Chapter 4:

Finally the first day after the merge had been fully over and Naruto was utterly and completely bored. When he had decided to go back, he had of course taken into account that he go back to getting glares from all the villagers and that he had to be the village idiot once more. But what he hadn't anticipated was that he had to sit through those boring lessons again, once was enough but no he had to go back and do it a second time.

'Stupid slight miscalculation and stupid Kyu for making me go' thought Naruto in a mutter.

But classes were finally over and he could be himself again at least for a little while. He and Hinata would start training again to get back up to snuff, after all their more advanced techniques did require both chakra control and physical requirements that they didn't have at the moment, especially flexibility for Hinata and speed for Naruto.

So Naruto sped to the top of the fourths head, to their secret meeting spot right behind a certain spike that seemed to be at the exact same place as the spike on Naruto's head.
Arriving at the meeting spot it seemed as if Hinata had not arrived there. So Naruto decided he could go and give Kyu-chan a visit inside his mindscape, however that wasn't necessary as at the same moment Kyu materialized.

"Huh, I didn't think you could get out without permission."

"Side-benefit of the ritual."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you see with me bonded to both you and Hinata-chan, you both together can keep me in check if I would go ballistic again. Of course the same goes for both you and Hinata-chan, we can't really give orders but calming down each other is possible as is riling each other up," said Kyu with a wiggle of her eyebrows, "and since you can keep me from going ballistic, one of the safety measures on the seal is forfeit so I can now get out whenever I want to but the chakra limiter of only 10 percent of power, so now 2 tails is still on me unless you give me more. But do not ever give me all of it!" said Kyu, the last part very seriously.

"Okay but why?"

"Well since your system is so used to both of our chakras circulating in you, if one would suddenly be gone,…, well your system would collapse. That's why it's considered lethal to extract a biju out of its jinchuuriki. Sure you could survive a little like your mother but your life would be forfeit."

"Okay I definitely agree with Kyu-chan on that part." said Hinata, shocking both Kyu and Naruto.

"Hello honey." said Naruto kissing Hinata," you can't imagine how much I've wanted to do that today."

"Oh believe me I know" she replied after eagerly returning the kiss.

"What about me!" exclaimed Kyu, before being assaulted by both pair of lips( AN: how they do it nobody knows or will know but hey they're ninjas, just one of the perks)

Once they came up for air, about 5 minutes later, both Hinata and Naruto started to giggle at the dumbfounded look on Kyu's face.
Shaking her head Kyu became serious,
"Okay, let's get started. we all need to get up to snuff again, including me. I might be 500 but if I can't get my body to react the way I want than those years of experience won't do me any good."

"You're right, let's get started." said Naruto.

They decided to keep their training a secret so the only place really safe was where they were meeting for the moment, though after the Mizuki mission Naruto would request his heritage, especially the Namikaze compound, including the secret training ground under it
After once more checking to make sure they weren't being spied upon, they started with a couple rounds around the training ground on top of the fourth's head. Now normally that wouldn't even be a warm-up for a ninja but with gravity seals that added x times the weight of the person distributed equally over the entire body, it was till a pain. And the seals were improvements cause they not only trained certain muscles like normal weights but all their muscles. Of course Naruto's was already at 0.5 and Hinata and Kyu's at 0.25, they were after all only 12 and 500 years old, but since Kyu didn't want to look like a pervert she also got the body of a 12 year old that aged together with Naruto's body.

After the laps, they started their stretches. After all Hinata's techniques did mainly use her flexibility, while Naruto's was more about the environment and surprise and Kyu used her great knowledge of both the human psyche and anatomy, flexibility was still a key aspect needed for any ninja. And of course speed was very important for all their styles, so if they could get a decent foothold by being able to twist their body a certain way than their speed would improve as well as would their power which was more important for Naruto than Kyu, seeing as even if she only slightly punched certain points they would still hurt incredibly.

After their stretches, they did callenistics; sit-ups, pumps, squats,… each doing their maximums just to see how far they could go in their current bodies and just how much they still needed to train to get back into shape. After that they practiced their basic katas to relearn their muscle memory however that seemed harder than they once thought, especially since their minds still tried to use their older bodies. With this in mind Naruto might get lucky enough to just relearn the academy basics before the Mizuki incident, after all what he had learned from the teachers was completely wrong so he now even had to rewrite that already existing muscle memory too.

