A/N: And I'm back! Sorry for the wait. I've been busy, and was having trouble deciding on something for this chapter. You know what to do. Read and Review!

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"Hey, wake up," a male doctor said as he shook Naruto awake.

"Ngh... no... No!" Naruto almost shouted as he shot up, startling the doctor. He looked around and saw a sleeping Hinata in the hospital bed next to him, and visibly relaxed.

"Relax, Naruto, she is fine for now," the doctor said, noticing his gaze. "She has quite the will to live. Normally, someone with her injuries would have had trouble breathing sometime throughout the night, but there were no problems."

Naruto relaxed even more at that and looked at the doctor. "Thanks." He then got a good look at the doctor's brown hair and eyes. "Doctor Akane Fubashi?"

"You recognized me," Akane said, smirking.

"How couldn't I when you were one of the few who would treat me when I was in here?" Naruto shot back, smiling slightly as well.

"Point. Anyway, you have a visitor," Akane said, getting his attention.

"Who?"

"That would be me," a man said as he walked into the room. He had long white hair and was wearing a red jacket over a slightly dark green battle gi with a mesh shirt under it, jeans of the same green as the shirt with mesh under them as well, and wooden ninja sandals. The man was also wearing bracers on his arms and fingerless gloves, and was carrying a large scroll on his lower back. The man's face, which had red war paint in small straight lines from the bottom of his eyes, a wart near the left base of his nose, and a horned headband with the Kanji for 'oil' on it.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"I'm Jiraiya, the Toad Sage, kid," the man answered. "Kakashi asked me to train you."

"Okay. Let me get cleaned up and changed," Naruto said, hopping out of the bed. "Would you mind leaving?" he asked.

"Sure. I'll be at the hot springs when you're done," Jiraiya said, vanishing in a swirl of leaves.

Akane looked at Naruto. "You know you're lucky to get training from the Toad Sanin, right?"

"Kinda, yeah. I don't get why they get so much respect. Any ninja can reach their level if they put their mind to it." As he said this, he used a few jutsu Kakashi taught him to get cleaned up without exposing himself.

"Not any ninja," Akane corrected him as he pulled the changing screen so that Naruto could change. "There are many ninja that have blocks, and have to compensate for them. They can't advance past those blocks."

"Well, they can still get to their level in at least taijutsu," Naruto said as he changed. Soon, he passed around the screen in his clothes. He walked over to Hinata, pecked a kiss on her forehead and whispered, "Sweet dreams, princess." He walked out of the room, leaving a surprised Akane standing in it.

'So the rumors are true. They really are dating,' Akane thought as he left.

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Naruto walked around the hot springs, looking for Jiraiya. 'Why did he tell me to meet him here?'

'Probably for water-walking training,' Takeshi answered through their link. Even though he had his own body, he was mostly still sealed inside Naruto, so they could still talk telepathically. 'The hot waters usually give people motivation.'

'I just hope he really can help with Hyper Mode. That first time was draining.'

'That's what happens after you first enter it,' Layle said, nodding mentally. 'You have to train to increase the time you can stay in it.'

At that point, Naruto, and through him his guests, heard a man giggling pervertedly. Naruto turned a corner and saw Jiraiya looking through a hole in the fence of the women's side of the hot springs.

Althea growled and said, 'That pervert! Oh, if I had a body...' She trailed off, muttering about what she'd do to the Sanin, making everyone mentally wince.

'I'll get him,' Naruto thought. He inhaled and shouted loudly, "Why the hell are you peeking on women in the hot springs, you perverted old man!"

The women in the hot springs screamed as several kunoichi appeared and started beating up Jiraiya, who screamed as the women hit him while Naruto and the others laughed. After several minutes, the women started leaving, with several of them thanking Naruto for alerting them to the pervert's pressence.

Jiraiya groaned as he stood up, his face black and blue from the beating. "Why did you do that?" he asked as he used a healing jutsu to heal his wounds.

"You were peeking," Naruto deadpanned.

