Chapter 3

It had been a couple of days since Naruto, the soul of Konoha, the guardian of the leaf, or as he was known there the demon brat, had left. The civilians were still adamantly trying to deny the fact that Naruto was the Fourth's son, no matter how many times Tsunade showed them the birth certificate. The shinobi were still banging their heads on walls. Kakashi had tried to kill himself about ten times already, but was 'thankfully' saved by the ANBU Tsunade had stationed specifically for this case. After his last attempt of suicide by slitting his wrists, Tsunade had him wear a weird new white shirt whose sleeves tied to his back. The man then tried to bash his head in by running into walls... All in all good days.

After the Danzou incident, Tsunade had called Hinata to her office after she made sure the hawk would survive. Imagine her surprise when she found out he had a transplanted Uchiha eye and arm. Needless to say when Danzou wakes up, he'll be a few kilos lighter. In the office the two shinobi spent a long time discussing a variety of issues, from Tengen to Naruto's fate. Both were afraid of what not only ROOT but also other shinobi villages will do to him. While it is true he could summon Kyubi to aid him, it wouldn't be easy. Besides the demon lord would hardly appreciate being called out every day to deal with pesky ninja that his summoner was too weak to face.

Hinata's reputation in her own family had increased, since she had created such a powerful technique, but she didn't care. In fact she was cold to the main family and her father. After all he was one of the people that had helped in banishing Naruto, something she might never forgive him for. Hiashi was doing everything he could to get his daughter to listen to him, from cajoling her to threatening her but the kunoichi either ignored him or gave him glares that could easily be translated in 'shut up or I'll tengen your ass'. Once she even came close to actually doing it.

Flashback

Hinata was quietly practicing her Jyuken on top of a pond in the training grounds. As she was practicing, her 'father' came. She promptly ignored him. Angered by her actions Hiashi glared at her, only to be ignored again.

"Hinata come here immidiately" Hinata ignored him some more.


"Hinata you will come here immidiately."

"Or what father-sama? You'll do what? Banish me? Do it. I'll just be with Naruto-kun."

"Shut up about that filth already."

"Insult him one more time Hiashi. One more time and I'll destroy you. I swear it."

"Hn, I order you to teach the main branch the Tengen." Hinata just looked at the man, before ignoring him and keeping up her practice.

"Hinata! You are my daughter and you will do what I want! I command you to teach the main branch the new technique!"

"Screw you." Oh yeah Hinata, meek little Hinata had developed a language. And worst she knew how to use it. Hinata smirked inside looking at the red face of her father.

"Do it or I'll put you in the secondary branch!!! I will not take no for an answer!"

"Will you take a knee to your balls as an answer then? I'll be more than happy to comply. Now get the heck out of my sight you decrepit old fool. You were never a father to me so I am not a daughter to you. Now beat it before I demonstrate Tengen on you."

"You insolent bitch! Never bowing to your superiors just like that fool of your mother and that damnable demon brat Uzum-" Hinata sped on to her father. When he raised his hands in attempting to block her Jyuken strikes, their bones shattered by the force of Tengen. Hinata smirked before twisting around the head of the Hyuga clan and using normal Jyuken on his legs. The man fell to his knees before feeling Hinata's chakra charged, cool hands land on his neck.

"You are a fool Hiashi. A decrepit sore looser of an old fool. You constantly scheme about everyone, your own flesh and blood being nothing but tools before your ascension to more money and power. Tell me old fool, what will your money help you if I just kill you right here and now? How will your oh so vaunted political power save you if I just snap your neck? What are you going to do? Glare me to death? Fool. Now begone from my sight. You're unworthy of a killing blow blind snake."

Hinata left her father alone, not even bothering to call for someone to pick him up. Obviously since then she lived with a certain Senju.

