Greetings everyone! sooo this one is not gonna be my usual quality . . . personal issues (including eye trouble) have left me writing in dribs and drabs and definitely not at my usual "quality". Also, fair warning . . . I decided to do something a little controversial with the last section of this chapter and so this chapter contains a scene depicting nudity (but nothing sexual related) but yeah . . . let me know what you think of this chapter and I shall edit as needed.

in anycase, see you at the bottom.

Part 3

Naruto grinned to the class he was joining and glanced around, subtly analysing everyone in the class. His eyes fell upon a girl with short purple hair that looked like she was trying to duck her head into her clothes like a turtle.

~~Flashback to two years prior~~

"Hey looks at those funny eyes" Said a kid, his breath misting in the snow covered land as he terrorised a young girl with short purple hair half his height. "I think she might be a demon or something!" he said before he and his two buddies laughed themselves silly. The girl's only response was to sniffle and bring a hand to her eye to wipe away a tear that was about to fall.

"Leave her alone!" Came the voice of another boy and all four of the children turned to look at him. The kid was wearing a light grey kimono that was almost dragging across the ground it was that big on him but it only made him look all the more stoic as it was the the only thing protecting him from the cold air the brushed it around.

"Hey look at the shrimp!" Said one of the three bullies and the other two laughed in conjunction. "What're you gonna do about it?" he said and earned another round of laughter before the three kids walked up to the newcomer, confidant in being twice his height as well. The blonde kid that had joined them raised his arms to his face, fists clenched and knuckles facing the three bullies as they grinned. The middle of the three bullies went to throw a punch but, at the last second, the blond kid bunted the fist out of the way before dashing forward and punching him in the solar plexus, leading to the kid crumpling to the ground, desperately trying to get air back into his lungs. The blonde then pivoted on the spot and swung his foot into the left bully's knee, dropping him to a crouch where the blonde deposited a fist into his face. The last bully took two steps backwards before running away screaming while the middle bully picked himself up and grabbed his now unconscious friend and left in the same direction the runner had fled.

"T-thank y-you for helping me" The girl said, she spoke so quietly that almost anyone might have missed what she had said.

"It was nothing, I'm pretty sure those guys are academy kids but they couldn't even take a punch!" said the blonde punched his own hand to emphasise his point. "I'm Naruto by the way, Uzumaki Naruto" Naruto grinned at the girl who was staring at him with wide eyes. "You're a huuga right?" he asked and the girl giggled quietly, covering her mouth with her hand as she did.

"It's pronounced 'Hyuga' and I'm Hyuga Hinata" She said, a small smile adorning her features while Naruto beamed rays of sunshine at her. Hinata warmed up as though she was standing in the summer sun but when she looked up, she realised it was beginning to snow and that she could still see her breath. "A-aren't you cold in in just that kimono?" she asked.

"What this?" Naruto said as he figured his most prized possession "Nah, Minori-nee told me that it's full of seals and stuff that keeps me warm or cool if it's cold or hot" Naruto nodded as if agreeing to his own statement. "Hey! Why don't we be friends!" Naruto stated and the girl in front of him went wide eyed in response

"Uhh . . . o-okay" Hinata said, her voice lowering to extremely quiet levels while she twiddled her fingers and looked down.

"Great!" Naruto exclaimed, smiling ear to ear "My second friend ever!" he said shortly before wrapping Hinata up in a hug. Hinata went wide eyed as she was wrapped in the warm hug of Naruto, then she felt the heat from before rush to her face until it was burning and promptly blacked out.

~~Present day~~

"Hey Hinata-chan!" Naruto said as he slid into the seating space next to the purpled haired Hyuga heiress, smiling the whole while

"Naruto-kun" Hinata greeted him as she gave him her own smile.

"Alright class! Now that we've met our newcomer" Said the teacher, Iruka was his name. "Let's get to work, I want everyone to open their textbooks to page one eighty six!" The class was filled with the sound of ruffling pages as the class all took out their books and opened them to the correct page.

