A/N: So this story has sort of taken a different direction than I had originally planned, but it's not necessarily a bad turn so I'll just keep it going as is and hope for the best. I hadn't planned on making Naruto like Menma, but it's turning out that way so I'm just gonna roll with it.

PLEASE READ THIS: So some people clearly didn't read my A/N at the end of chapter 1 regarding Dissociative Identity Disorder; or just didn't understand. Hinata is the same age as Naruto, but her RTN personality identifies herself as being 4 years older; it's purely psychological and in no way intended to be taken literally.

Ages as of now:

Naruto-10

Hinata-10/14

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter 2: The Best of Both Worlds

Once their lunch break came to an end, Naruto and Hinata made their way back into the academy; Hinata clinging to his right arm the whole way. Despite not getting the chance to actually eat on their lunch break, Naruto was more than happy to put the needs of his stomach on hold in favor of him and Hinata attempting to dominate eachother's mouths; neither had managed to claim a decisive victory yet, but they were more than happy to continue trying.

As soon as they entered the classroom, all eyes were on them and their disheveled states. Hinata's hair was unusually ruffled, her lips were puffy and her black lipstick was smeared; the large hickey with a pair of puncture wounds certainly wasn't there before lunch either.

Naruto looked even more ruffled than Hinata. His hair was more wild than usual, his lips were puffy like Hinata's, they also had traces of Hinata's black lipstick, and the collar of his shirt was ripped; not to mention the fact that his jacket was completely missing. He also had a large hickey similar to Hinata's on his neck with more traces of the lavender eyed girl's lipstick.

"What the hell?!" Kiba barked in disbelief as he looked at the apparent couple in disbelief. Most of the class was thinking the same thing, but Kiba was the first to vocalize his feelings about this new development; no surprise there given his loud, boisterous nature.

"You got a problem, dog breath?" Naruto asked with narrowed eyes. Kiba opened his mouth to respond, but was cut off by Hinata.

"Sit down and shut the hell up or I'll make good on my promise from earlier!"

Not wanting to risk her following through on her threat, Kiba did as instructed; this new Hinata scared the shit out of him! With that out of the way, Naruto and Hinata made their way back to Naruto's seat. However, instead of taking the seat next to him like before, Hinata decided to sit in his lap instead. This time, even Naruto was surprised; sure they had gotten rather intense with their little make-out session, but he still didn't expect something like this.

"Comfortable?" Naruto asked rhetorically earning a smirk in response as the girl occupying his lap leaned back and rested her head against his shoulder. It was at this time that Iruka entered the room with a somber expression and looked around to make sure everyone was in their seats. Once again disregarding the usually shy Hyuuga heiress's strange behavior, he turned to address the class.

"Everyone, I'm afraid I have some bad news," the scarred chuunin began making everyone give him their full attention. "This morning, they found the body of Ami in an alley; she was murdered." Most of the class gasped in horror at the news while the normally stoic Sasuke and Shino's responses were a barely noticeable widening of the eyes. Naruto raised an eyebrow, but was otherwise unperturbed. Hinata of course showed no response to this news. Although internally she was smirking; that bitch had it coming.

"H-How?" Fuki, the girl whose house she had left just before the purple haired girl's murder asked.

"I was told that she had been stabbed…repeatedly; apparently it was a rather gruesome sight." Iruka was hesitant to give them the details, but felt they deserved to know the truth and perhaps this would further open their eyes to the sort of things they would need to be prepared for if they were to become ninja.

"Did they find out who did it?" another student asked earning a shake of the head in response.

"No, they couldn't find anything to clue them into who might have been the culprit."

"S-So whoever did it is still out there and might do it again?" Ino asked nervously.

"It's doubtful; with the amount of times Ami had been stabbed, it's clear that this was done by someone who held a grudge against Ami specifically for some reason."

"What a drag." One guess as to who that statement was from.

