Just a note, I didn't quit Father Kyuubi, I am just taking a small break from it... ok, a large break... very large...

Ok, I don't know where this came up on me… but after reading several Naruto stories where Hanabi is in it, but is really mean and sometimes really bitchy, I decided to do something different.

This takes place when Naruto is seventeen; Sasuke is back and safe in Konoha. The threat of Akatsuki and Orochimaru still lurks around the corner, and Hanabi is twelve in this.

Before you read, I would recommend not questioning the logic of this all, you'll enjoy it more if you don't.

DISCLAIMER – I don't own Naruto.

"Speaking"

Thinking

(Hokage Tower.)

Naruto was a proud Shinobi; he dedicated himself to his job, and was fiercely loyal to all of his friends and village. All that of course didn't mean he had to accept any mission Tsunade threw at him. He would kindly reject the ones he didn't like, and slip out before the Hokage could force him to do. Little did Naruto know that this time, he wouldn't get out of this…

Tsunade looked up from her paper work when she heard her door click, and in entered Naruto. He walked over and sat down in a chair nearby her desk and said, "What do you need Old Hag?"

Her eye twitched at her nickname but she silently said, "I've got a mission for you."

"Oh really?" He asked, not sounding all that surprised.

She nodded and said, "The students from the academy are graduating today, unfortunately this year we were unlucky and got less students that we expected."

"How many?" He asked, slightly concerned.

"We have exactly sixteen students… As you know, we split them into teams of three, but with only that amount we have one person who will be left out." Tsunade explained.

Naruto nodded, "I'm following you…"

She smiled and said, "Naruto, I know that a Genin squad is usually a squad of three, but I'm going to make a special occasion and have one team have only two children in it."

"Ok…" Naruto muttered, not liking where this could possibly be going.

"Naruto, I need you to participate as one of the two Genin." Tsunade explained.

Naruto laughed lightly and said, "Three things wrong, one, I cannot hold a Kage Bunshin for extended periods of time. Two, I'm a jounin. Lastly, I don't want to accepted this mission."

Tsunade smiled and said, "One, I have an alternative for you to use. Two, I could care less. Three, you have no choice as to accept this mission or not."

"But…" Naruto started, but stopped shortly after. It would be pointless to argue with the Hokage.

"Good." Tsunade said. "Now, about that alternative…" She pulled out a box from under her desk. She opened the top of it and pulled out another much smaller box. "This… " She said pulling out a pill out of the smaller box, "Is something I have been working on for quite some time."

Naruto examined it and finally asked, "Besides a pill… what is it?"

"This, Naruto, is what I would like to call a de-age pill." She smiled at Naruto's expression.

Naruto shook his head and said, "Wait, why haven't you used it yet?"

"Because, I am not sure it will work on Normal humans, but with Kyuubi in you I know it will nullify any poison within you if it goes wrong." She explained.

"Oh really… So, you want me to try it don't you…" He sighed.

She nodded and said, "If it works, it should make you de-age by five years." She pulled out another box, "Take these to age back five years."

Naruto nodded and took the pills from her and quickly counted them. "Twenty four of each…" He muttered. "How long does it take to make more?"

"For one single pill, it takes me about a month if I work alone." She explained.

Naruto shrugged and threw the pill in his mouth and swallowed. "Well… here goes." Naruto muttered.

"Do you feel anything?" Tsunade asked a few seconds later.

Naruto shook his head in a negative matter and said, "Nope… Nothing."

Suddenly a green chakra swallowed Naruto's body, and a smoked covered him, making Tsunade unable to see. After about ten seconds, Naruto stood there wearing his clothes… Or, more like having the hang off him… He also seemed shorter too… much shorter. Lastly, his voice defiantly sounded like that of a twelve year old.

"Did it work?" He asked.

