Hinata woke up the next day and slammed her alarm clock off. Cursed thing waking her from her great dream about Naruto, making her blush as she thought about the dream. But then it hit her, today she would finally be rid of her family and could be with Naruto in reality, finally! But then she sobered, she still had to put up her act. So Hinata went back to being the meek little girl that everyone expected to be.
She did her usual morning routine, with an extra workout to warm up, until it was time to meet her sister. It seemed she was destined to fight and see once more if she was the useless heir she always seemed to be, and after today, if she played it right, she would never have to fight her sister again, at the very least not fight and let her ass get handed to her. But thanks to the subtle programming she had been doing on the elders and her parents, nothing really insidious just simple priming.
As she neared the family dojo she could feel the supporting glances from the branch house members and the glares from the main branch, and then there were the hateful and almost hopeful glares of the few clan elders, not in the dojo yet.
She entered the main dojo and could directly see and feel the cold looks her sister gave her; the smirks of the elders, what truly shocked her were the cool but also vindictive look her father gave her. All the others she could understand but the look of her father, she hadn't expected to see so much hate.
"You know why you are here, Hinata?" asked her father
"H-H-Hai Ot-t-tou-sama." Stuttered Hinata, hating herself even more.
"Fine then get in position, you too Hanabi."
And so Hanabi and Hinata settled into position, both using the traditional juuken stand.
"The match for the heir position will now commence" said one of the elders.
Hanabi only had a startled look on her face for a second before it turned back into the cold look all Hyuuga used. Hinata however had expected this and so showed no signs of surprise whatsoever. Time to get this show on the road thought Hinata.
"Hajime" shouted Hiashi.
Hanabi being the bold young girl she was, jumped right in. Hanabi used flawless strikes directly of the bat, trying to get in her defence. Hinata, staying perfectly in her roll of being the useless heir, meaning she was just barely blocking Hanabi's strikes.
After only 10 seconds she left a small opening which Hanabi used admirably for a 10 year old at least. Hanabi used the opening perfectly not to just strike it but to get in closer to Hinata too. After this Hinata still tried to put up a decent fight but the first blow had been followed up directly with a strike to a few tenketsus, sealing them and encumbering her movements.
But Hinata didn't want to go down without a fight and so tried tripping up Hanabi but of course making it seem accidental. After all she didn't want any competence to be seen by the elders. After the accidental trip up, she sent a pretty slow and not powerful punch next to a tenketsu just to be sure that even if it hit there wouldn't be too much damage done. But luckily for Hinata and to the delight of all the elders, Hanabi dodged the punch and skipped back a few steps. She got in a stance all the elders and a very surprised Hinata recognised even though she never was able to use it effectively.
"You are in my divination, prepare to die! Jyuuken Hou, Hakke Sanjuniishou!"
Now Hinata could have easily dodged this after all if you've seen it a couple of times then you could predict exactly where the strikes were going to land but decided that this would be the best way to go down after all if you could dodge one of their prime techniques then , they might change their minds and not banish her but just put her in the branch house.
"Two palms, four palms, eight palms, sixteen palms, thirty two palms!"
At this Hinata fell down not moving, the fight was over. Hanabi was huffing and puffing but still aware, it seemed that she still hadn't perfected the technique. That could've also been obvious had Hinata not moved a little as to ensure that the last few did indeed hit her tenketsu.
"Shousha Hanabi-sama," cried the referee.
"Thank you very much," Hanabi said bowing to the referee and then to her father.
"Hanabi, you are dismissed, we will next work on the 64 palms, at least you show some promise." Finished Hiashi with a glare towards the still not moving Hinata.
"Hai outo-sama," not knowing and really caring what would happen to her sister, another bow and she left.
"Someone wake up that disgrace!" shouted Hiashi.
Hinata of course was already awake but still played dead, that is until she felt the referee open her tenketsus again. She got up groggily just the way she was used to, before the time warp, when she still had 'training'. So she then turned, still acting groggy, to the elders and her father who all looked smug with the last one also looking pleased, like he was now certain of the choices that he made.
