Naruto woke groggily, blinking drowsily as he dragged the back of his hand across his eyes. Then the events of the past evening washed over him as he remembered what had happened.
All hell had broken loose. Tsunade began demanding to know what other talents had been hiding from her, and Naruto had had to explain everything. Everything. From his deal with the Kyuubi to how the demon was not permitted by godly law to break it. Then he'd had to explain the changes he had undergone, how he knew who his parents were. He also had to tell them how he knew he couldn't allow his parentage to become public knowledge in fear of attracting his father's old enemies, and when he'd said that, Jiraiya had made his entrance through the window.
Although it was obvious that he had heard everything that had been said, Naruto was disappointed if he had been expecting the Sannin to be frowning. On the contrary, he had been beaming. "I'm proud of you, gaki," he'd said, and Naruto had been stunned. "You would have been told this sooner, but Sarutobi-sensei and I were worried about you going off about it to the villagers so they would change their views of you. At least you know it's a stupid thing to do."
"I really would have done that, Ero-sennin," Naruto had said in a serious tone. "But now I have extended foresight and intellect, and I can see what will happen if I tell anyone about my parents."
"Good kid."
"But I want people to know that I now have a kekkei genkai."
Tsunade had been intrigued by this. "And why would that be?"
"They don't necessarily have to know what my kekkei genkai can do. I've done some research on the village's laws regarding clans and kekkei genkai. If my new bloodline can be recognised I have a chance to gaining elite status."
After a long discussion to which he had allowed himself to be subjected to, Tsunade had agreed. She granted him the old Uchiha estate. Sasuke had sold it to the Third Hokage and the compound was now village property.
That was all yesterday's history, though. Presently, he had a lot of work to do.
For starters, he had to plan out a new training strategy and move into the now Uzumaki estate. He sent clones out to take down the old Uchiha banners and insignia do the basic housework to make the place liveable once more.
He then sent twenty clones disguised with a henge jutsu into the Konoha library. It helped to study up on what he was never properly taught at the academy, and he soon found that understanding the complex texts was much easier with his increased intelligence capabilities. The clones dispelled themselves to inform him of the fruits of their labour.
Once that was done he had a word with Tsunade about having a talk with either Neji or Hinata about some training with his newly acquired Byakugan. Unfortunately, Neji, who was the more suitable instructor, was on a month long mission to the Land of Tea escorting some high level diplomats with his team and so could not do the job. Improvisation was the key, however, and Naruto offered to pay for Hinata on a C rank mission salary to be his teacher for a week intensive course.
Hinata had been sent for later on by Tsunade who had explained the details of Naruto obtaining the Byuakugan without divulging the Kyuubi or Naruto's bloodline ability it had been stated that he had somehow, and that no one knew exactly how, gained access to the Byakugan but that his eyes remained blue instead of the usual white and that she had been assigned this mission to train him in its uses. However, she was forbidden from mentioning to anyone especially those of her clan that Naruto had this ability. Hinata was understandably not only overjoyed but quite nervous as well.
And so she turned up at his old place to find it totally empty with a for sale sign there. After a few minutes, though, one of Naruto's clones appeared when he saw Hinata's look of confusion and distress that he was no longer at his place he dropped the henge and told her where his new place was he told her he would meet her he smirked at this next part at his personal training grounds on his estate. Hinata blushed at this and quickly walked to the training ground to meet the original. Hinata walked toward Naruto who was standing in the middle of the training ground just as she was about to approach one of his shadow clones at the library dispelled itself, instantly Naruto had all its knowledge. The clone in question had been learning how to be polite and how to talk to women.
Naruto being who he was decided to try out what he had learned. "Hi Hinata. Wow, you're looking really beautiful this morning."
Hinata just blushed and pressed her fingers together nervously. Then she fainted.
Naruto blinked, and then rushed over to her and tried to bring her round. After a few moments she opened her eyes upon seeing Naruto so close and, remembering what had happened, she just put her arms around him and began kissing him, before fainting once again.
