Chapter 4
I'm back! Welcome everybody to chapter 4 of 'Sword of Power'. In the last chapter, Naruto met Hanabi and in this we will see a little bit of their relationship. Also, in the last chapter, if you remember well, Katsuki wanted Yamato. Here, we are going to see why and what he is going to do for it. And finally, we are going to see the big difference on how Minato and Kushina treat Momo, Liz and Katsuki and how they treat Naruto. And now, let's go to the story!
Legend:
"Talking."
'Thinking...'
Chapter 4: Royalty and Peasants
"I can't believe you actually hit him." Naruto told his Hyuga friend that scoffed and crossed her arms.
"He had it coming. No one makes fun of me or my friends." She explained and Naruto shook his head as he passed a hand across his silver hair.
One year had passed since Naruto and Hanabi met. Neither had a lot of friends but they didn't need that. One good friend can make up to ten average friends. (According to them)
Naruto hang out with Shikamaru and Chouji when Hanabi was forced to do her duties as Hinata's personal helper. Or maid as Naruto said when Hanabi told him of her first day doing her duties.
Naruto had gotten a lot stronger with Yamato under the care of Hayate and Yugao. Mastering the Dark Slayer Style in one year. Now, he was perfecting it.
Taijutsu was average. Good enough for the academy. Kind of 'Un-youthful' for Gai. The man promised while crying youthful tears that Naruto will become a Taijutsu expert when the academy is done.
Ninjutsu and Genjutsu are zones that none of them are good at. The most they could teach him is the shadow clone jutsu, but that would come in the future.
Because Hayate wants to pass him his Dance of the Crescent Moon.
Anyway, going back to the topic. Hanabi and Naruto spent the day hanging out together. They went to the park to play, they ate ice-cream and talked more than nothing. Mostly Hanabi. Naruto is the quiet type.
They decided to go home early, because Hanabi end up fighting a kid that made fun of Naruto's hair and Hanabi being demoted to the branch family.
The only reason Naruto didn't hit him, was because Hanabi beat him to that.
They kept talking about everything until they arrived at the Hyuga compounds doors. There, a small Hyuga girl was waiting, a frown decorating her face as she watched Naruto and Hanabi get closer.
Hanabi got a panicked look on her face seeing the other Hyuga. That made Naruto raise a brow. In second thought...
Where had he seen this girl before?
"Where were you?" The Hyuga demanded and Hanabi played with her fingers.
"I-I was out Hinata-sama." Hanabi said looking down, afraid of what she could do.
Naruto looked at Hinata, Hanabi's sister and clan heir. He narrowed his eyes seeing that she was treating her sister like if she was some sort of dog.
"Doing what?" she questioned once again and Hanabi gulped.
"I was with a friend." Hinata then turned to Naruto and glared at him. Naruto didn't bother about that, already getting more that annoyed with her behavior.
"Go inside. I want to talk to... Him." Hinata said and Hanabi looked between Naruto and her sister. Hinata turned one more time to her "What are you still doing here? Go. Now." Hanabi quickly nodded and left giving Naruto an apologetic look.
Once inside, Hinata turned to Naruto with a glare. "And you; why are you with my sister?" She questioned or more like demanded and Naruto looked impassive.
"Because I can and I want. I don't understand why you are so altered about it, Hyuga-san." Naruto answered calmly and Hinata narrowed her eyes.
"Don't talk so casually to me. I am Hinata Hyuga, Heir to the Hyuga Clan. You, a nobody, don't even have the same right to breathe the same air that the lowest of the branch members do." SHe said with an arrogant smirk, expecting to see the silver-haired kid apologize and leave shaking in fear.
Naruto rolled his eyes "So, not even being a Namikaze, a son of the Hokage, is enough to be close to a branch member. You Hyugas and your standards are out of this planet." Naruto said as Hinata eyes widened.
"N-Namikaze?"
Naruto nodded "My full name is Naruto Namikaze. Maybe my sister Liz told you about me."
In fact, she had. She remembers that her best friend told her how her older brother had changed in both, personality and looks. Gulping, Hinata bowed.
"Forgive my rudeness Namikaze-san. If I was aware of it, I wouldn't had acted like I did." Hinata apologized and Naruto nodded.
"Sure. Goodbye." he said, accepting her apology and turning to leave.
But Hinata, afraid that she stained relationships with the Namikaze clan, decided to take one step further.
"Well, why don't you come to take tea with me as a form of apology. To show that there are no hard feelings between us and our clans." She said standing tall and saw that Naruto already was walking away.
"I guess I can make some time. I'll come at 5 on clock." He said as he disappeared into the crowd. Hinata nodded satisfied and went to plan his tea party she'll have tomorrow with the Namikaze.
