Author's note: here's another chapter! I hope you all enjoyed the first one, this is a story I've wanted to write for a long time so enjoy this next one!
Naruto woke up and glanced at his clock and saw that he was probably gonna be late for his first day back at school since he just got home. He hated having to heal slowly, but now he could start training and start fixing things, he could also enjoy his youth this time. He looked around his small apartment and was saddened by how un-lively it looked. He got up carefully holding his ribs because they were still hurting and then got dressed. Once that was finished he grabbed his gama wallet which was thankfully full and left his apartment via the stairway. On his way down he got his daily fill of evil stares and people muttering about him. As he walked down the street he henged into an older version of himself but with darker hair and civilian clothing. Once he had done that he walked into a clothing store to pick up some clothes for himself.
He replaced his jacket that he usually wears with the less orange one that he had gotten with his travels with Jiraiya before he returned to the village. After finding a couple he also got some of the same pants to go with them and paid for them, then made a shadow clone to return them home as he went to his favorite ramen stand.
As he got closer he dropped the henge and walked into his favorite food place while greeting some of the best people he'd ever known, "Good Morning Ayame nee-san, Teuchi-jiji" Naruto said with a wide smile sitting down as the two smiled seeing him.
"Ah our favorite customer where have you been?" Teuchi said jokingly as he prepared Naruto's food already knowing what he wanted.
"Not good actually… I just got out of the hospital I was attacked again on the Kyuubi festival" the small boy answered.
Ayame couldn't help but walk around and give him a hug and kiss his cheek, "Im sorry otōto-kun" she said teasing him before walking back behind the counter to help her dad.
Teuchi came out with the bowl and said, "Well this first one's on the house" he said with a smile which made Naruto smile and slurp down his miso ramen very quickly.
"Thanks jiji can I get a miso pork now" he asked with a smile as the old man made it for him. As Naruto's food was being made naruto decided to converse with ayame, "So how have you been Ayame-chan" he said making the older girl smile for a second at the -chan.
"Pretty good how about you Naruto-kun" she said playing around with him.
"Eh well ya know" he said before being given his food. He smiled as he smelled it before gulping it down again and then paying for it, "Well I've got to go guys unfortunately I have school which I'm late for but I promise to stop by again later" He promised while taking off in a slow jog. It didn't take him long to get to the academy.
He quickly walked inside the building and got to his class, as he walked in he saw Iruka taking role call and wasn't at his name which meant he technically wasn't late yet. "It's good to see you back Naruto how are you feeling?" Iruka asked as Naruto sat down in his seat while also stopping is role call.
"Fine besides my ribs" he said while the room got deathly quiet.
"Well it's good to have you back" he said but the boy just ignored him as he had noticed his clone dispelled. Not to much longer class started back up and Naruto kinda just ignored it.. that was until Shikamaru nudge him in the side to get his attention.
"Whats up?" Naruto asked the boy curious as to what he wants to know.
"Iruka was talking the other day and I wanted to ask you if it was true if you really are an Uzumaki from the Uzumaki clan?" he asked him curious.
"Honestly? I have no idea I was given the name Uzumaki by jiji, I would like to think that I am though, I did some research on my own and the only other Uzumaki's who lived in this village was Kushina Uzumaki, a jounin also known by the nickname 'Red hot Habanero.' The other Uzumaki was Mito Uzumaki and she was married to the Shodaime." Naruto said which made Shikamaru groan.
Shikamaru sighed before saying, "You just got a lot more troublesome if you are a real Uzumaki, well whatever sorry for bothering you" he said before going to sleep.
Naruto just chuckled and looked around the room to see Sasuke staring at him. "Wonder what his problem is" he thought to himself before looking around the room some more before he saw Hinata. Said girl instantly blushed when she saw him looking at her and she started to mess with her fingers while Naruto just softly smiled a sad smile remembering how happy they were. "I promise you hime I will get you back just wait for me. I Promise you won't wait as long as you had to last time" he silently promised her before looking around the room before he heard something of interest from Iruka.
"Okay everybody get up it's time to go outside today we're going to learn how to throw shuriken and kunai" The teacher said as a lot of people got excited while others looked worried or didn't care all together. As everyone gathered outside iruka took out a single kunai and said, "Would anyone like to try throwing it at the target for an example?"
Of course giving the chance to show off Sasuke raised his hand but so did Naruto at the same time. Naruto smirked while sasuke only looked at him with anger. "Two volunteers huh? Ok then Sasuke you first then you can go next Naruto." Iruka said handing them each one kunai.
