Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the characters. I do own the story line… at least the non-cannon parts.
Chapter 6 – New home and family
The next morning Naruto found Hinata lying in his arms sleeping with a blanket covering both of them. He was also covered in sweat as he then remembered the nightmare that he had that night.
(Nightmare)…
I awoken suddenly and felt different somehow, he was not sure how but I was different. The cave he was in was suddenly changed to a forest as the smoke that suddenly surrounded him faded. Standing before him was a small man with red and black eyes. He was standing before Naruto and it finally dawned on him that he was not himself. He had paws and was looking down at the man. "You will come with me now! I have a job for you."
Naruto heard a voice that was not his say, "What is thy bidding my master?"
"We are going to destroy Konoha tonight and we will do it this time." The man said as he laughed evilly.
"As you wish my master." Naruto then headed away from the man and headed through somewhat familiar forests but the trees seemed so small to him. Naruto started to feel the stings no more than a gnat biting him, even as there were hundreds of these stings it barely bothered him. He felt the other presence in his body scream and level the forest for miles. He then saw what was causing the stings small men throwing weapons at him.
The kunai and shuriken did not really bother him as they fell out soon after they hit him and the small wounds would heal immediately. He felt it scream again and about fifty of the attackers disappeared from the strength of the scream.
He then heard several saying that they had to wait for the fourth Hokage, and that they must hold until then. Then he saw it. The main village gates in the distance. Before them was a man standing on a giant toad with a scar, and smoking a pipe. The man was wearing a white cloak with flames, had blonde hair and was holding something in his arms. Naruto looked closer, he saw a baby with blonde hair like the man. There were symbols on the child.
The man set the child down and ran through a several hand signs. Naruto felt his body charging the man, but he was not able to stop the charge. He saw a blinding flash of light come from the man. He then saw a shadowy figure standing behind the man. Naruto felt as if part of him was being pulled towards the man. But he could not move.
He then felt his very soul being ripped out of his body and split sending half of it to the child and other half into the man. He went with the part that went to the child. He saw as the child's face took on the marks similar to the ones on his face and the symbol on his stomach glowed. Just as he entered the child he heard a voice say. "My son, I am sorry to put such a burden upon you. I wish I could see you grow up…" The man then coughed. "Good bye, my wish is that they treat you like a hero…" Another cough, "May this help out with your life without us. I am so, so, sorry…" The world then went black.
(End of nightmare)…
Not wanting to disturb his friend Naruto continued to not move but he then noticed that she also had a bad dream and she woke up within seconds of Naruto also sweating. He looked into her eyes saw sadness, fear, sorrow, and confusion. "Are you ok Hinata-chan? You look like you had a bad dream."
She looked at him and she started to weep. "Oh Naruto-kun…" Her sobs became more pronounce. "I do not know what to do…" She was then crying into his shoulder.
"I will tell you mine if you tell me yours." Naruto said trying to help calm Hinata. She nodded. He then proceeded to tell Hinata about his nightmare, all the vivid details. She seemed to cry even harder as he finished. "I am sorry I was hoping to help you stop crying. I'm sorry Hinata-chan."
"Naruto-kun that was the same dream I had. What does it mean?" Hinata asked with a quiver in her voice. She then buried her head in his shoulder as he started to cry.
"Well Naruto we have to talk." A voice said from behind them causing them both to jump. It was Kikiyo. "I heard you talking about the nightmare. I know what it was and since both of you had it I think there is more going on here then I at once thought. Ichiro please come here, you will also want to know this."
Hinata's crying had slowed so that she could raise her head to look at Kikiyo. Ichiro approached the three and sat down as the rest of the camp came and also sat down. Kikiyo started by taking a large breath. "According to your dream a man with red and black eyes called to you and ordered you. Is that correct?"
Naruto and Hinata both nodded in agreement.
"Ok were they somewhat similar to these?" Kikiyo asked as she activated her Sharingan.
A look of shock and fear came over both Naruto and Hinata as they both nodded.
Kikiyo then got up and walked over to another wagon and pulled out a scroll and walked back. She opened the scroll and showed it to the children, both of their eyes went wide with fear. "I am guessing that this is the person you saw in your dream. Am I correct?"
Both nodded again with fear in their eyes.
