In the real anime of "Naruto" they sometimes have a one hour special. Well.. why not add a little bit of that to this story? Today's chapter is two in one. ENJOY.

Chapter 16: and from the ashes…

Tayuya woke up to find a leaf blanket over her and Naruto still fast asleep. She remembered everything that happened just hours ago. It was dark out now and she could only hear herself and Naruto's breaths as she looked around. The faint echo of the waterfall suddenly hit her. She got up and looked at her skin and noticed this was her human form. She attempted to use her curse mark but when she did that she felt a little shock. 'What the hell… My curse mark isn't working.' She grunted again as the shock became bigger from her shoulder. 'damn it what happened?!' She thought as she stopped trying to use it. She heard Naruto come to his feet and start walking towards her. "I'm still here as you can see. As I promised, I'm your ally now remember?" Now knowing if he wanted to attack her or not. She braced herself in case he was going to jump her. He came closer and closer not saying a word. She took a step back knowing that her only weapon was her flute and that didn't work on him. He came within feet of her and she closed her eyes expecting to be hit or thrown into the wall. She heard him walk right past her. Her eyes widened as she turned around to see him still walking towards the waterfall exit. "Wait." She asked almost kindly. He stopped as she walked in front of him. "Why the hell are you so nice to me? Why?" She asked him. "Why do you think I deserve your mercy and kindness?" She stared long into his eyes needing a response. "Why does my life give a damn to you?"

"Everyone deserves to be happy. Including you no matter what you look like or what you say. As long as you don't betray me, I won't hurt you." He said looking her straight in the eye. Tayuya just stood there, not knowing if he was telling the truth or lying to her face.

"But why does my life matter to you?" Tayuya held in her tears. "No one has ever given a damn about me. Why the hell should you?"

"I'm not them." He said walking past her once again and jumping out past the waterfall. She stood there, those words rebounding all over her head. She fell to her knees. 'Why do I feel like this towards him? He's a demon who… I have no idea what the hell he's been through.' She crawled over to the wall and pressed her back against it. 'should I ask him? Wait why do I give a damn? Damn this!' She thought and punched the wall. 'What the hell is this feeling I have when I'm around him. Am I in love him or something and If I am… why him? Why the hell would I be in love with a demon? Especially when I don't even know him. Damn it!' Her thoughts were broken by the sound of footsteps. She looked away from the entrance.

"That was fast, what you're a great hunter too or something?" She asked trying to make it look like she doesn't give a damn.

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked as she walked into the cave. "You're the one I saw fight Naruto-kun!" She said a few feet from her with her Byakugan activated. "What did you do with him?" She just looked away and pretended to not give a damn. "Answer me or I swear I'll…"

"You'll what? If I killed him it means I'm more powerful than he is. If that's true then you fighting me would be suicide. If I didn't kill him it means I either escaped or he spared me. Considering he is faster than me, he probably spared me. Meaning that I might know where he is or not. What is it worth to you anyway?" Hinata stood battle ready in case this girl was trying to trick her. With her Byakugan activated she didn't notice she was topless.

"I'm his…" She said keeping an eye on her as she moved towards the back of the cave. She wasn't ashamed of it but she couldn't say it to a possible enemy.

"Really?" Tayuya asked as she got up. Hinata instantly took notice and placed one hand in front of her and on hand just behind it. Tayuya looked at Hinata and laughed. "What do you mean you are his?" She asked almost like she was going to kill that boy for making her feel like this then having a girlfriend already.

"That's what I wanted to talk to him about but I'm not talking about it to you."

"Didn't want to hear it anyway." She pointed towards the waterfall. "He ran off awhile ago. I assume he's coming back so sit down and relax." Hinata deactivated her Byakugan to notice she was topless.

"Why the hell are you… half naked?" Hinata demanded. Tayuya knew it probably looked like they did something.

"Naruto-kun wounded me and I used my shirt to stop the bleeding. That's all. Nothing is going on between him and me" She said walking over to the mattress and plopping down on it. Hinata lay back against the wall and watch Tayuya. Her every move, every breath. Tayuya knew she was watching her and it made her uncomfortable. She lifted half her body up, using her hands to keep her up. "Would you stop staring at me? I'm not going to do anything. I made a choice to live as Naruto-sama's servant instead of being mauled by that little prick." She said laying back down and closing her eyes. Hinata wanted to defend Naruto but she thought it would be pointless against her. Her body being half naked still bothered Hinata.

