Disclaimer: I claim nothing other than the fun I am having writing this story. I enjoy the characters that Kishimoto created, but like my storyline better.
Sorry about not getting it out on Friday but had a brainstorm and had to fix the interaction with Takashi and a member of the Konoha council. This chapter deals with Naruto starting to heal. And of course the much waited for death of Mizuki. There will be some familiar characters so enjoy the chapter. Oh by the way they are 12 and will be graduating the academy this chapter. I inserted some time skips in last chapter. I guess some of you missed that. Sorry about the confusion. More notes at the end as usual. Now enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 14 – More Konoha troubles…
"Damn it Kyuubi-chan!" Naruto said as he collapsed.
Hinata caught Naruto and kept him from falling down with the help of Hana. "Obaasan, Kyuubi-chan was sharing Naruto-kun's thoughts with me. I think it was a little too much for him."
"Come child let us get him back into bed. He still apparently needs his rest. The trauma must have been just too great. Let's get him dried off and back to bed. I would ask you to give him time to figure out how to deal with what happened. All you need to know is that he loves you as much as you love him." Hana said kindly to Hinata.
"But Obaasan, I experienced the exact same thing Naruto-kun did." Hinata said sadly.
"Hinata-chan, you did not experience the exact same thing he did." Hana said.
"What do you mean? Because of Kyuubi-chan I felt all of his emotions saw and saw everything that he saw?" Hinata asked.
"But you knew that everything would work out when she showed it to you. He did not. That is the difference child." Hana replied.
"I am sorry Obaasan." She then looked sadly at Naruto. "I am so sorry Naruto-kun."
"It's okay Hinata-chan, I love you." Naruto whispered while still unconscious.
Hinata smiled weakly as they dragged Naruto to their room.
"Couldn't wait for the wedding could we?" Keiko's voice came from in front of them.
Hinata got very mad. "No Naruto-kun collapsed in the shower."
Keiko moved quickly as she noticed that Naruto was still dripping wet and was actually being dragged by both the other females. "Here let me help Hana-sama." Keiko said as she moved and took Hana's position. She helped take Naruto to his and Hinata's room. She then helped Hinata carefully set him down on the bed and dry him off. "I see now what we were missing from the henge. Now let's get him decent." Keiko said with a smirk.
Hinata slipped a pair of boxer on Naruto and pulled the covers up on him. Hinata then dried herself off. She then dressed, lay down and snuggled up to Naruto.
"Something happened? Didn't it?" Keiko asked as she stoked Naruto's hair. "It was Mizuki-sensei wasn't it?"
Hinata only nodded as a response.
"He really messed Naruto-kun up didn't he? I hope he gets what is coming too him." Keiko said angrily.
"He is up on multiple counts of assault, kidnapping and attempted rape." Hana said.
"Rape? He was going to rape Naruto? I didn't know he swung that way." Keiko said jokingly.
"Mizuki wanted gain power through the Uzumaki clan. He figured he could attain that through Akemi-chan. He didn't know that only the Hyuuga clan honor that tradition in this village. And even then they only honor it in the case of mutual consent, unlike Konoha and several other villages." Hana said as she shook her head.
The three women took turns for the rest of the day watching over Naruto. Naruto eventually woke up around dinner time still being very tired and worried that he might have fallen asleep in the shower. Hinata was able to reassure him that he was actually in bed. He felt strong enough to go to the dining room to eat dinner, but needed help getting back to the bedroom.
While Naruto enjoyed, as best as he could, the attention he was getting. Mizuki was visited by several people over the course of that day. One visitor was Nori the academy teacher. She had left Mizuki asking for death that very night. A surprise visitor was Kurenai who was on a mission and in the area. She added to the torture of the miserable man, she cast a genjutsu of his worst fears that lasted for hours. Kurenai then visited the Hyuuga house and said she would return in the morning to check up on Naruto and Hinata.
That night Naruto, Hinata and Kyuubi spent the entire night and worked on Naruto's sanity. They talked till Naruto had no more to say. The Kyuubi eventually found that Naruto loved to learn jutsu. So as a way to help him through the pain and keep his mind occupied, they worked on demonic version of the body flicker. Naruto was only able to go small distances but it made him happier, Hinata also learned this jutsu during the night. Kyuubi informed them that this would only be a family jutsu as only they and their children would have access to demonic chakra. The only exception to this would be another container who had access to demonic chakra. This jutsu only required a little demonic chakra but a good amount of regular chakra. Naruto before the end of the night had figured out that the more demonic chakra he used the less normal chakra that was required.
