Hello and welcome to the next chapter. This is the end of the fight and we find out something someones been hideing. Sorry for not posting but during the weekdays I'm kinda busy. Well I hope you enjoy and most of the questions unboudtedly asked are at the end.

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Chapter 7: Ascension

"Ra...Rasengan...Senkouki!" Naruto growled out as he skidded to a stop on the water behind Kisame, the burning Rasengan in his mouth a mere horrific memory. Kisame stood frozen, his eyes open in shock, this had been a big surprise. He turned his head to the side to look at Naruto who glared at him with blazing blue eyes, the very edges having tints of a deep red to them.

Suddenly Kisame coughed and blood poured from his mouth staining the water below his feet blood red. His chest was no longer made of bone, muscle, and blood. It was a hollow shell with a foot wide tapered radius hole in it's center, the edges burned into cauterization.

Kisame wavered momentarily then fell face first into the waters he had brought to the surface, his body sinking beneath them along with the shattered remains of Samehada. In an instant the Kisame clone fell victim to it's masters death and turned into a puddle of water leaving the water prison unguarded and hence Hinata was free to fall.

Fortunately for her a large muscular and furry object easily caught her on it's now much larger back. Hinata lay against the warm fur and the comforting presence while she felt the world around her blur due to the speed of their movement. She realized that she was snuggled tightly into the golden fur of Naruto as he carried her from the battle.

'Wait..he's carrying me?' thought Hinata as she looked at the transformed Naruto. His body had easily doubled maybe even tripled in size, his fur had gotten a little longer and more wild, and he had gained another tail. However before she could finish her train of thought she was grabbed by the collar of her jacket then taken away from his comforting warmth by this evil chill holding her.

"Naruto," Itachi called as he held Hinata in mid air by the back of her jacket. Naruto stopped in the middle of the bloody water and turned, his growl resonating deep in his chest. "Let...her..go..." Naruto growled out in his new animalistic voice.

Itachi grinned and said, "I see you've ascended to a four tail, a very important stage in kitsune growth. I'm sorry to do this but after seeing you kill Kisame so ruthlessly I find I should take the same liberty with this Hyuga, it's only fair. Then I'll take care of you."

Naruto was pissed that's true but the second he saw the look in Hinata's eyes he was at a complete loss. Her face held disgust, not for Naruto for missing her being captured, but for herself for allowing this to happen. Today just wasn't her day. Her mind was swallowed in guilt and pain, then as she heard Itachi's closeing words, something happened.

Around Hinata's eyes grew grotesquely large veins and heririses became a bit more defined. "You won't touch him," Hinata muttered angrily in Itachi's grasp. Before he could taunt her, Hinata began to twist in his grip calling out the name of her technique, "Hakkesho Kaiten!" In a wild spin Hinata flung Itachi face first into a tree they happened to be perched on.

She came out of her spin with a face clearly showing rage and, in the speed unknown to her by anyone, she began striking Itachi's back mercilessly. The traditional Juken strikes pummeling him deeper into the wood despite its name.

By the end of her attack she jumped down from the tree to rest next to Naruto, catching her breath and recovering from the chakra expenditure from her own attacks. Itachi slowly removed himself from his impression left in the great tree trunks wood.

He slowly wavered side to side, not having expected that from the 'Hyuga weakling'. Itachi shook the attack off the best he could but he found it increasingly hard to stand. "Damn it," He muttered to himself before he fell to a knee on the branch.

"Give...up?" Naruto growled with a smirk on his wild fox face as Hinata joined him in his triumphant grin. "Not by a long shot, you just caught me off guard. I'll be back and that won't happen again," with those dark parting words Itachi disappeared in a puff of smoke and the training grounds returned to silence.

The training grounds suddenly began to shrink and both Naruto and Hinata looked down in confusion. They watched with relief as the water that had been bloodied by Kisame's death slowly began to recede back into the earth.

When all the water had soaked back into the ground the pair was left with a cored criminal, his broken sword, and each other. Hinata sighed happily as she fell down into Naruto's warm fur and just before she fell into slumber she heard Naruto's rough but comforting growling voice say, "Hinata...that...was...awesome." She felt a warm presence surround her and she fell into a peaceful slumber.

Naruto sighed with a soft smile on his foxish face and decided he was stuck with clean up duties. Taking great care not to wake Hinata he gathered up the body of Hoshigaki Kisame for the ANBU and Obaa-chan. He also discovered the shattered Samehada and took it in his mouth.

As he walked through the town of Konoha many gasped, some just stared, others cursed him but Naruto ignored them all except those who dared to stray close to try and get the sleeping girl off his back. With a growling and animalistic, "go away," they would flee like cowards.

