CHAPTER 11 Spy's and The Council.
Four figures were walking towards the northern gate of Konoha. Three of them were laughing and talking while the other walked behind them, smiling at their growing friendly bond.
"When we get back to the village, lets start out team training Karin." Naruto suggested. Karin nodded happily.
"Yea sure! I'm gonna get so much stronger if you two help me train." Karin proclaimed, pumping her fist in the air in an excited manner. Naruto and Hinata both smiled at their new friend. As they got into range of the village guards, the pair of Hanyou's henged only their tails and ears; they didn't want people going crazy over their new appearance just yet. They signed in and Yamato told them that he would report to the Hokage. The three nodded as Hinata put her hand on Karin's shoulders and melted into the ground along with Naruto.
The team appeared in the back of the Namikaze estate, where there was a big training ground. Naruto looked at Karin and gave her a foxy grin.
"You ready Karin? The training we go through can be... Rough." Naruto said. Karin gulped but nodded nonetheless. 'I have to at least try and get stronger. I can't let my friends do all the work.' Karin said. She didn't voice her concern, but she was kind of sad that she wasn't much help on their first mission. "Alright then. Lets begin!" Naruto said.
A week had passed since they came back from their first Anbu mission. Naruto and Hinata had spent everyday after the academy helping Karin with her physical skill, so that she wouldn't be lacking so much in that department. They even put Naruto's resistance seal on her to help with the process. It took her the rest of the day to be able to even walk properly and by the end of the week, she was able to at least spar decently. Naruto had completely mastered the Rasengan, and was in the process of teaching Hinata the jutsu; just in case she needed it. Naruto was even working on putting in his element into the Rasengan, but it was a slow process. However, not everything was training and spending time with their new found friend. The pair of Hanyou's were being followed for most of the day until they got into the safety of the compound. They knew exactly who they were and Hinata couldn't have been more furious at what happened two days after their mission...
FLASHBACK 5 DAYS AGO
Naruto and Hinata were walking hand in hand from having a nice lunch at Ichiraku's, when they both noticed they were being followed for the second day in a row. They walked calmy into a dark alley before Naruto spoke up.
"Are you planning on following us all day again?" Seconds past and nothing happened, until two figures slowly emerged from a dark corner. Hinata couldn't help but smile when she saw who it was.
"Hey sis! Hey Neji. I haven't seen you guys in a while. I didn't even recognize your chakra signature." Hinata said. Hanabi gave her a half smile.
"It's nice to see you too big sister." Hanabi said in a low voice. Hinata frowned when she heard her. Something was definitely wrong.
"What's wrong?" Hinata asked as she narrowed her eyes. Hanabi flinched when she heard the question, but Neji just smirked.
"You look different Hinata-sama. We have come to bring you home." Neji stated. Hinata's eyes widened in shock before her eyes narrowed dangerously in anger.
"No." Hinata said. As she grabbed Naruto's hand, who was sitting back watching the whole time, and started to leave. Hanabi's eyes widened when she heard her sisters response.
"Wait sis! Why aren't you coming back? I've missed you." Hanabi said. Tears starting to form in her eyes. Hinata turned around once again to look at her sister. Her eyes softened upon seeing her tears.
"I'm sorry Hanabi-chan. But that clan is no longer my family. I still consider you as my sister, but I will NEVER go back to that clan." Hinata spoke with malice in her tone. Neji's smirk widened when he heard this.
"Hinata-sama, if you don't come willingly, we are to take you in by force." Neji said. Hinata stood with a blank expression on her face for a couple seconds before she started to giggle. Neji looked angry at her blatant disregard, while Hanabi stared at her sister with confusion.
"Neji, you have no idea of what I am capable of." Hinata giggled out, before her face turned completely serious and glared at her cousin. "And trust me when I tell you... You don't want to find out." Hinata said before seemingly fading into the shadows, along with Naruto. Neji and Hanabi both had their eyes wide in shock until Neji's look turned to anger. 'She must've gotten stronger with the that demon boy. I must get stronger to beat her. FATE DEMANDS IT!' He mentally screamed. Hanabi looked at where her sister had been with a single tear rolling down her cheek. 'Did our clan make you this way?' Hanabi thought sadly.
