~Here it is folks! Chapter three.
Spent three hours just for you guys. Have mid-terms but still wanted to get over with another chapter for you guys.
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~Now on with the Chapter!
"She Hinata, is actually me"
The Hyuga eyes, they were famous to look through things which normal humans weren't meant to. You can be as professional as you want but they will see through you the moment they lay eyes on you.
Hinata right now, was perplexed by everything which was happening in front of her. Had she missed something?
"And w-what does t-that mean? How can you be him?" said Hinata.
Naruto and Hinami, both looked at each other and smirked. Naruto signaled something to her and she nodded back. It all was as if Hinata wasn't even standing over there. In all honesty, Hinata was actually curious by as to what Naruto was mentioning before. She being him and all.
"That hinata, is very easy" and with that, in a poof, Hinami changed into Naruto.
"Brilliant, right?" stated the clone. Hinata was literally baffled. It shouldn't be strange for a ninja to stare at two of the same person. Hinami was Naruto all the time?
There were many things going on in her mind, but the most dominant of them, was why did he do all this? Yes Naruto was very unpredictable and he had a rich pranking history but why will he all of a sudden prank everyone with a joke like this?
"Why Naruto kun? Why would you do this?" Hinata had theories of her own. It was possible that he wanted to relive his childhood by playing a prank, or maybe he wanted get away from all the fan girls who had been bothering him. But he could have come to Hinata looking for help on that matter. Hinata blushed at what Naruto had confessed to her before, sure he hadn't replied to her yet, but indirectly he had conveyed that he was glad she was in love with her.
A new hope began to surge through his body, his girlfriend was fake, he was single and he cared about her. But she really needed to know the reasons as to why Naruto did all this. He didn't do it catch my attention did he?
Hinata shook her head to get the funny ideas out of her head and focused on them both, waiting expectantly for an explanation. Naruto first dismissed his clone and then walked towards Hinata.
After everything had happened tonight, Hinata was feeling more uncomfortable around him, and him suddenly placing and then closing gaps between them was making her very uneasy. Naruto had a stern demeanor this time though, she knew that this was very serious or secretive. Naruto at first, composed his thoughts and then started to explain anything.
"First of all Hinata, you should know that what I'm about to tell you is a secret about which, not many people know and I want you to keep it between us only" Hinata nodded in agreement, she sure was going to keep this a secret, she was really excited that he would share something important with her.
"I developed Hinami as a part of my mission" stated Naruto. Hinata was at a loss. "Like a mission from the hokage?" asked Hinata. Naruto only nodded as an answer and continued to explain. "Like everyone knows Hinata, after kakashi sensie, I will become hokage, they made him the sixth to get everything together after the war and also to teach me about ethics, law and the art of being a leader"
All the while Hinata continued to listen attentively, nodding in between while he talked. "About a week ago, after I had finished my training session, an anbu messenger arrived and told me that the kakashi sensie requires my presence"
(One Week Ago)
Kakashi was sitting in his room, busy as usual. There was tsunade sitting in front of him, giggling time to time as kakashi continued to sign paper by paper.
"Will you stop laughing already!" shouted out kakashi.
"Hahaha, sorry about that, it's just funny seeing you do all the hectic work while I can sit back and relax after retirement. Charming being the hokage right?" stated tsunade hysterically. Kakashi started muttering something about troublesome blonds and behind him, Naruto climed in from the open window.
"How many times do I have to tell you Naruto, use the door" Stated Kakashi.
"Good to see you too sensie, oh hi baa-chan" said Naruto. Like Kakashi, even tsunade knew that telling the blond to not do something will only rise up his spirits and just let the comment pass.
"Sit down Naruto, me and kakashi, as a part of your training, have a mission for you" tsunade said, all the while motioning him to sit down at the vacant chair besides her.
"A mission?" Naruto asked.
"Well, it's more of a test, Naruto. You just have to bluff" explained kakashi.
"Bluff? Where's the test in that?" Naruto's question suddenly changed the atmosphere of the room. Tsunade had a mischievous smile on her face. Naruto knew he was in for something very nasty but was still confused.
"You see Naruto, it's not your everyday bluff where you can get away easily, you have to lie to everyone in the village" spoke up Kakashi.
"Not only that, you have to succeed in your task and make them believe that what you are doing is the real deal" explained tsunade.
"But I don't understand, why would a hokage need to lie to his own villagers. What's the point?" asked the blond.
Kakashi cleared his throat, stood up and walked towards the window. He knew he was not just going to accept what he says so he further started explaining what tsunade and he had in mind. "Naruto, there are times, where a hokage needs to lie, he needs to hide something in order to save his villagers, he needs to misguide them because he understands what's better for them"
Kakashi turned around and saw that he had Naruto's complete attention. He continued, "for example, the sandaime had lied about your birth and what had truly happened when your father defeated the kyuubi. He successfully made them believe that the son of the Fourth had died, just so you won't come in harm's way. Your father had a lot of enemies Naruto, the third knew this, if they knew about you and tried to harm you, they would have brought harm on konoha in the future as well by controlling you and you powers of the nine tails"
Naruto now understood what Kakashi was trying to say, he nodded in agreement. He remembered how angry he had been at first when he realized that the third had hidden his heritance from him. But he had understood later that it was all for the betterment of him and of all the konoha. He now understood the importance of the task, which kakashi and tsunade had handed him.
