The only thing stronger than a demon is a death-god.
She's gone insane!
"Hinata no! Dont... holy shit..."
He was on the ground impaled with several long, metal spears. While Hinata had been receiving the beating of her lifetime seconds ago, her bloody body disappeared. He looked up to see her in the air.
Only she didn't look the same. A new jutsu? Naruto was beyond the point of reason in this war, all he could do was pray she knew what she was doing.
"Taste my chakra bullets bitch!" Hinata yelled as her 200-piece unloaded on the ginger-haired maniac below. Her wing was bloody on one side, causing her flight-path to spiral down like a cork-screw.
"Aah, fuck it..." she stated aloud, shrugging after a split-second moment of contemplation. She dove onto the carrot-top asshole maliciously.
"What is this madness?" Pain exclaimed, trying his best to pry the wild creature off his back.
Black clothing and huge black wings, completely black orbs save for a thin line of bright red and broken blood-vessels made up her eyes. The hyuuga gave Pain a sharp, toothy grin before biting into the man's crotch.
"What the fuck!" Pain really felt true pain at that moment, just as Hinata had hoped.
It didn't last long. She was a shinigami, Pain was a demon. He had her beat when it came to power, although she had immortality in this form.
So... in a way she was more powerful. But that wasn't going to save anyone else. She was blasted off of Pain, who stuck a few spears in her limbs.
"Jesus fucking Christ, you made me holy!"
Hinata laughed aloud, to the weirded out looks of both Pain and Naruto.
'What is she saying? weird girl...'
"I can hear both of your guy's thoughts. Fuck you, I'm not weird! I've just done a bit of extra-dimensional travel is all."
'Hmmm...'
"Hmm yourselves!"
Hinata turned her bloody face to Naruto and smiled.
"Hey Naruto-kun?"
"What's up Hinata-chan"
"If we don't see eachother again, just so you know I had a crush on you since we were kids and... well I guess, I love you."
"WHAT!"
The blonde gawked at her. Was he really that blind/dense? He'd never met this tough girl before and he'd never noticed she was into him. Maybe this wasn't really Hinata...
"Dude it's really me, Hinata Hyuuga. Don't doubt it."
"Well... hell, I've got some thinking to do later..."
"This is cute and all, but I'll just be getting back to killing you now..."
Pain stabbed a pole deep into Hinata's abdomen, causing Naruto to cry out in a fit of guttural rage.
"Retard, you can't kill a shinigami!" Hinata rolled her eyes but continued to lay there, unable to get free.
Not that it mattered, Naruto was going beast-mode now, she couldn't help savouring the dark-red chakra that washed over her and everything in the immediate vicinity.
"Yeah Naruto, tear his ass up and fuck him bloody!"
That came out wrong. No matter, Kurama was out now and he chuckled at the mental image of a beaten Pain as his gagged sex-slave.
"I like you girl, you just beat the kit on my list of humans not to destroy."
"Thank you Kurama-sama. I'm a shinigami-human FYI. Also, your chakra makes me really fucking hot, that's potent shit..."
"Aged over a millenium ya know, it'll be like the best wine you ever tasted... if you want to taste."
"I don't drink alcohol, I'm 16. Also I'm not into freaky demon sex. But thanks for whatever you were offering..."
"No problem."
Could you believe they were having that conversation while Kurama/Naruto was sixty-foot tall and wrestling with an enlarged Pain. Red chakra clashed with black over and over, and Hinata lay back with a relaxed face.
They were at it for hours it seemed, because now the sun was coming up and shouts in the distance no longer came.
But the fighting stopped, and it seemed Kurama/Naruto were the winners.
VICTORY! Adrenaline rushed through her system at the thought of said sucessful outcome.
She pried the poles off her hands and abdomen.
"That sucked..."
The ones on her feet and wings hurt the most. But when they were off they healed quickly.
"Hinata-chan, it's no wonder I've never seen you in the hospital once!"
