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Chapter 2- Revealing the Secrets
"Well, Haku is fine, but she is at Zabuza's grave right now." said the one-eyed Nin with an eye smile. "But what I would like to know is how you healed her and why is your hair long and black."
Naruto shifted uneasy on what to tell him. "I made a bond with her, which made us like clansman to each other. It happened when I healed her."
He decided to leave out most of his new bloodline, he would tell the old man and Haku first. He also thought it would be best to tell Haku about them being mates before he told anyone else. "So then my hair turned black."
"He's hiding something, but he seems like himself. I'll let it side for now, he must be very upset about seeing two of his friends 'die' in front of him. "Kakashi thought to himself.
Then the lone eyed Jonin spoke, "You know death is a part of being a ninja, but you should be happy we all survived."
"I know and I am. I'm going to find Haku." Naruto replied as he got up and left the room.
Kakashi sat down, wondering what he could do for his student, "I know how tough it must be for him to think that he lost a teammate and then a friend, which being up another question. When did the two of them become friends?"
Zabuza's Grave- Naruto walked up to the girl sitting in front of a grave. "I'm sorry for Zabuza's death" He said as he sat down beside her. Haku silently nodded and they sat there for a couple minutes. Finally Haku cried out, "I should have died, why didn't I die!"
Then she felt Naruto put her arm around and pulled her to his chest to let her cry out her frustration and pain for a few minutes.
Then he whispered out, "I'm sorry I didn't want you to die, Haku. I don't want to be alone…not again. You are the only one that I have found that has lived in pain for something that was out of their control." As he finished, the ice user felt a tear fall on the side of her face. As she looked up at his face, he said. "I want you to come back with me. I want you to be my friend, I want you to be with me."
Haku cupped his face with her smooth hands, "We are alike, and we both have lived with the pain of our past." She pulled him into a hug, "I would like to be with you and go back to your village with you." The two stood there enjoying the warm embrace of each other. As it started to get dark, they decided to go back to the house to eat and get some sleep.
As they walked in, they heard Naruto's annoying teammate, Sakura also known as the Banshee scream at them, "Naruto, where have you been? You just wake up and then go missing all day with her." She said, pointing at Haku with a look of disgust.
Naruto got pissed at Sakura's words and retorted angrily, "Sakura, do me a favor and shut up the hell up! As to where I was and who I was with, that is none of your concern, therefore I have no need to discuss anything with you."
He finished and walked past a shocked Sakura. As he sat at the table, he saw Kakashi hadn't looked up from his book and Sasuke was glaring at Haku.
Naruto said in an angry tone, "You got a problem, teme?"
"I think that we should kill her, she's the enemy." replied a rather angry Sasuke.
"Yeah, she tried to kill Sasuke-kun, she shouldn't be here" came in his bubble gum haired fan girl, trying to gain favor with her crush.
Naruto said, "Excuse me? But I remembered that she didn't kill Sasuke, she put him in a false death state just like she did with Zabuza."
By this point Kakashi put his book down. "She stopped being the enemy when Gato tried to kill them. In the ninja world, any enemy at one moment can become an ally at the next moment. You all should remember that." He started reading his book again giggling now and then….as always.
The rest of the night went by quietly with the usual….Sasuke brooding, Sakura fawning over Sasuke, Kakashi reading his book, Naruto and Haku making small talk. After a while they all went to bed as they still had a week till the bridge would be finished.
As Naruto fell to sleep, he found himself in front of Kyuubi's cage once again.
Kyuubi said, "Well, kit, I believe that we have something to talk about. First, you need to tell your mate about everything from my to your bloodline to her being your mate. Second, when you get back to your village don't put your mask on, you will also be a weak fool if you do. Also you need someone to teach you taijutsu, preferably something strong that cause you to break bones and I also want you to start to work with a sword. Find a master to teach you kenjutsu, I think that that old man…the Hokage should be able to help you find one. Now leave, I'm still tired from healing your mate and replenishing your blood. You also need your sleep, so your mate can show you how to use your ice abilities."Before Naruto could reply back to the fox, he was thrown from his mindscape into a nice dream about him, Haku and Hinata going for a walk around the park.
The next morning, Naruto awoke early, mumbling about baka foxes telling him what to do and weird dreams. "Why would even have a dream about Hinata, I mean sure she's liked me for a long time and I've grown to like her. But what would the village do if she was with me and besides Haku is my mate I can't have them both. I don't think either would be happy about it."As he was running through his thoughts he heard laughter in his mind.
"You idiot! Why not take them both as your mates? You know demons take more than one mate. As for Haku not being happy about you having another, we both have seen how she looks at Tsunami, which indicates that she plays for both sides. No, I think she'll be fine with you having another mate, as long as you love her. This Hinata girl loves you and you love her. You need to grow strong to be with the ones you love."Kyuubi said, voicing his opinion.
"But there's no way for me to be with them both humans only can have one mate and even with the villagers telling I'm a demon I'm not."Naruto retorted sadly.
The fox answered,"Well you are right and wrong. To my understanding of villages people with new bloodlines can have more the one mate due to this Clan Restoration Act, that idiot Uchiha applies to this to since he is the last loyal Uchiha and as for you not being a demon, well yes and no. You aren't a demon, but you are as much a demon as a human can be, while still being human. Of course your new bloodline makes that so."
"Great that will make the villagers so fucking happy! Well, at least I might be able to be with Haku and Hinata as long as they're both ok with it. Hey, wait a freaking minute, how are you talking to me?"Naruto said in a sarcastic tone
"Well, that piece of the seal you ripped off lets me speak to you telepathically as well as see, hear, and smell what you do,"Kyuubi explained to his container.
