The Eye of the Beholder

Spoiler alert: There are spoilers of the most recent chapters of Naruto in this chapter, you have been warned. This specific spoiler proves that Uchiha Madara is full of shit.

September 15, 2010

Translation:

Tsukigan - Moon Eyes, a little nickname that Naruto gave Neji because of how white hie eyes are.

Shinjugan - Pearl Eyes, Similar, but in this case for Hinata

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Chapter 15: A Well Kept Secret

Hinata was walking through her home when a member of the household approached her, "Hinata-sama, Hiashi-sama has requested to see you, he is currently in his office."

"Hai, I will go," was Hinata's reply and the house member stepped away from her. She wasn't sure about what her father wanted, but she had a clue. The Hyuuga heiress walked through the house until she reached one specific door. She knocked on the side because the door itself was a shouji and the knocking wouldn't have been heard. There was also the risk of accidentally causing a hole, which was a serious possibility given she hadn't had much experience without her weights on recently.

"Who knocks?" the voice of a grown man asked.

"Your eldest daughter, otou-sama," Hinata replied to him. "Permission to enter?"

"Granted," was all the voice said.

Hinata slid open the door and stepped in, she then closed said door and stepped forward, "You wished to see me, otou-sama?"

"Ah," the man replied. He was the clear image of Neji as an adult, save for the fact that he didn't wear his hitae-ate on his head, in fact, he wasn't wearing one at all. This man was Hyuuga Hiashi, head of the Hyuuga clan. He looked at his daughter as he said, "I've received word that you managed to make it to the final round of the Chuunin Selection Exam on your first try. Now, under normal circumstances, this wouldn't be a big issue, but the fact is, you along with eight others, were among the most recent graduates of Konoha's Shinobi Academy, meaning you have proven that you are capable in an exam which others have died."

"I thank you for the praise," Hinata bowed her head.

"The praise is well earned, even moreso if you acheive the rank, which I have little doubt that you are capable of, given how much you have improved for the past several weeks," Hiashi said to her with approval in his eyes. "Which leads me to wonder about the training that you had been undergoing. Would you please satisfy my curiosity as to what you have all been doing as far as training?"

"Hai, otou-sama," Hinata replied. She took a deep breath as she said, "The initial training regiment that I had taken included running several miles for an hour, different hours in working different muscles for as long as possible while still keeping up strain or working on endurance. All of this while wearing leg weights that measured to forty kilograms in weight each with jackets that carried forty ten-kilogram weights. For the past five weeks, however, the rookie nine, myself included, have been undergoing elemental training to help with difficult situations for serious missions." As Hinata finished she noted that Hiashi was trying his hardest to keep a cool facade, but the fact of the matter was, when he was given this kind of information, you tend to wonder if the one training them was in their right mind.

Hiashi took a deep breath to keep his cool, "Were you the only one to undergo this training?"

"Iie, the rest of my team alongside team 7 whom is under the sensei, Hatake Kakashi did this since the C-rank turned A-rank mission to Nami no Kuni, it wasn't until around five weeks ago that team 10 under the jounin sensei, Sarutobi Asuma, had started going through this as well," Hinata replied to her father.

On the outside Hiashi was calm and collected but on the inside, 'Great Kami-sama, that was nearly three months ago, it's no wonder she improved so much.' Hiashi closed his eyes to recollect himself as he thought of another question. Another thought came to his head as he thought about the elemental training, "Hinata, you specified undergoing elemental training, I'm not aware of every jounin's elemental affinity, but when it comes to rare elements in one country, especially considering who the person is, I have to question who all were instructing each element. And which elemental affinity was yours."

"Kakashi-sensei was instructing the raiton chakra group, Kurenai-sensei the suiton, Asuma-sensei the fuuton, Jiraiya-sama the katon and Kaitou-sensei the douton," Hinata told him, she would have continued, but Hiashi looked to be preoccupied at the moment.

"I wasn't aware he was back in Konoha," Hiashi voice his thoughts.