"Hey Sakura-chan" Hinata kept her mouth closed, not wanting to scare the girl any more than necessary.
The eyes and all-black get-up were enough, her folded wings looked like a funny blanket right now. But the huge toothy gash of a mouth, like that creepy fish thing that had a little light to lure its smaller same-species pray.
Yeah, her shinigami smile was the worst part.
"You're not freaked out?"
"Nah, I've read about you shinigami. Nuff said, I'm open to this..."
"Cool beans."
Sakura helped her up and they walked back to the village.
There were a lot of dead people. Hinata shrugged them off, she'd see them later, while Sakura was too busy healing to grieve. They respectfully maintained a sorrowful expression while contributing in every way they could to fixing the mess though.
While her heart soared when Naruto returned and got a hero's welcome, she just waved from the back of the crowd before running off.
She was going to be busy for a while guiding souls to the world beyond death.
"Hey wait up!"
Naruto yelled out to Hinata but she kept running. It seemed she paid no mind to him, lost in her own thoughts.
"Hinata!"
He probably shouldn't have just left the villagers like that, they'd be worried. No matter, he'd go back soon.
"Damn it, kage bushin!"
Two more Naruto's appeared, leaping ahead of the real version. This chase was getting ridiculous, he needed to stop her before she turned into that flying thing he saw her as during the battle and flew off.
Clone #1 grabbed #2's wrist and ankle and began spinning like a top. Upon release Clone #2 launched ahead fifty feet in barely a second.
Hinata was oblivious to everything. That was until a pair of sandaled feet landed on her back, pushing her to scrape along the ground while the clone stood over her, grinning.
"Shit, sorry Hinata!"
Naruto shoved his clone off the girl guiltily, kneeling down to check her for injuries. He had meant for the clone to land in front of her, not on top of her.
"No harm done, but I'm pretty annoyed right now..." The gritted teeth and clenched fists warned him to step back.
"I'll never hit you Naruto-kun, well, not unless you tell me to during sparring or something..."
"Oh, cool..." He sighed in relief and pulled her to her feet. She sensed he had something he wanted to talk about. There were plenty of things after all, who died, who survived, what happened surface-level while he was fighting Pain in demon-fox mode, the whole shinigami business...
"I just wanted to ask, did you really mean what you said about liking me for all those years?"
Oh. She wasn't expecting that.
"Well... uuuhhh... yes!" The last bit came out as more of a squeak, making her blush.
"I know you're into Sakura, so don't worry. I just wanted to say it in case you died..."
"You mean in case either of us died?"
"No. I'm shinigami, we don't die."
Shinigami. Naruto frowned, immediately remembering everything he could about the word. His father had used a powerful jutsu to seal the kyuubi inside him as a baby, the reprecussion being a shinigami claimed his soul and extra life-span.
Shinigami were death-gods charged with the task of guiding souls to the afterlife, known to have inhumane powers. He shivered with goosebumps, for some reason the idea that Hinata had the power of a shinigami excited him. There would be time to question her further on this matter later.
"Really? so I went beast-mode for nothing..."
"What are you talking about! You did it to save the village."
His eyes widened in realisation. That's right, although he'd initially lost control from her supposed death, his resulting power was what defeated Pain.
"I guess I did..."
They were walking along together, before stopping on a bridge. Hinata leaned backwards against it coolly, tilting her head back as Naruto watched her.
"What is it?" she asked, pale eyes sliding over to meet his.
"Nothing! I mean... you look really pretty right now."
Her lavender jacket was fully unzipped, revealing her form fitting mesh top and black tank-top over it. Her hair was tied back in a messy bun but a lot of it had slipped out during their scuffle.
"Thanks, you're looking surprisingly good having just won a battle against a deadly shinobi."
He wore his black and orange jumpsuit, the orange jacket was unzipped like hers and revealed a similar mesh shirt, while his blond spikes hung down over his forehead with his headband tucked in his pocket.
"Naruto-kun, you're leaving soon right?"
