"Where… where are we?" Naruto mumbled, holding Hinata's hand.
"Konoha, look the mountain, but…"
"Eh? Baa-chan's face is missing. What just happened?"
Confused the two walked over the streets, wondering what Kyubi had done to the two of them.
But when they turned around a corner, Naruto stopped all of a sudden, as he stared at someone that was coming their way. Hinata saw this too and was shocked. She quickly looked at the blonde next to her, whose expression was worrying her. Then the person they both saw noticed them.
"Hey, you two. I don't know you, how did you get in?"
Naruto rapidly turned around, while pulling Hinata along.
"Naruto-kun, why are we running? It's your father."
"That is exactly why we are running," Naruto told panicked.
Unlucky for him his father, better known as the fourth Hokage, was a lot faster than him and suddenly stood in front of him. Before Naruto could turn around run in the other direction he and Hinata got caught in a paralysing jutsu that made them fall asleep.
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The blonde slowly opened his eyes and found out his arms were tight on his back and behind him Hinata was sitting, she was still unconscious. Then Naruto noticed the sandals and looked up, afraid and confused at the same time.
"So tell me. Who are you and what are you doing here?" the fourth asked with his arms folded.
Naruto closed his eyes and looked away, "Not saying."
Hinata then opened her eyes and looked around to see where she was. When she saw the fourth and a panicked Naruto she decided not to say a word.
Then someone knocked on the door and came in without a reply.
"Minato-kun, I brought you a lunch."
Scared Naruto looked at the woman that had entered the room and recognized her from the pictures he got from Tsunade. He then looked down at the floor, while starting to shake a little.
"Who are these two, Minato-kun?" Kushina asked as she placed the bag on the desk and looked at the blonde and dark haired.
"I am trying to figure out, they won't say a thing. I guess we have to get some ANBU to get it out of them," Minato sighed as he looked in the bag to see what his wife brought, "anyway how do you feel."
"Huh? Oh, I'm fine," Kushina smiled.
Again the door opened and this time a white haired man came in.
"Minato, can we… who are these two?" Jiraiya asked, looking at Naruto and Hinata.
"Trying to figure out," Minato sighed.
Naruto was staring at the floor with widened eyes, trying to hold back his tears, completely panicking.
"Let me go!" he shouted unexpectedly.
"Cannot do that until you…" Minato started.
"LET ME GO DAMNIT! I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BROUGHT HERE!"
Naruto had managed to untie the ropes and jumped up. He quickly turned to the door and ran away, leaving Hinata behind, forgetting her in his panic.
"Darn," Minato said as he jumped over his desk, "Kushina-chan, please watch over the girl. Sensei, I might need your help."
So both the fourth and Jiraiya rushed after Naruto while Hinata sighed.
"So who are you?" Kushina asked as she sat down on a chair close to the girl, "hey, those eyes… you're a Hyuga."
"I guess that really is a give away, isn't it?"
"Yes it is… but I know all Hyuga. Minato-kun is befriended with Hiashi and we often go there, yet I don't know you."
"I cannot explain until my frie… boyfriend is back."
"So the blondie is your boyfriend?" Kushina smiled, "he sure does look cute."
Hinata nodded with a blush as reply. She had to get used to that; Naruto being her boyfriend. But it made her feel warm and happy.
"What are you two up to?"
"We're not here to cause any problems. We got send here by someone who told us to figure out what happened," Hinata explained shyly.
"I see… so you won't run away if I untie you?"
"I won't, I promise."
"Okay," Kushina said and she stood up to untie the girl, "then we can both eat my husband's lunch."
"Wh-what? Wh-why would we do-do that?" asked Hinata surprised.
"Because it will get cold this way," Kushina grinned as she offered some of the food to Hinata.
"Oh… a-ano, could I ask you something?"
"Hm? What is it?"
"What date is it?"
"The ninth of October, why?"
Hinata looked troubled as she stared at the food, not giving a reply. Knowing tomorrow was the day they had to found out.
She hoped Naruto was alright as she got a bite of the food.
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"You won't escape," Yondaime shouted.
Naruto looked behind and saw his father and Jiraiya were still following him. They were now in the forest just outside the village. Then his father disappeared somehow and someone grabbed his left arm. Shocked the blonde turned his head to look and saw the fourth.
"Okay now-" Minato started.
In his panic Naruto had created a Rasengan and attacked his father with it who was so surprised to see the jutsu he barely managed to jump away from it. Naruto only missed him by an inch. With widened eyes Minato stared at Naruto who had started to run again.
"Was that… Rasengan?" Jiraiya asked after stopping next to his ex-student.
"Y-yes…"
The surprise thought didn't last long and the two chased after Naruto again. The fleeing blonde created around a thousand shadow clones in a attempt to get rid of the two, who were impressed by the amount of Kage Bunshin.
Minato and Jiraiya both kicked and hit only to find out it were Kage Bunshin.
"Where is he?" Minato asked panting whilst looking around.
"There," Jiraiya said as he pointed over to the blonde they were chasing.
Naruto had found out all the bunshin were defeated and they had found him. So, before they could catch him, he did the first thing in his mind and jumped up so they missed him. The two chasing him looked up, waiting for him to come down again but hadn't expected that Naruto would create another Kage Bunshin to change his direction in the air.
He jumped on the back of another bunshin and the next one he created grabbed him and threw him away.
"What the…! He's a shadow clone expert that for sure!" Minato said amazed.
"I cannot believe he is able to create such an amount without passing out," Jiraiya mumbled.
Naruto leaned against a tree, panting and still shaking from all this. He wondered why Kyubi had sent him here. But his wondering was interrupted when the fourth emerged out of the bushes.
"Found ya," Minato said with a smile.