"You saw Madara Uchiha one of the founders of Konoha. He was known to be able to summon the Kyuubi. From what I can tell you both were seeing what happened seven years ago with the attack on Konoha." Kikiyo started to cry and Naruto and Hinata were not sure why.
It was only a dream wasn't it? Both Naruto and Hinata were thinking.
"Naruto, you are the child that the fourth sealed the Kyuubi in. I am sorry. And according to your dream which I believe is real you are the son of the fourth Hokage." Kikiyo said as she continued to cry.
A look of shock and horror came across Naruto's face. "That means I AM the Kyuubi." He started to cry, "No wonder they all hated me."
"Naruto-kun, no, you are kind and you are my friend." Hinata said as she buried her face into Naruto's chest hugging him tightly.
"Hush sweetie. You are not the Kyuubi. You are Naruto Uzumaki, son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, container of the Kyuubi." Kikiyo said as she reached down and hugged Naruto.
"What is the difference? They all hate me! You hate, you all hate me!" Naruto yelled as his tears ran free.
Hinata hugged Naruto even tighter. "No Naruto you are my friend, I don't care what anyone says! Naruto-kun saved me! If he is the demon then so am I!" Hinata was now crying.
"Hush, little one. You are not the demon. You are not the demon either of you. You are just a child who has it sealed within it. That means you ARE human, not a demon. Naruto, Hinata…" Kikiyo looked into their eyes. "No matter what anyone has said, you are not evil, or a demon, weak or anything of the sort. Hush little ones." Kikiyo wrapped both of them in a tight hug.
Naruto and Hinata we both startled when another person joined the group hug. They both looked up to see Ichiro smiling at both at the three he embraced. "Naruto, you are family and never forget that. No matter what has been done to you in the past you are wanted and will continue be wanted. You are the embodiment of love. Your father and mother gave their lives for yours. The others are fools and did not deserve your protection. You shall ever be a hero and my beloved nephew."
Naruto was crying as Kikiyo released him and kissed him on the forehead. Hinata refused to let Naruto go, hanging on for dear life.
"You see Naruto there are at least a few people that love you. If not everyone here in this camp, especially one young lady who seems intent on not letting my nephew go." Ichiro looking at Hinata with a huge grin causing her to blush, but she did not let go.
"I will protect my Naruto-kun, no matter what you say." Hinata said with all the bravery she could muster.
"No one in this camp with hurt YOUR Naruto-kun!" One of the Uchiwa yelled from the background causing the whole camp to yell 'Ya!'.
Naruto buried his face into Hinata's shoulder and continued to cry and hug her as tightly as he could. They soon fell asleep in each other's arms. They next found themselves waking up back in the wagon under a blanket. Hinata hugged Naruto as she woke up. Naruto returned the hug as they both sat up.
"So you're finally awake?" Kikiyo asked. "Good. Now that we have the hard part out of the way we are now going to restart your schooling."
Both children looked at Kikiyo questioningly.
"I need to know where you both are in your academics and skills. I am guessing that Naruto having the Kyuubi sealed within him gives him a huge chakra reserve. That would make chakra control one of his weaknesses. Hinata being from the Hyuuga clan would make chakra control your strength. Now I want you both to go through the basic hand signs for doing jutsu. Begin…"
Both started with the ram seal, both made the same hand sign. They then moved to what was supposed to be the monkey sign. Hinata had it right but Naruto did not. "Wait!" Kikiyo said as they were getting ready to do the next seal. "Both of you show me the 'Monkey' sign again." Both did the sign they thought was the 'Monkey' and held it. "Naruto who taught you that hand sign?"
"Mizuki-sensei did why?" Naruto replied a little sheepishly. "Why what is wr…" Naruto stopped and looked at what Hinata was doing and saw the difference. He looked rather sad. "Did I do it wrong?"
"Naruto here let me help you." Kikiyo said as she moved his fingers and corrected his hand sign. "There now that looks better." She looked at Naruto and smiled weakly. "Naruto is it not your fault that you were taught incorrectly. Hinata and I will work with you to fix what they have done and get you back on track to being a great ninja."
Naruto perked up at hearing this. He looked at Hinata's smile and nod and Naruto blushed like a ripened tomato. "Really? Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Naruto then turned away and lowered his voice. "The teachers would not spend this much time with me or even try to correct me other than to yell at me, or send me out of class."