"Whatever," Jiraiya said, dropping the matter. He grabbed Naruto's arm and vanished, taking Naruto with him.

They reappeared in a forest near the village with a large waterfall and a river flowing. Jiraiya let go of Naruto and said, "We'll be training here for the month. I know about your 'guests' from the Hokage, so you can warp here every day."

"Fine, but why did he tell you?" Naruto asked, narrowing his eyes.

"To make things easier. Now, what do you know about Hyper Mode?"

"That a Bearer can only first enter it if near a Crystal Reactor or when feeling extreme anger or rage, can be in it for five minutes when they first enter it, and are extremely exhausted after."

Jiraiya nodded. "Right. Now, there are two kinds of Myper Modes: basic and advanced. A basic Hyper Mode is one that a Crystal Bearer with only one power can enter. In other words, Layle's Hyper Mode is a basic-type. An advanced Hyper Mode is one that activates two or more at the same time. You can enter it, since you have more than one Bearer power. But there's a cost to entering an advanced Hyper Mode. The time you can be in it depends on how many Hyper Modes you can activate simultaneously. For example, if a Bearer entered Hyper Mode using two of their powers, they can only stay in it for half the time of their basic one. If it's three, the time is one-third of the basic's. You keeping up?"

Naruto nodded. "Sounds simple enough. How can a Bearer increase the amount of time they can stay in it?"

"That's the tough part. You have to fight either summons, like Bahamut or Ramuh, or someone stronger than you while in Hyper Mode. Since it's not a good idea to fight a summon alone right now, you'll be fighting me. I'll even teach you a few Wind jutsu, as well as help with your chakra control. Sound good?"

"Sure."

"Good. First though, you have to learn to enter Hyper Mode at will, and that's relatively simple. Just channel power into a crystal and let its power flow through you."

Naruto did as instructed, the crystal in his cheek shining brightly until he was engulfed in light. Jiraiya covered his eyes and when it faded, he looked to see Naruto in a basic Hyper Mode incredibly similar to Layle's.

Jiraiya nodded. "Alright. Get ready. Let's see what you got." With that he charged at Naruto, starting the training.

0o0o...Timeskip, one week later...o0o0

Naruto laid down in his bed, exhausted. True to his word, Jiraiya had pushed Naruto to his limits throughout the week. They had increased the time he could stay in Hyper Mode from five minutes to thirty-five, which was good progress, according to Jiraiya and Layle. Tomorrow he had the day off, and hewas going to visit Hinata in the hospital then. Yawning, he quickly fell asleep, unaware of what was happening in the hospital.

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A cloaked figure walked silently through the hallways, alert and scanning for anyone watching it. Finding no one, it entered a room, revealing a sleeping patient. It walked to the bed and grabbed the clipboard at the foot of the bed, which read "Hinata Hyuga" as the patient's name. Looking over the diagnosis, it scoffed mentally as it read how well the doctors did. 'If only the legendary Slug Princess was here...' it thought, setting the board down.

It turned to the patient, looking over her with a diagnostic jutsu. Finding the source of the problem, the figure activated a healing jutsu and began working on the patient, watching as color seemed to return to her face if the light given off by the jutsu was anything to go by.

After a few seconds and as the figure ended the jutsu, the door opened and a nurse gasped before screaming for help, alerting the doctors and ANBU in the hospital. Swearing, the figure jumped over the bed and out the window, barely dodging the ANBU's attempt to aprehend it.

It landed in the street, startling a few drunk villagers, and ran past, fully intent on getting away. It turned a corner as ANBU pursued. When the ANBU turned to follow, they found a deserted street. One tried to dispell any Genjutsu the figure might have used, but only revealed that no Genjutsu was used.

Radioing in the situation, they spread out, one of them heading back to the hospital. The ANBU climbed in through the open window in Hinata's room to find several doctors and three ANBU in there.

One of the ANBU saw the new arrival and asked in a gruff male voice, "Well? What happened?"

