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Chapter 10- First Date
After receiving the number and opponent all the genin look to try and find whom they were to face in the finals. Some were pleased as to who they were going to fight like Kiba, but others like Hinata were terrified of their up coming fights especially when they had to fight people like that Gaara kid, he just chilled her to the bone. But they stop looking around at all the others to look at the old Hokage who had gotten out of his chair, "Congratulations to all of you. You will be the sixteen fighters that are to fight in the final stage of the chunin exams. Now you will be given a month to prepare for your opponent so use it wisely, and plan your strategies. And when your thirty-day break is over you are to report to the stadium in the center of the village. Now are there any questions?"
The genin look around at each other before someone broke the silence, "Hey jiji are we allowed to leave to train in own villages?" Asks a bored looking Naruto. The old Hokage smiles at hearing his nickname again, 'Too be honest I missed that name. It's good to have you back Naruto you and me will have to catch up and I'll have to get Iruka. Oh won't he be surprised.' "No Naruto you are not allowed to leave the village to train, but if your sensei does manage to get here then they may train you." Naruto looks at his 'teammates' and gives them a smile. "Now then if there are no other questions then you are all dismissed I will see you all in a month." And with that the sixteen genin started to leave all except four Naruto and his team stayed back to talk with the Hokage, while Gaara was waiting for Naruto.
"Hey jiji how've you been?" Asks an as always overzealous Naruto, "I've been fine and it's good to see you again Naruto now tell me how did you end up in the rain?" Naruto knew at some point he would ask that so he quickly started to think of some kind of cover story. "Well that night I left was where it started. Those two that took me were rouge nin and Yuki Onna sensei says that I was under some kind of genjutsu so I can't remember names or faces. Anyways after we made it out of the land of fire we still kept walking that was until my stomach started to growl pretty loud, and well that got the attention of some rain nin who came to see what the noise was. And that's when they found me they killed one of the rouges, but the other got away. And then they were asking me questions like where was I from, my name, do I have any family, and stuff like that. So after I answered their questions they took me back to the rain and that's where I met Pein-sensei." The Hokage raises an eyebrow at the mention of this new ruler of the rain who only came into play about two or two and a half years ago. (Remember everyone thought the civil war lasted longer than it actually did.) "Naruto what do you mean Pein-sensei? I thought that Yuki Onna was your sensei?" Naruto then smiles at his jiji's confusion, "Well she is too. You see after they took me to Pein he released the genjutsu, and Pein saw the seal on my stomach and knew what I was. So he said he would teach me from time to time in my ninjutsu, taijutsu, and intelligence. And as for Yuki Onna-sensei she helps me with my water style and espionage more than Pein, but she is also my squad sensei so she goes with Ichigo, Toshiro, and me on missions out of the village." Now Hiruzen was both worried and shocked that Naruto knew he was a jinchuuriki and that someone else knew, hell that someone else happened to be the leader of the rain village, but Naruto didn't seem angry or upset so he tries his luck.
"You know about the Kyuubi don't you Naruto?" Naruto stares at him for a few seconds before responding, "He doesn't like to be call kyuubi that is simply a title. His name Kurama, and yes I do know about him, and no I don't hate you for not telling me." At this point Hiruzen is both shocked yet relived at what Naruto had just said. Shocked because to learn the name of a bijuu he most likely had to go into his mind and speak with it. And relived that his adopted grandson doesn't hate him for not telling him about it sooner. He only smiles at the maturity the blonde acquired in a short six months; "You and your team may leave now Naruto good luck in your training." Naruto gives him one more smile before running off to his teammates. But Hiruzen was not done with the topic on his way back to Hokage tower he couldn't get the thought of Naruto and the fox somehow getting along out of his head and something about that bothered him greatly. Also the story about missing nin being the ones to abduct him didn't sound right in his mind. Somehow he knew that Naruto was not telling the whole truth, but what was he hiding.
With Naruto and his team they were walking when Naruto sensed Gaara was close by, "Deidara, Hidan he's close I'll meet you guys at the hotel later tonight ok?" The two disgusted Akatsuki members see the serious look in their student's eyes and get the message and quickly leave.
"Gaara I know you're there. So you can come out now." And true to his words Gaara appears in a whirlwind of sand right in front of the blonde. "Shukaku wishes to speak with Kurama." Gaara then sticks out his fist halfway between them, Naruto see this and hears Kurama say to do the same, so he does. And when he does both boys and bijuu are pulled into a combined mindscape.
"Kurama how've you been? You look a lot uglier than the last time we spoke. When was that about five hundred years ago? Give it a take." Stated the insane sand demon, "Yes it was around five hundred. And I believe that Chomei and Goku were there too. By the way have you seen any of our other siblings since then?" Kurama asked his brother. It was then that Naruto spoke up, "Wait Chomei? Goku? Who are they?" But before his bijuu could answer he was interrupted by Shukaku, "They don't matter now so don't try to think about them or change the subject. You know why I asked you two here." Kurama and Naruto knew that something bad was about to happen, but what it was they couldn't tell what it was. "When both of our host fight in the exams I want to see who will be the ultimate killing machine. My host or yours so what do you say there brother. We make absolutely sure that we make to the next round then the real fun can begin." Naruto then knew what that sinking feeling in his gut told him Hinata was in danger, "Shukaku we will fight you at our maximum only if you leave Hinata alive, and unharmed." At this the sand demon was furious, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO MORTAL!? I AM THE ICHIBI ONE TAILED DEMON OF THE DESSERT! AND I WILL DO AS I PLEASE!" Naruto then looked to Kurama and could tell that the fox was on his side for this, "Shukaku let me elaborate on what the kit just said. A fox falls into a deep depression when their mate is killed and cannot function properly. Ergo with his mate alive then he will have no distractions and the four of us will have a battle that will shake the heavens." Gaara and Naruto stare at each other before Shukaku spoke again, "Very well then I will leave your kit's mate alive and unharmed and in return you must do something for me." The two fox partners look at each other then Naruto spoke for the both of them, "What did you have in mind?" Then the Ichibi stood still for a time, "Umm when I think of something I'll tell you." At this the others in the room sweat drop at the Ichibi's inability to think fast unless it was in combat. "Are we done here Shukaku? If so kit has something he needs to attend to." The demons look back and forth at each other a tension in the air, "Very well you may leave. We'll see you two in a month." And with that it all fades to black as the four separate back into two minds.