A branch rustled as Minori sped through the treetops, darkness covering the landscape but her Uchiha disguise was still quite visible. Currently, Minori was a dark haired girl with a pony tail that came to her shoulderblades, stood a few inches shorter than her original self and wore the standard Uchiha dark shirt and pants with the Uchiha fan emblazoned on her back. She had seamlessly integrated herself into the Uchiha clan by using her connections to create a cover and her Fuinjutsu to change her appearance completely.

Minori came to a full stop, sweeping her hand across her face faster than the eye could track before launching a kick at similar speeds to the man who had just tried to lodge a Kunai into her face. The kick connected but Minori's follow up attack phased straight through the man and the pair leapt backwards to get a good look at each other. Minori had managed to attain the high ground by way of a branch higher in the trees than the one the man in front of her now stood on, this gave her the perfect place from which she could study him. His appearance was very bland with the only notable features being the dark cloak he wore that covered his entire body save for an orange swirl mask that covered all of his face save for his right eye which was emblazoned with a mangekyou sharingan.

"You are not an Uchiha" the man stated and Minori's eyes widened in shocked revelation

"O-Obito?" She asked, the voice all too familiar even though it had matured with age. Obito's eye widened as he realised he had been discovered but, even though she had spoken, Minori knew her changes to her voice would mean she would be totally unrecognisable. Obito phased through the tree branch and disappeared into the night, leaving the stunned Minori to look in the direction he had disappeared in.

"Is there something I can do to help you Minori-chan . . . it's quite late" Sarutobi said as Minori appeared in his office without warning or opening any of the windows or the door.

"You . . . Have . . . explaining to do" Minori growled in a low menacing voice while Minori flicked the guard of her sword so that it was loose and ready to be drawn. Sarutobi's eyes widened in shock as the implication that Minori actually wanted to kill him hit hard, so hard in fact that he was almost too late to save his ANBU's life as he raised his hand just in time to stop the ANBU who was staring at a kunai in Minori's hand that would have impaled his throat had the Hokage been a fraction of a second slower.

"What is the meaning of this?" The Hokage asked in a quiet whisper as he rose from his seat, ANBU on either side of Minori.

"The Uchiha" She said simply, she had abandoned her disguise before arriving at the Hokage tower so that she could be identified.

"They were plotting a coup Minori! And I had thought you would be the one to bring me this intelligence and yet you failed but Itachi succeeded!" replied Sarutobi but apparently this had been the wrong answer.

"Were you perhaps aware that Itachi was suspected by Fugaku to be spying on the Uchiha for you?" She asked in a quiet voice that only heightened the effect of her killer intent dousing the room. To her right, Minori noticed that the ANBU had begun to shake from the effects.

"Of course I was aware! Itachi told me himself" Sarutobi said, trying his best to get what Minori was hinting at.

"Then do tell me . . . do you find it suspicious at all that Itachi just . . . found the plans to the Uchiha coup laying around?" Minori asked, her voice quivering from the sheer rage she was holding back. Sarutobi's eyes went to the size of saucers as the implication hit him. "YOU FUCKED UP SARUTOBI!" Minori screamed and the two ANBU took a step back. "I told you there was someone behind the scenes! I told you genjutsu was involved, I told you what I was doing . . . I WAS THIS CLOSE!" Minori held up two fingers that were almost smushed together "I ALMOST HAD THE FUCKER!" Minori's booming voice made Sarutobi fall into his seat with a heavy thud. "It's sheer luck I managed to track him down for long enough that I got an ID on him . . . but you know what would have been better? Do you? Do you? DO YOU!" Minori's grip on her sanity loosened slightly and the sounds of the two ANBU who had passed out filled the heavy room whilst sweat dripped down Sarutobi's forehead and onto his desk. "There was supposed to be a meeting tonight. I would have seen him, I would have known who he was, I could have countered him, ended his plans, brought the clan back from the brink, YOU FUCKED IT ALL UP BY ORDERING THE ENTIRE FUCKING CLAN'S EXECUTION!" Minori was panting hard as she stared at the Hokage "Yes, I am aware that you only ordered Itachi to kill the ring leaders but you should have known this was going to happen, you should have trusted me" the killing intent vanished as Minori clicked her sword back into its sheath properly and began to leave the room. "Oh, get better ANBU these guys are a fucking disgrace" She said before vanishing into the night without opening the door or the windows.

