Author: looks like it's time to announce the main pairing and it is...Naruto/Hinata. ( Harem fans get pissed and start to leave) BUT! I have come up with an idea to satisfy both hinata and harem fans. ( Harem fans turn there heads at the word harem and proceed to come back with a little interest in the idea..) The main pairing of the story will be Naruto/Hinata, NO objections! And for the Harem fans, just because Naruto can't be part of a Harem, doesn't mean anyone else can't. There will be a harem or two in this story, but Naruto ( or Hinata ) WILL NOT be apart of it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Enjoy the fic.

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As time...(part 1)

It was a dark night in the eastern countries, the crescent moon shining down into the forest's. Leave's moved, as the wind gently blew by. The shadows danced on the forest's ground, while a figure could be seen running through the tree's at great speeds. The shadows even seemed to move with him, but ever so slightly. The figure increased his speed, as he reached the end of the cliff the forest's were on.. He jumped down from the tree's and glazed into the horizon. A huge village could be seen in the distance, one that would be about half the size of the village of the leave's...

The figure shook these thought's out of his head, as he pulled a small bag out of his black cloak. He pulled out three small looking objects that were in the shaped like birds. They were small, but then again, these type's of machines needed to be small, though they did have a high resemblance to the birds made in origami. He threw them into the air, as they took off with out a sound and headed towards the village. The figure then moved his right arm to were it would be right in front of him and pulled the sleeve down. On it was a black wristband that took up half his arm. The figure moved his left hand over it and opened a compartment, reveling a screen and 12 or so button's. The figure typed something in, as three hologram screens appeared, one could guess what they showed. He stared at the screens for a couple of minutes, taking in everything that was shown on them.

The figure then pulled out another object from his bag. It was a bird, but it was larger then from before, it looked more like a hawk then anything else. The figure held it in his hands, as three medium sized spiders crawled out from his sleeve and attached themselves to the hawk . He threw it into the air, as it took off towards the village. He looked at the new hologram screen and directed the hawk over three key locations. The figure then closed the compartment and lowered his arm. He looked up towards the night sky, before jumping off the high cliff and heading towards the village.

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Part 1

The hawk traveled at great speeds towards the compound, as it moved into it's airspace. The first spider let go of it's attachment to it, as the hawk passed over the most left part of the village.

The hawk continued to fly forward, intent on following it's commands. The second spider dropped from the hawk, just as he passed the right most part of the village, as it took a turn and headed upwards. The last of the three spiders land in the upper most part of the village, as the bird head up into the sky, awaiting it's next commands.

Part 2

Screams could be heard from inside of the village, as people died by the second. The corpse's of men and women laid on the ground, as the slaughter still continued. A man with brown hair was running away from the fight that was going on in his village. It was hard on his legs to run while wearing armor and carrying his spear, but it did not matter. This man did not want to die, not now. He was so young and had just had daughter with his wife. He still had dreams he wanted to complete and full fill in life. He stopped and looked back towards the fight, as a tear rolled down his cheek. He remembered how his wife had died in this fight, in an extremely gruesome way. He could only hope to grab his daughter and run away from this village as fast as possible.

But unfortunately...he never got the chance...

As the man thought, something moved in his shadow. Glowing red eye's could be seen from it, as it shape shifted. A hand slowly reached out towards the man's neck. The arm was pitch black and it's skin moved like ocean waves. When it was near enough, the hand quickly grabbed the mans throat and pulled him downwards into his shadow, sinking into the darkness. He tried to fight against the shadow, but it was to no avail, he...was going to die. As the man accepted his fate, waiting for his death, he noticed that he had stopped sinking.

With an ear shattering roar, the shadow threw the man upwards into the air and towards a building, hitting the wall hard. The man opened one of his eye's slowly a minute late to see shadow's all around him, on the ground, on the roofs (ect). He wondered what they were doing, just standing their watching him. That was, until he saw...him.

A figure in a black cloak was walking towards him. He looked around sixteen and was at least six feet tall. The figure wore a straw hat and his black cloak had a weird design of red clouds on it, the cloak itself seemed to be a little big on him since it moved quite easily to the breeze going by. But what really stood out was his piercing blue eye's. The man had never seen blue eye's before, not one's like his anyway. He saw nothing else of the figure's face due to the high collar of the cloak. The figure stopped in front of the man, just staring down at him, looking like he was thinking of something.

