Reap What You Sow

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO, sadly.

Talking: "My Name Is Uzumaki Naruto"

Kyubi/Demon Talking: 'My Name is Kurama'

Thoughts: 'What Is that?'

Emphasis on A word: "What the Hell?"

A/N: Let The Story Begin.

Reminder

"What are we waiting for? Lets go already."

Naruto smiled his trademark smile and replied. "Ain't gotta tell me twice-ttebayo."

Team 7 was walking through the forest chatting amongst themselves. Shikamaru had caught onto Tazuna's weird behaviour as he was looking around seeming scared about something. He slowed down his walk to talk to Kakashi in a hush voice. "Sensei, Tazuna-san is acting weird. Like he's waiting for something."

"I see you noticed. Leave it alone for now."

The lazy genin nodded and caught up with his other teammates.

"Ne, 'Nata-chan have you ever been outside the village?"

She shook her head. "N-No... I haven't."

"It's my first time too-ttebayo. I'm glad we can share our first time together."

Kakashi smirked under his mask as he thought of that sentence the wrong way and seemingly Hinata had blushed brightly at that too. 'Oh, what's this? Is our princess dirty minded?'

In fact she had been thinking of what Naruto said the wrong way. 'Why did he have to say it like that? No. Hinata. Bad girl, don't think like that.' Hinata was mentally scolding herself and she noticed a puddle. 'That's weird it hasn't rained in months.' She calmly activated her Byakugan and noticed that the puddle was completely chakra, she grew nervous at this. She noticed that Shikamaru had caught on and Kakashi but not Naruto. She sighed sometimes she wished Naruto was a little more perceptive. She uncharacteristically spoke loudly.

"Aww man! This weather is great, I'm glad it isn't raining." She said as she put her hands behind her head in a "relaxed" manner. Naruto looked at her weirdly, she never speaks that loudly nor does she act like that. Something was off. Hinata saw he knew that something wasn't right she nudged him a bit more. "I'm tired of seeing puddles everywhere, I hate fucking rain." She blushed slightly at the swear, Shikamaru, Kakashi looked on with amusement. Surprised that she could swear even if it was to help the situation. Naruto was seriously confused. 'She swore! But... it hasn't been raining for months... wait a minute...' Naruto turned around pretending to ask Kakashi a question and looked more behind him and noticed a puddle. 'Arigatou, 'Nata-chan. I'm prepared.' Everyone apart from Tazuna noticed that Naruto was ready to face whatever is lurking in that puddle.

Two blurs went past them and all of a sudden Kakashi was torn to shreds. All of the genin's eyes widen, Naruto and Shikamaru quickly snapped back to reality to fend off the attack. Naruto angrily formed the family jutsu sign. "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" Six Narutos came and attacked one of the brothers. One clone held one arm another held the other, one clone held one leg and the another held the other. One clone remained and the original Naruto growled. "I call this move, Complete Black Out!" The shadow clone started spinning Naruto to gain moment and then let go causing Naruto to fly towards the man in captivity. He reeled back his fist and as he came close he threw the momentum filled punch at the enemies jaw sending him flying towards a tree instantly knocking him out.

Hinata had frozen in place not knowing what to do. Kakashi had just been killed in front of her and now she had flashbacks of her biological father calling her weak and useless. She didn't notice one of the enemies about to attack her until Shikamaru had pushed her out the way causing her to stumble and fall on her bum. She stared at Shikamaru who blocked an attack with a Kunai, unfortunately he got scratched by the enemies weapon which was filled with poison. He smirked, unlucky for the enemy their shadows HAD touched. "Kagemane No Jutsu. Checkmate." The man struggled to move.

"What the fuck did you do?!" He was using all his will power to free himself and Shikamaru was losing control.

"Mendouksai! I can't hold him for long..." The Shadow started to recede back to Shikamaru.

Then a blur passed the Nara and his eyes widened. Hinata had ran at full speed with a kunai in her hand and her Byakugan activated.

Blood splattered all over Hinata's hand as she had stabbed the unknown attacker in his heart. He choked up some blood and it landed in her hair, she was visibly shaking and stared at the man that was dying in front of her. Her Byakugan was still active as she saw the light of his chakra dim into nothingness. He fell backwards hitting the ground with the kunai still in his heart. Hinata stood over the man she had killed. Her first kill. She stood there unmoving and breathed harshly. Naruto came and looked at the sight before him, he didn't know what to say for once. Tazuna didn't know what to say as he saw these genin in action, the Hokage was right. They were capable but he didn't expect them to kill. Especially not the girl who finds it hard to find her own voice.

The bushes ruffled and Naruto and Shikamaru were on their guard again, Hinata was still staring at the dead body before her. Kakashi emerged from the bushes and looked at his team, he was proud they were able to handle themselves but worried for Hinata who just had her first kill.

Naruto teared up at the sight of his sensei. "Kakashi-sensei! We thought... we thought...!"

"I was dead? I'm sorry I had to make you go through that but if you looked closely it's just a pile of wood where my body was torn to shreds." Shikamaru and Naruto looked at where their sensei had "died." And they felt stupid that they thought Kakashi was dead.

