(A/N: Well I don't have much to say only thing that I must say is that read and review. Also I put a poll soon about Naruto's pairing. I have thought about making this a harem fic and I decided that I will.)
Chapter 3
Naruto was standing on the roof of a building outside the academy waiting for Hinata to come out from the exam. He only needed to wait a while before the newly graduated genin came out of the building. One of them was Hinata who looked like she was looking for someone.
Hinata looked around for half minute. Her shoulders slumped and she sighed as she couldn't find the one she was looking for. She then went her way with Naruto following her from the rooftops. When she reached a place where there weren't many people Naruto jumped from the rooftop and said "Hello Hinta-chan."
Hinata jumped, turned around and took a defensive stance. She blushed and took a deep breath to calm herself down when she saw who it was. "Y-you s-shouldn't s-scare p-people l-like t-that N-naruto-k-kun." Hinata stuttered.
Naruto chuckled and asked "So did you pass the exam?" Hinata thought for a while and answered "Y-yes I-I d-did." She pointed at her hitai-ate hanging around her neck.
"Heh didn't see it." Naruto said with foxy grin while rubbing the back of his neck. Seeing Naruto's grin caused Hinata to blush even more. "Do you want to go somewhere to celebrate it?" Naruto asked. Hinata was close to passing out. Her crush was asking her out! Even though it was a celebration for her graduation but in her mind it was a date.
"O-of c-course N-naruto-k-kun." Hinata said while fiddling with her fingers. Naruto brightened when he heard that, took her hand and took her to the Ichiraku's ramen bar.
They ate and talked with each other and when they were done they waved and parted their ways, Hinata going to her clan compound and Naruto just wandering around Konoha. Not even five minutes from their departure an ANBU member came and told Naruto that Hokage would like to see him.
Nodding to the ANBU Naruto then vanished in a pillar of black flames. He appeared in front of the tower and went inside. Walking up the stairs and past the secretary Naruto went inside the Hokage's office where Hiruzen was waiting for him.
"Naruto-kun, please sit down." Hiruzen said, pointing at the chair in front of his desk. Naruto sat down and waited for Hiruzen to continue.
"Naruto-kun, after careful review of your abilities that you showed at the evaluation I have decided to promote you to jounin. You have all the benefits but you don't have to take a genin team as you are too young to lead one. But if you would like to teach you could go to the academy as a teacher or you could help one of the newly graduated genin teams as a secondary sensei." Hiruzen took a breath and continued
"Every jounin must at some point of their career take a genin team but you must choose one of those options. Being a secondary sensei mean that you will help them train and you will be the team leader if the jounin is incapable of doing his job due to injury or a special mission." Naruto was deep in thought. He carefully weighted both of his options and found himself leaning on the position of the secondary jounin.
"Can I have some time to think this through?" Naruto asked. He really needed to sort his thoughts. "Of course you can but you must have an answer in a few days otherwise I will have to choose for you." Naruto nodded and left to train and think.
The next morning Naruto woke up at sunrise and went for a run. During his run at sunrise he found two other early morning runners. They were Maito Gai and a kid who looked like his mini-me. Gai and Naruto talked while they ran. Naruto respected Gai even though he was weird.
After the run Naruto went to one of the training grounds to do his morning workout. When he was done it was already 8 o'clock. He went back to his hotel room to eat some breakfast.
After the breakfast Naruto remembered that Hiruzen might have something to tell him so he went to the Hokage's tower to meet him for the information.
Not caring that he didn't have an appointment Naruto walked right in the office and said "Hey jiji didn't you have something to tell me?" Hiruzen raised his head from his paperwork and seemed to think and then he looked like he remembered something important.
"Ah yes, thank you for reminding me. Old age seems to be catching up to me. Wait here." Hiruzen said with a chuckle, thinking about how he could forget it and went to a picture of the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze.
Hiruzen bit his thumb so that some blood came out and the he smeared the blood on the picture. Naruto almost yelled at him for trying to destroy a picture of the Fourth as he was the one that Naruto respected the most out of the Hokages.
When Hiruzen had smeared the blood a seal appeared in the picture and safe opened next to the picture. He went to the safe and took out three letters and a key.
"Here Naruto-kun, these are from your parents. They told me to give these to you when you gain rank of jounin." Naruto was hurt by that. The man he trusted had lied to him by saying that he didn't know his parents when he had asked before his eight year mission.