"Yeah, tomorrow Jiraiya-sensei's taking me to meet another jinchuriki, he'll teach me to control my own demon."
'Hmm, better not mention my little interactions with Kurama...' Hinata thought, nodding happily.
"Would you mind holding off on responding to my confession? I don't think you should distract yourself. You've got more important stuff to think about right now, our fight against the Akatsuki isn't over yet..."
"Oh, yeah sure... You're right, we can save this for after Madara's dead and I learn to control the kyuubi."
"Exactly."
Hinata patted his shoulder. For a moment they held gazes, both of their cheeks blushing lightly.
Then Hinata took a step back, activating her shinigami-mode.
"I have a lot of things to do, I hope I get to see you later Naruto-kun."
"I hope I see you before I leave. Bye!"
He waved to the girl as she flew off, sighing softly.
She didn't say goodbye to him. Sakura and the rest of the Konoha 12, Kakashi-sensei and a heavily injured Tsunade baa-chan were gathered to say goodbye, but Hinata was nowhere in sight.
Though it pained him, they'd said all they needed to yesterday anyway.
"I'll come back even stronger so I can protect the village, believe it!"
A year passed by really slowly. Through all the torturous training, Naruto pulled through by constantly reminding himself who he was doing all this for. The people who mattered, Sasuke, Sakura, his senseis, his parents, Teuchi and Ayame, his friends...
Hinata.
'How is the little Hyuuga vixen?' Kurama asked, grinning maniacally from behind his prison cell. Naruto scoffed at him, trying to focus on his meditation.
'I asked you a question Kit'
'So?'
'Answer it...'
'How would I know! I've been here for the last whatever time, a year I think... why do you care anyway? You've never met!'
'Oh but we have, when you last called upon my power.'
'WHAT! Did you touch her you creepy son of a bitch?'
'Wish I could've.'
'You'd wish you were dead if you had!'
'Okay calm your shit down, I just talked to your mate for a few seconds. No harm done...'
'Hmph. What did you talk about? And don't call her my mate...'
'You know you like how it sounds. How about girlfriend?'
'She's not that either. Ugh you've completely ruined my meditation!'
'Good. Trivial matters at the time, but just so you know she likes power, I mean she reeeaaallly likes power'
Kurama's grin widened. Naruto wanted nothing more than to knock his big teeth out.
'Lucky you're freaky powerful even without me around, you carry some dope chakra mix thanks to your parents.'
'... thanks?...'
"Hey kid! Get your ass up, we're going to Myobuku."
Jiraiya pulled him out of his mind into reality.
"What for? Not that I don't wanna see gamabunta or anything but-"
"You're gonna learn sage-mode. It's a power-up technique, with it you can harness the natural energy all around us. It's powerful, let's just say that."
"Really? Awesome!"
Another few months were spent on the beautiful Mt Myobuku. Naruto sat alongside Gamabunta the toad king. After staring into the abyss of an oily pond for hours, he'd learnt the basics of what needed to be done.
The actual doing was the hard work.
"I don't know if you'll be able to master this in time kid..." Gamabunta shook his head worryingly. "You need more time than what you have."
"And how much time do I have?"
"Well Madara's just attacked your village."
The blonde shinobi jumped up, shocked.
"Shit, take me back Gama!"
"Hang on kid, I'll drop you off in the battlefield but we need to get Jiraiya."
The toad-king gave a massive croak, gathering enough energy to summon the sennin. When the white-haired toad sage arrived, he swallowed the two and jumped off into their world.
Everything had kicked off around Konoha. It was a full blown shinobi war, bigger than the Pain invasion. As soon as they arrived Jiraiya headed for the hospital, he needed to make sure Tsunade was okay. Naruto made a run for the centre of the battlefield, where there was a standoff.
There were the 4 remaining Akatsuki members, Konan, Itachi, Hidan, and Madara who was controlling Obito's re-animated 10-tailed beast corpse. Aside from Sasuke, who fought Itachi on his own, the rookie 12 were fighting one member each while their sensei's cleared weaker enemies by the dozen.