Tsunade smiled and brought a mirror towards Naruto so he could examine himself. He nodded his head a few times and said, "Ok…"

"Now Naruto, This is considered an A-rank mission. You must not let anyone know you've been disguised as a Genin to assist one from passing. Second, your full power has been sealed. You have the amount any Genin would when they first exit the academy… It works sort of like Kyuubi's seal now that I think of it…"

"I… see…" Naruto said, following.

"Though you look like yourself right now, you will change your clothing from orange to something less… Narutoish… Also, put some make-up over your whisker marks to hide them." She let out a breath and then finally said, "Don't let ANYONE take the pills… I will send you new ones whenever they become available, but they could prove very deadly to normal human beings."

Naruto nodded, "This… sounds like fun…" He grabbed the pills and jumped out the window and put his foot on the wall. When he tried to mold chakra to stick to the wall, the bricks burst from too much chakra pressure and sent him to the ground. "Ow…"

"Remember!" Tsunade shouted from above, "you got to get used to a child's chakra again!"

"I hate this…" Naruto mumbled as he got up.

(Next day, Ninja academy.)

Naruto sat inside the academy with a group of students that he did not know at all. It felt sort of… weird to say the least. Multiple students were entering exclaiming that they passed to become Genin and other things. He quickly shook his head clean of thoughts.

He wore a simple black ninja outfit, unlike his usual orange outfit. He also wore a new Konoha head protector. His whisker marks were also completely gone, and he decided to cut his hair shorter. He hoped none of the Instructors would recognize him…

Suddenly Iruka stepped into the room and began to speak. "Congratulations to all of you who have passed the test. Today you all will be placed into teams, but due to uneven numbers, one team will have only two members."

The students all began to speak to each other in a loud boom.

"What? He can't be serious…"

"I hope I'm not in the two man team…"

"I wonder if I can be in that team with… hehehe…"

Iruka silenced them with raising his hand. "I will begin to call of teams. Team one will consist of…"

He continued on and on, making multiples angry with whom they got, and others flare up with excitement. Naruto figured he would fall asleep… Wait… What did Tsunade name me anyways…

Lastly Team Six…" Iruka called out. "This team will consist of Nawaki Naruto, and Hyuuga Hanabi."

She changed my last name to Nawaki…? Naruto muttered absently in his head.

"Now, you all must wait for your sensei to come pick you up." Iruka said to the class as he left. All the students got together with their team to begin chatting together.

Naruto looked around. "Ok, so… where's my Hyuuga companion?" He asked to basically no one.

"She's over there." A boy said pointing at a girl sitting by herself. "She is really mean when you go near her… I feel very bad for you."

"Hehe, thank you…" Naruto said as he made his way over to his partner.

He looked over at the girl. She had hair that went down into her face and eyes, and it was the exact same color as Hinata's. She wore a black sleeveless shirt that went down to a little below her waist. She had on some black pants as well. Since she was a Hyuuga, her eyes were a white color.

If she had been older, that costume would have showed off her body quite nicely…

"Hello." Naruto said to his new teammate. When she didn't respond to him he said, "I am Nawaki Naruto, nice to meet you Hanabi."

She turned to him and said, "Do not get in my way… Also call me Hanabi-sama, considering I'm a Hyuuga, you should respect me."

Shit, a girl version of Sasuke… Naruto sighed. "So… Nice weather outside…"

"Do not bother having a conversation with me, I won't respond to you."

Naruto looked at her strangely. "Are you a fucking robot?" He finally asked.

She looked at him again and said, "No. It's just informal for me to speak to someone so far below me."

Something in Naruto snapped. He got up and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and said, "Listen here girl! In a team, you treat your comrades with respect! I could seriously not give a shit that you're in the fucking Hyuuga clan! Since we're on a team now, we have to work TOGETHER!"

He put her down, and looked around noticing everyone was gaping at him.

"Hehe…" He looked back at Hanabi who was also staring at him like he was some sort of monster, "You get it Hanabi, that's what you do if someone on your team isn't acting like he's part of one!"

Everyone finally looked away, and Hanabi narrowed her eyes at Naruto. How dare he do that to me! Does he not know who I am? "Naruto… I don't like you…" She said lamely.