"In light of this tragedy, it has been decided that classes will be cancelled for the rest of the day as well as tomorrow to allow everyone to grieve; class dismissed." With that said, Iruka gathered his things and left the room followed by his students. Once they stood up, Hinata once again clung to Naruto's right arm on their way out of the academy.

"What should we do now?" Naruto asked his companion earning a shrug in response.

"We might as well go train; this doesn't really change anything." It may seem a bit cold-hearted, but Naruto couldn't help but agree; if he was going to be a kickass ninja he couldn't let the death of a classmate, especially one that had never been anything but a bitch to him, interfere with his training.

"Sounds good." Naruto agreed as he led Hinata to his "private training grounds". Once they arrived, Hinata shrugged off her jacket and began stretching. As if the sight of her torso in only her revealing halter top wasn't making him blush enough, Hinata lifted her right leg and held it completely outstretched to her chest showing off how flexible she was.

"Damn," Naruto whispered to himself as his eyes trailed over the pale skin of her long legs. Seeing him ogling her, Hinata dropped her leg and bent backwards until her palms rested flat on the ground causing her shirt to ride up revealing her tight stomach.

"Like what you see?" Hinata asked with a smirk as she looked at him through the space between her legs. Naruto's answer was to nod dumbly as his eyes continued to roam her body. Performing a back handspring from her position into an upright position, Hinata sauntered over to the dumbstruck blond with a predatory smirk. Once she reached him, she placed one hand on his chest while the other traced his jawline sensually. "Are you gonna train or are you just gonna stare at me all day?"

"Honestly," Naruto started as he looked into her eyes. "I'm undecided at this point." He finished earning a giggle from the pale beauty.

"Shut up and get warmed up," she shook her head in amusement as she used the hand on his chest to push him away. Chuckling in amusement, Naruto started doing his own stretches. Once the two were sufficiently warmed up, they got into their taijutsu stances to start off with a spar.

As the duo watched eachother intensely, they suddenly rushed forward at some unseen signal and began their attempt to beat the other into the ground.

"Your taijutsu sucks," Hinata told him as a matter of fact and not in any sort of attempt at belittling him. While she looked down at his position lying flat out on the ground, she had little more than a few marks on her arms from where she had blocked some of his blows.

"I know," Naruto sighed as he kicked up onto his feet. "But I've never had anyone teach me properly; those assholes at the academy always showed me incorrect katas."

"Well we can work on that some other time," Hinata shrugged. "For now, why don't we work on chakra control; yours is terrible." Naruto let out a groan before reluctantly nodding; he hated working on chakra control.

[4 Hours Later]

After working on chakra control for a few hours, Naruto and Hinata went to get some dinner which, of course, consisted of Ichiraku ramen before separating to go to their respective homes; but not before Hinata told him to meet her at the training grounds tomorrow morning.

When Naruto got home, he made sure to water the few plants he had growing in the windowsill of his kitchen which consisted of a cactus, a sunflower and a ginger root. Once that was taken care of, Naruto took a shower and went to bed; it had been a very eventful, albeit a bit confusing, day.

When Hinata got home, she was immediately confronted by her father, Hiashi Hyuuga, for being out so late. Completely brushing him off with an annoyed huff, Hinata ignored his complaints as she made her way to her family's massive bath that was more like a hot spring than a bath. Hiashi was completely baffled by his daughter's unusual behavior as she brushed him off like he was some sort of annoying insect that was buzzing in her ear; she had never stood up to him before!

After stripping out of her clothes, Hinata entered the bath and was surprised to see that her little sister Hanabi was there as well.

"Hey, squirt; what did you do today?"

"Good evening, onee-sama," Hanabi greeted with a nod of her head. "I spent most of the day training with father; he said that I was progressing well."

"Ugh, you need to lighten up; don't let that emotionless robot of a father shove one of those poles that the rest of the clan seems to have up your ass." Hanabi's eyes widened to an impossible degree in disbelief at her older sister's words. Not only had she insulted their father, but pretty much their entire clan!

