Hi everyone

I'm glad for the review and criticism, helps me figure out what else to work on.

also the traffic is not too bad since it's my first time and 3 followers as well a decent start

here the next chapter as promised

Chapter 1

"Narutoo"!

Hi everyone, my name is Uzumaki Naruto. What I like is ramen, what I don't like is the 3 minutes it takes to wait for ramen to boil, I also enjoy comparing different kinds of ramen together, and my dream is to become Hokage so the whole village will acknowledge me. Hobbies use to be pranks, I only ever prank Iruka sensei and sometimes Kakashi sensei, but he's boring since he usually allows them to happen and then shows no reaction.

"Try to catch me sensei" man it's been months since I got him. Being a ninja means you got to be serious. Which I am, but since we don't hang out often anymore I figured getting his attention the old fashion way would remind him of his favourite pupil.

"Gottcha"

"Huh?" I turn to look and he's suddenly in front of me.

"Hehe looks like you win sensei" I laugh nervously while scratching the back of my head

"And it looks like you have some cleaning to do in my back yard"

I groan, following with a "yes" and proceed with him to his house

"Naruto, why can't you just come up to me and ask if you want to eat at Ichirakus?" Iruka mumbled, before slurping his noodles

"But where's the fun in that sensei, besides it's been more than 7 months, I promise it's not that often" smiling before slurping my own noodles.

Iruka sighs, and then puts on a smile "I suppose I should be worried if you completely change, so how did the mission go"?

I excitedly start telling him of the mission, of how me, Neji, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Hinata went chasing after a missing-nin, but start to mellow out after explaining how bad I got stuck in that genjutsu.

"It's not fun getting caught, especially when if it weren't for my team I would have either been kidnapped or dead. Do you know any way I can learn genjutsu so something like this doesn't happen"?

"Well I would say it's best to talk to your Jonin sensei. He would have a better idea on how to help you since you work under him"

"But he's out of the village right now" I pouted

"In that case you're just going to have to wait "was his simple response

"Arg, another bowl please old man" I yelled out. Who knows when Kakashi sensei would come back, maybe I should ask Sakura-Chan she seems to be good at it.

Walking away from the Huyga district was both Neji and Hinata, on their way to the training grounds. Usually the two of them would just train in the training grounds in the mansion, but the elders were giving both of them looks which were distracting.

"Do you know why they've been staring at us Neji-ni-san"? She asked timidly

"I honestly can't say Hinata-sama" was his reply as his eyes narrowed in confusion. Ever since the Chunin exams, he has let go of fate and destiny, and gradually begun to repair his bond with his cousin. During that time his uncle has also started to become more willing to fix the tension between the two houses. On top of that he gave him personal training.

While some results were showing, the elders were starting to grow in suspicion towards the two, and while he may have some ideas, all of them seem unlikely since his uncle was the head and his word was absolute.

"Perhaps it's really nothing and they are just observing"

"Perhaps, but it is quite frustrating when your being watched like that during training, let us proceed to the training grounds. Hopefully there will be a bit more privacy for us"

"Hai"

"Aww man when will Ero-senin come back, perhaps he can teach me some genjutsu" Sakura-Chan apparently went with team ten with Asuma-sensei for a mission, since Shikamaru was already a chunin.

"This sucks, and there's no missions either for me for now" feeling irritated, I somehow find myself in training ground 8, and start punching the dummies to release some steam.

"Naruto-kun"?

"Gahh" I jumped, so absorbed that I didn't realise two people had approached. It was Neji and Hinata.

"Gomen, I d-didn't mean to s-startle you" she said while poking her two fingers together.

Neji just watched with an amused expression on his face, "were we interrupting anything, seems you were quite angry with that dummy". I turned to properly look at my punching bag. I can't believe I didn't notice that it was almost destroyed. Turning red from embarrassment I yelled "shut up" and continued to proceed.

"Naruto-kun you're bleeding"

"Huh"? I looked at myself and saw my hands were bruised and red, every punch I did seemed to make droplets fall.

"It seems there's something on your mind if you didn't realize your injuries" Neji confirmed.

Hinata took out some of her healing ointment, along with bandages, and proceeded to work on his hands.

"N-Naruto-kun, does it hurt"?

"No this is isn't a-urg"

"…." Neji just kept on looking with a smirk on his face.

"I couldn't help it I was irritated and wanted to let out some steam" I glared back at him.

"Oh"?

"Getting caught in that genjutsu on our last mission made me realize I could have died, and when I asked Iruka sensei for help he just told me to ask Kakashi sensei, but he's on a mission so I went looking for Sakura-chan since she seems to know of these things, but turned out she too is on a mission, and I don't know when Ero-senin will be back in order to go for our training trip so I got annoyed and started beating the dummies up" huffing and puffing after stating my outrage.

"Feeling better now"?

"A little" I turned my head to cover my embarrassment.

"N-Naruto-kun, i-if you want I-I can ask Kurenai if s-she could help you out, just be more careful"?

I turned my head and just stared for a moment, then jumped up cheering

"Really Hinata? Thanks you're the best; I'll go home clean up and grab some lunch. Let me know what she says eh"? Hinata just fell on the ground. It seemed sometime during the rant, Hinata fainted.

"Neji"? I asked.

"Please don't worry about it, she'll come around soon, and when she does she and I wish to continue our training, so if you please".

"Oh sure thing, catch you later" with that I dashed away

Neji just looked from where Naruto ran, to where Hinata was lying on the ground, a smile on her face.

"You really do make things interesting Naruto Uzumaki"

And done.

I got a review that the prologue was a tad to short, so I tried to see if I could aim for atleast 1000 words.

An any care reviews and criticism is always helpful, still only know the middle of the story, starting it to reach that middle will be quite a challege.