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The Thirteen

Authors note: this is my first fanfic, if you don t like it then, oh well I m still gonna write it. I will use A/N to thank the people for reviewing, but the thanks will be at the end of the next chapter. This story is a trip into my imagination; neither you nor I know where this will lead. Enough of that on with the story.

-Chapter 1 -

3000 years before the sage of the six paths appeared, 3200ish years before the Shodiame hokage fought Uchiha Madara at the valley of the end, 3400ish years before naruto was born and the kyuubi attacked. There was another fight that involved what the modern world knows as chakra, This fight was also held at the valley of the end.

_Time Skip to the past_

*Unknown POV*

I stood at the top of a ridge, looking at the valley where my army and the intruder's army would meet and we would fight. Some of us would die, some of us would be wounded beyond what the field medics can treat. I will most likely be bored, unable to find a decent fight among the rabble that has no doubt united against us.

"Sir, We have reports that the army across us is the same size as us," a young lieutent reported, snapping to attention as I turned toward her.

"It matters not." I reply with a nod to her.

"But, sir, their leader has been said to have never been defeated in battle either." she said with a slight show of emotion, her pale pupilless lavender eyes stare uncertainly at me.

My eyes snap to hers and bore into her soul, "Then let us hope he provides me a decent fight, otherwise you will have to do for after battle activites, am I understood?"

She nods mutely, throws up a salute and retreats back to the tents, as I turn back to stare at the other side of the valley. Behind me stands 30000 of the best soilders in my territory. I would trust each of them to support one another, but never to watch my back. For some reason they always die too quickly when they've tried in the past. As the sun rises higher into the sky my troops start to get ready for the attack they know I will order when the sun reaches it's zenith. I turn to them and look at them as they assemble in to squads.

"Men," I start off my speech to inspire them. I'm not really paying attention to the words flowing out of my mouth, they are not important to me, but to my men they seem to be ecouraged and proud of the words i'm saying. My eyes lock onto the lieutent that made the report to me earlier, I let my energy focus on her and let her know that she will be at the rear of the charge so that I am sure she will survive. After I break my gaze on her and move my eyes over my men, she starts to move to the back. "... And we will win this battle, I am as assured of this as I am sure the sun will set today. I will lead the charge into battle, if I get too far ahead of you, then you had better hope you catch up quickly enough to kill some of the enemy." My men shout a "Hoorah!" as I finish my speech. I turn around, draw one of my swords and raise it above my head. As I start to run forward, I let the sword fall and yell, "Charge!" Soon I am outrunning even the fastest of my men. As I get closer to the valley I make out another person running towards me. He is wearing blue armour and is carrying a bo-staff. I leap off of the side of the river towards him as he does the same. Our weapons lock against each other as we land on the water, I notice his eyes glowing as I'm sure mine are.

"So, you can use it too." I state with a little bit of surprise showing in my voice.

"Yes, I can." He replies. "I wonder is that why you have never lost a battle too?" He continues.

As I keep my eyes on him, I nod and quickly make my move drawing my second sword and attempting to slice open his stomach. He quickly twists his bo-staff to block my strike, while letting my first sword slip down the staff. For each of my blows, he counters with his Damnable staff. I lock him in once again and focus my energy into my hands and my swords, from them burst fire blacker than the blackest pit. The instant he notices my energy focusing, he starts to focus his the same way and just as my swords are covered in black fire, his bo-staff is covered in a deep royal blue fire. I look to his eyes in surprise.

"You countered my favourite move with the same. How?" I ask calmly.

"I did not know that this was your favourite move too." He stated while we kept our weapons locked. From this point on it became a battle of magick and skill. After 30 minutes we both noticed that while our armies have arrived, neither of them are attacking each other, instead they are just watching us fight. I note with some slight amusement/disgust that someone had thought to bring popcorn and they're eating it. I lock eyes with the warrior magician in blue again and try to send a spike of energy to disrupt his thought patterns, but his identicle spike blocked mine. For five hours we continued to fight, giving no quarter. After the fifth hour we silently decided to end this fight in the next blow. As I rushed him I noticed something strange, he has a smile on his face, and so do I. 'Am I truely enjoying this fight? Is this what I have been missing all these years, the challenge of a good fight?' We come within inches of one another and lock eyes with him, noting the friendliness within his eyes. 'or is it that I might have a friend in my enemy?'

