hope you enjoy. don't worry i'm not bored with the story is just that i got stuff to do.
It's been a year since Naruto has been named a chuunin and the great party they all had. Over the year he became a jounin and has well respect by most of the village. He fought long and hard to be where he is now and what's better is that he is a closer step to becoming the Hokage of Konohagure.
Naruto and Hinata became close friends. They were usually seen together and many thought she was his girlfriend but they all saw that they never kissed so they can't be dating. Naruto had interest in Hinata, her caring nature, sweet voice, angel eyes and figure. 'Damn ero-sennin!' and many more he could think of. He became close with her hoping she would say something like she likes him or something. He had feelings for her and hoped this close relationship would show that he likes her.
Hinata liked the relationship she has with him, of course she wants a romantic relationship but this one is better, then not having one at all. She enjoyed everything she did with him and liked it that he was finally getting closer to her maybe it would make it easier for her to tell him how she feels but right now is not the time she still feels nervous around him and will wait a little longer.
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Today was the most unluckiness day for our friend. Today was October 10th making him eighteen and isolated from everyone. Though he has the village respect, it doesn't beat the greatest Hokage they had, the Yondaime, and all the shinobi that died trying to stop the rebellion of the Kyuubi so he decided to just stay home, not go outside and even think maybe they will accept him now even though they do, not on this day, never.
He woke up late today knowing missions aren't even sent during the whole day. He got up and took a shower, refreshing himself. He came out with a towel wrapped around him and walked to his kitchen to put water in a pan to boil for his instant ramen. He came out to the living room and looked out his window not seeing many people in his neighborhood maybe they left to the ceremony already. He went back to the kitchen and put the hot water in his ramen and went to his closet to go put on some clothes. He came back grabbed his ramen and left to the living room sitting on his bed and just thinking about what might the villagers say if he comes out or wonders on how he is going to tell his friends. Some probably already know and some don't even have a clue. The one he thought the most of was Hinata, he is best friends with her and still hadn't told her of his darkest secret, he didn't want to lose the relationship he has with her, he enjoyed it all. He just sat on his bed looking out the window while eating his ramen slowly thinking about the Kyuubi and his friends.
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Hinata was walking around the village by herself, wearing all black clothes for today's day. Her family where already at the ceremony, she decided to get some flowers for her dead relatives, separating her from her family though Hiashi made sure she was guarded so he sending Neji to follow her staying afar from her.
She walked through the lonely streets of Konoha with some flowers in her hands and was heading to the field of heroes.
She was there already and saw a lot of people all over the place and flowers next to the graves. She looked around for a special someone.
It was Naruto she was looking for and she didn't see anyone with blonde hair around and in matter of fact, out of all the years she can remember coming to this site, she never saw Naruto out, especially this day.
For a girl who believed in him from the very beginning and knew very much of him she never knew why he never came out this day.
She left and went after Naruto looking for him at his house hoping he is there.
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Naruto was still in his living room eating his 5th ramen cup of the day while just staring out his window looking at the lonely streets.
Knock, knock.
Naruto heard the knock's which grabbed his attention.
"Who could that be? Could it be a drunken person? Should I open the door?" Naruto thought to himself, he didn't know what to do.
While he was thinking on whether to open the door Hinata was outside knocking on his door.
"Maybe Naruto-kun is not here." She thought sadly.
She turned around and was about to leave but stopped when she heard the door open.
Naruto slowly opened the door and poked his head out. He saw Hinata standing there and looking at him with a smile on her face happy to see him.
For the first time Naruto smiled on his birthday happy to see someone.
"Hey, Hinata-chan! What are you doing around here?" He asked.
"Well…..umm…" she started fidgeting with her index fingers. Ever since they became friends she didn't stutter that much when talking to him or play with her fingers but only did this when she was a little bit more nervous then she normally was.
"I w-was wondering if y-you wanted to come w-with m-me to t-the c-ceremony?"
Naruto's smile disappeared. Of course he would want to go but he still didn't know about the villagers. Would they disapprove of him on being outside and start a big problem for the Hokage just because he is out with one of his best friends. He got a mad just thinking about it. Sometimes he hated the villagers though he never showed it.
