Tenten's family shop (A/N Sorry, I couldn't think of a name.) was about as big as most of the other shops in Konoha, so it was a decent size, about as big as a house. Tenten sat behind counter reading a magazine when the two of them walked in. She smiled when she saw that they were holding hands. "About time! So what, you going door to door to tell everyone?"
They both blushed. "No, I need to get a few things. We don't have much time before we have to leave again and we still have to get food supplies."
"Is that so, then what can I get for you?"
"I need some more weights, I ran out, so I can't add anymore."
"Are you insane?! If you brought a normal set of weights, you could easily out run Lee!"
"I know, but I want to increase my stamina to the point I can fight for hours without getting tired."
"You are insane! Whatever, it you money, but I want to make a suggestion. We got a new item, you push chakra into them and the more you put in the more they weigh. And there's no limit of how much weight you can have on."
"Sounds good, but what can I do with the weights I already have?"
"Give them to me and I'll take a fourth off the price of the chakra weights." Naruto looked confused. "We can always use them for materials if they're in no condition to resell."
"Thanks Tenten." Naruto turns to Hinata. "Is there anything else we should get while we're here?"
"Not that I can think of."
"Okay, then why don't you go and start getting the other supplies, when I'm done buying these, I'll catch up. We'll eat some dinner before we leave too."
"Okay." She turned to Tenten. "Good luck with Neji." Hinata giggles, as Tenten turns red. She leaves and Naruto walks over to the counter.
Naruto looked to see if Hinata had really left and when he was sure, he turned to Tenten. "Do you carry kenjutsu scrolls?"
"Yeah, but why would you want them? You've never struck me as a swordsman."
He shrugged. "I want to learn. A sword would give me an increased reach and with the speed I've obtained not many people could defend themselves."
"That's for sure, so what kind of sword were you thinking?"
"Actually, I would like one for a Zanbato."
"A Zanbato huh, those are hard to come by."
"Really, then it's a good thing I know where to get one."
He took off his weights and laid them on the counter. Tenten's jaw dropped. "How the hell can you lift those with one hand?!"
"I'm use to the weight, that's why I need more." He paid for his items and put the scroll into his bag before putting on the weights. He read the instruction so he could place the right amount into them.
He was about to active them, when Tenten stopped him. "What are you doing? Do that outside, you might break something in here!" She followed him outside and watched as he put his chakra into them. He felt something surge inside of him as red chakra ran through his system. He cut the connection, but it was too late and his face smashed into the ground.
Kyuubi rolled around in his cell laughing his ass off. 'DAMN YOU, YOU FUCKING FOX!!'
Tenten was laughing too. "See, this is why I told you to come out here. You over did it as usual." Naruto released the stored up chakra and started again, putting only small amounts in at a time so the fox couldn't interfere again. "There you go. Now go catch up with Hinata, she'll probably be worried if you don't meet her soon."
"You're right, but that's not the reason you want me leave. You just want to go see Neji and can't if someone at the shop." He smirked, as she turned red again. She starts reaching for the two scrolls strapped to her back.
"Now, now, Tenten, you know he's right." Neji came walking up behind her. "Naruto, you should hurry, I just saw Hinata in the market and she didn't look very pleased."
'We haven't even bee going out for a day and we going to have our first fight.' "Thanks Neji." He walked past the two of them and waved over his shoulder. "Play nice you two!"
'Where the hell is he?' Hinata had finished getting the supplies they needed and was sitting on a stone bench with Minato in her lap, curled into a ball.
"Hinata!" She looked and saw Naruto running toward her. He stopped next to the bench, his hands on his knees and bending over, breathing hard. "Sorry I'm late. The bastard thought it would be funny if he pushed a large amount of chakra into the weights when I put them on. Tenten would help me up either."
All the anger that Hinata was feeling disappeared and she started to laugh. Naruto couldn't help but smile. Hinata moved Minato next to her on the bench and stood up. She grabbed Naruto's hand and pulled him into a passionate kiss that lasted several minutes.
When they broke apart, Naruto was speechless. 'Damn, when the hell did she become so aggressive? Oh well, I'm not complaining.' "So, you forgive me?"
"Umm, no." She feigned a look of anger.
Naruto knew she was faking it, but decide to play along. "Come on Hinata, I said I was sorry. If you're so mad why did you kiss me?"
