Chapter 9: The day after

Son of the Kyubi

Genin teams.

Sorry this took so long to get out but I'm having a bad month so hopefully the new year will be better than the end of this one. But enough about that,

I don't own Naruto or any of the characters I do not and do not intent to make a profit off of this story. I only write it because I am a fan of the series and have an overactive Imagination.

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"Long time no see" said Jiraiya as he opened the window and slipped inside.

"Haven't given up your old habits I see" said the Hokage as a copy of the newest ichi ichi paradise book landed on his table. The third quickly slipped the book in to the sleeve.

"Of course I couldn't disappoint my fans" Said the toad Sanin, The third cheeks turned a soft shade of red. There was a moment of silence as Jiraiya looked at the two sleeping Genin on the couch.

"So that's Minato's son eh, what happened to him?"

All of the Thirds humor vanished as he looked over at the young Ninja sleeping on the couch.

"His seal, I looked at it when they brought in him, part of its missing" Said the third completely serious now.

"Missing, what do you mean" Asked Jiraiya disbelief apparent in his voice.

"I can't explain it you'll have to look at it your self" said the third standing up and moving toward the couch.

"Who's the girl?" asked The Sannin as the Third picked her up so he could move Naruto.

"Hinata Hyuuga, Hiashis daughter" he paused to let it sink in "apparently she's his friend"

'Hiashi's kid, I wonder if he still has that stick up his ass?' though Jirayia.

He lay Naruto carefully on the Thirds desk and pulled up the rest of his shirt. He concentrated some chakra in to his finger tips before pressing them lightly on to Naruto's stomach where he knew the seal to be. Slowly the seal appeared and the toad Sanin couldn't explain it any better than the Third had, there was over a third of the seal missing.

"What happened?" he asked

"I don't know, I didn't want to show it to any one that couldn't be trusted" said the third sitting back in his chair "one word of this to the council and they would have him killed on the spot, I've done everything I could just to keep him safe most of the council is on the fence about him and Danzo just wants him as a weapon" he rubbed the bridge of his nose. Jiraiya glanced up at his old teacher he had never seen him look so old before.

"Whats this" said Jiraiya leaning in toward the seal. It was hardly noticeable, the third got up and leaned in "right there on the edge of the seal "I've studied this seal and I still don't understand half of it, but this right here should have collapsed when the rest of the seal did. Its not possible for this to stand by its self"

"What does all this mean, is there a chance the fox could break out?" The third could do most seals but he had never taken to it like Jiraiya or the Forth.

"Easily" said The Sannin with out hesitation "This isn't new damage this happened years ago, if it was going to break out it would have done so by now"

"Can it be fixed?" asked Sarutobi

"I wouldn't know where to start" said Jiraiya honestly "the only person that could was the Fourth"

Sarutobi sighed as he leaned back in to his chair "wake him, we have to find out what he knows" Jiraiya looked at the Third before touching Naruto's fore head with his fingers forcing some chakra in to it.

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Naruto's eyes snapped open he was staring at a dark concrete ceiling,

He raised his right hand to his cheek it felt warm and it stung

"Ow, why did you hit me"

"I didn't have time to wait for you to wake up on your own" said his mother.

Naruto looked around "you know you should really think of redecorating this place" said Naruto.

His Kitsune mother laughed a little before saying "It's your mind not mine, I don't have any control over what it looks like"

"Oh I guess that makes sense" said Naruto as he sat up "so what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well there are going to be questions about what happened last night" she said as she sat down in front of him "I just wanted to know what you were going to tell them?"

"The truth"

"All of it, about me being your mother"

"of course I didn't tell any one before because they would probably think that I was crazy" said Naruto looking down a little "but I'm not going to hide it anymore, with out your help I wouldn't have been able to save Hinata" Kyubi was a little glad that her son wasn't ashamed of her but still didn't think It was a good idea to tell everyone

"I still don't know if I can tell Hinata about you though I don't want to scare her off, even if she ends up hating me for it I just want to have a friend for a little longer"

"I think you should give her a little more credit, I think that if you tell her it wont matter one bit to her"

"I hope your right" Said Naruto he felt a little buzzing at the back of his head.

