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Standstill

Chapter 3

A new day came to the villagers of Konoha. It was early in the morning when the villagers started to prepare for the day. Storeowners opened their shops. Mothers swept in front of their houses. Some are watering the plants. The shinobis are preparing for their duties to the village. Some just finished their respective trainings; some are just about to start. Watching the villagers gave Tsunade the motivation and determination to protect the village she loves. Aside from what she's seeing, her thoughts were concentrated on the trio that left the village last night. It hasn't been 12 hours yet since they left, she was worrying about their safety and having second thoughts on the decision she made. Although that was the safest option, so as not to ring a bell to the council elders and most especially Danzo. She was deep in contemplation that she hadn't heard the knock on her door.

" Hokage-sama, you summoned me." a cold, stern voice said snapping the Hokage out of her thoughts.

" Yes, indeed. Take a seat, Hiashi." Tsunade said as she motioned at the chair infront of her desk. Hiashi obliged.

" Do you want some tea?" Tsunade offered just to lighten things up since she knew this will be difficult to break the news to him.

" Yes please, I would be delighted. English breakfast tea would do." Hiashi said as he smoothen his robes.

" Good choice. Shizune!"

" Hai, Tsunade-sama?" Shizune asked

" Bring us tea, English breakfast tea to be more specific."Tsunade ordered. Shizune went out of the room quickly since she doesn't want to miss the important matters the Hyuuga head and her master to discuss.

" I suppose that there is something important you need to discuss with me." Hiashi said as soon as Shizune went out.

" Indeed. But before you could react on what I will say, I need you to listen first." Tsunade said with authority that even the renowned head wouldn't argue.

" Yes, I understand." Hiashi said. Then Shizune came back with their tea. After giving them the tea, Tsunade gestured at Shizune to activate the protective seals and she obliged.

" Judging from the activation of seals, this is classified matter?" Hiashi assumed.

" Yes, this is S-rank secret and you should be the only one to know. You will not say anything about this to anyone even the person you trust the most." Tsunade said.

" And what will come to me if I disobeyed?"

" I will personally come to you. Skin you. Drown you in salt and lime juice. Dug out your eyes and slit your throat using the blunt edge of a plastic bread knife." Tsunade threatened.

This made Hiashi gulp and sweat dropped. If he disobeyed… he wouldn't want to even think about it.

" So, what is this about?" he asked.

" This is about your daughter, Hinata." Tsunade said.


STREETS OF KONOHA

Sakura, Sai, Kakashi and Yamato were in the training ground waiting patiently for the blonde-orange clad, ramen addict teammate. It was unusual for him to be late and the most disturbing was Kakashi was early.

" What the hell is that Naruto taking so long?" Sakura complained.

" Maybe he was worrying about his dick." Sai sai being ignorant of what he just blurted out.

" When he arrives he gonna get it!" Sakura said as she infused her fists with chakra. Seeing this the 3 men flinched. They silently prayed for Naruto's soul.

" Mah… mah… Calm down Sakura. I'm sure he just overslept or something." Yamato said as he tried to calm the pink-haired with monstrous strength kunoichi but he was failing. He looked at Kakashi who pretended not to care.

" Hmm. We wait here for a couple more minutes if he's not here then we will fetch him." Kakashi said calmly but he had this unusual feeling. 'Something's not right' the jounin thought.


HYUUGA COMPOUND

" Hanabi-san, have you seen your sister?" Neji asked. He was looking for his cousin for quite a while.

" No, it's strange though. I haven't seen her the whole night and today. Usually she would be warming up or training with you." Hanabi said now getting worried about her sister's whereabouts.

" Ko-san, is there by any chance you have seen Hinata-sama?" Neji asked Ko since he knew that Ko was her guardian.

" Unfortunately no. I haven't seen her yesterday too. I was on duty yesterday." Ko answered and bowed then left.

" Neji-niisan, where do you think nee-chan went?" Hanabi asked his cousin with tears threatening to fall from her eyes. Seeing this Neji knelt in front of her.

" I don't know, but I hope she is safe. We should tell this to Uncle, may he knows something." Neji offered as he wiped the tears building up in Hanabi's eyes.

" But father was summoned by Hokage- sama." Hanabi said.

" Hmm… we should hear from him soon. Why don't we eat breakfast?" Neji offered. He is sensing that something is up but he couldn't put a finger on it. Neji gave a piggy-back ride to his younger cousin hoping to divert her attention from the situation.

' Where are you Hinata-sama?' Neji thought.


