Hey I updated finally! Sorry for the long wait guys. I've been going through quite a few personal issues (I know, everyone's excuse on here). Thankfully I'm gettin 'em worked out. I know you guys have been wanting more so here it is. I present chapter 12!

Disclaimer: LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M STARING AT YOU. I DON'T OWN NARUTO. SO STRIP THE FLESH, SALT THE WOUND! HA! HAHAHAHA! AND BRING ME A BUCKET, AND I'LL SHOW YOU A BUCKET!


The next morning, Naruto walked down one of the halls in the hospital, towards Hinata's room. Upon approaching the room, he saw a Hyuuga guard barring the way from any would-be intruders. When the guard saw Naruto walking up, a frown grew on his face. When Naruto was finally standing in front of the man, the two stared at each other, one with an annoyed frown, and the other with a carefree expression. Naruto had his hands behind his head looking up at the man before him. After a few awkward moments, Naruto peered around the white-eyed guard and pointed towards the room.

"Hey uh, can I get in there?" Naruto asked once again looking up at the guard, still pointing at the entrance.

Getting a scoff for a reply, the man responded, "Begone little beast. Hinata-sama needs her rest and doesn't need to be bothered by the likes of you." The blonde frowned at the man.

"I'm the one who gave her first aid so she didn't die in the first place. I'd like to think that gives me special visiting privileges," Naruto said with a slight glare, keeping the same pose.

"You would think wrongly. Like I'm going to believe a brat like you could save anyone. Please leave Hinata-sama to rest before I have to remove you by force," the man said coldly.

Dropping his hand, Naruto let out a sigh. "Fine, fine. I'll come back later," the blonde said as he walked away, waving his hand in the air. He put his hands in his pockets and left the building.

'I guess I'm going to have to get creative,' Naruto thought to himself when he got outside. The blonde turned around and looked up at the rather large structure. His head panned over to the left side of the building.

"Her room should be right about there," he mused to himself. With a jump, the boy leaped into the air and onto the hospital roof, leaving some civilians who were nearby slightly surprised by the boy's sudden 'disappearance'. Naruto went over to the edge of the building and dropped down to the window ledge of Hinata's room. Peering inside the white room, Naruto started to become slightly frustrated. There just happened to be another Hyuuga guard just inside that would, no doubt, "escort him out" as soon as he stepped foot inside.

"I've got to get in there," Naruto whispered to himself, "Guess I'll just have to get a little more creative." Naruto furrowed his brow to try and come up with a plan. Of course he could always force his way in, but that would take out the fun as well as cause unnecessary problems.

After pondering for a bit, making sure he stayed out of sight as he perched on the ledge, he heard the door inside slide open. He looked over and saw the other guard poke his head in. Pressing his ear against the glass to hear while keeping relatively out of sight, Naruto listened in.

"Hey your shift is about over. Since you got the night shift, your relief should be here in about ten minutes," the outside guard said. The room guard nodded his head. "Thank you for informing me. I can use some sleep right about now," the guard replied, slightly rolling his shoulders of their stiffness.

Getting a wicked smirk, Naruto jumped off the ledge towards the street to search for his newfound prey.

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A Hyuuga man was walking down the hallway of the hospital towards his assigned post. He was to relieve the guard who had been looking after Hinata a little after she was brought in the night before. He approached the other Hyuuga guard on the outside and gave him a nod. The guard nodded in return and opened the sliding door.

The man walked in the room and spotted the man he was supposed to relieve.

"Good work. I'll take over from here. You are relieved," the Hyuuga man said in a gentle voice.

"Thank you. I'll see you back at the compound Teshi," the guard replied, giving a curt nod upon exiting the room. Once he closed the door behind him, the Hyuuga man looked at Hinata and gave a devious smirk.

"Well that was pretty easy," the 'Hyuuga man' said. Silently exploding in smoke, the man transformed into a certain blonde with the same devious smirk.

"I hope I didn't hurt, I guess Teshi, too bad," the boy said, scratching the side of his head with his index finger. Moving on to more important thoughts, Naruto walked over to the side of the Hyuuga heiress' bed. The sleeping, indigo haired girl had a serene look on her face that brought a warm smile to the blonde peering down at her. Naruto placed his left hand on Hinata's right hand and held it. Due to the sudden warmth, Hinata's hand instinctually wrapped itself around Naruto's.

