Chapter 10: Free Weekend Part 1: Naruto and Hanabi!

"Alright, tomorrow is your day off, use it well." Kakashi said, "And Naruto I'm not going to be home until Monday, so you're on you own this weekend." Kakashi said, "Gohan is it too much trouble for you to ask Owl to train you in the usage of turning you chakra into lightning, I see that your fire is good, but your lightning is lacking." Kakashi told the half-Saiyan.

"Yea I'll work on it." Gohan promised.

"Kakashi-nii, why aren't you home?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi shrugged his shoulders at his brother's question and turned to Sasuke, "Sasuke, I have a mission for you."

"What is it?" The Uchiha asked.

"I want you to make friends with at least one of the other members of your graduating class that isn't part of your team." Kakashi said.

"Absurd." Sasuke said, "How would they help me get stronger?"

Kakashi shrugged, "It's your mission, otherwise no new Jutsu for you for an entire month." Kakashi then looked at Sakura, "I have a mission for you as well Sakura."

"What is it Kakashi-sensei?" The Pinkette asked.

"I want you to pick a specialisation, you are the best at controlling chakra on this team so I want you to start early on specialisation." Kakashi said.

"But, why so early?" She asked.

"Why does Sakura get to specialise?" Naruto asked.

"Because she is above the level of chakra control that is needed for specialisation and she is levels under you three strength and skill wise." The Jonin answered.

"HEY!" Sakura shouted.

"It's true Sakura, you can't deny it." Her sensei said.

Sakura looked down, "I know." She muttered.

"Good, so all of you have your missions, I'm off." Kakashi did a two finger salute and disappeared.

"I don't have a mission." Naruto muttered.

Sasuke walked away, going home to train.

"Sasuke-kun, where you going?" Sakura asked, but was ignored by the Uchiha causing her to groan.

"Well, I'm off to go see Owl-sensei." Gohan said, walking off.

"So Sakura, any idea about your specialisation?" Naruto asked.

"Not at all, I'm going to the library, so I'll see you later Naruto." She said as she walked off.

"Alright, Ichiraku here I come!" Naruto yelled, running off into the village.

Hanabi had just gotten off her team's training, if you could call it that, Asuma had them doing teamwork exercises for three hours, then had them do two D-ranked missions, one of which was catching Tora, the cat that belonged to the wife of the fire Daimyo, and the other which involved painting a fence white, which wouldn't have been too bad if it hadn't been the third time that her team had painted that fence, this week. The Hyuuga saw a black blur race in her direction, she was too distracted by trying to figure out what it was to move when it, or rather he, slammed into her, sending both of them to the ground, with her on top of him, straddling his waist.

"Uhm." Naruto blushed at his position, "Hey Hanabi."

"Sorry." Hanabi quickly got up when she noticed the position she was in.

Naruto stood up as well, "You wanna get some lunch?" He asked, "I was heading to Ichiraku's for a bite."

"Sure, but you're paying." Hanabi smiled and began walking towards her friends favourite restaurant.

"Course I am." Naruto groaned and followed.

The two walked into the ramen stand and saw Teuchi and his daughter Ayame were at the counter.

"Ah, Naruto, how's my favourite customer?" Teuchi asked.

"I'm pretty good old man, can I have three bowls of miso ramen please." Naruto answered.

"Coming right up, and for you Hanabi?" Teuchi asked the girl before he went to the back to make the ramen.

"I'll have one beef ramen please." She responded.

"For sure." Teuchi went to making the ramen.

"So Hanabi, how's training with team 10?"

"It's not too bad, but we don't do much, Ino refuses to train, Choji eats too much, and Shikamaru is too lazy." She said.

"Sounds pretty bad, we're learning a lot from Kakashi-nii." Naruto said, "We even got to test our natures." He bragged.

"I thought you had to prove trustworthy to do that?" Hanabi was shocked that Naruto's team had already learnt their natures.

"I'm got two, wind and water" He said, "And Kakashi-nii left me with an extra sheet of chakra paper." Naruto waved around a piece of ordinary looking paper in front of Hanabi's face.

"Letmeseeletmeseeletmeseeeee!" Hanbi whined as she tried to get the piece of paper.

"Heres your orders." Ayame placed four bowls in front of the two fresh Genin, "Enjoy." She smiled.