"Sorry Hinata-chan. I…" he was thinking of a nice way to reject her and not mention why he is doing this for he doesn't want her involved in this mess.
"I don't want to be seen with you. Just leave." He said putting a little bit of anger in his words hoping she would take that and leaves.
Her smile disappeared. Here she was hoping to spend the rest of the day with her favorite man and he rejected her because he didn't want to be seen with her. She felt tears coming to her and decided to leave for she didn't want Naruto to see her crying.
"S-sumimasen." She said sadly.
She turned around and slowly left still holding her tears.
"I'm sorry Hinata-chan." Naruto said sadly looking the way she went and went back into his apartment closing the door.
When Hinata reached the bottom of the stairs she let her tears out. She slowly started walking to her house not wanting to go back to the ceremony.
Neji was following her from a distance. His uncle told him to keep an eye on her though he lost her but now found her crying.
He quickly went up to her.
"Hinata-san, are you all right?" Neji asked.
"Did any one hurt you, who did this to you?" he asked again.
She rubbed both of her watery eyes with her hands.
"No one did this to me. So don't worry, please." she said not wanting to get Naruto in trouble.
Neji stopped to think about this while Hinata kept on walking not noticing that her cousin stopped but she didn't care and kept on walking.
"There's only one person she will protect like this….Naruto." He thought.
He went looking for him at the ceremony first thinking maybe he would be there.
He got there in minutes wanting to kick Naruto's ass for what he did to his cousin. He looked around but couldn't find him. He spotted Kiba and Shino talking with each other.
"Maybe they know where Naruto is." He thought while walking over to them.
"Hey Shino look it's Neji." Kiba said talking to Shino while pointing at Neji.
"Have you guys seen Naruto?" Neji said not even greeting them.
"No why?" Kiba asked.
"I saw Hinata-san crying and I think it was because of Naruto. I know it's him out of all the people she knows she will defend him in anything in any way possible even if it hurts her." Neji said.
"What?! That ass!" Kiba said in anger. Everybody was looking at their direction.
"Quiet down Kiba." Shino finally spoke.
"Stay calm and play it cool." Shino said smoothly.
"What? How do you expect me to stay cool when Naruto who knows what, did to her!" Kiba said whispering harshly.
"Never mind I'm out of here." Neji said not wanting to be a part of this argument. He turned and left leaving Kiba and Shino alone.
"Wait I'm going with you!" Kiba ran after Neji but stopped mid track.
"How 'bout you Shino, you coming?" Kiba asked wondering why he isn't doing anything.
"No. I'm pretty sure Naruto wouldn't do something like that." Shino responded.
"Suit yourself." Kiba said and left running after Neji.
He caught up with Neji.
"So where are we going to look for him first?" Kiba asked eager to get to Naruto.
"We'll look for him first at his house if he's not there then we will separate and look for him on our own." Neji said acting like the leader.
"Alright but I'm pretty sure he's not there don't forget about the ceremony most likely he's around Konoha." Kiba said
"He wasn't there. I searched with my Byakugan and couldn't find him. I can't find him around the village either." Neji said barley activating his Byakugan. He forgot about that.
"Oh. Okay." Kiba said giving him a weird look.
"What kind of Hyuuga forgets about their Byakugan?"
Neji not being able to find Naruto they left to the direction of Naruto's house.
Naruto was lying down on his bed.
Knock knock knock knock knock.
"Huh?"
Naruto got off his bed and closer to the door.
The person knocked again.
Naruto decided to open the door.
"Maybe he's not here." Neji said.
They turned around but stopped hearing the door unlock. Kiba changed his right hand into a fist. Naruto got his door unlocked and opened it slowly.
He saw a mad Kiba and Neji with his hands folded in front of his chest and giving him a mean look.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Naruto asked, noticing those mean looks they were giving him.
"You ass!" Kiba shouted.
He threw him a punch hitting him on the nose and making him fall to the ground face flat.
Naruto got up and with one of his hands he grabbed his nose which was now bleeding. He let go of his bloody nose making the blood go down his face. He got a hold of Kiba's shirt.
