Here is the new chapter guys, and as always thank you for supporting the story
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Few things I want to confirm guys, firstly this is not a harem story and if you want to see any particular pair (few are already set) please let me know, I will do what I can. And about the grammar part I told before one of the reason i am writing this is to improve my knowledge on English, few of my friends told me that they will help (I don't know when) with revising the first chapters, I will let you guys know about that.
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"Thank you for letting Haku to stay with Naruto." Yamato said sincerely.
"They both seem to view each other as a family. Besides after all the hardships that kid went through, he deserves every bit of happiness he can get." Hiruzen said while smoking through his pipe, "I just hope Naruto forgives this old man for his incompetence to do anymore." Though he whispered the last part only for himself.
"What about them?" Yamato asked in a serious voice.
Hiruzen put his pipe down and thought about it for a while before continuing, "Do what Zabuza said, the girl knows Hyoton so she must be good in water element; teach her more in that particular area. The only person that may find out something about Haku is Danzo because of Sai which may cause problems if we don't handle it appropriately. So make sure Haku doesn't use anything that she used on the last battle and if possible try to tell her not to use her senbons too much either. Her bloodline can't be kept secret forever but it is better if that part is told sometime later when she is more prepared." Hiruzen explained, sometimes he wondered if his elders were meant to hamper his work rather than to help him, maybe he ought to find some replacement for them. Sooner the better.
"Thank you, I will tell Haku about it. Also can we take a week off, Sandaime-sama? Haku has to adjust with our team first and it might take a while." Yamato pointed out.
"Sure, they need a break after a long A rank mission." Hiruzen agreed.
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With Naruto
"Naruto-kun, when was the last time you clean this place?" Haku sighed, everywhere it was the same for her. Even while traveling with Zabuza he would leave everything to her except the killing and maiming part.
Naruto laughed nervously while stroking his hair on the back, he was glad that Hokage let Haku to stay with him as he really needed some company at home. Sure, training with friends and sensei is fun but at the end when he returned home it reminded him of what he was missing. "Don't worry Haku-nee, I will clean this up in a jiffy. Shadow Clone jutsu!" Three clones popped into existence. "Alright guys go start cleaning the place, one of you go and get a futon but be sure to henge yourself." Naruto ordered out, the clones made a mock salute gesture and ran to do their parts.
"I will help Naruto-kun, I am used to this so don't worry." With that Haku started helping the clones but it was more her ordering the around the clones. "By the way Naruto-kun, what was all the pranking the anbu about?"
Naruto scratched his head sheepishly. He really didn't know how Haku would take it, "Well, me and my friend thought it would be good for my infiltration and sensing skills." Naruto replied looking rather embarrassed, but seeing Haku's confused face he knew that he had to elaborate further. "It is nothing dangerous and I don't go inside more restricted areas. All I do is just to get inside anbus' bases without getting noticed and pranking them. It will mostly be something like coloring their cloths or switching the toilet signs, harmless pranks if I might add. It helps a lot for my stealth training and the best part is that everyone knows it is me but they don't have proof." Naruto finished while laughing trying to sound like an evil mastermind.
"You wear orange and your hair color is blond and you are telling me that Konoha's Anbu can't capture you?" Haku deadpanned.
"Ah, that is a trade secret my dear Haku-nee." Naruto replied while waving his index finger. He chuckled inwardly remembering how it all started.
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Flashback
"So after painting the Hokages' faces I was able to keep them off my ass for two whole hours until Iruka-sensei caught me." Naruto explained his last grand prank enthusiastically.
"It does sound quite amusing especially the fact that you were wearing all orange and still lasted that long." Raiju chuckled. Naruto beamed up; from time to time both of them would just sit around and talk about themselves. Naruto really cherished these moments. "So when are you going to strike next?" Raiju asked smirking.
"I wish I could but now that I am genin, it won't be a good idea." Naruto pouted.
Raiju thought for a while, from what he learned after hearing Naruto's stories that he was quite good at pranking and usually didn't get caught immediately; meaning he knew how to infiltrate and keep himself hidden for quite some time. Raiju grinned, the kid knew lots of good ninja skills but used them only for pranking and in real ninja missions he was like a brawler or more like a hot-headed fighter. Raiju looked at Naruto and thought for a minute if he could use this to train Naruto.
"Why not keep pranking but target higher? It was quite a show before but now with the ninja skills and jutsu you have your pranking will be more amusing." Raiju baited.
"Really?" Naruto jumped up, he looked at Raiju with excited expecting eyes.