"I'm so glad you're okay Hinata," Naruto whispered. This got the Hyuuga heiress to stir a bit as she began to wake up. Wriggling around a bit, the girl used her left hand to rub her eyes, never removing her right hand from the blonde's grasp. Slowly opening her eyes, the girl blinked cutely a few times before she looked over to find the source of warmth in her other hand. Slightly confused, she saw it was another hand, something she wasn't really used to, but not really minding it the same.

When she looked up to see who the hand belonged to, she just blinked once at the grinning face of her savior from the night before. She blinked again, and then rubbed her eyes again with her free hand, and then looked back up at the still grinning face of her favorite blonde. Looking back down at her hand, she suddenly realized the situation and ripped her hand away with an "Eep!", using both hands to place the bed covers over her head in embarrassment. Naruto just chuckled at the girl's antics.

"Good morning, Hinata-chan. How are you feeling?" Naruto asked just above a whisper as to not alert the guard outside. He was hoping that the man didn't hear Hinata's small outburst, and with each passing second, it seemed to be a less likely possibility.

Slowly bringing down the sheet, Hinata looked wide-eyed at the boy next to her.

"N-Naruto, w-w-what are you doing here?" the girl asked in slight shock and a bit of confusion.

"What do you mean 'what am I doing here', I'm here to see you silly! I had to come and make sure you were alright," Naruto quietly said with a smile, taking a seat on the edge of the bed.

'He came, to see me? He cares about me, that much? I'm so happy!' the girl shouted in her mind. Looking back at the blonde, the girl slowly removed to blanket hiding the lower half of her face. Looking down at her lap, the girl started to cutely poke her fingers together.

"Y-you didn't have to do that, you know. B-but, thank you," Hinata said, the last part barely audible. Naruto caught it though.

"I know I didn't have to, but I really wanted to. I had to impersonate one of your guards just to get in here. I don't care what I had to deal with, nothing was going to stop me from getting in here. No one can stop the almighty Naruto!" Naruto mocked yelled (quietly mind you), pointing his finger in the air above his head. Hinata giggled at the boy's odd gesture.

As if to challenge the sudden proclamation, the room door slammed open. Looking over to the sudden noise, Naruto saw the tall figure of none other than Hiashi Hyuuga, the Hyuuga clan head, with a rather angry expression on his face. After seeing the man's face, Naruto gave a sheepish smile and scratched the back of his head.

"Heh heh heh, lovely weather we're having, right Hiashi-sama?" Receiving a cold glare in response, Naruto took a few steps back away from Hinata's bed.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't have you thrown out for disturbing my daughter's rest," Hiashi coldly stated rather than ask. Growing a serious expression, Naruto stared unwaveringly into the clan head's eyes.

"Me being the one who saved her life in the first place, I'll tell you what I told the guard outside, I think it gives me some special visiting privileges. Not only that, but she got hurt trying to save me from the traitor Mizuki, so I feel I am responsible for her injury. I also wanted to make sure she was doing alright, because I care about her very much. Is that a good enough reason?" Naruto replied with a dangerous looking glare. Hinata was starting to sweat underneath the amount of tension in the room that had been exponentially building.

Hiashi kept his stern expression for a few moments before he closed his eyes and nodded, softening his expression. "Very well. I will accept your reason. Hokage-sama has already informed me of what transpired in the forest, so I am grateful to you for saving my daughter." Slightly sweat dropping, Naruto pointed his finger at the clan head.

"If you knew, what was with the scare tactics?" Naruto asked, slightly annoyed.

"I wanted to test you Naruto-san. It has come to my knowledge that you and my daughter have become rather good friends, and I needed to make sure you wouldn't be a bad influence," Hiashi responded, making Naruto's sweat drop grow just a little more. Hiashi was actually very impressed with the blonde. Not only could the boy stare into his eyes without fear, Naruto did so under his coldest and harshest of gazes. Lesser men would have cowered before it, like many have done. Not only that, but this boy had single handedly taken down a chunin level shinobi, and saved his daughter to boot. Despite the blonde's jinjuriki status, as well as the other infamous rumors, Naruto was pretty okay in his books.

Recovering from his sweat drop, Naruto's face once again grew serious. "Hiashi-sama, I have a request." Hiashi had walked over to the other side of Hinata's bed at this point. He raised his hand in response.