"What the hell was that for!?" Naruto said screaming up close to Kiba's face.
"For making Hinata-chan cry!" Kiba screamed back getting a hold of his hands.
Naruto heard Kiba clearly and loosened his grip on his shirt releasing him. Naruto couldn't believe what he just heard. 'For making Hinata-chan cry!'.
While Naruto was thinking about it Kiba saw this as an opening he turned his hand into a fist and was getting ready to throw him another punch.
"Ha! Never leave yourself open." Kiba threw him another punch but this time it was stopped by Neji.
"Kiba, I think one is enough. Now Naruto what did you do to Hinata-san?" Neji asked.
Naruto still didn't know what was going on around him. He didn't even notice the punch that was coming at him and stopped by Neji.
"Did I really make Hinata-chan cry? No I would never do that, never. Could it have been what I said to her? Maybe it is! Damn I fell like an idiot how I could do that to Hinata-chan."
"Naruto what did you do to Hinata-san?" Neji asked again.
"Huh? I'm sorry I can't tell you." Naruto said.
"What? Why not?" Kiba said finally calm.
"Because I can't alright, it's something I don't want to say and it shouldn't be spoken of."
"Why?" Neji and Kiba said in unison.
"Well don't ask me, tell the Hokage." Naruto said.
"What does the Hokage have to do with this?" Neji asked.
Naruto didn't want to go there. To go to the Hokage and tell her for her permission to talk about the Kyuubi and tell his friends right there and then. He thought about it maybe this could be a way to tell all his friends what he carries inside of him.
"Should I tell them today? Maybe I should I would never get a better chance than this." Naruto thought to himself. Was it really the best chance?
"Listen round everyone up and go to the hokage's office then I will tell you. I will wait for everyone there." Naruto said.
"For what?" Kiba asked.
"Just do it or I won't say a damn thing to you guys." Naruto said back.
"And how do we know you won't run away?" Neji said being a smart one.
"I dunno. Maybe Kiba would stay with me I guess."
"Fine then, but if you make a run for it I will find you." Neji said as a threat.
"Don't worry Kiba would have his ass on me if I do."
"Fine then." Neji said agreeing with this ridiculous plan.
"Then I guess I will see you and the rest of the guys at the tower." Naruto said as he left to the tower with Kiba behind him.
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While Naruto and Kiba left to the Hokage's Neji went back to the Hyuuga's estate to go het his cousin. Neji was running on top of house's to get to his cousin and then they will head out for the others with Hinata's help.
Neji arrived at the estate and went walking up to the door. He slid it to the side and entered. He turned around and closed the door he then took off his shoes and went to look for his cousin. He went directly to her room. Her door was already opened so he poked his head in and found her there on the bed still wearing the same clothes and staring at the ceiling.
"Hinata-san." Neji called her name.
"Yes Neji." She said not even looking at him.
"I would like for you to come with me. Naruto has some explaining to do."
Hinata got up as soon as she heard Naruto. Maybe Neji beat him up or has him tied outside a pole who knows but that's what she thought.
"So you're coming?" Neji asked.
She nodded. She wanted to see Naruto and hoped Neji didn't do anything to him.
"Good but first we have to get the others. Naruto said he won't tell us anything if we don't have everyone with us." Neji said confusing Hinata.
Neji went out with Hinata behind him. She didn't know what he meant by 'Naruto said he won't tell us anything 'but she followed.
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Naruto was running through the roof top as quickly as possible hoping nobody will see him. He was running fast leaving Kiba not far back but making him think Naruto was running from him. Naruto finally arrived few feet from the tower. He hid behind a bow and a few pots.
Kiba finally got there but really exhausted. He hid with Naruto not knowing why and doesn't even want to ask.
"da(pant)damn Naruto (breath) I gotta admit(pant) you're really fast." Kiba said through breaths and pants but Naruto went on a head quickly to the stairs of the tower not hearing Kiba's complement.
Kiba finally caught his breath. "Damn it's like all I see is a yellow flash." Kiba said as going up the stairs.
