Disclaimer: I own nothing other than the most of the plotline Naruto is owned Kishimoto and not me.
I know the cliffhanger was terrible actually it was kind of fun and it played well in the storyline at least in my opinion. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter – 25 Trouble…
"Neji will receive no punishment for the altercation with Uzumaki-san." The elder stated.
"And why is that?" Hiashi questioned with barley able to contain his rage.
"He was retaliating for a wrong done to him earlier in the day by Uzumaki-san." The elder Kodai responded.
"What wrong did Yugito Uzumaki do to Neji?" Hiashi slyly turned the question.
"None so far as I know. I am referring to Naruto Uzumaki, not his dimwit sister." Kodai responded.
"You say he was justified, the rules for the chunin exam are specific. There shall be no fighting between combatants before the final exams. And this happened. I will leave this up to the Hokage and Naruto-san to decide. If they do not press charges I will not punish Neji. Also I am very angry with the council as they are coming close to being disbanded. Either they will conform or I have a new council to advise me." He emphasized the word 'advise'.
In the Hyuga medical wing Naruto wakes up to the smells of a hospital, jasmine and lavender. While he likes lavender as Hinata's perfume smells of that, he really hates hospitals. He opens his eyes and sees stark white ceiling and walls. He tries to sit up but his muscles hurt too much so he decides to just lay back and look around. He then notices an oxygen mask on his face, which he just reaches up and takes off.
He then noticed a pair of silver/white eyes looking at him. They have a look of concern on them. He realizes that the eyes belonged to Hanabi. Opening his mouth to speak he noticed that his throat hurts and is very dry, while croaking out an attempted 'hi' to Hanabi. There is a snicker to his right but is hidden by the curtains, the giggle is familiar but he could not place it.
"Naruto-san, would you like something to drink?" Hanabi asked as Naruto nodded. She moved over and grabbed a pitcher of water and poured it into a glass, handing him the glass.
Just before he got the glass he noticed another whiff of the faint lavender sent. Taking the glass he turned to the curtain. He then looked at Hanabi who just smiled shyly and nodded to him. He again tried to sit up but was not able too, so he just drank the water and mouthed the word thank you to Hanabi.
"You are quite welcome Naruto-san. Would you like the curtain pulled back?" He nodded as he started to drink again. The water burned as it went down wetting the parched throat, but still hurting. Hanabi moved the curtain to reveal Hinata laying back on her pillow but smiling at Naruto. "I will leave you two now. Again I am sorry for attacking both of you."
"You are forgiven imoutosan. I am sure Naruto will also forgive you." Hinata responded.
"Thank you oneesan." Hanabi says as she leaves.
Naruto finishes the water but only lets out a croak when he tries to speak. This causes Hinata to giggle. But this frustrates Naruto to no end, as he wants to talk to Hinata.
"Naruto-kun I would like to talk to you if that is ok." Hinata says quietly, to which Naruto just nods. "I have made contact with my companion." Naruto looks confused. Hinata blushes and then lifts her gown to reveal her stomach and points to it. She does not mold chakra as she is sure it might hurt her. "I am talking about the one sealed in me." A look of recognition comes over Naruto and he nods.
"Naruto-kun she says that we will both need to mold their chakra while holding hands." Naruto nods. "He told you too?" He again nods. "Naruto-kun, I will not be able to do that for a month and a half at the earliest." She frowns. "I am sorry." Naruto-kun gives her a sympathetic smile. "So why are you in the bed? What happened?"
Naruto takes a deep breath and then coughs hard spraying blood all over his sheets. He quickly covers his mouth. "Great job you idiot you do not even know when to take it easy. I can only heal you so fast." The fox told him in his mind.
'Like I knew my lungs would have so much blood in them.' Naruto thought.
A look of panic crossed Hinata's face. "Naruto-kun, are you alright?!" This caused her to do the same thing.
A nurse came in and saw that both patients' beds were covered in blood. She stuck her head out of the room and called for a doctor. She then came into the room checking Naruto quickly as he was coughing harder than Hinata. She then shifted to Hinata. A doctor came in a few seconds later. She immediately looked at the nurse who pointed at Hinata. The doctor move over to her and made a few hand signs, her hand covering in a green chakra. She applied her hand to Hinata's chest. Hinata's coughing slowed and then stopped. She then moved to Naruto and did the same thing.
The doctor finally spoke. "Ok both of you. No deep breaths, Naruto-san no talking, and Lady Hinata do not get excited. I had to repair the work I have done. Nurse will you please leave us." The nurse nodded and left. The doctor made sure that the nurse had left hearing range and then closed the door. "Ok my name is Dr. Kikiyo Hyuga. I know about your special cases." She looking hard at Naruto, "Yes that one. You both heal quickly but the damage is extreme. Naruto you just healed from punctured lung and now your bronchial tube has been ruptured, and your lungs have a ton of blood in them it will take a few days to clear."
