Chapter 5: Arrival
This is fic is loosely inspired after reading "councils folly" by "Agamemnon". I have changed it accordingly to suit my story.
I would like to give credit to the base plot to him.
I do not own Naruto or any of its character and if I did there would be more background cover for the Hyuga Clan.
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A/n: Thank you all for the wonderful reviews and for the readers who added this story to their alert/fav list.
JabbatheGut: I don't think Hinata is a stalker because I haven't seen any stalker jump in front of an enemy without regard for their own life.
Dablman2020, saiyan prince, girrr, plasma57: Thank you for the review
theguh otsutsuki: I'm trying my hand at writing for the first time I'll try and increase the length of the chapter as much as possible.
BacoBoyX9: I believe that there can be more character development even if it is not a single pairing.
Kenka: Thank you for the big review and about Ino let's just say she will leave the fan girl mode pretty quickly.
DarthMC: Dude it doesn't matter if you don't know English, leave a review in the language which you are comfortable, I'll translate it. The important thing is my readers liking and commenting on any mistakes I make.
Adharsh: I don't think Hinata over reacted, cause for her Naruto is everything.
Kunoichi Of The Moonlight: Temari makes her comment on the Uchiha in the next chapter so wait and see her reaction towards him.
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In Konoha:
Tsunade didn't know what wrong had she done for her to deserve such punishments, she had been flooded with problems one after the other since she had arrived to the village, starting with the whole Naruto and Jiraiya then Naruto and his adoption and finally Naruto's marriage. Just when she thought all the headaches were finished she now stood in front of a new headache.
The said headache was Hiashi Hyuga Clan head of the Hyuga clan, Tsunade didn't want to believe there could be such a harsh family, but after going through and reading Hinata's personal files and after her therapy sessions with Hinata she just wanted to go to the Hyuga clan compound and kill most of the members starting with the man standing in front of her.
Flashback:
"Hokage-sama please come and see my daughter she is in a mental coma" Hiashi had barraged inside the Senju compound when he had been unable to get an immediate appointment from the hokage.
"Hiashi what is the meaning of this? You can't barge in like this" Shouted an angry tsunade.
"I've just comeback from the office Hiashi, I'll come and look at your daughter in the morning" Tsunade said with a tired sigh.
"Hokage-sama please I beg you, I'll be more relived if you checked her once" Hiashi asked pleadingly
"Alright, let me just finish my dinner first" Tsunade replied and went to have her dinner as Hiashi made his way to the outside of Senju compound to wait for Tsunade.
Half an hour later Tsunade made came outside the compound and met Hiashi.
Both Hiashi and tsunade made it to the hospital, where tsunade asked Hiashi to stay outside and went inside to check on Hinata. After 3 hours so Tsunade came outside, as she reached Hiashi, he saw the angry expression on Tsunade's face and paled; as she came closer he could feel the murderous aura coming from Tsunade.
Tsunade slapped Hiashi in front of everyone present in the hospital and started to shout at him
' "What kind of a father are you? To treat your daughter in such a cruel way and those elders I'll kill them if I get the chance"
Hiashi didn't respond aggressively, he knew he deserved the slap "Hinata is she okay" Hiashi asked
"Why would you care what happened to her, isn't that how you raised her letting her think she didn't mean anything to you" tsunade snarled angrily at Hiashi
"Hokage-sama I've realized that what I did was wrong please tell me is my daughter okay" Hiashi asked with complete sincerity in his voice
Tsunade could feel the sincerity in Hiashi's voice and she could see that he really cared about his daughter.
"She's alright now, I woke her up from her Coma, but we need to discuss some things come to my office now"
Hiashi was overjoyed with the news of his daughter waking up, he just nodded his head followed Tsunade to the Hokage's office.
As soon both Tsunade and Hiashi entered the office Tsunade activated the privacy seal.