"Gomen, otou-sama, but which one are you talking about?" Hinata asked him. The fact of the matter is that Kaitou hasn't been seen in Konoha for some time and Jiraiya tends to come and go to relay information so it is rare for him to be staying in the village for a while.

"I was talking about Kaitou-san, he hasn't really been in Konoha for a while so it is a tad surprising for his to return all of the sudden, Jiraiya-sama isn't so surprising, what is, however, is that he would start training a batch of genin," Hiashi admitted to his daughter.

"Actually, otou-sama, Kaitou-sensei has been the main person to train us since the mission to Nami no Kuni, he was also the one that got Jiraiya-sama to assist in the training," Hinata told him.

"Kaitou always did know how to convince people," Hiashi admitted to his daughter. "Anyway, you haven't mentioned what elemental affinity your chakra is drawn to."

"Gomen, my elemental affinity is wind," Hinata admitted to her father. "I was the only genin who carried a single element to have this element."

"You mean there were those who had wind among other elements?" Hiashi asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Iie, there was only one other, and he has been my partner in training as far as elemental training," Hinata said with a bit of admiration in her voice.

Hiashi raised his eyebrow again as he wondered, 'Was it this person who helped Hinata out of her shell?' Deciding to try and get the identity of the mystery partner he asked, "And who was your training partner for this portion of your training?"

Hinata looked away a bit as she said, "You might not like the answer given how he has been treated by the village and this clan in the past."

Hiashi sighed as he said, "I have a clue as to whom you are talking about, so let me be the first to say that I am not proud of how the elders of this clan have acted towards others in the past, more specifically two of the most promising shinobi I've seen since Namikaze Minato, Konoha's Kiroii Senko, otherwise known as Yondaime Hokage. I myself have nothing against two who have either lost everything truly dear to them, or had nothing to begin with. So rest assured that my opinion of any of your training partners is not as prejudiced as others."

"Arigatou, otou-sama, my training partner for the past five weeks has been Uzumaki Naruto," Hinata admitted to her father.

"I may have to thank him for helping you along," Hiashi admitted to his daughter. "From what I recall, Neji has also made it to the final portion of the exam. Do you have any information as to whom he is fighting? Which leaves me to question who you are fighting as well."

"I will be fighting the fourth match against Neji-niisan's team mate, Rock Lee," Hinata told her father. "While Neji-niisan himself will be fighting Naruto-kun in the first match."

Hiashi gave a thoughtful look as he said, "I've heard good things about Rock Lee, especially considering he's the main apprentice of Konoha's Taijutsu Master, Maito Gai, who is also the sensei for the team. Neji has mentioned that although he has never lost a match against Lee, every time they spar, Lee becomes more difficult to defeat, which pretty much gets him to increase his own training regiment. What I'm saying is that you have your work cut out for you. Gai is known for his unorthodox, and often dangerous, training methods, which is why he is considered the best Konoha has to offer as far as taijutsu."

"I don't mean to be rude, but I can't take too much time here, or I might be late for my training," Hinata told her father.

"What I'm saying is that we need to continue where we left off as far as your training goes, you have the conditioning and most likely the strength to endure the more advanced training, which I am almost positive you will need to face your opponent," Hiashi told her.

"But what about..." Hinata started.

"Hanabi has started the academy, and I, therefore, can't train her as much as I could before. And don't get me wrong, I'm not doing this because I have nothing better to do, your opponent is someone you might not be able to defeat in your current condition. It's not that I don't believe in you, especially considering what you've demonstrated so far, it's just that I know for fact that Gai-san will be pushing his students to the brink to win their matches. You'll still be doing your conditioning training to ensure that you don't fall behind, and you will still be training under Asuma-san to finish your fuuton training, but now I will be personally drilling katas into you so that you will be able to prove yourself as worthy for the rank of chuunin. I will also be assisting you so you can master the different defensive and offensive techniques," Hiashi told his daughter.

Despite all of his reasoning and the facade he was putting up, Hinata could tell that Hiashi was just trying to say that he was worried for her, and that he would to whatever was in his power short of illegal activities, to ensure that she would walk away from this match.

