Alright, here comes chapter two. So far I've received more votes for NarutoxYugito than any other pairing. If I do choose this pairing, I'm going to change Yugito's age so that she and Naruto are the same age. All those who object, please tell me.

Anyways, the pairings poll will still go on for a little while, probably until the middle of the Land of Waves arc. So just make sure to get your votes in! Also, please include what you want Naruto's secondary chakra nature to be. The first nature will be wind, so vote for any of the other remaining four.

On to the chapter. Enjoy!

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When Naruto awoke the next day, he immediately looked around the unfamiliar surroundings. He was about to begin wondering where exactly he was when the memories of the previous day came rushing back to him: the beating by the villagers, waking up in the Hokage tower, seeing his real appearance, learning who his parents were, meeting his uncle…

He remembered then that the old man had been preparing something for him to wear to keep anybody from knowing that he was a Hyuuga. He had said something about things called colored contact lenses, but Naruto didn't know what they were. Were they things that changed his eye color?

Naruto leapt off the bed he was currently laying on and moved back over to the full-length mirror to observe himself again, specifically his eyes. They weren't the icy sapphire-blue he was used to anymore. Instead, he found that he liked the new pearl-like appearance of his eyes. They made him seem like a completely different person… not the hated demon that the villagers saw him as. His new appearance, combined with whatever the old man had in mind, might be able to give him the anonymity he so desired…

Naruto was roused from his musings when he heard the door open. His now pale eyes moved towards the door to see Anko, standing there with Hyuuga Hiashi.

"Hi Anko-neechan, ojisan! Uh, ojisan, I thought we were meeting at training ground, uh…"

"That was the plan, gaki, but we came here to show you how to put on contact lenses. And white-eyes here is gonna show you how to activate your bloodline." Hiashi glared at the purple-haired kunoichi, which she easily ignored. Anko reached into her trenchcoat, and pulled out an object. She held up a small box in her hand and, opening it up, took out a small translucent plastic case.

"Alright gaki, these things are called contact lenses. They're tiny pieces of plastic that we put directly on your eyes to make them look like a different color than they are. I don't want to risk using a henge, because I'm not sure you would be able to hold it all day at the academy. Now come over here, and I'll put them on, then show you how to do it."

What followed was one of the most miserable half-hours of Naruto's, Anko's, and Hiashi's respective lives.

(A/N: I know from personal experience how much your first time wearing contacts sucks. They are incredibly itchy, and it's nigh on impossible to stop your blink reflex from closing the instant something touches your eyes. Colored contacts are even worse… *shudders*)

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Half an hour later, Hiashi had left to go get Hinata to take her to their training area, while Anko was with Naruto, who couldn't stop itching his eyes.

"Cut it out, gaki. If those things fall out and somebody sees your eyes, then they might throw a conniption fit. Also, they're expensive, so STOP RUBBING YOUR DAMN EYES!"

Naruto gulped, and instantly snapped his hands down to his sides, ignoring the rubbing sensation in his ocular organs. He already learned the hard way that making Anko angry was a mistake few people lived to repeat.

"But neechan, they're really itchy! How can anybody wear these things?" Naruto looked up at Anko, the two locking gazes briefly when the kunoichi looked down at her honorary little brother.

The colored contacts were unable to perfectly replicate the icy sapphire-blue that his eyes had been before, simply because while they were very good at disguising something, they simply didn't appear the same as regular eyes. If somebody looked hard enough, they could slightly see through the blue color on the fake iris and catch a glimpse of the lavender beneath, especially if they happened to catch a glance of Naruto's eyes when he looked in a different direction: the contact lenses had a lag of a small fraction of a second when switching the direction he's looking in, but anybody who was observant enough would be able to see what he was wearing.

"You get used to them after a while, gaki. Now be quiet, we're about to go into the training area."

The two of them had walked out of Konoha and towards the fields of the training area, passing all of the regular ones before arriving at a large iron gate. On it there was a sign that read 'Training Area 44: Forest of Death'. Naruto read the sign and gulped.

