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Join the academy early... It would do him good to learn defence skills...he's too young he probably can't even write yet...but he has to learn sooner than most...he might get picked on....it'll keep him away from the villagers during the day...

Inside Sarutobi's head he was trying to decide whether the pros would out shine the cons so far the biggest problem was whether naruto could read.

Naruto was watching my face as it went from shock to pride to worry and finally confusion, "Naruto, I think you are a bit young to join the academy..I began

Naruto hung his head sadly,

" but I believe it is in your best interest to join the academy early because it will minimise your bad treatment, So tomorrow I will have you do a literacy test to see if you could keep up with the older kids."

At this naruto was grinning widely at me , he was yelling " REALLY, REALLY YOU MEAN IT, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANKYOU.."

" But even if you pass this exam you can only join After you turn four, even you know three is too young" I said sternly so he knew I wasn't kidding.

Four isn't that much better I thought while sweat dropping, he didn't notice he was smiling happily, the happiest I've seen him in a while.

Looking at him I saw he was eating another bowl of ramen happily preoccupied, with a low whistle I had an anbu summoned.

" Fish-san can you please go to the orphanage and arrest the lady in charge there and have her sent to ibiki, and could you also have Queen come see me when I get back to work" I asked

"Hai" he said and with that he was off

Pinching the bridge of my nose i groaned at the paper work that would result from this.

Paper work or not I'm not making the same mistake twice Queen can take over the job of the orphanage, granted she's a little inexperienced, but I'm sure naruto will help her out.

Glancing up I noticed that naruto is just finishing up his 3rd bowl of ramen, much to the shock of Teuchi, and Ayame And his head is drooped a little showing how tired he is.

"Naruto I have to get back to work and your exam will have to be on Sunday as ive remembered that there is no time for it tomorrow" I said

He groaned before launching himself at me for a Very predictable surprise hug,"yes , yes I'll miss you too why don't you use tomorrow for some study for Sunday?"

"OK buh bye ji ji I'll be fine!!, Bewieve IT!!.

I grinned it was very rare to hear naruto use his verbal tick unless he was extremely happy or forcefully said it which I've noticed him doing a lot recently.

Hopefully that'll change now that Queen will be in charge of the orphanage...

Walking passed my office I went to the interrogation chamber to see borga funbu or mistress as naruto told me she was called sweating profusely with ibiki standing in front of her glaring.

"Ahh ibiki-san it seems you have gotten my special delivery, borga this is ibiki, ibiki this is borga." I said with an evil glint in my eye

"WHAT THE HELL HAVE I DONE I RUN AN ORPHANAGE FOR F#@%S SAKE" borga yelled with a red face her arms straining against the chairs cuffs.

I growled "borga you were arrested for the abuse and torture of naruto uzumaki and so ibiki will interegate you for every last piece of evidence"

"And after that I will have the yamanaka clan head check all your memories and store the evidence into a scroll"I told her smirking.

" THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!"she screamed

Oh and ibiki have fun, and when she is found guilty please put her in jail, I will sentence her according to the severity of the case.

With that I walked out most of my anger was vented on borga now I was headed to my office.

Now to see Queen, the kindest and surprisingly densest person I've ever met.

Walking through the door I walk past queen her short caramel hair reaching only to her chin now I noted.

Once I sat down she hurried to my desk, " saru, saru, what's wrong, is everything OK please tell me" she cried in a sweet worried tone.

I grinned," everything's fine eeni I just thought you might be interested in doing a job for me."

"Saru you know I'm not a NINJA now I can't do your missions anymore." Frowned the 25 yr old woman.

"Hai but I thought since you were injured and had to quit being a ninja, and you had to give up your dream of having kids, I thought you might like this job"I said

" Really, what is it Saru, what is it?" She asked

Well, I started" you see we currently have the owner of the orphanage in with ibiki and will soon be going to jail, I was wondering if you would like to own the orphanage now?"

"HAI, I ACCEPT YES THANKYOU THANKYOU SARU!!!!"

With that she said she would go straight away and was gone, I sweat dropped three two one

Uhh saru where is the orphanage? She asked

Don't worry I will drop you off oh and please let naruto in when he gets their I said before shunshin to the middle of the orphanage with her.

