Arriving at the secretary of the Hokage, Naruto just ignored the banshee/secretary screaming at him that he couldn't go in there just like always. So Naruto just opened the door, and yelled.
"Hi, old man, how are you?" completely ignoring the secretary.
The Hokage just sighed, waving his secretary of "It's all right Elaine, you know Naruto is always welcome, unless I'm already in a meeting and then Naruto will stop won't you Naruto?"
"Sure sure," Naruto, waving off the promise," but now onto what we really came here for. This should explain everything." giving the Hokage both his and Hinata's S-class unofficial paper. Reading the paper, the Hokage first thought that Naruto was joking but seeing the serious look on both their faces, with not even a sign of a smirk, made him doubt it and the official seal on the paper made it nearly impossible. However with Naruto, one could never know, but this seemed real and it had the signature of Ibiki to back it up, there was no way Naruto could forge that without seeing it even once. Little did he know that Naruto could forge, no replicate each signature of all the important people of the village except for Danzo's, annoying backstabbing old cripple. He had learned it the first time around so that during war he could sign a law or an order without the person being there. Of course he never abused the privilege, he was honest enough for that and respected these men too much to abuse it.
"So it says here that you just completed and S-class mission, do tell me Naruto how did you stumble into this one?" said the Hokage, already feeling the headache forming. Not just from the paperwork but also from the nagging the council will give him if they ever hear of it. So to make sure no one heard about this, he activated the Hokage silence seals, making even the ANBU stationed in the corners only hear buzzing.
"Okay, now this will remain private like it should, so do begin."
And so Naruto and Hinata reported, why they were there, how they asked to try the same ones that Anko and Ibiki were already working on these two and were just taking a break as to when they arrived. And then lastly they told him how they broke their convict but kept it vague.
The Hokage didn't ask about the details knowing how each interrogator liked to keep the details of his techniques to himself and also not really wanting to know the details, if he asked now he would have to ask each time and that was something his old mind wouldn't be able to deal with. He was already scared for how, what they went through would shape their future. But he did however want to know how they learned so easily. At that both Hinata and Naruto didn't answer. Naruto looked at the entire village and the Hokage directly figured out what he meant; Hinata also looked at the village however she did stare a bit longer at where the Hyuuga compound was located. It seemed the Hyuuga elders were at least good for something.
Even though they did not lie, they didn't tell the entire truth either, they did get a lot of their ideas from their own lives but some were from teachers they had in the future.
"I see, thanks for your report," The Hokage said hoping that they just got lucky on their first try however he did feel bad about it, "here's your real pay check however I would implore you guys to keep them with you and only cash them when really needed, this will come on your record but to the public you still have not completed any missions even though you have already completed one B and now one S-class mission each. So congratulations I think, you must have set a record, the first ninja who already completed missions before officially becoming genin." But actually feeling quite ill about just what they had already had to do and what they already did. However Naruto didn't let the Hokage notice that he noticed his ill comfort.
"Thanks old man, and sure, we still have my account which it seems has been receiving payments from the Namikaze account for a few years now, you wouldn't know anything about that would you?"
"I don't know what you're talking about Naruto; the Namikaze account is frozen and cannot be accessed." Naruto just smiled
"Well I guess we'll be going have to get up bright and early tomorrow to ace that test, it just wouldn't do to fail a test when you've already completed an S-rank mission now would it, see ya old man." said Naruto jokingly
"Thank you and Goodbye Hokage-sama." before Hinata accompanied Naruto out of the window. The Hokage just sighed, just great another two who don't use the windows. It seems he looks more than his father than you could ever imagine Jiraya.
OH well let's get this damn paperwork settled already.
Even though they had said they were going to go get some sleep they still had work to do. Dropping down behind the fourths trademark hair spike, Naruto and Hinata put up their permanent Henge, while Kyu came out and also did her Henge. Naruto had apparently made a new jutsu that actually changed his structure when he tried to learn the henge without a teachers help.
"Okay everyone two things, firstly we better cut back on our interrogation, even though we did have a good excuse and he probably just thought it was first time luck we should be more careful." Getting a nod from both ladies he continued.
"Secondly, everyone knows the plan?"he asked his clones, Hinata and Kyuubi who stood around him. The plan was simple, get in , let their clones copy the library while they themselves set up the pranks. Drop their calling card and then get out silently and repeat with the next clan to hit on the list.