"Hiashi I'm really disappointed in you and your clan and how they have treated Hinata, the girl has almost no self confidence in herself. She is searching for some form of positive acceptance" Tsunade said clearly unhappy at the Hyuga
"Do you know how fragile her mind his become, after she woke up I asked her some questions casually, she was very hesitant at answering at first but after she felt comfortable with me she finally answered all the question and cried her heart out" Tsunade said sadly as she couldn't think that a 13 year old go through such emotional abuse at such an age.
Tsunade's each word was hitting Hiashi's ego very hard, he never knew that Hinata was this hurt by her family.
Tsunade looked at Hiashi and could clearly see the regret and guilt on Hiashi's face so she thought of getting directly to the problem and try and improve the girl's life.
"Look here Hiashi I know things seem quiet bad for your daughter now but we can help her" tsunade said trying to be reassuring to the Hyuga clan head
"Hai, Hokage-sama but what is the major problem we need to help her with?" Hiashi asked
"Right now her major problem is depression at thinking that she does not have a chance to tell her feelings to Naruto and even if she did she is afraid of Naruto rejecting her" Tsunade said rubbing her temples as a lot of problems seemed to revolving around her son.
"That I know Hokage-sama, but my biggest task for now is earning hinata's trust and show her I really do care for her and I believe I know how to do it but it can be done only with your help Hokage-sama" Hiashi said begging the Hokage.
End of Flashback
"Hiashi you do know what you are proposing is quiet dangerous to both your daughter and Naruto and I don't like it cause I look at him as my own son" Tsunade said not quite sure what to do as she wanted to lookout for her son but also didn't want to see the Hyuga girl in anymore pain.
"I know hokage-sama but I'm confident in my ability as a DIPLOMAT and a NEGOTIATOR to draw out an ironclad contract with complete protection both Naruto and Hinata" Hiashi replied with complete confidence in his skills
Tsunade didn't like what was going to happen but as medic she knew that Naruto needed someone from his age group to accept him even before he knew about his TENANT, though he hid it well, a skilled medic as herself could see that he was yearning for recognition from someone from his past.
"Alright Hiashi I'll agree to this but we can't force Naruto into this, my suggestion would be for Hinata herself to win over Naruto in the future and your biggest task is to instill confidence in her and help her In her training" Tsunade said to Hiashi
Hiashi just nodded hearing this and knew he had a lot of effort in repairing things with his daughter.
"Alright Hokage-sama I'll prepare the contract and send a copy to you, after you read it you can talk to your son about it and make him help understand and I would like to talk to him after you have talked to him" Hiashi replied
"Alright, how much time do you require for the contract to be prepared?"
"At least a month for it to be ironclad and I request you to talk with Hinata and explain she still does have a chance with Naruto"
"Alright, I'll talk with her in the morning when I come for her checkup"
"Arigato hokage-sama I'm in your debt for this"
"It's alright Hiashi both of us are looking out for our children's happiness"
"Before we go Hokage-sama I just have one question" Hiashi said
Tsunade raised her eyebrow at this and nodded for Hiashi to ask
"Hokage-sama, why do you care so much for the boy?"
Tsunade was honestly surprised with the question but when she saw Hiashi's face she could only see curiosity she just sighed and said
"He reminds me too much of my family" with that said Tsunade made her way to the Senju compound.
Hiashi just smiled and made his way to the hospital thinking of all the arrangements to be done in the near future.
As Hiashi reached the hospital he saw that the corridors were almost empty, he made his way towards the room his daughter was in, he opened the door and saw that Hinata was string at the moon with some tears falling from her eyes.
It pained him to see that his daughter was in so much pain and he was one was the biggest reason for it. He entered the room and said "Hinata"
Hinata was looked to see her father standing inside her room, she cringed upon seeing him waiting for the tongue lash that she was about to receive.
Hiashi saw how Hinata cringed upon seeing his face, he resolved himself to set things right with his daughter.