"You are a disgrace to the family," said one of the elders, making Hinata look down cause she was fighting to keep the smirk of her face and didn't want the council to see. After all if they saw her fighting to keep her smirk of her face, they would know something was up.
"You are not fit to run the noble house of the Hyuuga." Said another one.
"You are a disgrace to the Hyuga." Said one of the female elders. Making Hinata's fight against her smirk that much harder seeing as the insult at the moment were exactly the same as last time.
"We hereby decree that you will never be a part of the main branch of the Hyuuga clan." Said an even smugger elder with that he could say these words.
"We will seal you! "cried one of the elders almost giddy. Oh no you won't, thought Hinata.
"But the branch family is too good for you. So you are hereby banished from the Hyuuga clan." Said the head elder.
"Seeing as you are clearly a lost cause you are no longer my daughter." said Hiashi making it final, as of that moment Hinata Hyuga ceased to exist, now she was just Hinata. After hearing this Hinata looked up, smirking hugely.
"You got that Bear-san, Cat-san?" asked Hinata at which the elders looked surprised when said ANBU came into the vision in the dojo. Surprised because they hadn't noticed them and because they couldn't figure out why the demon lover was smiling.
"Hai, Hinata-san/chan." Replied bear and cat. Who had been stationed near the Hyuuga compound after Naruto left the Hokage the day before and as such had both heard and seen everything, including the disownment. Though both Anbu were glad to see Hinata free of her family, Hokage-sama was not going to be pleased with all the paperwork this would generate.
"Good then I'll be taking my leave I already have everything packed."
"Where do you think you are going?" cried one of the elders.
"Stop that is an order!" screamed another.
"No I don't think I will after all it is evident that you no longer want me, since you did disown me. What you didn't think about was the fact that if I was disowned you could no longer control me," at which the smirk she wore got even bigger, even getting an extra creepy vibe.
"You see, these are my plans, I will now go and find Naruto after which we will both be going to our new residence, that is of course after reporting everything that happened here to the Hokage, you're welcome to join if you want to." Said a still smiling Hinata.
"No you will do no such thing, you still need to be sealed" said one of the elders stalking forward with ink and pencil.
"You really aren't listening are you, you senile old fool. I WILL NOT LISTEN and I will also not accept to be sealed." said Hinata.
"How dare you!" shouted the elder with the ink and now marched forward again but was stopped by Bear and Cat who stood between Hinata and the elders, "Move out of the way this is clan matter"
"Oh no it is not, after all, we were here, weren't we. Didn't you listen to Hinata-chan?" asked Cat.
"Now I really must be going, after all wouldn't want to keep the Hokage or Naruto-kun waiting now would I."
At this she turned around and left quickly knowing that the elders would join her after they stopped their spluttering. Just outside the compound she walked to the nearest tree and called.
"You can come out now Naruto-kun."
At this a now grinning Naruto jumped out, immediately saw the smile on her face, the company of the two ANBU and just knew that their plan had worked. The best part was that it was all the fault of the elders and they couldn't do a thing about it. Sure they were gonna whine to the Hokage but since they had the law on their side, the elders could stuff their complaints…
After hugging and congratulating Hinata on her great acting work, which confused the two ANBU to no end, they began leisurely walking towards the Hokage tower.
Upon arrival they could already see part of the elder council standing outside.
Naruto and Hinata just walked past them like they weren't even there, despite their still increasing whining. Naruto and Hinata entered the Tower and walked straight into the Hokage's room ignoring the annoying secretary who almost got a one way trip to death row by calling Naruto something she wasn't supposed to, though there was of course also the possibility of her simply tripping out that window right behind her. But luckily for her, she stopped when she saw the two ANBU accompanying the two of them, at which she immediately started to smile thinking he was finally getting his just desserts.
