Naruto, Hinata, and Tenten were standing in a clearing; it was around an acre of flat clear ground save a boulder off to the left.

"So how are we doing this chu-chan?" Naruto asked while stretching out his arms. Tenten let out a sigh hearing the old nickname as Hinata giggled off to the side. "Well first…Drop the henge Naru."

At this Naruto and Hinata froze, "What are you hiding Naruto, what has you scared." Tenten stepped forward forming a ram sign causing Naruto to start backing up with a wild scared look in his eyes. "Ten-chan please don't, not like." "Like Hell Naruto!" Tenten barked out cutting him off "What has the boy who can take a whole city's scorn and walk away, scared stiff."

At this Naruto dropped his head in defeat "That boy is tired so tired of faking so much that all he wants to do is hide from the world…please don't do this Ten not like this." At this Tenten released her hands with a sad smile "Alright then, when your better prepared show me, but I want to ask why."

At this Hinata stepped around Tenten causing the older genin to jump slightly at how she hadn't noticed Hinata move behind her. "That's our reasons Sempai." Hinata stated "please don't push this issue again." At this Tenten nodded.

"I'll tell you latter just not now." Naruto said to drop the issue, Tenten Nodded to the pair with a sad smile. "I'll hold you to it; just let people know before the town finds out alright Naruto."

At this Naruto nodded as Tenten walked over to him, pulling Hinata with her before pulling them both into a hug, "I didn't know it was this bad…and be careful I don't want to lose anyone right now." At this Tenten could feel the two nodding as they pulled each other closer, before they all took a step back a moment later.

"So shall we start?" At this Naruto pulled Kubikiribochu off his back holding the zanbacto loosely at his side with a smirk on his face, "what do you think chu-chan?"

At this Tenten pulled out a scroll and jumped back as she unrolled it "I think it's time for you to stop calling me chu." At this Naruto grinned "Come make me mousey."

At this Tenten simple started unsealing throwing weapons and began to rain them down on Naruto who stood there in shock at the sheer number of them as he hadn't seen anyone throw that fast before. Naruto swatted most of the weapons aside before jumping back causing a large number to miss him entirely before he began to circle Tenten forcing her to turn and try to lead him into a trap as she continued throwing Kunai at him.

Naruto continued to circle her dodging kunai like it was child's play despite her throwing patterns to catch him he always found a way through them, blocking what he couldn't dodge with the handle of KubiKiribochu, slowly making his way closer to Tenten forcing her to jump back to try and gain some distance from Naruto who simply turned and dashed at her before beginning to circle trying to get into Tentens guard, slowly working his way closer.

Tenten cursed this was getting nowhere fast; Naruto had dodged or blocked everything she had thrown at him and was making his way closer steadily. It was like trying to hit Lee and Naruto was doing this with a sword weighing at least seventy pounds when held vertical, trailing behind him, the forces acting on him must have be extreme, 'yet he's not even affected from the looks of it.' Cursing her luck at being forced to go all out with Naruto using basic dodging skills.

Jumping back gaining some distance from Naruto, Tenten pulled out two scrolls and spread some blood on them. "I never thought that anyone could dodge all of that but there's no way you're getting out of this unscathed."

At this Naruto smiled "Then come on show me your power."

Taking his challenge smoke flooded the area as Tenten threw both scrolls into the air forming twin smoke dragons, before jumping after them. "Soushouryuu (Twin rising Dragons)!" Tenten shouted as the smoke cleared showing two sealing scrolls, before launching a continuous wave of weapons at Naruto, forming a flying maze to weave through.

Naruto frowned slightly at this, before proceeding to dodge and block every weapon thrown at him without leaving the area of attack. In the end Tenten could only stair at Naruto as he stood on a half meter tall pile of throwing weapons with kubikiribochu resting on his shoulder. "Is this all you have Tenten? Because this won't cut it past low chunin if you get caught one on one with someone who can just block or evade."

Letting out a groan Tenten fell backward Landing on the grass "How not even Lee and Neji can dodge all of that…" at this Naruto jumped down off the pile and began walking "Because Neji is a brain dead Hyuuga only using his clan techniques, and Lee can't use chakra in a Jutsu… whenever you would turn enough that you couldn't see I would Kawarimi with one of the knives on the opposite side of the pile."

At this Tenten opened her mouth in an "O" "How did you learn to do a Kawarimi without hand seals…Anko?" Nodding Naruto extended a hand to her that Tenten grabbed pulling herself to her feet, "Kami she must be psychotic." At this Naruto and Hinata shrugged "She is still an excellent sensei Tenten-chan." Hinata said.

"Kami I need to improve."

"Every shinobi should to be improving themselves less they stagnate and end up defeated."

Nodding a look of realization came on Tentens face causing her head to drop. "Dam it I have to ask Gai sensei for training." At this Hinata and Naruto started laughing at Tenten's misfortune. "It's Not Funny You Two!"

After a moment the two calmed down. "We know it's not… for you." At this Tenten began throwing Kunai at them forcing them to dodge, separating the two, and actually managing to shut the two up as they jumped about as Tenten continued sending handfuls of Kunai at them with surprising accuracy despite being at nearly opposite sides of Tenten.

After nearly a half hour Tenten had stopped and resigned to standing there panting in exhaustion, as Naruto and Hinata stood a short ways away with fatigue clearly showing though still ready to react to anything as they began to regain their breath.

"Dam Tenten you certainly have a lot of stuff to chuck." Looking at the shear amount of weapons littering the Training ground Naruto let out a whistle "I think that's more than Anko ever thrown at us at any one time…Need a hand picking it all up?" Letting out a groan at just how much she had tossed around Tenten nodded her head. At this the three slowly began piling up the Kunai, shireken, axes, maces, and kamas, for Tenten to seal away in her scrolls.

