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Chapter V: Demonstrations

Hinata looked down at herself and saw to her dismay that Naruto was right. She did have nothing on. But how could this be? She remembered pulling on the soft undergarments after his remark about them… unless… "Release!"

Instantly, the Henge was dispelled and she was wearing clothes. Strange, though. Normally, henges could be seen through with her Byakugan. What was stranger was that Naruto had been able to put it on someone else and from a distance. That feat in itself should have been impossible without her noticing.

Still as red as a tomato, she sat down in front of her bowl of ramen and took some of the noodles in her chopsticks, blew gently, and ate them. It was great, well, for a guy cooking, in any case. While it couldn't hold a flame to Ichiraku's ramen, he fed himself surprisingly well out here.

Naruto was still chuckling into his mass of ramen when she looked up and put her chopsticks down. Strange as it was, he had seen her naked now, two times in one day. Yet on both occasions, he hadn't acted that far out of the ordinary. The first time he was probably just tired from chasing that fish around. But the second time all that happened was that he choked and spluttered through his mouthful of food. It was as if he hadn't seen anything.

"Umm… N-Naruto-kun?"

"Hmm?"

"Umm, e-earlier today, w-while w-we at the w-waterfall, umm, did y-you see a-anything unusual?"

Naruto considered the question. What had he seen earlier? "Well, the fish here all have the ability to follow water wherever it goes. That's not really unusual anymore. It was a huge shocker the first time and I smacked right into that ledge of rock. It left me with a cut that took three days to stop hurting."

Hinata turned red, bit her lip, but kept on nodding. So Naruto hadn't noticed. That nosebleed must have just been a natural reaction. Or his fall to the ground had caused him a case of amnesia, and he forgot everything right before he fell. Either way, she was glad that of that fact. But what about the second time?

"N-N-Naruto-kun?"

This time, Naruto didn't respond straightaway. It wasn't hard to see why, as he had crammed his mouth full of the stuff. He chewed as fast as he could, getting the hot noodles down his throat in five seconds. "Yeah, Hinata?"

"W-W-What was t-t-that jutsu that y-y-you used just n-n-now?"

Naruto laughed and slapped the table. "Ah, well. During my training, the pervy sage had me learn some really… well, perverted techniques. They put my 'Oiroke no Jutsu' to shame, but that's a modified version of one he would use all the time. He would strip a woman down, and they wouldn't ever notice. I took it and modified it so that you could see yourself, but I couldn't. It would be a great laugh at parties."

Hinata blinked. "Parties?"

Naruto nodded again and replied, "Yeah, parties. The pervy sage used to go on them all the time and he would use the original form of that technique. Perverted to the very end, I guess. The last thing he did was ask me to finish the last book in his series. Anyway, he would drag me along with him to his 'parties' and I would have to buy him drinks while he got more drunk and spent nights at the hotel. One night, he went about his usual route, and I never saw him again. He just up and disappeared. I got a message via Gamakichi-"

"Gamakichi?" Hinata interrupted, but then blushed crimson as Naruto looked up from his ramen.

"Yeah, Gamakichi. He's a toad, and I can summon him. He's not that big, but he's still handy. Normally, all he does is come over to talk, but when he brings his brother, Gamatatsu, this place turns into a mad house. They bring tons of sake and get drunk, throw up, and when a toad throws up… yuck… Anyway, Gamakichi brought me a letter a month after Jiriaya went missing. He told me what he wanted me to do before I left for Konoha, and I have just a few things left. I would have been back two years ago if it wasn't for the fact that I ran into Itachi. He told me that Konoha was destroyed after we fought and destroyed the better part of a mountain."

Hinata just watched with her mouth trembling. She couldn't even begin to imagine how that would feel. Not seeing your friends for years and then getting told that there was nothing left to go back to. It was no wonder that he had developed this mask that he liked to hide behind.

Naruto, however, wasn't one to be stopped. Now that he had started, he wanted to get it all out. It was like a poison had infected him for these last few years, and the only antidote was by talking, by getting all of it out. "After he told me that and showed me what I thought was proof, so I kinda went crazy. Well, I say kinda. The local wildlife still won't let me anywhere near them without a fight."

As soon as Naruto finished, his shoulders rose and sank in a gigantic sigh. Hinata noticed this and frowned internally. Naruto was never one to give up. Something else had gotten to him, and it wasn't the destruction of Konoha. She felt like enveloping him in a hug, but she wouldn't risk passing out again. Instead, and despite her internal voice nagging at her to do so, she just sat, staring at her bowl of cooling ramen.

Naruto, however, was past dwelling on such topics. He took another deep whiff of the ramen sitting in front of him and started tearing into it again.

Hinata finally got the courage to look up at him and asked quietly, "W-W-What were you g-g-going to do?"

