Well, it's official: you guys rock. I've gotten some reviews telling me to go forward with my story, so i'm gonna go on. Good thing i had the second chapter written up just in case. This ones a lot longer this time. Now, let's check on our new naruto and get hinata onto this ride.

Chapter 2: The New Naruto

Hinata was both scared and excited; she had just been assigned to watch over her crush, Naruto, while he recovered all his memories. She thought his own team mates would be picked to watch over him, but Sakura was stuck helping her mom at the library and Sasuke thought it would interrupt his training. So, with the all jonin, Iruka, and that white haired gentleman naruto came home with busy, the hokage chose her to keep an eye on Naruto while his mind sorted itself out. The news of the two narutos had shocked Hinata when the hokage told her that morning. It was hard to believe that a jutsu like that could exist, let alone that it was used on Naruto. She had been given specific instructions not to tell anyone, however, as it was a highly classified secret that the village didn't want to get out. She gave her word not to tell anyone, and was sent on her way to Narutos apartment.

But all that took backseat to the simple fact that she got to be by naruto's side for the next week! She had to fight back the urge to faint when she heard that news. She always wanted to get closer to naruto, but her shyness had always kept her away. Not this time, she decided. This time would be different this was a new naruto, and she wouldn't let her shyness stop her again…hopefully. Her thoughts were broken when she realized she was outside of naruto's apartment…with naruto standing fifteen feet from her, drawing seals on his door.

He wasn't wearing his orange jumpsuit anymore. Instead he wore a black hoody with orange flames on the sleeve and hood, unzipped to show a dark orange shirt with a black swirl pattern on the front, and black pants. On his neck, he wore a single green jade magatama necklace that shined in the light. She felt her blush come back as she looked at his new look. She'd only ever seen him in his orange jumpsuit, and this looked much better on him.

Naruto stepped back from his door and turned to see her there. And hinata saw a look of amazement cross his face. She heard him whisper something that sounded like "No way. She was in the village the whole time." but decided she was hearing things. He shook his head quickly and spoke to her again. "Oh, hey hinata, Are you the one the old man said he was sending to keep watch on me while I recovered?" He made sure to keep specifics out of what he said, in case she had just stopped over to say hello, and set his brush and ink pot down, giving her his full attention and a bright smile.

Hinata could have squealed at that moment. He still had that bright smile that she loved to see. "Oh, thank goodness."

"What's that you say?"

Hinata blushed deepened when she realized she said that out loud and started to twiddle her fingers. "Um…oh, I-I said how are you feeling, Naruto?"

Naruto's smile got smaller, but somehow warmer in hinatas eyes. "You know, you're the first one out of our little group to actually ask that? Yeah, I'm feeling fine, thanks for asking, hinata."

Hinata felt angered that none of her friends had bothered to make sure he was okay. Yes, they hadn't been told what specifically happened, but Naruto had still been carried home passed out. but she kept her focus on Naruto for the time being. "Have you remembered anything about the people that raised you, yet?"

That let Naruto know she had been told about his other self and he felt relived that he could talk about this stuff with someone at last. Naruto put a hand on his head and rubbed. "See, that's the thing. Jutsus, taijutsu, specific tactics, those things all come in one big clump. It's just boom," He waves his hands at his door, "I know seals now. But people, they come in bits and pieces." He closed his eyes, trying to picture the people who loved and raised him in his other life. "I remember two girls, both around twenty. One had this really pretty silver colored hair and the other had deep midnight black hair. I remember how the silver haired one would always be dancing and happy, always joking and playing with me when I was little." The smile on Naruto's face grew warmer, and Hinata couldn't help the one coming onto hers at seeing it. "The dark haired one would read to me at night. Sometimes she would read me all these amazing poems and sometimes stories about brave ninja or samurai."

Hinata wanted to meet these people so bad. She wanted to thank them for giving Naruto some kind of family growing up. "Sounds like they really love you, naruto."

"Yeah, I think they d…" Naruto stopped talking as his hand suddenly went to his head again, grasping it in pain as he slumped against the wall.

Hinata was at his side in a second. "Are you alright, Naruto!"

