He made a run for his headband which the water clone was stomping on. Iruka-Sensei had given that to him and there was no way in hell he was going to let some mangy Mist ninja ruin it.
"Uzumaki Naruto, you get back here!" Sakura yelled as if she was his mother or something. The panic in her voice warmed his heart a bit. She cared enough about him to be afraid that he would die.
"Uzumaki?" the water clone said suddenly looking at him rather intently. "Not Uzumaki Sato's son?"
His face burned a bit as the memory of the day one of his academy instructors had gleefully informed him that he was the bastard offspring of a foreigner and that his father had been too ashamed to reveal his identity rose unbidden. It had been after school that day that he learned his mother's name.
"My mother's name was Kushina." he said turning a bit red and practically daring the water clone to say something bad about him or his mother.
There was a sudden yell of "Cousin!" and he found himself enveloped in a bone crushing hug.
After the battle, he knew it was too good to last. Nothing good was ever given to him without either it or something else being taken away. He would strangle that Hunter-Nin with his bare hands the next time he saw him.