"Hey Naruto! And who's your friend?" Came a familiar voice as Naruto and Hinata were walking down an alley together after class.

"Nee-chan!" Called out Naruto who ran practically tackled Minori who grinned and wrapped the boy in a tight bear hug. "Can't . . . breath" Naruto managed to wheeze out before Minori let him go and ruffled his hair.

"Hello, I'm Hyuga Hinata" Said Hinata politely with a short bow

"I think the bow should be a little lower than that since I'm Yadokawa Minori, the current head of the Yadokawa clan" Minori stated with a grin and watched as Hinata blushed in embarrassment for not knowing someone of that importance

"I-I'm sorry! Please forgive me!" Hinata said, bowing almost ninety degrees

"Yup, beaten down right and proper like . . . alright, Hinata, tell your father I wish to take you for after school lessons in Taijutsu and other important areas" Minori stated with a sigh. Hinata rose and looked at Minori in surprise while Naruto gave Minori an approximation of an unreadable expression, he hadn't perfected it yet though and Minori could see the worry in her charge's expression. "Of course this will take place at the same time as I'm training Naruto soooooo you two will be training together . . . frequently . . ." Minori let that hang in the air and noticed that Naruto enjoyed that notion quite nicely while Hinata gave her an expression that had Minori desperately trying to hold in laughter. It looked for all intents and purposes that Hinata would have fought her father to the death armed with nothing but half a chopstick if he dared to refuse. Minori swore she could even feel the Killer intent coming off the girl.

"Okay, It shouldn't be hard to acquire father's cooperation" Hinata said in a voice as hard, and as cold, as solid steel, causing Naruto to stare at the girl with surprised eyes at the change. Hinata quickly ran off after that, leaving no time for Naruto to question her.

"I knew she likes me but damn" Naruto said quietly.

"Wait . . . you know she has a crush on you?" Minori asked, looking at the boy with pride, it seemed his training with Aki on how to read people was paying off after all.

"I didn't at first, I ended up having to ask Ino-chan a question to figure it out properly . . . I noticed that Hinata acted kinda weird around me and would blush a lot if I touched her . . . sometimes even passing out . . . So I asked Ino if she would do the same if Sasuke sat next to her and started touching her . . . she actually said no . . . but then said that a lot of other girls would since it's a natural thing that girls with crushes would do" Naruto explained, his hand on his chin as he remembered the incident. The two had begun walking in the direction of Shota's Restaurant as they talked.

"Can you tell me why this Ino said she wouldn't blush if Sasuke, I'm assuming he's the Uchiha kid yes? Sat next to her and . . ." Minori imagined a different scenario playing out that wasn't entirely appropriate for children "Held her hand . . ."

"You were imagining something dirty just now weren't you?" Naruto deadpanned. Minori grinned and gave him a thumbs up

"You know it! But that's beside the point, an errant imagination can get the better of anyone especially someone like me, it'll happen to you sometime in the future. The important thing to consider is that you don't act on that imagination . . . and preferably wait until you are considered an adult before writing down what you imagine if it happens to be . . . less than reputable, anywho . . . back to my question" Minori said

"I have a couple of theories . . . one is that she doesn't actually like Sasuke . . . which is strange considering how obsessed she is with him . . . I haven't been there long enough to get a good idea on things though . . . only three weeks since I started and Sasuke wasn't even there today . . . he's gonna be gone for a long while isn't he? I would probably need a few weeks to get over . . . that" Naruto looked down for a bit as he gave an impromptu moment of silence for the loss of the Uchiha clan. Minori waited the appropriate amount of time before adding saying.

"You should keep an eye on the situation, Maybe we can see if your theory is right or not hmm? And see if you can figure out if any of the other girls that fangasm over Sasuke actually like him . . . oh and yeah, he's probably gonna need a while and some counseling to get over what happened" The pair fell into a companionable silence as they walked before Naruto broke it.