"And you can make it, but you will do so in a moment." Hiashi looked over towards Hinata who had been stunned beyond words from the interaction between the two. Hiashi activated his Byuakugan, the characteristic veins appearing around his eyes. He examined where Hinata had been injured, checking for any complications or anything that the doctors may have missed. The only thing he could see was a scar where Naruto had seared her flesh to stop the bleeding, but nothing else to be worried about. Deactivating his Byuakugan, Hiashi gave a small sigh of relief.

"How are you feeling Hinata?" the man asked with concern.

"I-I'm fine father, thanks to N-Naruto-kun," the girl responded meekly, poking her fingers together.

"Good. I'm going to have you discharged momentarily to finish recovering at the compound. I'm glad you're okay Hinata," Hiashi said warmly, while maintaining a cold expression as usual.

"Thank you father," Hinata said quietly. She was rather surprised at the concern her father was expressing for her. Lately, he had seemed distant and displeased at her progress in her training. So his warm words were certainly unexpected, more so than Naruto's sudden visit.

Looking back at Naruto, Hiashi inclined his head. "You had a request of me?"

"Yes. I wanted to get your permission on something concerning Hinata," Naruto said with a deadly serious expression. This little request however, slammed into Hinata's mind like a freight train.

'He couldn't possibly mean that could he?! It's too soon! There's no way I can do that right now! I'm too young!' Hinata thought frantically, absently gaping at the oblivious blonde before her.

Hiashi just raised an eyebrow. "And that is?"

"I would like to take over her training." This brought the room to complete silence. If Hiashi didn't have a reputation to uphold, he would have burst out laughing right then and there.

"That is, if she is okay with it," Naruto said glancing over at the girl in question. Naruto had to make an active effort not to snicker at Hinata's bewildered expression.

The silence grew a few moments more before the clan head responded. "What could you, a freshly graduated academy student, possibly have to offer Hinata over the expertise of the Hyuuga training regiment?" Hiashi asked a bit baffled by the blonde's request.

"More than you know. Let's just say I know more than the average shinobi," Naruto said with a smirk.

"Don't be ridiculous. You are a freshly graduated genin. Even if you did defeat Mizuki, there's no possible way I can allow that."

"Okay let me rephrase, will you let me contribute to her training?"

"Absolutely not, it is out of the question," Hiashi stated a bit more irked than before. Staring up at the man for a few moments, Naruto looked over at Hinata, who was at a loss for words.

"Hinata-chan, would you mind if I helped train you?" After a moment's hesitation, she quickly shook her head no.

"Alright then, Hiashi-sama I have a proposal for you. If I can beat you in one on one combat, then I get to help train Hinata-chan." It was Hiashi's turn to be at a loss for words. A genin defeating a clan head? Absolutely ludicrous! After thinking on it for a minute or two, Hiashi hardened his gaze.

"I'm not going to waste my time flicking a pest. As much as I appreciate what you did for my daughter, I'm going to have to decline your request. Goodbye Naruto-san." Hiashi turned around to walk out the door, only to be blocked by the same blonde he just turned his back to. Slightly taken aback, Hiashi quickly looked back to where Naruto had been once before, only to find no trace of the boy. The Hyuuga looked back at the blonde, only to see him putting up a seal on the door. Watching curiously, the clan head saw the blonde activate a seal that he did not recognize. Trails of fuin script spread across the room, before pulsing white and disappearing.

"If you think of me as just a mere pest, I guess I'll just have to prove you wrong," Naruto said with a confident smirk. "What I'm about to show you is a SS class village secret, so I trust you won't tell anybody about it. The seal I just put up is to make sure no one outside this room can feel what I'm about to do. Hinata, don't activate your Byakugan." Receiving a nod, Naruto looked back at a rather flustered Hiashi. The clan head didn't know what to expect. If what the boy said was true, then he was in for something incredible. Like a flick of a switch, Naruto's body erupted in golden chakra, causing Hiashi to falter, stumbling back. Wide-eyed, Hiashi fell back on his rear, him not having the luxury of a chair that the Hokage did when he first saw this. Recognizing this feeling from the other day, Hiashi's eyes grew even wider. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, or feeling. The amount of power radiating out from this mere boy was simply overwhelming. Hinata was balking at the blazoned Naruto in front of her, simply uttering "Beautiful," garnering a smile from the blonde. After a minute passed, Naruto deactivated his cloak just as fast as it appeared.

"So now you know that I'm not any pushover. I won't be using that in our spar however. That would just be unfair," Naruto said smirking at the still dazed Hiashi. Trying to recover from the experience, Hiashi picked himself off the ground, dusting his robes off, still not quite over the shock.