Dumping the last of the weapons on the pile Naruto turned to Tenten who had pulled out a scroll to seal everything in. "Tenten Did You make the sealing scrolls yourself?" He asked while walking over to where Hinata was standing.

"The smaller ones the bigger ones I'm still learning." Tenten answered, not looking up from sealing away the large pile of throwing weapons. "Why are you asking, you want to learn for KubiKiribochu?"

Naruto who had started rubbing Hinatas shoulders shook his head, "Eii, I can make sealing scrolls; it's just I found out a trick to move things in a sealed space so you could just pick them up and you could have them back it the right scrolls." At this Tenten looked up with shock on her face, "I thought that was impossible the amount of chakra would be kage level for each use at least."

"No it doesn't, Kumos tools from the sage of the six paths; there supposed teleporter transports things through our plane, however a linked seal space is rather easy to use in a contained space." At this Tenten just blinked with a lost look on her face.

"Naruto I think you lost her." Hinata said. Letting out a sigh Naruto began explaining once more. "Tenten there's ways to get a linked seal space without using Kage level amounts of chakra and that's to simply have a line's linking between the number of seals you want to link, however it takes time to learn how to pull out what you want; or you could cheat and use several linked seal spaces But you can't use to many or you tend to run out of room to put them. You can also make a central seal space with a key to it and pull from that without a line to link them but this is trickier." At this Tenten nodded not quite sure if she fully under stood what Naruto had said.

"Well play around with them with some trash so you don't lose anything important do to it getting stuck halfway, Kami knows how much stuff I lost figuring it out." Looking over at the length of the shadows "Well I should probably get you two home before it gets any darker. I don't know about you Tenten but Hinata has people waiting for her to mess up." At this the girls looked up to see that there was little more than an hour till sundown. "Yea we should get home soon."

The three began walking toured the village with Hinata taking Narutos right hand and Tenten walking on his left. They walked talking about what Tenten could get training it so she could improve herself. The group found themselves outside Tentens apartment without having come to any conclusion on how she should improve. "So this is where you live chu."

Tenten let out a sigh as she moved to unlock the apartment door, "Yep I'll have to invite you two over sometime."

"I guess this is goodnight Tenten…it was nice seeing you again." Tenten turned from unlocking her do to face Naruto and Hinata, "Hai it was Naruto, Hinata I hope to see you again soon." Tenten seemed to want to say something more but settled for, "Good Night you two and take care." With that Tenten moved inside her apartment with a wave.

After a moment Naruto and Hinata started walking to the stairs with small smiles on their faces as they walked till they came within sight of the Hyuuga clan compound. They both slowed their pace only to feel something rushing toured them from behind. Turning their heads toured each other so it looked like they were kissing the two caught sight of a purple and tan blur. Jumping apart in the last moments Naruto swung Kubikiribocho around into the blurs path as Hinata dropped into a ready stance to attack the persons back.

The blur kicked off the ground into the air, extending a hand out to push off the top of Narutos sword mid swing launching themselves higher only for Hinata to appear above them in motion for a drop kick. Hinatas foot came smashing down on the figure sending them smashing into the ground sending up a cloud of dust blocking anyone's view of the impact. When the dust cleared Naruto and Hinata were a little surprised to see a flattened trashcan sitting in the center of the crater and simply got ready for something to happen.

After a moment slow clapping could be heard from a nearby alleyway as someone walked out from the shadows "Well at least you two haven't slacked off being away from me" at this a purple haired well-endowed woman wearing a tan trench coat, a see through fish net shirt, and a belted orange miniskirt that has more fish net going down her thighs with grey shin guards and fingerless metal plated gloves that disappeared under the sleeves of the coat. "Anko sensei do you have to do that every time." Hinata groaned out already knowing the answer.

"Well how else am I going to know if you're slaking off and besides I don't do it when you have one of Hinatas lunch's god those things are good." At this Ankos face gained a blank look as a bit of drool escaped the corner of her mouth.

"I think we broke her Hinata." Naruto stated waving a hand in front of the older woman's face. At this Hinata could only nod while repressing a giggle at Anko's antics.

After a moment Anko snapped out of it "So how was your first C-rank turned shit fest," at this Anko took an actual look at the zampacto Naruto was holding, "It looks like it went well from the souvenir you have."

At this Naruto and Hinata looked down, the first with his hand gripping Kubikiribocho hard enough blood started flowing down the handle, Anko seeing the subject was best not discussed in the open at nearly sundown with ears about, "Alright since its late, how about you come over to my house for lunch tomorrow we can talk about it there." At this the two genin relaxed and agreed to meet up tomorrow at Ankos apartment for lunch. With that Anko turned to walk away Naruto called her back.

"Anko-sensei!" Turning around Anko saw Naruto scratching the back of his head "I've been to your house before but I don't remember where it was."

At this Anko let out a laugh remembering the few times that the two had been to her home they had both left with beat red blushes on their faces, or had to run to get to the academy quickly. "You're supposed to be observant of your surroundings gaki" at this she got two deadpanned looks from the two "All right you two its twenty two Acacia venue the room is number six hundred and sixty six, alright."

"Yea will show up after were done with the hospital." Naruto answered

At this Anko nodded her head "Tell me about it tomorrow, cause I need a shower." with that Anko gave a wave and jumped up to the rooftops before disappearing.

After a moment the two turned to continue walking toured Hinata's clan home at a slow pace, "Are you going to have your eye checked by your family or the hospital doctors?"