HOKAGE'S OFFICE

" What about my daughter" this piqued Hiashi's interest.

" She left the village with Naruto last night." Tsunade said bluntly.

" WHAT?! Where are they? I'm going to kill that …" Hiashi shouted.

" Calm down. I said before you have to hear me out before jumping into conclusions." Tsunade reminded him.

"But…"

" Calm down."

Hiashi regained his composure and listened to what the Hokage has to say.

" Yesterday, she was here reporting the details of her mission. During that time, Naruto was also here reporting. Suddenly, a flash of yellow appeared before us and a young girl appeared."

" Young girl?"

" Yes, the said girl has blonde hair with the hairstyle same as Hinata's back then. Striking blue eyes and whisker marks same as Naruto."

Hiashi was silent and Tsunade took the opportunity to continue.

" As I was saying, it appears that the young girl had time traveled."

" Time travel? Are you kidding me? Such thing is not possible."

" Yes, we always believed that it was impossible but it happened."

" What's the name of the girl?"

" Yuuko… Yuuko Uzumaki."

" Well it seems that the girl is related to Naruto. What does it have to do with my daughter?"

" I'll get to that. Moving on, I also initially thought she was related to him but an incident the girl told that got me intrigued."

" What is it?"

" Apparently, she was enrolled in the academy. She had a sparring with a Hyuuga named 'Ryou' son of Rein and Miko Hyuuga. Is there any chance that you know these people?"

" Yes. Rein and Miko Hyuuga are members of the main. But they are younger by a year from my daughter Hanabi."

" Figures. Yuuko managed to beat the Hyuuga using the Hyuuga clan techniques namely, Jyuuken and the famous gentle fist: eight trigrams, 64 palms"

" What?"

" And she didn't use the Hyuuga bloodline: Byakugan."

"That's impossible."

" I thought so too. There is also a part in her story that got me. When Ryou was about to attack her, she disappeared only to reappear at his back making the Jyuuken strike."

"That technique, it sounds like the 4th's jutsu."

"Exactly. I guessed that when they made the peace sign at each other Yuuko may be unconsciously put a seal on him making her use the time-space jutsu."

Hiashi doesn't know how to take what the Hokage's is saying.

" Yuuko also told us about her life. Apparently, she spent her life being the village's punching bag. Much more like Naruto when he was still young. She was called 'demon'."

" You don't mean…" Hiashi's blood ran cold as he reminisced the Kyuubi attack that caused a lot of death.

" That's what I think too. Maybe she was the 4th jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi."

" Wait, how was she able to time travel?"

" As she was going to sleep, she saw a box on her table and opened it. She saw a tri-pronged kunai much like Minato's."

" Maybe that explained why… but…"

" What?"

" Minato was my best friend. He told me about the Hiraishin and taught me. He gave me one of those just in case I needed help from him. I can only do short distances of it. He told me that he couldn't time travel using it."

" Yes, I researched about that too. Yuuko claimed that the seal was different from Minato's. Yuuko said that Naruto became the Rokudaime and invented another version of it, which allows him to travel back in the past."

" Naruto, rokudaime?"

" I know. Back to the point, since I had a hunch, I asked Yuuko is she would accept on her DNA being tested."

" She accepted because according to her, she grew up alone. I tested it and compared to the database that we have."

" And the results?" Hiashi had guessed it already but he wants it to come from Tsunade.

" You should know it by now. Naruto is the father and Hinata is the mother."

" Then why would they leave the village?"

" Because I said so."

"WHY?"

" Look at it, it's the best course of action. If I haven't done that then the council elders wouldn't accept or worse that Danzo might turn the girl into a killing machine. Letting the others know about the girls natural abilities would cause her life in jeopardy. Also, it will take Naruto and Hinata a long time to use the Hiraishin and the technique is the only way to return the girl back in her original time."

Hiashi thought about the Hokage's argument. It was amendable. It would really put the girl's life in danger and question about her heritage. It was the safest choice.

" Fine, you presented an acceptable argument. But may I ask when are they going back?"

" 5 years from now. Also, I think this will ensure that Naruto won't fall into the hands of the Akatsuki and give us more time to prepare when they come here looking for him." Tsunade was worried about the safety of her village and the trio. Hiashi agreed to this.

" I think so too. I won't tell a soul about this. But if I may contact her just this once?"

" You can. Through me."

"Thank you, I would like to give her the scrolls her mother left for her."

" That would be nice."

" I'll contact her after I get the scrolls. I will drop by after lunch." Hiashi then bowed and turned to leave.

