I do not own Naruto in any format, this is fanfiction only.

Hinata smiled at Kakashi and simply asked if he felt like he was his little brother, then why did he join with the mobs that used to bully, beat and even try to kill said, little brother. Kakashi had hoped that Hinata was oblivious to this part of his life.

"Grief and Anger blinded me to the truth. I know it sounds like a pathetic excuse but at the time I was so angry at the loss of the only people to care about me enough as a family that I believed the nonsense that Danzo told me. He told me Naruto was, in fact, the reincarnation of the very fox that killed Minato and his wife, the two people I came to love as my own parents. "

Naruto was in the nearby forest beating a tree into timber. He then realized that maybe he should spend some time collecting some herbs in case Hinata or Yagura became injured. As he took a look around he also found Haku collecting some herbs herself. He made 50 Shadow Clones and they began to collect the herbs while he walked over to Haku and told her to sit down and talk with him.

"I guess Zabuza is injured by the looks of it, how bad is it? " Haku smiled at hearing the concern in his voice." We were doing as you asked tried to delay the Konoha ninja as much as we could. We simply did not expect them to have the copy cat ninja with them. The two demon brothers are both dead. Killed by the very same copy cat ninja as he mistook them for trying to kill their employer."

Haku looked upset as she said that."Honestly, they were just trying to scare them off. They had no intention of harming anyone and out of nowhere he attacks both of them with lightning Jutsu and killed both of them without even as much as a greeting. "

Haku then looked sad as she continued. " I know that I am not what you call a woman with a nice rack like your wife. But any woman would feel quite sad that they think she is an actual guy. I know I am not exactly big in the chest and hips areas but with all the work I do how can I be?"

Naruto smiled at her and told her to calm down. "Who was it that mistook you for a boy? I mean you have to be pretty stupid to mistake such a kind and gentle young woman for a boy." She smiled as she heard those words. "I have no clue who he was I was too busy trying to save my father's life from Kakashi of the Sharingan. He had a white dog with him if that is any indication."

Naruto began to laugh and she asked what was so funny, he told her at least he did not treat her as someone he could make his bitch. Haku punched him on the arm and asked for a clarification on what he said. "That was Kiba Inuzuka by the sounds of it. If he had smelled you to be as he called being in heat, he would definitely try to make you his mate."

Haku laughed as she began to say he behaves almost like a dog. "there is no almost about it. They have a complete pack mentality." Haku relaxed and felt better about being mistaken for a boy.

"Why are you out here so late Naruto? Shouldn't you be getting ready to go to bed with your beautiful wife? " Naruto smiled at her and he looked up to the sky or what little he could observe through the dense woods they were at." I met a real punk, he upset me something awful because he was spotting nonsense about not knowing anything about pain and suffering. "

Haku nodded her head." We're ninja Naruto if anyone knows pain and suffering it is us. I did not have such a wonderful childhood before my dad rescued me from my aunt and uncle. " Naruto began to tell her the no holds bar truth of his childhood. To say Haku was shocked and amazed that he survived was an understatement.

" So where are you going to sleep tonight?" Haku asked sounding a bit concerned. "On one of those tree branches. Compared to how I used to sleep when I was five it is practically a suite at a high price hotel." The Clones finished and gave her most of the herbs collected. "Tell Zabuza I wish him a speedy recovery. Chances are I might need his help with the thugs that Gato probably hired. I even expect some rogue ninja with him."

Haku asked why did he really need to help wave? She did believe him when she heard him that he needed help rebuilding the village. It was not exactly a big secret that the place was in ruins after the destruction of the village by the end of the Second Shinobi World War. "I guess I can't pull one over you, can I? It is also to make sure this place so no one has to live the life I did. No one knows pain as well as I do and if I can help this place avoid it that is the cherry on top of the cake."

Haku left with the herbs in a storage scroll as she saw him go up the tree walking up the surface of the tree like it was the most natural thing in the world. He got to a nice branch and fell asleep there, unknown to him the tree began to grow leaves and branches making a sort of mattress for him to sleep. I guess even mother nature took pity on the boy.

Inari was waiting for Naruto to come back as he went through everything he heard the other ninja say how his life had been. "Here I was thinking that no one was as miserable as I was, and this guy lived a life that makes my seem like a dream come true." Tsunami heard her son say that and she decided to walk up to the boy.