"I'll see the doctors tomorrow with you…your required to get a checkup if majorly injured on a mission, do we need to start going over this again."

At this Naruto started waving his hands in front of him "No no we don't need to do that it just slipped my mind," dropping his hands Naruto let out a sigh "besides it's not like I won't heal just about everything I get anyhow."

At this Hinata took his hand "That may be but this isn't just anything." At this Naruto dropped his head in defeat as the two started to walk forward in silence the remainder of the short distance to the front gate of the Hyuuga clan. The two stopped in front of the gate and embraced each other before pulling away slightly "I'll see you tomorrow at the hospital then Naru."

"Hai Hai Hina-chan, I go to the hospital with you tomorrow alright." At this Hinata smiled before giving Naruto a peck on the lips before finally pulling away with a pink dusting on her cheeks. "I'll meet you at the hospital gate then."

At this Naruto agreed knowing he wasn't getting out of it before saying good night and watching Hinata walk in side before walking off toured his apartment.

Walking into his apartment Naruto locked the door behind him, before taking kubikiribocho off his back and pulling off his coat on the way to his room. Putting the Zanbacto against the wall and dropping the trench coat on the floor Naruto made his way to the bath pulling off his clothes as he went. Stepping into the shower Naruto turned the water on full blast and stood there letting the hot water run over him loosening mussels and washing away stress. After a few minutes he let out a sigh and began cleaning up, by the time he walked out of the shower the water heater was empty.

Walking back into his bed room Naruto threw the towel he was using on his hair over a door before dropping down on his bed. Putting his hands in a ram sign Naruto released his henge before looking himself over. The tail was still there looking exactly the same, though red flecks had started showing up at the tip and a one or two scattered about on the main body of it. The ears didn't seem to have grown any by the feel of it; he assumed that the tips were becoming red as well. Reapplying the henge Naruto pulled the sheets and blankets up before grabbing his nightcap and passing out.

Hinata found herself standing in front of her father's office having been told by one of her family members that he had wanted to speak with her upon her return. Raising her hand Hinata knocked softly before speaking "Otou-sama you wished to speak with me." "Enter," came the immediate reply from inside. Pulling the door aside Hinata stepped into the room before sliding the door closed behind her, walking forward Hinata stopped in front of her father's desk before sitting on her knees as the clan head finished his current work. After a minutes hearing nothing but the sound of a brush on parchment Hiashi set the brush down in the ink pan and folded his hands under his chin.

"I see your back in one piece; I trust there were no complications on the mission."

"Nothing that we couldn't handle father, the mission was a success the bridge was completed without any problems besides a try by a gang lord trying to control the island attempting to kill the bridge builder."

At this Hiashi leaned forward over his desk "Then what is this I hear about Uzumaki coming back with Kubikiribochu last known to be welded by Momochi Zabuza exjonin and one of the seven swordsmen from Kiri."

At this Hinata knew she had been caught, swallowing she steeled her resolve. "As I said before nothing we couldn't handle Tou-san."

At this Hiashi put his hands on the table his face hardening in disbelief "You expect me to believe that you took out an A-ranked nukenin known for taking out whole ANBU teams, with no complications."

"No one suffered any permanent injures, while we did have difficulty's we were able to subdue the man."

At this Hiashi let out a sigh "Is that all happened?"

"That is everything that I am aware of to be placed as a complication." Hinata reply was flat and left no room for argument to anyone who wasn't a Hyuuga.

"Hinata this room is safe you can speak freely."

At this Hinata nodded, "Zabuza had some help he had two apprentices, only one engaged us the other we didn't learn about till after the fighting was over. Naruto had put up a barrier around the clients house to protect his family, however this left him drained of chakra as a result he didn't get up in time to leave with us."

"When we arrived at the bridge Zabuza confronted us. Sasuke-san engaged Haku, Zabuza's apprentice, who trapped him in a dome of ice mirrors, while Kakashi-sensei faced Zabuza, I took Tanzuna and replaced us with shadow clones so that we could hide. At some point Naruto-kun arrived and engaged Haku with Sasuke, I was pulled into the fight accidently and knocked unconscious, Naruto panicked thinking I was dead." At this Hinata looked down regret written on her face, "Naru pulled on his gifts… the burst of chakra shattered the dome and cleared away the mist Zabuza used, this reviled that Gato, the man who hired Zabuza, had shown up with a small army of thugs with a few actual mercenaries in the group. When they attacked us Naruto started ripping through them followed by Kakashi-sensei and Zabuza, then Naruto ran into Him." At this Hinata felt a shiver run down her spine. "Tou-san what do you know of a mercenary by the name of Zodd?"

At this Haiash sat up straight, the speed the only thing showing his shock. "How did you learn that name." the tone of her father's voice left no room for argument. Fighting back the urge to cower Hinata finished recounting the mission.

"In the group that Gato pulled together a man stopped Naruto's attack dead and fought him on even grounds he called himself Zodd the immortal, he called himself a apostle; I woke up to the sight of Naruto fighting using claws and chains against him, Zodd managed to stun Naruto before kicking him away before charging at him to finish the fight. Both Kakashi and Zabuza moved to stop him, Kakashi preparing a Jutsu while Zabuza threw his sword so that it landed by Naruto. Naruto grabbed the sword by the hole near the end of the blade before shattering Zodd's sword and cutting his shoulder with the half circle by the hilt. It was at this point Zodd transformed it looked like some form of demonic cow, at this point I ran to help Naruto-kun by slashing the base of the wings on its back, it was at this point that Zodd retreated. Gato ordered the remaining thugs he had to finish us off and to take me and Sasuke alive to sell to kumo. The rest of the thugs didn't live long, Zabuza succumbing to his wounds asked Naruto to watch over his sword before he died."

