CHAPTER 6.

N/A: This is my first story; I hope you like it. I invite you to leave your reviews all welcome.

English is not my first language; I hope I have done a better job with grammar in this chapter.

A couple of years have passed, in the course of these years Hinata and Naruto of now 10 years have grown quite a bit, they were slightly taller for their age group, but it was all due to their constant training.

Physical and shinobi training started only a few weeks ago, with this came learning chakra control in preparation for ninjutsu training and academy style.

Just a few days at the academy I had shown them that they would receive the shorter end of the stick, but in the last two years only increase, during the theory lessons in which the teachers would teach the different concepts, they never answered any of their questions (not that they really needed the answers). Instead, they would sabotage their answers as much as possible and always look for new ways to do so.

During recent chakra control practices, they would give incorrect forms of chakra molding. Although they did not need to learn Taijutsu from the academy, they had noticed that it was also sabotaged on them, the postures taught were uncomfortable and they could not react in the best way in combat.

Speaking of training, during these two years they had grown exponentially. They had taken a year and a half to create their style of Taijutsu the Elemental Fist, for the remaining half year they would devote themselves to mastering their own style. It was during a one-on-one match against Hiruzen that he would recognize that the style was fearsome, be able to anticipate the opponent's movement, the dexterity of flowing with great flexibility (Hinata has better flexibility than Naruto), the speed and strength behind each blow, the great defense of this, but the deadliest were his punches to the Tenketsu or pressure points considering if you face Hinata or Naruto.

As far as ninjutsu was concerned, they proved to be monsters, possessing the 5 affinities and large chakra reserves that already tripled those of Hiruzen. All of this put them at an advantage against their opponents, because they would never be at an elementary disadvantage and could make more devastating attacks thanks to their reserves.

In the Genjutsu department, they had got a lot of these in their arsenal thanks to their foray into the Uchiha library those years before. Needless to say, the Sharingan and Byakugan made learning this art 10 times easier.

Hinata would have continued her training with Anko in poisons, who had been very happy with the progress of this. Hinata had very recently begun in creating his own poisons. All this training had led her to learn how to use senbon to use poisons on the battlefield.

During this time, they had begun controlling the chakra of Kurama and Matatabi. They had built an underground room with some Doton Jutsu and the use of Banbutsu Sōzō. The room had a large matrix stamped on the floor, preventing the chakra from sitting outside the boundaries of the room.

They had shown great progress in the use of such chakra, this was demonstrated in their full control of the first phase, the chakra mantle. Upon entering this state, a dense layer of Chakra is formed around them with two tails for Hinata and nine tails for Naruto. The mantle is a translucent red with chakra bubbles reminiscent of a boiling liquid. It forms chakra legs around its arms and legs, forms two long fox ears, and cat respectively.

They get physical changes ranging from his eyes, in Hinata's case his left eye turns green and his right eye yellow. In Naruto's case his eyes turn red and a pupil in the form of slits. Her nails became claws (Hinata's were considerably longer), her tusks became larger.

Training with the Banbutsu Sōzō had proven to be difficult. Although you could say pleasantly that they had 80% complete. They could create whatever they wanted, but whenever they tried to give life they failed. They have lost count of how many animal bodies they have destroyed after creating them from scratch and even from a blood sample of that animal. Whenever they thought they had completed the jutsu to give life to a being, it would die within a few seconds, the only good thing is that they were getting closer and very soon they could have their parents with them.

Now we find the young couple walking through the village in the direction of the Hokage tower, the villagers were casting their looks of hate and clearly showed their intentions to attack them, of course they could not assault them if they tried. A little tired of the murmurs that were beginning to increase they gave each other a mutual nod and used the rooftops to reach their destination faster.

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Entering through the office door, they were greeted by Hiruzen's smiling face.

"Hinata-chan, Naruto-kun How have they been? " I ask. It had been a couple of days since the last workout they had done together, after all the paperwork wasn't done alone.

"We've been fine Jiji" Hinata replied, for the past five years Hinata started calling Hiruzen in a more affectionate way. Hiruzen remembered the moment with happiness, before the first year she had seen Hinata as a granddaughter in everything but blood and when she called him Jiji the first time, she could only give him one of the sincerest smiles anyone has ever seen on the old man's face.

"Actually Jiji, we wanted to ask you a favor," Naruto said to which the Hokage raised an eyebrow.

"I will do the best I can What do they need?" he said.

"We know we are not shinobi, but we think it would be good if we can perform Rank C missions, it would give us experience when fighting other opponents who would take advantage of any oversight to kill us even if these are bandits. The workouts are good and all, but we know that Anko-sensei and you would be held back from hitting a death blow," Naruto said looking at the Hokage's pensive gaze.

Hiruzen flicker surprised 'We've been getting a lot of missions recently and they start piling up, plus they can be young, but if I'm honest with me, I can only think of 7 people who can beat them in the whole village and 4 are jonin, but they would still win just because of the higher experience, that would leave Jiraiya, Tsunade, and myself' this thought brought a sense of pride.

"Sure, but you would have to be with a Henge during the missions, preferably posing as a Chunin, but you would raise suspicions when they are leaving the village with a Henge he said"

"We can use a seal, this activates a Henge that is undetectable, in addition this would be active as long as the user has chakra, the best part is that it only consumes the chakra necessary to activate it" said Hinata while she like Naruto went through a series of 5 manual seals before touching and leaving a formula where her palms had made contact. They were later surrounded by smoke, when they cleared themselves adult versions of themselves in Konoha Chunin's uniform.

Hiruzen I observe I have tried to distinguish the remains of chakra that accompany the Henge, but could not find any.