When Naruto and Hinata entered they were nearly blown back by the sheer volume of the shouting. When the Hokage looked up to see both of them, he smiled.
"QUIET! You will show me the proper respect or I will have you detained and have you pay a visit to Ibiki-san." shouted the Hokage, adding a little killing intent to which all but Hiashi, Naruto and Hinata didn't flinch, something the Hokage noticed immediately but filed away for later.
"So now that all the participant are here," Said the Hokage, at which all the elders and Hiashi started to glare in the direction of Naruto and Hinata, "what was your complaint exactly?"
"You see Hokage-sama," Said Hiashi now again with his superior voice, "Hinata here, won't allow us to seal her like we have every right to do."
"And why pray tell should I allow one of my shinobi to be sealed? She looks perfectly happy to me. I don't think I've seen her happier. What do you think Bear-san, Neko-san; does Hiashi have any claim over Hinata?"
"No sir, they, in which I mean Hiashi and the elders, were quite vocal about banishing Hinata, though she was also named 'demon lover' quite a few times. Hiashi even explicitly told her that he did not consider her his daughter anymore. What scares them is the fact I believe is that they now know that they no longer have any control over her." Said cat.
"I concur with what Neko-chan said. Though I must add that Naruto said that Hinata was acting, though I do not know what he was alluding to." Added Bear.
"So if I have this right, you Hiashi-san want me, the Hokage, to authorize the placing of a harmful seal on one of my Kunoichi which will then severely incapacitate her should you or your family will it, just because you don't want her free?"
"If I may add something Old man." asked Naruto.
The fact that Naruto's face stood without his usual gigantic smile but instead stood in a serious expression added to that Naruto had used a normal tone of voice, didn't go unnoticed so he was fairly certain that it would be something important.
"Of course Uzumaki-san."
"I think you should know that the seal that would be placed on Hinata-chan would not be just the caged bird seal but a modification of said seal." At this the eyebrows of the Hokage, Hiashi and the two ANBU went up.
"W-w-what are you implying you de…" started Hiashi but shut immediately when he felt the spike of killing intent coming from the Hokage.
"Don't do something you might regret later Hiashi-san. And do explain what you mean Naruto."
"While I will explain it fully, it would be simpler to just show this. Although maybe we should call the council over this, after all I do believe Hinata would like to press charges for an attempted murder by members of a clan council while not being part of said clan. And I don't want to have to explain it more than once."
Now the Hokage was really starting to worry, luckily he saw that Hiashi was just as mystified as him, but that the most of the elders weren't as they were instead now sweating bullets.
"ANBU!" called the Hokage, before issuing the command," Get the council together at once."
"Hai, Hokage-sama." And with that four blurs raced out the window to assemble the council.
"Now Naruto-kun do tell me what you meant with attempted murder."
"Quite simple Hokage-sama, you see we both have heard whispers about the council trying to do something about Hinata for quite some time. So today, directly after Hinata was contacted for the fight, she contacted me. I then came immediately and then while Hinata was busy sparring with Hanabi went and reviewed the Seal that the elders were planning to use on her. Now this is just a copy but if you would just look at the seal array that the elders were going to try and give Hinata-chan. Now that you remind me, elder Korusa, could you please give me the scroll, it is located in your right breast pocket?"
"No, why should we give you this." Said the elder who had wanted to apply the seal to Hinata.
"Give him the scroll, Korusa-san." Ordered the Hokage," otherwise I will just assume that the copy Naruto has is either completely the same or probably even simply more damaging to one of my kunoichi.
"Thank you," said Naruto after Korusa gave him the scroll, he then unrolled it, showing the exact same formula as the copy Naruto had unrolled earlier. " Now I'm just going to be highlighting some parts and explain everything fully in the council room. I admit that I do not know everything this seal does, but I do know that this bit, pointing to a section at were Hinata's stomach would normally be, is a chakra restrictor. This bit the part which would go over the heart was a kill switch.