At this point Hiashi noticed Hinata looking pale and decided not to push, "Now then its late I'll pull the records we have on Zodd and have them given to you tomorrow afternoon, Now I believe your sister has been looking forward to seeing you again you are dismissed." At this Hinata rose giving a small bow before backing out of the room. Slumping down against the wall as a sigh of relief came out; facing her father like that was not something she looked forward to again. Pushing herself off the wall Hinata slowly began making her way toured Hannabi's room so she could say good night before going to sleep.

Naruto let out a yawn sitting in front of the hospital for a bit waiting for Hinata to show up so they could go through the checkups at the same time. Looking down the street Naruto caught sight of a head of blue hair walking toured him, witch reviled Hinata walking toured him a moment latter. Standing up Naruto waved her over.

Letting out a sigh Naruto turned toured the hospital "Let's get this over with." Hinata gave him a nod before they started walking up the path to the hospital.

Walking into the hospital the two made their way to the receptionist's desk "Hyuuga Hinata and Uzumaki Naruto reporting for after mission checkup." Hinata said to the receptionist who handed them to clip boards, "fill this out and hand them to your doctor when you're called."

At this the two walked over to the chairs and began wordlessly filling out the paper's as they waited to be called. Naruto after finishing the paper started fidgeting as time went on, after several minuets Naruto pulled out a shuriken and began spinning it in the palm of his hand with chakra. Hinata, seeing this, took his free hand before leaning against him and resting her head on his shoulder. At this Naruto stiffened slightly before relaxing and resting his head on hers and stopping the shuriken Naruto closed his hand as his anxiety faded.

After some time a woman in doctor's garb walked in "Will Uzumaki-san and Hyuuga-san follow me." Standing the pair grabbed their clipboards and handed them to their doctor who began walking down the hall with the two of them following after her, sliding a door open she ushered them inside.

Closing the door behind them the doctor turned to face them "So Naruto-chan what did you do to Hinata-chan here?" she demanded "You two didn't try for a family did you."

At this Naruto and Hinata blushed before Naruto started sputtering denials at which the doctor started giggling at their reactions. "That was mean Kikiyo-sensei." Naruto finally got out with Hinata nodding.

At this Kikiyo sighed "It may be mean but your faces were so funny, besides here I though Anko got that out of you two anyhow?"

"Yea from her we expect it from you we don't." Naruto shot back before letting out a sigh "Can we just get this over with." At this Kikiyo nodded "Alright then what did you two do that got you both this worked up?"

Swallowing Naruto formed a ram seal before being covered in a cloud of smoke. When it cleared Naruto was sitting there with a tail and ears, they were sporting red flecks toured the tip otherwise they were a darker yellow then his hair with no other marks on them. Immediately Kikiyo reached behind her and locked the door with her eyes wide and staring, "This is not what I expected at all a missing limb bit marks from that blasted armor of yours but this… what the hell did you do Naruto."

"I thought Hinata died…" Naruto trailed off and slumping down sitting on the examination table, Hinata sat down next to Naruto and began rubbing his back to calm him down.

"I see, you pulled on everything you had to avenge her, now how did that work out." Kikiyo gave them a glare "You might not even be human any more was it worth it Naruto?" Naruto didn't respond only sinking deeper into himself causing Hinata to send her a glare at her.

Pinching her nose and letting out a sigh Kikiyo waved her hand "Regardless you would have done it to protect Hinata-san any way even if you had known, now come on the faster I can examine you two the faster you can leave." At this Naruto nodded before lying down on his back after Hinata hopped off the table. Kikiyo then placed her hands over Naruto's chest were they began to glow green, after a few moments she began to move them up and down his body with kikiyo spending the most time around his head and waist.

Several minutes later Kikiyo stepped back and began writing down notes before waving toured the bed, "Hinata if you would." At this Naruto rolled off the table as Hinata lay down on it. Kikiyo then proceeded to examine her as well in the same fashion as Naruto only staying around Hinatas left eye more than anywhere else. Kikiyo wrote down a few notes on Hinata's paper work before pulling a chair from the corner of the room. At this Hinata sat up as Naruto dropped down next to her.

"So what is it Sensei-san?" Naruto asked "Well besides having more questions than answers right now you're both healthy," at this Naruto and Hinata relaxed a bit, "However both of you have each other's chakra circulating in your chakra networks in a larger than normal amount than of people who spend time in closer contact that you two, add to the fact Hinata should have lost the use of the Byakugan in her left eye. Now I need to know how this happened."

"We had a sealing array were we could use each other's gear… I could put a Kunai in and Hinata can pull it out if were in range… when I used the armor and kyuubi's chakra together It changed the seals like it knew what it was doing to get this result from what I could tell I couldn't understand half of it at first… I'm not even sure I could get rid of it." Naruto looked down sadly at the end as Hinata pulled him closer.

Letting out a sigh Kikiyo turned to Hinata, "Do you know how your chakra network was damaged around your eye?"

At this Hinata shook her head "I know that it happened at the same time as when I was knocked unconscious from senbon several of them hit my head and neck through an incomplete Kaiten." Pinching her nose Kikiyo started muttering under her breath. Looking up after a moment she sent them a glare

"Of all the things you two could have done you manage this… Alright Naruto there's a few things I can do to see if your features are real or not as I couldn't tell if they were, I can run farther tests and get back to you in a month or a fast and drastic path could be taken."