End Flashback

It was a few days after that when Hinata was walking around Konoha, looking for a shop to buy groceries. Ever since she defended Naruto's honor many shops either kept hating him, stubbornly believing Naruto was a demon, or kowtowed like the fools they were in order to gain some sort of redemption in his eyes. So Hinata was looking for a shop she could shop normally at, in other words a shop that had treated Naruto right. And guess what? There was none. Hinata sighed, this was ridiculous. A shinobi village, the one considered the strongest too, and it was filled with so many idiots. It was during that walk that Hinata felt some killer intent towards her. Silently she jumped on a roof and looked around. Around her a group of twelve shinobi appeared, all with blank masks with a 'Ne' symbol. Like one they drew their blades. As they readied to attack, Hinata took her stance and mentally apologized to her Naruto-kun that she may not see him again. As the group charged a chilling chuckle, so cold and mirthless it would give Orochimaru a run for his money, echo'ed. Following it a childish giggle sounded. As everyone looked around for the source, a pitch black, red-eyed, three-tailed fox, the size of a horse rose from Hinata's shadow. On the opposite side a white-tipped, blue-eyed, blue-colored two tailed fox, a bit smaller than the other one, apparently appeared in front of Hinata.

"If you value your lives, you will leave. We will not allow anyone to hurt Hinata-sama." Said the black one in a gruff voice.

"Yeah yeah yeah, leave now. Hinata-sama's the best and we'll protect her!" Spoke the white one, sounding almost like little girl.

The shinobi hesitated but for a second before attacking. The foxes didn't move as the group closed in. Suddenly the black fox thrust its tails into the ground and amazingly enough they sunk into it, only to erupt in front of three shinobi, stabbing them in the chest, instantly killing them. The white one gave a foxy smirk before charging ahead. As the first enemy made to slash it, she seemingly disappeared and reappeared behind the 'Ne' operative already biting the neck. With a twitch, the Shinobi's neck was broken. The white fox didn't finish though as she leveled her tail to another pair of enemies on her sides and there seemed to be a distortion in the air, as if the tails were covered by near-invisible drills. The fox then somehow threw the drills by flicking her tails, impaling the unfortunate enemies on the torso, spreading blood and gore around.

Of course Hinata didn't stand back either. She parried, dodged and weaved around her opponents, sticking almost like glue on to them, leaving them very little room to attack or dodge their own allies' attacks. Hinata was scared yes, but the private lessons she'd had with Tsunade aided her in avoiding just about any attack on her. A few nicks here and there were nothing though. The six remaining assassins paid no attention to their dead allies, which in hindsight proved to be their undoing as the foxes seemingly went berserk at the sight of even a slightly injured Hinata. The black one roared and made tails of raw shadow come out of the shadows of the attacking shinobi, constricting them, while the white one glared at them before turning in the same near-invisible state of wind displacement her tails were surrounded by before. The only thing that remained were the two damning blue orbs that once were her eyes. With insane speed the now colorless fox charged right through the assassins, tearing them to little bits, like a giant drill ripping through rock.

Hinata looked at her apparent allies. They obviously were not normal foxes. Were they summons? She had never heard of fox summons. Then she remembered that Naruto had acquired the demon fox contract! So these two might have been sent by her Naruto-kun! The thought made her blush cutely.

"A-Ano... t-thank you very m-much for h-helping but... w-who are you?"

"Relax Hinata-sama. We have been sent by Naruto-sama to watch over you. He realized that there are many who would harm you to get to him so he sent us as your bodyguards. My name is Kage, lead assassin. I must offer my apologies. You were harmed due to my incompetence. I shall seek to rectify myself as soon as possible." Spoke the black fox.

"Yeah we're both sorry you got hurt Hinata-sama. Naruto-sama will be sad. My name is Kaze by the way! I'm good with wind stuff! Naruto-sama had us watch over you but we failed. Now we're probably going to get scolded by Kyubi-sama again..." The white fox made a little whimper there.

"A-Ano I think i-its alright. After a-all they were t-trained assassins." At this point Kage snorted indignately.

"Trained assassins? Them? As if! Green behind the ears rookies more like it! Hmph!"

"Maa maa Kage-kun, not everyone's as good as you are. Besides compared to you age they are green behind the ears rookies. Or rather pale in the face rookies." Kaze giggled at her own joke, not caring about the other's sweat-drops.

"A-anyway, I t-think I s-should go. Tsunade-sama m-might get w-worried. M-maybe you s-should come a-along and i-introduce y-yourselves."

"Very well Hinata-sama. We will escort you to your residence."

The human plus two hiding foxes (Kage hiding in Hinata's shadow and Kaze turning invisible and roof-hopping along) made way towards Tsunade's mansion. Once there Hinata proceeded to introduce the two foxes to the Godaime Hokage. Meanwhile said Hokage was busy studying a variety of laws pertaining to exiles and training trips as well as her rights as Hokage. The results made her rather giddy to say the least.