"Normally if everything goes to plan we'll be back here in about 2 hours, and then tomorrow we'll hit the major clans . If we don't get caught we'll have a nice view here and we can see the terror ensue before our first 'official' mission, hopefully this will make the clans less arrogant, more careful and will increase their security. If not well then we'll just have to make them take it more serious." said a now smiling Naruto thinking about all new pranks they could use if the clans didn't take the threat seriously, after all he did say no to a lot of Kyu's more adventurous pranks. And so the three of them broke up, easily getting in all the compounds, copying the libraries, setting up the pranks and then getting out, nobody even knowing that they were there. Two hours later the three of them got back together on the fourths head.
"No problems?"
"Nope"
"None what so-ever Naruto-kun."
"Good then let's get back to the compound, I still have to set up those silence seals around the entire compound and then get some sleep, after all we do have that test from nai-chan."
"Nai-chan? Naruto-kun is there something you're not telling us?"
"Wha wha what are you talking about Hime-chan, Kuin-chan. "
"Kuin-chan? And we are talking about you calling Kurenai, Nai-chan?"
"Yes Kuin-chan, since Hinata is my Hime-chan, then you Kyu-chan should be my Kuin-chan."
"Not fair Naruto-kun" now whined Hinata and Kyu, completely forgetting that they were pestering Naruto about the other nickname that he used;" now you're the only one without a nickname."
"How about our ô-kun? after all he does have a hime and a kuin."
"No doesn't sound quite right for him, maybe our Kishi-kun?"
"hmmm that does quite good. our kishi-kun, a protector, our protector, that does sound like him." answered Kyu.
"Hey don't I get a say in this?"
"NO!" said both Kyu and Hinata.
"Fine" pouted Naruto." Let's go to the compound, there you can decide my final nickname while I set up those seals." And so they left, arriving at the compound and then while Naruto installed the silence seals all around it, Hinata and Kyu discussed his new nickname, but it seemed that even after an hour of constant suggestion, they couldn't find a better one, so he was stuck with it.
Of course Naruto didn't really mind, after all it just showed that they cared for him, it just wasn't manly. After the seals were set up and a little cuddling, they all went to sleep, after all tomorrow they would need their strength for whatever Kurenai cooked up. Which would probably be a little more vicious then what they are used to of Kurenai, after all they were sure that they would notice Anko's influence on the test as well. But they would see tomorrow, now Naruto just enjoyed the company of these two lovely ladies as he drifted to sleep. His last thought as he drifted of was, how did I ever get this lucky?
Waking up before the alarm clock, Hinata felt a hand on quite a private part of her upper body. But what really surprised her was that, even though the hand felt great on her breast, it wasn't a male hand. And it seemed Kyu was having a dream about baking bread or something like that and so Hinata froze. Luckily Naruto wasn't awake to see the situation, she was sure that if he noticed this, she would just die of embarrassment. And then she heard his breath hitch and see his body stiffen, it seemed that Kyu's other hand had also wandered.
At this Hinata's hand had also started to wander, after all it just wasn't fair that Kyu-chan was the only one to cop a feel. They were after all a complete threesome, who shared everything so Hinata feeling a little bolstered with her being felt up by another girl, reached out not just towards Naruto but also to Kyu's breast.
With that contact Kyu stopped pretending and 'woke' up, "I always knew you had it in you Tenshi-chan."
"y-y-you were awake!" screamed Hinata withdrawing both her hands, at the same time Kyu did, leading to a groaning Naruto.
"Enough it's too early, and now I need a cold shower." whined Naruto.
"Oh you don't have too, I'm sure Hinata would just love to help me fix your problem, right Tenshi-chan."
Hinata blushed but didn't faint, demonstrating how far she had come. "W-eee-ell" actually contemplating it. But Naruto wouldn't hear of it, at least not with the test coming up.
"No, NO, not this time girls, maybe after the test is over and our pranks are set of." said Naruto first towards Hinata and then to Kyu, hearing this both girls pouted although Hinata's probably wasn't completely true, even if they were mentally 21 they still had 11 year old bodies. Though with them being ninja their bodies developed sooner, they now already looked like they were 13-14 years old. Another half a year and their bodies would probably be like a 16 years old civilian.
