Chapter 2: Naruto and Hinata


January 24th, 64 AFL

"Hinata Hyuga", The Hyuga princess with eyes brighter than the moon dried the last of her tears when she finally heard her name called. When she rose from her seat she felt a comforting hand on her shoulder. She turned around to see her teammate Kiba Inuzuka.

"Don't worry everything will work out right Hinata, after all love always finds a way right" Kiba said with a sympathetic smile. "Thanks Kiba-kun I'll be ok I promise" she managed the best smile she could as she began following Kurunai sensei and the Hokage to the sound sealed classroom.

After the trio had made their exit Naruto turned to Kiba and asked "Why was she so upset?" Kiba sighed and gave Naruto a dirty look "She's been in love with you for about as long as you have loved Sakura, you oblivious dumbass."

Naruto looked at Kiba with shock and disbelief in his eyes but once he saw Kiba's serious expression he knew his friend was telling the truth. Naruto sighed and looked down at his desk, "I didn't know" he finally replied "I must really be a horrible person, when I think about it she always been cheering me on even Sakura-chan never cheers for me over Sasuke-teme but she always did, but why? Why!?" He questioned slamming his fist down in anger, "Why didn't I ever notice?"

"I'm so sorry Hinata." Naruto expressed his remorse and regret for not noticing her before with a few tears that slowly made there way down his whiskered cheeks. Kiba sighed. "I don't really know Naruto but it's not all your fault she was trying to keep her distance so you could eventually make it work with Sakura and she didn't want to be in the way."

Kiba explained the situation to his friend and then finished with "She truly loves you she wants you to be happy no matter what, even at the cost of her own love and dreams to be with you." Naruto buried his head into the desk and started a quiet apology to Hinata "I'm sorry Hinata I wish I could of made your dreams come true."


When Hinata finally entered the sound sealed classroom she noticed the three chairs stationed in the middle of the room as well as sound proof seals scattered everywhere. She took the seat opposite the Hokage and her sensei and looked up to them.

"Alright I'm ready," Hinata stated a determined look on her face. She was the Hyuga heiress after all and she wasn't going to be afraid, Kurunai and the Hokage smiled "Alright Hinata tie this slip of paper around your right hand it will reveal your soulmates name and his general location, then let me see your right hand."

Like Sakura before she complied with the Hokage without question and once she had his hand in hers she heard him shout "Sacred Art - Soul Seal Jutsu!" He waited a moment but nothing happened he tried a few more times but the jutsu refused to activate. Kurunai and Hinata looked confusingly at the Hokage as he began scratching his long white beard.

"I wonder, Hinata switch the paper to your left hand and we'll try that." The Hokage then proceeded to weave an all to familiar sign "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he shouted as a solid duplicate of himself appeared next to him. It nodded to the original and exited the room.

Kurunai looked puzzled at the Hokage but she brushed it off, she knew the Hokage knew what he was doing. The Hokage returned his attention to Hinata "Alright, are you ready to try again?" he asked "Yes" she replied nervously.

Hinata was growing worried, what was going on she wondered but as she looked up at the Hokage and saw his kind and understanding smile her anxiety and worry were slightly suppressed. "Don't worry Hinata everything is going to be fine," he said calmly, she eased up and gave him her left hand She heard him shout once again
"Sacred Art - Soul Seal Jutsu" and this time the jutsu activated.

As she felt the jutsu take effect she began to feel her chakra slowly leave her body until roughly half of it had been extracted. Hinata could best compare the feeling to afternoon spar with her father, absolutely exhausting. She looked up and saw that her lavender colored chakra had formed into the shape of an orb and was roughly the same size and shape as an orange.

Hinata saw the ball shoot off toward the direction of the classroom where the other genin were still waiting to have their soul seals performed "I hope I love my soulmate as much as I love Naruto-kun it wouldn't be fair to him if I didn't," her thoughts going to her future partner whoever he may be.

Like Sakura's before Hinata's chakra orb found its way to the room where the others were waiting patiently but it didn't enter alone. With the orb the shadow clone that the Third had created a few minutes before came in as well. Everyone watched as the orb slowly made its way towards two individuals, Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha.

"Guess Hinata is my soulmate" Sasuke grunted out 'Makes some sense were both quiet and reserved and at least she's not a fan girl,' he thought to himself. Sasuke reached out his hands out to try and make contact with the orb of lavender chakra but as he got closer it darted away from him towards the other boy Naruto Uzumaki, "Again seriously" Sasuke muttered to himself.

Naruto held his hands out and the beautiful ball of lavender chakra rested itself gently onto the palms of his hands. He smiled at first but then quickly locked eyes with the Hokage's clone and began to panic.