"Arigatou, otou-sama, I will try my hardest to meet your standards," Hinata said to him as she bowed.

"There is no trying, you'll meet and pass my standards with no problems at all," Hiashi told his daughter. "Now go on, you mustn't be late."

She nodded and left the room.

Hiashi smiled as he thought to himself, 'Kaitou, you really have outdone yourself. She's stronger, more skilled, faster, but most importantly, she's more confident in her abilities. She keeps this up and the elders will have a great deal more to deal with than just me and otou-san.'

With Hinata...

Just as the heiress was about to leave the compound, Neji approached her.

"Hinata-sama, your team mate specified that he would allow me to meet his sensei for his elemental chakra training, you appear to be leaving to train yourself, would it be too much to ask to meet said sensei?" Neji asked her with cold politeness, only doing so for the sake of appearances, and to keep himself from being hurt.

"If you so wish, I'm not the one being trained by him, but if you speak with either Sasuke-kun or Kiba-kun, they might be able to point you in the right direction, you actually saw him right after the preliminaries," Hinata told her cousin with a smile.

"Who was it exactly?" Neji asked, a tad confused about that.

"The old man with the snake in the box and the scroll strapped to his back," Hinata explained replied as she started walking out. "He was also teaching Sasuke-kun how to use his katon chakra as well."

Neji quickly followed, wanting to know more about his opponent after Naruto, believing that although the blond had demonstrated exceptional capabilities and thought, there was no way he was going to lose.

Hinata told Neji, "I don't expect you to give out any information about your team mate for what I'm telling you."

"Not that it would do any good, Lee has become strong, despite his disabilities, and although Gai-sensei is crazy in my, and probably the rest of the village's, opinion, his training is certainly nothing to scoff at," Neji told her as he followed.

"Disabilities?" Hinata asked her cousin with a curious look.

"From what I've been told, Lee was born unable to mold chakra, rendering him completely unable to use ninjutsu and genjutsu, he then barely passed the academy with mediocre taijutsu at best, yet, despite all of this he was still allowed to become a shinobi, and although I saw his capabilities as futile, Lee has certainly surprised me by becoming a competent shinobi with only taijutsu, I may not like him, especially after he started to take after Gai-sensei, but I have to respect his strength and capabilities, despite his problems," Neji said with no coldness or sarcasm in his voice. "He has yet to actually beat me in a fight, but that's only because I am also serious when it comes to training, and I evaluate every possible outcome, Lee wears leg weights, I've only fought him once when he wasn't wearing them after he trained with Gai-sensei for a bit, and I can honestly say that I only barely won that one, it was around six months ago, but I still remember how much his punches hurt. I increased my own training regiment as such, I don't believe a dead last from the academy can beat a genius, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to push my luck. Lee is fast, and anyone who thinks that just because he can't mold chakra he won't be a challenge will just get their ass handed to them," Neji spoke his thoughts, forgeting who he was talking to.

Hinata, never seeing this side of Neji, wondered what else could he be hiding, "Would you consider Lee a friend?"

"An ally, yes, a friendly, albeit, overly obsessive, rival, perhaps, a valuable team mate, definitely, but as far as a friendship goes, it might be possible if I could stand his company," Neji said to her with a thoughtful look. "The only thing that keeps an active friendship from occurring is that annoying attitude, especially if he keeps challenging me. Honestly, he occasionally gets far too loud for me to stand," Neji said with a bit of frustration in his voice.

Hinata just giggled at Neji's words.

"Do you find something amusing, Hinata-sama?" Neji asked the heiress, his voice back to being cold and serious.

"Gomen, it's just this is the first time I've actually seen you frustrated in a long time, it's nice to know you have some of those aspects," Hinata said with a smile. She then motioned for him to follow her has she jumped up to the roof of one of the buildings.

Neji followed, relieved that they were quickening their pace.

With Kaitou and Sasuke...

Kaitou was drilling everything he could into the Uchiha as far as usage of Raiton chakra. He allowed Sasuke to use his Sharingan, simply because it helped him go through the training and mold the chakra better, use whatever advantage you have, regardless of what others think, this will allow him to be able to move through the basics quicker and give him more experience in molding that specific type of chakra. Said experience will allow the user to be able to use the chakra in more practical situations.

