Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

AN: Hmm where to start? Ahh! Lack of updates are due to my new full time job, PS3, and a side of anime. Also due to figuring out where I wanted to take this story. I figured it out though. I hope you like what I'm doing. Also there will be a time skip after next chapter. It will be longer than the one in the manga/anime for a few choices reason. Also a few people think that's this is turning into NaruHina, it's not, sort of, you'll see what I mean when you read. Just because a girl gets a big role doesn't mean he has to be with her. Also because he is with her doesn't mean she will be the female lead.

Let me explain the personality of Naruto team briefly. (Because 3 of them is kind of OOC)

Naruto: Arrogant, Showoff, Loves attention, aggressive (will not show mercy to a 2 y/o if they are an enemy). Most of all he is a Kid who had to grow up too fast.

Tenten: Somewhat passive, determined, optimistic.

Lee: Lee!

Forth Teammate: at bottom. (Kind of spoils chapter)

The Three Stoogies: Nothing he chose to ignore them all for now, acts like he never got it.

RyougaZell: They were there in case something happened. If Kiri would have cough Naruto not even Kyuubi would not be able to help.

naruto6660: Warped, he used Hiraishin to warp inside. Naruto is technically not that strong, A Chuunin is what he should stay but because of losses due to the war, and the fact that he pull off such a mission got him promoted. (Besides, GamaBunta did all the real work) Harem? No at the end of the story there will be one.

Ksai: yes I NEED A BETA, PLEASE SOMEONE BETA THIS STORY FOR ME! Yeah I kind of though that too, hope I did better this chapter.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Chapter 10: Takeover and Medic

Kirigakure No Sato (3 months after last Chapter)

It's been 3 long months for the Nanadaime Mizukage (9th). He has only been in office for 2 month and the rest of the time he has been rearranging things to his liking. He hated that his predecessor killed all of the bloodlines that were in Kiri and most of the ones that were in Mizu no Kuni.

It wasn't all that hard for him to convince some that were in hiding to come to his aid when he saw his chance to become the leader of Kiri. They only had to look to his side and see that his right hand man had a bloodline limit to know they he though they were useful. They also knew they he didn't like the way things were ran in Kiri. So when Momochi Zabuza, came to where they were hiding along with Haku, the seven swordsmen of the mist (ALL of them), His sword completed, and more money than they could ever hope to have 'Donated' from a now dead man named Gatou, they had to accept.

It was not hard for them to gain control of Kiri. They hadn't needed to do much but show up with Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, and about 50 users of various bloodlines and Kiri pretty much accepted Zabuza as their leader. They really didn't have much choice, they had no ninja the caliber of Zabuza, Kisame, or any members of the Seven. They also hated the last Mizukage's decision to kill everyone who had a bloodline limit.

At the moment Zubaza and Kisame are in a meeting to two men. They discussion they are having could change the war and make everything more dangerous for everyone. Though such things should be expected when talking Orochimaru and Kabuto.

Konohagakure No Sato

Naruto and his team were in full ANBU gear receiving their first mission as a new ANBU squad. It would also be the first mission they have with their new teammate. Naruto had a choice between Sakura, Hinata, and some guy he didn't know. Because Neji was assigned as leader to a team who had lost theirs, Naruto chose the Hyuuga so they would still have a Byakugan user on the squad. She seemed to get a bit bolder since the meeting they had, and he later found that she didn't seem to like being around he family.

Little did Naruto know, she now had negative feelings for her clan because of the reason Naruto declined their offer. He didn't say the reason at the meeting but after she was chosen for the team she built up enough courage to ask. His reason was: "There is nothing wrong with you. Its because I wont make my family into slaves." Hinata never liked the Caged Bird Seal, and only used it one time when she was forced to. The seal was something that should have been a secret for the Hyuuga, maybe others knew but Naruto should not have. She concluded that the only way he could have known was Neji.

The team was only half trained in the ways of ANBU but they had no time to just train for months. They were only put into ANBU because going on a war-related mission with Naruto as Naruto or HAVOC was too dangerous. It didn't take long to receive their mission and they already have their gear packed in scrolls for an extended mission. Mission: Go to Suna and await orders from Suna.

In other words they had to travel all the way to Suna then tag along with another team. "Well, lets get going." Said Naruto. He was wearing a Hawk mask and a white ANBU cloak (because his hair stood out). He then took off with the others following close behind him.

"Yosh! Hawk-san, lets make it to Suna in 12 hours!" yelled Lee. He was wearing an Ape mask and no cloak.

"Stupid Ape! It takes 3 days at full speed to reach Suna, we are going to reach them in 4 ½ days." Tenten replied. She wore a dogs mask.

"That was mean Dog-san. I'm sure he is just excited about this mission. Besides with the pace Hawk-sama is going we're going to make it in 3 days." Said Hinata. She had on a cat's mask.

Naruto heard what Hinata said and thought. 'Is it me or does Hinata disagree with everything Tenten says, No matter what it is.'

