Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any associated characters.

A/N: Welcome to the second chapter of Sister Lost.
We're not picking up where we left off in the first chapter but instead handling the two days before the first chapter, namely the day of the final exam and graduation, along with the orientation day.

Same thing as with the first Chapter: I do not have any beta readers so spelling, characterization and such are all on me, feel free to point out any and all glaring errors. Especially since English isn't my first language. I will try to avoid all the regular pitfalls, but it will be unavoidable that things slip through, feedback will allow me to fix mistakes and prevent future ones. So tear my grammar and spelling a new one if you find errors.

And now Ladies and gentlemen I give to you FLUFF. Well no, not really, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to open this chapter with an epic tease that doesn't really say anything at all :D

In general interaction between our two main characters outside of combat will probably veer into fluff country for a quick detour or two. If you don't want to read that stuff, well this is not the story for you, there is a reason the secondary genre for this thing is Romance.

Chapter 2: Shadows of the Fox

Day of the final exams, classroom, exam in progress

Hinata was nervous, fidiging in her seat. She weren't afraid of the test, she knew she could perform the ninjutsus needed for a passing grade, having practiced them many times over the last year.

She looked at the boy that made her nervous about the exam. The wild golden blond hair, those impossibly blue eyes. His trademark smile was present, but she knew that version of it. It had been present that day and it was the same now. It wasn't the real him, this was the mask that was put on when things weren't right.

She had a mask similar to it herself, but it hadn't been adorned in a long time, mainly because of him, because of the strength he provided her. He had been wearing the mask less often as well, but today it was back on.

She knew the problem, and there wasn't anything to do about it. She hadn't felt as powerless like she did now since 'that day'. 'That day' had been the first time since 'The Incident' where she felt that she suddenly had a purpose and a place in the world. Where she had saved him and he had saved her.

Now due to circumstances outside of their control they might be forced to spend a lot less time together. She wasn't sure what would happen, how he would react if it would go like they feared, like they knew it would go.

"Hyūga Hinata " She snapped out of her reverie, Iruka-sensei was motioning her to come to the front of the class for her test.

On the way down she decided that perhaps showing off a little would lift his spirit. As she stood up she created a Bunshin of herself that took the other way out of her row and walked down in front of Iruka-sensei with her. Dispelling the clone quickly, she put up her hands in the required seal "Henge".

As the small puff of smoke lifted a very confused looking Ino was standing in front of them, a small snicker was hear in the class due to how she had decided to represent her.

Iruka-sensei continued "Good, now Kawarimi", she dropped her Henge. Ino barely avoided being sprayed with the mouthful of coffee Iruka had just taken, as it was revealed that it was in fact the real Ino that was standing in front of the class and Hinata had switched places with Ino, having dropped the Henge and now sitting in her seat.

Kawarimi was a very powerful technique, there was a reason it was required to graduate. Iruka had however never seen a student being proficient enough forcefully replacing herself with another being before. The Chakra control alone was on par with what most Jōnin could handle. On top of that, a decent amount of Chakra was needed because inherent resistance the Chakra of the other person would pose. He looked at the young Hyūga, she looked a little pale, having probably used most of her Chakra for the stunt. It was impressive none the less.
Iruka had never seen the Hyūga use much of any ninjutsu in the year he had been teaching the class, and was surprised that she had been holding back. Or more likely she hadn't felt the need to show off, being the quiet girl she was. On the way down she had been glancing at the blond trouble maker she had been sitting next to. Showing off for him most likely. He had the two class gossips sitting in the front row, and had heard all sorts of rumors around those two. Personally he felt that it seemed very early for some of the things being said to be true. They were after all only 12.

The following tests had gone past quickly. Kiba had transformed into a likeness of his dog, to jeers from the class that it was an improvement. It was finally Naruto's turn.

Naruto looked slightly ill at the prospect, as he went down in front of the class.

Iruka had been bracing himself, expecting the Oiroke no Jutsu. Instead Naruto had transformed into the Uchiha heir but looking like someone had beaten him to a pulp. Looking to the black haired boy, Iruka noted the scowl etched into the youth's features. That was going to have repercussions later. Still, it was better than that 'other' technique, the Hyūga had a positive effect on him it seemed.