"Very good, you're adapting well despite your inexperience with this element, even with the Sharingan this is still a feet to be commended," Kaitou praised the Uchiha. "But don't get a big head, you still need to make the complete circuit through your body before you've completed the first step. Then you have to make the circuit flow through different matters starting with high conductors and increasing the insulation. You won't have mastered raiton chakra until you can make yours flow through a high insulator with little trouble and minimal damage to said insulator," The blonde man told Sasuke as he kept drilling the basics into him.

"Ah, the moment I start thinking I'm the best is the moment that I stop growing, and that is something I will not allow myself to do," Sasuke said as he focused with his hands together.

"Well as far as growing goes, your maximum physical growth should stop in about thirteen years. Speaking of ages, when exactly is your birthday?" Kaitou said with a thought.

"July 23," Sasuke replied.

"That sounds right, not to the day, but that was around nine months of conception, Fugaku could not shut up about the fact that he was going to have another child," Kaitou said with an annoyed voice. "The man may have been a good friend, but sometimes he just can't shut up about things he's proud to admit."

"I wouldn't know all that well," Sasuke replied.

"Anyway, that makes you about three and a half months older than Naruto, give or take a week," Kaitou told Sasuke.

"Wait, how did you know Naruto's birthday?" Sasuke asked.

"He told me, October 10, twelve and a half years ago," Kaitou then thought about something as he put his hand to his chin. He reached into his pockets, looking for something. After about a minute he finally pulled out a scroll that was marked 'Letters'. He opened the scroll and swiped some blood on one of the seals in the scroll. In a puff of smoke a letter appeared and Kaitou grabbed it out of the air. He held said letter in his mouth as he rolled the scroll back up and unfolded the letter. He checked the date of the letter before reading the content. He read it three times over before saying, "This doesn't make any sense."

"Okay, you've lost me," Sasuke admitted to the man.

"This isn't something I can openly share with many people, I have to speak with Hiruzen about this," Kaitou thought aloud as he pulled out a writing brush, pulled his left sleeve up, doing so amazed Sasuke at the tonage of his arm, and drew a seal. Kaitou then balanced the letter on the seal and he focused his chakra into the seal and with a poof and some smoke the letter was gone.

"Interesting way of doing things, I take it you don't do that to your body very often," Sasuke guessed with his sensei.

"Only with stuff that needs immediate storage and quick release, and this certainly falls under that category, especially considering that I'm going to speak with the Hokage about critical information again," Kaitou told the Uchiha. Kaitou then made a kage bunshin and said, "You know the drill."

"Ah," the bunshin said as Kaitou left.

"Whatever, it's none of my business," Sasuke replied to him as he resumed his training. "I doubt it's anything that would be cause for concern on my part anyway."

"It's only a theory at the moment, the original will tell you if it directly involves you," the bunshin said as he supervised Sasuke's training.

With Kaitou...

Kaitou walked into the Hokage's office with an irritated look. The secretary at the desk was about to try and keep him from entering but one look from the blond and she immediately shut up and continued what she was doing. Kaitou opened the door and saw Hiruzen doing the more paperwork than usual. He closed the door and place a seal on said door to keep others from hearing this conversation.

"To what do I owe the pleasure this time? The look on your face tells me that you might have found something serious out," Hiruzen commented as he stopped what he was doing, relieved to have a break from all the paperwork.

"Before we start, why don't you just use a Kage bunshin to take care of the paper work? You might be able to get yourself into better shape," Kaitou commented, wondering about the reaction. What he got would have been amusing if he was in a better mood. Hiruzen was about to bang his head on the desk when Kaitou stopped him with his hand. "How about you answer my next question, we can't have you losing more brain cells at your age."

"Alright then, now why are you here?" Hiruzen asked, tucking the kage bunshin idea away in his head for later.

