Life as a Fox

Chapter Four*2013 Revision*

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Naruto woke up the next morning and yawned; he stretched and shook himself awake as he pushed open the door to the outside world. As he looked outside he saw Rain puddles scattered about. He turned his head and listened for noise, everything was as it should be. Naruto sighed and trotted over to the main house, he found a sliding door and pushed it open; he then began to sniff the air trying to pick up on Hinata's scent.

It was weird going through someone else's home, but he couldn't help it, he had to find Hinata. He smelled a faint scent of her usual lily smell and followed his nose to her, he saw no one as he traveled through the house, once more he came to a sliding door, he opened it up and saw Hinata on a futon bed.

She had a wet towel wrapped over her forehead, and the female from last night , Hana he thought her name was. Was sitting next to her, Hana's three dogs were no where to be seen. Hinata's coughing brought Naruto to attention he walked over to her, Hana saw him then "oh,….err,…good boy, you found your master" she then patted his head gruffly.

He sat down and looked at Hinata she had more color to her and she looked more at peace but he could sense fever running through her, he nuzzled her arm giving her comfort hoping she would feel him there and know someone was still their for her.

Hana then stood and walked over to him "wow I can't believe it, Kiba was right, a wolf fox!, how interesting" she said to herself as she looked him over. Naruto rolled his eyes 'really? Am I that interesting?' then he heard a weak voice croak out "Fluffy"?. Naruto and Hana both looked to awakened Hinata. Hana was wetting a towel and placing it on her head saying that she should rest, but Hinata instead brought her arm up and put it around his neck "you saved me, good boy" then she fell back into her sleep.

Naruto sighed and laid down, when his belly growled he looked up to Hana, she stared at him a bit then she must have put two and two together "oh, silly me, of course you're hungry." She left for a bit then came back holding a metal dog bowl, she placed it in front of him, Naruto stared at it, what was in that bowl might have been a living creature at one time, but now it was canned and mashed up beyond recognition.

Naruto sniffed it, it smelled weird, then he hesitantly took a small bite because he knew he had to seem like a dog. Even though the human in him protested, he swallowed what little he got in his mouth and shivered slightly. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either, it was like tofu, it has all the nutrients but no real taste to it. Naruto sighed but kept eating it bit by bit until she left. Then he stopped and pushed the dish away, now he left Hinata for a bit to go find water to wash his mouth out.

He followed the rooms of the house feeling as though he was in a maze. Naruto who was used to his one bedroom apartment was completely astounded by how much space these people had, and some rooms where completely barren of anything, it was such a waste, did they really need that much? Then he heard a scratching and barking suddenly four dogs had come running up to him.

They were not mean or hostile, they seemed to say the same thing over and over "new dog, lets play!" Naruto who had never really 'played' before not even as a human, kids never wanted to play with him so he spent most of his child hood days alone, now these four strange dogs wanted to play with him.

Suddenly one barked loudly and bent his front so his rear stuck in the air, his tongue lolled out of his mouth and his tail wagged happily. He stayed like that as if waiting for something, Naruto looked at them confused the dogs tilted their heads and whined, another one a female this time did it, Naruto ended up backing away and trotting away from them, they just stared after him for a second then ran off with each other.

Tsume watched the new animal with much interest, ever since it woke up she followed it around at a distance, this was quite a peculiar animal, it was guarded in its posture, always looking and watching, as though it was trying to figure something out. It seemed unsure of itself which was only natural in a new place, but when the animal backed away from the inclination of playing which any dog would do, even Kuromaru! This surprised her to no end; instead the animal just went around the house opening doors and looking at things.

Once it had made a swing through all the first floor rooms He must have decided that was enough, and trotted back to his master side. Tsume then thought it was a very loyal and obedient animal, but when Kiba had told her last night Hinata had found the dog only few days ago it was just down right unnatural, no dog would be that guarding and loyal after a day or two.

Tsume to say the least was just puzzled, she decided to take a closer look at this animal, she walked into the room where Hinata slept, the dog looked up at her watching her with eerily striking blue eyes that held much composure and intelligence. It seemed to ask 'who are you'? When he cocked his head "well, Fluffy, how are you today?