Dispelling the transformation, Naruto then with a huge grin on his face replaced himself with Iruka's table, causing everything on it to fall to the floor. Iruka was about to yell at him, but stopped himself figuring that he would let it slide on this last day of school.

Hinata had a hard time watching, it was finally time for what she had been dreading. Watching intensely as the blond boy ran through the hand signs for Bunshin. Two clones appeared, but they looked off. Something was terribly wrong with it, with a shudder both the clones exploded violently into huge plumes of smoke that quickly filled the classroom.
It had happened, that was it, he wouldn't graduate together with her. As the smoke cleared Naruto-kun was nowhere to be seen in the classroom. She wanted to run off and find him.
She couldn't leave. She knew her father would be attending the ceremony where they were handed their Hitai-ate in a little over 20 minutes. As the sole heir to the main branch of the Hyūga, she couldn't be seen to do something as unseemly as ditching a ceremony the Hokage would be attending.
Instead she activated her Byakugan in hopes of finding out where he would be running off to, so she could find him after the ceremony.

He hadn't moved far, she could see him sitting outside on the swing behind the building. The regret and pain of not graduating was painted in his face. He gave a slight nod. Widening her eyes, he had known she would look for him. Understanding why he was sitting there instead of running off. He was staying to see her reach the first step towards their goal. By officially becoming a kunoichi.

Smiling a little at the sentiment, she wasn't sure if she wanted him to see it, knowing how much staying around would pain him, when he was doomed to spend another year in the Academy.

Naruto, sitting on the swing behind the Academy an hour later

Naruto was at a loss on what to do, he had seen Hinata-chan get her Hitai-ate. He was really happy for her, at the same time, the fact that they could no longer spend most of the day together, hurt him like nothing else had in many years.

He hadn't even had the chance to talk to her, before her father had dragged her off towards their clan compound.

He could hear footsteps on the grass in front of him, moving towards him.

Naruto looked up at the approaching assistant teacher Mizuki approaching him.
"Naruto-kun, I know of a way you can still graduate" Naruto snapped his head up staring at the young sensei.

Hours later, in the Hokages office

Hiruzen was looking at the young boy that had requested an audience with him, following the exam earlier. Naruto not graduating was going to cause him quite a bit of trouble. He was currently looking at the boy contemplating what to do.

Suddenly Naruto shouted "Henge", in his place was a young buxom blond woman, standing naked in a pose barely covered by the smoke from the transformation. It caught him off guard, and in a spray of blood from his nose he topped backwards off the chair and hit his head on the wall behind him knocking him out.

Naruto dropped the transformation and hurried over to the unconscious old man, gingerly checking that he was still alive. Before fishing a set of keys out of the old man's robe. Unlocking the other door in the office, Naruto went down the stairs into the large room containing a large scroll sitting on a pedestal behind a barrier.

Pulling out the seal Mizuki had given him, he placed the seal on the barrier, nothing happened. Then suddenly the barrier wavered a little and blinked out of existence.

He quickly grabbed the scroll and set out through the window, out towards the forest where Mizuki had instructed him to wait for a proctor to appear to confirm he had indeed passed the test.

Naruto arrived at the clearing, frowning a little, this was an odd spot for an exam. He decided to dot the i and set out to trap the edge around the clearing. If he could show off his trap skills there was a higher chance of him passing.

20 minutes had passed, he had finished up trapping the immediate area, and was starting to grow a little bored. Where the hell was that proctor anyways. After 5 minutes he had become restless and decided to look at the scroll.

Opening it slightly, he noticed instructions for a jutsu. "This must be the reward for managing the special exam" he muttered to himself, and started following the instructions on the scroll.

Iruka, 1 hour later, traveling through the forest

Where the hell was he, the alarm had gone out 30 minutes ago, Naruto had attacked Hokage-sama. He had used that stupid jutsu again, this wasn't a malicious assault. The restricted scroll had been stolen. The scroll had been under some heavy duty wards, this wasn't something an Academy student would be capable of pulling off on his own.
Someone had to have been helping him, or more likely, manipulating him. It wouldn't be hard, not in the state of mind he would be in after today. If only he had been able to find him earlier, after he had finished up with the ceremony and done his paperwork pertaining to the new genin, he had set out to find the boy. Not being able to find him he had looked to another avenue.
Iruka knew why the clones had exploded like that. He had spend the afternoon with the Hokage trying to figure out how to let Naruto pass. Naruto wouldn't ever be able to create a normal Bunshin. Even a tiny tickle of Chakra, from Naruto's point of view, would completely overload the technique, causing all the excess to be released as smoke.

