Sitting at his table the blonde Uzumaki is thinking about what his next move will be "The chunnin exams are coming up soon and that means snake face will be making an appearance and marking Sasuke, while applying the five pronged seal on myself... yeah, I'm not letting him do that to me again." hearing a noise from his bed our hero look's over and notices that Hinata just turned over in her sleep "That was a close one, but this reminds me I'm not the only one that needs to get better."
Standing up Naruto walks over to his bed and places his hand on Hinata's shoulder and lightly shakes her. moving her hand to bat away her crushes hand only to receive a stronger shake taking this as her opportunity she decides to sit up and rub her eyes also letting out a cute yawn. faking confusion Hinata looks around the area noticing it's Naruto's home but sense she didn't want anyone to know that she had crept in before asks anyway "Where am I?"
Backing away in case she decided to treat me like an enemy "You're in my apartment you passed out and i didn't know where you lived so I brought you here after all I couldn't just leave you to sit out there while I went about eating ramen." laughing a little at the end.
"Oh okay." looking at Naruto with a scrutinizing look Naruto sighs and says "You can use your Byakugan to confirm that it is indeed me." nodding and activating her bloodline to make sure of who she is dealing with only to let out a gasp of surprise.
"Something wrong Hinata-hime?" asked Naruto with his foxy grin. hearing Naruto speak to her she lets out a little 'eep' noise and responds "Y-y-y-your c-c-chakra there's almost t-t-t-ten t-t-times the amount you had three weeks ago."
Whistling Naruto decides to tease her a little "Oh so you've been checking out my chakra system. I didn't know you were such a pervert." going beat red hinata is only able to let out a squeak of protest "No, I'm not a pervert!" turning towards the wall he continues "That's to bad I don't mind if a woman is a bit perverted." not sure what to do the poor girl is trying to come up with something to say but Naruto beats her to it "But I like you just the way you are." taking his hand and using his fingers to lift her chin and almost brings her lips to his.
However is stopped by his door being destroyed curtsey of Kiba who was followed by the rest of team 8 and a freaked out Hiashi seeing that his daughter is fine but in the company of the village jinchuriki stays on guard just in case. "Ah Hyuuga-sama, Hinata passed out while we were making plans and I didn't know where she live as such i brought her to my apartment in order to let her recover."
"I see, however that doesn't explain why you were about to kiss my daughter Uzumaki-san." waving his hand at the head of the Hyuuga clan Naruto says " Uzumaki-san was my mother so please just call me Naruto, and as for your question I believe that is for Hinata to tell you if she wants to."
"I see." turning towards the door Hiashi is about to step out but stops short asking "Who may I ask told you about your parents?" walking over to his dresser Naruto pulls out an old bingo book by kumo and tosses it at the Hyuuga who catches it and raises his eyebrow
"Page forty-six. After words all that was left was to confront the old man and demand an answer. He won't tell me about my father though not that i need him to."
Getting a better answer than he was expecting Hiashi let the matter drop and nods in approval as he walks away "Hinata the clan elders will be taking a trip to the land of rivers I expect that you and Hinabi can take care of the branch family for a few days." Hinata having been pulled out of her thoughts responds with a startled "Yes father."
"Oh yeah I'm looking for any other members of the Uzumaki clan if you happen to remember a rumor about a redhead and remember it would you please let me know." asks Naruto of the head of the Hyuuga clan. "I'll think about it." replied the elder Hyuuga.
Kiba having been dazed the entire time blinks and ask "What just happened?" Kurenai mumbles about needing a drink as Shino... well Shino's bugs start buzzing and Akamaru lets out a yip which in turn causes Kiba to blink a couple of times before asking Akamaru "Did you just call me an idiot?" not believing what he just heard Naruto burst out laughing as Akamaru nods.
Getting over his laughing fit Naruto says "As much fun as being around you guys is I've got some work to do so if you don't mind." as everyone leaves Naruto pulls Hinata to the side and tells here in a husky voice "Your welcome here at any time Hime."
Feeling a shiver go up her spine Hinata flushes seven different shades of red before passing out into Naruto's arms "Um Kurenai-san can you help Hinata home?" letting out a little grown Kurenai grabs the sleeping Hyuuga from the jinchuriki and leaves with her team.
Two days later
Meeting up with the rest of team seven, minus Kakashi, Naruto decides to take a break from trying to learn seven jutsu simultaneously and look over some of the sealing techniques that he found in wave. The strange thing is that he had yet to come across the name of the Uzumaki that owned the house in wave, but putting that to the back of his mind Naruto rolls up the scroll as Sasuke walks over to the tree in order to stand against the tree that Naruto is sitting next to.