Naruto seeing his shot, quickly got out of bed into the bathroom and in the shower, his cold shower, thinking back to his reason for taking the shower, make that a very cold shower.
After quickly getting ready and eating their breakfast, now not just ramen thanks to Hinata and Kyu. Now he had a very differentiated diet, though that diet did centre, but was not exclusively, around ramen.
Seeing how they still both had half an hour to kill they decided the two of them would just walk calmly towards the training ground, Kyu would stay in the compound and set up extra traps, plan the rest of the pranks/ jutsu steals/ break-ins of the clan compounds and last but certainly not least, get the groceries. Seeing the last part of her to do list, Kyu groaned, here she was, the queen demon, the nine tailed demon fox, Kyuubi no Kitsune being a stay at home mom. And the worst part was, she didn't even mind.
Seeing as Kyu was not really always in his mind now that she had a body, though still restricted, Hinata and Naruto could talk privately while they were walking towards the training ground.
"So what do you think we could give Kura-chan as Birthday gift Tenshi-chan?"
Naruto found that since he now had an extra nickname and he already did sometimes use tenshi for Hinata, he had to give Kyu another nickname and voila the short version of her full name, meaning angel of darkness, became Kura-chan.
"Well you could always just give her your body to do with as she pleases but seeing as both you and me were already planning that anyhow, you want something else?"
"Yeah, you know a bucket of roses or something like that, something substantial. But at the same time I want it to be unique and nice."
"Well you'll have to think about it yourself, I already have something for her but jewellery is always a good way to go. And you can let something be custom made if you want or just make it yourself, after all they do say that a home-made gift means hundred times more than a pretty bought one."
"Thanks Tenshi-chan, I'll try to come up with something for Kuin-chan."
And just as he used their nicknames he got a brilliant idea, but not wanting to give anything away he just kept his face neutral. Hinata however being the girlfriend of Naruto for a few years now and before that even a little stalker, immediately saw through it and knew that apparently had already thought of something however she didn't know what. It seemed that he could still surprise her, even after 5 years in a relationship.
Finally arriving at training ground 8, they were still had about 15 minutes to burn, so they just decided to cuddle a little, however their private time was interrupted when Shino arrived not a minute after they had.
And he was surprised, again, it seemed that these two didn't just keep one thing secret like his second hive and better physical attributes, no now here they were casually cuddling while Hinata had dual crossbows on her back, both fairly big, but not excessively so, and with the way she carried them, they wouldn't hinder her even if she bent over completely backwards. Not that Shino even fathomed that she could do such a thing but hey it's the thought that matters. And then there was Naruto who seemed to have some very weird bended plate on his back, it was something Shino had never seen before and wondered just what it did, knowing Naruto probably something explosive. He never really did figure out why Naruto had this sick fascination with blowing things up, but hey it probably would come in handy sometime during a mission.
"Excuse Naruto-san, but what is that on your back?"
"This is called a BOOMerang and if I'm lucky I might even get to use it during this test."
"Naruto-kun, you did disable most of the extra features right, we don't want to accidently kill anyone now do we?" whispered Hinata to Naruto while she was still cuddled up to him, meaning Shino didn't hear.
"Good thinking Hime-chan, it would be kinda hard to explain wouldn't it" whispered Naruto back while rubbing his head before quickly grabbing his boomerang and disabling most of the extra features he had made with it, he probably wouldn't be using this giant one and would more than likely go for one of his smaller ones.
But Naruto had wanted to impress the others and so brought out one of his big ones, Hinata had decided she rather stay modest and picked two of her mediums, she had already disabled the extra features after it would be quite hard to explain how they knew elemental manipulation at this stage of their training. Now they were just crossbows that she could fire really fast and Naruto had a really big and heavy BOOMerang however the BOOM function was not really part of it, at least not at the moment. They would of course show them more and more as time went by, hopefully even gotten to the stage where they would be able to disclose their elemental chakra during the chuunin exams.