When the two jinchuuriki open their eyes they see that they are still touching fists so they separate and begin to walk their separate way until Naruto calls out to the sand nin, "Oi Gaara! You'd better stick to the agreement or else." The emotionless red head stares at the blonde before he replies, "You have my word that I will not hurt your mate." He then jumps away leaving a very red faced Naruto who then remembers that the only reason that Hinata will be alive if she loose is the fact that he had managed to convince Shukaku that they were mates. 'Ero-fox me and Hinata aren't mates and that probably won't happen for a long, long time.' The fox smiles at his host uncomfortable position, 'Yeah that may be true, but when that time does come I guarantee that you and her will enjoy one of the perks from being a jinchuuriki.' Naruto then turns a shade of red that would give Hinata a run for her money, 'Sh-Shut up Ero-fox!' He then made his way to the hotel to meet his team.
A few minuets later when he got outside something was starting to bother him. On the way he senses someone behind him and using the windows like mirrors he is able to see a square shape rock moving behind him. 'Are you fucking kidding me does this kid really think that I won't notice him. That is almost insulting.' Kurama sees into his hosts eyes and he too sees the "rock" and starts to laugh from inside his cage, 'Oh this is rich. Is this the best that future leaf ninja can do? Kami help the next generation.' After another minuet or two of walking Naruto is finally fed up with his stacker. So he turns a corner then leaps onto the roof and then watches the 'rock', and sure enough it begins to move and he can clearly see three pairs of feet moving underneath the box. 'Huh so there are three kids. What do you think Kurama should I show them one or two tricks, or should just stick with tutoring the rain genin?' At this question the fox responds, 'What do you think kit? Of course, remember the more that know the mischief of a fox the better. After all it served those rain brats you tutored, hell one of them is even in the finals.' He smiles at his bijuu's confidence in his teaching skills and continues to watch the rock until it turns the corner and it then stops and out from under it pops up three small children. "What the heck where'd he go? I could sworn that he went this way." Said a boy who had on a long blue scarf and had wild brown spiky hair. "Well what did you expect Konohamaru he is a ninja after all and I hear he's in the finals, but remind us how does he know your grandfather?" Said by a girl around the same age as the boy now know as Konohamaru. She had on a dark green ninja dress that went down to her knees and bright orange hair. And the final one who was looking around for Naruto had a bowl cut hair style and a small trail of snot coming from his nose.
"Udon, Mogi what do think we should do now we lost him?" But before either of his two friends could even speak they feel a rush of wind and hear a voice behind them. "Well you three could start by working on your piss poor camouflage." They then turn around and are greeted by the annoyed look on Naruto's face, "Yes we finally found you! Now since we have you cornered start talking. How do you know my grandfather?" Naruto looked confused as to who he was referring to, so he though of all the people who could be grandpas and only came up with one. "Oh so your grandfather is Hokage jiji. Well I know him because…well he's always kind of been like my jiji before I left." The three younger ones look at each other before calming down a bit. "By the way I never said thank you for saving me from that sand nin a couple days ago." Says a now relaxed Konohamaru, "Hey don't mention it was the right thing to do. Anyone else would have done the same thing if they were in the same position." Then Naruto noticed something about the three little ones they were looking back and forth to each other as if they were avoiding some kind of question, so he was left to wonder what could they be thinking about, but he didn't have to wait long as the other two-pushed Konohamaru forward. "Umm listen we were thinking that maybe you could. If you're not busy possibly." Naruto could see that the kid was nervous so he took a guess, "You want me to teach you three?" And after saying that the three children nod their heads, to which Naruto smiles his trademark toothy grin, "Well then meet me here tomorrow at around four o'clock does that sound good to you guys?" The three kids nods their heads with a new vigor that screamed excitement, and as he turned to go meet his team at the hotel he heard them ask a question, "Wait! What's your name?" He turns around only to shout, "The name is Naruto Uzumaki!" And with that he disappears.
Now it so happen to be that Iruka was in the area after his class had gotten out he wanted to see who had made it in the finals for the chunin exams, so he was on his way to the Hokage tower when he stopped in his tracks. "The name is Naruto Uzumaki!" He hasn't heard that voice for six months and could still instantly recognize the person who it belonged to. Everyday since Naruto disappeared he has worried for the blonde, but after hearing his voice his only concern now was where was he. So he begins to franticly search for the little troublemaker and starts to cover as much ground as he possibly can, but stops in his tracks when he sees something. A mess of spiky blonde hair walking down the street to one of the hotels that provided accommodations for ninja from other villages who were taking the chunin exams. So as fast as he could he sprints down to meet the blonde. Meanwhile Naruto had a huge shit-eating grin plastered on his face. He could sense that Iruka was behind him he wanted to see how his old teacher would react to seeing him again, and he wasn't disappointed, "Naruto! Wait! Naruto it's me Iruka!" He turns around to see a winded Iruka trying to catch his breath before being enveloped by a hug from his figurative brother, "Oh my god it is you. Naruto where have you been?" Says Iruka who was on the verge of tears, "Iruka-sensei if you would look up you can see the rain headband." Answers a somewhat teasing Naruto, and when Iruka does back up he does see the rain headband on Naruto's forehead showing where his new allegiance lied. "Oh. Wait how did you wind up in the rain? Maybe you can tell me over a bowl of ramen?" Naruto would have loved to get a bowl of ramen with his old sensei and catch maybe even learn a thing or two about Sasuke for the finals, but he still had to meet his teammates for a meeting. "Sorry Iruka-sensei, as much as I would love to get some ramen right now I've got to go meet my team. We all made it into the finals so we have to talk to sensei and see about the training schedule." Iruka stood amazed at the maturity that Naruto had gained in a short amount of time, he even managed to put his team in front of ramen. "Oh well alright then when can we get some ramen then?" Naruto thought for a second before responding, "Well I'm going to be busy tonight so how about tomorrow?" Iruka nods, "Yeah that will work out great. See you later Naruto."