"I had recently though about Naruto's birthday and realized that there was an irregularity," Kaitou said as he rolled up his sleeve, bit his thumb and wiped some blood on the seal he put on there as he applied some chakra. In a puff of smoke the letter he read earlier appeared and he read it aloud.

March 27

"Otouto,

I'm writing this because I'm so excited. I'm going to be a father. Kushina just recently told me the news. She's three months in. I suppose the new year brings quite a few surprises. We haven't decided on a name at the moment, but we know that the child is male. I just hope that he'll live to be happy later on. So far the only ones that know are you, Tsunade, Jiraiya and Hiruzen. I just hope you can see him after your travels. Anyway, good luck.

- Minato."

Kaitou finished reading the letter and looked at the Hokage as he said, "Why don't you explain to me the situation?"

"That would require me knowing what you're talking about," Hiruzen replied to him.

"The date, you dumbass, Minato wrote this letter on March 27, and it specified that Kushina was already three months into the pregnancy. You had two sons with your wife, so you know the average for the duration of a pregnancy of a healthy woman is nine to nine and a half months," Kaitou told the Hokage in irritation. "Why is it that Naruto's conception was ten and a half months before his birth? There are very few cases where healthy women have this kind of pregnancy duration, and unhealthy women are more likely to have premature births rather than late ones. So tell me, what happened to Kushina to cause this?"

"I take it you won't leave until you get your answer?" Hiruzen asked him rhetorically.

"I have a good clue as to Kushina's circumstances, because I'm aware of specific conditions that some women could have that would cause this, care to remove my doubt," Kaitou told the aged Sarutobi.

Hiruzen sighed as he rubbed the bridge of his nose and thought to himself, 'I'm gonna need my pipe and some strong tobacco after this is over.' He looked at Kaitou with a stern gaze as he said, "Before I answer, you must know that this is an even more well kept secret that Naruto's heritage."

"Which I still wonder why people can't connect the dots given his age, hair style and color and eye color, as well as his blood type," Kaitou commented to the Sarutobi.

Hiruzen nodded in agreement as he said to Kaitou, "Kushina was the previous jinchuuriki for Kyuubi no Yoko."

"Well, not exactly the answer I expected but I figured it was something like that. Anyway, who all knew?" Kaitou asked.

"Minato, myself, Kushina, obviously, and those only two others that Minato trusted enough, also Koharu and Homura," Hiruzen told him.

"That certainly explains how she came to be at the academy, I always found it odd that someone from another country who had a clan of their own would transfer to Konoha," Kaitou commented. "This however, leaves a few more unanswered questions, the main one being, how did Konoha come into possesion of the Kyuubi in the first place. There is no way that the Kyuubi could have been held their for as long as it had last been seen being controlled by Senju Hashirama unless..."

"Kushina was the second jinchuuriki for Kyuubi no Yoko, the first, who was also a member of the Uzumaki clan, was Tsunade's grandmother, her name was Uzumaki Mito," Hiruzen answered. It wasn't until he heard cracks and saw that Kaitou was gripping his desk that he had just realized that he had said something he shouldn't have.

"So you're telling me that Naruto has family who is still alive and has not only been aware of his existance since his birth, but of his heritage as well?" Kaitou had a smile on his face that could scare even Orochimaru.

"Well, Tsunade hasn't exactly had the easiest history given what happened to her brother and husband," Hiruzen replied, trying to calm the jounin down.

"She still had family, though, all blood related," Kaitou said to him. "You might want to write out a request for her immediate return, because the only thing keeping me from going out there and dragging her back myself is the fact that I am the proctor for the exam and that I'm in charge of managing the training for Sasuke and Sakura. Speaking of which, has Jiraiya spoken with you about private information?" he asked, slightly calmer at the moment, but still annoyed.

Hiruzen sighed in relief, glad for the change of subject, "Iie, is there anything I need to know?"

"Due to Sasuke's run in with Orochimaru and another event that happened shortly after, said Uchiha has become a jinchuuriki," Kaitou explained to the Sarutobi.

"How many people know of this information?" the Hokage asked with dead seriousness.