Now Shino was sure of it, he was way, way, waaaay behind his teammates, not that he really cared, after all if they were this strong already, then he'll just have to work harder to get just as strong and with their and their sensei's help, he, unlike a certain Uchiha, did train his ass off to get stronger and didn't expect to just get everything handed to him. That would just be illogical, a person should only get what he deserves, and just because you were from a clan did not mean you deserved anything. But it seemed that the Uchiha didn't think so. He expected to get everything handed to him and didn't have a shred of loyalty, one thing Shino thought was one of the most important things to have, especially as without their bugs loyalty the Aburame would be lost. No the Uchiha just wanted power for powers sake and that didn't sit well with Shino.
"Just how much did you guys hold back?"
However before Naruto could answer with a very vague answer, he was interrupted when Anko and Kurenai arrived.
"Good, everyone is already here, then let's get to this. Now normally we use this test to test teamwork and something else, me and Anko had already decided to test courage" looking pointedly to Hinata," empathy," looking at Shino "and thoroughness" looking at Naruto. "However seeing your profile which we based our test on, were complete bogus, so we had to improvise. Normally we would just get you to find and capture a certain item, with traps and genjutsu on the way. But seeing as you are much more advanced than the normal genin team, we'll do this a little bit different, there is only one requirement, you have to go find and steal a kunai with team 8 signed on it. There are 2 kunai with mine and Anko's sent on them, both me and Anko will try and stop you from getting to our kunai. You have until noon!" said Kurenai just before both Anko and Kurenai shuunshined away.
At first it looked like Shino was going to leave too but then both Naruto and Hinata saw him turn thoughtful. Neither Hinata nor Naruto had moved and wanted to give him some time to think about what Kurenai had said; hoping he caught the true meaning of the test and it had appeared he did. Looking underneath the underneath he had remembered that they had one, not said that whoever had the kunai would pass; two since they were jounin they was no way he alone could beat or outsmart them and three, even if he would run now, he knew that with the difference in strength between him and the couple before him, he would never beat them.
"I suggest we work together, after all we are just genin, there is no way we could actually win against a special jounin or jounin if we worked alone."
"Just as I was thinking," answered a smiling Naruto, he felt he could really get to like Shino.
"First we'll need a plan but before that we need to relocate." After saying that both Hinata and Naruto left, Shino followed suite, knowing that staying in the open was one of the worst things they could do. Even if it was said that they would protect their kunai, it would be in Anko's nature to come attack them so that they would not be able to get her kunai.
Going into the forest, Hinata activated her Byakugan, signalling to Naruto to stop, they waited for Shino to catch up.
"Okay, now that we have a little bit more privacy, how do you guys suggest we solve this."
Naruto already had a plan ready, but still wanted the input of Shino who knew maybe he thought of something he hadn't thought of yet. Shino seeing as they were waiting for him and definitely wanted his opinion, felt they could trust them at least a little bit more.
"I suggest we first locate both kunai locations, with both Hinata's eyes and my bugs, we could use my kikkai bugs to dismantle any normal traps, Hinata finds. After the traps are disabled we find the easiest way in and out, this is where Naruto comes in. I don't really know your skills but what I do know is that you can cause a lot of commotion and mayhem if you want to, so you will cause a distraction while me and Hinata sneak in and out."
Naruto had to admit it, with the data he had, Shino had really come up with a great plan, but there were some things he missed and although Naruto didn't want to criticize it was belter to tell him now than to have the plan blow up in their face.
"Okay nice plan, for the most part I agree, however, I think we'll best also look out for seals, I heard Anko has at least a basic understanding of them, also we can't rule out the possibility that they decided to put both their kunai together so that one could always stay with it. Other than that I like your plan. I'll make the distraction and lure them out while you get the prize. I should let you know that I do know the Kage Bunshin no jutsu so if you see more solids of me running around don't think it too weird." And when he said distraction he actually meant, blow up stuff till they come out. He did like to blow stuff up, thinking this could be heard by both Hinata and Kyu, who promptly sighed BOYS.
The first kunai they found was the one guarded by Anko and it showed, after all the amount of sharp pointy traps were numerous. So much even that Naruto was glad, he didn't just barge in like he used too, it could have gotten extremely messy and hurtful. Now he first had Hinata check to see everything a couple of feet away, luckily because she found that even just one foot and they would have tripped the alarm seal line. And then things would have gotten even more hurtful, not only would it have alerted Anko, it would have also apparently of set off a whole cascade of other seals, none of them lethal but they would bring lots of hurt and even more pointy thingies.