"Hinata seems to be getting better, a couple more hours and she might have hypothermia, you saved her life, you're well-trained" Tsume said it was unnerving the way he had watched her a listened to her every word as if he understood them, but even more shocking was the fact he nodded his head as if to say 'yes I am'.

Tsume mulled her thoughts about for a bit then said "Fluffy, come" the dog stood up and came to her "sit" he sat, "speak" he barked, "rollover" he did so, the usual moves anyone teaches there dog. Then she smirked thinking she would confuse the dog with a few commands of an Inuzaka dog "jump and spin on the front."

After a moment's hesitation she thought she had the dog, but the dog looked like he was concentrating then he easily jumped into the air landed on his front paws holding its back legs in the air. He balanced and spun once around on its front paws.

Tsume stared shocked it had done it so gracefully and balanced it seemed to act as though it was a veteran dog of hers. She closed her mouth "jump and spin on backs" he did so with the same fluid grace, now she was astounded. She yelled gruffly "Kiba get in here!" Kiba then rushed in, "what is it ma"? He said somewhat sleepily.

He wore his usual gray shirt and black pants, his face already painted. She turned to her son "give this dog a command" she said pointing to it Kiba stared at her then looked down at it "umm…..backward flip" The dog after a little consideration braced himself then from a standing position flipped backwards and landed on its feet, a light was in its eyes as if to say 'is that the best you can do?'.

Tsume grinned this dog was very interesting, "Kiba I am going to go test this dog okay? If anyone needs anything tell them I'll get to it later, this dog is more important right now" Kiba nodded "okay , what about Hinata?" Tsume looked over at her "keep taking care of her, the poor girl, what kind of father would do that I do not know, she can stay with us for a bit." Kiba nodded and Tsume turned to the dog "okay Fluffy, follow me."

Naruto followed the Inuzaka clan leader to an empty court-yard behind the main house. There was some sort of obstacle course built there, first there was a twelve-foot high wall, followed by a set of various ladders, then a wide trench filled with water. Next three hoops, one had to jump through to get to the other side of that which was ten posts sticking up out of the ground from a giant hole in the ground that had a net strung across so if a dog or person did miss a post they would not fall and break something, or die which would be bad.

Tsume turned to the dog, "go to that line" The dog went to the line she pointed to, "stay until I blow this whistle" when the dog was situated instead of sitting or looking around like any other dog would. It stood braced ready for her. Watching her from the corner of its eye, she blew the whistle it took off like a speeding horse. It shot up from the ground and leaped most of the wall, then it propelled itself the last length by pushing its body off the wall, almost seeming to run on it.

It landed on the very top, it studied the sets of ladders for a few seconds, each ladder was set up a different way some led out to the middle of nothing and the dog would have to back up and find a new destination, but this animal was different it almost instantly found the fastest and correct route.

He dashed on to the next obstacle which was a nine foot wide trench, the dog seemed to fly across the surface of the water, but if Tsume would have looked closer near the mid-flight of his jump she would have noticed the dog placing all fours on the surface of the water for a milli- second before using the added leverage to jump the full length.

Then next was the posts, the dog fluidly jumped to each one the posts were only as wide as a dinner plate, but the way the dog moved with such balance and precision it seemed to run across the very air, in the fastest record she had ever did see, which was about 12 seconds Tsume got to see what this dog knew, and boy did it know a lot.

So the dog was fast, and had a good sense of balance as well as showing perfect stamina, but was it able to figure out problems? Think on its feet without commands? Was it able to take risks? These where the things that really mattered. So she moved on the next test the intelligence test.

It was a surprisingly simple test to humans it was actually a device given to us when we were babies, you had these figures and you had to put them in the correct space, well this was the exact same thing only when the dog did it, it got treats, and this dog was second to none the first stage was three shapes, then it went to four, six, eight, all the way to thirty-two different shapes a lot of them look very similar, but once again this dog astounded her it got each one correct.

Next she added color into the factor, you had to match the correct shape and color, and just as before he did it right, and in both tests the dog and ignored the treats. It didn't even look for them he just put the correct shapes in and moved on to the next ignoring the treats that fell out of the opening in the bottom.

