*Looking around a barren desert thousands of miles from the nearest society or living being* Ok so I think I lost her, welcome back thank you all for sticking around. Here's the next chapter of book 1, Inheritance. Not much to say but hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving, as the next chapter should be uploaded some time after that. I hope you all enjoy, now will...right no ones here to do the disclaimer guess I'll do it myself.
Konohamaru: Yo, I'll do it Author.
Wa...Konohamaru? What are you doing here? Nevermind, yeah go ahead thanks.
Konohamaru: The Author doesn't own any person, place, thing or event from Naruto's world all rights reserved for Kishimoto.
Yeah thanks hey where did you come from and how did you get here?
Konohamaru: oh Hanabi-chan brought me.
What? Shit
Chapter 10: Inheritance
Jezebel opened her eyes, the white noise of medical equipment assaulting her senses. Her head was killing her, and as she sat up she had to grab the railing of her bed. She felt so dizzy, the room she was in was spinning too quickly for her to focus. She was aware of someone else near by, grabbing her by the shoulder, and laying her back down on the bed.
His or her voice was just a drawling noise that blended into the background. She was aware of a dull pain in her arm, and suddenly everything came into focus, a ringing in her ear as an older gentleman smiled at her. He was a portly fellow, with a receding grey hairline. Small bifocals rested on a bulbous nose. "I'm glad to see your awake young lady, but please try not to move too much. Your body went through a lot when you took that hit."
"A...a hit?" Jezebel looked at him in confusion. In response he quickly took out a small flashlight, and preceded to do a basic exam over her.
"Please look forward. Alright my name is Doctor Tela. Can you tell me your name?"
Jezebel opened her mouth, then closed it, a thousand things leaving her at that moment. She should know but...she didn't. "N-no, I don't. I-i don't remember anything." A small amount of panic started to set in Jezebel.
"Now, now please stay calm ma'am. Retro grade amnesia is normal for someone who goes through a traumatic experience. You were brought in by Captain Matsuya. He told me what happened, you got caught in the middle of a fight and took a serious hit. So this is normal and should pass in a few days ok? Some memories will come back quicker than others. Though I can answer one question for you, when you assisted the captain you told him your name was Jezebel."
Jezebel narrowed her eyes, a spark of recognition coming to her mind. But that name, Jezebel, it felt...wrong for some reason. But she didn't have anything else to go off of, so she would take it. "Ok, thank you doctor. Um if you don't mind, could you tell me where I am?"
"Oh right, you're not a native. You are in the center of Makusen no Kiri, or the Wooden Mist. A small village in the middle of Kiri. Now I'm going to take a step out side, and see if we have anyone who can help you regain your memories, ok?"
Jezebel nodded slowly, pulling her blanket further up her knees. She looked around, this room looked liked it had been sitting around in disuse for ages. What was going on? She had taken a hit for someone, and now she couldn't remember anything?
"Knock, knock." A deeper voice said behind the door. In the recesses of her mind, Jezebel knew that voice but she just couldn't remember.
"Come in?"
Entering, Jezebel found herself staring at two pools of amber, with a mop of brown hair, loosely pulled into a pony tail. She didn't know how she knew this, but she knew this was Matsuya. He smiled as he sat down in a chair beside her bed. "Hey. Good to see your finally awake. How are you feeling?"
"Fine I guess? I'm sorry do I know you? You look familiar but I'm afraid I don't remember anything at the moment."
Matsuya's face fell, a more sad look taking it's place. He sighed "and that is what I was afraid of. My name is Matsuya Tatsugaya. Did the doctor tell you your name at least?"
"Um yeah..he said you told him, I told you it was Jezebel." She had a bad feeling, based on the look of his face. Like he had bad news and he didn't want to be the one to say it.
"Ok Jezebel, you don't remember anything else? Helping me and my squad fight off the Purist? Taking a,what should have been lethal, blow?"
Jezebel tried concentrating but no. Nothing was coming to her mind she physically could not remember anything. "No I can't, I'm sorry."
Matuya's shoulders slumped as he leaned back, putting his face in the palm of his hand. "Shit, I don't know any easy way for me to tell you this Jezebel, but when my squad found you, you had hit your head pretty good so we set up camp to start taking care of you. We were ambushed and you helped us fight off our attackers, and in the process you pushed me out of the way of a jutsu meant for me. The man who used that jutsu had a special ability and... well.."
