A Second Chance

by Mr. Grouch

What if Naruto grew up alone? what if his entire life was devoted to his village? what if the woman who was so desperately trying to gain his attention died before he realized it and was able to reciprocate his love for her? what if Naruto was given a second chance to fix his mistake of the past? read to find out. enjoy.

8. Chapter 8

NARUTO IS OWNED BY MASASHI KISHIMOTO, LUCKY MAN WITH THE AWESOMEST IDEA.

"SO IT FINALLY HAPPENED!?" all of the students screamed in unison.

Hinata was red as a tomato, Naruto just embraced her tighter making her feel a little more relaxed and less flustered. "Calm down honey."

"All right, that's enough teasing your classmate." Iruka said to his class, then he turned to the recently arrived couple. "You two take your seats, the final exam will begin in a few minutes."

Hinata and Naruto found two empty seats and decided to sit side by side. "Na-Naruto I'm nervous, are you?" whispered Hinata fidgeting her fingers as usual.

Naruto placed his hands on hers stopping her fidgeting. "Don't worry so much Hinata, you will do great. I know it." Naruto gave his girlfriend a big happy grin which made her heart melt instantly.

"Okay class, for today's final exam the jutsu is…The Clone Jutsu…" Naruto silently chuckled as he remembered how that particular technique was his worst, and how he failed the genin graduation exam twice before because of it. "When your name is called please step into the next room where you will demonstrate it to us." Said Iruka as he was going through his roster. "Okay, as usual, first up, Shino Aburame…" one by one all of the Rookie 9 were eventually called. As to no surprise Naruto passed with flying colors. Instead of the required 2 clones he decided to up the ante and create 6 clones who sat around the table having a tea party talking smack about each other, which made both Iruka and Mizuki laugh hysterically. When everyone was done they were all gathered in their original classroom, each and every one now wearing a Konoha headband, all of them with a big smile seeing as to everyone had passed. "Congratulations, to all of you on passing the final exam, from here on out you are all full-fledged shinobi. You will all be casted into 3-man cells led by a jonin, who will guide you on missions and help you advance in your training to become stronger shinobi. Also you will all start taking on missions for the village wherever it's requested. On Monday morning you will all meet back here for cell designations. Until then you are all dismissed."

Just when he was about to disappear he remembered something. "Oh I almost forgot…PICTURE TIME!" the graduates had mixed feelings, some groaned and sighed while a few shouted hooray. Everyone decided to strike a cool pose. All Naruto did was put his fist in front of him with his other hand on Hinata's waist. *click, flash* "okay you will all get a copy mailed to your homes soon. Okay now you are all dismissed til Monday. Have fun graduates, don't get into trouble. He looked at them all with a silly mischievous grin. *poof* he was gone. Everyone filed out of the classroom to see a courtyard full of happy parents. All the new genins went to their parents, all except three of them.

Sakura was immediately greeted by her mother. "im so proud of you honey, your father would have been here too but he still hasn't returned from his mission." She said gloomly, then cheering back up to her normal self, "How about I cook you a nice dinner tonight?"

"That sounds wonderful mom." She then looked over her shoulder to see Sasuke walking past them. "Hey mom can Sasuke join us?" she asked with hope in her voice.

Mebuki was well aware of Sakura's love interest in the Uchiha boy, and taking pity on the orphan she agreed. "yes dear, if he wants to he can come."

Sakura's eyes brightened. "Hey Sasuke…would…you like to come over to my house for dinner, mom is making a nice dinner for my graduation, and I was wondering if you wanted to come and join us?"

"No." Sasuke said coldly, and kept walking past her.

Hinata was looking around in hopes that she would see her father with open arms to congratulate her on becoming a genin. But Naruto knew all too well that he would not show up. Hinata slumped her shoulders looking teary eyed, Naruto gazed upon her watery eyes and had an idea. "Hinata, what do you say you and I go get some lunch at Ichiraku's?"

