Yo! Here's Chapter 4! Hope it lives up to y'all expectations.

Ch4: How to rile someone up

After a very infuriating yet satisfying entrance of Team Seven's sensei, an entrance that involved a silver haired man with a chalkboard eraser landing on his head (that was the satisfying part, it was made funnier by Naruto shouting "REVENGE!" at the top of his voice). The infuriating part was the man looking at the Genin and saying that he didn't like them. The man made the Genin of Team Seven even angrier when he just told them to meet him on the roof before he vanished in a puff of smoke.

Now the members of Team Seven sat on the roof facing the silver haired man, who was sitting on the railing as he gave them a bored look.

The man had the standard Jounin uniform with the addition of a dark blue half face mask and his headband covering his left eye. The guy's gravity deifying silver hair moved with the wind that blew past them.

"So why don't we get started?" the bored look vanished and was replaced by an eye-smile. The three Genin thought that the smile the man had was anything but encouraging.

"Get started with what, Sensei?" asked Sakura as she sat between Naruto and Sasuke.

The Uchiha was still staring off into space lost in thought. Naruto was giving their sensei his full attention; however he was also rubbing his cheek. Before the three left to catch up with their sensei Ino had pulled Naruto's cheek and told him that he was to meet her at the front when the meeting was done. She made an open threat when she told him what would happen if he didn't show up.

Actually that's wrong, she just ended the sentence by saying:

"If you don't show up, death penalty"

Surface to say, Naruto wasn't going to make the Yamanaka girl mad…again (even though the first time wasn't his fault).

"Introductions, my cute little Genin number 2" Sakura sweat dropped at that. 'Number 2' what kind of nickname is that? "And since you asked, why don't you go number 2?" a tick mark appeared on Sakura's forehead, she had a funny feeling that this guy was gonna be a pain in the ass.

"Why don't you go tardy sensei" she said in the same fake happy tone that the man used when he spoke to her.

Naruto held his laugh in by puffing up his cheeks. Sasuke actually smirked behind his hands at that. Even he had to give Sakura that, it was the right nickname for this guy.

"Hmmm…Not the worse nickname I've got" the man shrugged nonchalantly "my name's Kakashi Hatake…my likes…my dislikes are…oh, I have hobbies…and my dreams…" he tapped his chin and looked up at the sky, blatantly ignoring the frowns his Genin were giving him "now, why don't you go number 2?" he looked at Sakura, who had a lot of tick marks on her forehead.

'Though all that we only found out was his name' Sakura thought to herself.

"Cha! Is this guy even fit to be a sensei?!" Inner Sakura shouted with fire in her eyes.

"Okay…My NAME is Sakura Haruno" she made direct eye contact with Kakashi when she said her name "my likes include…um…well…" she broke eye contact to look at Sasuke with hearts in her eyes "My hobbies are…" she looked at Sasuke again this time she had a blush on her cheeks. She didn't notice Sasuke scooted a bit away from her "and my dream is…" this time she just squealed.

Kakashi sweat dropped at the introduction "Any dislikes?"

This time she didn't blush, squeal or even look in Sasuke's direction. She pointed at Naruto with an angry look on her face.

"Naruto-baka!" she shouted "oh, and Ino-pig!"

Naruto flinched away from the girl. Maybe Ino was right about Sakura, best to avoid the girl for now.

"Interesting…" Kakashi said in an uninterested tone "since we're on the subject of your team-mate, why don't you go number 1" Kakashi pointed at Naruto who looked at his sensei and frowned.

"Names Naruto Uzumaki and don't you forget it" Naruto thumped his chest with a proud look "My likes include hanging out with my friends…friend…um, with Ino" he scratched the back of his head "ramen, especially the ramen at Ichiraku's Ramen. My dislikes include the 5 minute wait for my Ramen to boil and people that bad mouth those precious to me" Naruto huffed with his nostrils at that with a determined look on his face "my hobbies include training and gardening" Sasuke and Sakura's heads shot towards their third team-mate in shock. Of all the things they expected him to say, that was the last thing "and my dream…"

Naruto got up to puff his chest up and grin well adjusting his headband. To add dramatic effect a gust of wind blew past and made the tail of his cloak move in the wind.

"I'm gonna be the Hokage of this village. Not just the Hokage, the best Hokage ever!" he spun around and pointed at the Hokage monument as if he was trying to challenge the previous Kages.

"…very good Number 1" Kakashi clapped his hands in a slow pace. That made Naruto face fault "Next up is Number 3" if Sasuke was annoyed by the nickname he didn't show it.