" What is your name ?" asked the figure, as the man gasped in shock at the figure's voice. It was smooth and calming, he felt...safe when he heard it.

" Nickal." replied Nickal, as he watched the figure close his eye's and reflect on what to do, before opening them a minute later.

" Nickal, as a reward for overcoming my kokoro jubaku no jutsu, I will grant you one wish before I kill you." Stated the figure, as he watched Nickal think on what he could possibly want before he die's, knowing full well that he was only going to get one shot at this. He looked at the figure before him and stared at him for a moment.

" I wish...that you keep my daughter safe, that you watch over her and guide her. To have her grow to be strong enough to make it...in this world." replied Nickal, as the figure nodded his head.

" I promise that I will find your daughter and treat her...as my own." The figure turned his back to Nickal, as he begun to walk away.

"My daughter is-."

" The shadow's will lead me to her." The figure replied, as he took summoned a small spider and threw it towards Nickal. The figure never flinched as he heard Nickal's scream in pain or at the sound of him hitting the ground. He had a mission to complete, wether he liked it or not. The figure formed three kage bunshins and sent them off. He would retrieve the girl and spare her from her village's fate. After all, he never broke a promise...it was his nindo way.

Part 3

The door's to the mansion's lobby flung open, as guards rushed forward to try and stop the intruder. The figure just pulled out a single shurekin and threw it towards the first guard, decapitating him. He watched the man's body fall to the ground, as the shurekin ricocheted off the walls, killing any guards that got in ti's path. Just as the figure reached the door to the main chamber, he grabbed the bloody shurekin out of the air as it passed by him and put it back to were into it's original position. He was always taught never to waste your resources, no matter how small.

He pushed the door open to see at least twenty guards with their swords raised, the leader of the village behind them. The leader was a little...large-r then normal, his red robe's showing how much of a fatass he truly was. He pointed towards the figure.

"Kill him!" He shouted, as all twenty guards rushed forward, intent on killing the intruder. The figure just stood there, as he watched the guards rush charge at him, taking note that they were extremely inexperienced. In less than to minutes, all twenty guards were on the floor, dead. The figure walked up to the leader like nothing had ever happened, as the leader just stared at him in fear. The figure took out a single kunai, as he prepared to strike the leader of the village down with it. The leader only had one thing on his mind at this point.

" Is this...The Gyouten Kihaku? " the leader was struck down my the figure, as his body fell to the floor. The figure put his kunai back into it's holder and walked out of the mansion without a word.

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The figure could be seen walking down a path that lead away from the village. He slowly took out a small remote with his left hand and pressed a button on it. The village erupted into a huge fiery explosion, as a large smoke cloud could be seen in the sky.

" Complete." the figure said, as he looked down at the child he was carrying in his right arm. The child was sound asleep, not even disturbed by the loud noise. The figure turned his attention back to the road, as he reflected on what had happened. He was intending that this would be his last mission, before he returned, but this new addition would make things difficult. No matter, he would do as he promised to his friend and to the man he slaughtered. The figure would return to his birth village...he would return...home.

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Jiraiya sighed, as he looked at all the paper work. He had no fucking clue how the Third was able to keep up with this work AND wonder around Konoha most of the day. He tried to bribe some chuunins to take care of it, but that only resulted in them giving themselves a pay raise and the right to use any brothel freely. He tried to get Kakashi or Iruka to help him, only receiving a fuck no, before they walked away...

Hell, he even tried to get his wife to help him, who only pointed and laughed at his predicament ( big word, yeeeeeaaaahhhh! coughs, moving on...). He just walked away in frustration, not even noticing that Tsunade was in the mood... He wondered that if he just left the papers on his desk and if he wished REALLY hard with all the fibers in his body, then they just might go away...

Or he might become constipated...either way.

Jiraiya decided to stop his mental bitching and actually do some work. He started to look through some reports on some recent missions that had happened, bored out of his mind. He had no clue how he was going to get through a stack of files and papers if he couldn't finish a few reports. He sighed ,as he turned in his chair and looked out the window. It had been eight years since he received the title of Hokage, eight years since the third left...since the incident.