"That's great, cause I don't like you either."

She again let her anger cloud her mind. No… I'm a Hyuuga… we don't allow emotions to get the better of us… She quickly reminded herself, as she stayed still, only slightly hurt by her teammates words.

After a while teachers began to come and pick up their students until there were only five kids left in the room. That is, two teams.

"It has been two hours…" Hanabi said, allowing some anger to enter her voice.

"You should get used to it, Hanabi…" Naruto muttered.

Hanabi quickly realized that she had said something out loud and muttered, "I wasn't speaking with you."

"Oh, I didn't know you had two personalities…" Naruto muttered, "I didn't even know those kind of people existed, you know…"

Hanabi once again felt anger enter her. Calm… down…

After she mentally told herself that, the door to the room burst open to reveal none other than… Gai. "Ha! I have beaten my arch rival here from our mission in Wave country!" He shouted.

Everyone looked at him like he was some kind of horrible monster.

Dear god… please don't let him be leading my team… Naruto begged the gods.

Apparently Hanabi had been thinking the same thing for she screamed when he landed on their desk and asked them, "Are you Nawaki and Hyuuga?"

"Yes." Naruto confirmed, giving Hanabi to recover from her fright of having such an… ugly looking teacher…

"Well then! Follow me!" He shouted to his two new students. "I have raised three students before! Now that I have simply two, I can teach both of you faster!"

Naruto and Hanabi nodded, and followed the man out the door.

That left three students behind…

"Where the hell is our sensei?"

"Yeah, where is he?"

"I bet he's sleeping in!"

(About ten miles from Konoha.)

Kakashi was walking along a road at a slow pace enjoying his newest volume of Come Come Paradise. When suddenly he sneezed. "Hm… It appears someone in Konoha is speaking of me.."

He continued on until he stopped completely and slapped his cheeks, "I think I left the oven on in my house!" After he yelled that he decided, "Nah, I think I'll just go slow…"

(On top of the Academy roof.)

"Now!" Gai shouted, "Which one of you will introduce yourself first?"

Naruto raised his hand and said, "Exactly what do you want to know?"

Gai looked in thought for a moment before saying, "Oh, likes, dislikes… your dreams for the future, and hobbies will be good."

Naruto nodded and said, "My Name is Uz - I mean, Nawaki Naruto! I like to…" I have to be different than Naruto… "I like to eat, uh, Pie! Especially cherry! I also like people who are nice to me, and I really hate those that are mean to me! My hobby is to… uh, Train, and I wish to become the best ANBU under the next awesome Hokage!"

Gai had tears flowing out of his eyes by the end of it, and he said, "Naruto, do your best to get to your dreams! I will be here to assist you, like I did with one of my other students before you!"

Naruto already had a good idea of who this other student was…

"Anyways, Hanabi, please introduce yourself to both Naruto and I!" Gai shouted happily.

Hanabi simply nodded and said, "My name is Hyuuga Hanabi. I like it when I am able to perfect a move in front of my father." Her eyes narrowed slightly, "I hate idiots, and that my sister is the heir to the Hyuuga clan even though I am clearly stronger. My hobby is to train to be the best, and my dream is to be what my father wishes me to be."

Naruto looked over to her and asked, "Geez, do you do anything FUN?"

"Training is all the fun I need." She said, as if she had been asked the question a million times.

"No, fun as in, hang out with friends, play with your family, or even shopping!" Naruto didn't like shopping, but he threw it in because all the girls he knew really enjoyed that kind of thing.

Hanabi looked over to him with cold eyes and said, "I don't enjoy shopping or playing with my family."

"What about your friends?"

Hanabi looked down and muttered, "I don't require friends."

Naruto noticed a very slight hint of sadness in her voice. "Well, you should get some, they'll make you a lot less bitchy. Hell, even I'll become your friend if you stop saying, 'Hyuuga this, Hyuuga that. I am better!'"

"I don't need them like I said, and I would rather be lonely all my life than have you be a friend of mine." She muttered.

