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Chapter 4 – Time to leave…
During the week that was the grace period for Naruto to get ready for his exile, his apartment was cleaned, by his friends, and then burned by angry villagers. The council was pissed at Hiashi and Tsunade for marrying Hinata and Naruto. They tried to have the marriage annulled but were not able to do so. Since they could not do that Naruto was given five years exile as punishment for Tsunade, Hiashi, and the Uzumaki couple.
Sasuke also woke up about two days after the wedding. He was very angry that he was not either dead or with Orochimaru. Sasuke accepted the gifts from the village including the betrothals.
Ino was less than pleased after hearing what Sasuke had done and what the council did to him and Naruto. She approached Naruto the day Sasuke woke up and accepted the betrothals.
"Naruto, could I talk to you?" Ino asked Naruto in his hospital room with Hinata present.
"Sure Ino-chan. What can I do for you?" Naruto asked happily.
Ino walked up to Naruto and grabbed his free hand. "Will you marry me?"
To say that Naruto and Hinata were shocked would be an understatement. After a couple minutes Naruto looked at Ino and just said, "Why?"
"Because you are a nice guy and Sasuke is a jerk, I would rather marry a guy who would be nice to me instead of one that thought of me as a trophy." Ino blurted out. "I know I have not been the nicest to you Naruto but I don't feel that Sasuke would be a good husband, even though he was the most desired male up until now."
"What about your eternal struggle with Sakura?" Naruto asked bluntly.
Ino shook her head and waved her hand as if she didn't care. "What struggle? If we both marry him then the contest is a tie. I don't want to be fighting with her for his limited time, as all he thinks about is getting stronger and killing Itachi. Where does that leave time for romance?" Ino asked with stars in her eyes.
"Romance? Wouldn't me marrying you spoil the romance with Hinata-chan? I would then have to split my time between the two of you. As I told Hinata-chan I don't know what love is, as Sakura destroyed what little I thought love was. I know I had a crush on her now. I am just hoping I can find a way to achieve what Hinata-chan feels for me, in what I will eventually feel for her. I am sorry Ino-chan but I can't accept your proposal." He lifted a hand to forestall an argument.
"One, I know Hinata-chan cares for me, you just want out of a marriage that you did not have anything in setting up, for that I am sorry. Second, as I said I was alone most of my life and only have limited
understanding of what love is. I do like Hinata-chan and want understand what the emotions I am feeling. I can't help you in escaping your problem, but I might have an idea." Naruto got a huge foxy grin on his face.
"Why don't you ask Baa-chan to send you to Suna? You could possibly hook up with Gaara, he needs love too. And I would be a good for the village relations with Suna." Naruto smiled as Hinata hugged Naruto.
"Wasn't Gaara the one who liked to kill people? And Sasuke beat outside of the village." Ino questioned.
Naruto laughed. "Sasuke hurt Gaara but only managed to piss him off. Had Sakura and I showed up he would be dead now." Naruto winced at the thought of how he risked his live to save the ungrateful Sakura.
"I know that you are mad at Sakura..." Ino started to say but was interrupted.
"Mad! Mad! Naruto was nearly killed by Sasuke, and Sakura complains that he came back with minor wounds and chakra depletion. Naruto risked his life and beat Gaara for the sake of both of them but mostly Sakura. Do you know the extent of Naruto-kun's abilities?" Hinata shot back at Ino.
"Well he can do the shadow clone jutsu, and not much else." Ino stated as if it was fact.
"Naruto-kun can do shadow clone jutsu, a jonin rank jutsu and do it to a level that not even Kages can. He can do the Rasengan, another jonin rank jutsu. How many jonin rank jutsu can you do?" Hinata asked.
"Well… none, I know that Sasuke can do the Chidori, a high level chunin jutsu." Ino replied.
"You still have feeling for Sasuke by what you did just now. You did not really answer my question, instead you compared Naruto-kun to Sasuke the person who put Naruto-kun here. Did you know that Sasuke tried to kill him with three Chidoris in the chest? Naruto barely survived this, and now the council wants to banish him for doing what he was told to do." Hinata said as she started to cry.
Naruto hugged her closer. "You see Ino, I don't want to be a second choice and I don't want to hurt you when you find out that you are not in love with me and are only escaping from what you don't want. Also I would not feel right in holding saving you over your head. I would not but you would feel that I was and that is not what I want. I need genuine feelings. Hinata has them and I want to know what they truly are. I say that Gaara might be some help. He grew up a lot like me and he will need a lot of love."
"Worst case you could have your father fight against it." Hinata said bluntly as her tears slowed. "I love Naruto-kun and have for a long time. It was a crush a long time ago but I did not fawn over him. I learned from him and finally came to his aid when he needed it. I know what his life was like when he was a child. Sure Sasuke had a hard life. But nowhere near as hard a Naruto-kun. Naruto-kun had to fight most of his life to get to where he is now. He worked hard for it and he deserves so much more than he was given."
