During the whole incident at the Hyuuga house the villager who had seen the transformed Naruto went running into town to tell everyone what he had seen. Unbeknownst to the Hokage or ninja's of Konoha the villagers had set up meetings on the progress of the demon and how he was becoming stronger each day. Once the group was told what the other had seen they knew they had to do something about it.
" We've let him live for too long now. He's study with the Sannin Jiraiya and he's the Hokage's favorite ninja. There is no way we will be able to hurt him." Okubi a villager said
" No we must kill him. He has taken control of the strongest family in all of Konoha. Once they are gone there is no was any of the other families can stand against him." Natami said
" I say we get the other and find that damn fox-demon tomorrow and finish this once and for all." Daikira said
" Right." The three said together and headed to find the rest of the people from their group.
Back at the Hyuuga compound Naruto started to stir from his afternoon nap. We he opened his eyes he noticed Hinata was in the room with him and she was asleep beside of him.
" Ohayoo. Sunshine." Naruto said moving Hinata's hair out of her eyes
" Naruto-kun you're awake. I need to go tell father." Hinata said and started to get up but was stopped by Naruto's hand holding onto her arm
" Not just yet." Naruto said
" But…" Hinata started but was pulled back onto the futon by Naruto
" Just a little while longer. Just stay with me. I always feel better when you're with me Hinata-chan. I just …" Naruto said
But he was interrupted when Hinata moved towards him and kissed him. His eyes shot open at what Hinata was doing. All his anxiety and confusion left him in seconds when he felt the one he loved with him and accept him. Finally Hinata moved back blushing because of what she had just done. Naruto then hugged her and she retuned it.
" I don't know what's going on with you lately Hinata-chan, but if this is what you are like because of me I don't ever want to leave you." Naruto said
Hinata giggled at his comment and started to get up again.
" I'll be right back Ok. Oh and by the way it's Konban wa, you've been sleeping most of the afternoon." Hinata said and left the room
Naruto got up and headed over to the photo albums again and went through his parents wedding pictures. At the end there was one picture that was out of place. It was a picture of his father and his mother looking very tired holding a baby in their arms. It was Naruto, it was then that Hinata and Hiashi both retuned and Hinata noticed him motionless at the albums again.
" What did you find Naruto-kun?" Hinata questioned
Naruto took the picture and handed it to her, her and Hiashi gasped at what they saw.
" I didn't even know that picture existed." Hiashi said
Naruto turned and looked at him.
" How can it be in there? Mom or Dad couldn't of taken it and you didn't know about it so who did?" Naruto said
" I don't know my boy you might want to ask one of your sensei's or the Hokage when they get here." Hiashi told him, " It's almost dinner time Naruto I have invited them over to answer any questions you might have. Tomorrow you and Hinata can take Hanabi to the academy and see what's going on."
" Alright, um Hiashi…" Naruto started
" It's alright." Hiashi answered
" How did you know what I was going to ask?" Naruto questioned
" You still haven't taken it off yet I figured you still wanted to wear it. It's all right with me, but once you leave the estate you have to leave it here. No one know yet that he was your father and many will get very upset if they see you wearing that without knowing the truth." Hiashi explained
" Alright and thanks." Naruto said
" Hinata will show you to the dinning area, dinner will be served in an hour. Meanwhile, Hinata why don't you and your sister show our new guest around the estate." Hiashi said opening the door causing Hanabi to fall into Naruto's room
" Yes father, come on Hanabi." Hinata said and the three headed out.
As the three walked through the compound the Hyuuga's they saw would stare at Naruto this disturbed the young man.
" Why is it that everyone we see stares at me?" He questioned out loud
" Probably because you look like your father in that." Hinata replied
" Yeah." Naruto said smiling
" Your going to wear that thing all the time once everyone finds out aren't you." Hinata said
" Is it that obvious?" Naruto questioned
" Yes, but if it's alright I'd like to make another one, so when you leave to train I'd like to take a looks at how it was made." Hinata said
" What are you going to do Hinata-chan?" Naruto questioned the girl
Hinata and Hanabi giggled and said together " Hi-mi-tsu"
" Alright, alright, I won't ask anymore." Naruto said
They had walked into a large field that had a pond near it.
" This is the meditation area, but the Hyuuga children come here and play a lot." Hanabi said
" Well since it's not in use how about we use it." Naruto said grinning and started to take off his father's coat
" What are you talking about Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked
Naruto transformed into his Kyubi form but was large enough for both Hinata and Hanabi to ride on him.
" Yeah, I was wanting to do this again." Hanabi said happily
Naruto smiled and lifted the two girls onto his back and started to take off in a run. He ran around the pond and jumped over it and then went into the woods near it. He jumped on the tree and dashed between them. Not once did Hinata or Hanabi get hit or caught on anything he went near. The three lost track of time and were still playing.
