Quite a bit earlier then most of you were expecting, I bet. Well, I'm going to update aAP alot mroe then Intertwined until chapter thirty, then i'll go with Intertwined, until ten, and then rotate between them, and a third secret story which you may or may not see, In the end.

Jon

Naruto gasped for air as Hanabi's fingers dug into his neck, his hands continued to yank at her hand, trying to dislodge it from his neck. He could have gotten out of her hold easily, but doing so, in the way he had thought of would have hurt her, and he did not want to injure her.

"It's me!" he choked out as he managed to pry some of her fingers away from his throat.

"Don't lie to me!" she said angrily, trying with a renewed vigour to strangle Naruto. "Your posture, the way you walk, the way your chakra fluctuates, it's all wrong!" she all but screamed.

Naruto shook his head from side to side quickly, before gasping out.

"It's me Dammit!" he said again, before he let a gentle current of chakra run through his fingers into her arms. Or at least, he tried to, as the chakra passed through his tenketsus, his control went haywire, it was like trying to calmly push a flock of bird's into a tornado, The flock of bird's being his chakra, and the tornado being his tenketsus.

Hanabi's Byakugan charged eyes flashed for a moment, before they became stone hard again. But her grip loosened tightly, enough to let Naruto breath easier.

"Prove it." she demanded coldly.

"I dyed your hair blonde once." he whispered out before inhaling slightly.

Hanabi's face took on an indignant tone, and her grip tightened again. This prompted Naruto to continue.

"And I never said sorry." he said haggardly, before pausing and looking Hanabi in the eyes. After a few seconds of staring he blurted out "Sorry."

Hanabi frowned lightly.

"The Naruto I know wouldn't have apologised."

"The Naruto you know didn't remember everything that had happened to him." said Naruto angrily as he, with all his strength, tore both of Hanabi's hands away from his throat.

As Hanabi's hands were moved away, Naruto was surprised to find that she had stopped tyring to strangle him. Naruto let out a series of coughs as he tried to get air back into his lungs.

"It is impossible that something in there triggered your memories, and if that was true you shouldn't be able to comprehend thought, it should have fried your brain." she said cynically, before glaring distrustfully into Naruto's eyes again.

"And your eyes, they aren't the same beautiful blue that they were went you entered, ignoring the accident with the examiner put aside." she continued, before raising her right hand up in a typical Jyuuken fashion.

"Do you know of a man named Orochimaru?" asked Naruto blankly.

Hanabi nodded instantly.

"He is an S-rank traitor to the village of Konoha." Hanabi said blandly, before arching her eyebrow. "Is that who you're working for?"

A gigantic influx of chakra within Hanabi told her that was the wrong thing to say, especially when the boy in front of her collapsed down onto one knee and began to ramble off obscenities, some of which she was sure didn't fit in the same sentence.

"He's…he's the one who…" Naruto spluttered out through a grimace as he slowly rose up once again.

"He's the one who…?" Hanabi repeated blandly, she had more then enough of an idea to what he would place Orochimaru as, but she didn't feel like being nice to the person, whether they were Naruto, or not.

"He's the bastard who did this to me." Naruto spat out angrily, before he turned his head up and glared into Hanabi's eyes.

Hanabi stared down shocked into Naruto's eyes. From the beginning she could see that the boy in front of her was being totally honest with both her and himself. Not only that, but the pure malice and anger shining out at her. Hanabi remained still as once again Naruto's chakra went berserk, and she was unprepared for what happened next.

Hanabi's eyes widened as a force acted upon her middle body forcing all the air in her lungs out. Shock registered in her mind, not because of the act, but because she felt no series pain blossoming in her body at all besides a slight ache in her back. Which was probably caused by the fact that her back had been slammed into a wall, a wall that now had a Hanabi-sized dent in it, a good five meter's away from where she and Naruto had been standing. She let out a shuddering breath and she slumped forwards slightly, onto Naruto, who had slammed his fist into her stomach, and forced her, in the spam of a single second, against the wall she was pressed against.

"You're being completely serious." Hanabi whispered softly as she tried to straighten up, ignoring the fist which was firmly planted in her stomach, holding her up against the wall. She gently pressed both her palms against Naruto's shoulders and supported herself. A second later, her Byakugan deactivated, removing the unsightly veins which surrounded her eyes.