"I usually am, for now just tell the Hokage about me and see how he takes it before you go telling every one"

"OK"

"now give me a hug" she said embracing him before he could even protest.

"aww mom" complained Naruto even thought he was enjoying it secretly.

"Don't complain, your lucky I'm in here and I don't do it to you in the real world" she said ruffling his hair

"yea I can just see it now a 20 ft fox coming to meet me after school" they both laughed at the mental image. Naruto was silent for a moment before he asked a question that had been on his mind for a while "mom?"

"Hmm" she answered

"Why did you attack Konoha" asked Naruto as he raised his head to meet her eyes "I wont think of you differently, I just need to know why"

She had been expecting for a long time now but she still didn't have an answer for him, as she stared in to his pleading eyes she decided that the truth or at least a partial truth was for the best.

"It's a long story and most of it will have to wait till your older before I tell you all of it" Naurto was about to argue " if you don't like it I don't have to tell you anything"

"Fine"

"50 years ago my six children were forcible summoned to your world, My mate and the council wouldn't let me go after them saying that they would handle it but after years of bickering and paper work nothing was getting done so I left and came here on my own.

Since Foxes don't have a summoning contract I had to enter a human body, but I didn't want to just take over a persons body. So I looked and looked till I found the perfect baby, a fetus actually the mother was sick and dieing and the unborn baby was already dead inside of her" Naruto felt a little green "the father prayed for someone to save his wife so I did. I took over the unborn baby and used my power to heal the woman. 12 years passed and I became a ninja I decided that I had wasted enough time so I began looking for my children I found them eventually" a black cloud passed over her face "they were already dead cut up and dissected, used for experiments" the anger was evident in her voice, also with the sound of deep pain "I found the man that had done that to my children his name was Orochimaru he was once a great leaf ninja"

"I hunted him down but he ambushed me casting a high level Genjutsu on me, it amplified my anger and rage. I don't think he was expecting the nine tailed Fox demon to appear though because he took off toward Konoha. I followed as I approached the village more leaf nin started attacking me"

"I was so angry that I could only remember I was hunting a Leaf nin

Before I knew it I was already in sight of the village walls, that's when the fourth confronted me. The fourth and I knew one another, so at first he tried to talk me down but I could barely hear him through my anger. I think he knew something wasn't quite right, so because he held off as long as possible before sacrificing him self and sealing me inside of you, I remember him saying through the fog to look after you"

Naruto could see tears forming in Kyubi's eyes 'they must have been good friends' thought Naruto

"When I came back to my scenes, I swore that I would help you in any way I could for him" The Kyubi had a far away look on her face like she was reliving her memories

"Why?" asked Naruto slightly perplexed.

Kyubi gave a start, she had almost forgotten Naruto was there she glanced down at him. When it didn't look like she was going to answer he asked again.

"Why would the Fourth care what happened to some orphan that he sealed a daemon in to?" asked Naruto a little anger creeping in to his voice.

Kyubi was quiet a moment deciding how best to answer his question "Naruto the fourth cared about all of the people in the village, and would have laid down his life to protect any of them"

'especially his son' she thought to her self, she didn't think It was the right time to tell him about his father.

"So when we first met, why were you so angry?" asked the young blond shinobi

She spoke softly "I thought it would be better if you hated me like every one else, I was planning on helping you from behind the scenes, if people found out that you thought I was your mother they would try to kill you" she said as she caressed he face "But all that changed when I saw how lonely you were, I just couldn't do it"

Naruto was quiet a moment as he mulled every thing over "so this orochimaru guy he got away?" asked Naruto

"As far as I know it's not like I get the local paper in here"

"T-then ill find him" stuttered Naruto "and ill kill him"

"YOU WILL DO NO SUCH THING I'VE ALREADY LOST SIX CHILDEREN I WONT LET YOU GO AND DO SOMETHING FOOLISH" Shouted Kyubi as waves of red chakra rolled off of her.