"The intruder seems to have vanished," the new ANBU replied in a feminine voice, throwing back her hood to reveal purple hair that fell into her cloak. "What about the patient?"

"That's the odd thing. We can't find any trace of a poison or venom. The only change is that Miss Hyuga's lungs and heart have been fully repaired, even though we none of the doctors did any more than the surgury and three healing jutsu," a female doctor answered, sounding completely perplexed.

"Maybe that was the intruder's doing," another doctor ventured.

"Then why would it hide?" a third asked strongly.

"Perhaps it didn't want anyone to know who it was? How should I know?"

"Enough!" the gruff ANBU said as the second opened his mouth. "We can't rule that out, but we still need to report this. Go back to your duties." He turned to the purple-haired ANBU as the doctors left. "Cat, you stay here and protect Miss Hyuga along with Bear."

"Yes, captain," Cat and Bear responded, then vanished as they hid themselves.

"Let's go," the gruff ANBU said to the remaining ANBU, and they vanished in a swirl of leaves.

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Hiruzen sighed as he read the report. How did an intruder get into the hospital, undetected, and proceeded to use a jutsu to seemingly heal Hinata? Though he was somewhat grateful as that was the truth, much to the confusion of everyone who knew. The ANBU were keeping an eye on the hospital as well as looking for the intruder, but to no avail, as he had seemingly vanished.

"At least nothing bad happened," he thought out loud.

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Orochimaru glared at his spy, his fingers twitching slightly. "Do you realize what you have done? You have only made it more difficult to execute my plans. I hope you understand what the consequences can be," he spat at Kabuto.

Kabuto's eyes widened. "Please, no! I'm begging you, please don't!" he said, throwing himself to his knees.

"You had better not do anything else to harm the plan, or she will die. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir. I won't," Kabuto answered hollowly.

"Good," Orochimaru said, grinning evilly. "Now go."

Kabuto quickly left, and Jegran entered. "You're not worried that he could have leaked the plans?" he asked incredulously

"Impossible," Ororchimaru argued. "He doesn't know much, but he can effectively kill himself and draw attention from himself if he gets too much of it."

"That is impressive, but I don't understand why he bothered to do such a thing."

"Perhaps loyalty, or compassion. It doesn't matter, I suppose. That entire village will be destroyed."

"Hmph, I guess you're right," Jegran conceeded.

"I want you to watch him so he does not try anything else. The rendezvous is in two days. Make sure no one knows of it or even hears the meeting as it takes place."

"Hmph. Like anyone will survive if they do." With that, Jegran left.

'Soon, I will crush that village,' Orochimaru thought before vanishing as well.

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"Come on, Naruto, your aim is better than that!" Jiraiya taunted as he dodged another boulder thrown by Naruto in Hyper Mode.

"How's this then?" Naruto challenged as he lifted more boulders before throwing them at Jiraiya. Jiraiya dodged as best as he could before jumping over one, his eyes widening as three more came at him in such a way that gave him no room to dodge.

'That was clever, but not good enough!' he thought as he flew through hand signs and shouted, "Ninja Art: Needle Jizo!" His long white hair began moving and engulfed him with spikes of his hair sticking out in various places. The boulders collided with him and he flew back, the boulders attatched to him as he spun and bounced a bit before settling on the ground. The boulders then exploded, revealing Jiraiya, perfectly fine. "Pretty good, kid, but you need to do better than that."

At that moment, they heard someone calling out and quietened. "Naruto-kun? Is that you?"

Naruto's eyes lit up in joy, but also confusion. He had not been able to visit Hinata in the hospital yesterday since they had barred visitors for the day due to some incident, but he was glad he could see her now. He was confused as to how she knew where he was though.

Hinata, dressed in a purple tee-shirt and blue jeans, entered the clearing, looking at Naruto in wonder.

Naruto quickly exited out of Hyper Mode and embraced Hinata, making the girl blush badly.

"Hinata-chan, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked as he stopped hugging her, instead holding her at arms length. "Shouldn't you still be in hospital? And how did you find me anyway?"

