The exterior of the Hyuga compound is almost finished, but while everyone else is glad that things will be returning back to normal soon, Hinata doesn't like the idea of not living with Naruto anymore and returning to the place of anger and disappointment. Plus, there is always a risk that something like this could happen again. Hiashi brought some new rules regarding the items that come and go in and out of the compound to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. However, he was really displeased that the investigation wasn't going anywhere. They have still not determined who was responsible for the attack and there were no clues to help get to the bottom of this crime. His daughters and everyone else in the compound are in danger of the person who did this attempting to do this again in the hopes of the second attempt being successful. If that happens, the second attack might cause even more damage and even more rumors and fear around the village.

Lord Hokage dispatched his best ANBU, investigators and interrogators to see what they can do and how they can help bring closure to this case. However, there was not much progress.

Hinata sighed standing inside the newly built compound in the area that was going to be her room, Naruto was standing beside her holding her hand. He saw the sadness on her face but he couldn't help but smile thinking about what happened a few moments before. Hinata had gathered all her courage and asked her father if he would allow her to move in with him. Of course, her father very clearly and loudly said no.

"Should we get out of here? We need to go meet Pervy Sage." He said quietly.

Hinata nodded and sighed again.

A few minutes later they were at the river where they were supposed to meet and where the two had previously trained. Jiraiya was already there sitting under an umbrella and cooling himself with a fan, an unopened bottle of sake lay next to him as he scribbled something onto a piece of paper, one of many laying all around his crossed feet.

Looking up he saw his student. "Ah, there you are. Hm?" His gaze went to Hinata. "Is that your girlfriend, brat?"

"Yeah, Pervy Sage. She wanted to come along." Naruto answered walking up to him.

Hinata bowed. "It is nice to meet you, Lord Jiraiya."

"Oh ho, what a polite young lady." He gave Naruto a face. "Unlike you."

"Alright, alright, let's just get started already." Naruto replied annoyed.

"Go try to summon a frog again and the young miss can help you see what you are doing wrong." Jiraiya waved his pen at him. He knew about her bloodline of course.

"Aren't you supposed to train me?" Naruto crossed his arms.

"You already know that there is nothing more I can do, your incompetence is your own fault."

"Fine…hey, Hinata? Should we try the idea we talked about?" She nodded. "Ok, but how do I drain all of my chakra?"He rubbed his chin in thought.

"Perhaps you should make a lot of clones and have them spar each other until they all disperse?"

"What are you two talking about?" Jiraiya raised an eyebrow.

"Hinata said that I should try wasting all of my normal chakra first, and then the fox's chakra will be all I that I'll have left. You said that I need to try to get it out, right?"

Jiraiya looked at Hinata with a serious expression. "You know?"

She nodded. "Yes, he told me."

"Naruto willingly told you about it, by himself?"

She nodded again. "Yes, we have not broken any law."

"Good. Glad to hear it." He smiled. "Now go and do your little plan, I've got my research to sort out."

Naruto rolled his eyes and motioned Hinata to sit down while he made a bunch of clones and started the brawl.

An hour and thousands of clones later, an exhausted Naruto gave his last clone a final punch. Even though the punch was weaker that the previous ones the clone still flew a few feet away landing right in Jiraiya's lap knocking him over along with his umbrella which was now on top of him.

Naruto grinned weakly as sweat trickled down his face but his grin widened after he saw Hinata trying to suppress a laugh looking at the grumbling Jiraiya who was trying to fix the fallen umbrella.

"Ok." Naruto took a deep breath and made a hand seal. He held it until he could feel tinges of strength appearing in his body. Hinata activated her byakugan and watched in amazement as a new red chakra surged from his abdomen. He bit his finger doing a few more hands signs and roared. "Summoning jutsu!" As soon as his hand hit the ground the clearing filled with smoke. Jiraiya waited in curiosity until he heard a menacing voice ring through the clearing.

"Jiraiya, where the hell are you?!"

Jiraiya's body tensed as he recognized the voice. "Oh, you idiot… out of all the toads you had to summon him?!"

The smoke finally cleared revealing a giant toad sitting in the middle of the now destroyed clearing with a pipe in his mouth and an angry look on his face. Naruto and Hinata were on top of his head and jiraiya was on the ground.

Hinata's jaw dropped. "He did it! Yes!"

Naruto looked around in confusion but then he took a few steps forward and realizing where he was he yelled happily. "Alright! I did it, I did it! I'm the best! Woohoo!"

"What are you doing up there, pipsqueak? How dare you?" The toad asked in anger.

"How I dare? How dare you?! I'm the one who summoned you so I'm your boss now, believe it!" Naruto crossed his arms proudly.

"You are the boss of me? I AM THE BOSS OF YOU!" He yelled jumping up causing the two to lose their balance on top of him. Hinata squealed in surprise and Naruto put his arm around her while using his other arm to hold on to the toad's vest. "Hold on to me, ok?" She nodded wrapping her arms around him. The toad jumped around a few more times before stopping as he spotted Jiraiya.

"Why the hell did you summon me for no reason? I don't see anyone to battle around here, do you?!"