Naruto looked up from his food again, a stray noodle dangling out of his mouth, which he slowly slurped up before answering. "That's a really good question. Well, first of all, I was going to go to the sound village and tear apart Orochimaru to get revenge any maybe get Sauske back, that is, if it wasn't too late. After that workout, I would have gone to find Gaara at his village… maybe work as a mercenary from there on out…" He trailed off, his story reduced to mumbling below his breath. Hinata distinctly caught the words 'tear', 'demon', 'show', 'boss', and 'bastards'.

After Naruto's words had died down and he was attacking his ramen again, Hinata half-whispered, "W-W-What are y-y-you going to do n-n-now?"

Naruto looked from his food again, this time chewing on a piece of pork. He swallowed slowly before replying, "Well, Jiriaya left me some of his research, and I've been looking into it. Ever heard of an organization called Akatsuki? No? I didn't think so… Anyway, they've been capturing spirits for years. Remember the Nine-tailed fox that attacked Konoha, nearly twenty years ago?"

Hinata nodded, food forgotten in Naruto's story.

"Well, that's one of the major spirits. All of the spirits are made of chakra, it just so happens that the Nine Bijuu contain unimaginable power. Any person or group of people who could gather them could feasibly rule the world. However, they have a different target. While they could rule the world, why settle for just this world? Jiriaya found traces of power that are even greater then the nine Bijuu combined."

Hinata felt her jaw drop slightly. One Bijuu, the Nine-tailed fox, had almost destroyed Konoha. Something that was more powerful then nine of them combined could destroy this planet without even thinking. But something that powerful couldn't exist could it? If it did, why hadn't anyone ever noticed it before? It couldn't exist, it didn't exist… but then why was Naruto just looking at her as if he knew what she was thinking?

Naruto sighed, pushed away his unfinished ramen, and stood up. He walked over to the study, propped the door open and snatched up a yellowed scroll from the table. He walked back over to Hinata and handed her the scroll, which she opened and read it curiously.

It read:

The nine Bijuu are famous for the amount of destruction that they have caused the world. However, what is less known to the world is that they are part of this world. Their powers are similar, but there is enough difference between every one to defeat their lower tailed siblings. In essence, they are very large concentrations of chakra that have developed physical beings and the ability to use jutsu. The Bijuu, or demons, have their own bloodline, which is one of dangerous origin. No human has ever seen the jutsu and come out alive, but legend has it that the demon unleashes their inner reserves, reverting to their original state temporarily, destroying everything in their path.

Despite the power of the Bijuu, they are not invincible. Bijuu can be, and have been sealed within humans, known as Jinchuirki. However, they can be sealed within inanimate objects with only limited success. Only the One-Tailed Spirit, Shukaku, has been temporarily suppressed within such an object. He has sense been resealed within a more permanent vessel, specifically a human.

However, from what we have been able to translate of demon folklore, there is a Bijuu that exceeds the strength of all of the nine Bijuu combined. However, while each of the nine Bijuu have been seen and sealed away, there have been no sightings of such a being. It is said, however, that this beast can shatter entire worlds with their anger. Even the nine-tailed fox could only do superficial damage to the planet's surface.

This legendary being has been revered and feared by Bijuu for thousands of years. This being cannot be sealed within a human being, as its power would quickly cause any Funinjutsu to shatter and would consume the human almost instantly. It is also said that this being is not humanoid in nature. The demons simply refer to it as the.

The scroll stopped right there. There was no more, except for a small tear and what looked like age-old blood on the visible corner. Hinata rolled the scroll up and handed it back to Naruto, who tossed it back onto the desk. Without a further word, he sat back down in front of his food, pulled his bowl toward him, and started eating more ramen, if in a more humanly method.

She sat back down in front of her own bowl, her hunger forgotten. According to the scroll, even the Nine-tailed beast even feared something. While it was good to know that it wasn't invincible, and that even it had something more powerful. What scared her was that the blasted fox would be scared of something. She didn't even want to comprehend the amount of power it would have to contain.

Hinata's thoughts were interrupted by a very loud slurping sound. When she raised her eyes to see what was making it, she only saw the bottom of Naruto's bowl and the bottom of his chin and his Adam's Apple, which was bobbing up and down faster then a yo-yo doing tricks.

Before long, Naruto had set the bowl back down and jumped up, refueled and ready to go. He stretched, popped his knuckles, grinned to himself, and charged right into the teleporter, ready to go train again. Despite all the grim news that he had just hit Hinata with, he was just going to go off and practice.

She sighed and played with her food, not really hungry anymore. What was the thing that the Bijuu feared so much?

Naruto had just gotten to the creek when a kunai whizzed out of the shrubbery. He did a back flip and threw one of his own kunai back at the target hidden in the bushes. With a rustle, the ninja moved out of the brush and threw more kunai and shuriken at him. Naruto simply jumped out of the weapons' path.

