Alright here we go second past chapter focused on NaruHina

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Two years, it had been two years since the end of the war. Obito was right, the alliance had crumbled almost instantly. Kumo and Iwa were at eachother's throats, the two elderly Kage refused to sit down with one another to talk things out. Kumo had gone to war with Iwa not too long ago, not real bloody, massacre type war, but more along the lines of numerous missions to counter the others in an attempt to cripple the village before truly attacking. Iwa was backed by Ame, Kusa and Getsugakure- in an attempt to make themselves well known. Kumo stood alone in the conflict, the Raikage after seeing what Naruto and Konoha in general could do, asked for their help constantly. While Tsunade did her best to remain outside of the war she did give one or two missions to help, Naruto always being on them.

Other villages went to war as well, the most notable being the growing conflict between Taki and Suna. In this however, Konoha backed Suna one-hundred percent. Taki, being a relatively weak village, despite producing one of the strongest Akatsuki members, called in back up from other almost non-existent villages, with support from Hoshigakure and Ishigakure, Iwa's pseudo rivals. Truly the only villages that weren't fighting eachother in some way were, Konoha, Kumo, Suna and Kiri. Of course Naruto could be thanked for all of that, what with his friendship with Gaara and Killer B who was able to convince his brother to calm down. While Mei was a calm woman, most believed the reason she so quickly allied with Konoha was because she enjoyed making Naruto blush everytime he was sent to help with village relations... which was quite often.

Two years later, and still Tsunade wasn't caught up on her paperwork, granted it was much better than when she first started as Hokage. Instead of various mountains, piles, of paperwork scattered around the office, there was only one decently sized stack on her desk. Most were budget reports and orders for more leaf headbands, but she still had to read them to make sure. The sound of her door creaking open had her flick her eyes up and away from the paper she was currently reading.

"Oh, Kakashi back already?" she asked.

"Yep, the so called "Jounins of death and destruction" were a couple of punk Genin from Iwa... but you know how untrained civilians get, especially farmers." he sighed.

"True, so do you still think it was worthy of an A-rank pay?" she asked.

"No. Maybe C-rank... maybe." he said.

Tsunade nodded before digging out the mission roster to check him off. Kakashi looked around the office before looking down at her desk and spotted a Jounin contract.

"So, the rumors are true then? Naruto has made Jounin?" he asked.

"Yep." she chuckled. "If you want to stick around he should be here any minute to sign these papers."

"Might as well. Haven't seen him in the last couple of years." he nodded.

Tsunade nodded too and went back to her forms while Kakashi took out his book to pass the time. What felt like hours to Tsunade, and seconds to Kakashi, really it was about ten minutes, they heard Naruto's voice outside the door.

"Baa-chan, what did you need me to sign again?" he asked as he stepped into the room.

Kakashi snapped his book closed and turned to greet Naruto. "Hey there Naru-whoa..."

Naruto had finally hit his last growth spurt and just said "Screw mother nature!" standing at an impressive six foot five. Kakashi actually had to tilt his head up to look at him.

'No... no! I'm supposed to be taller! Me! Not him!' Kakashi thought.

"Huh? Oh hey there Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto smiled. "What's going on?"

"... I just thought... Um- Okay how is this fair?!" Kakashi all but yelled and looked towards Tsunade.

The busty Hokage shrugged, she had felt the same way when Naruto had come in a few months ago. She couldn't embarass him anymore by hugging him head first into her cleavage... well she could but it would be weird to jump to do that. Naruto caught on with what Kakashi was going on about and rubbed the back of his head while laughing.

"Well you know me! Full of surprises." he grinned.

"Yeah... So listen, I'm about to go and meet Gai, Anko and a few others at that dango shop she loves so much. If you wanna stop by I'm sure they'd like to congratulate you." Kakashi said.

"For sure, I'll be there." he smiled again.

Kakashi nodded and with a sad sigh Shunshined out of the office. Tsunade chuckled and slid Naruto's contract towards him.

"This document shows that one, Uzumaki Naruto, new Jounin of Konoha is fully aware of the dangers that will now be placed upon him. No longer does the Jounin have the choice of refusing the higher ranking missions." she read aloud and Naruto nodded. "Good, now sign here, here and here."

Naruto picked up the pen that was offered to him and signed were Tsunade had indicated. Tsunade added her own personal stamp to it before placing the paper into one of the drawers in her desk.

"Congratulations Naruto, you are now an official Jounin of Konoha." she smiled. "I see you've already decided to "obtain" your new uniform."

Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head, true he did flirt the requisitions officer downstairs into giving him his new uniform, and he had a great time of it too.

"Well go on, get out of here. I'll see if I can find a good mission for the start of your new career." she told him.

He nodded and exited the office the normal way, window, having Tsunade yell at him for letting in a breeze which scattered all of her papers.

Kakashi trudged his way over to the group of Jounin. Gai already had a ridiculous amount of dango sticks in one hand. Anko had hers arranged neatly on a plate as she talked to Kurenai, who was trying to both hold her daughter and keep her own dango away from her. Of course wherever Kurenai and her daughter went Shikamaru wasn't far behind, he was leaning against the dango stall with one stick hanging lazily from his hand.