"BUT THEY WOULD BE LIKE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I CAN'T JUST LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT"

Kyubi calmed her self before speaking, shouting at each other wasn't going to get anything accomplished. "Naruto the ninja that did that was strong enough to use a Genjustu on me, I don't mean to toot my own horn but I am one of the most powerful daemons in the underworld, and he got away from me what can you hope to accomplish"

"I don't care if he's a hundred times stronger than me. I promise ill find him and kick his ass" stated Naruto not shouting, but speaking with cold determination.

"You're not strong enough" she said

"If your as powerful as you say you are, then train me" His eyes locking on hers, she could see the deep determination emanating from them.

"It's dangerous to make promises that you can't keep" she said seriously

"Well it's too late now I've already made it and I don't go back on my word"

'He really is just like his father' she knew that once he made up his mind to do something there would be no stopping him.

"We'll talk about this later" she said finally "some one out side wants to speak with you"

"No wait" said Naruto as the world in side his mind began to fade. He finally understood when the other kids talked about when their parents would send them to there rooms to end a discussion.

Naruto eyes opened to find him self lying on the table in the Hokage office staring up and the Third and some other old dude. He asked the first that came to his mind "Who's the old guy?"

Jiraiya looked at the third "He must have hit his head if he's forgotten who you are"

"No I was talking about you 'OLD MAN" said Naruto as he sat up on the table. A vein popped out of Jiraiya forehead

"Sabutori I think It was worse than I thought he's obviously delusional, I recommend we put him in to the hospital for observation for at least a week" Sabutori just shook his head as the two of the bantered back and forth.

"Yea" replied Naruto trying to keep his cool "the hospital would be the best place for you till we find a gezzers home that would take you"

"I'll have you know brat that I'm one of the legendary Sannin of Konoha"

"Just because you gezzers made a club doesn't make it any more hip" said Naruto cleaning out his ear with his pinkie finger

"Hip who uses 'Hip' any more"

"I do, that's who" Said Naruto who jumped up on the desk to stare eye to eye with the Sannin

Jiraiya was fuming now, he had faced villain's that didn't piss him off as much as this kid did.

"Listen here brat....." but he didn't get to finish as a soft voice on the other side of the room captivated all of his attention

"N-Naruto" called Hinata softly from the couch she was trying to sit up but was having a hard time of it, Naruto placed one hand on the toad sages face and pushed him out of the way as he leaped off the table.

"Hinata are you alright, I was worried about you, Are you ok, she didn't hurt you or anything" rambled Naruto as the dazed Hinata slowly tried to grasp what was going on "Are you ok, Was the old man to loud, I didn't mean to wake you, are you OK"

"Why don't you give her a second to answer instead of pummeling her with questions" said Jiraiya getting up off the floor and walking toward the two Genin "You have to approach a lady gently" he said Pushing Naruto out of the way and taking Hinata's hand, Hinata's head was still a little fuzzy she thought she heard Naruto's talking to her she thought he was asking her if she was alright.

She tried to focus on Naruto's face as her vision became sharper she saw a leering face that reminded her of stories told by the girls at school what she saw scared her as she connected her right fist with Jiraiyas face

"PERVERT" she screamed as loudly as she could Jiraiya reeled back not expecting the blow from the young wall flower.

Naruto laughed "Way to go Hinata"

'Naruto?' she thought she had herd his voice. She looked around and realized she was in the Hokages Office with the Third, Naruto and the man she had just accused of being a pervert laying spread eagle on the floor. The Third had his face covered as he was trying to conceal his laughter, Naruto wasn't even trying to conceal it as he rolled around on the floor with tears streaming down his face.