"Oji-san, I swear, I swear, this isn't a prank there's no way I could pull off something like this!" Naruto pleaded with the Hokage. Naruto thought it was all over for him, the Hokage would strip his ninja license for messing with the Soul Seal Jutsu formula, he would never be Hokage but then he remembered something just as bad, if that was possible.

"Sakura!" Naruto shouted in panic.

"She's going to literally kill me if she thinks I pranked the Soul Seal Jutsu, believe it!" Naruto revealed to the room as he began retelling the tale of what transpired after their first team meetings just two days before.


Flashback: January 22nd, 64AFL (Two Days Ago)

"Oh Naruto." Naruto heard Sakura call out to him and immediately turned around to face her, unfortunately for him instead of seeing the cherry blossom's beautiful smile he saw her beautiful fist instead. He felt one then another, then a third, and she continued her assault on his face for quite some time, they didn't hurt that badly Sakura wasn't that strong and Naruto figured she needed to get something out of her system.

It wasn't until he felt her tears on his face and her words that he truly felt pain "Do you think that it's funny to prank one of your teammates, someone who is supposed to be your friend and comrade and just get away with it!" Her assault slowed as she started to sob into his chest "Why Naruto? Why would you do that?" When they had ended up on the ground he did not know but he realized what she was referring to.

"I'm sorry Sakura, I didn't mean to hurt you so much, the truth is I just wanted to get to know you a little better and I was finally able to figure out just why I like you so much." Sakura sobs slowed as she looked into the eyes of the blonde baka for any signs of dishonesty, the same eyes that she had felt piercing into her very soul a few hours before, the same eyes that had looked at her with so much love, affection, and devotion that it had scared her from its intensity. He had said those beautiful words to her like something out of a fairy tale she had to know.

"Did you mean It?, What you said about my forehead I mean?" Naruto looked into her emerald eyes with the same amount of confidence and affection that he had displayed earlier while in his henge. "You truly do have a beautiful forehead Sakura-chan, and I would love to kiss it every day if I could." He gave her the biggest grin that he could muster with his smashed up face. Sakura was in shock she couldn't process this information, this boy, "Naruto-baka wants to kiss in his own words my beautiful forehead everyday and he wasn't lying or pranking me." This was something she had dreamed her soulmate saying, something she had hoped Sasuke would say to her one day but it was Naruto-baka and to be honest, deep down she really loved it.

She got up off of Naruto and threw him over her shoulder "Eh, Sakura-chan what are you doing?" "Taking you home baka!" she growled out but tried to soften her voice as she continued "listen I'm sorry for overreacting and breaking your face in but you hurt me very badly by deceiving me like that Naruto and I was very upset when I thought that i had just become one of your stupid jokes."

Naruto saw the dried tear marks on her cheeks and sighed disappointed in himself but he couldn't stop himself from asking the one question that was bugging him though. As he attempted to apologize to her he also inquired.

"I'm really, really sorry Sakura I promise I won't ever deceive you or anyone else like that ever again but I have to know how did you even find out it was me?"


By now the pair had reached Naruto's apartment, she entered after he handed her his keys and she proceeded to drop him on his couch. It was then that she finally answered his question.

"I ran into the real Sasuke literally a couple minutes later, I admit I insulted you and said things I kinda regret now but do you know what he did that I really didn't expect." "What Sakura-chan?" Sakura looked down at Naruto and smiled, "He defended you and started badmouthing me instead" Naruto's jaw dropped to the floor. Sakura couldn't suppress a giggle as she saw his dumbfounded expression.

"That's right I couldn't believe it but he called me annoying and said I would never understand anything about you two maybe he was right but that's when he left me standing there dumbstruck and I felt so terrible. Sasuke had called me the same cruel names I had always called you and I made a promise to myself right there and then to be nicer to you because no one especially you or me deserves to feel that way."

Naruto looked up at Sakura with a smile on his face and she smiled back as she continued "But then I saw you coming my way and I tried calling you over but you wouldn't respond. I saw that you were holding your stomach the exact same way Sasuke had been before running off on me. Before he got sick he had almost kissed me or should I say you almost kissed me" Sakura smiled smugly then continued.

"And that's what made me realize, It was you and your, and your, your Potty Issues!" she finally managed to spit out in disgust "Seriously you go running to the bathroom like that at least twice a month how would I not realize that was you." She finally finished.

Sakura decided she had had enough of this baka for one day and got ready to leave. As she approached Naruto's front door she heard him say "I truly am sorry Sakura I really didn't mean to hurt you and like I said before I meant every word I really do think you have the brightest most beautiful forehead in the world."