In naruto's head he heard a melodic voice speaking to him, and could see the dark haired woman from his memories reading him a poem. He spoke with her as she read, trying to help the memory flow more smoothly. "Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole. I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul." Hinata took his hand, her shyness beaten by her urge to help him. "In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed." The silver haired woman was in this memory too, sitting beside Naruto, holding him as he listened to the poem, enraptured. "Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade. And yet the menace of the years finds, and shall find, me unafraid." He could see them now. The girl with the black hair wore it long and it fell down to her mid back. She was fair skinned and had deep chocolate brown eyes that held a quiet warmth. The silver haired girl was dark skinned and wore her hair in a short crop around her head with one emerald green eye hidden behind her bangs. But what were there names? "It matters not how straight the gait, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." Naruto's eyes went wide as he finally remembered who the two women were. "Sorry, Hinata. Um, yeah, I, uh… I didn't think I'd have a big one like that."

Hinata kept holding his hand as the memory finished and Naruto stood against the wall, panting. "Never mind that, are you alright, Naruto? What did you remember?"

Naruto took a deep breath and pushed himself off the wall, he spoke with an amazed whisper. "Rika and Kagome."

"What?"

Naruto turned and grabbed Hinata in a happy hug. "Their names are Rika and Kagome, Hinata! I remember them now! They helped to protect and train me in my other life, and they'll be here soon! There are other people I still need to remember, but I got two more down!" He started laughing and jumping up and down, hinata still trapped in his arms.

Hinata was happy for him, but this was way too much contact for the poor shy girl to handle all at once and she felt herself on the verge of fainting when he let go. "T-that's great, Naruto." She needed to change the subject before her mind hammered in her holding his hand back there. "Um, w-what were you doing to your door when I got here, Naruto?"

Naruto turned to the door and rubbed the back of his neck. "Oh, yeah. Sorry. Got a little sidetracked there for a moment." He cleared his throat and waved his hands at his door again, "I was installing my new home security system. See, I put this seal on my door and windows and now nobody but me can get inside my home unless I let them in or set up the seal to let them in. Pretty sweet, huh?"

Hinata was genuinely impressed he knew how to do something like that. Seals were difficult to master for anyone as they were all memorization and formulas. But, then again, she could see Naruto, of all people, studying day and night without rest in order to master them. She got an image in her head of a young Naruto surrounded by scrolls full of seals, his face down in a book, passed out from exhaustion. Yep, that was probably how it went.

Naruto made a few hand signs and put his hand on the door, immediately the seals began to swirl and glow red and naruto turned to Hinata. "Since your gonna be watching me for a while, I'm giving you the keys to the house. Just put your hand on the door with a little chakra, and you have free reign to come and go."

Hinata steeled herself, placed her hand on the door, feeling the warmth of the chakra coursing through the seals, and focused chakra into her hand. Immediately the seals all spun in different directions. Swirling faster and faster in perfect circles on the door, till they all stopped dead in perfect rows, turned blue and vanished from sight.

Naruto clapped his hands together to shake off some dust from the door. "There you have it. You have complete freedom to come and go as you please now." He made a quick hand sign, and the brush and ink pot he was using vanished in a puff of smoke. Hinata guessed that he sealed them back up into a scroll he had on him somewhere. "Now, since that is taken care of, how about you and I head to grab a bite to eat. I'm actually really hungry. And, come to think of it, I don't believe we ever have really hung out and gotten to know each other. Weird, huh?"

Hinata could hear a little voice in her head screaming in joy. First he gave her free access to his house, now he wanted to grab a bite to eat with her and talk to her. She was beginning to like this new Naruto. She acted before her shyness could mess it up for her. "Yes, I would like that, naruto."

They both started walking down the stairs out to the road. "Why don't you pick where we eat, Hinata. It would be kinda rude of me to just drag you to ichiraiku all the time." Naruto was walking beside Hinata, hands in his pockets and a smile on his face.

"Oh, um, w-well there's a nice place I go to that makes great cinnamon rolls and udon. Do you wanna try there?"

Naruto got a look on his face, like he was trying to remember something. "Udon, udon. Say, is there a type of udon that has fried tofu in it?"

Hinata nodded. "That's their specialty dish at the restaurant. Why?"

"If I remember right, Rika and Kagome loved fried tofu, and I remember udon being served all the time where I was. Hey, maybe eating some will help get some more memories going!" He grabbed Hinata's hand with his. "We're off to get some udon!"

Hinata kept on walking, keeping herself conscious through sheer force of will. Instead of focusing on the warmth of Narutos hand on hers, she focused on her surroundings in an effort to calm her nerves.