"Then why are you still naked? Why not go put something on?" Tayuya sighed and didn't bother getting up this time.

"Oh, I'll just run out to the nearest village and run into a store half naked and buy some cloths with harsh language." Tayuya said sarcastically. After a few second she talked again. "I can't wear my cloths I had cause it's covered in blood and even if I did wash it out or get a new one it won't matter as long as I stay in here or move around the forest. Like anyone would find me in this shit hole. Figured I might as well enjoy not being clothed rather then walk around with it and get shit from this cave all over it and have to constantly wash it off." Hinata didn't quite believe her as it sounded a little farfetched but she didn't have much of a choice. Hinata looked over to the waterfall and watched it for a few minutes. "Have you guys fucked yet?" She said watching Hinata light up red. "HA! You did didn't you!" Tayuya laughed hard. Then she quickly moved over next to her before she could speak and whispered in her ear. "Was he really good?" Hinata wasn't sure if her talking about Naruto would make him angry or not but…

"He was the best."

"Hard to believe that dumb ass is any good. I wonder if…" She trailed off. Hinata gained thoughts about what she might be thinking. Hinata just watched as Tayuya just spaced off.

"What are you thinking?" Hinata asked slowly. Tayuya snapped out of her thoughts and looked down at the girl.

"Nothing much, mainly how I'd screw Naruto-sama if he were mine." Hinata never really grew jealous but this time she wasn't about to listen to a girl that just recently and almost by force became his friend. Tayuya saw Hinata want to tear her head off. "I'm not gonna steal him away. Just screw him. You can even join in if you want. Not a bad idea if…" Tayuya notices Hinata doesn't like her talking about screwing Naruto. Normally she just keep talking and not give a damn but Naruto was different. "Listen girl…" Hinata assumed she was talking to her. "why don't we share him? I mean you can be all cuddly with him, I'm just going to be the girl on the side. How about it?"

"First off, Naruto-kun is mine, why the hell should I just let him have you too? Secondly, how do I know you won't just steal him away."

"First off," Tayuya said mockingly."Naruto-sama is a man who probably fantasies about something like this and secondly" once again mocking Hinata. "all I want is to screw him and live with him. He is the first person who seems to give a damn about me. He spared my life and after being around him for a full day being half naked and barely anything covering the other half, didn't take advantage of me, I'd rather like to be his second girl not like his lover just a little toy." Both girls turned a little red. Hinata looked away and was wondering if maybe that's what Naruto would like. 'I can't always be ready to put out and she could be his little toy to go screw but… '

"Wouldn't that be cheating on me?" Tayuya laughed at the shy girl "What's so funny?"

"For someone who grew up well you are a stupid shit." She just took a few more laughes and placed a hand on Hinata's shoulder. "It's not cheating on you if you allow it. If you allow it how can it be cheating..." Tayuya said slowly mocking her once again. At this point both girls heard a noise coming from deeper within the cave. Both girls nodded to each other and ran into the back to check it out. Tayuya turned the corner to find the human formed Naruto taking a nap. "WHEN THE FUCK DID YOU GET BACK!?" She exploded. Naruto lifted up his head.

"You two were too busy with each other to notice I walk right past you." He said getting on all fours and stretching.

"Naruto-kun… did you hear what we were saying?" Hinata asked turning the corner. Naruto nodded. "Is that what you want? Do you want a second girl to have… other then me?" Hinata asked almost like she meant that she was going to be second place in his life now.

"That is for you to decide. I'm not getting involved unless you decide on it Hinata-chan." Naruto morphed before their eyes into his teenage form that she so desperately loved. Everything was silent for the next few minutes as Hinata stood deep in thought. Tayuya was on the verge of blowing up in Hinata's face.

"Listen to me you little horny school girl" Tayuya said grabbing Hinata and pulling her close to her face. "I'm just looking for someone to screw me so I can stop screwing myself almost every night. I'm not stealing him away from you. I'm not gonna take him." She stared into her eyes. "Can you honestly tell me that the whole reason you don't want to do this is cause you want him all to yourself?!" She screamed in her face.

"What's wrong with that. I don't want him screwing other women so he'll stay with me."

"You little… I'm not stealing him. What part of that don't you get?"

"He'll get you pregnant and he'll have to take care of you."