Sakura's face matched her hair but she composed herself quickly and turned to face the blonde "Don't be Naruto, what you said was seriously the sweetest thing I've ever heard just promise me you won't disguise yourself when your giving me or any girl for that matter compliments its kinda rude you know, have some confidence in yourself your not that bad of a catch." She replied "Thank You Sakura-chan I promise I won't ever do anything like that ever again."

His answer pleased her but she needed to drill this into his brain, that identity theft was a big no no, her expression shifted from one of happiness to one that Naruto could only define as demonic.

"Good, because if you ever do that again or pull a prank like this again you will be a dead BAKA!" she screamed at Naruto with enough furry to shake the small apartment. Her expression shifted once again to what one could almost call flirtatious "See you tomorrow Naruto and thank you for the compliments they really were sweet" she winked and shut the door leaving Naruto alone in his apartment.

Naruto was left in a state of shock but after a few minutes he managed to gather himself and realized he was uncomfortably wet. That was when he felt his backside and realized "Kami-sama she literally scared the crap out of me," he said to himself more astonished then disgusted at that point. He headed towards his shower making a mental note.

"Naruto's Ramen Notes #62" - Never ever seriously piss off Sakura-chan, Ever."

End of Flashback


January 24th, 64 AFL

As Naruto retold the events of that day he began to drown in a mix pf anxiety and confusion when he was suddenly snapped out of it by the laughter of the Hokage.

"Naruto-kun I know you didn't pull any pranks the Soul Seal Jutsu formula is constantly stored in a chamber that has one of the highest security clearances in the village." "Like the Scroll of Sealing," Naruto muttered low enough for only him to hear but the Hokage caught it and frowned.

"Yes, like the Scroll of Sealing was supposed to be" the Hokage corrected "And even if you did get access to this particular Jutsu formula somehow no ninja of your skill could modify or influence the Soul Seal Jutsu, even if you tried it would take a shinobi of Kage level or higher to do that and even then they would have to be a genius when it came to seals Lord Fourth made sure of that."

Naruto gave an annoyed look at Lord Third but it softened as he gazed at Hinata's chakra orb once again. It was still resting in his hands when he asked "But Oji-san how can Sakura-chan and Hinata-chan choose me I thought you could only have one true soulmate?" Naruto looked at the man he considered a grandfather with a truly confused expression.

Lord Third smiled at the young shinobi as he answered his question "It's extremely rare Naruto-kun but it is mentioned in the notes for the Soul Seal Jutsu that Lord Fourth left behind. As you already know when a new soul is created by Kami-sama it is split into two pieces and those pieces manifest themselves in us at birth usually divided evenly between two individuals. In your case however it would appear that when Kami-sama created your soul he actually split it up into three pieces those pieces being you, Sakura, and Hinata. Naruto responded to the Hokage's explanation like he did anything to complicated.

"Um can you say that again in smaller words?" he asked as the Hokage tried to slam his face into the closet grabbable object he could find but stopped himself remembering he was a shadow clone and would disappear with a good enough hit.

"Naruto-kun" the Hokage tried again "What I'm saying is that Hinata and Sakura are both your soulmates, you need both of them because they both share pieces of their own souls with yours and vice versa. So don't feel guilty or worried about having two beautiful wives to take care of." The Hokage chuckled "Somehow for some reason Kami-sama knew you would need those two women to keep you in line." The Hokage finished and smiled at Naruto.

Naruto returned his smile but still felt absolutely confused as Hinata's chakra orb finally began merging with his body he said softly "I'm sorry for not always being there for you Hinata-hime but I promise that changes today, believe it!"

Naruto at first saw nothing but then he was suddenly surrounded by a blinding bright light. "Why is it so bright?" he asked himself as he attempted to cover his eyes but when that failed to help at all his gaze dropped to his feet. He saw that his feet were surrounded by the same light and he lifted his foot to try and examine the substance but his feet just went right through it like he wasn't he even there. He looked down and examined the ground closely.
"Snow!" he stated aloud "It's snow!"

As Naruto looked around he realized where he was his favorite spot right on top of the Hokage monument. That's when he spotted them, three boys probably about ten years old picking on a miniature version of Hinata. They were shoving the poor girl to the ground and when she would get up they would push her down again. They looked as if they were trying to steer Hinata in a certain direction and that's when Naruto realized, the boys were trying to push her off the side of the Hokage monument directly over Naruto's favorite spot the head of Lord Fourth.

