OK Next chapter up!

Now I've been told that many people have been updating stories with notes on todays 'fuck up' aka the deletion of stories on , and the idiotic heavyhandedness of the admins on the site. And that they can possibly delete the story since doing that is actually a vilation of the Tos.

Now I got a review that was anon saying why am I bitching about this? and why did I join the petition when the admins have every right to do this...Well let me list a 3 very clear reasons.

Reason 1.(Big reason too) WE. ARE. THIS. SITE. We are the things keeping this site going. To put it simply we are the producers and consumers of this service, they provide the means to do both, a middle man if you will. If they make all their producers angry and make the consumers not want to 'consume' then that s pretty much the END of this site.

Reason 2. I'm not saying the admins are not outside their rights to do this. HOWEVER, the way they are doing it is WRONG. They have not upheld their ToS for the past 10 years, and yet they spring this with no word or warning, it's a scandal if ever there was one, quoting a user by the name of Biskoff

"Its like putting up a speed limit and then not giving anyone a ticket. Then a decade later, they enforce the law and the punishment is the death sentence. We were not given a warning or offered a middle ground, and even if what they are doing is legal and within their rights, it is still wrong to do."

If they really cared about their users They'd implement something that allowed all forms of written expression, it's not hard honestly, I've written code for something like that several times, It's been awhile since I did it but it's not impossible, just set up an age based account system, a disclaimer to dodge responsibility and add an MA rating, thats about it, everything else is up to the parents to handle, and if they don't it's on their heads not the admins.

Reason 3. Technically I'm not mad at them deleting the dirty stuff on here, its the fact that they are deleting stories that have nothing to do with dirty stuff, but violence, on a site that has, at least a dozen of the bloodiest and violent anime/manga games and books that I know of, how the heck are they moderating that? They aren't that's what. They're using spiders to look for key words and just cut and paste deleting them. that isn't the way to moderate.

Thank you for bearing with my rant, it's just something that got in my head and bugged me for the entire day, NOW on to the story.

Disclaimer Don't own Naruto, I'd try to win it in a poker game If I could just get in touch with kishi, sadly he won't return my phone calls...

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"speech"

'Thoughts'

"Kyubi speech"

'Kyubi thoughts'

Jutsu

Chapter 7: Bell test blues.

'An Orange spiral mask and a Sharingan eye, the face of my enemy." Naruto brooded over this information as he walked towards training ground 3. Kyuubi had told him everything, how she had been controlled with a Sharingan to attack the village, even the last moments of his parents. He didn't blame Kyuubi, hell he'd be pretty pissed too if he had been trapped against his will inside someone or another for close to 60+ years with a very likely chance of getting sealed back inside someone ELSE by those same people. And from what he understood his mom had whipped Kyuubi HARD, the fact Kyuubi called it 'rough bondage' didn't help either...he'd never look at chains the same way again...

Disturbing thoughts aside, He felt GOOD today. Today he could finally cut loose against someone and a Jonin someone at that, 'lucky, lucky.' The only problem to his plans were the added baggage of Broody and the Beast. The test was teamwork and their teamwork for lack of a better term, was shit. The Uchiha prodigy was a pompous ass and tried to do everything himself. Sakura on the other hand was the exact opposite of Sasuke, she was fiery yes, but she tended to only be firey towards Sasuke, or when she compared her fist density to the hardness of his head...brain injury aside when Sasuke wasn't around she could be introverted and quiet, hell maybe even willing to work together but once pompous ass met ass kisser it would take a miracle to get them to work correctly together.

'Oh well' he sighed dejectedly, 'Might as well at least try to work with them, maybe the impossible will happen' With that thought he walked onto the worn field of training ground 3, he noticed immediately that Sakura and Sasuke were already there, Sasuke was sitting silently under the shade of a tree while Sakura was leaning against one of the three stumps in the middle of the training ground.

Sakura stared at Naruto with a frown planted firmly on her face "You're late Naruto."