"Sasuke, obviously, Jiraiya, Naruto and Sakura," Kaitou answered, figuring that saying himself would be unnecessary.

"How powerful is the tenant?" Hiruzen asked, more concerned about whether or not Sasuke would be able to take the power.

"I can't be too sure, but he admitted himself to being Kyuubi's rival, so he must have at least as much power as the shichibi, if not Hachibi, and he isn't a bijuu," Kaitou told the Hokage with all honesty.

"Is there any name he goes by?" Hiruzen continued.

"He said that he was called Soukon by Kyuubi," Kaitou specified to him. Kaitou then explained how Soukon came to be within Sasuke and the whole situation about the sealing and whatnot.

"So there is no chance that Soukon will escape?" Hiruzen asked his final question.

"He wouldn't be able to survive without a vessel or physical body even if he could escape or even wanted to, he won't try anything. He'll probably help Sasuke out if he's in a tight situation. Anyway, that's all that I have to say. Write the request, and bring me something with Tsunade's scent along with it, I'll take care of the delivery," Kaitou finished as he released the seal he placed on the door and opened it only to fall over.

Hiruzen just sweatdropped, 'I think having Tsunade here might just make things easier. Especially considering the weight this guy wears. Now where is my pipe?'

With Jiraiya and Naruto...

Naruto was still working on his katon chakra, and his kage bunshin were seriously helping him out. Whenever one would make some serious progress it would dispel, therefore causing all the others to gain the experience and grow. He was doing this for a few hours and was progressing at a high rate.

It was then that a scent caught his attention and he turned his head in one direction.

Jiraiya, wondering what caught Naruto's attention turned his head in the same direction.

It was then that Hinata and Neji appeared, running in their direction.

"Hinata-chan, Tsukigan, why are you here?" Naruto asked them.

"Don't call me that," Neji told Naruto.

"Well I have another nickname I could give you, but I'm pretty sure you would like that one even less, besides I already have someone I want to give that one to," Naruto replied as he turned to Hinata. "I think Shinjugan would suit you perfectly."

Hinata blushed a bit as Naruto spoke to her.

"Anyway, for what reason do I owe this pleasure?" Naruto asked

Hinata answered quietly, "Neji-niisan wanted to meet with your katon chakra sensei."

"Ero-sennin, why would you want that?" Naruto asked Neji.

"Inuzuka mentioned him during the preliminaries and I wanted to see if he was anything special," Neji answered, curious about what the man was like.

Naruto smirked as he pulled a random kage bunshin out, whispered into his ear.

The bunshin nodded and dispelled, all the others got the information and went over to where Jiraiya was. After a few second and a puff of smoke there was a commotion as Jiraiya was seen being carried along the bunshins like a mosh pit.

When Jiraiya reached them and was placed down, everyone saw that he was unconscious with a bloody nose.

Neji just couldn't help but asked, "What happened?"

Naruto just looked at Neji as he asked, "Do you really wanna know?"

"Hai," was all Neji said to him.

"I was hoping you would say that," Naruto replied with a smirk. He then turned and pulled out ten bunshins and said to them, "Alright, give him a toned down Ero-sennin special."

The bunshins just smirked as they surrounded Neji while Naruto just walked over to Hinata and said to her, "Just sit back and enjoy the show."

"Ano, what exactly are you going to do to him?" Hinata asked as they watched as Neji got into a jyuuken stance.

"Although I don't like some of Ero-sennin's morals, they are certainly easy to use against him if I want something from him. Neji is just going to get a taste of the clever ingenuity that someone with an open mind can come up with," Naruto replied as he smirked while watching the Hyuuga genius. Naruto then yelled, "Go for it."

All the bunshins involved nodded and formed their hands in the ram seal. They then all shouted, "Henge." They all transformed into naked, female forms of Naruto with their hair in two pigtails with smoke covering up their well-developed assets.

Neji's eyebrow twitched as he turned to Naruto and said, "You expect this to work."

All the bunshins just ran over to Neji and started pressing themselves against him.

Neji was red in the face as he tried to control himself.