Naruto then walks into his hotel and sees that all the Akatsuki members that came with him have dropped their disguises, and Obito was there so he knew that something was going on, but he wasn't sure if it was going to be bad or good. "Naruto you will be fighting Itachi's little brother is that right?" Ask the other Uchiha, "Yes Obito-sensei I'm going to fighting Sasuke in the finals. Why? What is this all about?" The four criminals look at each other before Konan spoke up, "You see Naruto Nagato wants you to come back to the rain so he can train you some more before your big fight in the stadium. But that's not all ever since Hidan and Deidara fought Orochimaru in the forest during your exam's second phase we've had Obito and Zetsu spying around the village and trying to dig up some information on his plans. Obito if you will." The master sharingan spy walks to the middle of the room, "From what we've uncovered the snake teme's plans are to obviously destroy Konoha, but there's more. It appears that he has killed the fourth Kazekage about fifty miles out side of Suna so he never even made it into the fire country. And with that my guess would be that teme is going to be disguised as the recently deceased Kazekage, which means he will have easy access to the Hokage, ergo an assassination attempt would be very likely. And this new sound village, that is an interesting topic, turns out that the teme formed the village as a way to get into the leaf so with all these pieces together there is no doubt in my mind that he will attack during or immediately after the exams. However there is one thing that keeps bothering me." Naruto looks at his sensei ask before asking the obvious question, "What is it Obito-sensei? What's wrong?" However Obito looked off into space before finally answering the blonde, "Well what's bothering me is that in order to move these kinds of troops without getting noticed that can only mean that he has a man on the inside most likely he participated in these exams. So Naruto let me ask you this was there anyone who acted suspicious during the exams? Anyone who dropped a few red flags?"
Naruto thought through the entire exam the written test, the forest of death, and then the preliminaries. He then stopped his train of thought when he though of the only person acting suspicious in the exams. "Well there was this one guy. His name was Kabuto, and it said that he failed the exams about six times, yet when the preliminaries were about to begin he drops out so I guess that he might be a good lead for you." The others look at each other before they nod to Obito. "Alright everyone hold on you might feel a bit queasy. Mangekyou Sharingan," and then they all were sucked into Obito's world then before anyone could realize what was going on the were in front of the other Akatsuki members. They all take their seats and stare at Naruto before Nagato spoke. "Naruto in order to prepare you for this last stage in the exams we have decided to give you five different training sessions. Each session focusing on something that could either save your life in the future, or win the fights that will come in a month. So here will be your sensei and what they will teach you in your one month break."
"Session one is to be Konan and myself, and we will be teaching you a new jutsu that can be used for larger scale battles."
"Session two will be Itachi, Kisame, and Kakuzu, and they will be improving on your water style."
"Session three will be Obito, and Itachi, they have their own plan for you so I'm not entirely sure what your training will consist of."
"Session four will be Deidara in helping you perfect your transformation from shadow clones to explosive clones. And countering earth style users as you did not cover that a lot in the first six months."
"And finally session five will switch off between the last four every day. Since it will be one of the pervious sessions if you are struggling in one area this will make it up."
"Now your training will begin tomorrow, but what is this I hear of my nephew getting a girlfriend?" Naruto immediately shoots glares at Hidan and Deidara while they were laughing and actually gave each other a fist bump on the verge of tears. "Well Naruto I'm waiting, go on explain." At this point Naruto was terrified of his uncle. Was it that big of a deal that he had a girlfriend? "W-Well her name is Hinata-chan and…" He cuts himself off when he realizes that he put the chan at the end of her name and was blushing at the grins and thumbs up that he got from Deidara, Hidan, Kisame, and even Obito. "Oh let the boy be Nagato-kun he is allowed to relax now and then. Let him have this opportunity to enjoy himself after all you said his training started tomorrow so I say he goes back to the village and enjoys his day off." It was then that Naruto remembered that he had promised both Iruka and the Konohamaru corps that he would meet them tomorrow.
"Umm Nagato-sensei. If it's ok with you I'd like to start training the day after tomorrow I promised an old friend, and some kids that I saved that I would meet them tomorrow." The others all look at Naruto then to Nagato waiting for his answer, but then Deidara and Hidan remembered the promise that Naruto made during the preliminaries and began to laugh out loud almost choking. Nagato looks over to his subordinates and asks, "And what is so funny that you two would laugh in the middle of this important meeting?" Hidan was still laughing, but Deidara managed to calm himself down long enough to speak, "Well you see leader-sama Naruto over there made a promise after Hinata's fight saying that he would take her out on date. And as we all know Naruto doesn't go back on his word." At this Naruto grew pale, but when every member even Sasori, Kakuzu, and Zetsu were looking at him with grin stamped on their faces he knew that he was going to have to explain with one of the brightest blushes he had ever produced. "Well y-you see I did say th-that during the preliminaries, and. 'Oh fuck it.' Yes I did say that, yes I still want to take Hinata out on a date and I was hoping that I could ask out tonight after all it is still about one o'clock." He tried to get those words out as fast as possible so only a few would understand, but unfortunately everyone heard him. Konan nudges Nagato and the leader sighs, "Alright you have two days off, but after that it's overtime for you. Understand?" At this Naruto perks up when Hidan, Deidara, and Konan walk over to him. And he sees Obito with his mangekyou sharingan active and with final parting words from Kisame, "Go get her lover boy!" They were sent back to the leaf. And Nagato looks over to his other members, "Well I guess we should help the leaf against the sound and sand invasion. Does anyone have objections with keeping the village alive a little while longer?"