Turning to Hinata, "Lady Hinata, your heart, your left lung, your liver, and large intestine all took damage. Normally both of your injuries would be fatal. You both are lucky to have your special cases. But I will not allow you to reinjure yourselves. Now Lady Hinata, you can talk to Naruto-san but you must do it in quite tones. He will continue cough up blood. This much I can tell was caused by him taking a deep breath to try to speak. His is slightly damaged. So he will not be able to talk for a couple days anyways."
She looked back at Naruto, "Do not try to speak for a couple days. I will have the nurse come in and change your sheets, also buzz the nurse if either of you need to use the bathrooms." She smirked at who Naruto nodded his head and covered his crotch. "Ok I will get the nurse now. Now be good children or I will have to sedate you." She smiled as she left.
The nurse came back in and immediately went over to Naruto and helped him out of bed. Leading into the bathroom "you want to sit or stand?" Naruto pointed to the seat. The nurse closed the door and gently pulled down his boxers and set him down on the toilet. His face turned bright red from having a woman see him in the near buff to say. She quietly said "don't worry I will not tell anyone about this." She helped him stand and had him hold the rails in the bathroom for stability while she pulled his shorts back up. She then helped him back into bed while pulling off the top sheet. She moved over to Hinata's bed. "Do you also need relief Lady Hinata?"
Hinata nodded as the nurse took off her sheets, causing Hinata to turn red as the nurse accidently revealed that Hinata was wearing white panties. She had forgotten to pull her gown back down after revealing her stomach to Naruto. Quickly Hinata pulling down her gown "I am ready."
The nurse helped Hinata into the bathroom performing the same maneuver with Hinata's panties that she did with Naruto's boxers allowing Hinata to relieve herself and then stand and put them back on. "He is the one you like?" Hinata nodded.
"You have found a good one. Treat him right and he will make you happy." Hinata looked at her questioningly. "He is a nice boy and is well… I promised I would not tell." She then winked at Hinata who turned bright red and nearly fainted. The nurse helped Hinata back into bed then put new sheets on both beds. "Now you two keep it down, especially you Naruto-sama. I will come in and check on you in an hour."
Hinata still recovering from the nurses comments begins to speak to Naruto. "Naruto-kun I was told something that I did not know. I contain the Kyubi's mate. Did you know that?" Naruto had a deer in the headlights look, he then shook his head. "I am wondering how you feel about me?" She looked down tears welling in her eyes. "Do you like me because I contain the Kyubi's mate?" Naruto looked at her questioningly.
'Now that is not a fair question. How am I supposed to answer that? If I say no then it could be taken that I don't like her because of your mate, or I like her but it is not because of your mate. AH!! Help me out here fox.' Naruto thought to his prisoner.
"How am I supposed to help you here? You cannot even get out of the bed. Maybe I can do something. Lift your gown and mold some chakra, let me put out a chakra tail and touch her with it. This might help with being able to talk to her now that you are not allowed to speak. What am I thinking, Neji did the impossible. He shut up the loudest mouth in Konoha. HA! HA! HA!" The fox responded.
Naruto lifted his gown showing his stomach, molding chakra caused his seal to appear. Hinata looked at Naruto and was surprised at what he was doing. She then a line of red chakra moving towards her, it moved to hover over her stomach. He nodded to her 'I hope this works you silly fox.' Naruto thought.
"You want me to reveal my stomach Naruto-kun?" Naruto nodded. She lifted her gown and the red chakra slowly moved to her stomach. It paused over her stomach as if waiting for her approval. "Ok Naruto-kun you can continue." The chakra caressed her stomach and the seal appeared. It then covered the seal and she felt very sleepy.
Both heads hit their pillows at the same time. They both woke up in a field "Ok kits you can talk now, I have bridged your minds. I know I cannot talk to Hime right now but you both can at least talk to each other. I will withdraw. Naruto we will talk later." The Kyubi said.
Naruto sat up and saw Hinata sitting a few feet away from him a large castle with a gate and with the kanji of seal on it. "Hinata, I could not answer your question. It was too hard to answer."
Hinata looked confused. "What do you mean?"
"How can I answer your question without looking bad? Here is how I see it. I have known only that I contain the Kyubi and that I have feelings for you. He has not had any sway in on how I feel towards you. I didn't know you contained his mate. If I did it would make no difference. I have liked you since we were kids." Tears start to stream from his eyes.
"I do not want to lose you, I can't lose you. It would kill me. I don't know what this feeling is but that is how I feel. I would never want to hurt you, thus the reason I could not answer your question. When I figured out you liked me more than just a friend, I was happy beyond compare. I could not have been happier. Someone like you liked me, the demon brat, and the pariah of Konoha. And I know that you would not hurt me if I screwed up, which I eventually will."