"My name is Sasuke Uchiha" the Uchiha began looking at something in the distance "My likes include one thing" the boy had to fight down the smirk that was threatening to come up "my dislikes are many" Naruto sweat dropped, this sounds familiar "my hobbies include…" this time Sasuke did smirk "messing with the only thing I like and my dream…no" the smirk vanished "My ambition is to kill a certain man and revive my clan" he went silent after that.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"…Is it just me or did it sound like Sasuke said he likes playing with himself?" Naruto made a disgusted look at his team-mate.

"Good thing it wasn't only me who heard that" said Kakashi nodding his head, not looking the least bit disgusted, nor pleased at the same time…unlike someone…

"Hmmm…." Sakura went off into a daze with some drool hanging from her lip.

Kakashi clapped his hands together making the three Genin turn their attention to him.

"Now to spoil your moods 1, 2 and 3" he eye smiled. The way he addressed the three made them frown in annoyance. If he was gonna call them that then what was the point of their introductions?

"Finally!" Ino huffed in annoyance as she jumped off of her seat on the swing that Naruto would always sit on when everybody went out for recess in the academy.

The blond girl had gone outside to wait for her friend and his team to finish their meeting with their sensei. Even she was annoyed at the tardiness of Team Seven's Sensei, she only hoped that he wasn't late to team Seven's official test tomorrow and then blames them for failing.

If he did that then Ino will need to have a few words with the Jounin.

Speaking of the test…

Naruto looked very deep in thought as he walked out of the academy. Ino could almost see imaginary smoke leaking from the boy's ears as he made his way towards the academy's main gate.

Ino had a Cheshire Cat Grin. It would seem that Naruto was oblivious to everything around him.

He's making this to easy…

Naruto looked at the sky as he walked towards the main gates. He and his team-mates had just been told that they weren't official Genin and that they had to take a test.

Obviously this got angry shouts from both Sakura and Naruto, who asked why they got headbands if they weren't Genin. Kakashi had then told them that the test in the academy was so that they could weed out those that are unfit to be Genin and it fell to the Jounin sensei to determine if they can officially become Genin.

The Silver haired Jounin had then went on to tell them that the test tomorrow would be hellish and that they shouldn't have breakfast or they'd throw up. For some reason Naruto felt that there was something off with that piece of evidence but he couldn't put his finger on it.

The boy was broken from his musings by someone jumping on his back.

"Wah!" Naruto shouted in surprise and put his right foot forward to keep from falling over. A lock of platinum blond hair fell into Naruto's field of vision, so he relaxed.

"You made me wait too long Whiskers" Ino said placing her chin on Naruto's shoulder and pouting "as punishment you will give me a piggyback ride!" she lifted her head up and pumped her hand up.

"What?! Why?!" Naruto whined in protest. That got him a pinch on his cheek making the boy whine louder.

"Don't make me repeat myself" Ino said in a threatening tone pinching harder.

"Okay! Okay!" Naruto shouted "Just stop pinching me!" the boy wanted to swat her hands away but Ino had wrapped her legs around his waist and he instinctively grabbed her under her thighs to keep her up.

"Fine" Ino huffed letting go of the boy's cheek.

"Ow…" Naruto moaned in pain. Having his sensitive cheek grabbed and pinched so often was a horrible feeling. He'd rub it but that would mean letting go of Ino's leg and, since she didn't have her legs wrapped around his midsection anymore, that would mean her leg will drop down and that could mean more pinching.

Ino saw the pained look on her friend's face and the redness in his cheek. She felt slightly bad for the guy. Even if it was all on him for not telling her he'd be late (in fairness even he didn't know that he'd be late).

Naruto froze mid walk with his eyes wide. Something, or someone, was rubbing his whiskered cheek. He felt something trying to fight its way out and he was desperately trying to fight it down. But in the end it became too much and Naruto let it have its way. It was a rumbling feeling in his throat.

"Oh…My…God…" Naruto heard Ino say and opened his eyes (he didn't even remember closing his eyes). He turned his head to the side, making the rubbing stop. When Naruto turned his head he saw Ino staring at him in shock.

"W-What?" he asked in a fearful tone. The glint in Ino's eyes was making him scared.

"You…purred!" Ino squealed "It was so cute!" she pushed her cheek up against Naruto's and resumed her rubbing making the purring start again.

"I-Ino…" Naruto tried to break away but Ino had a tight grip around his neck "I-If you keep th-that up…I'm gonna dr-drop you" it was meant to be a threat but the blissful look on his face refuted that.

"Hmm….Don't wanna" Ino said nuzzling her cheek against Naruto's other cheek.

"Ino!" Naruto shouted his knees were shaking "stop! Or I'm gonna fall over!"