It was night and Hinata was getting ready to go to sleep when she heard some scratching coming from the back door. Curiosity getting the better of her, she went to check it out, comfortable in the knowledge that her two foxy bodyguards were close by and ready to pounce. Opening the door he saw a cute little chibi fox swishing its tail. Trying desperately to resist the urge to glomp it, she leaned towards it slowly. It yipped cutely once and licked her approaching hand. It was the end for poor Hinata. She tried in vain to resist it but...

"KAWAI!!!" And cue a chibi fox kit getting glomped by Hinata. As the girl squished the poor fox in her 'Hug Of Pleasant Death' (not my creation, but I don't remember who I got it from, I do remember its a fic in my fav list though), it tried in vain to escape, only now realizing what that look meant. After Hinata calmed down a bit and started petting it, she asked it where it came from. Well she didn't expect it to answer but...

"I come from Naruto-sama, Hinata-sama. I am Ongaku. Pleased to meet you." The little kit finished it with a little yawn making Hinata begin sweating, trying to resist the cute aura of the little furball. "I am a little tired, but Naruto-sama sent me to give you and his Baa-chan a message. Mind if I take a nap?" And so the little kit curled up in Hinata's lap and went to sleep. Unbeknownst to the human and kit, the owner of a pair of red eyes sighed in dismay.

Hinata carefully picked up the kit and took it to her room before going to sleep in her own futon. After she was asleep, the kit got up, winked to the aforementioned owner of red eyes and went to sleep on top of the kunoichi.

At the morning, Hinata woke up after one of the best dreams ever. She and Naruto on a romantic picnic, after which a long list of x-rated activities ensued. Feeling a weird object in her arms, she moved a bit, thinking it was her teddy. Well until two things happened; she remembered that her never had tails and most importantly... the teddy moved. Drowning a squeal of fear she slowly opened her eyes, half hoping Naruto was there. She was disappointed though, for her hug-buddy was... Ongaku the chibi fox. She managed to pout for a good four seconds before Ongaku yipped once and licked her face. Hinata giggled and got up.

Hinata got up, Ongaku now resting around her neck, tail swishing left and right lazily, as she made some coffee for Tsunade. In the past days she had found out about Tsunade's sake binging, something that Naruto's exile didn't help much with, and realized that a good cup of coffee was necessary to wake the Hokage up. After making Tsunade's coffee, Hinata started on breakfast, knowing full well that Tsunade's extensive training took more out of her than most people could imagine.

Some thirty minutes later a groggy Tsunade walked/stumbled into the kitchen and took the offered cup of coffee. After drinking a bit and managing to open her right eye at last, she noticed Hinata's new fashion item. Then she realized that accessories, no matter what, don't have swishing tails. The accessory then seemed to jump off Hinata's shoulders, onto the table and make its way towards the slowly awakening Hokage. Ongaku then tipped her head to the side, gave her the best puppy eyes look ever and yipped cutely. Tsunade never stood a chance.

"KAWAI!!!" And for the second time in less than half a day Ongaku was glomped and subsequently petted by a female. Hinata giggled at her sishou. It was nice to see that she still had some love for all things cute and cuddly.

"So Hinata, how did you find this cute guy here? And tame him at that." Hinata made to answer but the chibi fox acted before her by somehow managing to pout and answering

"I am not a he! And I am not tame! I am the kitsune Ongaku! Naruto-sama sent me here to give you a message from him."

Tsunade blinked once, twice, three times, before looking apologetically.

"Umm sorry if I insulted you. So Ongaku, right? Well what message did Naruto have for us?"

"Well for Hinata-sama he said he's ok and not to worry, he's having fun and finally getting trained properly. Also if someone tries to bully you just let him know and Kyubi will be greeting them soon. For Tsunade no Baa-chan he says he's alright, even though Anko is a slave driver. Also he's in Nami No Kuni (Land of waves for those that don't know) visiting a great landmark that shows his awesomness. Also he said he'll be staying there for a month or two before moving on. He also said that you should warn any more ROOT you see that next time he's really going to summon Kyubi."

