Hey everybody this is my first ever fanfic so I would appreciate it if you tell what you think about it.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Naruto and all rights are reserved to Masashi kishimoto.

Warning this is a Naruto x mei x hinata fic, not sure if i should make it a harem fanfic tho but if i feel i can smoothly add other girls i might give it a try. Several changes to canon throughout.

since i cant really remember the whole blood prison stuff i would be trying to create something similar or something i can work with :).

Earlier that day in konoha

Five figures walked through the gates of konoha, two of them talking while the others followed closely listening to the conversation, this four people were the members of team 8 along with akamaru. They were just returning from a successful mission, which although not really dangerous was quite taxing. "I'm really disappointed we didn't run into any bandit's or enemy shinobi" complained kiba

which earned him a response from his other teammate shino "hmn if we did encounter some resistance you would just complain about how easy it was taking them down" kiba knew what shino said was true but he still couldn't help it

"at least it wouldn't have made the patrol that boring" kiba muttered signalling the end of the conversation.

Finally reaching the gates they stood with the guards while clearing themselves for entry into the village, this was standard protocol for all ninjas returning from missions. Turning to her students kurenai dismissed them while she shunshin'd to report the mission details to the hokage.

"ahh finally free" kiba said the moment kurenai left, turning to his teammates he said excitedly hoping they could hangout for a while

"so what you guys gonna do now" shino giving a thoughtful reply responded

" i don't know, but I'm sure by the time i reach home i would have figured something out" kiba turned to the last member of their team who had been a lot quiet

"what bout you hinata" he said giving her a smile, shino seeing this turned slightly to show her he too was interested in what she had to say.

she kept quiet for some seconds gathering her thought she replied "im going to take a nice bath, maybe a nap I'm a bit tired" then quickly saying to them before kiba could suggest anything else she said "i should go now, will see you guys later" turning from them she began walking away.

Kiba let out a sigh feeling bummed up from her reply, letting his shoulders drop he was thinking 'she's been like this ever since naruto got jailed and his secret got out. She hardly spends time with anybody, even us when we're not on missions and if anyone tried inviting her out she would just turn them down saying she had things to do, its like she is distancing herself from us"

a hand to his shoulder cut him off as he turned his head from the retreating form of his teammate, looking at shino whose hand was on his shoulder ,he sighed already knowing what was going to happen next " i know your going to say give her time, but its been years and she still hasn't shown any sign of change towards anyone " he said before muttering" I'm worried about her, we're her teammates the least she can do is let us in".

Shino understood what kiba was talking about, you see when the secret about naruto broke out some of their friends were scared, they believed what the villagers said about naruto being the demon. Kiba was one of them along with ino and sakura they kinda voiced their opinion about it. With sakura saying that although naruto was her teammate, she had seen what the power he held could do and it was dangerous.

Ino voiced her opinion on if the sealing of a demon into naruto was like possession, then the possibility of kyuubi controlling naruto was very high as she doubted the possibility of his mind gaining dominance of the foxes. Kiba agreed with her view and suggested that if it was true naruto should be kept secure and locked down to prevent the fox from escaping, maybe even seal his chakra so he won't have access to it.

This upset hinata as they had no faith in naruto controlling the fox power and kiba's assumption that the best plan would be to lock naruto kun for who knows how long. Sure that was basically what tsunde did but hers was different, kiba suggesting his friend, someone they grew up with spend the rest of his life locked up made her angry.

Things were getting bad real fast,tsunade had only called them there to clearify the truth from whatever nonsense they heard,now here they ware arguing like she called them here on the fate of naruto, she needed to end things before it got real bad.

Luckily shikamaru was quick to point out that it was not necessary as he had stayed in control since they were little, so there was no danger and how kiba would feel if he was the one in naruto's case. That seemed to calm them down enough to think straight but to hinata what kiba and the others said still upset her, how quick they were to point out that he should be sealed and prisoned almost as if they saw him as a weapon, just waiting to break, instead of a human being.

Ever since that day hinata had slowly distanced herself from kiba, ino and sakura. Kiba giving shino a small smile decided it was time to leave, with that he walked away signalling akamaru to follow him.

