Oxy: Hello readers this is Oxy. I used to be Muffin's editor. Anyway Muffin is gone…I have no idea where he is and none of our mutual friends know either. This morning I received a mysterious e-mail from him giving me his FF (dot) net login info and told me to post this. With instructions to answer reviews and some questions, you guys will have so keep on asking, and reviewing hopefully he shows up soon. Hope you have a nice 'day'…(his lame-ass joke not mine)

A/N: Okay this story follows cannon up to Pain's attack on the village. It is my understanding he attacks the same year that Naruto returns, at most like nine months after his return that was 10 years ago. Anyway if I feel like explaining how Akatsuki died I will, till then just know Pain didn't attack Konoha, but Akatsuki is dead.

Now, I would like to take this chance to talk with you of the pairing as many may not like what they see in this chapter (you'll know what I mean). It was never my intention to bait people into reading this fic. When I wrote the summary, and uploading 'Wednesday' I was only 55% certain who the wives would be, it was only until I started writing 'Thursday' that I was positive who Naruto would end up with.

I'm positive I will lose many of the readers because their main squeeze is not in Naruto's little harem. But to those people I say, with respect (as writing can read sarcastic). You should never have assumed your girl was in. And quitting halfway through a story undermines the work of any author and the work they put into their story.

So if you are one of the people who feel like leaving after you read I just want to ask; can you just stick with it? If you've come this far, whether it was because of the intrigue of what he was hiding, or if you liked the approach, just stick with it. I ask you give it a chance. I don't understand the logic behind dismissing or accepting a writer's work based off the main characters pairings. Unless it is outside your comfort zone, like slash fics. But if you do leave, I respect your choice and am sorry you left, hopefully you will read my future works as well. Don't worry my new ideas are more straight forward and don't need to be secretive. (This apology continues at end of chapter as it contains spoilers)

Finally, added pimpage of my C2 'Naruto's a Daddy' I did get more subscribers. So I ask if you do come across some fics where Naruto is a father, hit me up. If you would like to help, might I suggest looking on my profile to follow the slight guidelines to gaini a better understanding of the C2 in general as well as the guidleines i use for for deciding what is added.

Now on with the 'day'… And remember I don't own Naruto

Hinata woke up earlier than usual; she was excited all of yesterday after Naruto had invited her to lunch. But when she woke she was tense and rather worried. Due to her constant shadowing of the man when he was younger she was certain she could read the man. The Naruto from yesterday seemed off; but she soon dropped the matter as she had to get clan business out of the way if she wanted to leave for lunch, first things first she had to greet her father.

"Ah Hinata-sama I was informed to invite you to a get-together that Naruto is having tomorrow on his estates." Neji told Hinata as they met in the halls of the main house. "Thank you Neji-nii, Naruto has already informed me yesterday, he told me to tell you he appreciated the gesture on your part but he forgot he had to ask me something." Hinata replied Neji bowed and left; he still had to train the branch family members.

When she came to her father's door, she steadied herself. The training sessions that she shared with Naruto had greatly increased her confidence, but there were times in which she relapsed, talking to her father and Naruto outside of training were generally the main causes.

With one last deep breath, she knocked waited for a response, slid the door open and stepped in kneeling again before her father. With a deep genuflection she greeted him "Good Morning Father."

"Good Morning daughter." Hiashi replied, "It is still early Hinata why are you up so soon?"

"I wish to go out for lunch for personal reasons, so as to not interfere with my duties I decided to start early." Hinata replied, when he questioned her she had to fight the urge to stutter.

Hiashi was glad that his daughter changed, he was worried at first since she had not become the proper Hyuuga, but instead Hinata had in a way adapted said traits while still being gentle and kind hearted. His idea changed when he saw his daughter show a proper Hyuuga front when she was training with Naruto in the family dojo.

"Father?" Hiashi was startled when his daughter broke him of his thoughts.

"Ah yes. You may go." Hinata stood and before she headed out her father called out to her, "Hinata? Are you having lunch with anyone or alone?" Hinata stumbled slightly and replied, "With N-Naruto." She blushed and quickly escaped. Hiashi prayed things went well for his eldest daughter.

"I'll be right back, let me change and get an apron." Naruto told Tenten after he was pulled from out of his fridge.