"I, I'm not sure what to say.." Hiashi trailed off. That had been one of the most powerful and peaceful chakras he had ever felt before. He wasn't sure how to respond.

"Well for starters, you could let me train your daughter." After a moments hesitation, Hiashi nodded dumbly at this, not quite registering what the blonde just said. After taking a minute to process what he just said yes to, Hiashi shook his head to clear the remaining shock.

"Wait, you said something about defeating me in a spare?"

"Yes, that was my request."

"Very well. I accept your request. When would you like to do this?"

"Well, I would prefer today if possible. It also has to be in a secluded area, free from prying eyes. I suppose it could be done in one of the buildings in your compound, but I would have to put up seals to ensure no one could barge in and see what I'm capable of," Naruto said with a finger to his chin.

"That will work. While you are there, I would like it if you could tell me about the fuinjutsu you seem to practice. Someone so well versed in the art as young as you are is quite a rarity. I'd think it be interesting to see how much you know. You can stop by the compound anytime past 3. I have business to attend to and I think I should be free by then. Anyway, I'm going to go get Hinata released. Goodbye, Naruto-san," Hiashi said with a nod as he walked over to the door. Upon exiting, Naruto looked over at a still gaping Hinata. Naruto grew a sheepish expression.

"Heh heh, sorry about that. I really want to train you so you can be strong enough to take on the strongest of opponents. I never want a repeat of what happened last night. I couldn't imagine my life without you in it Hinata, and I can't always be there to protect you," Naruto said a bit bashfully. Hinata, on the other hand, was on the verge of fainting. The words she only dreamed Naruto saying to her were coming out of his mouth right then and Hinata wasn't too sure how to handle it.

When she was about to faint, Hinata steeled herself and resisted. 'Stay strong. Stay strong for his sake. No more fainting!' the girl thought to herself. So for a response, she settled with a small nod, her face remaining blazing red.

"Good! Now that that's taken care of, I'll let you get home and rest. I'll see you later today Hinata-chan!" Naruto said with a grin. The blonde walked over to the door and removed the seal and then left the room in a shunshin, leaving behind a still very flustered Hinata.

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Naruto walked up to the Hyuuga compound gates with two annoyed looking guards staring at him. Naruto had his hands behind his head with a fox-like expression on his face. Once the blonde was standing in front of the guards, the one on the right began speaking.

"What do you want pest. Begone before we remove you forcefully," the man spat out.

Simply looking over to the man who had said this, Naruto just stared at him for a moment. "I have an appointment with Hiashi-sama. I would think he wouldn't like it if you kept him waiting," Naruto said a bit carefree, irking the guards all the more.

"Hiashi-sama is a busy man. He wouldn't have time for little brats like you. Now this is your last chance, leave now." This brought Naruto to sigh. Naruto put his arms down and began walking past the gates. Surprised by the boy's actions, the guards went to stop the blonde by seizing him by the shoulders. However when they went to do this, their hands just seemed to pass right through him, almost as if he was moving so fast that they couldn't touch him.

Becoming angered, the two guards nodded to each other and entered the Hyuuga battle stance, lighting their fingers up with a small amount of blue chakra. Preparing to strike the boy down with Juken, they were immediately halted by a stern voice.

"Enough!" Turning their heads slightly to the direction of the voice, they saw none other than the clan head himself, his cold expression that never seemed to change on his face.

"Naruto-san here is my guest. I'd have you apologize and return to your posts," Hiashi said sternly. Standing at attention, both men bowed to the clan head, both uttering "Yes, Hiashi-sama. We apologize Naruto-san."

"Eh. No biggie," Naruto said with a wave of his hand. Hiashi looked at the blonde now standing next to him.

"My apologies Naruto-san. I thought something like this might happen, despite me telling them of your arrival beforehand. Please excuse their rudeness."

"Like I said, no biggie. I'm used to it by now. Plus, as you know, they couldn't stop me anyway," Naruto said, keeping his voice down on the last part so only Hiashi heard it. Giving a slight nod, Hiashi responded, "Very well then. If you would, follow me to my residence." The man turned and began walking towards his house, Naruto in tow.

"You know Hiashi-sama, you don't have to be all formal with me. I get you have to to keep up appearances, but when it's just me and you around or even with Hinata, you can just call me Naruto. I was never really big into the whole suffix or overly respectful thing."