Back at the leaf Obito, Konan, Hidan, Deidara, and Naruto were transported back to the hotel room. "Alright Naruto remember in two days we will go back to the leaf for your training and I don't want any complaining understand?" Asks a serious Konan, "Hai Konan-sensei." And with that he leapt out the window to find Hinata. 'Alright it is only about one fifteen, so I still have time to find her and give her time to get ready. If Konan has taught me anything it's that girls for some reason take a long time to get ready for events. I wonder why?' He quickly regains his concentration and picks up speed. He then saw a familiar pale jacket, and blue hair walking towards the Hyuga compound and builds up speed to try and catch her.
Meanwhile Hinata was in her own little world with only three things concerning her at the moment. One what was she going to do against that monster of a ninja Gaara she could still remember what he did to some of the genin in the forest.
Flashback
Hinata and her team were moving through the forest trying to find the other scroll, when Kiba noticed something strange with Akamaru, "Hey guys hold up something is wrong. It looks like Akamaru is scared of something." The other members of team eight stop and stare at the dog that is always as brave and as brash as it's owner. "What do you think could spook a ninken like this?" Asked the calm voice of Shino. They then continue for about two to three minutes before Kiba's nose is hit by a strong smell of blood, "Guys hold up I smell blood and a lot of it. Lets get into the bushes so we can get a better look from a safe distance." They then descend and lower their chakra to where the enemy would have to really try and concentrate to find them. And they slowly creep up to where they saw a group of three in the middle of the forest. Hinata tries to see who they were so she quietly activates her bloodline, "Byakugan," she then looks into the distance and can see that it was the sand team with that redheaded kid Gaara, and around them were at least three other squads dead that look like they were crushed by something. She then turns to her teammates who look at her worried, "What is it Hinata?" Asks Kiba when he sees the look of surprise and horror on her face. "We n-need to m-move right now. That t-team up a-ahead has killed at l-least three other t-teams." The other two members of team eight look at her with shock that one team managed to kill three others. "Ok lets get moving." And with that they quickly and quietly left.
Flashback End
She then continued to think of other things trying to get her mind off Gaara she focused on the other two things that were bothering her. The second thing that had her quiet upset was Neji. While she still loved her cousin she didn't know how much more of his abuse that she could take before giving up, and really believe what he was saying about her. So again like the Gaara issue she brushed it off and got on to thinking about the last thing on her mind. However this thought brought a blush to the Hyuga heiress' face when she thought about it, 'Oh Naruto.' She couldn't stop thinking about how he had kissed her on the cheek when he first came back to the village, when he cheered her on giving her the confidence she needed to win against Choji, and what brought the largest blush to her face was when she thought about the forest when he kissed her on the lips, although it was to make let go of his hand so he could go look for his teammates, it was still special to her. She lets out a comforting sigh as she figured he was on the other side of the village training until he dropped like he did when they were younger. Oh how wrong she was.
"Oi Hinata wait up!" She hears Naruto's voice and stops in her tracks, 'N-Naruto-kun hear why?' She is brought out of her thoughts when said blonde landed right in front of her a little closer than he planed. "Umm hey Hinata I was wondering a-are you by any chance busy later tonight?" She stares at him with wide eyes, 'Is he trying to ask me out? No that's ridiculous. He's probably going to ask for advice on fighting against someone that uses dojutsu. But there is always hope.' "N-No Naruto-kun I'm not b-busy later. W-Why?" At this the blonde does his nervous habit of scratching the back of his head, "W-Well I was asking if you weren't too busy, because I was wondering if you would like to go out for dinner later tonight?" At this she was screaming in her head, 'YES, YES, YES! Of course I want to go out with you Naruto-kun! Now if I could only say this out loud.' So she starts to bump her index fingers together and begins to mumble something. Naruto not being able to hear thinks that she was busy, "I-It's ok if you're busy maybe tomorrow then? If you're ok with that?" He then starts to turn around and start to walk off somewhere to train on his own. It was then that Hinata was staring to realize that Naruto thought she rejected him, 'Wait! Shit, nice going Hinata. What am I waiting for he's right there come Hinata just a little confidence is all, you can do it.' With her little self pep talk she runs towards him and envelops him a hug. "W-Wait Naruto-kun wh-what time will th-this d-d-d-date be. So I k-know how l-long I've got to get r-r-ready." Naruto brightens up hearing that Hinata will go on a date with him so he thinks about where to go and tells her that he will pick her up at seven. So they say their goodbyes before going their separate ways.
In Hinata's mind, 'YES, YES, YES, YES, YES! Way to a go me I've finally got a date with Naruto-kun. Wait I still have to get ready lets see if some of the branch members have any advice for me.' She then sprints home to get ready.
Naruto's mind, 'Wow I actually did it I asked her out. Ha suck it Deidara I told you I'd do it, but someone had his doubts. Wait I still need to get him back for bringing that up in the meeting. Lets see the usual prank just won't cut it. This is going to be a super prank one that Mr. Art is a blast will never forget.' 'Kit if you spent this much time in anything else you would have already become a chunin.' Stated the fox, 'Oh just shut up and go back to sleep Ero-fox.'