Hinata's face became six shades of red as she realized she had punched someone unprovoked. She was about to get up and apologized when Naruto jumped on to the couch beside her and grabbed her hand, all thoughts of doing anything evaporated from her mind.

"Are you alright Hinata" he said tears still in the corners of his eyes

She could only nod as the memories of last night and her rescue came back to her, she gripped Naruto's hand tighter as she remembered last night.

"We showed them didn't we" Said Naruto smiling his foxy grin plastered over his face.

'We? all I did was get captured' thought Hinata depression began to set in as she thought about how useless she had been and how she had almost gotten them both killed because she wasn't strong enough

Naruto suddenly got a perplexed look on his face "ah I completely forgot about Mizuki" Naruto asked looking at the third Hokage

Sabutobi's eye brow raised at the question "Hmm? Mizuki was lying unconscious beside Miss Hyuuga and yourself when we found you, he had very unusual wounds to certain parts of his body" Hinata ducked her head suddenly finding the floor very interesting, this went unnoticed.

"E I wonder what happened to him?" as he stared at the ceiling wondering if maybe he caused some un-known damage to him.

"Mbey Miss Hyuuga can answer that"said the Third looking at Hinata kindly with a amused look on his face. Hinata met his eyes for a second before resuming looking at the floor.

"Hinata? Do you know what happened to him?" Asked Naruto giving her his full attention.

Hinata could feel every one in the room looking at her especially Naruto who was only a few feet away from her, she could feel her face heating up. She nodded her head slightly, so softly that if they weren't trained Ninjas they would have missed it.

"Can you tell us what happened dear" asked the Hokage smiling at her like an affectionate grand father. Hinata didn't know why but every time he talked she just had to look at him, she guessed it was because he was the Hokage. She nodded her head again and began telling them what happened to Mizuki. The only problem was the Third and Jiraiya couldn't hear a word she said she was talking so softly and quickly that she almost sounded like a mouse.

The third would have stopped her and asked her to speak up but Naruto was nodding and staring at her more seriously than he had ever seen him, when he looked like that Jiraiya and the Third couldn' help but be reminded of the Fourth.

Suddenly Naruto shouted and lifted Hinata up in the air "WAHHHOOOO Hinata you're so awesome you totally kicked his ass" shouted Naruto.

Hinata had a hard time thinking as she was being swung around by Naruto but one thought did manage to make its self heard before she passed out 'If all it takes to get him to hug me ill catch a missing nin every day'

"Wat did she say kid" asked Jiraiya. Naruto stopped spinning Hinata around to look at the Third and Toad Sanin. Hinata thought for a second that he was going to put her down, but was glad that he didn't he just held her stationary in the air.

"Hh you didn't hear"

"No" said Jiraiya giving Naruto a dirty look 'Minato was never this dense'

Naruto quickly retold Hinata's story even embellishing some of the parts that he thought that she underplayed and taking a 2 minuet recap and made it last 8 minuet's. At the end of it Naruto began spinning an already dizzy Hinata around shouting "KICKED HIS ASS, KICKED HIS ASS, KICKED HISASS, HINATA KICK KICKED HIS ASSSS"

"Naruto" started the Third hoping to save the poor girl before she passed out, he could see her eyes begin to roll back in to her head.

Suddenly the door burst open "You can't go in there" came the voice of a Chunin guard. It felt like all of the warmth in the room was suddenly sucked out, Hiashi Hyuuga was standing in the door way his eyes locked on Naruto with Hinata in his arms. There was a moment of silence that seemed to last forever before he spoke.

"You are a disgrace to the name of Hyuuga" he said in could calculating tones Hinata suddenly struggled in Naruto's arms like he was burning her, in a not good way. Naruto let her down more focused on blowing up Hiashi's head with his mind, He had never met the Hyuuga lord before but already he didn't like him.