He got on his knees with his forehead touching the ground
"Hinata my daughter I'm sorry for everything please try and forgive this fool of a father of yours"
Hinata was shocked to see and hear her father say those things to her and what more shocked her was the emotion in his voice which showed regret and guilt.
"Otou-sama"
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In Suna:
Temari was on her way towards the training ground where her youngest brother was training, she was happy for the first time in a long time she was genuinely happy, her brother was back to her he was more sane and he was showing more and more emotion when he would be with her.
On the other hand she was sad as she had to leave for Konoha tomorrow; both her brothers had told her that they would travel to konoha with her. She couldn't believe her luck just as she had gotten back her family she would lose it.
Her musings ended when she reached the training ground and saw her brother meditating. She went near him and stood there for him to finish.
After a few minutes Gaara looked up to see his sister standing next to him
"Temari good to see you, shall we go to the restaurant for dinner"
Temari couldn't help but sigh; even though her brother was talking more, now he was too direct than required.
"Hai Gaara come on lets go"
Temari and Gaara made their way towards the restaurant where Kankuro was waiting for both them
"Took you both long enough to come" Kankuro said as he saw his siblings
Kankuro was shocked when his sister had told what happened with Gaara and didn't believe her at first but the next day when Gaara had approached him and apologized for his actions he was shocked, as the shock wore off he hugged his brother for just a second and told him excitedly that he would be the best brother to him and told him.
The next day Kankuro had went to Gaara's room and said that as big brother he needed teach his brother about girls and had given him a Little Orange Book as a gift.
To his bad luck his sister had arrived at the same time and saw the book and had beaten Kankuro severely for trying to corrupt her little brother.
After that incident the siblings had started to behave as normal siblings would behave. Kankuro would annoy both Gaara and Temari and Temari would beat him, for the first time the siblings felt they were a real family.
"Kankuro stop irritating Temari, let's go I'm hungry" Gaara said neutrally as he went inside the restaurant.
The siblings finished their dinner and Gaara made his way back to the training grounds to continue his training.
"Can you believe that we used to be scared of him just a month back" Kankuro asked Temari
"No I can't but we have to thank Uzumaki Naruto for changing him" replied Temari
"Yes we do, nee-san I know that you aren't happy going away from us and the whole marriage thing"
"Yes, I'm not happy with either but for the good of the village I have to do this"
"Nee-san I might not know too much about this but I think you should talk with this Naruto when you reach Konoha he seems like a nice enough guy and if he tries anything let's just say me and Gaara will take care of him treaty be damned"
Hearing her brother tell this made Temari more emotional, tears of happiness formed in her eyes and she just made her way towards her home.
The day had passed very quickly for Temari; she was getting nervous about leaving her brothers alone. She had packed all necessary items for her stay in Konoha. She heard a knock on her door "The door is open, come in"
Baki entered the room and looked at Temari and greeted her
"Ohayo Temari, are you ready for the journey"
"Hai sensei, let's go"
"Temari this is for you" baki handed her a chunin vest
"We wanted to promote you before you leave and you deserved it" Baki said with a sad smile
"Arigato sensei, this means a lot to me" Temari took the vest and sealed it within a scroll
Baki and Temari made their way towards the gates of Suna where a group of people stood as she came close she could see a few of them were the council members.
Temari made her way towards were her brothers were standing and greeted Kankuro with a light punch and a hug to Gaara, to which Kankuro just pouted.
This was Temari's way of saying that Gaara was very special to her, Kankuro though acted as if he was disappointed he was glad to see that Gaara got some sort of motherly affection.
After the greetings were finished the group left for Konoha, they knew this was a monumental step towards achieving a strong treaty with Konoha.
For Temari this was her journey towards a new life, a life full of surprises which could be good or bad, which she didn't know.
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Naruto was ecstatic as he had just finished his training on taijutsu and he definitely could feel that he was improving, the other reason for his happiness was that the ability of shadow clones which his father had told had been true.