"I've never lied to you." said Naruto aggravated, before he removed his fist from Hanabi's stomach. "About important things." Naruto cut Hanabi off as he noticed that she was about to speak again.

An indignant look took place upon Hanabi's face for a moment, before fading away, leaving her as stoic as ever.

"You know." Hanabi suddenly said, "We haven't been able to just, sit down and talk for a while." she said innocently as she trailed her finger's down from Naruto's shoulder's to his chest.

Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly at Hanabi.

"We haven't." Naruto agreed readily, before continuing, "But you don't usually like to talk, you'd rather train." said Naruto slowly as he eased out of his anger, and rational thought, or part of it returned.

"How do I know you're really Hanabi?" asked Naruto slowly as he brought his hands up to Hanabi's wrists and gripped them tightly.

"Because only a Hyuuga can use the Byakugan." Hanabi snapped irritably.

Naruto laughed sheepishly, before he did something which he hadn't done in a while, he reached up to the back of his head and scratched it. Hanabi's irritation faded away, and she smiled at Naruto.

"It's quite beautiful out here isn't it?" she asked softly as she turned her gaze away from Naruto, and towards the forest below them, which went on as far as they could see.

"It is." mumbled Naruto as he, as Hanabi had, turned his vision out to the forest.

Without warning, at least two kilometre's away a ball of fire erupted, illuminating the dark, the explosion, Naruto derived from the way it had shaped, was caused by a set of Explosive tags, much like the one's which had been used against them in the exam.

"You remember everything that happened to you?" Hanabi asked blankly as her eyes flickered from the forest to Naruto's face.

"Yes, every moment, every single experiment." Naruto said bitterly.

"Sorry." Hanabi said half-heartedly, causing Naruto to let loose another laugh.

"You really are my Hanabi." he said amusedly.

Hanabi arched an eyebrow, yet again.

"I'm yours now?" she echoed blankly.

Naruto frowned for a moment, before smiling again.

"Well, yes, If I'm your Naruto, then you're my Hanabi." he stated as if it were obvious.

"I suppose, that suits my purposes just fine." she said flatly as she turned her head towards Naruto.

"Your purposes?" Naruto asked sceptically.

"Mhm." Hanabi affirmed before moving closer to Naruto and resting her head upon his shoulder.

This… doesn't seem right." murmured Naruto softly.

"Is it because we are surrounded by vicious battles which most likely will end in people losing their lives, and the very forest around the tower is filled with carnivorous animals which are probably devouring the corpses of those who have already died?" Hanabi asked innocently, and although Naruto couldn't see her lips, he was sure she was smiling at his increasing discomfort.

"That might be it." said Naruto dumbly, before he shook his head.

"I should go back to bed." stated Naruto hesitantly, before he slowly moved away from Hanabi, forcing her to stop leaning upon him. For a single moment, Naruto could have sworn he saw a pout upon her lips, but as soon as he thought he saw it, it disappeared.

"You're acting… weird." Naruto said brashly, before he folded his arms across his chest.

"Can't I just be happy that I'm near you?" Hanabi asked sourly as she mirrored Naruto's pose.

"No." said Naruto bluntly.

Hanabi's brow furrowed as she contemplated what she was going to say next.

"I'm going to enjoy cutting you down to size in our next fight." Hanabi said coldly.

Naruto held back a flinch at the tone of her voice. He knew he should have been more sensitive or empathetic but he just couldn't muster the will power to, when being careless was so much easier, especially when he was having half his mind suppress the pain going throughout his entire body. So far though, he was sure he was doing a good job at cloaking just how bad it was overall, even if he had slipped up more then a few times.

"You can't hide anything from me, Naruto-kun." Hanabi said calmly as she peered out over the forests below and around them.

"I can try to." snapped Naruto lightly as she passed through the doorway and entered the building.

"You'll fail to, no matter how hard you try." called out Hanabi, a bit louder then usual.

Naruto couldn't help but laugh at how sure Hanabi sounded.