"I was released earlier today, and Lord Hokage told me that you would be training in this area," Hinata explained, smiling at him. "Somehow, I'm fully recovered."

Naruto looked confused. "How? I tried visiting yesterday, but no visitors were allowed. The ANBU said something about an intruder during the night."

"I don't know," Hinata said, frowning slightly.

Jiraiya cleared his throat at that moment, getting their attention. "Well, I'm glad your girlfriend is better, but we should be training, Naruto. Hinata, you can stay if you want."

"But I..." Naruto started before sagging and almost collapsing onto Hinata, who caught him and was instantly worried.

"Naruto-kun? A-are you okay?" she asked as she laid him down.

"Yeah...I'll be fine," Naruto answered, panting a bit. "Hyper Mode is really draining. I'll be up again in a few minutes."

True enough, after several minutes, Naruto was back on his feet, ready to spar again. Getting an idea, however, Jiraiya raised his hands. "Wait a second, Naruto. How about I teach you two more jutsu?"

Naruto looked confused and asked, "What jutsu?"

Jiraiya stretched out a hand and cupped it, letting chakra flow around the palm and condensing it into a sphere. "This. It's called..."

"Rasengan," Naruto finished, forming one as Hinata did the same.

Jiraiya's mouth hit the ground. "Who taught you that?" he asked in shock.

"I found a scroll written in my father's hand detailing it," Naruto explained. "Hinata-chan and I mastered it around the same time."

Jiraiya shook his head. "That was a bit dangerous. Not everyone can use it. You two could have hurt yourselves!" He frowned at them. The two Genin looked down before Jiraiya continued. "However, I am proud that you mastered it so far."

The two blushed a bit in embarrassment. "Thanks."

"Well, I guess I don't have to worry about teaching you that. Now the other jutsu is..." Jiraiya started, biting his thumb and making handsigns before slamming his hand on the ground. "Summoning Jutsu!" he proclaimed as a blast of smoke obscured him from the Genin's eyes. When the smoke cleared, Jiraiya stood on top of a large orange toad with wristguards on its front legs and a scroll in it's mouth.

The toad looked at Jiraiya and tossed the scroll up to him. "So you want someone to sign the contract?" it asked.

"Yeah, Gama. It's Naruto," Jiraiya said, making the toad look at the Genin.

"Ah. I see. Well, if that's all, I'll see you later." With that, Gama vanished in a poof of smoke.

Jiraiya landed on the ground with the scroll in his hands and set it on a flat surface before unfurling it. "Here, Naruto, write your name in the first blank spot and then press the fingers of your writing hand below it," Jiraiya instructed.

Naruto looked at the scroll, then bit his thumb, writing his name before dotting the rest of his fingers and placing it below his signature.

"Naruto-kun, look at who signed before you," Hinata said, pointing to the name to the left of her fiance's. Naruto looked at it and widened his eyes before smiling. The spot read, 'Minato Namikaze.'

"I thought you might like that," Jiraiya said, nodding as he rolled up the scroll before dismissing it. "Now..."

0o0o...that night...o0o0

Naruto and Hinata sat at their dining room table, eating dinner when Hinata suddenly looked sad. "What's wrong, Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked, looking at her.

"I... are you really going to kill Neji-niisan?" Hinata asked timidly.

Naruto's eyes flashed in slight anger, but he shoved it away. "I honestly don't know," he said, putting down his utensils.

"Please don't," Hinata said. "He's family."

"He tried to kill you," Naruto argued. "I can't easily forgive that."

"I-it's not his fault," Hinata said, shaking her head. "He wasn't always like this." She looked at Naruto with pleading eyes. "Please don't kill him."

Naruto looked at Hinata. He sighed. "Alright, if it's that important to you. But what could have made him like that?"

Timidly, Hinata explained how she had almost been kidnapped by the Hidden Cloud Village's ambassador almost ten years ago, how her father had killed him, how Cloud had demanded his head, how Hizashi, his twin brother and Neji's father, sacrificed himself despite Hiashi's protests, and how Neji assumed his father had not chosen to do what he did.