Sasuke smirked and threw the kunai just barely missing the bullseye. "Good job Sasuke now you Naruto." The teacher said as Naruto and Sasuke went to switch places but not before Sasuke tripped Naruto. Naruto smirked as he fell and tucked into a roll while throwing his kunai at the same time and hitting the bullseye surprising everyone their.
Iruka though was just amazed he had only see people do that kind of thing in battle and stuff not just for laughs.
"STOP TRYING TO LOOK GOOD YOU FRICKIN BAKA NO ONES BETTER THAN SASUKE THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY A FLUKE!" a certain pink haired banshee yelled.
"Whatever" Naruto said not even acknowledging her. Which only served to piss her off more.
"YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS THAT SASUKE'S BETTER THAN YOU AND WE ALL KNOW YOU COULD NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" She screamed at him.
Without saying a word Naruto grabbed the pile of kunai and shuriken and immediately threw all of them hitting every bullseye perfectly before turning to her and saying, "Let us see you do that first try you bitch" making everyone surprised. Not only from the perfect throws which had a certain Uchiha fuming with anger but also with the language he used at the girl.
Sakura had no response instead she just went with her anger and tried to punch Naruto who swiftly parried it and elbowed her in the face knocking her down to the ground before quickly dropping his arm to hold his side, he threw his rm a little to hard and it brought more pain then he thought.
Everyone was shocked at what just happened and Iruka didn't know what to do. So he just made it up, "Sakura go inside right now you should know better than to attack someone including when they just got out of the hospital. Naruto you can go rest under that tree if need be if not just get back in line with everyone else." After saying that a certain pink haired girl got very angry but she just went inside. After that everyone finally calmed down and Iruka kept teaching his class and had people try throwing kunai and shuriken helping those who needed it.
Later that day after school had gotten out Naruto had decided to make a change of the future for the better.. HE wanted to make Hinata his friend, nothing to serious but maybe by befriending her should would become more confident in herself and become stronger. He also wasn't going to be head over heels for Sakura and try to put the fear of Kami in her, she scattered by there entire childhood not doing anything and barely surviving. He needs to make sure she cant get stronger but also become a better person, even if she ends up hating him forever.. So as soon as school had ended and everyone was quickly leaving to go meet up with friends or parents or whatever naruto walked over to Hinata, "Hey Hinata." He started not to sure as what to say.
"G-g-good after-noon N-n-naruto-k-kun" she stuttered out with a blush. "God how I've missed you and your stutters, and blushes and everything.. I'm sorry my little rabbit" Naruto thought solemnly to his own self.
"I was wondering if I could walk you home?" Naruto asked her as her pale white eyes open wide and her blush deepened a new shade of crimson.
"Naruto-kun wants to walk home.. with me! Please kami don't let me faint now" The small girl thought to herself as she was starting to feel light headed and wobbly. Naruto quickly held her by her arm and side and said, "Are you ok Hinata-chan you seem kinda dizzy.. here let's get that jacket off you must be dying in it." Naruto said as she started to freak out now as he started to pull the zipper down on her jacket.
Before she could stop him he had the zipper pulled all the way down and was taking it off. She did have to admit she wasn't as dizzy with the cool air touching her body, "T-thank you N-naruto-kun" she said while blushing and twiddling with her fingers.
She then grabbed her jacket and started to put it back on before Naruto said, "You know you're really cute under that jacket hime." This had finally beaten everything and the girl could no longer stay conscious. Naruto sighed and smiled as he put her jacket back on before picking her up bridal stride and making his leave. He quickly took to the roofs using chakra to help propel himself all the way to the Hyuuga compound.
Once he got their and saw the guards he decided to be cautious, walking slowly towards them. "Hey there" he called out to them as they looked over mortified at what they saw. "Hinata-chan here fainted at school and I thought I would bring her home for you guys sorry if I'm any trouble" Naruto said with a goofy grin.
The one Hyuuga said something into his headset and for a few moments nothing happened and then he said, "Hiashi-sama had left to go get her not to long ago but he is grateful for what you have done now follow me." the gate guard said to the small blond boy who followed him into the compound.
Naruto smiled as he looked around seeing all the life happy that everyone's still ok and alive and everything. Even if the Hyuuga still had their own problems on the inside but nothing Hinata won't fix in the years to come. The two quickly entered the main house and Naruto was led to Hinata's room as they got there the guard told him to set down Hinata-sama and than to wait in the living room.
