Naruto: The Prince of Lust

Speaking directly to Naruto, Temari expresses, "deep down, I'd very much like to love who I marry."

"Then tell that to your tou-chan," Naruto points out. "You're his daughter, which means you're super important to him. If you explain it to him, I bet he'll support you."

Kankurō snorts and Temari quickly responds, "it would be… ideal if that were the case, Naruto-kun. However, our honored father, and by extension, his children, must do what's best for the village. The people we protect must always come first."

"Your father must be very proud," Hiruzen voices, patting Uzumaki before he can protest uselessly again.

"I like to believe so," Temari voices before adding, "but he is also considerate. It's why I'm here." Forcing blood to rush to her cheeks in hopes of appearing embarrassed, the sandy-blond kunoichi continues, "you see, despite the needs of the village and the candidates that achieve that end, he has honored me with the option of entering a candidate of my choosing."

"I see," Hiruzen says, and to her surprise, Naruto adds, "I don't."

Trying to move him along, Temari explains with more patience than necessary, "in an omiai process, the participants chosen for the potential to be married to me are called candidates. Kazekage-sama will serve as my omiai's Nakōdo and he already has a candidate that would greatly help the village."

Naruto's confused face alerted her before his voice asks, "Nakōdo?"

"The Nakōdo serves as the go-between between myself and the candidates, assisting in research, introduction, and the details behind the final decision," she answers him to his satisfaction. "With his wide range of influence and intelligence, my honored father will research and choose the candidates for me, however, because he does care for me, he was gracious enough to allow me to offer a candidate of my own for his approval."

Turning to the flummoxed Naruto with a bemused smirk, Hiruzen asks Temari, "and you would like Naruto-kun to be your candidate?"

Trying to add as much blush to her cheeks and neck, Temari nervously professes, "yes, I would, Hokage-sama."

"Whaaaaaaa," a wide-eyed Naruto utters in continuance before breaking out of his stupor to point out, "b-but you don't- I mean, we don't even know each other, so, so, how can you l-love me-"

"In time, I may fall in love with you," Temari interjects. As this is the riskiest part of her plan, she delicately explains, "I want to submit Naruto-kun because, aside from Gaara, he's the strongest genin I've ever seen and strength is important, not only to me but to my honored father, the Nakōdo for my Omiai and Kazekage. Submitting Naruto will allow me to get to know him as a person and if he shows his strength to the crowd during the final test of the exams, my father may delay or end the process with his candidate."

Temari bows deeply and her voice has as much sorrow and hope as she can artificially muster. "I know I've professed to do my duty for my village, for our people, and I would like to believe that I will, however, if at all possible, I'd like to avoid that inevitable union with a stranger for as long as I can. I apologize, Hokage-sama, Naruto-kun, I know I'm abusing your kindness and using you—I must seem so selfish to ask this—but until I saw Naruto fight his teammate in the prelims, I fully expected to be married off immediately after the Chūnin exams. After he defeated Uchiha-kun, I knew it had to be him."

"Would your Kazekage not see this as a betrayal," Koharu asks, looking directly at Baki-sensei.

At Temari's nod, Baki extends an official scroll to no one when a masked guard of the Hokage appears from the ceiling and takes the scroll before disappearing again. After five seconds the masked shinobi appears beside Hiruzen and presents the secured scroll. The wait as Hiruzen applies his chakra to reveal the formal letter her father personally wrote.

"My honored father approves," Temari answers. "In that letter, Hokage-sama, you'll find his words explain how he would rather I marry who I choose, if not outright love, however, due to the pressures of his office by the council and the future of our village, he must marry me to the son of a wealthy merchant if I cannot find someone suitable." Though every bit of the story is a lie, it's an official lie backed-up and signed by the authority of Suna's leaders, a document she can't wait to burn after the success of their surprise attack.

As Hiruzen reads the letter Temari had convinced her father would secure her plan, Temari adds for Naruto's benefit, "I'm not pressing you to marry me anytime soon, Naruto-kun. It's true we don't know each other, but, if we can agree to the process of Omiai and my father convinces the elders that this is to the village's benefit, we can remain engaged for years and at least get to know each other and each other's family."

"Really," Naruto asks and she can easily pick up a hint of interest in his voice.

"I don't believe Naruto-kun currently has a girlfriend," Hiruzen begins, adding, "however, if he found someone he loves-"

"If he does, that's fine," Temari assures them, figuring that's where the elder was heading. "I don't want to shackle Naruto-kun in any way. We can be friends or date or whatever feels comfortable and still call it off at any point."

Hiruzen then asks, "and would you prefer to announce publicly-"

"That won't be necessary, Hokage-sama," Temari assures them. "So long as the necessary people know, that's all that matters."

The room then suffocates in apprehensive silence. Kankurō is very stern, nearly angry, Naruto is looking over the letter her father wrote, and the Third Hokage is introspective, turning in his chair before standing to look out of the wide window. This is the brittle moment of truth for Temari. She's laid out a reasonable need they can easily facilitate without difficulty. She can then use the last three weeks of the month to get close to Uzumaki without Konoha's interference and manipulate him for their combined demise.

Though she worries in many different, yet, equally disturbing ways that the orphan, and possibly pervert, Uzumaki Naruto will be her first sexual partner, she can't think about that at the moment. This moment needs to fall in her father's favor before she can allow herself to stress about prostituting herself.

The room is tense and everyone seems to be waiting on the pensive Kage and genin, however, no one expected a gigantic summon to explode into existence via white puffy smoke in the far off distance. Looking out of the large window, Temari's moss-green eyes widen in surprise at the sight of a rusty-red toad wearing a large blue happi vest in the distant forest. The mountain-sized amphibian with a dosu blade at its hip towers over the tall forest surrounding Konoha and the ninjas in the office can feel the tail-end of the earthquake it must've caused. Despite the far range, Temari can see the giant toad blow out a large cloud of smoke from its kiseru pipe as well as an orange and yellow dot moving around on its head. From where Temari stands, however, she can't tell what the dot is.

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