With a rustle, the opposing ninja started making seals. Not to be outdone, Naruto started making his own jutsu, ready to counter anything that was coming his way. However, he was not expecting the attack when it came.

"Water style; Water Dragon no Jutsu!"

Well, isn't this just great; Zabuza's old jutsu. Where did this joker learn it? Ah well, let's just get this over with. He thought as he gripped the hilt of his sword and activated it with a flick of his wrist. He then charged the water dragon head-on, blade raised in challenge.

As soon as the blade came into contact with the dragon, the water lost its cohesion and fell to the ground, splashing Naruto. When the attacker saw that his jutsu had failed, he rapidly started to make seals for a new one. This one would have more chakra and would not be able to be stopped by his sword… however; his sword wasn't his only weapon.

Naruto extended his left hand and formed a Rasengan, lacing it with wind chakra. There was really no point in using the Rasenshuriken on a ninja of this level. The early prototype form would be more then enough to stop this joker in his tracks. He raised the spiraling ball of energy and blocked it off with another section of chakra and threw it like a baseball at the enemy ninja, who had just finished making seals and shouted, "Fire style; Dragon Fireball no Jutsu!"

Naruto watched in some amusement as his Rasengan was swallowed up whole by the enormous fireball. It was, however, enough to stop both jutsus. The fireball shrank and fizzled out, while his own attack simply dissipated into thin air. Naruto shook his head. The guy wasn't that bad. He could use this for his afternoon training.

Or, rather, he could have, if Hinata hadn't walked out of the teleporter at that very second, startling Naruto. Fuck, now he had to protect her from the attacks.

He raised his hands and put them in a cross, like he had done many thousands of times. "Shadow Clone no Jutsu!" Instantly, seven clones of Naruto appeared, all holding a chakra blade. They all jumped into the air and landed in a different order, effectively scrambling them. With a flourish, all of them charged and started slashing at the ninja, who drew his own katana and started fighting off the Narutos surrounding him.

Naruto was impressed that the blade didn't break. After all, very few things could go up against pure chakra and come out intact. That included him. He was also surprised at the level of skill that his opponent had. One of the things that he had pushed himself to do during his training was to master his chakra blade. He was obviously having major trouble going up against what was undoubtedly a master of the blade.

Just as the enemy ninja slashed through two of Naruto's clones without evident effort, he grew suspicious of where the real one was. After it was just down to two clones, as the enemy swordsman had dispatched the others without trouble, he raised his sword and shouted, "Fire style: Meteorite Smash no Jutsu!"

The blade glowed cherry hot and emitted rings of orange chakra, striking both Narutos in the chest. One poofed from existence as it was overloaded. The other was forced back with a deep gash in his chest that spurted blood all over the place. Naruto collapsed, as the blood started to fill his lungs, rendering him unable to breathe.

The other ninja smiled and turned away from Naruto, focusing on Hinata instead. She didn't have any of her equipment, and she wasn't dressed for battle. She didn't even have shoes on. For once, she just looked like a helpless teenage girl, which she wasn't. He advanced on her, sheathing his sword in the process and started making seals, grinning in a perverted way that would make Jiriaya proud.

Hinata backed off toward the still figure of Naruto, whose blood was staining the ground red. She bit back a sob, knowing that she could help Naruto if she could just get to him. But the man in front of her wasn't going to let her help Naruto, so she had to fight.

The man had just closed within twenty feet of Hinata when the ground moved slightly below him. He frowned and reached for his blade, not bothering to jump.

A very bad mistake, he realized later on.

Naruto popped out of the ground with his chakra blade in his hand, slashing upward and yelling all the while, "Ramen Uppercut!"

At first glance, it seemed as though Naruto had missed his target, even though it looked like he had been hit head-on. The Ninja first noticed something was wrong when he pulled out his blade, which was now a six-inch stub of metal. Then realization hit him, and he split in half, perfectly cut down the middle. Not one drop of blood was spilled as the man collapsed in half, one of each falling to either side.

The fight was over.

Naruto walked over to his fallen form on the ground and placed a hand to its forehead. A stream of blue chakra flowed out of his palm and into the clone, which immediately started to heal. In less then ten seconds, Naruto had pulled his clone up and it had jumped back off into the forest, looking for somewhere to wash the blood off.

He straightened up and walked over to Hinata, who was still staring at the remains of the enemy ninja whom she thought had killed her Naruto just seconds ago. Naruto followed her eyes until they hit the body. He frowned and made another series of rapid seals, ending with dragon.

"Earth style: Black Swamp no Jutsu!"

Almost immediately, a small swamp emerged and pulled the remains below ground with them. A fine burial for an enemy of Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto shivered then, since he had used a jutsu that wasn't one of his affinities. Despite the amount of chakra that he had, it was still hard for him to use elemental chakra that wasn't his own.

