grumpywinter: o.O all I can say is…wow…that looked cool, I will try to make something like that now, for sure…
VFSNAKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah…I'm planning on awakening it, just waiting for the right moment…
vnvanman: In battle's you do not know for sure if someone will be dead or alive…
Seiryu Suzaku Byakko Genbu: And you don't know half of it…when I say that there will be a bloody sand box I mean it lol
Dragon Man 180: That's why I added Hoshi…
Wolf of the snows: Yeah it's with a "E", strange that my word didn't autocorrect the error like it always does…
Sharingan-hater86: Sorry it was important to make this chapter so I won't have too many flashbacks, for Hoshi for example, Deidara, Orochimaru and the Sound, etc.
sumofl: Maybe so, but Naruto has Air affinity…
Hikory: But does the Daimyo have more power over the entire council?
Sharkteeth: That's what happens when people hate your demon…
Major Hinata Fan: (sweat drop) Sorry about that, I guess my most common mistake is mixing up him with her sometimes…
twilightcloud18: Eh, I can't tell, it will ruin everything no?
Vld: I will put it up for voting, or maybe I will just turn her good, depends…
Reimei Yume: (sigh) I hate it when I make mistakes, not my fault I don't see all of them, also English isn't my primary language…oh so that is how I was suppose to spell it…oops…anyway, I will be careful (he is to scary to risk my life)
RasenganFin: Nope won't make it a threesome, besides she is between 20-30 so he is way to young for her
Mood-chan: Sorry only Itachi and Kisame, Deidara no…
Morbious20: Hehe, me too…
A/N: Alright here are your votes so far, but not many placed votes, I will live them to go for 1 more chapter, also note that I changed the translation for Akki-chouon…
A. akki-chouon ('Demon's Imperial blessing'): 4
B. akki-goon ('Demon's blessing of kindness'): 0
C. akki-goriyaku ('Demon's Divine favor'): 1
D. akki-tenkei ('Demon's Heavenly Gift'): 3
E. akki-tenpuku (same as Tenkei): 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto
Blood painted sand…
"You have no idea how vast my rage is since I was born…" – Uzumaki Naruto
Two days have past, three days in which our heroes have been very busy. Gaara for example was now stuck between the old Kazekage's paperwork and his new ones, the elders said that he needs to learn starting from now about this things because it is an important 'event' for a Kazekage.
"No shit!" yelled Gaara everyday when he saw the amount of the paper on his new desk, it was already decided that Gaara will be the 5th Kazekage so they decided he should already start working in secret.
Apart from that Gaara was now more focused on training Matsuri than training Naruto, she had developed great skills with weapons and has shown great potential for a shinobi. She lost her fear of weapons and now could fight without any problems. Gaara liked the girl a lot, she wasn't like the other that would look at him just because he was someone important, he was happy to say that she was one of his precious people, someone that he would defend even if it will kill him. But, back to the matter at hand, Naruto was getting lonely because Gaara didn't help him for the last 2 days, so one day he visited Gaara while he was training with Matsuri
-Flashback-
Gaara was observing Matsuri's morning training that even though it looked hard it was necessary. He was about to tell her to stop when he felt a familiar chakra signature approaching him, he turned around and saw the blonde Jinchuuriki approaching. Stopping in front of Gaara he took some time to catch his breath again. Matsuri by then had stopped what she was doing and was inspecting the newcomer since she didn't meet him before.
"Gaara…" said Naruto
"Hn?"
"Where the hell have you been in the last 2 days?" demanded Naruto. "I mean do you think it's that easy for me to train? I need help damn it!"
"Ano, excuse me but who are you?" asked Matsuri
Naruto had forgotten about his fury and looked behind Gaara and saw a girl his age with brown hair and black eyes. "Oh, sorry, I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" he exclaimed.
"Matsuri…" she said and shacked hands with the blonde boy.
Gaara coughed. "Naruto, did you complete the mission?" he asked, the blonde in question turned and nodded at Gaara.
"I also went and debriefed with Hinata-chan, the mission turned out to be A-rank and not B-rank but it was easy…" he responded grinning
Gaara nodded and turned around and focused on Matsuri again, Naruto was scratching his chin trying to remember why he had gone to see Gaara again.
"Hey!" yelled the blonde. "You didn't answer my question…why aren't you helping me with sand manipulation like you used to?"
"Sorry, but I need to help Matsuri, I got paperwork and Kazekage classes." responded a monotone Gaara.
