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Now back to the story…
Chapter 8 – The stories… well sort of…
The ruined building was now getting colder as the sun started its decent towards the horizon. The wind storm that was caused by Aang had cleared the building of anything that was lighter than Katara. Naruto woke a couple hours later finding a sleeping bag on him and his nose cold but his face warm as Hinata continued caress his face and it caused him to blush.
"Now explain it to me again. How are you able to hold a sleeping bag and food in a scroll?" Sokka asked with a confused look on his face.
Hinata shook her head smiling, as this was the fifth time she had explained storage scrolls. "I just push a certain amount of chakra into the scroll and think of the item I want out of it and it will appear. I do a similar thing to put things back into them. It takes some time to lean to do it correctly but the scrolls are invaluable."
"Huh?" Sokka still looked confused. "Oh well, they are great. And we don't go hungry. Hurray for us."
"Sokka, we need to move Aang and Naruto inside before nightfall. It will get really cold up here at night. Given the altitude and the already cold temperature, it will be getting colder. Aang where is the best place to stay? I think we should stay as a group for protection." Katara looked at Hinata. "If that is alright with you?"
"That sounds good. Naruto-kun do you think you can move yet?" Hinata asked quietly.
Naruto nodded and started to get up wincing in pain as he moved, holding his ribs. Hinata helped him while following the others inside the temple. Hinata sat Naruto down carefully as Katara also did the same with Aang. Sokka started a fire as Hinata left to get the packs that were left outside.
"Hey Naruto-kun." Sokka said to Naruto with an emphasis on kun, causing Naruto to wince. "So you are married? How old are you anyways?"
Naruto's eyes glazed over and he smiled. "Yes I am married, and to the most wonderful girl in the world. We are both thirteen years old. Why? And please do not call me kun, san, or no honorific, but not kun."
Sokka's jaw hit the floor. "Thir… thir… thirteen? How does one get married at thirteen?"
Naruto smiled. "Several long stories, needless to say we had to do it and chose to do it at the same time." Naruto smiled lovingly at Hinata, who smiled back at him as she returned. "She loved me and didn't want me to be alone. I could not hurt her so I accepted. It has been wonderful ever since." Naruto got a faraway look in his eyes. She hugged him affectionately but carefully enough not to hurt him.
"Huh?" Was all Sokka could say.
"That is so romantic," Katara said with stars in her eyes looking at a confused Aang. "If only I could find a guy like that."
Aang raised an eyebrow then looked at Naruto. "We do have all evening to listen if you are willing to tell your story."
"There is one condition." Hinata said as she set the packs and the sleeping bag down in the room. "We will tell our story but you have to tell us about this land. I am sure we are no longer in the Fire country or near the border of the Wind country Naruto. I am not even sure we are on our world."
Naruto looked confused. "I only remember signing the toad summoning contract not a Naruto and Hinata summoning contract."
Hinata giggled at Naruto's frustration.
"Okay, works for me. Who should start?" Aang replied excitedly.
Everyone shrugged their shoulders. "Guess I will start." Aang took a deep breath as he started. "I am Aang the current Avatar. If you could keep that under wraps it would be nice. I was born around a hundred and twelve years ago. I was trapped in ice for one hundred years with my friend Appa." Aang said as he patting the sky bison behind him.
"I was found by Katara and Sokka near the south pole. We became friends and they agreed to travel with me so that I can lean bend all the elements. That is the short story. We came here thinking there maybe some more airbenders but we have not found any." Aang continued with a sad look on his face. "I may be the last airbender there is."
"Airbender? You mean you can use wind jutsu?" Naruto excitedly asked.
"Jutsu? What are jutsu?" Aang commented looking very confused.
Naruto made the ram hand sign and said "Kage Bunshin no jutsu" and another Naruto appeared. "This is the shadow clone jutsu. I made a tangible copy of myself."
"What do you mean tangible?" Saka asked.
Hinata focused her chakra, "Bunshin no jutsu" and a second Hinata appeared.
Both Naruto walked up to the two Hinata and gave each a hug. On set actually embraced. When the second Naruto attempted to grab Hinata he moved through her like she was just an illusion, which she was.
"These are jutsu. These are clones, one is solid the other is an illusion. Also Hinata-chan has had one active since we met. You can lower it Hinata-chan." Naruto explained.
They all watched as Hinata's eyes became lavender without pupils.
"You mean she is blind?" Sokka asked bluntly.
Hinata giggled. "No, actually I can see better than any of you. I have special eyes that are specific to only my family, also known as a blood line trait, or Kekkei Genkai. My eyes can see through objects, walls and the like. Also I can see your chakra coils."
"You see Aang-san has large coils like Naruto-kun. But Sokka-san has small coils like Lee-kun. These chakra coils are the pathways where chakra flows through the body. I can see it when I have my eyes activated." Hinata continued.
"We do not have jutsu, we can only bend elements. Katara can bend water and I can bend air." Aang said as he created a ball of air and sat on it. "This is an air scooter."
"I would love to learn that!" Naruto said excitedly.
"Calm down Naruto-kun." Hinata said quietly while grabbing his arm. "Now we need to tell our stories." She looked into Naruto's eyes with worry. "Should we tell them everything? I don't think we are anywhere Konoha and I don't think that they know anything about jutsu at all. They may not even know about fuzzy and his kind."
