The village, as common, had pertained a sparkle under the warming light of the summer sun. Presently, Naruto was looking upon the sight from the height of the Hokage tower, under lecture from the woman in charge of the entire shadow below them. Hidden inside his mind, very distinctively, Naruto could hear many malicious whispers all of them familiar and taken from memories of the village he knew. Ignoring the speech ongoing behind him. His new official bonded sitting uncaring, listening from the chair across from her desk with a well-painted appearance of boredom plastered upon his visage, it near made the blonde smile how adapt the man appeared to be with lectures he had no want to hear.

There were two, loud heavily formed sighs from behind him, and Naruto watched -nearly laughing- at the perfectly timed glares they both cast to each other. Madara merely cast his eyes to the wall, appearing the winner of the silent battle as he remained unaffected by the Hokage's resulting snarl. Tsunade rubbed at her forehead, strained lines cresting her mouth, an annoyance highly visible within her frown. "Of all things Naruto..." Another sigh, while his bonded crossed his legs and sat back, Naruto found himself instead watching the clouds passing by slowly. "It would have been nice to at least have been made aware of your Omega status. Instead, I find myself informed by your own stupidity!" Her fist found the wall there a large crack forming alongside her instant regret.

While he saw Madara raise a slightly curious brow, his own arms crossed, discomfort filling him immediately for the soon to be necessary explanation he would be made to give. The floor became interesting in avoiding her gaze, staring firm upon him in expectancy. A laugh escaped him instead of anything coherent, "funny that huh? Weird you didn't know, being Hokage and all." A grin found its way over his face, and the hair around his neck suddenly became irritating. His eyes met with his bonded's, only to find the man keeping the same questioning expression he had cast to Tsuande, along with a single finger tapping upon his arm, yet, unlike with the -near- threatening Hokage before him, a very minimal simper had crossed his pale features; and the older man appeared amused.

Naruto sighed. "I don't know much okay? Gramps discovered that I'm an 'O' by accident while he was giving me my weekly allowance: For the most part, he simply spent a long time just sitting and thinking; before getting up and declaring that he'd just file me as a Beta. That's all I know." He shortened the detail best he could, there wasn't much he knew of the situation as it stood, other then the law which banned those as himself from fighting. She stood in silence arms crossed and a pinched expression, before grabbing an astray piece of paper and violently writing upon it.

"There, I'll officially write it down tomorrow, but as of now both of you are legally wed," she pointed at the bored man sitting, "you, what's your name?"

"Madara." Tsunade twitched in recognition. Naruto almost found it funny how Madara tiredly smirked at her reaction, clearly quite adapted to the response. "Does that bother you for some reason Senju?" He couldn't really see but the bright blonde assumed the Hokage rolled her eyes at the sarcasm as she wrote something else down.

"I will need to register you as a citizen Madara. So I will need your basic information, just tell me quickly so we can get this over with." Naruto watched the man carefully as he lent over in the chair with a firm stare rested on Tsunade, completely aware that he should listen to what was about to be said, for his own sake.

"My name is Madara, I am a Male and a Prime Alpha, my height is six-foot-five, I bare no current rank, I am however professionally trained in shinobi tactics and jutsu. I have no resident Village nor was I born within one, the date of my birth is unknown, however, it is approximated to the date of Shiwasu Nijūyokka. I was the legal Patriarch of my clan until its desimation... Will that be suitable?" Confusion came much to the end, yet Naruto knew well previous to entering the Village that his new bonded was a man of mystery, he hadn't realized he held so little information. The Hokage seemed to share his position, at least to an extent.

Still she maintained a professional demeanor "I am assuming you mean Nijūyokka of Jūnigatsu?" There, Naruto saw reproach, a near anger crossed over Madara's expression, a full glare, with a red tinge crossing around his irises, before it dissipated quickly, and the man calmed.

"If that is what it is so called now." Was his sighed response, but the jinchuriki could practically feel the irritation from the man, and he decided to turn back to the window and watch the skies.

Still closely listening to the conversation he heard Tsunade largely sigh and the mumble following -which he presumed Madara also heard.- "It has been that way for nearly half a century asshole." Then, the scratch of a pen, before she quickly continued. "I do need to know what your chakra affiliation is."

"I have two, wind is my personal affinity, fire is a kekkei genkai." After that, there was nothing for several minutes from either harshly positioned leader(?). Naruto kept his gaze to the busying streets of Konoha, spotting the occasional visage of a friend wondering about, either together or astray, and he pondered on what those who were coupled in a group could be doing. For a second of careful peering, he did glimpse the head of his mentor from the balcony of a highly positioned building. Upon luck, or her complete opposite; from the vantage point he held, he saw two crooked elders of the council walking jaggedly towards the Hokage tower.

"That should be all-" He felt the twisting motion of his body violently jerk him awkwardly by pure speed. The statement grasping his attention, and before she could come near finishing her sentence he had gripped the discarded bag he'd left leaning against the wall. And was urgently 'encouraging' Madara to move as fast as he might out of the room.