"Thanks Ayame!" Naruto said as he dug into the ramen, leaving the piece of paper on the floor beside him.

"Thanks." Hanabi smiled, she saw the paper flutter to the floor and grabbed it without Naruto noticing and pocketing it.

"So, you have the weekend off?" Hanabi said after she finished her bowl.

"Yea, but Kakashi-nii isn't here so I don't know what to do." Naruto groaned, "He left everyone else with a mission except for me."

"Well, I could use a training partner for tomorrow, training ground 12?" She suggested.

"12?" Naruto thought for a minute, that training ground was infamous for the large predators including wolves, lynx, and even a few pygmy lions, there was even a strange rumour of a unicorn that lived in the center, where a small lake sat, "Sure."

"Alright, I'm going home for some Juken training, meet me there at 8:30." Hanabi stood up and walked out, "Thanks for the food."

Naruto waved as s he left and ordered three more bowls before paying and going home.

Naruto met Hanabi the next morning at 8:30 at training ground 12, it was a fenced in area that had a small clearing and was surrounded by thick forest. The clearing was unlike other training grounds though in the fact that it had no training dummies or posts set up, instead this training ground was mainly used for Taijutsu training and practicing dangerous jutsu -which was evident from the large craters that filled the clearing.

"Taijutsu practice?" Naruto asked.

"Nope, we're going exploring." Hanabi smiled.

"And how does exploring amount to training?" Naruto asked. Hanabi just shrugged and walked away, Naruto groaned and followed.

As the two walked in the forest they saw crows in the trees watching them.

"Those crows are kinda creepy Naruto." Hanabi said as she unconsciously moved closer to her friend.

"They're just birds." Naruto waved her worry off, "So what are we looking for?"

"I heard that there is a unicorn and a beautiful lake in the middle of the forest." Hanabi replied, "And I really wanna see it."

The two walked in silence for a few minutes before an ear piercing cry was heard in the distance, Naruto and Hanabi jumped upwards as they heard hooves slamming on the ground towards them, while they were in the air, they saw nearly 30 wild deer rush by, the cry was heard again as the deer suddenly fell to the floor, not moving.

Hanabi and Naruto landed carefully, as to not land on any deer, "What happened?" She asked.

"I think they died." Naruto said as he heard the cry again, "Let's go see what that is." He took off running towards it.

They ran through the woods, more dead deer lead the way to the source of the shrieks. As they got closer they saw yellow eyes glowing in the thicker brush of the forest, and more eyes appeared as they closed in to their destination, where they saw large, black wolf, his shoulders easily dwarfing the two Genin. It didn't seem to notice them as it was still eating from the carcass of a large stag.

"Hanabi, stay back." Naruto whispered and slowly walked towards it, drawing a kunai and bringing it up to defend himself just in case. He heard a growl to his left and saw another black wolf -this one about the same size as a normal wolf- walking towards him, slowly, more and more wolves came until Naruto and Hanabi were trapped in a ring of them.

A deep, guttural growl was heard from the center of the ring, where the large wolf was. The wolf lifted his head and stared into Naruto's eyes, his evil red eyes meeting Naruto's serene blue eyes. The wolf sniffed in Naruto's direction and growled again, "Saiyan!" IT shouted and lunged at Naruto.

Hanabi jumped and pushed Naruto out of the way, getting clawed in the chest instead of him, a large spurt of blood shot out of the Hyuuga's chest as the wolf's claws tore through her thin black coat, her lavender shirt, and her skin, leaving just three claw marks where her chest was earlier.

"HANABI!" Naruto shouted, his blue eyes shifted to a green color, with pupils shaped like a fox, "YOU BASTARD!" Naruto growled as a red aura overtook him and his fingernails elongated to claws, "I'LL KILL YOU!" His pupils ran over Hanabi's body and he felt something strange happen to him, he dropped the kunai into the ground.

Inside of Naruto's mind, the Kyuubi had just woken up, the brat was using his power but there was something else, something that the Kyuubi had only felt once before, but that was on himself.

