Chapter 7

Hinata's door opened as Neji stepped inside. Hinata had been crying quite hard, though there weren't any tears on her face, but her eyes seemed a little red.

"Neji…" she said with her voice that was sore from crying earlier. Neji came to her and sat down on her bed and crossed his arms.

"Hinata… I'm going to tell you something very important, so I need you to keep it a secret." said Neji. Hinata looked up and nodded. "Naruto has found a way to be with you without Hiashi interfering." He said. Hinata perked up and sat straight.

"What! How!" she exclaimed. Neji put a finger to his lips to remind her to be quiet.

"Hiashi is a very traditional man of the Hyuga ways, correct?" he told her. Hinata nodded. "Well, there is an old tradition that says if Naruto can beat Hiashi in a fair fight, then he has a right to be with you regardless of the Main Branch family's ruling." said Neji.

"S-Seriously!" said Hinata. Neji nodded. Despite this news, Hinata looked down in melancholy. "B-But, I-I don't think N-Naruto could beat father in that situation. He's too strong…" said Hinata. Neji nodded.

"Indeed, that's why me, Lee, Tenten and a lot of others are training with Naruto right now. We're going to make him strong enough so that he can defeat Hiashi." said Neji. Hinata looked at him and smiled.

"So… you think he has a chance!" asked Hinata.

"Well… he certainly has a lot of chakra, and his staimina exceeds that of normal human limitations. If he learns better chakra control and a lot of new jutsu, then it could be possible that Naruto would be able to defeat him." said Neji. Hinata's face blushed as she thought of Naruto working hard to be with her and smiled. She stood up from her kneeling position next to her bed and looked at Neji.

"When will Naruto and Hiashi fight?" asked Hinata.

"In about three weeks. Until then, Naruto and everyone else will be training. By that time, he should be good enough to beat him." said Neji. Hinata nodded.

"Okay… could you… give him a message for me?" asked Hinata. Neji nodded as Hinata went over to her dresser and wrote a note on a piece of paper. When she gave it to Neji she smiled.

"What does it say?" asked Neji. Hinata winked and blushed.

"It's a secret. Promise not to read it?" asked Hinata. Neji looked at it questionably and nodded.

"I promise I won't." With that, Neji left Hinata back in her room where she was grounded and headed over to where Naruto and the others were going to meet up for training that day.

Gai gathered his chakra into the pit of his stomach and began to slowly expand it while screaming the entire time. Naruto was doing his best to follow in Gai's actions and controlled his chakra to do the same thing. When they had both reached their peak, Gai and Naruto both released their energy as an aura of red fiery chakra surrounded Gai and a blue windy aura surrounded Naruto. Naruto's skin had turned much more red and had a lot more veins showing in his skin.

"Alright Naruto, you have opened the fifth gate. Now, it's time you learned how to fight under this kind of pressure on your body." said Gai. Naruto nodded as Gai started off. He disappeared in a flash and then reappeared behind Naruto at an undetectable speed. Right when Gai was about to jab Naruto in the back, Naruto followed up with a backwards kick that Gai had hardly blocked at all. With his kick blocked, Naruto flipped around immediately and began with a flurry of rapid punches.

"Wow, I didn't think you would pick up on this so quickly!" shouted Gai.

"Yeah, well I have to do my best for Hinata!" yelled Naruto over the sound of impacting punches. He was actually pushing Gai back with all of his punches and Naruto could tell his technique was starting to get a tad sloppy. Before they were doing this, Naruto and Gai were sparring with each other and Gai was already tired from it; but Naruto's stamina was unrelenting and had no chance of depleting anytime soon. The furious barrage of attacks continued to fly from Naruto in almost effortless speed. Gai jumped away and then ran quickly back at Naruto with a punch. Naruto crossed his hands to catch it as it sent him flying backwards, but without causing too much pain from catching the cannon ball hard fist. Then, Naruto headed towards him again with a flying twirling kick at his head. Gai blocked it by catching Naruto's kick and throwing him up in the air. While airborne, Naruto watched as Gai flew upward at him throwing punches at his stomach. Naruto endured them despite the fact that each one felt like a large bullet striking at his stomach. When he found an opening, Naruto quickly slammed a punch at Gai's face. As he fell, Naruto put layer upon layer of kick into Gai's stomach, slamming him down harder and harder towards the ground. When they landed, the ground was crushed into millions of pieces as Naruto had Gai pinned down. They sat there in a stand still as Naruto stood up looking a bit worried.

"Is he okay? Did I attack him too hard?" asked Naruto to himself. He looked down and then suddenly jumped away from the crash site as an explosion blew the ground even more. "Damn, I should've known that it wasn't gonna be that easy! He rigged a substitution jutsu with a paper bomb!"

"Don't! Get! COCKY!" yelled Gai as he rushed at Naruto from inside the trees. His speed was too great. His power was overwhelming! In one last struggle to try and stop the oncoming attack, Naruto reached his hand up and caught it with one hand. The force of the punch was great enough to blow down a tree, but Naruto stood tall and strong like a mountain before Gai sensei, who was completely shocked by Naruto being able to stand up against the attack. Gai powered down and Naruto looked at him seeming confused.