Naruto did as told and sat their patiently waiting for Hiashi to show up. The man walked in not to much longer as Hanabi followed behind him cautiously. "Hanabi go wait in the other room I won't be long I just need to talk with young Naruto-san here" The man said as his daughter just nodded and left. Hiashi called in one of the branch Hyuuga and asked him to make the two some tea. After the nameless Hyuuga left he turned his attention to the young blond in front of him "I wanted to formally thank you young Naruto-san for safely bringing my eldest daughter home after her little incident. If I may ask what happened?" He said curious as to what happened even though he knew of his daughter's crush on the young blond here.
"Well after class had ended I went up to talk to Hinata-chan and was asking her if I could possible walk her home. She started to feel light headed and dizzy so I had helped her out of her jacket thinking she may be overheated and when I did I had called her cute being nice and complimenting her on her looks and once that had happened she had fainted not to long after. Not wanting to leave her there alone I put her jacket back on her and picked her up and rushed her." He said not leaving out a single detail.
"I am grateful for this, but you should watch how you talk to my daughter. You cannot just go around calling her Cute" Hiashi said emphasizing said word trying to scare Naruto a little, "But I do have to thank you for making sure she was safe and also I would like to ask you how you carried her from the school to here when that is roughly 5 miles as I am aware of what happened the other night as Hinata was asking about you with worry." The man asked even though he had an idea.
"Well as you know I'm not well liked in the village so i had to teach myself to travel by rooftop to escape the villagers and so I carried her via rooftops all the way here even though my ribs do hurt a lot and are still in immense pain it was no trouble at all for someone I consider a good friend even if me and her don't talk much I consider her a precious person due to the fact that she has never once tried to raise a finger against me and has always defended me." The boy said surprising hiashi very much at his answer.
By now the tea had been served and Hiashi was slowly sipping at it as was naruto as the two sat in silence for a moment before The older man finally spoke up, "Well again thank you for bringing her home and I wouldn't be against it if you wished to be her friend." Hiashi said catching the boy off guard. Hiashi smiled slightly as the boy fumbled around surprised at what the man had said before Hiashi said, "Also if it's not to much trouble would you want to come over for dinner sometime?" He asked now really scaring Naruto.
"Shit things are moving really fast now. I get it so you and my dad were super good friends and now you feel guilty so you're trying to make up plus im supposed to be married off to Hinata anyways but last time you didn't do this until after the war or say anything!" The boy thought to himself. He suddenly smiled widely and said, "I would love to how does tomorrow sound… Hiashi-sama?" Naruto asked the man.
The man smiled and said, "That would work out perfectly I look forward to seeing you then but I am sorry now but I have to ask you to leave now there is some business I must attend to" Hiashi said as Naruto bowed to the man before leaving.
Naruto quickly left and went straight to the hokage building. He quickly got up to his Jiji's office and opened the door to see the Sandaime not doing anything but paperwork.
"Ah good evening Naruto-kun how are you feeling today?" The elder man asked his surrogate grandson.
"I'm fine I just had a question to ask you." He said with a grin.
"Oh and what may that be?" he asked the young child while getting a small break from his paperwork.
"Could you help me get nice clothes? Hinata's dad Hiashi invited me to dinner tomorrow night." Naruto said while the hokage seemed taken back by this.
"It's too soon for them to be married off and he only knows you're Minato's kid because of the betrothal.. what are you're planning Hiashi." The elder man thought to himself in his moment of silence as he lit his pipe.
"Yes I shall take you out, it's about time you learned how to properly dress and behave, the Hyugas could teach you a thing or two about manorisms." Hiruzen said pointing out a flaw in Naruto's lifestyle, "Afterwards maybe we could get some food?" The hokage said to Naruto making him smile with the bribery of food while teasing him about how he acted.
"That was a low blow jiji and… Yay free food!" Naruto said in happiness as he shot towards the kage and hugged him. Naruto decided to be lenient on his grandfather and said, "Why don't you make clones to help you with all that work? Dog uses clones to help him with silly stuff when we were in the hospital together" naruto said as sabutori's eyes widened.
"Kami damnit! How did i never think of that?! It's genius I can cut my workload down tenfold!" He thought before making a familiar hand seal and pouring chakra into it before saying, "Kage bunshin no jutsu" Making roughly 15 clones who all went straight to work. He smiled with himself and then left with Naruto.
The next day
Naruto awoke and felt great. He felt down to his sides and was happy to see the pain was gone, knowing what that meant he went into his seal to speak with his old friend.
"Kit" the Bijuu said getting the attention of his tennant.
"Ya know you're awesome right?" Naruto said with a big goofy grin while transforming into his true self feeling free again.
"I regained my chakra back faster than I thought I would" Kurama said before continuing, "So when are you gonna release me from this damned seal? You know I hate being cooped up plus when I'm free I can change the setting in here to something better." The giant fox thought pervertedly at that.