"So you knew what you were missing." She gave him a sadistic smile that put Anko's to shame.
He shuddered and her smile grew. "Come with me, there's something I want to show you." He picked up the young fox and took her hand in his.
He led her to the top of the Hokage Monument. "Hop on to my back, and hold on to Minato." She did so and when he was sure she was on, he started walking down the side of the cliff. After a few minutes, they stood on top of one of the Hokage's head. "Be sure to keep a hold of him, don't want him to accidentally fall."
He sat down and she did the same. "It's so beautiful."
"This is one of my favorite spots, I can see the whole village from here. Oh, I forgot to tell you, you're sitting on Yondaime's head."
"Why did you bring me here?"
"I wanted to show you this." He waved his arm in front of him. "This spot is so peaceful, I feel at ease here, something that only one other thing has ever done."
"What else?"
"It's you. You make me feel so happy just being near me. I don't know how to explain it, but it's something I don't want to live without."
"Naruto…"
He stopped her with a kiss. When he pulled away he stared into her eyes. "Hinata, I said that I love you, and I meant it. I'll do anything to prove it to you, just tell me what you want me to do."
She laid her head against his chest. "There is nothing you could ever do that would make me believe you more than I do right now." He wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. They sit there watching the sunset, unaware of the two sliver haired men watching them.
"Looks like he really did know. I never felt so proud of the brat as I do now."
"Jiraiya, why are we following these two? No matter how much Hinata likes him, she won't do anything more than they already are and Naruto probably wouldn't even think about doing that kind of stuff yet."
Jiraiya sighs. "I need to tell you something, but you can't tell the brat or Tsunade, that's my job. It's about Naruto parents."
Kakashi's visible eye widened. "You know who they are?"
"Yes, sensei knew as well, but believed for his safety, no one should be told. Even if the old man hadn't died, I planned to tell him."
"Sandaime knew, Naruto's not going to be happy about that. Who are they?"
"If you yell, they find us, so be quiet. His mother was Tsunade's best friend, actually they were more like sister's, Kushina Uzumaki." Kakashi's eye becomes as large as a dinner plate.
"But that would mean…"
"That's right. She doesn't know it, but he's our godson and his son." Kakashi smiled and damn near fainted from shock. "She doesn't even know Kushina got married, much less had a kid. Still, she'll probably take the news better than he will. He's going to be pissed that we kept this from him, what's worse is that Orochimaru knows."
Tsunade sat at her desk looking over the paperwork that has built up. She picks up a single piece of paper and smiles. "Shizune, has Naruto left yet?"
"Not that I'm aware of."
"Could you go get him, there's something that we need to discuss."
"Yes ma'am." Shizune leave the room and Tsunade smiled before reaching into her desk drawer to pull out a bottle of sake and a cup.
The sun had set and darkness filled the streets of Konoha. Naruto and Hinata were approaching the gates when Shizune came running up to them. "Naruto, I'm glad I caught you. Tsunade wants to speak with you before you leave."
'I spoke to her this morning, I wonder what's happened.' "Thanks Shizune." He turned to Hinata. "Well, I guess our trip going to have to wait a bit." He smiled and they started toward the Hokage tower with Shizune.
"What's up Baa-san?" They had just walked into the office and then he noticed she was sleeping. "Damn it, she's been drinking. Well, anyone want to try and wake her up?" Shizune had a scared look on her face. "Fine. Kage Bunshin no Jutsu."
A popping sound and puff of smoke later and a clone walked over to Tsunade with the same expression as Shizune. It barely touched Tsunade's shoulder and then went flying toward the wall. There was another pop and it disappeared.
"Why did you wake me up?"
"You were the one who said you wanted to talk, so don't blame me."
"Naruto, you mind toning it down a bit." She noticed that he had his arm around Hinata and smiled. "About time you found a girlfriend brat. I was beginning to worry that the pervert corrupted you. You also finally noticed her."
He just grinned stupidly. 'Did everyone but me know?!'
'Probably, it was pretty obvious.'
'Fuck you bastard! You could have told me at anytime.'
'It's not my problem if you're too dense to see what's in front of your face.'
"Naruto, you all right?"
"Sorry, the bastard decided he wanted to talk too. So what's up Baa-san?"