"Yeah and so is Sensei, did either of you eat anything?" he watched as both slowly nodded apprehensively, after all if they were in trouble, now was the time for Kakashi to punish them for it. After a good thirty minutes of waiting the three knew that Kakashi wasn't testing their adherence to the rules and was genuinely late...again. Naruto who expected Kakashi's tardiness after he told Anko about who his new 'Sensei' was...it wasn't like she HAD to laugh so hard...but it did tip him off that the guy was a joke, the little quip Anko made about being late for his own funeral didn't reassure him either.

After another hour Naruto was starting to twitch "Well, I'm tired of waiting for him" He turned to his two would be teammates questioningly" Would either of you like to train while we wait?" Neither moved from their positions, both were clearly on edge. Naruto shrugged "Fine, more for me, Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Instantly 5 naruto clones appeared in front of him, "Alright guys you know the drill" he tossed a scroll to the clones and they ran off into the woods to train."

"Yo dobe what the hell kind of clone was that, I saw you use them during the graduation exam but what are they?"

"They're kage bunshin Sasuke, 'Shadow Clones' hella useful but the drain they put on your chakra reserves is massive. If I were to estimate, you could probably only make 10 or so before you fell to the ground dead."

"Then how did you make 5 of them?"

He shrugged "Simple, I have more chakra than you do, alot more actually, most likely more than our Jonin sensei in fact. My fox bloodline increases the amount of chakra I have by massive amounts, more than a Kage's if what people tell me is correct. Only downside to this bloodline is my chakra control is complete shit, those clones right there, I put enough chakra into them to make 10 clones, before I got my control up it would have been 50 or more."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow "So your bloodline doesn't really have any permanent weaknesses, does it?"

Naruto stuck a finger to his chin in thought, he pulled his cap off exposing the ears to the air, "Well to be honest I don't think I do, besides really loud noises...these ears are fairly decent for hearing over large distances" he yanked the tail from his pants "For the tail...I don't know, it really doesn't do anything more than increase my balance, I could probably find a use for it for something..."

"Have you ever tried holding something with it?" Sakura questioned

"No, why?"

She walked over beside him and pulled out a Kunai "Here try and hold this."

Naruto turned to look at the blade in her hand and mentally willed hs tail to reach out for it, after a few failed attempts he sighed in frustration "Nothing, it just doesn't have the control necessary."

Sasuke stared at the half assed attempts by Naruto's appendage "Why don't you try running chakra through it dobe?" the two ninja turned to stare at him, he pointed at the tail in thought "I use wires all the time and running chakra through them makes the things easier to control, I imagine that tail would work the same way.

Naruto looked back down in thought at his tail, he tested a bit of chakra going to the tip of the tail, instantly the fur stood up on end and his entire body jolted, sending waves of electricity up his spine, "Holy shit." he stopped the flow of chakra and stared "The fuck was that?"

"What happened?" Sakura knelt down to where the tail was eye level, she was giving it that 'fangirl squee' look but there was genuine concern in her eyes so Naruto wasn't gonna run for the hills just yet.

"I don't know, it just started shocking me"

"Try putting less chakra into it then, maybe you just forced too much in and it hurt you."

Naruto nodded to the pinkette and slowly forced a smaller amount of chakra in, it still tingled but not nearly as bad, once it reached the tip the oddest thing happened, the tail went completely slack. Naruto raised an eyebrow, "The hell?"

"What happened?" the pinkette asked

He scratched his head "I have no clue, this thing reacts to chakra in a weird way, I think I need to train with this thing for awhile, maybe I can use it" with a handsign a dozen clones were in a line in front of him, "Alright, go test this thing out" he grabbed his tail and shook it at the clones "I want results by the end of the day."

"Oui Mon Capitan!" They turned and ran off into the woods.

Sakura sweatdropped "What is wrong with your clones?"

Naruto sighed comicly "Some things are better left unsaid..."

"Riiight..."