Tsunade sighed before starting to pet the little fox. "Its ok besides I've got some surprises in store for him. Shizune should be wrapping them up soon hehehe. Ne Hinata-chan, how would you like a training trip with an ex-Hokage? Our destination? Nami and beyond. Of course its only a coincidense we'll be travelling with a certain blonde gaki that constantly calls me Baa-chan." Tsunade made an evil sounding laugh.

Hinata looked at her sishou questioningly at first and then with understanding. "Hai sishou. I'd love to! When do we leave?"

"Well first I want you to gather whatever you can, however you can. Things like Jyuken jutsu and teachings, or food and weapons will be invaluable. I've already sent some with Anko, but we need to raid the Hyuga compound. I can't teach you Jyuken so we need some scrolls of it. Neji should be able to assisst us with this if you tell him. I've got some friends in ANBU get us some of their high-rank equipment and jutsu copies but we need more. When we leave, we're gonna make sure Konoha won't stand straight for years. As for me, I need to do some twisting to manage and get Naruto's full inheritance and rights out of here. Like the swirl mark on Konoha's symbol and jounin vest. Not to mention wreck Konoha's relations with all the lands Naruto has helped, like Yuki no Kuni and Suna. Its gonna take some time to send the messages out, especially with the former council pulling strings and whatnot. I also have to do a cleanout of disloyal shinobi... Its gonna take some time. About two weeks or so. Thankfully Shizune knows everything about this kind of things so she's well on her way of arranging them. So many things to do, so much fun to be had!"

Hinata giggled at Tsunade's antics and prepared for her day ahead.

"Hinata-sama, Tsunade-sama, I think it would be best if for this period you do not split up unless it is unavoidable. This way Kaze and I will be able to watch over both of you at the same time. Besides only an assassin can predict and counter another assassin and I happen to be the lead assassin of the Kitsune clan. Also I have some ideas for the future..." And so Kage started a duscussion that lasted for hours, detailing different escape routes and actions as well as even better ways of sabotaging Konoha. Tsunade couldn't help but like this one. As calm and controlled as he seemed, he was one nasty fox if necessary. In the end, it was noon before Tsunade went to her office, ready to start the first part of the great exodus. It would be a project to be proud of Tsunade surmised. It was going to be fun.

As for meek little Hinata? She stood by and watched, drinking in every detail, Ongaku wrapped around her neck, Kage hiding in her shadow and Kaze watching them from behind the Hokage's desk. Soon, she thought. Soon she'd be with her Naruto-kun and out of this bigoted village. While Hinata still had some doubts, she sincerely believed she and Naruto would overcome any difficulties. As for Konoha? She didn't really care. If Konoha didn't want her, then good riddance and farewell. She just hoped her friends would come with her. If not now then later. Hinata started planning on how to break the news to Konoha 10. Looking at some of the reports Tsunade was signing she couldn't help but giggle. This was going to leave Konoha in shambles. All the better really. Oh yeah Hinata, meek, gentle Hinata was developing a mean streak.

In Nami no Kuni, Naruto stopped punching a tree and looked towards Konoha with a smile. Soon he thought. Soon they'd know that payback is a real bitch. Naruto went back to training with renewed vigor under Anko's watch.

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A/N: Finally chapter 3 is complete! Rejoice! :D

For those that didn't know, the foxes Kage and Kaze are from my fic Proto-Naruto. I thought that since both fics are mine, I'll have some things the same in both fics. Not everything but some, like the summons and maybe a few jutsu. Here's Ongaku;

Name:Ongaku (Song)

Tails: One

Abilities: Kitsune-Bi, very fast, 'puppy eyes of doom' and Song-jutsu

Bio: A cute, rust colored, kit, this is any female's favourite summon. Soft fur and big eyes give it a cute look and Ongaku most definitely knows how to tap on this. Being very young she only has one tail and basic knowledge of Kitsune-Bi or Fox Fire, using it for both defence and attack. Only having mastered the most basic Kitsune Jutsu, Ongaku went to the human world in order to gather as much experience as possible. Quite the prankster for her age and skills,Ongaku has been known to make even the most cold-hearted female squeal like a schoolgirl. The only fox to shake Kage out of his rough and gruff demeanor, though only when he's resting.

Motto: *insert cute yip and/or puppy eyes of doom*

So like it? Dislike it? Love it? Hate it? Anything I should fix? I'm kinda worried I developed Hinata a tad too fast. I'd like to hear your comments.