Hinata perked back up with a smile and a red face. "O-okay Naruto." They walked down the courtyard to see more students going off with friends and family. Naruto looked at his beautiful girlfriend and seeing her wearing his jacket made him feel special, almost to signify that she is his. He took her hand and kept walking down Konoha's main road. The day was beautiful and windy, not a single cloud in the sky, as if as though last night's storm had never happened. But it did happen, he saw some loose branches on the streets, a few power lines were down, and some windows were broken along with some dented from the hail.

They finally reached Ichiraku's a few minutes later, Teuchi and Ayame automatically both greeted their favorite customer. "Hi guys, how is the ramen today?"

"Hot as always Naruto." Said Teuchi.

"Great!" Naruto cheered.

Ayame quickly noticed that he wasn't alone, he was still holding hands with Hinata. "Soooooo, is this pretty lady your girlfriend Naruto?" she asked with a sly smile. Making Hinata to turn red.

"You better believe it!" as soon he said his iconic catch phrase he could feel his seal getting hotter.

"N-A-R-U-T-O!" was all that Naruto heard from Kurama before his voice faded. "he he he, I guess I really do say that a lot, gotta work on it."

"So what can I get you two lovebirds?" Ayame asked with a simple happy smile.

"We'll…" Naruto began.

But before he could finish…"we'll have two miso's with extra pork!" finished Hinata with a triumphant voice.

Both Ayame and Naruto looked at her stunned, all Naruto did was lifted her up her seat hugging her then putting her back down. "How did you know honey!?" Naruto asked surprised.

"A-a little bird told me." Said Hinata coyly.

"Birdy my ramen serving ass, I've seen her spying on him from behind those trashcans across the streets every time he comes here! Thought Ayame. "Okay two miso's with extra pork coming right up!" said Ayame handing the order to her father.

As they waited for their food Naruto turned to Hinata, "hey after we are done here I will walk you home so you don't get into trouble with your father for being gone since last night. Okay?"

"Okay Naruto." Hinata said as she gave him a quick kiss on the lips. Then suddenly she started turning red, "so Naruto…how do you like me being your girlfriend so far?"

"hmmmm, well you accepted my dinner date offer, you said you love, we love the same show, and you spent the night with me, so how do I like it so far? I FREAKING LOVE IT!" shouted Naruto.

"G-g-good." Hinata said with a mixture of fear and excitement in her timid voice.

"ORDER UP" said Ayame as she took the bowls from her father and placed them on the table. They both digged in. Naruto automatically scarfed it down in less than a minute leaving Hinata with a open mouth totally shocked.

"What…?" Naruto asked Hinata quizzically? "…it's my favorite meal."

Hinata closed her mouth and smiled. "But don't you want to eat it slowly and savor it with me?"

"Sorry babe." Naruto said laughingly. Once Hinata finished her food they got up to leave. But first Naruto had to pay.

"So how much do I owe ya Teuchi?" asked Naruto as he reached for his froggy wallet.

"Nothing my boy, this one is on the house."

"T-thank you Mr. Teuchi." Hinata squeaked as she grabbed Naruto's hand.

"Thanks Teuchi, you the man!" Naruto said as he left the stand holding his girlfriend's hand.

"This day and a half have been great! I wish that it didn't had to end." Naruto said somberly. As they reached the Hyuga Compound.

"I-I know. I wish we had more time. Do you want to do something tomorrow? I am free after 4PM. That's when I am done with training." Asked Hinata full of hope.

"That sounds great babe, I should be done hanging out with Shikamaru by then!" said Naruto as he embraced his girlfriend with a big kiss. "Just call me when you are done okay?"

"O-okay sweetie." Said Hinata as she kissed her boyfriend again. Not wanting to let go of him. Hinata let go and was about to open the door on the gate before she realized that she was still wearing Naruto's jacket and quickly started unzipping it.

"What are you doing Hinata?"

"Don't you want your jacket back?" asked Hinata bemused.

"No babe, it's yours, I want you to have it." Said Naruto with a big goofy smile that made her heart melt.