Naruto rushed to her aid with speed he had not known he possessed but as his fist made first contact with the boy's face he felt nothing as his hand went through the boy's head. Naruto finally remembered, "Right this is a memory, Kami this sucks I can't do anything for Hinata again." he said in anger and frustration but that soon led way to sadness and desperation as Naruto began to feel Hinata's emotions and thoughts regarding what was currently happening to her.

"Why are they doing this to me? I didn't do anything wrong. Why does everyone hate me? Even my own clan wishes I was never born." Naruto experienced Hinata's pain and loneliness as if it were his own, he recognized it so clearly it was so similar to his own pain he thought as tears fell from his face to the snowy ground below. "Maybe, Maybe they're right if I just let them keep pushing me I'll-I'll fall and I won't be around to make everyone suffer and I won't be anyone's burden." Hinata thought, tears running down her face pale face

"Nooooo!" Naruto roared "Hinata you're not a burden to me and you never will be please don't give into despair, please let me help you let me save you, please Hinata don't give up" Naruto cried out in pain and suffering "The Village needs you, your teammates need you, I need you."

Naruto looked up and time stopped, the boys had finally pushed Hinata off the side of the monument right over the top of the Fourth Hokage's bust. Naruto couldn't move, couldn't even think as he watched the boys run off to the village as he heard her screams of fear and terror and then nothing.

After about a minute Naruto was able to get his body to cooperate with his brain and he was able to reach the side of the monument. He felt like he was about to vomit but forced himself to look down. What he saw surprised him at first, there was an old kunai embedded into the Fourth Hokage's nose and long rope attached to the other side of it. He recognized both items after just a few seconds, the old kunai was his taken as a trophy from when he had snuck into the forest of death and the Hokage himself had gone in looking for him. The old rope was something he found when he had first moved into his apartment he remembered he had wanted it to make his own swing-set a special one just for him. These things were not important at the moment however as Naruto scanned over the side for any trace of Hinata and that's when he saw them.

What he saw astonished him, there was Hinata holding on to what he could only assume was a younger version of himself. She was latched to his back like a baby monkey to its mothers as the younger Naruto slowly scaled his way back up the side of the monument using that old rope that the elder Naruto knew all too well.

"Why did you save me? Hinata asked the miniature Naruto after a few minutes. "Your a member of this village right, well your looking at the future Hokage Naruto Uzumaki and what kind of Hokage would I be if I had let you fall and get hurt," the younger Naruto answered her honestly and with a goofy smile on his face. The elder Naruto smiled he could feel Hinata's happiness as well as another emotion that he could easily identify, love. At that very moment Hinata fell in love with him and at that moment he couldn't help but feel love for her to.

As the memory faded Naruto began to experience more of Hinata's memories bundled with her thoughts and emotions. Eventually the jutsu had fused Naruto and Hinata's chakra together and Naruto was finally able to open his eyes.

Just like last time Naruto was surrounded by a combination of his and his soulmates chakra. With Hinata's lavender colored chakra and Naruto's blue chakra mixed together the color resembled a dark blue that appeared to have streaks of purple running through it. Just like he had done before he reached his hands out in front of him and an orb of Chakra began to form.

Once it was finished, he looked at the orb, it was roughly five times the size of Hinata's. That however was all the information he could take in before his head slammed into the desk with a loud thud. Sasuke shook his best friend with concern before he realized what was wrong and turned to the Hokage.

"Uzumaki-dobe fell asleep" Sure enough when everyone looked at the blonde baka's face he had that stupid foxy grin of his on and drool covering his face and a good part of his desk, alternating from snoring to saying his new wives names with affection to mumbling random incoherent statements like "But Sakura-chan I don't get sick to often and I love it when you feed me ramen like this," and "Hinata-chan lets hurry up and make dinner before Sakura-chan gets home you know what will happen if she gets her hands on anything edible."

As the classroom exploded in laughter the Hokage's shadow clone and the merged orb of Hinata and Naruto's chakra made its way back to the classroom where Kurunai, the Hokage, and Hinata were waiting patiently.


Hinata had been waiting a while for her and her soulmates chakra to return. As the minutes clicked on by she began to ask herself more questions and that only aided in increasing her anxiety and worry.

"Will he love me? Who is he? Am I gonna be good enough for him? Can I truly make a happy life with him even though we've never met?" Hinata was concerned about her future but she was also concerned about her soulmates too she wanted him to be happy even if he wasn't Naruto-kun. That was just how truly kind and pure the beautiful Hyuga princess's heart really was and she knew even if Naruto-kun hadn't ended up with the girl he currently loved the most Sakura Haruno.