_Time skip to the not so distant past_

A strange man is walking towards Konoha. He s about 5 10 , not thin but well toned and has a small gut. His hair is sky blue with shades of royal blue, and messy but not hanging into his eyes. He has a cloak on that shifts between all the different shades of blue, like ripples on the water, (A/N: think of the cloaks that Frodo and them wore in LOTR for a visual of the type of cloak), underneath he s wearing a bluish-green muscle shirt and navy-blue pants. His eyes are the most stunning true blue.

It s been a while

Flashback

The Kyuubi is attacking the village Hokage-sama , an ANBU nin reported.

'Thank you, well Sarutobi-sama shall we?' Minato asked.

'Let s go... wait, what s happening?' Sarutobi questioned.

The leaf nins and Kyuubi stopped moving. Towards the Two Hokages strode a man in a shifting blue cloak.

'Hey'

'Blue?' Minato asked in a bewildered tone.

'The one and only' replied the man.

'Did you do this?'

'Yes I did, I heard you were having trouble with a certain demon so I decided to see what you plan on doing about it.'

'I plan on sealing him into my son' Minato said with great sadness in his voice.

Sarutobi and Blue were stunned. Sarutobi started to say something but Minato cut him off. 'It s the only way to save my home.'

Sarutobi started to cry and said, 'But what will we do afterwards?'

'I want him to be viewed as a hero and a savior.' Minato said.

'Is it the only way?' Blue asked.

'I'm afraid it is would you look after him for me Blue?'

'I wish I could, but I have to take care of some things for awhile and I won t be able to come back for some years.'

'I will take care of him until Blue gets back' Sarutobi said.

'Arigato.'

End Flashback

-
Blue walked up to the main gates and noticed that not much had changed since he was last here, seven years ago.

"State your name and business in Konoha." the bored looking chunin said.

"My name is Blue and I m here to see some old friends."

The Chunin guard waved him in.

-
Blue started walking down the main street, when he saw a group of adults with weapons chasing a young blond boy that looked familiar to him. He immediately blurred out of sight and right in between the mob and the boy.

"Why are you chasing this young boy?" Blue asked.

There were various cries of "he took my wife", "he's a monster", "he killed my sons" . After a minute of this Blue raised his hand for silence and everyone quieted down really quick. While they were shouting he was counting how many there were in the mob.

"Why do you say such things about him?"

The mob started to bristle with anger and one person just lost it and started to run forward yelling "he's the Kyu-" . He never got to finish his sentence because of a fist planted in to his stomach.

"I will not let you harm this boy" Blue said in a firm tone. The mob decided that they could take on this mysterious stranger and they rushed him. He and the boy disappeared.

-
In the Hokage s office a frightened boy and a note appeared in a poof of smoke, the note was floating down next to the boy.

"What happened Naruto, and what s this note?"

Naruto was too frightened to speak. The Hokage picked up the note and started to read it. He stared at it after reading it and reread it to make sure he saw correctly. By the time the Hokage finished reading the note a second time Naruto had calmed down a lot. He asked the Hokage what the note was about.

"Well Naruto this note is from a friend of mine requesting that I let him train you, personally I don t have a problem with it, but it s up to you whether or not you want to." the Sandaime Hokage said.

"What s he like?" Naruto asked.

"Well he s kind, generous, thoughtful and noble."

"I think I'll like him."

"Good, then meet me at training ground 5 tomorrow morning at 7:00am."

"Yea!" With that the little blond boy named Naruto left the Hokage's office.

"Blue, you can come out now."

"Hey Ojiisan."

"Why do you keep calling me that, when you're a lot older than me?"

"I don't know... So that s Minato s son what about the boy s mother?"

the Hokage looked away.

"When and who?"

"It was one of my former pupils."

"Orochimaru."

"-sighs- Hai. She decided to go get some rare herbs to make some meals with and she left Naruto with me for the day she didn t return that day and I grew worried, so I sent an ANBU team to go find her."

Flashback

Blood is splattered everywhere. Over the rocks and on the grass in lines, a faint metallic smell permeates the air with a sickening aftertaste of death. A faint slithering sound is heard coming towards the approaching the ANBU team. A member quickly throws a kunai at the snake and it disappears in a puff of smoke. There is a note found beneath where the snake was. It said This is retribution for taking my position. The ANBU stared at the note in confusion. The leader signaled to keep the note, and to keep moving forward. They came upon a mound of missing-nin with blood covering everything, arm were ripped to shreds. Heads were crushed; legs were sticking out at odd angles. An arm from the center of the pile was still moving feebly. A female arm. The captain signaled to be careful in moving the body out of the pile. They saw that it was Kushina, Minato s wife.