Jezebel was starting to get annoyed. Apparently she didn't like it when people beat around the bush. "Well come on tell me what did he do to me? Is he the reason I have amnesia? Do you know how long it'll last?"
"Look Jezebel, you don't have amnesia, he literally deleted all of your memories. I'm sorry, but you will never be able to remember who you where."
"W-what?"
*thwack* Another body fell. "AHHH" with one brutal swing, two people too useless to be called ninja fell, another literally cut in half. Alistair laughed maniacally as theses runts, these rebellion welps fell before him, the Purist they had been so close to beating watching off to the side in a mixture of shock, awe, and horror. "Who else will step to me?!" One man came around from behind and managed to stab a small kunai into Alistair, going deep in him. He just laughed and grabbed the man by the neck throwing him into near by wall.
He walked forward pulling the kunai out his side and resting his giant blade along his shoulders. "Well, well, well, one of you managed to touch me. That's almost commendable." A single swing later the man was missing his head. He walked over to the now gathering Purist. "Gentlemen pleased to make your acquaintances. My name is Alistair, and I think you should take me to see whoever's is in charge."
The rest of Naruto's stay in the hospital, which was really only a few days was peaceful for the most part. He could be found spending most of the day with Hinata. Talking, though no one would no they were talking about the future. Which would seem cute, but they were talking about a specific future. One that was war torn and abysmal. They tried to keep things happy and light, and though try as she might Hinata couldn't get over the fact that Naruto had kissed her. He hadn't done anything else that forward, but whenever she had a moment to herself that's where her mind wondered.
Sasuke seemed to have been dismissed before he Naruto woke up. But at the moment they where in Training ground 17, which was probably the least used of the training grounds. Mostly because it was on the outskirts of Konoha, and barely qualified as a training ground. 20 yards of almost barren ground, and a single tree in the middle, two dummy's on posts in disarray on the left side. It needed alot of maintenance, and no one was willing to put in the work to fix it.
Naruto had discovered this place, this safe haven, shortly after the death of Jiraiya, when he needed to be alone. Had even built a small house hear incase he wanted to be away from people for a few days. "Yeah Hina-chan this place was basically my second home for awhile. It was after Jiraiya had died. I needed to get away for while."
"I knew about this place" Hinata quipped after swallowing a bite from her riceball. Technically they should still be at the hospital, but Naruto had started going stir crazy as the Hokage wouldn't let Naruto leave until he had made sure Naruto was fine. Probably making sure he wasn't being influenced by the Ninetails.
So the second day after Naruto had woken up, they had snuck out around lunch time. Hinata picked a few to-go boxes from a certain dango shop and here they where...completely alone together...just the two of them...a small line of blood crept out of her nose as she started dozing off. She was brought out of her thoughts as Naruto choked out "Really? How? I made sure to keep this place a secret."
Hinata looked away as she realized she had actually blurted that out instead of thinking it. "Oh umm..well you know..I was going through Konoha one day and saw you walking down the road and you seemed sad and I wanted to cheer you up but I didn't know how to approach you and basically I stalked you all the away here" Hinata took a deep breath as she finished her sentence.
"Ok...um...well anyways, I remember I had a bunch of clones make a small little house here. I don't know if I should do it again. It was just a small wooden hut, I think I had Yamamato-sensei help, but it was a comfy place."
"Will it matter if you take your fathers inheritance?" That was something that had bothered Hinata since the day she found out along with the rest of her friends about Naruto's heritage. He had never taken his fathers name, nor his estates and certainly none of his money. "Speaking of why did you never take it, when you figured out the fourth was your dad?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulders as he dug into a stick of dango, talking in between mouthfulls of food. "Eh, the way to get into the Foruths estate so I could prove I was his son officially was a secret that no one knew except for Hiruzen. Not even Jiraiya knew it. And he took that secret to his grave."
Hinata went over to their basket of food, much to her displeasure Naruto had taken the last stick of dango. Ah well she was just hungry, she could get more. She poured herself another cup of tes. "As much as I'm surprised to say this, I can't wait to become a ninja so I can get some sake. Anyways, are you going to do it this time around?"