Just then Naruto remembered something. "Hey Gaara, I don't need to use a gourd anymore." he said smiling brightly.
The red haired boy raised one of his invisible eyebrows and turned around to look at Naruto. "What do you mean?"
Naruto demonstrated, the raised one of his sleeves and showed Gaara a long tube of some sort, it was thick and pretty wide. Gaara asked the blonde what those tubes where for, Naruto turned to a post and started moving his arms around and sand shot out of his sleeves and started circling him, then he moved his hands in front of him towards the post and the sand moved to the post hiding it full on, he recalled the sand to him by dropping his arms, the sand reentered his sleeves. He turned back to Gaara and put his trademark grin.
"So what do you think?" he asked
"Impressive, but can you do Subaku Sousou and Subaku Kyuu?" asked the red haired Jinchuuriki
Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Umm…well, no…"
Gaara turned around facing Matsuri. "Then go and practice again till you can do both, then come to me for the next jutsu."
-End flashback-
You can say Gaara was more than proud at what the blonde boy achieved, it was something no one had though about, not even him. Naruto managed to brake free from carrying a gourd behind him all the time.
Naruto and Hinata have been doing missions for Suna ever since Matsuri became Gaara's official pupil, they had done on 3 days two B-rank missions and one A-ranked, but from the last B-rank Hinata fell sick and she couldn't help. It was nothing more than the common cold, but it was something new to the fact that someone caught a cold in Suna. But then again anything can happen especially if you fall in the cold water and then immediately come out and put your body at high challenges. Naruto proved to be quite the medic when it came to cold's, he knew what he needed to buy Hinata and what he needed to cook so she could get her strength back fast. Hinata nonetheless enjoyed the attention.
Today it was one of those days when Naruto and Hinata needed to keep an eye on Naruto, but due to Hinata's condition only Naruto left the house today. She stayed back and enjoyed the comfort of her bed and a good book, courtesy to Naruto who bought it, she was surprised that he knew what kind of book he should buy for a girl.
Naruto was now looking at Gaara and Matsuri from the shadows, like every morning they where training in the same spot till at least noon when Gaara would go for his Kazekage class till night fall and then he would go and do paper work since he cannot sleep. Naruto offered to make a more powerful seal but the red haired boy refused every time, maybe he was too afraid even if his seal would be complete.
"Now Matsuri." said Gaara suddenly
The girl in question turned around and looked at her sensei.
"You have done well and progressed very much in 3 days, you have earned my respect…" said Gaara happy.
"Thank you Gaara…" she responded bowing slightly
"Now second order of business, you will join a 3 man team under a Jounin, I will try and move some strings so you can end up with someone I know and trust." he said again
"But why won't you be the Jounin of the team?" asked Matsuri
Gaara smiled, it was a small smile barely visible, but Naruto saw it. "It's because I cannot, I still have a lot to work so I can become Kazekage, I don't have time."
Matsuri nodded sadly. "Hai"
"Don't worry, the person I will pick is someone special and you will learn a lot from him. And please respect him." he said
"Hai Gaara." Matsuri responded, her happiness back.
Suddenly the air stiffened, a powerful wind started to blow all of a sudden which was very strange. Naruto and Gaara looked at the sky, silently. It seemed hard to breathe all of a sudden. "Blood" was the word both Kyuubi and Shukaku said, what they meant the two Jinchuuriki had no idea.
Naruto jumped down near Gaara startling Matsuri.
"Who a-are you?" she asked hesitantly.
"Did you feel it?" asked Naruto
"Hai." said Gaara "Did he tell you?" he asked still looking at the sky
"He did, what do you think? A recent battle, or one to come?" asked Naruto eyes at the sky
"I do not know, I need to check." said Gaara and headed towards the Kazekage tower. "You are free for today Matsuri." he said before disappearing.
Somehow, Naruto didn't feel to well, something was happening, he felt like he needed to go home and check on Hinata. He turned around and started jumping towards his and Hinata's house hopping that nothing wrong was happening, Hinata was weak now because of her cold.
A lone figure with a falcon mask was watching over Naruto as he was speeding through Suna, Hoshi had arrived too late to warn him. The only thing she could do right now was to follow him and help him and tell him what is happening, though she knew that she will have to explain a lot.
Naruto arrived home fast, from the outside everything looked alright. He slowly opened the door.
