As Shinata looked at her father training Konohamaru, she could not believe that Konohamaru was up for the next Hokage. Although Konohamaru had refused the position when Naruto had announced that he would retire. Naruto told him that he would bring the Kanazawa clan to justice first, not leaving Konohamaru the burden of this very troublesome clan. He had told Naruto that either Shikamaru or Sakura should apply but they had refused as well. Both Shikamaru and Sakura had nominated both of Naruto's twins. Although Kiyoshi was two years older than Shinata he was nominated by Kakashi and Kurenai. Although Kana was being considered he was already married and expecting a new baby so he declined the nomination for the position by Choji and Tenten. Naruto had hoped to nominate Kiyoshi but he felt that even though his skills were greater than all his children many would feel he was too young to be considered serious for the position and that they needed someone older with more experience to lead the village to prosperity for the next generation.
As Shinata looked at Naruto train her future uncle Konohamaru she smiled thinking how great of an opportunity to see the legends of her time standing right in front of her in their youth. As she looked intently at the two Hanabi walked up next to her.
"Just who are you? You look like a Hyuuga except your colored blue eyes, my sister and Naruto trust you but I don't. if you so much as make a move to look like your going to hurt Hinata or Naruto, I will kill you on the spot do you get the picture" as Hanabi walked toward Konohamaru and Naruto after they trained together.
Shinata could not believe it, her aunt who was one of the gentlest person who took care of her when she was small just threaten her and openly in front of everyone who just stared at her after that statement. Naruto walked to Hanabi and explained that Shinata was a friend and that she truly has their best interest. Shinata knew that besides Shikamaru, Hinata and Naruto no one trusted her.
As Naruto and Hinata walked with Shinata, Naruto told them that he had an errand to run and that he would catch up with the two of them later. As Naruto walked to the entrance of the gate he bided the chunin a goodbye and told them he would be out practicing and would be back within two hours. As he left the village he came upon a secluded spot to practice a jutsu that would give him the edge on his enemies. He didn't not want to practice this in front of his friends because of the danger so he chose to be in dangers way all by his self. As Naruto formed a Rasengan he tried throwing it but it would land in front of him and explode. Naruto knew that the Rasengan was formed with his dense chakra and the wind element it made it very unstable to keep form; he knew that he had to keep a dense chakra but make it where it could still be thrown and effective against an enemy. As he had practice for about an hour he could feel a chakra signatures around him. Naruto could feel them closing in on him, as he faced the four assailants he took out his kunai's. All four ninjas had their face covered; Naruto could only see their eyes.
"So you came to kill me so you can rule the future eh? Well I'm sending you all to hell this day to solidify the Uzumaki name. Feel the power of Naruto Uzumaki" as he charged the ninjas.
As Naruto charged the two in the middle he quickly threw the kunais at the other two and tried to round house kick the ninjas in the middle. The two ninjas on the other side quickly caught the kunais and threw them back at Naruto who dodged them and tried to connect to the tall ninja face with his fist. As he fought the four ninjas he noticed that two would fight one would watch and the other would wait for an opening hoping to catch Naruto off guard. Naruto wondered why didn't they just use their curse marks and kill him. As Naruto backed off from the four ninjas he knew he had to use extreme speed to get rid of least one of them. As he made eye contact with the one who was just waiting to attack, he quickly got behind him in a blink of an eye and tried to strike a blind spot from the ninja view, to Naruto's surprise the ninja ducked and countered hitting him in his ribs. Naruto knew now that one was a Hyuuga clansman. As he looked around he saw that the other one who attacked him were using assassin style technique developed by the ANBU black ops. Naruto concluded that it was the root ANBU and a Hyuuga sent to kill him. Naruto looked at the other assassin and wondered what was his ability was he another ANBU or Hyuuga clansman. Naruto quickly formed eight clones and sent them after the assassin to see if he was an ANBU or a Hyuuga. As all eight attacked the skilled masked ninja he destroyed all the clones and the other one who tried to hide in a tree to distract him.
"So it's two Hyuuga's and two ANBU black ops, so Zaizun and Danzou sent you four to kill me? Just like the Leaf village to send lambs to kill a demon. Before I kill you which one of you is the strongest? You don't have to say anything just point" as Naruto anger started to rise.
As they never made a move, the same two attacked and slashed Naruto across his chest, the other who was watching seen an opening and kicked Naruto in his back. Naruto quickly threw a shuriken to catch his attacker but was stopped by the other ANBU's strange jutsu that stopped the projectile momentum. The Hyuuga that was attacking with the ANBU tried to seal Naruto's chakra points. Naruto now seen their game plan, the two front men a Hyuuga an a assassin would attack, the Hyuuga would try and seal off his chakra while the other would go for a kill, the other Hyuuga who looked for an opening would attack on sight and the other used his wind jutsu to protect the attackers if he looked like Naruto would performed a jutsu that could kill them.