Naruto choked on some dango as she made the statement about sake. Hinata had never been fond of alcohol, or at least she never drank enough to be fond of it. "What, get my inheritance? Hell yeah. According to baachan there were supposed to be letters from my mom and dad in a safe in my dad's house. I want to see them. Hokage-jiji knows I'm aware of my mom, and he's got some test set up for me at the end of the year. If I pass he's supposed to tell me about my dad."
"Wouldn't it be easier if you told him you knew already? It would save you alot of time."
Naruto sat back, resting on his elbows looking at the sky, thinking about that. It was something he had thought about definitely. "Well I would love to Hinata, but the one thing I'm having trouble with is explaining how I know. Like with my mom I got clever, but the only thing I have to go on with dad is that I look like him. And that's it. There's nothing that I as a civilian student have legal access to that suggests he was in a relationship with anyone, let alone Kushina Uzumaki."
"You're right, how about I help you? My father and yours were on a team back when they graduated, along with some random Inuzuka."
Naruto gave a side long glance at Hinata. "Really? I didn't know that."
"Yeah it's not something my father talked about often, I think he was jealous that some guy from a small clan was outshining him. He might have something in his old personal journal."
"If you can find that and not get caught Hinata, then by all means go ahead." Naruto stood up, and walked over to the single tree in the middle of the field and pulled out his kunai from it. They had done more than just talk here. They had been taking a small break, one which Naruto seemed over. "But for now, Hinata-chan I think it's time to get back to training. Alistair and Jezebel are still out there and I want to be prepared for the next time they show their face."
Hinata groaned as she got up, "Naruto-kun we've been training for the past hour, can't you take a break for the day. Technically we shouldn't be training at all. " she lazily got into a juken stance.
Naruto grinned as he flourished his wrist, the blade catching the sunlight before sliding into its sheath, then he got into the turtle stance, which was his blade held at an downward angle, parallel to his body. "But why stop Hina-chan, we've only been training for the past hour?" Hinata groaned as she shot forward, maybe if she ended this fast Naruto would finally stop.
She didn't have any problems training, especially since it was with Naruto and he still took off his shirt when he really got into it, but ever since waking up, her body had been sore when she over exerted herself. Of course Naruto was expecting her charge attack and expertly deflected her strikes to the side, stepping back and to the right when she got past his weapon.
"Come now Hina-chan, you've got to try harder! I know this will motivate you." Naruto grabbed the center of his sheath and threw his blade back like a javelin, before launching it forward Hinata easily dodged it but almost let out a squeal as she saw Naruto make a very familiar handsign "Kagebushin no jutsu." Two plums of smoke came on either side of Naruto, and two clones appeared smirking beside him.
"Yes! FINALLY, I can only make two at the moment but it's an improvement. You two let's go!" All three Naruto's charged Hinata, two heading around her flanks, and one coming from the sky. Hinata couldn't help but give a small smile at Naruto. He had been working hard to get the Shadow clone back in his repertoire. She was happy he finally got it, but unhappy that he was using it against her.
She decided to take the fight to the clones and went for the one approaching her left flank, "Dashing double palms!" Gathering chakra in her feet, Hinata quickly got in front of him, and used his surprise to do a leap off of his chest, pushing him off his balance before dashing forward both palms glowing with chakra slightly and catching him right in his chest. If it had been Naruto, he would have been sent flying. The clone however just dispelled.
Hinata grinned as she did a backflip, flipping over the Naruto who had been trying to get a sneak attack off of her. She actually used his back as a platform to launch herself at the still airborne Naruto. This was the real one, and he was smiling brightly as the chakra on Hinata's hands shifted and changed ever so slightly. She was trying to use her twin lion fist. He should probably oblige her efforts. He cocked his fist back and channeled chakra into the very edges of his fist.
Hinata could feel the clone on the ground make a leaping attack as well, trying to strike her back while she was focused on the Naruto in front of her. If only she had some way of defending herself, someway to catch both of them in one attack, some sort of impenetrable defense...oh wait, Hinata grinned as she threw her arms to the side, using the momentum to start spinning. Naruto recognized it, and could only nod in approval as he felt the chakra catch his arms and fling him somewhat violently towards the ground.
