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.

Today was finally the day of the festival,Naruto was up early, he had a hard time sleeping as he was super excited about the date . He turned to look at jiraiya's futon and on it laid a note, stretching to collect it he opened the note quickly skimming through it he smiled as he threw the note away. On a normal day he would have at least felt disappointed that jiraiya ditched him, but not today, he was determined that today nothing was going to upset him or come in the way of his plans.

Cleaning himself up Naruto looked at the time noticing that he woke up at 6:00AM .This was too early and with little things to do, he had to pass time, so he created two clones sending one to make sure his clothes were intact,while the second to prepare food. Then he quickly activated his resistance seals before telling the clones that he was going for a jog.

He jogged for two hours before going to a secluded place where he created 50 clones, sending them in tens to work on his wind element control, fuinjutsu,sensory skills, chakra control and improving his taijutsu.

Sure Naruto was confident that he was already pretty strong. But that was no excuse for him to lazy around and with the akatsuki after his ass he needed to be at his best at all times, telling the clones to dispel in six hours time he had to go back to the house to clean up,eat and meditate, hopefully time would have gone alot by then.

Timeskip

At Naruto's Room

He had completed all his task and now he still had two hours left before he was to go pick Mei up from the location they decided to meet at. Thinking of anything possible he could do to pass time he decided to meditate ,telling the clones to wake him up when it was time for him to clean up again before leaving.

Getting into a meditation pose he closed his eyes, taking deep breaths to calm himself. It took him a while but he was able to close his mind from everything around him. But now he was waking up in his mindscape, looking around he couldn't help but frown as he was surrounded by a massive sewer.

'it was disappointing that his mind was represented with a sewer, it was also weird how he got some kind of feeling like he was being watched..it's weird but then again having another entity in his mind was far more weirder.' he thought as he got up from his position looking around he decided the best way to kill time would be to explore.

He had been walking for what felt like hours and finally came to the conclusion that 'his mind was a terrible place to be'. Everything looked the same way tunnels leading to more tunnels with hallways looking like some place used in horror movies, creepy old looking rusted doors added with the fact that all the bulbs seemed to flicker constantly it wouldn't surprise him if ghosts were here. 'someone should probably change the bulbs here' he thought mentally laughing.

Getting serious he said "but what was that" he thoughts clouded by one specific hallway that was basically destroyed the whole floor and wall gone making it look like a Clif stretching deep, leading into a big room similar to that which kyuubi was in. Sure a destroyed room was no where scary, but it was the fact that the whole floor was covered with what looked like moving shadows and the energy he felt was the same chill he talked of earlier. That room was by far the scariest thing he had seen so far.

Noticing a familiar room he was about to step in before he heard his clones voice ,it seemed like they were waking him up. Feeling his body becoming weak almost as if he was fainting he dropped knees first into the water that covered the floor as his vision blurred to reality.

"Boss it's almost time" one of the clones responded excitedly as he noticed Naruto waking up.

"Thanks...how much time do we have left" he asked getting up from his previous posture.

"Thirty minutes, I think it would be best to get prepared earlier so you can arrive on time" one said while the other one that woke him up nodded in agreement.

Sighing Naruto decided they were right and went to the task of cleaning up and wearing the clothes he planned to wear before going out.

Several minutes later

Naruto walked towards the park while trying his best to calm down his excitement ,apparently the road he usually uses was really crowded so he had to use some other road,which didn't take him long

Taking a quick turn into a corner he bumped into someone hearing an 'eep' followed by a thud. He quickly regained his composure before checking to see if the person he collided with was okay.

"Sorry I didn't see you there...you okay" Naruto said stretching his hand to pick up the dazed girl. Staring at her for a second he could tell he had seen her before, but he couldn't remember where.

"No its fine,it's kinda my fault too" she said taking his hand as he pulled her up.

Looking at him she suddenly smiled " i really didn't expect to run into you this way" she said lightly giggling at the joke as she dusted herself.

Quickly scanning his memory for any information on the woman, he remembered that she was the shy waitress from the restaurant "hahaah me too miss-" he said stoping as he didn't know her name.

"Hanekawa mind telling me yours" she said .

"Naruto..." he sad remembering he had to leave "oh shit I'm late, sorry I have to go"he said running while waving at the girl

"Wait would yo-,well it was nice seeing you again"said the downcast girl as she continued her journey.

