Yo, everyone. Here is chap 2 of my story. So to answer a few questions I'm sure some of you have. I moved the Uchiha massacre to an earlier date than what the manga portrays it as. So Sasuke and Naruto are both still too young to enter the academy. Which I'm assuming is around the age of 9 or 10. They're both about 7 or so now. I've flashed forward a few months since the last chapter. Also, if I mention something about attraction or anything like that, remember they're only about 10, so they won't be thinking anything like kissing or etc. Children of that age, unless they hit puberty WAY early, only see their attractions on a very close friend level. So on to the story.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC characters that will eventually make an appearance to the story. All Naruto Characters belong to all their respective owners.


Itachi panted as he turned around another corner, a smirk gracing his facial features, he was finally starting to close in on his targets. They thought they had evaded him, but were quick to realize he wouldn't be deterred so easily. He looked at the two culprits in front of him their short statures and inexperience were finally working against them as his long legs easily made faster strides than their small short legs. He glanced to the one closer to his left, he had dark hair much like Itachi's, except for the strange hair style which reminded him of a feathered animal's posterior. The other closer to his right had spiky wild hair that was golden blond, it reminded him much of an all too familiar prominent Hokage. They were within his grasp now as he grabbed both of them by their collars despite their cries to let them go.

"You'll never take us alive!" cried the blond one.

"Yeah, we won't go along peacefully!" The raven haired culprit said in kind.

Itachi sighed at this, they always put up a fight when they had to get dressed in their nice dress clothes and visit clan heads like the Hyuugas they were about to visit. The boys had known about the soon to be meeting though and had, at some point, coated Itachi's favorite pocky in wasabi and curry powder. After discovering just that after biting into it, he was forced to rinse his mouth with heavy amounts of water and mouthwash. This had given the boys a head start as they immediately bolted from their chairs and tried to make an escape while Itachi was distracted.

"Oi, calm down both of you, I'm not going to punish you about the pocky. In fact, I applaud you for doing so well thus far, but you ARE going to put on your dress kimonos and we ARE meeting the Hyuugas for luncheon."

Both of the boys pouted and grumbled at this, while Itachi merely shook his head as he carried them back to their rooms. His first instincts were right, adopting Naruto was exactly what both of the boys needed. Sadly though, Sasuke had taken up a love for Naruto's pranks and was helping him succeed in them, while also helping Naruto with his chakra control, among many other things. Sasuke was the skill and Naruto was the mastermind, a dangerous and deadly combination. Despite all the years Naruto went untaught, he was beginning to catch on quickly. He could barely read when Itachi first adopted him, and now he was almost par with Sasuke in everything. Itachi smiled as he 'dropped' the boys into their rooms, granted he dropped them by hurling them at their beds.

"If you're not dressed and ready in 15 minutes, then I'm going to close the library and refuse to teach either of you for a week."

Itachi had to chuckle when he saw their eyes widen before rushing to their respective closets. He closed the door to give them some privacy as a Hyuuga' branch messenger arrived. Adjusting his clothes a bit to look more respectable, Itachi went to greet him.

"Ohayo gozaimasu Uchiha-sama, how are you today?" The man bowed before Itachi.

"Ohayo, Hyuuga-san, I am doing fine except for a small mishap with my breakfast food." Itachi didn't personally care for all the formalities, but the Hyuuga were very strict about being formal.

"Hiashi-sama sent me to assure that the meeting does not need to be rescheduled."

"No, we will be there shortly and as scheduled, tell Hiashi not to worry."

"Very well, Farewell, Uchiha-sama." The man bowed once more before leaving.

Itachi sighed as he ran his fingers through his hair; punctuality was always a big issue with Hiashi. Itachi simply shrugged as he began to walk to his own room, noting he had 7 minutes before needing to check in on Naruto and Sasuke. The boys merely thought they were going to meet with the Hyuugas as a formality, which in part was true, but Itachi and Hiashi had already spoken several times about the true agenda of this meeting. It was to introduce Hyuuga Hinata with Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke. Itachi had allowed Naruto to keep his last name so that when he was old enough, he wouldn't have to answer dozens of questions about how he was an Uchiha but not a wielder of the sharingan or even of the same bloodline.

Itachi dressed in his formal kimono before going to the boys' room. It was nothing too flashy, just a black kimono with blood red tiger lilies adorning it. The tips of the petals looked to turn into flames and the base of the stems became dragons. Itachi knocked lightly on the door before opening it, smirking as they were both dressed and ready for the meeting. Sasuke's kimono was much like Itachi's own, except white in color and his was adorned with black roses covered in dew drops, the stem bases became the head of a hawk.

Naruto's Kimono was a bit different though. His kimono was orangish yellow in color, with sea-blue dandelions covering it. The tips of the dandelions became spear tips while the stems turned into Fox heads. With the Hokage's permission, Itachi had told both Sasuke and Naruto the truth of the nine tailed fox. Naruto seemed to mope around for a while before Sasuke joked about saying how Naruto would need the fox if he wanted to keep up with Sasuke's sharingan. He had also recent taken to calling Naruto "fox tail". In return Naruto began calling Sasuke "duck ass". Eventually Naruto came back around and was acting normally again.

