Uzumaki Naruto Chronicles Rewrite

Chapter 18

The Apology

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That night in Naruto's Mind scape

Naruto and Kurama were sitting together in their field, sitting with their feet in the water of the spring.

"Naruto, did you sense it?" Kurama asked the boy.

Naruto was unsure, "Kurama, I thought I felt something off about Kabuto, but it was probably just jealousy, right?"

Kurama shook her head, "Naruto, there is something evil about that boy, he has negative intentions with Hinata, I don't know enough yet to know what it is, so do not say anything about it, you will need to have a longer conversation with him for me to know more. Just warn her to be careful with him for now. We don't want him screwing with her and then leaving her in despair. However we cannot make allegations yet. We will need to catch him with something."

Naruto cursed, "Fuck, so it was not just jealous, well I don't know how I am going to tell her, she won't even talk to me. I have no idea what to do."

Kurama nodded, "Well for now you just need to give her time, be there for her if she needs it, and be understanding. I know you hate that she is treating you almost like the villagers, but this one is actually your fault. She is hurting inside Kit, I can feel it, she is so confused, and unsure. You have to be understanding of her."

Naruto sighed but nodded his understanding, looking down sad. "You know how much I love her, right? I am only trying to protect her, but she won't listen to me, she won't let me talk to her."

Kurama nodded, "I know that is what you think Kit, but Hinata is not something you can deny now and take back later. If you want her, you will have to be selfish and decide to have her now, not wait until it is safe."

Naruto shook his head unsure what he was going to do.

The two didn't say much else, Kurama knew Naruto was processing, so she sat there and let him.

The next morning.

Naruto, Kakashi, Shikamaru, and Anko met at the training field that morning ready to train. First Kakashi had Naruto and Shikamaru spar as him and Anko watched, shouting out corrections for the two to make in their techniques as well as defenses. How to defend a certain attack and how to make a certain attack, as well as when to make them.

It was a very one sided spar, Naruto was too fast and powerful, as smart as Shikamaru was, he could not predict Naruto's next move it was all so random.

Finally Anko and Kakashi called a stop to the spar and had the two run through physical exercise. Kakashi had outfitted Shikamaru with his own weight seals and upped Naruto's to a ridiculous amount. Naruto could not even move without pumping chakra into his muscles. Naruto grimaced as he tried to fight through it. The two did pushups, crunches and ran laps around the village.

While they were running Kakahsi had ran and got food for the four of them. When they finished their laps they stopped and started to eat. Enjoying their meal time and chatting.

After they finished eating, Anko stood up and left, going to visit Hinata in the hospital. Kakashi, grinned, this next part would be kind of fun. He gave Shikamaru a scroll with Genjutsu's on it. He taught Shikamaru the basics and had him start to use them on Naruto. Naruto was none too happy about it, being a test dummy was not his favorite thing to do. While he was doing this however, he had thousands of clones learning new jutsus for him to use. He had convinced Kakashi to teach him the Great Abyssal Flare jutsu. He was working hard on that, as well as a couple wind style jutsu, and had many others working on seals.

This genjutsu training was taking it out of him mentally. They were not fun to break out of, in fact he could not break out of them, no matter how hard he tried. It was so frustrating.

The Konoha Hospital

Anko walked into Hinata's room and grinned, the girl was actually alone, Anko didn't like Kabuto very much. Something about the boy rubbed her the wrong way. She couldn't place where from, and she was not going to say anything to Hinata.

Hinata's eyes were red and puffy, she had been crying, but she perked up when Anko walked in. "Anko-sensei, what are you doing here?"

Anko grinned, "Well I couldn't very well not visit my favorite student."

Hinata grinned, "Thank you for coming."

Anko nodded and brought out a bag of food from behind her back, "I brought you dango!"

Hinata grinned and gladly took the food, splitting it with her sensei. Anko had really become like a mother to her. Her mother had died when her little sister was born, and ever since Hinata had not only been missing a mother, but also a father. However Anko was quickly becoming a mother figure to her.

"How are your ribs?" Anko asked the girl.

Hinata shook her head and finished the bite she had taken, "They are still sensitive, they hurt when I move, but otherwise I am doing relatively well."

Anko nodded, "That happens when your ribs are broken in a fight. what about your shoulders?"

