Bloodline: Radiance

Authors notes: I feel really bad people. I've received a lot of sad messages stating they want updates and that I take to long. I'm really sorry about all of this, its just how I am. I am a lazy sixteen year old boy just living his life and writing stuff on the side for practice. I have honest intentions of finishing this fic's but you all need to calm down a little.

I don't mean to be rude, this isn't meant to offend anyone, in fact I feel really bad cause I see where you are all coming from. I to get frustrated with a good fic isn't updated, and from what I've been told I have good fics. Sorry didn't mean to sound arrogant just now.

Please enjoy this chapter.

Apologies to Leprechaun who was supposed to beta this, but with the new way of doing things and the fact that my updates are so inconsistent with one another, I am just going to continue on without a beta. I am sorry.

Chapter 10

Anko's eyes open and she immediately bolted from her bed. She frantically looked around the room trying to remember what was going on. The image of the blond haired boy came to mind, as did his soothing voice. She unconsciously griped her neck and felt her bare smooth skin. Her eyes widened briefly before tears formed in the pits of her eyes.

"It is gone Anko."

She turned to see the face of the old man Hokage. He had a pleased look on his face, and she to could tell how happy he was. She took in a large breath and heaved out trying to contain her excitement. The joy she was now feeling was unimaginable.

"H-how?" she had to know. She remembered the boy…Uzumaki Naruto. He did something she knew, but how was another question. How had a boy succeeded when the best medics in Konoha had failed? She wanted to know…she almost needed to.

She looked up at the Third waiting for him to answer her question. She heard the old man give a sigh.

"Naruto was able to destroy the evil chakra Orochimaru's seal contained." he said. "As to how, I am afraid that is a village secret."

"How long was I out?" her breath was shaky as she asked that question, she was very tired.

"A few days."

As he said those words her eyes widened in shock. Her mind tried to comprehend what that meant. "How much has happened?"

"The Chuunin exams have started." said the old man answering her question. "His team is participating…in case you were wondering."

Anko looked up at him and for the first time in a long time a smile graced her features.

"So are you guys ready?" Naruto asked his team. Sasuke smirked and then nodded and Sakura gave a nod of confirmation. Naruto sported his usual attire, sunglasses and all. His body seemed to radiate a hidden power.

Team 7 walked towards the tower where the first part of the exam was to begin. They were ready and it showed in how they carried themselves.

They entered the building and looked around. Kakashi had given them their forms a while back. They proceeded to the third floor, or what looked like the third floor. Each of them sensed the Genjutsu around the area.

All appeared to have been fooled by the Genjutsu, at least that's what it looked like on the surface. Not to far away Lee kneeled on the ground and was pleading with two boys to enter to exams. Naruto could tell instantly it was an act.

Sasuke looked ready to reveal that they were trapped in a genjutsu, but Naruto shook his head. They left the room behind and slipped ahead unnoticed. When they arrived they found that they were not the first to see through the Genjutsu.

Sasuke was proof of that as a blond haired girl was now hanging off his back. "Sasuke-kun!!!" shouted Ino.

"INO-PIG!!!" Sakura shouted and their bickering soon began.

Naruto watched the scene with a small smile, he personally found it entertaining.

"Uhh Naruto-kun." Naruto turned to see who was speaking to him. His face turned a little red at seeing Hinata…and what she was wearing. She currently wore a bright red tube top that was far to small, her bellybutton was exposed as was most of her slender waist. She wore black loose pants that slid down a little revealing the tips of her thong.

He shook his head to get out of his rut. "Hi-hinata." he said a little disbelieving at what he was seeing. "What are you…"

"I-I th-thought it was time for a change." Hinata was clearly self-conscious about what she was wearing as well. "I don't mind if Naruto-kun see's me like this but…"

She looked around at the various male occupants in the room ogling her with hungry eyes. She felt almost as if she was on display for the world to see.

"Damn you father."

Flashback…

"Hinata." said Hiashi. "You of course know of Uzumaki Naruto."

Hinata's eyes widened for a brief moment. "Yes, I know Naruto-kun very well."