Hiashi side glanced at the boy now walking next to him. He gave a small nod. "Noted."

Naruto followed Hiashi into the head clan building, Hiashi's home. They both walked into the clan head private training room, where Hiashi trains Hinata.

"This should do. Could you put up the seals?" Hiashi said to the blonde who was currently enjoying the scenery. He had never been in this room before.

"Yeah sure thing." Naruto walked back over to the door they entered through. He got his seals out and right when he was about to put the first one up, the door began to open. A little surprised, Naruto slid the door open, revealing a very surprised Hinata.

"Ah! Oh, uh, N-naruto-kun, I was just-"

"Hinata it's fine," Naruto said with a smile. "Did you want to watch?"

Growing a light hue of red on her cheeks, Hinata shyly nodded. Naruto just smiled at her.

"You don't have to sneak a peek. I'm sure you father's okay with it. I'm just about to put up some seals so go on in."

Hinata nodded once again and hurried past the blonde. Naruto slid the door shut and began putting up the barrier and silencing seals as well as activating them. After a few minutes, he was satisfied with his work and walked over to a very curious Hiashi who had been watching the blonde intently.

"Okay that should do. The seals I put up prevent anyone from entering, as well as preventing any sounds from escaping. I also put up one of my new ones that prevent area damage, so we can go wild in this room without causing any damage, granted the barrier holds."

"Very well. Shall we begin?" Hiashi asked as he entered his battle stance. He was going to take this fight seriously. He knew nothing good could come from underestimating Naruto in the slightest.

"You know it," Naruto responded with a smirk, settling into his own stance. He then looked over at Hinata who had taken residence in the far corner, trying to be as small as possible.

"Hey Hinata, since you're here, could tell us when to begin?" Naruto asked to shy girl.

Realizing she was being spoken to, she registered the question and nodded quickly.

"Uh, begin!" she squeaked cutely.

As soon as the word left her mouth Naruto leaped into action, testing his taijutsu against a master of the ninja art.

Naruto unleashed a staggering amount of punches and kicks, giving him the likeness of a tornado. Hiashi however, was prepared. Every blow Naruto sent his way, the Clan Head deflected them with ease.

Watching the boy intently, Hiashi analyzed the blondes taijutsu strategy. It lacked considerable defense, but the offensive capabilities more than made up for it. Needless to say, Hiashi was impressed.

After a few more rounds of barrages, Naruto jumped back, standing there without even a pant. Hiashi took note of that.

'The boy's endurance is unreal. Most ninja, just about all his age, would be on the ground in complete exhaustion. I don't even think he was going all out either.'

Hiashi's gaze hardened as he stared at the boy in front of him, lowering back down into his starting fighting stance.

"I guess they call you clan head for a reason," Naruto said with a smile. "Guess I'll have to ramp things up a bit," Naruto said, his smile turning into a devious smirk.

"You'll have to do more than block and deflect." With that, Naruto sprang into action, bomb rushing the man with a speed he just wasn't expecting.

Years of experience allowed him to counter just in time as the blonde attempted to punch him with a left hook. Not a second later, Naruto's heel was inches from Hiashi's face. Hiashi ducked just in time to narrowly avoid the blow with a spin crouch. He then extended his hand for a Juken strike at the boy's core.

Naruto saw this and deflected the strike with his own version of Juken. The two both jumped back to eye each other down.

Hiashi was shocked. How did a mere boy learn Juken? No, it was more than that. It almost seemed like, a counter!

"How did you learn that, boy," Hiashi said with a bit more distaste than he meant to.

Naruto just smirked at the man's statement question. He noticed the man tended to do that a lot. Ask a question in a statement form.

"You really think I wouldn't try to learn counters to all the foes I may face?" the blonde said smirking, "You'll have to come at me with everything you got to even touch me."

Now Hiashi was typically a level-headed man, keeping his cool in almost any situation. However, Naruto's provocation set something off in him. Activating his Byuakugan, Hiashi changed his stance to the eight-trigrams stance, lowering his torso and extending his arms opposite each other, left pointing at the ground in front of him, and the other straight the other way.

"It's about time we got serious," Naruto said as he cracked his neck, then settling into his stance, one Hiashi did not recognize. It mattered little to the man at the moment though.

Upon seeing her father's stance, Hinata could no longer keep quiet.

"Father-sama! What are you doing?! You could kill him!" the girl screamed out, with more volume than Hiashi had ever heard from the girl.

