chapter 1

this story is before Naruto is born kushina and Minato ask the Nara's to watch over and take Naruto in if hiruzen fails to take care of him. to which the Nara's agree to as they are very close friends.

the only problem is the Nara's couldn't adopt Naruto without the consent of kushina and Minato and during the 9-tails attack which took their lives the proper paperwork couldn't be done.

and so they married Naruto and shikamaru the day they turned 13 when during that time period it was legal so Naruto would officially be a Nara