Hinata quickly zipped up her new jacket with pride. "I love you Naruto Uzumaki!"

"I love you too Hinata Hyuga!" Naruto replied. Hinata then opened the gate stepped inside and closed it behind her, looking back at Naruto one more time before heading for her house with tears forming in her eyes. Naruto felt a mix of happiness and sadness at the same time. It hasn't even been a full minute and Naruto already missed as if decades had already gone by. He turned on his heel and headed for home.

Hinata was walking carefully through the hallway in her house hoping to avoid her father and a possible scolding as to why she was out all night. She made it to her room, she sighed in relief and closed her door. She then flopped down on her bed crying. She quickly grabbed her cell phone out of her pocket and sent Naruto a quick text. "I miss you already sweetie."

The she bolted straight up as her door slid open only to see her little sister Hanabi standing at her door way.

"Oh, Hanabi, come in." said Hinata with a warm smile.

"Okay big sis, spill it, where were you last night? Father is furious!" but as soon as she asked her sister's whereabouts of last night she looked at the jacket she was wearing and got her answer right away. "…no way you stayed with Naruto last night!?"

"Keep it down Hanabi! I don't want the whole compound to know!"

"Okay okay, wait…you guys didn't do it did you!? Are you guys even together!? Oh boy when father hears about this he is going to kill you!"

Hinata turned red at idea of her and Naruto having sex. "No we did not have sex! Wait…how do you know about sex anyways!?" asked Hinata furrowing her eyebrows.

"I read it in a medical scroll." Hanabi giggled. "So tell me what really happened last night, I wanna know everything."

"okay well, Naruto invited me over to his apartment for dinner. He made me my favorite bean jelly and cinnamon rolls for desert! Then he gave me this." Hinata unzipped an inch of her new jacket revealing a beautiful necklace.

"Wow that must have cost him one pretty penny. You definitely have to put out now big sis." Hanabi said nudging her sister in the arm.

"Will you let me finish!?" Hinata said blushing. "Then he asked me to be his girlfriend!"

"And you said yes?"

"Sure did. And we were going to go for a stroll to the park but then it started to storm, so we just ended up watching The Big Bang Theory all night long till I fell asleep."

"So did he share his bed with you?"

"Actually he was the perfect gentleman, he actually offered me his bed for me to sleep in while he slept on the couch. Everything was good until it started to storm really bad and I got scared, Naruto came in to comfort me, and I begged him to spend the rest of the night with me, which he did. Nothing happened I swear!" said exasperatedly.

"mmmmhmmmm are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure!" Hinata retorted. "Then I woke up and made him breakfast…and then…and then he told me that he loves me. He loves me!" Hinata said while holding he jacket tightly, as if to embrace an invisible Naruto.

"Wow, using the L-word already, did you tell him the L-word too?"

Hinata just noded.

"*sigh* you shouldn't have said that to him, not for at least a few more years. Now he won't work as hard to please you and make you happy."

"Naruto is not that kind of guy, he is sweet and caring. And I love him as much as he loves me."

"Okay big sis, I hope father sees it that way too." Said Hanabi with a blank expression. She started walking towards the door when Hinata stopped her.

"Hanabi, please don't tell father, I will tell him myself later, please?" pleaded Hinata.

Hanabi didn't say a single word, she turned to her sister and slid her thumb and index finger in a pinched position across her lips to signify that her lips are sealed.

"Thank you baby sister." Said Hinata as she hugged Hanabi. Hanabi startled by her sister's hugged she smiled and hugged her back.