Naruto was at the top already and entered and Kiba finally caught up with him entering after he entered.
"Whew were finally here. Hope no one saw us." Naruto said laughing while looking at Kiba's face. He put him through hell with all that fast running. Naruto went up to the counter as he saw Shizune there all by herself.
"Hey Shizune-chan! Why are you here all alone?" Naruto said.
"Huh?" Shizune raised her head.
"AAHHH Naruto-kun what are you doing out here? You know you're not supposed to be outside the ceremony is almost over and Lady Tsunade already did her announcement soon everybody will be going home and if they see you out there in the streets there's going to be problems Lady Tsunade not gonna want to deal with right now and you have dry blood coming from your nose." Shizune said worried.
"Don't worry I know nobody saw us when I went running through the village and don't worry about the blood it was a nose bleed." He said.
"Us?" she asked
"Oh yeah I forgot." He moved to the side so Shizune could see him.
"Oh hey Kiba-kun, why aren't you at the ceremony?" she said.
"Well I got stuck with him while Neji went to go get everybody else." Kiba said walking up to the counter.
"Everybody else, what for?" she asked.
"Well Naruto says he's got something to tell us and he wants everybody there to listen to what he has to say."
Shizune moved her eyes looking directly at Naruto.
"Don't tell me it's about." "Yes it is. I think it's about time I tell them all and I want Granny Tsunade's approval." Naruto said not letting her finish her sentence.
"Are you sure?" she asked him maybe he wasn't thinking right.
"Uhuh uhuh." Naruto said nodding.
"Well then since she's not here I guess you guys are going to have to wait for her." Shizune said pointing at some seats. "Take a seat you will be waiting a lot if she doesn't get drunk."
They each took their seat waiting for Neji and the rest of Rookie Nine.
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Neji already had everybody he needed and they were walking the streets of Konoha making their way to the tower.
"Why are we going to the tower again?" Choji asked he wanted to stay once the announcement of the Hokage is over there's a party with food and sake.
"Because Naruto has something to tell us all. No more questions." Neji said kind of angry for he has been getting a lot of questions and complaints from Choji.
"Can we hurry if my dad notices I'm not there he's going to get mad at me and make me work overtime at the flower shop." Ino said getting Neji more annoyed.
"Fine then let's run so we can get there quicker and maybe make it in time to this party Choji's been talking about." Neji said quickly and kind of annoyed.
"Know we're talking. LET'S GO!" Lee screamed full of youth running in and out his body.
"Let's go everybody." Sakura said.
Everybody started running to the tower.
"What a drag." Shikamaru said being the last one with Choji at his side.
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They finally got there making Neji happy for he wouldn't last any longer with the complaint's he's been getting. Neji opened the door and walked in. He went up to the counter.
"Shizune have you seen Naruto and Kiba." Neji asked.
"Yeah they are right there." She said pointing at a sleeping Naruto and Kiba.
Naruto and Kiba fell asleep. Kiba was atop with his legs on the chairs sleeping and somehow Naruto fell down and moved under the chairs sleeping as well.
"Well? Wake them up. Neji said.
Shino went to wake up his teammate while Sai and Sakura went to go wake up their partner.
Sai went up to Naruto and crouched by his side. "Hey Naruto wake up." He said while poking him on the side of his left arm.
"I suggest you wake Kiba up but not Naruto." Shikamaru said putting it out there.
"Kiba wake up." Shino said poking him by the ribs.
"Uh? (Yawn)" he got up. "Hey where's Naruto?"He noticed everybody looking under him so he looked down there as well and saw Naruto sleeping.
"Naruto wake up." Sai said again but it was a fail attempt.
"Move I will do it." Sakura said taking control.
"Hey Naruto." She said nice and sweetly rubbing his cheek with one of her hands making Hinata jealous. "WAKE UP YOU BAKA!" she screamed.
Naruto jolted up quickly and hit himself in the head hard against the chairs. "Owww." Naruto said as he rolled out under the chairs. "What the hell was that for?" he looked around and saw everybody looking at him and laughing at him. He saw everybody there and looked at everybody meeting their eyes with his blue eyes. He stopped and looked at Hinata starring at her lavender eyes and not looking at anybody else. She had a worried look on her face for Naruto has blood all over his face.