Naruto, after a long procession through the streets of Konoha, reached the Hokage's office. Completely ignoring the intern he waltzed into the Hokage's office dragging the body of Kisame behind him and carrying the sword Samehada in his mouth.

Tsunade stared in disbelief as this giant fox creature simply barged in on one of her meetings with the body of Hoshigaki Kisame wrapped in his tails and the great sword Samehada shattered in its teeth. Naruto spit out the sword and dropped the body unceremoniously on the ground saying in a growling hiss, "special...delivery...Obaa-chan..."

"N-Naruto," Tsunade said causing the fox to face a shocked Tsunade, a stone faced Hyuga Hiashi, and a surprised Shizune. "D...did you kill him?" Tsunade asked while she stared wide eyed at the body on the floor. Naruto nodded and, after seeing Hiashi, he slowly shifted his tails revealing the body of Hinata under their fur.

Hiashi noticed this and in an instant he was standing and glaring at Naruto. "Let her go you demon fox," Hiashi said as he took a few steps toward Naruto. Naruto simply glared back and covered Hinata up again with his tails. "Not...weak..." spoke Naruto as he began backing away from Hiashi.

"Give me my daughter back you damn demon," Hiashi said slowly losing his almost unbreakable cool. "Itachi..." Naruto growled out with a snarl in Hiashi's direction, "She...won..." "Hiashi freeze!" Tsunade commanded with authority in her voice. Hiashi refused the orders of the Hokage and lunged at Naruto with his open palm. Naruto barely dodged the strike but dodged it none the less.

"She...won...Itachi...she...WON!" Naruto growled out louder, his message just not getting through. Hiashi was just about to make another attack but his muscles suddenly went lax and he fell to his knees. "Good shot Shizune," Tsunade said as Shizune lowered her needle launcher filled with paralysis needles. "Now Naruto, slowly...what are you trying to say?" Tsunade asked as Hiashi scowled in anger.

"Hinata...not...weak...she...BEAT ITACHI!" Naruto growled out with such volumes it rattled the Hokage's windows. None the less the message had now been passed and everyone in the room except Hinata and Naruto were stunned. "You must be joking," Hiashi said in almost disbelief. Naruto shook his head and said with great difficulty, "She...Kaiten...then...Juken..he ran..."

"What about you Naruto," Tsunade asked with concern, "how did you...kill Kisame?" Naruto grinned a bit and said, "new...jutsu...R-Rasengan...S-Senkouki." Naruto turned swiftly heading for the door to the Hokage's office but stopping just before he passed Samehada. He bent down and plucked the biggest tooth from the shattered pieces and held it in his mouth as he walked out.

"Naruto where are you going?" Tsunade questioned as he reached the doors of the Hokage's office. "Let go of my daughter!" Hiashi roared the paralysis being slowly ebbed away by his struggles. "Take...Hinata...home..." Naruto grumbled as he disappeared in a golden blur.

Tsunade smiled to herself, maybe those romance stories really do have a place in the field. "He had better not try anything," Hiashi growled as he slowly and clumsily got to his feet. "I highly doubt he would, no matter what you think of him Hiashi he really is a good boy. Just a little stupid at times," Tsunade said with a smile on her lips.

"As long as he comes no where near my daughter or my home again I couldn't care less," Hiashi said brushing off his clothes and getting ready to chase down a certain fox for his daughter back. "Oh...I think there might be a problem there Hiashi," Tsunade said with a smirk, "seeing as he's staying at your mansion from now on."

End Chapter

Ok, question one is most likely,

Question: Hinata can do Kaiten? So why didn't she use it to get out of Kisames water prison?

Answer: Two and a half years later she had to have learned it or maybe something like it. Think of it, a guy who looks like a shark has you captive and he's attacking the one you like. You're gonna be a little freaked out.

Q: How did Itachi get caught off guard by Hinata?

A: It's Hinata we're talking about, she's not exactly known for her strength but she does have her moments which Itachi never considered.

Q: How did Naruto break Samehada?

A: Every sword has it's weight bearing limit, a sword made of sharkparts is no different. Especialy if it is attacked on the broad side.

Thats all I can think of so he's a little taste of later...

Hiashi simply stared for a few moments seeing his daughter have a death grip on the fox and the fox hitting it's own head with a free tail. Hiashi rolled this over a few times in his head before clearing his throat. The fox suddenly stopped hitting it's head and it slowly turned its eyes to the Hyuga leader.

"Uh...not...my...fault,"