"Oh fine" Ino huffed and let go "is that how you react when a beautiful girl takes an interest in you?" she huffed again before wrapping her arms around Naruto's neck again.

"Beautiful girl?" Naruto gave a strained smirk it would have been arrogant had he not been blushing up a storm.

"Watch it Whiskers, I know your weakness now" Ino's threat far outweighed Naruto's.

The blond boy flinched and continued walking towards Ino's house.

The two made it to Ino's house, with Ino still hitching a ride on Naruto's back. They had talked all their way to the girl's house and laughed at different things (mostly the pranks that Naruto told the girl about) Naruto would be surprised at the gossip that Ino would share with him.

Ino hopped off of Naruto's back and opened the front door of her house. She entered first and stood in the house waiting for Naruto to enter before she could close the door. The blond boy entered the home and waited for Ino to lead him to where they needed to go.

Instead of leading him further in Ino called out "Mom! We're here!" they heard someone turning the water off from (where Naruto assumed was) the kitchen.

Naruto and Ino stood in a furnished longue area with a door way where the noise came from and a set of stairs off to the left. The door opened and a brown haired woman exited.

She had on a green dress that went down to her ankles and had a very motherly look in her orange eyes. Her facial features showed where Ino got her looks from.

"You must be Naruto-kun, yes?" she wiped her hands on the apron she had on. Naruto stood straight and nodded his head. He bowed to the woman.

"Yes Mrs Yamanaka" he said "thank you for having me" Mrs Yamanaka giggled in amusement as Ino stared at her friend in shock.

"Who the hell are you and where is Naruto" Ino narrowed her eyes at Naruto, who stood up again and frowned at his friend.

"Oi! I can be respectful if I want to" the boy crossed his arms and stuck his nose in the sky "I just choose not to"

"Then I think you should add a 'sama' honorific to my name then" Ino smirked at the boy "since you're so respectful"

"I said respectful, not liar" Naruto turned to her and stuck his tongue out at the younger Yamanaka.

"Why you…" Ino reached out to pinch his cheeks again. She was, however, stopped by someone speaking up.

"It seems that you found yourself a good friend, Ino" Mrs Yamanaka smiled at the two "but why don't we have dinner first before the two of you start your lovers quarrel" Naruto's and Ino's face went bright red at that.

"We're not like that!" the two shouted but Mrs Yamanaka only giggled in response to their shout.

One thing that Naruto could say about Ino's mother was the fact that the woman was a terrific cook!

It could have just been the fact that Naruto never had a meal that was made by someone else, Ichiraku's was slightly similar but it lacked something that Ino's mom's food had. Naruto couldn't put his finger on what that was though.

They had all been eating and chatting, Naruto listened to lives that the Yamanaka family lived. It kinda left a bitter taste in the back of Naruto's mouth but he pushed down that feeling. Instead he complimented the older woman on her cooking.

"This food is amazing Mrs Yamanaka" Naruto smiled at the brown haired woman, who smiled back.

"Why thank you Naruto-kun" she said bowing her head slightly "I'm so happy that you like it. It's my family's famous pot roast" she raised her head and smiled at the blond boy.

"Sometimes it pays off to be married to a former Akimichi" Inoichi said as he took another bite of his wife's food.

Naruto paused with a fork of food halfway to his mouth. He looked up at Ino's mom with a confused look.

"Akimichi?" he said putting the fork down "isn't that Choji's last name?"

"Yeah" it was Ino who answered "Mom's Choji's aunty" she said it in such a manner that it sounded like she didn't care that she just said that Choji is her cousin.

"Wait, wha?" the confused look that Naruto had was now accompanied by his mouth almost hitting the floor in shock "you're Choji's cousin?!" he asked his friend.

"If my mom's Choji's aunty, then duh" Ino rolled her eyes as she turned her attention to the blond boy sitting next to her "in fact, Choji, Shikamaru and I are all cousins" she whipped her mouth "My mom is Choji's aunty and Shikamaru's aunty is Choji's dad's wife"

"How come I've never heard of this till now?" asked Naruto staring at Ino like he was seeing her for the first time.

"Well it's not like I walk around with the surname Akimichi do I?" Ino smirked internally at the look Naruto was giving her. She could picture the rusty gears in Naruto's head turning as he tried to piece this together.

How he was confused Ino didn't know. It wasn't that hard to figure out.

"Well, no, but…"

"It's simple Naruto" Inoichi came to the boy's rescue "we don't talk about our relationships unless someone asks. The fact that Ino, Choji and Shikamaru are related to one another doesn't come up in conversation" he shrugged, but he could see that the boy still had some more questions.