He had to find him first, most of the Chūnin out looking as well as a few of the Jōnin hated the child, and might do something rash, like killing him, if they found him first.

Iruka knew of Naruto's fondness of the forested areas close to the part of where he lived. He had gone straight to that area, but the forests around there was a big area.

A "WOOO" was heard in the direction he was traveling. Iruka sped up.

Naruto, middle of the clearing

He had yelled out in joy after being able to perform the technique. Now he knew how the test was supposed to make him pass. It had contained some information on a distinct Bunshin jutsu. One that he was actually able to perform, he hadn't mastered it yet he knew, since he couldn't get it to make just one clone. It would be enough to pass and the traps would seal the deal.

A loud snap and then the yelp from a person, who had just been whipped by a thin branch, was heard to the right of him. He quickly made a few clones. turning towards the sound. Yelling "So proctor-sensei, do I pass?!"

Iruka stumbled out of the bush, straightened and then walked up to him. "Pass what?" Naruto looked up at him "The Special Test, what else? Look I can make Bunshin, that means I pass, right?" Iruka had gone wide eyed next to him. "Special Test? Naruto who told you there was a special test?"

"I did" Mizuki was standing on a branch close to the clearing. Mizuki un-slung one of the large shuriken he was carrying on his back and hurled it towards the pair before jumping to the ground.

Naruto reacted to the shuriken first, he pushed Iruka away and did a windmill backwards, slapping his free hand up into the middle of the shuriken, stopping it dead in its tracks.

Mizuki landed on the edge of the forest, before he had time to react, a branch swiped him in the back sending him tumbling to the ground. Before he could get back on his feet Naruto was standing over him.
Naruto was emitting a huge amount of killing intent. His face was twisted into a snarl showing Canines that that was much too large for a human. His eyes glowing a faint red in the darkness of the forest.

"No, get away from me demon" Mizuki pleaded, trying to scramble away from the boy. "I TRUSTED YOU SENSEI" Naruto was overcome by the rage and in a single motion, swiped the large shuriken at Mizuki, severing his head from his body with one of the large tines.

Naruto then fell to his knees in front of the decapitated corpse of the former assistant teacher, he had been splashed by some of the blood pumping out of the corpse, as the heart continued to beat a few more times. Covered in blood, kneeling in the pool that had been created on the ground. Naruto broke down.

"I-I killed him" he managed to get out while his body was trembling from the adrenalin high and the aftereffects of the rage. "I couldn't stop myself" his head turned towards his sensei, looking Iruka in the eyes with a pleading look. "It was like I was-was someone else, I-I don't know what to do sensei, please help me"

Iruka took out a flare from his pocket and fired it off, then walked over to his student, helping him stand up and move away from the corpse. Four ANBU arrived as he had moved a few feet away, they had weapons drawn and was moving towards Naruto. Iruka held up his free arm, while supporting Naruto with the other. "There will be none of that, Mizuki manipulated Naruto, and was killed like the traitor he was as a result. I am under the direct order of the Hokage. I will bring Naruto to Hiruzen-sama, and we will take it from there. You Four dispose of the body, bring the head to the Intelligence Division and guard the scroll in the Hokage Tower until a new ward can be set up"

45 minutes later at the Hokage Tower

Naruto had been cleaned up and lend a set of clean clothes. He was sitting in a chair in front of the Hokage, still rattled by what had happened. Iruka was standing next to the chair looking between the Hokage and Naruto.

Hiruzen finally spoke. "Naruto, what happened today wasn't you fault. As a student you're supposed to be able to completely trust your teachers. We do not fault you for doing, what you did." The Hokage's eyes softened and his features settled into a frown. It was too soon for someone to deal with taking a life. He hadn't been prepared. They had a class about it in the Academy, but the real preparation for the harsh realities of being a shinobi, was to fall to the Jōnin in charge of the students over the initiation period new genin teams faced. Now he had been driven to it before being ready.
Then there were the issue with the influence from the Kyuubi that had been the final driving force, using his rage to control him. Letting out a sigh, Hiruzen straightened in his seat. "Naruto, there is a lot we have to tell you"

Hiruzen started with telling about the night the Kyuubi had attacked Konohagakure, how the fourth Hokage, had fought for his life to protect the village, but being unable to kill the monster. Forced to seal it into him. How he was the one thing that kept the village safe from that monster. How it might have been what had driven him over the edge and killing the traitor.