"O-Onee-sama?!"

"You heard me," the lavender-eyed beauty said before giving out a pleased sigh as she sank further into the hot water of the bath. "You should live up to your name, little firecracker." Hanabi glared at her sister before turning away with a huff earning a laugh from the object of her ire.

"That's more like it." After that, the rest of their soak was done in silence; though Hanabi thought on her sister's words until she got out and left to her room to retire for the night.

After spending another fifteen minutes or so enjoying her bath, Hinata went to her room as well and flopped backwards onto her bed. As she lied there staring at the ceiling, a large smile spread across her face; it had been a good day.

[The Next Morning]

"I'm surprised you're here this early," Hinata called out as she entered the training grounds and saw that Naruto was already there and was doing pushups. It was only about 7:00 and, judging by the light sheen of sweat dripping from him, Naruto had likely been here for a while already.

"What can I say," Naruto shrugged after getting back on his feet. "I'm an early riser."

"So it seems," Hinata smirked before tossing a scroll to the blond Uzumaki who caught it with a raised brow.

"What's this?"

"I told you we were gonna work on your horrid excuse for taijutsu," Hinata grimaced at the memory of their spar yesterday. "That scroll has some basic katas to work on until you can find a suitable style for yourself." Sitting down in a lotus position, Naruto unrolled the scroll to see that it had drawings depicting the various stances and movements with detailed descriptions beneath them.

"Wow; this is great!" Naruto smiled brightly as he looked at his…was she his girlfriend now? They had never really mentioned anything about it or really defined what their relationship was after their unexpected make-out session yesterday, but he guessed it went without saying.

"Let's get started."

From there, Naruto spent most of the day practicing everything from the scroll with Hinata correcting any mistakes and occasionally attacking him in order to force him to use what he had learned to block or counter in response. Naruto noticed that the movements still felt a bit stiff and didn't really seem to suit him very well, but it was definitely still an improvement over the unrefined brawler style he was using before.

"I think that's enough for today," Hinata said when she noticed that the sun was nearly set. "Let's go get something to eat." Naruto opened his mouth to protest, but his stomach decided to make the decision for him as it let out a loud growl.

"I guess that's a good idea," Naruto chuckled sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his neck. Hinata let out an amused giggle of her own as she clung to his arm and started dragging him out of the training grounds.

"I know just the place."

"I'm afraid we're booked for the evening." Hinata had decided to take Naruto to a popular sushi restaurant hoping to get her boyfriend, they had officially defined their status as a couple on the way over though both had already thought of themselves as such, but this bitch of a hostess was refusing to let them in!

"What the hell are you talking about; there's seats everywhere?!" Hinata nearly snarled at the woman as she pointed out several of the empty tables that could be seen from where they stood.

"I said we're booked; we don't have any tables for you," the woman repeated as she clearly narrowed her eyes at Naruto showing that what she really meant was "I won't let the kyuubi brat in".

"Will you excuse us for a minute, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked with an overly sweet smile that did little to hide her intentions. "The hostess and I need to have a little chat."

"Sure thing," Naruto shrugged and stuck his hands in his pockets. "I'll be outside." Hinata nodded as she waited until he was out the door before rounding on the hostess.

"Listen here, bitch!" Hinata snarled as she grabbed the woman by the collar of her shirt and activated her byakugan making her glare even more intimidating. "Either you get us a table or I'll drag your ass out back and break every single bone in your body before rupturing every last one of your tenketsu which, just so you know, will kill you; got it?" Hinata wouldn't be surprised if the woman gave herself whiplash with how fast she was nodding.

"Y-yes ma'am; right away!"

"That's what I thought," Hinata snorted as she made her way to let Naruto know she got them a table. When she was about halfway to the door, she decided to give one last warning. "And if there's anything wrong with our food…well…use your imagination."