Hinata grabbed Naruto and pulled him into a hug causing Kikiyo and Ichiro to smile at the children. "Should we tell them?" Kikiyo asked.
Ichiro shook his head. "Not until I talk to my father and the Hyuuga we have in our village." Ichiro noticed Hinata tense up when he mentioned Hyuuga. "They are not going to spill your secret that you ran away from home Hinata. We have something that will stop them."
Hinata visibly relaxed as she released Naruto who smiled a thank you to her causing her to blush slightly.
"Okay kids back to work. Hinata I would like you to work with Naruto on the correct hand signs while I watch you. Are you okay with that?"
"Yes ma'am, I am." Smiling she turned to Naruto and they proceeded to work through all twelve hand signs. Hinata was patient with Naruto who got frustrated early on with not having the proper flexibility in his hands to do some of the signs. Seeing this Hinata showed Naruto a game that would help him with learning the signs, give him flexibility in his fingers, and help speed up him being able to do proper hand signs and do them quickly. They had fun the rest of the afternoon playing the game.
They arrive at the village late in the day. The village was much smaller than Konoha. The gate had the same swirl symbol that was on Ichiro's headband and the word Uzi just below it. Naruto and Hinata were now working on basic chakra control. Kikiyo also worked with both of them, more so with Naruto than with Hinata but she would give them both her time.
The guards at the gate looked up in surprise as they saw a huge caravan moving into town. They changed from surprise to attention when they saw Ichiro. "We assume your mission to the Leaf was a success."
"More so than you can believe, we are now headed to the Leader's tower. We have increased the village's size by a whole fifty-two new people." Ichiro said with a smile.
"That is great Ichiro. Your father will be pleased." The taller chunin said as the group continued into town.
Ichiro stopped the wagon in front of a building that was similar to the Hokage tower in Konoha. "Okay everyone stay here, except for Kikiyo, Naruto and Hinata."
All seven people entered the building and went into a large office. A large man with red hair that was going to white was sitting behind a desk. "So Ichiro, how did the mission go?"
Ichiro took a deep breath. "Not how we expected. I have good news and bad news. Which would you like first?"
The leader laughed from his gut. "However you like. I am just wondering who these people are." He looked closely at Hinata.
Naruto immediately stood in front of Hinata. "What do you want with her old man?"
Ichiro smiled and laughed as did the leader. "Naruto your grandfather is asking about why a Hyuuga is with us. So there is no need for you to be so defensive."
Both the leader and Naruto looked at each other in surprise. The elderly man disappeared and reappeared in front of Naruto enfolding him in a huge hug. "Your name is Naruto, right?"
Naruto just nodded as he could not breathe. He nearly passed out when Ichiro pulled him from his grandfather's death grasp. "Now easy with him he is only a student level ninja. He is also only seven years old."
Naruto looked up at his grandfather who was just looked at him as tears rolled down his face. "Continue with your report."
"Yes sir." He returned to his martial pose. "We delivered both of the documents. The Hokage thanked us and gave us a present even before he took them to the village council." Ichiro pointed out the window.
"Who is the crowd?" The leader asked.
"Well, they are the Uchiwa clan. A gift from the Hokage, they are mostly unwanted former Uchiha. Kikiyo is the only fighter they had. There are total of fifty of them." Ichiro smiled.
Naruto looked confused and blurted out "What does betrothal mean?"
Kikiyo looked at Ichiro and shrugged. He rolled his eyes and then took a deep breath. "Well Naruto, it is a marriage that is arranged. In other words either it is for a political purpose or a marriage that brings two families together. Does that help Naruto?"
Naruto nodded his head and made everyone smile, he then said "No. I don't get it. What does it mean?"
"Guess we have no choice." Ichiro took another deep breath and let it out. "Naruto, you and Hinata have an arranged marriage. You are to be married when she turns sixteen. Her parents and the Hokage signed the documents making this possible. From what I can tell Hiashi and Hanna Hyuuga wanted for you to be happy with your friend Hinata here. So they decided to have the papers drawn up that you two would be married when she reached the age of sixteen. This is an example of two families coming together."
