A/N: Life happened and stuff so I went on a short break, but I am back!

Naruto brought his elbow up and deflected a kick, he pushed it away and spun inwards sending his elbow out his opponent, Sasuke, ducked under it and threw a punch as Naruto's stomach who jumped back to avoid the blow. Both of them had been sparring for the better part of two hours and neither had landed anything, Naruto of course had his weights on. Sasuke rocked back on his heels and sat down letting out a long breath.

"So why was it so important that today we sparred on one of my training grounds?" Sasuke asked flatly as Naruto fell down beside him.

"My usual ground is…occupied at the moment." Naruto answered cryptically.

"This wouldn't happen to have anything to do with your rescue of
Hinata right? I heard the ninja's you fought were low level Jonin." Sasuke pressed.

Naruto shrugged "A little."

"I heard you gained a following." Sasuke continued staring up at the sky absently peered at Naruto through the corner of his eyes.

Naruto paled slightly his 'following' were in every way like Sasuke's fan girls, at least the shop owners treated him better "Yeah, I guess."

"You can use this ground, but you owe me a favor…something big." Sasuke said simply.

Naruto looked at him slightly surprised "What's this favor?"

"I'm just going to ask you for a little help as a friend." Sasuke answered carefully

Naruto poked him in the side "This wouldn't have anything to do with Sakura right?"

Sasuke's cheeks reddened slightly and he turned away "Course not, I don't have any interest in any of my fan girls."

Naruto hit him lightly with a closed fist atop the head, Sasuke shot him a glare that he ignored "What If I said I have a plan?"

Sasuke's eyebrows raised slightly.

Naruto just continued "Look it's really simple ask her to be your sparring partner, that way she gets stronger and you get to hang out with her then when you grow a pair you can ask her out."

"Your one to talk about dating, you're so blind I am honestly surprised they let you in the Academy." Sasuke retorted.

Sasuke didn't miss the fact that Naruto blushed and brushed against this lips slightly, he put two and two together "Wait! You kissed Hinata?!" It was more a demand than a question.

"Yes, No…Shut up." Naruto tried to deflect before standing up "I'm going out, anyway just do what I told you."

Sasuke chuckled "Whatever you say lover-boy."

Naruto glared at him "I'll take the weights off." he growled threateningly.

Sasuke waved his hands defensively "All right all right."

"I mean it Sasuke, Hinata got grounded so we haven't had the chance to talk about thing properly so keep your mouth shut, or your crush is going to painted on the Hokage monument." Naruto threatened.

"You wouldn't." Sasuke actually looked scared.

"If it buy your silence, I will happily, I stay quiet you stay quiet, deal?" Naruto offered his hand to shake on it.

"Deal." Sasuke said quickly.

Naruto nodded.

Hinata sneezed suddenly and her cousin frowned at her "Are you all right?" He asked out of obligation, if she was sick he had to make sure she stopped her training and went to bed.

"I'm fine." Hinata responded meekly, dropped into her stance again.

"Forehead I ain't your Handkerchief!" Ino snapped not at all happy about being showered in her old friends snot.

"Shut up pig, I said I'm sorry." Sakura shot back with a glare.

Naruto walked along the street's of Konoha deep in thought, he noticed someone her recognized trying, and failing, to manage a few hundred bags of whatever they were trying to carry, he jogged up and took some of the load off.

"Here, let me help you with that," He offered as he took half the stack from the small brown haired girl.

"Oh, thanks Naruto," Ten-ten said as she recognized him "What's up?"

"Nothing, just thinking are you supposed to be carrying all this on your own?" He asked a little concerned.

"Well, one of my teammates was supposed to come help me but he is late as usual," Tenten complained, he caught the tsk and murmured 'Neji' but decided to ignore it "So what are you thinking about mister hero."

"As I said nothing really, just things," Naruto answered flatly "So where are we going with this?"

"The Hyuuga manor, it is all the gear they requested and that's why Neji was supposed to help me out…It is for his family." Tenten explained as they walked.

"Oh, then I'm killing two birds with one stone, I wanted to check up on that girl anyway." Naruto said simply.

"Oh, you mean Hinata she is really nice…Especially compared to her family I don't think they realize how strong she is." Tenten replied

Naruto nodded "Her family is a little…extreme."

"More like utterly crazy, I mean they treat kindness as weakness and they think emotion is a bad thing, I mean I know in the Shinobi world emotions aren't exactly a widely used thing but they are still human." Tenten half lectured half complained.

Naruto just nodded and remained silent as they continued towards the mansion that housed the Hyuuga clan.

The guards stopped them as they approached the door, Tenten showed them an order note and they got through relatively easy, one of them actually bowed to Naruto, there were perks to being a hero…There were also downsides.