*Namikaze Compound*
Naruto entered his home and sighed. He was invited to have tea with the Hyuga heiress. As easy it would be to just skip that and not go, that could cause a new bunch of problems. One of them, being Liz annoying him with questions on why he left her friend waiting.
"Hey Naruto."
Talking about the devil.
"Hello Liz." Naruto said as he went to the kitchen to serve himself a glass of water. Liz followed him and started to ask her questions.
"You came home early. What happened?"
"Hanabi attacked a guy and it was for the best call it a day there."
Liz giggled and nodded "No training today?"
Naruto shook his head "Already done. Now I'm going to meditate. I have a hard day tomorrow."
Liz raised an eye brow "Hard how?"
Naruto looked at her over his shoulder "Your friend, Hinata, thought that she insulted me somehow, so she invited me tomorrow to take the tea with her." Naruto explained and he regretted it when he saw Liz grin and rush to him, grabbing his shoulders.
"That's great! This will help both of you a lot!" She exclaimed and Naruto raised an eyebrow as he shook her hands off her shoulders.
"Help me how?"
"To expand your social circle dummy!" She explained and Naruto narrowed his eyes, not like to be called dummy but Liz continued. "You literally have only 3 friends and you mostly only hang out with one. Hinata-chan only has me as her friend. You might note that she is..."
"Stuck up? Boring? A jerk?" Naruto suggested and Liz gave him a look.
"Serious." She stated and Naruto nodded.
"Also that."
"Anyway, you two can become friends after this. Hey, I got an idea; why don't you guys hang out after this? Hm? That way you can see her more than a stuck up, boring, serious jerk. What do you say?"
Naruto looked at her with a blank, slightly annoyed, look "You are going to keep pestering me until I agree. Aren't you?"
Liz nodded with a smile "Hm."
Naruto groaned as he passed a hand through his hair "Fine. But you better not annoy me for anything for a week."
"Deal." Liz said and Naruto went to his room to meditate.
Up there, he turned to Yamato that was resting on his lap. "Why do I feel I'll regret this?"
*Next Day, Hyuga Compound*
After training with Hayate and Yugao Naruto headed to the Hyuga compound. There, a guard received him.
"Namikaze-sama, Hinata-sama is waiting for you." The guard said and Naruto nodded. The guard then proceeded to guide him to a room where Hinata was sat in front of a small coffee table. Next to her, was Hanabi holding a tray with tea, biscuits and sweets. Hanabi was glaring at the floor, not happy that her best and only friend is going to watch her being a maid as he said one day.
"Hello Hyuga-san, Hanabi." Naruto greeted and Hanbi smiled at him and nodded while Hinata frowned, feeling that they already started with the wrong foot.
Naruto sat in front of Hinata and Hanabi put the tray on the table. "I will take my leave now." Hanabi said and then she left the room.
Naruto watched her leave and close the door behind her and Hinata coughed to get the Namikaze attention.
"At the beginning, she was rebellious and not really cooperative. But after diciplinating her a little, she quickly changed." Hinata said to start a conversation. Yesterday, while Naruto was meditating, Hinata and Liz hanged out. There, Hinata asked Liz what to talk about with Naruto.
Liz told her to speak about something interesting and not go around some random talk.
In Hinata's book, tradition is important and interesting. So, let's start with that.
"I know. Hanabi told me when she broke down crying because her sister hurts her for thinking." Naruto said calmly as he drank his tea. Hinata frowned, not liking how that came back at her.
"She wasn't respecting our tradition. The ones that don't respect our rules, must be punished." Hinata defended herself and Naruto nodded.
"I heard about those rules. There are the ones that makes two sisters master and slave with a difference of 5 minutes, right?" Naruto said as he grabbed a cookie and started to eat it.
Okay, this is going in the wrong direction. She invited him to apologize, not to upset him even more.
"Well, let's not speak about clan politics anymore. The whole point of these meeting is to apologize for my rudeness I showed yesterday. If there is something I can do, I will certainly do it." Hinata offered with a polite smile and Naruto nodded.
Remembering the deal, he made with Liz yesterday, he steeled himself for what will come out of his mouth next. "Well, I was wondering if you are busy tomorrow. If you are not, would you mind walking with me across the village?" Naruto asked and smiled slightly as he heard something (or someone) fall outside the other side of the door.
Hinata blushed as the question caught her off guard. "W-Well, I am free tomorrow s-so I guess that your r-request is possible." She spluttered out and Naruto smiled and nodded.
"Good to know Hyuga-san. I'll come tomorrow at 13:00." He then turned and left the room.
After he closed the door, he looked next to him at the floor and saw Hanabi quickly picking up small pieces of glass. Probably that was the sound that was heard.