Then she went to a whole level greater, she tied the dog up, then put a large lock on it that could be only opened with a key, she then put three keys out, all of them you could easily tell from each other, and you could easily tell which key was supposed to go into the right lock due to the fact it had to be a moon shaped key, the dog figured out what it had to do and picked the right key and broke itself free.

Tsume was starting to think of bringing Shikamaru Nara in to think up of something to test the beast, because she had nothing more for intelligence. She moved on to thinking on its feet, first she put the standard protection the dog would need, then headed out to gather up some other dogs.

When Tsume left Naruto sighed "holy hell, what does this women want from me? Okay the obstacle course was challenging I didn't think I was going to make it that one time, I am doing all this stuff on the fly, who knew my luck would be that good. At least I have gotten used to this body, I just don't know how to do other things, and these tests are simple, and kind of fun.

Naruto's nose brought him back to reality he smelled ten dogs, they weren't the usual large sturdy Inuzaka dogs, these were the cast-offs only one of two from each litter was paired with a Ninja, these dogs mostly were used either for breeding or training the real Inuzaka familiars. So all in all they weren't that skilled any Inuzaka dog could fight them easily.

Once she had ten good sound dogs, ones that would listen to her, she put protection on them. She then placed Fluffy in the middle of the field and had the ten dogs sit in equal spacing around Fluffy, then she got out-of-the-way and gave the command to 'attack'.

The ten dogs thinking like pack thought they would win 10 to 1 odds, was easy enough, even Tsume thought this dog would not be able to do anything. The dog did something she never saw before, instead of rushing at them, or trying to get away our cowering in the I-give-up, stance. The dog stood calm, composed, waiting for them, then it tensed its body, and sprung into action as the first dog met him. He dodged the first set of teeth, and flew through the air landing in front of the ten dog pile up.

He then waited until they sorted themselves out, the dogs rushed him in a line, a few where faster than the rest, Fluffy was even faster he dodged got underneath there heads and sunk his teeth into the fur on their necks and flipped them unto the earth using a power she couldn't believe he had. Three dogs where out, the others backed up momentarily until a new leader shifted through the ranks.

He was a big and tough dog, well muscular and large, Fluffy just waited for him, the last of the dogs made a 'V' as they charged him, this time Fluffy ran out to intercept them as well. At the last second he put his head down and hit the earth and used his body as a weapon to slide beneath the lead dogs legs and trip him, it worked all to well.

The sounds of barks in alarm and whining came from the pile as dogs legs got entwined with one another and they bit and lunged at anything that came near them in their moment of panic. Fluffy just simply picked himself off shook the dust from his fur and patted over to her, a challenge in his eyes, once again saying 'is that the best you go? It was too easy'.

Tsume then did something that was only tested once in a great while. The burning building exercise. She inside placed a doll that looked like a human baby, she then made Fluffy sniff it and get the sent in his head. She then placed the baby inside a cheap housing building on the far end of the compound it was small only two stories, four rooms on each floor, they never used it for anything other than this purpose.

She made Fluffy sit outside as she had the building set on fire. She then motioned for the dog to go after the doll. Fluffy immediately bounded for a dead blackened tree that still managed to stand after catching fire so many times, he bounded up the trunk and to a branch that lead to a second story window, he jumped through it glass and all.

Naruto landed on the wood floor already he could feel the heat of the fire downstairs, but he shook himself, and sorted through the smoke for the smell of the doll. He searched for it, it was in none of the empty rooms upstairs, so he went down stairs, he slid past the fire that was licking the sides of the stairwell, and searched the bottom half of the house.

Naruto kept his head low to where the good air was, away from the smoke, then he found the strongest scent of the doll, right beneath him. He looked carefully to see that Tsume had eased open a floor board and had placed the doll in, Naruto worked a claw in to pop open the floor board. It was tedious work, it required balance and skill to lift the jammed board using claws, but finally the board came out with a pop.

Naruto gently picked up the doll which was wrapped in a swaddled blanket, he looked around for the nearest exit, the fire had spread by now. The flames crawled up the stairs and was licking the edges of the ceiling, the very air scorched his lungs when he breathed. Naruto put his head low and danced his way through the flames, they leapt all around them, the heat from them hurt his eyes and sensitive nose, but he moved forward knowing if this where a real child this would be life or death situation.