" Well there's one thing that form is good for. Something to transport the injured." Tsunade said stopping Naruto in his tracked
" Obaa-chan, we're late aren't we." Naruto said
The two girls got off of him and Naruto transformed into his hanyou form and put his father's coat on.
" Sorry I got carried away." Naruto said
" There's no apologies needed my boy. Hatake-san has yet to show up." Hiashi said
" Yeah, well we'll be waiting a while then." Naruto said
" True, true, but you can talk to the Hokage and Jiraiya while you wait." Hiashi said, " Let's move to the dinning area."
With that everyone went to the dinning room and sat down. Naruto had gone back to his room to get some things of his dad to ask about. He retuned with a sliver fox with eight tails carrying the Saigen trunk on it's back.
" Naruto who is that?" Jiraiya questioned
" Oh he's Gatsukoosen. He's in charge of the Kitsune's in demon world. He came to visit me for a little bit and I couldn't figure out what to bring with me and he volunteered to carry the chest." Naruto explained
" Yes, well I can't let our lord be doing manual labor now, can I." Gatsukoosen said
" I still could have carried it." Naruto said arguing with the fox
" Anyways tell the others I'll call on them sometime this week. I know they want to talk to me, but I need to get some things settled first." Naruto told the fox
" Yes my lord." Gatsukoosen said and disappeared
" Ok kid spill it what's going on?" Jiraiya asked
" The demon's Kyubi watched want to meet me and Gamabunta has something important to tell me, but he wouldn't tell Gatsukoosen or send Gamakichi. I'm going to talk to them after the house warming party." Naruto explained, " It's not important though. I need you guys and Kakashi-sensei if he ever show up…"
" Yo!" Kakashi said appearing in the room
" YOUR LATE!" Naruto and Tsunade yelled
" Well you see Sasuke challenged me and …" Kakashi started
" Just sit down." Tsunade said
" Ok, first I need you guy to tell me if one of you took this." Naruto said and handed the hospital room picture to the three. The three looked at the picture and all shook their heads.
" Sorry Naruto we don't know. I was gone from Konoha before Kyubi even attacked." Tsunade said
" Both of us were on the front lines trying to hold it back as much a possible." Kakashi said and Jiraiya nodded
" Let me see it again Naruto." Hiashi said
Tsunade handed the picture over to him and smiled.
" I think I know who took it." Hiashi said
He summoned on of the guards and whispered something to him. The guard nodded and disappeared and was back in a minute with Shikaku, Shikamaru's father.
" What's going on I was in the middle of dinner, Mendokuse." Shikaku said
Hiashi handed the picture to the man and his eyes widened
" That's where that photo went. I thought I had lost it." Shikaku said
" So you took it Oji-san." Naruto said to Shikamaru's dad
" Huh?" Shikaku said and noticed the person who had spoke
" Arashi?" Shikaku questioned
" No it's Naruto Shikaku, I let him have his father's thing today and he found this stuffed him the wedding album you gave me." Hiashi said
" It was in the wedding album. I'm going to get Shikamaru for this." Shikaku said
" Why?" Tsunade asked
" The last time I saw this photo Shikamaru had found it when he had just started the academy. I think he's known that the Yondaime was Naruto's father since them. He asked me something strange the next day and I just dismissed it." Shikaku said
" What did he ask?" Kakashi said
" He wanted to know why I had a picture of Naruto, but I was late for a mission and didn't answer him." Shikaku said, " He must have found the wedding album and stuck it in there with the other photo's of Arashi and Raimei."
" Thank you for taking it Oji-san." Naruto said
" No problem kid. It was your dad's request. I couldn't refuse a friend. Is there anything else you guys need?" Shikaku asked
" No sorry for the interruption." Hiashi said
" It's alright." Shikaku said and disappeared
" Ok now that that mystery is solved on to the next." Neji said
" Right, Kakashi-sensei…" Naruto said and started rummaging through the chest, " Ah, here they are. What do these do?" Naruto said placing the kunai's on the table
" He left you those?" Jiraiya said
" Um yeah, but I don't know what they do and dad told me to ask Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said
" Well each one has a special use. Some of these I haven't even seen. You dad must have made them right before he died. But these, holding about ten kunai's that had on the handle Tomodachi in Kanji, are very valuable." Kakashi said
" What do you mean Kakashi-san?" Hinata asked
" When I was a Genin your father gave one of these to me. Basically the person throws the kunai down when they're in trouble and the owner will feel the kunai's chakra pulse and come to their friends' aid. Believe me I'd be dead now if it wasn't for your father's kunai's." Kakashi explained
" I'll have to make more of these then to give to all my friends. It's a good thing dad left me the instructions on how to do it." Naruto said
" HE WHAT?" Tsunade asked
Naruto then pulled out about five scrolls and opened them.