"Need help with that?" Naruto asked and Hanabi didn't answer. Naruto sighed and passed his hand through his hair as he bent down at Hanabi's level.
"Hanabi; if you are mad because I will be with your sister tomorrow, it is because Liz asked me to do it. This will change nothing between us. I will still be your friend after this. Okay?"
Hanabi smiled slightly and nodded "Okay."
Naruto nodded and helped Hanabi on her little job. Once done, he left.
*Namikaze Compound*
Naruto walked into his home and saw that his sisters were watching how Katsuki was hitting a wooden dummy with a boken. Naruto was curious for that, but didn't bother on why his brother would want to learn kenjutsu now.
He was going to his room to meditate as usual but knowing how his younger sister was he knew it was going to be hard.
"NAAAAAAAARU!" Momo screamed as she clanged to her older brother waist. Naruto released a sigh.
"Yes Momo?"
"Hey, Kat is also training with a sword! Maybe he is inspired by you!"
"I doubt it."
Momo pouted at her brother negativity but then she grinned. "Hey, why don't you help him?"
Naruto raised an eye brow "Why, would I ever do that?"
"Because you are a good big bro!" Momo cheered. Naruto rolled his eyes and was going to head to his room and ignore all that what his younger sister just said.
"Momo, what could this loser teach me?" Katsuki asked walking with the boken leaning on his shoulder. "I mean, I had been trained by Jiraya. A Sannin. And he is being trained by a no name jounin to become what he is now. Nothing." He mocked with a smirk.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at him and walked to the yard, where Katsuki was training. Liz sighed knowing that this was going to end badly for one of her brothers. Maybe Katsuki is stronger than Naruto, but Naruto has more training in kenjutsu than him.
But still, her money is on Katsuki.
Katsuki walked in front of Naruto, a big grin on his face. "Hey, why don't we make this more interesting?"
Naruto raised a brow "How more interesting?"
"Simple; a bet. If you lose, that sword is mine!" Katsuki exclaimed and Naruto looked at Yamato before looking back at his brother.
"And if you lose?"
"I don't care. I won't lose anyway, so you are welcome to say whatever you want." Katsuki said and Naruto twitched his lips.
"Then, when I beat you, I want you to admit that I am better than you." Katsuki scoffed.
"As if. Well, I'm going to win so it doesn't matter. Liz, you are the referee."
"Katsuki are you su-"
"Just start the thing Liz." Katsuki ordered and Liz sighed as she made the sign to begin. Both brothers with boken in hand stared at each other, before Katsuki rushed towards Naruto ready to swing down towards his head.
Naruto simply moved to the side and made Katsuki fall by putting his foot in front of his. Katsuki fell face first to the ground and Naruto pressed the tip of his boken on Katsuki back.
"Are you happy?" Naruto asked and Katsuki glared at him and let out a growl out.
Naruto rolled his eyes as he got the boken off Katsuki. Katsuki turned around and saw that his older brother offered him his hand. Katsuki frown deepened as he slapped the hand away and stormed away into the house.
Naruto shook his head as he grabbed Yamato and walked pass his shocked sisters and towards his room.
*Next Day, Hyuga Compound*
Naruto was admitted again to enter the compound and was heading towards the garden. The guard told him to go there because Hinata was waiting at that spot.
On his way there he passed the training field of the clan and saw Hanabi furiously hitting a training post.
Naruto decided to kill some time and to see what was bothering his friend. He walked behind her and tapped her shoulder making her jump and turn around with an angry frown on her face.
"Something wrong?" Naruto asked her. She huffed and turned back to the post.
"You should go. Hinata-sama is waiting." Naruto sighed.
"I am not interested to be with your sister for too long. I already told you that. So, what's the problem?"
Hanabi took a breath to calm herself down "Are we still going to be friends after this?"
Naruto nodded "Yes."
"You promise?" She asked turning to him.
"Look Hanabi, I told you once, I told you twice; I'm with you till the end. Understood?"
Hanabi smile came back again as she nodded "Hm! Now go with Hinata. If she finds out you took some time because of me, she'll be mad." Naruto smiled slightly as he walked away towards the room where the Hyuga princess was.
And done! This was the fourth chapter of 'Sword of Power'. Some things first:
This chapter I started writing it before I took a break. So, if some parts are kind of weird, forgive me.
I decided to take Tayuya and Temari out of the harem. I read reviews and PMs you guys send me so, you win. Hanabi, Ino, FemHaku and Hinata are the only ones in the harem.
Why I didn't put a scene with Hinata and Naruto at the end? Simple. I ran out of ideas. Sorry!
This chapter was based on another story, so if you found them to similar, I am sorry.
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