Naruto saw the door up ahead, he momentarily paused which was a good thing because some bracing fell from ceiling just in front of him. Naruto backed slightly then braced his legs and jumped over the mound of burning derbies. He landed on the other side, now it was the door, the door knob had melted and was a glowing red, Naruto was no fool to even think of getting near it, instead he spun around and kicked the door with his back paws with all his might.

It was tiring, Naruto felt he was being roasted alive but he had to press on, a few more good hard kicks and the door buckled, he broke through and ran knowing that when that new air got to the fire there would be a back lash as the flames would burst in size.

Naruto ran all the way until he got to Tsume then he gently set the doll down, he was tired and hot, he knew parts of his fur where singed, he smelt of fire, and burned hair, but more than that he was proud, because he could see the admiration and shock in Tsume's wild eyes.

She knelt and picked up the doll, and looked at it, not a mark on it, she smirked and gently placed a hand on his shoulder, "dog, I don't know where you from, or how, but you are special, that Hinata is lucky to have you." She then stood up. "Someone stop the fire, and escort this dog to Hana, she'll look after him."

Naruto followed one of the Inuzaka's back to the main house then, Hana saw him and gasped. Tsume walked in after him "mother you didn't!" she exclaimed, Tsume nodded "I had to, right now this dog, this Fluffy, is good enough to be one of our own familiar's he was a little slow at the last exercise but he passed". Hana stood her mouth gaping, Tsume smirked then added gruffly "well, stop staring and help the poor creature, he's singed, dirty, and tired" Hana nodded and took him away to get a bath, a medical exam, and finally some real food, a steak, then it was off to bed curled up beside Hinata.

The next day Hinata's fever broke, she was able to regain much of her strength and was even going for a walk with Kiba and Fluffy by sunset. She thanked the Inuzaka household profusely before Tsume stopped her and said it was Fluffy she should thank. Hinata then said she would be out as soon as possible but Tsume would have none of it.

Tsume stood affirmative "you and Fluffy are staying here, you have no clan, and nowhere to go, and I dare not trust you on the streets without Fluffy, beside how are you going to take care of such a magnificent beat like that while your homeless?" Hinata nodded knowing Tsume was right, "but I have to earn my keep!" she exclaimed and Tsume nodded "you will, when you go on missions, half of your earnings will go to us, for boarding of you and Fluffy, but first I would have Kiba train you to get used to fighting with such a skilled animal".

So the next two days she learned the basics, since both her and Fluffy where committed and eager they flew through the quizzes and classes, both of them excelling in what their mentor taught them. Hinata would work with Kiba sometimes separate, learning how to treat dog wounds and care from Kiba and Hana, while Naruto snuck off with Kuromaru to learn a few basics of speech.

Naruto trained with Hinata by day, then snuck out and trained as well at night, he knew he had a month at least to re-learn how to do stuff in this knew body. First it was how to do jutsu's that required hand gestures, but from what Naruto learned gestures where universal if a Ninja lost a hand or finger, they could change the way they did that sign as long as there was a separate gesture for each sign, you could have jutsu's, Naruto did his gestures with his ears.

They where fluid and flexible and he was able to move them in twelve different ways to make a gesture for each of the signs, then he moved onto applying chakra, first he started out with a jutsu he knew the best, multi-shadow clone jutsu, at first he was only able to summon a half formed blob, but after more practice and concentration he was able to be back to his usual standards, once he made a 100 perfect clones he called it good.

Next he set out for chakra control again, first placing a paw on a leaf and splitting it with chakra, then he testily walked across water, once he mastered each step again (this time it took a matter of hours instead of days) he moved onto tree climbing, soon in one night he had re-learned how to do all of his genin rank and academy rank jutsu's and abilities.

The next night in worked on his resengan, knowing he couldn't use his paw, he thought long and hard of what to do, he thought of his tail but it was a no go, then he ended up thinking back to a cartoon Hinata watched in the morning before anyone was awake. About little creatures that battled other creatures, one of them was a cat that concentrated a sphere in its jaws, looking a lot like resengan, Naruto tried and discovered it would work with practice, lots and lots of practice.