"I know everyone picked on him but how bad could it have been?" Ino asked.
"Bad, really bad Ino, so bad you don't want to know." Naruto stated.
"We of the clans have family, Naruto had none. He was shunned and still is. Go ahead and henge into Naruto-kun and try to go into most stores. Most will chase you out with a weapon. And no that is not because of his prankster ways. Most villagers either hate or despise him for a reason I can to tell you. I am sorry Ino but I would not want you as a second wife for Naruto-kun as it would confuse him, and Kami knows that he doesn't need more confusion."
"Okay Hinata you win. I am not ready to get married anyways. But Naruto-kun, I will take your advice and take a look at Gaara. Maybe I can get the Hokage to send my team there." Ino said as her eyes looked far away.
"Ino I would watch out for his sister, Temari I think her name is. She will be quite protective of him." Naruto added as Ino walked out the door.
In a room in the secure ward of the Hospital Sasuke was contemplating what had happened. He found it funny that the village was going to give him all the jutsu and also all the training he wanted. He was mildly amused that he was given Sakura, Ino, and Hinata as wives to be. He found out that Hinata was no longer on the market and that did bother him a she had a bloodline that might help out any children they could have had. Sasuke was very annoyed with Naruto for having gotten married 'Who would want that monster?' His thought would be that or of a similar bent. He also thought Hinata was a loser just like her husband.
Hinata during the week did well in learning several genjutsu that Kurenai had taught her and she was able to mask both her and Naruto's appearance with one of the low level genjutsu she had learned. Both Hinata and Naruto started to learn about chakra affinity. Jiraiya told then to meet him at a certain village in three weeks so that he could help them work on learning how to use chakra affinity and jutsu that used those types of elemental chakra.
Money, clothing, scroll with jutsu, scrolls with instructions on them, and food were sealed into a few scrolls for the both of them for their trip. Also blank scrolls and writing utensils for any new jutsu they would create on their journey.
Also the marriage of Naruto and Hinata was leaked by Sakura and her mother to the general public and they were livid. Causing Naruto to have to stay at the Hyuuga compound where he was well received.
Neji seemed to be leading an anti-Sasuke group that was composed of Hyuuga clan member and several villagers that did not like Sasuke for some reason. Not that there was any love lost between the two clans but the attempt of the council to force Hinata to marry Sasuke nearly started a civil war in Konoha. Thus the council and the villagers let them be after Hiashi and Tsunade announced that the Hyuuga and the Hokage would leave the village if they did not leave Naruto and Hinata alone.
As if they wanted revenge the Konoha council brought up for a vote to have Hinata exiled too but on a different date and that she could not meet up with Naruto while in the fire country. When the fire lord got wind of this he nearly disbanded the council. The only information that reached him was that a married couple was going to be separated by the council so he did not intervene in the exile.
Naruto and Hinata saw Sasuke and Sakura as they were heading to the gates to leave the village. Sakura attempted to attack Naruto, but was blocked by Hinata who used a juken attack on her sending her to the ground. Neji, Hiashi, Rock Lee, and Tenten were walking with Naruto and Hinata. Everyone laughed at Sakura's failure to get to Naruto.
Sasuke smirked and then finally spoke, "You see you were always a loser and the Kyubi is the only thing that makes you special." Sasuke then looked at Hinata. "Hinata you missed out on being something special, the mother of a new breed of Uchiha. Where the blood lines of the two great houses would have merged back under the watchful eye of the Uchiha."
Hinata looked at him with disgust, "If I were to be your wife your last night would be the one you slept with me. You are tainted. You hurt the one who is most precious to me and I would never make you happy, I would kill you at my first chance. I hope the pink mop makes you happy. For I am happy with my choice of husband, he will be faithful. You may end up married to them but the only ones that love you are Sakura and yourself. You don't even love them, do you?" Sasuke shrugged as Sakura stood up.
"I will get you Hinata for that, and I will bear Sasuke-kun many children, they will be strong Uchiha children." Sakura retorted with as much venom as she could put in her voice.
"That is funny as you will have to continue to compete with Ino for his affection, which is none, and his time which you will get little of as he is so focused on getting his revenge, I think that you will lose your battle to have children for him having his revenge. " Neji commented with a smirk.
"Naruto-sama is at least a good man and will treat Hinata well. He will give her his attention and not spurn her as you did Naruto's. You do not deserve someone as special as Naruto. Yes he maybe the container of the Kyubi but he is not the Kyubi." Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Otherwise you both would already be dead. None of the Uchiha that fought the Kyubi survived the encounter. Thus it is unlikely that you would have survived if you had fought the Kyubi instead of Naruto. He may have enhancement from the creature but he is not the creature. Understand this, neither of you will be trusted by the Hyuuga, especially what you have done to Naruto-sama." Naruto smiled at what Neji was saying.
"Arigato, Neji niisan." Hinata smiled that Naruto-kun had called Neji niisan.