"Rotation!"
*Puff* *SLAM*
"Ugh.. that was good Hinata, I didn't know you knew the rotation." Naruto dragged himself up from the rut he had made in the ground. He hadn't been expecting that. Hinata had been training without him, good for her, bad for him. He summoned two more clones, he was going to need them to-
*Poof*
*Poof*
*Poof* *
*Poof*
Naruto was surprised when four anbu appeared in the middle of their fight, between the two combatants. He recognized three of them, the three males. They where from the Hokage's personal guard. The one woman amongst them, he didn't know but he could only imagine she was with the other three. It was her who spoke up actually.
"Naruto Uzumaki, I need you to come with us. The Hokage wants to speak with you." Narut had a feeling he knew what Hiruzen wanted to talk about. And he saw a possibility, and opportunity, but he didn't want to do it alone. "Fine, but Hinata comes as well."
A boar masked anbu spoke up "he only requested you Uzumaki." Naruto actually unsheathed his blade, causing the anbu to instinctively pull out their own blades.
"You're gonna have to take me by force then, preferably unconscious. Sorry."
Hinata got into her juken stance, two more Anbu turned to face her. She would back Naruto up of course, but her breath was starting to hitch. These were Anbu, more specifically ones chosen to protect the freaken Hokage. They got those positions for specific reasons. The woman looked at Naruto, the other Anbu then finally Hinata before her hand came up, and their blades lowered.
"Fine, let the Hokage deal with that, you two come here." Both children approached the Anbu, who put their hands on their shoulders and teleported away.
They reappeared in the Hokage's office, Naruto stumbling to the ground. Kami he hated the shunshin jutsu. It was so hard for him to keep his balance, which was why he preferred massive amounts of speed to instant teleportation. Hiruzen wasn't surprised to see Hinata he had been watching the confrontation between them and his anbu.
"Thank you that will be all, return to your positions." He flicked his fingers and the anbu bowed before disappearing, leaving Hinata and Naruto alone with Hiruzen.
"Hello Naruto, Hinata-San." He gave the two children the best grandfatherike smile he could muster.
"Hello Hokage-sama" it was weird for Hinata to be seeing a man whose funeral she had been too, but she bowed none the less.
"Hey Hokage-jiji what's up?" Naruto flashed Hiruzen a peace sign.
"Well Naruto I need to talk you about two things, while I am happy to see you growing into a proud and confident ninja, I think it's time you told me about this teacher of yours, as well as a" his gaze went over to Hinata for a fraction of a second "more personal matter that I don't think young Hinata should be here for."
"Well Hokage-sama I can answer both, but if you're referring to the Kyuubi, then she can stay. Hinata already knows and for that matter so do I."
That caught Hiruzen off guard, but he did an impressive job of not showing if. "Oh, so you are aware of the Kyuubi." So his Yamanaka was right, now how much had the Ninetail's influenced Naruto. "Would I be right in assuming then, that the Kyuubi was your teacher?" A small pit of panic set in Hiruzen's stomach as Naruto approached the hanging picture of Minato behind him.
"Yes but not entirely, but that is the middle part of the story. Near the start of summer a particularly bad mob formed, and found me." Hinata clenched her fist and looked away, she had knew a small part of Naruto's past, but the whole story,...actually hearing it wasn't something she was going to like. "They beat me badly, it was the worst one yet. I thought they were actually going to kill me. I ended up passing out, and found myself going in here" Naruto tapped his forehead.
"A little space of my mind, called my mindscape. It was a sewer, and further end were these massive bars, a cave holding back a beast. A fox with Ninetail's. He" Naruto hated calling Kurama by Kyuubi and ninetails, and especially hated calling her a he, but no one would believe him if he said her, "was there. He told me that he was the Ninetailed fox, the Kyuubi no Yoko. He showed me how the Fourth sealed him inside of me. He offered to help me. Make sure I wasn't hurting that again. All I had to do was take away the seal tag keeping his cage closed. I almost did it, but then he appeared." Naruto nodded towards the picture of the Fourth.