"I can't get pregnant!" She screamed into her face. Tayuya's eyes filled up with tears. "That basterd Orcohimaru made sure of that. Told me that if I couldn't even beat a few small assholes then why should I even live or have a child?" Tayuya let Hinata go. "No matter how much he dumps into me or when he does me, It's a win-win for me and you. You get Naruto with all his love and I get to be fucked and put on the shelf like a fucking rag doll. So don't tell me that you can't at least let me have that much." She stated into Hinata's eyes. Hinata was stunned at her confession about Orochimaru. He had caused her so much pain, and even though she didn't like it she knew Naruto would make her happy.

"Fine. He can be with you but only if I say when you can be with him." Almost a pure smile appeared on Tayuya's face.

"Fine, but was it really that hard to decide?" She said calmly. She never known love before her time with Orochimaru. The only love she knew when she was with him was killing and him praising her for it. If she failed she might was well be dead.

"Before you guys run off and go have a huge grand old time…" Shikamaru said standing up against the wall. "the hokage would like to see you all in person."

"Oh fuck… not you again…" Tayuya said knowing it was the same kid she almost beat before if he wasn't so smart, and Temari saved his ass.

"Hey long time no see. I'm always up for a re-match if you ever want it."

"Thanks but I'll pass… So tell me, they still make you leader on missions you little rat's ass?" She asked him almost like she enjoyed it.

"On important missions yeh. Course important mission aren't including you anymore so…"

"What was that!" She jumped at him and got caught in the shadow possession jutsu.

"We are fighting in a cave surrounded by shadows and you challenge me, the shadow jutsu master, to a match… Smart… I think you where brighter back then…"

"Screw you!" She said getting released by Shikamaru.

"Anyway if I was going to fight you I'd bring a book to read so I wouldn't get bored." Tayuya wanted to rip his head off but Naruto stopped her.

"Let's go Tayuya-chan." Tayuya growled at just walking away but she would do it this time. She followed Naruto to the entrance. Shikamaru staid a few yards behind them in case Tayuya changed her mind.

"So what's the deal with you listening to Naruto-sama… or have you lost your touch?" Shikamaru asked her as if to purposely piss her off. Tayuya was about to open her mouth in response when Naruto beat her to it.

"She serves me now remember that Shikamaru-kun. She's no longer your enemy so don't make her one. Since she serves me now, you would be wise on who you pick a fight with." He gave Shikamaru and quick glance which Shikamaru quickly got as shut up or you will have a problem on your hands.

"And why is that?" Shikamaru asked wondering what he meant by that. Tayuya fell to her knees with a look of pain on her face. She closed her eyes in complete agony. The pain seemed to fade quickly and she opened her eyes to find herself alone with the sky and trees around her gray and black. A figure appeared behind her. She turned and readied herself for battle.

"What do you do to me?!" She demanded.

"From this moment on, you will belong to me. Because you belong to me, I will grant you power over that of the curse mark, but in return you will server me for the rest of your days. Do you agree?" Naruto asked her.

"What the hell is this?" She asked as she felt the pain in her shoulder come back.

"This is your rebirth."

"What the hell do you mean rebirth?"

"From this moment on, if you agree, you will be granted power that surpasses that of the curse mark. From this moment on, you are no longer Tayuya-chan who serves Orochimaru, you will be my servant. Do you agree?"

"Yeh fine, I agree. Anything to get the hell out of this place." She said snidely. The sky and trees became color again and her pain was gone. She smiled as she felt her new power envelop her body. She pulled her shirt over to find her curse mark from orochimaru gone. She quickly looked over to her other shoulder to find a another curse mark. It had two large dark blue dots (looks like vein blood) with dark red curved slits in the middle of each one. She looked over to Naruto who was looking down on her offered her his hand. She took it and got up. Shikamaru sighed and started walking towards them. He quickly did a few hand signs and had Naruto in a shadow possession jutsu.