" I hope I have seen my daughter before she left and her daughter." Hiashi said before he left. As he closed the door he was deep in his thoughts. 'Be safe my daughter. I love you very much and I will miss you. Hitomi, be sure to keep our daughter safe. I wish to see your daughter, Hinata.' Hiashi thought as he made his way back to the compound.


TRAINING GROUND

" Arrgh! It's already past 9 and he's still not here!" Sakura in on the verge of beating Sai into a bloody pulp. Poor Sai, he became Sakura's punching bag whenever Naruto isn't around.

'Naruto, I swear I'm gonna cut your precious family jewels if you don't appear this instant!' Sai thought.

'This is definitely strange, Naruto was supposed to be here even before I arrived. What's going on?' Kakashi thought closing the porn book he was trying to read. " That's it, we'll fetch him." Kakashi said.

" Yamato, go to report this to Tsunade-sama. For Naruto to be late or not to show up, something is going on." Kakashi whispered to his kouhai. Yamato being the obedient kouhai, nodded. Even he was also sensing that something is wrong.

" Let's go." Kakashi told Sakura and Sai. They took the rooftops and made their way to Naruto's apartment. Yamato made his was to the Hokage tower as fast as he can.


HYUUGA COMPOUND

" Welcome back, Hiashi-sama" a guard greeted him as Hiashi went inside.

" Welcome back, Uncle." Neji bowed as he greeted.

" Is Hanabi's training finished?" Hiashi asked as he went to his office with Neji following.

" Yes, uncle but there is something I have to tell you." Neji said. Guessing what his nephew would tell him he activated the protective seals inside. Neji seeing this guessed that he already knew what happened.

" Uncle, Hinata-sama hasn't come home since last night. Hanabi and I are worried. Do you by any chance know what happened?" Neji asked.

" Yes, your cousin left the village with Naruto. I was summoned by the Hokage about that and both were labeled as 'rogue' ninjas effective immediately." Hiashi said with venom in his tone. He never wanted to label her daughter as 'rogue' even though he knew the real reason behind it.

" What?" Neji said almost completely out of words. He couldn't believe that his cousin, HInata would leave the village and what's more shocking is that she is with Naruto. He knew, everyone knew that Naruto loves his village and wouldn't want to leave.

" It's true. They left last night." Hiashi said missing his daughter.

" Why? Why would they leave?" Neji asked still in state of disbelief.

" I don't know. Maybe Hinata got fed-up and left. Same with Naruto." Hiashi said trying to hide the hurt emotions while saying such hateful words.

" Fed-up? You mean, because they were labeled as useless and weak? Naruto trained for almost 3 years to be strong and Hinata-sama trained harder, pushing herself beyond her limits! Why?!" Neji now raising his voice to Hiashi. He didn't, doesn't want to accept that both of the strongest shinobi in Konoha, their friends left without a word.

" I know that Hinata trained very hard, kept on improving herself. I love my daughters and I don't want any harm to befall on them. Tsunade-sama already had a team to search for them." Hiashi said.

" Let me search them too. Please uncle. Hinata-sama, Hanabi and You are the only ones I consider a real family in this household. Neji said with sadness in his voice. Tears build up on his pale eyes threatening to fall.

" I know it is hard for you to accept this. Trust our Hokage. She already sent top ANBU's with exceptional tracking skill to find them. Also, if I know that Hinata is with Naruto, I doubt that there will be any harm would fall on them. I know that Naruto will protect Hinata whatever it takes." Hiashi said completely putting his trust to Naruto that he would keep his daughter and granddaughter safe and sound.

" I trust Naruto as well but please give me the permission whenever we will have a mission outside, let me find her." Neji pleaded.

" Of course, just make sure you come back safe. Hanabi and I wouldn't want the two of you to be on harm's way." Hiashi said as a ghostly smile appeared on his face.

" Thank you, Uncle. I believe that there is a reason behind their disappearance. I'll be on my way then." Neji bowed as he went out of the room only to be stopped midway.

" Neji… If by any chance you find out or have suspicions, I want you to keep it for yourself." Hiashi pleaded.

" Why is that uncle?" Neji found it suspicious that Hiashi won't let him share his thoughts on this matter.

" For Hinata's protection." Hiashi said.

" Very well. Thank you, Uncle." Neji said as he went out of the room.

"I hope you made the right decision, Tsunade-sama. I won't be able to handle it if anything happens to my daughter's family." Hiashi thought.


NARUTO'S APARTMENT

Knock knock knock

~Silence

Knock knock knock

~Silence

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

~Silence

CRASH!

