I feel very smart -.- lol. i called the last chapter chapter. 8. it was 7. dang. o well.

Still waiting for a comment on Akatsuki Hime. I'm getting a little sad that my first fic is losing out. That's okay thow :)

I'm trying to get down two or three chapters per fic, so it'll take some going.

My Tally:
AH: 2 chapters.

The Namikaze: 1

everything else: 0

Konoha Kid's has been adopted by Echo Uchiha and she has asked to make a sort of continuation to What Happened to Gaara's Bear.

I can't wait to see those XD

Remember! 100 reviews on Akatsuki Hime = a one-shot on the wining couple XD the poll is up on my page, three votes per person.

so far Naru/Hina is wining at 24 votes!

TenTen/Neji at 12

Tem/Shika at 11

Hina/Gaar at 10.

so on and so forth, the numbers get smaller from there XD lol.

There are more couples, if you want one to win, vote ;)

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Do NOT own Naruto

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Ch. 8

Hyuga

"Hokage-sama?" The blond had fallen asleep on his hand, propped up with a pen still in his other hand and a slight little snore with drool running down his chin. Naruto had been signing papers all night. First with Sasuke and Hinata, the reports written by both himself and Kakashi as well as Arata. Then the young boy, who walked in after his dad had been dragged by him, not even sparing the pathetic man a glance, confided in Naruto saying that in her anger his mom had declared the Hyuga kids.

That alone was a big claim. He was sure, Hinata meant no harm in her anger, but claiming her maiden name in the situation meant she might as well have thrown the Uchiha surname out the door and into the cold night. Just like a lone Uchiha this very bright morning, who laid shivering in a cell from a one to many drinks. With the sort of forced divorce, Hinata was now left without a surname, and while that wasn't bad per say, it could cause problems.

Naruto was just waiting for a Hyuga to come up and offer their home as a heaven for Hinata, her maiden name to all her and her kids, and undoubtedly a seal for her kids and maybe even her. The Hyuga weren't known for letting people go. While with Sasuke, that was the best protection he could provide. He knew from experience what it was to be sealed and having to bear it his whole life. That was a crime to him, and it would not be permitted on his kids.

He had tried to ban the seal, but the most he was doing was waning the Elders down. Neji had become his personal adviser in all things Hyuga, but they were a few years away from the ultimate goal. Tsunade had helpfully created a new seal, a safer one that could brand them all Hyuga but keep the eyes safe equally and wiithout drawbacks that the clan from both branches were afraid could backfire. Using Jiraiya's old sealing notes and his own father's work, she had accomplished the first one. So far, only Neji's child went without a seal on her head. That was only becasue on the back of her shoulder was a small little ironic bird shaped mark. If their were no drawbacks in her chakra control by the time she became a genin, and if no one could control her, if would be made official and everyone would forever have a new seal. If not, poor Sonoko would be branded and so would everyone else.

"Hokage-sama!" A strict voice loudly interrupted his sleep and the blond bolted up from his chair.

"What! No! My ramen!" Naruto blurted. Then, calming down and gazing around his familiar office he sank into his seat with a happy sigh of relief before setting his eyes on non other than Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hanabi.

"Oh." Naruto whipped the drool off with a sleeved arm and motioned to the chairs before his desk. "Have a seat Hiashi-sama. Hanabi-sama." He wished he could roll his eyes, but Naruto had learned from a few beat downs by Tsunade that being disrespectful would cause him pain should she ever find out again.

"I was informed about the Uchiha incident by Hanabi." Naruto briefly set his gaze on Hinata's little sister.

She had grown into a strong type of beauty compared to her sisters more gentle one. She was twenty-five now, tall, healthy and strong with a fierce determination plastered on her face. She did what was respectful and expected of her to serve her village and clan. Hiashi was preparing for retirement and was spending a few more years co-working with his youngest.

Right now though, when she caught Naruto's look, all she could do was helplessly shrug and briefly wipe back a tear. Hanabi was worried about Hinata. She hoped family would help her feel better, but knew it was risky. Her father loved both his children, in her mind they were equal in love if not in strength. But Hyuga's were awkward about affection and sometimes grew arrogant with there power. The Hyuga elders could be even worse, and would put a life before their eyes.

Hiashi bowed deeply before taking a seat slightly surprising his Hokage. "I wish to thank you for saving my daughters life." Hanabi too bowed respectfully and gratefully before she sat next to her father.

His face had aged in the years. Eyes wise and tired, wrinkles from a stoic face and graying hair.

"It wasn't a problem. Hinata is my friend." Naruto nodded with a small smile, relaxing back into his chair. Looking them over he raised a shiny blond eye brow. "Is that all you wish to say?"