Team Asuma were fighting Konan, Team Gai were fighting Hidan and Team Kurenai were fighting Obito. Sakura was a pink blur who moved between the members and healed them, taking out whatever enemies she could imbetween.
Their tactics seemed to be working, everyone except Obito/Madara was down now.
"Hey little brother, just so you know I always loved you..."
They were the last words Sasuke heard before he dug his kunai deep into Itachi's already bleeding neck. He leaned over the older Uchiha, holding back the tears.
While fighting, the sorry story of his clan's demise was told. He didn't know what to hate now. Should he get revenge on the village who forced Itachi to commit such heinous acts?
Or maybe he should kill the nine-tailed demon, for simply existing he gave the Uchiha power to even think of overthrowing the Hokage.
Either way he was out for blood. 'To hell with reason!' Sasuke thought as he started killing everyone in his immediate area. Enemy or ally, he just didn't give a fuck anymore.
"Kiba, don't fucking do that!"
Too late. Hinata groaned, watching the Inuzuka dive-bomb onto the back of Obito's inky-black chakra tentacles. He was immediately spit out with most of his clothing charred.
A badly singed Akamaru lay by his side, whining helplessly. Luckily
Shino and Sakura came to their rescue, scooping them up after finishing their own battles, Hinata sensed they would be heading for the underground bunkers. They'd done their part on the battlefield and done it well.
The last big enemy was Madara controlling Obito, and only one blonde jinchuriki of Konoha would have enough power to tip the odds of winning in their favour.
Kakashi met up with Kurenai, who attempted to prop up the heavily bleeding Asuma. Even though he was dying, a cigarette was shakily being lit between chapped lips with bloody fingers.
He was going to die looking cool, for sure.
"A-asuma... your wound wont close!"
Kurenai was losing her shit, trying to keep her tears in as she shakily cauterised the wound.
"Kurenai, I'm sorry I couldn't be there for little Hitori..." He whispered, his blood-filled throat choking out the words with a thin stream of smoke.
"I love you..."
"No, NOOOO!" She pushed him against the tree when he slumped forward, begging him not to die. Kakashi watched silently as the woman let out her woes on the tree he leaned on, punching it with her already-bandaged fists so hard cracking noises were made.
After that and a five-minute crying fit, Kakashi pulled her up to her feet.
"Take Asuma's body to the bunker Kurenai-san, I know it's hard but you have to..."
He allowed the woman to lean into his arms and cry on his chest, looking off into the distance as he was reminded of his own sad past.
His teammate and first love Rin had died in his own arms, and his other teammate Tobi was now the controlled zombie-shinobi Obito, whose corpse Madara had needed to host the ten-tailed demon because Tobi had unlocked the rinnengan before his own death which was the most powerful bloodline known to man.
It was so powerful it could control demons. The rinnengan was what Madara had first used to control Kyuubi to attack the hidden-leaf village in the first place.
Kakashi watched Kurenai leave with a dead Asuma, before heading off to Obito.
He was going to face his teammate for the last time.
Naruto arrived on the scene, squinting slightly at the haze of potent mixed chakras that laced the air. Black swirled through purple and greens, rising high up and arching over to create a dome of sorts.
"So the Yondaime's son has arrived. Time to see who the prophetic peace-bringer really is..."
Before Naruto could scoff at him derisively a flash of dark energy beat him to it. Madara was kicked in the face and knocked to the side by none other than Hinata, shinigami-mode active.
"Go shove that prophecy up your ass creep!" She immediately jumped back fifty metres, landing next to Naruto. Grinning widely, she gave him a thumbs up.
"Naruto-kun, it's been a while. Nice eyes dude!"
"Thanks, same to you..."
His glowing completely yellow orbs with vertical black slits locked onto the pitch black orbs with nothing more than a thin red ring and bloody looking spots.