Motioning the scroll in his hand to Sasuke he says "Want to give it a shot Sasuke it's suppose to be the hardest type of technique to use but quite effective if used the right way." looking at the blonde then at the scroll the Uchiha nods and tentatively takes the scroll for fear that it is a prank seeing as how the blond was known for his pranks "In return I happen to need some help with the grand fireball jutsu i could use a couple of tips latter on but for now we have work to do."
Getting a questioning look from both of his team members until a plume of smoke signaling the arrival of the ever tardy Kakashi in witch Sakura screamed out the customary "Your late." and following routine Kakashi gives a lame excuse then takes his team to do their mission for the day and get some light teamwork training in before leaving the little gennin to their own devices.
Sitting down to take a break Sasuke says "Dope, if you want my help with the grand fireball jutsu I'll need to see how far you are in to the technique in order to give you the proper advice." nodding Naruto goes through the hand seals and lets out a small but decently sized fireball.
Thinking what might be the problem Sasuke asks "Are you releasing the fire out or are you letting it flow out?" turning his head to the side Naruto "I'm releasing it why?" nodding at his correct assumption "Try to let the fire flow out instead because by releasing it you lose most of the chakra to preform a weaker fireball jutsu."
Once again nodding and going through the proper hand seals Naruto lets out a humongous fireball about half the size of on of the stone hokage's head. Letting the jutsu dissipate Naruto steps back in aw at the damage that he did to what was once a field but now is a smoldering crater.
ANBU and a couple of jonnin that were in the area appeared to see what the commotion was about only to gape at the blonde that had backed away from the crater the lead ANBU stepped up to the three gennin and demands "Report, what just happened here!" Naruto looked at the ANBU replied "I was receiving help from my teammate and it turns out that I put far too much chakra in to the technique."
Nodding the ANBU turned around and told the boy "Report to the hokage's office for an explanation and don't use any new jutsu again until the hokage decides that you have enough control to preform them. Am I clear." saluting with a "Yes ma'am" Naruto heads to the hokage office as everyone that had gathered leaves after coming to the realization that it wasn't an attack but an over powered jutsu done by the village jinchuriki.
later that day
"Man that could have gone better now i have to train to better control my chakra with the guidance of a jonnin. Knowing Kakashi that gets me nowhere." looking at the section for public rumors Naruto looks into the rumors about the red-haired gennin in the village hidden in the grass.
If he remembered correctly this was where Karin was before she joined Orochimaru. rummaging through the documents he finds what he's looking for but without much in regards to the girl herself just that her village was destroyed and she was the only one to survive. "Alright that's one member, Nagato happens to be the leader of the Akatsuki as such getting him to join me would prove to be nearly impossible at the moment."
Looking back at the article the young blonde sighs and puts it back 'she should be in the chunnin exams that would be the best time to get a hold of her then there was the other girl the one that happens to be Orochimaru's bodyguard. Other than the two of them, wait the girl on the summoning island it's possible that she's a Uzumaki and sense I've come back in time I could try to save them but that will take some time outside of the village.
Picking up a different file Naruto goes trough the contents looking for any information on the summoning island. coming up with nothing Naruto decides to look into that matter latter and puts the records back deciding to wait until the chunnin exams.
Walking out of the library and heading to one of the training grounds Naruto creates a couple of shadow clones and has them pick up sticks to stop him from turning to stone as he personal sits in a meditative stance as he puts his hands together with his knuckles touching and his fingers pointed towards his arms.
Drawing natural energy into his body Naruto tries to enter sage mode but stops short as he feels some one approaching. Giving the signal for his clones to hit him, both of them charge and strike out as Naruto dodges one but allows the other to hit him in order to force out the natural energy that he had gathered.
Dispelling the clones the blonde turns around to find team ten with Ino leading the group "Hey it's been awhile you guys, what have you been up to lately?" Shikamaru replies while Ino is preoccupied with looking around the clearing "Not too much we've gone through extensive training and done a bunch of missions, how about you-" Ino jumps in "Hey Naruto where is Sasuke-kun?"
"Probably off training on his own in order to complete his self-imposed mission." stated Naruto to the blonde gossip who let out a groan. "self-imposed mission would you happen to know what he believes that he has to do." asked Shikamaru with a raised eyebrow. "Oh, that Sasuke intends to get revenge for his clan no matter what he has to do to accomplish this." informed Naruto smirking in his mind as realization passes over the genius' face and thinks 'Is he warning me or is he just being a loud mouth either way I have to be careful around team seven.'
Turning to leave Naruto walks pass the Nara and whispers "Try to take your shinobi duties seriously, things are only going to get worse from here on out." watching the Uzumaki out of the corner of his vision. "Something's come up so Choji can have my portion of our meal." dashing away the Nara starts looking for the root of his current worries namely one Naruto Uzumaki. "So troublesome."