The three genin sat quietly for another 30 minutes until a cheerful voice filled the clearing

"Yo." Kakashi hailed them, he glanced over at Naruto and nearly fell over, he still had his tail and ears out for all to see and this was a first for Kakashi seeing them. 'Hmm interesting, I knew he had them but it's just odd seeing things like that poking out of people, this may take some time to get used too...'

"You're late!" Sakura growled out. Surprisingly Naruto kept quiet.

"Well" Kakashi began "I got lost on the road of life"

"Liar!" the pinkette fumed.

"Actually" Naruto interrupted "I believe him" Kakashi eye smiled at that "After all it's not everyday someone gets laid." The eye smile widened in shock.

"Wha?" the Jonin choked out.

Naruto tossed Kakashi a book "Here, for the next time you get lost on the road of life."

Kakashi knew what it was the moment it left the blondes hand, the orange cover gave it away almost instantly, but what shocked kakashi the most was that he had never seen this cover before, which could only mean one thing, it was a new Icha-Icha volume! Kakashi slowly opened the cover and there in all its glory was the signature of the author, and in bold letters 'First...edition' he looked at the boy in awe "How?" he said reverently.

"I have my ways" he grinned impishly 'Thank you Anko, that made a hell of a first impression.'

Kakashi stood frozen for a moment before bending forward quickly in a deep bow, much to the shock of the other two genin there."You have my deepest gratitude Uzumaki-san!"

"Yeah, yeah create a shadow clone to go enshrine your book back home, you got a team to pass."

He looked up at the blonde 'So the brat know's its a test...interesting...' slowly he nodded once, a handsign and a puff of smoke later his clone and the book vanished in a shunshin. A second later Kakashi's poker face was back while his body regained its comfortable slouch.

"Ok then" The one-eyed jonin pulled out a clock and placed in on one of the stumps. "This here is a timer set to go off at noon" Two bells dangled from his fingers "You have until that time to take these bells from me, those who don't...get sent back to the academy!"

The Sasuke and Sakura were shocked. (Naruto not so much) Why would they get sent back to the academy if this was 'survival exercises?' Unless...

"But sensei there's only two bells..." Sakura piped in.

"Correct Sakura, that means even if you do get the bells from me one of you will be going back regardless. Out of the entire graduating class, only 9 of you will be advancing to become full fledged genin, this test has a 66% chance of failure and is used to root out the hopeless cases, so you better get the bells by lunch, or else... Also for a little added motivation, if you don't get the bells by lunch, you won't get any lunch."

Sakura glared at Kakashi in thought 'So that's why he said not to eat, the bastard, and if he lied about that to get us weak and fight amongst ourselves then...' She glanced at Sasuke who was looking at her as well, they both thought.

'Naruto was right, this IS a test of teamwork' they both glanced at Naruto who was watching the both of them intently, ever so slightly they nodded, a large grin crossed Naruto's face.

'Heh, we might actually do this now' he turned back to Kakashi with that grin still plastered on his face.

Kakashi raised his only visible eyebrow 'What are you up to...?'

"Sakura, Sasuke, you get it now right?" They both nodded. "Good, alright one-eye lets get this over with. I got places to go, women to meet, you know important stuff" he threw that impish grin from earlier at the cycloptic jonin.

Kakashi sweatdropped 'He's sooo getting a 'thousand years of death' for that one...' he coughed to cover his loss of composure "Alright then, be prepared to come at me with intent to kill or you'll never get the bells. Begin!" in a burst of speed the three genin disappeared into the woods.

-ooo-

Across town outside a jewelry shop a young hyuuga heiress stood pouting, staring at a display case of engagement rings in the widow dreamily, she had passed by the shop thinking of a certain blonde haired boy when she noticed the rings, after a few more moments she sighed in despair 'As if Naruto-kun would ask me to marry him...what would he want with a plain girl like me?' she shook those thoughts from her head, she'd never given up on him in the four years she's tried to be close to him, watching him grow into the person he is now. There was no way in hell she was just gonna let go of her feelings for him. She turned from the shop and marched off to one of her favorite spots in the village, simply because it was one of Naruto's favorite spots. The top of the Hokage monument...

