Here's my next chapter, hope you like reading it, because I liked writing it. Now please read, enjoy and review.
After the conference ended one of the Jonin that guarded the Hokage's place gave Naruto's headband to Iruka, and all denizens of the Hidden Leaf returned to their daily activites. Except for Kurenai, Hinata, Kakashi, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Sakura, Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Neji, Kiba and Iruka. Kurenai took Hinata home so she could rest while the other nine Shinobi made their way to Ichiraku ramen, to speak privately, well at least somewhat privately. The Shinobi were in luck only the owner of Ichiraku's, Teuchi Ichiraku and his daughter, Ayame Ichiraku were there, no customers.
They all sat down, and when asked for their orders, each of them ordered miso ramen, most likely because of Naruto running through their heads. They all noticed that Ayame and Teuchi looked depressed, they knew Naruto very well. As the two made the ramen, the nine Shinobi began converse. First was Tsunade, "I should have known that Danzo was up to something. He's been after the title of Hokage for a while, I just cant understand how he got so many clan elders to support him."
Tsunade hung her head, Jiraiya quickly comforted her, "Don't worry Tsunade, there's no way you could have known. So don't be so hard on yourself."
Tsunade just nodded her head. Neji, curious and worried asked Tsunade a question, "Lady Tsunade, if you don't mind me asking, who opposed making Danzo the Hokage?"
Tsunade with a questioning look on her face stared at Neji, then she understood, "Don't worry Neji, the Hyuga clan supported me for the title of Hokage. So the Hyuga's are in no way responsible for what happened."
Neji was relieved, he did not want the Hyuga's in any way part of this. Teuchi served the Shinobi their ramen, the nine Shinobi got their bowls of ramen and began to eat them. After they were done, they reminisced about all the things Naruto used to do. After that Neji, concerned for his cousins well being, asked, "What are we going to do about Hinata? As soon as she wakes up, she'll be dashing for the village gate."
The other Shinobi nodded their heads, Kakashi was the one to speak though, "She has proven time and time again that her, 'crush' on Naruto is much more. Naruto directly influences her, you don't need a sharingan to see that. So just as Naruto told her not to, she wont give up. He encouraged her, which is just making her want to go after him even more. It will be extremely difficult if not impossible, to persuade her not to chase after him without physical force."
All of the Shinobi nodded their heads once again, Kakashi made an extremely valid point. Jiraiya was next to speak, "We cant just have Naruto out there on his own, blind. The Akatsuki are after him and he cannot defend himself against them. I'm going after him."
Tsunade was the first to object, "You cant leave the village. We need you here, who knows what Danzo's got planned! I need your help in finding a way to make myself Hokage once again, or at least someone better for the job then Danzo."
Jiraiya gritted his teeth, he couldn't bring himself to leave Naruto to the Akatsuki, but he couldn't leave the village either. After several seconds of silence, Jiraiya spoke, "Ok but we have to send someone after him. And I mean a Jonin or two, we have to find someone, someone reliable. And we have to make sure Danzo wont notice that the person or persons are gone."
Tsunade nodded her head and spoke, "Ok then, come on Jiraiya we need to go find Shizune."
Jiraiya nodded his head and followed Tsunade. Rock Lee remembering that he had to do a thousand laps around the village on his hands said goodbye and left. Shikamaru had been thinking of solutions to the problem at hand for a while now, he had been silent but finally he spoke, "We need to tell the Fire Daimyo."
The five remaining Shinobi besides Shikamaru himself, looked towards him. Shikamaru, having the other Shinobi's attention continued, "If we alert the Fire Daimyo, he'll come down here and inspect our new Hokage, since the change was so sudden. If we're lucky he'll find Danzo unworthy of the title Hokage and with the support of the village, he'll strip him of it."
Kakashi quickly spoke, "That is an excellent idea but you'll have to send a letter and you'll have to make sure Danzo doesn't know that you do."
"Don't worry I've got it covered." Shikamaru smirked and walked away.
"Well if you guys need me for anything I'll be at the training field with Shino. Tell me if anything about Naruto comes up, so I can help out ok?"
Kakashi, Neji, Iruka and Sakura all just nodded their heads. Kiba then walked off. Iruka turned to Kakashi and Sakura, Naruto's headband in hand and spoke, "I need to get back to the academy. But before I go, take Naruto's headband. Since your his team, you should have his headband."
But before Kakashi or Sakura could say anything, Neji spoke, "Kakashi, Sakura, Iruka, if you guys don't mind, I would like to have Naruto's headband. I know how much it would mean to Hinata to have his headband with her, so please may I have it?"
Iruka looked at Kakashi and Sakura for an answer, the two just smiled and nodded their heads. Iruka nodded and handed Neji Naruto's headband. Neji took it, nodded his head, said his thanks and departed, to give the headband to Hinata. Iruka then departed as well, he needed to get back to the academy. Sakura curious, turned towards Kakashi and asked, "Kakashi sensei, who is Danzo, really?"