He made his way past the bags and up his stairs, where he made a clone. With his mental commands given, both started to get changed. His clone had left his flak jacket and cloak, replacing it with a frilly blue apron walking back downstairs. The real Naruto started to get ready. He took his time he was stalling and he knew it.

"Alright, now the cloak…Perfect!" The real Naruto muttered to himself as he slipped on his cloak trying to rub out the wrinkles.

Today was an important day, today Naruto would confront Hinata; he had known for some time that she had held feelings for him. He figured it out the year he came from his training trip with Jiraiya, but played the fool as to not bring up such a subject while his village was at war. Since the villages strongest squad consisted of the Konoha twelve and their sensei's, bringing up such a topic would ruin team efficiency.

He sighed. 'Well no use wasting time here.' Naruto thought as he leapt out of his bedroom window, landing on his front gates, and hopped off landing gracefully on the street below. Once he was sure the girls couldn't see him he decided to just walk to the Hyuuga compound.

Along the way he took in the sights of his beloved village; city really, he never understood why it was called a village since Konoha was about two thirds the size of the capital of the Land of Fire.

A lot had changed in the ten years since he had finished his training with Jiraiya. The most obvious was that the Hokage tower had grown in size; it was now slightly taller than the outcropping of the Hokage monument. This was because the village itself grew in size; unfortunately that required for the village proper to grow. That was a pain, as the best Doton users the village had to offer, including the Hokage herself, had to movethe wall from its original position in such a way that would not harm the integrity of the wall, but be fast enough to avoid leaving the village's defense weakened. Then they would have to add to the wall to compensate for the larger area it was protecting. The entire process took about half a year with ninja on the job 24/7 alternating when chakra exhaustion set in. Fortunately the Kazekage sent several platoons to compensate for the lack of useable shinobi.

He was idling remembering the team of Suna kunoichi who he was in charge of during the build. They were absolutely serious about their work but when they had down time they could not keep their hands to themselves. His thoughts wandered to the time when they had tried to team-up since it seemed, to them, going at it alone was useless when trying to vie for Naruto's attention.

Naruto was brought out of his thoughts when he was hit in the gut by a small child.

"Ouch!" The small boy cried, he had come running around the corner of the street and ran into Naruto.

"Hey, are you okay? I know the jacket is pretty hard." Naruto bent at the knee to get a good look at the kid's forehead noticing red, he frowned when he saw a large cut, it was sure to scar if not treated properly.

The boy started inhaling deeply, a tell tale sign of an incoming tantrum "-Matsu-kun don't run to where I can't see you." A middle aged woman scolded as she turned the corner, stopping as she saw her son talking to the son of the Yondaime and vessel for the Kyuubi with a bleeding forehead. When he saw his mother Matsu started to wail.

"Matsu! See what you did, I'm so sorry about my son Namikaze-sama. Please forgive him." The woman apologized; Naruto noticed the slight tension in her posture when she laid eyes on him.

"Not to worry ma'am, no harm done to me, I should apologize to you, I'm sorry-" He told her with a small bow, as he was still kneeling. "Now Matsu, that's your name right?" young Matsu nodded trying to hide his tears, after all a shinobi was talking to him "Well Matsu-kun I'm going to use my healing jutsu so my hand will grow green and feel kind of hot okay? You think you can be a big boy long enough to fix your cut?"

Matsu, who had wanted to be a shinobi just like his uncle, did not want to show a shinobi weakness, he was in pain but he had to act tuff like his uncle Ibiki. He gave a stiff nod to the man and noticed his hand was encased in a pale green glow and he placed it on his forehead. At first Matsu was curious, the man said hot, at best this was just warm so he gave a small smirk he was underestimated he thought.

Naruto knew that look, Matsu had never been healed with a medical jutsu the warmth was just the disinfection. The real pain of the jutsu was the bonding of the flesh it was essentially seared together again, minus the scar. He couldn't blame the boy; Naruto picked up on the boys fascination with Ninja, and if he could take a guess this kid was a Morino, the fact that this kid was pretty tall for a 6 year old was a large hint. He guessed this was Ibiki's nephew, and from what Ibiki had told Naruto about the squirt, he wanted to be head of the interrogations department. But he got in trouble when he was found binding the family cat to a tree, fortunately for the creature, they found him before Matsu tried to 'extract' information out of him.