-ooo-

'What the fuck is with these kids!' Kakashi screamed in his mind as he dodged another barrage of kunai launched by a tripwire trap that had been set by the blonde maverick himself, in just a few minutes Naruto had booby trapped a large portion of the forest that he was now running for his life in. Not to mention every so often sasuke and sakura would launch sneak attacks from behind him, only years of experience kept him from getting seriously injured...or worse. 'One minute I'm chasing after Naruto, the next im tripping over myself in a forest of pointy doom!' how the kid had gotten ahold of so many kunai and explosive tags he'll never know. backing up he felt a tug on his foot and looked down quickly to notice another tripwire against his heel 'SHIT!' a set of explosions and kunai assaulted him from every direction which he narrowly dodged 'I know I said to 'come at me with intent to kill' but this is ridiculous!'

Kakashi stopped for a moment to focus on the area around him and realized something odd, there was not a single sound around him. He leaned against a tree for a moment to get his bearings only for his eyes to go wide as ninja wire sprung up and wrapped around the tree, encircling him with near invisible wire, a sharp tug and the wires snapped taught, pinning him. Not a half moment after that, two shuriken flew through the air and struck his palms. "Gah!" pain shot through his arms as the bladed stars tore into his hands to prevent any use of jutsu. A shadow appeared beside the one eye'd jonin's head before darkness took him.

-1 hour later-

"You think we overdid it?" a girl's voice awakened the Jonin.

"Who cares, the dobe's plan was awesome." a gruff male voice who he pinpointed as Sasuke answered

"Heh, I never knew you cared Sasuke, nice work on the wires by the way, and the same with the shuriken Sakura" said the current bane of the jonin's existence.

'ugh, trap-master bastard, ah hell I'm tied up' he mentally groaned realizing he was tied to one of the training stumps of training ground 3. The irony of that wasn't lost on the cycloptic Jonin.

"I don't. You just had a good plan" retorted the uchiha to the blonde's taunting. "And thanks"

"No shit" The silver haired jonin groaned from the stump, a large black and blue welt on the visible side of his face right below his eye.

"Oh sensei you're awake!" Sakura giggled happily.

"What the hell hit me?" The jonin asked

"That would be the Uzumaki special" Said Uzumaki held up his left fist in front of his face and his eyes gleamed menacingly.

Kakashi sweatdropped, 'Taken down by a punch, ugh I'm never going to hear the end of this once this makes the rounds at the jonin lounge...should have used the sharingan from the beginning dammit...'

"By the way sensei" Naruto held up both bells in his hand, "Mission complete" he handed one to Sasuke and one to Sakura and grinned proudly. "So do we pass or what?"

Kakashi hung his head in despair, he had no choice, not only did they use more teamwork than he'd ever seen a genin team use, they had beaten him as well. Hell they worked together like a well oiled chunin team, how that happened he'd never know but in a way he was proud to have them as his team if this was just a 'taste' of what they could do now "Yeah, you pass, I guess you figured out the meaning behind this test right?" They nodded. He sighed again "By the way, how in the hell did you lay all those traps that quickly Naruto? And how did you get your teammates to work so well with you?"

Naruto scratches his head in embarassment "Heh, as for the first one, Kage bunshin no jutsu!" the clearing was filled yet again with clones of naruto, but this time there was over 50 of them! "I can make dozens of shadow clones like its nothing, these guys were setting up traps while you were stumbling through the first ones I set."

Kakashi's face turned sour 'He makes it sound like I'm a complete novice.' his face straightened slightly "And the teamwork?"

"Simple, for Sakura I said I'd help her get the attention of Sasuke by helping her get stronger and keeping the other fangirls off of him. For Sasuke I said I'd help him get stronger as well as keeping a majority of his fangirls away."

