Altered course
Thoughts
Demon/Inner Self
"Speech"
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or get any profit from writing this story. I do this for my own purpose of having fun.
Naruto was storming through the streets of konoha with a look of extreme worry and anger slapped across his face
it was well past curfew and all he could think of what was said by the sakura to his friends earlier
How the hell… how the hell could she tell them about Kyubi. If anyone should tell them it should be me… and the day was going so well…
Flash back
Naruto had just finished his elemental training after less then two days a feat which would normally take well over two years
And was trying to combine a few of his jutsu's with wind chakra (kage bunshin was easy enough but rasengan was simply in his words impossible) he was at it for a few hours before deciding to continue up on it tomorrow
So he walked around town playing with kids and getting the usual death glares by many villagers and shinobi. But he was in to good of a mood to be put down
He actually met up with gai's team and decided to train with Neji and lee in taijutsu and surprisingly Naruto was doing the best his stamina was apparently still improving and not to mention Jiriya's lessons had come along nicely. By an hour later he had actually war them down enough that Naruto was able to over power them and win to an even bigger surprise. So at the end of the match they called it quits and walked over to the crowd of his friends that had been there watching.
The group now consisted of Rock Lee, Neji, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru, Ino, Sakura and Naruto. (Choji was on a mission and Tenten had to go to work for her fathers' store)
And to celebrate his happy day Naruto insisted on celebrating! "TO SUSHI" made everyone goes wide eyed in confusion not believing it was Naruto any more
Until he explained that he needed a place to sit with his friends (Ichiraku only had the bar seats so he couldn't have a real good talk with them)
They finally arrived at the restaurant- to which at the sight of Naruto about 4 parties got up and walked out at the sight of Naruto.
With a few confused looks they took there seats and gave there orders to the now sneering waiter
"What's with the people here everyone looks so uncomfortable and angry don't you feel it?" asked Ino
"Not sure it's probably just your imagination" mused Naruto
'Well then why are they all looking at you Naruto?' the collective group mused
So after the acward entrance the group started loosening up a talking more freely
Konohamaru had even shown up
"So I take it you know we are all a little curious to what you have been up to for nearly 3 years" shikamaru stated flatly not really asking him a question
After swallowing the last of his food he forced on his usual fox grin to cover up the fact he wanted to avoid it all together and stay on a lighter subject but knew he couldn't/
"I don't think it's too troublesome I suppose (laugh) what you want to know?"
"Well first off I think were all glad to see you aren't a midget any more" came from Sakura with a smile
Naruto growled and gave a friendly smile "yeah feels good to, I WAS SO TIRED OF THOSE MEAN JOKES EH SAKURA!!" as he looked at her accusingly
"WELL IT WASN'T MY FAULT SHORTY ha"
"But when you were fighting Lee and Neji it seems you have improved quite a bit it was amazing"
"Not to mention he was holding back" added shikamaru dryly
Everyone besides Sakura Naruto and Shika were stunned by the news
"WOW THAT'S AMAZING BOSS WHAT KIND OF TRAINING DID YOU GET!"
"Well I just tried really… hard… OH and the weight training helped me with speed and stuff"
"How much are you using?" came Kiba (sounding almost worried)
"… I believe last time the weights were raised was too…"
"13 hundred lbs on whole"
Everyone's jaw just dropped and just threatened to fall off
Lee was just in a fetal position with anime tears trying to find an excuse for Naruto's growth
"Hey! If you had weights on how come you never took them off when we were going to save Garra?"
…well you see-…
Everyone leaned in closer to hear
"I –forgot"
Everyone feel over twitching and chanted the word "baka" in there head
"Psh how did we lose to you" Neji asked him self quietly
"Speaking of witch though I've been having some back problems I should take it off"
He pulled off his over jacket (the orange and black jumpsuit) and was started zipping down the weighted vest leaving a star struck Hinata Tenten, and Ino.
Until they noticed something a weird when he had fully unzipped the vest.
"Naruto what's with the tattoo? It looks really cool" Konohamaru asked his idol
Causing a perverted laugh to come from Kiba where Shino just pushed him to stop
"Huh?" Naruto looked down and he saw it
There was his seal for the Kyubi on his stomach plain as day in dark black lines
What the- wh-why is that there I'm not molding my chakra I'm just sitting here it shouldn't be showing and this didn't happen at the water fall… I'm going to need to talk to Baa-Chan.
"Looks an awful lot like a seal" accused Neji
"Boss?"
Putting on a smile to hide his worry again "ha don't worry I just got it today after training with sensei."
No one really bought it (except Kiba Lee) but they mostly decided to move on even though they couldn't get Naruto's worried face from when he saw the tattoo out of there mind though
Naruto zipped up his jump suit and then for the rest of the night the group continued to talk having fun
A few hours later the only people left included the lazy strategist Shikamaru, the pink haired medic-nin the two Hyuga's, Konohamaru and of course knuckle-head Naruto.
And now all they could think about was the stares at Naruto and his tattoo
"So how about you guys anything interesting happen while I was gone?"
"I'm going to be entering the Chunnin exams this year!"
"Ah that's awesome I guess your going to be out ranking me then (hah)"
"But Naruto you can understand we still have a few more questions… I know its trouble some but…"
Now in a whisper "why are you getting so many angry stares in this restaurant?"
Making a grim smile Naruto looked up with his blue eyes and stared at the other from across the table "well it's a touchy subject id rather avoid the reasons but to give you a summary they see me in the same eyes as an enemy."