The doors opened and Tsunade came in not noticing the group at her left. Everybody turned around or looked at the Hokage except Hinata and Naruto who were still looking at each other's eyes. Tsunade walked up to the counter.
"Konnichi wa Shizune-chan." She said in a sad tone.
"What's the matter?" Shizune said noting her sad face and tone.
"Well I didn't get a chance to drink any sake at all I didn't want the village to see their Hokage drunk especially the little ones." She said to Shizune.
"Oh you have some guest." She said pointing at the group starring at her. "Huh?"
She turned her head and saw the Rookie Nine. "Hey you guys what brings you here?" she asked looking at each and every one of them. She saw Naruto there on the floor.
"Naruto what the hell are you doing out here? You know you're not supposed to be outside on this day your gonna give some problems I'm not gonna want to deal with right now! Quick get in my office!" she said to him. He quickly got up and entered her office with the others entering after him also. She closed the door and went behind her desk taking a seat.
"Naruto come here." She said demandingly. He went up to her they were face to face.
"What is it that you brought everybody here for? If their parents find out they are not in the after party they will get mad for disrespecting our fallen shinobi." "Well I want to tell them about… you know." He said pointing to his stomach. "Oohhh. Are you sure you want to do this right now?" "Yes I made Hinata –chan cry today I don't want that to ever to happen again I don't want to make her cry." "(Sigh) fine then you can tell them. Go ahead."
Naruto turned around and took a long look at his friends. He took a long look at Hinata for he didn't know what would happen to their relationship. He thought of a future without her and a future with her. He hoped this went the best way as possible and she would still be with him. He thought more and more about it now he's not felling as confident as he thought he was. He didn't know if he would be able to go through this maybe it was a bad idea but he needed to. If he were to start a relationship with Hinata he would want to be honest with her and not lie to her.
"I brought you all here to tell you all something very important. October 10th. A baby was born the day the Kyuubi attacked and lost the two most important people to him. He lost his father to the Kyuubi and his mother died giving birth to him. The same day the Kyuubi attacked he was defeated by our fourth Hokage the Yondaime. He used a forbidden jutsu and captured the Kyuubi's soul taking his spirit from his body and placed him within a baby just barely starting his life. The Hokage died during the process. The baby was put into an orphanage and there he lived most of his childhood with no one knowing what he had sealed in him. When he was finally able to talk and walk he finally understood life, the rich and the poor the strong and the weak. The rich helped out the poor and the strong protected the weak.
When the orphanage manager somehow found out that he had the Kyuubi sealed within him he told all of his workers what that boy carried inside of him the Kyuubi that killed their best Hokage. Most of them were angered that the Kyuubi's spirit was still alive inside that boy. Some thought that the Kyuubi took over the boy and that the boy was the Kyuubi now. Soon the whole village found out and thought the Kyuubi was the boy. They kept it all quiet so the boy wouldn't know about it and maybe kill them .They wanted to kill the boy in order to kill the Kyuubi. They wanted to kill a boy who didn't even get to live a happy childhood.
Everybody mistreated him. Everybody treated him like a piece of trash. They fed him the expired food and the kids never let him play with them and if he had a chance the adults pulled him out of the game. Some of the workers abused the kid and left him bruises all over his body. He ran away from that hell hole and ended up at the Hokage Mountains. The third Hokage was there and saw the boy all bruised up and crying. He went up to him so he had a shoulder to cry on and asked him what happened why are you all bruised up and crying did you fall? The boy told him who did that to him and what they did to him.
The next day the orphanage was closed and he gave the kid an apartment to live in all by himself. He also made a law that no one can talk about the Kyuubi or insult the carrier or they would be punished with death. Only with the Hokage's permission you were able to talk about it.