Finally Gai interrupted them and said, "You two, if you'll stop youthfully talking for a minute." He noticed he had their attention. "Follow me to the training grounds." He got up and jumped away.

Hanabi followed, but not before she sent a cold glare at Naruto for good measures. Naruto followed shortly after.

(Training Area.)

"Hello my youthful students!" Gai shouted.

Hanabi and Naruto exchanged looks. "Hello… sensei." They both said.

Gai had tears filling out of his eyes as he yelled, "Say that again!"

"Hello sensei…" They both repeated.

"AGAIN!"

"Hello Sensei…" Their voices began to sound more aggravated.

"AGAI-."

"LOOK! Can't we just get on with training!" Hanabi shouted.

Gai stopped acting like an idiot for a moment to say, "Ah yes… I'm sad to say that the test you took to get this far, wasn't really the Genin test."

Hanabi narrowed her eyes at the man, and Naruto, knowing what was going to happen next yawned sleepily.

"Now, I am about to give you the test to become Genin, so please, try your best!" They both nodded and Gai looked satisfied, "Ok, for this test, I am going to have you both try to get this bell." He held up a bell for both of them to see.

"That is going to be easy." Hanabi said, slightly rude.

Gai smirked and said, "in order to get to it, you must go through this…" He pointed behind him and both Naruto and Hanabi gasped at the sight. A huge obstacle course was there, and it had many… VERY, destructive things within.

"Will we be safe in there?" Naruto asked first thing he looked back at Gai.

Gai smiled, flashing his teeth at them and said, "Of course!"

Naruto leaned in towards Hanabi and whispered, "We are so going to die."

She just turned her head away from him and walked towards the course. Naruto quickly followed behind her.

They both got towards the start of the course. "Are you two ready!" Gai shouted at them. Both simply nodded their heads. "Then on my mark… Ready… Set… GO!"

Both Naruto and Hanabi ran at the course. It started with a normal wall climbing exercise. The wall was about fifteen feet high and was completely smooth. Once Hanabi reached it she walked up it like it was a floor. Naruto tried to but quickly blew a hole into it.

"God fucking damn! I'm still not use to this stupid thing about me having less amount of chakra." He muttered.

Hanabi smirked at him and said, "I told you, Hyuuga's are better than you."

Naruto made a face at her and punched right through the hole he made in the wall. It was pretty thick, or at least Naruto could tell it was considering his hand was hurting awfully bad as he created a hole big enough for him to crawl through.

He and Hanabi both made it to the other side at the same time, and she had a very distasteful look on her face. "Hey, don't like being beaten by someone as good looking as me?" Naruto mocked her.

Hanabi sneered at him and ran on to the next challenge. This one was a lake of water in front of them with poles sticking out. In the water they could see what they though were crocodiles. He's trying to kill us…

Hanabi began to jump with expert timing to each pole, and not missing a beat. Naruto on the other hand jumped right on top of the water and floated for a little bit, then fell in. This can't be good…

He fell with a large splash, making the crocodiles attracted to him. He quickly got onto a pole, barely avoiding the jaws of one. He then followed Hanabi, but he wasn't near as graceful in his jumps as she was hers.

She suddenly slipped slightly, but was held up by Naruto who landed nearby her. She just sent a halfhearted glare at him and continued on. "Uh… Welcome!" Naruto said, trying to get her to say something. She didn't respond…

Once they made it to the other side they looked up at what awaited them…

"How the hell did they manage to make all of this?" Naruto asked.

In front of them was a huge forest. Inside the forest, were a ton of vines, and on the ground below it… it looked like quicksand. Both Hanabi and Naruto jumped on the vines and began to swing to their goal.

Naruto, having taken the exam once, knew that something bad could happen at any given minute. He also knew that somehow, he and Hanabi were supposed to use teamwork to get further into the course. Though, Hanabi seemed pretty unwilling to do that.

Suddenly Naruto snapped out of his thoughts when Hanabi's rope snapped. Ah, Here we go! Naruto quickly though.