"Neechan? Why is this place called the Forest of Death?" Anko sighed slightly. It may have been called the Forest of Death, but to her, the place was a freaking playground.

"It's called the Forest of Death because this was one of the first places that the Kyuubi attacked when it came eight years ago. The giant animals, man-eating plants, and all the other nasty things in this forest are because of Kyuubi's demonic chakra mutating them."

Kit, would you kindly tell the scantily-clad snake mistress that I don't take kindly to being called an it?

"Anko-neechan? Kyuubi says to tell the scantily clad snake mistress that she doesn't like being called an it. Uh… what's scantily-clad mean?"

Anko face-faulted and stopped. Kyuubi was female? More importantly, she had been polite, and was telling her little brother that she was scantily clad?! She knew that Naruto was talking with the demon fox; hell, she had spied on Naruto's training sessions when he received instruction from the demon. But scantily clad?!

"Naruto," Anko said in a sickeningly sweet voice that promised pain to those who heard it, "would you please tell Kyu-chan that I don't like being called scantily clad, and not to teach you any more words like that? If you become a pervert because of her, you might wake up one morning less of a man."

Naruto winced and grabbed his member, with Megami's laughter echoing in his head. 'Shut up, you stupid furball! Don't get me in any trouble!'

Naruto received no response. Instead, the boy and his honorary sister entered the training ground and made their way to the pre-ordained meeting place. Anko pulled out the plastic container that the contacts were to be kept in. Naruto nearly cried out in joy.

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Hyuuga Hinata was not having a good day. Already, she had been insulted by the clan elders during her training, humiliated by her younger sister in a spar simply because she did not wish to harm her, and mocked by her cousin Neji for being, as he said, weak and 'fated to fail'. All she wanted to do was curl up and die so that nobody would be able to hurt her again. She especially didn't want to face her father, afraid that he would think of her as a failure like everybody else in her clan.

So imagine her shock and horror when her father appeared in front of her via Shunshin.

"Hinata. We are going to a training area outside of the Hyuuga compound. Your training partner is already there and waiting for you." Hinata was shocked. Wasn't this the time when her father called her out for being a weak, pitiful failure? What was going on?

"T-tousan, I d-don't think t-that I'm st-strong enough to k-keep training t-today. T-the elders a-already trained m-me, and they s-said that I was w-w-weak and a f-failure. I d-don't deserve t-to be t-trained…" Hinata had to turn away from her father after she finished what she was saying, her pearl-like eyes filling with tears.

Hiashi was stunned. What had the elders been telling his daughter? He knew that they had been belittling her, but he'd had no idea just how bad it was. Had they intentionally been sabotaging her training so that her sister Hanabi would become clan heir instead? It was well known in the clan that Hinata wanted to remove and abolish the Branch family Caged Bird Seal and merge the two houses into one, and it was also well known that the elders were vehemently opposed to the plan. But to stoop so far as to shatter the confidence of a little girl just to achieve their own power-hungry ends?... Hiashi was disgusted.

"Hinata… whatever those elders have been telling you, do not listen to them. They merely fear what will happen if the Caged Bird Seal were ever to be removed from the members of the Branch house. Their power relies on the supposed superiority of the branch house over the main house, and if it were to be removed…" An uncharacteristic grin spread across Hiashi's face. Naruto had given him the information on how to remove the seal while simultaneously replacing it with a different seal that the Yondaime had named the Bloodline Protection seal. It was similar to the Branch family seal in that it protected the secrets of the Byakugan, but the placement was different, it could not be used to cause pain or death, and it also prevented the Caged Bird Seal from being applied.

"Come, Hinata. We are going to the training area. I do not wish to keep your new training partner waiting, since I also have to catch him up on training that should have begun years ago."