"So you bribed them...?"

"Basically."

Kakashi sweatdropped again 'Why am I not surprised...?' The ropes behind him snapped and he stood up, much to the surprise of the genin "Ok then, since you passed, meet me here tomorrow for mission assignments and team training, Naruto!"

Naruto jumped at Kakashi's raised voice "Uh...yeah?"

"Since you seem so adamant about helping your teammates get stronger, you'll be helping train them as well." Kakashi eyesmiled.

'He's getting back at me isn't he?' the blondes eyebrow twitched slightly in annoyance.

"Till tomorrow then, I have a make out date with an icepack..." a swirl of leaves signified his departure as the rest of team 7 left the training grounds, two of them heading home, the other heading to his most favorite spot in the village, The hokage monument...

-ooo-

Hinata Hyuuga sat silently watching the sun set in the west from the top of the Hokage monument, the wind blowing gently through the trees, the slow shaking of the branches creating a soothing soundtrack to the view.

"Oh Naruto..." she sighed, staring at the pale orange sunset in despair "Will I ever be able to catch your heart, will you ever notice me?" the Hyuuga heiress sighed again and looked longingly over the village "Just one moment is all I need to tell you, but I...I just can't say it. " Tears filled her pale eyes as a lump caught in her throught "Naruto...I...I..."

"Hinata?"

The Hyuuga's eye's went wide, she turned sharply to see the embodiment of her love standing not twenty feet away. "N-N-N-Naruto-kun, w-what are y-you doing h-here?" The pale eyed girls heart was about to tear a hole out of her chest, here he was the boy she had admired for years, the person who never gave up no matter how much hatred was thrown his way, the one who gave her courage and hope that she herself could overcome any obstacle, just standing there staring at her. It was almost too much for the girl.

Naruto watched Hinata intently, he could hear the girls heart beat faster and her breathing quickened, it was like she feared him, but the way she blushed and stuttered contradicted that, he had spent the past four years trying to understand what caused her to act this way around him, and so far he had no clue what the hell her problem was. Looking at her now, he felt this might be the only chance to figure it out, he had heard the last bit of what she was saying, she needed to tell him something but what it was she felt she couldn't say, now was the time to get her to say it. "Hinata." he said again, this time it wasn't a question, he walked closer to her and noticed that the girl broke out into a cold sweat as he approached.

'He's walking towards me, what does he want?' The girls thoughts were spinning around at a thousand miles an hour, so confused was she that she didn't even notice that he was standing right in front of her, his cerulean eyes gazing hard into her pale lavender ones. Her eyes widened "Eeep." she squeeked out trying to back away from him, but she only felt the edge of the monument at her back.

"Hinata, do you have something to say to me?" the tone of his voice offered no argument, "I heard you from before, you said you wanted to tell me something, what is it?" his eyes never left hers while hers widened in shock.

'H-he heard me?' at first she was happy that he had heard her words but then her stomach fell, he clearly hadn't heard the first part so he wouldn't know what she wanted to tell him, she'd have to do it now, or never...

"N-Naruto...I...I" She grit her teeth, and tried to force the words from her mouth but nothing came 'Dammit! just three words, three damn words, Say it, SAY IT!' She jerked when she felt a pair of hands on her shoulders.

"Hinata calm down and just tell me" he was close, too close and that was it. The Shy girl fainted under his touch, falling to the ground...only, the wasn't any ground below her, being on the edge of a cliff does that to you...

"HINATA!" he yelled and lept after her, "Shit shes falling too fast I wont be able to catch her and stop our fall, wait, thats it! Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" a dozen Naruto latched on to each other and grabbed the edge of the monument, the last one had a hold of Naruto's legs as he reached out for Hinata, a few more inches and he had his hands around her, "NOW" he screamed latching onto what he could of the girl.