Naruto stood up and looked at them both, "I understand what you mean, is there something specific you have in your minds?"
"No Naruto, but make sure it's something very unbelievable, but still you make them all believe it. Surprise us by succeeding" replied Tsunade.
Naruto nodded in return, he went towards the window, "give me a week, and consider it done" and with that, he was gone.
"That kid, he may be stupid sometimes, but talk about being the hokage or protecting his loved ones, and he will lay down his life for it" stated Kakashi, and tsunade couldn't have agreed more.
It took Naruto three days, to come up with the idea. He had never thought so hard on something his whole life, but he always took his training and kage grooming seriously and this was not exception. He underwent so many ideas, he even thought something as bizarre as faking his death, going rogue or send a marriage proposal to the Mizukage. But all this was not of his taste, being the prankster he his, he wanted to come up with something more bizarre, unpredictable and perplexing.
And he finally had it, at first, the raw idea was to bring in a family member, he was the last of the Uzumaki and the Namikaze after all. But to spice it up a bit, he decided to bring in a character, to whom he was romantically attached. No one in the village would think of him entering a relationship. Genius!
But this all was not as easy as he had thought. He had to do everything, starting from the scratch, he started thinking of a character, she had to be different, beautiful, strong, kind and charming. If he had to bluff, the character had to appear legit.
Naruto was a master at henge, all his childhood, he had been henging into different people and was better at it than anyone else. From a naked beauty as a prank on the third, to an old citizen out for shopping. Naruto was never accepted in the community those days and to fulfill his domestic needs, he had transform into different characters in able to fit in.
He started trying out different forms, girls of different physiques and features. And this was the first time he had to work so hard figuring out a henge. He had to spend the whole night, trying out henges after henges just to get the right one.
The next day, you could see naruto's room in a clear mess, there were magazines everywhere, with models of all kinds. Naruto, standing in front of his mirror was breathing heavily, apparently worn out. It was clear from his state that he didn't have a good night's sleep.
"Ok, gonna do it for the last time to check if I have it right or not. Henge Jutsu!"
In front of the mirror, now stood a tall and a beautiful brunette with long hair. She had round brown orbs, a fair skin texture and the perfect features. Naruto tried to get a better look at his creation by turning around and looking at the whole figure. He was proud with what he had created and then he started testing out different voices to pick up the perfect one.
But this was only the beginning. He had a lot of work to do, Naruto had practically zero knowledge about romance and he knew this wasn't going to be easy for him. He had to make a plot, legit enough that everyone believes he has been in love with someone for two whole years. Every day he would make around a hundred clones with various duties in his compound. Most of them would practice the new henge, not that he needed any practice, but he just wanted to make sure that he had no loopholes.
The rest of the clones were to gather together, sit down and decide what could be the best, agreeable plot for his love life which would be believed by all. The next few days had not been easy for him, he was not progressing at all!
"Alright, boss, I guess we have no choice" stated one of the clones,
"No, you can't mean referring to that! Right?" shouted another.
Soon, every clone in the room started to pick up on what was being discussed and a chaos erupted in the whole compound.
"No! Not that, for god's sake!"
"But we have no choice!"
"There has to be something else! Anything but that!"
Naruto was getting irritated by the chaotic atmosphere so he dispelled all of his clones in frustration. Though he had to agree with his clones, there was nothing else which would help him now, he couldn't risk going out asking for help and if he were to be hokage, he had to be able to make decisions on his own.
"No more thinking then, it has to be that, I clearly have no other choice, but the question is, how am I supposed to retrieve them. Retrieve The Erotic Novels Of Pervy Sage!"
That night, Naruto had a big mission, he had to infiltrate a certain someone's house in order to gain what he needed and it was very risky, because the place which he was going to infiltrate was the compound of the 6th Hokage Of Konoha. I mean, who else Naruto knew about who read all that crap.
Naruto had infiltrated a lot of places in his whole ninja career, even before he became a ninja, he had broken into the kage compound and stolen the secret scroll. At least that scroll was worth the infiltration.
It took a lot of thinking, but Naruto broke in, got what he needed right under the watch of the guards and successfully retreated back with his subjects somehow.
Later that night, kakashi arrived late after his long tiring day from the tower. After a shower, he was going to the bedroom when he stood dead in his walk. Like a zombie, he dreadfully turned around and saw his empty bookshelf, his eyes started increasing in their radius and then, like a small girl, he screamed, "My Limited Icha Icha Paradies Platinum Signed Collection!"
When Naruto arrived at home, he threw all the books on his bed. He continued to look at all of them in a horrified manner. He gather every ounce of his confidence and created over 60 clones for the books.
They all took a few steps back, they were terrified, but they knew they have to do it one way or another, with a gulp, they all nodded to each other and got to their working stations. The whole night, you could hear voices of Naruto's clones screaming, gagging and banging their heads in the walls coming from the compound.
The next morning, Naruto was sitting at his desk with a pen above a piece of paper. He took a deep breath, took hold of that paper and threw it to the far end of the room where there were heaps of pages lying around on the ground.
After three more hours, Naruto reviewed one last time everything he had written, he smiled to himself, finally satisfied with his achievement, and then dropped down to the floor, eyes closed and dreaming of how good he was going to get everyone. It was finally show time!