"T-tousan? W-who is m-my t-training partner?" Hinata was genuinely curious. Which Hyuuga could her father be talking about if his training was starting so late? Hiashi looked at his daughter and shook his head sadly, remembering those times he had visited Naruto at the hospital after several of the more… vicious beatings.

"While the story we will give to the other members of the Hyuuga clan will be that he was sent away to train under a seal master in the hopes of discovering an alternative to the Caged Bird Seal, which we now have thanks to his father's inheritance, the truth is that his heritage and true appearance were hidden by a seal that repressed his Byakugan and more identifiable physical characteristics. He happens to be one of your classmates at the academy, the only one who is not heir to a clan… or at least, he didn't know he was until last night."

Hinata froze. If she was right… "T-tousan… is it… N-Naruto-kun?" Hiashi nodded, and it took all of Hinata's self control to keep her jaw from dropping. Naruto was a Hyuuga, and had something that could replace the seal on her cousin Neji?

Hiashi chuckled as he saw the state his daughter was in. "Come, Hinata, we mustn't be late. Naruto is probably waiting for us right now." He placed his hand on his daughter's shoulder, and shunshined off to the Forest of Death.

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Naruto was practicing his chakra control while waiting for his uncle and cousin to arrive. He had been so incredibly glad to take the contacts out of his eyes that Anko had actually needed to grab the first one out of the air so that it didn't fall on the ground. The white-eyed boy had received a nice whack to the head for that one.

Anko was lounging at the base of a tree, flipping a kunai in hand while watching her niisan walk up and down a tree as slowly as he could. Anko knew that despite only being tree walking, it was quite the feat of chakra control: the slower one went up the tree, the more precise the chakra flow had to be to keep oneself adhered, and walking down a tree was exponentially more difficult than walking up because of the pull of gravity trying to drag the shinobi down.

Naruto was ten feet off the ground when he saw a swirl of leaves in the middle of the clearing. He was shocked by the sudden disturbance that as Hiashi and Hinata appeared, the two Hyuugas caught a glimpse of Naruto, who pushed too much chakra to his feet and sent himself rocketing across the clearing due to the chakra spike. The ebony-streaked blond slammed straight into the tree Anko was sitting under, making her toss the kunai much higher than normal and imbed it into the tree branch above her as Naruto fell down onto her lap. Anko rewarded the boy with another bonk to the head.

"You crazy gaki! I nearly threw that kunai at you! Don't do that again or you might wind up less of a man than you were before!" Naruto jumped off of Anko and stood up as if the purple-haired kunoichi were hot lava. Hinata now had a good look at her newly discovered cousin, and gasped when she saw his new appearance.

Naruto's hair had darkened several shades, and had ebony streaks interspersed in his blond locks. The whisker marks on his face that had made him so easily identifiable before were gone, showing his plain cheeks for the first time in his life. His skin had also gotten a few shades lighter, giving him a fair-skinned appearance that more closely matched Hinata herself. The most startling change in Naruto was, naturally, his eyes. Gone were the icy sapphire-blue orbs that she was used to seeing on him. Instead, his eyes were just like any other Hyuuga's: a pearl-like white color, with no visible pupil and a hint of lavender. It stunned her to think that all this time, Naruto had been her relative… and that he had the solution to the Caged Bird Seal that made her other cousin Neji hate her so…

Naruto finally caught sight of Hinata and Hiashi, and waved to the two. "Hi Hinata-chan, hi ojisan!" Naruto ran over to his uncle and cousin, eagerly awaiting his training. He wanted to know how to activate his bloodline limit, as well as begin learning the Jyuuken. He was tired of getting his ass handed to him in every single taijutsu spar at the academy. Hell, even that lazy-ass Shikamaru could hand his ass to him in one or two moves! He had to admit that while he could beat everybody at the academy, Megami wanted him to hide his true potential so that everybody would underestimate him, but it still hurt every time Kiba handed his ass to him and mocked him in front of the entire class.

Hinata finally seemed to snap out of the daze she had found herself in and turned to her newfound cousin. "H-hello N-Naruto-kun. H-how are y-you?"