"Right boss!" the clones jerked them to the side swinging them back towards the top of the mountain, they flew through the air flying towards the treeline, Naruto's eyes widened when he saw where they were landing. He turned and cradled her body in his, putting himself between the hard ground and her. With a loud smack he struck the stone of the monument before bouncing into the soft grass of the treeline, Hinata held tightly to his chest.

It took a few moments for the dust to settle but after it did a slight groan echoed out.

"Ughh, Hinata!" he shook the girl lightly trying to wake her "Hinata are you alright?" blood was coming from his arms and back, he could feel the burning in his limbs telling him he was hurt, but he could only care about the pale-eyed hyuuga heiress at the moment "Hinata! Please answer me."

The girl groaned weakly in his arms.

"Hinata!" his movements were frantic as he gently brushed her hair out of her eyes.

Slowly those lavender orbs did open, they were half lidded and dreamy looking. "Naruto-kun" she groaned out. The tone froze Naruto, it wasn't in a friendly tone...It was something deeper...something more along the lines of lust and desire. Needless to say it freaked him out.

"Hinata, are you alright?" he asked timidly.

Seemingly ignoring him she drew closer, eyes still hazy "Naruuto-kuun" she stressed, bringing her face closer and closer to his, making his eyes go wide.

"Wait Hin-" his protests were cut off when her lips met his, slowly ohhhh so very slowly her tongue slid gently along his lips. 'Oh Kami, where did she learn to kiss like that' his eyes were wide with shock 'Wait, WHY is she kissing me like that?' his thoughts were broke off with the kiss as hinata pulled back, still in her own little world.

Hinata's eyes closed contentedly 'This is the best dream ever, I just wish this could be real life' she thought quietly as she held, what she thought, was her imaginary crush. "My Naruto-Kun, I love you so much Naruto-kun" She laid her head on his chest. Naruto's eyes widened even more.

'She...she loves me? Since WHEN?' he wondered, as he hesitantly wrapped his arms around her.

Hinata was content, even if this was a dream, she still wanted to hold Naruto, she listened to her Naruto-kun's heartbeat, feeling...his warmth...wait...'feeling...heartbeat.' Suddently her eyes weren't so hazy and her movements not so dreamy, she looked up into Naruto's face in shock, "N-N-Naruto...?" she whimpered.

"Y-Yeah?"

"T-t-this isn't a dream is it?" The pleading look in her eyes nearly broke his heart, it seemed like her whole world was crashing down around her.

"No, Hinata...It isn't." Her eyes widened as her face fell, her body slowly started shaking with barely controlled sobs.

He was surprised at her sudden tears. He could only watch as she cried in his arms. After what seemed like forever he couldn't take it anymore "Hinata." he called gently while lightly shaking her, which caused her to look him in the eyes. Slowly he reached out and cupped her face with his hands, and brought her face closer to his to return the kiss she gave him.

Her eyes, like his before, widened in shock. 'H-he...He's k-kissing me back...d-does that mean he l-likes me?' the girl could only go with the flow as their lips met in another tender embrace. Slowly as before the kiss broke, but this time with a smiling Naruto and a stunned hyuuga "N-Naruto-kun?"

"There we go, no more tears" He threw her his trademark grin.

A couple minutes of awkward silence filled the air as the two held eye contact with deep blue orbs staring into pale lavender ones. The two sat for a few seconds longer before Naruto broke the silence "Hinata, you care for me don't you? Like really care for me?" It was a simple question but the young girl could tell that it was something much deeper than just the question, like what she answered would be extremely important.

"Y-yes, I do N-Naruto-Kun. I've been w-watching you since the d-day we met, you always m-make me feel better when I'm around y-you." The girls stuttering was all too cute for the blonde boy, he chuckled lightly, before his face grew solemn.

