Chapter 13- A Good Old Pal

Once they arrived at Konoha, Yumi really wanted to see Hinata.

"Hey Naruto, while Sakura and Sasuke tour the others, and we go to Hinata's?" She asked.

"Sure, I mean, if it's okay with them." Naruto said, and looked at Sakura and Sasuke. They both nodded their heads.

"Well, let's go then." Naruto and Yumi were heading towards Naruto and Hinata's house.

"Wait, Yumi!" Aelita yelled.

"What?" Yumi asked. Both Yumi and Naruto stopped mid step.

Aelita ran over and whispered in Yumi's ear, "Watch out. This could be another ghost channel." Then Aelita ran back to the others.

"What was that?" Naruto asked.

"Err… nothing!" Yumi said. "Let's just go see Hinata!" She quickened her pace.

"Yumi! Hinata and I live in a different place now!"

"Hinata and I?"

Naruto blushed. "Hinata wasn't getting along with Hanabi, so she moved in with me… and they made up, but we decided to live together."

Yumi playfully elbowed him. "So… NaruHina is a thing huh?"

Naruto blushed even more. "No, no! It's not like that!"

"Just say it, Naruto. Even I knew that you like her, and she likes you."

"Alright, fine. You caught me. But don't be like that to Hinata. She'll probably faint."

"Fainting is like a regular to Hinata! She's like Aelita when she came to Earth!"

"What?!"

"I'll explain later. Let's just go."

"Okay." Naruto led the way to their house.

Naruto knocked on the door. Hinata opened it.

"Naruto, your mission is already over? Y- Yumi, Is that… you?" Hinata asked.

"Yes, it's me." Yumi said.

"I'll go upstairs and leave you two alone." Naruto said, and he and Yumi walked into the house.

"If Naruto hasn't told you…" Hinata started.

"He told me." Yumi said. "How did your sister get so mad?"

Naruto stopped at the first stair, and looked at Hinata. "Yeah, how?"

"Well, my sister… thought that I was too weak. She thought that I wasn't helping her because I didn't want to get hurt."

"WHAT!?" Both Naruto and Yumi said.

"It's true."

"But Hinata, you're not weak!" Naruto said.

"Yeah, Hinata!" Yumi said. "On my list of toughest girls, you stand right in the best; Sakura and Temari!"

"Well, thanks, Yumi and Naruto, but for my sister, that wasn't enough." Hinata said.

"I-I'm going upstairs." Naruto said. He went up the flight of stairs and into his room. He plopped his bag down on his bed, and pondered on the chair next to his desk. Something's got to be wrong with Hanabi! He thought. She's never been like that to Hinata! Kicking Hinata out of her own home… this can't be Hanabi! It has to be some being controlling her! But who? Could it be that X.A.N.A. thing? I'll have to ask Yumi! He decided to then focus on some of the Anti-Rouge-Nin paperwork for Yumi.

Meanwhile, Yumi and Hinata were in the downstairs living room, catching up.

"So, Hinata, when Hanabi kicked you out, why didn't you go to Sakura's or something? Huh?" Yumi said.

"Well, you see, Sakura's parents… they're a bit... foolish, Ino's dad is like a half-pervert, and Tenten's apartment was only one room. So… Naruto was the next choice."

"Oh... I see."

"How was meeting Ulrich, Aelita, Odd and Jeremie?"

"Well, I only knew Ulrich a little from fighting, and then…"

"You got closer and closer."

"Yeah."

"Well, umm…"

"Naruto told me about a Fourth Great Ninja War."

"You might think he's lying, but it happened." Hinata explained the Ninja War using what she experienced and what Naruto told her. Everyone except Team 7 and the previous Hokages had been surrounded in a cocoon and put into hibernation.

"That's amazing! How did Naruto learn how to do all that?!"

"You need to ask him."

"Why not Kakashi?"

"Well, you see, most of Naruto's learning came from Jiraya-sama- "

"Like, the Legendary pervert Jiraya?!"

"Yeah."

"LUCKY!"

Hinata laughed, and then faced her head towards the ground. "But…"

"What?"

"Jiraya-sama… is dead."

"WHAT?! HOW?!"

"Hush, please! He was fighting Nagato, Akatsuki leader a.k.a. Naruto's Uncle, and he died."

"How did Naruto not know?!"

"He was in Mount Mayobuku training with the elder toads. He would've probably saved Jiraya-sama though…"

Naruto had overheard Hinata's and Yumi's full conversation. Once he heard about Jiraya-sama, he put his head down. Hinata's right. I could've saved that old pervert, and maybe he could get Kakashi to make me a Jonin! And maybe I would've learned some more jutsu! Oh man!

Downstairs, Hinata said, "I'll go check on Naruto-kun."

"Okay."

"You want me to make you something?"

"Well, maybe not food… a tea, perhaps?"

"Sure!" Hinata went upstairs.

She opened Naruto's door. "N-Naruto-kun?" she said. Then, she noticed his head down on his desk. "What's wrong?"

"N-nothing." Naruto said, not even lifting his head the slightest bit.

"Naruto, you rarely ever look like you're sulking… wh-what's wrong?"

"Well, I heard what you and Yumi were talking about downstairs…"

"A-about Jiraya-sama?"

"Yeah, I could have saved that old pervert…"

"Naruto!" Hinata said. "Don' call him a- a pervert! He taught you the Rasengan, and that led you towards the Rasen-Shuriken!"

"Sure, yeah, but he's still a pervert at heart… well, was." Naruto said in a bitter tone. "You just didn't see all of the 'behind-the-scenes'."

"Still, Jira- "

"ARE WE SERIOUSLY GOING TO JUST ARGUE ABOUT WHETHER JIRAYA IS A PERVERT OR NOT?!" Naruto yelled as he shot up from his chair. "LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Hinata's eyes started to tear up. "S-sorry, N-Naruto-kun." She said and ran out of his room, crying.

Yumi spotted Hinata running downstairs, her face buried in her hands.

"Hinata, what's wrong?" Yumi asked.

"N-Naruto-kun…"

"Yelled at you?"

"Yeah."

"Don't worry, he'll get over it in some time… well, I mean if it's Jiraya..."

"It is."

"Then you might want to stay away from him for a while… speaking of a while, I have to go back to Aelita, Ulrich, and Odd!" Yumi said. "Thanks Hinata, but the tea will have to wait! And remember what I said!" Yumi left the house. Hinata went to her room, and cried herself to sleep.

Is this a long enough chappie, Drakon45? :-)