"Oh kami" Naruto said sighing. "You know it will be a while because I will need to prove to Jiraiya that I can handle myself which will have him release the seal slowly until finally you're free it may take a while but don't worry I promise you'll be free again. Plus I get to meet my dad the first time I try to rip the seal off and I want to talk with him again as I wasn't really able to last time I saw him due to the circumstances." The blond haired blue eyes man said to his giant demon fox friend.
"Whatever just hurry it up I hate being caged." Kumara said while laying down.
"I'll try old friend" Naruto promised before leaving his mind. He got himself up and quickly got dressed. He noticed he had plenty of time to get to school so he quickly shot off towards the Hyuuga compound hoping to catch Hinata before she left.
Naruto took to the roofs quickly flying across the village feeling free as the air ran through him. He decided he would let his hair grow out this time around to look more like his dad. As he flew through the village he came to a sudden stop as he saw Hinata and her father walking side by side in silence to school. Naruto quickly jumped down being noticed by Hiashi but the man didn't say anything yet.
Naruto jogged over to them greeting them both, "Good morning Hiashi-sama, Hinata-chan" He said with a smile and a bow to the father.
"G-good m-m- morning Naruto-kun" Hinata managed to get out without to much trouble.
"Good morning Naruto-san" Hiashi greeted back, "What brings you here this morning? Shouldn't you be heading to school?" he said even though he had an idea of what he was going to say. "He really is your son Minato.. I just wish you could be here to see him. I promise to you I will try to be their for him more now that I have him befriending my daughter/his future wife" He thought with a silent giggle. "I failed you in the past Naruto, but I can't drop who I am, so for now I will just have to slowly accept you into the family, until everyone else accepts you." Hiashi thought as he watched Naruto carefully.
"Well I was hoping to catch you guys before you left to see if I could walk Hinata to school since I couldn't walk home with her yesterday" Naruto said with a small laugh and a scratch to the back of his head. That's when Naruto noticed that Hinata was in shorts and a t-shirt for the first time ever. Naruto quickly blushed as he saw her like that, surprised that Hiashi allowed her to dress like that.
Hinata noticed the boy staring at her and started to blush also. Hiashi just silently chuckled at the scene remembering a similar scene between a certain blond and redhead from his childhood. After a few moments of silence Hiashi spoke up again, "Well I guess it can't be helped you may walk with us" Hiashi said with a small smile as Naruto got next to Hinata. The girl smiled as she saw her crush next to her and the all walked side by side in silence for a while.
Once they started to near the academy Hiashi spoke up addressing Naruto, "I hope to see you in proper clothing tonight when you come over for dinner.. that won't be a problem now will it Naruto-kun?" Hiashi asked him knowing about Naruto's problems with the village.
"No sir, also hokage-jij wanted me to ask if he could come with me tonight? I had told him about tonight because I needed help buying the right clothing yesterday." Naruto said.
Hiashi sighed, "Shit hokage-sama might not be too happy about this.. I'll just explain to him in private before or after dinner depending." Hiashi thought to himself before answering, "Of course he may, just make sure you're at the compound no earlier than 630 and no later than 7 tonight" Hiashi said before dropping the two kids off. Naruto just nodded before grabbing Hinata's hand and running inside since they were almost late.
Said girl blushed at the physical content but smiled also as the two ran inside together before finding their seat and sitting next to each other. Naruto saw her shiver showing that she was actually cold and so in turn he took off his jacket and handed it to her, "Here i'm not that cold anyways you can wear it." He said to the small girl who smiled and blushed deeply before putting it on finally warming up.
"It smells like him.." She thought blushing deeply.
Not to much longer class started and Naruto ignored it once more not really caring too much. Instead he looked over to hinata and smiled at how cute she looked in his jacket. Some other kids were giving the two weird looks since hinata and naruto were being strangely close. Naruto decided that he would just nap with Shikamaru like usual.
Naruto woke up with Iruka yelling at him and Shikamaru to come outside for taijutsu practice before class ended. The two stretched and smiled at each other before walking outside to join the rest of the class. As soon as the two were with everyone else Iruka started to call out the matches having everyone fight one at a time against each other.