"Ok, I must say I'm surprised by the seal. Since they are not ninjas officially the missions will be added to their records when they graduate from the academy. Now come with me to the assignment room," Hiruzen said and the three (Naruto and Hinata even with the Henge) left the office.

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"Let's see what we have here. Escorting a caravan of merchants to a village south of Konoha would take two days to reach the village. What do you think?"

"I think Jiji is fine," Naruto said, when an idea came to mind "Jiji, are there Rank C missions within the village?"

"Administrative delivery missions to the different headquarters within the village Do you want to do those?". Wonder

"I think Naruto-kun asked to leave shadow clones that can perform them while we're away," Hinata said looking at Naruto for confirmation.

"Yes, we would put use the extra money from the missions we can perform in the village," Naruto said when the reconnaissance glows in Hinata's eyes.

"We have 10 missions that the clones could perform while they are away," the Kage informed the youth

With everything ready Naruto and Hinata left the clones in charge of performing the missions in the village, as they prepared to escort the caravan.

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For the next three months Naruto and Hinata would be performing the missions outside the village, while their clones would be in charge of carrying them out inside the village. They would take two days between missions to attend the academy, they could not send clones to avoid being discovered in training.

By the end of these three months they had completed 50 Rank C missions among the administrative ones as well as the missions they carried out outside the village. The missions passed without major incidents, only 3 missions were promoted to Rank B by the intervention of missing ninjas of Chunin rank among the groups of bandits they faced.

But during these months something happened that they did not expect. They were returning from a mission to Tanzaku. Deciding that they were in no hurry to return to the village, they began to set up camp when they found a metal gate.

Extending their senses, they confirmed that the place was abandoned, deciding that they might as well take a look at the place after all was on the grounds of the land of fire.

As they went down the stairs of the place they were greeted by a strong and unmistakable smell. The smell of death and rot rolled the place.

Started exploring the place that seemed to be an underground base with multiple rooms. The contents of many of the rooms caused them to vomit the contents of their stomachs, the rooms ranged from some kind of laboratory with bodies still decomposing. Others had dismembered people, tied to walls in states that were impossible to recognize.

When they were about to leave the base a room that they had not explored caught the attention of Hinata, when they entered the blood froze. Like the other rooms the bodies were scattered all over the place, but what really disturbed her was that these bodies belonged to children, some seemed to be younger than them. Calling Naruto to look for some indication of who might have done such an atrocity they found a small study room. On it they would find a table with multiple seals and blood samples, but the most alarming thing was to whom some of these vials belonged.

"Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju and... Minato Namikaze... who could do this?" was Hinata's whispered question.

"I wonder the same Thing Hime," Naruto said, until he saw a few notes in what appeared to be a diary. When studying the notes, the answers to all their questions were answered, showing Hinata the notes the same thought passed through their heads "Orochimaru bastard".

Deciding that they had seen enough, they took the blood samples and the diary to speed up to the village.

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Hiruzen was with two other people in his office. One of them was a man this measured 193cm and was wearing black ANBU pants and a long-sleeved black jacket and scarf that covered the top of his head. The man had a few scars on his face, it was Ibiki Morino, a Jonin Special and commander of the Konoha Interrogation and Torture Force.

Next to Ibiki was a woman about 167cm, wearing full-length net armor with a short brown skirt and a long trench coat that covered her D-cup breasts. He had purple hair combed like a pineapple and brown eyes. It was no one but Anko.

"That would be it, they are fired," Hiruzen said after reviewing the report delivered by the two members of the Interrogation and Torture Force. But before they could respond and leave the room the doors opened giving way to Naruto and Hinata with the most serious expressions Hiruzen has ever seen on their young faces.

When the Kage saw his expressions he felt the beginning of a new headache.

"Hokage-sama" began Hinata "We found one of the old bases of Orochimaru" He said. Anko's cry was not long in coming "WHAT?"

"We were on our way to the village when we found the entrance to the base, we decided to investigate the place for information, when we entered the bodies were all over the site, but the most alarming thing is this," Naruto said, handing over the diary and samples.

Hiruzen's face paled when I quickly identified what was delivered, then his face became clean of emotions. "Ibiki, Anko go to the base and leave no trace of it." After saying the place of the base Anko and Ibiki left the room leaving the three in this one.

After a minute's silence Naruto and Hinata saw a thoughtful and sad look appear on the Hokage's face. Assuming he had to do with Orochimaru, he was after all one of Hiruzen's most beloved students, yet he got caught up in his own ambitions.

"They wanted a few missions to have experience along with more money for you and ended up finding one of my student's old labs." They nodded in confirmation and the Hokage continued "Since they found her and brought in arctics that in the wrong hands could be deadly to Konoha I'm going to record this as an S-Rank mission. They will never talk about this and everything you found and saw inside of there will never be mentioned is it clear?" the Hokage said in a serious and demanding tone.

"Hai Hokage-sama" responded at the same time as any other ninja in their ranks and this brought a smile to the Kage's old face.

Once they left the office the Hokage stood in his chair, lost in his thoughts 'The charm of rank C missions, you never know what can happen' as he laughed. Coming out of his thoughts I look at the amount of paperwork on his desk that seemed to multiply before his eyes, then I look at the photos of the previous Hokages on the wall and could swear that they all had a big smile on their faces as they watched him suffer before this evil entity.

"DAMN PAPERWORK."

Meanwhile outside the office, the young couple were on their way to their apartment when they heard the scream of their grandfather/sensei/Hokage figure.

"You'd think after all this time of seeing us use Kage Bunshin, not counting the number of times I use him to help us in our training, there would be enough time to use him to do the paperwork," Hinata said with a laugh, "I wonder should we tell you?"

Frowning mockingly as he took a pose simulating a deep thought."… I don't think so" was Naruto's response before bursting out loud with Hinata joining him.