They were both looking into what was each of their worst nightmares, so why couldn't they stop giggling?
"That natural energy around you feels pretty sweet Naruto-kun, kick his ass down here while I go for aerial attacks."
"Alright, give it all you've got Hinata!"
"I'll make sure you don't die..."
"These are some pretty cocky kids..." Madara muttered, looking at the huge grins plastered across their faces and wanting nothing more than to personally wipe them off the two. The silver-haired jonin had joined the battle below, engaging in combat with his puppet alongside Naruto.
Meanwhile the hyuuga was flying, yes, fucking flying! If it was a new jutsu, Madara would pry the knowledge of it from her cadaver once he was victorious. But the little bird was quick, dodging all tentacles that lashed out at her and slashing at them with her kunai in return.
She was sending her chakra down every time they made contact and Madara felt bursts of pain followed by numbness. Something to do with the Hyuuga jyuken attacks, fuck.
Kakashi watched Hinata attacking Madara with interest. Since when did the Hyuuga have that sort of jutsu? He couldn't even feel the power she should be emitting, though it was pretty obvious she was powerful.
Thanks to her continued distracting Obito was twitching weirdly, unable to battle properly. This small lapse in skill made it easy for Naruto's clones to ram him while Kakashi performed an earth-jutsu to restrain him. It seemed Obito was unconscious.
"Yo sensei, we made an awesome team!" real Naruto jumped up and down excitedly, sage-mode off and shadow-clones expelled.
"I guess we did, just like old times eh?"
"Yeah, only I could kick your ass now, and you actually showed up on time and shared the load..."
Kakashi rolled his eyes. "You'll beat me in your dreams squirt, now help me-NO!"
He'd made a fatal mistake. Naruto couldn't even reply as a hand was suddenly placed over his eyes.
"Don't look Naruto, the rinnengan will... hypnosis..."
The silver-haired jounin was gazing into the open rinnengan eyes of his former teammate, under it's spell.
'Keep your eyes closed Kit!'
'Kurama? Why are you here?'
'That puppet opened his eyes and put the copy-ninja in a powerful genjutsu'
'Will he be able to get out of it?'
'I don't know, but if you go under he'll take control of me and we're fucked. Go into sage-mode, you won't be affected then.'
'That sneaky... grrrrraaahh! Okay, thanks fox.'
He re-opened his eyes- once again yellow and slitted- and looked around. Obito was still contained but Kakashi sat in front of him, dazed. He growled again, knowing there was nothing he could do except summon a toad to carry Kakashi to safety.
"MOTHER FUCKER!" Hinata yelled at the top of her lungs, not caring who heard. The tentacles had grabbed onto her wings and were pulling them apart. The pain was excruciating, blinding, her shoulders were ripping apart with the force.
But he dropped her, broken, mangled wings and bloody back, to crumple on the ground. She was too weak to move, such damage would take a while to heal, even with her god-like powers.
A hail of black chakra-infused shuriken rained down on her. She willed herself to face it, for death was nothing to a death-goddess.
But nothing hit her. Hinata opened her eyes and met a familiar back with long brown hair, limbs splayed out in front of her. The sharingan knocked him back until his head fell at her feet, three shuriken embedded in his forehead right over the cursed caged-bird seal.
"FUCK NEJI!" She'd never screamed so loud in her life, tearing the ninja-stars from his seal and attempting to heal the forehead wound. Despite the fifteen others littering his body, she had to heal the ones that hit the seal first.
When tampered with, even slightly, it set off like a bomb and started imploding the brain and eyes, before moving down the body and turning the seal-wielders insides to mush. That was why Neji was twitching so badly, even 18 shuriken would never be enough to make Neji flinch.
The seal however, no-one could tough it out without reacting.
Blood tears ran down his eyes as he worked a hand up to cup his cousins cheek.
"Hinata-sama, forgive... me..."
No matter how much she tried it was useless. The twitching was so violent he'd flung several shuriken out himself.
She eventually moved back, eyes finally filling with tears that she refused to shed.