Apparently it was Sakura who was knocking and because of her super strength thanks to Tsunade she destroyed Naruto's poor front door. Upon seeing this, Kakashi and Sai sweat dropped and gulped.

' Damn her super strength! I will never mess with her again. I promise to show up on time! Poor door…' Sai thought.

' Sakura, you don't have to destroy Naruto's door. But that strength, I wonder what happened to her training with Tsunade-sama? She isn't learning medical jutsu.' Kakashi thought.

Sakura was the first one to go inside. She didn't bother taking off her sandals as she made her way to Naruto's bedroom.

" NARUTO! HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO STAY ASLEEP! WAKE UP! OR I WILL…

Kakashi and Sai hear Sakura's voice to falter. They both looked at each other and nodded. They went inside towards where Sakura is.

" kick… your… ass…" Sakura continued when the guys stood beside her.

" What the hell? Where is he?" Sakura asked as she stared in the empty bed.

" Wait, why is his apartment…" Sakura looked from the living room to the bedroom and kitchen.

"… so clean and organized? It was like when he left it before he went to train with Jiraiya-sama. What is this?" Sakura asked, waiting for answer from her companions. She is having the feeling that the blonde-fox left. Kakashi and Sai were shocked too. They knew that Naruto doesn't clean his apartment when he is around.

" Kakashi-sensei, where is Naruto?" Sai asked.

" I don't know but whatever it is, we have to look for him." Kakashi said fearing the possibilities that Akatsuki must've abducted Naruto or left the village just like his former student.

" Sai, Sakura, look for Naruto. I will report this to Tsunade-sama. Meet me there is 45 minutes." Kakashi said as he hurriedly shunshined away. Sakura was just quiet. She was afraid that Naruto might have been abducted or left just like Sasuke.

" Sakura…" Sai said snapping her out of her thoughts.

" We don't have time. Let's go and look for him. Take the aerial. I'll go ask the others to help." Sakura said. They both took the rooftops and started their search.


AROUND KONOHA

Minutes after Sakura and Sai found out that Naruto was missing they immediately searched the village. Sai took the aerial while Sakura searched for the others. Luckily, she saw Team 10. Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji just came out from their favorite restaurant or should I say, Chouji's favorite, YakiniQ.

" Ino! Shikamaru! Chouji!" Sakura called them as she ran towards them.

" Oh Billboard-forehead, what's up?" Ino asked.

Sakura stopped in front of them panting.

" Judging from your panting, something troublesome happened." Shikamaru said lazily but guessed right.

" I need your help. Naruto's missing, we went to his apartment a while ago since he is late for our meeting. His apartment is clean, meaning he might have gone somewhere without telling us." Sakura said.

" Maybe Jiraiya-sama is with him." Chouji said.

" Jiraiya-sama is gathering information about the Akatsuki. He left a few days after they came back." Sakura explained. This information got the Team 10's attention.

" Ok, we'll help. We will take the East side of the village. I suppose Sai is doing his aerial search now?" Shikamaru asked.

" Yes, well, then I'll gather Team 8 and Team Gai to help us out. If you found something go to Tsunade-sama's office." Sakura said and ran off.

At the park, she saw Team Gai doing their workouts.

" Lee, Tenten!" Sakura called out.

" Sakura-san? What's the rush?" Lee asked.

" Where is Neji? I thought he'd be here?" Sakura asked.

" He is stuck in their compound." Tenten explained.

" Anyway, you guys need to help me, Naruto is missing. Ino's team is already searching the east side of the village." Sakura pleaded.

" Why would Naruto…"

"Don't worry Sakura-san. We will look for the youthful Naruto for you. We will search at the west side of the village." Lee said interrupting Tenten.

" Thanks, I have to look for Team 8. Their tracking skills will help. If you found something go to Tsunade-sama's office." Sakura said and went off.

As she was nearing the academy she saw Kiba and Akamaru with Shino.

" Kiba! Shino!" Sakura called out to them.

" Oh, Sakura why the rush?" Kiba asked.

" I need you help. Naruto is missing. Ino's team is already searching at the east side of the village; Team Gai is searching the west side. Wait, that's odd." Sakura noticed that both Hyuuga's weren't present.

" What is?" Shino asked.

" Neji wasn't with Team Gai and now Hinata." Sakura said.

" That is indeed odd. Why, because both Hyuuga's aren't with their respective teams." Shino said.

" Yeah, we'll help and look for Hinata in the process." Kiba said.