The streets of the leaf village were alive with people. A group of academy kids were playing soccer in a nearby field, families walked by with huge ice cream cones, shops were filled to the brim with buyers. All around Hinata could smell different pastries and snacks being cooked to draw in potential customers. It was amazing. The only time she'd seen the village so busy was during festivals and holidays, and the closest one of either was a month away. "What's all the commotion about?" she wondered to herself. The more Hinata looked; however, the more she realized all the different ninjas in the village. Rain ninjas with their gasmasks, huge rock ninjas wearing plates of armor, Lightning ninja with swords strapped to their sides. The village was full of ninja from all different villages. Then Hinata remembered the chunnin exams were starting up tomorrow and she felt her confidence start to crumble around her.

All these ninja were going to be competing against her in the chunnin exams, and she started to doubt she could do it. She was a failure of a ninja, after all. Even her father knew that and disowned her in favor of her little sister when she first became a gennin. She had wanted to take the chunnin exams to try and change herself a little, but now she didn't know if she should even bother trying. Then Naruto started to speak up.

"Wow, all these people are here for the chunnin exams?" Naruto looked to Hinata and smirked. "That's a lot of people who'll have to tell there friends that Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuuga kicked their ass, huh, Hinata?"

That was just what Hinata needed to hear. Even now, when his mind was still trying to figure out who he was, Naruto never doubted himself for a second. He would charge forward at whatever obstacle came his way with his head held high, no matter what. Hinata drew strength from that. If he could drive himself forward despite everything going on with him, than she would try to as well. For Naruto, she could take all of these ninjas on. She tightened her grip on his hand, "Y-Yes, they will, Naruto".

They walked on, just enjoying each others company, until they reached their destination, a quaint one story restaurant called The Nook. The place had nice, warm atmosphere. With comfy bench chairs and, hanging lights, it made for a good spot to stop and have lunch with a friend. But, as Naruto and Hinata approached the door, they were stopped by some waiter who gave a death glare at Naruto.

"Sorry, but he is not allowed to eat here." The waiter, some twenty something with dirty brown hair and unshaven face, told them.

Naruto should have known this would happen. Even when everything about him was changing, the village still saw him as a monster and a freak. "And who are you exactly to tell me where I can and can't eat, eh?"

The waiter bent down and put a finger in Naruto's face. "I'm the one who knows better than to let a freak like you into their workplace." The waiter had venom dripping from every word.

"Oh, we got a badass here! Calling a fourteen year old a freak, oh how the ladies must swoon at your feet!"

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up, you little shit! But you are not getting in this restaurant!"

At that moment, Jinata had enough of the waiter insulting naruto and caught a glimpse of the manager of the restaurant behind the waiter. She held up a hand and waved at the older woman. "Hi, Miss kana!"

The owner of The Nook, Kana, was a lady in her early forty's with her light brown hair done up in a tight bun and stood and walked with an air of authority and grace. The second she turned and saw Hinata, her expression turned soft. The shy young hyuuga had become a favorite of Kana's over the years she had been coming to The Nook, and she always enjoyed the visits she would make to her restaurant.

She walked over to the Hinata, bent down and hugged her. "Hey there, princess. Haven't seen you in a few days. I missed ya." She saw Naruto, standing with a slightly confused expression, and recognized the young boy from all the times Hinata would talk about him. A proud smirk came over her face and she whispered to Hinata. "Finally caught him, you little devil?" She chuckled at the shade of red she blushed, and stood to look at the angry expression on her waiters face. "There a problem here?"

"Boss, she's trying to bring," he pointed at Naruto, "him into The Nook!"

Naruto smirked. "Yep, guy try's to walk in with a girl, and douche bag here gets pissed cause he can't get one." Hinata couldn't help but chuckle at that one.

"Whatever, freak, I'm still gonna stop her from trying to bring you in here!"

Kana's expression turned as hard as a statue and spoke with a voice that left no room for arguing. "She's not trying to bring in, boy. She is brining him in. This boy is a ninja, which means he puts his ass on the line everyday to make sure your's is safe and happy. He has done nothing to me or anyone at this restaurant except help keep them alive, so he can come eat here whenever he wants." She stepped close to the waiter, staring him down with hard eyes. "If that's going to be an issue, than I suggest you turn in your uniform and go home."

"But…But, boss!" He wanted to argue, but miss Kana's look never faltered, so the waiter sighed in defeat. "No, mam. There won't be any problems."

"Good, now get back to work. Table three needs refills on their drinks."

She didn't know what came over her, but before Hinata could stop herself she heard herself say as the waiter walked away. "How'd that work out for you, jerk?"

Both Kana and Naruto turned to look at the normally shy wallflower just to see her cover her mouth with her hands in shock. Naruto laughed and took her hand again, "Way to go, Hinata! Now let's go get us some food. Oh, before I forget." He turned to Miss Kana and smiled, "Thank you for helping us with that, mam."