"Yes, continue pranking but don't do it often, plan it out and target high strong places like jonin lounge, anbu base; hmm, especially anbu base. BUT…" Raiju sternly said before Naruto could say anything, "change your attire fully, use your jutsus wisely, observe the place you are going to strike and make sure you left no evidence to trace the prank back to you. Wouldn't it be more fun if everyone knows who is doing the pranks but no way to catch him?" Raiju explained.
Naruto's determined eyes answered everything.
Raiju chuckled openly.
Flashback Ends
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After that Naruto made a special getup and used it only when he pranked, it was a normal anbu attire but the flak jacket and metal arm guards were dark grey and it also had a hoodie to cover his head to hide his hair, he also used face mask to cover his whiskers and dark sunglass to hide his eyes. All in all it was the perfect getup for him to infiltrate any place, no one was able to catch him (except Iruka) when he used to wear the 'kill-me' orange jumpsuit, who the hell was going to catch him now that he wore the 'dark-knight' suit of his.
Naruto shook his head while chuckling.
"Anything I should know?" Haku said smiling.
"Nah, just remembered something funny." Naruto replied back.
"So I am to guess you use some 'super-awesome' jutsu to prank the anbu?" Haku smiled while ordering the clones to clean. "I could get used to this." She thought to herself.
"Heh, you are the one that has 'super-awesome' ice jutsu, the mirror of doom!" Naruto exaggerated.
"It is not that strong Naruto-kun," Haku giggled, "It is a B rank ice release area type jutsu. But you beat mine with yours, didn't you?" Haku pointed out. "What was that anyway?"
"Uhh that reminds me now that you will be on our team so I guess I should tell you that….." Naruto leaned in with serious face, Haku was taken aback by the gesture but she got serious and leaned in as well. "You are in a super awesome team filled with super epic members!" Naruto jumped back cheering.
Haku looked at him and then facepalmed.
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With the outside clone
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The clone just bought a new futon and some other necessary stuff, except cloths, for Haku. After Naruto found out that just by using henge he can buy stuffs at a normal rate, he used it regularly even though it hurt a bit every time seeing how people viewed him. Suddenly the clone was pulled back from his thought by a voice.
"H-Hello Naruto-kun, how was your last mission?" Hinata asked in a gentle voice.
The clone looked at Hinata and lightened up, "Why not come and ask the boss? He would be pissed if he learns that I talked to you and you didn't come after that." The clone shivered a bit, a pissed of Naruto was someone no one should tread lightly if especially Hinata was involved. Prime example, Neji the arrogant fate-whipped bitch.
"Sure Na-Naruto-kun. By the way what are all those stuffs you are carrying?" Hinata asked.
"Umm, well you see…"
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Sometime Later
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"I wonder, do you even clean your place at all?" Haku sighed when she put the last garbage bag out.
"Hey for my defense I always train so usually don't have enough time." Naruto defended himself.
"What would you do if any girl would want to come at your place?" Haku asked with a smirk.
Before Naruto could reply there was a knock on the door. "I am getting that." Saying that Haku went and opened the door to see Naruto's other clone with a girl, she had to admit to herself the girl was quite cute and beautiful but for some reason she looked a tad bit agitated. The clone went inside and dispelled himself. Moments later Naruto came out and brightened up, from the clones memory he learned that Hinata knew about what happened back at Wave, at least the summarized version;
"Hey Hinata-chan. Glad you came, I was going to introduce Haku-nee to my friends anyway." Looking at Haku, he continued, "Haku-nee, this is Hinata-chan, a very close friend of mine." Hinata blushed after hearing Naruto's declaration but she moved a bit closer to Naruto and took a hold of his jacket lightly as if saying to Haku that Naruto belonged to her.
Haku chuckled at the whole ordeal but before she could talk to Hinata Naruto beamed up, "Awww, you want to hug me Hinata-chan?"
"Eh…eeeeeeeeeeep!.." Hinata squeaked when Naruto gave her a huge bear hug, "Score." Naruto thought to himself while tightening his hug and stroking her hair with his cheek. But his happy moment didn't last long as he felt some stinging feeling in his hand, he took a look to see that some senbons hit his bicep, he growled at Haku and tightened his hug with Hinata,
"What the hell, Haku-nee?" Haku didn't say anything but pointed at Hinata. Naruto picked her up a bit to look at her face to see she fainted while steams were coming out from her ears. Naruto just sighed.
"Why don't you put the poor girl down?" Haku suggested although she was enjoying the drama.
