Authors Notes:
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Naruto woke up with a raging headache. The Kyuubi was screaming something at him. He couldn't understand what the Kyuubi was saying so he decided to go down there. As soon as he opened his eyes in the sewer the Kyuubi rushed him and pinned him down on the wet floor.
'How dare you leave me in this rotten sewer!' the Kyuubi raged. 'It stinks, the leaky pipes are annoying and I can't lay down anywhere without getting wet! I demand a better environment to stay in!'
Naruto gazed calmly into the Kyuubi's eyes and saw something he never did before: a sense of humanity. Naruto realized that the Kyuubi wasn't just a creation of chakra (although that's pretty much what it is), but it had a personality too. It could think and feel, it had emotions. Most of all though, was that it had a gender. All this time he was thinking that it was a male, it acted like a man, it talked like a man. But all of that was a facade to hide the truth: the Kyuubi is a woman.
Naruto closed his eyes and focused. The sewer vanished. In it's place was a dojo. There were pillars around a square ring in the middle. There were cushions in between the pillars to sit on. In the background there were larger cushions for multiple people to sit on. Everything was in proportion to the Kyuubi.
The Kyuubi looked around. She hadn't been inside any kind of building since the Sage of Six Paths died. Since then he was shunned, hated and hunted. The care that Naruto was showing her was almost incomprehensible to her. The Kyuubi let Naruto up and sat on one of the cushions. It was stuffed with pure washed cotton: the best cushions out there. The Kyuubi continued to wander around in silent awe.
Naruto stood up and glanced around before saying, "I have to go. There's someone I have to meet." The Kyuubi just nodded, letting Naruto leave while continuing to look around.
Naruto opened his eyes in his bedroom and looked at the ceiling. The Kyuubi was in a good mood now, maybe he could be friends with her. Naruto grinned at the thought before letting go of those thoughts and getting dressed in his ANBU gear, again clipping his mask to the back of his belt. He then took off toward the training field, hiding his chakra signature as soon as he hit the trees. Once he landed in a spot good for watching the field, he sat down and gazed out over the field. The sun hadn't gone all the way down yet so Naruto closed his eyes and waited for the sun to set.
Once the sun was down, Naruto looked over the training field again and saw the Hyuga girl training again (Hinata he thought her name was). Naruto grinned and slightly blushed at some of the thoughts running through his mind before deciding to just stay there and watch her train.
She flowed through her forms like water flows around rocks. She moved from one form to another faster than Naruto could follow, each form flowing seamlessly into another. Naruto found himself captivated by her movements, her hair blowing in the wind caused by her movements. Her clothes rippling due to her striking, her eyes showing as much focus as he did sometimes.
Hinata continued to practice her forms even though the ninja from the other night was here. She could see him, and it brought up a mess of emotions that would take a while to sort through. So she continued training. She kept looking over at him with her Byakugan, and every time she did he had a slight grin on his face a small blush on his cheeks and a caring look in his eye. As soon as Hinata noticed the caring in his eyes it distracted her, her foot hit a rock and she started to fall face down.
Naruto saw her falling and moved before he could think. He went over to her and caught her before her face hit the ground. As he held her in his arms, even if only for a second, Naruto noticed that her baggy clothes were hiding a petite figure. Hinata stood up by herself as soon as she was caught. Naruto looked down at her concerned.
"Are you okay Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked.
Hinata just nodded and looked at her feet with her arms clasped behind her. Naruto looked at her and felt the rush of tangled emotions again. He decided to try something he'd never done before.
"Hey Hinata-chan? Do you think that you and I could maybe, I don't know, go out to eat sometime?" Naruto said putting his hand behind his head and giving a warm smile.
Hinata looked up at him blushing a deep scarlet with a dumbfounded look on her face. Naruto was actually asking her out. Her! She never thought that anyone would like her like that, let alone the one person she liked. She nodded at him, not trusting her voice.
"Great! I'll meet you at the gates to your house at 7 tomorrow night, okay?" Naruto said. Hinata nodded again. "Do you want to train with me or are you going to go home again today?"
"I-I'm done w-with my t-training, b-but I w-will watch y-you train i-if you d-don't m-mind," Hinata barely stammered out.
"Sure, why don't you sit over there? It has a nice view and should provide enough cover if it starts to rain," Naruto pointed out a large tree with tons of leaves and thick branches. Hinata sat on one of the lower branches and looked over at Naruto, who was watching her get comfortable with a slight grin on his face. Hinata looked down at the ground and back up at him and smiled. Naruto smiled back before immediately going into forms, focusing on speed and precision.
Hinata watched him with awe, he was faster than she had ever imagined. He was moving with such speed that at times his hand and feet disappeared only to reappear later in a different location. Naruto then imagined a field of enemies and coordinated his attacks for the scenario in his head. He was moving so fast that he disappeared from one end of the field to the other and back, only being seen when he stopped to throw a few punches.
Hinata activated her Byakugan to watch him move. She watched his chakra fluxuate while he moved, going up when he speed up and going down when he stopped. After a few hours Naruto stopped, breathing hard with a light sheen of sweat across his face. He walked over to Hinata. Hinata deactivated Byakugan and leaned forward a little. Naruto sat down beside her, starting to get his breath back. Hinata leaned backward against the tree. Naruto leaned forward and slid his pant legs up to remove the weights. He set them to the side and stretched his legs out.
"Aah, that's better!" he said. Then he leaned back against the tree. He watched the clouds cover and uncover stars, he also watched the moon trace its slow orbit over the sky.
After an hour or two, Hinata leaned forward and looked at the ground. She noticed the hundred sign on the weights, and decided to give it a look. As soon as she saw the 200 she looked at Naruto in shock.
"H-how often do y-you wear these?"
"Huh? Oh the weights?" Naruto said looking at Hinata. Hinata nodded and Naruto sat up. "All day, everyday. I only take them off to sleep or to fight."
Hinata nodded and looked back down at them. Naruto looked at her face and smiled gently. Hinata slowly looked up into his azure eyes, smiled uncertainly before leaving. Naruto laid back against the tree. He closed his eyes and thought about the dinner he would be going to with Hinata. He smiled.
"Getting complacent are we?" a voice said. Naruto jumped up and grabbed a kunai faster than the eye could follow. "You've gotten faster but still can't beat me. I've waited for 5 days. Where is my intel?"
Naruto followed the sound of the voice to a man in an all black robe with gray on the inside of his collar, and an orange mask designed in a swirl around a single eye-hole. Naruto put the kunai away and bowed to the masked man, who laughed.
Once he stopped laughing he said, "Just give me my intel and I will leave."
"I'm sorry sir, but I don't have it yet. I should have by the end of next week, which is when you move out if I'm not mistaken."
"You have 5 days. I move out in 6. If I don't have it in five days, I will kill the pretty little lady you were with." Naruto got an angry look in his eyes, causing the masked man to laugh again. "Just get me my intel and nothing will happen."
Naruto nodded and the masked man portaled away. Naruto sighed and looked down. He shook his head, put his weights back on and ran to his house to shower and get ready for the next day.