Naruto thought for a couple minutes. "I can't tell you everything just yet. We have only met and there are some really personal things that we would have to reveal to you and it might frighten or upset you. I can tell you that we are ninja from the village hidden in the leaves, also known as Konoha. We have been trained from an early age to learn the way of the shinobi. We were taught…" Naruto had a sad look in his eyes. "At least most of us were taught taijutsu, the way of the fist. Ninjutsu, the way of the ninja, also known as ninja spells. Genjutsu, the way of illusion, to change what is seen. Kenjutsu, the way of the sword. Fuuinjutsu, the way of sealing . Kinjutsu, the forbidden way. And finally Doujutsu, the way of the eyes." Naruto smiled with being able to remember all the categories of jutsu.
"We trained at the academy together, once we graduated." He grumbled a little bit, but Hinata put her arm on his shoulders. "We would be assigned to teams of three for further training and missions. As we progress in skill we would be tested. The chunin test, then later a jonin test. Neither of us passed the chunin test so we are genin." Naruto continued his tale.
"A little while after the chunin exams one of my teammates, left the village without permission. Me and several others were sent to retrieve him. He left seeking power for his own ends. I was selected for the group to retrieve him as my other teammate could not persuade him not to leave." Naruto had a look of pain on his face and the words were slow in coming. Hinata squeezed him in a comforting hug.
"My team left the village and Shikamaru, our leader setup a good strategy for us to follow. Ultimately we had to peel off one at a time to deal with enemy ninja that were helping Sasuke-teme out. I finally caught up with him and tried to talk him into returning, even used a little force, but to no avail." Naruto was gritting his teeth.
"We fought and he nearly killed me several times. I finally was able to stop him but we were knocked out in the process. When I awoke I was back in the village, with news that we had succeeded in our mission. The village council did not like how I handled the retrieval. They thought I should not have hurt him so much. What was I supposed to do? He was headed to an enemy village to abandon our village. I even thought of him as a brother." Naruto was finally not able to speak anymore as he buried his head into Hinata's shoulder.
"I can continue Naruto-kun, I know how much this hurts you." Hinata said comforting Naruto. "Naruto-kun had a hard childhood and was not well liked by the village. His other teammate was not the kindest girl and would abuse him often, even though he did like her. When Naruto-kun woke up his so called teammate berated him for what he did to Sasuke, whom I did not care much for anyways. I got into an argument with his teammate Sakura and tried to stop her abuse of Naruto-kun. Tsunade-sama our Hokage, the leader of our village finally stopped her."
"I was there to comfort Naruto-kun in his time of need. It was also let out that I had a secret crush on him." Looking down at Naruto she smiled. "It was then that he finally saw me, and I was happy. Well our happiness was short lived. The council in their infinite wisdom decided a few things." Hinata face contorted to that of pure rage.
"They decided that Naruto-kun should be banished for hurting their precious Sasuke. They also thought they would marry me off to the teme. My father came up with a plan to circumvent their plans. He did not want Sasuke in the family and actually liked Naruto-kun. So since the betrothal would go into effect the next day he had us wed that day. The happiest moment in my life was when I got my Naruto-kun." Hinata smiled happily.
"We left the village a week later. We have been traveling for several months training and surviving. That is until today. That is when we ended up here. Yes, I know that we are not telling you everything as we are not sure you can handle everything we have to tell you. Also as we have only met and for that information we need trust and that will come with time. I am truly sorry we cannot tell you yet." She nodded her head in a bow while still holding Naruto.
"Okay, we are here." Sokka rolled out a map showing the world and pointing to a white island. "The Southern Air Temple and we are going to the Northern Water tribe here." He was now pointing to a spot on the north end of the map.
"So what are each one of these islands? Why are there just the four basic colors on the map?" Hinata asked looking at the map.
"Well, each color corresponds to type of bending element. White stands for Air, Blue for Water, Green for Earth, and Red for Fire." Sokka explained as he pointed to each color on the map. "Air, is referred to as the Air Nomads, of which Aang is part of and maybe the last survivor. Water, is for the Water tribes of which Katara and I are a part of. Earth is for the Earth Kingdom. And finally we have Fire for the Fire Nation, of which everyone is at war with."
"So how long has this war been going on?" Naruto asked as he winced while changing the way he was sitting.
"Are you okay Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked with a concerned look on her face.
Naruto reached up and kissed her gently. "I will be soon. Still a little stiff but I am healing fine." He then pulled out his pack up and was going through it.
"Well it has been going on for about a hundred or so years. So far the Air Nomads and the Southern Water Tribes have been attacked and either destroyed or nearly so. We figure if we can get Aang the training he needs then we can help end this war and bring peace to the world." Katara said as she smiled at Aang.
Hinata smiled as she saw this but said nothing. "Naruto-kun are you looking for the map?"
"Yes." Naruto said in a frustrated voice. "Wait, I found it!" He then rolled out a map looking very different than the one that Sokka had. Naruto pointed at a red area, "Here is the Fire country where we are from. As you can see it is not the Fire Nation that you are familiar with."
Sokka looked excited as he went over the map. "Hm… Fire, Earth, Lightning, Wind, Sound, Tea… Wait what is this marking of Snow and Spring together?"
"Well the country was known as the country of Snow until I did an important mission there and we were able to bring spring to the land. Now when it is having spring it is call Spring when winter sets in it is called Snow. I know kind of silly but that is what the leader wanted." Naruto replied chuckling then wincing. "Remind me not to laugh after breaking ribs Hinata-chan." This caused Hinata to nod and chuckle at her husband's statement.
"We should be getting to bed now." Hinata said as she used a scroll and made a large mat to appear.
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A/N: Sorry for the filler chapter, I promise the next one to be much better. Someone is coming to dinner… muhahahaha…