Jiraiya chuckled weakly. "I didn't summon you, Gamabunta…Naruto did." Jiraiya answered emphasizing Naruto's name.

"Huuuh? Naruto… Naruto Uzumaki? Is that you, pipsqueak?"

"Yeah, that's me and stop calling me that already, will ya?" Naruto answered annoyed.

"Hmmm…" Gamabunta thought. "Naruto Uzumaki…so the jinchuriki of the Nine Tails lives? He must have used its chakra to summon me, there's no way he could do it with his own chakra."

"Well then, it's there something you actually need me for?" Gamabunta let out an exhale of smoke from his pipe.

"No, sorry to have disturbed you." Jiraiya answered with a slight smile.

"Until we meet again…in an actual emergency I hope? I would like some real action." And with that the chief toad disappeared in a large cloud of smoke. Naruto landed on his feet with Hinata in his arms. "Gotcha." He winked making her giggle.

"My hero." She teased earning a slight blush from him.

"Alright, I guess you've mastered it." Jiraiya smiled at Naruto.

"Yes!" He put Hinata on her feet. "So does that mean you will teach me the rasengan now?" He grinned in excitement.

"Not now, the rasengan takes years to master and as far as I know you only have a few weeks until the final exam. I have some other jutsus I can teach you by then."

Naruto frowned at the first part of the sentence but grinned at the last part. "Really? Alright! Let's get started then! The sun hasn't gone down yet!"

"No, that would be it for today and I presume you don't have much chakra left. However, we can still do this." He pulled a piece of paper out of his robe.

"What's that?" Naruto asked confused and a bit disappointed.

"Chakra induction paper?" Hinata added.

"Correct. Would you like to give it a go as well?" Jiraiya asked her.

"I already have. It's water. But thank you."

"Huh?" Naruto's face scrunched up in confusion.

"The chakra induction paper is made from a special type of tree that is grown and fed with chakra. This paper is used to determine one's chakra affinity. " Jiraiya explained.

"Oh! So you put you chakra into it and it will tell you what element you are, I've heard of it." He turned to Hinata. "Yours is water?"

She smiled and nodded.

"Exactly, now let's see what your element is." He handed the paper to him. "Even thought I have a pretty good feeling about what it will be."

Naruto took the paper and focused a bit of his chakra in it, almost instantly the paper split in half…but while the half which remained in his hand crumpled the half which fell to the floor caught on fire and turned to ashes.

Jiraiya blinked in shock. "Well..."

Hinata's eyes widened. "No way."

"Huh? What? What does this mean?"

"Naruto, you have three chakra elements. That's amazing!" Hinata smiled happily.

"Three?" Naruto blinked.

"Wind, fire and lightning." Jiraiya smiled.

Naruto stared at him for a moment before jumping up. "Yeah, I'm awesome, I'm a badass! Woo hoo!"

"Well then, we'll meet here tomorrow at the same time and then I will teach you Shurikenjutsu: replication. I think that one you will find useful. Also, I think you should give Wind style: Great Breakthrough a go." Jiraiya rubbed his chin.

Naruto grinned in excitement. "You got it!"

"Anyway, I have to go grab a bite, I will see you tomorrow." And with that Jiraiya disappeared with a small hurricane of leaves.

"I wish he would teach me how to disappear like that." Naruto pouted.

"Umm…"

He turned to Hinata just as she deactivated her byakugan. "Hm?" He blinked.

"Er, he did not actually disappear…he just used the wind to block our vision and then just ran away…"

"Are you serious?" He looked at her in disbelief. "That stupid old man."

She giggled before his stomach growled. "Let's go home now."

On their way home Naruto seemed to be quieter than usual. "Is something wrong?" She asked in concern.

"I uhh, forgot to ask Pervy Sage what those jutsus are…"

"Oh. Well, the Shurikenjutsu: Replication is done by doing specific hand signs immediately after you throw your shuriken thus replicating it while it's in the air. So instead of throwing more shuriken at the enemy you can just throw one and make well…shadow clones of it and save more weapons that way. Of course, the trick is to be quick with your hand signs to be able to perform the jutsu before the shuriken reaches the enemy and catch him by surprise."

"Ahh! That sounds awesome! You know all that stuff? Man, you're really smart!" He tightened the grip he had on her hand making her blush. "Hey, do you know what the other one is?"

She nodded. "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough is basically releasing a powerful wave of wind but not a lot of shinobi know this technique as you need to have a lot of chakra to perform it because you need to release some of your chakra with the wind to make it sharper and more powerful. If you perfect it you can knock down trees and walls and blow away your enemies, more of them at once even."

"Woah, that's even cooler!"

She smiled. "I know these will be a piece of cake for you." She kissed his cheek.

He chuckled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his neck. "Ya know, I need to get you to explain things to me more often. I love listening to your beautiful voice."He added softly returning the kiss.

"O-oh…w-well s-sure…" Her face turned beet red.

"Huh? But you didn't stutter once when you were talking…" He teased.