Dropping her into the middle of screaming kids I shunshined away

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Finally getting to the front door of the orphanage I heard the screaming kids, but unlike any other day I heard a woman trying to calm them down.

Entering the house I saw a woman with short caramel pixie hair and forest green eyes, she looked upset and for some reason worried.

Walking over to her I tugged on her sleeve. When she looked at me I quietly asked " miss who are you?"

For some reason she looked so sad when she saw me I was worried I had done something when she said" Hi I'm your new orphanage manager, you can call me Queeni"

" Hi I'm naruto I said timidly, " miss why are you sad? I asked

"Oh its nothing really its just I can't get them all to calm down" she said.

I felt sad she probably wants to introduce herself and the poor kind lady can't even do that. I should help her, its the least I can do for her being so nice.

Letting go of her sleeve I walked silently to the middle of the room, and I stood there. "Everyone!"

It was like magic everyone froze everyone turned towards me and started smiling, "NARUTO Nii!!!"

And before they could all swarm me into a hug I rose my voice to a stern and quiet tone...

Taking a deep breath I started, " GROUP ONE" throughout the room gasps could be heard, group one hurried to line up in front ofboy

once they were done I smiled at kiyoshi, before I rose my voice again.

"GROUP TWO" I could see around 7 girls start moving including Emi who limped over and stood in a line behind group one.

Smiling now I called again "GROUP THREE" five 11 to 13 year olds walked up next and stood behind group 2, glancing back I saw Queeni looking absolutely shocked.

" AND GROUP FOUR" these were about 17 boys a few strong and a few not so much, smiling I looked at hotaru who smiled back.

Looking at them all I said " Minna (everyone) this really nice lady over here would like to talk to you i said barely above a whisper but they all heard when they nodded we all looked at miss Queeni.

Slipping from the room I went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Making them all hot chocolate too.

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Looking at the little boy naruto as he walked to the middle of the room I couldn't help but notice how skinny he was compared to everyone else.

Watching as he got everyone to stop, I saw that everyone in the orphanage really looked up to him and loved him.

When I had snapped out of my thoughts I could see him get everyone to pay attention to me, a few with small smiles.

I can't help but think they're only listening to me because I was nice to naruto, strange why do I feel like that?

Tuning back in I noticed that naruto was gone and, I spoke ," hello everyone I'm Queeni and I'm the new owner to this orphanage"

That was the clinch I saw the older and middle aged kids faces go hard then one of the kids from group four spoke to me "Miss Queeni you had better be nice to naru san Got it!."

I nodded " of course I would why wouldn't I " I asked.

Then a boy from group one spoke up his eyes shadowed, " because our old mistress didn't like him, you saw his face didn't you, it wasn't always like that Queeni-san, she gave those to him, so you better be fair to him and let us help with the chores!!!" Spat the boy

I was horrified that poor boy," why" i asked dreading the answer

That was when the boy from earlier spoke up that I understood. " Naruto is our little brother, he took the beatings for us, and he helps us with our cuts and injuries, he makes our food, and he tucks the little ones in.

But, he said naruto Nii is never allowed help with his chores and hardly gets any sleep because of it. Mistress doesn't feed him more than once a week and when he does get to sleep he has to sleep on the floor of the basement, even though we have tons of extra beds." He scoffed " but that's not the worst thing the worst is that he actually thinks he deserves it!"

Continuing on he said " a while ago when mistress would disappear for days, we created the groups to help him with his chores, group one is the heavy lifters and the healers, they also report to naruto. Group two makes the food and goes grocery shopping. Group three looks after the really little kids who are under 5 yrs old not including naru-nii, and group four is on cleaning duties."

They all glared at me "you will let us help" the boy said.

I smiled and replied, of course I will,looking around I asked them "where is naruto I need to tell him everything that will change"

A girl in group two answered me happily her voice filled with relief "naruto Nii is probably in the kitchen cooking dinner!" I smiled and followed her to the kitchen door.

"Naruto" I called "hai" he replied. " naruto, I want you to use the groups to get the chores done, its not fair you have to do it yourself.

Also I want you to eat dinner with us every night and sleep in one of the beds in one of the rooms. And thank you for helping me, I can already tell that they only listen to you." I said

He was smiling happily and then he opened his mouth and called "group 2" I grinned listening to the sounds of running feet.

What she didn't see though was how when she turned around that smile instantly disappeared.

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