Naruto looked at Hinata and back to his sensei. Kakashi nodded and walked up to the girl in shock. He put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Hinata, you did what you needed to protect your team. If it wasn't for your decision Shikamaru would have been severely injured or even dead."

Hinata blinked back into reality, taking in Kakashi's words. He was right.

"I understand... Kakashi-sensei, I understand."

Kakashi smiled with his eye and ruffled her hair affectionately. Everything was going to be okay, until Shikamaru pointed out that he was poisoned. Hinata immediately rushed to his aid and held his hand where he had been poisoned and wasting no time sucking out the poison from his blood.

Naruto looked on with disgust whereas Kakashi praised her knowledge on how to get rid of poison from a cut. After she finished sucking and spitting out the poison from the lazy genin's bloodstream, her hand glowed green with chakra to check if there was any poison still left. She sighed in relief that there was none and quickly put cream on his cut and bandaged it up. He muttered a thanks not realising what had just transpired.

Kakashi turned to Tazuna with a glare. "You knew this would happen but yet you request the mission to be C-Rank?"

Tazuna cowered in fear but didn't back down. "It's a C-Rank, you're supposed to be body guards, no?"

Hinata spoke up this time. "Ano... these men were powerful ninja obviously with an agenda... usually on C-Ranks it's the minor bandits..."

Kakashi nodded in agreement. "That's right. So you better start talking. Now."

Tazuna sighed knowing he was caught. "I didn't have enough money to request a higher mission, I'm a Bridge Builder. There is a man who is known as Gato and he is in charge of Nami No Kuni at the moment. He probably sent these ninja to assassinate me, as he does not want the bridge I am building to be built. He wants to be isolated from everything so he knows he has full power."

Kakashi sighed at this. "This is what happens when you withhold information, my genin team did not need this, we're going to turn back and head back to the village."

Tazuna panicked. "L-L-Lets not be hasty now! Please I desperately need your help."

"...Lets do it."

Everyone looked at Hinata in surprise.

"'Nata-chan?"

"I... I froze up and I want a second chance. Tazuna-san needs help and we'll help, believe it."

Shikamaru sighed and muttered his favourite catchphrase.

Naruto looked at Kakashi with a determined look. "We should keep going-ttebayo."

Kakashi turned to Shikamaru hoping that he would see sense. His hope was for nothing.

"Sensei, we've got this far. And I really don't want to go back home to my mother just yet."

The jonin sighed and turned to the bridge builder. "Count this as your lucky day. Lets go Team 7."

They cheered minus Shikamaru who just smirked, as if he was going to go back home to his she-devil of a mother, you are sorely mistaken. The group continued to travel towards Nami no Kuni, it took a few days but Tazuna had finally told them that they were nearing their destination. They were walking peacefully until Naruto threw a kunai into the bushes, everyone looked at each other worried. Hinata took a deep breath and went to investigate only to see a rabbit scared out of its skin. "'Ruto-kun it was just a rabbit. Poor thing." Naruto sweatdropped forgetting that no matter how much of a badass Hinata was to him she was still a girl all in all. "Ano... this rabbit is white."

"So?" Naruto questioned.

"It's not winter."

Naruto's eyes widened in realisation as he felt something very wrong. Hinata activated her Byakugan and yelled "Duck!"

Everyone did as they were told and didn't hesitate to duck as a sword that was thrown hit the tree. A man wrapped up in bandages landed on the sword implanted in the tree. He looked at everyone and slowly said. "Duck... duck... GOOSE!" Without warning he charged at Hinata who was ready this time, she quickly made the hand signs. "Suiton: Mizurrapa!" As water exploded from her mouth hitting the unknown pursuer with her attack. This caught him off guard and dodged out the way only to be met with the blond genin who smiled. He had chakra blades in his hand and he swiped the air not even hitting the man. He laughed. "What was that boy?" His laugh was quickly cut short as his shoulder was sliced and he grunted in pain. "What the hell?" All Naruto did was smirked and sliced the air a few more times. The bandaged man had dispersed upon being hit. Naruto frowned "Who is this guy Kakashi-sensei?"

The silver haired jonin replied. "He is Zabuza Momochi, one of the legendary Seven Swordsman. Demon of the Hidden Mist."

Hinata and Naruto frowned and collectively thought. 'Demon? Which one?'

Hinata had spoke up asking a question she didn't mean to out loud. "What bijuu does he have?" This caught Naruto and Kakashi off guard wondering how she knew about that.

"He doesn't have a bijuu he's frightening enough to earn him a title of being a demon."

As Kakashi, Hinata and Naruto protectively stood around Tazuna they noticed their lazy teammate was missing. "Kage-Kubishibari No Jutsu!"

Shikamaru had hid in the bushes waiting for an opening masking his chakra, Zabuza had walked right into his trap. "Checkmate." He strengthened the hold of Zabuza feeling the strain of the jutsu he doesn't use often. Kakashi had come to help as he was about to give the finishing blow, a senbon hit Zabuza's neck making him go limp. Shikamaru stopped the jutsu and fell on one knee, as he didn't have enough chakra to hold him anymore. A masked ninja had come out.

"Thank you for making my job easier but I'll take him off your hands now."

Hinata eyed the mysterious ninja carefully. "Ano... what are you doing?"

"I am a hunter nin. I collect bounties for dangerous ninja such as Zabuza Momochi."