Hinata and Kyu seeing Naruto struggle even with the basic of the basics decided to take pity on him and help him out, although disgruntled even Naruto knew better than to argue with them.

After an hour of going over the basics again with Naruto, they all decided that the one thing they needed now was chakra control after all because of the sudden influx they really needed it. Even Kyu, who was used to having large reserves, had problems thanks to her now using two tails instead of one, doubling your reserves or even more so with Hinata and Naruto really isn't so effective, heck even Hinata who had perfect control before now had shabby at best and having shabby control and using juuken really didn't mix well. So they started at the basics Leaf floating. Luckily with their larger reserves they could now go two hours straight and still have enough, tough Hinata started to look peaky

After their chakra control they would like to see if the sudden influx of chakra had any other effect on them. So they tried to see if their elemental composition had changed.

What came next surprised even Kyu. She looked at Naruto's paper, blinked and even pinched herself, she couldn't believe it, she had anticipated that he might get an extra element thanks to the sudden influx that she could understand but what she was seeing astounded her. First Naruto's paper split into 2 then again now having 4 different parts, The first part started cutting itself in two again and again and… till she could just barely see the snippets. The second part started to burn just like the element of fire should but now the fire also got a blue hue just like her foxfire. The third part suddenly started to crackle and crinkle. the last part then just scrunched and dried up like an earth element however this was not really profound. Next up was Kyu herself, she knew what to expect, the paper would just burst into blue flames signifying her foxfire affinity so when suddenly the paper also started splitting into three after starting to burn she was surprised even more so that one was still splitting although not nearly as much as Naruto's, one had burned brighter and the last had done the last thing she ever expected it by turning soggy like the water element.

"Well Kyu-chan it seems we're all just full of surprises" said a laughing Naruto at the shocked look on her face.

Then after Naruto had stopped laughing Hinata decided to see if anything was different with her. She picked up the paper and channeled her chakra, the paper just got wet almost as if you could really get water to drop from it. After this it split, like with wind affinity and one part started to crackle and the other started to burn with a blue hued fire although the fire was not nearly as strong as Naruto's or Kyu's but it was definitely there.

"Well this is a nice side-effect, not an expected one but still an nice one." said Kyu

"What do you mean Kyu-chan?" asked both Hinata and Naruto who didn't seem to get how this could happen.

"Well we'll go over this one by one okay, Naruto-kun congratulations you are the first human ever to get 3 major elements with a subclass and a minor element. You definitely still have wind as your primary, probably much stronger than before. Then fire and lightening as a good second and third however it was close. However this fire will more likely be more of the subclass than anything, namely the subclass of demon foxfire, my fire. And then you have the minor affinity to earth, I think this is your mother's side acting up now that you have so much chakra, I don't think you'll be able to use all of her techniques but maybe the basic ones will be attainable through much hard work." summarized Kyu

"Hinata-chan then seems to have also received a part from both me and you. She already had a weak affinity to lightening of which your affinity comes from Naruto and then a strong water affinity. Now however she has a very strong water affinity almost as strong as your wind affinity Naruto," at this Naruto just had to interrupt:" That's so cool Hinata-chan."

"But that's not all, she also got your wind affinity however just as her third element, her electricity has become much more pronounced probably because the sudden increase in chakra. And then last but not least she has my foxfire too although due to her water affinity it will be weaker than yours."

"And lastly mine, now I must say this is the first time I ever heard or seen something like this you see at the birth of a demon it gets one affinity and that's it, but now I have gotten Naruto's wind as my second affinity. My foxfire is now even stronger, and I also have a weak water affinity. Just so you know I don't think this is a bad trade cause I only have less affinity than you but since I am a demon, I can make up for my lack of an extra affinity by using my foxfire more efficiently".

"Okay Kyu-chan you explained what we have but how come we've shared affinities, you said something about it being a side effect?" asked Naruto.

"Well I believe that this is also an effect of both the travel and the binding ritual. since we were bonded together we would automatically be more acclimated to each other but also more protective. And now since we went back in time and gave our chakra to our younger versions, the chakra already acclimated to each other and now if I am not mistaken was somewhat 'mixed' during our travel. This gave our current merged younger versions their original affinities plus one of each other's. You gave me and Hinata wind and I gave you and Hinata foxfire since that's the only one I've got and Hinata-chan, since she had two gave one to each of us, you, Naruto-kun, lightening and me her water." explained Kyu.

"But what about my earth element Kyu-chan?"