"Don't worry Hinata. I can handle it," Naruto said, never taking his eyes off his opponent.

Still immensely worried, Hinata settled for Naruto's confidence and put her trust in his words.

A few moments later, Hiashi sprang into action, unleashing his eight-trigrams, 216 palms.

As each ever growing sequential bursts of Juken strikes went to hit their mark, Naruto countered and deflected each and every one, throwing a block or two in here and there. This just proved to infuriate Hiashi even further, his strikes coming at Naruto full blast.

"128 palms!"

"256 palms!" Hiashi roared.

When Hiashi unleashed his final strike, he infused almost all the chakra he had left, sending a blow of seemingly immeasurable power right at Naruto's chest. This got Naruto to widen his eyes a little.

The blow slammed into the blonde's chest as it slipped through his defenses. The strike sent Naruto flying, his body violently crashing against the wall.

"NARUTO!" Hinata screamed.

Hiashi to was about to panic for what he had just done, only to abruptly turn around to block a series of strikes from, three Naruto's? Using his Dojutsu, Hiashi saw the body he struck silently puff out of existence in a cloud of smoke. Immediately realizing the situation, Hiashi quickly and aggressively sent three Juken strikes into the hearts of the three clones, each puffing into smoke.

"Shadow clones," Hiashi said to himself like he should have known.

Seeing an extremely fast incoming force coming to strike his rear, Hiashi turned as fast as he could to block, knowing he had no chance of dodging. Hiashi blocked the right side kick just in time for the shadow of the clone come alive, the real Naruto revealing himself. With a speed simply faster than his own, Hiashi watched as Naruto crashed his fist into Hiashi's sternum with bone shattering force. It was Hiashi turned to go flying as he to crashed into the wall, only he didn't have the luxury of shadow clones.

As he hit the wall with force that would have killed most men, blood sprang out of Hiashi's mouth.

The man dropped to the ground in pain, clutching his chest.

Hinata stood in the corner in speechless shock as she witnessed the strongest man she knew get beaten by a freshly graduated genin.

Realizing what he had down, Naruto appeared next to the buckling man.

"Oh Hiashi I'm sorry! I didn't mean to put that much force into it!" Naruto yelled, his voice full of worry.

Coughing up a bit more blood, Hiashi looked up at the victor of the 'spar'.

"Don't *cough* worry about it. I had it coming for what I tried to do to you *cough*," the man said weakly. Not only did the impact of that blow cause significant damage, Hiashi was pretty low on chakra as well from the match.

"Hold on I might be able to do something! Lay on your back," Naruto somewhat commanded. Hiashi did as the boy said, albeit being an excruciating process. Hiashi however, did showed no sign of pain besides the wince he had on his face.

Naruto pulled out his sealing supplies that he always kept on his person.

"I'm going to try to write a reconstruction seal for your chest, although it'll take some time. Think you can last ten minutes?" Hiashi just gave a slight nod.

Seeing this, Naruto went to work. He had written out plenty of reconstruction seals before, just never on a human. He'd figure it out though. Probably. After about five minutes, Hinata now sat at her father's side.

"Naruto we need to get him to the hospital!" the girl slightly yelled out.

"We will after I do this. If I do it right, it'll be much faster than anything they can do," the blonde said, never looking away from his fuin script.

As each minute ticked by, the tension and stress kept building for Naruto and Hinata. Hiashi would occasionally cough out more blood, Hinata making sure he didn't choke on it as she wiped it away with the sleeve of her coat. This wasn't like the wound Naruto saved her from. This one had way more internal damage to much more important organs.

After another seven minutes ticked by, Naruto finally sat up from his work, looking over his script for mistakes.

Nodding to himself, Naruto put the seal on the man's chest. Getting a wince from Hiashi, Naruto quietly apologized.

"Alright, this is going to hurt, like a lot, probably. Well, I'm not sure, but I'd imagine it would. This is my first time doing this on a human so."

Hiashi slightly turned his head to look at the blonde in silent worry.

"Well, here goes nothing." Naruto put his hand on the incredibly complex seal and channeled his chakra into it. Naruto was taken a bit off guard how much chakra it needed, but it made sense given what it's purpose was. Soon, the seal began to glow. Before it really started to work, Naruto suddenly thought of another seal he had on him and quickly pulled it out and applied it.

"I just realized I had a pain nullification seal. Should help."