Naruto once again snuck out and ran in the shadows, he quickly climbed a wall and headed towards a practice field, usually he practiced in the Inuzaka field but tonight he would need more space, so he headed to training ground seven.

He trotted peacefully through the night his canine eyes seeing everything, his nose warned him if someone was coming or not, he scattered across leaves and stuck to the walls as though he was a shadow himself. No one would think anything of him running the streets but still one had to be wary.

Once he entered the practice field, he made sure no one was around and made several clones thus he began to train to create a resengan again. It took a lot of patience but with this many clones he was making his way rapidly through it.

By midnight he had one, next he had to do it while moving, then he did it while walking across water. Naruto was happy the Kyuubis chakra did not mess with his chakra flow anymore so thus it was almost a hundred times better at chakra control, even Sakura would have to concentrate for this control.

Next Naruto sat and started to think of other jutsu's besides the ones he knew, thus Naruto began to create his own jutsu's the next two nights he thought, tested and trained many ideas some not working but others becoming complete success.

That night Naruto returned to the compound around one in the morning, a trot in his step, he had just finalized three new jutsu's tonight, the first was "Wind art: Wolf-fang no jutsu" where he created large wolves that sprang out from mouth forming with chakra and attacked the target. He could make several of them or one of them, it was both offensive and defensive to a certain degree, but only worked close to mid range.

The next was "Wind art: Claw of the Wolf" where he concentrated chakra in his paws and materialized it to form wicked sharp claws of wind chakra like his wind resengan, but without the drastic after effects, (I.e. nerve damage). Then there was his form of an ultimate defense, like the Hyuuga and their chakra shield he had one as well. But instead of spinning in place he just constantly projected his chakra forming a kind of armor in the shape of a wolf, he could extend this and disengage some parts at will, he knew this would some in handy.

Yes Naruto was happy, and he already had several ideas to what next to try, the next morning he awoke, to find Hinata was already up, he followed her scent and found her not in her training gear but a simple black gown, and not just she everyone was in one, neither her nor Kiba wore their Headbands.

Naruto whined to get her attention she looked down a sadness in her eyes, "Fluffy, we are going to the memorial, we must be respectful, I am sorry I do not think we shall train today, sorry boy" then she ruffled his fur, Naruto sighed inwardly.

Then followed them out one by one as they headed towards the stadium where Naruto defeated Neji in the chunin exams. It was also the place where there was a brutal attack on the village, memories resurfaced strongly in his head as he padded silently next to Hinata.

That's when he caught scent of trouble, he growled lowly and curled defensively around Hinata placing his body in-between her and what was coming, the entire main Hyuuga branch. With Hirashi as lead, and next to him with a plain face was little Hinabi, dressed in what was marked 'clan heiress' gown, Hinata placed a hand on his back "its okay Fluffy, I don't care, besides he dare not offend me now, he's in front of the other clan heads". Naruto barked in answer but still watched Hirashi.

He looked over and saw her and him a small twinge of anger crossed his face but he turned his head defiantly away ignoring their presence all together. Naruto and the rest made their way and him, Hinata and Kiba headed toward their places with the others of the rookie nine force.

Hinata sat next to Neji "how's it going" she whispered Neji answered just as silently "He is still waiting for you to show up at the doors, he thinks you'll fail and come crawling back to him, and he'll be able to gloat over you." Hinata shook her head "not going to happen, I am staying with the Inuzaka's" Neji nodded "so I smell, cousin" and he smirking, Hinata elbowed him.

Then all was silent as Tsunade took to the small stage erected, behind her was Fifty-eight pictures with lanterns burning by them. Each one for each Konoha Ninja that died in battle, and the one exactly in the middle was Naruto's, even in that picture frame you could easily see his bright smile and twinkling eyes from the back of the room, all the others looked dull in comparison.

Hinata's breath caught in her throat, it seemed as though Naruto was staring right at her as if saying 'what's going on? Why are you holding a funeral service? I'm not dead.' She quickly covered her mouth to stop the sob, she thought she had it under control but the emotions came back with a menace.

Just before she felt swept away by them, a warm sensation came from her leg, she looked down Fluffy was there with a paw, and his eyes instantly captivated hers holding them and calming her emotions instantly. the strong calm in those eyes where exactly what she needed to be able to live through this service.