"Hiashi" said the Hokage still sitting behind his desk "Your daughter just captured a traitor, I would hardly call that a disgrace" The Third eyed Hiashi coolly before speaking.

"If she hadn't been caught in the first place then she wouldn't have needed rescuing" said Hiashi articulating every word. Hinata was trying as hard as she could to sink in to the floor, Naruto moved so he was half standing in front of her trying to protect her from Hiashi's gaze. "She is worthless as clan heir when we return home she is going to be sealed.."

"THAT WOULD KILL HER" Shouted Jiraiya, Hinata practically jumped like she had been burnt. Naruto didn't know what sealed meant but he knew what sealed meant but he wasn't going to let anything happen to Hinata, he was about to deck Hiashi when Hinata grabbed the back of his jacket softly. He turned to look at her she had tears forming in her eyes, Naruto really didn't like Hiashi. Before anyone else could say anything the Hokage spoke.

"I can't allow you to do that"

"I'm the head of the Hyuuga clan, have you forgotten I can do as I please with in the clan"

"Most certainly but Hinata is now a Ninja and I can't let you do anything that would harm her" said the Hokage evenly

Hiashi was silent a moment before speaking, you could almost see the anger rolling off of him "when Hinata becomes of age if she can not beat her sister she will be thrown in to the branch family not even you can save her when she fails"

"What makes you think she'll fail" said Naruto

Hiashi turned his full attention on Naruto, his gaze like so many of the other villagers full of hate and contempt. "What would a brat who didn't become a Genin know"

"A whole hell of a lot more than you apparently" said Naruto crossing his arms gazing back at Hiashi.

For a second Jiraiya thought Hiashi was going to attack Naruto the look he was giving him would have killed a lesser man 'Man I hate getting my Tenketus shut off'

"Hinata were leaving" said Hiashi turning around not even checking to see if Hinata would follow.

"I'm sorry once again Hiashi but I still need to talk to Hinata about the events of last night, If you like I can have a ninja escort her to the academy afterward" said The Third.

"As you wish Hokage-sama" said Hiashi as he swept from the room past the stunned chunin who closed the door behind him.

Once the door was closed the temperature seemed to return to normal every one visibly relaxed except the Hokage who seemed to expect the whole thing to happen.

"Now" said the Hokage "why don't you both tell me what happened"

He said looking at them. Naruto and Hinata sat on the couch eating and drinking some snacks that were brought in. Narutos version was dramatic and embellished, while Hinatas version was factual and to the point with Naruto adding the sound effects.

"You both did an excellent job" said Sabutori looking fondly at the both of them, Naruto turned and grinned at Hinata who smiled back as best she could with out actually looking at him. He pushed a button on his desk a second latter Iruka walked, in bandaged all over, Riauindo trotting on his heels.

"Iruka-Sensai" shouted Naruto "Riauindo" the young foxling jumped on to Narutos lap and began purring at the attention Naruto and Hinata began paying him.

Their teacher smiled at them both "Hinata if you would go with Iruka there are some questions I have for Naruto"

Hinata looked at the Hokage a worried look on her face.

"Don't worry he's not in any kind of trouble" said the Third "Unless its something I haven't herd about yet" he added as an after thought

"Don't worry Hinata-chan I've been mostly good all week" said Naruto flashing her his goofy smile. Hinata didn't look convinced but let her self be ushered from the room.

"Now Naruto" said the Third suddenly solemn "Is there anything else you need to tell us, something about what Mizuki told you last night" For a second Naruto didn't recognize the person sitting behind the desk gone was the grandfatherly man that had looked after his since before he could remember. The man that sat behind the desk now Naruto realized was 'The Third Hokage of the hidden leaf village'.

Naruto was silent a moment while he collected his thoughts which surprisingly didn't take as long as some would think. He began at the beginning when he was attacked by the villagers up to what he had just learned a few hours ago. When Naruto mentioned Orochimaru he noticed the look Jiraiya and the Hokage shared.