"And how do you know this." Demanded a now profusely sweating Korusa.
"What you don't think I would take an interest in the one thing that keeps the demon inside my gut locked up? Please I have been studying seals intensely for years now, just to be sure that if anybody ever messes with the seal I could at least hold it together or even fix it temporarily until someone with more experience comes along and then checks if everything is still correct. I might be near master but even I know I'm not a master yet and might still make mistakes." 'though that's only cause nobody could have tested me yet' added Naruto in his mind.
So knowing that he was going to die real soon anyway, Korusa did a very stupid thing. He put his hands in the ram seal and poured in chakra.
"If I'm gonna die, then I'm taking you with me you demon." Screamed Korusa insanely
"I hope you're not trying to activate the seal you placed on me when I was a child, Korusa-san, after all that was the first one I discovered and swiftly removed. Wasn't even all that hard really."
"What!" said the shocked Kurosa.
"Yes, you really didn't think that with me knowing so much about seals, knowing that some seals interact with others in sometimes weird and dangerous ways that I wouldn't check to see if I didn't have any other seals on my body, did you?"
"What do you mean Naruto-san?"
"Quite simple old man, I found a total of 9 seals on me, including the seal that keeps the Kyuubi locked in. You really didn't think that I would let you call a council meeting just for this little mishap, did you? Even if it deals with a council overstepping its bounds."
At this point the four Anbu returned, "Everyone is in the council chambers as you requested sir."
"Very well, let's get this thing along, you come too Hiashi, Kurosa, Hinata and Naruto. We'll deal with the rest of the council and their overstepping of their bounds, after this meeting."
Naruto and Hinata just nodded and followed, while Kurosa just stared in front of him blankly, the shock that not only did his plan fail but his back-up as well, was just too much for the retired elder. As such two of the Anbu needed to drag him along. While Hiashi just followed the Hokage out the door. After all, while he did want to seal her and would probably get a slap on the wrist for it, he didn't have anything to do with the murder attempt.
Upon entering the council room they could all hear the entire ruckus made by the civilian side while the ninja side was just waiting patiently. When the civilian side finally noticed Naruto also entering they all started. The message was scrambled but the main idea got trough: why was 'He' here?
"Silence!" shouted the Hokage, "I've just had a very long night. So keep quite till it's your turn to speak. As such you are all summoned to discuss the punishment of Korusa Hyuuga for attempted murder of Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata …"
"Just Hinata for the moment."
"and Hinata. The first by the means of trying to activate a seal he had given to Naruto when he was still a child and the second by the application of a seal that would cause immediate death once given the command and would also seal miss Hinata chakra thus ending her ninja career. Now before we start this is there anything else that should be placed on the agenda?" asked the tired Hokage.
"Yes there is," said Naruto shocking everyone except those who were in the Hokage's office a few minutes before." I would like to request punishment and monetary compensation from the following members of this village. Kenoichi Yamanaka, the Uchiha clan and unfortunately our very own Haruko-san for unlawfully applying debilitating seals to a civilian person, me. I still have two other seals from which I don't know the origin. But once I know these I will ask the same from said person." Knowing all along that it was Danzo's Root that applied them but not having any concrete evidence.
"Where is your proof" shrieked Haruko, the mother of Sakura.
"You can't just expect us to accept this without proof" screamed a merchant from the civilian side, and so it went on with them questioning his proof without even letting him show it.
After only half a minute of this the Hokage snapped "ENOUGH, if you would let Uzumaki-san present his evidence than we can start the discussion." He really had had next to no sleep yet thanks to the extra paperwork the soon to be graduating class created, then there was also Mizuki's attempt and now this, the Hokage really didn't have any patience to deal with the moronic council members.