A few minuets later at the Hyuga compound
Three branch members were enjoying their afternoon off when the heiress walks in with a dark red blush adorning her face, "What can we do for you Lady-Hinata?" They stare at the young woman who looks embarrassed beyond belief. "Umm well I w-was going to ask you i-if any of you have ever b-been on d-date before?" They look at the young woman before they put two and two together and smile that the shy young heiress has found someone of interest. "Well you forget that two of us are engaged at the moment, so yes we have had our fair share of dates in the past. Why, are you planning to go out?" At the mention of her going on a date she soon starts her nervous habit of pocking her pointer fingers together and stuttering more uncontrollably, "W-Well ac-actually yes. I am planning to g-go out t-tonight. A-And I was h-hoping that you c-could help me since this is m-my f-f-first d-d-d-date. And this p-person is v-very s-special to m-me." The three older women look at each other before smiling at Hinata, "Of course we'll help you. And I hope you don't mind me asking, but is this the boy whom you've been chasing after for some time?" Hinata after hearing that grows to bright in blush and is on the verge of fainting, "Y-Y-Yes it's N-N-N-Naruto-kun. And I wanted t-this d-d-d-date to be p-perfect. So will you p-please help m-me?" They give her one last smile, "Of course Lady-Hinata." They then escort her to her room where they can begin to make her look as beautiful as they can for her special night.
Meanwhile Naruto had a dilemma, 'Where should I take Hinata?' As much he would of liked to take her to Ichiraku for dinner, which seemed a little too simple for his first date so he tried a fancier restaurant. He walks until he sees a very nice looking place and goes inside, and he then walks up to front counter in order to make reservations. The man working the counter sees a young rain ninja approaching and smiles whenever Konoha holds any kind of event the hotels and restaurants are usually packed with guests, but there was something familiar about this one, but he couldn't tell what it was. "Yes may I help you?" He asks nicely, "Umm yes I would like to see if you have any opening for around 7:30 this evening?" The man checks his books and sees that in fact they do have an opening around that time, "Why yes in fact there is an opening at 7:30. Now how many people will be attending and what name should I put the reservations under?" Naruto grins and responds, "There will only be two people and the name is under Uzumaki. Naruto Uzumaki." And that's when the waiter put the pieces of memory in his head together, 'This is the demon brat that was said to have been kidnapped half a year ago. Why the hell is he here, and who would agree to go out with scum like him? Well shit I can't say that we don't have any room because of what I just told him. Damn it now we're going to be known as the place that fed the demon.' "Very well then Mr. Uzumaki we will see you at 7:30, and if you don't mind me asking who will be joining you?" Naruto picked up on the disgust in the man's voice, and guessed that he probably remembered him from when he was younger, 'Are you fucking kidding me? Are they ever going to learn to just let go of me being a jinchuuriki?' "Joining me will be Hinata Hyuga." He then thanked the man without hinting that he now felt like slitting his throat and walked away.
And as he was walking the man walked to all his coworkers. "Hey guys bad news that demon brat is back, and what's worse he managed to actually get a table." At this the others were outraged, "You let him know that we won't serve him. After all he is a traitor." At this the others were starting to get even more pissed that the scum of the village was going to eat here when the first man spoke up again. "Well you see it won't be that easy. Because the demon has a date tonight, with non other than the heiress to the Hyuga clan." After hearing this some people just drop their things all together and stare at him, "So we have to serve him in order to impress Lady-Hinata and the Hyuga clan in general. And if we refuse to serve him then it is saying that we refuse to serve them." It was then that the head chief spoke up, "There is a possibility that is worse than that." The others look at him like he's crazy, "What if the demon is on good terms with the Hyuga and we refuse to serve someone who is connected to the Hyuga head, after all Lady-Hinata is the next clan head. Then what?" The others pale at the thought of never serving another Hyuga again in truth the ninja clans of Konoha made up around 60% of their business and the Hyuga clan alone took up about 25% so to loose them would be devastating. "Alright everyone this is a one time thing just put on a smile and pretend you don't want to kill him. Now everyone back to work. Now where's the aspirin?"
Naruto in the mean time was looking at the kimono he bought while in the rain that he had just recently brought out of a storage seal. 'Nagato-sensei thought I should at least learn some basic seals after all that was the Uzumaki specialty.' And while it was true Naruto actually had three storage seals on his body at all times. Two on his chest, to be more specific one on each of his chest mussels where he stored each of his twin foldable spears, and the third one at the top of his spine wear he kept his scythe hidden away. He always had the seals on him, but the ink would wash off every time he took a shower so when he dried off he would have his clones repaint the seals. But since he figured that no one was expecting him to have storage seals on his body he just carried his scythe around for people to see, but in fact the weapon never leaves Naruto's body for more than an hour. He also knew how to make sleep, paralyze, and chakra suppression seals, but preferred Deidara's method to explosive shadow clones, rather than just use explosive tags. He looked his kimono over to see if it was ok to meet Hinata in he had roughly three hours until they were to meet at the restaurant. His kimono had long black sleeve that covered his hands if he let them drop to his sides, with a dark orange over vest that an Uzumaki symbol on each side just beneath his shoulders with black flames at the bottom, and a white silk belt that wrapped around his waist, along with a blood red rope that followed over the belt that was tied in knot below the left side of his stomach. And the lower part puffed up a little bit when it stopped at his ankles. This part too was dark orange with black flames at the bottom. (I really can't describe clothes that well, but I tried please don't hate) "Well I've got nothing better to do better go see how the rest of the guys are doing." He then puts the kimono back into another storage seal that he painted in the middle of his chest and leapt out his window and headed back to the hotel.
When he arrived he found that it only had Konan inside who was reading a book, "Ah Naruto, what brings you back to the hotel? I thought you had a date this evening?" Naruto shuts the door and begins to check through his gear for the training with the Konohamaru corps tomorrow, "Well I've still got about two and a half hours until I need to pick her up for the date. So I figured that I'd stop by and double-check my equipment for tomorrow when a tutor some kids from the academy. And while I'm here which bag is Deidara's?" The blue-haired woman looks at him confused before pointing at the tan bag on the other side of the room. "That one is Deidara's. Why, what did you have in mind Naruto?" She only gets an evil smile for the boy; "Oh you'll see Konan, when we get back to the rain." She then starts to wonder at what is up her godson's sleeve. (I'll explain real quick Konan and Nagato were good friends along with Jiriaya to Minato and Kushina. And Minato named Jiriaya godfather and in case he died then Nagato would take over. And Konan was named godmother since she and Kushina were good friends.)