"A failsafe if the Kyuubi ever came to close to escaping. He told me everything, how he was my father, how a stranged masked man attacked him and mom and pulled the Fox out of her. How he and mom sacrificed themselves so they could seal him away. How they wanted me to be a hero." Naruto turned towards Hiruzen, a tear coming down his cheek. "After that the fox still offered to train me, instead of escaping he wanted me to change the sewer. So I did and he began teaching me of the things the academy wasn't."
Hiruzen's face was shadowed by his hat, but if Naruto saw his eyes he would see the mournful look in them. "You've known all this time Naruto?"
"Yeah Hokage-jiji, all that stuff I told you about mom, was what I found out afterwards. When I actually looked her up. But I don't for not telling me Hokage-jiji, if anything recent events have proven I'm not ready to take on my dad's enemies. I was going to wait until I was stronger to talk to you about it."
Hiruzen stood up kneeled before Naruto so they were eye level. "Even then Naruto, I withheld information that should have been rightfully yours, and I'm sorry."
"It's fine Hokage-jiji, and even though I don't want to take my dad's name just yet, can I have my inheritance. All the things that should have belonged to me?"
Hiruzen nodded and stood up, pulling Minato's picture aside to revels the safe inside the wall. He put in the combination and pulled out a box. It was about a foot wide and a foot and a half in length. It was a verdant green with aqua wood in the corners, onto emblazoned was the Uzumaki symbol. "This box holds several things Naruto. You weren't supposed to get this until you turned eighteen. But now it can't be helped. Inside are the keys to your fathers estate and the master seal that turns off all of its security and safeguards. You are free to go there whenever you want."
Naruto smiled as teeming hands grasped the box, it had a little heft to it but that was fine. Here was something he had never had before. A complete unknown and a small part of him felt like a small kid again. "Thanks Hokage-jiji, if you don't mind I'm going to check it out now, come on Hina-chan."
Hiruzen turned towars his open window, puffing out a cloud of smoke, not watching the two children leave. A curious expression looking towards the heavens. "What am I going to do now?"
As they where leaving Hinata followed closely behind Naruto. "That was Brilliant Naruto-kun. I almost believed you."
Naruto gave Hinata a small smile, "well the trick Hina-chan is not everything I told him wa sa complete lie. The part about meeting Kurama at the beginning of summer was true. But I was too young, the trauma from that mob and meeting what was at the time my worst nightmare my mind repressed the memory. I only remembered near the end of the war and by then it didn't matter."
Hinata gasped in horror "Naruto-kun, I'm so sorry...I didn't know."
"It's fine Hina-chan, that's all in the past. Literally. Come on I wanna check put my dad's house."
"That reminds me Naruto-kun, why did you never move there when you found out?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulders "eh, with the war looming and preparations needing to be made, as well as trying to focus on helping Kurama, I never had the time. I planned to after the war but you know things happened." He grinned sheepishly. To be honest at the time he had never really given it any thought. And he honestly didn't know how he felt about it, going into his parents house. That was an emotional trainwreck waiting to happen.
But Naruto wasn't given any reprieve as he soon found himself standing outside a walled building. It was a two story house, painted a light red. The wall surrounding the house was about eight feet high, but looking through the closed gates Naruto saw a well kept flower garden out front. He opened the box, there was a small wooden latch that flipped up, but onto of it was the master seal.
He picked up and put it on the middle of the fence, seals startingivhting up all over the outer wall, and even continued into the air as if a wall was there. Well a dome more specifically as that's what the seals created a massive black and white sphere covering the entire top of the two story house. The sphere glowed blue, and then green before fading away, and the gate opened with an audible click.
Naruto looked towards Hinta who gave him a small nod, and he walked forward with her, slowly and silently. The gate shut behind them and Naruto looked around the garden. The fence itself was a good 15 feet away from the house in the front and on the right side he saw a tree with a swinging bench attached to one of its branches. The garden he noticed previously continued on the left side. Different colors of wild flowers and Rose's mainly.
He walked towards the door and another seal appeared on the door. Naruto didn't know much about this one, except it was meant to lock whatever door it was on, and only unlock for specific people. He bit his thumb, smearing a small amount of blood on it, and much like before the seal glowed blue and then green before fading and the door opened on it's own.