"Are you really Naruto?" Shikamaru asked gripping onto him with all his might. He knew if it really was him he would fight it. Naruto turned his head against the force of the shadow possession jutsu. Shikamaru's jutsu was broken with nothing more than him turning his head. 'How the hell is something that strong' Shikamaru thought as he tried to get the jutsu back on him. Naruto started walking against shikamaru's command. A few feet in from of Shikamaru he stopped and held out his palm face up. This deep in the cave there wasn't a lot of light. Shikamaru then looked up in amazement. A large Resengan was formed in Naruto's hand without hand signs or a clone. Shikamaru knew two things at this point. He was Naruto and if he kept pissing off Naruto, he might have that in his stomach. Shikamaru, knowing those, released his jutsu and tried keeping quiet until they hit the leaf village. They left the cave. Hinata and Ino, still in shock on his new power, followed and kept whispering to each other. Naruto now has his super hearing listen in on what they were saying. Mostly how they thought how he is a lot stronger and how cute he looks now. Naruto smiled at some of their … personal thoughts about him. Ino and Hinata noticed that he might have been listening in. So they tried to keep it softer which he also heard. Tayuya just walked obediently next to her new 'master' as she called him. From time to time she looked at him and 'scaned' his body. More or less she was wondering how good he looked without his cloths but he caught her a few times. She didn't look away when he caught her just kept saying that she was watching everyone for him. They approached the gates and Naruto stopped walking. Ino and Hinata stopped as well watching Naruto who was just staring at the leaf village as if it were a trap he was about to walk into. As they walked next to him to find out what was going on he saw Tsunade standing in the gates looking at him with a death glare. Even with the power of the nine tailed fox and his own, he still knew he was going to get his ass kicked.

"Naruto-sama are you just going to stand there?" Shikamaru said as he kept walking towards the village. "If so then I'll fail this mission and I can't have that on my record. On the other hand if it's Lady Tsunade-sama your worried about…" He was cut off by the earth shaking force of Tsunade's running towards him. Naruto turned away and started running to be tripped by Ino who looked down on him placing her foot on his back preventing him from getting up.

"No stop… she'll kill me!" Naruto said scared. Ino never saw him this scared before.

"You either take what you did now or worse later." Ino stated letting him go. He got up to be tackled by Tsunade who had been piss drunk worrying over Naruto. Tsunade got off him to watch him try to crawl away. She grabbed him by the pants and dragged him back and flipped him over.

"I swear I was going to come back Baa-chan!" he screamed trying to get away. She grabbed his collar and lifted his body up in the air with one hand over her head. "I swear!" he screamed again hoping that she would let him go.

"If you were another ninja I'd have you killed on sight for abandoning his village and disobeying a direct order!" She screamed in his face. The smell of Sake was STRONG almost by breathing in her breath he was being drunk. Then she let him go and the second his foot hit the floor she wrapped him in a hug. "Do that again and I will… got that?" Tsunade softly said into his ear almost like she was crying it.

"I'm sorry baa-chan I just… I couldn't come back to the village how I was at the time. What would anyone think if I came back how you knew I was going to come back as?" Naruto said sentimentally. Tsunade let him go.

"Since when does what everyone else keep me from doing anything?" Tsunade said slightly teary eyed. "Shizune-chan tried and told me not to drink myself into a stupor but I did it anyway!" She yelled towards him. Naruto just wrapped her in a hug.

(A/N: she's drunk so that is how she said it. It is not a spelling mistake)

"Thanks baa-chan. For caring so much." Tsunade grew a smile.

"As much of a pain in the ass you are, I still feel like you're my grandson." She said returning the hug. While all this was going on Hinata saw him really return to himself. Naruto had been so much and still standing in his way was this new hatred he knew was coming but at least she knew their were his friends at his back ready to face this messed up shit together. Hinata smiled as she saw Naruto wrap his arms around Tsunade and hugged her. There was still so much that only Tsunade needed to tell him that would have to wait till a better time. "By the way Shikamaru…" Tsunade said turning to him and breaking the hug. "mission complete and you'll get your payment in a while." Shikamaru just headed back into the village and so did the rest of them. Tsunade said she's going to give Naruto a few days off and after that they needed to talk about him finally becoming a chunin. Hinata walked with Naruto back to his house and he fell asleep almost instantly as he hit the bed mumbling how he missed his bed. Hinata just smiled at him and laid down next to him. His shape shifting was remarkable and every inch of his body , as far as she could tell, was perfectly formed, right down to the spiky hair and grin. The good news about this was the fact that it was a physical change, not a jutsu that would wear off. She dug her face into he chest and listened as she heard his heart beat. She was so glad he was back with her again.

"Naruto-kun… I'm so glad you are back. I didn't know what I'd do without you anymore when you where gone. I was so afraid." She talked to him as if he were still awake. Thinking he would still be listening to her. "I started seeing my life without you and…" Hinata broke into tears. "I couldn't bare that, I kept saying to myself that you weren't dead whether it was for those six months or for those awful three days where you vanished before my eyes. I couldn't…" She wipped the tears from her eyes, "I couldn't bare the thought you where dead. I just couldn't even…" She trailed off wipping her tears again, trying to not put her tears all over his body. "I became head of my family and I tried as hard as I could to postpone the marrage but they didn't let me anymore and I was forced into it. You know I would never do something like that to you." She noticed that her tears kept falling on his shirt making almost soaking wet. "I really want us to be close again and I promise that I will never doubt you again. I'll never give up hope. Cause you've had it harder then any of us and still sit there smiling and going on with your day. No one could ever know the pain you feel every day. It's so unfair!" She said crying into his shirt and gripping it at the same time. After a few seconds his hand hit her head and she cried even louder.