He would have done anything and everything within his power to make his soulmate truly happy regardless of who she was and Hinata would do the same. A few minutes passed and finally the chakra orb containing Hinata and her soulmates mixed chakra finally returned.

Hinata noticed it's new color and increased size and looked at the Hokage who simply nodded and gave a comforting smile. She managed to return a small smile of her own and she slowly extended her arms towards the giant orb of chakra.

She finally made physical contact with the orb, as it started to merge with her body, she smiled as she realized who her soulmate really was. She didn't know how and she didn't care how but somehow someway her soulmate had turned out to be her Naruto-kun after all. She graciously accepted all of Naruto's memories, emotions, and thoughts with zero objection or resistance to the Jutsu's decision causing the seal to form in record time, just over two minutes roughly half the time it took Sakura's seal to set who had been shocked by the Jutsu's decision in the beginning and in turn caused her own seal to take longer.

Hinata finally opened her eyes and examined the seal on her left hand. She could see it was a lightning bolt surrounded by a square, panicking for a moment she quickly turned her wrist to read her new name.

"Hinata Namikaze wife of Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze"

Location: The Village Hidden in the Leaves.

She smiled as she reread her new name once again to make sure she wasn't making a mistake and realized, 'Naruto-kun must be the heir of two clans and not even know it,' Hinata thought and decided it would be best to ask the Hokage directly.

"Lord Hokage how can Naruto-kun have two soulmates? Does it have something to do as to why I am a Namikaze and not an Uzumaki?" The Hokage smiled at her and replied, "I will answer all of your questions by the end of the day for know follow my shadow clone to the infirmary. He will explain why Naruto-kun has two soulmates and the very unique bond the three of you share once you two find Sakura.

As for Naruto-kun he has already been informed of everything he needs to know for the moment and is currently recuperating from having two Soul Seal Jutsu's performed on him within the span of fifteen minutes." The Third Hokage explained and finished with, "He will join the two of you once he has his own seals placed, lucky for him it won't be his turn for a while yet so he has some time to rest. After that's done I will explain everything about your symbol and your new clans."

"Ok thank you," Hinata squeaked out. She began to follow the Third's clone to the infirmary and glossed over her new name once again, "Namikaze, why does that name sound so familiar?"


"Kiba Inuzuka," The final member of Team 8 left his seat and followed the Hokage and his Sensei to find out the identity of his true soulmate. He was sad about not being Hinata's true love but knew that Naruto would make her the happiest and that's all that really mattered he figured as he put on a smile and exited the room leaving only Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Ino left to acquire their seals.

Sasuke was busy making quite the design on Naruto's sleeping face, although a good chunk of the ink kept running off it due to his inhumanly amount of drool. Sasuke had given Naruto a perfect star around his left eye while several other much more indecent designs were scattered upon his cheeks and nose. Sasuke had finally completed his masterpiece when he placed the Uchiha symbol directly on the top of Naruto's forehead and just underneath that signed his work with "Naruto Uzumaki forever Sasuke Uchiha's bitch." It was then that Sasuke heard the next students name called "Shikamaru Nara."

"This is gonna be such a drag," the boy with the black pony tail commented as he rose from his seat and proceeded to leave the room. Just before he exited he heard Ino comment "Gook luck Shikamaru" and the only thought the lazy boy could think of was, 'Kami-sama please anyone but her.'

Shikamaru entered the classroom with Asuma sensei and the Hokage in tow and quickly determined where he was supposed to be sitting. He took his seat and simply stated, "I don't need any explanations I know how the jutsu works let's just get this troublesome event over with." Asuma and the Hokage simply nodded and gave the boy the paper that would reveal his soulmates name and location. Shikamaru quickly tied it to his right hand and gave it to the Hokage. "Sacred Art - Soul Seal Jutsu!" the Third said and Shikamaru quickly felt nearly half of his chakra leave his body and form into a brown orb. It shot quickly towards the South West of Konoha and returned about ten minutes later about double its original size and the color had lightened considerably.

Shikamaru said nothing as he waited for the ball of chakra to reach him and when it finally did it started to merge with his body. It took a few minutes but the seals on Shikamaru's right hand finally set. As he looked at them and muttered a, "Troublesome,"

"What's wrong Shikamaru?" Asuma questioned him. Shikamaru chuckled at the pair of them and said, "See for yourself," Shikamaru raised his right palm so the pair could get a good look at the seals on his hand. The Nara clan seal was placed upon it but underneath that an hourglass with a lid on it's top. The Hokage's and Asuma's eyes widened as Shikamaru continued to chuckle, "That's right turns out my soulmate is a member of the Kazekage's clan, troublesome indeed."