"T-tell my cough son that cough I m sorry I cough couldn t take him to cough the zoo" The ANBU stared in sadness as the wife of their hero died.

End Flashback

"I see . Where does he live?" Blue asked.

"In the slums .."

".. Why?"

"He wanted to be as far from the villagers as possible to be spared the pain, and to help prevent them from burning his things."

Blue just stared out the window, he wasn't focused on any particular thing. His eyes were an inferno of fury, his fists were clenched with suppressed rage. He thought the villagers would have understood the sacrifice that Minato made for them in sealing the Kyuubi inside his own kid. He just wanted to kill the assholes that made his friend's son's life so horrible. The Hokage noticed that he was trembling with a very strong emotion.

"I'm going to go visit his house." With that he left.

-
Blue walked to his old friend's house, and remembered when he and Minato met.

Flashback

Minato was walking home after a grueling day of training, when he spotted someone lying in the middle of the street. He quickly walked over to the stranger to ask him what was wrong and to see if he needed any help. When he got closer to the stranger he noticed something was wrong, the guy was wearing a cloak and only a cloak and the cloak was starting to open in the breeze. Some of the women were starting to slow down and look at the stranger. Minato decided to go and pick up the stranger to put him in a hotel to help hide his katana . When he got right over the person, he disappeared from in front of him and reappeared right next to him. Reeking of sake.

"Hi, I m *looks into space* Bobbert no that s not right, I m *starts to lean a bit to the side*... George!*straightens up*... that doesn t sound right either . Ah, now I remember I m Blue." And with that he promptly fell asleep again, and fell forward. Minato saw him falling forward and caught him. 'This guy is drunk off his ass; I need to get him to a bed and quick.' Minato took the stranger to his house and set him down on the couch.

Three hours later he woke up with a really bad headache. "Where the hell am I?"

Minato came in with some coffee and omelets with cheese, bell peppers and rice. "Glad to see that your awake, yarou."

"Am I at your house?"

"Hai, I made you some coffee and an omelet, because I figured that you might be hungry"

"I am, my name is Blue."

"I'm Minato."

"Itadakimasu" with that they began to eat.

End Flashback

A tear started to form in his eye.

Flashback

Minato had just barely gotten away from the Iwa-nins, and was currently hiding behind a tree.

"Shit. I barely got away."

Three nins appeared right in front of Minato with their kunai out ready to kill him. He tried to stand, but there was a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey Minato, what s up?"

Minato and the Iwa-nins just looked at Blue for a full minute before Minato said, "what the hell?"

"What, did I forget my cloak?" Blue said innocently. Everyone facefaulted.

Minato recovered first and said, "what are you doing here?"

"Oh, I decided to stop by and see what's happening with you."

One of the Iwa-nins spoke up, "what the hell do you think you re doing, interfering with our mission?"

"What mission is that?" asked Blue.

"To kill any Konoha ninja we see, and we see him." He points to Minato.

"Oh, you mean my friend; I can t let you do that."

"Why not?"

"Cause he s my friend, and cause I don t like you. You look funny." The Iwa-nins facefaulted. Then they quickly got up and got ready to charge Minato.

"Hey Minato, stay here for a minute while I take care of some trash."

The three nins looked at Blue and dismissed him as weak and not worth their time. They took one step forward and found a sword at all of their necks. I wouldn t move again if I were you. The three nins glanced at each other and started to move in three different ways, but the sword separated their heads from the rest of their bodies. Blood started to spurt from the now decapitated bodies on the way to the ground.

"I told them not to move again. Well, let's you back to Konoha. I m sure your leader will want to see you."

"You should meet him."

"I will, but not today."

"By the way, what happened to that jutsu you were working on, the Hirachin, or whatever?"

"The Hirashin, I still haven't finished it yet, but..."

End Flashback

He then remembered the first time him and the Sandaime Hokage met.

Flashback

He was walking down the street, when he bumped into the Sandaime Hokage.

"Sorry Ojiisan."

"It's ok chibi."

He just stopped for a second at being called young, and the Hokage noticed this and turned toward him to ask what was wrong, but he was caught by the man s eyes. They look so old, why?

"Excuse me, but what is your name?"

"My name is Blue, and your's?"