"You can place them down there," The guard directed them to small space next to a shed "Someone else will unpack them, I am sure lady Tenten wishes to see Neji he is training with Hinata on the grounds just through those doors." He nodded towards a set of large double doors and spun on is heel and walked away from the pair.

Naruto walked up to the door's casually and opened them, he peered around for a second, a boy with long hair stood with his back turned to him, he could see Hinata over his head and he smiled, he leaned against the wall to the left of the door to wait for the match to end, he wanted to see Hinata was doing anyway.

"Oi! Neji! You left me to carry your families order on my own, you're lucky Naruto here was nice enough to help me or I'd be giving you a beating from here to next week!" Tenten yelled at him, the boy spun around in both surprise and Naruto noticed a minor amount of worry.

Neji's eyes narrowed on Naruto who currently was leaning on the pale white walls of the Hyuuga training grounds Naruto stared back impassively.

"I don't like this brat, he radiates contempt like its oxygen." Kurama announced

Naruto continued their small staring contest before Neji snorted and turned around facing Hinata again, the two began training once more and Tenten sulked beside Naruto.

"He could at least apologize." She complained as she sat down.

Naruto grimaced and continued to observe.

"That's on odd amount of chakra to be building for a spar," Kurama noted as he watched through Naruto's eyes "Kit! He is going to hurt that girl severely if he hits her!"

Naruto dropped the weights off his wrists and shot forward, Grabbing Neji's arm and turning it around his back before placing his foot on the center of his back and forcing him into the ground, Neji grunted in pain and attempted to move after it hurt him more he stayed still.

"N-Naruto-kun, W-Why D-did y-you?" Hinata started.

"There was too much Chakra in that strike, it would have caused some heart damage and come close to killing you." Naruto growled at the boy he was currently pinning to the ground.

Neji remained silent, Naruto pressed his foot in harder "What's the meaning of this, from what I know about the Hyuuga you branch member's are supposed to protect them!" Naruto snapped.

"It is illogical for the strong to protect the weak, Hinata is nothing but a disgrace to both the Hyuuga and the Shinobi world." Neji retorted.

"Oh, so kindness really is treated as weakness here? What about the hundred of innocent lives we are promised to protect, they are mostly kind hearted people are they weak too? Should we destroy and kill them as well?" Naruto yelled angrily continuing to apply weight to the boys back.

"It doesn't matter, fate will do what it has planned whether we like it or not, Hinata will always be weak, you will always be weak." Neji spat.

Naruto growled and pulled him to his feet before shoving him across the ground "If you're so sure, let's see what you can do." He challenged.

"I am a prodigy in this clan boy, do you really think you can beat me?" Neji taunted.

Naruto rolled his shoulder's and brought his fists up "I am no ordinary Ninja, you would do well to remember that."

Neji sneered and charged him, palm raised back he threw it at Naruto's chest, Naruto side stepped and slammed his foot into Neji's stomach the boy lurched forward and coughed Naruto rolled back out of the way of the kick that was sent his way ad stood up, bringing his hand up again "Where is this superior strength you are supposed to be showing me?" Naruto taunted.

Neji growled and charged again, Naruto ducked and slammed his fist into the boy's open stomach again, he grabbed Neji's arm and flipped him over on his back, he landed with a heavy thud and Naruto pressed his foot back on the boy's chest locking him on the ground.

"Why did you try to hurt Hinata? Why do you think you are so entitled!?" Naruto demanded.

Neji gritted his teeth and threw his free arm into Naruto's ankle, he winced and jumped away, Neji glared at Naruto as Naruto rolled his ankle around releasing the Tenketsu in his foot after a few moments, Neji brought his hands behind his head and let his headband clatter to the floor, revealing the caged bird seal on his forehead he simply pointed at it "This is why I hate the main Family, they do this to me and kill my father then expect me to bow my head and protect them?"

"Hinata killed you father did she?" Naruto fired back "You can hold a grudge against a group of people for the misdeeds of one! Be glad you had bonds at all!"

Naruto shout forward, Neji managed to block a few strikes but Naruto's training showed through even for the Byakugan Naruto was fast enough to avoid everything Neji threw at him, Naruto jumped back and ran forward again Neji threw his palm forward and Naruto slid underneath it bringing his fist up into the boy's stomach again, Naruto rolled back on his hands and slammed his foot into Neji's chin, as Neji went into the air Naruto jumped up and brought his heel down sending Neji back into the dirt.

"What is the meaning of this!" The voice of Hiashi Hyuuga was easily discernible and he was not happy.

A/N: What's Hiashi gonna do? Well you'll have to wait and see, oh this was supposed to come out yesterday but my internet was down so yeah.