She would do so later, after she helped Naruto kill Madara and end all of this bullshit for good.
Naruto glanced to the side for a moment, still caught up in his attacking Madara.
What he saw almost made him give up.
A shaking, broken-winged Hinata stood over her obviously dead cousin, if the stillness, embedded weapons and bloody mass on the ground could even be considered Neji.
Memories of the boy who once thought fate couldn't be changed, only to have his own changed flew through his head. Naruto had enlightened him and earned his friendship in the process.
All for nought apparently. Madara was going to pay very, very dearly for this.
A blur jumped through the forest, aiming for the biggest monster in the field which just happened to be Madara. Sharingan eyes activated, a sword in each hand, Sasuke quickly surveyed the scene.
It seemed Madara was on his last legs, the sage-mode former teammate of his was doing a number on him while some girl with broken wings rammed at him from the other side.
While the winged girl in black didn't emit anything, Sasuke admired Naruto's aura, his power felt incredible to the Uchiha's senses.
He would make a worthy opponent when Madara was out of the way.
He set his swords down for a second and gathered a ball of lightning in each hand, concentrating the energy as much as possible. Finally he flung them towards the ten-tailed demon Obito, who screamed so loudly it caught Naruto's attention.
Sage-eyes turned to see the Uchiha, before grinning widely. 'He's on my side... for now.'
It was enough to give Naruto hope, that and the fact that the three of them were clearly beating Madara/Obito.
The ten-tailed demon was thrashing around in his earth-prison, the tails attempting to lash out and grab whatever they could. Madara had resorted to hand-to hand combat, although the black aura surrounding him was still fierce.
When he could aim a decent shot however, Hinata would knock into him and he'd miss Naruto by inches, who would then attack him without hindrance. It felt like hours had passed of tag-teaming Madara while Sasuke reduced the demon below to a puddle of black, oozing liquid.
Finally, Madara fell to his knees and admitted defeat, not even bothering to look up at the concentrated balls of yellow, black and purple chakra raining down on him.
He felt his head implode upon impact, then that peace he'd sought for most of his life washed over him.
So this is what was meant to happen.
Hinata heaved in and out beside the other two, heavily injured. She didn't have to look to know it was Naruto and Sasuke. It seemed she was forgotten as the two best-friends and rivals eyed eachother, standing tall and quite a distance apart.
Sasuke brought his hands up and performed a series of complicated signs. It was probably the longest sequence in existence, but once done they immediately saw the sky open up.
A fearsome being with long white hair, painted skin and a pale dress descended upon them. Hinata gulped, freightened of this familiar being.
It was Kami herself, regal and imposing. The god of gods, her being here meant what happened next would be very, very important to the universe.
"Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, you were destined to fight and so the time has come."
Her blank red eyes flickered between the two, before she grabbed each of their shoulders and pulled them back up into another dimension.
That was the last Hinata saw of them. She couldn't follow, wouldn't in fact. The need to prove themselves to eachother had been engraved so deeply into Naruto and Sasuke that this moment was inevitable.
They would fight before the gods, and the outcome of said battle was a matter left to them and them alone.
So the war was won by Konoha and the shinobi alliance. But was it really a victory? When thousands of their shinobi were killed in the process, people the villages had held dear to their chests, now lined up neatly in freshly dug graves in Konoha and the other villages.
Hinata opened the portal from the underworld to the living, sighing softly. She hadn't been back to Konoha's living world for almost a year now. It couldn't be helped, the massive fluctuation of souls that needed transporting, and she could only drag so many at a time.
She'd gone incognito, as completely invisible to the living as they were to her. And she roamed the foggy imbetween world, a shining remimder to the lost souls that they didn't belong there.
She found Asuma clinging desperately to Kurenai's memory, willing himself to be felt by her living flesh. He had little resistance with leaving, but couldn't help the single tear that fell seeing the swelling stomach of his lover one last time before leaving.