FLASHBACK END
Ever since then, Neji and Hanabi were constantly tailing them. Hinata figured it was to determine how strong they were and to find out their weaknesses. The strange thing was, those two were not the only ones following them. Sasuke had taken it upon himself to try and learn their jutsu by spying on them; he hadn't learned anything yet, but that only made him try twice as hard.
Naruto and Hinata were walking towards the academy with Karin for more boring lectures until an Anbu member appeared in front of them.
"The Hokage wishes to see you both." The rabbit masked Anbu said, pointing to Naruto and Hinata. They both smiled. 'Anything to get out of going to class.' They both thought, but before they could shadow walk to the Hokage's tower they looked over at Karin.
"Sorry Karin, we will back back soon. Don't get into any trouble." Naruto said. Karin folded her arms across her chest and scoffed.
"I'm not a baby. Just hurry up ok? I don't wanna be at the academy alone with a bunch of brats!" Karin said. The Hanyou pair just shook their heads and waved at Karin before shadow walking in front of the Hokage's office. Karin smiled and started to walk off. The two of them were quickly becoming a big brother and sister in her life and to be honest with herself, she enjoyed their relationship immensely. She never grew up with a family, so she never truly experienced that type of bond before.
Naruto and Hinata appeared right in front of the Hokage's door and opened it without a care in the world.
"Hey old man. You needed something?" Naruto asked. Sarutobi smiled at his surrogate grandchildren.
"Yes Naruto, it seems that the council has called a meeting. I have no idea what it is about, but they asked that you both be there." The Hokage said with a frown. He knew this wasn't going to be good. The pair just shrugged. They knew that there was very little the council could do to them, so they weren't to worried. Sarutobi led the pair to the council chambers and walked in. Inside of the chambers, every civilian council member and all of the clan heads were there. The Hokage took his seat at the head while Naruto and Hinata stood in front of them all with a calm and bored expression.
"Lets get straight to the point. Why was this meeting called?" The Hokage asked in his authoritative voice. That is when Hiashi stood and bowed to the Hokage.
"Lord Hokage, I was the one to call this meeting. I would like for Hinata to explain how she removed the Caged Bird Seal. It was a part of our clans most prized seals and the Hyuuga clan have the right to know." Hiashi stated with a stoic expression on his face. Everyone turned to Hinata and Naruto to see their response, everyone was curious as well.
"We don't have to tell you shit..." Naruto said with an emotionless tone while Hinata giggled at her mates forward approach. That only seemed to anger the civilian council, and got a few raised eyebrows from the clan heads. Hiashi kept his calm demeanor, but on the inside he was seething 'How dare this child speak to me in such a way.' He thought.
"How dare you speak to us like that de... Brat! If the council ask you something, you answer!" Yelled a pink haired lady. Naruto looked over at her with a grin.
"You almost slipped up there pinky..." Naruto said fingering at his kunai pouch anxiously. He saw the pink haired lady about to shout and raised his hand in a 'stop' motion releasing a bit of KI directly at her to shut her up. She sat in her seat frozen in fear.
"However... You never let me finish. I will tell you how I removed the seal if I get Hiashi's word that he will stop sending spy's to spy on me and Hinata-chan." Naruto stated. Hiashi thought about it for a second before he inwardly smiled. 'I'll just say yes, and order Neji to kill her later. I need to train him before I make my move. I can tell she is a bit more powerful than before.' Hiashi thought.
"Very well. Now tell me how it was removed." Hiashi said impatiently. Naruto nodded and stepped back a little as Hinata walked forward with a smile. She proudly showed them the fox paw mate mark that Hinata had directly on her neck.
"I am Naruto's mate. His mark completely destroyed the seal and set me free from the Hyuuga clan." Hinata said as she turned around and kissed Naruto on the cheek. Everyone had shocked expressions on their face until one civilian councilman stood up and shouted.
"The demon has tainted her! We can not allow this Hokage-sama!" The chubby council member said. Never realizing the grin that Naruto and Hinata had on their face. The Hokage face palmed. He was about to order Anbu to take this man to Ibiki when...
"Hey old man, you heard that right?!" Naruto asked with that same grin on his face. Sarutobi sighed heavily.
"Yes Naruto... I heard, but I cannot allow you to kill him. He is a member of the council. He will be punished though, I assure you." The Hokage said. Naruto and Hinata frowned at that.