Hiashi's face began to relax as the pain left his body. Moments later, the seal on his chest began to glow very brightly as it extended fuin script across the man's body. Now all they could do was hope.

(The Next Day…)

Hiashi was at his office desk doing some paperwork when he heard a knock at the sliding door.

"Enter."

As the door opened, a small girl with indigo hair began to make her way in.

"How are you feeling father?" the girl asked with worry on her face.

"I'm feeling much better. That seal of Naruto's did wonders. I was actually very surprised he pulled it off. The doctor that came by said I was completely fine besides the bruising on my ribcage. Give it a few weeks and I'll be completely recovered," Hiashi said with one of his rare smiles. This brightened Hinata up considerably. Not only did he tell her everything, he even gave her a smile! She could get used to this.

"That's wonderful news," the girl said with a slight sigh. "Anyway, I thought I would come tell you that I'm off to go train with Naruto. I'll be sure to be back before dark."

"Very well. I'll see you for dinner."

"Excuse me father-sama." And with that, the girl left the room with a bit of pep in her step, excited to start her new training.

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(Somewhere in the Land of Water)

In the midst of the civil war that was currently going on, there was something in the shadows watching it all, making sure everything went according to plan. The Mizukage and his bloodline war was raging and succeeding to an extent. Eventually he would need to be taken down, but not before he fulfilled his purpose.

Something started to emerge from a tree in a forest overlooking a battle currently taking place near a fortress a short distance from Kirigakure. It appeared to be a large venus fly trap, it's mouth opening to reveal a head. One half black, the other white, both with dull amber eyes.

"It seems like the rebels are trying to make a push to the hidden village. By the looks of it, they won't be here for very much longer," the white half said in a slightly high pitch, soft tone.

"Yes. It will be awhile before the rebels make any headway against Mizukage Yagura's forces," the black half said in a low gravely voice.

"This is good."

Before it even realized it, the strange being was soon warped into another dimension by a light touch to it's shoulder.

Caught off guard, the plant-like creature stumbled back and onto the ground in surprise and shock.

"What, what happened?"

"I'm not sure. It doesn't seem to be Obito's doing. This dimension is too flat."

"Turn and listen!" a cold and demonic voice yelled out. Immediately the plant creature spun around to face the source of the voice. It didn't ever expect that it would be a demon looking spirit.

"I am the Shinigami! Be silent, and listen well Zetsu. I know of your plan to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki. I'm here to tell you that it will fail, for I have a champion that will prevent it."

If it was shocked before, Zetsu was floored now. How would his perfect plan come to ruin? Why would the god of death stop it from happening? Why was it even interested in human matters? Didn't it only deal with souls? Zetsu didn't get to ask any of these questions before the god began to speak once more.

"I will not tell you who it is, for that would be unfair. I have brought him back in time to destroy your plan for my entertainment. However it came to my attention that this human would be able to blow through anything you threw at them regularly. So I give you this warning. By now, more than one person knows of your plan and are on the path to stop it. My champion resides in the Land of Fire. Stop him, or your mother will never be able to come back. That is all I will tell you. Do what you will with this information. Before I dismiss you know this, if you fail to stop this human, I will consume your essence and you shall suffer for the rest of eternity. Now begone."

Just as quick as it entered, Zetsu was back in reality, very perturbed.

"Is this true? It can't be. We must have been placed in a genjutsu! That means we have been discovered! We must es-"

"SILENCE." Zetsu needed to think. It had happened all so fast, it was kind of had to believe it actually took place. This would throw a considerable wrench in the plan he had spent centuries concocting.

"What just happened was real, and the information we learned true. The Shinigami does not lie, nor does he choose to reveal himself lightly. We must get back to Obito and inform him. We must find this, 'champion', and find a way to end him quickly. We have worked too hard for all this to go to waste. We are leaving. This petty civil war no longer matters."

"Understood," the white half said defeatedly.

"I don't care what we have to do, we will stop this human. We will kill every person in the Land of Fire if need be. And I think I know where to start," the black half said menacingly, a dark smile only showing on the black half.

The plant-like creature then absorbed itself back into the tree to concoct its new plan.


I know it's not super long but it's something. I have plans for something great, as hinted here at the end. This fic isn't just gonna be Naruto obliterating everyone and following the main story line OHHHH no. Hopefully you guys like where I go with it. Thanks for reading! I'll try not to take so long to update this time around. Till next time!

side note: Kudos to whoever gets the disclaimer reference xD