Hinata snaked a hand down and held that paw as well, then she smiled softly through the drying tears. "Its okay, I get it, I stay strong for you, and you stay strong for me." Hinata thought it was weird, but she could have sworn that Fluffy smirked then nodded, as if he understood. But maybe too many tears in her eyes corrupted her vision.

Tsunade went on about how great a Ninja was, and how they sometimes have to pay the ultimate sacrifice. There was then a pause of silence for those who were being honored, then she went on to talk about how each Ninja made Konoha what it was, safe and free, and going on about that. It was a beautiful speech that sent chills down Hinata's spine just listening to the word's of wisdom.

They felt as though they where being spoken from the bottom of Tsunade's heart, pouring out of her very soul. Hinata realized they where, Naruto was one of the nearest and dearest to her, she also knew that Tsuande had also lost so many other loved ones as well.

Hinata instantly felt even sadder for Tsunade, knowing Tsunade had to stay composed while she talked. It seemed to Hinata while she looked around at everyone gathered, Konoha was a broken mirror and Tsunade had to pick up the fragments and put them back together. Being careful not to get cut by them.

Then it was time for a small presentation they put together of photos and sad touching music and projected it on the walls of the stadium. There where small quotes randomly put in made by each person, you knew which person belonged to which group cause a small cheer (or increased crying) came up from a certain groups of people.

Then it was a picture for the first time of Naruto. It was startling but it was clearly him, a full head of blonde hair, blue eyes, smiling, whisker marks, stood in a small kiddy pool full of mud holding a frog. A frog sat on his head, his shirt was wet and dirty and his shorts he wore totally trashed, but the most amazing thing was it was a picture of him when he was maybe five or six, a huge wave of cheering came up from most ninja, even Tsunade made a giggle and clapped for him, then it was a few other small memories, then it was Naruto's turn again.

Once more it was a young Naruto, maybe seven or eight, he stared at the camera in disbelief as one hand held a carrot away from him, the look on his face was like 'what is it, and what do you think I am supposed to do with it?' Then the quote popped up on the bottom "why eat food when there is Ramen?- Uzumaki Naruto" Next there was a few team pictures of the other ninja, a few funny ones when they graduated all wearing their headbands upside down and laughing, a few close-ups and more quotes.

Then at the very end it was a collage of all of them, then the words scrolled up the screen "these are the names we shall, never forget" then one by one they appeared and faded away, then the song ends, and just before people start clapping Tsunade stepped up to the mike, "The next part is a short video of one of these hero's , I found it while going through my office, I think all of you will enjoy it"

Then the thirds voice came on "Is this blasted thing working"?, then the camera was focused several times, then swung around to a view of the hokage office, but then the chair swung around to see a little Naruto a tiny one he couldn't have been three or four, the Thirds voice rang again "Naruto?, Naruto, say hello to the camera" Naruto looked up at him and giggled then hid "no" in the sweetest cutest voice you ever did hear, "well then tell them how old you are"? The third asked Naruto popped up "who"? The third sighed "the people who are going to watch this someday" Naruto giggled then waved happily "hello, evrybodies" then ducked under the desk again.

The Third sighed "Naruto back up here and tell me you age" Naruto giggled then held up his arm "I am four years owld"! He yelled (note he kind of has a 'w' sound in the middle of everything) the third laughed hardily "yes, yes, and do you know what that means?" Naruto popped up "I get wamen?" a loud sigh, "besides the ramen", Naruto tilted his head " then what owld man?" the third muttered "stop calling me that, I am the….oh never mind" Naruto laughed and jumped into his chair, "okay now what are you doing?" Naruto laughed "bein, okage" (he dropped the 'h' in hokage), the third laughed again "you are a little small don't ya think"? Naruto grinned "no!, I am okage! I not little!" More laughter escaped from the crowd.

Then the third placed a hat on Naruto's head, it was the Hokage hat, it completely engulfed his head, Naruto moved his head around "I…cwant…see!" he exclaimed then lifted it, "okay maybwe, I not, bwig enough yet" the third sighed "you'll get there" Naruto looked excited "really! I goin to be okage?" the third laughed "yeah one day, if you train hard enough" Naruto got a devilish grin "okay den, I will get bwigger, and stwonger, then I be okage!, you remembwer that olwd man!"