"Everybody assumes that the reason that Choza, Shikaku and Inoichi hang out all the time is only because they used to be team-mates, but they don't know, and don't ask, that they are all in-laws" Ino's mother further expanded on her husband's explanation.

"But if they're related to each other why does Ino sometimes act mean to them?" Naruto asked, squinting his eyes.

"Just because we're related doesn't mean I have to always be nice to them" Ino rolled her eyes with a huff. She reached over and grabbed the boy by his cheek and started pinching, making Naruto whine "and for your information I'm not mean to them" she hissed "I only try to correct their behaviour, I won't have people that are related to me being a Lazy bum or a Lard butt all the time. People might think I'm the same"

Ino let go of Naruto's cheek with another huff. The blond boy rubbed his cheeks with a bitter pout on his face.

"If anything you'd end up being regarded as fat…" he muttered.

Obviously he didn't mean it; Ino was one of the fittest girl's he's known. She told him that there was once a time she had gone on a diet but eventually she decided to just eat health. That decision was made when she opened a magazine that explained the dangers of only eating green foods. Ino also told him that Sakura didn't care about it (since Ino told her about it) and continued dieting.

Even though Naruto didn't mean what he said that didn't mean Ino didn't take offence to it.

"WHISKERS!" an enraged Ino shouted as she tackled the boy to the floor and began a thorough beating of a screaming Naruto Uzumaki.

At the table Inoichi and his wife watched as their daughter was beating up her friend. It sounded worse when said like that but rest assured it was one of those comical beatings that the husband and wife have seen girlfriends give their boyfriends for saying something he shouldn't have.

"This is kind of nostalgic isn't it Inoichi?" the brown haired woman looked over to her husband with a smile on her face.

"It reminds me of when I accidently said the same words to you when we started dating" Inoichi let out a fearful chuckle as he said that.

"I had to take you to the hospital with all the bruising you had" the woman next to him giggled as she took the man's hand under the table.

"Fun times…" Inoichi shivered. He learnt his lesson then: never call his wife fat or anything that contributed to it. Unless he had a follow up that made it sound like a compliment and THAT was impossible, one would have more luck finding a fish swimming in the sands of Suna.

"This kind of reminds me of Kushina and Minato" the older female Yamanaka of the house chuckled softly "that time when he said that she was getting bigger when she had just started her pregnancy"

"Poor bastard…" Inoichi closed his eyes in sympathy "If I was on Death's door then Minato was already inside having Tea"

"I didn't mean it Ino-chan!" they heard Naruto scream "not the cheeks!"

"The hell you didn't!" Ino shouted "I'm gonna pinch your cheeks so hard your children are gonna feel it!"

"Leave them out of this!" Naruto screamed, why he screamed that? Even he didn't know.

"Aw man, that hurts…" Naruto rubbed the lump on top of his head as he sat on his bed.

After the beating Ino went and got her friend two frozen pack of peas, which she put on his cheeks (hard). The rest of the supper was a mix of angry glares from Ino and chuckles/giggles from her parents.

Naruto winced as his lump throbbed again. This lump was a parting gift from a still very pissed Ino, who whacked him over the head with a frying pan.

Naruto didn't even know where she got a frying pan from! She just reached behind her back and pulled out the cooking utensil that she whacked the Uzumaki over the head with.

Her parting words were that she expected an apology the next day and stomped up to her room.

When Ino left, Inoichi pulled Naruto aside and told him that if he wished to continue associating with Ino he has to never ever mention anything that involves weight, ever.

He was really emphasizing the 'ever' part.

The head of the Yamanaka Clan took pity on the boy and told him how to apologise to Ino and that involved-

On the other side of the village it would appear that not everybody was having a good night as Naruto was. Good up till the end of the dinner that was.

Hiashi Hyuuga was a man that never let anything get to him.

Okay that was a lie, he let certain things get to him. Such things like when his brother died for his sake, when his wife died he mourned her death (in his own way), even when one of his daughters was labelled as a failure.

Speaking of said daughter…

The head of the Hyuuga household sat at the desk in his office with a very serious look on his face. Normally he always had this look on his face but this time it was accompanied by his eyebrows being furrowed very low.

What was the reason for this serious man's look of deep concentration?

Well, it was said a couple of sentences ago. His eldest daughter had been acting strange ever since she came home after meeting her team's sensei.

Strange Occurrence number 1:

Hinata would normal go to her father and greet him the minute she got home. How she would greet him was a formal bow along with a polite 'Hello Father, I'm back'.