"Be strong for me." He whispered as loud as he could trying hard not to pass out again.

"I should be telling you that!" She screamed into his shirt. Hinata eventually ran out of tears to cry into his shirt and knew she was keeping him awake. "Go to sleep Naruto-kun… I'll be here when you are awake." She said with a glistening smile , mostly cause of the tears. Naruto wasted no time passing out. Hinata soon joined him and fell asleep beside him. She slept for the first time in a long time with a smile on her face.

Morning on the day after)))))))

Hinata awoke to see a vacant space on the bed. She looked around and saw no evidence that Naruto, that last night wasn't just an entire dream. She quickly ran around his home screaming his name and running into Tayuya who was fully dressed in nothing. Hinata quickly realized why she was.

"I took a shower, we haven't done it yet. Though him taking me while my early morning shower isn't out of the question snowball…" She said looking at her eyes.

"Snowball?"

"Your eyes and skin remind me of how white a snowball is." Hinata didn't care for her jokes much but at she knew that if she was here Naruto was too. "So were is…"

"At hokage tower he said." Not wanting to stand here forever. "And no, I don't know why." She said walking past her. She quickly jumped out the nearest window and ran as fast as she could towards Tsunade's office.

At Tsunade's office))))

"So your telling me I actually have to take the chunin exams…" Naruto said complaining to Tsunade… as usual.

"Yeh, it's held in Suna this time and I only signed you up cause it was requested of me." Said Tsunade holding up a piece of paper with Garra's handwriting and seal on it. "He personally requested you be there for quote "absolute friendship with Konohagakure." I only have one team to send to them this year unless you go which might make it hard for Garra-sama to listen to me." Tsunade explained.

"Fine I'll go but I hate going through all that crap and only coming out a chunin after all these years…" Tsunade smiled and Naruto's hopes raised. "Wait… don't tell me I get another promotion!?"

"Yep." Tsunade said pulling another paper out of her desk. Naruto grabbed it and started reading it.

Dear lady Tsunade-sama,

Your request you made about Uzumaki Naruto did go through the counsel with appraisal and grace. We do have a few requirements as to Naruto's promotion such as he must be able to use two different styles of elemental jutsu and use them. While that is our main goal, we would also like him to be able to use his Rasengan combined with one of these elements, proving that he is truly able to complete what the fourth has started and will instantly have our blessing in becoming a Jonin. And who knows... maybe one day Hokage...

After that was all he needed to read and started jumping for joy. Screaming that he was finally able to move up in the world. After a few minutes of gloating Naruto calmed down and gave the paper back to Tsunade. "There is one catch to what you read. You only get this one chance. Blow it and your stuck at chunin for awhile. Also I will be at the finals and according what you just read I have to approve the promotion myself based on you actions. So don't be like Shikamaru and give up. He was a master at what he does and used his thinking to get him were he was. Some who don't win still get passed but I don't want to see you slacking off there just cause you are really talented." She said.

"Which remind me, when does it start and who am I teaming up with?" he said getting a small shock out of Tsunade who wasn't expecting a question like that.

"You team mates will meet you at your own training grounds. We only have two teams this year so make sure your one of them."

"Kakashi-sensei again?" Naruto said half excited.

"Don't say it like that. After all I could just say you're not ready and you lose a chance to become my rank equal." Kakashi said with his nose in his book and in the corner. Naruto knew he was there but didn't bother calling him out on it.

"Come on Kakashi-sensei you can't just fail me like that. I've passed your test and even learned a lot of Jonin level moves that could even kick your butt." Kakashi looked up from his book and knew that Naruto was a lot stronger probably enough to beat him but still Kakashi was a bit full of himself.

"You probably right Naruto, but still I'm in charge until then end of this exam." Kakashi said with a grin across his face. "Don't worry though, I know you don't need training so just relax until the exams."

"You never answered me Baa-chan. When are the exams?"

"Three days."

End of a really long chapter. Find out next chapter when Hinata and Naruto catch up.