Shino stared at kiba as he and akamaru walked away, he understood why hinata wanted to be away from them, most of all kiba. It was disappointing that after the arrest and raid of naruto's home kiba had taken it upon himself to try and win hinata's heart, he had probably seen it as an opportunity kami was giving him. He tried everything even if it meant tarnishing naruto's image so he could look good in her eyes ,but nothing seemed to work at all

this upset kiba to the point where he spoke about a sensitive topic during one of their days hanging out with the others. kiba had gotten a little too drunk and spoke too much when he thought she wasn't around 'why doesn't she want to wake up from her fairytale dream and see reality, naruto does not and never would have feelings for her' shino remembered the words, sure it was not hard to tell that kiba had feelings for Hinata, but whatever chances he had back then are probably non existing now. Shaking his head lightly to clear his thoughts he began walking home.

Meanwhile with hinata

The journey to her apartment wasn't long but it was rather uneventful, this pleased hinata as she wasn't ready for any unnecessary company. Arriving at the apartment she open the door letting herself in. Studying her environment to make sure everything was the same way she left.

Satisfied she made her way to her bathroom which although small when compared to the one she had in the hyuuga clan house still fulfilled its purpose, filling the bath tub with water, she then went to her room where she discarded her sweaty clothes, before going into the bathroom she stood in front of her mirror where she inspected herself for some minutes then she got slowly into the tub.

Adjusting herself till she felt completely relaxed she leaned her head back while closing her eyes as she let herself drift into her thoughts.

So much had happened over the past few years that hinata wanted to reminisce on, kinda like a bumpy ride and it seemed like the main cause of these random events seemed to be tied to something or rather someone 'Naruto kun' hinata whispered remembering everything about him, from his cute smile, to his beautiful eyes it always made her feel giddy just by thinking about him .

Hinata frowned to herself as she continued to flood her imagination with how good looking, brave, strong spirited and perfect he is 'how many times do i have to remind you, he already has someone' she reminded herself , not too long after naruto was arrested tsunade as requested by the daimyo was to conduct search on naruto's belongings for any information about the attack or at least something that might be useful, the search was long and unfruitful,luckily when they were about to call an end some lucky anbu found a secret compartment in the floor with all kinds of things ranging from diaries, scrolls and letters which upon reading led to the discovery of narutos private training and interaction with a woman named 'mei'

which from observation had been going on from a very long time, they seemed to have formed some kinda relationship and used letters to communicate either for security purpose or distance, this came as a shocker to everyone as they thought naruto still had feelings for sakura, jiraiya on the other had was proud naruto got a girlfriend ,hopefully she was good looking. But then he was a bit saddened that he wasn't told about it including his private training.

Meanwhile with tsunade

Kurenai had just left her office after her mission briefing, laying her head on her desk Tsunade let out a muffled moan, happy that kurenai had made the briefing as short as possible, this gave her enough time to rest.

Relaxing her body she muttered' you were so easy to understand when you were little, why did you change so much' remembering a little boy with sun kissed hair and blue eyes staring at her

"naruto" she murmured remembering when everything went bad.

Flashback

9 months after returning from training trip

It was 7:00 AM in the morning the birds were chirping, the sky was as beautiful as always and people were waking up. Tsunade senju on the other hand had been working in her office for what felt like hours now, feeling exhausted she was about to relax her head on her desk for some minutes when shizune burst through her door yelling "tsunade sama you have to see this! ".

Raising her head as fast as possible so shizune would not know she was about to sleep "yes, what is it shizune and why are you shouting so loud ,it's only 7 in the morning" said tsunade trying to keep a serious face,

"sensei a letter, its from the raikage" before she could go on tsunade replied

"Raikage what does he want" while looking bored.

Pushing the letter to her" read it" was all she replied. Grabbing the opened letter tsunade took one last look at her student who seemed to be shaking either with fear or excitement from whats in the letter, looking at the letter she was surprised with what was written inside. Reading it more tsunade's shocked expression turned to one that showed complete worry about the person the letter concerned 'he would never do such a thing, this has to be a mistake' was all she could think .This was bad, something like this could start something big...maybe even ' war '.

"this has to be some kinda joke" tsunade said trying to be calm while standing up." i thought so too but apparently the signature of the raikage at the bottom states other wise "shizune replied. Thinking on how to deal with this tsunade came with a conclusion" shizune call a meeting with the council and elders tell them to be in the meeting room by 1:00PM sharp. "with that shizune bowed before turning walking away to do her job."with that shizune bowed before turning walking away to do her job.

1:00PM

Council room

The council room which was made up of clan leaders, civilans and the village elders. These leaders were made up of Tsume Inuzuka, Hiashi Hyuuga, Shibi Aburame, Inoichi Yamanaka, Choza Akamichi, Shikaku Nara . The civilan section being filled by certain merchants and high political figures which was lead by none other the Mabui Haruno. The other two elders were Koharu Utakane, Homura Mitokado and Danzo Shimura. Tsunade being in the middle of both of them.