"Hinata-chan?" he asked with a low voice. He took out a kunai and slowly moved through the hall, he entered the kitchen and saw 2 guys dead, one was on the floor in a pool of blood and the other had his head inside the sink.
"Hinata?" he asked again this time more worried, he ran to her room and saw the door broken, he entered and found another guy dead on the floor in a pool of blood, he ran through the entire house and still didn't find any sign of Hinata but instead found 4 bodies. The entire house was damaged from what seemed jyunken strikes.
Naruto ran outside and jumped on the roof of the house and let out a powerful roar that was heard throughout Suna. He was fuming, the bastard Hyuuga's attacked Hinata while he was away and now they took her.
"Listen kit, I know you are angry but calm down and analyze the situation calmly." said Kyuubi neutrally. But Naruto didn't listen, he was changing, his fangs started to grow, his hair started to grow, his whiskers started to become thicker. He felt someone behind him, he spun around and saw a Konoha ANBU with a falcon mask. He jumped to kill the ANBU.
"Wait!" the ANBU yelled. "I'm here to help"
Naruto stopped inches away from the person, the ANBU took off her mask and showed a Hyuuga. Naruto stiffened but relaxed when he looked in her eyes, something in them told him that she was telling the truth and that she won't betray him.
"What do you want?" demanded the blonde Jinchuuriki
"Like I said I'm here to help you."
"Why?"
"Because for one I don't see you as a demon, second I hate Hiashi and I don't agree to how he treated his daughter." she said
Naruto pondered for a second, indeed she was telling the truth, he could see that, but still… "What do you want from me?" he asked
The woman was taken back. "What do I want from you?"
"You must want something in return for your help, what is it?"
"Well…I heard how you took Neji's seal off and I was wondering…"
"…if I would take it off you too?" he asked interrupting her.
She was a little scared now, he knew what she wanted and now what would happen if he won't accept. "Well, yes, but if you don't want to help…I will still help you though but I understand if you don't want to help me." she said with her head down to hide her sorrow, her hopes of freedom would break.
Naruto wasn't a cold hearted bastard, he knew that she really wanted to get that seal of hear head. "If you help me I will help you." he said, the woman raised her head and he could see hope in her eyes. He smiled warmly and nodded. "But tell me who took Hinata-chan and where?"
"Right, Hiashi wanted me and 9 other to come here and capture Hinata-sama, then he wanted us to kill you and steal something from the Hokage." she replied.
"So you where ten in total?" he asked and she nodded in response. "Hmm…you are here, four are dead in the house that leaves five to deal with." He looked towards the walls "Do you know where they might be?"
"Hai, our plan was to enter through the North-eastern part of the wall because it was less protected and escape through there as well." she replied
"Good…" he turned to leave. "By the way, you didn't tell me your name."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Hoshi Hyuuga." she said putting her mask back on her face
"Nice to meet you, I bet you already know who I am."
"Hai."
"Alright let's go." and Naruto jumped off and started moving towards the north-eastern part of the wall followed by Hoshi.
It didn't take long for them to arrive there, not long because Naruto pumped a lot of chakra for him to move faster then usual, and Kyuubi gave him a little more. When the two arrived they saw the remaining of the group preparing the exit, Hinata was unconscious, she had her legs and arms tied and a bag on her head. It also looked like she had several bruises. Naruto jumped up and landed in front of the group.
"Well what do you know, the demon saved us from a trip." mocked one of them.
"You bastards!" hissed Naruto "I will skin you alive!"
"I would like to see you try that." mocked another "This bitch here killed four of our teammates but that doesn't matter, she will be punished once she arrives back home."
"Put her down!" yelled Naruto again
"Make me." the Hyuuga taunted and draw his katana out.
"Naruto you take the three on the left, while I take the two on the right." said Hoshi that was on top of a building nearby.
"So Hoshi, you betrayed us?" asked the leader
"Yes, I hate Hiashi and I hate the elders and their propaganda, I don't want to do anything with them." spat the woman
"Fine then, you shall die as well today." hissed the leader
Hoshi jumped down and charged the leader and his companion in the Hyuuga stance, while Naruto created 20 Kage Bushins and attacked his targets, he also called out for the sand. This action stunned the group of Hyuuga's as they had no information that he can manipulate sand.