"Hinata...I...I have to tell you something, something you may not like" the girls ears perked up at the tone of his voice, what could be so important that he'd sound so reserved like that? He sighed once "You remember what I told the class about how I have a bloodline?" She nodded "Well what I didn't tell any of you was I'm also the last member of two clans, my mother and father were both the last of their clans as well." The girl was slightly surprised that her Naruto-kun was that important but she nodded again to show she understood. "Well the...night I gained my bloodline I was taken before the council to discuss my fate, many of the council, especially the civilian council hated me. The reason they hate me Hinata...*sigh* You know the story of how the Yondaime defeated the Kyuubi right?" he was sweating a bit and apprehension filled his body, this was going to be difficult to say...

She nodded getting a sinking feeling in her stomach. "The Yondaime killed the Kyuubi on october 10th, the night of the attack"

"Only half right Hinata, Yes the Yondaime fought and defeated Kyuubi, but no he did not kill it. Kyuubi is a mass of chakra given form and consciousness, you can't kill that. So he did the only thing he could do to save the village, He sealed that power away. Do you know where he sealed it Hinata?" As the girl looked him in the eyes she saw sadness within those pure blue eyes, taking what luster was there and dulling it with pain. She shook her head, but by the way Naruto was acting and how the village treated him...she could guess well enough

"I hold the Kyuubi within me Hinata, the story I told about my bloodline was for the most part a lie."

The girls eyes widened but she kept quiet as Naruto continued.

"You don't have to worry about me becoming a Kyuubi reborn though, the seal on my stomach. " he raised his shirt and channeled a bit of chakra to show her the seal "keeps the Kyuubi locked up tight, but that doesn't stop people from hating me Hinata." he chuckled bitterly. "Hell they were going to...to put this bluntly, whore me off to those willing. When I reached an age that I was sexually active they would use me as breeding stock." Hinata's mouth hung open slightly. He looked at her and chuckled again "Yeah, I know, horrible isn't it? Well, thankfully Hokage-Jiji thought ahead of time to counter the councils plans, knowing that my blood was now worth more than gold to them. He...he...well..." he tried to find the right words but couldn't, so he decided to tell her about Anko "A woman by the name of Anko Mitarashi found me that night when my bloodline activated. She...she was like me...hated by the villagers...she was actually going to adopt me that night, but Jiji said that he had already tried that and failed, so he came up with a way for both of us to be together..."

Hinata's face fell at this, she could tell where this was going.

"I see you understand" He sighed "Yeah, to keep me away from the council and to allow Anko to care for me he...married us. Anko Mitarashi is actually Anko Uzumaki, we've been married five years now."

A single tear fell down Hinata's cheek, to have her price charming return her affections only to lose him a moment later hurt badly.

"But." he sighed, causing the girl to perk up slightly "There was one other thing that was talked about...the Clan Restoration Act. Under the CRA's laws I can legally have more than one wife and that's where this discussion is going, I know it seems shallow of me but...Hinata, if you truely do love me like you say you do and its not some fangirlish phase, then I'm offering the chance to you" She meant to say something but he held a hand up to stop her "You don't have to answer me now, if you wan't we can date or something to see where this goes. I've already talked this over with Anko and she's entirely cool with me dating multiple women, how she's cool with it I honestly dont know but, yeah." he snorted a bit in amusement.

Hinata looked lost as she thought over what he had said, on the one hand she was glad that she still had a chance with Naruto, but on the other there was just something odd about being 'one of' someones wives, it just seemed to take the magic out of being married, but again, on the other hand, she was a rather pragmatic girl and she was also a ninja with a strict set of morals to follow. Being a whiney fangirl lusting after the perfect man and perfect wedding wasn't one of those morals, although it just so happened that the perfect man for her just so happened to be 'eligible' AND married...would that even be the right word for his circumstances? maybe 'multi-eligible.' would be a better description?

She rubbed her hands together thoughtfully 'I suppose it all comes down to one thing really, can I share?" she looked her crush in the eyes, his clear blue eyes reflecting everything back to her, they were full of life, full of love regardless of who he spent time with. He smiled again, this time one of his genuine smiles, not as big but just as infectious. Her heart melted in her chest as she sat there quietly deciding one of the greatest choices in her young life. "N-Naruto-Kun...how...how do you feel about all of this, I know what I feel, but what do you feel?" She bit her lip nervously.

