "Will there be more good food?"

"Yes."

"Okay! How do we get married, Sasuke?"

"Tomorrow. I'll have everything we need so meet me right here before school starts."

It had taken a bit of work, but Sasuke managed to carve two decent bracelets out of wood for he and Naruto. He couldn't get his hands on real wedding rings because he didn't have the time or the money on hand, but these could be good for now. A ring was just a circle with an empty space in the middle. Basically. These counted even if they weren't perfect.

He'd also gotten a piece of stationary from his father's desk and wrote down everything he could think of that should be in wedding vows.

Marriage Contract

Uchiha Sasuke & Uzumaki Naruto

Promise to share everything.
To listen. To be helpful. To work together.
To support each other. To be honest.
To talk it out when things get hard.
To be upstanding citizens of Konoha.
To protect our loved ones.

It was kind of like what his cousin had to say when he got married.

All he needed was their signatures.

Naruto was right where he was expected to be, looking nervous but also excited. When he saw Sasuke running toward him, a bright smile bloomed instantly. "Mornin', Sasuke!"

"I got what we need. We both write our names here and here, and then I place this bracelet on you, and you place the other on me, and then we kiss."

"Why do we hafta kiss?!"

"It's what people do when they get married. They seal it with a kiss. When my cousin got married, he kissed his wife. A lot." Way too much in Sasuke's opinion. At least his parents did it when they thought no one could see.

Naruto shrugged. "Okay. Um... you might have to help me write my name. I'm not good with reading and writing because no one's taught me anything."

Sasuke had expected that, and he'd come prepared. That's why he wanted to meet up earlier than normal.

"Don't worry, I know what to do. Also, you're coming over for dinner tonight."

"WHAT?!"

A/N: FINISHED!

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