"Mine is Sarutobi, how old are you?"

"Why should I tell you?"

"Because I am the Hokage and I make it a point for me to know the general age of the people I bump into."

*snicker* 'he wouldn t believe me if I told him, so why not.' "I m over 300,000,000 years old."

Sarutobi just looked at him in astonishment. "How is that possible?"

"I'd rather not say here, but if you know of some place private we could talk then I will tell you there."

End Flashback

He continued to walk.

*Unkown POV*

It's been a while since I visited my brothers favorite village. The last time I was there I heard something about a Kyuubi attacking. I wonder if it's been destroyed yet? I think I will go visit it and see for myself how far it's fallen.

+++++++ time skip (not really important how long)+++++

I stare at the village from atop the mountain with the faces carved in it. 'I see the Kyuubi didn't destroy too much of this place. I wonder how many of the people would recognize me, after all I haven't changed much.' I stand 6'0" and weigh about 180lbs, my favourite cloak sways gently in the wind, it's a black cloak that seems to have some sort of design moving in it even when the wind stills. I like the way it mesmorizes some of my weaker willed opponents. I move towards the training grounds to see who is using them today. As I pass by I see several familar faces and admire how time has changed them.

Passing by Gai and Kakashi, "I wonder what the score is at now? and how many dates Gai has actually been on, wearing that ridiculous spandex suit..."

As I stop by and watch Anko train alone, "Where is that creepy thing that used to be called her sensei?"

I pass by various other faces I know as they go about their day and wonder, 'why does everybody look so down or scared? I shall have to talk to my brother about this, I wonder where he is.' I pause for a moment to think about where he would go and head off.

Naruto was wondering who his new sensei would be, when there was a knock at his door. 'There s only one person I know who knows that I live here, Ojiisan!'

He rushed to the door with a smile to greet Sarutobi, but when he opened the door there was no one there. He started to close the door when he noticed a note on the ground. Curious he picked it up and read it.

Dear son,

If you are reading this then it means that my friend has returned to train you and protect you. I m sorry I couldn t be there to train you my self. Once you are old enough my friend will train you to use your Kekkei genkai and your dojutsu to a point, from there you must figure out how to use it. The day after you receive this letter you are to meet him at training ground 5 at 7:00am for training and to meet him. I'm sorry.

Love,

Your father, the Yondaime Hokage, Minato Namikaze

Naruto looked at the note with tears of joy in his eyes.

The next day

-
Naruto was walking to the training ground mentioned in his father's letter. As he was walking he noticed that there were a lot more people around than was usual for this time of day. He started to wonder why they were there when he started to hear some mutterings, from the people walking around, about him. "There he is." "The demon kid." "I want to kill him for what he did." "His friend s not here." "Let's kill him." Naruto began to get scared and started to walk faster and faster to get away from the people and to go to the training ground where he felt he would be safe. Soon he began to jog, and the jog quickly became a run. He was running as fast as he could. His lungs were heaving with the repetitive and laborious motions. He couldn't run fast enough. He thought he could hear the footsteps of an angry mob behind him. The occasional noise of the weapons hitting each other as the mob ran towards him. Weapons ready to kill him as soon as he was in range of their thrusts. He was terrified that he was going to be killed. He just ran and ran, he ran past the training ground that he was supposed to meet the Hokage. He ran on instinct to the one place he felt the safest, the playground by the academy, more specifically the tree swing. When he was with in sight of the swing when he noticed that there was someone on it, he automatically slowed down. The terror of the imagined footsteps was forgotten when he saw a head of bluish hair on top of a grey sweater. He slowly walked up to the person, curious as to why they decided to sit on his swing. The person noticed that he was there and lifted their head to see who it was. Eyes of the purest lavender met the eyes of the purest cerulean. They just stared at each other, wondering what the other was thinking at that moment. Little did they know that the exact same thought was going through their heads at the same time. "Why do they look so lonely and hurt?" Naruto broke the silence.

"Hi. My name is Uzumaki Naruto, what's your's?"

"M-my name is Hyuga H-hinata." She said shyly, she then started to poke her index fingers against each other.

"Why you doin' that?" Naruto asked pointing at Hinata's fingers.

"..."He seems nice, I wonder if he'll be my friend?"... w-will you be my friend?" Hinata asked with curiosity and worry.

Naruto appeared to have conflicting emotions at those five simple words. His face showed happiness that someone actually wanted to be his friend, shock that she wanted to be his friend after just meeting him and concern as to why she looked so lonely and hurt.