Tsunade noticing that everyone was present stood up and decided to speak "This council meeting has been called into session. Earlier this morning we received a letter from the raikage"tsunade said before she could go on she noticed how the mood of the inhabitants had changed into one of worry many of them were murmuring about what he wanted and some about why they should listen him considering how last time he tricked them.

All this was getting on tsunades nerves since they had not even heard what the letter was about and they were quick to jump to conclusion that its about some kinda treaty, she was about to yell at them when someone spoke" hokage sama what is the letter about", turning her sight to the person it was non other than danzo. Founder and leader of Root , he gained notoriety because of his frequent unsanctioned actions and his often suspected (but rarely proven) undermining of specific Konoha personnel. Despite his decades of suspicious deeds, Danzō only ever acted in what he believed were the village's best interests.

Calming down she said" the letter speaks o-" the door to the council was thrown open as some random ninja rushed in" sorry for the disturbance but Hokage sama a letter just came from daimyo sama" the ninja spoke bowing his head "why couldn't you wait for the meeting to end"she replied glancing at him.

" i was going to but i noticed it was a red ribbon so i figured you had to see it quick." the moment he said red ribbon tsunade's expression changed from annoyance to a very serious look . See the daimyo's had a way of signalling the delicacy of letters he sent and a ribbon is used to show how important the letter is red signals classified and very important letters the kind that in the wrong hands could be serious problems, Yellow ribbons are mostly used to signal the hokage of visitors from the royal family and white for less important matters.

Taking the letter she dismissed him as she opened it reading it's contents, the council members now were becoming more impatient they were yet to hear what tsunade called them for now the damiyo. The tension in the room was really high as they watched her facial expression change randomly, finishing the letter she closed it and looked up her expression looking unhappy she began speaking to them.

"Now that i have your attention we may resume,Earlier this morning i received a letter from the raikage dating back to two days age the lettet was to notify me that there was an assassination attempt with him being the target victim"most of the members of the civilian councils began whispering some becoming worried about what the damyo had to do with this" so what does this have to do with us and why is damiyo sama involvement here"questioned koharu."now i see why hokage sama was worried this is becoming troublesome"said shikaku leaning backwards into his seat"what do you mean"questioned choza still confused. Sighing " it obvious the ninja who carried out the attack is one of ours why else would the raikage send us this letter we aren't on good terms with them and the involvement of the daimyo"he replied calmly.

"WHAT" was the thought going through everyone's mind." Hokage sama did not order such an attack, Who would do such a thing" tsume said angrily staring at the hokage as if asking for the name." what is the proof that this was done by konoha shinobi and not someone from another village trying to create problems between us and kumo" shibi asked the hokage.

"we won't know for sure if it was really our shinobi but I'm sure if it was a henge the raikage would have been able to tell" tsunade concluded before danzo asked again" so who attacked the raikage ? ".

"That is what i was getting to,you see the attack took place at noon the attacker had anticipated the raikage being alone but that wasn't the case as he was in the process of briefing some ninjas. The attacker is said to be Uzumaki Naruto"said tsunade soberly and then the crowd erupted

"WHATT! "

ignoring them she continued "a detailed sketch was made from the description from those who witnessed the failed attack and with that the raikage has demanded the head of his attacker,he even has the favour of the lightning daimiyo"

Danzo was the first to speak up "that is impossible uzumaki is the container of the fox and would not be delivered to the hands of our enemy" he said it firmly already thinking of the possibility of loosing the last uzumaki, the only clan capable of holding the fox chakra confidently, without him no other person comes close, that is unless konoha wants to change jinjurikin every 10 years interval which rather than help would only serve in reducing their man power, no this was not an option.

"i say we give them what they want, konoha cannot stand going to war with kumo, it would weaken us much more than we already are"some random civilian council member said. This caused an a disagreement which went on with most of the civilians suggesting naruto be beheaded, after all he committed a crime that can possibly cause a war between the village and kumo ruining their peace time,some even said that a new child can be used to hold the fox or better yet let the fox die too since letting it stay alive is dangerous .

The shinobi side were against it most saying he was a great asset to the village and none wanted to burden their family or clan members with holding the fox.