Naruto checks the time after sitting in the room for a while and sees that he still has an hour before he is to arrive, but he was bored out of his mind at that point and decided to head over there early.
Meanwhile Hinata was still getting ready with the three branch members and she had to admit she was actually having a bit of fun talking with them and deciding on what to where. She had taken a shower then they applied a little bit of makeup just in case she should start to blush around this boy then it wouldn't show too bad. As they were putting the last touches on her they heard a knock at the door and the youngest went to answer. She goes to the door and sees a boy about Hinata's age with his kimono on, with a the same symbols that the chunin and jonin had to where on their flat jackets. He also had bright blonde hair, stunning blue eyes, and three whisker marks on each cheek. She remembers the information they managed to get out of Hinata and she then realizes that this must be the boy. "May I help you young sir?" Naruto looks to older looking woman in the door and scratches the back of his head a bit, "Umm I know that I early it's just I wanted to come see Hinata-chan. If this is a bad time I can come back later if that would be better." The older woman smiles at the blonde's concern for little things like convenience, "Wait here for just a second." She the goes back into Hinata's room and looks at the others before growing a huge smile on her face. "Well who was it?" Asks one of the other women present. "Well none of us are at the liberty to let this person in. The only person who has that say is Lady-Hinata." They all look to the girl in the lavender color kimono, she looks slightly confused for a few seconds before nodding her head to let the guest in. She thought it would have been one of Neji's teammates or someone to visit her father so when the woman left to let them in she didn't give it a second thought.
The older woman from before come back to the door where Naruto was waiting patiently, "You may come in now sir." He bows his head as Konan had taught him to do when an older person let him into the house, "If you wait in the living room Lady-Hinata will be with you shortly." He turns and walks into the living room and is astonished at the size of the Hyuga compound. 'Holy shit, and I thought it looked big on the outside.' The branch member returns to a waiting Hinata who had just finished getting ready for the boy down stairs. For their date Hinata had chosen a mostly lavender color kimono with hints of light blue around the sleeves and near her feet, the kimono had the Hyuga clan symbol on the middle of her back and all over were light grey clouds that swirled into the attire. And to finish off the look she had a solid black silk belt around her waist with navy blue sandals. The three older women look to each other before escorting the young heiress downstairs.
In Hinata's mind she still had a few minuets to get ready before Naruto would arrive, but she got to the bottom of the stair she heard a few of the branch member guards laughing at something. And to her shock and horror when she came into the living room she sees Naruto in the middle of the room entertaining seven Hyuga guards who were on the verge of tears from something he had either done or said. She then looks at the kimono he wore and blushed when he turned and she could see a little of what was inside his kimono. 'For only thirteen years old Naruto-kun has put on a lot of muscle. No wonder he's in the finals with his attitude and that body. Oh Naruto-kun if only you knew what you do to me.' She was then brought out of her thoughts when she noticed Naruto starring at her with a blush of his own. "Wow. Hinata. You look….look…beautiful." She thanks him for the compliment, but just as they were about to leave she heard the voice of her father.
"Hinata is this the boy you told me about?" Asks the curious father, "Y-Yes O-O-Otosan this is N-N-Naruto-kun." He looks to the young boy and remembers the rumors about a loud mouthed, disrespectful, brat, but before he could say anything he quickly shuts his mouth when Naruto bows to him. "Hai Hyuga-sama. Uzumaki Naruto, it's a honor to meet you sir." Hiashi is at a loss for words at that moment, truth be told the Hyuga felt terrible for Naruto especially when Hiashi's wife was still alive. And Hiashi remembering the missions that he went on with Minato and Nagato, he remembers one night at a party, that Nagato had just found out he was going to be an uncle and how he wouldn't shut up about his nephew Naruto. He stopped in his thoughts when he went over it again and again, then it clicked. The boy standing before him was Minato's legacy and related to a rinnegan wielder, and he wasn't a leaf shinobi! 'Those idiots do they realize how much they cursed the Yondime's legacy by mistreating the boy! Hell if he is related to Nagato then he has enough chakra for ten people! And they fucking let him leave, or get taken, I'm sure if anyone thought that he would've been killed they have jumped at the opportunity to let rouge nin take the boy. Wait does he even know about his family?' So he asks Naruto about it, "Naruto-san I hope do don't mind me asking, but any chance have you ever heard the name Uzumaki Nagato?" Naruto flinched slightly at hearing his uncle's name, 'Shit this guy must have known Nagato or Okasan. All right play it cool and do what Kisame taught you. Lie through your fucking teeth.' "Umm no Hyuga-sama, I'm sorry, but I've never heard of that name before." Hiashi could tell that the blonde had at least heard the name before from the way he reacted when he said his uncle's name, but he knew that he would have to talk to the Hokage about this, seeing as the boy was at least hiding the fact that he knew something. He lets out a long deep sigh, "Well then Uzumaki-san I want my daughter back no later than 11:00. Got it?" He says to the blonde while releasing a small amount of killer intent. Said blonde was now somewhat scarred of 'The Father's Wrath,' which he had heard Deidara talk about all the time when he lived in the rock. "I understand perfectly Hyuga-sama. No later than 11:00." The older looking man smiles a bit, "Good, now Hinata have a good time tonight." He then kisses her on the forehead before leaving to his study.
After leaving out the front door Naruto actually had a hard time walking down the street as he kept looking over to Hinata who had recently grabbed his hand and began to interlock their fingers. 'Wow Hinata is bold tonight she's not even blushing that bad. Well not tomato red anyways, but she looks cute with that blush.'