"Kakashi! What's wrong my youthful rival?" Gai asked in his usual booming voice.

"... Naruto..." the silver haired man sighed.

"What about Naruto-kun? Surely nothing to be sad about, he has reached Jounin rank has he not?" Kurenai asked.

Kakashi nodded then pointed down the road where he could already feel Naruto coming down. Gai was the first to reach the new Jounin.

"Good afternoon Naru-whoa!" Gai said.

"See!" Kakashi whined.

Even Anko looked over, and she was glad she did, that little blonde brat from the Chunin exams all those years ago melted away into this handsome, sexy, man. He greeted them all before ordering some dango and sitting next to Kurenai. Her daughter kept trying to get Naruto's attention as he chatted with Kakashi, finally she got a good grip of his hair and gave a hard yank.

"And who is this?" he said with a light voice.

"This is Hikari, say hello sweety." Kurenai said.

"Hi!" the little girl's voice was full of happiness.

"Hi!" Naruto mimicked.

"You have pretty eyes." she smiled at him.

"Well thank you! You have really pretty hair." he smiled back.

She smiled again and went back to trying to steal her mother's dango. Anko stood up and sat down right next to Naruto, she pressed her body flush against him.

"Well hello there." she said in a seductive voice.

"Um- I uh- Hi?" Naruto tried.

"Aww! He's so cute when he's flustered!" Anko grinned.

"Anko!" Kurenai hissed. "Stop trying to corrupt the poor boy!"

"Oh come on!" she whined.

Naruto took this time to quickly set down his dango and get out of there. When Anko had refocused on where Naruto used to be she pouted.

"See! He got away!"

She was enjoying her day off, no doubt about that, wearing her favorite outfit. A deep purple haori that hung slightly from her frame allowing a comfortable but easy to move in garment. Along with a beige shirt and she wore grey pants underneath, she had started wearing simple straw sandals around the village. Yes, Hyuuga Hinata quite enjoyed strolling through the village as she was. A nice breeze every now and again would flow through her hair making the style she had started wearing flow up then gently thump onto her back. Really, it was the same style she had two years ago but now she started pulling the bottom of her hair into a small ponytail with two lavender hairbands.

As she rounded a corner she caught a sight of Naruto. She gasped and in a relapse back to her younger days she scrambled back behind the corner to watch him. The last two years had been kind to him, tall, tan... sexy. She gulped and in a split decision decided to revert back to her younger days and follow him.

'Just this once... just this once and I'll stop!' Hinata thought.

She tailed him around the entire village, simple stops at first. Checking out food vendors before looking at books through the window of a store. Finally he stopped into a wide street while Hinata hid behind a corner watching him. Suddenly he vanished, no smoke, no leaves just, blink, gone.

'Where did he go?' Hinata wondered.

"What are we staring at?" he whispered into her ear.

"Naruto-kun he was ju-eep!" she squeaked and wheeled around.

He was grinning at her as she backed up with a deep blush at being caught. She was about to make a run for it before his voice brought her back.

"Hinata? Do you have a minute?"

"U-um okay." she squeaked.

"Okay so, you remember a few years ago when Pein came and did his thing. Then I did my thing and he pinned me then you came in. You said what you said then I didn't say anything afterwards." she nodded and waited for him to continue. "Then the war started and you helped me with Obito, Tobi, Madara- whatever he wants to be called?"

"Y-yes." she mumbled.

"So like, I know I'm two years late for this to even be an appropriate question but... Would you maybe want to get dinner or something... sometime?" he asked.

She took a deep breath before remembering the advice she had gotten from TenTen.

"Remember, when I guy asks you out, no matter how much you like him, you have to play it cool."

"Why?"

"Because! If you're too excited by it he'll think you're desperate and that he can do whatever he wants! But if you play it cool, he'll back up and know that he has to try to get anywhere with you... know what I'm saying?"

"N-not really..."

She shook her head and looked up into Naruto's eyes. "Yes!... Um- I mean... Yes!"

"Awesome! So, not tonight have some other stuff to take care of, how 'bout tomorrow night? Say sevenish?" he grinned.

She nodded and watched as he walked off while waving to her. She waved back and once he was out of eyesight, she fainted... old habits die hard it seems. The most peculiar thing was that none of the villagers stopped to help her, what kind of person doesn't help an unconcious woman?

Okay, originally I had planned to make the past chapters- all of them- one large chapter for each sequence... but I just can't take it anymore. I'll get to work with the second half of this soon.

And to clear up any confusion, Hikari- since no name was given for Kurenai and Asuma's child- will actually play a role in the story. I made the child a girl simply because Kishimoto hasn't given a true gender as far as I know. Sure the quick little scene we see of Kurenai and her kid it looks like a boy but can any of you truly tell the gender of a baby just by looking? Better yet can any of you determine the gender of an Anime baby just by looking?! Sorry for the long wait, hopefully the next chapter will be out sooner.

-Raidori