As she fell, Naruto quickly swung at her and grabbed her, but this caused his rope to snap as well. "Oh… that cannot be too good." He muttered as he began to fall into the quicksand. He soon stopped however, when the girl he was holding managed to focus her chakra to her feet on a tree next to the two.

"I told you before, a Hyuuga can work on their own." She then continued on, throwing Naruto at some vine, and herself at one too.

Damn, all she ever does is say how great that dumb Hyuuga clan is! Naruto yelled in his mind, not exactly all that happy.

The next and what they thought was the last course was a place covered in explosive tags. All the trees, and most of the ground was covered in them. They had to make it to the other side without setting them off. To make matters worse, there were spikes scattered all across the field, and lastly there were some spikes, and lastly some oil was littered across the field splashed onto the trees and the ground.

"This looks tough." Naruto commented.

He began to go through very slowly, unlike Hanabi who had her Byakugan activated so she could see all around her. She simply jumped easily between it all. Then, Naruto accidentally stepped on an explosive tag. Oh Fuck…

Hanabi turned right around when she heard a loud sound and saw Naruto flying right towards her. She caught him, not knowing what else to do. As she began to lose her footing from the impact of Naruto hitting her, she stepped on oil, making her slip into another tag.

"Damn you Naruto!" She shouted as she dropped him and jumped away. Naruto quickly followed right as the tag exploded.

That explosion caused a chain reaction behind them, and they ran quickly, and finally made it out just as it was about to catch them…

Once they made it out, they came to a clearing, and in the middle, was the bell they needed.

"Hey Hanabi, at least we both made it this far!" Naruto said, coming up to her side.

She just nodded, and walked towards the bell. When she got close enough to grab it, she felt the wind knocked out of her when a foot planted itself in her gut. "You will not take the bell without beating me!" Gai shouted.

Hanabi quickly charged at him once she got up from the blow, and threw her palm right at the much older and more experienced man. He easily dodged it, and quickly threw her. "If you want to win this, you're going to have to do better than that!" He shouted.

She knew she would have to do better than this to beat him… "I'm a Hyuuga, we cannot be defeated so easily…" She did a few hand seals and said, "Byakugan!" Afterwards she quickly ran over to him and thrust her palm at him, hoping this time it would hit him.

Naruto went over to Hanabi who looked furious with the man and said, "Hanabi, he's a jounin… No way can you beat him one on one. We have to team up into order to beat this guy."

She looked at him for a long moment before saying, "Though I don't like you, your logic is good enough for us to work together just this once."

Naruto nodded, and they both went after the man this time. Though Gai could easily beat them both down if he wanted to, he was glad that they learned that they needed teamwork to even have a fraction of a chance to beat him.

"Ok, that's enough!" Gai said. Once both of his students stopped attempting to defeat him he began to say, "You both did well against me when you teamed up, notice how I didn't hit you both, and was more on the defensive than offensive?" Both children nodded. "Good, the point of this test was to see if you guys could work together to come here to get the bell."

"I see." Hanabi muttered.

"Anyways, you both got it right at the end my new Youthful students!" He shouted out happily. "Now come back here tomorrow so we can begin our training!"

Both children nodded before walking out of there.

"Awesome! We finally passed Hanabi!" Naruto cheered.

Hanabi turned to Naruto, and her cold voice stated, "Naruto, my father has requested of me to invite whoever is on my team that 'helped' me pass can come to my house to eat dinner with the Hyuuga family. I don't really care if you're there or not." Hanabi stated.

"So!" Naruto shouted back at her. "Dinner at your place tonight? That sounds great comrade!"

Hanabi sighed, what nut head decided that those two idiots should be ninjas?

Chapter one, end.

Yay, I finished it. I hope you all enjoyed the beginning of this story. If you didn't know, this story is going to end up being a Naruto/Hanabi pairing story. I hope to see you all in Chapter two.

Not sure if i'm going to continue, just needed to get the idea out of my head.