"Just get it over with Sensei." Naruto huffed out. At this Kikiyo walked around the pair "Alright this may hurt some, let me know if it does." Naruto only nodded his head gritting his teeth. Kikiyo then pulled out a scalpel before slashing it across Naruto's tail.

Hurizen let out a sigh he had just got the initial mental report on the two yuki siblings. While both had shown they were stable and had answered every question that they had been asked they had been separated during the questioning as standard procedure while they had held together at first by the end of the questioning both were on their last legs mentally from stress and from memories the questions had brought up. The two upon meeting back up in their quarters then showed that they were both extremely emotionally dependent on each other, while the ANBU had left after the two were left in their room the sounds from it showed they had gone all out with each other until they had passed out. The medical report showed that they were at least healthy and that the sister was sterile they just couldn't tell why.

Setting the scroll aside the sandame prayed that Naruto's wouldn't bring any more issues he would have to put up with.

Naruto shot across the room screaming moments after Kikiyo slashed his tail, Hinata was immediately at his side trying to calm him down while Kikyo was looking around were Naruto was rolling around in pain; or more accurately at the lack of something. The floors were still as clean as they were when they had walked in not a single drop of blood anywhere to be seen.

After several minuets Naruto calmed down and was no longer in any real pain. "The fuck was that Sensei?" He finally gasped out from where he was laying in Hinata's lap.

At this Kikiyo gave him a glare "That was the fast way Baka, now I can tell you that your tail isn't real," At this Both Naruto and Hinata looked at her with disbelieve in their eyes. "However with the fact that you felt pain and that your tail is still here shows that it may become part of you but for now it seems that for now your tail is simply condensed chakra much like the body of a bijuu when it first manifests after the Jinchuriki host has died. Granted only a few people have seen such an event and most don't stay in the area long so that is largely speculation.

"Now Hinata I need to see you in about a week to check on your eye and from there we will determine if you can start using it, now you two are free to go, Hinata try not to use your left eye with the Byakugan until after we can see if your chakra network has repaired itself there and Naruto see about pulling chakra from you tail and ears. Now take care of your selves, I don't need the two of you showing up here anytime soon outside of checkups."

With that Kikiyo exited the room after stopping to see if anyone was nearby before closing the door behind her.

"Looks like more chakra control for the both of us Hina-chan" Naruto said from where he was lying.

"Yes let's just hope it works Naru, Now let's go tell Anko the good news."

At this Naruto sighed as he picked himself up off the floor before extending a hand to Hinata, who grabbed it with an appreciating smile as they pulled her to her feet. They left the room soon after Naruto reapplied his henge and walked out of the hospital side by side as they walked to Anko's digesting what they had learned.

Walking up to Anko's apartment the two looked at each other before nodding, "We tell her everything then."

"Yes she trusted us its only right we can trust her." With that settled they knocked on Anko's door after a few moments and the sound of half a dozen deadbolts clicking the door opened reviling the purpled haired Tokubetsu Jonin missing her trench coat, leaving her in a largely see though fishnet body suit and an orange miniskirt. The two walked in largely immune to the sight since they had been exposed to the sight before, however both were fighting back blushes at their first sensei's choice of dress.

Walking in to the kitchen they found the table set for tea with stir-fry cooking on the stove. "I didn't have everything I thought I did since im short on cash so I threw this together with what I had." At this the two nodded at they sat down as Anko returned to the stove. "So what had you two so worked up yesterday…?" Anko squinted over her shoulder over at them, "You two didn't go hanky panky on your last mission did you."

At this both Naruto and Hinata let out a sigh before denying of any such actions, after a few moments Anko chuckled at them before smiling "That's good I'm too young to be an aunt yet." Anko had seen the path the two had been fast tracking to and had had put a stop to it right away before anything could come of it. "So how did your first C-rank mission go? It couldn't have been all bad."

"It started out fairly normal, till we ran into the demon brothers then everything went to hell in a hand basket." Form their Naruto went a long narration of the mission to wave as Anko finished making lunch.

Placing plates heaped with food on the table for them Anko made a quick recap of what happened "Alright so you fought Momochi Zabuza a A-ranked nuknin and former member of the seven sword's men to a standstill while he had the place covered in his mist destroyed Kibikiribocho with one of your sciencey things while nearly killing the both of you before fighting him again a week later on the bridge your client was making to free his country were Hinata "died" to one of Zabuza's apprentices ,and messed her eye up to boot, from Sasuke being dumb at which you went full crazy and Gato got reviled as you blew away the mist at which he reviled he was just going to kill you all. At this point you attacked Gatos army followed by Kakashi and Zabuza, were you ran into a Apostil named Zodd who recognized your armor and you two proceeded to fight it out until you managed to injure him at which he transformed into a demon and Hinata attacked him at which point he fled and Gato railed the rest of his force before you, Hinata, Sasuke and Zabuza finished the massacre because Gato was going to sell you off to Kumo, after they were all dead Zabuza died to wounds you gave him after entrusting his sword to you. After words you met Kyuubi were he told you he messed with your storage seals you two share and some were in that you wound up with a fox tail and ears"

"Hai that sums it up rather well Anko san." At this Naruto nodded in agreement with Hinata. "Anko we were wondering if you could get us some training to help with this, since Kyuubi will try and influence are minds if we pull on his power we were hoping you could give us training on mental defenses." Naruto asked with a hope full look on his face.

At this Anko smirked "You're barking up the wrong tree on that while I know how to strengthen a minds defense it's from outside influences mostly not a bijuu trying to take over," at this Anko rubbed her left shoulder, "However I know where you two can go for masters. Unfortunately their generally busy but I can at least get you stated, alright."

