Welcome to Konoha's Unexpected Marriage. I hope you will enjoy this chapter!

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Warning: First of all, this fic doesn't have a beta reader. As such, this fic is guaranteed to be filled with errors. In addition to that, my English skills is obviously not good. Pardon me for making grammar mistakes, errors, and all. I hope you all understand that.

This fic is already an alternate universe, don't expect 100% canon facts in this story. Well, this is a fanfic after all. Of course there's going to be some difference than the one in canon :)

And...sorry for abandoning this story for like, a year or so. Really, I have no excuse at all other than... well, let's see, I was kinda afraid to let you guys down. I was afraid that I was going to screw this story up so... yeah. Now, I'm not really that scared though.

This is short because currently, I want to update but my laptop betrayed me. So, thank my smartphone.

To those that don't like short chapter, I'll make sure that the next update will be much longer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. I won't say this again in the future chapters.

Chapter 3: A Secret

"I told you to wait, didn't I?"

She poked his back once and that was his cue to stop running to the Ichiraku Ramen stall. His back had a weird tingle and that was just uncomfortable for him to ignore. Naruto repressed the urge to whine because that wouldn't sound manly.

"I'm just excited! It's not everyday I have this much money," he finally expressed his enthusiasm to the person beside him.

After a silence occured between them, Naruto lazily made a clone and sent it to take Hiruzen's gift to his apartment while waiting for a response from Hanabi.

Sizing up and down the blond boy in front of her, she came to a conclusion.

Hanabi sent a calculating gaze to her taller company, "Are you poor?"

With that, Naruto froze, his hands clenched inside his pockets tightly. He didn't know what to say or what to do now. Damn, and it was only a few seconds since he was alone with his new... wife and he had managed to screw up by mentioning his money problem.

"So... we're married," he said, in the end.

He didn't want to answer her question, that she knew clearly. But somehow, it agitated her.

Hanabi stared at her newly made husband and said with a deadpan tone, "Yes, my dear husband," Hanabi smiled but Naruto saw that it didn't reach her eyes, "of course we're married."

And an exasperated tone thrown in that sentence.

Naruto winced when those lilac tinted white eyes directed at him with such intensity.

"Um, what am I supposed to say then?" Naruto sighed. It's his birthday and suddenly it was also the day he got married, officially, "What are we gonna do now?"

Even though he didn't want to ask a girl that was five years younger than him, he knew he didn't have a clue to what his parents were thinking when they made him marry someone before he took his first breath in this world.

"For a starter, are we going to make this a secret or not?" Hanabi asked, with her arms behind her. "I vote to make this a secret. Just for the time being, as I'm not exactly fond of stares."

Naruto froze in his track. Looking around, he knew that he was alone with Hanabi. No prying ears that heard Hanabi calling him 'dear husband'.

He forgot. He forgot that he, as the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, was a living pariah of the village. And if they know that Hanabi were married to him...

"Y-yeah! Let's make it a secret!" Naruto laughed, nervously, "I mean, you're like, seven, right? You're not an adult yet if you're yet to graduate from the academy or so Iruka-sensei said to me that one time in the Ichiraku Ramen stall when I tried for the seventh time to wear his forehead protector to get a feel of it―"

"Naruto-san, I think I understand, so please stop rambling."

"A-ah, sorry."

Phew, Naruto thought while patting his chest, Safe.

Naruto was not ready to open up to his newly made young wife about his 'burden'. Well, Naruto wasn't exactly vocal when it comes to the matter of himself. His dream becoming Hokage or defeating Sasuke, were exceptions though.

Something with a negative stigma wasn't something Naruto liked to broadcast. Plus, he just knew it a few months ago from his former-sensei-turned-traitor.

Yep, he definitely was going to wait for the right time to tell Hanabi.

They kept walking until the arrived at Ichiraku. More precisely, Naruto led Hanabi to the stall.

Hanabi took a breath and asked, "Really?" Hanabi put her hand at her hip, "I already ate breakfast."

Naruto look at her and grinned, "It doesn't matter! It could be an early lunch, and besides," Naruto walked inside, "ramen can be eaten anytime you want, right? Come on! I'll pay!"

Hanabi hesitantly walked in and took a seat to Naruto's left.

"Welcome!" Teuchi greeted the two. And then he noticed his favorite customer, "Oh, Naruto! The usual?"

"Yeah, and one more bowl because I didn't eat breakfast today! Oh, and a plate of Gyoza too!"

"Coming!"

Hanabi read the menu and she grimaced at it. She liked banana and milk, so she liked food that wasn't strong in flavour, so...

"One salt ramen, please," she said, finally after considering the times when she tried all the expensive ramen in the Noddle Country. She liked salt ramen because it's actually not as salty as soy sauce broth or as strong in flavour as miso, ironically.

"Coming!"

Hanabi silently pondered her situation. Ramen? Really?

She huffed.

This was very different than what happened in the books. Clearly, the romance books were mistaken.

Maybe this wasn't a date?

Kakashi, who decided to follow his student after exiting the Hokage Tower, wanted to slap himself right away when he saw them enter the ramen stall. Of all the the places Naruto could bring his newly made wife to, he decided to bring Hanabi to a ramen stall?

That was remarkably like Minato and Kushina's first date.

He approved.