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Chapter 1

The Uchiha Kingdom was the biggest and strongest of the Kingdoms on Konoha Land. The only Kingdom to rival the Uchihas was the Hyuuga Kingdom. For years, the two kingdoms lived in peace. However, an argument of who was to take the Hyuuga throne caused problems that bleed into the Uchiha Kingdom. The current King of the Kyuuga Kingdom had two daughter and one son. As luck would have it, his son was born a Beta just like his daughters. This gave him two options, have either Neji or Hinata married a foreigner or send one of them to the Uchiha Kingdom and have the other rule as Queen until an Alpha was born. It was decided by the King's council that Neji would be sent to marry Sasuke while Hinata married a cousin to keep the royal blood as rich as possible. King Fugaku and Queen Mikoto agreed to have Sasuke marry Neji. Things changed as Itachi gave up his right the the throne. This meant that if Sasuke married Neji, the Uchiha Kingdom would have a Hyuuga Queen. King Fugaku had to decide if the agreement was worth giving up to prevent the Hyuuga Kingdom from taking over the Uchiha Kingdom. Afraid to lose his alliance, the Hyuuga King told them that any child between Sasuke and Neji would be strictly Uchiha and would never have a right to the Hyuuga throne, even if the child was the only Hyuuga Alpha born. King Fugaku agreed to these terms and awaited both Sasuke and Neji's Coming of Age Ceremonies. Both of them had to be sixteen in order for the marriage to take place. Since Neji was two years older than Sasuke, that meant he'd be eighteen when the two got married.

Things would not go as planned however. A year before Neji was to be sent to the Uchiha Kingdom to marry Sasuke, the Suna King sent his son Gaara for peace talks between the three kingdoms. Suna was a country ruled by only one king as the place was mostly desert. The Suna King had three children, two Alpha sons and a Beta daughter. Gaara was his youngest and the second in line for the throne. There were rumors that he'd take the throne instead of Kankuro the first born Alpha. To squash this rumor, the King sent Gaara to show that he was not the next in line. Gaara and Neji became friends and then, unknown to everyone else, lovers. Knowing that Neji was to be married to Sasuke, Gaara forced himself to leave the Hyuuga Kingdom early, and he headed over to the Uchiha Kingdom to continue the peace talks there. Neji was to go there in just under a month.

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Naruto finished filling a bucket of soap and water and headed for the room he was assigned to clean. Iruka had given him the key to the music room and an order to clean the floor inside it and the stairs leading up to it. The room sat in a secluded area in the Uchiha Castle. The only other rooms near it was the second laundry room and a bathroom. Naruto had already clean both of those rooms. The music room was the only one locked since the contents of that room were worth a lot of money. It had been left alone for the last few months, but since Neji was coming, the King requested that the room be cleaned. Naruto carried the bucket into the room and placed it on the floor. He looked around to make sure he hadn't missed anything. After whipping down the piano again, Naruto grabbed a broom and got to work. It took him an hour to clean the floor. Next, he moved to the stairs. He couldn't use the broom on the stairs so he had to get on his hands and knees to scrub them. Using the bucket and a few clean rags, he began his final task of the day.

Naruto hummed as he got to the tenth step. The Uchiha Kingdom held many secrets and Naruto had one of his own. He was an Omega. Unclaimed Omega were forbidden from working in the castle. At the age of ten, Naruto had snuck into the castle and begged Iruka to accept his as a maid. When Iruka told him he couldn't because he was an Omega, Naruto told him he'd do anything, even pretend to be a Beta. Taking him up on that, Iruka gave Naruto suppressants. They kept trick Naruto's sent as well as hide his heat from others. With the suppressors, Naruto's heat wasn't too bad. He was able to work through his heat without having a mate. It was too early for Naruto to have a mate as he was only fifteen, a few months younger than Sasuke.