When he finally moved into the apartment he thought that everything had changed that they would treat him nice, let him play with the kids and give him some good decent food at least but he was wrong. They didn't let him play with the kids and they never treated him with respect. Since the adults couldn't harm the kid they just called him demon names and isolated him from the rest. Soon he started feeling lonely. Whenever he was out he saw that kids who got hugs and kisses from adults they were happy. If they got hurt a kiss and a hug would make it better. So he decided that whenever he felt lonely or got hurt he would go to an adult for happiness, joy and the feeling of being loved by someone but whenever he went up to one they would turn their back to him. Anywhere any day any time they would do that, so he never had a chance to feel those three feelings during his childhood.
With the money the third Hokage gave him he would go out to buy some food. All the stores rejected him except for one. He called that store The Ichi Store for they let him buy their food and eat their too, and he couldn't pronounce the whole name. So he spended all of his money on one food for that was the only thing that he could get and afford.
When he was out he would see that the shinobi were treated with respect by the villagers and love from their wives and kids.
He noticed that the fathers and mothers always loved their kids. He never knew who his parents were or what happened to them. He didn't know much of himself either.
When he decided to become a ninja the first day he saw the whole class enjoy the birthday party they through for him. On his birthday he went out but got ended up in the hospital for cuts. Every year they did that to him so he decided to just stay inside.
He never celebrated his birthday. He never knew who his parents were. He never had been loved by someone. He never knew who he was. So he decided to get their attention and respect.
That boy decided to become the Hokage and to never give up never go back on his word.
That boy… is me." (Sorry you guys I guess I got carried away while typing this.)
Everyone was taking in the new information even the Hokage. She knew about it, about his childhood but not much. He looked around the room and saw everyone just thinking about it. He went up to Hinata.
"Hinata-chan I'm sorry for making you cry. I didn't want the villagers to see you with me or they will get mad at me and at you for walking with me for people would disrespect your family name."
He gave her a smile. He walked around her and went to the door. He opened it.
"Sorry I wasted your party time and made you guys listen to my childhood. I guess I got carried away there." He said scratching the back of his head and laughing a little to his last sentence.
Now he was in a serious mood. "So I carry within me the Kyuubi I hope we can still be friends." He said as he closed the door after him and left running quickly to his apartment.
In the office silence was making a lot of noise.
"You guys should go back to the party. This conversation stays in this room so don't talk about even to your parents." Tsunade said not wanting to get problems from their parents.
They each nodded and slowly headed out the door.
"And please don't make this hard for Naruto. He never knew who his parents where, didn't live a happy childhood like every kid should and never celebrated his birthday. Now leave." Tsunade said.
Everybody headed to their homes. It was dark outside already but Hinata walked slowly thinking about this.
"Poor Naruto-kun. No one should ever have a childhood like that. He must feel very sad in the inside. Always hiding his pain so we won't worry for him. I feel stupid for letting my feelings get the best of me. I should say something at least." Hinata thought as she walked the streets she headed to his house.
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She went up the stairs and stopped at his door.
"I can do this"
She knocked a few times. Naruto came out wearing his pajamas. He was surprised to see Hinata outside.
They looked at each other's eyes not saying a thing.
"N-naruto-kun." she's stuttering.
"Hinata-chan." He said.
She looked down at the ground while her hands were covering her mouth for he was making her blush with his look.
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"It was because of me that you told everyone you hold the Kyuubi. Wasn't it?"
"No… well yes it kind of was but it needed to be out there and if it wasn't for you I wouldn't know how to bring it up. So thank you Hinata-chan." He said
"Y-you w-welcome."
They kept looking at each other not saying a thing.
"N-naruto-kun I don't care what people think. I won't care what they say if they see me walking with you. I see you as you not t-the Kyuubi."
Naruto was surprised she went to his house and tell him face to face what she thinks of him now knowing what he carries within him.
"Thank you Hinata-chan. You don't know how much that means to me especially coming from you." He said and she blushed.
"N-naruto-kun… I have one more thing to say."
"What is it?" he asked.
"You can do this" she said to herself.
"Happy birthday!" she said quickly and went up to hug him not letting go.
He was pushed back a little and surprised.
"Thank you Hinata-chan." he said with a big smile on his face.
For the first time on his birthday he got what he wished for.
yeah i'm finally done. next chap will be coming. hope you enjoyed this one.