He...still couldn't forgive them for what they had done, not before him. He was the main reason behind it all, behind all of this. A lot had changed since then, but still...Jiraiya just couldn't. That one point in time caused a life of hell for him. His daughter was dead, mentor was gone, and his family was in ruins. The Uzumaki clan was dying, and Jiraiya knew it. But the worst thing of it all was that his only grandchild was forced to leave the village, and he was forced to talk and guide him through message's sent by bird's. Who always seemed to hit the glass of his office's windows...leaving marks.

It had been a year since his last message and he wondered what had happened, not wanting to go into the thought that he had been killed. All Jiraiya knew was that their were some problems going on in the Akatsuki and he needed to distance himself from them for awhile. Who knows what could have happened to him after that.

Jiraiya snapped out of his thoughts when he heard a tapping on the window. He looked over to see a falcon standing right outside of it, seemingly carrying a message. Jiraiya opened the window, as the falcon flew in, circling the room once, before landing on the desk. Jiraiya searched around the Falcon's legs, finding a small message ( note). He opened the note and read what was on it. The falcon flew into the air and landed on the arm rest of the chair, finding it more comfortable

Jiraiya's face grew into a wide smile, as he crumbled up the message and threw it in the garbage can, spinning around in his chair to face the window. Jiraiya chucked and started to pet the falcon, as he looked through the window and over the horizon. Thinking only one thing...

" It's about damn time too..."

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Uchiha Sasuke was not having a good day.

Oh hell no.

He was currently standing guard at Konoahs south gate, full clothed in the Uchiha's signature clothing, it being changed to his style of course. He wore ( from bottom to top ) a pair of brown baggy pants and a ocean blue long-sleeved jacket left unzipped, reveling a black muscle shirt. The jacket had two black dragon's swerving down each sleeve, as three dragons could be seen on the back of the jacket, surrounding clan symbol. He had bandage's tied around his hands, seeing as gloves could be a little constrictive, also wearing sandles for the same reason about shoes. He felt no need to wear amour of any kind, after all, he was a Uchiha. But, there was the fact that he needed a wardrobe change though...

Back to the point, his team had been assigned to guard the gates, but unfortunately, his sensei was to busy reading his adult books and his team mate was putting to much attention into him to do any real guarding. Speaking of which, he was the only person actually guarding the gate at this point. His sensei was nowhere to be found and his team mate had gone off the ladies restroom, leaving him all alone...and bored.

Oh how he loathed guarding, everyone did. It was originally for only Anbu's, but do to a incident a while back, people as low ranked as chuunins were guarding the gate's and that's why he was stuck guarding the gate...for the next week.

He had already had a bad day before he began his shift. First off there was the fan girls that would never leave him the hell alone. He found a few going through his garbage while he was taking out the trash. Of course he just used katon on them, as he watched their ashes fall to the ground. Hey they were trespassing on his property...

While he was trying to hide the evidence by burying what was left in the back yard, his mother happened to catch him while she was heading towards her garden. Needless to say, she was PISSED. He got a full hour of yelling and lecture's about how he shouldn't kill ever fangirl that stocks him. After she finished, she told him to finish burying what was left of the body's and write some letters to the girl's families, before turning her attention towards her garden. He only hoped that the fangirls would stop soon, or he have to find a new place to bury them. Sasuke then proceeded to his team's training field.

Then there was both Tsunade-sama and Rin-sama, who had yelled at him yesterday, while his team was receiving their next mission. They both just so happened to be at the Hokage's tower at the same time and just so happened to have found him. So he once again was yelled at, also being lectured that he shouldn't train till he passes out...every day. He left the tower with a headache and sore ears.

Women, he would never understand them...then again, what non-homosexual man would?

Sasuke snapped out of his thoughts, when he heard people approaching the gate. He looked into the distance to see three people walking down the path.

The first one was a male, who stood around 6 foot even. He was wearing a black cloak with red clouds on them, it had a high collar so he could not see the his face. He also wore a straw hat making everything except his piercing blue eye's unseeable. The second one was also so a male, around 5'8. He wore a brown cloak that covered everything except his eye's, which were actually dark red. He seemed to walk more like a beast then anything else, since his hands touched the ground, but he still stood on two legs. The last one was a female with red hair, she seemed to be around 5'5. She was wearing a grey robe with a weird type of belt attached to it ( I refuse to wright a description about the sound uniform belts on the soul purpose that I...can't.) She was carrying something in her arms, but he couldn't make out what it was. They seemed to be discussing something, but what...

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" Still, I don't see why the hell I have to take care of it." Tayuya stated, as she looked over at the man in the black cloak.