Kakashi gave an eye smile "Well then, you do your job."

The nin nodded and proceeded to take the body of Zabuza away, which only made Hinata nervous. Everyone sensed her uneasiness and asked her what was wrong.

"It's just that... I've read what Hunter nins do when they find one of their targets. When they kill them... they immediately severe their head there and then, no matter who's watching..."

Kakashi's eyes widened at this. 'Of course! Guess we still have something to worry about.'

"Hinata is right, Zabuza is most likely still alive. Be on your guard."

"Hai, Sensei!"

They resumed their travelling to The Land of the Waves. They were quiet knowing that there is an enemy ninja out there, they knew they had the upper hand that time by element of surprise but now they showed some of their abilities it would have a less of an effect if it happened again. They got on the boat which was the last stretch to the home of Tazuna, there was mist that they couldn't see through but Hinata kept her Byakugan activated just in case. Naruto looked at her deep in thought. The wind blowing through her hair and the determination in her eyes, he felt his heart flutter and noticeable blush on his face. Which didn't go unnoticed by Hinata herself. She looked at him with her Byakugan activated. "A-A-A-Ano... is... umm... there s-s-something you n-n-need?" Gaining a blush herself. He snapped back to reality to try and think of something to say.

"J-Just that your dojutsu is really cool." His tone of voice was a few octaves higher than he wanted it to.

Hinata played with her fingers which was a nervous tic of her. She knew he was telling the truth but that wasn't what he was thinking at all and she knew. Kakashi looked amused at this interaction wondering if he should play some sort of matchmaker. He shook his head and thought that they would get together in due time by themselves.

The mist started to clear up and Hinata deactivated her Byakugan and looked at the unfinished bridge.

"Wow..." She breathed out. The boys nodded in agreement, even when it was not finished it was remarkable.

"That's her. My bridge."

Naruto looked at Tazuna. "Tazuna-san, we'll do everything we can to make sure she's finished."

Tazuna smiled at the boy and nodded. "I appreciate that."

Tazuna had led them to his home where he lived with his daughter Tsunami and his grandson Inari. Tsunami had greeted them and showed them to their rooms, the house wasn't big so Kakashi and Shikamaru took the couch and Naruto and Hinata took the room much to their embarrassment. They still had time in the day so Kakashi had told them they were going to do a little bit of training.

"Today we're going to climb trees."

All three genin looked at each other. Naruto spoke up. "Kaka-sensei, we know about tree walking."

Kakashi visibly twitched at the shortened name but gave an amused grunt. "Well, what about water walking?"

Naruto's head dropped at that, he had not been able to master it like Hinata. Shikamaru patted his back. "I don't know how to do it either." Naruto smiled at the boy he considered his brother.

Kakashi turned to Hinata. "You learned that too?" Hinata merely nodded.

"M-Maybe... I can... umm help them with my Byakugan and tell them how much... ch-chakra they need to use."

Kakashi gave his traditional eye smile. "Well yes, that would speed up the training results. Well good luck." He finished after whipping out his favourite book of Icha Icha and left the genin to train.

Hinata started to explain the basics. "It's like tree walking but it's slightly different. When you walk onto the water you concentrate chakra onto the soles of your feet as well as the water creating like a pathway for you to walk on." As she explains she smoothly walks onto the water without any hint of trouble.

Naruto being Naruto ran onto the water ejecting chakra to his feet which caused him to fly away from the explosion of his chakra. Hinata and Shikamaru grimaced as Naruto landed with a thud. He came back with a blush on his face, all Hinata did was shake her head. "Naruto-kun, be patient. I need to see how much chakra you're putting into your feet and obviously it was too much." Naruto only laughed and scratched his neck as he was "scolded" by his crush.

Shikamaru then tried and as he stepped onto the water he sunk in causing him to panic and to drop into the lake. He came back up with a scowl which only deepened when he heard Naruto laughing at him. "...Troublesome..."

Hinata gently punched Naruto's head with a frown. "Don't laugh, as you didn't do any better yourself."

Naruto dropped his head in shame. If Hinata used any form of violence against him then she obviously was irritated. "Gomenasai, Hinata-chan."

She sighed, she hated scolding Naruto but he had to learn that it's not nice to laugh at other people's failure. "It's okay Naruto-kun, just be nice."

Team 7 spent hours training on how to walk on water, with Hinata's help. Shikamaru got it before Naruto as Naruto's chakra control was not as good and the fact he has a vast amount of chakra. Sometimes it would be too little or too much but in the end he got it and he hugged Hinata tightly thanking her for her help. She hugged back grateful that she was able to help him progress, they stayed in the hug for a couple of minutes before Shikamaru said.

"Oi, oi. I think we should go back, lovebirds." He turned and headed back to Tazuna's house.

They flushed but ran to catch up with Shikamaru. They were exhausted and wet from the lake apart from Hinata, they used her as support so they wouldn't drop. Tsunami greeted them and showed them where they get cleaned up so they can join them for dinner.

At dinner they were all talking happily with another, without a care in the world. Hinata and Tsunami were talking about cooking tips and the boys excluding Inari were talking about what to call the bridge. Inari has had enough.

"Enough! What's the point?! You're all gonna die!"