"The Kazekage has asked that you go to Suna. The request didn't mention why, but if he needs you to do something, stay as long as you're needed."
"Cool, I can catch up with Gaara while I'm there."
"I'm sure you'll see him. Hinata, you are to go too, after you're done there you will continue you training mission understood."
"Understood."
"Good. I'll allow you a stay in the village for tonight, you have a long trip tomorrow."
"Thanks Baa-san." They leave her office and head outside. Naruto knew that since they were staying for the night that he be separated from Hinata, but wanted to delay it as long as possible. "Hinata, you want me to walk you home."
"Actually, I told them I'd be leaving again, so they won't be expecting me."
"You could stay at my apartment. It's kind of small, but I promise I won't do anything." He smiled. "Unless you want me to."
She blushed. "You sure you don't mind?"
"Of course not, but there won't be much to eat there. After six months hardly anything will be any good. Besides, Minato likes to sleep by you, and I don't think many hotel accept pets." They start towards Naruto's apartment.
"You were wrong Kakashi, it seems that he has thought about it. Not a word of this to Tsunade, she'd kill us for not stopping them."
Kakashi wasn't really listening, he was still trying to process what he had found out a few hours before. "I thought he looked like sensei, but it never crossed my mind that he was his son."
"Tsunade will say the same thing when I tell her, after she kills me for not telling her sooner."
"Why the hell would sensei use his own son as the container?"
"I honestly don't know, but he must have had a damn good reason."
"You need to tell at least him soon, I could care less how long you wait to tell Tsunade, but he deserves to know."
"I know, but with him leaving tomorrow it's going to be difficult."
"You're a Sannin, you could go with him."
"Unfortunately, I can't. If I left Orochimaru would take advantage of it and attack. He knows that he can't defeat us both, but with Tsunade still a little hemophobic, it wouldn't be difficult to beat her when she's by herself."
"I know it's not much to look at, but it's livable." 'Barely.'
As if reading his mind Hinata looked up at him, concern written on her face. "How can you stand living here?"
"I've gotten use to it, I've lived here for as long as I can remember. I know I lived at the orphanage for a little while, but I don't remember anything of that part of my life. Maybe that's a good thing though."
"It still not right for you to have to live in such conditions."
"I really don't mind, I fixed up mine and the inside looks a lot better." He opens the door and she gasped. "What?"
"You don't even lock your door?"
He chuckled. "No body comes out this way, a lot of the buildings are condemned. Most of them were almost completely destroyed in the fox's attack and the villagers only rebuilt so much. In fact between Gamabunta and Kyuubi, I surprised even half of these buildings are still standing." He stepped through the doorway and Hinata followed him. The first room was a kitchen, dinning room, and living room put together. There was a small table, a couch, a TV, and the bare minimal essentials of a kitchen. "The bathroom's connected to the bedroom. Like I said, it's kind of small."
"That's an understatement. It's no wonder you run around so much."
"You can take the bed."
"It's you house, you should have the bed."
"It's big enough that we could both sleep on it." She blushed. "I already told you, I wouldn't do anything unless you want me to." She slowly nodded and he smiled. "Now that that's settled, we should get some sleep. It'll take about a week to get to Suna."
He leads her through the only other door in his apartment and goes into the bathroom, closing the door behind him. She removes the over coat revealing a black tee shirt and crawls into the bed. She looks around the room, it's surprisingly neat and about half the size of the other room with far less furniture. Other then the bed there's a dresser and a small closet. What catches her eye, is that on the dresser there are four pictures, one of which is facedown.
She gets up and moves over to the dresser. One of the pictures was of Naruto, Iruka, and Sandaime at Naruto's favorite restaurant, Ichiraku Ramen Bar. One of the others was of Tsunade, Shizune, Jiraiya, and Naruto, she didn't recognize the place, but figured it was probably from when they went to find Tsunade. The strangest part was that Naruto was wearing a necklace she had never seen before. The last was of Naruto, either unconscious or asleep, covered in bandages, and a young woman kissing him on the cheek. She was a little upset about that till she read what was written on it. 'Thank you for giving me something to believe in again. –Yukie Fujikaze'
She lifted the facedown picture and stared wide eyed. It was a picture of team seven. Kakashi was in the back with a hand on both Naruto's and Sasuke's heads, while Sakura stood between the boys. "Want to know why?"