Naruto took them from Hiruzen's hands and opened one of the letters. It was from his father. Naruto was shocked by who his father was. He was the fourth hokage. The letter also read that he was sorry for sealing Kurama in Naruto. It also told that he wanted Naruto to be seen as a hero but knew that wasn't likely to happen. Naruto's eyes started to water as he read the letter.
Reading it he understood why Hiruzen had kept it from him. He wouldn't have been ready for the enemies that his father had if he had known his parents. Most likely he would have gone around Konoha yelling that his father was The Fourth.
"Thanks for these letters." Naruto said with tears almost coming out of his eyes. "Before you go, take this." Hiruzen said and gave a map. "It has the location of your new house." He finished and went back to do his paperwork.
Naruto left the building to search for his parents' house. He went to the clan district where all the big clans lived. The clans were Hyuuga, Aburame, Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Inuzuka and the now almost destroyed Uchiha clan. There were smaller clans but they had their compounds somewhere else.
After thirty minutes of walking he was in front of a normal sized clan compound that was surrounded by high and thick walls. There wasn't any kind of visible entrance there were only circles on the wall that started little below the ground and ended just before the wall and on these circles were different pictures but the one that caught Naruto's eye was a circle with a maelstrom.
Not finding a way in Naruto started to read the other letters. One of them was from his mother. Her name was Kushina Uzumaki and she was the second jinchuuriki of Kurama but obviously didn't know his name. The letter told that she really wanted to be there for him. The last lines were different handwriting and it was from a doctor and it told how Kushina died.
Again he was ready to burst in tears. He had both loving father and mother who both died protecting the village they loved even though the villagers spat on their last wishes. He decided to open the last letter and the content left him speechless. In it were detailed notes on how to learn the techniques that Naruto's parents used, but there were also told how to enter the compound.
The door was the circle that had the maelstrom. To open it Naruto had to put some of his blood in the picture while pushing chakra to it. He did it and then the circle then moved back and rolled to the left, leaving a hole in the wall.
Naruto walked in and saw the compound in all of its glory. The house had three floors and when Naruto went behind it there was the most beautiful garden that he had ever seen.
Naruto took the key and went to the front door. Opening it and exploring the house he found that the first floor had kitchen, a really big living room that was capable of having over fifty people easily in it, two bathrooms and two staircases one leading upstairs and the other to basement.
He decided to go to the staircase that led basement. The basement was divided in to four rooms. The first room was a dojo. It had practice dummies and all kinds of physical training equipment. The walls had seals that created breathable air.
The second room had a big door which blocked entrance from all those who weren't Namikaze. Once Naruto got in, he was dumb struck. There were shelves upon shelves full of different scrolls and books. Naruto reluctantly went to explore the last room.
The third room was an armory and a forge. There were many different weapons from swords of different kind to axes and spears. Practically anything a weapon user could think of.
The final room was like any of the training grounds in the village. There was a lake, some wooden pillars and practice dummies. It had the same seals as the dojo.
Seeing nothing special left in the basement, Naruto went to the second floor. It was full of rooms for any guests.
The third floor had four rooms. First room was the biggest and it took half of the third floor. The room was the master bedroom. It had a really big bed that could have over six people sleeping and still there was still room for some more. One of the walls was built as a closet. There also was a bathroom.
The second and third rooms were bedrooms meant for children. One of them was supposed to be Naruto's room. That room caused the tears that Naruto held back to come out. He stayed there for half hour before continuing. The fourth room was a storage room where all the trophies were put.
Naruto looked at the clock after the exploration and saw that it had only been two hours from the moment when he got the letters. With nothing else to do he went to the underground training ground to train the abilities of his eye.
When Naruto came out of training ground he was exhausted. He went to shower and stayed there over half hour thinking about what Hiruzen had said about his promotion. He knew that training the academy students was important but he didn't know if he could stand them as he had seen what kind of shinobis were coming out of the newly graduated ones.
Most of them were just wannabes and fan-girls with only book-smarts and no strength or average strength and no idea what was planning.
The other option was more appealing. He could help the genin who had potential and he would do everything possible to have them get that potential unlocked and get them as strong as possible. When he turned off the shower he decided to go and ask Hiruzen could he choose which team he could be the secondary sensei or did Hiruzen choose it for him.