Her father nodded and Hinata could already see the cogs turning in his head. "I have been informed of certain…aspects of the boy that were kept hidden about him earlier..." Hiashi let his words hang in the air, trying to gauge Hinata's reaction.

She tried to hide it but Hiashi could clearly see the interest in her eyes. It gave him a small sense of satisfaction to know that for once he actually held his daughters interst.

"He is someone who practices polygamy and comes from a noble clan."

Hinata blushed a little at hearing the polygamy part. Her mind was working in overdrive at trying to decipher what her father was getting at.

"He is already in an arranged marriage to strengthen the political bounds between Sand and the Leaf." Said Hiashi. He noted the heartbroken look that crossed Hinata's eyes as he said this. "Because it would hurt our political standing if we, the Hyuuga, were to arrange a marriage as well, it is not an option."

"Why would it hurt us?" asked Hinata trying to regain her control at hearing Naruto was to be married.

"The Sand may take offence to the fact that we as Konoha inhabitants have such little respect for the arrangement they set up, that we would force him to marry another…however if he were to choose someone of our clan on his own free will…well I doubt they would have a problem especially considering his practice."

"So what would you have me do?"

For the first time during the conversation Hiashi actually looked a little nervous. "You are to seduce him."

Hinata blushed shades of red not yet discovered by man. "W-wh-what?"

"As unbecoming of the Hyuuga it is…we need his blood in our clan…I Hyuuga Hiashi charge you Hyuuga Hinata, Heiress of the proud House of Hyuuga, with the task of seducing, marrying, and procreating with Uzumaki Naruto."

Hinata said nothing, however Hiashi was surprised to see the sparkle in her eyes. "You have my word father."

History had been made as Hyuuga Hinata and Hyuuga Hiashi came to an understanding.

End of flashback…

Hinata was to embarrassed to say how much she approved of this plan. She had always had the silent dream of marrying Naruto, but now she was being ordered to make that dream a reality.

"Do-does N-Naruto-kun like?" she asked. Her stutter had returned a little, how could it not with her current situation. She grabbed Naruto's arm and hung off him, the whole room actually quieted at the sight. And the rookie nine…were in a near catatonic state.

"Why are you guys surprised? You came here with her." Asked Chouji to both Kiba and Shino.

"She was wearing that big coat." They said in unison.

Naruto blushed a little embarrassed but scratched his nose and looked at the ceiling. "You look nice Hinata-chan." Said Naruto.

A lot of people drew conclusions at seeing the boy and turned away. No point going after another guys girl…especially one with six deadly swords. Naruto walked closer to the rookie nin and albeit rather embarrassed Hinata did to.

"Naruto…what's going on? Who is this?"

Naruto quickly turned to see the sand sibs coming over. Temari was eyeing Hinata a little distrusting like. Hinata apparently was doing the same for Temari.

A tension seemed to draw in the air. "I'm a friend of Naruto-kuns." said Hinata. "Who are you?"

"I'm supposed to be his fiancé." said Temari. The blond girl took a little satisfaction in seeing the girl's reaction. Hinata looked a little surprised at meeting Temari so early.

Lightning seemed to travel between the two girls gazes. Naruto actually seemed oblivious to it as he began to introduce them in more depth. "Hinata-chan is the Heiress the Hyuuga clan, as well as one of our class's rookie of the year." said Naruto.

Temari seemed skeptic at the girls ability but didn't say anything. Instead she held out her hand to shake Hinata's.

"My rival in love." thought Hinata.

"I don't like her." thought Temari

"Oh and Hinata, Temari is the daughter to the Kazekage of Suna, those two over there are her brothers." said Naruto.

Hinata gave a nod at the two, and they returned it.

"Say Sakura, since when has Naruto been engaged?" asked Ino.

"Not really sure." said Sakura staring at the event unfolding before her. She was actually a little happy for her friend. Not many guys were lucky enough to have this type of situation present itself to them.

Some movement caught the attention of Sakura. She silently looked over behind Naruto. A group of three had gathered, they all wore the same dark black trench coat. Gray hair cropped over two of their heads, and they had similar facial features. The third one had long black hair done in a pony tail; he was the shortest but also gave off the most frightening aura.