Tsunami scolded her song. "Inari! Please sit back down."

"No! Gato is strong and powerful, you're all going to get killed for nothing."

Naruto was clenching and unclenching his fist. "Listen kid, no one is going to die."

"Yes you will. You all will! Just like my father!"

Tazuna and Tsunami's head dropped at the mention of the father. Naruto stood up from his seat angrily. "You think your dad would want you to keep crying like this?! Huh?! He fought to try and help, but you want to live on in his name without fighting?! You're just a wimp."

With that Inari ran upstairs crying with the following slam of a door. Whereas Naruto walked out the door angry without saying a word. Tsunami apologised for her son's behaviour and Kakashi said it was fine.

"It's okay, Tsunami-san. We understand that he's still more or less grieving. I apologise for my student's behaviour as he went too far."

Hinata looked determined and asked if she could go speak to Inari. With permission she went to seek out the boy in his room. She knocked the door.

"Go away!"

She heard faint sniffling from behind the door and she opened it anyways and saw little Inari crying his eyes out.

"Inari... You miss your father right?" She didn't get a reply. She sat down next to him and gently pulled him into an embrace which shocked him.

"I know how it feels... to lose a parent."

"How would you know!?"

"What makes you think I haven't?"

"You're... you're so happy..."

"I lost my 'Kaa-san... she was killed in front of me by my own family members." Inari gasped and he felt something drop onto his arm. He looked up to see Hinata with tears in her eyes.

"I know you miss your father, because I still miss my mother. It's been years since she was dead and it's okay to be sad. But Inari, your father was a strong man, and what my teammate said was right. You can't carry on being a wimp if you wish to be like him. Don't let your father die in vain. Let him live on in you."

He nodded slowly. "Hai, neechan."

She smiled. "So what are you going to do when there's trouble?"

"I'm going to fight and be strong."

Hinata ruffled his hair and told him goodnight. She slipped out of the room and went to find her teammate who had gotten mad at the whole situation. 'I wish he could stay calm sometimes. I don't blame him though...' "Byakugan." She searched the whole house for Naruto but he was not there, so she went outside to look for him. She had acquired the location of where he was, he was training with Shadow Clones. An effective way to train your taijutsu.

"N-Naruto-kun!"

He looked at her sadly. "Oh... Hi Hinata. What's up?"

She sighed. "Naruto. What you said..."

"Don't lecture me, I know I was over the top." He finished after punching his own shadow clone with anger.

"I understand why you did what you did but he's just a kid Naruto. You have to take a different approach sometimes. Everyone is different they need to be approached differently."

"I get it Hinata! Blah blah blah. He needs to have it soft because he's a baby, because he cries. You understand because you cry all the time. Because you're also a baby Hinata, you've had things handed to you your whole life-ttebayo."

She was taken back at what he said she stepped forward. "You... you're... did you mean that?"

He turned to glare at her. "That's right I meant every word, leave me alone!"

She clenched her fist and bared her teeth and narrowed her eyes. She exhaled slowly with her eyes softening. "Okay, Naruto. I get it." She turned away and walked back to the house without looking back. Naruto stared at her retreating body only realising what he had just done. He roared and created more clones for him to savagely beat up releasing up pent up anger.

Earlier that night Naruto came back in the house exhausted, he went to go get himself a glass of water only to meet Inari. Their eyes met and they stared at each other.

"I'm sorry-ttebayo."

"I'm sorry Naruto-niisan."

They both stared at each other again only to break out in a full grin. They didn't need a full conversation but they knew that they both felt each other's pain.

"Naruto-niisan..."

"Yeah?"

"She's sad."

Naruto looked confused for a minute before he realised who he was talking about. 'Hinata...' "Yeah I know kid... it was my fault."

Inari shook his head and sighed like some kind of man with experience with women. "You're an idiot niisan." As he said this he left Naruto to be one with his thoughts.

'An idiot... yup, that's me.'

He slowly walked upstairs and into the room him and Hinata shared, he stood behind the door for what seemed an eternity. He opened the door to see her sitting up watching the night sky from the window. She looked at me with a shocked expression and smiled a little before she continued to gaze into the night. She looked pretty in the moonlight Naruto thought, the moon hitting her pale skin which made it seem to radiate and her seemed to be even brighter than it usually is. Naruto shook his head from staring and went to sit next to Hinata on the bed looking into the night as well.

"Hinata-chan, I'm sorry for snapping at you earlier. It's just..." He didn't know what to say, what he said to her could not be justified.

"Naruto."

He flinched at the missing suffix next to his name.

"No matter how mad I get at you... I'll always forgive you."

His eyes widened. "But... but why?"

She looked at him in the eyes, cerulean blue orbs meeting pearl ones in the moonlight. "Because... because I love you." She finished saying as he gave him a toothy grin with a deep blush spread across her face. He stared at her beautiful grin not registering what she had confessed. It suddenly clicked on and a he had a deep blush spread across his cheeks, he tried to utter words but they weren't coming out.

Hinata looked at the boy she had just confessed to, he was blushing and his mouth kept moving like he wanted to say something. He looked ridiculous so she giggled and hiccupped. Naruto looked at her for a second realising something was off, he then smelled a certain aroma that usually smelled like the Hokage. He looked to the side to see 2 bottles of sake empty.

