Starlight Heart of Merging Soul (kakanaru)

Chapter 4

*Knock**Knock*

He jerked upwards in bed, eyes wide. Naruto glanced quickly at his side and blanched.

04:53, the alarm clock read. Who the hell is awake at such a hellish hour of the morning?!

"Naruto!" a familiar voice shouted. Jii-san? He got up clumsily and walked slowly towards the front door.

"Jii-san?" he called out softly in confusion.

"May I come in Naruto? I have a list of houses that you could buy and move into if you wished." the man's old voice carried gently like the leaves that surrounded the village through his apartment door and rooms, soothing something like the panic that had built up steadily after waking so abruptly.

Naruto unlocked the door and took a step back in shock when met with the sight of an ANBU with a crow mask standing behind his Jii-san's left shoulder.

Out in the open where everyone could see them.

The Hokage smiled softly at him, "Do not worry, Naruto, Crow was asked by me to be your shadow to protect you for a week and also help you to move into your new house. Now, shall you invite us inside?"

Naruto blinked and nodded sluggishly, stepping aside to make way for the Hokage and the Crow ANBU, now that he was focusing more on the chakra signals again he could feel several others surrounding his rooms that hadn't been there before, at least he thought they hadn't been there before.

Once the door was closed he joined his jiji at the coffee table in his living room, the man was steadily packing out piles of papers from a scroll that kept on unsealing several more until the piles came to a stop. By then, Naruto's eyes had gone impossibly wide with surprise because he hadn't thought that there would be quite so many houses out there in the forest up for sale.

The Hokage pushed three piles to Naruto with a grin while he took the others and place them back in the scroll. He gave the man a confused frown before beginning to lift through the files on the houses.

Naruto lift through the files, making sure that he took in all the pros and cons of every place that he flipped past.

Most of the houses were just not what he imagined himself staying in comfortably.

However, nearing the end he found four that had potential.

There was one far from the village and near the walls, surrounded by wisteria and large meadows. The house itself was beautiful but not exactly big enough like what he wanted.

Another was just as far, if not further from the village streets and markets. It was bit too big as well, yet it had a swimming pool and had its gardens and was surrounded by both Sakuras and Wisteria trees.

Yet, it was far, the space it had too big. He didn't think it would work out for him that much.

One was so close to the village that he wasn't too sure of it, so he set it aside.

The last one was on top of the Hokage mountain, hidden amongst the tall trees, and was marginally huge.

Naruto furrowed his brows as he considered the four files.

"Hey, Kurama?"

"Yes, Kit?" the fox rumbled softly at him in answer, his presence in his mind just as if not more so soothing than that of the Hokage's

"What do you think?" Naruto inclines his head subtly to the files spread before him. After all, he wasn't the only one who was going to live in the house. And a house would never be a home without love. "Which one would make a perfect home for us?" he added. The fox was silent once more and he wonders if he had shocked him or if the fox was just contemplating his answer.