"Yea we both strong and stubborn but at Bijuu is something else entirely even I'm not that dumb." At this Hinata nodded in agreement "Anything at this point would helpful Anko-sensei."

At this Anko nodded "Yea we can't have you two going crazy because of a fox messing with your heads. Alright the first step in anything mental is meditating and since you have linked chakra networks you should be able to meet up in your heads, my guess is that you'll need to imagine a wall between your will and the Kyuubi's. Inochi should be able to help with that regard."

"Ino's dad?" Hinata asked.

"The Yamaka in your class," getting a nod, "yea she's his little princess never shut up about her for a week after you lot graduated." Anko let out a sigh "Well I'm sure you two want to go get started on this, you really can't mess this up to my knowledge only make it to week get stop that attack or tricked into dropping it…well…"

Anko cocked her head to the side in thought, "What are you thinking Anko? I know you thought of something." Naruto leaned forward with a curious look on his face.

Letting out a sigh Anko picked her plate up before standing, "It's something I head Inochi comment on a while ago that one of our prisoners had created a second mind to protect himself. Most don't know how to fully close off their minds to a Yamaka however he was able to create a personality that could, you two could technically do the same thing by teaming up on the fox, however if your connected well enough the fur ball may get you both at the same time."

At this both teens swallowed, just when it looked like there was a solution they were robbed of it.

"Dam it I thought we had something." Naruto spoke defeat clearly in his voice before he let out a sigh, "You know what screw it will cross that bridge when we get there. How do we start." At this Anko smiled seeing the Naruto she knew come back full swing with Hinata looking just as eager to start.

"Alright when most people meditate they look for their minds eye to increase awareness of their surroundings or to get a better feel for their chakra, you two are going to try to enter your mind scape. You'll know it when you get there you sort of wake up in a strange place that represents your mind. Now every one's mind and there for mind scape is different so you should know if you find the link to each other's, once you get there you're going to try to fortify your minds try and add doors to passage ways make a fort on a plains something were you can hide your consciousness so that no one can get to it, adding traps will work on people but I don't think anyone know how a Bijuu takes over."

"O yea before you go could I see you're…" Anko trailed off gesturing to Naruto's head. At this the blond chuckled "What Anko into furry's. Sorry but you can see them when the henge breaks." At this Anko gave a sadistic grin while pulling out a Kunai "Is that a challenge Gaki."

At this Naruto and Hinata swallowed "No it's just that.."

"I get it," Anko cut off "Someone's shy." At this Anko got two dead pan stairs before both genin dropped their heads to the table, "Anko can we not go through with this, besides if you get drunk with Kurinai then you're going to tell her how it made me look and then everyone's going to know in hours then I'm going to be in the shitter with the council." Shifting his head so the jonin could see one eye Naruto continued "If that happens then I'm going to give you hell."

Anko swallowed a bit before smiling nervously as she could see herself doing that. 'The gaki's right, I'm loud when I'm drunk.' "Alright then, drop your plates in the sink and we can go find a place to do start your training."

A half-hour later found the three in a secluded clearing sitting in a circle in a lotus position, "Alright since I should probably do this as well were all going to reach are mindscapes, in theory we can focus inward to find it. So let's see if we can find the insides of our heads." At this the two genin nodded before they all closed their eyes and began focusing inward.

After a half hour Naruto opened his eyes before looking at his companions both who were still meditating, he was starting to get stiff and had made no progress toward his mindscape. Letting out a silent sigh Naruto closed his eyes before turning his focus inward again trying to find his mind.

Hianata had been having little better luck at entering her mind having instead found her chakra network and had begun studying the flow of her life energy's as they moved in her. After some time Hinata had begun finding bits of chakra that weren't her own. While nothing harmful was coming of it was destroying her chakra control. Falling back on old training Hinata began trying to become accustom to the new flow of her chakra and the pulses of Naruto's and the Kyuubi's chakra.

Anko let a smirk drift onto her face the two while not perfect were moving along, both were steadily becoming more aware of themselves. The progress they had made while not impressive was a step in the direction they needed to go to reach their minds. It would take months at least, on their own, however just a few sessions with Inochi or Ikibi if it came to it and they would be able to get in without much of an issue this would help in containing the fox. A frown graced Ankos mouth as she realized that this could fail and they would need demonic suppression seals for the pair to carry around if things got out of hand.

Taking a deep breath Anko continued reaching for her inner mind, something she had been trying to reach secretly for years so she could block off her former masters seal.

Hours later the group walked out of the forest as they all headed for home, they were all covered in scraps and there clothing was slightly ragged. After several hour's they had all reached a agreement to actually train and had spent the next few hours working off pent up energy. "Alright you two I'll see about talking to Inochi tomorrow and set you two up with lessons, feel free to continue meditating while I don't know if you'll get there any time soon you can still practice." The two genin chorused their agreement as they began walking off towards the village leaning slightly on each other.

Anko smiled at this seeing the two sexual deviants they could have been being turned into an actual couple, she knew that once they were either old enough or married then they'd spend a lot of time in bed, but she had curbed off their urge months ago. While they were still dependent on each other for positive praise and emotional support they were fine for now. Jumping up into the tree tops Anko smiled thinking over all the work she had put into them, she had beaten bruised and shattered what held them together and made the stronger for it as she patched them up mentally and physically back together. The potential she had uncovered with the both of them would leave them growing stronger as they drove to protect each other, knowing that each of them wanted to protect each other. Letting out a chuckle at the memory of the two sparing without trying to hurt each other when they had first started to train together, it had been almost pathetic watching the two try and hit each other without leaving a mark.