"Ya ya, got it." Naruto picked Hinata up bridal style and cradled her body tighter while went around the house to put her in his bed. "He could have just put her down in the sofa, it was closer." Haku just shook her head.
"Naruto-kun, go get some foods please and no clones." Haku suggested but it sounded more like an order.
"Why?" Naruto whined loudly.
"Because there is no decent food in here and your friend there might be hungry and I want to talk with her alone." Haku said firmly.
Naruto just grunted and went out mumbling.
"Now as for you." Haku went to the kitchen and started looking for some smelling salt.
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After half an hour later
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Naruto was seriously pissed; chances like this didn't come often, he knew he just couldn't go and hugged Hinata anytime he wanted but today he found an excuse to hug her and Haku had to ruin it.
"She was so soft." Naruto giggled to himself, "Damn, control man. Control!"
Well at least he could spend the whole day with her today. He wanted to run there but with all the food he was carrying he just jogged for now; he could use 'Shadow clone' but Yamato warned him not to use that too much on public places. He also got some cinnamon bun as an apology for Hinata. Maybe he could ask her to come and train with him and Haku, oh the possibilities.
Unbeknownst to him, Sakura and Ino were talking in front of the same road; when Sakura saw Naruto, she just rolled her eyes and told Ino, "Here we go again; the baka is going to ask for another date."
Ino just giggled a bit, "But you have to admit he looks a bit cooler now." Sakura looked at Ino with a raised eyebrow.
"Hey girls, how are you doing?" Naruto asked when he saw them but before he could say anymore Sakura raised her hand,
"No Naruto I am not going on a date with you even you buy sweet stuffs for me." Sakura said in an annoyed voice.
Naruto narrowed his eyes, "Sorry Sakura, I didn't come to ask you out and this is not for you. Sheesh." Naruto replied back with an annoyed voice as well and just walked past them. The girls were dumbfounded at his response.
"Did Naruto just shove you aside Sakura?" Ino asked in a surprised tone.
Sakura didn't know what to say.
Naruto just kept grumbling all the way till he reached his apartment.
He opened his door only to hear some giggling much to his confusion, he put the stuffs and went to the kitchen to see Hinata and Haku were talking animatedly and giggling to themselves as if they were best friends. Hearing the sound both girls looked back to see the blond staring at them.
"Did you bring the food?" Haku asked.
Naruto looked at her, "How long was I out?"
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Next Day
"Come on don't tell me you are still grumpy about yesterday." Haku said with a fake apologetic tone.
Naruto looked at her with narrowed eyes and just grumbled some incoherent words. Right now they were at training ground fifteen waiting for their sensei. But the reason Naruto was very pissed because yesterday after he reached home Hinata just talked to him for a few moment and went back to her place, she did say that she would come to train with them today but he knew something happened between her and Haku but when he asked all she said was that they had some girl talk that's all.
Haku smirked a bit. Yesterday after waking Hinata up with the help of the smelling salt, they did have a girl to girl talk but Naruto didn't need to know the subject of their discussion.
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Flashback
"So, let me get this straight; you don't want to ask Naruto-kun out because you are afraid he might reject you because you think he likes this other girl named Sakura." Haku summarized what they talked about for the last ten minutes, after they got the fact straight that Haku saw Naruto as a brother they got on well together.
"Haku-san, I li-liked him for long time but just recently he seemed to care for me as a really good friend and I know it may cross the line sometime in the future but I don't w-want to push it for now." Hinata replied dejectedly.
"The way he was feeling you up told me otherwise." Haku thought to herself, "You know he cares for you a lot right?" Seeing Hinata nodding her head slightly, Haku continued, "So why don't you make sure he is the one to ask you out first?" Haku grinned.
Hinata snapped her head towards her, "W-What? H-How?"
Haku laughed, "All you got to do is….."
Flashback Ends
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They decided that Hinata would play 'hard-to-get' with Naruto until he cracks and knowing him he would just flatly ask her out. Haku looked at Naruto who was torturing a leaf with a kunai, "By the looks of it I will be surprise if he can survive this till the end of the week." Haku thought to herself.
After five minutes later, Yamato came who just looked questionably at Naruto then at Haku who just shrugged. Yamato coughed to get Naruto's attention which did. "Now once again, welcome to 'The Backup Team' Haku. Usually we as a genin team tend to do D rank missions and sometimes C rank mission but after the unfortunate mishap on our last C rank mission," Haku blushed slightly, "Sandaime-sama thought that we could use a break to take a rest as well as to work on our team formation." Hearing that Naruto's mood brightened a bit.
