A/N: Omg, I cannot believe I did that. So, is he alive or not? If you all still remember the prologue of this story, I said that the Yondaime was dead… please forgive me, I'm not very good at thinking ahead, and worse two years ago, so just ignore that…

But I've got big plans for the Yondaime~ Meheheeee!

Stuttering is Transferable

"Alright brat! Let's see how well your chakra control is first, m'kay?"

"Stop calling me brat!" was Naruto's reply.

Jiraiya just laughed and pointed to the water. Naruto obediently walked up to and onto it, automatically directing the red chakra to his feet. Naruto had pretty much perfected it, and there were almost no ripples on the surface of the water.

"Not bad, brat. It's not easy to control such a large amount of chakra."

"Meh, to me this is a normal amount of chakra, it's just big compared to normal humans."

Jiraiya nodded, "True, true… but you act so much like a brat I sometimes forget."

"Brat?"

"Haha, okay, let's move on, shall we? How are you at Taijutsu?"

"I'm alright, not the best, I'll admit."

"Alright, show me what you got," Jiraiya said as he got into a defensive stance. "Don't use any jutsu or your swords."

Naruto nodded and charged.

10 minutes later, Naruto was thrown to the ground for the 5th time.

"Owwee…" Naruto whined.

"You ain't half bad, brat! You have good speed and excellent strength, but you need to read my movements and counter more efficiently. Don't waste any movements, that will just slow you down and use up energy."

Naruto got up from the ground, rubbing his butt. "I understand."

"Great! You said you practice with shadow clones? That's good, but you also need someone else, like me, since you are pretty much fighting yourself, meaning you know their moves already. Let's see your Kenjutsu then, how good are you with your wakizashi?"

Naruto took out his swords.

"Are you ambidextrous?"

"Demons don't actually have a dominant hand. That would just hinder us."

"Oh, never thought of that before-" Jiraiya dodged an attack and took out his kunai to fight.

Clash, thump, swipe, slash. They fought for a while, though Naruto was generally on the defensive. Slowly, Naruto got used to Jiraiya's style and was able to even the match. Using the swords' skill, they extended from his arm for more flexibility, and when Jiraiya blocked a strike the swords curved inwards. He was forced to jump back or get cut.

"Impressive swords you have there."

Naruto smiled fondly, "Yeah, I know. They were a present."

"Right, we'll stop there. You are good at handling your swords, use the sword's abilities cleverly to get the most out of them. How many jutsu do you know?"

"Not many. I know the Shadow Clone, Super Flame Bullets, False Flame, Induced Dreams… I can use Fox Soul, but only when I have a three tailed cloak on, which is quite draining."

Jiraiya blinked. "Right, I don't recognise all of them, but I'll take your word for it."

He tapped his chin in thought. "Are you able to make contracts with summoning animals?"

Naruto blinked. "I don't know… I don't think so though. And if I did, it would probably have to be with foxes."

"Ah, then I guess you can't make a contract with toads like I have."

"Toads? Oh, you mean that frog you were standing on yesterday while peeping into the women's bathhouse?"

"I wasn't peeping! I was doing research for my books! The Icha Icha series!"

"Wait, don't tell me that you write those perverted books!" Naruto shouted, pointing the blame finger at Jiraiya.

"So even youngsters like you know about it? They are more famous than I thought!"

Without either noticing, Hinata hesitantly walked up to the bickering duo. She had just been around when she had heard Naruto's voice, and she wanted to congratulate him properly for getting into the finals.

"Kakashi-sensei reads them all the time!"

"He has good taste in literature."

"It's not literature! It's porn!"

"It's not porn!"

"Yes it is! Porn! Porn porn porn porn porn!"

Thump.

"Eh?" Both ninja turned to the ground, where Hinata had fainted.

"Wah, Hinata! Are you okay?" Naruto shouted and gently shook her. Hinata blinked, and froze in Naruto's arms.

"N-Narut-to, I-I-I… … u-um… t-t-treat y-you to l-l-l-lunch-" By now she had gone beet red from embarrassment.

Naruto blinked as he processed what Hinata said. "Wow really? I'd love too! You're the best! We can go to Ichiraku Ramen!"

Hinata smiled dazedly in joy as her secret crush smiled at her brightly. Unfortunately for her, Naruto was a bit too dense on the whole love thing.

"Hey Pervy Sage, am I allowed too… what are you smiling about?"

The whole time, Jiraiya had been grinning wider than a Cheshire cat.

"Pervy Sage?"

"Oh right," he said, snapping out of it, "Of course you can. Meet me here tomorrow at the same time, I'll be teaching you a new jutsu!"

"Will do!" He shouted and dragged Hinata to Ichiraku's.

Jiraiya giggled after the disappearing pair. "Ah young love! I feel sorry for the girl, seeing as Naruto can't see her feelings at all! But persist, young one! You'll get him eventually! And provide great inspiration for my books~"

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Somewhere unknown, Orochimaru turned his head towards the door as it was opened, and Kabuto stepped inside. He walked towards Orochimaru and bowed, also noting a body lying motionless beside him.