Naruto finally made it back to his empty house. He unlocked the door, stepped in and deeply sighed. "I feel so lonely now. I wish I could fast forward in time to tomorrow so I can see her again…hunh what's this?" Naruto checked his phone, to see he had a new text message form Hinata. He quickly replied, "aww I miss you too babe!" as he walked into his room to see Hinata's coat. "Btw you left your coat here, what do you want me to do with it?" Naruto hit the send button on his phone and eagerly waited for her reply. Then a minute later he a reply. "You keep it sweetheart 3"

Naruto quickly replied. "You really are the best girlfriend ever! I love you babe!" Naruto hit the send button and quickly grabbed Hinata's coat. He took a whiff of it, it smelled just like her. Which was just enough to give Naruto a semi erection. "Oh great! First last night when we spooned and now from her sent. Well fuck me sideways!" Naruto thought angrily, then he quickly laughed to himself. He folded her coat gently and put it on top of his bed. He reached underneath his bed and pulled out a medium sized foot locker, filled with mementos and knickknacks he viewed as "valuable" it may have not been for some but to him they were his treasures. He opened it and gently placed his girlfriend's coat within. He closed the footlocker and slid it back into place.

Naruto walked over to his couch and laid down on it, he grabbed the remote from his coffee table and clicked on the TV. He kept flipping through the channels. "Let's see, news? Boring. MTV? No more music is played, it should really change their name to RTV (reality TV). CN? Nah ever since they took off all my good shows this channel is crap! Damnit! There is nothing good on!" just when he was about to click off the TV he changed the channel one more time.

"Hey, bite my glorious golden ass!" a voice from the TV was heard. It was none other than Bender Bending Rodriguez, everyone's favorite alcoholic womanizing robot.

"Hey! Futurama is on! Fuckyeah!" Naruto exclaimed happily, finally something good to watch! Naruto felt his stomach growling. It was 6pm. He checked his phone. No new messages. "Hey babe, are you okay?" Naruto texted Hinata. He got off the couch and decided to make himself a sandwich because he already had ramen earlier for lunch. Once he finished he was just about to sit back down on his couch with his sandwich and tall glass of cold milk when he heard a very loud knock on his door. He went to his door, seeing both his hands were currently busy he opened the door with his foot. He saw a crying Hinata being grappled by the collar of her newly acquired orange jacket by none other than her father Hiashi Hyuga.

Suddenly Hiashi's gaze was upon Naruto, Byakugan activated, and in the blink of the eye he let go of his crying daughter and seized Naruto by his neck, making Naruto drop his food from both hands, slamming him across the wall leaving a Naruto sized imprint on the wall. "STAY AWAY FROM HINATA! HOW DARE YOU SLEEP WITH MY DAUGHTER!" was all Hiashi wailed as his hands began to glow blue with chakra ready to make the kill. "YOU ARE THE REASON WHY SHE NEVER RETURNED HOME!" Hinata was crying harder now. "I SWEAR BY GOD IF YOU DID ANYTHING WRONG TO HER I WILL RIP YOUR PENIS OFF AND SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR TROUBLEMAKING MOUTH!"

Naruto quickly and calmly replied, "Lord Hiashi, sir, please understand, I didn't do anything to your daughter I swear it on my dream of becoming Hokage." Hiashi suddenly saw Naruto's Chakra Network flare up and then looked down on at Naruto's hands. He gasped. "Sir I would never do anything to intentionaly hurt Hinata, I love her with all my heart and soul! But I swear to you that if you ever make her cry again like this or ever hurt her, or make her feel inferior to her younger sister Hanabi and pit them against each other to fight for the position of clan leader ever again…I will not hesitate to use this against you." Naruto raised both his hands up revealing two Rasengans, one in each hand.

"T-t-that's, that's the 4th Hokages ultimate attack, the Rasengan! How did you come to possess such an advanced Jutsu!?" Asked Hiashi flabbergasted as he released Naruto deactivated his Byakugan.

Naruto kept calm the whole time. "My godfather taught me this skill. But sir from the bottom of my heart I am telling the truth, Hinata means the world to me."

"Well if you are so certain of this then you will have no objection to me interrogating you on a deeper level to find the truth?"

"Of course not. Give me your best shot sir." Naruto replied with a smile.

"Inoichi get in here." And in came Ino's father Inoichi Yamanaka.