"That's quite the story," Naruto said. He sighed again. "Don't worry. I won't kill him."

Hinata smiled and kissed him on the forehead. "Thank you, Naruto-kun."

Naruto gave her a one-armed hug. "It's alright, Hinata-chan. Now come on. Let's get some sleep."

As they headed up, Naruto received a loud telepathic message from Takeshi. 'Naruto, I found some suspicious coffins in a storage warehouse. Get over here!'

Naruto visibly sighed and kissed Hinata. "I'll be right back. Takeshi found something."

"Be careful," Hinata warned as Naruto ran down the stairs and out of the house. She sighed as she walked back down and sat down on a couch, deciding to wait for him.

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Naruto ran as fast as he could to where Takeshi said he was without alerting suspicion. Reaching the place, he sensed Takeshi just as the fox reached out of the shadows and pulled him into them silently, shushing Naruto as he did.

'What is it?' Naruto asked through their link.

'Him,' Takeshi said, as they looked around the corner to find Orochimaru talking to Kabuto and the Sound team minus Dosu. Suddenly Orochimaru punched Zaku and Kin, knocking them out and dragging them into a warehouse with Kabuto following him.

Takeshi and Naruto carefully walked over to the door to see what as happening, only to jump back as a red crystal in the shape of an arm made a grab for them.

"Tch, I missed," a hard voice said he walked out. Naruto's eyes widened as he saw the Lilty. "It seems we have some rats to deal with."

"You...Jegran," Naruto said as he clenched his fists.

Jegran smirked as he said, "You are correct. It seems fate was kind enough to give me yet another chance. Of course," he added as he slid his weapon of his back and held it in his left hand, "you won't live long enough to see me achieve my destiny." He lunged, swinging his weapon at Naruto with surprising speed.

Naruto ducked and jumped back, barely avoiding having his head cut off as Takeshi slammed a fist into Jegran's stomach then kicking him back. Naruto jumped forward as he extended his gravity powers into a sword to better fight, only to be dragged back by a Shadow Clone of Takeshi.

'No, Naruto,' Takeshi ordered. 'Find a way in and stop whatever that snake bastard is doing.'

'What about you?'

'This body is only a medium. If it dies I just end up in the seal again. Go!'

Nodding mentally, Naruto jumped away and started looking for a way in away from the fight.

Jegran moved to run after Naruto, but Takeshi appeared in front of him and knocked him back. "Your fight's with me, bastard."

"Very well. I'll kill you first, then the brat. It doesn't matter." Jegran readied himself, then lunged at Takeshi.

0o0o...later...o0o0

Naruto stmubled as he entered his house, carrying an unconscious girl with long black hair. The girl wore a dark grey vest and grey camo shorts with a grey camo scarf around her neck and had a Sound headband on her forehead.

Hinata looked at Naruto and asked, "What happened?" She stood up and helped Naruto place the girl on the couch, recognizing her face. "Kin Tsuchi?"

"Yeah. Orochimaru locked her, Zaku, and another ninja inside some weird coffins and left with Kabuto. I was able to get her out, but the coffins sank into the ground."

"Where's Takeshi?"

"His body got destroyed by Jegran," Naruto said. Hinata gasped. "Yes, it was Jegran. Somehow he's alive again."

'Bastard was just lucky that I couldn't use too much chakra,' Takeshi growled.

'I know,' Naruto agreed.

"Why did you bring her here?" Hinata asked.

"Orochimaru is planning something. She may know what."

"But why not turn her in?"

Naruto shook his head. "Too suspicious. They may find out and change their plans."

"But..." Hinata tried argueing, but understood Naruto's logic. "Alright."

Naruto hugged Hinata. "Come on. It looks like we're sleeping in here tonight."

With that the two gathered some futons and fell asleep quickly, their hands interlinked as all the occupants slept.

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A/N: There you go! I may not be able to post for a while. I'm working on an original story, and college will start again soon. I'll do what I can!