Naruto and his clones attacked their targets, this time using another method than the one with which he defeated Neji. The real Naruto jumped and landed behind one of the Hyuuga's and used his sand to immobilize him while the clones attacked the other two throwing Kunai and Shuriken. The two that the clones attacked used Kaitento block the attacks and slowly they defeated the clones but it wasn't enough. By the time they had defeated the clones Naruto had killed his target and created another set of clones and attacked again.
"Why are you even struggling? Pathetic worm!" said a Hyuuga and enraged Naruto who ordered the sand to shot out completely from his containers and attack the target.
Hoshi was using her Jyunken on the leader while dodging the attacks of the leaders' partner. She took out two kunai and launched them at the one behind her who as expected dodged them, she took out shuriken this time and threw them at him. He did Kaiten to block the incoming attack, when he stopped spinning Hoshi jumped on him and performed Hakke Rokujuyon Sho,
"2 strikes!" she called hitting the opponent in the stomach
"4 strikes!" she called hitting in the arms
"8 strikes!" she called hitting in the legs
"16 strikes!" she called hitting him in the stomach again
"32 strikes!" she called hitting his arms
"64 strikes!" she called hitting him in the chest.
"Jyunken!" she concluded and hit the target in the chest where the hearth is located killing him.
Once that target was done she spun around and found the leader heading towards her. She took a kunai out and slashed his hand which was directed for her hearth. She crouched and slipped underneath the opponent reappearing behind him. She started attacking again while the leader found himself in defense.
She created a Kage Bushin and together with the clone she attacked head on. The leader was unprepared and found himself under a barrage of Jyunken strikes. He fell on the ground numb from all the attacks, Hoshi dispelled the clone and calmly walked towards the Hyuuga.
"Why?" he asked "Why are you helping the demon? He killed your brother…"
"It's true, Kyuubi did kill my brother, however that boy is not Kyuubi, also he promised he would take the seal off me and then I will truly be free." she said and threw a kunai planting it in the Hyuuga's head that died instantly.
Back at Naruto he was dodging Jyunken attacks effortless, it was strange, he could see everything more clear and could determine what hand seals they would do before they would even finished them, he wanted to go offensive but they didn't leave him any opening, to make it worse they managed to hit him with a Hakke Rokujuyon Sho but that didn't stop him, Kyuubi reopened his tenketsu and continued attacking, the sand in the end managed to drain one of the Hyuuga's who was panting heavily because he needed to defend himself, the sand was moving unmorally fast and every hit was dangerous, if it was a full on hit it could have been fatal, but this time he wasn't lucky and when he dropped his guard Naruto's sand hit him full on in the chest and head. The sand pierced both his chest and head making a small gag from where blood started to drip. Naruto saw that the target was shocked and too tired to continue to he jumped in front of him and ended his life with a kunai in the head.
Naruto turned around to face his last target, he created 5 Kage Bushins and sent them to engage the enemy, he slipped passed him and took out an explosive tag and a kunai. He heard a pop, one clone was defeat, he rushed towards the enemy, one more pop, the second clone was down, he managed to get behind his enemy without him noticing. The fight with Neji taught him something more, he found out where he needs to stay to be in the blind spot of the Byakugan. He smirked and charged, the last two clones died, the enemy realized someone was behind him but before he could react Naruto got there first.
"Sennen Goroshi!" cried Naruto shoving a kunai with an explosive tag in the enemy's bottom. He jumped away, the man cried in pain, Naruto activated the tag and a few seconds later it exploded filling the battlefield with blood and organs. He smirked sadistically.
Turning around he remembered about Hinata, he saw Hoshi had already set her free and Hinata regained her conscious. He ran up to her and took her in his arms hugging her tightly.
"What happened Hinata-chan?" he asked
"I was in bed when I heard something in the kitchen, when I inspected it I saw a group of strange people there." she said shakily. "I tried to defend myself but in my condition I couldn't do much…" she said lowering her head
"Not much?" asked Naruto "You practically killed 4 Hyuuga by yourself and this guys where all Jounin up." he praised. She raised her head and smiled at him. She then sneezed and Naruto took her in his arms. "Let's go home, you are still sick."
"Shouldn't we alert the Kazekage?" asked Hoshi
"No need…" came a monotone voice. They turned around and saw Gaara, his siblings and at least ten ANBU. Gaara inspected the surroundings and smirked. "Naruto you did this?" he asked pointing to the pool of blood and organs.
"Hai…" he said and some of the ANBU involuntarily started to shiver.
"Who is she?" asked Gaara pointing to Hoshi.