A few minutes later

Arriving at the park he noticed a figure seating on a bench patiently, Naruto couldn't help but feel excited as he stared at the person from a far, thinking of how creepy he would seem if people saw him he quickly rushed to the person.

Noticing someone approaching her,Mei turned her focus. Smiling when she heard him say " Sorry I'm late..Hope I didn't keep you waiting for long".

Getting up she replied "it's okay ,besides I just got here a few minutes ago".

"So anyway how do I look" she said quickly getting into a pose where she moved her right leg behind her left while she arched her back a bit forward with her hands behind her back awaiting his response.

Mei wore a kimono that was dark red with beautiful light pink cherry blossoms scattered across it and the sash accompanying it was a cheery bright red color. The fan she had placed securely in her bow made her look like royalty. Naruto thought looking at her.

Mei could tell he was stunned at her attire by the way he was gawking, so she decided to have some fun with him saying "come-on I'm not that ugly that you have to stare " while faking a sad expression which did it's work of snapping him out of his trance.

"no no no Y-you look absolutely b-beautiful Mei chan! " Was all he could say before he realized what he had said and tried to change the subject.

"Eh I mean the kimono looks good on you...uh why don't we get going?" he concluded scratching the back of his head.

"Okay...loverboy" Mei replied smiling happy with his response. She took his arm and the blush darkened on both of their faces, mostly naruto's as Mei was able to suppress her's.

"We can get some food to eat, maybe try a few games...Is that good with you ?" Naruto said looking a Mei, wanting to know if she had anything else she wanted to do. His plans were basics of what people do,but there was still a high chance that the plan could change along the line.

Satisfied when he saw her nod her head. He replied "Alright then, let's have fun!" Pumping his fist upward with excitement which earned a giggle from mei. Taking her hand in his they began their walk to the festival location which was only a 7 minute walk distance.

To their surprise the festival had already begun , Naruto couldn't help but be blown away by the sight before him ,it was amazing,lanterns hanging at every corner brightening the streets and everything. He watched people converse and others having fun and the loud music it was exciting. He wanted to have as much fun as he could today, but more importantly enjoy it with Mei.

Turning to look at his date he couldn't help but blush,she looked magnificent with the lantern light bouncing off her skin ' if someone told me I would do something like this with someone as good looking as her a few years ago I wouldn't have believed it' he thought returning his gaze to the on-going festival.

"So what you wanna do first...play games or explore?" Naruto said excitedly as he continuously shot suggestions at her.

"Hmmm i'm fine with exploring...maybe we can see something fun to do" mei said before using her free hand to slowly clean her button lip. Which made Naruto blush intensively before turning his head away from Mei.

So it was settled then they began walking around looking at different games and stands there for something to do,it was getting troublesome as the crowd of people intensified but luckily Mei found something. Quickly pulling Naruto she dragged him to a place where many people were dancing.

'I knew I was forgetting something' Naruto thought panicking. He had absolutely no idea how to dance. Thinking of a good excuse would be hard and declining would not be a good option either Naruto was contemplating a good excuse.

Not waiting for an answer mei took his arm. "Come on it would be fun" Mei said dragging Naruto to the arena where the first dance was beginning.

Several Dances Later~

Naruto said as he danced with mei trying to match her tone "Dancing really takes alot of energy."

"Haha if that's what you call dancing" Mei joked while moving her body to the rythm

"Oh shut it, i'm doing a lot better than before" he said with his voice reducing as he reached the end of the sentence.

Earlier he had a hard time keeping up with the whole dancing, luckily Mei was patient with him as he was rather cautious about making a fool of himself or stepping on mei, now at least he was progressing slowly while copying how other couples danced too.

But that was short lived when a slow music started playing.

Naruto noticing the change of pace the music was going began to panic, he quickly looked at the other couples to see what was going and to his surprise everyone was dancing completely differently from the earlier dances. To his surprise Mei leaned closer to him, her body pressing closely to his she rested her head on his chest while moving to the rythm.

Hearing his heart beat Mei decided to calm him down "relax Naruto-kun, just go with the flow" she said softly.

Unsure of what to do Naruto tried to calm down and with a blush tinting his cheeks he decided to make a bold move as he moved his hands to her rather thin waist while trying to match her pace.

Unable to see the peaceful look on mei's face, with her tinted cheeks blushing from his action.

Some minutes later

"Well that's enough torturing for one day" Mei said gently separating from Naruto, signalling him she wanted to do something else.