Everyone save Sakura gave a confused face trying to understand why people would think that this was Naruto for crying out loud
"What do they think you're going to do, destroy the village or something?" Konohamaru asked confused
"Well yeah… actually hah…"
"b-but Naruto kun t-that's not fair you're not l-like that at all!"
Giving another fox grin "Thanks Hinata! That really means a lot!"
Giving a bright blush "n-no problem n-Naruto Kun"
"You wouldn't hurt the village right naruto-nisan?" the small Gennin asked
"Nah no way I'd die before I hurt this village"
Ah how he would soon regret those very words
"Does this have to do with the burden you mentioned back at the Chunnin exam Naruto?"
Scratching his head and lowering his head "yeah…" then looking up noticing the falling mood waves his arms out cartoonishly "but hey hey hey that's not why were here were to have fun! Right?"
No response
Neji had finally had enough so remembering Naruto grabbing his stomach during the Chunnin exams decided to take a closer look with his Byakugan at the tattoo
So! It is a seal… it's so complicated I've never seen anything like this.
He started focusing more chakra into his eyes just incase there was more to the seal but it was defiantly more then he expected.
Covering Naruto's entire body was second part to the seal twisting and turning all along his body
This is impossible, even with Naruto's headway in training there is no way he could make this. It would take decades to learn the skill to this point…
What does it even do…?
It wouldn't be like the bird cage seal because the stomach wouldn't be a very effective hold on the person it was placed. Summoning? No the stomach isn't accessible enough to be effective in battle…
Then what!…
Pumping more chakra into his eyes with his anger he noticed some more
Starring he noticed that it was leaking the red chakra from the chunin exams by the barrel full
Doesn't he notice a human would die if he was wasting his chakra like this for more then an hour?
The room was now staring at Neji at this point seeing how he hadn't moved for over 5 mins and had his byakugan activated
"Eh Neji …Neji…. NEJI!! HELLO" Naruto asked annoyingly
"Eh Neji nisan what were you looking at?" Hinata looked worryingly
Naruto looked really confused when he saw Neji's look of deep thought but never peering away from Naruto.
"What are you thinking about Ni-san?" Hinata chimed again. Noticing his subtle confusion smacked on his face"
"Hinata… (His voice was stern causing Hinata to imagine her father's image over Neji) I want you to go home; I need to talk to Naruto san…"
"B-but what's wrong why do I have to go?" Hinata asked worryingly
"BECAUSE I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO ASK NARUTO…!"
"Ill fill you in on it later but until then you have to go…" he gave the usual Hyuga glare Byakugan still activated to show there was no arguing
Sakura was shocked at Neji's uncaring words and just looked for a reason why he could even think of doing it. Not coming up with one she decided to say something till she was cut off.
"WHATS WRONG WITH YOU BAKA SHE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG!" Naruto exclaimed
Neji felt the red chakra grow stronger now and worried and hurriedly answered
"Cause I have something important to talk to you and I won't wait any longer and I feel as her protector Hinata shouldn't be here."
Getting even more frustrated and starting to show uncharacteristic compassion she stood up placing her hands on the table "who are you to say if I cant be here if its so important that I cant be here then" she started to calm down
"Then why should you…?"
Even more angry "I told you I will explain later it's obviously a secret of Naruto's that's important so if you don't want me to tell him YOUR SECRET YOU WILL LEAVE!"
Naruto got the hint Neji was trying to imply decided- regrettably- that he also wanted her gone too
Sakura and shikamaru sat there silent watching the story unfold
Hinata was just terrified though
I know how Nisan can be but how… how could he even think telling Naruto that before I can!
She knew if that ever happened she could never forgive Neji
It was the first time she ever thought of using the curse seal on a branch member.
But instead steadied herself gave her good byes and hurriedly left fighting back the tears
Neji had a look of shame on his face but he knew deep inside it was for her own good
Naruto ran out side after a "ill be right back" to apologize to Hinata before they could continue
She frantic running off so mad saying ever curse word she could think of towards Neji until she heard a familiar voice
"EH! Hinata wait!"
She turned around looking at Naruto
He caught up to her and looked down trying not to make eye contact feeling guilty for what happened and talked
"Um… in understand your worried its cause you're a good person for it… but this is something pretty big and I'm not sure if I'm ready to tell any one ok… we can go out eat like that some other time ok?"
Blushing beat red at the possibiltys she didn't give a response
"That Ok Hinata?... Hinata!?" She just looked stunned thinking of spending tomorrow with Naruto alone at restaurant
Not trusting her voice all she could do was nod and respond with the usual "Hai" and hope Naruto didn't see her blush
"Ok I'll meet you at that bridge over there ok at around 5" pointing to a bridge down the street
Hai! A little less nervously
Ok then it's a date! (With his usual full face grin)
Hinata just had her pale eyes like dinner plates trying to figure out if this was true or a dream too surprised to talk she went into an almost comatose state not even moving
Back at the sushi bar 5 mins later
Naruto walked in with a look of slight worry on his face wondering what to say to the THREE genius's at the restaurant
He then sat down across from the other Hyuga… whose eyes full of anger and worry
Naruto never new Neji cared so much about him that he would intentionally be so cruel to his own cousin, just to talk about something like this
Neji was too deep in his concentrations on the upcoming conversation even to notice Naruto
All he could think do was torture himself with his own impossible theory's
All he knew was that Naruto's body was releasing a constant flow of the red chakra into his body from the seals And his Coils system was the largest he had ever he couldn't even believe Naruto could walk with them all throughout his body not to mention the 3 thickest all along his tail bone they weren't natural and had never seen them in any ones body
To say the least... Neji was quite confused
He was going to find out one way or another no if's and's or buts