What Naruto didn't know was that Hinata had makeup on to hide the tomato red blush on her face, 'Don't faint, don't faint you can do this it's just holding hands. Wait is he holding my hand too! Oh Naruto-kun.' She finished her pleasant thoughts just as they walked up a very expensive looking restaurant, "The Crimson Leaf. Naruto are you sure this isn't a little too expensive?" Naruto looks over to the worried Hyuga and smiles a light smile to her, "Hey I'm the one who made the reservations. So it'll be fine, all you have to do is look amazing. Oh wait you already do." Hinata then gets an even brighter blush because of the compliment, 'Oh Naruto-kun you have no idea how close I am to fainting right now. If you do one more thing to make blush any brighter then I'm going to start glowing.' They walk inside and Naruto sees the same man is working the counter from earlier in the day, he can see the expression on the man's face, one of disgust. "Do you have reservations for this evening sir?" He asks knowing full well that the demon would remember perfectly, "Why yes we have reservations for 7:30. Is there a problem?" He then smiled at him telling the man that he wasn't going to be mistreated anymore. The man lets out a long depressed sigh and said in a defeated tone, "Right this way Mr. Uzumaki." Naruto's smile grew even bigger when he gave up and showed them to the table. They were seated near the back where the lights were a bit dimmer and they passed a few candles on their way over to their table. In Hinata's mind she thought that Naruto had planned for a candle lit dinner and was thinking that Naruto was a romantic genus for the dinner. While Naruto knew on the other hand that he had just gotten lucky with the table, hell they probably moved him there to make sure that no one saw him in the windows as they passed.
When they were seated they ordered drinks and an appetizer with some convincing from Naruto saying that not to worry about price. Then Hinata became curious about something, "Naruto what did you say to those guards back at the compound that made them laugh like that?" Naruto smiles at the question, "Well I told them one of the stories that happened when me and my team were on a mission." She then looks at him a little confused, because when Kabuto told them at waiting room before the first exam began Naruto has only done C-rank and B-rank missions as a genin. "Well what happened on that mission N-N-Naruto-kun?" They both noticed that she stuttered less this time, "Well this mission I was sent with another team. The reason being that Ichigo and Toshiro were still in the hospital from the mission we had before that so I was with some new guys." He sees that she was willing to listen to his story, "So here is how it started….
Flashback
Naruto, Acha, Raiko, Hirou, and a disguised Kisame were on their way to the village hidden in the grass for a joint C-rank with their ally. But along the way Kisame was tutoring Naruto and helping in the teaching of the other three genin how to better use elemental jutsus, teaching a bit of kenjutsu, and some survival training. They were almost to the grass village when Naruto saw what he described as the most pathetic attempt at a trap he had ever scene. They were walking almost a mile out when they saw a thick black rope in the middle of the road, The four genin and jonin look to one another with a puzzled look on their face that said, "Are you serious that is the best you can do?" So they split up Kisame with Raiko and Naruto with Acha and Hirou and they go check the ends of the rope only to find that there was no one there. So once they meet back at the road they continue to the village, but along the way they continue to laugh at the awful attempt at a trap until they make it to the grass.
Once there the four genin went to the office with the scroll Nagato gave Naruto while Kisame relaxed in the lobby. But after about ten minuets he hears a conversation that peak his interests. "So did anyone else see their new trap outside the village. I think it's one of their better traps, but they still left it with out anything that can really hurt us, I mean the worst that happens is you trip, what's the point?" At this point Kisame speaks up, "Wait so that piss poor excuse for a trap isn't the first time that something like that has happened?" The other jonin nod their heads, "Well you said that, that one wasn't the worst and what's the story behind that?" They start to laugh at all the other 'traps' that have been laid out outside the village, "Well by far the worst one was about three weeks ago when they tied two logs to the trees not even bothering to hide them, and in the middle of the road was the sign, 'Free incredible jutsu scroll. Become a jonin instantly with it. This is not a trap.' and I haven't seen anyone caught by those morons even civilians are smarter than these guys." Kisame then asks a question that has been bothering him, "Wait so you mean to tell me that you know who these guys are yet you leave them alone why?" The others smile, "Well simply because they keep us entertained. We caught them about three months ago when they first tried to capture some genin, but were captured by the very genin that they tried to ensnare. They were brought to the village leader and we found out that they were from konoha the reason they were out in these parts is because they failed the academy a total ten times so they left the village and tried to become nukenin. We called the Hokage and he said if they wanted to come back then they would be welcomed, but they declined saying that they could've passed, but chose not to saying that they were destined to become the greatest trap masters ever. And so after that they've stayed out there to this day in their little wooden hut trying to make decent traps." Kisame now was holding in a burst of laughter at hearing the story of these kids who weren't even mistreated just lazy and unwilling to admit their mistakes. It was then that the four-rain genin came down the stair with a squad of three-grass genin and one jonin they introduce themselves and they move to the objective. Once outside the two squads of genin talked to each other while Naruto, Kisame, and the other jonin talked to themselves about the mission at hand which was a simple delivery mission to the waterfall.
But on the edge of the boarder they see three shadows in the road, they signal to each other that they might have to fight someone up ahead so they ready their weapons. But the four grass nin start to giggle and put their weapons down. This confuses Naruto and the rest of the rain nin, "They're of no threat to us, and it looks like they made a decent trap this time, too bad they got caught in their own wire." At hearing this Naruto looks ahead to see that in fact the three people were trapped in ninja wire and couldn't move. They start to walk past them laugh the entire way when they hear them call out, "Are you just going to leave us?" They all look to each other and Kisame gets an idea. He looks at the wire and can tell that the wires tighten with heat so he decides to cool them down and makes the serpent seal, "Suiton Exploding Water Shock Wave," his cheeks then swell up to the limit and then a huge amount of water erupts out of his mouth completely soaking the three captured nukenin freeing them in the process. After they recover they quickly say that, "Thank you for free us." Which was immediately followed up with, "Now we will have our revenge to prove that we are the greatest trap masters to ever walk the earth! Just you wait we will trap a Kage one of these days." Then they disappear into the forest. The nine ninja just hold in their laughter long enough till they're out of ear shot before bursting into uncontrollable laughter.