"Hinata, are you drunk?" Not quite believing what was happening.

She snorted which is something she has never done before. "Don't be an idiot, I just confessed to you and you think I'm drunk?! I'm fucking offended."

Naruto shook his head not believing that Hinata subjugated herself to alcohol. 'Did I really make her feel that bad?' He looked at her with determination. "Hinata-chan, lay down and go to sleep, okay?" He didn't really give her much choice as he practically forced her to lay down and covered her with the blanket. "Sweet dreams." Even after her complaints of not being tired she fell asleep as soon as she was snug under the blankets.

The next morning Hinata woke up with a groan, her head felt like it was splitting into two. 'Is this what a hangover feels like?' She slowly rolled out of bed expecting to land on something hard but it felt like a body. She opened her eyes wincing only to be a few mere inches away from the one she love's face. She squeaked and rolled off of him who was still somewhat asleep. She sighed in relief, not wanting him to know what just happened.

"That really hurt-ttebayo."

She squeaked again and stuttered out a response. "G-G-G-Gomen... I umm... I didn't... a-a-ano... m-mean to hurt you." She twiddled her fingers while Naruto just stared at her weirdly. He thought about what had happened yesterday and her "confession". 'Kurenai-neechan has always told me a drunk man's speech, is a sober man's thoughts.'

"Hinata-chan."

"Eep! H-Hai?"

"Don't drink again..."

A deep blush formed on her face and looked at him horrified. "You... you... I don't... I don't remember what happened last night... I thought I uhh... passed out... before you came back." She looked at her feet as it was now more interesting than the person of her affections.

His eyes widened in realisation that she doesn't remember her confessing, he didn't know whether to be relieved or sad. "I'm sorry that I made you want to do that."

She looked surprised "N-Naruto-kun, it wasn't y..."

"Cut the crap Hinata. If I hadn't snapped would you have even considered consuming alcohol?" Naruto interjected. Hinata flinched she didn't want Naruto to feel bad but she just didn't know how else to deal with her emotions. She often caught Kurenai drinking after she was stressed about something but probably not as much as she'd done.

"Naruto-kun... you... you... you piss me off sometimes." She said in a low meek whisper which Naruto caught, he looked at her incredulously and burst out laughing. He finished laughing and held up his fist, she looked and him before smiling and bumped his fist with her own. "I can't believe you make me do that."

"I think of it as a bonding moment-ttebayo."

Hinata rolled her eyes, and grabbed his hand to pull him up from the floor. "We should do some sparring to kill time, we still need to prepare ourselves from when Zabuza comes back."

Standing up to stretch and yawn himself away he grinned widely. "That's not a bad idea Hinata-chan."

The duo went outside for a light spar both of them noticing that the other had improved somewhat. Naruto was faster with his thinking and Hinata was more brutal in her attacks, when it came to taijutsu alone Hinata had always come out triumph but sometimes Naruto would outsmart her manage win the spar. Naruto seemed to be throwing a barrage of punches and tried to leg sweep this caused his down fall as Hinata leapt into the air and throwing a punch into his face with half of the force of a real punch. It still hurt Naruto because of the weight and momentum of her fall. As his eyes were shut he felt a family sharp point at his neck. "I died, 'Nata-chan."

"And I killed you, 'Ruto-kun." The Byakugan user replied with a smug tone to her voice.

They noticed a beautiful looking girl approach them. She had long black hair with glossy brown eyes, lips pink and plump.

'She's so pretty...'

'Almost as pretty as 'Nata-chan.'

The unknown girl looked at the two and gave them a nod in acknowledgement. "Hello there." Hinata and Naruto said Hello and sat down with the girl who was looking at the flowers.

"What are you up to... umm..."

"Haku."

"Haku-san, My name is Hinata and this is my teammate and best friend Naruto."

"I'm just looking for herbs, remedial herbs to be specific. Are you two ninja?"

Hinata and Naruto looked at each other and shrugged.

"We're not just any ninja, we're awesome ninja-ttebayo." The hyperactive genin remarked.

"Why are you ninja?" Haku asked with a hint of curiosity.

Naruto looked thoughtful for a moment before answering. "I'm a ninja for many reasons. I want to become Hokage of my village but before that... I want to protect people that are precious to me."

Hinata smiled at him for such a mature answer. She had expected him to talk about being Hokage but not the other part.

"Is she important to you?" She motioned towards Hinata who supported a blush on her face.

He looked at Hinata and analysed everything about her in that moment, he inhaled slowly. "I'll be honest... Hinata-chan is... she's... the most important to me. I want to protect her with my life." Hinata's blushed deepened on her face as she mumbled to herself "'Ruto-kun..."

"I mean it 'Nata-chan!" He gave her his trademark foxy grin and a thumbs up. Haku watched his interaction and smiled a little.

"I better get going, as someone precious to me is waiting." She stood up and started to retreat from where he came. She stopped abruptly in her tracks and looked at the two genin. "By the way... I'm a boy."

Hinata went ghostly white whereas Naruto went green as he thought a male was pretty.

'Th-that's... wow... his beauty could come close to Kurenai-'kaa-san... I recognize that voice somewhere.'

'No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO!'