'I guess they know him' he thought

When he finished they were all silent a moment before the Third spoke "Do you think you can trust her?"

"Of course I can" said Naruto heatedly "she's my mother"

The third was quiet again before speaking again "Alright Naruto, I believe you"

Naruto missed the look Jiraiya gave the Hokage "Naruto why don't you find Iruka I believe he had something to tell you" said The Hokage a twinkle in his eye.

"Ok Thanks ojiisan" Naruto shouted as he ran from the room "bye old man"

Naruto began searching the Hokage's tower for Iruka planning on getting him to take him to Ichiraku's. Naruto hadn't had breakfast yet and he was starving. He finally found Iruka and Hinata on the roof beneath the Hokage monument. Iruka ended up taking Naruto and Hinata to Ichiraku's after Naruto shouted at them almost making Hinata jump over the rail.

Naruto hadn't complained when Iruka said Hinata would have to come with them because he was charged with taking her to the academy, why would he complain. They sat down and immediately Naruto ordered 10 bowls of Raman half Beef and the other half Miso, oddly enough they were expecting him. Ayame Said they could set there clock by Naruto's stomach, he came in 4 times a day every four hours.

Hinata was quiet the whole way walking beside Iruka while Naruto walked ahead talking again about how they kicked ass last night.

When Hinata didn't order anything Naruto passed her one of his, Iruka almost choked on his own Raman when he saw this, asking if he needed to go to the hospital. Naruto shouted at Iruka telling him that Hinata was more important than Raman. At this Iruka, Ayame and Teuchi stared back and forth between Naruto and Hinata a slow grin spreading over there face. Hinata at that moment was trying hard to become one with the seat.

After 5 minuets of poking fun at Hinata Ayame finally stepped in to save the poor girl who's was about to pass out. Naruto's finished all of his Raman in about the same time it took Hinata and Iruka to finish their one bowl.

"Ahhh I think I'm full Iruka-Sensei" said Naruto leaning back and patting his belly exaggeratedly

"Well if figure since you saved my life it's the least I could do, but I have one more thing for you" said Iruka turning serious facing Naruto "I need you to close your eyes"

Naruto did so with out complaining seeing the serious look on his sensei's face. After a few seconds he began to get impatient when nothing seemed to happen when he heard Hinata gasp he couldn't help but to open his eyes. What he saw was Iruka's back as he walked out of the Raman stand he called over his shoulder "Make sure Hinata-san makes it home ok, that's an order"

Naruto turned to Hinata dumbfounded as to what had happened, Hinata handed him his goggles then reached up and straighten his..... Narutos hands instantly shot up to his head, he could feel something smooth wrapped around his head. He began to frantically look around for something shiny trying to see what he believed and hoped to see.

After a couple of seconds Ayame handed him a mirror that she retrieved from the back of the store. Naruto stared back at him self his eyes focused on the forehead protector. He calmly placed the mirror down on the counter, for a second Hinata thought that something was wrong, then Naruto started jumping around shouting at the top of his voice.

"It looks good kid" Said Teuchi handing him a coupon for 10 free bowls of Raman

"Congrats Naruto" said Ayame handing over a wrapped up cloth, Inside was a foot long Trench knife with a thigh harness, it was in good condition but it was defiantly been used "It used to be mine back when I was a Ninja, it saved my life a few times"

"Wow I love it Ayame nee-chan" exclaimed Naruto as he strapped it to his leg.

Hinata was feeling horrible she hadn't know what Iruka was going to do she hadn't had time to get him a gift, She just wished the ground would open and swallow her whole.

Naruto turned to her suddenly a huge grin on his face he suddenly grabbed her had and rushed from out of the restaurant "come one Hinata I don't want to be late for class"

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Ok so I know I promised teams and everything but the expression the shit hit the fan describes my life perfectly at the moment so Next chapter Teams........ I hope.