"My name is Hoshi Hyuuga, please to meet you…umm…"
"Subaku no Gaara, Kazekage." replied the red haired boy
"Anyway, what the hell happened here?" asked Kankuro
"Those bastards of Hyuuga's wanted to take Hinata away and brand her with the caged bird seal…" said Naruto
"And they also wanted to kill Uzumaki Naruto and attack the Hokage who is on her way here." said Hoshi
"Hoshi here came and told me everything, she is no longer a Hyuuga, you can trust her." reassured Naruto everyone around.
"Ok…I understand that…" said Temari. "But what's wrong with your eyes?" she asked
Naruto looked puzzled. "My eyes?" Temari nodded and then everyone looked at him. There where several gasps and Kankuro and Gaara's eyes went wide. "huh?" asked Naruto not understanding what was happening.
"Here let me help you." said Hoshi taking out a small mirror and handing it to him. He looked at himself in the mirror, indeed his eyes where different, they where still the same blue eyes but now he had what seemed a gold tomoe (A/N: it's positioned just like the Sharingan's tomoe). It looked like something close to the Sharingan, but his eyes where still blue and the tomoe was gold.
"I wonder what this is…" said Naruto
"Baka! You activated your bloodline during the battle" roared Kyuubi
"My bloodline?" asked Naruto stunned
"Yes, this is the bloodline I told you about, its nothing near the Sharingan so don't you dare compare it to it, its more powerful than both Sharingan and Byakugan but I will tell you later, tonight to be more precise."
"Well, I think I unlocked my bloodline." said Naruto rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"What does it do?" asked Temari
"Don't know yet, I will find out tonight." responded the boy looking at Gaara who understood.
"Alright Naruto, you and Hinata may leave." said Gaara and then turned to Hoshi "You helped my bodyguards and friends today, you won't be charged with anything but please come with me. I want to know what Konoha is planning in this…treaty…" said Gaara getting more serious. Hoshi nodded and started following Gaara
"Hoshi-san!" called Naruto "When Gaara is done talking to you come and look for me so I can take the seal of you!" he said and the woman nodded smiling.
"What are we suppose to do?" asked Kankuro
Gaara stopped. By then Temari who was smart enough to leave, left and Naruto and Hinata who where excused where nowhere to be seen. "You and the ANBU" he said pointing to the group of ANBU "will clean this mess, before it starts stinking." he said and disappeared leaving Kankuro and the team of ANBU to act as cleaning service.
----Suna, entrance----
Team Hokage was at the entrance to Suna. They where greeted by Temari who found out that they where coming from Hoshi.
"It's nice that you came." said the blonde girl. "But why did you came?"
"We came here to see Naruto and give him some farewell gifts." responded Tsunade
Temari looked at them and saw some bags, she became a little more serious. "Hokage-sama, do you know what happened today?"
Tsunade looked at her questionable. "No…"
"Today tow of our chunnin where attacked by ten Konoha shinobi right here in Suna." she said and everyone yelled 'What?'
"What do you mean? I didn't order anyone to come, let alone I didn't tell many I was coming here." said Tsunade
"Well, there where 10 Hyuuga that attacked." said Temari looking at Neji with death eyes
"Hey, I'm no longer part of the Hyuuga clan, I was banished." he said in defense
"Oh, and how could I trust you?" intrigued Temari
"He is telling the truth, we where there when he was banished." said Kakashi and Jiraiya and Tsunade nodded
"Hmm…very well then." said Temari "So you didn't send anyone to attack us right?"
"No, why would I do that?" asked Tsunade furious.
"Just checking…follow me…" she said and started leaving with the team behind her.
"May I ask, who where those attacked?" asked Kurenai
"Like I said, two chunnin, more precisely Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata." said Temari, everyone was dumbstruck at first, the two where chunnin here, but then Tsunade got scared.
"Are they safe?" she asked with concern
"Yes, they are safe and sound, Hinata has a bit of a cold due to a mission and Naruto is now taking care of her. Unfortunately you can't see them today, with all the commotion it would be best if you don't go visiting, I don't think he would be too happy." said Temari serious
The group nodded and continued walking, it wasn't long till they reached a hotel where they would stay for at least 4 days. That night everyone was out looking around, they planed for the following day to try and find Naruto and give him his stuff and ask some questions, Sasuke was anxious to see him again but he didn't show it. Neji was concerned for his cousin but let it drop since he knew that Naruto promised to keep her safe and he is a man of his words.