But this would work to their advantage, after all Naruto was a seal master. He even surpassed the Fourth on his use of different seals in battle, though was still an amateur compared to the Uzumaki of legend. They could make a seal a mile away just by stomping onto the ground once.
He had cracked the hirashin no justu, now both him and Hinata could do it however it was only the long distance version that was possible. His dad had really been a genius, and he was sure that his mother interfered in the deception as well. It was common knowledge that the Namikaze never had many ninja, what wasn't common knowledge was that the line also had a bloodline limit. It was probably caused by having each of the line, even the non-shinobi, able to use the henge, the kawarimi, Kakuremino and the Nawanuke. Four easy to learn e-ranks that even a non-shinobi might find usefull once in their live. But after generation of generation mastering these techniques the Namikaze had slowly been able to push the boundaries of these jutsu. And that's where the deception begins. The Hirashin wasn't a short distance teleportation that nobody else could figure out because nobody had even a clue that all his dad had been doing was repeatedly use the kawarimi with the air that hung above the seals. Should that air be switched a flash would erupt from the seal masking that the fourth was swapping himself with them. Unfortunately for Naruto his specialty wasn't the kawarimi and so the prank his father pulled couldn't be continued.
Seeing the alarm line, Naruto already knew just what he would use for distraction purposes. Thinking about it he couldn't help but smile. "Okay, slight diversion from the original plan. I can use this alarm line here and disable it for a little piece of land, and seeing as all the other seals are linked to this line, if it doesn't get activated, then they will not work either, so I'll send one of my clones with you, to disable the line at the other side. Do not enter before you hear my signal, Shino you still use your bugs to disable the traps on the other side. I'll make two other clones and let them henge into you and make them hide in the bush this way she'll think it's an ambush while in reality I'm just the decoy. Does anyone have any problems with that?"
"Yes but first what did you mean by sending a clone with us, if I remember correctly you could never do a bunshin and secondly they're not substantial so they can't really do much."
Naruto still being a little of a knucklehead he used to be, just decided that an example is much better than an explanation.
"Kage bunshin no jutsu." Called Naruto forming his familiar cross sign. And poofed 5 clones into existence, although it could be noted that the amount of smoke was nearly half of what it originally was. But Shino didn't know that, however just his eyebrows rose, here was Naruto, the class dunce who just used a jonin level technique like it was nothing. However this just reinforced his idea that they had been holding back all this time.
In his mind Naruto pouted, he had hoped for at least a little bit more than just a raised eyebrow after all he did just pull of a jonin level technique.
"Okay you guys go to the other side. Just be careful not to trigger anything. And wait for my clones to give you the okay before you guys sneak in."
And so both Naruto's five clones, Hinata and Shino left. Naruto then started preparing for his big show, so that he could set it of directly after his clones disabled the line, this way even if there was a fail-safe, she would never look there but think it was just feedback from where Naruto's other clones will break the line, hopefully.
After five minutes waiting he received the information of his clone. So he quickly send one of his clones to trip up the line.
All the while screaming, "No Hinata Shino, look out!" he didn't have to wait long cause not a minute later, Anko rushed out the door, to the scene of Naruto cradling Hinata's body with Shino's unconscious body, not very far beyond that. However the first thing she taught that it would be an illusion, "Kai!" but nothing changed. She still saw Naruto crying over a very cripple Hinata. Seeing as it was no illusion, because no matter how much they would progress, Anko was even able to escape Kurenai's genjutsu once she tried. So she had to assume that something must have gone wrong with her seals and traps.
She stumbled towards the crippled bodies of two of her students and one grieving one. However from the moment she got close enough, both Hinata and Shino's bodies poofed away in a giant flash, blinding Anko. At this point she knew something was wrong, and was directly on edge. Hearing a whooshing sound Anko did the first thing her reflex told her, she ducked, looking behind her she saw with her few limited vision, the boomerang, Naruto had on his back before the fight. After a few minutes, she blinked a few times before she finally had her complete vision back, seeing Naruto just standing there quite leisurely leaning against a tree.
"So what you think about my flash clones, quite handy isn't it."
"Annoying is more like it." screamed a now extremely pissed of Anko," my eyes still hurt!" blinking a few more times.