Naruto was stunned with what he now knew. Hinata had always liked him that was why she was always so shy around him. Naruto felt great; he had somebody who had always cared even if he hadn't noticed it before. But he didn't know if he could return those affections the way she needed him too he still had his crush for Sakura and he didn't know Hinata all that well. So he when she woke up once more he said, "Hinata I think we need to talk. I know you like me but to be honest I don't know all that much about you, I would really like to get to know you better but I think that will have to wait until after we have completed my training. I don't want you to hold back in teaching me either so I would like you to not go easy on me just because you like me, okay?"
Hinata nodded, still blushing.
"Before you begin Naruto, Hinata, I think it might be good if we talk alone Naruto." Kakashi said after nearly giving both of them heart attacks.
"Kakashi-sensei don't do that!" yelled Naruto, sick to death of the Copy Ninja always creeping up on him.
Hinata looked at the two for a moment before stuttering "I'll b-be over there if you n-need me, Naruto."
Kakashi spoke to Naruto when he knew she would be unable to overhear them "I have been instructed by the Hokage to use my Sharingan on you in a sparing match to see if your power will be able to copy it. So lets get it over with."
"Ok let's do this Kakashi-sensei" yelled Naruto. Naruto got into a new taijutsu stance that he had learnt from one of his clones reading in the library it was a variation on tai chi that also allowed for attack as well as defence Kakashi pulled up his forehead protector revealing his Sharingan.
Naruto started to feel a little funny almost as though his vision was tunnelling but suddenly he could see everything time almost seemed to slow down. He could predict Kakashi's movements. The Jonin came to attack from the right but with Naruto's new ability to see he managed to dodge.
Right now I can do this I must work on my speed maybe Kakashi can help me with that or maybe even Gai-sensei could teach me as he is faster than even Kakashi-sensei.
Kakashi built up his chakra and started doing handsigns with his new ability to predict Naruto realised that he was going to be using a fire technique Naruto did the first thing he could think of, he jumped in the pond as soon as the fireball passed over his head he used his chakra to float to the surface before standing upon the surface.
Realising that even with the Sharingan he was no match for Kakashi (yet) he called out, "I surrender Kakashi-sensei."
They both looked at each other and bowed showing the other respect. Kakashi decided he had better take off but not before pulling out his orange book again. Now that Naruto had access to the Sharingan he decided to put his powers to good use he created 10 clones to start with and had 2 go to find Captain Yamato to try and learn the Mokuton techniques.
With this new ability he could see how much chakra to put into an attack and the exact hand signs to use so copying pretty much any jutsu would be so easy. This more than anything was what made Naruto excited. Before, people would not really teach him anything useful so as to try and get him killed on a mission, they actively sabotaged him, but now if he wanted to he could copy any jutsu he wanted, and whilst he may not be as good as Kakashi-sensei with it yet, he would be soon!
Naruto sent the other 8 clones and had them split into pairs he had one of them activate his Byakugan whilst the other worked on Rasengan with one hand. After all it was a big disadvantage that he needed either 2 hands or a clone to form the chakra. So he sent the clones to work on doing it one handed whilst the Byakugan ones could see how the chakra was being formed and be able to find out what he was doing wrong.
Suddenly there was a loud booming noise as Naruto looked over to the area where the noise came from he saw a cloud of smoke rising. Deciding to check it out he turned to Hinata and quickly asked her to go and get some back-up just in case. With that done he jumped up onto the rooftops and reached the area where the smoke was coming from.
There on the ground under some rubble was Tenten and what looked like another man with bandages over his eyes. Naruto noticed out of the corner of his eye that there was someone rapidly moving across the rooftops away from the scene Naruto quickly made a few shadow clones to help get Tenten and who he assumed to be her father out of the remains of what he now realised was her families weapon shop and went off after the person who was rapidly getting away.
Activating his Byakugan he followed her chakra signature whilst trying to stay out of her sight slowly gaining ground. When he was very close he deactivated his Byakugan and leapt out in front of the enemy. Upon his close inspection he noticed that it was a woman and she seemed to be wearing clothes from the land of the Rock village.
"What are you doing here and why did you attack Tenten and her dad?" his voice rang out.