A few days went by after their meeting with Haku. Hinata had suspicions about who he was but kept it to herself so she didn't want to alarm anybody. Haku didn't attack them so maybe he wasn't much of a threat, she could only hope that her sense of judgement would be right. In those days Naruto, Hinata and Shikamaru had trained hard in increasing their chakra coils, improving chakra control and learned more team tactics to use against the enemy which made Kakashi proud of his "Youthful students" as a certain green clad man would put it. Everything was going smoothly until Tazuna's home was attacked while Team 7 were away training apart from Shikamaru who had taken a nap outside.

"OKAA-SAN!" The little boy screamed.

There were men pulling Tsunami like a Tug O War.

"She's a pretty one." He said lecherously and licked her neck which caused her to shiver. She was then pulled away by the other man in the room.

"I want her first. I want to pull apart those long slender legs, myself."

Inari was crying and tried to attack one of the guys but to no avail as he was savagely kicked back.

"No Inari-kun!"

"Shut up, bitch!" As she was slapped across the face causing tears to flow out from her eyes. The two men suddenly froze unable to move.

"Checkmate." The men looked to see a boy with his hands in his pockets with his face showing no hint of emotion.

"It's just a brat."

"I'm a brat but I'm more of a man than you two are put together."

Both of them growled. "What was that you insolent twerp?!"

The lazy genin yawned. "You heard me. You can't even get a girl without forcing her. How lame."

The men didn't say any anything in retort so Shikamaru did a few hand signs and muttered. "Kage-Kabushibari No Jutsu." The shadow slowly wrapped around the men and began to slowly bend them in a way humans should not be bent, it was slow which caused both of men to cry out in pain. There were two cracks in the men's spine and then fell limp not being able to move as they were now paralysed.

Shikamaru looked at Tsunami asking if she was okay, she nodded with tears still in her eyes.

"You hired leaf ninja to protect you, and that is what we'll do." After that he went to go join his team who probably had trouble as well.

Inari wiped his tears and ran to hug his mother and held on.

Shikamaru arrived at the battle ground to see Zabuza and Kakashi fighting with everything they have and saw Naruto and Hinata in a dome of mirror. Tazuna saw him and quickly pulled him to the side.

"Protect me, boy."

Shikamaru wanted to help his teammates but the mission was still in place so he protected Tazuna at all cost and took him somewhere in hiding.

WITH NARUTO AND HINATA

"Naruto-kun!" She dived to save Naruto from the oncoming of senbon, they both tumbled on the floor.

"Arigatou Hinata-chan."

She smiled. "You're welc..." Her eyes dimmed as she fell limp to see. Time seemed to stand still for Naruto as he watched Hinata's lifeless body fall to the floor. He looked at all the senbon that was sticking out of her body like a voodoo doll. Tears escaped his eyes.

"I thought you'd risk your life to protect her? Sorry it had to be this way."

He glared at the attacker with his eyes turning red and gaining slit like pupils. He looked back down at Hinata's lifeless face who's eyes had not even closed, he leaned closer to her and let the gap between their lips close. It was painful that he would not be able to do it again when she was alive.

"Naruto-san. She's dead, what do you pla.."

"SHUT UP!" The Kyubi's chakra caused the ice mirrors to shatter, Naruto quickly found Haku and narrowed his eyes further as he snarled at him.

"What... what are you?" The masked nin muttered in a scared voice and tried to run away only for his arm to be caught by the boy who took a scary transformation. Naruto didn't answer his question and only tightened his grip on Haku's arm causing him to scream.

Zabuza stopped fighting and looked over to where Haku was and that scary feeling of chakra.

"Don't take your eyes off me. Chidori!" Zabuza barely managed to dodge in time.

"I'm going to break every bone in your body!" Naruto with the Kyubi's enhanced reeled back his fist and collided it with Haku's mask sending him flying. Wasting no time Naruto jumped in the air and delivered a kick to his abdomen. As Haku's mask fell off, Naruto saw the sad expression on his face. This only made Naruto angrier. 'He doesn't get to be sad!' Naruto roared as soon as he was about to punch Haku with a chakra filled punch, Zabuza's sword cut him in his stomach and then he was kicked away from Haku's body. This had knocked Naruto unconscious.

WITH HINATA

"Give me your chakra!" Hinata demanded.

The ten tailed beast however frowned at the tone. 'You're not thinking properly, you can't use my chakra if you're angry.'

"You promised that if I ever needed it, I can take it. If you won't give me it, I'LL TAKE IT MYSELF."

Outside of Hinata's body the senbons seemed to be pushed out of her skin. Gato and his men had turned up just as he was about to betray Zabuza. Hinata had heard all of this as she was immobile, as soon as the senbon that was in the back of her neck fell out her eyes immediately turned a bright violet colour and gaining a pupil. She sat up to see Naruto bleeding from his stomach and unconscious, her hair was violently floating in the air as she turned around to look at Gato in the eyes. Gato immediately saw this and ordered his back up to take out the girl, they all look at each other reluctantly. The girl had appeared next to Zabuza who had only looked at her surprised, feeling the power radiate off of her.

"Girlie, I know we are not the best of friends but we should team up."

Hinata kept her gaze on Gato and a feral grin spread across her face. "Deal."