Five minutes later, Naruto found himself snuggled up close to a pillow in his assigned bed, relatively undressed. The bed and sheets were freezing cold against his skin, but that was fine, ever so slowly, Naruto's own body heat spread to the fabric around him and began to warm him up. No matter how hard he tried, Naruto couldn't fall asleep, so much had happened within a relatively short time. But his eyes had begun to repeatedly close, and every single time they took more and more time to open.

One moment it seemed as though he was about to fall to sleep, the second Hinata's face was a few centre metre's away from his, and a hand, presumably hers, was shaking him lightly.

"I just got to sleep." mumbled Naruto softly as he lifted his hand up and pressed it against Hinata's chest, before giving her a slight push.

A small blush surfaced on Hinata's face.

"Naruto-kun!" she spluttered out, before slapping at Naruto's hand.

"Le'me alone." grumbled Naruto as he rolled over and buried his face upon his pillow.

"Alright." Hinata relented, before taking on a thoughtful look and speaking again. " I don't know if they provide lunch or dinner, so if you miss breakfast, which is happening right now, you may not be able to eat for a while, and it has been a while since we've eaten." she said innocently, before turning around and attempting to walk out of the room.

Unluckily for her, a set of finger's had ensnared around her wrist and tugged upon it lightly. She looked back to see Naruto still laying face down on the bed. She briefly wondered how he had managed to catch her before she left the room, but soon shrugged the thought of as Naruto spoke again.

"Give me… a few more seconds." he mumbled into the pillow, before moving his hand back onto the bed, unfortunately, his finger's had not unwound from Hinata's, and she was tugged unceremoniously onto the bed, right on top of Naruto.

"Sorry." Hinata said startled as she scrambled to get off of Naruto, who was now wide awake.

"Sorry." said Naruto automatically as he sighed, his sleep was utterly ruined, although he assumed, that since it was breakfast he had gotten some sleep, it still didn't seem like a large amount of sleep.

Without thinking, Naruto threw the sheets covering him off. it was only as his feet touched the cold wood floor of the room, and the cold air hit his body did he realise that he was still in a less then professional state of dress.

"Sorry Naruto repeated as he glanced to Hinata's face, which as luck would have it was reddening, her eyes were wide open, as was her mouth.

"Oh come on!" said Naruto snappishly. "You've seen worse before." he stated brashly as he began to pull his clothes together. He paused as he noticed Hinata was still standing in the exact same place she had been since he had gotten out of bed. He arched an eyebrow at the blue haired Hyuuga, "What are you going to watch?" he asked bemusedly, Hinata's reply was not one he had been expecting.

"Actually, I think I might." she said lecherously, causing Naruto to freeze for a moment and wonder, if this was actually the Hinata he knew, her voice, choice of words, the sentiment behind them, and the look in her eyes was enough proof against her validity. As quick as the change in Hinata's personality occurred it vanished, returning Hinata to the slightly shy girl she had been seconds before, who had the decency to blush, before she walked out of the room rigidly.

Naruto chuckled a small bit, before he began to get dressed. A small time skip later, and Naruto was walking down a corridor, towards where he assumed would contain the breakfast area, as his luck would have it, his hunch was right, and he was greeted with the sight of a few teams sitting down at separate tables eating. The table's each had four sides, big enough to fit a single person; weirdly enough all of the tables had four seats, even though as far as Naruto knew, only three Genin were assigned to a team.

His eyes first landed upon the distinct green of Lee's spandex suit. Predictable, right next to him and straight across from him sat Hanabi and Tenten. The moment Tenten's eyes landed upon his recognition passed through them, a second before a slightly loud call erupted from her lips.

"Naruto-kun! Come sit here." she called out, and patted the seat next to hers.

Naruto was half tempted to take Tenten up on her offer, but after half a second of thought he declined the idea. He shook his head at Tenten and mouthed the word 'No' before smiling regretfully and chose to sit down with his own team.

"Morning" said Naruto automatically as he sat down on his side of the table, which was across from Sasuke's.

"Morning." said Sasuke without thinking as he prodded at the food upon his plate with his chopsticks.

"G-good morning Naruto-kun." stammered out Hinata, who, unsurprisingly, had gained a red face as soon as Naruto had entered the room, something Sasuke took note of immediately.