"Thank you Hokage-sama," at this he produced 4 different scrolls each with a seal array on them." You see these two seals were placed on me by a certain Kenochi Yakama, they were placed on the front of my head and the back of my head, the one on the front simply wiped my memory of him applying the seal. So once I found out and disabled it all my memories of those events came back to me. The seal on the back of my head, lead me to have severe concentration problems even going as far as giving me headaches whenever I tried to concentrate on something for longer than an hour. "
"And we just have your word on this" screamed another merchant.
"No, I expect Yamanaka-san to come into my mind and review the memories of all the actions. Plus as you would've known if you'd have let me finish. These seals also store some of the activating chakra in them, for recognition later if the creator would want to disable it." Before the civilian council could for ask another stupid question, Inoichi interjected.
"I do believe I will, if one of my family did this to you than I want to be certain that he didn't do any other damage."
"Of course but first let me finish the explanations of all the seals that way you can check those memories as well, including the finding, deactivation and transfer of these seals. So where was I, ah right the second set of seals, applied by Haruko-san. This set include, one growth reducing seal, one sense dampening seal, which as the name implies makes everything I sensed seem duller or dampened if you want to use that word. And then there was also another concentration disrupter, though this one didn't do much thanks to the better seal that was already applied. Then last but not least, was the third and fourth set, these two seals are both disruption seals, though both used a different method, in essence they just made it more difficult to mould my chakra correctly and as such made my chakra control non-existent. They were added by one Sui and one Fui Uchiha; since both are already dead I just expect monetary compensation from the Uchiha fund."
"What! Why should the Uchiha give you anything, it's not Uchiha-san's fault that one of his dead relatives did that to you." Said Komura certain that with this she had gotten her charge out of paying the demon child anything
"oh but quite to the contrary, you once an Uchiha is dead, or any clan member really, and they do not have any immediate relatives or wills written out, then their bank account gets added to the main account and so the paying of these fines will be done from that account. Which shouldn't harm Sasuke too much, seeing as he doesn't even have the power to access that account all the money that was originally in it should still be there."
"Okay now that the evidence has been provided." Started the Hokage but was interrupted when one of the civilians shouted "Wait he still needs his memory checked."
"Fine Yamanaka-san if you would please."
"Of course Hokage-sama. This might feel a bit weird but shouldn't hurt." Explained Inoichi before going through a few hand seals and shouting "Memorisukurōra no justu".
When he reopened his eyes Inoichi couldn't believe what he was seeing. He was in a giant grassy field with a tree in the middle. He could see small spots of forest in the distance, he also thought he had seen a rather large white rabbit in the distance but after blinking once it was gone. He was still admiring the view when a voice shocked him out of his thoughts." Weren't you going to view my memories? "said Naruto who had materialised next to him.
"H-How? You shouldn't be here, and what is this place?"
"This is my mindscape, as you should know. And I'm here because if I wasn't then I wouldn't be able to shut off my mind traps, and some can be quite nasty, you're lucky that Bonzo didn't notice you before I turned them and him off or it would have gotten ugly."
"Bonzo?"
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure you noticed the white rabbit, yes that was indeed a white rabbit that you saw in the distance but I warn you, it packs quite a punch. But we're getting of topic here, you came to see some memories so come on. Those memories are stored this way." Said Naruto before heading off to the south. But Inoichi wasn't just going to let this go, so halted Naruto again.
"You still haven't answered me, completely you know. You explained why you were here but you still haven't explained just how you are here and how you have so much control over your mindscape."
"I'm not really sure always have been able to adapt it after the seals went off. Though it might also have something to do with being me, if you know what I mean." At which Inoichi was a little stunned.
"oh… okay then. Lead the way. One quick question though, seeing as you have so much control over your mindscape just how are your thoughts organised if I might ask. Might make it more easy for me to view them."
"I'm sorry but I won't answer that question after all that is one of my defences. This way." said Naruto already heading toward a seemingly random place while once more continuing his seemingly south bound walk.
Once arrived at a small hole, which Inoichi recognised as a fox hole, Naruto stopped.