"Lord Orochimaru," Kabuto said in greeting.

"Ah, Kabuto. How is Sasuke?"

"He's coping well, but his curse mark was sealed."

"Yes, I already know that. My summon had paid him a visit before when the mark was being sealed. What about the plan?"

"Everything is going smoothly, and Konoha is none the wiser," Kabuto replied with a smirk.

"Excellent. Soon, Konoha. You will fall. Ahh, what a sight it will be, seeing your precious village burn, isn't that right…"

Orochimaru knelt down and stroked, almost fondly, the face of the body on the floor.

"…my dear Yondaime…"

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Naruto and Hinata walked side by side towards Ichiraku. The whole time, Hinata was sighing in pleasure. He's walking beside me… my heart is beating so fast.

"Hey Hinata."

Hinata jerked her head.

"Y-yes, Naruto?"

"Your really kind, to treat me to lunch."

Hinata blushed.

"O-oh, well I n-never really got to thank you for saving me properly, so this can b-be a congratulations a-aswell as a thank you." Hinata surprised herself at how well she was talking.

Naruto smiled. "There's no need to thank me. There was no way I'd let that Kumo nin just kidnap you if I could help it."

They reached the small stall and went inside.

"Welcome! Oh, it's Naruto! And you brought a friend!" Teuchi said heartily.

"Yeah! Her name's Hyuga Hinata, I'll be treating her to lunch."

Hinata looked at him in surprise. "B-but-"

"No, no, how could I let you treat me? I've got enough money from missions, plenty to pay for our food, so it's okay!"

Hinata smiled. Naruto is so generous to me…

"What would you like?" Teuchi asked.

"I'd like one bowl of miso ramen please," Naruto ordered.

"I'll h-have a seafood ramen."

"Coming right up!"

A couple of minutes later, both genin had a steaming bowl of ramen in front of them. Naruto happily dug in, relishing the flavour. There was just something about the noodles… or maybe it was the fact that the swirly fishcake topping was his name… Regardless, it was his favourite food.

"Are you gonna watch my fight, Hinata?" Naruto asked, turning to his companion/hidden date. Hinata was eating the ramen relatively normally, though she had been taught since she was young to eat with etiquette. A little hard to do with ramen.

"Y-yes, I'll be watching." I wouldn't miss it for the world…

Naruto grinned in happiness and continued to eat. After they'd finished, Naruto offered to walk her to the Hyuga clan compound, to which she shyly agreed to.

Ichiraku wasn't to far from the compound, and they leisurely walked along the roads. A nearby stall was selling red dango (I think) on sticks, and the young woman selling them noticed them.

"Excuse me, would you like to try some dango for free? I'm new, and I was wondering whether it was good or not."

"Sure!" Naruto answered happily and they both took a stick with three balls each. They both ate one.

"Wow, these are great!" Naruto told the young woman. She beamed in reply.

"Really?"

Hinata smiled at her. "They are r-really good, I'm s-sure many people will b-buy your dango."

The woman laughed happily and said, "Thank you so much! You can keep those. Have a nice day!"

"You too," they replied and walked off.

The woman sighed after them. "They look so cute together!"

Naruto and Hinata continued to walk while finishing their dango, watching as a giggling little girl ran past them. Suddenly a little boy knocked into Hinata from behind, causing her dango to fall out of her hands and onto the ground.

"Oi!" Naruto shouted after him, but he was too busy playing tag with the girl to notice, and they soon disappeared,

"Are you okay?" Naruto asked.

"H-Hai," Hinata replied back, and glanced back at the fallen dango.

(Here begins my first attempt at fluffiness ever~~ Probably cliché too…)

Naruto looked at the dango on the ground, then at his own lone dango on his stick, before holding it up to Hinata's face without a second thought.

"Here Hinata! You can have mine."

Hinata's brain short-circuited.

"I-I-I-I-I c-c-ca-a-"

"Sure you can, here," Naruto said and took Hinata's hand and put the stick there. Hinata stared at her hand in Naruto's, then started to sway like a leaf. A bright red leaf.

"Hinata? Are you okay?" Naruto asked distressingly.

Hinata snapped back into reality and held Naruto's dango to her chest.

"Thank you," she uttered, her eyes half-lidded in joy and her head tilted to the side.

Naruto blinked, then blushed.

"Y-You're welcome, H-Hinata-chan," Naruto stuttered.

The two stood there blushing like idiots for a while, both trying to right themselves.

Oh Kami, Naruto thought, If Father saw me now… he would laugh his ass off… Have I… fallen for a human?

It wasn't unknown for demons to love humans. It was just uncommon, as it was usually either: demon rapes human, demon lures human, or human does not even realise they are in love with an actual demon. Only high classed demons had the emotion of love.

They were eventually able to get it together, and carried on to the Hyuga compound. They arrived without too much trouble, but just as Naruto was about to say his good-bye, the guard at the gate took one look at Naruto and hissed out, "What are you doing here, demon? What did you do to Hinata-sama?"

Naruto glared back, "I didn't do anything to Hinata!" he said defensively.