"W-What's wrong? I can still go on!" said Naruto. Gai smirked and gave Naruto a thumbs up combined with that his trademark sparkle smile.

"Even so, you don't need to! If you want my opinion, you could fight Hiashi right now, and win." said Gai. Naruto looked at him perplexed by the sudden compliment and smiled a foxy grin at Gai.

"Thanks super-bushy-brow sensei!" yelled Naruto as he jumped and threw a fist into the air.

"Good job. You can even stand up to Gai's fifth gate. That's very impressive!" said Kakashi over tot the side with the others.

"Great!" yelled Lee as a few of the others praise him from the side. Just as he finished celebrating, Neji showed up at the training grounds where Naruto and Gai stood.

"Naruto." said Neji. Naruto finished his celebrating and turned to Neji.

"Hey, I thought you were gonna be the first one here?" said Naruto. Neji shrugged.

"Sorry, I was off to see Hinata first." said Neji as he handed the note to Naruto. "She wanted me to give this to you." Naruto took the note from Neji and opened it.

"Dear Naruto, I wish I was with you right now to help you with your training. Promise me that you're careful and to do your best. Father is still very angry and is trying to find you in the village, but if you're at the training grounds, chances are he won't find you all that soon. I miss you, and I really hope you win. Love, Hinata." said Naruto aloud as he read.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaw! So cuuuuuuuute!" yelled Sakura and Ino at the same time. Naruto turned to them with his face completely red.

"Sh-shut up!" he said clearly embaressed.

"We can't help it! It's just sooooooo cute!" yelled Sakura. Naruto grunted in embarrassment and looked back at the note with a light blush on his cheeks.

"I gotta work extra hard for Hinata… I can't back down!" thought Naruto. Kakashi looked over to the entrance of the training grounds and saw Jaraiya coming down to meet with them.

"Naruto, Jaraiya is here." said Kakashi. Naruto looked over and smiled greatly at the perverted sage as he approached them.

"Hey, Naruto! How ya doin?" he asked. Naruto gave him a thumbs up as he came over to meet with him.

"Pervy Sage! When did you get back?" asked Naruto.

"Just now. And let me tell you something…" said Jaraiya as he leaned in closer to Naruto. "…the first thing I hear when I walk into the village is all about how Naruto is causing a lot of problems with the Hyuga clan and that the heiress is also somehow involved… wanna fill me in?" he asked with a glare that could see into Naruto's mind. Naruto felt frozen as he tried to move his mouth and speak with the pervy sage, but he was… scared?

"W-Well… you see…" said Naruto. Jaraiya let out a thundering laugh and then put a hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"I was joking, Naruto! I already talked to Tsunade about the situation and she told me that you were here." said Jaraiya

"R-Really? You're not mad?" asked Naruto.

"Not at all!" he said still laughing jollily. "Besides, I know the girl lady Tsunade was talking about. She's quite a catch you know! So, tell me, you get any action from her yet!" asked Jaraiya who looked like he was just begging for the details.

"W-W-W-Would you shut up y-y-you crazy PERV! I would never do ANYTHING like that to Hinata!" said Naruto. Jaraiya laughed again and nodded.

"That's what I want to hear! Good answer!" said Jaraiya. Naruto released a heavy sigh as the crazy old man went on.

"So, what are you doing here?" asked Naruto. Jaraiya nodded and pulled him in close to whisper.

"I have information regarding Hiashi. You'll absolutely love what I have to tell you!" he whispered. Naruto listened intently as Jaraiya spilled the beans about what Hiashi was really like. When he finished, Naruto's mouth hung open from the shock.

"You gotta be kidding me! Seriously!" yelled Naruto at Jaraiya. Jaraiya gave him a thumbs up and began to leave.

"Of course! Now you keep that in mind. Maybe it'll help you in your little predicament…" said Jaraiya as he began to wave good bye and walk away. Naruto was still trying to get over what Jaraiya had just said, but it had also given him an idea that would surprise everyone else. Naruto left and went to go see Kakashi and the others.

"What did Jaraiya want?" asked Kakashi. Naruto looked at him shook his head and then grinned evily at everyone.

"He just wanted to tell me Hiashi's greatest weakness!" said Naruto triumphantly. Everyone looked at one another and then screamed.

"WHAAAAAAAAT!" they all yelled. Naruto laughed and crossed his arms.

"Forget the training! I know the one thing that will make Hiashi loose for sure!" yelled Naruto. Everyone looked at Naruto like he was crazy or something.

"Are you nuts! What the hell could you do to defeat one of the most dangerous Jonin in the entire village!" yelled Kiba. Naruto smirked and gave him a thumbs up.

"That's a secret I'll save for when I defeat him!" yelled Naruto.

"WHAT!" said everyone.

"Yeah! I'll be able to take him out with my super special technique when I fight him for real!" said Naruto. He had clearly lost his mind and Kakashi came over to knock him on the head. "Ow! What the hell was that for!"

"You're obviously crazy. Not even I can take Hiashi out with only one move." said Kakashi confidently. Naruto smiled and continued on.

"Well, you don't know his super special weakness!" he said. Sakura stepped forward to Naruto and spoke.

"So then, mind telling us what your plan is?" asked Sakura. Naruto brought everyone around him and began to tell what his secret plan was.

"Okay, so this is what we'll do…"