"Grass is always greener on the other side, or it is until you realize how much of your life you have taken for granted. Naruto is trying very hard to rebuild his home village and what have we been doing? We sit here feeling sorry for ourselves and expect the world to fix our problems for us. Inari we need to do something to make our small town strong enough to take care of our own problems and not depend entirely on the help of others. "

Tazuna heard his daughter say that and he decided to tell her that was the reason for the bridge in the first place. With a stronger economy, they could indeed invest more money in the much-needed infrastructure and defense of their town." Gato has us by the balls because he controls our only means to transport goods or gather food for the town. When we have that bridge his hold on us will evaporate and we will never suffer this again. "

Naruto was woken up the very next morning by Hinata. How in the world did she figure where be was sleeping? Her eyes allowed her to find him rather easily. She woke him up by giving a tender kiss on her lips. Naruto woke up and hugged her tight." You should know by now that I don't sleep that well when you are not near me. Next time you want to sleep under the stars tell me and I will come with you. "

Yagura was washing his face and was getting ready for another part of their plan. This one involved pretending to guard Tazuna while actually watching the various construction crews work. Yagura was not going to dismiss the possibility of Gato hiring some of the construction crew to sabotage the bridge.

Kakashi saw the morning as a perfect chance to teach his team the tree walking exercise. Sasuke and Sakura were actually asking who in the world would need such an exercise when they saw Naruto and Hinata walking down the tree like it was nothing to it at all. Kiba being the guy he was thought the same thing and tried to run up the tree to show that Naruto was nothing extraordinary.

Kiba did manage to run a few feet up the tree before he fell down hitting the ground head first. Sakura did not even turn to look at her teammate, she was like she had been since the teams were formed. Trying desperately to get Sasuke to fall in love with her and she was still failing miserably at it.

Naruto and Hinata used the transformation Jutsu to make themselves change the way they looked and looked like an old couple. They began to walk around and ask information about Gato. Some of the thugs even answered after all who would believe a pair of old geezers like them.

They even saw Inari and Tsunami buy groceries in the market and decided to help them out. Tsunami was really grateful that the old couple decided to help her out, so she invited back to a nice home cooked meal. Inari behaved a lot more polite than he ever did to them, which was a surprise to Naruto.

"Why are you being so polite to us? Didn't you didn't treat those people that helped your mother this way last night. Why the change of heart? " Inari looked a bit sad and remorseful." I learned by walking with mom to buy her groceries that they are a lot of people much worse off than I did. I just wish I had found that blonde guy and tell him he was right and that I am sorry for being such a stuck up, spoiled brat and that I was going to help my mom more from now on. "

Naruto touched his head and told him that he already did. In a puff of smoke, the old couple disappeared and Naruto and Hinata were there in their place." So you two were the old couple all along? I didn't know ninja could do that. "It was in order to gather information about Gato and his locations where he keeps his troops. Old people are often ignored and never noticed, so it makes sense to disguise yourself as one. Plus I must say my wife is going to be one cute granny by the looks of it. "

Hinata smacked him on his back, " You are not going to be such an ugly old geezer yourself. " this made Inari and Tsunami laugh as they saw talking to each other like they been married for years.

" So what exactly did you find out? " Kakashi asked him. Naruto looked at him and did not say a word." Come on, Naruto we are working together on this. The very least you can do is to share information with us so we can better help each other. " That was the last thing he actually wanted to hear from him.

" Kakashi, what gave you the idea that we are working together? I am sorry to blow your bubble here but the only thing we have in common is our client. " He looked at Tsunami and then Inari." If I could, I would ask you and your team to leave and let me and my team take care of it. The least I want is to be considered friendly towards a despicable and dishonorable place like Konohagakure. "

Kakashi could not believe what he was hearing. Here was the son of one of the most beloved Hokage saying that he did not want to be associated with the village his father died to defend. He needed to know why he still Konoha or he would never get him to return to the village.

Kakashi asked the two to sit down and maybe talk things out. Hinata sat down next to Naruto. Naruto decided to make things even more clear for the man sitting in front of him. "Kakashi did you ever wonder why Minato adopted you after your father killed himself? There is an actual report in the Hokage personal library did you know that? I read it when I took the forbidden scroll back."