The woman just smirked before replying "Get out of my way, kid, or you'll get hurt."
Naruto stiffened and growled out "I don't think so. You will pay for what you have done to my friend. Now surrender or I will have to hurt you and the way I am feeling right now that''s not such a good thing for you."
The woman just continued to smile and said, "Yeah, as if a snot nosed genin like yourself could take me out. Go home to your mama before I send you to the morgue."
This just served to make Naruto madder. "Fine if you won't surrender I'll just have to whip your butt and let Ibiki deal with you. He scares most of the people in this village so he will love to interrogate you."
The woman quickly drew a kunai and threw it at Naruto who simply deflected it with a kunai of his own. Quickly activating his Sharingan he watched the woman carefully.
"Ahh the Sharingan you must be that Uchiha kid I have heard about. Sorry to disappoint you but you won't be able to copy my jutsu" she said offhandedly. Naruto look at her with confusion.
Jutsu that can't be copied… I can only think of two that can't be copied easily: sealing techniques and… oh my god she has a KEKKEI GENKAI.
Seeing the look of comprehension on his face, the woman said, "I see you have finally figured it out. Yes, I have a kekkei genkai. My clan acquired it a few years ago from the village of the Hidden Mist." Then she moved one hand to form a seal "Ninja Art: Ice Needles!" Ice needles formed out of the air Naruto who had seen this attack before when he battled Haku dodged out of the way at the last second to avoid the needles. He quickly formed a plan.
Well she doesn't know about my skills or the fact that i have just copied her blood line ability, he thought So what should I use?
Then it hit him he raised one hand and formed a seal grinning from ear to ear. "Thanks for the help," he said. "Ninja Art: Demonic Ice Mirrors!"
Mirrors of water began forming around the woman and she looked at Naruto in total shock. Before she could get her bearings, Naruto leapt into one of the mirrors that surrounded her. His image was all around her she threw a shuriken at the mirror nearest to her. But when she looked he was no longer in that mirror. Naruto moved his hands into a few seals once again "Wood Release: Four Pillars Technique!"
A wood prison rapidly surrounded the woman. Just as this, happened his back-up arrived in the form of Kakashi and a couple of Anbu. "You missed the party, Kakashi-sensei!"
"Okay, Naruto, calm down. You did well."
The Anbu put some chakra restraining handcuffs on the woman before asking Naruto to undo the wood prison. Naruto quickly undid the technique. An Anbu with a bird mask turned to Kakashi. "We'll take her to Anbu headquarters for interrogation. You two better go and report to the Hokage and tell her we have the enemy ninja in custody."
"Right." replied Kakashi. "Come along Naruto lets go report in."
Naruto and Kakashi leapt of the rooftops onto the street below walking calmly over to the Hokage tower. The usual 2 Anbu were outside the Hokage's office "You are expected go right in," one of them said to Kakashi and Naruto. Naruto opened the door and saw Hinata, Sakura, Shizune and Tsunade all standing in the room "Hey, Sakura what are you doing here?" Naruto questioned.
"Oh, um, well I have kinda been training under Tsunade-sensei. I needed to become stronger so that we can get Sasuke-kun back." Naruto's face fell he was sick of this even now after all he's done she was still infatuated with that bastard.
"Naruto, report" said Tsunade authoritatively.
"Well I apprehended the ninja who attacked the shop. The Anbu have taken her to be interrogated by Ibiki."
"Good good" replied Tsunade. "Any other things you need to tell me?" she questioned
"Well i got a new technique from her before i managed to subdue her/" Naruto replied enthusiastically.
Tsunade nodded understanding he meant that he had copied another bloodline trait. "Very well we should have the information we need from the woman in a few hours. Until then I suggest you take a break from training and get some lunch." Tsunade said. At the mention of the word lunch Naruto's stomach grumbled. He was imagining big plates of ramen as she spoke.
"Hey, Hinata want to come and have some lunch with me?" he asked the shy teen.
Hinata turned beet red and started fidgeting with her index fingers. "S-sure, Naruto-kun."