Needless to say, Naruto and Hinata were able to enjoy their meal without anyone bothering them or daring to tamper with their food; the hostess even paid for their meal!

Fear is such a wonderful motivator.

With their appetites now satisfied, the duo made their way through the dimly lit streets toward the Hyuuga clan's compound with Hinata clinging to him the entire way; it seemed this was going to be a regular thing. Once they arrived at the compound's gates, Hinata let go of his arm before pulling him into a searing kiss. Ignoring the branch member at the gate staring at them with wide eyes, Naruto forced Hinata to step back until her back was pressed against the wall before deepening the kiss and drawing a moan out of the young heiress as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"H-Hinata-sama?!" the branch member stuttered in disbelief. "What are you doing?!"

"What the hell does it look like?" Hinata asked rhetorically while narrowing her eyes at the man for interrupting them. "I was enjoying a moment with my boyfriend before you decided to ruin it."

"I don't think Hiashi-sama or the elders would approve of this."

"Tch, like I give a damn what him or those fossils think," Hinata clicked her tongue in annoyance before giving Naruto one last kiss. "I'll see you in the morning; I'm gonna go take a bath before anyone hassles me about things that are none of their business." Hinata said the last part loudly while staring pointedly at the branch member that had interrupted them. Naruto had an amused smirk as he watched the older Hyuuga look away to avoid being further reprimanded.

"Good night; and thanks for all the help today." Hinata smiled as she watched him walk away with a backwards wave. Walking through the compound, Hinata's smile quickly faded as she dreaded the complaints that were sure to come when that branch member ratted her out to her father.

"Let's get this over with."

[The Next Morning]

Unfortunately, Hinata had been right and her father spent the better part of an hour complaining about how her behavior was "unbecoming of a Hyuuga" and that he didn't approve of her attire and that she wasn't allowed to have any suitors that he approved of and blah, blah, blah; she had ignored pretty much the whole thing. She really didn't care what he thought and as long as he didn't try to get in the way of her being with Naruto, things would be fine. But if he did try something, she might have to "deal with him". Putting those thoughts aside, Hinata made her way to the academy for another day of mind-numbing lectures.

Sitting at his usual spot at the back of the class, Naruto was somewhat surprised when the door slid open to reveal that his new girlfriend was back to her old self with her thick jacket closed tightly and her usual demure expression. Ignoring the multitude of questions he wanted to ask for the moment, Naruto waved the girl over with one of his bright smiles. Blushing brightly, Hinata moved to sit beside him.

"Good morning, Hinata-chan."

"Good m-morning, Naruto-kun," Hinata greeted shyly as her gaze shifted back and forth between him and the desk.

"So, how did things go last night?" Naruto asked making her frown slightly.

"Father was…displeased," she answered downplaying the extensive verbal assault she had received for her actions. "B-But it's okay; he won't do anything; he'll just complain."

"He better not or I'll have to go kick his ass!" Naruto boasted playfully as he made a show of flexing his biceps. Naruto beamed when he heard Hinata giggle with a cute smile lighting up her face.

"You're so adorable," Naruto declared as he pulled the meek heiress into his lap earning an "eep!" in response as the girl's face lit up in what was probably the brightest blush he had ever seen. He really liked the assertive Hinata, but he liked the shy Hinata just as much.

'It's like having the best of both worlds'.

A/N: So I'm trying to decide if I should keep the teams canon or switch them a little bit. I have things mostly planned out for whatever I decide, but I'm not sure whether to go with canon teams, switch Sakura and Hinata, or switch Naruto and Kiba.

Next chapter will have the last major time skip for a while as it brings us to the genin exams. It will likely take me a little longer to complete that chapter due to the teams being undecided, so if you guys give me input it might help me get it out sooner.

Also, I know I have several other stories to work on as well, but I'm actually enjoying this story quite a bit right now, so most of my focus will probably be on this story for a while.

Ages as of now:

Naruto-10

Hinata-10/14

Thanks for reading.