Kakashi always wondered why he was never told of this. "Your father failed a mission true enough, but it was a mission Class S which means it was impossible for him to actually succeed in that mission with no less than three teams. He only had five people himself included. To put it bluntly, it was a suicide mission intending to get all present killed. "

Kakashi was not liking this one bit." In a script only I could see thanks to my eyes, it also said that the purpose was to cause three clans that were considered quite wealthy in ninjutsu scrolls and money to die out and thus increase the village's or should I say the Hokage's own power and wealth. Those families were the Hakate, Inuzuka, and Hyuuga. "

Kakashi demanded proof and Naruto was more than happy to show him his proof that he had the special eyes that allowed him to decrypt a high-level report. Naruto closed his eyes briefly and when he opened them the pattern of his eyes changed into the Magenkyuo Sharingan. "You were adopted to ensure the Hakate techniques and scrolls would be inherited by the then current Hokage."

Naruto saw that Kakashi was speechless. Naruto continued. "Uzushiogakure was an ally village and the first Hokage did not only betray the village hidden in the whirlpools but also the entire Uzumaki clan by placing Mito Uzumaki in a brainwash control genjutsu so that Konoha could take possession of the nine tails beast, the secret knowledge of the Uzumaki Sealing Knowledge and to cause the death of my grandfather Madara Uchiha. "

He deactivated his eyes and smiled towards Hinata." Hinata is the only good thing that ever happened to me in that accursed place. Do you honestly think I would ever consider going back to a place that betrayed my family, my clan, my home village and myself so many times?"

He stood up and walked towards the exit and Hinata soon was following him. "If somehow I learned that somehow that village has erupted in flames I would not waste a drop of pond water to save it. I have no desire or need to share any information with you Konoha ninja. The ninja of Uzushiogakure is not and will never again be your village's allies again. "

Kakashi was seen sitting still as he slowly worked through what he had learned. After he finally digested everything Naruto said he was seen with both hands on his face and he was sobbing as he realized that indeed everything Naruto said made sense." I can't believe that I never once considered those things possible. Why am I serving a village that lied to me about Naruto, killed my father for what wealth they could get from my family and betrayed the entire Uzushiogakure? "

Naruto was walking towards the place they would meet with Yagura and by the looks of it, he did not have good news." Brother nine, I have some disturbing news to share with you both. I had a suspicion about possible traitors within the construction crews building the bridge and indeed I found irrefutable proof that there are traitors there and worse. "

Naruto took the scroll Yagura gave him. He read it several times even with his eyes active and he came to a startling realization." So some construction workers actually work for Gato using the empty construction material crates to smuggle drugs. There are others that are stealing construction materials and sell them to make some extra money. "

Yagura was sure that he could get a hold of at least one of the people and get a confession from each of these group." You only need to get the one from the drug smuggler group, the other group are just desperate about the safe of their families. I also found the main staging area for Gato's forces. I think we could take care of most of them with some remote-triggered explosive scrolls. "

" I think so as well. They are just trying to feed their families. The smugglers, however, don't receive any mercy from us. " Yagura agreed with him as they went to corner the men that worked for Gato. It didn't take long for them to capture a few of them. Thanks to a judicious use of Tsukuyomi they learned the names of all the traitors in the construction crew and delivered them to Tazuna he told them to leave town and never return or he would tell the people and they would stop at nothing to see them dead.

Hinata hit on an idea about placing explosive tags inside the containers in case Gato wanted to recover some of his merchandise as he learned that the traitors left town. Tazuna looked at her and smiled, "Normally I would agree, but there is also the chance that he will force some kids into getting the drugs for him. I wouldn't want a bunch of kids dying to be on my conscious would you?"

Naruto had to agree that killing innocent kids would not leave a pleasant taste in their mouths. "This would also mean that we are getting ready for Gato to make his move. A few days before Zabuza finished getting better. Too bad about the demon brothers though they could have been a good addition to our village ninja Corp."

Yagura had to agree with Naruto that they would have been a good addition. "The only other problem I got is that I lost half my construction workers. How in the world am I going to replace six hundred workers on such a short notice?" Yagura and Naruto smiled at Tazuna. "I wouldn't worry too much you just need to teach us what you need to be done tonight and we can take care of it."

Tazuna wanted to doubt that two of them could take care of what six hundred men could do, but in the end, he had no other alternatives. He decided to teach both Yagura and Naruto how to do the work the traitors would have been responsible for doing. It was not something that took too long since it was nothing really technical.