"Here are those few memories about seals that were on my body located, I accept that you will only view these and no others that are located here. Some are private."
"Of course Naruto-sama, I expect that if it weren't for you I wouldn't even get this far, if this is just your easiest level of defence." Naruto nodded before motioning Inoichi to the hole.
"Just put your head in and then you should be able to view the ones needed to verify my stories. I've already unsealed them for you."
At first he looked sceptical but decided that if Naruto had wanted to harm him he would have done so already. After all he wasn't the demon that he knew for certain.
So Inoichi put his head down the hole and saw at once what Naruto meant, the fox hole had many different hallways, all dark and gloomy. Like there were only bad memories located here which he thought could be true or it could be another of Naruto's defences. However there were so many of them, and some were even darker than the first ones, maybe secrets that Naruto wanted to keep better. And so he turned his head to watch down the first lit but shadowed corridor and was immediately sucked in the memory at the end of it. This memory was the one of what his cousin had done to the young Naruto, and young he was he looked no more than 5 years old. He watched as his cousin pummelled the young crying Naruto to a bleeding pulp all the while smiling before inscribing the seals in one of Naruto's bleeding wounds.
Deciding that this was enough for that one he went drew back and went down the second corridor, in this one he saw two Uchiha capture the young Naruto in a genjutsu after his screams had stopped, they had each cut into his arms and had used Naruto's own blood to write the seals in the wounds.
The third corridor then went to show him how he discovered the seals, including the seals applied by Sakura's mom, Hakuro. How he or sometimes he and Hinata, when the seals were found on the back, had identified each of them. And then showed him painstakingly looking up those seals using second hand books or library books, sometimes even showing him working with a headache. And they then finally showed Naruto deactivating each of those seals, starting with the memory block seal and then transferring them to those scrolls that he had also seen in the meeting earlier.
Withdrawing quickly from the fox hole not wanting to see any other memories, he looked up at the now grim looking Naruto, apparently having him review them made him also review them maybe even relive them. At this Inoichi paled but decided that he would be of better use outside here, after just watching these
Waking back-up he stared around at the hopeful looks of the civilian council, hoping that he would prove Naruto wrong, especially Homura and Komura. However the looks quickly left when they saw how pale Inoichi looked.
"what happened in there?" asked Hokage.
"I don't see how Naruto is the shinobi he is today, and no matter how much it pains me to say this about my own cousin, the accusations are completely true and actually much worse."
"what do you mean?" asked a now interested Hokage and council.
'Sorry Hokage, but I don't want to cause anyone to have nightmares, god knows I will have them and seeing as what happened was private for Naruto I think I will allow it to remain so."
"I understand, maybe later."
"Sorry old man but he won't talk, I made him promise to spare you the details before he left my mind." Said a now also awake Naruto.
"Very well then, we will now judge all cases and deemed punishments. Or are there any other subjections?... No, perfect, first up the attacking and knowingly harming of a civilian by the ninja Kenochi Yamanaka, for?" asked the Hokage and saw that all the hands, of the Shinobi side except Hiashi were up. Also some civilians raised their hand, if Inoichi himself would have nightmares then it would've had to be horrific. The Hokage quickly counted, before speaking the verdict.
" Kenoichi Yamanaka is found guilty as charged and must pay a fine of half a million ryo to Uzumaki Naruto. Any other punishment will be decided later."
" The attacking, harming, sealing of a civilian and the possible endangerment of the village of Konoha by Fui and Sui Uchiha, for?" again nearly all the hands were up as now only Haruko, Komura and Homura's didn't, after all to breed such a fan girl as Sakura you would have to put in lots of work.
"Convicted, the Uchiha will be fined 2 million ryo."
"What, why so much?" demanded Homura.
" Simple my dear advisor, you see if their seal had interfered with the seal of the Kyuubi, which is also a chakra based seal then it could have killed him and or worse given the Kyuubi control." at this every member of the council blanched.