Currently he had created 100 clones which were divided into 4 groups with each group practicing chakra control, some elemental ninjutsu, and calligraphy and reading books on strategy.
When Naruto had met his father and after some mind boggling revelation, Naruto decided to ask his father some training tips his father had asked about his jutsu arsenal and was very disappointed when he heard he knew only 2 jutsu apart from the Henge and Kawarami.
Yondaime didn't want his son to be unprepared in the shinobi world and had suggested his son to learn some elemental ninjutsu and also had told him he could use Kage Bunshin for training except for physical exercises.
By the time it was time for Minato to leave his son he had talked about most of his experiences as a shinobi and had told that when Naruto would attempt to take control of Kyubi's chakra he would be able to meet his mother.
When Naruto heard about his mother he had asked about her, Minato told everything about Kushina from her attitude and how Naruto resembled her in his brashness to the verbal tic in talking.
When Naruto heard that even his mother had the same verbal tic he felt happy a feeling of warmth had spread across his chest and he wanted to meet her as soon as possible, that's when Minato had told him that he needed to be stronger to challenge the Kyubi and take the Kyubi's chakra.
When Naruto go to know that his mother's clan were master at fuinjutsu, he had decided to honor them by studying the art and make the Uzumaki name proud.
After returning to konoha he had gone to a shinobi weapons store and had taken the chakra paper to find his affinity and after pouring some chakra to the paper, the paper had split in half with one part getting damp and the other part crumbled.
Naruto got confused at that and tried again to get the same results, frustrated he finally looked at the manual and read 'If it splits in half you have wind affinity' he hadn't bothered to read the rest of the manual and made his way towards the training ground to practice his affinity.
After sending some clones to retrieve some wind jutsu's and books on tactics from the shinobi library, he made his way to one of the training grounds
In the starting he had problems with the jutsu's, he tried to find Kakashi-sensei and ask for some pointers, but wasn't able to find him. As he was searching for Kakashi he came across Azuma and Kurenai walking hand in hand, both the sensei's saw Naruto and distanced themselves a little and asked him what he was doing, Naruto replied he was searching for Kakashi-sensei and wanted to ask for some pointer's for his wind jutsu.
Azuma was shocked to hear that another person had the same affinity as him and asked how Naruto knew about his affinity, where Naruto lied he learned it from Jiraiya.
The Jonin's took the answer, as Naruto was leaving Azuma called out and told Naruto to imagine the chakra into two thin blades while performing any wind jutsu and told Naruto to cut a leave in half to get a good feel of wind chakra.
Naruto nodded at this and went back to the training field and did as asked, currently he could cut one third of a leaf.
As Naruto was contemplating about his training, he heard some footsteps and saw that his sister had come to see him.
"Hey Shizune nee-chan what are you doing here?"
"Naruto what are you doing here, I've been looking for you and why aren't you ready. I thought Tsunade-sama told you to be ready for today. The Suna envoy will arrive in a few hours you need to be present with the Hokage to greet them"
Hearing this Naruto started to panic and runaround screaming
"What, I need to take a shower and get ready; Kaa-chan is going to kill me"
Shizune couldn't help but laugh at Naruto's antics and spoke loudly
"Naruto go home and take a shower and get ready and come near the village gate directly, I'll go and tell Tsunade-sama that you'll meet us directly near the gate"
Hearing his sister's suggestion Naruto commanded his clones to dispel in group of 10 with a ten minute interval and ran as fast as possible towards his house.
Shizune just laughed at Naruto and saw the army of clones, she was always impressed by the sheer number of Kage Bunshin he could create.
As soon as he reached his home he quickly took a shower and got ready and out of habit his hand reached for his favorite orange jump suit but his mother's word came inside his mind and he moved away his precious jumpsuit.
He put on a dark blue muscle t-shirt and some black ANBU pants and his usual ninja sandals and tied his Hitiate on his forehead and made his way towards his the village gate.