Kana smiled and pointed toward the back. "You're very welcome, young man. Table ten is open. A waiter will be with you in a second. Have a good lunch, princess."

Naruto and Hinata sat at their table, ordered two fried tofu udon and a desert of fresh cinnamon rolls, and talked. They talked for hours about whatever would come to there minds. Naruto's memories and the stories he could tell her so far, Hinata's training with her family and even her fathers disowning of her-something that immediately made the head hyuuga an enemy in Naruto's book- jutsu they were studying, movies they had seen. They talked about it all. Every now and then Naruto would groan and rub his head as a new memory came back to him, but never as bad as the one he had when they met that afternoon, and Hinata would sometimes get stuck stuttering for a few seconds, but they both found a lot of fun just sitting and talking with one another. Than Naruto brought up the chunnin exam that started tomorrow.

"Are you gonna go for it, Hinata?" Naruto asked, noticing how she started twiddling her fingers, something he had learned she did when she was nervous.

"I… I want to, Naruto, but I-I'm scared."

"What of?"

She couldn't look him in the eyes "Of…Of letting my team down. Of being a failure."

Naruto closed his eyes and sighed. "Hinata, I think you're an amazing ninja who's been around a lot of dumb ones for too long."

She looked up at him "W-What do you mean?"

"All those things your father said about you, Hinata. I'll tell you this: he's wrong on every single one. I think you'll be amazing in the chunnin exam, personally. You just have to stop listening to all that bull he said, and push forward with all you got."

"Y-You really believe that, Naruto?"

Naruto nodded "Hell yeah, I do! I've seen little glimpses here and there of what kind of person you are already today, Hinata." He began listing traits off on his fingers. "When that rush of memories hit me this morning, you didn't hesitate to come over and take my hand to make sure I was okay; that shows me that you're a kind person who cares about others. Then that douche bag waiter got told off by miss Kana, and you give him that little blast at the end; that tells me you're protective of the people you care about. And all this talking has showed me that you're a smart girl who has had to deal with a lot of trouble in her life and still came out that way. This shows some amazing endurance, Hinata."

Hinata was slowly floating to cloud nine by this point. Her crush was listing off reasons that he though she was amazing. She hoped this wasn't a dream. "T-Thank you, Naruto. But all that doesn't make me a better ninja."

Naruto nodded. "No, but I'll bet you'll shine brighter than any star if you just believe in yourself a little bit, Hinata. I can feel it." He saw that waiter from before in his side view, still giving him a death glare. "Look, we both have people who think we're nothing," He gave Hinata a bright smile. "So let's use the chunnin exams to make them eat those words."

That gave Hinata strength. She would stand against the world as long as Naruto stood with her. "Yeah, let's show them what we can do. But, are you going to be alright, Naruto? Won't those headaches hurt your chances at passing?"

"Nah. The headaches have been getting less and less painful every time. Even that big one I had when we met was not nearly as painful as the one I had yesterday when I remembered a good friend of mine. I'll be fine, Hinata."

Shortly after leaving The Nook, a hyuuga messenger came to bring her back to the hyuuga compound. Apparently, according to the messenger, her father wanted to have a word with her about the upcoming chunnin exams. She guessed to tell her not to embarrass the hyuuga clan more than she already has. She apologized to Naruto, and promised she would stop by later in the day to check up on him. Even her father couldn't keep her from doing a job the Hokage gave her, after all. So, unfortunately, Naruto made the walk back to his apartment by himself. But, when he got back home, two foxes were sitting outside his door. Both were normal looking red foxes, save for the yin mark on ones chest and the yang symbol on the others.

Naruto smiled at the two foxes "I had a feeling you two would show up today."

The fox with the yin symbol looked up at Naruto, and seemed to smile. "We missed you, master."

Naruto sighed with a smile on his face, "I wish you would stop calling me that, Kagome. You two are more like sisters to me than anything else. Besides, you two only listen to me if you think I'm in the right about something, so I'm not much of a master."

The fox with the yang symbol ran up to Narutos legs, rubbing her side against him lovingly. "Nope the sun sage is our master. You are the sun sage in training, so you're our master. But you're more a brother to us as well, little bro."

"Thanks, Rika." He put his hand on his apartment door, unlocking the seal and letting the two foxes inside.