"I love you Onee-chan" He said and Minori melted inside.

"I love you too Otouto" She said before wrapping an arm around the boy's shoulder and drawing him into her side as they walked.

Anyone watching would have seen the love and happiness the two were radiating. Some of the people who did see them pass them in the street smiled at the scene before going about their business, only dawning on them later who Naruto was but by then, all they would see in their mind's eye was that smiling kid being hugged by his older sister.

"Okay Hinata, I'm gonna work on your Taijutsu" Minori said to the demure girl in front of her as she, Hinata and Naruto occupied their secluded training field.

"I-I'm not too good at Taijutsu" Hinata said in a quiet voice with her head down and her hands together, twiddling her fingers.

"Shut up" Came Minori's voice and Hinata's head snapped up, a stricken look on her face. "Don't talk, take your Taijutsu stance" Minori commanded.

"B-b-but" Hinata tried to stammer out

"I said shut up and take your stance!" Minori exclaimed, leaving no mercy in her tone or face. Hinata fearfully complied, standing hesitantly in her standard Juuken stance. Her stance was sloppy due to Hinata being scared but it was still a stance. "Good, you can sorta follow orders . . . now, defend only, you will not attack, you will defend" Minori stated before moving at the girl and launching attacks that were slow enough for Hinata to block. Hinata tried but her fear got in the way and her worry of failing caused Minori to hit Hinata hard enough to jolt the girl back to the present situation. "Defend Hinata! Don't think, defend! Your only actions should be to block my attacks!" Minori commanded as she went back to attack and this time Hinata made a better show of it.

Minori's attack and Hinata's defence lasted for some time but after several minutes, Hinata noticed that something was happening to her stance. While it still felt normal, as she defended, her arms were moved slowly but surely until they were in different positions and Hinata's stance shifted slightly as Hinata moved her weight to help counter each blow. Each of Minori's attack caused Hinata to have to move her arms in ways that were different to Juuken but as she did so, her arms repositioned and the defensive movements became easier and easier. An hour after they began, and with Hinata panting from the exertion, Minori stopped. Hinata was standing in a similar stance to the one she was in before but different all the same. Instead of having her arms apart and palms downward with a wide stance, one foot in front of another, she was standing in a more solid stance, her feet at a normal interval in line with her shoulders and her arms in front of her with her fingers facing Minori, palms upwards.

"Well done Hinata-chan" Minori said while smirking. Hinata was wide eyed as she stood there panting. She was standing in a completely different fighting stance, one she had never seen or heard of before and one she certainly had never been taught but it felt natural.

"W-what is this?" Asked Hinata, panting still.

"It's the Mizuken, I made it and I called it the Mizuken because you are meant to flow around your opponent like water and use their strength against them. The harder you hit a body of water, the stronger it becomes before it flows around you and drowns you" Minori said, looking at the girl. "Alright, come over here so I can see your chakra affinity"

"M-my chakra affinity?" Asked Hinata as she dropped her guard and walked over to Minori.

"Yup, everybody's chakra has an elemental affinity or two and sometimes even three" Minori explained before pulling out a piece of paper "This is chakra paper, specially designed to tell you what your affinity is when you channel chakra into it. I assume you know how to channel chakra?" Hinata nodded her head at Minori's question and took the paper from her.

"So I j-just hold this and channel some chakra into it?" Asked Hinata and Minori nodded in response. Hinata did just that and, in a blinding flash, the paper burst into flames so strong that Hinata dropped the paper and took several steps backwards, her hand red and blistering from where the intense flames burnt her

"Well . . . I think you might have a fire affinity . . ." Said Minori as she, Naruto and Hinata stood around the remains of the chakra paper that was still on fire and quickly lighting the surrounding grass alight as well.

"You reckon? Maybe she has a water affinity? How can ya tell?" Said Naruto sarcastically as he applied burn cream to Hinata's hand.

"Well, you've literally got fire within you Hinata, now you just need to learn to channel it" Minori stated as she nodded in agreement with her own assessment.