Naruto looked shocked and was now cornered. But two unexpected Kage Bunshin approached the fourth from the back. And not only that.
"Oodama Rasengan!" the two shouted, holding up an enormous ball as chakra.
Again the Rasengan missed, but had done enough, Naruto could escape once again. Though he hadn't calculated right, or actually he had forgotten about a certain someone who suddenly pushed him to the ground pulling his arm up on his back.
"Finally, got ya brat," Jiraiya said with a sigh.
Minato walked over to the two and kneeled down to look at Naruto's face.
"How do you know Rasengan?"
"Not only that, Minato. He even brought it to a next level with that Oodama Rasengan," Jiraiya said, "so tell us. Who taught it to you?"
Naruto, unable to move, looked at the white haired with fear in his eyes.
"It was you! You taught it to me!" he then shouted as he turned his head away from the two.
"Don't mess with us," Jiraiya said getting pissed.
"I am not! It was you! You even told me to get my own version of it!" Naruto continued shouting as some tears poured down his cheeks, "NOW LET ME GO!"
"And leave your friend behind?" Minato asked.
"Hinata-chan," Naruto whispered shocked that he had left her behind.
"So she is called Hinata, huh?" Yondaime said as he stood up.
The fourth signed to Jiraiya he had to get up. Jiraiya did, pulling Naruto up in the process still holding the young blonde. The group went back to the Hokage tower where Hinata and Kushina were patiently waiting.
"Why is she untied?" Minato asked confused when he saw the girl.
Jiraiya let Naruto go and guarded the door. Naruto hugged Hinata.
"Gomen," he whispered.
"It's okay, are you alright?"
"Sort of…," the blonde gave as reply and let the girl go.
"What took you so long, Minato-kun?" Kushina asked.
Minato sat down on his desk with a sigh, while Naruto leant against the wall and looked at the floor. Hinata gave her boyfriend a concerned look yet didn't say a word.
"He was quite a hand full, using Kage Bunshin flawlessly and even Rasengan."
Kushina looked at Naruto with widened eyes of surprised, "But I thought only you and Jiraiya know that jutsu."
"He is claiming I taught it to him, but I cannot remember that kind of thing happened," Jiraiya muttered.
"Well one thing we did find out and that is her name," Minato nodded in the direction of Hinata, "Hinata, right?"
"Not only that, she's a Hyuga," Kushina said.
Minato studied the girl and now noticed her eyes as well, when so he nodded and looked at the girl with a serious face.
"So who's your father Hinata?"
"Hy-Hyuga Hiashi."
"Wh-what? Impossible, he doesn't have children yet. And I know, I'm one of his best friends," Minato said confused.
"Th-that's because we're from the… the future. We are sent here by Kyubi to find out what exactly happened tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Jiraiya asked puzzled.
Hinata only nodded.
"Okay, wait a second," Minato said as he placed a hand on his head out of confusion, "you are saying you are coming from the future?"
"Yes," Hinata replied.
"Then who's he?"
They all looked at Naruto who avoided their eye contact.
"U… Uzumaki Naruto," he then whispered.
While Kushina and Minato where almost jaw dropping, Jiraiya looked at his student's wife and asked: "Eh? He's family of yours, Kushina?"
The fourth slammed his forehead, trying to process the knowledge.
"I don't think just family. Remember that book you wrote? And when I told you we would call our son after the main character."
"Uhm… the main character… wait he was called Naruto right….?" Jiraiya said densely, being a little slow today.
Meanwhile Naruto was shocked about this.
"I am named after the main characters of one of his perverted books?!" Naruto freaked whilst pointing at the toad sage, "How could you do something like that?!"
Naruto throw both his arms in the air as he looked at his father.
"Glad to see Naruto-kun is back," Hinata sighed relieved and then smiled.
"What do you mean by that?!" he exclaimed and turned his head to his girlfriend.
Hinata only smiled, what made Naruto calm down.
"Well we now know he will have your personality, Kushina-chan, " Minato sweat dropped.
"What do you mean with that honey," Kushina asked with an innocent but oh so dangerous smile.
"N-nothing," Minato smiled nervously.
"But why did you suddenly run away?" Kushina asked turning her head to her future son.
Naruto let his head hung again as he was leaning against the wall again. He let himself slide down until he was sitting on the floor.
"Because… because… of what will happen tomorrow," he told softly.
"That tomorrow keeps returning, what's so special about it?" Minato asked, whispering 'my looks' after that with a grin.
Naruto remained silent for a while, in which he laid his arms on his legs and his head on his arms. This confused the others except Hinata who walked over to him and kneeled down next to him, laying a hand on his ear.
"Naruto-kun, tell them," she whispered to him.
"I… I will be born… th-then Kyubi will attack the village a-and it-it will be sealed away in me by…d-dad a-and he'll d-die because of the jutsu."
"I… I will… die?" Minato asked not believing his ears.
"Wh-what happens to me?" Kushina asked.
"Presumed dead," Naruto mumbled into his arms.
"Wait… what about me?" Jiraiya asked confused.
"You taught him Rasengan so I guess you won't die, sensei."
"T-true but…," Naruto started, "you'll die because you're stubborn by going on a mission alone while baa-chan tried to stop you."
"Baa…chan, who's that?" Jiraiya asked gulping because he heard how he would die.
Hinata turned her head to the toad sage, "Tsunade-sama, the fifth."
Again all of them were stunned to here this. Naruto was still sitting in the same position.
"Anyway kid when-"
"Don't call me a kid, I'm turning 20 next week!" Naruto said as he looked up and rubbed away his tears.
"EH! NO WAY!" Minato exclaimed as he looked at Naruto, "Then right now there is only an age difference of TWO YEARS?!"
Naruto looked staggered at his father not able to say a word.