"As you figured out from your shared dream, you are the son of the fourth Hokage of Konoha and the daughter of one of the leaders of this village. Hinata is the first born daughter of Hiashi Hyuuga and Hanna Hyuuga thus she is heir. The merging of these families is not the main purpose of the marriage it was for your happiness. Now we come to the twist." Ichiro looked like he did not want to continue but did anyways.
"Later that day Fugaku Uchiha came to the Hokage with documents for an arranged marriage between Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata Hyuuga." Ichiro waited for Naruto's reaction.
"What! Why would he set up two marriages for his daughter?" Naruto yelled angrily. He then moved to hold the hand of Hinata who looked as if she was going to cry. "I'm sorry Hinata. I didn't mean to yell." Hinata nodded acceptance.
"Well according to the Hokage these documents were delivered on the same day. The day after your fourth birthday, Naruto, it was too be a birthday present for you and Hinata. The one delivered by Fugaku Uchiha seems to be a fraud in the sense that he manipulated Hiashi into signing the document. Also the document Fugaku had was delivered later in the day and lacked Hanna Hyuuga's signature. This added to other things I was told makes me think that your father was put under a genjutsu and your mother may have met with foul play after your sister was born. I will leave it up to you two if you want to keep the arranged marriage valid or not. I am sure that the Uchiha and the village council will want the one with the Uchiha kept as the valid one. But we would not honor that one. You both are given the choice to either accept or reject this arrangement." Ichiro looked relieved to have finished this speech.
Naruto and Hinata looked down at their hands. They were holding each other's hand tightly. They then looked in each other's eyes. To the adults present it looked like they were talking without saying a word. In reality they were.
'So what do we do Hinata?' Naruto thought to himself not expecting an answer.
'I don't know Naruto-kun.' Hinata thought as she heard his question and could only answer in her mind.
'You can hear my thoughts Hinata-chan?' Naruto asked while he looked surprised.
'I think so Naruto-kun. I don't know how but I seem to be able too.' Hinata smiled at Naruto's question.
'So do we keep the contract or do we not?' Naruto asked, not sure what to do.
'We can keep it. If we do we can stay together and never be separated again. I would like that. Wouldn't you Naruto-kun?' Hinata looked into Naruto's eyes as if wanting him to say 'Yes.'
"We will keep it as it was her mother's and father's wish before her death and his change." Naruto then blushed. "Also we want it too, as we do not want to be apart." To which Hinata nodded her agreement.
"Okay then it has been decided. Naruto barring the refusal of the local Hyuuga you and Hinata are now betrothed. Only death will break this bond." Ichiro said with authority.
Naruto and Hinata smiled and hugged each other.
"Well now that was an adult decision young ones. I am impressed with both of you. Now Ichiro please finish your report. Oh Naruto, Hinata you can call me Takashi or grandpa, either will work as your uncle has yet to find a wife and give your grandmother and I grandchildren." Takashi said causing both Naruto and Hinata to laugh.
"Yes father, as of yet I have not found the right woman to share my life with, it may change." Ichiro looked at Kikiyo who was looking at him and blushing. "There is more to report of course. We found Naruto and Hinata on the verge of death. They had been attacked by several Hyuuga, an Uchiha and a Lightning ninja. I was able to dispatch the Lightning ninja and we took pictures of what we thought was a death scene when Naruto moved and healed Hinata."
"She had a deep cut across the chest and was bleeding to death. Naruto touched her and healed her almost as good as medical ninja, but there were also side effects. Hinata and Naruto had both lost a lot of blood. They recovered enough to be moved within a few hours. I think this was caused by the demon that is sealed within Naruto." Ichiro said as he rubbed Naruto's head.
"He is a hero several times over. I think he was able to tap the demon's chakra and use it to heal Hinata. While she does have a scar, my medic and Kikiyo's believe it will not hinder her training to become a shinobi." Ichiro concluded.
"What is their status according to the Leaf?" Takashi asked with a stern look on his face.
"They are considered missing and possibly dead by the Leaf. I confirmed this with the Hokage before I left." Ichiro answered with a smile. "So we need to find these new people a home and places in our village. They are all considered dead by explosion and resulting fire that consumed eleven families of Uchiha during the death of the demon day. It was also Naruto's birthday."
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A/N: I will update the story as I find time. Cannon does not have all that I need. So here I go into the wilderness of my own imagination… I hope you enjoy…