The inside was painted a pastel yellow, with some other complimentary colors, the door lead into a small hallway which in turn lead into a jointed kitchen living room. All around he saw books, probably his fathers and he saw so many pictures. Young and oldnKushina and Minato Namikaze, some together some separated.
He picked up one and saw a Young Minato with Hiashi and surprisingly Tsume Inuzuka, all looking like they had just graduated from the academy with some random Jonin. He saw Kushina with three young people, of which he recognized Anko Miterashi, probably some time before becoming Orochimaru's student as well as Kurenai. The other one was also an Inuzuka and if he was right that was Kiba's older sister Hana.
Hinata herself had left Naruto to go down a hallway to do her own investigation. She had just left what she assumed was the master bedroom paused as she saw a door was creaked open. She pushed it all the way and gasped. She had walked into a child's nursery, a crib in the corner dressers full of diapers and childs clothes and a chest fit to burst with toys. 'This would have been Naruto's room.' Not feeling comfortable being here without him she walked back to Naruto who was sitting at the Kitchen table the box Hiruzen had given him in front.
"Well Naruto-kun, are you going to open it?"
"Yeah Hina-chan I am." He deftly flicked it open with one hand. Inside were four things. One of his fathers three pronged kunai, a letter, and two rings. Of the two the bigger was an intertwined band of gold and silver. In an open space between the two, near the top was a simple line of greens emerald if he had too guess. The smaller one was a navy blue band with a ruby affixed to the top.
He shakily opened the letter and it read:
Dear Naruto
Hey son, if you're reading this than you just made Chunnin, or turned 18 if the ninja lifestyle wasn't for you. I don't know, it's a tough lifestyle and I wouldn't blame you if you wanted something else for you future other than violence. It's silly as I'm writing this you're just weeks away from being brought into this world.
I'll tell you, I have never seen your mother as happy as when she's thinking or talking about you and too you. She reads stories to you at night you know, right before she goes to bed. Sometimes I do as well. Just being here, inside of her has already brought us so much joy. And I can't wait to show you this big beautiful world you're going to explore one day. But anyways this letter as well as the contents of this box are for you once you reach 18 or chunin.
I haven't taught you my flying rain technique yet because I wanted to make sure you were ready for such a powerful jutsu, but now the time has come for me to show you that your old man isn't as dumb as I act sometimes. And the rings well those are your mother and I's engagement rings. I don't know if I've told you yet, but it was your mother who first proposed to me, and then I had to get her one and next thing we know we're married and expecting. The rings are for you, so that when you find that special someone, you already have something to give her. There are seals so the ring can adjust itself.
I wonder what kind of father I will be? Are you proud to say your my son, or has the responsibilities of being the Hokage taken me away from you to often for you to know? I guess I'll have to wait and see but I already know your mother is going to be wonderful. She loves you so much, and you're not even here yet. We just got done setting your play area up outside in the back, and I'll tell you it's alot more work baby proofing everything than I first realized.
Good knews, one of my old teammates Hiashi Hyuga, his wife just found out she was a few weeks pregnant. How awesome would it be if his kid and you were friends. I hope you grow up in more peaceful times than me, and I promise that is the goal I strive for as Hokage. I guess we might have had a few rough times you and I. Ones were we didn't see eye to eye, and I know how stubborn I can be. So I'm going to apologize to you now, and I want you to know no matter what I love you, and will always love you. And you will always be my son, and I'll be proud of you no matter what.
Your mother and I have been eyeing a spot for when I retire, so as a last gift we're going to give you this house. It's a big responsibility but it's yours now Naruto. I love you.
Your father Minato Namikaze.
Tears were freely falling down his face as Naruto placed the letter down. Hinata had been reading over his shoulder and quietly hugged him from behind. They loved him, and his dad was proud of him. That's all he ever wanted really. He placed the letter down and picked up his father's kunai...well his kunai now. The kanji and calligraphy for the Flying Raijin were engraved in the hilt of it, but what caught Naruto's eyes was the engraved along the middle of the middle blade were engraved four letters. N.A.U.N, his initials. His parents had really thought of the future.
He picked up the rings, staring at his mothers and looking towards Hinata who had walked into the living room and was leaving through some books at the moment. He would definitely being giving this to her, once the time was right. Just the thought of that brought a smile to his face. "Naruto-kun come look at this."