"Ohhh, Neji-kun, what's wrong? You seem a tad red in the face," a familiar voice said to the male Hyuuga and he froze up.

Neji turned to see a naked form of Tenten approaching him, also with smoke protecting her modesty, but only barely. She approached Neji while doing everything possible to ephasize her exposure.

Neji couldn't think at this point in time. Normally this wouldn't have happened, but seeing his team mate in this state of dress was overloading his head at this point in time. He tried to move, but found that the ten previous bunshins were holding him in place. It wasn't until Tenten started drawing circles on his chest with her right index finger that he finally lost control and let out a spraying nosebleed of his own, falling back, unconscious.

The clones and Tenten all chuckled as they dispelled themselves from the henge, including the Tenten one, which was also a transformed bunshin.

Naruto himself was rolling on the ground along with quite a few of his bunshins at the show. "Dammit, I had no idea it would work that well," was all he said right before he took a deep breath.

Hinata looked at him then at Neji, "Naruto-kun, will he be okay?"

"He'll be fine, I doubt he usually gets a nosebleed, especially one that bad, though I don't think he'll be able to look his team mate in the eye for a while," Naruto said with another chuckle.

"How did you even know that would work?" Hinata asked him.

"Lee came to assist Sakura-chan when she seemed to be in trouble, but she had already set up some traps, or rather she set up a great deal of insane traps that would have threatened her had she not had her abilities and training in said abilities, Neji and Tenten came in later, I won't explain why. I complimented her appearance, and apparently she liked it because she blushed. I noticed that Neji glaring at me when Tenten reacted, I stored that bit of information in the back of my mind. When I saw that the bunshins weren't having as much of an effect with their original henge as I wanted, I recalled how he reacted with the previously mentioned situation, and well, you see the results," Naruto finished with a chuckle.

Hinata listened to Naruto's explanation and couldn't help but giggle herself. Neji has never shown many sides of himself, so seeing him show frustration, and apparently a perverse side of himself, was a nice change of pace from the normally cold or arrogant Hyuuga.

"You know, I don't see or hear you laugh very often, maybe I should try harder to make you smile, it certainly looks like it would be worth it," Naruto replied with a smirk.

Hinata blushed at his compliment.

Naruto then said to her, "How about we find a way to waste some time? Because it doesn't look like these two will be getting up anytime soon. Besides, training with you might be able to get me more of a feel of fighting a juuken user, and when I say that I'm talking about without the weights on, usually, we only spar with weights on, let's see how well both of us can do without them."

Hinata nodded and took her leg weights off while Naruto took off his.

Naruto looked at his bunshins and said, "We got a spar about to start here, I need as many judges as possible, surround and pay attention, and watch out, I don't want any dispelling."

"Yosha," several said a surrounded the two.

Naruto then pulled a random bunshin out of the crowd and whispered into his ear. He then slammed it into the ground, dispelling it and transferring all the information to the rest of them. He then pulled another bunshin out. This one was a little reluctant before Naruto said to him, "We need a judge."

The bunshin, understanding this, nodded and stood in between the two.

The next morning...

It was the crack of dawn and the village was just getting up. Two figures, however, were already wide awake for the day ahead.

Hiruzen and Kaitou were standing in front of the Hokage tower as the former handed the latter the scroll with the request and a chuunin flak jacket.

"Does this have her scent?" Kaitou asked, being sure not to assume anything.

"Ah, I always keep something with a strong scent of any of my shinobi incase they need to be tracked down and Jiraiya isn't available," Hiruzen told the blonde. He didn't gain the position by being powerful alone, he was also quite intelligent and knew that having such thing might be helpful in the future.

Kaitou bit his right thumb, drawing blood, swiped said blood on the palm of his other hand and went through a set of hand seals. He put his left hand on the ground and said, "Kuchiyose no jutsu."

In a puff of smoke a large black wolf appeared infront of the Namikaze. The wolf was wearing a red collar and a pack strapped to his back.

"Yo, Kaitou-sama, do you have anything that you need taken care of?" the wolf asked.