"Is something the matter?" asked Sasuke nonchalantly as he dropped his chopsticks onto his plate.

"N-no, not really." said Hinata, as she progressively regained fluency in her speaking.

"She just saw me practically naked, that's all." Naruto said calmly, before taking a bite out of the now cold food upon his plate.

Sasuke arched an eyebrow at the declaration, but soon shrugged uncaringly.

"Is that all?" he asked bemusedly, before snorting as Hinata nodded.

Naruto made a small grunt of confirmation as he swallowed down a chunk of something he did not want to know the name of.

"What do you think will happen next?" asked Sasuke quietly as he stared down at the small mess of food which was still on his plate.

Naruto shrugged lightly.

"It doesn't matter, I'll still pass." Naruto said confidently, at the look both of his team-mates gave him; he simply winked and declared "I'm unstoppable."

Both Hinata's and Sasuke's eyes were suddenly diverted to something behind him, or he assumed so, since their line of sight changed to over his shoulders. Both of his team-mates were suddenly on guard, and had become tense.

"What is someone behind me about to kill me or something?" asked Naruto bluntly, before he tipped his head backwards and checked for himself.

Naruto blinked once.

He blinked Twice.

He blinked a third and final time.

And then he stared up into a pair of onyx eyes, which were laid upon a smug, petite face. A face he took a few seconds to recognise, even though the golden locks of hair which adorned the person's hair were unique in their style.

"Yes… Temari-san… was it?" Naruto asked.

"That's right, Naruto-kun, was it?" Temari asked patiently, but before Naruto could give his affirmation she continued, "Or was it Unstoppable?" As she finished speaking a small smile stole its way onto her face.

Naruto arched an eyebrow at the suffix, but didn't comment on it. "Unstoppable by nature, not by name." Naruto said mockingly.

"I like you Blondie." said the Kunochi from sand amusedly, only to frown slightly as Naruto retorted, "You are likable yourself, Blondett."

"Enough of this nonsense, I need to talk to you." she paused for a moment before adding on, "Alone." to which both Sasuke and Hinata scowled.

"Why?" asked Naruto confusedly, it was one thing to have friendly banter in public with ninja from an allied village in public, bug Naruto had no other business with her, he was sceptical about her purpose, but he doubted she had anything up her sleeve, she in fact, lacked even the fan he had seen her with, prior to the exam beginning.

"Alright." Naruto finally said as he slowly stood up from his chair, he took brief note of the twin looks of distrust upon Sasuke and Hinata's face as he began to walk behind Temari, who had begun to walk towards the main entrance to the room. As they walked, Naruto's eyes fell upon the two other teams which were there, those being Hanabi's team, and two third's of the team from sand.

The first thing Naruto saw was Tenten's indignant glare, which was directed at both him, and Temari. Naruto had half an urge to laugh out loud, but the moment his eyes landed upon the white of Hanabi's eyes, he had to hold in a wince. Last night, although on the surface it had seemed like a fall out between them it wasn't, it was more of a bonding session. The glare was out of place in the situation, and Naruto felt it had no call for.

Naruto forced himself to tear his dejected gaze from Hanabi and eviscerate the emotion from his facial features, his eyes soon found themselves upon the team from Sand, he was slightly surprised to find that only the man in black, Kankuro, was glaring at him, the red headed boy, Gaara was completely ignoring everything but his plate, which had been rearranged, crushed and melded into an animalistic shape, he couldn't tell exactly what it was though, it was highly abstract, whether on purpose, or because Gaara lacked any artistic talent Naruto didn't know, nor did he honestly care.

Naruto's eyes switched back to Hanabi one last time, only to find that she had turned away, back to the table, Tenten however, was still glaring at Temari, and no longer himself. A second later, as Naruto continued to walk his line of sight became hard to continue to hold while walking away the collective group.

"Now." Temari said as they exited both the sight range of the rest of the Genins. "I lied, I didn't need to ask you something, I wanted to tell you something, as I said before I like you." she said as she fidgeted with her hands.

Naruto stared at Temari perplexed.

"Look, you're beautiful, and you seem to have a great personality but I don't think it'd work out between us, even though we're both blondes." Naruto said carefully, he took note that the further he went into the sentence the pinker Temari's cheeks became.