He was going to see his father, mother and brother, and eventually Kurenai and their child Hitori would join him.
Neji was nothing but glad to see her. He'd been roaming the battlefield looking for her body, after checking the village and coming up short. He was eager to see his father again, and walked hand-in-hand to the afterlife with Hinata.
There were many other shinobi that she'd connected with briefly. Most of her friend's parents, Tsume Inuzuka and Shibi Aburame, Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, Inoichi Yamanaka and Aoi Haruno. They all talked to her at some point.
For anyone else talking to thousands of dead spirits would be heart-breaking. Hinata found it comforting, especially when in the bright-white light that was the afterworld, two spirits materialised in front of her that she'd never expected to meet ever.
Dark blue and Light blue eyes locked onto the shinigami, taking in her appearance. Black longsleeved shirt and leggings caked in blood, bare feet scarred and freshly cut up while her hands were bandaged from knuckles to elbow.
Her head hung down, letting the completely white strands fall over her face to cover the haunted black and red shinigami eyes and toothy gash of a mouth. Behind her a single, tattered wing sat beside a large tuft of mangled feather and bloody bone. One wing had snapped off during the fight with Madara, and she hadn't willed it to grow back.
Hinata was suffering under the pain and misery of those who died, she was going insane again.
"Minato, how do we help her?"
Kushina's grip around her husband's left arm tightened, watching the girl shuffle over and release the pouch where she kept the souls. They floated in the air, yellow orbs of light, before dispensing out to find and connect with this new world.
"The gods have not been kind to her, she is the last shinigami in existence to our former world." Minato stated such, moving forward to touch the girl.
Hinata looked up slowly, meeting a pair of light-blue eyes so familiar she felt lost.
"N-naruto-kun?"
A small smile, the man put a hand on her shoulder and brought her to the woman standing behind him. They were both tall, Hinata's head only reached the mouth of the older woman with beautiful red hair that hung below her waist and large, expressive dark-blue eyes full of warmth and a hint of mischief.
The man had Naruto's light-blue coloured eyes and blonde hair, long and wild. She knew who these two souls must have belonged to. Naruto's parents, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
"Hello there Hinata-san" Kushina bowed to her politely. She stood there speechless, Minato noticed she seemed ready to faint and pushed her to sit down, as he did too. While they crossed their legs Kushina sat gracefully, legs sideways.
"It's nice to meet you, honourable parents of Naruto-kun..."
Hinata finally remembered her manners and was going to formally bow, but Kushina giggled and stopped her with a hand to her wrist.
"No need to be so formal Hinata, we've always been pretty laidback in our life." Minato held up a hand before uncrossing his legs and stretching them before him, leaning back on his elbows. Kushina laughed at his sigh of relief and grabbed Hinata's hand.
"You know, we've seen everything that happened down there, and we wanted to thank you."
"What for?"
"For standing by our son's side. Even as children you kept an eye on him didn't you? Leaving bags of food on his balcony and leading him to safety when the mobs attacked."
Hinata would have blushed if her dead skin allowed it. "I just never understood why he was so mistreated back then. I guess you're welcome though."
"Hey Hinata? Do you think you could change to human form? Your get-up right now kinda scares the buhjeezus out of me."
Kushina punched him in the shoulder and he let out a howl in pain. "Quit being a scaredy cat!" Her long red hair flaired up like a thousand snakes, scaring the both of them.
"Please Kushina-san don't hurt him, it's okay I can transform!" Hinata disappeared in a poof of smoke and came back in human-form. Both parent's turned back to her in surprise, before smiling warmly.
"Wow, my son is a lucky young man to have a knock-out like you his age around... OWWW!"
Kushina hit her gawking husband again, but completely agreed. This long indigo-haired beauty with huge lavender eyes, smooth milky skin and curvaceous body beneath a simple lavender kimono was something all men would want.
She paid the comments no mind, instead giggling at the antics between the two. Kushina was very bipolar when it came to her husband, although he seemed to enjoy making her angry.