"The case of Hakuro's sealing of Naruto will have to wait, seeing as the consequences are still unclear at the moment, but do not think she will get off free. She will immediately be put on probation and depending on the permanent effect they have had, fines and punishment will still be determined."
Now since the small matters are over with, onto the main matter, the attempted murder of two of our shinobi, Hinata and Uzumaki Naruto.
At this Naruto unrolled another two scrolls one with the complex and altered caged bird seal and the other a quite simple seal array that would have killed Naruto with the correct signal.
Before anyone could complain again that Naruto would explain he started. " Now, on the right one you see a simple seal array with the sole purpose of killing me by making my hart disintegrate and my lungs collapse. The left one was the one he was trying to inscribe on Hinata after they had disowned her. Now let me explain the three most important parts. First of is this part here that would've gone over her stomach, on the area of her chakra pool. This seal is called a chakra restrictor for a reason, normally these are placed on prisoners when they are transported between facilities or cell blocks. It temporarily nearly completely cuts of the chakra pool from the rest of the network. The reason now why we don't use them constantly is because long term usage of this seal leads to the effect becoming permanent even after the seal would be taken of off them. The second part here, that would've gone on the head, is the basic pain formula that resides in the caged bird seal as well. Though this is normally also a part of the seal I would still like to point it out cause at the moment that they wanted to apply this seal Hinata no longer was a part of the Hyuga clan. And then finally there is this seal that would've gone over the heart, it was a two part seal. The first part would when activated by the chakra, inject said chakra straight into her heart. Normally killing her instantly. Should this however fail than the second part of the seal would slowly restrict her airways until she would suffocate. It should be noted as well that the trigger was set really low, making it even possible that the leftover chakra formed by the sealing could've triggered the third seal." Finished Naruto before turning to the Hokage who immediately started with the verdict, not asking for a vote.
" Now since it was already evident that Korusa was responsible for this, thanks to his actions in both my office and the viewing of the Naruto's memories. He will remain into custody and will be sent to Ibiki-san for further interrogation on the matter. All agreed?"
A chorus of hai was heard throughout the council chamber, although Hiashi did his reluctantly.
"Good, Anbu take Korusa to Ibiki and get the banks to transfer the money to Naruto Uzumaki's account, if even a cent is missing I will hold you responsible."
"Right away Hokage-sama." saluted the Anbu wearing a fish mask and left the room with Korusa, who was still in shock, out of which he would be awakened by a smiling Ibiki-san.
" All the others you are dismissed, Inoichi-san please stay."
at this the council emptied out leaving only Inoichi, Hinata, Naruto and the Hokage.
"Hokage-sama, I request the permission to give my own punishment to my cousin and handle it like an internal clan issue."
"I'm not the one you should be asking, I was going to ask what Naruto would like as punishment before assigning it, so you really should ask him. so what do you think Naruto?" replied and then asked the Hokage.
"Well, he didn't really do too much, and he did gave me the ability to organize my mindscape like this, so I will concede this matter to Inoichi but I will still want to have the full report on what his punishment is. Though a reason would be nice as well. And if it wasn't going to be included I would also like to get him demoted back to genin with a prohibition of advancement until after I'm chuunin as well, making sure that he's never my senior."
"Thank you Naruto-san. I can agree with that I will give copies to both yourself and the Hokage once punishment is administered and should extra reasons be uncovered. I saw what he did and I will not be lenient." said a now clearly disturbed Inoichi.
" I expect no less, you are dismissed," said the Hokage, "and Naruto, you and Hinata should both go too, wouldn't want to miss your team assignments now would we."
"Yes, Hokage-sama/ Jiji.." said both Hinata and Naruto before leaving the Hokage alone with his paperwork. Who then turned and sighed seeing the paperwork waiting for him.
Once out of sight, Hinata asked Naruto:" When are you finally going to tell him the secret to defeating paperwork?"
"When I feel like it or when we need something from him." smirked Naruto at which also Hinata giggled.