Iruka told him about his parents, how he had hated him, when he found out, he was going to have to teach him in the future. How after meeting him, and seeing him interact with others, had convinced him that he could never be that monster people claimed he was.

"Naruto, you weren't prepared for the eventuality of taking a life not yet. It's too late for us to do anything about it. There is only one thing to do, and that is moving forward. Don't dwell on it, don't think about what could have been done in another way. Doing that will only eat away at your soul. Mizuki was a traitor to the village, treason only has one punishment, death. You did your duty as a shinobi of Konoha."
Hiruzen stood up and walked around the table over to Naruto. Handing him a Hitai-ate.
"Congratulations of becoming a genin."

Iruka put a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "I'm proud of you Naruto, it was your reaction that kept us both from harm." Iruka studied the Golden haired boy, he sure had come a long way over the year he had been his student. Even now as he was sitting there, Iruka could see he was digesting everything that happened this night, and would pull out okay once he had mulled everything over.
He crouched down in front of the boy and looked him in the eyes. "With experiences like this, talking about it always helps, once you have thought everything through and if you still need to talk to someone about it, know that I will always be willing to lend you an ear, for this or anything else."

Naruto slumped in the chair, feeling worn out from everything that had happened. Learning the Kage Bunshin, the aftereffect of the fox's power and the down after the adrenaline high from his first life or death situation. He got up and looked at his former sensei and jiji-sama. "Thanks for everything, I need some time with this. I'm going to go home and try to sleep."

As Naruto was on the way out Iruka reminded him that Orientation and team presentation was at 10 the following morning.

After Naruto had exited his office. Hiruzen looked at Iruka, smiling at him lighting his pipe. "So he graduated afterall, well that is a load off my mind." Iruka looked sceptically at the Hokage. "How so?" Hiruzen chuckled a little "Now I will be able to fulfill the two team placement requests, there were for him."

Hinata, 7:30 in the morning, racing through a forest at the edge of Konoha

She needed to see him. There had been a huge uproar in their compound yesterday. The Hokage had requested several members of the clan to help with the retrieval of a person and a stolen artifact.

Hinata had observed the others while they were selecting people to join the hunt. Reading the lips of the people as they briefed the people that were to join the search, she had discovered they were to hunt Naruto. To her relief, the whole thing had been called off, before the hunting teams got to leave the compound.
She knew that many in her clan didn't approve of Naruto and would try to hurt him if given the chance. She would stop such nonsense once she was the Clan Head, but until then there wasn't anything she could do about such attitudes.

She was racing towards their spot, desperately needing to talk to him, to find out what had happened. She was afraid for him, what if he wasn't there, had been arrested or... She shook her head, that wasn't a line of thought she wanted to follow. She was terrified of what she might do if something were ever to happen to him. The last person in the world she truly cared for.

She reached the clearing, the place where they had come to understand each other over the years, since the first encounter there 3 years ago.

He was sitting there, looking at the grass. She felt a huge wave of relief, nothing had happened to him. Jumping down to the ground and walking into the clearing.

He was wearing a Hitai-ate, "HE HAS PASSED" ran through her mind. She could barely contain her elation. Moving a little faster towards him, almost ready to pounce towards him once she was in the clearing.

The blond boy looked up, as she went through one of the small bushes, lining the edge of the small clearing. He locked eyes with her. Causing her to stop in her tracks. He had that look in his eyes. The one from 3 years ago, the one that shone with pain.

She recovered quickly and slowly made the way over to the large tree he was sitting against. Without saying anything, she instead sat down next to him, shoulder to shoulder. Content to sit in silence until he was ready to say anything. It was after all how it worked. How they both had been there for each other over the last three years.

They sat in silence for half an hour before he lifted his head from staring at the grass.
"I killed a man" fear and pain evident in the boys voice. She turned her head and looked into his blue eyes. encouraging him to continue.