Kakashi looked towards Sakura and said, "That is a long tale, and it wouldn't interest you. Not to mention that even I don't know all of it. But what I can and will tell you is that, he is much like the third Hokage. He wants to bring peace and prosperity to the village just as every other Hokage wanted to, but unlike the rest of the Hokage's, he wants to attain it through deadly force with efficiency."
Sakura nodded her head at this, she could easily tell that Kakashi wasn't telling her the whole story, he even said so himself. But she was content with his answer, at least for now that is. "Come on Sakura, lets see if whats left of team seven has any missions."
Kakashi then walked off, with Sakura following behind. Neji made his way to Hinata's place, where Kurenai was most likely watching over her. Hinata's eyes slowly began to open, as Hinata fully opened her eyes and the two people above her came into focus, she realized who they were. They were her sensei Kurenai and her own father Hiashi. Hinata quickly sat up and looked around. But before Kurenai or Hinata's father could say anything, she realized that Naruto being exiled wasn't a dream.
Hinata quickly got to her feet, and tried to go for the door but her father stepped in her way. "What do you think your doing? Your not going anywhere."
"Let me through!"
"Your not leaving, you cant go after Naruto."
Hinata quickly moved to the right, opened a window and slipped through it before Kurenai or her father could stop her. Hiashi could not believe that Hinata just disobeyed him, with no hesitation once so ever. He never thought she would do that, it almost made him want to wonder. But he quickly snapped out of his thoughts and made his way outside and stepped in front of Hinata. "You cannot leave the village!"
Neji was getting close to Hinata's place, but as he neared it he saw Hinata crawl out a window and she began to make her way the the village gate. Hiashi, Hinata's father followed her, he got in front of her and confronted her. Neji just watched as this and more went on. "Get out of my way!"
"I wont let you leave the village, I wont! Now I want you to get back in the house and rest, do you hear me Hinata?"
Hinata gritted her teeth and did something that Neji and her own father would never ever expect her to do. Hinata's Byakugan flared to life, "I have to find Naruto! So get the hell out of my way! Eight trigrams sixty four palms!"
Hinata brought both of her arms up, extended her index and middle finger on both hands and began to hit every chakra point in her father's body. Hiashi never expecting something like this to happen, was caught off guard and couldn't defend against Hinata. "two Palms, four palms, eight palms, sixteen palms, thirty two palms, sixty four palms!"
Every blow connected and Hiashi fell to his knee's, Hinata then moved around her father and began racing towards the Hidden Leaf gate once again. Neji having seen this act, was blown away by Hinata's courage to attack her own father, just so she could get to Naruto. Neji quickly ran after Hinata, with Kurenai who had saw the whole thing as well, close behind him. Hinata was too far ahead for either of them to catch though, Hinata neared the gate but just as she was about to exit the village she was stopped by Kakashi Hatake.
Kakashi grabbed a hold of Hinata's right arm, Hinata turned to see who grabbed her and saw Kakashi. "Let go of me, I have to find Naruto!"
"Sorry Hinata, I cant let you do that. Now listen I know you have feelings for Naruto, but you cant go racing off to find him. You have to know where he's going first."
"If I wait, something bad will happen to him!" Hinata then somehow summoned as much strength as she used on her father and broke free from Kakashi's grasp, she then exited the village. Sakura, who was behind Kakashi was stunned that Hinata had summoned enough strength to break out of Kakashi's grasp. But Kakashi had given time for Neji to catch up with Hinata, and when she broke out of Kakashi's grasp Neji was on her tail, so he tackled her to the ground.
Neji and Hinata rolled, trying to pin the other to the floor for a different reason, but eventually Neji won. Neji hovered over Hinata and spoke, "Listen Hinata, I know that you feel strongly for Naruto but you cant just run off and try to find him. You have to make a plan and have backup. Listen your going to have to stay in the village, but I have something for you."
Neji then reached into his back pocket and pulled out Naruto's headband. "It's Naruto's, I thought you might like to have it. Everyone's behind you on this, we all want to find Naruto, he's mine and everyone else's friend too."
Hinata was enraged by Neji's words, "You have no idea how I feel about Naruto! I love him! And don't you talk to me like that, you and everyone else in this village hated him for just being who he was, it's people like you that threw stones at him! You all deserve to rot in hell! I wont let Naruto die because of this villages hate!"
Hinata then brought back her right arm, opened her fist into a palm and shot it forward. Hinata slammed her open palm into Neji's chest, more specifically where his heart is. Neji was knocked onto his back by the force of Hinata's open palmed punch. He coughed up a bit of blood as he hit the ground. Hinata then scrambled to her feet, snatched Naruto's headband from Neji and ran from the Leaf village, hoping to get far away so they couldn't find her. Kurenai having seen this, got to her knee's to help Neji.
Hinata ran and ran, a firm grip around Naruto's headband, and when she stopped for breath, she took off her headband, that was around her neck and stuffed it into her pocket. She then put Naruto's headband around her neck, and thought out loud, "I will find you Naruto. I'll save you. Naruto...I love you."
Hinata, wearing Naruto's headband around her neck, set off to find him.
