Naruto was tired. He didn't get tired easily so this was saying something. He had been practising his Sharingan abilities and found out their limitations. His time stop and reversal only had a range of twenty feet and others outside of that could still attack him.
His reversal ability was by far his favourite. He had discovered that the reversal ability reversed time by ten seconds and it even reversed injuries. So he had spent time brutally torturing himself for ten seconds before rewinding it to when he didn't have them. It was especially fun to watch.
He had also been practising his Taijutsu which involved him sparring against a thousand of his shadow clones trying their damnedest to kill him unfortunately they failed and Naruto used them as training.
He had understandably been left very winded from the experience and made his way to a nearby lake. Unknown to many Naruto loved swimming. It was as if his body was made for it. He began taking off all his clothes leaving him in just his underwear as he jumped into the water with a very loud splash.
Hinata was taking her daily walk as she unknowingly strolled into Naruto's training ground. 'What a beautiful forest' she thought there were flowers of every kind, wildlife everywhere and a beautiful lake. She then hears someone come out of it surprised that she wasn't the only one there she jumps into the trees and activates her Byakugan to gain a better look at the person.
Lo and behold it was Naruto.
His abs shone due to the sun bouncing off his liquid covered body as he ran a hand through his hair to return it to its normal spiky form. Naruto knew something was off, he felt someone watching him he didn't mind as they didn't have any evil intentions so he continued his swim.
Hinata was gaping at what she just saw. Her childhood crush was essentially naked below her and he didn't know she was there. She kept watching as Naruto submerged himself below again.
After a while, Naruto decided to come out of the water and continue his training. He created an entire armies worth of Kage Bunshin before signalling for them to attack him. 'What is he thinking' Hinata thought thoroughly confused. Weren't they just Bunshin they couldn't attack things. Using her Byakugan she saw that they all had their distinct chakra networks. 'His clones are solid' she thought shocked. She had never in her life heard of solid clones before.
She continued to watch as Naruto gracefully dashed through the army dispersing each of his clones one hit at a time slashing through their necks with his scythe. 'What an odd weapon for a shinobi' she thought in wonder.
Soon Naruto had finished destroying all his clothes and began to walk towards the village gates. He continued to walk there before puffing into smoke.
"So you are the one who has been watching me" Naruto said in his usual monotone voice Hinata spun around only to see the shirtless form of Naruto standing behind her. She immediately turned beet red from seeing her crush in such a state while Naruto watched in confusion.
Other than Kurama he hadn't had any meaningful relationships with any females. He didn't know how they worked and for the first time in his life he was well and truly confused.
Why was she red? Was she sick or hurt he didn't know. He teleported over to her and placed a hand on her forehead checking her temperature. Due to the decreased amount of space between them she abruptly fainted.
Naruto had places to be and things to do, he had to visit the Hokage and talk to him about some things he didn't have time to be dealing with a female no matter how much his conscience demanded it.
He picked her up and shadow stepped back to his house. He then put her on his bed and left her a note telling her to go back home. He even left he some ramen. If she didn't like ramen he wouldn't associate with her.
He ran to the Hokage mountain and then called out to his trusted spy, Zetsu. "Zetsu" Naruto called. He turned around to face him as he emerged from the ground.
"The Akatsuki will move on you in two days" Zetsu said apprehensively not knowing how he might react.
Naruto's face split into a massive excited grin it reached from one corner of his face to another "The great Uchiha Itachi and the monster Hoshigaiki Kisamehas come to see me Uzumaki Naruto this is going to be a bout of the ages" Naruto said leaking his KI in excitement for the fights that are going to come.
He quickly calmed down and made his way into the Hokage's office. This conversation was going to be troublesome.
(Hokage Office)
As he entered the office he was greeted by an anbu who had come to escort him. He hadn't thought there would be a council meeting then again dear made people do irrational things. "To the council chambers I presume" he said in his monotone voice fipping his indifferent mask on.
(Council chambers)
"I seem to have come here so many times that one has to wonder are you in love with me?" he asked. Unfortunately none of them took the bait.
"The council has been alerted to some of your showings in a spar against Jiraiya of the Sannin." Homura said.
"So what. Jiraiya challenged me to a spar and I won" he said in the same monotone voice as always. It had people wondering wether he was an Aburame or not
"We would like to ask you how you got s strong" Koharu asked.
"I've said this before I trained. If any of you have doubts of my strength you are more than willing to spar with me" Naruto replied with a challenging tone at the end of his statement.
"We are of the council demand you to reveal all of your secrets" one of the more arrogant council members stated. The demon was becoming to strong for his liking. What if he went after him and his family for sexually abusing him as a child. He couldn't have that.
"I am under no obligation to answer. I have not made myself an explicit threat to Konoha's safety therefore I can choose not to reveal any of my secrets to you. Not even the Hokage can get that information out of me." he said he was beggining to get displeased with the council. They were acting more and more like children and it was getting annoying.
"But I will give you information on one of my abilities. I can travel through shadows wherever in the world. I can also stay in a person's shadow for however long as I feel like" he said before disappearing into a civilians shadow. Surely that information would satisfy their curiosity. Right?.