" Because, me and Kyojin are going to be extremely busy from this point forward and we won't have time to take care of it." Stated the man in a tired voice, as Kyojin nodded.

" And beside's you'll need the experience for later." Kyojin stated, while Tayuya made no comment.

Kyojin realized what he had said a second later, remembering what had happened. " Sorry..." Tayuya just sighed, before muttering a few colorful words andlooking up at the man in the black cloak.

" Still, Naruto-sensei, do you think it's worth what your planning to return here." Tayuya asked, as Naruto just continued to look straight forward. Giving her question some actual thought.

" Not really." He replied in a dull tone of voice, as he continued to think on what was going in the next couple of days. He then stopped and turned to face the two, who immediately stopped as well and looked at him questionably ( of course you wouldn't be able to tell Kyojin expressions, due to the cloak.).

"When we arrive...head straight for the tower and wait for me there." The two nodded, they were use to him doing things like this and just went along with it. They continued forward until they were at the gate. It was huge, at least five stories high and was a dark green color. On it was the symbol for fire country, which took up a big portion of the gate. What was strange though was that there was only one person guarding the gate. Naruto just shook it off and continued forward. The guard however had a familiar set of clothing...he didn't know why, but they were just familiar. The guard signaled for them to stop.

"State your business." the guard order, as Naruto stepped forward, a scroll in one of his hands.

" Read this, I believe that it will give you all the information that you need." Naruto said, as he tossed the yellow scroll at the guard, who caught it easily. The guard hesitated for a moment before opening the scroll and reading it. Naruto found it amusing how the guards eye's widened each every time he finished just one line. When the guard was done, he rolled the scroll up and tossed it over at Naruto, before hitting the gate and telling the people behind it to open up.

Naruto and the others then headed into the village without speaking another word, while the guard turned his back to him. Of course if he had continued to watch them, he would have seen Naruto fade away, as the other two continued towards the tower...

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The afternoon sun shined brightly, while various creatures moved through the forests. The breeze was blowing gently, as it had a nice cool feel to it. The birds sang a chorus of chirps, as few of them could be seen flying by. Naruto stopped and admired the beauty of the forests, which in his opinion, hadn't changed once, even after all these years...

Oh, had Naruto longed to see these forests again, the only true place in kohonah were he could just be himself. He remembered all the time's he had come here and played by himself, well before he had met his friends. Naruto smiled at the memories he had of them, the first and probably only people he knew in kohonah that truly accepted him ( not including family members.). After snapping out of his thoughts, Naruto continued towards his destination, the one place out of the whole forest that he missed the most. When he arrived, however, his thoughts seemed to have shift from being centered on the forest's...

Naruto had arrived at his favorite spot, when he noticed something...interesting. A female around Naruto age was standing right in front of the stream, seemingly to caught up in admiring it to notice him. She was around 5'7 and had darkish hair that came done to her shoulder blades. She wore a black t-shirt and black shorts that stopped just above her knee's ( like the one's that Sakura wear's in the anime/manga ) She wore a white long-sleeved jacket that went down to her mid-waist, leaving half of the back of her black t-shirt exposed. What seemed to be her clan symbol was on the back of it as well. She also wore black combat boot's and fingerless gloves, but what really caught Naruto's attention was two things about her. One, she had pupiless ( can't spell it sorry...) eye's, those only belonging to the Hyuuga and the other was...

Naruto's eye's widened at the sight of the neckless that he had worked so hard on, being around the woman's neck.. It shined in the sunlight, while moving a bit due to the breeze. Only one thing came to his mind, as a warm smile slowly grew on Naruto's face.

"Hinata..." Naruto thought, as he began to approach her and make his presence known...

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Author: Like I said before, it's Naruto/Hinata from now on. Of course there's still going to be a harem ( possibly two ) thrown in, but no, Naruto nor Hinata will be apart of it. Also please tell me what you think about Hinata's appearance ( I mean, how she looks ). I was a little scared that I wouldn't do a good job, since I pretty much took the easy way out with Naruto by making him wear the cloak.

Another thing I know that there are a lot of plot holes. ( like what the spiders did during the attack on the village or why exactly did Naruto grant one wish to that man who survived his kokoro jubaku jutsu...or why the hell Sasuke's mother is still alive.), but It's all going to be explained in later chapters. So don't worry about it.

Please read and review.