"Enough! "yelled tsunade breaking the argument, she was already angry about what she had to do,now this childish quarrel ." the raikage demanded the head of naruto and with him being the jinjurikin of konoha a military asset the decision does not fall on the council or hokage but daimyo to make, which is why we have a letter from him. He says, he has been informed of the situation by the lighting daimyo that the jinjurikin of konoha is to be jailed until he is either found guilty or he deems him worthy of release"

"How does he already know of the news hokage sama, when you are just hearing of it today" hiashi asked the hokage.

" daimyo sama has been in hot water village for the past four days, its possible the lighting daimyo knew and sent a letter to him about the situation,the raikage possibly sent his letter the day of the attack as it would explain why it reached here quicker than daimyo sama's" tsunade responded while looking at the council. she could see hesitation in them towards the daimyo choice of action, so she lifted up her hand to silence whatever they wanted to say" i know most of you disagree with daimiyo sama's decision but there is nothing we can do to change, it unless you would prefer to be charged with treason and banished or maybe arrested".

That did its work silencing everyone now she continued "by 5 pm today uzumaki naruto is to be arrested and his apartment is to be raided for anything that can serve as evidence "and with that she dismissed everyone.

Later that day

Sighing tsunade rubbed her forehead with her palm, she still could not believe she was about to arrest naruto. it felt very wrong, but as the hokage she had to place the village as her priority not feelings. Setting her view on the guests in her office expecting a response from them since they had been quiet once she explained the situation. The silence was unnerving but it proved they were processing what she said.

"So how long do you think it will take before we can go get him out ?" asked Sakura to Tsunade.

"It shouldn't be more than a couple weeks before we can either prove his innocence or find whoever framed him." she says

"hokage sama are you sure this is the only option, Naruto is not going to be happy about this ." stated Yamato

"its the only conclusion i can come with, I'm sure naruto would understand once we explain it to him"said tsunade seriously before turning her gaze to an anbu that just poofed" hokage sama uzumaki san is on his way here" he spoke bowing slightly.

"good you are dismissed "she replied meanwhile she was thinking 'now comes the hard part, i hope the others act believable enough'

It wasn't long before naruto arrived, given permission to enter he was greeted with the site of Yamato leaning on the wall of the right hand side of tsunade who had a serious look plastered on his face, a couple inches to his left was Sakura Haruno the second apprentice to their Kage Tsunade Senju she had a look of worry.

To her right stood Sai with his usual facial expression

Off to the far right was Kakashi Hatake who had the same look of seriousness as Yamato in his one visible eye, between them all stood Naruto Uzumaki.

Standing at tsunade's left is her first apprentice Shizune who could be seen holding her pig ton-ton with an expression similar to Sakura's.

They each stood in silent attention as Tsunade leaned back into her chair and gave them one more look before explaining the reason for their summoning"Apparently, the Raikage was attacked two nights ago ." she stated in a neutral tone.

This earned a look of shock from everyone in the room, it would be mad to directly attack a Kage in their own village especially one with as much strength as the Raikage.

"we received news that it was one of ours who did it" she said noticing the confused expression naruto had before going on

" and i have reasons to believe the suspect is here" this made all of them stiffen, thinking about who it could be. Well all of them new it was naruto she was talking about ,but he didn't.

"that's impossible baa-chan non of us would do such a thing" naruto responded with seriousness as he looked tsunade in the eyes.

"funny you would say that , because Kumogakure sent us pictures of the attacker." she then removes two papers from a drawer in her desk and slides them across revealing two badly drawn faces of Naruto on wanted posters.

"What you must be joking, Tsunade baa-chan-"He was quickly interrupted by Tsunade.

"You think i did it, I-I didn't Do anything!" exclaimed Naruto trying to wave it off with a forced laugh thinking this was a prank

"Three Jounin from Kumogakure and the raikage himself identified you." she said with a tone demanding his attention.

At this point Narutos jaw could have hit the floor with this much shocking information being sent his way all at once. "No way!" yelled Sakura from the back "Naruto would never do something like that!" she continued with just as much shock as Naruto "There must have been a mistake, Tsunade-Sama!"

"Silence!" yelled the Kage.

"But-" before Sakura could finish Tsunade interrupts again "This is something that could affect our relations with the other villages." she explained a bit softer than her previous shout but with the same amount of seriousness.

Sakura remained silent after hearing this,not wanting to make things worse "It wasn't me!" Naruto yelled desperately as he turned to face his sensei "Kakashi-sensei, you gotta believe me!" he says "I trained all day then..." he continues while taking a quick thinking pose "Then I spent all night playing shogi with Shikamaru!" he finished hoping they believe him.

"Naruto, until you're proven innocent you will be detained, and dont worry the identity of the prison would only be known by me." said Tsunade gaining back his attention.