She noticed he was eyeing Naruto with a strange sort of gaze. Sakura for a moment thought she felt hate radiating from him. Her eyes went wide as she saw reach into his trench coat and begin to pull out a sword. It was a normal katana in Sakura's understanding, however she could feel something off about it.

It felt dark, and for a brief moment Sakura saw a flash of black purple like chakra swarm around it before disappearing. Sakura had to wipe her eyes. "I must be seeing things." She thought.

She saw the boy point his sword at the back of Naruto. Her eyes went wide. "NARUTO LOOK OUT!!!" she shouted.

As she said these words the boy disappeared and lunged his sword at Naruto's back.

Naruto's reaction was instant, he slapped his belt and his switchblade shot up free. He grabbed the handle to the blade and spun it. He ducked back as the blade went over head. His spinning blade grazed the edge of the other as it slid past. Sparks flew from the way Naruto spun his blade and the angle at which the mysterious boy held his.

The boys blade was continuing on and going for Temari now. Temari who was caught off guard, grabbed her fan and was getting ready to use it as a shield. However, before the blade made contact Naruto grabbed the boys wrist with his free hand.

He forced the wrist down sending the sword straight to the ground. Before the boy could pull his sword free he found himself covered in sand with sand spikes pointing all around his neck like a collar.

The boy seemed unfazed by this; in fact he gave an innocent smile. "You are as good as they say." he said happily.

He let go of his blade and looked up at Temari. "I would like to apologize, I had no intention of hitting…in fact if he did not force my blade down I would have." he said holding his smile the entire time. He then directed his gaze at Gaara. "Could you please let me go?"

"Who are you and what where you doing?" asked several member's of the group at the same time.

"I told you that I was trying to see how Naruto-kun's skill face up to my own." He said looking at Naruto. "You are truly impressive…as for my name…I would gladly tell you if you let me go."

Gaara seemed to hesitate before doing just that. The boy dusted himself off not letting his smile slip. He picked up his sword and put it back in his trench coat. He then bowed to the group. "Once again I would like to apologize." he said. "I would very much like to fight you in the exams Naruto-kun…good luck."

He then turned and began to leave. "Wait."

The boy stopped and looked back at the person who had said that. It was Sasuke. "You never gave us your name."

"Oh yes where are my manners forgive me." he said. The group listened intently as the boy gave a pause before saying his name. "My name is Tsubasa Kuro."

He then and turned on his heel and left. "Some interesting competition." said Sasuke eyeing Kuro's teammates.

"Alright brat's!!!" said a voice as a large man entered the room. "Now shut up."

The room instantly quieted down as attention drew on the man. "Who the hell or you?" asked an arrogant boy from grass. The man simply tossed a pebble and nailed the poor boy in the head knocking him out cold.

"Anymore questions?" asked the man. Whether it was from fear or no one really had a question was uncertain, but no one raised their hands. "Good, names Ibiki and that's all you need to know. I am your first examiner."

Naruto almost shivered as the man's gaze landed on him. "Come get your numbers that assign your seats and we will begin the first exam."

It didn't take long before the anxiety of the exam set in. In separate seats then their own team members the shinobi sat. Naruto looked to his side to see Hinata sitting by him. She was currently chewing on the eraser to her pencil and looked around. Naruto thought it looked rather cute and blushed a little in embarrassment.

He then looked to his other side and saw Temari, setting up a mirror to signal her comrades for help on the test. She stretched a little jutting her chest forward Naruto had to look down in embarrassment as thoughts of her swimming in the oasis came to mind.

The examiner passed out papers to ever desk and explained the rules. It was quite clear that despite what he said they were meant to cheat. Naruto felt someone slip their arm under his he turned to see Temari.

"Naruto-kun…" she cooed in a seductive voice. Naruto paled dramatically before blushed red.

"What's wrong with her?"

Naruto missed Temari smirking at Hinata on the other side of him. Hinata had bitten through the eraser she had been chewing on. Hinata then looked down a little ashamed.

"Father did say seduce him…forgive me Naruto-kun."

She put her hand on his resting on the desk. Drawing his attention to her, Hinata blushed rather rosily and looked up at him with innocent eyes. Hinata kind of felt happy at seeing the hint of pink come to his cheeks.