What happened was Hinata walking into their home with her head down. Hiashi had waited in the hallway for his daughter to greet him. He had just finished a stressful meeting with the Hyuuga elders earlier that day and was in his room enjoying a nice cup of tea when a branch member informed him that his daughter had arrived, so he went to go greet her (In his own way of greeting her).

Instead of greeting her father Hinata walked right past him. Hiashi was so shocked he barely picked up on the grinding of teeth or the muttering coming from his daughter.

Strange Occurrence number 2:

Hinata would spend her afternoons pressing flowers, such was her hobby. Hiashi knew this because he had walked past her room once and saw his daughter in the middle of her hobby.

It reminded him so much of his wife…

Instead of the girl dabbling in her hobby, she was in the training area punching a wooden dummy. She continued punching it even after her fists started bleeding.

What made it even stranger and much more worrying was when he fists started bleeding and she shouted at a branch member, who tried to help her.

Yes, she, Hinata Hyuuga, shouted at a branch member. Granted she did apologise afterwards.

Strange Occurrence number 3:

The last thing that happened that day had surprised both Hiashi and his youngest daughter.

After dinner Hiashi said that it was time for Hinata and her little sister, Hanabi Hyuuga, to practice for their annual 'Heiress Battle'.

The match had progressed how it always did since Hanabi had been able old enough to challenge her sister for the title of Heiress of the Hyuuga clan. Younger Hyuuga sister had had the upper hand from the get go of the match with Hinata pulling punches (yes Hiashi could see his daughter doing this).

However, it was towards the end of the match where things got…strange, to say the least.

Hanabi had landed a blow on Hinata's mid-section making the older sister fall to the floor with a pained shout. This was still normal.

The strangeness occurred when Hanabi had started calling her sister weak (still normal mind you) and mentioned that she was doomed to never be good enough (Yeah…still normal).

That's when Hinata stopped whimpering in pain and got up as if nothing happened, shocking both Hiashi and Hanabi. Normally Hinata just continued whimpering in (fake) pain until Hiashi would call the match.

The look in her eyes made the hairs on the back of Hiashi's neck stand up but his serious expression didn't change.

His youngest daughter wasn't able to hide her fear of the look her older sister was giving her.

Hinata took up the Gentle Fist stance and demanded that Hanabi attack her. Hiashi actually let the shock show on his face at the tone Hinata used it was one that said 'Don't fuck with me'.

Hanabi quickly got over her fear and the smug attitude returned. Hiashi could tell that Hanabi still thought she was superior when pitted against her weak sister.

Oh how wrong she was…

The minute Hanabi got within range of Hinata it took a grand total of 5 seconds for Hinata to jab her fingers into each Charka point in her sister's body and finished it off with a blow to the mid-section.

When I say blow, I mean she curled her hand into a fist and nailed her sister's stomach so hard Hanabi flew a few feet before she landed on her back staring at the sky in shock and pain.

Hinata had then turned to Hiashi and spat out a 'thank you father' before she left the training ground, not even paying her weeping sister a second glance.

Now Hiashi was very confused as to what had happened to his meek daughter. This type of attitude doesn't just appear out of nowhere, something had to have happened.

The head of the Hyuuga clan sighed tiredly as he sipped on his tea. It was times like these he wished his wife were still alive. If the woman could make an Uchiha and a Hyuuga apologise to one another she could mend whatever made Hinata snap like that.

'I need to clear my head…' Hiashi thought rubbing his temples. It was then that someone knocked on his door.

"Enter" he serious look appeared again.

One the maids that attended to the house entered with her head bowed.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your quiet time Hiashi-sama but a Miss Tsume Inuzuka and a Mister Shibi Aburame are at the gate. They would like to know if you would like to accompany them to a bar" with her news delivered the maid stood up straight "shall I tell them that you are busy, sir?"

Hiashi was about to tell her to do such but he paused momentarily. Not even a minute ago Hiashi had been thinking of trying to clear his head and when was the last time he had gone to a bar?

It had to have been when the InoShikaCho trio dragged him there for his bachelor party. Of course they also dragged a reluctant Minato and Shibi as well as Hiashi's rival Fugaku Uchiha.

That night was filled with laughter and a lot of promises of doing it again. However all of their wives had another thing to say about that the next morning when they had to come and drag them out of the bar.

'Maybe this is just what I need' Hiashi stood up from his seat.

"That will not be necessary" he walked towards the door "I shall accompany them" he stopped by the door way and looked at the maid, who stood to the side "if anybody requires my presence inform them that I have left for a while and will be back later"

With that the head of the Hyuuga clan walked out of the office and down the hallway.

The maid stood in the office for another minute before she walked out and shut the door.

"Yeah…he's so getting wasted" she said and walked down the hallway, in the opposite direction.

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