Zabuza put a kunai in his mouth and had a kunai in each hand, he ran into Gato's army and killed anyone that got in his way. Hinata left her victims alive but suffering to a point where they wished they died, the army was lessening considerably and Gato was starting to panic.

"You fools! How are you letting one man and one girl defeat you like this?!"

The sound of his voice made Hinata put her focus on him again, he decided to run and tried to hide from the frightening little girl. He was standing behind a tree looking on the brawl that was happening. He noticed the little girl disappear and then he heard a demonic voice behind him which caused him to lose all blood from his face.

"Mi...tsu...ke...ta~." Hinata sent a powerful kick to his lower back shattering his vertebrae. He crash landed where Zabuza had just finished killing all those men but suffered fatal wounds. Hinata walked towards Gato's limp body and watched him writhe in pain, he saw on top of him causing pressure on his lower back making him hiss in displeasure. Her hair was still standing from having the Jyuubi's chakra, her canines sharpened, her eyes filled with rage. She reeled her hand back and balled it into a fist and repeatedly punched Gato in the face hard, over and over and over and over. Kakashi, Shikamaru, Tazuna and Zabuza watched her mercilessly punch the rich man's bloody face repeatedly. Her demon chakra had receded back into her but she was still punching Gato with tears flowing out of her eyes, he was pretty much dead but she still kept going as if it was going to do something. Kakashi walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "It's okay Hinata, time to let up." Hinata looked dazed and stared at her bloody knuckles, she got up off Gato and hugged the jonin. He was startled by the affection of the young girl but hugged her back nonetheless.

"What the hell happened-ttebayo?" A familiar voice rang out in Hinata's head. She looked to see Naruto alive and well, and tears welled up in her eyes. Naruto saw Hinata latched onto Kakashi crying, he had flashbacks of when she had "died" in front of him.

"Hi...Hinata-chan."

"Naruto-kun."

They both ran to each other and embraced in a tight hug crying into each other's shoulders. Everyone who saw this had a tear in their eye save for Zabuza who had just stared at Haku. He always thought that Haku was a tool to him but he was much more than that, when he came close to death Zabuza realised that he wanted to protect Haku with his life. A tear rolled down the cheek of the Demon of the Hidden Mist's face.

Team 7, Tazuna and Zabuza who had Haku on his back gathered together and engaged in a conversation.

Zabuza turned to Hinata who jumped slightly not expecting attention to be focused on her intently, which made him frown slightly. "You take down more than a dozen ninja and you get scared by my gaze? You're an odd one."

She blushed and kicked at the floor after Naruto praising her of taking down so many ninja. She honestly doesn't remember that much of what she did, it was hazy to remember. Shikamaru punched Naruto and Hinata's head with force causing them to wince.

"What was that for you lazy bum?"

"Wh...what gives Shikamaru-kun?"

The Nara let out an irritated sigh. "You two almost died on me, I would have dragged you from the afterlife myself to give you a beating for leaving me behind with our Ero-sensei." The pair smiled at Shikamaru as it was his way of saying "I'm glad you're okay" without sounding to sappy. Everyone started to chat amongst themselves again but Shikamaru was deep in thought. 'What was that power from the both of them? Naruto's was bad but Hinata's was worse. I felt sick from being in it too long. Whatever it is, I don't care. Just as long as it isn't directed at me.'

The sensei of Team 7 was having similar thoughts. 'I knew of Naruto's tenant, the Kyubi but that doesn't explain Hinata. Whatever that was felt more powerful than the Kyubi chakra but not more sinister. Who should I go to about this? Maybe I should start with Kurenai.'

Kakashi decided that it was best to start packing and to head back home to Konoha. Zabuza suggested that he and Haku to go with them since they had no purpose to just roam around, and that they wanted to belong to something. They wanted to have a home to go to. Team 7 was about to begin their journey on their way home. Inari ran up to hug Naruto, Hinata and Shikamaru for their help and promised them that when they meet again, he will be much stronger. They smiled at his determination then Tsunami came out to say goodbye to Team 7 and then she turned to Shikamaru and thanked him for saving her from those men.

"Don't worry about it, like I said. It was my duty, and honestly as a man even if I wasn't assigned to protect you, I would have anyways." He lazily remarked, he had his eyes closed only to feel a pair of soft lips touch his cheek. He blinked at the woman then blushed a little, she was smiling at him with gratefulness.

"I really thank you, Shikamaru-san."

"N-No problem." He stuttered out which the rest of Team 7 snickered at his uncharacteristic behaviour. He growled at them to only have them snicker more. "Lets go!" He roared and started to stomp away from the group. The people of Wave wre saying goodbye to their heroes. Tazuna, Tsunami and Inari stared at the unfinished bridge.

"What are you going to name it 'Tou-san?"

He smiled. "The Great Bridge of Naruto Hinata and Shikamaru"

Tsunami giggled. "That's a bit long don't you think?"

"But I owe it to them." He replied.

After that comment all three genin sneezed at the same time and looked at each other with confusion. "Well, that was weird."

"Stop copying me!"

"No, you stop copying me!"

They all stopped talking and carried on walking pretending that never happened. Kakashi chuckled lightly to himself happy that his students were alive, well and safe. He had to admit that he had grown attached to the kids, he would protect them with his life. He watched them as they playfully shoved each other and making snide remarks.