"Of course I'll be your friend." Naruto said in an unusually calm and sincere voice.

Hinata looked surprised and happy that this person wanted to be her friend and she immediately got off the swing and ran over to give him a hug. Naruto was shocked when she wrapped her arms around him. He looked down at her as she hugged him, and he let his instincts take over and hugged her back. They stayed like that for a few minutes. Naruto remembered that he was supposed to meet his new sensei and the Hokage at one of the training grounds. He gently broke the hug and said "I have to meet the Hokage and my new sensei at a training ground.

"Can I come with you?" Hinata asked.

"Sure."

They then headed off to training ground 5 to meet with the Hokage. On the way there the people they saw on the streets gave them curious glances that clearly said, "What the hell is that thing doing in the company of a Hyuga?" They left the looks at that and did nothing. Once Naruto and Hinata reached the training ground, they started to look for the Hokage and Naruto's new sensei. They were searching high and low for the two people when Hinata noticed a slow moving shadow on the ground. It was moving back and forth, and it looked almost like a piece of taffy still in the wrapper. She pointed it out to Naruto and they both looked up to see what the cause of the shadow was. To their astonishment they saw a hammock about 20ft above them suspended between two trees. There appeared to be someone in the hammock.

"Hey!" Naruto shouted at the hammock. The hammock twitched and an arm was suddenly hanging off the side of the hammock. They heard a grumbling which sounded like "what the hell do these kids think there doin', ruinin' my sleep." Naruto decided to throw a small rock at the hammock to get a better response. He threw the rock a bit too high and it came down in the hammock hitting the person on the forehead. The person in the hammock was startled and got tossed out of the hammock. He was falling and the kids thought that he was going to hit the ground with a belly flop. He stopped an inch off the ground, he then lowered himself by letting go of the chakra he used to stop himself slowly. The kids looked at him in shock and awe. They both were wondering how he stopped himself using chakra even though it s clear he wasn t fully awake. They were about to go over and help him up, but they heard a low rumbling sound. They paused to see if they could hear it better, but the person from the hammock started to snore. They gently walked over to him to wake him up, but the rumbling noise they heard earlier was growing louder and louder and they started to get scared. They turned around and saw a big cloud of dust headed their way, they heard the occasional sound of weapons knocking against each other as the people who held them ran. Naruto couldn t move, his legs wouldn t stop trembling and at the same time they were frozen in place. Hinata was scared and hid behind Naruto. The mob was three feet from Naruto and Hinata when they were picked up and moved to the hammock that they saw earlier. They were wondering who did it, when they saw the person who fell out of the hammock standing in the middle of the mob and another stranger in a similar cloak, except his was black, standing back to back with him. It looked like the mob was ready to kill them if they didn t hand over the kids.

What do you guys want? asked the person in blue. The kids finally noticed their cloaks, one was a shifting blue cloak and the other was a shifting black, they stared at the blue one. The first thought that went through Hinata s mind was that the cloak was made from the ocean and sky. Naruto wondered where he could get one of his own. They became so lost in looking at the cloak that they didn t notice that the mob was gone and the person had turned to face them. The man came up and moved the kids down out of his hammock. He looked like he wanted to go back to sleep but couldn t because there were things he remembered had to do today. While the other stranger seemingly disappeared.

"Hey, why are you at this training ground?"

"I m supposed to meet my new sensei today." Naruto answered.

"Who's that?" asked the man.

"I don t know the Hokage told me to meet him and my new sensei today at training ground 5 at 7am." The man just looked at the kid with interest and a hint of recognition. They all decided to wait there for the Hokage. Hinata stayed close to Naruto because she felt safer next to him. The man noticed this and said nothing, he also noticed that Hinata s eyes had no pupils. He knew exactly which clan she was from.

"Ojosan, you re part of the Hyuga clan. Correct?"

"Hai." Said a nervous Hinata.

"My name is Blue, what s your's?"

"H-hyuga H-hinata."

"Obocchan, what s your name?"

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto."

"And my name is Sarutobi, also known as the Sandaime Hokage."

"Ojiisan!" Naruto exclaimed as he ran over to hug the Hokage. "So where's my new sensei, Ojiisan?"

The Hokage looked at Blue, and said "He's right over there." Pointing at Blue.

"You mean that lazy guy is my new sensei?"