Naruto woke up the next day in a better mood and was even able to take a shower and bathe with Hinata and not be too upset. He did apologize every time he looked at her and got excited. She would giggle and kiss him gently on the cheek. "That is fine Naruto-kun we can wait until we are ready. You have nothing to be ashamed about. I love you." Hinata said lovingly.
The rest of the day went by almost normally. Ichiro stated that the next day at the academy would show if he was actually recovered from the attack.
Naruto snuggled closer to Hinata than usual that night and would not let her go during that nights training with the Kyuubi. While she enjoyed the extra attention she was worried about Naruto. He woke up in a melancholy mood, very much not himself. They showered and ate breakfast. Naruto chose a blond female for his henge this day as they left for the academy.
Naruto being out of sorts missed the usual clues that Taree was after him. Naruto had just dropped his henge when he got on the academy grounds. Taree had run into him knocking him over. He was laid out spread eagle with her crawling up between his legs. Naruto was frozen in fear as Taree looked at him hungrily as she crawled. Naruto eyes flashed red as Hinata kicked Taree away from Naruto. Naruto immediately grabbed Hinata's arms she then pulled him up. He was breathing heavily and shaking badly. Hinata just hugged him while trying to reassure him that everything was going to be alright.
Taree went to attack Hinata but was stopped by Keiko. "Leave Akemi-kun alone, he is not feeling well. And if you don't leave him alone you will have to deal with me." Keiko said in a low threatening voice.
"You will also have to deal with me." Nori said from behind Taree startling nearly everyone. "Akemi-kun is to be left alone for the rest of the week am I understood." All the students nodded understanding. "Now let's get to class." She said with a smile.
The rest of the week went fairly smoothly until the announcement of charges against a Konoha shinobi. Naruto used his blond female form all week. On graduation day he used his redhead form. There were several visitors over the week. A busty blond and petite raven haired woman came to the village and wanted to meet with the Senju family. An older gentleman also arrived in Uzu. He was missing his right arm also having a bandaged head and wanted to talk to the Uzumaki and Mizuki.
Naruto was quiet in school up to and including the day of the exam. Taree complained to Akemi that he should drop the henge or she would do something. Naruto blew up at her. "Do something! Do something! What are you going to do? Just stay away from me!" He created ten shadow clones and they ran all ran away. Hinata saw this created ten of her own clones and sent them after the Naruto clones, while she followed the original. Ari immediately slammed Taree to the ground and proceeded to shock her with a weak lightning jutsu.
Hinata found Naruto several blocks away at the Uzumaki clan compound hiding behind a weapons rack. Hinata snuggled up to him and just sat with him not saying anything. She knew he hurt and hurt a lot, and still needed some more time to heal. She worked with Kyuubi and Hana that night to help Naruto. Naruto was depressed, most people wouldn't have known it but his being quiet unless he was pulling a prank or plotting something was not like him. Right now he was just going through the motions.
Graduation came quietly. The whole class passed the initial tests. Ari had gotten the best score totals. Naruto had amazingly achieved second standing, while Hinata achieved third and while Keiko achieved fourth. All the teams were assigned jonin sensei. Naruto, Hinata and Keiko were put on the same team under Kikiyo. Taree was on a team of Akemi fan girls who were mad that he had taken to his female henge all week and most of all none of them were on Akemi's team.
The blond who came to town turned out to be Tsunade Senju legendary Sannin and the raven haired woman Shizune her assistant. The bandaged man was Danzou a member of the Konoha village council. Both were present for graduation. Naruto continued to use redhead form for team assignment day.
Danzou had made a mistake of commenting on how Uzu put the teams together. A group full of females and most of the others only had one male. He also complained about not balancing the teams. All his complaints were said while talking to a certain older redhead, Takashi Uzumaki.
"We did have a lot of females graduate this year and they did make up the bulk of the class. We only had four males total in a class of eighteen. So, you think that Uzu is wrong sir." Takashi said questioningly.
"Yes I do, they should follow the Konoha model. We have the best shinobi in the land because of our teaching and the way we do things. It would be even better if the shinobi could kill their emotions." Danzou said with a smile.
"Oh you really think so? So a shinobi should be mindless killing machine? So if you are ordered one to kill a person and a civilian were to witnesses this they should be killed too?" Takashi asked.
"Yes, they should not have been there in the first place. Shinobi are tools and as such should be used that way." Danzou said arrogantly.
"So you believe in the Kiri way then?" Takashi said with a smile.
"No, killing off a whole class just to get one student is a waste of resources." Danzou replied.
"So if you don't like how things are done here answer me this. What are you doing here?" Takashi asked.