He related to her everything that had happened with Mizuki, she shook her head with a faint smile on her lips about him using that technique to knock out the Hokage. She knew he was holding something back from the story, killing a man in anger didn't seem like him. But didn't press the issue, once he was ready he would probably relate the missing pieces of the puzzle.

They sat in silence after he was done with the story. Just enjoying the morning as the sun rose higher in the sky warming the area.

It was nearing the time for the orientation and team assignment. She got up and stretched a little, hitting the tree with one of her hands she let out a little curse under her breath. Naruto heard it and let out a little chuckle. Standing up as well.
"We better hurry, there is only a few minutes until it starts" his voice back to normal, she gave a little smile watching him bound towards the edge of the clearing in direction of the Academy. Then set off at full speed towards him, passing him by before he had reach the edge. "No fair" was heard as she entered the forest with the sound of the boy scrambling through the trees behind her.

Naruto and Hinata, at the Academy

Standing outside the door for their old classroom, Naruto was hesitant to go through it. Hinata took his hand and gave it a slight squeeze. Flashing him a smile.

In that moment the door opened, Ino about to walk out of it. Hinata swore to herself "Damn it, it was every single time, this is going to feed the gossip of the day." She didn't really care about gossip, but it was starting to grate on her, them being the subject of it most of the time.

Releasing his hand she wandered past Ino narrowing her eyes into a slight glade as she went past her. Naruto shrugged and followed her into the class.

Ino stood there with a grin plastered on her face, having stuff to talk with 'The Forehead' about today that didn't involve insulting each other.

Naruto was walking up to their usual seats. "Oi moron what are you doing here, you didn't graduate." He turned to glare at Kiba. Then flashed a huge grin and flicked the Hitai-ate on his forehead with a finger, then took his seat.

The entire class broke out in whispers. Not knowing what to make of it when he had graduated after failing the final exam.

Ino had returned to the class, and said loud enough for everyone to hear it. "My dad rushed to work suddenly last night." The class went silent, everyone was looking at Naruto. They all knew Ino's father Inoichi worked for the Intelligence Division, there was only one reason a Yamanaka would be needed outside of working hours. The class exploded in gossip, trying to piece together what had happened last night, several ANBU and Jōnin had been seen moving quickly around the town last night.

Iruka entered the class, sat down his coffee and told them to quiet down.

Kiba had his hand in the air. Iruka paused for a moment and nodded to Kiba.
"Why does Naruto have a Hitai-ate? He didn't graduate with us yesterday."

Iruka studied the class, he supposed it would have been unavoidable for them to bring it up. He looked quickly at Naruto with a bit of concern. Naruto hadn't approached him about what had happened yesterday like he had hope and he wasn't sure if it was a good idea to bring it up after all the boy had been through yesterday. Naruto just sad there with a grin on his face and gave him a small nod. Iruka looked to the girl sitting next to Naruto, well he supposed he had confided in someone after all.

"Naruto was graduated and instated as a shinobi of the village after performing admirably for the good of the village under extraordinary circumstances last night." He of course wouldn't go into details about it.

The class was once again buzzing with everyone talking about last night, Naruto had been involved in whatever had happened.

Iruka shot them a glare and told everyone to be quiet once more. He then went on to blab about what an honor it was to be a shinobi for Konohagakure. How they would inherit 'The Will of Fire' a speech they had heard a million times, as Iruka would bring it up, whenever he had the chance.

He finally came to the part they had been waiting for. "I will now announce the teams". Two people entered the classroom.
A young woman wearing a mesh armor blouse covered in what looked like a giant bandage. Hinata gave a small wave as she entered the classroom, receiving a smile and a small nod in return.
Behind her walked a tall man with black hair and beard with an unlit cigarette in his mouth.

The door remained open, Iruka waited a minute and then walked over and closed it. Turning to the class. "These are two of the Jōnin in charge of the three teams that will be making up the graduating class, Kurenai Yūhi and Sarutobi Asuma. The third Jōnin will show up later, probably."

Iruka walked back over to the table. "Team Kurenai will be Aburame Shino, Haruno Sakura and Inuzuka Kiba."

Ino elbowed Sakura in her side. "Ha you won't be on the team with Sasuke-sama, instead you get bug boy and the dog." Sakura shot Ino a venomous glare.