"Any time Naruto-sama. The Uchiha are considered traitors by the Hyuuga. Until the taint of Sasuke is removed it shall be so." Neji replied.
"Well, we must leave from where we are not needed. Oh by the way Sasuke-teme, I have two things to tell you." A huge grin came across Naruto's face winking at Hinata. "One, I'm not sure Ino will actually marry you, she did ask to marry me."
Naruto started to laugh. "Second, you just broke the Third's law about revealing the existence of the Kyubi being sealed in me. Tenten and Lee did not know and I will be sure to have fun with letting the Hokage know that you broke the law. Better hurry and breed or you will lose your chance to be a father and rebuild your clan, let alone kill Itachi." Naruto chortled as they continued to the front gate. Hinata giggled as Naruto's jab at Sasuke.
Naruto, Hinata, Hiashi, Neji, Lee, and Tenten were greeted by the council, the Hokage, Kakashi, the remainder of team 8, the remainder of team Gai, and team 10. Naruto got to the gate smiling at the council. "Greetings esteemed members of the Konoha council, Hokage-sama. I am nearly prepared to begin my exile with my new wife."
Tsunade looked at Naruto thinking 'What are you up to otouto?' "I am sorry to see you go Naruto-kun. I wish you happiness with your new wife and that you train hard while you are away."
Naruto bowed, "Thank you Hokage-sama I will endeavor to return, and up to your expectations. I would also like to report the breaking of the Hokage's law regarding me and my prisoner." Tsunade looked surprised, but nodded, as the council looked shocked.
"I have to report the Uchiha Sasuke revealed my secret to Rock Lee-san and Tenten-chan. I have as witnesses the two mentioned, Hinata-chan, Hiashi-sama, and Neji nii-san. As I am leaving but not in disgrace, I Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto and wife Hyuuga Uzumaki Hinata are taking our leave of the village and will return after five years as ordered."
Naruto bowed and then hugged Tsunade whispering, "Good luck baa-chan, I am sorry I have to go but I will keep in contact. I will miss you, give the teme hell." Naruto kissed her on the cheek and then bowed again. "Hokage-sama I will miss you and ero-sanin. Please take care of him. Oh we were thinking of visiting Iwa, or even Suna, I will make sure to send them the council's regards."
Baika finally got her voice back, "You are defaming our Fourth Hokage. You are not Namikaze."
Naruto just smiled, Hiashi spoke up, "Let's see, golden locks, check. Mastering his jutsu in record time, check, accomplished at seals, well he is working on that. Also except for the 'cute', as my daughter puts it, whisker marks he looks like a clone of the Fourth." Naruto snickered, "He also was a prankster. His mother though has more dictated his jutsu he has created on his own." Hiashi chuckles at his own comment.
Danzo responds, "The Fourth was never married. This I know and he never had a child, also there were only the occasional passing Uzumaki in the village."
Naruto just continued to laugh lightly. "Yes, he was the son of an Uzumaki and the Fourth. He was protected by using the Uzumaki name so that the Fourth's enemies. We did not want to have lots of
foreign ninja in Konoha attempting to kill Naruto-san." Hiashi continued. "Uzumaki Kushina, was Naruto's kaa-san. He may want to visit the former Whirlpool country to research his heritage." Naruto nodded understanding.
Baika looked angry, "So his mother is that witch."
Hiashi laughed but did not appear to be happy. "Yes we all know you were chasing Minato. While you were two-faced, she was honest, and quite entertaining. She would pull some of the most outrageous pranks on the village, until her son took her place as the number one prankster. Heaven help us if they had been able to collaborate." He winked at Naruto.
Naruto looked at Neji and smiled. Neji opened his pack and started to hand Naruto packages. "I have a gift for each of the council members." Most shied away from Naruto, who looked at them quizzically. "Are you afraid of something? Do you think I would kill the council for what they have done to me?"
Naruto started to laugh deeply. He then stopped with a fox like grin. "Then I will start with Hiashi-sama if you don't trust me." He handed he first gift to Hiashi.
"Thank you Naruto-kun, I accept your gift." Hiashi took the gift and opened it. The box contained a bracelet with the kanji of ally.
He then presented the gifts to all the other council members. "Enjoy them in good health."
Naruto and Hinata said their goodbyes. Only the fourteen members of the council that voted for exile were not sad to see Naruto leave. Kakashi and Kurenai both left with them saying that they each had a mission to do.
The four other council members, including the Hokage, which voted against exile, also received bracelets with the kanji of ally. The ten that only voted for exile receive bracelets that had the kanji for 'neutral'.
The four that voted for exile received bracelets that said 'teme' and were put under genjutsu that made them look like Oni. They only noticed when villagers ran from them when they were walking through town. Those that received ally bracelets got a laugh and understood what happened.
A/N: I nearly killed off Sasuke because of his arrogance… hehehe… Hope you like the presents to the council…