"That's not it, you idiot!" snapped Temari indignantly as she reached behind her back, only to grasp at thin air.

As her fingers felt thin air Temari frowned, before calming down and reminding herself what she was going to say. She wouldn't admit it, but even though she hadn't wanted to instigate anything remotely close to what Naruto said, the fact that he would have turned her down stung. But she ignored the blow to her self esteem for the moment.

"If you have to fight against my brother, Gaara, in any part of the exam, forfeit." Temari said nervously, Naruto noticed that every few seconds she took to glancing over his shoulder, most likely to check if anyone was coming.

"Why?" Naruto demanded to know.

"Because he'll kill you." snapped Temari before she stepped up to Naruto and glared, "And there isn't anything you'll be able to do to survive, because he can't be stopped, and he'll kill you!"

Naruto stared into Temari's eyes critically. Through his many hours of being around Hanabi, Naruto had picked up an ability of hers, of all Hyuuga's, he was able to gauge a person's honesty with their eyes, while not as strong as the Hyuuga's, he was able to easily pick out the truth from someone who was not trying to hide it by their eyes, and Temari was not hiding anything, as far as Naruto could tell.

A small smile blossomed on Naruto's face. Although he didn't know Temari very well, he had the slightest inkling that he would like her. Without giving it much thought, Naruto tried to allay her fears.

"You don't need to worry, even if Gaara tried to kill me, I doubt he'd manage to, even if I stood there to take it." he said pacifying, Temari's reaction shocked him more then he would have admitted, even as he was being rocked back and forth violently by her hands, which quickly found their way to his shoulders.

"You don't get it! No one can beat Gaara." she said angrily.

Naruto shrugged lightly.

"I commend you on your faith in your brother, but the odds right now are that I'll beat him if I face him, and as you said, that's a big if, so you don't need to worry." he said calmly as he gripped Temari's wrists and gently pried them from his shoulders.

Temari 'hmphed' lightly and turned her head upwards.

"Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you, Naruto." she said with a tone of finality, before stepping to the side and walking around Naruto, and back to the breakfast room.

Naruto's good spirits were slightly lowered, both because of Temari's reaction to his confidence in his ability, and the fact that she had such absolute faith in her brother's. He supposed he couldn't blame her, everyone in the exam were supposedly the elite Genin of each of the villages. Gaara had to have some tricks up his sleeve, Naruto reasoned.

"Naruto-kun?" asked a voice Naruto knew to be Tenten's.

"Ah, Tenten you found Naruto-kun!" exclaimed a voice Naruto knew, could be no one other then Rock Lee.

"Yeah, I did, can you go back and tell Hanabi we found him; she might be worried." Tenten managed to say innocently, yet serious enough for Lee to take her word as an order on the ranks of their sensei.

"What are you doing out here Tenten?" Naruto asked perplexedly to which Tenten smiled lightly.

"The blonde girl." Tenten spat out. " Came back a few minutes ago, but you didn't, so I decided to come and find you, Lee wanted to come along as well encase you were in trouble." she answered before stepping up to Naruto and pouting.

"You didn't come and sit at our table but when some girl you don't know wants to talk with you, you just agree? That's not very nice, what did you talk about anyway?" Tenten said hotly as she folded her arms across her chest.

"It doesn't concern you, don't worry about it." Naruto said dismissively with a small smile upon his face, "We should go back, or else Lee might think something happened to you to."

Tenten frowned.

"Let's stay here and talk for a bit, please?" asked Tenten hopefully as she inched slightly closer to Naruto.

Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly before he shook his head.

"No, I should get back, my team might be worried to, and I didn't really finish eating." explained Naruto, before he began to walk past Tenten slowly, fully expecting her to follow along with him.

She however, didn't seem to want to go along with his plans, she reached out and grasped his upper forearm tightly and pulled him back, it would have worked, had Naruto not jerked his arm out of the way as her finger's closed down upon his arm.

"Don't." said Naruto without emotion, before he started walking back again. Tenten remained still for a few moments, shocked, but quickly came to Naruto's side and began to walk with him. She fidgeted a bit at first, before she smiled coyly and grasped his hand, intertwining her fingers with his; a small frown appeared on her face at the lack of reaction form Naruto's hand. Naruto's face didn't change either; he remained as stoic as ever as they walked closer and closer to the eatery, until they came within a stone throw of the door. It was then that Naruto slipped his finger's out from Tenten's, which had been loosened as they continued to walk.