"Naruto-kun…good luck." She the gave him a peck on the cheek. An action the surprised Temari to no end.

"Hinata-san…seems different." said Shino. "She has always been outspoken and confident but I have never seen her pursue her feelings for Naruto…at least not to this extent."

Kiba was crying off to the side. "Lucky bastard." he said. "And to think she was gay not to long ago."

"Kiba I thought they made their point that neither of them felt that way about one another." said Shino trying to remind his friend.

Kiba just blushed and looked at the ceiling. "They were lying I could sense it…they looked perfect together."

Kiba's face held a perverted grin and Shino simply shook his head. They were forced to stop talking when the exam officially started.

Naruto looked at the questions…and didn't know a single answer. He gave a sigh and resigned himself to his situation. "There must be someway."

Naruto's eyes closed briefly as he contemplated what to do. His mind seemed to drift and before he knew it he found himself in his sewer like mind. Naruto raised one of his eyebrows in curiosity.

"What am I doing here…" he looked around a little more. His brain trying to process why he was in his mind.

He made the long walk to the Kyuubi chambers. It was quiet and Naruto was a little surprised that his mind maintained such a dank look.

He soon came to the one large room and stared at the gates that lied on the far side of it. He took a step forward and was greeted to a site that surprised him.

He saw Kyuubi curled up in her human form. She looked so…adorable. A small trail of drool was leaking from her mouth and a nose bubble was blowing up.

She looked a lot smaller then Naruto remembered. He leaned back against the bars of her cage and waited a minute. "Kyuubi." He called.

He heard her nose bubble burst and her rise up. He took a glance back and saw her wiping the sleep from her eyes. She looked so tired and then glanced at him.

"naruto-kun." mumbled Kyuubi in her half asleep state.

Naruto's eyes widened. "D-did she ju-just…"

Kyuubi's eyes widened coming to realize where she was. "AH, what the hell are you doing here!!!??" she shouted.

"That's what I would like to know." said Naruto. "I had thought you brought me here but you were sleeping so."

"Well last thing I remember was going to sleep and having a nice dream abou-." Kyuubi stopped herself and looked away.

"About?"

"Nothin' brat now go away." said Kyuubi blushing in embarrassment not that Naruto could see this.

Naruto leaned further against the bars. "Well, since I'm here…how would you like to be useful."

Naruto didn't know what it was but there was a flicker of some emotion in the Kyuubi's eyes.

"Alright, brat…what do you need."

Anko put on her trench coat. Though the Hokage had advised against it she was still going to be the examiner for the second part to the exam.

"Anko-chan."

Anko turned to the speaker of the voice and saw Kurenai walk in. "Hey, Kuren-chan." said Anko.

"I'm glad you're up and about."

Anko gave a happy nod and began to put on her boots. "So, uh have you been able to find a place for Naruto yet." Asked Anko trying not to sound to interested.

"No, not yet."

Anko seemed to smile at that. "Well then…I'm pretty sure we have some extra room…"

"Alright, all of you that stayed…pass." said Ibiki.

He was met with confused stares. Ibiki then went on to explain the purpose of the test. He was met with many confused stares still. Ibiki just sighed. "Anko…just get your ass in here and away from these brats."

At that moment a figure crashed through the window of the exam room. She threw kuani pinning a banner to the wall. People stared at it awkwardly.

"Alright, brats Anko's the name and Naruto-kun!" Anko pointed to the banner behind her..

'Your stuff has just been moved to mine and Kurenai's place'

Naruto just read the banner a few times confused.

"Now follow me brats!" shouted Anko.

Kuro still sat in his seat with his teammates. They watched as the people exited the room. "So, Kuro…how does he fare against you." Asked one of the silver haired twins.

"Tell the clan…he'll be dead by the end of this exam."

They got up and followed the behind the blond boy. The hate was evident in their eyes.

Authors note: I am ashamed at how short this chapter was. Hope that you all liked it though.

Did anyone catch a clue I gave in this chapter? Just try.

Sorry it took so long though. I try my best with things. I only just started to write this chapter a couple of hours ago. I submitted it now.