She was holding a small, black, leather bound journal, and on the front stitched in were M.N. it looked old and ragged. It was his fathers and inside he found his dad's notes on the flying raijin, though it looked like some pages were tore out. Also ther were some notes on the rasengan as well as several other jutsus' he wanted to try and make or work on but never had the time to. His reading was cut off by a knock on the door.
Naruto looked again toward Hinata who walked over and opened it, and gasped in surprise. "Father?" Yes standing their was none other than Hiashi Hyuga himself.
"Hello Daughter, Naruto. Do you mind if I come in?"
Naruto gave him a wary look but nodded "yes Hiashi-sama. Please do."
"Thank you, but you don't have to add the suffix, just Hiashi will do. He stepped into the house and looked around, a reminiscent sigh escaping his lips. "It has been almost twelve years since I stepped in here. You were just born I think Naruto. Your mother was overjoyed and couldn't stop bragging about you."
"Wait you know about Naruto-kun's parents?"
"You know about my mom and dad"
Both spoken simultaneously and both incredulous looks of surprise were thrown at Hiashi, who simply raised an eyebrow. "Well your holding Minato's journal, read it and you'll know we were close friends. I was notified of your arrival when you took down the security seals. I'm glad you finally figured it out Naruto." He walked over to Naruto his hand held out, before he saw the ripped pages of Minato's journal and he frowned.
"Oh dear, right I better return those to you."
"Again, wait you have the missing pages?"
"Of course, it was Minato's wish that I take some of his research in case something happened to him. So that way no one could copy his signature jutsu. You won't be able to learn with out all the missing pieces. But I digress I came here for a reason." He rifled through his pockets before pulling out a letter.
"When your parents passed Naruto, their accounts as well as a trust fund they set up for you were given over to me. I've maintained them and kept them full so that when you finally got all of this i could give you their accounts. Take this letter to Heroka Hyuga at Konoha bank and that should take care of everything." He handed Naruto the letter, and he [Naruto] so it was sealed shut with the offical royal blue wax seal of the Hyuga clan.
"Father you knew all this time and didn't say anything?"
"Well daughter I was forbidden too by the Hokage. I wasn't allowed to say anything until Naruto was told, and now you know so I don't have to remain silent any more." He gave a smile "but I am happy to see you here Naruto, it's what Minato would have wanted."
"It's fine Hiashi, I understand."
"Good then there was one other matter I wished to speak to you about. My daughter seems to have taken an interest in you. So much so that she has even taken fatal injuries for you. If I ever find out that you've betrayed that trust then I will personally-"
"FATHER!" Hinata was aghast at her dad's actions, and Naruto himself was going pale, Hiashi could certainly be an intimidating figure when he wanted to be.
"What, you two are dating I assume?"
Hinata blushed and looked away not saying anything but her heart almost stopped as Naruto said "I mean yeah sort of?"
"Good then if you ever hurt you they'll never find you body because there won't be anything to recover or find." Naruto gulped but nodded "well that's all I wanted to say, Hinata make sure you return home before midnight. Good day to both of you." And he walked away leaving the two teens to themselves.
"So um..we're dating Naruto-kun?" She didn't stutter but her fingers were starting to wage war on one another, and the blush had yet to subside.
"Well I figured we were I mean if you don't want to I understand but-"
"No Naruto-kun" she was quick to cut him off "I would love too."
Naruto grinned "great that means we're going out to eat. Ramen at Icharaku's my treat and when we get done do you mind helping me look through this place with me? I don't think I can do it alone."
"I would love to Naruto-kun"
Naruto took Hinata by her hand, still grinning, and lead her away, making sure to reactivate the security seal before he left. Things were starting to look good for him.
*bound and gagged with makeup and cat whiskers on my face* HMPH...HHMMPPHH!
Hanabi: keep trying Author, you're not getting out. Oh hey all, so big sis and Naruto finally get his inheritance that's so crazy, and I didn't know dad knew the freaken fourth Hokage!
Konohamaru: yeah I know, that is awesome. I think this is normally the part were the author tells people to enjoy and leave a review or something?
Hanabi: *shrugs* eh I dont care either way, but those ropes won't hold him much longer so i say we get out of here before he does something stupid.