Suddenly Anko ducked again, just as the boomerang returned over her head again. Getting back up, she looked up at a very smug looking Naruto.
"So what do you think about my weapon of choice quite innovative don't you think. It has an automatic return policy."
"Yeah it's just peachy.' said Anko happily, sarcastically." But I must say number one most surprising ninja quite right. Only you would use a children's toy as a weapon, what's next a yoyo?" asked Anko.
"Nope… that's Hinata's weapon of choice." deadpanned Naruto, Anko face-planted.
But then at this Anko remembered Hinata, and the fact that she wasn't here.
"Do tell me, where is lovely Hinata."
Hearing this Naruto started sweating a bit. It seemed the other ones only needed one more minute, so that's what he was gonna give them, after all one minute wasn't all that much was it. So instead of just lying like normal, he decided to be brutally honest.
"She is at the moment stealing your kunai."
"You don't have to lie you know, you could just say you don't know. That only gives me more time to play. So let's play." said Anko, flinging a couple of kunai at Naruto. Naruto of course did the only logical thing, he moved to the right. Making his usual cross sign, he quickly made a dozen of clones and sent them to distract Anko. However these were quickly dispatched by a few well-placed kunai by Anko.
"Come on kid, is that all you got?" smirked Anko.
"Of course not!", called Naruto, but the whispering the name of his attack," Kitsune-bi: Gōkakyū no Jutsu", sending a ball of foxfire to Anko, who seemed quite surprised but still did manage to escape the ball.
"What the hell Naruto, I didn't mean it."
" Sure you didn't Anko-sensei." smirked Naruto, doing another seal order ending with the fox sign, this time not even whispering but just thinking " Kitsune-bi: Hiendan no jutsu." shooting out a smaller but faster version of the flame bullet, now only narrowly missing Anko but hitting a tree she was standing before, now with normal fire it would just burn the surface but as it is foxfire, it splashed against it and also ignited the ground around the base. However seeing as Naruto didn't want to burn the rest of the forest down. He quickly made it stop.
"Oops, a little bit stronger than I wanted it to be."
"Oops that's all you have to say, you could have killed me with that Naruto."
"Hehe, sorry Anko-sensei." suddenly getting information about how Hinata and Shino had successfully snuck past all the other traps and seals and had finally stolen the kunai, Naruto decided he should better end this before she turned serious." Well seeing as I don't really have much more techniques that possibly won't kill you or at least I don't really have the control I want over them, I'll be leaving you." said Naruto before shuunshing away.
Anko just blinked a few times, that was the most anticlimactic ending to a fight she had ever had. But then it hit her, Naruto never did want to beat her, he was stalling, rushing back inside she quickly looked towards the box with the kunai in only to find the lid open, the seal array disabled and the kunai gone. "Damn it!" screamed Anko, "he was really telling the truth. He was just a decoy." And so it seemed that Anko had been beaten just because she had underestimated them, she never once thought someone could bypass her seals without her knowing. Maybe that was the twinge she had felt in the beginning. Once she felt the giant twinge when the seals went off the front, she had discarded it as just Naruto trying to tamper with it before setting it off. But she had been had, she sighed, 'Oh well at least now I can go and watch them try and beat Nai-chan.' thought Anko before rushing off.
A few miles away from Anko's location, Hinata and Shino met up with Naruto,
"Well if Kurenai-sensei is just as easily fooled we'll be done far before our deadline."
"I wouldn't count on Kurenai-sensei to be so careless Naruto." answered Shino.
"I know I know but still we did nail this one." replied Naruto," She didn't know what hit her."
Shino just nodded and Hinata just smiled at Naruto's enthusiasm.
"Okay, now I don't think Kurenai will be just as easy so we'll have to change the plan a little once we get there. Got to keep it flexible." said Naruto before heading towards where he thought Kurenai would hide the kunai.
"Okay" answered both Hinata and Shino, but Shino did add, "Naruto-san, Kurenai-sensei's location is that way, pointing in the complete opposite direction of where Naruto was headed.
"Right I knew that" called Naruto, after having stopped, leaving skid marks all over the ground, chuckled and ran backwards (like in the manga when someone goes in the wrong direction), turned and dashed in the right direction after Shino. Hinata just sighed and followed after them.