"No sir." Hiashi grew serious. "I wish to have my eldest move back into her rightful clan." Hanabi tapped her foot. She wanted her sister back on the same compound with her, she wanted to protect her and see to her nieces and nephews safety.

Naruto leaned onto his desk and the sun shone onto the side of his face, jutting out his determined face and bright blue eyes. Once again he leaned on his hand. "No can do."

Hiashi was stumped. He half expected this already. It was no secret to him that his own daughter still went stiff around him, feared him maybe, and that her friends were occasional known to turn her and her kids away from his direction if they saw him coming before she did.

"Why is that Naruto-sama?"

Naruto was only slightly amused the man would ask that question. "Can you grantee she and her kids would not be branded or scorned?"

Hiashi didn't answer. "What about you Hanabi?" He hated laying the dirt on her, but she was the future head. "What do you think would happen if I let her take the Hyuga name and home once more?"

Hanabi looked him straight in the eyes. "I do not yet have the full power to protect my sister or her kids..." She paused, hating to admit her weakness. "Nor does my father." Another pause. Hanabi didn't like admitting that her father had a weakness, but she wasn't a child any more. And he was just a man.

Her Hokage nodded his head for her to continue and she sighed. "Weather or not, if we are out voted by the council, she will be at their mercy, not ours."

"That is bad?" Naruto assumed. Who was worth, the father who Hinata and her friends felt dissed her most of her life, or the Hyuga's who didn't even have a father bond to her?

"Yes." Hiashi answered this time. "Naruto-sama, I know you and you're friends do not think I love my daughter. I do. Admittedly, I have gone about it the wrong way."

Damn right you have! She had so many inferiority complexes as a kid and most all of her life!

"But, I do want what's best for her. In this time, she should be taken home with family."

"Well," Naruto looked at the two before him. "No. You said so yourself just right now. If she takes up the name again, if she goes back, the Hyuga Elder's can rule you out and have her sealed. And you, out of your rules and pride will step back and let it happen."

"I thank you for standing up for the new seal decision but that cost you a lot of leeway with you're elders and right now, they will you that against you." He waved a hand to keep the older man silent. "Even if you love your daughter, no one but you two seem to really know that." Hanabi looked down guiltily. While Hiashi had been tough to make is daughter strong, it didn't exultantly protect her from people who felt it was okay to treat her wrose becasue her father did so to.

"It will cause the sealing on her and her kids."

The Hokage stood up and looked out the window to his town, but only seeing Hinata shattered and broken. He wondered for a second, what it would be like to be turned down by you're father while not knowing the reasons, to grow up thinking you were hated and feeling scared to be in your own home. What was it like the day Hiashi told Hinata she was to be wed to a man she had never really loved, then agreeing in hope that the same father would respect her more for living for then clan. Maybe Hinata still didn't know the reasons for her life.

Everything about the Hyuga's was always for the clan. For the sake of the clan. Damn it, they were Konohagakure ninjas, and people first. If he let her go back with them, if she loved them still or not, Hinata would be broken again. All becasue a clans pride had ruined the morality in it's people. Not all, not completely, but enough with the strength.

"No Hiashi-sama. I'm sorry Hanabi, I know you want her safety." He turned back to them and they caught a few tears fall clean and pure out his eyes. "I cannot watch her be broken again. And you know it will. Hanabi, you saw her."

She nodded her head. She had. Hinata didn't look anymore like the strong women and kunoichi she had grown up to be, but like a torn shadow of her childhood.

"Where will she go? Sir?" Hanabi quietly asked him. Naruto stood before them in he newly clean white robbed, towering over them with his gaze.

He grinned suddenly. "With me."

The two Hyuga's momentarily felt their jaws drop. "Is that all for today?"

They stood and bowed. "I would like, for the girl to be buried with our name at least. She deserves something there."

Naruto nodded his head. "I will ask. Thank you Hiashi-sama." They set out for the door but before he fully left from sight following after Hanabi's slumped shoulders, Naruto spoke out to him with a blessing of hope. "And, if you wish to, you can always come over and visit. I'm sure you're grand kids would love to know their grandfather. You can make up with Hinata, explain to her the reasons why she thinks you don't love her. Fix things. I can tell you want to. It may be awkward, but it's progress."

Hiashi gazed at him and with a final nod of accomplishment, walked away. "I hope you enjoy ramen and a lot of noise though!" Naruto called out loud after him in a teasing way, knowing full well that the Hyuga did not.

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This one got long on me XD yay! I think.

I wanted to make Hiashi a jerk in this one, but I think I'm going to try and mend his reputation. Or, he'll mend his own in other words:)

I hope y'all like. Please read and review