"Ok, but why haven't you speaking before now and aren't you supposed to be the demon that wants to kill everything in sight. So why are you helping me?"Naruto asked curiously.
"I haven't spoken before now because I was tired, do you know how much energy it take to heal someone near death and make a Kekkei Genkai at the same time. And no I'm not evil or want kill everything that opposes me."Kyuubi replied.
Naruto could feel the sad smile on the fox's face, "No, at one point in time, I was the guardian of Fire Country, but that hebi-teme put a very powerful genjutsu on me. It put me in to a feral rage and I attacked your village, but thankfully your Hokage sealed me away before I can do any more damage. As to why I'm helping you….well, I'm sorry for making your life so bad. So the bloodline and healing your mate was my way of saying I'm sorry."
"Thank you, but I'll find that Hebi-teme and make him pay for disturbing our lives …." He was cut from his conversation by a soft voice.
"You know, breakfast is waiting for you downstairs." Naruto turned to see Haku in the doorway, smiling at him.
"I will be down in a minute." Naruto said, returning the smile with one of his own.
After a few minutes, Naruto walked downstairs and sat down at the table with everyone eating their food. "Alright, team, we still have a week till the bridge is finished. Sasuke, you'll be coming with me to the bridge. Sakura, you will be watching over the house. Naruto, you are free whatever you want for the day, and Haku, since you aren't part of my team, you can do whatever you want." Kakashi told them.
Sasuke answered, 'Hn'.
Sakura was upset she wasn't going to be with her Sasuke.
Naruto thought it was a perfect time to talk with Haku and maybe get her help working with his new ice ability.
"Alright I'm going to go and train, Haku-chan do you want to come." Naruto asked a blushing Haku.
"Y-yes Nar-Naruto-ku-kun" Naruto just looked at her, wondering why she was stuttering.
Tsunami said in a soft voice, "Maybe you should stay here today." Naruto turned his head to see a blushing Tsunami. He also saw a blushing Sakura look at him only to have her look at the ground when he looked at her. He started to hear Kyuubi laughing
"Kyuubi…what did you just do"
"Ha-ha …. Kit … Sorry kit …. ha-ha …. but it looks like … ha-ha …. It looks like I gave you a more ….. Ha-ha …. A more primal aura that is making the females woozy and acting fangirlish …. Ha-ha. But don't worry, Haku will not be affected as she is your mate, she was probably thrown off by you calling her Haku-chan."The fox said as he was literally rolling around in his cage.
"Oh, great, just great, this is all I need right now."Naruto thought with a groan.
"Um…No thanks, I really need to train, so I'll be leaving now. Bye!" The Jinchuuriki finished quickly as he grabbed Haku's hand and ran out the door before Tsunami could say anything else.
In The Forest-Naruto and Haku had just made it to the forest. Now they were looking for a clearing to train in.
Naruto decided to speak up, "Haku, I need to talk to you about something."
Naruto went on to tell her about everything about the Kyuubi, how he saved her, his new bloodline, and finally her being his mate. Haku stood there, listening to everything intently and she was a little surprised that by saving her life, she had become his "mate" as he called it.
But all in all she was happy that he told her all of this. She wasn't to upset about being his mate, she had to admit that he was cute and she did like him, but she would have liked to know him better. She actually found herself hugging him tightly after he finished explaining everything to her.
"Well that a relief, she doesn't seem mad."Naruto thought in relief
"See, I told you, kit, she's fine with it. But you didn't tell her about Hinata. Of course, that was probably wise, too much information could be bad right now. You will need to tell her before you get back to the village."Kyuubi said in a told-you-so voice.
"Yeah I know, but not now. I thank I need to get to training." Naruto replied back to the fox
He turned to his mate and said, "Hey, Haku-chan, I think we should get to training, maybe you can show me how to use ice jutsus."
"Yeah, sure." Haku said with a nod. She started to show him how to perform Hyoton jutsu, but he was having trouble using the right amount of chakra.
So to help him with his chakra control, she taught him the water walking chakra exercise. It took the rest of the day for him to get it down and by the time he fully got it down, it was time to head back to the house.
Back at Tazuna's house- When they got back everyone was set at the table about to eat. They sat down quietly and most of the dinner went by quietly with Tsunami and Sakura looking at Naruto once in a while and having light blushes on their faces.
Haku was glaring at Sakura angrily for looking at her Naruto like that. Naruto decided to break the silence, "Ano ... Kakashi-sensei, we don't have anything really to do, do we?"
"Well, not really, we know the bridge will be done in five or six days. Why do you ask?" The Jonin asked as he let his eye train fully on his student.
"Well I was planning on training for the rest of the week and maybe stay in the forest till we leave for Konoha." replied Naruto.
"I have no problem with you training the rest of the time, but I don't think staying in the forest is a good idea." Kakashi said.
"It will help with survival training, having to find food and shelter." Naruto said, thinking quickly to get the private training trip.
"Alright, but I want you back the night before we leave." Kakashi said, agreeing with the logic that Naruto shot out.
Sasuke was seething in anger at the fact that the dobe was going to train the whole time while he forced to stay here and watched the bridge. But then he thought with the dobe not being here, he could get Kakashi to teach him a couple new jutsus.
The rest of the dinner went rather quietly, well besides Sakura yelling at Kakashi about Naruto getting to train while Sasuke had to stay, but she was silenced by a glare from Sasuke, him not wanting her to blow his chance to get stronger.
When dinner was done, Naruto and Haku packed their supplies, said goodbyes to everyone and headed out into the forest to return in one week.
Hakureisaiga- From now on, it is going to be all original now…Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