Hinata shrugged, "They are getting better, but they still hurt as well, in general, I am sore."

Anko nodded, "You may not know this, but Naruto really saved you, big time, and at the cost to his own safety."

Hinata looked down, "I know he got hurt, but to what extent? Was it really him that saved me?"

Anko nodded, "It was him, all him, he pushed himself much harder than he should have when you were taken, he beat his opponent then went after you."

Hinata nodded, "I was unconscious by the time he got there, I think, I thought I saw him, but I wasn't sure."

Anko put a hand to her chin, "Hinata, he almost died for you."

Hinata shook her head, "It couldn't have been that bad, he was up walking around yesterday."

Anko frowned, "Hinata maybe I should show you exactly what happened." With that Anko did some handsigns and put her hand to Hinata's head and showed Hinata what she had been shown by Inoichi.

When the vision had ended Hinata was appalled. "Why? Why would he do that? I have treated him so bad, he let himself be impaled to save me."

Anko nodded, "Hinata, I am not telling you to date him, to give on Kabuto or anything like that. But Naruto cares for you, yes he broke up with you, but he has his reasons. Those reasons were not to hurt you."

Hinata had tears in her eyes, "What could those reasons possibly be?"

"Hinata, I'm sorry, but it is not my place to say." Anko told the girl.

Hinata nodded now crying, she was just so confused, she had to talk to Naruto, but she couldn't just blow off Kabuto, he liked her, he wanted to be with her, Naruto didn't. Plus Kabuto was just as kind as Naruto had ever been to her, plus he had defended her, even if it was to Naruto, and unnecessary.

"Anko, what should I do?" The lost girl asked her sensei.

Anko shook her head, "I can't tell you what to do here Hinata, you should talk to Naruto though. That would be a good first step."

Hinata nodded, and the two continued to talk.

The next day

Naruto woke up the next day to a knock on his window. He looked out and saw Hinata, he raised an eyebrow, shocked. He opened the window and let her inside his room. She blushed, and he realized it was because he was shirtless, wearing only pants.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, then pulled a shirt out of his drawer and put it on. After he did he turned to Hinata and grinned at her, "What's up?"

Hinata looked down, "I know you have been trying to talk to me, to tell me why you broke up with me," At this point Hinata was choked up, holding back tears, but she continued, "P-please don't try to tell me, I-I don't want to talk about it, It hurts too much, to talk about. I-I also am going to give Kabuto a chance, he asked me out yesterday, and I am going to go on a date with him. Y-you have no right to say no or try to s-stop me, you broke up with me. That is the other reason I don't want to know, if I know it might stop me from taking a chance with Kabuto, and since you don't want me, why should I do that."

Naruto gulped, Hinata was full on bawling now, he wasn't sure what to do, so he pulled her into a hug. She cried for another minute but soon pulled away.

"Hinata, I am so very sorry for everything, I just don't want to lose you as a friend. You are one of my best friends I can't lose that, please, can we still be friends?"

Hinata nodded, "W-we can try Naruto, thank you for saving me by the way."

Naruto shook his head, "It was no big deal."

Hinata teared up again, "It was a big deal, I have been terrible to you, yet you still took a blade for me. Why?"

Naruto grinned, "I couldn't let my best friend die could I?"

Hinata shook her head but didn't say anything. She stepped back and winced, that was when Naruto noticed her ribs were still messed up. "Hinata have you been released from the hospital yet, or did you just escape?"

Hinata looked down and didn't say anything.

Naruto laughed and told her, "Why don't we go get breakfast, and we can just talk to each other again."

Hinata nodded and the two left out of Naruto's window and grabbed some breakfast. After that he escorted Hinata back to the hospital and helped her sneak in. Naruto left saying he had training to get to, but he would talk to her later.

When Naruto arrived at the training field no one was there, he walked a little ways away to the memorial stone where he found Kakashi.

"Kakashi, you okay?" Naruto asked the scarecrow like man.

Kakashi nodded, "Just paying my respects to your parents, I miss them, having you around has certainly made me miss them more. You look so similar to your dad, but act so much more like your mother. It's laughable really."

Naruto grinned, "Thanks I appreciate that."

Kakashi nodded, "By the way Naruto, if you are going to continue to have girls sneak into your room, we will have to have the talk."