It was true, all during the 3 months training if Tenten suggested one thing Hinata suggested another. Hinata would always want to pair with Naruto, and if he was using clones she wanted to pair with real one. It was a logical explanation for this, Hinata strong feelings for the boy, but she suspected he had a small crush on Tenten. Hinata refused to loose, even if she had to leave her clan who the reason she was lonely in the first place.

River Country (2 days later)

If Naruto and his team kept traveling they could have been in Suna in 1 more day. But this was Naruto, Konoha's #1 showoff so this was not something he could ignore. Three Ame Gennins, he had no idea why they were here. Truthfully he suspected they were on a C or B ranked mission. All that didn't matter though, the only thing that did matter was they were from Ame.

It was dark out and Naruto's squad was on the treetops surrounding the Gennins who were on the ground standing in a fighting position. Before the Ame nin could do anything Naruto was inside their circular formation and Lee was on the ground in front of them. Before they noticed Naruto he made 2 Kage Bunshin and used Kanashibari no Jutsu on all 3 of the Nins.

Naruto was about to start questioning them until he saw Hinata quickly jump to the ground and staring in the direction that Tenten was. What he saw instantly made his eyes turn red. A woman, probably the Jounin sensei to these Gennin had Tenten wrapped neck down in some kind of black cloth. The Woman also had about 6 long senbon in her hand.

"Let go of my students or I will kill her." Said the Ame Jounin. Naruto had a better idea, he used Hiraishin to warp directly behind her and with 2 kunai he attempted to stab both sides of her neck. It would have worked if the cloth on her neck weren't as hard as steel.

'Shit he's fast!' she though, and without hesitation she threw the three senbon into Tenten stomach. This caused Naruto to drop his Kunai, take out and transform his blade. When he was done he took another slash at the woman but he only hit a large black cloth where the nin should have been. His frustration increased when the cloth started to wrap around his sword. He quickly let go off it before his hands were caught.

He looked to see Lee and Hinata ready to face off against the woman and her team who were now free. He then looked at Tenten, the cloth was still on her but she said she could hold out until they finished.

"Aura-sensei, thank god you got here in time. Now that we're free we can help you too." Said Kenichi. "No! You guys hurry up and get out of here. You're no match for them." She knew they were going to protest so she made herself clear. "If you stay here with me you'll just get me killed, NOW GO!" That was all it took, and they shot off in the opposite direction as the Konoha ANBU.

Naruto didn't like that. You couldn't let enemy nins go, it was just common sense to get rid of them when you can. "Oh hell no you don't." said Naruto. He then threw a tri-kunai towards the fleeing nins. Aura threw a shuriken after it and stopped it before it hit her student. When she turned back to attack Naruto she had to block a trademark Konoha Senpu from Lee. She did so with another piece of cloth, it also wound around and bound Lee as it did Tenten, leaving only his head exposed.

Before she could finish Lee with senbon, she heard a loud explosion in the direction her students went. When she turned to look she barely had enough time to dodge a kunai slash Naruto was aiming at her face.

Naruto noticed she was trying to look past him to where the explosions happened. "Its too late if you're worried about them." Said Naruto.

This only enraged the woman, she was calm the whole time but now that was lost. "Why? Why did this happen? It was just a stupid C-Rank mission. You fucking monster, they just graduated a month ago, they were only 13, they were no threat to you and they were running away so WHY!?"

"If they were that old they should have been better, oldest person on my squad is only 14 so don't start yelling at me. Why? You idiots are half the reason this war started and then you act like we're the bad guys when shit doesn't go your way." Replied Naruto.

Aura didn't care what he was saying. They may have been the same age but the skill difference was too much. They did start the war but they didn't send fresh out of school kids to fight in it either. 'This one in the white is fast, the other one that's trying to free the first one I caught seem to have good reflexes because she dodged my first attack when I got here.'

Right after that though she thew some senbon at Naruto, who using speed gained from training + Kyuubi's chakra dodged easily. He then started a Taijutsu assault, unfortunately not she blocked everything with her cloth. When he landed another blow to her stomach, which would have broken his knuckles from the steel like clothif not for the beast, she grabbed his wrist and used her Bloodline Limit: Tanmono, to bind him, she then thew about 6 long senbon into his side.

Aura Rei was going to make sure to finish him but she had one more person to bind. She looked behind her to see Hinata who had come down from Tenten and was ready to attack to save Naruto. Hinata ran forward to trust her palm out in from of her aiming for Aura heart.

It was all rather anti-climatic, Hinata was ready to start the biggest battle of her life and it was over the moment it started. The cloth, while ridiculously strong, was still cloth at the end of the day. Aura had been arrogant after taking blow after blow from Naruto and was going to let Hinata see how futile it was. Hinata's palm connected right above her heart sending chakra to the Ame nins heart, in a few seconds she would be dead.

The Hyuuga was shocked. 'I..I killed her….' She though. That line of though only lasted for a second until she noticed the cloth bindings disintegrate. She quickly rushed to Naruto and started to remove Senbon and heal his wounds. It only took about 20 seconds to heal him, or rather remove the senbone and let the wounds heal themselves. When Naruto was fine she let out a sigh and continued to look at him while he got off the ground.