"I am here to see a man who has not returned as ordered. He appears to have been accosted by the locals somewhere. Would you happen to know where I could find Takashi Uzumaki and Mizuki Touji?" Danzou asked.
"Well if you are looking for Mizuki, he is under arrest for assault and attempted rape, and a few other charges. And as for Takashi Uzumaki you are speaking to him. You must be Danzou. The Professor said you were coming. Can't say that I like you very much, my guess is that you are here to make sure that Mizuki does not reveal any secrets." Takashi said.
"That is correct." Danzou replied.
"Well he was caught in the act and has already confessed. Boy did he sing like a bird. And now he is to await trial. My grandchild is one of the victims so I will not be presiding over the case. Several of the other clan heads will. You might want to know that he was working for Orochimaru. But we can talk about this at the trial. Oh by the way have you met the Tsuchikage?" Takashi said with a large smile.
Danzou got to meet with both Takashi and the Tsuchikage. The meeting did not go well. Danzou was not diplomatic about anything and insulted the Tsuchikage several times. This nearly cost Konoha the good will of both Iwa and Uzu. Takashi informed Danzou that he would not be able to visit with Mizuki as the man was a danger and did not want to endanger Danzou. This was of course a lie, as Takashi did not want Danzou and Mizuki talking.
The trial went fairly quickly, Mizuki tried to use a plea of not knowing the laws. This caused even more problems for him as the judges all scowled at him. It was brought up that the Hokage had told him not to break any of the local laws and to study them when he arrived. Mizuki then accused several people in the village were monsters especially Akemi Uzumaki (Naruto) and Nori. Naruto had earlier sought the help of Kurenai and created a genjutsu that did not require any hand signs that make his eyes appear to become red and the pupils to have slits.
Mizuki was given a death sentence and then handed over to the families for punishment. A Hyuuga member performed the Eight Trigrams-Sixty-four palms attack on Mizuki to disable him after that an Uzumaki clan member used a little known kenjutsu technique that the person would hit the target a thousand times then beheaded the person. Mizuki had to wait five minutes before the death blow was struck as he was continuously hit and had to wait for the finishing blow to come. His body was then burned.
Later that day Danzou had met with Tsunade but the meeting went very badly as Danzou had expected Tsunade to show him respect, she had shown him none. Danzou eventually got himself kicked out of Uzu within a week for insulting too many clans for not having forward enough thinking like Konoha so far as the Akemi incident. All the clans knew about Akemi and Takara's betrothal and were happy for them so with Danzou trying to explain what Mizuki did might not have been a bad idea, it got him thoroughly despised. Konoha was getting a bad name because of people like Kodai, Mizuki and especially Danzou who either were hurting people they were supposed to be allied with or were disrespecting Uzu's culture. There were exceptions to this of course Kurenai, Tsunade and Shizune were those exceptions. Sarutobi was held in high regard as it appeared that the Konoha council was fighting him on every decision.
Tsunade at first questioned the Senju of their legitimacy as the Namikaze were the last of the living relatives other than Tsunade herself. Keiko was able to prove the relations quite easily when she was able to grow a small tree only using chakra. It was only three feet tall and Keiko was totally drained, but it was proof. Takashi revealed Akemi as Naruto son of Minato and cousin of Keiko to Tsunade. Tsunade was happy to see him alive but also was very mad after hearing how Konoha had treated him, heck how they had treated all of Naruto's genin team. She reaffirmed that she would not reveal any of the information she learned to anyone other than Sarutobi and some of it not even to him. She also agreed to come by and teach Hinata occasionally as she would be a relative. She also agreed to do teach some medical classes occasionally in Uzu for compensation.
Keiko, Hinata, Naruto, and Kikiyo started their missions. Kikiyo explained the purpose of each mission they went on so that the team and especially Naruto understood why they were doing 'boring' 'D' ranked missions. The main reason was to improve skills in the safe environment of the village or close outlying areas. The capture of the Whirlpool Lord's dog was for learning search and retrieval skills. The garbage pickup was a general purpose mission that would put several of the skills learned but not always the same ones. Painting turned out to be one of the team's favorite missions, they would work on using their water affinity to paint, and this gave them some rather unusual results. The team learned to despise babysitting, it was the worst job but it taught them how to protect a client, especially an unruly ones.
Weeding was fairly easy for both Naruto and Hinata as they both liked gardening and had gardens of their own so they had an easy time recognizing good herbs and plants while removing the unwanted ones. This also helped Keiko as she learned that her team could teach her things, and she could return that help by helping Naruto through his pain.