Naruto turned away from the spot where the body had disappeared underground and turned back to Hinata. She was still staring at the spot where the enemy ninja was, as if she could still see him without the use of her Byakugan. Her eyes were still wide at the efficiency with which Naruto had killed his enemy and how he had done it.

He squinted while trying to figure her out. After all, she was a ninja, and a really good one at that. This wouldn't have been the first time that she had seen death, especially if she was ANBU. Why was she still staring at the spot where…

Naruto blanched. He realized that she wasn't staring at the body of the ninja that he had killed, but where his clone had been, pretending to be him dying. He understood perfectly what she must have been thinking.

Facing your own death was simple if you had known that you had done your best. But facing the death of your friends or comrades… that was something completely different. Anyone who had lost someone on a mission would likely spend the rest of their lives thinking if they could have done anything more to protect that person.

Naruto looked carefully into Hinata's eyes. He was careful not to let anything show on his face besides the fact that he was alive. Sometimes, he wondered himself was still truly alive. After what he had gone through at the hands of the villagers when he was young, all of the fights, and now his training. Without Kyuubi's help, he would have fallen apart by now. Literally. But it was only because of Kyuubi that he had to go through half of these things.

But despite all of the deeds that the fox had done to him, they had come to respect each other over the years. Naruto now knew not to piss the fox off without a good reason, and Kyuubi no longer saw Naruto as some brat who would just come for power. You couldn't exactly call them friends, but they were close. Very close.

However, there was a more pressing problem at the moment then Naruto and his furry guest's relationship. Hinata was still in a trance, staring at the spot where Naruto had lain, supposedly dead.

Naruto sighed and grasped her shoulders and stared into her lavender eyes. She stared right back, except now that her eyes had a film of tears. Without warning, she threw herself into his arms, crying openly now. She sobbed into his shoulder, making the words indistinguishable.

Naruto, not used to this kind of thing, did the only thing he could. He patted her on the back awkwardly, and said, "Hinata, don't worry. I'm still here. Ill always be here… for my friends."

She pulled back from his shoulder, eyes a little red from her tears. "O-O-Oh, N-N-Naruto-kun… I t-t-thought that I h-h-had lost y-y-you a-a-again."

With that, she went back into his shoulder and started crying again. Naruto patted her on the back and tried to comfort her to no avail. After a few minutes, she passed out, probably because she had just realized what she was doing. Naruto sighed and carried her back to the house, bridal style.

After putting in the required seals, he carried her to the spare bedroom, the one that nobody had ever used. He laid her down in it and tucked her in. She sighed as he started to close the door, murmuring his name. Naruto frowned and turned in as well.

There was something else troubling. That was the fifth attack this week. Although none of them had stood a chance, they were becoming more skilled as the days went by. If this kept up, it wouldn't be long before someone came along who could actually capture him. If that was the case, then they had to leave, as soon as possible.

Naruto got into his sleeping clothes, which orange despite his new clothes, slipped on a new penguin hat, and closed his eyes. He would have to work on a escape route tomorrow. In the meantime, sleep was important.

He didn't notice the creaking of his door and something coming inside…

Author's Note

Heyo.

Sorry about this late update. My self-appointed editor is currently having some issues with some people at school. i would have had this up two days ago, but he never gave me a response. Anyway, this unveils some of Naruto's new powers.

Yes, i know that he's extordianarly powerful.

Yes, i know that some people might consider this 'God-modding'

I dont really care, since this story's final enemy has power beyond anything that you can imagine.

And while we're on the topic of this story, (i assume that's why you're here, right?) i am considering making this a trilogy. or maybe just a bilogy. or however the hell you spell it. just send me a PM on what you think. i would do a poll, but i dont know how that works yet on this site. dont send me advice on that bit, i'll figure it out. You can however, post your opinions on the comments page, though that's your vote.

And one more thing. ive been toying with the idea for quite a while, but how about i write a one or two-shot piece about all of my favorite characters at a party. They would be from Naruto, Halo, Red vs Blue, a few Fire Emblem, maybe a Ace Combat Pilot or two, Harry Potter, and perhaps Dragonball Z. Anyway, just send me a PM (DONT use the comments section for this one)

As for the format, just send it in the form of the example below

PM start (im not going to bother putting all of this crap here)

Vote I (yes, this is the Tri/Bilogy vote)

Yes/No (just put yes or no here, dont do both, or you've wasted your vote)

Vote II (This is the One/Two-shot Fanon.)

Yes/No (Look up two lines. im not going to repeat myself.)

Anyway. Just do that. i promise to have the next chapter out ASAP. until then, keep on imagining things.

Xingster

P.S. I'm constantly editing the spelling and grammer in past chapters as i go through. that may change a bit over time.