"Liar! Get away from Hinata-sama right now! A filthy demon like you has no right to be so close to her! Go die in a hole, demon!"

Hinata exploded right then and there.

"You have not right to talk to Naruto like that! You don't even know him and yet you have the courage to tell him to go die! Who are you to tell me who I can and cannot be with?"

Naruto blinked, and the guard flinched. It was well known that The Hyuga heiress was a very shy girl who never raised her voice. Until now.

"M-My apologies, H-Hinata-sama! I-It was r-rude of m-me to talk l-like that…" He stuttered while bowing down low.

Hinata was breathing heavily from the vent.

Naruto laughed, then turned to Hinata.

"There was no need to defend me, Hinata." I'm used to it.

Hinata calmed, then blushed madly at what she had just done.

"…You can also stop pointing your dango at him now…."

She only just noticed that she had been pointing the stick with the single red dango on it at the poor guard. (She hadn't eaten it yet.)

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Hyuga Neji had just finished training, and was walking down one of the compound's outside corridors when he noticed Hinata standing a little ways in front of him. Neji reached her, but she didn't seem to notice, and seemed to be very busy staring dazedly at a wall and clutching at a dango stick in her hand.

"…Hinata-sama?"

She jumped and faced her cousin.

"N-Neji-san…"

"Are you alright?" he asked in concern.

"I'm f-fine."

Neji looked at the dango in her hands.

"You bought dango?"

Hinata looked at the dango with glittering eyes, and in a flash the whole dango was in her mouth. She twirled around and floated off, chewing slowly and hugging the skewer.

Neji blinked.

"…"

Uzumaki Naruto… what the hell have you done to Hinata-sama…

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Gaara sat alone on the roof of the building he was staying in.

"I'm... sorry."

Gaara frowned. No-one had ever said sorry to him before. After all, who would say sorry to an unstable Jinchuuriki like him?

"For you having to live with Shukaku… your life must have been hard."

They way Naruto had said that… it was so foreign to Gaara. It was of understanding. He… is like me… and yet not like me… Whereas Gaara was unfeeling, cold, and would kill anyone who stood in his way without a second thought, Naruto was bright, full of emotions, and happy. He was happy.

Am… I happy? No. He hardly even knew what that emotion was.

"You know… we could always be friends."

Gaara sat unmoving.

Would that…

Temari jumped onto the roof, though a good distance away from Gaara.

"Gaara, dinner is ready,"

He stood up without a word and followed her inside.

…Would that make me happy?

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

The poor rabbit didn't stand a chance.

Kisame grinned at the struggling rabbit, before snapping its neck. He made his way back to the temporary camp-site and proceeded to skin and roast the rabbit over the open fire.

Itachi appeared silently and without warning, though Kisame wasn't the slightest bit fazed.

"So? Can we go get him now or what?"

"…Sasori has advised us to wait."

"What? We've already waited for ages!"

"Patience, Kisame. Konohagakure is currently holding the Chunin exams."

"Isn't that even better? We can grab the brat while everyone is preparing."

"Sasori has informed me that there will be an attack on the Leaf during the Chunin exam final."

Kisame immediately brightened up.

"Really? Can I kill people then?"

"No."

Kisame pouted.

"There is guaranteed to be confusion after the attack. Though I doubt Konoha will lose, they will have taken a lot of damage. It is during that time that we will take Kyuubi's son."

"Why not during? There'd be much more confusion."

"The boy in fighting in the final rounds, and there will be the most ninja around him, so it would be bothersome trying to take him unnoticed."

Kisame grumbled.

"I don't see why we have to be so discreet, it's not like they won't realise when he goes missing."

"Do not underestimate Konoha shinobi. Even we could have a hard time against shinobi such as Hatake Kakashi, or Maito Gai."

"Fine, we'll wait until after the exams…"

A/N: Fast update right? Well I wanted to finish this quickly cause I'm going on a holiday to Picton (though you probably won't know it… I live in New Zealand, remember?) Anyway, I'm sorry if Hinata seems too OOC to you, but many had asked for more NaruHina, so I tried to write this… Please tell me what you think!

I'm playing Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 5 again, and it is so fun! ^^

Review please! But I won't be able to reply for about seven days as I'll be in Picton.

Omake~ like I promised ages ago…

Hinata furiously pointed her dango stick at the guard.

"You have not right to talk to Naruto like that! You don't even know him and yet you have the courage to tell him to go die! Who are you to tell me who I can and cannot be with? Avada Kedavra!"

Nothing happened.

"Umm, maybe you need an actual wand to do that, Hinata…" Naruto said.

"Aww, but I was sure this would do. I heard that Dango with pine wood core would be very powerful…"

The forgotten guard suddenly shouted, "I am Lord Voldemort! Bow down before me!"

Naruto blinked.

"Volde-who?"

"Voldemort!"

"Volde-shorts?"

"Voldemort!"

"Mouldy-mort?"

"VOLDEMORT YOU NINCOMPOOP!"

"…Ice cream?"

"ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!"

"…"

"…"

"Are you related to Orochimaru by any chance?"

Owari~

P.S. I do not own Harry Potter.