"That's true...wait torturing?" Naruto replied running up to catch up to Mei. Thinking of what she meant by torturing "oh my kami you did that on purpose" he exclaimed loudly while pointing an accusing finger at her

"To be honest i just had a hunch and wanted to see if I was correct...the rest was your doing" Mei said smirking at him.

Naruto replied "You...bleh I give up". muttering something about 'devious beautiful women' he began sulking much to the amusement of Mei.

"How about we get something to eat?" Naruto said breaking from his mini brooding moment.

"That's fine by me" Mei said as they made their way to a food stand. The amount of people queued was not really encouraging,so they decided to check out the games first. There was an archery game ,and a knife throwing game and several other games.

Today was a day for both of them to have fun. Glancing at mei he could tell she was excited from the way her eyes sparkled, but he couldn't tell which particular game she wanted to play, giving her a foxy grin "Make your pick my lady" he asked bowing down slightly jokingly.

Giggling at his playful antics Mei looked around until she saw something that interested her "why don't we try that one" pointing at a game booth where lots of people were gathered, a banner with 'test your might' was written boldly in black paint.

"Let's go!!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly before taking Mei's hand in his as they made their way towards the crowd.

Discretely joining the crowd they stayed to observe what the game was about, luckily it did not take them long to find out as a muscular man wearing a black short that hugged him and was shirtless explained loudly. "Like I said before the game is really simple, all you have to do is use this hammer over here to hit this button which will cause a lever to move up depending on your strength level, but if you can reach the highest point on the bar you get a special prize" he said while pointing at the highest point.

"Anyone up for the challenge step right up ,buy a ticket and test your might" he shouted the last part loudly then got into a pose while flexing his biceps . Naruto and Mei clapped along with the crowd as they watched as many people stepped forward, a lot of them were mostly guys hoping to either impress their dates or many other girls watching.

It was funny and interesting watching most of them not even making the lever lift up across the third bar and the top was the thirteenth. The muscular guy seemed saddened about this and decided to try again repeating all he had said, he waited for people to participate but no one was coming out again.

Pausing for a while he decided to try something "ok ok as a motivation if you can get the highest point instead of one gift you get two " he said hoping someone would try again, sadly no one came most of the people who failed earlier even started walking away already knowing they had no chance.

"Hmm why don't you give it a try Naruto kun" Mei whispered to him snapping him out of his thoughts.

"What do you mean,we came here to play a game for two this is not that" Naruto replied while emphasizing 'two'.

"True but that doesn't mean we can't still give it a try" she whispered back.

The muscular man desperately searching for people to persuade scanned the crowd until he found someone, quickly composing himself he said while staring at naruto "sir ,yes you,the blonde guy you seem like someone with a lot of guts, why don't you give it a try"

"Eh sorry but imma pass" Naruto said feeling unsure of the challenge.

"Oh come on " the man said observing Naruto he couldn't help but smirk slightly when he saw Mei beside him. " You know this seems like the perfect opportunity for you to win a gift for your girlfriend over there" the man continued refusing to take no for an answer.

Going into a thinking pose the muscular man said smirking "Oh I see your afraid of embarrassing you girl or are you a chicken" .

Naruto was about to respond when Mei said "I can assure you my man is not a chicken and he can definitely win that game of yours" pointing at the man's game booth.

"You sure cuz I would really want to see that and I'm sure most of these kind folks here too" he replied motioning towards the crowd.

Now most of the people gathered had stopped to see what Naruto was going to do, some shouting about his honor as a man. Having picked up on what the muscular man was trying to do, Naruto decided that it was best to just go with the flow. Sighing he said "well it can't be helped, I guess I just have to beat this ".

The people leaving had decided to come back to see the outcome of the game, even some others who heard the commotion had come to see.

Smiling Naruto stepped forward tugging Mei alongside him as he approached the muscular man.

Smirking mentally Naruto couldn't help but feel that dragging her along with him was payback for making him do this.

The crowd started cheering for him while the muscular man stood in front of them telling Naruto the rules. Naruto payed for a ticket before observing the button, he was basically contemplating how much strength he should apply that won't draw unnecessary attention towards him, from his observation it would require more force than that of a regular genin,maybe a mid chunin.

But now stood the problem he had more strength than mid jounin, normally he would have weights reduce his full strength but now he had to do it himself, which he wasn't that confident in so...