It didn't take long for Iruka to get to Sasuke and Naruto. "Uzumaki Naruto vs. Uchiha Sasuke" he said as all the girls except one were calling out at Sasuke while yelling insults at Naruto. The two got in the ring and waited to begin. Iruka started the match and Sasuke instantly charged Naruto. The latter boy smirked, his years of fighting made this seem like nothing, he just sidestepped to the right while he brought his elbow down on the dark haired boys neck making Sasuke fall. Only for his face to be hit by Naruto's knee making the boy fall to his back. The class was silent to see this turn of events. And then it happened, everyone started yelling insults at Naruto calling him a cheater and all sorts of things. Well except for Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba and Hinata. Sasuke though was out cold, so Iruka picked the boy up and moved him under the tree for shade while all the girls flocked to him to make sure he was alright. Iruka soon ended class telling everyone to practice throwing shuriken and kunai while also practicing the henge. Naruto meanwhile just walked off to get ready for tonight he knew he had a few hours, but he wanted to be fully ready.
Later that night Naruto and Hiruzen walked side by side to the Hyuga compound as Hiruzen had a very expensive and hard to come by bottle of wine for a gift to give Hiashi. They were both dressed up somewhat nicely and talking about meaningless things.
"So Naruto my boy what is your dream for the future?" He asked the young boy as Naruto's face seemed to get very serious and distant for a moment before he smiled.
"I want to have a big family and bring peace to the world like the ninja in this book I got on my birthday" Naruto then took out a very familiar green book that made the old man's eyes go wide for a moment. "So that's what you gave him this time around huh Jiraiya" Naruto continued to speak, "In this story the main character's name is also Naruto.. and he's trying to achieve peace for all of the ninja world.. I wish to get that through any means I can. I don't know who this Jiraiya is but he must be some amazing guy to write a story like this" Naruto said as the old man smiled brightly trying not to laugh at Naruto's words of calling Jiraiya a great writer.
"That's an excellent dream Naruto-kun.. Your parents would be proud to know your taking after Jiraiya in the only good way possible." The man said keeping the last part to his own self.
The two approached the compound and were greeted by Hiashi and Hinata. "Greetings Hokage-sama" the elder Hyuga said with a slight bow, his daughter bowing also before she saw Naruto and blushed slightly.
"Greetings to you also Hiashi-san" the hokage said with a smile, "I brought you a treat" he said handing over the wine to Hiashi who smiled as he looked over the bottle.
"Thank you deerly hokage-sama, now if you'll follow me inside." He said leading the kage and Naruto into the house.
"Feel free to refer to me as Hiruzen for the evening if you wish Hiashi-san." The kage offered the Hyuuga head.
"As you wish Hiruzen-sama" Hiashi responded being as polite as he was political.
As the small group of people walked inside the main house for supper, they saw many branch house members setting the final touches. Once finished the 4 sat down, Naruto across from Hinata next to the hokage and Hiruzen across from Hiashi who chose to sit by his daughter. Hiashi handing the bottle of wine to a branch member, "Put these with the others and then bring out the first course and a nice white wine for everyone." He said as the branch member nodded disappearing only for 4 plates of food to come out immediately.
"Hiashi I am sorry to intrude before the meal starts but may I speak to you in private for a moment?" The old man asked.
Hiashi sighed knowing this was going to happen and agreed walking to the other room with the kage leaving the to kids alone.
Hinata blushed as she saw Naruto eyeing her while Naruto blushed slightly from the wine, and at how beautiful his rabbit is. Naruto smiled and playfully kicked her under the table. Hinata gasped until she saw him smile, she couldn't help but giggle before she then went to kick him back and for the next few moments they playfully played footsies with one another. After they stopped Naruto got up and sat next to Hinata.
"You know you're really pretty in that kimono" he said causing the girl to blush slightly.
"You look handsome yourself Naruto-kun" she said with a hiccup at the end. Naruto moved her glass away from her deeming she had enough to drink. Even though they both had only had a single glass they were also just kids. Naruto could also tell that Kurama wasn't helping out either probably to have fun and watch the boy struggle with the alcohol.
"I'm really glad you're my friend Hinata-chan" Naruto said giving her a hug.
"I'm glad you're m-mine too" she said with a small stutter for a second their before hugging back.
Naruto slowly let go and not a second later the two men walked back in and jokingly Hiruzen said, "Are we interrupting something?" Both kids got very red at this finally realizing at how close they were while Naruto flew backwards a good ten feet.
"N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-" neither child could say anything as they were both embarrassed at what happened.
"I don't remember telling you two that you could drink the wine" Hiashi pretended to be angry before laughing with the Hokage. Wait.. Hiashi was laughing and happy while sober.. "What witchery is this!?" Thought everyone but Hiashi.
Hiashi was planning on having a talk with Naruto about a lot of things but now cannot so instead he decided to have a happy night with everyone else which he did.
Authors note: Well that's the chapter, I hope you guys enjoyed this, hopefully you enjoy the next chapter!