"You just have to ruin our fun, huh jiji?" Naruto asked with a cute pout on his face while Hinata giggled at Naruto's antics. Some of the clan heads were stunned that a child was talking as if killing were something fun! Most of the clan heads made a mental note to warn their children. All of the civilian council members had already decided that Naruto was a demon and determined that he had corrupted Hinata. The Hokage shook his head and snapped his fingers. Anbu appeared around the fat council member before they 'Shunshined' him away. Sarutobi started to massage his temples, feeling the headache coming on.
"If there is nothing else..." The Hokage said looking around. He was surprised when he saw the clan head for the Nara stand.
"My name is Shikaku Nara." The Nara said with a yawn. He wore jounin attire and had two distinctive scares on the right side of his face; oddly enough, he looked like an older version of Shikamaru. "It has come to my attention that you two possess the power to manipulate shadows." Shikaku said, getting gasps from the rest of the council. "I would like to know how this is possible." He finished. Everyone quickly turned their head to the pair; everyone seemed extremely interested in the answer to that particular question. Naruto took a thinking pose for a minute before replying.
"We can talk about that later in private. I will come by the Nara complex sometime this week." Naruto said. Some of the clan heads frowned because they were eager to know as well, but the civilian members gave him angry glares. Before anyone could say anything though, the Hokage stood from his chair.
"If there is nothing else... You are all dismissed." The Hokage said. Naruto and Hinata both nodded and Naruto disappeared in a pillar of intense flames, as Hinata vanished in a torrent of spiraling water that sprouted from the ground. Everyone stared wide eyed. How could two children that weren't even GENIN yet, pull off a shunshin; an elemental one at that! After the shock wore off people started to exit the chambers. The last one to leave was Danzo Shimura, who was silent the entire time, silently observing the two. 'They seem to be much more powerful than they show... Well, as long as they stay loyal to Konoha; I will leave them be.' Danzo thought with a smile.
Naruto and Hinata both made their way to the academy smiling.
"You handled that pretty well my love." Hinata said as she held Naruto's hand. He just smiled and kissed her cheek.
"Thanks. It made me pretty mad that Hiashi tried to get you back after what he did to you though." Naruto said with a frown. She squeezed his hand comfortingly; he shook off the anger he was feeling for Hiashi and smiled lovingly at his mate.
"I don't tell you this enough, but I love you so much Hinata... I don't know what I would do without you." Naruto said softly. Hinata stopped him in the middle of the street and looked Naruto straight in his beautiful slitted purple eyes with a smile.
"You will never have to worry about me leaving you. Ever." Hinata said as she captured Naruto's lips and kissed him with all her love. The people walking through the street sent them disgusted glares. Two people that saw this started to whisper saying something like "Demon whore." Both Naruto and Hinata heard this of course because of their enhanced hearing. Naruto stiffened and stopped kissing his mate. Hinata knew that if they stayed Naruto would probably kill the guy so as she held Naruto she shadow walked with him to the academy gates. When they appeared, Naruto sighed.
"Sorry I ruined that moment Hinata-chan, I probably would have killed the guy if you didn't take me away." Naruto said sheepishly. Hinata just shook her head and smiled at him.
"I wouldn't have blamed you if you did. But I rather not draw more attention to ourselves if we could prevent it." She said. He nodded and gave her one more chaste kiss before walking to their classroom door and opening it.
"Sorry we're late Iruka-sensei." Naruto said as he and Hinata took their seat in the back of the room with Karin. Mizuki still wasn't in class because he was still in the hospital getting his injuries healed. Karin smiled at her friends as the class resumed it's lecture.
"Did anything interesting happen?" Karin whispered to her friends. Naruto was already taking a nap on his desk so Hinata answered.
"Not really. My clan thought I would want to come back to them. We handled it though." Hinata said in a hushed tone. Before Karin could respond though, Iruka spoke in a bit louder voice.
"Alright class. Today we are going to have taijutsu sparing outside." Iruka exclaimed. The students excitedly ran outside of the classroom and onto the training grounds. Hinata woke up Naruto and told him that they were going to be sparing. Naruto groaned but made his way to the training ground with his team.