She smiled. "He has no idea what he's doing to me…"

The finals of the chunin exam approached slowly for everyone except for the participants whose time flied with intense daily training. Naruto was no exception. He slowly got a hand of the Wind Style jutsu but he had surprised Jiraiya by mastering the shuriken replication relatively fast. He had to admit though, the kid's aim was terrible at first so it took some time to get the jutsu down perfectly. But not before he rubbed his inability to hit the targets in his face. Hinata was right however, those jutsus were practically a piece of cake.

At one point later in the night Jiraiya would make an excuse to leave, leaving the two alone but they wouldn't go home right away, they would spar until the sun went down completely leaving them in the darkness, which was of course, no problem for Hinata's byakugan.

After days and nights of preparations that day finally came. People and nobles from other lands and villages started showing up in front of the main gate including all four Kages from other villages of course. The final round of the chunin exams was a big event because unlike the first two rounds and the preliminaries a lot of rich and average people placed a lot of bets on the contestants a soon as the list of the matchups was released. And the very first match scheduled was the one between Naruto and Neji so there was no doubting about which one should they bet on, naturally they all chose Neji… except for Iruka and Teuchi.

Every time someone would come to Ichiraku's for ramen they were of course talking about the exams and they would randomly ask Teuchi who he put his money on. After getting the answer they would call him crazy for doing that. Iruka got the same reaction from his fellow chunin teachers at the academy. But they both had faith in their favorite teen ninja and they knew he will not let them down…he never does.

Naruto didn't have any idea about this and he was currently at his apartment sitting at the table and…trying to eat breakfast. He was actually nervous about the exams and the knot in his stomach was killing his appetite, which he didn't even think is possible with Hinata's cooking. But it wasn't the fight itself the thing that terrified him, it's who he's fighting against.

"Is something wrong?" Hinata looked at him in concern. "Is it burnt? Did I add enough salt? Is it too much salt?" Her voice grew higher with every question.

Naruto grinned at her humorously. "Relax, the food is great as always, it's just…I'm kind of…anxious…" He admitted.

"I know you will win. I have no doubt."

"You're just saying that cuz you love me, you can't predict what will happen."

She blushed and sat in his lap cupping his cheeks with her soft hands. "You are the strongest person I know, Naruto. I know you are going to make everyone proud, not that they aren't proud of you already." She encouraged him.

He smiled and removed her hands from his face, but not before kissing them. "Thanks for that, you always know what to say. I love you."

She giggled. "I love you too."

"So how about a looong kiss for good luck, huh?"

About ten minutes later the two were walking down the street hand in hand slowly approaching the arena. Hinata could tell Naruto was getting more and more tense the closer they got. He was constantly biting his lower lip, his hand was sweating and he was silent the whole way there. Hinata tugged at his arm to get his attention and gave him an encouraging smile which he returned.

Upon getting closer to the arena they noticed that the area around it was becoming crowded, and that's when they heard the whispers of the civilians who were waiting to get inside.

"Hey, is that the kid who's fighting in the first round?"

"Yeah, he's fighting that Hyuga kid."

"Him? No way."

"I heard that the Hyuga one is the strongest in his clan."

"He doesn't stand a chance!"

"Well, at least it will be a quick match so they could move on to the good stuff."

"Yeah, an Uchiha is fighting that sand guy. I can't wait to see that one!"

Hinata gave them a terrified glance before she noticed that Naruto's steps got quicker and he literally dragged her inside. Once they got out of sight he let go of her hand stuffing both of his in his pockets. "Stupid people…" He grumbled under his breath.

"Don't listen to them, they don't know you! You will show them that-"

"Why are they so excited to see Sasuke? I bet they don't know him either!" Naruto interrupted her angrily.

She walked up to him and played with his collar. "You are not anxious about Sasuke nor those people nor the fight… Neji is what you are afraid off, isn't it?"

He didn't respond.

"And you aren't afraid of fighting him, you are afraid of losing…because you think you will disappoint me if you do."

He nodded briefly, still unable to look at her.

"Oh, Naruto…I will not be disappointed if you lose."

"But I vowed to beat him…for you…"

"And you will, I know it…and you know it to." She gave him a sweet look that instantly loosed the knot in his stomach. This was his girl, the girl that loved him and cared for him. He can't look like a bad boyfriend in front of all those people.

The determination suddenly came back to his eyes. "Yeah… yeah! And I will, believe it! And then he'll know not to mess with you or me ever again!"

She grinned. "Yes!"

After a long hug they were in front of the hall whose door had sign CONTESTANTS on it.

"Well, this is it." He looked at her and smiled. "Make sure you get a good seat so you can watch me win."

She nodded and they kissed once again. Waving he ran down the hall and she ran up the stairs towards the seats. Getting there she looked for a good seat until a voice called out her name. Turning towards the direction it came from she saw Ino waving at her and Sakura and the rest of the rookies sitting in the same row.

Running up to them she greeted them. "How are you all doing?"

"Great, and I see you're doing better. We saved you a seat." Ino patted the seat next to her.

"Oh! Thank you."

Taking her seat they made small talk until the proctor announced the start of the matches, after explaining the rules to the participants lined up in front of him he yelled out.

"Neji Hyuga and Naruto Uzumaki… please step forward!"