Flashback End
At this point Hinata was laughing, but laughing like the branch guards were. The reason being is she guessed that some of them grew up with the three 'trap masters.' Naruto after finishing his story just stares at Hinata making her a little nervous, "N-Naruto-kun do I h-have something on m-my f-face?" He is brought out of his staring from this question, "N-No you look fine its just y-you have a very cute laugh." Hinata blushes at the compliment. Everything was going perfect that evening for Naruto even the servers and other guests were leaving him be and only glaring. So while their desert was being prepared Hinata excused herself to go somewhere and left Naruto alone for a little while. So Naruto was starting to think about his match with Sasuke that was until the waiter for their desert arrived and he stopped in his tracks.
'The demon is eating here in our restaurant and no one is making him leave. This is unacceptable this filth will leave immediately even if I have to drag him out.' The waiter walks up to Naruto with a fake smile on his face and as far as Naruto was concerned it was a smile just like the rest of them so when he places the desert in front of him he has no reason to be alarmed. That is until the waiter smashes the desert right into his face. "What the fuck is wrong with you asshole!? This was my best kimono!" The young man throws on his mock 'I'm sorry' face and then glares at him, "Now you listen here you little street rat I don't know how you managed to lie, cheat, or do whatever you had to do to get in here, but now I going to ask you to leave. And pay for that desert you contaminated with your filth." Naruto was beyond shocked and furious at the waiter's actions and words, he was about to respond to the man's actions when he suddenly feels a wave of killing intent that reminded him of Konan when she was mad at Nagato then he heard a voice that made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. And he was even more shocked at who the voice belong to.
"What the hell do you think you are doing to my date." The man turns around about to comment that who ever was stupid enough to go out with the demon is lower than pond scum, but when he saw who it was he paled. Standing in front of him with a face red from fury instead of embarrassment, was Hinata Hyuga heiress to the Hyuga clan. "L-L-Lady-Hinata I had n-no idea th-that this young m-m-m-m-man was your d-d-d-d-d-d-d-date." He whispers the last part only loud enough for Hinata and Naruto to hear. Naruto then sees that Hinata is still angry at him and demands the manager. He walks up and can see the situation that has unfolded and can see that Lady-Hinata was beyond pissed. "What can I do for you Lady-Hinata?" Asks the manager somewhat scarred himself, "Yes I would like an apology for Naruto-kun and a refund or free dessert for the one that was smashed into his face." Her demands were stern and full of authority and then the young man in question having heard of the heiress habit of being incredibly shy challenges her claim, "Well then Lady-Hinata if this…..boy is your date then prove it." The crowd was silent for a time as Hinata now had her face mixing red from fury with embarrassment, "Alright then is this enough proof?" She then grabs Naruto by the collar of his kimono and smashes her lips onto his and holds. Naruto is caught off guard by Hinata's sudden bold act and his mouth is left hanging open. And as if Kami wanted him to stay surprised Hinata then invades his mouth with her tongue, but after awhile Naruto begins to kiss back both of them completely forgetting why she did this in the first place, but were reminded when the manager coughed. "Umm Lady-Hinata we will bring that dessert out right away. I believe that this young man has something to say." He then pushes the waiter forward towards Naruto and Hinata, "I would like to say I'm deeply sorry for my behavior this evening Lady-Hinata and….your date," He was then cut short with Hinata reminding him, "His name is Naruto-kun." He sighs, "And yes I'm sorry for my actions Mr. Uzumaki." He then turns and leaves just as the free desert came out for them to enjoy.
After paying for their dinner and almost paying too much for the dinner, as they tried to over charge for the food, but Naruto kept tabs on everything they ordered and their prices so they couldn't over charge them. He and Hinata were now walking down the road back to her house and he seemed to notice that she was stuttering allot less than she used to after her kissing him like that in the restaurant. They then look a clock that was on the street and could see that it was almost 11:00 and Hinata had to be going home soon so they walk together hand in hand to the Hyuga compound. They arrive and can see that is was about 10:50, "Thanks for taking me out to d-dinner N-Naruto-kun. I had a g-great time maybe we could do it a-again later this month." He smiles at this, "Yeah besides that one guy who didn't know that I was going to be there it went pretty smoothly." This reminded her of something that she had to ask him, "N-Naruto-kun why did all those people m-mistreat you back when you were younger, and why were so many people g-glaring at you?" Naruto becomes a little sad thinking of how people his age would react to the knowledge that he is the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi. "That is for another time and place Hinata-chan, but for now I'll say this I would love to go on another date with you." He then lightly kisses her on the lips and says goodbye, and Hinata waved goodbye to him as well. She then opens the door to her house and the same three branch members from earlier in the day that helped her get ready for her date. "So Lady-Hinata how was your date with Naruto-san?" She blushes up a storm when they ask that question then remembers the kiss they shared in the middle of the restaurant and how people saw them after thinking of that she faints. Only to let out an unconscious sigh in her sleep, "Oh Naruto-kun."
Naruto then walks back to his hotel and meets up with Hidan, Konan, and a pink haired Deidara. "So you found my little surprise didn't you Deidara-sensei?" The mad bomber now had somewhat of a twitch in his face, "Open your bag Naruto, I fucking dare you." He then pales at the tone in Deidara's voice, "No thanks." HE then lays on his bad only to have Hidan jump on it with him, "So lover boy I happen to be walking around the village trying to find that fine piece of ass they called Anko. When I walked by a restaurant called the crimson leaf after hearing a bit of shouting and some killer intent, so I check it out." Naruto is becoming more worried by the second as he continues the story, "And when I get there I see you almost getting devoured by that girl you were talking about what was her name. Hinata, oh and by the way nice tongue action you should have scene the looks you were getting." Naruto can only imagine the kind of grief that Kisame will give him after hearing this. He then just passes out ready for Iruka and Konohamaru tomorrow. Which he knew was going to be a long day for him.
Well that about does it I'm going to separate the month into two maybe three chapters most likely two. Anyway please leave a review about what you thought.
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