"Hey! Watch who you re callin' lazy, gaki." said an irate Blue.

"Namakemono-sensei."

"Gaki."

"Ok, that's enough." the Hokage said. "Blue you will teach Naruto. Naruto you will learn from Blue. Any questions?"

"He's just like his father was at his age, isn't he?" Blue asked.

"Now that you mention it... he does remind me of him." the Hokage replied.

"I guess I'll teach for the next 7 years or so, but we won't have to leave Konoha at all."

"How will you manage that? I mean you are going to be teaching him some powerful moves right?" Sarutobi asked with wonder and curiosity at how he would pull it off.

"I'll show you." with that Blue began a long and complex series of hand seals, most of which the Hokage had never seen the like of. After about thirty seconds of rapid hand seals he stopped and pointed at the ground behind Hinata. There was a small rumbling at first, but it quickly grew to a violent shaking. 9 meters behind Hinata there were cracks in the ground caused by something coming up from below the surface, something big. The thing started to rise, slowly out of the ground. It looked like a simple hut at first, but then it another floor began to break up the ground right below where Hinata and Naruto were. The Hokage grabbed both kids and moved them behind Blue. The house continued to grow into a 13-story house, plus the little one-room hut on top. The door at the front of the house was of an ornate design that mystified the kids. The Hokage looked at the door with a look of recognition, sadness and a bit of fear at the door, he turned to Blue and asked, "Is that the Pantheon of the Thirteen?"

"Yes it is. This is how I will manage to teach him, but I won't be the only one to teach him. I will be the main teacher, but in the areas that I'm not that good in he will be taught by one of the others."

"What's with the house namakemono-sensei?" Naruto asked.

"That is where you will train and live for the next 7 years, gaki." Blue said with some irritation at being called lazy.

"Ok, but why are there different levels?"

"The different levels are the levels of progress. The ground floor is where you will start off. Once you learn enough you will be allowed to access the second level and use the facilities there. Once you have learned enough you will be able to access the hut on the very top, but you won't be able to reach that for a long time."

"C-can I train there t-too?" asked a nervous Hinata.

"If it's okay with the Hokage, and if he says yes then I ll talk to your dad about it." Blue said.

"As far as I can see, there is only one problem with it, when will they socialize with the other kids?" the Hokage asked.

"Sarutobi, you remember how Minato learned so much after only a week in there? Well that was due to a time dilation. However since they would be training for a long time they would only age seven years, but they will get the training of 91 years. It may seem like a lot, but there is so much to teach them. They will have the chance to come out to visit and socialize, if they want to. I will take them out to dinner every real world day, so they have no choice but to go out and socialize." (A/N: 1 real world day is equal to 13 training days.)

"Ah, then I have no problem with it." the Hokage said.

"Ok, Naruto go with the Hokage to your house and pack up everything you own. Meet us back here in six hours at the most. Hinata come with me and we'll go talk with your dad."

With that statement they parted to go do the tasks that needed to be done to begin the training. Naruto had no trouble getting all of his stuff packed and he and the Hokage went back to the training ground three hours after they parted ways.

Hinata and Blue met a stranger in black on the way to the Hyuuga mansion. Blue seemed to know this person and just nodded to him. Hinata looked like she wanted to say something to the new person but couldn't work up the courage to do so. Once they got to Hiashi's study they had a bit of trouble convincing Hiashi to let the clan heir train in such a place for so long. Hiashi refused until Blue mentioned that the Yondaime Hokage trained there. He got real quite, and relented. Hinata quickly packed up her things while Blue, the stranger, and Hiashi were left in the same room. When Hinata came back in the room with her stuff, Hiashi, the stranger and Blue got up. Hiashi gave his daughter a reluctant hug before her and Blue left. On the way back Hinata was looking confused and kept glancing at Blue, who just looked straight ahead, ignoring her.

(In Hiashi's study)
"So Why are you back here?" Hiashi politely inquired of the man in black.

"There are things happening that i decided to check on. My brother seems to sense it too." The stranger answered.

"That is why he took Hinata to train in The Pantheon of the Thirteen. I presume that she will be integral to whatever is happening?" Hiashi guessed.

"Hai. Her, Naruto, Sasuke, and another." the stranger replied calmly.

"Who is this other that you mention?"

"She is..."

(Back at the training ground)

"Ojiisan, what is taking them so long?" Naruto asked.

"I d like to think we didn't take that long." Blue said, appearing right next to the Hokage.