Once they were all inside and the door shut and sealed, the two were enveloped in a bright blue flame. The flames shifted and turned, taking on the shape of two women right before narutos very eyes. Once the flames vanished, the two foxes had transformed into the black and silver haired women from narutos memory. They both wore the same battle ready kimonos, except Rikas was black and Kagomes white. Both Rika and Kagome had knockout hourglass figures-which brought up images of his sexy jutsu- that Naruto knew most woman would kill to have. Then again, most kitsunes preferred to shape shift into better looking figures when they could. If you can change into whatever you want, why not make yourself look good? Naruto smiled as he remembered how much trouble that little bit of information got Jiraiya into. Naruto found It amazing how far Jiraiya could be punched and still be…relatively all right.

"Kitsune shape shifting: it never gets old." Said Naruto as he handed a doggy bag filled with fried tofu to Kagome. "I had a little extra, so I grabbed some incase you were hungry."

Rika looked at the bag, "Deep fried tofu?" Naruto nodded. Rikas unhidden eye went wide and she walked toward the bag arms out, "Oh, gimme, gimme, gimme!"

Kagome brought out a few pieces for her and Rika, "Thank you very much," She looked up at him and smiled, "master"

"I swear you do that just because I don't like it." Naruto walked to a small table in his kitchen and took a seat. "Anyway, your welcome girls. And I have got some amazing news: I think I've found the moon sage!"

Kagomes eyes went wide and Rika choked on and spat out the tofu in her mouth. "You serious? You actually found her right here in the leaf village? You mean to tell me that we searched all over the five villages just for her to be here the whole time? Damn, I hate irony." said Rika.

Kagome nodded and played with a lock of her long black hair, something she always did while thinking. "Was it that girl with the pink hair you said you had a crush on. Sakura was her name, if I remember."

Naruto shook his head. "No, it's not her. I think a little of my aura sight came over to the me here but my aim was off. I knew she was someone in my class, but I focused on the wrong one all this time." Naruto groaned and put his head in his hands. "It was all around her this afternoon. This soft, heavenly glow that made her look like some kind of picture in a temple. How did I miss that for so long?"

Rika chuckled to herself. "Maybe you got thrown off by that girls pink hair. We saw her when the old perv carried you into the village. Seriously, she could lead convoys through a storm with that head of hers."

Kagome ignored Rikas joke and focused on the matter at hand. "How'd that old saying in the tales go? 'The sun and moon are never far apart' we always thought that meant the sun and moon sages would always meet, but we never thought it would end up being that they were born close to each other. Are you sure it was her?"

Naruto nodded smiling. "No doubt about it. I've never seen an aura like hers before, Kagome. I swear, It was like starlight." Naruto ran a hand through his hair. "Now how am I supposed to tell her all of this?"

Rika walked over and put a hand on Narutos shoulder, giving him a warm look with her unhidden jade green eye. "Well, first you have to introduce us to her, and we'll help from there. We'll always be there for you, little bro. Besides, if she is the moon sage like you say, then she probably already wants to be close to you."

Kagome nodded. "The sun and moon sages are as much two halves of one whole as your two selves were. You need each other, master."

"I know, I know." Naruto dragged up his right sleeve revealing a black tattoo of a fox curling around a fiery sun on his forearm, it's long tail snaking down around his arm to his wrist. "She'll be back in a little bit, and then we'll head out to one of the training grounds and get some practice in. I've been getting a lot of jutsu back lately and I want to make sure I can perform all of them perfectly." He looked up to the two girls sitting in his house and gave a worried smile, "Then I'll tell her how I've been trained by Kitsunes, and that I have a summoning contract with them."

Rika smiled and took a bite out of her tofu "This is gonna be so awesome."

Rika and Kagome are in no way associated with the characters their names came from. I just really like those names, is all. As you can see, naruto is a little calmer and more polite now, unless you start aggravating him then he has no problem letting you know you suck. To anyone who thinks hinata wouldn't tell that waiter off or not faint through all this, she still has a whole day left with naruto, so fainting may happen. But, in my opinion, when it comes to naruto, hinatas shyness gets thrown out the window to help him. This is the girl who jumped in front of pain in order to protect him, and who gave him that great pep talk before his fight with neji. That's why Naruhina is a great couple in my mind: Hinatas feelings are just so honest for naruto that i can't help but hope she gets him. And if you would like to know what that poem is naruto was remembering, it was William Ernest Henley. That poem is the whole character of Naruto Uzumaki in one go, and i wanted to get it in here somewhere. Anyway, next chapter Hinata meets narutos foxy sister/bodyguards and sakura and sasuke get to meet the new naruto. This gonna be good.