"So it is for the best if we should start early; but first of all Haku, you need to follow some precautions for your own safety if I must say." Haku was confused but nodded her head anyway. "First you can't use your bloodline for the time being like Zabuza said, at least not out in the open; don't worry it is not like in Kiri; just some safety measures against some dangerous people." Haku released a breath of relief. "For now you have to rely on your water release which I will supervise to make it stronger and unless it is an emergency situation do not use your bloodline or your needles so that no one can trace them back to the masked nin you used to be. If you want to train your ice release tell me beforehand so we could go to more secluded place for that." Yamato explained.
"Ya, welcome to one of the most awesome team ever." Naruto said while feeling a bit better, moping the floor around wouldn't do any good for him, he would just try to spend more time with her now that he had a break. Seeing Haku didn't take him seriously, he pouted, "Really, we are an awesome team. Yamato-sensei can I tell her?" Yamato laughed a bit and nodded, "Haku-nee, Yamato sensei got wood release bloodline, you got ice release bloodline and last but not least I got the best, the storm release." Haku's eye became as wide as a dinner plate, every one of her team had a bloodline and all of those were rare elemental ones as well.
"Uhh, that reminds me; here Naruto your swords. I bought new ones because the old ones are beyond repairing, please try to take care of these." Yamato rubbed his forehead.
"Hey it is not my fault that my jutsu is awesome." Naruto snorted.
"Wait when did your swords broke?" Haku asked confusedly.
"Oh that, it was when I used the jutsu to beat your horror mirror." Naruto said idly.
"What was that anyway?" Haku remembered that jutsu too well but she didn't quite get what the jutsu was.
"Simple actually, I combined my kenjutsu technique with storm release; I pump my swords with lightning chakra and then at the last moment I use a kenjutsu technique and release a water wave which while passing through my lightning charged swords combines with the lightning and creates a dense thunder based energy beam. Cool, isn't it?" Naruto explained gleefully.
"I would say it is a high A rank jutsu with lots of drawbacks." Yamato gave his opinion as well.
"Hey not my fault, if the swords were high quality I can just pump up lightning chakra fast instead of doing it slowly so the swords don't explode in my face. And you know I can throw that jutsu few times within a short span of time." Naruto pouted. Yamato just waved him off.
"Wow, it really is an amazing jutsu. No wonder it beat my demonic mirror because it was only high B rank." Haku stated her opinion.
"Enough with the small talks for now guys, we should start training fast. We got a break for one week and each day of the week I will come and train you guys till noon or afternoon, what are you going to do after that is all up to you but if you need my help after the timeline feel free to ask me." Both of his genin nodded, he smiled at that, "Ok, for now Naruto you know what you have to do?"
"Yes I learned that this lightning exercise is not about getting more experience, it is more about concentration so I will do it myself rather than using the clones." Yamato smirked hearing that. "But I will make some clones so that they can do the first level of water release exercise."
Yamato nodded, "OK I will make one shadow clone that will go with you. You need to be in a quiet place to concentrate on your exercise. Rest of your clones will follow me and Haku, both of us will be training near the waterfall moreover I need to tell Haku about our codes and team tactics. And also," looking at Haku he continued, "I will need to evaluate your skills myself to see where you stand."
"Hai sensei." Haku replied with a serious tone as well. Zabuza gave her another chance and she wouldn't let him down.
"All right let's begin."
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Later that Day
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The time to keep the light going increased by two minutes, so now for full seven minutes Naruto can balance his lightning chakra perfectly. He smirked seeing his own accomplishment and went back to meet his other teammates with Yamato's clone. His smirk widened when he saw Hinata was there and by the looks of it she just arrived.
"Hey Hinata-chan, how are you doing?" Naruto practically flew through the training ground and came close to Hinata.
Hinata blushed seeing Naruto's eagerness to meet her, "H-Hello Naruto-kun, I am doing fine. You look tired."
A bulb just lit above Naruto's head, "Ya I kinda am, so want to come and grab lunch together?"
"Don't worry about that," Haku came smirking, when she saw both of them she asked Yamato if they could take a break for now, "I made lunch for today, we can all share, right Yamato-sensei?" Yamato not getting what was going on replied back, "Ya sure we all can have lunch here." Naruto hit the ground face first. Seeing that Haku's smirk widened and Hinata giggled inwardly.
Yamato just looked at all of them confusedly, "Did I miss something?"
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Done, I am trying to add a bit of comedy to make the story interesting, the next chapter I will try to add NaruHina fluffy moments but not sure if I can pull it through properly.
Till next time guys.