"How many times must I say it, Jin? You should only call me Kaitou or Kaitou-san, I don't need any honorifics," Kaitou said with frustration in his voice.

"But it wouldn't feel right given that your brother is..." but the wolf was cut off as Kaitou grabbed his mouth and held it closed.

"Jin, that's confidential information, don't go saying it randomly, not everyone knows about my relations," Kaitou said as he let go of the wolf's mouth.

The wolf, now specified as Jin, nodded.

Kaitou then pulled out the scroll to Tsunade and put it into Jin's pack. Kaitou then held the flak jacket in front of Jin and said, "Get a good wiff of this."

Jin enhaled the scent deeply and said, "Tsunade-hime is the one you want me to find?"

Kaitou nodded.

"I'll find her in the week tops, and hopefully have her back in half that time," Jin said right before he took off.

Hiruzen watched as the wolf sped off in on direction. The aged Hokage turned to Kaitou and asked, "Are you sure about him?"

"Urufujin is the best tracker among the wolf summonings, if there is anyone that can get to Tsunade the fastest, it's him," Kaitou reassured the Sarutobi.

Hiruzen nodded. He then made a kage bunshin and walked away from the tower, the bunshin knowing exactly what to do.

"Hiruzen, do you want to assist the training with the genin? Naruto is out because Jiraiya is already taking care of that, hopefully," Kaitou said to the Hokage. The jounin knew that Jiraiya's training would certainly help but sometimes he had to wonder if Jiraiya would keep his focus on Naruto.

"That's probably not a bad idea, I want to see what you put them through anyway," the aged Sarutobi replied, straightenning his posture a bit. He had seen quite a bit in his lifetime, and he himself had trained some of the greatest shinobi Konoha has ever produced, but even he was curious about everyone's progress. At the rate the genin were going, he might be in for earlier retirement than he thought. He had never seen anything like it, and he wanted to know the answer to the question 'How unconventional were Kaitou's training methods?' And the only real way to find the answer is to see for himself.

"Besides, I might be able to get you to have the physique you had ten years ago before the finals," Kaitou said with a few thoughts of his own. He wasn't quite sure if he could follow through, but if it worked he could see the possibilities for the shinobi world if he managed to pull it off. The older generation being able to be whipped into shape for battle conditions, the younger generation could be done so in even better conditions, less would die on the field because of a weak link. The whole idea just got Kaitou laughing like a maniac.

Hiruzen just looked at the jounin with an odd look but knew better than to ask questions. The one thing that did rub off from Orochimaru to Kaitou was his deep thinking and the possible results. Although Kaitou's laughter was his own, it certainly made people question his sanity sometimes.

"Through this, we might even be able make a second village of longevity," Kaitou thought aloud, causing everyone to look at him like he was crazy.

Hiruzen just sighed, although he could understand what Kaitou was talking about due to the start of the conversation, only people who had heard the conversation from the very beginning would even have a small hint as to how he came to his conclusion. "This might be a long day," the Hokage admitted to himself as he followed the jounin.

Kaitou may be good company, but sometimes he gets a tad carried away with his thoughts.

End of chapter...

The last statement was a serious understatement.

Sorry, it took me a while, and it isn't nearly as long as it could be. I'm on my own completely with a few things, if I could get someone to help, I might be able to make better descriptions with this, I'm still terrible with full on descriptions, and I'm an editor myself. Mind you what I do is correct spelling here and there, reword some things and whatnot, I don't add anything. Anyway, continuing on, now Hiruzen is using the Kage bunshin to do his paper work while he himself gets into a training routine, whether or not this will help in the near future has yet to be seen. Downside, he has to handle Kaitou and his insane training regiment and perhaps even more insane thought process.

Anyway, Read and Review. Tell me what you think. And who here thinks they can help with increasing the description.

Anyone who has seen the most recent chapters of Naruto, I have to say, I thought there were some similarities in appearances. Now Naruto had two, still having one of them, both of whom were of the same blood. Anyone who can figure that out gets a cookie.

Finally, anyone who wants History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi(Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple) to continue, I have a link to a petition on my profile. I can't post links in the chapter.