Itachi motioned for them to follow him as he led the way out of the Uchiha compound. Smiling to himself as the boys walked with a true sense of balance and prestige, however unlike the Hyuuga, they didn't give off a sense of arrogance. It was more like a sense of generousness and happiness. It took weeks of Itachi teaching them how no matter who they were, they weren't any better than anyone else, no matter the class, income, nationality, or race, they were all human beings, and that is how they would see others until proven otherwise.

They quickly made their way to the Hyuuga estate, Itachi had noticed a glare or two directed at Naruto on the way, but they were nothing big really. Just a few old fools who refused to believe the boy would or could ever change. He was the demon to them no matter what he did. Though most of the people of Konoha had changed their tune after hearing Itachi had adopted the boy. A servant came to the gates and opened them ushering Itachi, Sasuke, and Naruto into the compound. Leading them to a fairly large garden with a table, that Itachi surmised was for meetings like this. The boys' took their places flanking Itachi on each corner of the table as Itachi sat at the opposite end from the head of the table. They were quickly joined by Hiashi Hyuuga and his daughter Hinata.

Hiashi looked to Itachi, before glancing to the boys at his sides, then looking to his own daughter next to him, finally looking back to Itachi.

"I am glad you were able to make it on time. Allow me to begin the introductions. I am Hiashi Hyuuga. This is my daughter, Hinata Hyuuga."

"H-hello everyone."

"I am Itachi Uchiha; this is Sasuke Uchiha, and Uzumaki Naruto, my brothers. It is a pleasure Hiashi."

"It is a pleasure to meet you Hyuuga-sama." Sasuke gave a small bow from his knelt position.

"Hey there Hiashi-san, Hinata-chan it is nice to meet both of you." Naruto said while smiling widely.

At hearing her name used with '-chan' by the blond boy Hinata turned beet red. When she had seen the boy she could already feel herself becoming increasingly attracted to him. He seemed really friendly too, even if it wasn't proper for this type of meeting, she couldn't help herself but be attracted to every little thing he did. Hiashi took great note of his daughter's reaction to such a thing, but remembered to keep up appearance.

"Its Hyuuga-sama or Hiashi-sama until I instruct you otherwise, please try to remember that Uzumaki-san."

Naruto bowed his head a bit forgetting to remain formal as his brothers had told him to do countless times, but there was something inside him that he couldn't stop when he saw the blue haired girl and her sweet little voice. This caused a lot of confusion in Naruto since he had never been that good at impressing or befriending girls, yet here was a girl that despite how little he knew about her, he found himself wanting to know everything about her and to be friends with her.

"Hai, I am sorry Hiashi-sama."

From there things were very boring as far as everyone was concerned. Originally they planned to introduce Hinata to each boy and gauge her reaction as they had tea, but going by her reaction to Naruto at the beginning of the meeting, both Itachi and Hiashi had made up their minds. They would do what they could to assure they brought the two together, without having the papers for a forced marriage drawn up. So they just talked over politics while the boys and Hinata remained silent, drank their tea, and waited for the seemingly endless prattling of two old men come to an end, well, that is how Naruto felt anyways.

"Well Itachi-san, this has been a very productive meeting. I can assume that you will take the required steps to move things along?"

"Hai Hiashi-san, everything should go accordingly. Thank you."

The boys and Hinata were both slightly confused. It sounded like they just came to an agreement on something but from what they could remember the two of them just spoke of rumors and current events. They all shrugged it off as they bowed to each other and Itachi, Sasuke and Naruto were lead out of the compound by a Hyuuga servant.

"Well, that Naruto boy is awfully interesting isn't he Hinata?"

At the moment Hinata was currently staring off at the spot where Naruto was last. Only giving a small 'Hmm?' to her father to show any signs that she was paying attention to him. He chuckled and cleared his throat to snap her out of it.

"Huh? I'm sorry, what did you say father?"

"It was nothing dear. Come on, how about we cook up something nice for your sister and cousin Neji."

At this Hinata smiled and walked towards the kitchen with her father. It had been a while since the two of them had cooked together.

Itachi, Sasuke, and Naruto smiled as they walked out of the Hyuuga estates.

"So where are we going to now Nii-san?" Sasuke asked.

"Yeah, where are we going Onii-san?" Naruto chimed.

"Oh we still have to visit the Nara, Akamichi, Yamanaka, Inuzuka, and Aburame families." Itachi smirked at this while the two boys' faces fell in horror at the long and most likely boring day ahead of them.


Well that is Chap 2, everyone. Please Read and Review. This chap was mostly filler, but it is here to give you an idea of how things are going for Naruto and others. Until next time dearest readers, Ja Ne.