Naruto stared off into the distance for a moment before speaking. "Hinata, I had to choose to marry Anko. A child had to decide his future like that. Even after all this time I still feel that dull ache of lonliness. I know I can spend time with Anko and it goes away some but it's still there." he sighed "I think it's because I didn't have anyone that cared for me in my childhood." he stared off into the distance "Until I met Anko I was completely alone except for Jiji and the Ichiraku's and even then they were never as close as they could be, sure I knew them and respect them greatly but they never gave me any 'love' sure there was affection and a lot of caring but never anything as close as a mother or father's love, or even a lover's love really. So to answer your question...honestly, I don't know. Anko told me that I have enough room in my heart for more than one person and I'd like to think that she's right, but again, I don't know."

Hinata seemed disheartened by that answer "Then why give me this chance at all?

He chuckled lightly, "Well I can't really say, if you want a reason." he scratched his chin thoughtfully. "I guess you can say I just felt like it"

Her face twisted in confusion "J-just felt l-like it!"

"Heh, yeah Hinata, I don't really know anything about being a husband or father...if that ever comes around. But I do know how to be a friend to someone, if you wan't to go deeper then we can start out as friends and go from there, thats why I said we should date before we do anything drastic."

She stared at her crush for a good long while, it was a difficult descision, one that she had to weigh against everything she knew, but answer she did. "I'll do it!"

"N-nani?" Naruto's facevaulted from his sitting postion, (how that's possible, I dont know.) he turned back quickly to Hinata to see a warm smile on her face. "You'll do what? Date me or marry me?"

"Both." her smile took up her entire face.

Naruto just sweatdropped at the answer. 'Ooook, did not see that one coming. She must really like me.' taking a few moments to compose himself he asked. "How about we make today a date then?"

Those were the magic words, instantly Hinata's eyes lit up and her entire face flushed red.

'Oh yeah, she REALLY likes me' a shiver went up his spine as hinata grabbed hold of him.

"Let's go Naruto-kun!" There wasn't a single stutter in that sentence and she sounded like the happiest person alive at the moment, another chill went up his spine as she pulled him back down to the village.

-ooo-

In a galaxy far far away on a peaceful little planet we find a small green creature meditating in slience. Slowly it opened its eyes and looked towards the stars in the night sky.

"A disturbance in the force , I sense. A great evil, awoken it has...hmmm."

...

"My problem, it is not." it closed its eyes and resumed its meditation.

-ooo-

"Na Ru To Kuuuun!" Hinata sang.

'Kami help me' he cried, as a pair of hands grabbed him, dragging him off to another place on their 'date'.

-ooo-

Alright people thats a wrap on chapter 7, yeah, yeah I know some of yall be hatin I got Hinata in on the Harem bus that easily, but think of this, that girl has wanted Naruto for 4+ years now, had dreams of marrying him (among other things...*shiver*) and feels completely at ease around him. OFC she'd choose to marry him if it was an open invitation, she'd share him in a heart beat too if it meant being able to be with him, the only thing that was making her wary of it was a few morals here and there, of which she told to fuck off cuz it's her Naruto-kun.

I couldn't help that Star wars joke there at the end, I'd just finished watching a couple of the movies and had it on the brain.

As for the kakashi fight, I was actually going to do something with it, but I just couldn't for the life of me come up with something decent, so I just wrote what I felt and it ended up being Naruto using traps instead of his elements, don't worry he'll show off his elemental powers next chapter, this was just a fight that I couldn't get into.

Ok ladies, next time is some D-ranks, More hinata, and possibly more random reaction by characters not of this world, only time and the next chapter will tell, so lets all cheer for our amusement at Naruto and Kakashi's plight next chapter, till next time folks, Peace.