Naruto continued sanitizing the area and pressed on, when he started to close the wound, he saw the boy wince and Naruto saw that he was going to cry again. "It's almost done Matsu just hang on a little while longer your doing just fine." Naruto told the boy as he grabbed hold of the boy's shoulder and gave it a reaffirming squeeze.

The mother looked on in fascination at the heir of the Yondaime was treating her Matsu so tenderly, she hated to admit but she often treated the boy with a sneer or two when he was young. And despite all his works for the good of the village, she was still weary of him after all there were rumors that all his battles required the use of the demon's power. But seeing the man treating her son the way a father would made her rethink her previous views on the boy.

"Okay done! See Matsu you made it, keep it up and you will make a fine shinobi…" He had seen the look on the mother's face when he told Matsu he would make a great ninja, she was not happy with the encouragement this man was giving him regardless if he helped Matsu. Her baby was still just that, a baby! He didn't need to thoughts of becoming a ninja

"-if your mother signs all the release forms." He added in that last part to quell the rising anger in the mother, he learned a long time ago a mother's Killing Intent could greatly dwarf that of a shinobi, when her child was involved.

"Wait you need permission to be a ninja?" Matsu asked shocked, his uncle never told him that.

"Oh yeah your mom gets final say on whether or not you can join, so I suggest you be REAL nice and listen to your mother ALL the time if you want a shot." The woman gave a small giggle at the face her son made at hearing he had to listen to his mother "ALL" the time.

"Thank you Namikaze-sama, again please forgive my son for his misbehavior." The woman bowed.

"Naruto, is fine. And no it was my fault; really I should have been on alert." He bowed deeper to the woman.

"The way you handled that was amazing Naruto-san, you'll make a wonderful father and a fine husband. Good Afternoon" The woman bowed once more left.

"Bye mister!" Matsu waved back.

"Remember behave for your mother"

"I will."

Naruto watched the mother and son walk down the street and sighed, that last comment made his heart ache. He was tapped on the shoulder and turned to see…no one. 'What the hell?' He felt a tapping on his opposite shoulder and turned to be greeted by nothing again.

Hinata had left the compound to deliver something to the Hokage and from around the corner had heard Naruto's voice. She watched as he dealt with the child, very tenderly, it was moments like these that made Hinata positive this was the man that she loved. This wasn't the loser, the Kyuubi, the knucklehead, nor was he the next Hokage. This Naruto was the tender Naruto who put others before himself.

So when the mother left Hinata decided to have some fun so she tapped his left shoulder, hiding behind his right when he turned. She tapped the right and hid behind his left. All of a sudden she felt a tap on her right shoulder turned and saw no one. Turning back to Naruto…he was gone, then turned around fully and saw Naruto was right behind her.

Naruto had gotten behind Hinata the moment she tried sneaking up on him, and when he reversed her prank he was rewarded with her light-hearted laugh. "Hello Hinata, nice to see you're having fun today."

"Well Naruto I was just going to deliver something to the Hokage and saw that you were talking to that boy there. That was very sweet, and she is right you w-would make a wo-wonderful h-husband." Hinata replied, she started off strong but reverted when she thought of Naruto as a husband, specifically her husband.

There was a short pause between the both of them, until Naruto decided to continue. "Will you have something else to do or can you drop it off and then we go for lunch?" he asked

"No this is the last thing. What do you have in mind?"

Naruto had thought long and hard on where he wanted to go, Ichiraku's was obviously out. He wanted a place that gave privacy but was in a public space. "Well there was a new restaurant that just opened near the academy. Kind of wanted to try it out when I saw it."

Hinata mentally frowned the place was a family restaurant, not really a date locale. But to be fair to Naruto he had never said it was a date. They went out to eat often, but it was always after training so she had hoped this was different since they had not trained today.

"That sounds great, shall we?" she replied.

"Lets"

As they walked to the tower they both talked about what they had done recently. It had been a while since they had talked and now was a great time to catch up.

Tsunade was working on some forms when she heard Naruto talking with someone. She stopped what she was doing and waited for him to come in, only to be surprised when Hinata came in and turned in her research on a new medical technique that required the Jyuuken.

