THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR VOTING, BUT EVEN IF YOUR VOTE DIDN'T WIN, IT DID SHOW ME WHAT PAIRING YOU DID WANT AND I WILL START THOSE STORIES. NOW A LOT OF YOU ARE THINKING, "THIS GUY STARTS A LOT OF STORIES" IT'S TRUE BUT MY MIND CONSTANTLY WORKS. I START THE STORY TO "STAKE MY CLAIM" SO TO SPEAK. I WORK ON MULTIPLE STORIES AT THE SAME TIME AND I DO PLAN ON UPDATING. THOSE OF YOU THAT READ MY NARUTO X INO ONE, I WANT TO REDO THAT ONE SO THAT'S WHY THE OTHER STORIES WERE UPDATED BUT NOT THAT ONE. NOW HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

MEI T.-4

HINATA-15

MEI & HINATA-1

TEMARI- 3 (MY PERSONAL FAV. NOW DAYS ;) )

SAKURA-1

INO-2

KARIN-3

TENTEN-2

SO HINATA WINS!

In a dark room deep under Konoha, a man with several bandages around him was having a meeting concerning a certain blonde. The man stood in front of twenty-four teens all dressed in ANBU gear but their masks had the ROOT symbol on the forehead. The design was unique for an ninja group, it was a sword stabbing a dead tree. Many don't understand why it was chosen to be ROOT's icon, well...except one person, Danzo. For years, the man has tried to control Konoha and everyone knows, in order to control all the leaves of a tree, you must control the tree.

"So Konoha's secret weapon is leaving...and that old fool, Sarutobi, just let's him go.", said Danzo with his back toward his disciples. "Hachiro, take Teir Two & Three and retrieve or kill the boy."

A young man with long white hair and a bird mask stood up. The ninja bowed slightly before leaving the old man with eight people in the room. Danzo looked back to see his most elite group, Tier One.

'They better not fail me, Konoha needs ROOT. I have a feeling that I should've sent Tier One with them, bah those two groups will not fail...not to a middle aged man and a genin..monster or not.'

MEANWHILE SIX HOURS AWAY FROM KONOHA

A blonde haired teenager walked beside a tall redhead. Both had been quiet for a few hours, thinking of possibilities, training, and more importantly...FOOD! Just then a loud growl was heard as both men paled.

"Naruto why not we stop for lunch, then continue for a few more hours? There should be a town two hours from here, we can stop there for the night."

The new Uzu genin looked at his uncle with a huge smile and nodded. Naruto and Hideo stepped off the road and into a clearing behind the trees to enjoy a nice lunch. Unfortunately Hideo detected people lurking nearby and told Naruto to lay some traps for "food" by the bushes. The blonde laid the traps on the ground and returned to see his uncle standing while the food was cooking.

"I'll be right back Naruto, I need to use the little Uzumaki's room.", he said with a wink.

Naruto waved him off as he stirred the dried food in the boiling water. He heard footsteps getting closer to him, thinking it was his uncle, Naruto welcomed the figure without looking. When no reply was heard, the boy turned around to see several masked people drawing weapons.

"WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU HERE!?". demanded the blonde.

The bird masked one responded, "come back with us Uzumaki Naruto and you will not be harmed."

The teen knew he was out numbered and definately out skilled, but he would be damned to return to a hellhole. He looked at the bird clad teen and flipped him off. Showing no sign of emotion, Hachiro drew his sword before responding.

"Death it is then.", he said as they all charged Naruto.

All the ROOT members stopped on the third step when they felt a large KI (KILLER INTENT). Looking past the boy, they saw a tall man coated in blood. In his left hand was a lifeless body from Tier Three. In his right hand was a long bloody katana and looked to be made of blue steel. Said man then dropped the body and walked in front of Naruto.

"ROOT was suppose to be disbanded, more importantly, why are you attacking us?", demanded Hideo.

No one responded or showed any emotion. The eight masked teens prepared for a fight to the death as Hideo started flashing through handsigns on his left hand. He stopped on the sign of snake then stomped his foot on the ground causing a geyser to appear. The redhead then soaked his blade in the hot water erupting from the ground. Flashing through more handsigns on his left hand cause the teens to start their attack, unfortunately they were too late.

"SUITON: SURUDOI SHIO" (I don't know Japanese but I tried looking it up. I was trying to say, "Water Release: Sharp Tide")

Just then he sliced through the geyser making a water blade shooting at the approaching ROOT members. The group quickly got into single file behind Hachiro as he flashed through handsigns before slamming his hand, palm down, on the ground.

"Doton: Jōshō Tawā" (Earth Release: Rising Tower)

A earth pillar rose before the ROOT members as the water blade collided with it, causing the blade to turn into two smaller ones instead of a large one. The smaller water blades continued as Hideo flashed through a few handsigns with his left hand at ungodly speeds.

"SUITON: KOHAI SHIO" (Water Release: Mating Tides)

The two water blades turned toward one another and collided. All Naruto heard besides water crashing was the screams of people dying. After a few seconds the mist cleared to the sight of a slaughter and a badly injuried Hachiro. Hideo walked over to the injuried teen and put his sword at the boy's neck.

"Now tell me, why is ROOT trying to kill Naruto.", he said in a cold manner.

The boy looked up at him before slicing his own neck with Hideo's blade. The redhead cursed as he tried to stop the bleeding, but to no avail. Cleaning his sword, he sheathed it before placing the bodies into a large scroll. Hideo then bit his thumb and ran through several handsigns before slamming his injuried hand on the ground.

"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU"

His action caused a human sized puff of smoke to appear. Once it cleared, standing there was a human size pelican. It looked around the battlefield, but only saw blood and no bodies.

"You summoned me Hideo-sama?", asked the bird.

The man looked at his summons with a smile before saying, "I did Ranger, I need you to take this scroll to the Hokage and tell him to find Danzo."

The man handed the large bird a scroll. Ranger placed it in his beak after nodding at the command. A few seconds later, the large pelican took off toward Konoha. Hideo, still smiling, walked over to Naruto to see if he was alright. The teen nodded as he heard his stomach growl.

"HAHAHA, you are definately an Uzumaki! Come on let's go eat.

AN HOUR LATER IN THE HOKAGE'S OFFICE

Sarutobi was currently battling the bane of any leadership...paperwork. Taking a small break, he looked over at a picture of him and Naruto at the ramen stand. The blonde was about four years old and he already had five large bowls of ramen. The picture made the old hokage laugh as he missed his surragate grandson. Sure, the old man had a real grandson, but Naruto always pushed his buttons. He was always a challenge and the old man loved challenges even in his advance age. Just then a tapping sound was heard coming from his window. He looked over to see a large pelican wearing an Uzu headband with a large scroll in its beak. The hokage quickly rushed to the window and opened it for the summons. Once inside the bird sat the scroll on the desk before talking.

"Hideo-sama requests you look into someone named Danzo. I am guessing he had something to do with this scroll.", Ranger said before poofing out of existance.

The old man opened the scroll and saw many Kanji symbols for human. Knowing what they were, he called out to ANBU.

"GET ME DANZO but first get me Yamanaka Inoichi, Nara Shikaku, and Akimichi Chōza.", he damanded as the ANBU stood and vanished.

'I don't know what you tried to do Danzo, but you failed and almost caused another war.',he thought as the famous Ino-Shika-Cho team appeared with Danzo.