"Cat-san! You have to heal her!" said Lee who had brought Tenten to her. "Cat heal her, me and Ape are going to patrol the area to make sure no one else is around." Said Naruto. Without waiting for a reply the two took off.

Hinata removed the senbon from Tenten's side and was about to start healing her but before she did she pulled her hands back and looked Tenten's mask for a while. Tenten was still conscious but barely and was wondering why she wasn't being healed yet, she was bleeding and Hinata was just looking at her for the last 2 minuets.

Hinata was having the biggest internal conflict of her life, seconds felt like minutes for her. She could not believe what she was thinking and was scared because she was considering it for this long. 'The needles were not poisoned, but I'm the only one who knows that. Small amounts of poison doesn't work on Naruto so no would ever….'

She then though about how Naruto would feel about such a thing, and what would happen if he did find out. So she started the healing. While scanning she noticed something that was damaged by one of the senbon, if left alone it would cause that part of her body to be useless forever. 'I said anything, so I'll do anything. That's my nindo!' So she healed the stab wounds and left what she found alone, with no plans on telling the girl.

Even though she was healed she was in no condition to move around so the group made camp where the Ame nins were (After disposing of the body). One good night's rest and she would be back to 100. Tenten was just happy everything was ok, Hinata had saved them all. But for those two minutes she though she was going to be left to die. She decided to do her best to avoid getting injured.

Tenten and Lee were already in the tent ready to sleep, Naruto had first watch and he was just waiting for Hinata to go inside the tent. When he saw her throwing up with her mask removed behind a tree he knew that wasn't going to happen soon.

Naruto ran up to her then ask, "What's wrong?" After caching her breath she replied. "I..I.. did.. something wrong." She replied. Her eyes were also watering. The only explanation Naruto could come up with is the Ame nin she killed.

"You shouldn't be sad about that. You did nothing wrong! She would have killed all of us if you didn't. Hell even those Genin would have killed us if they had the chance. One thing you should remember when you're fighting is they wont feel bad about killing you, and even if you do beat them and let them go, they will just come back later and maybe kill one of your allies." Told Naruto.

For a second Hinata was a little confused, then she realized he though she was like this because of killing the Ame ninja. 'I did something much worse. I though about killing her, and if she ever finds out I could have fixed that she is going to hate me.'

Naruto took off his mask, smiled and said. "Everything going to be fine. You should get some sleep and try not to think about it, we have to make it to Suna in a little over a day."

Looking into his face Hinata instantly calmed down and had her answer for everything. She then leaned towards him and embraced him in a tight hug. 'I was the only one who acknowledged him. Of all the girls class I was the only one who watched him instead of Sasuke. When he said he would become Hokage, I was the only one who believed him. I was the only one who did not make fun of him. In this entire world I was the ONLY one who loved him. Now just because they know Yondaime was his father, and he has a bloodline limit, they all act like they did not ignore him. Those.. tramps are all asking him to marry him not because of him but because of his father or his blood! Most of them don't even know that he should be loved more than Yondaime, I bet they would run like the cowards they are. Me, it has to be me. I'm the only one, the only one who can do it. No one else can be with him, no. It has to be me!' though Hinata.

If Naruto were a mind reader he would probably shed a tear for the girl. Hinata's personality wasn't suited for war, or truly to be a medic nin. There was also they way her clan treated her, and her strong belief that it was her clans fault they he did not want to be with her. Truly it didn't matter how or why it happened, all that does it the fact that it did. Something in the girl snapped and most would call her crazy. Something that started off as admiration evolved to a crush, overtime that became love, finally those innocent feelings, ones that everyone should feel at least once mutated to something people should avoid: Obsession. She truly believed she was the only one who could make him happy and it was her duty to the future Hokage to do so. To her, failing this mission was not an option, no matter what it took to do so.

When she released him the sides of their face rubbed together and this caused Naruto to blush a bit. He was still not used to contact like that, it was like the second time a female has ever hugged him. Possibly the third person to hug him in total.

Hinata was also blushing but that was normal. 'He blushed when I hugged him. That means he likes it. I'll have to remember that.' After that though she went to the tent.

Poor Naruto, enemy ninja should be the least of his worries right now.

Sunagakure No Sato:

Naruto and his team were standing outside of Suna's gate. They were not even allowed in. Though they could understand why an ANBU team was not let in… But it was HOT! Fortunately it didn't take too long for the team they were going to assist to come out. It only took a glance to notice that the 3 of them liked big weapons.

The female walked up to them and introduced her group. "Hello, my name is Temari. The boy with the makeup is Kankuro and he is Gaara. I'm the leader of this mission and so you will take your orders from me. Lets go I will tell you the mission when we get to the border of Bird Country." After a nod from Naruto they all 7 of them took off to the border.

CLIFFHANGER! (Kinda)

Hinata's personality (down a little)

Hinata: Overly obsessive (with Naruto), slightly psychotic, aggressive when it comes to making him happy.