"Alright class. This will be a one on one taijutsu spar only." Iruka announced. The kids did as expected from academy students, except for Sakura, Ino, and pretty much all of the Uchiha fan girls who did absolutely horrible. The only interesting fight was Sasuke against Kiba. Sasuke entered the ring telling The 'dog boy' to forfeit because there was no way he could win. Kiba just snarled at the Uchiha and attacked. The fight was a pretty intense fight for academy students. Some of the class just saw the two boys as blurs, but most could at least keep up with them. Sasuke won by ducking under one of Kiba's blow and kneeing him in the stomach. Kiba doubled over in pain and Sasuke brought his other knee up to Kiba's head; knocking him out cold on his back.
"Karin vs. Shikamaru Nara" Iruka said. Karin looked at her opponent and shrugged. 'He looks kinda cute. To bad I have to kick his ass.' She thought with a smirk. Shikamaru sighed and started to slowly drag his feet to the ring.
"Fighting girls is so troublesome." The Nara muttered, but loud enough for Karin to hear.
"What you say!? You think you're to good to fight a girl?" Karin yelled at him. Shikamaru gained a tic mark on his head.
"Did I say that you troublesome woman! I just don't like fighting girls!" Shikamaru said rather loudly. Karin just huffed and got into her fighting stance. 'Ill show him to underestimate girls.' she thought with a sly smirk. Iruka waited for the pre fight banter to finish.
"Ready?" Iruka asked, they both just nodded. "Ok, 3... 2... 1... Go!" Iruka yelled. As soon as he said go, Karin bursted forward at low jounin speeds. But before she even got 5 feet from where she started her body froze. Everyone had confused looks on their face, even Shikamaru. It looked like she had blurred out of sight, only to appear close to where she had been. Karin's eyes widened when she found she couldn't move, and looked around to find Naruto's shadowed extended to hers while he stood there with his arms crossed giving her a knowing look. Karin immediately knew why he stopped her and sighed.
"Fine, I'm sorry." Karin said to apparently no one, but Naruto and Hinata knew she was talking to them. He nodded and let her gain control of her body once more. Iruka eyes widened when he saw Karin shoot off at jounin level speeds, but he narrowed his eyes when he saw Naruto's shadow connected to hers.
"Naruto, did you interfere?" Iruka asked. Naruto just waved him off.
"Yea, if I didn't, you would have a very injured student on your hands." Naruto said in a bored tone. He didn't care about showing off as much, but he didn't want Shikamaru to be hurt too badly; he had plans for him...
Iruka just shook his head. He didn't know whether to thank Naruto or to punish him, so he decided to ignore it. He told the students to continue the fight. Shikamaru's eyes narrowed when he saw what had happened. He knew exactly what had just occurred and he was mentally thanking Naruto for saving him. Karin again rushed at him, but only at high genin level speeds. They engaged in a taijutsu battle where you could easily tell Karin wasn't actually trying to win. After 5 minutes Karin got bored and sped up to high chunnin speed for a split second; just enough time to get behind Shikamaru and knock him unconscious. She was still impressed that he was at least high genin level in taijutsu. Once the fight was over Iruka looked through the list of names and found he only had two students who hadn't fought; he inwardly grinned 'This should be a very interesting fight.' Iruka thought.
"The last battle is between Naruto and Hinata Uzumaki." Iruka said with a smile. Naruto looked at his mate and smirked. Hinata looked right back at him and gave him a sweet smile. They both walked into the ring gracefully. Everyone paid very close attention now, especially Sasuke Uchiha.
"What's your resistance level?" Naruto asked. Hinata gave him a wide smile.
"10." She chirped happily. Naruto raised an eyebrow at that. She was at 8 the last time he asked her. "How much do you have on?" Hinata asked, knowing that Naruto already had level 10 resistance seals on.
"About 200." Naruto said with a smirk. Hinata smiled when she heard that. Naruto and her should be around the same speed if he had that much weight on. The whole class was confused with what they were talking about and so was Iruka.