'What is the brat doing?' Kyuubi asked himself as he looked at Naruto's predicament, he saw Hanabi on the floor, and a large black wolf, finally his eyes fell upon Naruto himself, 'The brat has Kitsunegan!' Kyuubi almost yelled, 'That's my unique Dojutsu though, none of my other Jinchuuriki possessed it, why does he?' The fox asked himself, 'This one might be worth helping.' He smiled wryly, "BRAT!" He shouted.

"BRAT!" Naruto heard from inside his head.

"WHAT!" Naruto growled, he wasn't in the mood for this.

"The girl is a Hyuuga right?" Kyuubi asked his jailer.

"YES SHE'S A HYUUGA!"

"So she has the Byakugan?"

"OF COURSE SHE DOES!"

"Listen to me, you have awakened my Dojutsu, it allows you to copy Kekkei Genkai and take them for yourself, just look at her eyes and and ask her for the Byakugan, it should copy the ability into you." Kurama explained.

Naruto looked at Hanabi and walked up to her, kneeling before her, forgetting about the wolf, who was watching with curiosity. "Hey Hanabi?" Naruto poked her, "Can I copy your Byakugan?"

Hanabi's eyes fluttered open and she saw Naruto, "Sure." She said weakly, "Just beat that wolf for me." She tried to smile.

"For sure." Naruto smiled and his eyes flashed, he stood and looked at the wolf, staring it dead in the eyes, "Byakugan." Naruto muttered, his green eyes changing to pure white, pupiless eyes with veins bulging around his temples, "Ready to die?" Naruto asked, the red aura growing slightly as he saw the blood that stained the wolf's black snout and claws.

"That's funny Saiyan." The wolf laughed, "You can't touch me."

Naruto looked the wolf over, he could see all the other, smaller wolves around him, standing nervously, the large wolf had few chakra points, and his chakra coils weren't developed as well as his or Hanabi's. Naruto shot forwards and struck the wolf in the stomach, then brought his right leg up and hit the wolf in the snout, but he got no reaction.

"That tickled." The wolf said, "My turn." It backhanded Naruto, causing the Genin to fly into a tree and knock it over.

"Ow." Naruto got up, rubbing his back, "Hey voice, where are you?"

"I'm here brat, I'll lend you more of my chakra, use the Eight Gates with it." Kyuubi told Naruto.

"Fine." Naruto felt himself rejuvenate as the red aura around grew a single tail and his whisker marks grew more prominent, "KAIMON!" Naruto shouted, "KYUMON! SEIMON!" Naruto's skin turned red and he appeared in front of the wolf, "Wanna tell me your name before I kill you?" Naruto asked as he uppercutted the wolf in the snout, sending it flying upwards.

The wolf landed and began to growl and stand up, his muscles expanded as he shrunk down to about a head over Naruto, "My name is Lupus." The man-wolf said.

"Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto said as he slammed his fist into the wolf-man's stomach, sending him flying away, the blond followed and performed a few hand signs, "Ressenpu!" He shouted, blasting wind from his mouth and sending the wolf to the floor hard, the blond flipped in the air and dropped his heel into the wolf-man's chest, causing him to cough blood. Naruto continued to beat his enemy until he stopped moving, he released his eight gates and fell over, crawling towards Hanabi so that he could protect her, but all the wolves around him had run, leaving their alpha alone.

The large wolf stood up, "I'll let you go for now, Saiyan, but if you ever come back to my forest I'll kill you." He warned.

Naruto felt a familiar feeling as he opened the second of the eight gates, but he didn't do it.

"Brat, you and I will talk later, for now just get your friend to the hospital or she'll die." The Kyuubi warned, Naruto stood up immediately, ignoring the slight pains he felt as he picked Hanabi up bridal-style and rushed towards the hospital.

It took Naruto all of fifteen minutes to reach the hospital, where he pushed open the doors, "I need a doctor!" He screamed before falling over, unconscious.

Sorry it took so long for this chapter, I wanted to work out all the kinks of the Kitsunegan and I also had to work everyday for the past two weeks. I also apologise if this chapter seems rushed, I just wanted to get it done with. Anyways, as always I hope you like the chapter but if you didn't tell me why.

With regards to the Gohan pairing poll, Gohan/Hinata is currently at a 6-4 lead over Gohan/Videl.

Thanks for reading!

A/N 2: I have a new poll on my profile for Sakura's specialization so check that out.