Hinata walked through the halls of her home with a slight smile on her face ever thing was starting to look up; they were planning how to deal with the Kyuubi and everything else. There may not have been any guarantees but there was hope. Grabbing a change of clothes from her room Hinata noticed several scrolls had been set on her desk before headed to the baths to clean off before dinner was served. Hoping to relax some before the elders tried something again

Naruto staggered in to Ichurukas after dropping Hinata off at the gate to her family compound dropping into a stool dropping his head on the counter in exhaustion. Raising his arm Naruto ordered "Miso ramen and keep them coming Teuchi-ojij." Naruto dropped his hand to the counter after words; this gained a laugh from the stands occupants as they saw just how out of it the boy was. "One endless stream of Miso Ramen coming right up Naruto," Teuchi barked out from the stove causing Naruto to let out an approving sound from the counter.

Ayame let out a quiet laugh at Naruto before leaning over the counter to look at him "So Naruto what did Anko-chan do to you this time snakes, Kunai, some crazy chakra control training."

At this Naruto groaned "No we had a three way Taijutsu spar and Hinata got some good hits on me." At this Ayame smiled and giggled as Teuchi just shook his head.

"Hard to believe someone that's nice as Hinata could do this to someone." The young women said having become friends with Hinata over the times she had come to the shop.

At this Naruto chuckled "When Hinata wants to protect something she will do anything, even beat the shit out her friends so they can learn to fight better."

Teuchi sighed before dropping a bowl of ramen on the counter, "Order up Naruto." At this the blond pushed himself up off the counter grabbing a pair of chopsticks and giving thanks before devouring the bowl of food in front of him, and the next one, as well as the three after that in moments without slowing down.

"Ah that took the edge off." "It should you just ate five bowls." "I know so how have things been?"

With that the conversation descended into small talk for the rest of the night of what had happened while Naruto was out of the village.

A week later found Hinata and Naruto trying to walk up the side of a tree and struggling to reach more than halfway up the trunk before ether falling off for Hinata and Naruto getting blasted off or getting his feet stuck into the tree.

"Damnit," Naruto cursed after flying off the tree for the umpteenth try, "I knew are chakra control would suffer but this is just ridiculous. You can barely use your juken and I'm barely able to unseal anything." Naruto dropped down next to the tree he was currently using, trying to calm himself, and Hinata came over to join him shortly looking a little exhausted.

"I know how you feel Naruto, the elders aren't helping saying that this simply proves how weak I am, at this point I don't know what to do."

"We keep trying Hinata," Naruto said "Our chakra is linked now so we have to work around each other in that regard … even if we have to use Anko's methods we keep trying." Both Naruto's and Hinata's eyes regained some level of determination.

"So you're the two that Anko has been training."

At this Both Naruto and Hinata startled turned to see a blond haired man with his hair in a long ponytail and spiky on top with his Konoha head band on his forehead, a strong jaw and Blue-green eyes. He wore a standard vest over a black outfit with hand guards and a red Haori over this.

"She said you two managed to get close to beating her a few times."

"That's only because she knows how to dodge anything, do you know how hard it is to hit her when she's not goofing off?!" Naruto cut him off however the man just continued as nothing happened "Well let me introduce myself I'm Inoichi Yamanaka, I already know who you two are, and Naruto don't interrupt me."

"Anko-sensei said that you may come see us and give us a hand at figuring out what is going on with our minds and chakra." Hinata said with a smile

"Yes, I'm here to see if you two have a mental link and if it is affecting your chakra." With that Inochi motioned for them to sit across from him while taking a seat himself on the ground. After they had taken a seat he began again, "Now have either of you been inside your mindscape?"

At this Naruto nodded "Just briefly when I was knocked out in wave… I think there may have been other times but they were flashes or in bits of dreams."

At this Inochi nodded "I'm told that is not uncommon for people in your situation, have you ever willingly or knowingly entered your mind?" At this Naruto gave a negative.

"Alright then, I'm going to forcibly enter both of your mind scape's if were all in the same place then your linked and then we will try to find were your minds meet." At this Inochi placed his hands on their foreheads before pulling them into their minds leaving his own behind.

Naruto opened his eyes to find himself standing on an open grassy plane with stone paths meandering about and a large bright sun overhead, beside him could see Hinata staring around at what Naruto guessed was Hinata's mindscape a slight chough from behind them drew their attention to see Inochi standing there.

"Since we're all here, then your minds are linked together, now whose is this one?"

At this Naruto pointed at Hinata "Mine looks like an old cave system or tunnel system with holes in the celling."

Nodding Inochi began walking around, "So we should find a hole some were leading to Naruto's mind scape it will likely be well hidden."

At this Naruto and Hinata began walking around in concentric circles spiraling out from where they came in with Inochi working on his own.

The three were working in silence as they searched for the entrance to Naruto's mind scape, after what felt like several hours they found it.

"OVER HERE" Naruto's shout caused both Inochi and Hinata to look at him to see he was waving them over, walking over the two found Naruto standing over a hole in the ground with a rusted out ladder leading down a short way to shallow water in the bottom with a few pipes running up to the surface before turning into the wall. "Looks like my head." Naruto said once they all reached had looked down.

"Anko always said your mind would end up in the gutter." Hinata teased with a small smirk on her face.

"It takes one two know one Hinata-chan," with hat Naruto jumped down the hole giving both his companions a salute and one of his grins as he disappeared down the hole.

Hinata was the first to respond "GET BACK HERE!" Hinata shouted before jumping down after before Inochi could stop her.