" Thanks, by the way if you found something go to Tsunade-sama's office." Sakura said as she went n her own search.


HOKAGE TOWER-TSUNADE'S OFFICE

A knock interrupted Tsunade from taking a sip on her precious sake. She had been working early in the morning and decided to take a quick break.

" Enter."

" Tsunade-sama, I need to report something to you." Yamato said. Seeing Yamato and hearing his intentions of visit, she had a guess on what is this about. Yamato then explained about Naruto's disappearance. Taking a huge sigh she was about to stand up and explain to him but before she can stand up, Jiraiya busted through her windows.

" WHAT THE FUCK, TSUNADE? Why are Naruto and Hinata missing?" Jiraiya was so mad about what happened. His godson is missing and who knows where did they go and what might happen to them.

" Calm down will ya? I'll explain." Tsunade said rubbing her temples.

" HOW WOULD I? MY GODSON IS MISSING AND WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO THEM?" Jiraiya shouted. Yamato was dead scared at Jiraiya getting mad. Tsunade however was relaxed about his anger but shivered since it is very rare to see him angry like this.

" CALM DOWN I SAID! Let me explain." Tsunade said but before she could even begin to explain Kakashi appeared in a swirl of leaves.

" Naruto is it?" Tsunade said earning a nod from Kakashi.

" I sent Sakura and Sai to look for him. I think Sakura would ask help from their friends to help." Kakashi said.

" Well I guess we should just wait for them to explain this at once." Tsunade said resting her back on her chair.

' Naruto, Hinata, Yuuko, I hope you are ok. This will be hard for your friends but I think this is the best way.' Tsunade thought.

A few minutes passed when one by one teams 8,10 and Gai appeared now with Neji. Sakura and Sai appeared just after the attendance is complete. All had the same looks on their faces. The face that where-on-earth-is-Naruto. For Neji and Team 8 their faces expressed where-on-earth-are-Naruto-and-Hinata?

" I guess we are complete then." Tsunade said as she stood up.

" Where is Naruto, Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked with tears forming in her eyes.

" Where is Hinata too?" Kiba said as the representative for Team 8.

" Hinata is missing too?" Ino asked.

" This is so troublesome" Shikamaru said but inside was very worried about the two.

"Where are they Tsunade?" Jiraiya asked in a cold voice.

" I know this will be all hard for you, but…"

" But what?" Sai asked.

" Naruto and Hinata fled the village last night." Tsunade said knowing fully what will the reactions of the listeners will be.

" What are you saying Tsunade?" Jiraiya asked.

" Yeah, what the hell is that?" Kiba said angered by the current outcome of events.

" They fled the village last night without notice to us. They felt that they are useless and weak that they will become a burden to us." Neji said.

" What the hell are you taking about man?" Kiba now grabbing Neji's collar.

" It's exactly what Neji means and because of that they are now labeled as 'Rogue' ninjas." Tsunade declared.

" What?!" the whole audience said.

"Tsunade-sama, give us a mission…" Sakura said.

" No, Sakura. I'm sorry. The village needs you more than…" Tsunade said

" THE FUCK WITH YOU! You will just let the two teenagers, one of them hunted by Akatsuki to be in danger! You of all people cared about Naruto and you just let him…" Jiraiya said

" I'm sorry, my decision is final. Now go out before I beat the crap out of your life." Tsunade said with a hint of sadness in her voice.


SOMEWHERE

" Hinata, we are labeled as rogue now. I know it will be tough for the three of us but I promise to protect you and Yuuko with my life. That's a lifetime promise." Naruto said as the three went on their journey.

" Naruto-kun… I will train hard not only to protect you but also our daughter. It… it will be hard for our friends to… accept what Tsunade-sama might tell… them, but… time will come when… their questions will be answered and we… will understand… each other again." Hinata said.

" You're right… Right now… we have to become strong not only for them but also our daughter. We should treasure each moment with her and change the future for the greater good. We will be beside our daughter until her own children or grand children appears in our lives." Naruto said as he kissed the forehead of their sleeping daughter.

" Let's do our best Naruto-kun" Hinata said.

" Yeah, we will." Naruto moved from Yuuko's other side to Hinata's. He protectively wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her cheek. Hinata smiled but never forgetting to blush. She wrapped her arms at her sleeping daughter. Finally, after a few seconds the family dozed off to sleep.


I know this is crap, I'm sorry. I'll do better next time but seriously I need your suggestions on how will I go on the story. Some scenes maybe not the same with the anime series well of course this is a fan fiction but I do hope you still read this.

Reviews please:)