Kurenai Yūhi looked at her new genin team. She was sad that she didn't get to have Hinata on her team. She had been like a daughter to her since she on request from Hyūga Hiashi, 5 years ago had helped her train, whenever the Head of the clan was too busy. They didn't spend as much time together anymore, Yūhi had requested she be placed on her team, she would have to track down Kakashi sometime later this week and hurt him. "Alright kids, follow me outside and we will head to our training ground."

After Kurenai had exited the class. Iruka announced the second team "Team Sarutobi will be Akimichi Chōji, Nara Shikamaru and Yamanaka Ino." Ino swore under her breath. She had know the two others all her life and was fine with being on team with them, but she had still hoped, she would have been on team with Sasuke.

Asuma looked at his team, smiled a bit at them being the same combination as their parents them motioned them to follow him. "We're heading outside, you're not allowed to smoke in this damn building."

Iruka turned to the 3 students still sitting in the room. "Well the three of you are on the same team. Your Jōnin-sensei will be Hatake Kakashi, he has been dalayed." Yeah right. "He will probably show up later, just wait here, I have to go take care of some things"

Naruto jumped up for his seat, pointing wildly at Iruka "Ahhh, ahhhhhhh! There was that word again probably! What do you mean probably, he is our new sensei shouldn't he be here already?" Iruka waved him off. "Kakashi will show up, when he shows up, now excuse me" as he went out the door.

Naruto slumped back into his chair, looking at Hinata who had let out a slight giggle, when he had jumped up waving his arm in the air.

20 minutes had passed, their new sensei still hadn't shown up. Naruto was getting restless and couldn't sit still in his seat. Hinata was watching him with an amused smile. She knew that in a moment Naruto would stand up and something would happen. The boy had entirely too much energy. Not that she minded.

Naruto jumped out of his seat and went down to the door, humming slightly, while looking around and at the door. He then reached into the tool pouch on his side.

40 minutes later the door opened. Kakashi took a quick step into the class avoiding the falling bucket. He knew that Naruto was a notorious prankster and had expected something like this. Taking the long stride into the class however made him trigger a tripwire. He jerked his head backwards to avoid the two sticks that was scissoring down towards his head, he avoided getting him by the sticks but didn't avoid getting a face full of chalk, as the two blackboard sponges tied to the ends hammered together. Stumbling back a small step, he then hit the back of his head on the bucket, still suspended in the air by wires. Muttering under his breath he then turned to his students "We are going to the roof." Turning and taking a step while ducking under the bucket. He planted his foot into some contact glue he had stepped over when taking the stride in to avoid the bucket. Not having noticed the glue he took another step and promptly face planted.

Naruto was laughing hard and then bounded down jumping over the downed Jōnin, racing towards the roof. Hinata had gotten up as well giggling, a little at the show he had put on for her. Gingerly stepping over their sensei who still hadn't gotten up.

Sasuke let out a small "ha, moron" and then got up and walked out slowly, sidestepping Kakashi as he was picking himself off the floor trying to free his sandal.

Sasuke, in the stairway to the roof.

Sasuke opened the door out to the roof where they were to meet up. His eyes instantly locked onto Naruto that was half lying/half sitting on the floor next to the bench looking disheveled. With the Hyūga heir straddling him.

The instantly snapped their heads around to him and quickly made to stand up. Kakashi appeared on the railing on the other side of them. Looking at the two.

Sasuke thought they looked slightly guilty, brushed themselves off, and they sat down on the bench, Hinata had sat down all the way at the right end of it. The blond sitting down entirely too close almost pushing her off it.

Kakashi, sitting alone on the roof 15 minutes later.

He giggled a little at catching the two doing 'something', it was almost like chapter 24 in the Icha Icha book he was currently reading. He shook his head, clearing his head of those thoughts, that was an association that wasn't proper about two kids that had barely started puberty.

Still, he hoped that wouldn't get in the way of the team, they had caught him off guard again however. He had to admire, that they knew each other well enough to pull it off.

He had been asking them about their likes, dislikes, dreams and aspirations. Sasuke had gone first and had mentioned his goal of killing a 'certain someone'. Kakashi knew what that was about, but left it alone. If revenge could be a driving force for his development, until he grew out of such a notion, so be it.

It had then been Hinata's turn. "My likes are: Spending time with a certain someone and getting stronger. I dislike Jerks, and one day I will be the Hokage" Kakashi was thrown off guard by what she said. She had been spending entirely too much time with Naruto if those where her goals.