It had been one hour from the time when he left and Naruto was now coming back to his new estate. The answer that Hiruzen gave him was that Naruto could pick which team he would want. Just like a normal jounin-sensei. He also told that the teams hadn't been decided yet and they were going to be decided tomorrow morning.
Naruto spent the remaining time training and then went to sleep.
Next morning Naruto woke up, did the same things that he does every morning and went to the Hokage's tower for the meeting to decide who gets who on their team. Naruto would just lean on some wall and listen for a team that would be nice for him.
In the meeting there were many jounin and special jounin. The most notable jounins there were Kurenai and Asuma Sarutobi even Kakashi was there probably because Hiruzen had threatened him. Asuma was Hiruzen's son. Naruto knew Asuma from the bingo book that he got from Kakashi. Before Hiruzen started to tell which the teams were, he told them that they must pick up their team the day after tomorrow.
The first six team had no special members like any clan members from the bigger clans. Most of them were fangirls and boys who wanted to gain glory by being a ninja. Kakashi took the seventh team which consisted of Sai, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno.
The file that Hiruzen read told that Sai was someone with great potential with his special ink-based ninjutsu. Sasuke was arrogant, revenge driven kid because his older brother killed everyone else in the clan but he still had potential to become strong. And finally Sakura was the normal fangirl. She had book smart but little-to-none physical strength or chakra capacity but excellent chakra control. Naruto didn't want to join this team.
Naruto started to listen as he heard that Hinata would be a member of team eight. Next member was Shino Aburame. He was normal Aburame, meaning he was quiet, didn't show much emotion and thought logically and had good grasp of his clan's techniques. Last member was Kiba Inuzuka he was a normal Inuzuka male meaning that he was brash and overconfident of his own abilities. Their sensei was Kurenai.
Naruto already decided in which team he would go so he zoned out of the rest teams. When everyone else had left Naruto walked in front of the desk and said "I have decided the team that I would like to be in."
Hiruzen didn't seem surprised. "Which team Naruto-kun?" He asked. "Team eight." Naruto answered. Hiruzen nodded and took the paper for team eight and wrote Naruto's name below Kurenai's.
"Naruto-kun one more question, do you want to use your parents' name or wait till you're older?" Hiruzen asked before Naruto could leave. "Yes I want to use it." Naruto answered. "Okay from this point onwards your name is Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto." Naruto nodded and then went back to his home.
The day before the team assignments went past quickly and it was now time for the assignments. Naruto along with the other jounin were in one of the empty class rooms. Each of them talked about what they would teach their teams except Kakashi who sat on one of the chairs and read the book that he always had. Naruto thought that it was strange that no one had asked what he was doing there.
Jounins looked at the clock and saw that it was almost time for them to take their teams. The ones who left first were the unnamed jounins, then Asuma and immediately after Kurenai with Naruto following her.
"Why are you following me?" Kurenai asked just outside the classroom. "You didn't know? I'm going to be the secondary sensei to your team as Hokage thought that I'm too young to lead a genin team properly." Kurenai was a little skeptic about the answer but decided to keep her doubts to herself.
They then went in and saw that there were only six people inside who Naruto knew immediately. There was Hinata with her teammates wearing her normal hooded-jacket, Kiba with his dog Akamaru on his head and Shino with his high collared jacket sitting silently with his teammates.
The remaining team was team seven. Sasuke had his hair on his normal duck's butt hairstyle and had his trademark frown on his face. Sakura was fawning over Sasuke and talking about how cool he was and finally Sai was drawing with his back towards the door.
Kurenai ordered her team to meet her in the nearby park. She then turned around and walked out the door with Naruto following her wordlessly.
In the park Kurenai sat on a bench with Naruto standing behind her and the team sitting on the bench opposite to Kurenai and Naruto. Hinata was stealing glances towards Naruto and blushing all the time. "Now let's start by learning a little from each other. Tell you name your likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams. You with the dog start." Kurenai said even though she knew their names.
"My name is Kiba and this guy is Akamaru. My likes are women, dogs and my clan. I dislike betrayers and cats. My hobby is to go for a walk with Akamaru and my dream is to be the best clan leader that I can be." Kiba said while petting Akamaru.