Naruto went beet red, "Uh, what?"

Kakashi grinned at him and shoved his arm playfully. Naruto shoved back and the two started walking to the training area and getting started. The two of them sparring and Kakashi helping him with his techniques.

They were soon joined by Shikamaru and Anko, and later Hinata, though Hinata mainly watched and trained physically to get her strength back up. Though her ribs were still hurting a lot. Soon after she started, she stopped and already at her max, purely because of her ribs. She sat down and watched the boys train with their senseis.

When they were done the all went to dinner together,

After dinner Kakashi and Anko left to do their own thing. Shikamaru was the next to go, needing to head home and do some household chores. Naruto and Hinata got up to leave, but as they did they ran into Kiba, Sasuke, and Sakura.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the loser." Sasuke said.

Naruto scoffed, "What is it you want Sasuke?"

Sasuke laughed, "From you nothing in particular, although Kiba wanted to ask Hinata something."

Kiba grinned, "Yeah, Hinata, babe, you are looking sexy as always, so I heard you and Naruto broke up. You finally got over this fucking loser, so why are you with him."

Hinata shuddered, "Kiba, I do not answer to you, Naruto is not a loser, and we are friends."

Kiba laughed at the girl, taking a step towards her, however Naruto was not having it, Naruto stepped in front of her, guarding her.

Kiba laughed and threw a punch at the boy, Naruto deflected and shoved him back.

"Get out of the way Naruto, this doesn't concern you. I am just trying to talk to Hinata."

Naruto growled, "Kiba, you are not just trying to talk to her, you are intimidating her, and I won't fucking let you continue doing it."

Sasuke spoke up next, "Naruto I suggest you get out of his way, it isn't cool to stand in someone's when they are trying to chat up a girl."

Naruto gritted his teeth, "Get the fuck outta here, or else."

Sasuke took that moment to attack Naruto, kicking him and blowing him away from Hinata. Sakura following and aiding Sasuke in his attack of Naruto. While Kiba moved in on Hinata to talk to her.

Kiba put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her in closer. "Now that you are single, lets talk about you and I."

Hinata shoved him away and slapped him, "Get the hell away from me!"

Kiba got mad and advanced on her. That is when Naruto appeared in front of them and nailed Kiba with a kick in the side. Kiba flew away, as Naruto blocked a strike from Sakura and threw her to the side, then caught an axe kick from Sasuke above his hands using a cross arm gaurd to do it. He shoved Sasuke back, and went into a leg sweep as Sakura charged again, sweeping her off of her legs and then grabbing her arm and throwing her into the advancing Kiba. He then charged at Sasuke, but noticed something wrong, Sasuke had activated his sharingan. Now the fight got hard.

Sasuke grabbed Naruto's leg and swung him away from Hinata. Naruto crashed through a few boxes and charged back against Sasuke pissed.

Kiba got up and charged Hinata, "You little bitch, how dare you strike me like that, you need to learn your place."

As he was about to hit Hinata, someone caught his hand. Hinata looked up to see Kabuto blocking Kiba. Kabuto hit Kiba in multiple pressure points and threw Kiba away. Kiba tried to move but couldn't.

"Hinata, are you okay?" Kabuto asked Hinata.

Hinata nodded, blushing, "Thank you Kabuto."

Kabuto nodded grinning, "Of course, I will always be there you."

Hinata nodded and hugged Kabuto, this of course is when Naruto walked back up and frowned.

"Right, uh Hinata, I will see you for training tomorrow." With that said Naruto disappeared from sight.

"W-wait, Naruto!" Hinata yelled out, but it was too late, he was already gone. Hinata's head dropped and she was clearly upset, she had not meant for Naruto to see her hugging Kabuto.

Kabuto took her hand and consoled her.

"Hinata, it is alright, he probably just had to get going, why don't I walk you home." Kabuto asked the girl.

Hinata nodded and the two began walking towards her compound. When they got to the compound Kabuto leaned down enveloping Hinata in another hug and gave her a kiss on the cheek, she blushed and thanked him again before running inside.

Kabuto smirked and talked into a mic, "Lord Orochimaru, I have the Hyuuga heiress believing every bit of this charade, she is trusting me more that ever. It will not be long before we are ready to move on to the next part of our plan."

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