Turning to Naruto: "My hobbies are flower pressing, my likes are spending time with a certain someone and getting stronger, my dream is one day I will be a strong clan leader" Sasuke had sniggered at the hobby.
The dream had thrown them both for a loop. Sasuke was narrowing his eyes at Naruto looking to be in deep thought. Kakashi was looking at him, wondering exactly how much the blond knew about his parents.

They were both pulled out of their thoughts as Hinata broke down laughing loudly, with Naruto giggling. Hinata then tumbled off the bench.

In a small puff of smoke Naruto was revealed on the floor. With the Naruto on the bench forming a quick sign and turned into Hinata in a puff of smoke.

They had Henged into each other since they got to the roof. He hadn't noticed anything, they had each other's mannerism down to a T. Kakashi hadn't seen transformations that good in over a dozen years.

He had been pranked once by the wife of his sensei, who had posed as him for half a mission, because he had been home sick after trying an experimental dish his wife had made.

Naruto and Hinata, in their spot in the forest

They were both complete worn out, and more than a little sore. Naruto was nursing his shoulder which had hit a rock, as they had tumbled to the ground.

When they had caught their breath, the shoot each other a look. They hadn't mentioned their other goal to their new sensei.

The promise he had made her a couple of years ago, what they had been working towards since then. If they managed to fulfill the goal at some point in the future. There would be huge consequences. This was the stuff that started wars. They would have to be smart about it, and no-one could know. When the time came they had to take the chance. They would have to work even harder to attain their goal, so they could follow through on it when it presented itself.

Academy Antics: Revenge?! on Iruka

Naruto(Age 11) was sitting in him seat smiling to himself. He was going to get revenge today after having detention all of last week.

Iruka had entered the classroom with his usual coffee, he immediately stepped up to the blackboard and started telling about the Will of Fire. After the lecture he went to sit down at his table. To find the papers he was to hand out to the class.

As he sat down on the chair it lowered itself. He grabbed the handle to raise the chair back up into a proper height while staring at the blond in the middle row that was beaming at him.

The handle came off, he took it up in front of him. There was a wire attached to the handle. Eyes widening, he took a step away, but too late. The bottom drawer in the table sprang open with a small *twip* and nailed him in the shin.

He looked down to his shin yelping in pain, as he saw a small black ball rolling rapidly towards him inside the drawer. It hit the end of the drawer and then promptly exploded on a cloud of smoke. Iruka spend the next 10 minutes wheezing having inhaled some of the chili laced smoke.

Then told Naruto he could spend the rest of the class in the hall way.

Surprisingly Hinata got up and followed him out towards the hall. Iruka stopped her before she went outside. Asking her what she was doing. Quickly retorting "You shouldn't punish someone by denying them their education, so I'm joining him in protest."

Rolling his eyes, he had to agree with her and he called Naruto back in. "You're instead serving detention the next two weeks."

Making their way back to the table, Naruto leaned close to Hinata. "Gee, thanks for that." She looked at him fluttering her eyes and flashed a mischievous smile. "That's for forgetting about yesterday, besides you could never stay mad at me." Well she had a point there, he shrugged and sat down.

A/N:

So, that was the second chapter, hadn't really expected to finish it within 24 hours of the first one with Christmas and all. But here it is.

We had a good deal of angst in this one, don't fret. There won't be much of that, since I'm not that kind of writer. It was needed in this to expand on just what Naruto and Hinata are to each other. And I humbly apologize for it. They are young, on the verge of becoming teenagers, so we cannot be completely rid of it.

We also got to see how the two have rubbed off on one another (No, not like that, get your mind out of the gutter) With Naruto being a bit more tempered and Hinata more mischievous.

This concludes the prelude. We're now going into the story arcs. The first arc will not have anything or at least very little to do with the cannon.

The timeline with all arc points I've planned is rather large, so strap your selves in people, we're in it for the long haul.

The next arc is called Training. We will be follow all the shinobi and kunoichi of the 3 teams.

I hope you will all enjoy the arc, but unfortunately I doubt the first chapter of it will go online before the 25th. Would take a Christmas miracle to have time to proof read it on Christmas eve's day (The day, we here in Denmark celebrate Christmas)