"Very good you're using teamwork to kill me. Wearing me down and countering anything I throw or jutsu I use. Let's see if you can counter this Shadow Clone Over kill" as over a thousand clones came pouring out from Naruto's jutsu.
As the ANBU stood perched high on big tree waiting for Naruto to show, he prepared himself to kill his prey.
Naruto slipped in between the shadow clones and attacked the ANBU assassin first, as the shadow clones kept the others busy. Naruto attacked with great speed and precise taijutsu to kill his attacker, Naruto landed a series of blows that made the ANBU back up from Naruto's fist. The ANBU quickly threw some kunais in the mist of all of the Naruto shadow clones hoping to get lucky and kill him. Naruto dodged easily and grabbed one of his shadow clones and transformed it into a giant shuriken. As he threw it at the ANBU he easily eluded the giant shuriken and focused his attack back on Naruto. As he felt a stabbing pain in his back his body froze as he noticed three kunais sticking in his back. As he fell he wondered how. Naruto jumped over to the top of the tree to the fallen ANBU.
"It's impossible for you to move that quick to get behind me, how did you do it" asked the assassin?
"The giant shuriken I threw I transformed it back into a shadow clone to attack you from the back, since you're not a Hyuuga you don't have a 360 degree view to notice what I did. So why attack me? I'm a citizen of the Konoha, you could be put in prison for a long time for such a premeditated murder scheme, why chance it" as Naruto tied up his assailant.
"I do what I'm told" as he never said another word after that.
The others noticed that Naruto had taken out one of their comrades, they knew now that he was becoming more dangerous.
"Quickly get behind me and pour your chakra into me so we can get rid of these got damn clones" said the ANBU assassin!
As the two Hyuuga's touched the ANBU assassin's shoulder they poured their chakra into his body. Surges of power rush through him and he released a jutsu that formed a giant whirlwind with great force that engulfed all of the clones to a puff of smoke. Naruto used his chakra on his feet to hold himself down from the gust of wind. As the jutsu was over Naruto jumped down and prepared to fight the three. As he looked at them he smiled, Neji and Hideo came and attacked Naruto's assailants, the two masked Hyuuga's attacked Neji and Hideo as the ANBU rushed Naruto. Naruto quickly darted toward his target and grabbed his wrist and snapped it making the ANBU scream in pain then striking his adam apple making him pass out. Naruto quickly came and gave Neji and Hideo a hand with the rogue Hyuuga ninjas. As they seen they were out match they tried to flee, Hideo quickly hit the tall Hyuuga chakra points making him collapse. As the other Hyuuga tried escaped he quickly threw an exploding kunai at the three, Neji threw his own kunai and stopped it making it explode in front of the rogue ninja.
As Naruto looked at the fleeing ninja he turned to Neji and Hideo and thanked them for their help. Neji bowed and walked toward the masked ninja and removed his mask. Neji and Hideo almost went into shock to see it was a Hyuuga that attacked Naruto and not just any Hyuuga, one of Zaizun's top assassins for the Leaf. Hideo recognized the other attacker it was Danzou's personal bodyguard.
"Naruto what the hell did you get yourself into? You need to go and get the Hokage and report this right away. Your lucky we were training when I noticed you and the four assassins attacking you, go get the Hokage's ANBU so we can clear this up" as Neji looked nervous about the situation.
"I can't, I have to see someone about this situation and it's not the Hokage. Tie them up and call the Hokage and ANBU to protect them" as Naruto started to get ready to face Danzou and Zaizun for sending assassins after him.
"Man we come to give you a hand and we get involved with Danzou of all people, you really live life dangerously, fucking around with those two will only get you into a grave quicker" as Hideo looked at Naruto.
"Where are you going? You can help us bring them back there is no need to go off by yourself. Let the Hokage handle this" as Neji stared at Naruto.
"I can't they will try and hide everything and cover their tracks, they need to know up front and personal that they failed miserably on the attempt on my life. Be careful on taking them back to the village, I have an appointment first with Danzou then Zaizun. I will see you two later" as Naruto smiled at his two comrades.
"I seen that smile of Naruto's before, Danzou is about to seriously get his ass kicked by a pissed off jinchūriki" as Neji bent over and picked up the rogue assassin.
"When ever he comes back to the village its never ever boring" as Hideo smiled on the excitement and danger that follows Naruto. "I bet Hinata is always on pins and needles when it comes to him, I bet she wished she could've married me now" as Hideo grunted picking up the ninja and started to head back to the village.
Neji just smiled knowing Hideo was probably right about that.