Finally the man moved, taking his hint rather uninterestedly, with the pacing of a Jouin faced to battle a child of the academy. With the most gentle hands he could manage without violent rushing infecting him, Naruto pushed at the taller man's back hurriedly, a great urgency filling him at the knowledge presented with the elder's impending approach. "Really? That's great Baa-chan! Me and Madara are just going to head out now then! Got to get him settled in and everything! Talk to you later!"

In a form of self-defence, Naruto put himself in front of Madara, using his extensive height to an advantage and hoping that he would remain unnoticed from gazes behind the tall shinobi. Jumping from the stairs three at a time as nerves consumed him. His bonded followed at a lacklustre pace; unknowing and uncaring for the reasoning of the quick retreat, the older man simply following along with the fretful lead before him. Perhaps it simply came from the continual feeling of being bound to someone, yet, somehow Naruto felt far safer then he had before within Konoha.

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Madara strolled within Konoha, forming mentally the new landmarks which may aid in battle or escape should necessity come. Though his steps lingered in a hesitation he hadn't borne for decades while within seclusion, his eyes kept poised upon the sight of the vacant Uchiha settlement, the entrance afore him, looming, broken apart and hardly able to keep stance. Much, he noticed, remained similar to his own time, with slight difference of the buildings in reinforcement, the occasional new business in the crevices of the abandoned homes, some still held merchandise upon their broken stalls. The sun had danced to the end of the horizon though as ever; prolonging her departure she cast the eerie glow of twilight over the clan site, occasionally managing to highlight the rare splatter of uncleaned blood stained over the cobblestone pathways.

Madara saw a light flicker dimly within a near collapsed household, however, in another one remained on; shone with a luminance quite bright in comparison. This he found peculiar, he was aware that his clan had seen their demise nearly a decade priour. And simplistic reasoning lead him to the conclusion; within the panic of a slaughter none of the residents would have cared to turn their lights off, nevermind that certainly time would have worn the object to failure as it had all the others.

"Madara-san?" Behind him the vivid voice of his newly bonded spoke, distracting him from the odd sight. He turnt to look at the boy, disturbed momentarily by Naruto's obvious youth -inexperience- when placed in juxtaposition to his own. The child had an expression maring him, concern, Madara could fathom, but not truly see. "Uh, why did you want to walk down here anyway?" The boy hesitates in his question, and in a way the Uchiha finds the inquiry sounds worn as if asked several times -though he does not understand why.- Naruto casts a nervous glance towards the house he had just been staring upon unease betraying the headband he wore. Yet, when Madara glimpsed unto the barren home himself he found it had no radiance within. Neither did the other he had seen, both former homes were as endarkened as the streets they harboured. For a moment of himself he kept his eyes upon the house, forming a suspicion but leaving it.

"Curiosity, is there a problem?" He knew himself to be a curt person, one of candour and crass nature. Listening to himself put regret into his mind he knew that although both unwilling, the 'O' before him would be his future for however long his life lasted, it would only be an idiotic endevear to treat him as a pestalince, their life was to be shared regardless.

Darkness had wondered herself upon them, and he could barely see the detail of the child in front of him, but the remaining gleam from darkness's lover left a slight light; Madara saw the boy flush at the question. A reaction he had no anticipation of and in truth surprised him minimally. "I- I just don't like ghosts..." It was quiet, faintly legible. He found himself rolling his eyes at the very concept of a spirit living within the mortal plaine. Though, Naruto continued, scratching at the back of his neck. "I used to hear these weird sounds whenever I walked around where there was no one else. I didn't think much about it until I was in the academy you know? At first I thought maybe someone was gonna try and kill me; but that didn't make any sense, it wasn't like they didn't have the chance already, and why try and kill me anyway? But the sounds were still there, they still are sometimes..."

The explanation scarcely gave Madara any information in truth, and a dismissal of the fear came quick to his tongue. Yet, the veteran found some credit to the child's uncertainty, and his mouth shut; it was odd for him to hear such things and only while in solitude. A theory came unto his mind in quick succession to the thought. Opposed to the crass dismissal he had prepared, he spoke in a somewhat implicating tone instead. "Perhaps you have someone who finds you... intriguing following." He was unsure of the phrasing to use.

"But- thats- I mean, its been since I was a kid! Like five! A stalker at that age?.." Naruto held no anger portraying within his tone, and the Uchiha found that strange. To not be angered at a person following your footsteps was peculiar.

"You are quite calm over the matter. Had you suspected such a thing previously?" Madara watched as close as he might with the sun leaving them. Though he did manage to see the Omega's lips thin at the question.

"Yeah... I guess, in a way, I just... didn't expect anyone would stalk me without wanting to kill me." Each word grew more hushed as he spoke, hiding something the boy did not want to say.

Contained within himself, the taller man forced his pryful curiosity to stop, as he could fathom the barriers the child pertained were large upon the subject, no progress would be made if he continued. Thus he chose a minor curiosity which he still harboured from their conversation. "And, what precisely is a 'stalker?'"

He heard a joyful laugh loudly outreach from beside him, and from the corner of his eyes saw Naruto bend over in humour as he walked.