After a couple months of missions the team had finally worked on their specialties, Hinata medicine, Naruto swords, and Keiko protection. Naruto became the frontline fighter in training, he would use of clones, jutsu and swords this made for a deadly combination. Naruto's nose also helped him become the tracker for the team. Hinata was the medic, backup close fighter and the eyes for the team. Keiko became the ranged fighter and ears for the team.
Ari Gogyou, Daichi Uzumaki, Emi Hyuuga were on Ichiro's team. Both teams got along well. All of the team acted like siblings for Naruto and Hinata. Daichi was Takashi's grandnephew, making him a distant cousin to Naruto. Taree's team did not make the initial cut and they went back to the academy for more training. Only one other team made the cut out of the six original teams.
During this time Kurenai had brought her genin team to Uzu for a visit. Kiba seemed to like Naruto (Akemi-chan), a little too much for Naruto and Hinata's tastes, but did not like Takara-kun, but was perplexed as to why they both smelled of kitsune. Shino and Keiko gained a healthy respect for each other. They agreed that bugs and wood did not mix but could still be friends. A female branch member of the Hyuuga, Youko, rounded out Kurenai's team. She liked Takara-kun but was saddened that he was betrothed to Akemi. Both teams worked on their scouting skills together for a week as Kurenai's team was between assignments.
Kurenai commented that she liked the redhead look to Akemi, Naruto just laughed. It started to annoy Naruto that Kiba kept on showing up everywhere that Naruto was when they were not training. Naruto eventually got fed up with this behavior and asked Kiba a simple question. "You do know that I am betrothed, right?" Naruto asked Kiba.
"Really? That doesn't matter to me. You can come back with me to Konoha and we could enjoy a life together." Kiba said with a stupid smirk on his face.
Naruto looked almost ready to puke. 'He really doesn't have a clue.' "I am to be married and am happy about it. So why would I want to leave that and go with you to Konoha?" Naruto asked.
"Well I'm strong. You are gorgeous and your family is powerful here in the Whirlpool. It would help our villages come closer together." Kiba smiled as he responded.
"Sorry, I love Takara-kun. I can't say that about you. I barely know you. And you smell of dog. No offense Akamaru." Naruto said as Akamaru barked and wagged his tail. "Also the betrothal has been in effect for a long time and we are happy with it. So you can take your offer and shove it."
"Huh?" Kiba replied with a confused look on his face.
"If you are after power than you should not seek it from me. If you want to learn about love then find another girl. I am not interested." Naruto finally said.
Kiba looked flattened. "But why? You would make a great woman for me…"
Naruto shook his head. 'For more reasons that you can even think about, hell I am a guy and you chasing me is just gross.' "As I said I am really happy with the way things are. And I love the one to whom I am going to marry. I also have problems with Konoha, and I do not want to talk about it." Naruto face turned to saddened anger.
"Did something happen to you in Konoha?" Kiba asked concerned.
"Drop it dog boy." Keiko said sternly. "Come on Akemi-chan, your fiancé would like to see you."
"But…" Kiba protested.
"I said drop it dog boy!" Keiko yelled angrily as she took Naruto's hand and walked back to the Uzumaki clan compound.
"Thanks Keiko-chan…" Naruto said drained.
"Any time, I was getting tired of his pushiness. Also he seemed to only want power. Not a good thing. Takara-kun has a surprise for you…" Keiko said teasingly.
This brought a smile to Naruto's face. "What is it?"
"I can't tell you. You will just have to find out for yourself." Keiko said with a grin as they entered the Uzumaki dojo. Hinata in her male form was kneeling in a meditation pose as Naruto and Keiko approached.
"Hello, Akemi-chan and Keiko-chan. I am sorry you had a hard time with the Inuzuka boy." Hinata said smiling as she opened her eyes. She smiled and brought a long thin box from behind her. "This is for you my love."
Naruto walked up and kneeled down, as he took the box. "What is it?" Naruto asked excitedly.
Hinata giggled and smiled. "Open it and find out silly."
Naruto quickly untied the bow and tore the wrapping paper away. "So un-lady like Akemi-chan." Hinata teased. This elicited a scowl from Naruto who opened the lid to the box. Inside was a katana with a fox head on the hilt and a fox scrolled on the sheaf. "Do you like it?"
Naruto eyes bulged as he saw the sword. Naruto set the sword back down in the box and then tackled Hinata. "Yes I love it!"
"Give her a sword and she will love you. That was too easy." Kiba said from the background.
"You were not invited, why are you here?" Hinata asked coldly.