"I'm feeling great! I can't wait to learn how to use my Byakugan and learn Jyuuken!" Naruto was incredibly energetic and friendly, though Naruto did feel that some part of his personality was changing. He wasn't feeling quite as hyper as before, as though something in his mind had clicked and allowed him to be calm.

"Good morning, Naruto-kun," Hiashi said, drawing attention to himself and breaking the awkward silence that had fallen over the area. "I trust that you are prepared to activate your Byakugan?" Naruto nodded eagerly, a smile plastered on his face. Hiashi's normally stoic features were graced by the smallest of smiles as he gazed upon his nephew. I will have to teach him some manners soon, he thought. I cannot bring him into the Hyuuga compound with his mannerisms and actions in such an informal state. The clan elders would recognize him for who he is immediately.

"Now, Naruto-kun, listen closely. To activate the Byakugan, you will need to channel your chakra to the pathways around your eyes, beginning in small amounts, and slowly increasing. I trust you have completed several exercises in chakra control?"

Naruto nodded. "Hai ojisan, I've done tree walking and water walking, and I'm working on kunai balancing." Hiashi opened his pale eyes wide at this statement. To be doing such control exercises at his age… who had been teaching his nephew for the years that he had been absent?

"That is… interesting news. Now, I am going to show you a series of hand seals. They will help you focus your chakra to help you activate the Byakugan. Watch closely." Hiashi slowly flipped through several hand seals, before finally finishing and shouting out "Byakugan!" The effect was instantaneous. The veins and chakra pathways around his eyes bulged out, and what appeared to be a small, barely visible circle appeared in his eyes where a pupil would normally be present. Hiashi dropped his hands and deactivated his Byakugan, letting his eyes return to normal as the veins receded. He looked at Naruto, the expression on his face prompting the boy to try.

Naruto took a deep breath, his hands flipping through the seals that his uncle had showed him. Landing on the last seal, Naruto shouted out "Byakugan!" and surprisingly enough, he activated the doujutsu.

Naruto was reeling from the sensation. In a single instant, his field of vision had increased to 360 degrees, save for a small blind spot at some point behind his head. He could see everything in the entire clearing with a clarity and sharpness that wasn't present before. When he focused on a single detail, like a bird that was chirping on the branch of a tree, he could feel his vision zooming in, and strangely enough he was able to see inside of the small bird. He winced as he saw the internal damage done when Anko got annoyed at the bird and flung a senbon at the little animal, skewering it.

He returned his attention back to Hiashi, and to his amazement he could see his uncle's chakra. For the briefest fraction of a second, he saw multiple small points on his uncle's skin light up, each point smaller than a pinprick, but visible nonetheless. Megami had been teaching him anatomy during his lessons with her; he could only guess that the small pinpricks were the 'tenketsu' that she had told him about, the chakra openings in a person's body.

Hiashi clapped slightly when he saw Naruto's accomplishment, while Hinata merely stared in awe. It had taken Hiashi at least ten attempts to activate his Byakugan, and Hinata had attempted over thirty times. And yet, here was Naruto, and he had activated it on his first attempt, which compared with Neji's three was incredible.

"Good job, Naruto," Hiashi stated, watching as the veins around Naruto's eyes receded and the Byakugan deactivated. "It seems that we may have the new Genius of the Hyuuga Clan."

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Okay, at the moment the results of the pairings poll are as such:

NaruxFemHaku: 2

NaruxFemKyuu: 2

NaruxTema: 1

NaruxTenTen: 2

NaruxYugito: 2

NaruxIno: 1

Right now, it's all pretty much tied up. If you submitted a review but didn't cast a vote, please feel free to vote. If you already voted once, please do not vote again.

Also, don't forget to vote for Naruto's secondary chakra nature:

Doton

Raiton

Suiton

Katon

I hope you all enjoy the chapter. Read & Review, please!

--Electroclasm