"I'm telling you I didn't do anything!" Naruto yelled again getting really nervous "This is some kind of plot to get me away from the village." he says waving his arms around in panic.

"Enough!" yelled Tsunade and as if on cue Naruto drops his hands into a familiar sign "Kage Bunshin no-" he never got to finish his jutsu in time before he hears "Mokuton Shichurou!" from Yamato as beams of wood erupts from the floor and wrap themselves around Narutos neck and arms while it also creates a cage around him.

"H-hey, wait!" he yells as Tsunade hops over her desk and places a seal on the cage keeping him in place, as she finishes with the seal she also reaches inside and removes Narutos leaf village headband before taking a step back from the cage "It wasn't me!" he pleaded from within his binds

"Take him away!" the Lady Hokage yelled and on cue several leaf Jounin enter through the doorway and lift his cage "I didn't do anything!" he yelled one last time before the leaf shinobi carried him away

Moments after he was gone everyone in the room let out a sigh and they looked between each other "That was harder than i thought !" said Tsunade walking to her chair as she slumped back into it "Hey, did I do alright?" asked Sakura franticly.

They each stopped and looked out the window of the office to see Naruto being carried off through the village, as this happened groups of civilians could be seen cheering from the sides of the road and from within their homes that the 'Demon' was finally being taken care of.

Yamato frowned his face as at the sight. Honestly speaking he felt like this was a bad idea, but then again there was no other option.

"I hope he doesn't get upset about this." said Kakashi thoughtfully with the others thinking the same.

Flashback End

Her initial plan was to prove his innocence,but that became harder to accomplish when the hidden panel in his apartment was found. With his dairy talking about his secret training. Tsunade was forced to believe that naruto was hiding something more to himself or if he betrayed the village.

It seemed possible from the way he talked about this 'Mei' woman,constantly stating how he missed her, apparently 'his body hungers for her touch' it was written in one of the letters and how he would do anything for them to spend at least some more time together.

At the end of the day they were at three conclusions which were

1. Naruto knew they were going to search his things and already discarded the evidence. But then if he had enough time to burn or throw the evidence away, why didn't he run and why leave the letters and scrolls behind.

2. He got sloppy during the assassination making sure he wasn't seen or underestimated people finding his hidden floorboard , it made sense as the floorboard was well hidden that the only way they found it was by pure luck.

3. The possibility he did not commit the crime. It was impossible to believe, because they were people who spotted naruto leaving the office of the raikage, some civilians, even ninjas and if it was a henge then the other ninjas would have noticed it but all he recorded doing that day in his diary was training and playing shogi with shikamaru.

To which shikamaru stated he and naruto played till 9:00PM. This was countered by another person saying naruto was skilled in kage bunshin so there was a possibility of shikamaru playing with a clone, while the original himself carried out the assassination attempt ,and naruto could have made his clone write what he did in the diary while removing the anything of the attack . But then to hold a jutsu from that distance even for minutes would possibly drain him, and with the cover up of having exhausted his chakra from training would seem believable.

Luckily a month after naruto was imprisoned tsunade received a letter from the kusagakure (hidden grass village) that mentioned someone seeing naruto around the village the day of the attack. Now tsunade had a reason to believe he was framed, what confused her was why naruto of all people to impersonate.

if you wanted to give konoha a bad reputation you should at least pretend to be someone with a higher status in the village, like a clan head and what concerned her the most was the fact that he was technically jailed in Hozuki Castle a shinobi prison in kusagakure that's jointly run by all villages, its easy breaking into but breaking out is basically impossible. Tsunade had to not only find the real culprit but also keep an eye on naruto.

Meanwhile in kirigakure

A woman sat in her office deep in thought, her mind clouded with one very special person. 'it's been years since i last heard from him, i wander if he's okay.' mei thought, ever since she heard of his arrest she has been upset and worried ,the prison wasn't even announced so she didn't know where he was to even visit him, so she decided to keep tabs on konoha, maybe the prison name might slip out somehow, but so far no progress .

Feeling her mood dampen she tried to convince herself everything was okay "I'm sure he's doing just fine, but when i see him next I'm going to show him just how much I miss him" she stated loudly smiling slightly.

Looking at apiece of paper on her table, she frowned after reading its contents, folding it in her palm the paper went ablaze as she moved to take another report. She quickly picked it up once she saw who it was from, silently praying that it contained good news.

...

Sadly still no news from those observing konoha. Honestly it was getting annoying how konoha was keeping this information really private,but she wasn't going to give up.