" See, this one tell about the spells on the kunai's and this one is jutsu's he never completed, this one has everything about the Body Flicker, and the other two I haven't gotten to yet." Naruto said
Jiraiya took the scrolls and went through the scroll with incomplete jutsu
" Holy shit!" Jiraiya said
" WHAT! What is it?" Tsunade asked
" He was working on a way to end Orochimaru's Immortality Jutsu. He had almost had it figured out." Jiraiya told everyone
" Cool, I wonder what else he didn't complete?" Naruto said
" A summoning contract?" Jiraiya read on
" What? With who he already had one with frogs?" Naruto questioned
" KITSUNE!" Jiraiya said as he read on
" Give me that." Tsunade said and took the scroll from Jiraiya
" He's right kid your father was trying to make a contract with kitsune." Tsunade said reading on
" But why?" Naruto asked
She just shook her head it was only Hiashi who wasn't surprised by this news. The only ones that noticed his reaction were his children and nephew. It was then that dinner was brought out and everyone started eating. Everyone noticed how quiet Naruto had become the news of his father trying to make a contract with kitsune had bewildered the boy. He didn't understand why. Lost in thought he didn't touch too much of his dinner. After dinner the three thanked Hiashi for calling them back and left. Naruto had just retuned to his room with the chest after the food was removed from the table. In his room Naruto just sat at the window and looked out at the full moon thinking about what all was told to him and how much was still left unanswered. He then heard a knock on his door.
" Hai." Naruto said, but didn't turn around to see who it was
" Naruto…" Hiashi said
" Yeah." He responded
" You want to know about the contract don't you?" Hiashi started
Naruto turned around and looked at him, " You know why dad was trying to make it?"
" I know a little, but it was one of you father guarded secrets dealing with the Saigen family. Even I don't know the whole story." Hiashi said
" Then why and why is there a Inari Shrine behind the main house?" Naruto asked
" Now that I do know why because I questioned him about it one day when I was over at the compound training with him. He told me that the Saigen's had a guardian they called on when there were in trouble and it was the kitsune. He found an elder's diary and it explained to him they were able to summon kitsunes when in need and they would help them and then leave, but that's all you father could find. He might have believed the Saigen's once had the kitsunes as a summons and that's why he was working on the contract to restore the Saigen's guardian. That is my only guess about the contract. The other scrolls you have yet to open might explain more." Hiashi said
" What about mom and her family?" Naruto asked
" I don't know much about Raimei, she did come over occasionally. Her and Hana were good friends she confided a lot to Hana." Hiashi smiled sadly
" I'm sorry sir." Naruto said
" No my boy, there's nothing to be sorry about. It's a pity she couldn't see her daughters or her friends son grow up, but you have brought her back with Hinata." Hiashi said, " Anyways, she was from a village in Fire Country that I know, but she was an orphan. Your father met her on a survey of the villages. It was love at first sight; since she didn't have a family she followed the party back to Konoha and stayed with your father. Later they got married and she got pregnant with you not too long after that." Hiashi explained
" So I don't have any family after all." Naruto said sadly
" If you think that then you aren't the boy I thought you were." Hiashi said
Naruto looked at him surprised
" The Naruto I have heard about from my family and others is a boy who has friends that consider him family. They don't care about what changes has happened to him, but that he's still the same boy they grew up with all these year. Someone that never gives up and if knocked down gets back up again and again. That's the boy I have come to know and respect. If you think you are alone in the village then you are gravely mistaken my boy. Your team, the Hokage, Jiraiya-sama, and even us Hyuuga's are your family. I'm sure you have seen that for sometime now. You will always have a place to go and never have to be alone anymore." Hiashi told the boy
Naruto stared at the man and smiled, " Thank you sir."
" He was my best friend after all. It's late let's us get to bed." Hiashi said as he walked out of Naruto's room
" Goodnight sir." Naruto said
" Goodnight Naruto." Hiashi said and them closed his door
Naruto just sat there thinking of everything Hiashi had just told him about his mother, the guardian of Saigen's, and about himself. He was so lost in thought he didn't even hear his door open and shut or the girl calling him name. He didn't notice anything until he felt something touch him.
" Hinata?' Naruto questioned as his girlfriends was now sitting behind him hugging him
" Hai." She answered, " Naruto-kun don't worry about it so much. You'll figure everything out eventually. You have the rest of you life to figure it out. Just do it little by little and you'll understand it eventually."
" I know. Thanks." Naruto said and turned around so he was facing her
" You don't need to thank me. I want you to be happy." Hinata said
With that Naruto pulled Hinata closer to him and they kissed again. They stayed up for a little bit and talked some more about the three years he was gone and about what she had learned. Hinata started to doze off and Naruto decided to let her sleep. He laid her down in the futon and covered her up and he slept on top of the sheet covering himself with his dad's coat. There they fell asleep embracing each other.
Mendokuse – Troublesome
Tomodachi – Friend
Okibi – short for Okubyou - Coward
Gatsukoosen – Moonlight
Natami - Jealousy
Oji-san – Uncle
Daikira – short for Daikirai - Hate