"B-but my clan's Juuken . . . we aren't supposed to use Ninjutsu . . ." Hinata said as she raised her hands to twiddle her fingers until Minori grabbed her hands and forced them by her side. Hinata looked up with a startled expression before trying to look at the ground to her right until Minori grabbed her chin and forced her to look into her eyes.

"Fire, Hinata, fire is raw, fire is ferocious and fire is life giving. You have the ability within you to be fire, you have the strength to live up to your affinity and all you need is the will to do so." Minori let go of Hinata after that and trudged into the middle of the training field. "Now, we learn how to tame and control fire" Minori said with a grin.

"Welcome back Hinata" Minori said as Hinata and Naruto entered the secluded training field

"Huh? Wasn't this an open grassy field yesterday?" Hinata said as she looked around at the forest clearing she had entered. Minori, for her part, merely grinned.

"Yes, yes it was" She said cryptically. "Alright Hinata, strip" Minori said, cutting off further thoughts on the training field's shape shifting nature.

"W-w-w-what!?" Hinata spluttered out as her face went bright red. Even Naruto did a double take at Minori's command.

"You heard me, I said strip, all of it, I'll let you keep your panties for . . . practical reasons . . . but I won't complain if you shed those too" Minori replied and Hinata had to work hard to not pass out.

"Hey hey! Nee-chan that is not necessary at all!" exclaimed Naruto as he moved over to the heavily blushing Hinata.

"I think it is actually . . . it will help Hinata in the long run . . . and it will help you too Naruto, what happens if some enemy konouchi uses her feminine charm to seduce you on mission and kill you or worse, get you to defect" Minori said and, as she hoped, Hinata got a hard look in her eyes.

"I-I-I'll do it" Hinata said in an almost inaudible voice. Naruto was about to keep up with the defence when he had heard this and turned around to look at her. Hinata looked up and saw Naruto before blushing heavily and looking down while twiddling her fingers.

"Hinata, If you don't want to, you can leave and I won't force you to come back if you don't want to do this . . . but it will help in the long run and not just Naruto" Minori sid, looking at the girl with some concern as she looked about to faint.

"I-It's o-okay" Hinata stuttered out, moving away from Naruto as she slowly took off her clothes, right down to her panties which she was about to remove.

"Stop" Called out Minori. "Leave them on . . . small steps I guess . . ." Minori said before turning to Naruto. "Wouldn't want the girl to get lonely now would we?" She said and grinned as Naruto started blushing but he took less convincing and removed his clothes down to his boxers. "Great!, now we are going to go through our Taijutsu forms and do some serious exercise! Oh, by the way, exercising with limited clothing on is actually beneficial to you, I'll explain more some other time but let's start with a warm up, run around the clearing while i slowly start increasing the air resistance!" Minori said with a grin before making the blushing kids run around the clearing.

"S-so w-what are we doing now?" Asked Hinata in a quiet voice as she tried desperately not to look at Naruto. Minori however, grinned.

"Why, you and Naruto are gonna spar hehehe" Minori said and both Hinata and Naruto started blushing heavily. "And then I'm gonna start on elemental training for you Hinata, I want you to be able to at least to some base level Katon jutsu such as the Goukakyuu no jutsu but it's gonna take some work" Hinata was only able to nod before Minori forced the two kids to spar, much to their embarrassment.

Alright, we come to the end of another chapter . . . this is actually slightly shorter than the other chapters (i have been trying to keep them around 4500) and if you are reading this, you know what i mean by slightly controversial but allow me to defend my actions! Hinata needs confidence but more to that, studies have shown that working out in the nutter is actually better for you than say wearing long sleeves and track pants (just ask the greeks and romans, they used to do it and they had some of the best troops in the world) also, as for my personal issues . . . yeah, probs not gonna let up soon but I have the time to write so I shall write (the problem is if I get distracted) I am also currently writing a story on the side (I will upload it when i'm confident it reads okay) but for now, here is the next chaper.

As always, tell me what you liked, disliked, what you thought could use improvement and what you'd like to see more of.

take care