He looked into her lavender eyes. "You are beautiful, patient, kind, and I care for you more than life itself." Hinata looks up crying. "Yes Hinata-hime, it is you I am talking about."
"Ok Naruto-kun" She moved closer and embraced Naruto.
"Hinata-hime, I am telling the truth when I say I do not know what I feel. I know I am happy when I am around you and sad when you are not near. I know I push harder so that I can protect you. But I don't want you to think it is because you are weak, because you are not weak. I made an oath to Neji that I am going to beat him, and I did it on your blood."
Hinata pulled away looking into Naruto's eyes. "You did that? For me?"
"Yes I did and I would do it again. That teme Neji has put me back in the hospital. I don't mind being here with you though. But I can't train and he is free to train as much as he likes."
"Neji-niisan attacked you? When did he do that?" Hinata asked.
"I am not sure when but it was before dinner, I was going to go talk to you. But he used a woman telling me that you were up and wanted to talk to lure me out and attack me at the entrance of my room." Naruto answered.
"That is terrible. I will talk to my father about this and see what we can do about it." Hinata said angrily.
"If I am to heal Naruto as quickly as possible you will need to end this soon." The fox boomed over the young couple.
"Hime, the fox in me says that we will be able to talk in a month and a half. I am sure that he will be happy to see her. Now Naruto-kun I… I…" Hinata starts to blush. "I… lo…"
"Enough! Out with it girl, we do not have time for this!" The fox yells at Hinata.
"Shut up you damn fox. Can't you see Hinata is trying? She is so cute when she blushes." Naruto blushes as he says that not sure why it was said instead of thought.
Hinata grips Naruto very tightly and buries her head in his shoulder. "I love you Naruto-kun." Then promptly passes out. The scenery fades to black and Naruto is left in the room near the Kyubi's cage.
Naruto is in a daze 'she loves me. I am not worthy of her am I? Do I love her? Why do I feel like my insides are all twisted up? What do I do now?'
"NARUTO!!" The Kyubi yells breaking him from his stupor. "Now that I have your attention. We have a few things to discuss."
Naruto looked up at the cage. "Like what? I have just been told by my best friend in the world and prettiest too. That she loves me. I am not sure what to do now. What do you want to talk about anyways fox?"
"First I have figured out why she is weaker than she should be." The fox said.
"Ok, you mean she is stronger than she is now?"
"Yes and no. First Hime has had to pull some chakra from Hinata to heal herself. She was improperly sealed in a statue. She is a seven tailed divine fox for crying out loud. But she also was gravely wounded when I was summoned by a man name Madara Uchiha."
"Uchiha, great why do they keep on coming up and ruining my life?" Naruto responded.
"Well he holds sway over demon foxes with his sharingan. Sasuke does not have that ability yet, but could gain it eventually. Also she was sealed by a man named Orochimaru. He is known as the snake Sanin."
"But back to Hime. She is recovering. She was injured, then locked in an inanimate object then resealed in a container that had developing chakra coils. This would make her life very difficult. She would need to basically take strength from Hinata to recover but she would lend her powers to heal her. When Hime is fully recovered Hinata will heal almost as fast as you. Now I have not tried to steer you towards Hinata. Just blind luck has put us in this position where the girl you love. Yes I said love, is the container of my mate."
"Now there are a few things I need to tell you. First when you and Hinata make the chakra link, you both will be able to send your thoughts to each other. I am not sure on what the distances are. Over longer distances you will be able to relay them through me to her and from her thru Hime. As you age you and I will merge, this will take years, you are almost thirteen now, I figure we will be one when you reach your nineteenth birthday. When that happens you will become a half demon a hanyo."
"Why a half demon? Why would I want to become a half demon?" Naruto asks.
"How do you think most of the blood limits started? Most were started when a spirit being whether demon or divine mated and had offspring. Well it is that or you die. I figure you will want to live. I will not totally merge I will become like a conscious for you. You will have all my power and most of my knowledge. But I will also be here to advise you on things. I will state now that I was a wild fox spirit a nogitsune, then I became a demon, later I became a demon lord. The same thing will happen to your hime and to your family, and I mean Yugito and Shinbo. They will eventually all become half demons. Hime was a myobu, a celestial fox. Now we can proceed but we will need to train your mind."
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A/N: To those who think my first few chapters were not so good. You were and are right. This is my first story I have posted and have been working on a learning curve, I will go back to the earlier chapters and revise and enhance them. I thought I would leave you with this chapter having no real cliffhangers unless you think that the fox working on training Naruto is a cliffhanger. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Now I have a few other projects to get too. See you and enjoy.
Oh and next chapter is a filler devoted to some of the other people in the story, you will see some familiar faces that have been missing for a while. I should have that posted in a couple days at most.