"I wanted to see the guy Akemi-chan liked so much. I am not impressed." Kiba said sourly.
"You met me before in training. So now you find me unworthy of Akemi-chan and thus want to take her away from me?" Hinata said playing along with the game.
"Let's fight and see who's more worthy of Akemi-chan's affection." Kiba said as he nodded and got down into a taijutsu attack stance.
Naruto started to laugh hard. 'Hinata-hime he hasn't a clue what he is in for even if he wins does he?'
'Not a clue my love, not a clue. So shall I fight for your honor Naruto-chan' Hinata thought to Naruto as she winked at him.
Naruto was confused for a second then started to laugh again. 'Don't hurt him too much or we might get in trouble with Kurenai obasan, Hinata-kun.'
Only Keiko understood what was going on between the two as Kiba just looked at Hinata waiting for an answer.
"I accept your challenge Kiba-kun. But I do not fight for Akemi-chan's hand as I already have that and her heart." Hinata said as she stood and moved into her juken stance.
Naruto grabbed his new sword box, wrapping paper and bow and left the fighting area to the two combatants. Naruto saw his uncle entered the dojo with Kurenai. "Hey dad, that Kiba kid started a fight over me with Takara-kun."
This caused Ichiro and Kurenai to both start laughing. Shino and Youko Hyuuga from Kurenai's team arrived and asked what was going on.
"The boys are fighting over me." Naruto said as he rolled his eyes.
"I do not see what is so funny about it." Shino commented.
"Kiba challenged Takara-kun to a fight. He does not seem to understand that there is no way he and Akemi-chan would ever work. She is taken, heart, soul, and betrothal." Ichiro said with a laugh.
Kiba launched an attack at Hinata but she easily avoided it by dodging to her right. She then tapped Kiba on the left shoulder which immediately dropped. "Hey what did you do too me. That really hurt." Kiba complained.
"I am a Hyuuga and a medic. So I do not attack for injury, I disable your chakra network and nervous system. Do you wish to continue?" Hinata said quietly.
"Yea I won't be out done by some stuck up Hyuuga. I will have Akemi-chan." Kiba said as Naruto's temper rose from his comment.
"No one owns Akemi-chan!" Hinata yelled as she shifted her stance. "You are within range. Eight trigrams thirty-two palms." Hinata struck him quickly and successively, Kiba fell to the floor in pain.
"That is similar but only half the strength of the main Hyuuga jutsu. That version is only used for disabling an opponent. Few genin can master that one let alone the Sixty-four palms." The Youko Hyuuga commented in awe.
Hinata immediately kneeled beside Kiba and started to heal him. "I am sorry Kiba-kun but you did not know what you were up against. I am familiar with what the Inuzuka are capable of. You are good for a genin but not good enough just yet. Also I love Akemi-chan and would do anything for her and if that means beating you then so be it." Hinata said as she smiled at Naruto. 'There are also things he just wouldn't understand.'
Kiba winced in pain as he smiled at Naruto. "This isn't over I will win you over."
Naruto just shook his head. As Hinata continued to heal all the nerve clusters she had disabled.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed the chapter, next chapter on to the wave country. Yes I know it is cannon, but I found a way to put in a twist or two. And for you guys who keep on complaining about chapter length it has increased from 1k-2k to between 3k and 4k+ per chapter. So :P I also will more than likely to revisit the earlier chapters and might lengthen them. But not at least for a few more chapters. I did borrow some of the explanations on the reason for the missions from the author of chunin exams.
Whirlpool is located near Waterfall and is east of that country. It does border with Waterfall and Rice Field countries. There will be some border disputes between Oto (sound) and Uzu. Also there will be little love lost between the two villages. If you are wondering the chunin exams are a ways off. Naruto and Hinata will be participating.
Naruto and Hinata are stronger than in cannon because they had teachers and family interested in their growth and development. As of now Naruto will only have one regular sword and one training sword, both he can push chakra into to strengthen them. Naruto does use weights and seals for training purposes but will not be as strong or fast as Rock Lee.
I hope you enjoyed Mizuki's death, I did. We will also get to see Sasuke and team seven in the next chapter. Thanks for reading.
Jutsu:
Eight Trigrams Thirty-two palms – This is a toned down version of the regular attack that we see Neji use in cannon. This attack is for disabling the opponent and not fully disabling their chakra. Also it is quicker than the Sixty-four palms and nearly as effective as both as both attacks will hurt an opponent. Hinata uses this attack because Sixty-four palms can kill an opponent as it will nearly shut down their chakra network. Hinata being a medic and who she is would prefer to disable rather than kill an opponent.