Shaking his head the Yamaka followed after the two "This will not end well."

Landing on the water's surface Inochi faced the two genin "You should not have followed him Hinata, Kyuubi will know of your connection now."

At this Naruto scoffed "Inochi he told me about the, link it came with our mixed chakra, besides" Naruto shrugged "Hinata would have found her way here if she tried looking for me, to pull me back if I ever lost it."

At this the jonin sighed in defeat "At least let us seal it up somehow."

"We were going to ask that Inochi-san." Hinata said "We will need to get back and forth ourselves but keep kyuubi here."

At this the Yamanaka just nodded, before walking over to the ladder and forming a hand seal, "Watch how to do this you'll both need to do this on your own." With that Inochi grabbed that ladder pulled it in two forming two columns with ladders on them before causing a tube to encircle the ladders after this he grabbed the concrete and turned causing an armored door to appear. Opening the door he reached inside and caused two hatches to form there. Stepping back Inochi pushed the structure back into the wall before pulling two doors over them and causing them to seal together with concentric circles from the center of were the two doors met, after half the door had been changed Inochi walked up and made another smaller door to the side of the seam on the large door in the same style as the two on the ladders.

"That should hold for a bit, anything you two make in your minds will only last as long as your will is strong enough for it to stand against whatever is challenging you, these are things you need to hide and defend at all cost. Now this won't keep a person out you to will have to add things to it for that but for now let's move on, Naruto let's find out if you learned anything, fortify the hall way."

At this Naruto nodded before walking down the hallway a short way before reaching down and pulling a column of stone from the floor before pulling it till it reached the ceiling and fused with it, he repeated this as he went across the hall forming a gate in the hall. After finishing Naruto motioned to the hall opposite "Again?" Inochi only nodded to Naruto who walked over and repeated the proses making another row of stone columns before walking back two.

"So anything else you want to do while we're here, Inochi-san?" Naruto asked looking a little tired.

"This is fine for now just continue to fortify your minds as you asses them, now let's teach you how to leave, picture yourself walking up in your body or returning to yourself. Give it a shot you two I'll wait for you out side." At this Inochi simply vanished from Naruto's mind scape leaving the two alone.

Naruto glared at the spot he disappeared from before letting out a grunt, "Couldn't he have given us a better idea on how to do this then just waking up."

Hinata nodded "Let's see if I can do something first."

At this Naruto nodded "Yea give it a shot Hinata-chan."

At this she walked over to the pillars Naruto made before pulling a piece of the wall directly behind them, slowly out she walked across the hall way after a few moments Hinata had made it across the hall way forming a brace with for the columns. Walking back to Naruto she leaned on him. "That was harder than I thought it would be, let's get out of here."

"Yea lets go." Naruto stated.

At this the two felt their world shift and soon found themselves blinking as they woke up sitting in the clearing, it was a good bit later and Inochi was sitting up a tree in a branch. He smiled at them seeing them getting back to reality "And here I thought I'd need to pull you two out, well we're done for now I'll be back in a week to see you again." With that he flipped backwards off the branch and disappeared.

"I still need to learn how to do that." Naruto wined out before looking over to Hinata "Well I'm beat what about you."

At this Hinata nodded before pulling herself to her feet followed by Naruto. As they made their way back to the village they were both lost in thoughts they were to meet their team again tomorrow since Sasuke had passed his evaluation. Naruto was trying to figure out how to even talk to the boy again while Hinata was thinking about her current medical issue as her eye showed it was not healing back as it had been before.

Walking into Ichiraku's the couple was greeted to the sight of the Yuki twins hunched over the counter with a pile of medical books next to them, while they had medical experience what they had learned was very limited and left much to be desired when it came to working in a hospital, the two looked dead tired and it was obvious that they still had a long night ahead of them studying.

"Hey Haku" this got Naruto and Hinata a grunt from the two siblings as they continued eating. "That bad you two?" Naruto asked, while himself and Hinata took seats next to them after a moment one of the twins looked up.

"Naruto you'd be like this two if you had to learn the name of every bone and muscle in the human body as well as write up six different reports on six different medical problems." Naruto couldn't tell if it was the brother or the sister so he just nodded as they continued, "The apartments a wreak and this oaf doesn't want to train anymore." The sister said wile slapping her brother on the back causing him to gag on something.

"Imoto we don't need to right now and besides were not in danger, besides I have no plans to get into a fight anytime soon." The brother stated while not looking up from his food.

"Baka Ototo you'll never get to pick your fights." The sister muttered under her breath but everyone heard it.

"Ne when are you two going to pick a new name for one of you?" Naruto asked scratching his head, "It gets kind of wired when you go looking for Haku and no one can tell you apart." This was true as only a few people could tell them apart with how they looked and to add to that they dressed the same, had their hair the same length and stile and no one could tell them apart without hearing them talk or getting close enough to make out minuet differences.

At this they both slouched a little before the sister spoke again "We're kind of putting it off since we both gone by that name for so long that anything else just doesn't feel right." At this Naruto nodded as Hinata spoke up.

"So besides being over worked how, have you two been?"

"Not bad" the sister said "how about you two?"

"We have to meet up as team seven again tomorrow." Naruto said around a mouth full of ramen earning him a smack on the head and a call for manners from Hinata causing everyone else in the stand to laugh at him.

Soon the talk shifted to more joyous things that were going on in their lives as the night crept up on them and they slowly settled down before they said there goodbye's and left for their homes, as other obligations called.

AN

Tried formatting it this time so that no two people were talking in the same paragraph, still need a proper beta but should be improving from chapter one with this that and the other.