"Hinata did I hear Naruto out there?" the Hokage asked.

"Yes we were just going out to lunch. Should I send for him?"

"Would you?" the young woman nodded and went outside to call in the man.

"Yes baa-chan?" When he spoke Hinata decided she would wait in the hallway.

"Naruto. We have reports of several caravan's, including a circus oddly enough, near the village all from different lands but all combining into one larger caravan, they seem to be a civilian day's walk from Konoha. Does this have anything to do with you? If it doesn't I will have to stop them they do have a large escort."

Naruto's only reply was his now infamous grin and responded, "Baa-chan if anything happens I will take personal responsibility for this, but if you must know, this is part of my plan. Anything else? Wait. Do you know?"

"I have some very strong theories."

"Well with your luck I wouldn't trust your gut instinct." He snickered at the face she made.

"Kid if there was anything I learned from my bad luck it's that when you're involved my bad luck is gone and my intuition is at its best. That said does anyone else know?"

"Anko knows, she's the only one though. Is that all?"

"Just be careful, what you are about to do is huge, and you are going to be stepping on the council's toes with this. Make sure you know what you are doing. Dismissed."

Naruto walked out the door and rejoined Hinata as they made their way to the restaurant picking up their previous conversation.

Before Tsunade could continue her work she felt Jiraiya walking up the wall of the tower. She decided to get back to work.

"So Tsunade still not gonna tell me what the kid's got in store. I can only assume it has to do with the emissaries that Nami, Oni, and Yuki are sending?" Jiraiya asked as he walked through her window

"It does." Was her simple reply. After nearly a minute of pen scratching he started to become inpatient, "Well?"

"Well what?" she stamped a file and place it in her outbox picking up a new one from her inbox

"Hmph. Whatever. I don't care. I'm sure whatever he's hiding it will be lame." Jiraiya pouted.

'Almost!' she said mentally, she was trying to coerce him into a bet. "Care to make a wager out of it Jiraiya."

"Sure." "GOTCHA!'

After a great lunch and after they both caught up they decided to go for a walk. It led them to a rather secluded area of the village near the back of the Hokage tower. Naruto turned to Hinata. "Ne…Hinata I-I have something to tell you."

Hinata gave him a curious look. He was beyond nervous, and she picked up on it quick.

"Sure Naruto. What is it?"

" First. Hinata I want you to know I have never been so conflicted in my life, all week I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out how to tell you this. Frankly I don't think I have ever thought this hard in my life." Hinata started breathing heavily. "I've tried to think of how to do this from every angle I can think of and try to play it out in my head. Every single time I hate the outcome."

Her eyes widened. What action would let lead him to hate each outcome?

He paused and looked at the sky; Hinata saw that he had a pained expression on his face. She was about to say something when he spoke "I've known you held feelings for me." She gasped.

"So I'm just going to come out and say it…Hinata… I'm married."

A/N: (Okay so my little apology continued from above) Okay so I had said I would make this chapter Hinata heavy, but I had a change of heart when it came to the main plot. Originally, I was going to make Hinata an antagonist. I will only say this much because going into detail at how she would have been a 'bad' character will reveal the ending even though her role changed. So expect me to drop a new story idea in the next author's note, it will just be a brief summary of the actual thing, and I would like feedback on it. (Apology over)

So Naruto revealed his secret to the girl that loved him. His secret was that he is already married, that and Anko has known, I guess the new mystery is how much does Anko know? And what did Danzo have planned for his 10 squads of ROOT (Remember from Wendsday night) and what was that summoning jutsu for.

Hit me up I will answer questions without getting spoiler-ie. If you want to yell at me for the Hinata thing, by all means, but expect me to reply and have a slight discussion so I can understand your feelings I want a civilized discussion in which both parties can come to see the other side's POV.

'Friday' is the next chapter, it will not pick up from here, this scene will be played out in flashbacks throughout all of tomorrow. Next chapter will be the revelation of his marriage to the rest of the village and most importantly to the council. So see you tomorrow.

Oxy: I am told to tell you he will respond to hate and some questions when he returns, but I am to respond to reviews, and some PM's if they are simple questions not relating to plot. So just do what you guys always do goodbye.