Mei mistaking his silence for fear decided to motivate him." Naruto kun how bout if you can get the highest score then I would give you a special reward" she said licking her lips rather slowly.

Naruto blushing madly trying to compose himself but was finding it hard as his heart beat increased rapidly while his mind suddenly started bringing out lines from jiraiya's book. Naruto readied himself while trying to suppress all the screams from his mind telling him not the fuck shit up,he struck the button.

Boom!

There was silence as everyone watched with their mouth going slightly open the lever rise up until it went past it's Mark completely shattering the top and sailing away.

Mei along with everyone's eyes opened surprised at what he had just done. Naruto regaining his mind after the loud crack sound made by the hammer observed what he had done, he had failed to suppress his strength fully now the button was destroyed with some of the booth cracked an the whole top where the lever flew off was broken, he swallowed hard the lump in his throat.

Taking a step back Naruto was surprised he had reacted that way towards what Mei said. Unlucky for him his surprise ended when he bumped into someone,quickly turning around he saw that it was the muscular man and he looked really pissed.

"Where you think your going brat" he said cracking his knuckles as he gave him a wicked grin.

Sometime after the incident.

"Oh my God I can't believe that just happened" said a laughing Mei as she held on to her sides trying to calm down.

Apparently after the incident the muscular man had forced Naruto to pay for what he damaged, and with the lever going off the top it was recorded that he failed since the goal was to hit the top and go back ,it surprised everyone including Naruto himself , who was currently mumbling about how life was unfair.

Patting him on the back Mei decided to cheer him up "why don't we try another game"

About to respond he was interrupted by mei's moaning stomach. Laughing lightly Naruto said " ok but first let's get something to at least eat, hopefully now some stands would be free" he said, taking mei's arm in his, an action which he found very easy doing now.

The food stands were still crowded so they opted to walking around looking for anything to eat. Naruto was getting a bit frustrated about it but luckily when he was about to say something they saw a shop that was not as crowded as the others, smiling brightly Naruto tugged Mei alongside him as he went in.

A few minutes later

"Man that tasted good" Naruto moaned as he ate the dango they had just purchased from the shop.

"Uh hmm" Mei mumbled while still munching on hers.

Briefly looking at Mei ,Naruto turned his attention to the sky, "it's getting kinda late tho" he said frowning slightly

"We used up a lot of time searching for food" she laughed lightly. Pausing for a while she said "to be honest I have to be asleep soon, I have a trip to make"

"Eeh what about the business stuff you mentioned" Naruto said now getting confused.

"Hahaha it's been taken care of for a while now" she laughed awkwardly trying to reduce the tension.

Laughing loudly Naruto scratched the back of his head "well then why don't we play one last game before I take you home"

"Sure" Mei said smirking.

"This time I'm picking" he replied smiling Brightly as they began the search for a good game.

Seeing a game booth Naruto studied it before grinning. He talked to the person in charge before paying for both himself and mei . Each of them had six small plastic rings they could toss on the bottles to win a prize. They grinned at each other before competing on who would first win. Naruto now rejuvenated with energy went through his really quickly and ended up failing, which was weird as normally he had a lot of luck on his side.

so he opted to cheering for mei, sadly Mei so far had managed to knock down a bottle and fail three times.

Cheering on Naruto watched as she studied the bottles for a while before finally throwing the ring. Staring wide eyes as the ring sailed and turned slowly in the air unit...

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*Click*

The ring landed on the neck of a bottle and settled there with a little spin. "We won!" Mei shouted excitedly as she jumped throwing her arms around Naruto hugging him. He looked stunned but was wearing a huge smile on his face happy about the turn of events. Then one of the vendors running the game held the bottle of drink.

"Amazing...but Mei chan you still have one ring left" Naruto said noticing she still was holding one ring.

"Let's see if i can do it again" Mei replied getting into focus as she stared at the bottles again before throwing...

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"I was sure I had it that last time" Mei said a bit sadly to Naruto as they walked back to the hotel

"At least you won something" Naruto replied feeling a bit disappointed. He always had an unnatural amount of luck but today was different.

Naruto glanced at mei to see why exactly she suddenly went silent. 'What's she thinking of' he thought noticing the neutral look on her face

"You good?" Naruto asked skeptically

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"Yeah"

"Never been better" mei said smiling happily at him, this caused Naruto to shift his focus on her as he too gave her a big grin