Naruto: Secret Told – Blood Kept – Chapter 2

"Winner; Naruto Uzumaki!"

Naruto simply sighed and focused a surge of chakra through the seals around his body, making the chains quickly recede in blurs of motion tailed by orange, dropping his opponent. He didn't expect any of this to make Konoha accept him, like him, or even think better of him. He just wanted to teach Neji a lesson; that if Fate truly did exist, you had no way of knowing what it wanted.

Naruto held no illusions of the village accepting him as a person, but he would be accepted as different from the fox he held. He would make sure they understood.

Naruto looked up in the stands, searching for something, or someone. He caught a glimpse of midnight blue hair and concerned white eyes; and he smiled gently before disappearing in a swirl of red.

He reappeared in a kneeling position, startling the girl whom he appeared besides.

"Hinata-hime," the blonde looked up to see said girl; blushing like usual.

"N-Naruto-kun?" she stuttered out, not knowing what to make of this sudden change of behavior.

"Hey Naruto," Kiba looked from behind Hinata, "What's with the change?"

"Oh, just who I actually am... after all, deception is the Ninjas greatest strategy," Naruto smirked slightly, "and you get really good at it when it's all you do in your everyday life."

Kiba looked taken aback; he had never thought about it like that.

"I hope I didn't scare you Hinata-hime," Naruto said softly, looking into Hinata's creamy lavender eyes. Hinata couldn't help but blush at the tender voice that her crush was speaking to her with. She had never imagined he could be so warm and comforting just by talking. Her blush continually increasing, she fainted forward, getting caught by Naruto. The blonde chuckled to himself.

Kiba just looked at the scene with a raised eye-brow. He knew of course that Hinata had feelings for the blonde idiot, but he thought the moron had no idea...

Naruto returned the young Kunoichi to an upright position gently and sat down next to her.

He looked down to the arena once more, wondering what was going to happen.


A/N: this is not a full update... just look at my profile...

Edit: this has been adopted by 'crystal moon princess' and I'll make an update when they've fully done so with a link