"Like I said before that's probably your mother's side shining through, you probably would have gotten earth too if you had gotten older and trained some more, especially in your clan arts but now with your sudden increase in chakra, it decided to show itself somewhat early. And before you ask no I don't know more about your mother other than that she used chains or already living plants and manipulated them. Her seal was less complex and more binding than yours, without much space for interaction."

In the meantime with the shocking explanation and the actually doing of the test, the sun had started to set down. Now normally after elemental training, they would now plan more for the future and discuss what to change and how but after this shocker they decided it be best as to just watch and enjoy the sunset with the three of them.

And so it went on for the next two weeks, Hinata and Naruto boring themselves endlessly during the day with even Hinata napping during class but again since she was always so quiet nobody really noticed except the two resident IQ-monsters, Shino and Shikamaru, though it could also be said as an argument that Shikamaru was just so in tune with his sleepy side that he noticed a fellow napper. However they didn't really think much about it, Shino just filed it away for later and Shikamaru well he just found it too troublesome to think too much about it. And so the days crawled by with them upping their training each day and even getting to know their elements a little better, however without the proper control elemental manipulation still seemed a bit difficult for anything other than their main and already mastered manipulation.

But now all was well and good however it could not last. The first Sunday since their return (they returned on Monday) Hinata was stopped by her father before meeting with Naruto. Now this was a part she really disliked, she had to remain civil with the man who had kicked her out of the family and even almost gave her the seal at the insistence of the elders but he had been about to put in on her no less. If it weren't for Naruto and his quick thinking and acting before they could get the seal on her she would never have been the girl she was now.

Her father always glaring, stopped her and asked:" Where are you going Hinata, I haven't seen you train at all this week?"

"Sorry otou-san(father), I was just worried that I would fail the test so I have spent the last couple of evenings going to the library." Which was true considering she and Naruto had been sending a clone to the library each evening, Naruto of course henged into a different random civilian each and every night.

"That still doesn't excuse yourself from neglecting your family training."

Hinata was starting to panic slightly, this wasn't supposed to happen till after the chuunin exam and she and Naruto still weren't so far ahead in planning to decide on what to do about her being evicted from her clan after all it was when she had stopped training in the Hyuga compound that she was evicted, they didn't even want to send her to the branch so they instead disowned her and kicked her out. But maybe she could use this to her advantage if they were still as smug as the other time she could get out from under the thumb of her clan and not get the seal.

"G-G-Gomen(sorry) Otou-san, I will start training immediately" all the while hoping that she could get a moment alone so she could send a clone to Naruto to tell the both of them what was happening and then decide what to do.

"Oh and Hinata, you and Hanabi will have another sparring match the morning after your exam, is that understood?"

"H-H-Hai(yes) otou-san."

Still thinking about how they would handle it Hinata inadvertently started thinking about Hanabi. However now she had a façade to keep up, not that it was too difficult after all learning the juuken which was based on the earth affinity which nearly all the members of the Hyuga clan had except maybe one or two but even they had earth as a minor. They all had it, all but her mother, who she took after, another reason for the reasons to want to throw her out. Thinking about Hanabi, she couldn't really blame her, after all she just didn't know any better. And as far as Hinata was concerned Hanabi had redeemed herself the night she went ballistic with Hinata on the Hyuga Elders after the Neji tragedy. That night she had showed that she still cared for her family.

Meanwhile with Naruto at training ground 04:

"I'm really getting worried Kyu–chan what if something terrible happened to her, what if those elders did something to her?" exclaimed Naruto.

"Relax Naruto-kun, worrying won't help much and besides if something was really wrong with Hinata-chan we would feel it through the bond, so let's just train and get stronger so that you can actually do something if those elders decided to act up, after all now you can't even beat one of them, you shouldn't even think about all of them.

Just as Naruto wanted to start complaining again, a Hinata-clone came and explained everything which in turn made Naruto grumble. In the end they decided that they would just let it act out like last time, he also reminded her not to say anything about her future involvement with the Mizuki mission. Only Naruto and maybe the Hokage would know about that and only if he didn't want to put both Hinata and Naruto on the same team, they had also decided to keep their real skills hidden even from him, only show just that little bit. And a certain taboo would be to mention Kyu-chan around anyone other than the three of them.

And so the week after progressed, Hinata sending a few clones to train with Naruto and Kyu while all the while sucking phenomenally at juuken while practicing at home. The week progressed and finally it was Friday the day of the exam…