"Well are you guys ready?" Iruka asked. Getting nods from them both. "3... 2... 1... Go!" Iruka exclaimed. They both took off at mid chunnin level speeds. Naruto came in with a high kick to Hinata's face as she gracefully ducked under his foot and sweep kicked at his feet. Naruto tried jumping over her foot, but while he was in the air, she put her hands on the ground and kicked upwards straight into Naruto's chin. He readjusted himself in the air and back flipped away from Hinata. They both rushed at each other again, but this time a little faster. No one was able to see anything but blurs except for Iruka; but as the fight went on, even he was starting lose track of them. The two looked like they were gracefully dancing, dodging and blocking each others blows. After 10 minutes Naruto and Hinata both sported a fair share of bruises and Naruto's lip was bleeding, but they were both grinning at each other.
"Alright you two. That's enough." Iruka said with amazement after he had gotten over his shock. The way they fought together was like a deadly dance and he was certainly impressed. By the end of he match, they were moving at high chunnin speeds to low jounin. The whole class just stared wide eyed at the two the entire fight. Even some of Sasuke's fangirls were starting to have a change of heart; some even started to think of becoming Naruto's fangirls. None of the students could see anything but blurs unless they stopped for a moment. Naruto and Hinata both jumped back from their heated taijutsu spar and smiled at each other. They didn't even look tired in the slightest, which amazed everyone there except for Karin. She was just looking at the fight with boredom. 'They didn't even use their original taijutsu against each other' Karin mentally whined, she thought she would get a better show than that! Naruto and Hinata both walked towards Karin and noticed her disappointed look.
"You know we couldn't go full out in front of these academy students Karin." Naruto lightly chided. Karin just scoffed.
"Yea, but you weren't even using your real taijutsu. You guys were looking like slugs compared to what you really could do." Karin whined. Shikamaru, who happened to over hear this had his eyes widen in shock. He was becoming very suspicious of the pair. Sasuke, who was listening in to the conversation, seethed at hearing that. He had to get stronger to defeat his brother; he needed more power. Sasuke marched towards the three and came face to face with Naruto.
"I NEED to know how you got so strong! You better tell me! How did you get strong?!" Sasuke yelled at him. Naruto looked at him with a blank expression for a couple seconds. Everyone had heard Sasuke and was wondering what Naruto would say. They were all shocked when Naruto slapped the Uchiha with the back of his hand; causing him to fall to the floor with a busted lip. Everyone was totally silent; even Sakura and Ino, self-appointed leaders of the Sasuke Fangirl Club, stayed dead quiet.
"I thought I told you already Uchiha." Naruto said in a humorless tone. "Don't ask me stupid... Fucking... Questions..." Naruto said slowly and clearly. He started to walk away with Hinata and Karin by his side; they were both giggling at what happened. Sasuke was so angry that he got up quickly and started forming hand seals.
"Goukakyuu no Jutsu" (Great Fireball Jutsu) Sasuke yelled. The fireball was launched directly at the walking trio. Iruka's eyes widened when he saw the jutsu, but was to late to stop it. The fireball exploded on the unsuspecting team. However, when the smoke cleared all that could be seen was a black wall that started to melt into the ground. Naruto slowly turned around to face the panting Uchiha; it took a lot of his chakra to pull off that attack.
"I don't mind that you attacked me... But you also attacked my mate and also my friend." Naruto said as he started to slowly make his way to the Uchiha. His KI being directed only at Sasuke, who was now on his ass crawling back with fear. The Uchiha was so frightened by the Killing Intent that was coming off of Naruto, he pissed himself. Some of the class looked at the Uchiha with disgust when they saw the growing puddle underneath him.
"Naruto! That's enough. I know what he did was wrong and he will be punished." Iruka said. Naruto looked over at his instructor and frowned.
"Fine sensei..." Naruto said reluctantly. He turned back to the Uchiha who was still backing away from Him. "You better make sure this doesn't happen again Uchiha... No one will be able to save you next time." Naruto declared as he focused a large amount of KI towards him, making Sasuke faint from shock. Iruka sighed and told a couple of Sasuke's fangirls to take him to the hospital just to be sure. Most of the class were confused on what happened. Why was Sasuke so scared of Naruto all of a sudden? How did he pass out? Shikamaru was still wide eyed from seeing a shadow turn into something SOLID; not to mention being able to block a jutsu.
"Alright guys! Lets go back inside and continue class." Iruka stated, getting groans from the whole class. He ignored the groans of displeasure and herded the children inside the classroom. Naruto, Hinata, and Karin all slowly walked back into the class with the same thought going through their heads: 'This is going to be a long 6 months.'