"Yes boss. I will see what's really going on here." Said Inoichi excitedly.

"Hold on, I want to see this with my own eyes, I'm coming with you." Hiashi ordered.

"Alright boss. Just put your hand on my back and I'll take you with me." Hiashi placed his hand on Inoichi's back. "Ready or not, here we come, GROUP MIND TRANSFER JUTSU!" both Hiashi and Inoichi's body slumped to the ground.

Inside Naruto's mind Hiashi and Inoichi both came to a hallway full of doors. Greeted by a transparent Naruto, "hey guys. Well here are all my memories of Hinata, what you are about to see are all my thoughts of her, and everything that has happened between me and her." Naruto said as he pointed to a door with a golden plaque on it that read Hinata Hyuga. "Now I am begging you to please, and I can't stress this enough to both of you, keep everything that you are about to see a secret." He then opened the door letting Hiashi and Inoichi in.

The room began to play like a giant theater. Showing all the times between Hinata and Naruto, from the very beginning. It revealed everything. How Hinata was always shy around him. How he was blind to her obvious love in him. Then memories shifted, where an older Hinata stood in between Naruto and Pain, proclaiming her love for him and how she would do anything to protect him from harm. And that from him she drew courage and strength. Then the memories once again shifted a few months afterwards to the 4th great shinobi war. How Hinata fought side by side Naruto and the rest of the allied nations and just as victory was near Hinata was killed. Then the scene shifted again, it showed Naruto growing up and alone, he never married, never had a family, he grew up old and lone. The scene kept changing, revealing a very much older Naruto and Hanabi talking about moving Hinata's body from the Hyuga Mausoleum to the Grove of the Hokages to a dual grave where Naruto will be buried next to her in the future. Once again the scene shifted to various days where Naruto would go to Hinata's grave and pray for forgiveness until the day of his death, where he was so close to paradise and Hinata, only to be pulled back through time to yesterday. Then the scene shifted to Hinata and Naruto's first date last night, Hiashi saw with an open mouth how like a gentleman this kid was treating his daughter. It was full of love and affection. And then his heart sunk to the pit of his stomach. "This boy has treated my daughter better than I have treated her, I am an awful man." Hiashi thought, with tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Boss I am not detecting any kind of tampering to these memories at all, these are all true. Everything that you are seeing is true." Said Inoichi.

"Inoichi, stop, release the jutsu, I don't have to see anything any longer, he has proven himself to be true to his word." Hiashi said struggling to stop weeping.

Inoichi made the sign of the ram, "release!"

All three of them returned to consciousness. Once they were up on their feet Inoichi bowed to Naruto, "don't worry kid, your secret is safe with me." As he left the apartment.

"As well as me." Hiashi said, he walked over to Naruto and gave him a big hug. He then began whispering in his ear. "Thank you for showing me everything, and thank you for opening my eyes to the truth…son."

Naruto was shocked. He never would have expected in a million years that the hardass of Hiashi Hyuga could change so dramatically. "I told you sir, I love your daughter. That's the truth."

"I believe you son." Hiashi now full of remorse looked at the whole he slammed Naruto upon. Then he looked around the tiny apartment it was old and run down no matter how good Naruto tried sprucing it up. He couldn't let him live like this any longer. "Naruto. You cannot live like this. I simply won't allow it. From now on, you will come live with us at the Hyuga compound. What do you say, son?"

Hinata was in shock as he heard her father and Naruto talking. She was almost about to faint, but she decided to throttle Naruto to the ground once again hugging him for dear life. The sight made Hiashi smile and laugh wholeheartly. "Looks like Hinata is on board. So what do you say son?"

"I say YEAH WOHOOOO!" Naruto said giving Hiashi two big thumbs up. Hinata got off Naruto and then hugged her father, and in amazement he hugged her back for the first time in her life.

"T-thank you father, thank you so much!" cried Hinata.