As he reached the gate he saw that his mother had not yet arrived and let out a breath he was holding.
"Phew! Saved kaa-chan isn't here still"
"Oh I wouldn't say that now Naru-chan" Tsunade replied standing behind Naruto with a sweet smile on her face
When Naruto turned his head slowly and saw that smile a shiver went down his spine.
"Sochi why aren't wearing the kimono that I bought you for such formal occasion"
"Ahem, kaa-chan I didn't know how to wear one so I thought I would ask your help later and I didn't want to be late so I came wearing this" Naruto replied hoping his mother would buy the lie.
"Alright Sochi, you saved yourself this time, anyway do you remember what to say when you meet Temari" Tsunade asked Naruto.
"Hai, kaa-chan remember them don't worry" Naruto replied
"Alright they should be here in around 15 minutes" Tsunade said
After 10 minutes the suna envoy reached the gates of konoha and saw the hokage she herself standing and waiting with the some members of the council.
As customary Temari had ridden in the carriage and when they stopped in front of the Konoha gates, Temari got down from the carriage and saw the Hokage in her Hokage clothes standing regally and next to her stood the boy she was supposed to marry the boy had changed his attire from orange to dark clothes.
"Greetings and welcome to Konohagakure no Sato, I am Senju Tsunade Godaime Hokage of Konoha and I'm most pleased to formally welcome you"
She looked at Naruto to say his part but what she saw made her chuckle as her son was looking at Temari without blinking and with a small blush on his face.
The reason for said reaction was the bride to be, as she was wearing an Milk white Kimono with red rose petals falling around them and the kimono hugged her body just enough to show her curves.
Naruto felt someone elbowing him and turned to see his sister elbowing him with a smirk on her face, Naruto blushed at bit more and shook his head a bit to clear the blush and nervously faced Temari nervously, bowed and spoke the phrase his kaa-chan had hammered into his head.
"I welcome you Temari, my water is yours and I wish you shade and safety."
Temari stared in complete shock. She had not been expecting the traditional greeting of a Sunagakure groom to his bride. Snapping out of her reverie, Temari bowed in return
"I greet you Naruto, I am thankful for the honor. May you always find water and may our home be blessed with shade."
Temari eyed Naruto carefully he looked a lot more serious than she remembered, he was loud and wild during the preliminaries but now he had the presence of the warrior who defeated her brother.
"Everyone must be tired from the journey, why don't you all go and rest in the hotel which has been prepared for you." Tsunade said to the Suna envoy.
Everyone just nodded and started to go with their escorts, as Temari and her brother's were going
"Temari you can stay with Naruto as you need to get used to it." Tsunade said to Temari, to which Temari just nodded
Naruto just paled hearing what his mother had said and turned around and wanted to refuse it but saw Temari nodding and sighed.
Just then he saw Gaara standing and shouted
"Gaara, how are you?"
Gaara just looked at Naruto and let a small smile creep up his face and just nodded saying he was fine
"Gaara why don't you come and stay with me till you leave and you can bring your brother also." Naruto asked
Gaara looked confused at this and wondered why Naruto was asking him this.
Naruto looked at the confusion on the face and came near Gaara and whispered
"Your sister will feel more comfortable if you both stay with her till you leave"
Hearing this Gaara nodded his consent
When Naruto told this to Tsunade and Temari were shocked but agreed with his reasoning.
Everyone made their way towards their respective destination and thought about tomorrow which would reveal more secrets to them.
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So how was the chapter please read and review it motivates me update quickly.
The greeting part between Temari and Naruto is taken directly from Council's folly.
In the reviews a lot of people have asked will this be a harem.
Yes this will be since the story is inspired from 'Council's folly' and will have 3 girls in it and Hinata will be in it but it won't be till much later and for the 3rd girl suggestion is welcome but it can't be Ino or Sakura or Tenten.
Anyways till next time.
Ja Ne