By this time the entire stadium was in tears from laughter, except for the solemn group of main branch Hyuuga, then Naruto jumped down from the chair "where are you going?" Naruto rolled his eyes "to get wamen,duh" the Third sighed "again?" Naruto grinned "yes, wemember, I have to get swonger, so I need more wamen, bye everyones!"

Naruto said directly to the camera, "wait why are you saying good-bye?" Naruto grinned "because when you say helloe, you haveta, say gwood-bye, this is my gwood-bye, the gwood-bye!, now I go get Wamen!" then he held up a purse a glint in his eyes the third said "whatthe-,…Naruto! Give me my wallet back!" then Naruto ran of screaming in laughter, the third but the camera down "little….rascal I 'll get you!" then the thirds figure passed by the camera and then you heard Naruto's voice yell "owld man, you cant catch me! Imma be, future okage….Believe it!" then the footage cut off.

By the end of the footage there was rolls of laughter, even Hinata was laughing hard, Tsunade went back to the podium, "as you can see I thought it would be good, because funerals are not just to remember the ones that are gone but to remember who they where when they where here." The service continued on normally from then on.

They walked up and put a flower in a large pile meant for each person, then they turned and left, it was usually the Hokage and relations only to those who had died, friends and comrades must go later it was a cruel and hard rule, but a rule they had to follow, so they each filed out and met up with each other outside.

Sakura hugged Hinata, "where have you been?" she asked Hinata hugged her back and said "I am staying with Kiba and his clan, Tsume and Hana treat me like family almost, and Fluffy is taken care of, I am already training him to be a good Ninja dog, we learn fast" she said happily.

Just then they heard a loud voice say out, "training a ninja dog are we?, I thought you were born Hyuuga, even if you don't deserve it, have the decency to make a name for us even if you no longer have one." Hinata turned it was her father, "what do you want now"? Hinata said seeming to sigh in frustration "You are no longer Hyuuga in name, but you still have the blood trait, you know full well what that means, you must have the seal placed on you."

Hinata gasped and stepped back "no!" she knew full well if she had that placed upon her, she would never have any freedom ever again, Fluffy stepped up fangs at the ready to defend. Hirashi glared at her "Hinata! Why must you be like this? It is the rules! All Hyuuga's that are no longer members of the main house must wear the caged bird seal" Hinata glared and snapped "I am not going to follow those rules any longer!, I am not Hyuuga therefore, I am no longer in the rules!"

Hirashi looked down at her "If you're not Hyuuga then what are you! You must have a name!" Hinata smiled, "I am Hinata, just Hinata, not Hyuuga, or Inuzaka, just Hinata, I don't need a surname" Hirashi's face turned purple in anger, then suddenly his eyes switched over.

The others were grabbed by their parents or clan mates, Tsume wanted to rip the hide of that no good Hyuuga but she knew as well as every clan head knew, if they or a person from their clan laid a hand on him or interspersed with his work, they could pay very severely, Hyuuga clan has always been a leading clan since the Uchiha had died away.

Already you could see the circle's of the sealing jutsu taking place in the area Hinata stood, she was frozen in place unable to move, but that did not mean Fluffy could not.

Naruto looked down at the symbols on the seal, already an ancient wisdom that had been passed down for generation from his mothers ancestors surfaced in his mind, he was an Uzumaki master of Fuinjutsu, they created the seals to seal away the Nine tailed fox. So he could easily see through the guise of this seal, already his mind was creating, saving and storing away the information to undo the seal.

Naruto found this ability out only a short bit ago, Megumi must have somehow gave him the true Uzumaki blood trait. He never had it when he was a human but now he did, it was interesting and helped him out greatly. Hirashi was a fool for showing this to him, but then again he was in the body of an animal Hirashi would not recognize him.

Naruto growled, daring Hirashi to step forward and place the seal, Hirashi smirked and moved, over confidence screamed from his posture, but Naruto who had trained by a Hyuuga's side for the past few days was used to the fast movement of the Hyuuga. Even that was nothing compared to what his father the Yondaime could do with flying thunder god technique.