"You are welcome my child. And I am sorry for treating you like I have before. From now on I will treat you better. I swear it." Then he turned to Naruto, "just pack your clothes for now. I will have some of the clan members to come and get the rest of your belongings in the morning."

Naruto gave a big smile to his girlfriend and her father. He quickly went to his room and packed up all of his clothes. Once he was ready he placed his backpack on his shoulder and went back into the living room. "Okay I'm ready. We can go now." He said as he put his arm around Hinata. The three of them walked out of the small apartment, Naruto turned around quickly to lock his door before leaving. The three shinobi made their way through the cool night streets of Konoha. They finally reached their destination, Hiashi opened the gates to his home, all three stepped in.

As they made their way through the main building's hallway it dawned upon Naruto that he did not know where he was going to sleep. "So… where am I going to sleep?"

Hinata suddenly grew hotter, "please say my room, please say my room, please say my room." Hinata prayed. "Yes father, where will he be sleeping?"

As they reached upon their stop Hiashi turned around and gave them a big mischievous smile. Then he pointed to the room right next to him. "In there of course."

Hinata turned to see where he was pointing, "MY ROOM!?" she asked with a big smile from ear to ear appeared on her red face looking on the verge of internally combusting.

"Of course in your room, where else? I am not going to split up such a loving couple who clearly love and respect one another. It would be a tragedy if I did such a thing." Hiashi explained.

"THANK YOU SO MUCH LORD HIASHI!" Naruto screamed as he hugged Lord Hyuga. Then suddenly Hinata jumped in and hugged her father too. "THANK YOU FATHER!" screamed Hinata.

"Well I am tired," started Hiashi. "my daughter please help Naruto get settled into his…well I guess this room now belongs to both of you." He said with a chuckle as he planted a kiss on his daughter's forehead and hugged Naruto goodnight. "You two have a goodnight, enjoy, be safe and please keep the noise to a minimum, okay?" said Hiashi with a smile as he turned the corner heading towards his room.

Naruto quickly went into his new room with Hinata, he dropped his bag as she locked the door, and she quickly jumped ontop of him kissing on the lips for what felt like an eternity, it was a kiss full passion and love. Naruto quickly shifted position so he wouldn't let Hinata feel his growing erection. Once the kiss ended Naruto loked into Hinata's beautiful lavender eyes. "Well this has turned out into another perfect night hunh babe?" Naruto asked.

"Yes it has my love. Yes it has." Hinata replied with loving eyes as she caressed Naruto's whiskered cheek. "Come on let's put your clothes up in the closet, I'll make space for your clothes in the dresser too." Hinata said with a smile as she got off her boyfriend. It only took a minute to get his clothes in order as Naruto didn't own much clothes. He looked at his watch. 10:45 PM. "wow it's this late already? I'm sleepy." Naruto said as he let out a big yawn, which made Hinata yawn in kind.

"I'm sleepy too, turn around so I can change into my pajamas." Hinata said nervously.

"Okay while you do that I will do the same too." Said Naruto.

"Okay you can turn around now Naruto." Said Hinata sleepily.

When Naruto turned around he was stunned to see her wearing the same shirt he gave her to sleep in the night before. "I guess that's your new favorite shirt to sleep in hunh babe?" Naruto asked with a big grin.

"You better believe it!" Hinata said as she got into bed. "Come on sweetheart, join me in bed."

The way she said come to bed sent chills up and down Naruto's spine. "You don't have to tell me twice!" as Naruto hopped in bed with his girlfriend. He positioned himself so he could spoon her. "This is my favorite position to sleep in." Naruto said as he embraced his girlfriend.

"Mine too." Said Hinata as she snuggled herself closer to Naruto to feel his warmth and embrace to the fullest. She reached over to her lamp and turned off the light.

"Goodnight babe, I love you with all my heart." Said Naruto as he reached over to plant a big kiss on Hinata's perfect lips.

"Goodnight sweetheart, and I love you more." She said as the kiss ended and laid her head on the pillow and fell asleep. Naruto soon after laid his head down and followed Hinata into dreamland.