Kurenai nodded and pointed at Shino. "My name is Shino Aburame and I like different kinds of bugs. My dislikes are bug repellants and those who treat bugs as if they were something evil. My hobby is to gather new exotic bugs. My dream is to catalogue all the bugs and be the best clan leader." Shino said with his normal monotone causing Kiba to go wide eyed and with a jaw on the ground.
Hinata guessed that it was her turn to introduce herself "M-my n-name i-is H-Hinata H-Hyuuga a-and I-I l-like a-a c-certain s-someone a-and a-arranging f-flowers I-I d-dislike t-those w-who p-put o-other p-people d-down. M-m-my h-hobby i-is t-to a-arrange f-flowers a-a-and c-creating c-creams f-f-from d-different h-herbs a-and m-my d-dream i-is t-to u-unite m-my c-clan." She stuttered while looking at Naruto.
"That's a good goal Hinata-chan." Naruto said smiling at her causing her to blush. "My name is Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto and I will be your secondary sensei. My likes are training, ramen and my friends. I dislike rapists, arrogant fools and fan-girls. My hobby is training and my dream is to have my own clan and a family." Naruto said.
Kurenai introduced herself "My name is Kurenai Yuuhi and I will be your sensei. My likes are roses, romance novels and genjutsu I dislike sexists and rapists. My hobby is to create new genjutsus and my dream is to be the best genjutsu user and to see that every one of you will reach jounin rank."
"Everyone meet us at training ground eight at seven o'clock tomorrow morning for your true genin exam." She said and disappeared in a swirl of leaves before anyone could question her. The new genins looked at Naruto who shrugged as he didn't have any idea what the test was. When the leaves fell on the ground; Kiba and Shino went their own ways while Naruto and Hinata went somewhere themselves.
Naruto took Hinata to one of the secluded parts of the park for a talk. "Hinata-chan I need to know what your true feelings for me are." Naruto said to her with a pleading look in his eyes. "I-I-I l-l-love y-y-you." Hinata whispered.
Naruto didn't know what to say. He had some kind of feelings towards Hinata but he didn't know what kind of feelings. "Hinata-chan I wish I could say the same but I don't know what I feel so would you like to go out with me some time to get to know you better?" Hinata was sad at first but then her mood lifted and she fainted. Chuckling Naruto caught her and put her down so that she was leaning to a tree.
It took ten minutes for Hinata to wake up. She thought that the conversation was a dream when she woke up but Naruto convinced that it was real causing Hinata to almost faint. After that little incident they agreed to go on a date on the next day after the test. Rest of the day went quickly for Naruto as he trained himself to exhaustion like he usually does.
Naruto woke up and what he normally did and went to the training ground eight. In there he saw that whole team was already there except Kurenai because there was still time before the test begun.
Saying hello to everyone went and sat down next to Hinata and started to think different ways to get her out of her shyness. The first thing that came in his mind was helping her and cheering for her.
Kurenai said that Naruto wasn't needed for the test which was to find and capture Kurenai within three hours but Naruto would have tosee what the genin did so that he could help Kurenai with the training plan. Naruto stayed back and saw that the team had a pretty good teamwork for a newly graduated team.
He thought that their teamwork wasn't going to be the best but for some reason even Kiba followed the plan that Shino made but was reluctant at first and Shino and Kiba argued about it but Shino just countered every argument that Kiba made.
The plan was simple they use Kiba's and Akamaru's senses to search with Shino's bugs go also searching with Hinata using her Byakugan. They found Kurenai and Kiba went first on attack using his clan techniques. Then Hinata came with her taijutsu and tried to shut Kurenai's chakra pathways. Then shino sent his bugs to try to drain Kurenai's chakra.
In the end they couldn't catch Kurenai but she passed them as they showed the necessary teamwork that was required for a genin-team. Once Kurenai had passed them she told them to come back to the training ground tomorrow at the same time as before.
Naruto asked if he would be needed to be with Kurenai when she would report to the Hokage about the team's success. She said that she would take care of it.
Right now Naruto is walking around in a nearby park with Hinata, talking about little things like weather and their happy memories. They walked for a few hours and then went to eat some lunch to a nearby restaurant. Naruto noticed that during their date Hinata started to stutter less and less until at the very end of the date she only stuttered once in a while.
After their date Naruto took her back to her home and kissed her cheek. During the walk back he thought about his feelings for Hinata. It was true that he liked her but he didn't know if they could become a couple but he decided to see if he has any feelings for her. The walk from Hinata's home to his wasn't long as they both lived in the clan district.