"Shikamaru, your taste in women is quite old wouldn't you say?"

"Urusai, Naruto."

"Sh-Shikamaru-kun... a-a-ano... we'll support who you date no matter what." At first Shikamaru thought she was stuttering because she felt bad but when he turned to see her face she was trying to stifle the laugh that that daring to come up her throat.

"Hinata. I am betrayed." Hinata lost it after this and she nearly wet herself from laughing so much.

Kakashi kept his eye smile as he watched his students interact. He was glad that even though they had almost died, and suffered heart ache, it was good to still see them act like kids and to be able to laugh, especially Hinata who had her first and second kill within this mission. 'Is she really happy or is it a facade?' Ninja have the art of deception, it wouldn't be a surprised if Hinata was keeping in any emotions from had occurred. Kakashi turned to see Zabuza who had no expression on his face but kept an interested gaze on Hinata, Kakashi didn't know if he should be worried.

"Zabuza-san... you may want to be apart of our village but paedophilia is against the law."

Zabuza narrowed his eyes. "I'm not... a paedophile Kakashi."

"Could have fooled me, you've been staring at my student Hinata for a very long time."

Kakashi had actually heard the man roll his eyes. "Kakashi, I was merely thinking what I could teach the girl. She clearly has talent for intimidation tactics, I could help train how to use her killing intent. She's going to need it."

The sensei of Team 7 nodded in agreement at this. Hinata is not very intimidating unless she really mad but if she utilises it, she could be a very scary kunoichi who would be a force to be reckoned with.

"I'll ask her if she would like to once we get back to the village."

The group decided to set up camp and they took turns to watch. Naruto and Hinata couldn't sleep so they were up together and chatted to kill time. Naruto looked at Hinata with intensity which didn't go unnoticed by Hinata.

"You're... a-a-a-ano... st-staring again..."

"Hinata-chan... it scared me... watching you die..." Naruto said solemnly. Hinata furrowed her eyebrows.

"Naruto-kun you don't need to be thinking about that, I'm alive."

"I know Hinata but I was weak... you protected me and you basically died risking your life. I can't bare to lose you..." Tears started to form in his eyes and on a whim Hinata hugged him tightly.

"There's going to be a time where I will need you, and there's going to be a time where you will need me. We'll protect each other. And Shikamaru." Naruto laughed at Hinata adding Shikamaru.

"You're right Hinata-chan. Let's make a promise. We'll all get stronger to protect each other."

"I promise Naruto-kun."

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Translations:

Mitsuketa = I've Found You/ Found You

Niisan = Big Brother

Gaki = Brat

Baka = Idiot

Teme = Bastard

Usurantonkachi = Loser

Dobe = Idiot

Onegai = Please

Matte = Wait

Urusai = Shut Up

Nani = What

Mendouksai = Troublesome/What a bother.

Hai = Yes

Ohayo = Good morning

Ano = Umm

Kawaii = Cute

Gomen/Gomenasai = Sorry

'Kaa-San/Okaa-san = Mum

'Tou-san/Otou-San = Father

Otouto = Little Brother

Arigatou = Thank You

Neechan = Big Sister

Te-Te-Te-Te = Means "ow-ow-ow-ow" Because I say that when I get hurt.

Ttebayo/Ttebane = It's just an accent they have. Hereditary.

Jutsu:

Suiton: Mizurappa = Waterstyle: Water Trumpet

Raiton: Kangehika = Lightningstyle: Wave of Inspiration

Genjutsu: Kanzen Shokyo = Illusionary Technique: Completely Erased

Goukakyuu No Jutsu = Firestyle: Fireball Jutsu

Kawarimi No Jutsu = Replacement Jutsu

Shunshin No Jutsu = Body Flicker Jutsu

Kiseichu Gijutsu: Shadan = Parasite Technique: Blockage

Kiseichu Gijutsu: Muchiuchi = Parasite Technique: Whiplash

Bubun Baika No Jutsu = Partial Multi-Size Jutsu

Nikudan Sensha = Human Bullet Tank

Bunshin No Jutsu = Clone Jutsu

Senbon Bunshin = Senbon Clone

Doton: Doryuheki = Earthstyle: Earth Wall

Gatsuuga = Fang Over Fang

Jiton: Awadetta Kunai = Megnetstyle: Whipping Kunai

Fuuton: Renkudan = Windstyle: Drilling Air Bullet

Kagezukami No Jutsu = Shadow Clutch Jutsu

Kagemane No Jutsu = Shadow Imitation Jutsu

Katon: Ryuka No Jutsu = Firestyle: Dragon Fire Jutsu

Katon: Housenka No Jutsu = Phoenix Sage Fire Jutsu

Shintenshin No Jutsu = Mind Body Switch Jutsu

Shindenshin No Jutsu = Mind Body Transmission Jutsu

Raiton: Juho Soshiken = Lightningstyle: Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists

(A/N: Thanks for reading chapter thirteen. Please don't forget about those reviews guys, I want your honest opinion so I can change what I think is a good constructive critique. I will get chapters out as fast as possible. Naturally XO. Cheerio!)

TO BE CONTINUED.