"Blue what did Hiashi say?" Sarutobi asked.

"Well, I ll let Hinata tell you. Hinata hurry up."

"S-sorry, sensei."

"Ok Hinata tell them what your father said." Blue said with some disgust.

"W-well, h-he said th-that I c-couldn't go, unless the Hokage s-said ok."

"But he already said ok." said a confused Naruto. He was wondering why Blue said what he said with disgust. The Hokage was also thinking along the same lines, why did Blue make Hinata say it.

Naruto and Hinata, go into the training area while I talk to the Hokage. Naruto and Hinata went into the training area, but Naruto shouted hurry up namakemono-sensei! Just go on gaki. Blue shouted right back. When Hinata and Naruto entered the building, Blue turned to the Hokage, with a look of concern and some anger. Sarutobi was wondering why he told the kids to go on ahead, when Blue spoke to him.

"What does Hiashi have against his daughter?" Blue asked accusingly.

"What do you mean Blue?"

"I mean how he treats her, the way he talks to her, and how he looks at her. What s his problem, is there a stick shoved up his ass?"

Sarutobi smiled a little at the image of Hiashi with a stick shoved up his ass, but then he looked at Blue and said, "Hinata looks like his wife."

"Oh, she was killed wasn t she .. but that s still no excuse."

"And she acts like her. Hiashi s wife was out with Hinata and she was killed."

"Still no excuse. It s time for them to begin their training, see you later. With that Blue went into the training area to begin the seven years of training and torture."

(outside the Pantheon)

Sarutobi Hiruzen watched as the Fourth's Legacy, the Hyuuga clan heir and a walking enigma entered the Pantheon. "There goes the King."

"You know I hate those Shogi metaphors." A voice behind Hiruzen deadpanned.

Hiruzen turned around to face the speaker, "It's been quite awhile, hasn't it, Black."

"Yes it has. You should know, Kushina's Great-great-great-great-grandmother wasn't too happy learning she had died before she got the chance to she her pregnant, and you know how scary Red can be when she's pissed off..." Black barely managed to say with out a shiver going down his spine.

Hiruzen shuddered as a chill that had nothing to do with the weather or the wind went down his back. "I know, I think that even Tsunade was scared of her when they caught Jiraya peeping at the bathhouses."

"I think Jiraya is just glad he wasn't peeping on either of them, or he might not have been able to recover from that one." Black chuckled.

So the two passed the rest of the day reminiscing.

(A/N: I won t give details, but I will give the overview of what happens. PS all times are real world times.)

Hinata and Naruto began on the first level, Blue was there to introduce them to their teacher. After three months Hinata progressed to the next floor while Naruto took four months. Hinata progressed through the training floors within five years, she progressed to the thirteenth floor. The one Blue was in charge of. It took Naruto six years to get that far, however by the end of six years, ten months, and twelve days both Naruto and Hinata passed the final floor. They were allowed to go to the hut on top, but not until the day after they passed the final floor. The day after they passed the thirteenth floor they prepared to go into the hut. They were worried and excited. They opened the door and saw all of their teachers sitting in a semi-circle with Blue right in front of them in the middle of the semi-circle. They all looked like gigantic statues. Hinata was a bit scared, so she started to hide behind Naruto. Naruto noticed this and stood more in front of Hinata to protect her, out of instinct if nothing else. Blue told them that this hut is where they could study until the seven years was up, or they could choose to enroll into the academy. They chose to enroll it the academy. Blue beamed at them with pleasure at their choice. He told them there was one final test that they must do. The test was to get down from the top with out using the stairs. Since Naruto had his bloodline, he had no problem. Hinata however didn t have Naruto s bloodline so there was some difficulty in how she would. She was debating on how to get down when she was swept off her feet. The only thing she remembered of the flight down was that she felt safe and secure in his arms. When they touched down she held onto him for little while longer. Hoping that he would let her stay like that forever, safe and secure in his arms. This was the morning that they would start the rest of their lives, and Hinata wanted it to be with Naruto even though he didn t know how she felt. She was working up the courage to say something to him, but they started to hear a low rumbling sound. And knowing that one of their sensei s sleeping forms weren t on the ground they knew that it couldn t be snoring. They looked up and saw a big dust cloud moving their way.

A/N: This is a semi-rewrite of the original first chapter... and i could't stop some parts from happening, they give a glimpse of things i will expand upon in later chapters... if my mind gets that far...