Next three months went past quickly with team eight doing D-rank missions or chores as Naruto called them or training. During those months Hinata's self-confidence was boosted and now she only stuttered when she was extremely nervous.
It took a while before Naruto could sort out his feelings for her but in the end he did and now they both loved each other.
Also Hinata had improved a lot. During one of their dates Hinata told Naruto about the spars she had against her little sister Hanabi. Hinata lost those spars because she didn't want to hurt her sister but Naruto convinced her that she was doing more harm than good.
"Hinata because you allow Hanabi to win she will grow arrogant and that isn't good in ninja business. Even though she will have some skills to back her statements she would still bite more than she could chew at some point if she isn't shown some humility." Naruto said to Hinata when she talked about her losing on her own will.
So when the next spar was Hinata beat Hanabi with a little struggle. When it was over Hanabi asked how she could beat her. Hinata answered that she had always held back because she didn't want to hurt her. Hinata's father Hiashi was also pleased of her new confidence as he knew that Hinata held back.
Rest of the team also got better. Kiba lost some of his overconfidence but he still was headstrong and brash but not as much as in the academy. He also trained his senses, taijutsu and clan jutsus to a level that was close to chuunin.
Shino's personality didn't change but his chakra control and level got up and now he could do three C-rank jutsu compared to when they started as a team he could do only one. His clan jutsus also improved.
Their teamwork also got better. They could give Kurenai a challenge if they tried their best.
Right now they were in Hokage's tower to get a mission when Hokage's secretary came and told them that Hokage wanted to speak with them. Kurenai nodded motioned her team to follow her.
When they were inside Hiruzen said with a serious voice "Team 8 I just received a word from Kakashi that their C-rank mission has turned into an A-rank one. In the light of this I send you five to assist them as all ANBU teams all on missions. Kakashi also told that there is a businessman there who controls the country because of this your secondary objective is to neutralize him."
Kurenai nodded and took two scrolls that Hiruzen had written that had their orders. "Alright team we will meet at the main gate in thirty minutes. Now go!" She said and vanished in a swirl of leaves at the same time as Naruto vanished in a pillar of black flames. Rest of the team went out as quickly as possible.
At the gate Kurenai gave one of the scrolls that Hiruzen gave them to gate guards and then she and her team went as fast as possible towards the position of team seven.
They arrived at the position that was told in the letter in three hours but no one was there. "Kiba can you smell anyone?" Kurenai asked. Kiba sniffed few times and nodded. "Lead the way." She said.
The scent led them to a house. Naruto knocked on the door and soon a woman with black hair came and asked who they were. Naruto told her that they were the reinforcement that the previous team called.
The woman told them her name. It was Tsunami. She led them to living room and in there were the members of team seven. Sasuke was sitting in a corner of the room with his ever present scowl, Sakura again with stars in her eyes while looking at Sasuke, who shuddered when he saw those eyes and Sai sitting on a couch while drawing something.
When Sasuke saw them he immediately went and asked them why they were at Wave. Naruto motioned to Kurenai to not answer and asked where Kakashi was. Sasuke got mad because he didn't like being ignored but didn't get a chance to open his mouth because Sai managed to say that Kakashi was upstairs. Kurenai thanked him and told the team to rest while Naruto was coming with her to talk with Kakashi.
"What happened to you?" Naruto asked when they opened the door to Kakashi's room. "We got ambushed by Zabuza Momochi The demon of Hidden Mist. I managed to injure him but there was a kid wearing the standard Kiri hunter-nin attire. He took Zabuza before I could kill him." Kakashi said through gritted teeth.
"Have you told this to your team?" Kurenai asked. "No. I just woke up." Kakashi answered. "Naruto, could you go and tell them that. And also tell them that their training will be harder." Kurenai said. Naruto nodded and went downstairs.
(A/N: Done. So, how was this chapter? Tell me your opinion and any suggestions that you have. I don't know if I did the romance properly. So anything that could help me to make the romances better in the future is appreciated. Also if anyone is wondering about why Naruto had to be a secondary sensei the answer is that in my story every jounin must take a genin team when a new bunch of genins graduate except when Hokage tells them not to, all teams have a sensei or if the jounin has had a genin team and they have become chuunin. Hiruzen just gave Naruto a different choice.
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