Naruto's eyes scanned the tables as both he and Tenten entered the room. As there were only three teams so far that had entered the tower, it was easy to survey them in order. First on his list to survey, was his own table, he was surprised to find that Hinata was glaring at Tenten, not only that, but she also had her Byakugan active. Sasuke however was staring thoughtlessly at the wall in front of him.

His eyes found their way to Temari's team next, which was, like every other table which had a team on it, missing someone. Temari was sitting across from Kankuro, their table was absent of Gaara. Temari's eyes kept flickering to him and back to the plate in front of her, her brother seemed absolutely clueless to her sister's actions.

And finally there was Hanabi and Lee, while at first both Hanabi and Lee seemed reserved, which was strange for Lee, and then Tenten sat down to the right of Hanabi, and Naruto was able to see her eyes. They were perfectly normal, Hanabi was completely stoic, or rather, that was what Naruto would say if he were anyone else, Hanabi's eyes had shifted lightly, the way they had shifted could have only meant one thing; She was very angry, but why, Naruto could only wonder.

"Hanabi-Chan?" called out Naruto.

Hanabi snapped her head towards Naruto, and momentarily glared, before her look softened. She tilted her head to the side curiously.

"Want…" began Naruto without any clue to what he was going to say.

"Want?" repeated Hanabi bemusedly.

"Do you want to go for a walk with me?" he said after a few awkward seconds.

Hanabi stared at Naruto for a few seconds, well aware that every single person that knew Naruto had their attention focused on her. She was also aware that despite whatever Naruto had had to relive he was still the same boy he had always been, despite the few major attitude adjustments he had come into. Some of which, no one else had picked up on. One, which Hanabi had no intention of making use of in any situation.

"Of course." she answered casually as she stood up from the table she was sitting at.

As Hanabi walked past him, Naruto turned around and began to walk side by side with her out of the eatery. Five minutes later, with no small amount of no-direction walking, they found themselves back at the same place they had been late the previous night. Hanabi walked ahead to the rail and spun around languidly, before leaning backwards against it, with her arms resting atop of the metal support.

"So what did you really want?" asked Hanabi innocently.

"I didn't want anything." answered Naruto truthfully, causing Hanabi to frown.

"Well that's a let down." Hanabi said with a small pout, before it vanished.

"Want to make a bet?" asked Hanabi innocently as she leaned off of the railing which surrounded the edge of arena.

"What kind of bet?" Naruto asked slowly.

"Nothing large, or anything, it could be, that either of us has to do one thing that the other says to, and the prerequisite for winning the bet is…" Hanabi took on a thoughtful look for a moment before she openly smirked.

"If there is a next part of the exam, whoever finishes quickest wins." she explained, before she paused for a moment, "Unless you don't think you'd stand a chance." she said innocently.

Naruto frowned deeply for a moment at Hanabi's utter self confidence.

"Just for that, I'm going to beat you, and I'm going to make you dye your hair blonde again and keep it that way." said Naruto nonchalantly, before grinning at Hanabi.

Hanabi scowled, before slowly her lips curved upwards into a smile, a smile which disturbed Naruto.

"Then its set, now you just sit back and relax, there isn't any real reason for you to try after all, you'll just end up losing o me, like always." Hanabi mocked Naruto lightly, before yet again finishing with a comment which riled Naruto up, even more then the last. "But don't worry, I won't make you do anything too bad, in fact you'll probably enjoy it on some level."

Naruto scowled deeply.

"I'm going to enjoy making you eat your words." he stated before turning around and beginning to walk away.

"Walking away from me again?" called out Hanabi bemusedly.

Naruto froze in mid-step and turned around yet again.

This time however he stalked right up to Hanabi, who arched an eyebrow at his action, and raised his hand up in front of her face. A second later he did something Hanabi had not been expecting; He flicked her nose.

"You just hush." Naruto said, before smiling one last time and walking away.

Opinions please? I'm not so sure about this chapter.