Naruto dodged the blow, by jumping backwards and effectively pushing Hinata's paralyzed body out of the sealing center, Hinata now free activated her bakugan and went into a familiar posture, without even saying the command Fluffy was by her side in the correct position that they had trained and practiced for hours on end with Kiba drilling them.

Hirashi was shocked beyond belief not only did the dog dodge his move but was able to intercept Hinata from the seal, that said dog was growling like a wild wolf, low and menacing, his eyes where alive with anger, burning like amber in the deep blue coloring. Teeth fully bared, eerily shining white, glinting off the lights nearby.

Hirashi looked around every eye was watching him, they held their breath, their bodies taught with anticipation wanting and dreading to see what he would do next, then the animal turned its head to Hinata cocked an ear and whined, as if asking for something, Hinata smirked and said "Fluffy, sick em" with a confident slyness.

The dog barked and leaped into action, he charged him head on, Hirashi rolled his eyes and started to go into a Kitin, but before he could the dog instead changed its course looking as if to come in behind, Hirashi was going to turn toward the mutt, but Hinata intercepted him, matching each of his blows with dead on accuracy, her bakugan eyes burned with retribution and defiance.

They stayed like that, in amidst a clashing Bakugan battle, but meanwhile Fluffy was behind him, waiting and watching like the wolf in his nature does, stalking his prey.

Naruto eased up slowly, he knew Hinata would be able to defend herself, so all he had to do was wait. Right there it was Hinata had quick like struck Hirashi not a chakra node but a regular body pressure point. Hirashi was startled and backed up a step momentarily forgetting to keep an eye out, Naruto took his moment, He leaped into the range of the Hyuuga's one blind spot, angling his body so it stayed untraceable until it was too late, Hirashi caught on, but it was already to late.

Naruto dug his claws into Hirashi's shoulder effectively off balancing the man, Hinata then proceeded to strike all of his bodies chakra nodes this time, a look of a shock and triumph etched on her face. Naruto would always remember that proud look, as Hinata finally broke free from him. Naruto stayed on the defeated mans chest, his paws resting on Hirashi's throat, Hinata looked down on him, she was slightly out of breath, but stated loudly, calmly, and with all the pride she had, Hinata said "father, you will never lay a hand on me ever again, if you do I will let Fluffy kill you, and I will help him do it."

To add to her threat Naruto growled, then Hinata called him off, "you gave me everything I wanted but there is one thing I always wanted that I know you could never give me…." She paused to let it sink in "freedom, you could never bear to let something go can you? Greedy old man, well now I am taking it for myself, and this time you can't stop me." And with that she turned on her heel and marched away, Hirashi staggered up, he was about to yell something but Naruto turned, and met his eyes.

Naruto did not growl nor bark, he just stared his eyes piercing and strong, burning with an intense fire so intense and bright Hirashi had to look away, he then looked back, the animal studied him for a few more seconds before. Like a slap to his face and an even greater sting to his pride the dog bowed his head, then turned and ran after Hinata, leaving Hirashi to stare at nothing.

When all was done there was a silence, not a person said a word, it was heavy but you could feel the air start to life and buzz with emotion with every step Hinata took, finally a person started to clap. One by one until it was a roar, every person there clapped and cheered Hinata. They went up to her and patted her on the back, some even pet Fluffy, then Tsume, Kiba and Hana broke through the crowd.

They ran up to her, and hugged her, even Kiba who then broke apart and smirked wildly saying. "You did everything I taught you!, you where amazing!" Hinata reddened at the compliment but thanked Kiba, "no it was all Fluffy" she said looking down at her wonder dog, but he was not there anymore, before she could call out to him she was swept away by the crowd.

A lone figure watched Hinata get toted away, Naruto sat in the darkness of some nearby trees, he nodded 'good, that will keep her busy for a bit, I have some business to take care of', he then trotted through the evening headed towards the one place he has always been meaning to go ever since he found out about his parents, his father's home.

My revision of the fourth chapter is done, I have re-done some parts once more, and made Naruto a bit less Gary-sue wolf off the bat, you know before I had him totally dominating things, this time I made it seem like it was harder for him than before.

I hope you enjoyed I think I got most of the Grammar fixed if not, I hope it is not to distracting.

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