Here's Hinata! ^_^
Naruto woke up early and had breakfast before heading out to the forest to train his new Suiton techniques. He jumped from the roof of buildings to get to the forest not caring that it was dangerous but he knew where to go anyway so it doesn't matter. Having jumped off the last building he headed off right into the forest into one of the more secluded areas where no one will find him or bother him.
"Good morning." Naruto said to the forest. He heard the trees rustle meaning they were saying good morning to him as well. Naruto decided to get right to business using the shadow clone hand seal, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)." He created a shadow clone that smiled at him. Naruto handed the scroll over to the clone, "I need you to read this and perform the hand seals, when your down with that dispel yourself and send me the information, okay?"
The clone took the scroll and nodded, "You got it boss." The clone went off further into the forest while Naruto decided to sit down lotus style and meditate so he could talk with his friend.
Mindscape
Naruto had arrived in his inner mind so he could see his friend. The Kyūbi. Now when he first found out he had the giant beast inside him he was honestly fascinated with the creature and started talking to him much to the beast's confusion but they ended up talking for what felt like hors before the boy had to go but he always came back to speak with him inside his mind because its lonely by yourself.
Already knowing where it is he needed to go he found the giant beast looking bored, "Kyūbi!" Naruto called out walking up to it getting its attention.
"Hmph, looks who's here. Haven't seen you in awhile, got bored of me already?" Kyūbi snickered.
"No way! You're always fun to talk to, a lot more than the villagers. They annoy me." Naruto huffed crossing his arms.
"You and me both," Kyūbi then noticed something and leaned closer to the boy and saw the state his eyes were in, "What the hell happened to your eyes?!"
Naruto shook the back of his head, "Um, well…you see the scary lady at the orphanage poured some stuff in my eyes that really burned. When I woke up, I was told by the trees that I was permanently blind."
Kyūbi was pissed! He already hated the village for sealing him, but to do this to his container was just despicable. He growled menacingly wanting to kill the woman but a hand was placed on his snout making him look down at the boy who was smiling, "It's okay, the mean lady was killed by Jiji. And besides I don't need my eyes to feel the gentle breeze, hear the sounds of the rustling trees, or walk wherever I want. The trees do that for me or I do it on my own, plus I can still fight even though I'm blind. I won't let this by crutch. I promise."
Kyūbi looked down at the boy with a newfound respect for the first time. His previous hosts, Mito and Kushina earned his respect in some ways but this boy. Naruto was something else.
"Your something special, kit." Kyūbi smirked.
Naruto grinned, "Yep! Oh, I know how to make you a better landscape so you can be more comfortable! You wanna see?"
Kyūbi raised a brow but gave into curiosity, "Show me what you've got."
Naruto grinned and brought his hands together concentrating, "Mokuton: Seichi Mori (Wood Release: Sacred Forest)!" the surroundings started to change as trees began to sprout from the mindscape erasing the water below them and the walls overall changing the scene all together. When it was done, the Kyūbi realized he was no longer in the cage and instead inside a giant shrine with fox symbols painted all over the walls. Looking outside he saw that it was actually sunny out and there were giant trees everywhere as though protecting the fox.
"What?" Kyūbi stared.
Naruto yawned sleepy from using the jutsu, "Do you like it? I made it myself, but it was really hard."
Kyūbi may not have liked the Mokuton but the kid uses it so well and efficiently that it was simply amazing, "I'll admit, this is much better than your previous mindscape."
"It is." Naruto smiled.
Kyūbi stared at the boy for a long time then smirked, "For making your mindscape less insufferable I'll tell you my true name."
Naruto smiled eager to hear it.
"My true name is…"
Naruto opened his eyes with a smile on his face, "Kurama…" he felt his clone's memories come to him in waves making him smile. He stood up and tried out the first jutsu, "Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu (Water Clone Jutsu)." A clone made of water materialized next to Naruto making him smile from ear to ear.
"Looks like it worked. The feedback you get from the shadow clones is amazing." Naruto smiled then dispelled the clone, "Okay, now let's try something else."
Elsewhere
Some villagers saw Naruto enter the forest and made their way over there to kill him once and for all. There were a total of ten villagers that were walking through the forest unaware that the trees started moving on their own. They took no notice and made their way through the forest wanting to kill the demon, since the boy's blind they believed that killing him will be easy since he couldn't see. But they made a great error, while it's true he couldn't see them…he could sense them. Naruto was too busy trying to practice a large jutsu to take notice of the villagers sneaking up on him from behind.
"There it is." A male villager glared.
"Well, what are waiting for? Let's kill it already!"
"I couldn't agree more."
They moved from their spot with their weapons in hand slowly coming up from behind him unaware of what the boy was doing, and that proved to be their downfall.
Naruto closed his eyes, 'The clone was able to do the jutsu, but it only came out small when it tried it. So let's try it again then. I just wish it didn't have so much hand signs, but oh well.' he performed the seals, Ox → Monkey → Hare → Rat → Boar → Bird → Ox → Horse → Bird → Rat → Tiger → Dog → Tiger → Snake → Ox → Ram → Snake → Boar → Ram → Rat → Monkey → Bird → Dragon → Bird → Ox → Horse → Ram → Tiger → Snake → Rat → Monkey → Hare → Boar → Dragon → Ram → Rat → Ox → Monkey → Bird → Yang Water → Rat → Boar → Bird, "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu)!" a giant water dragon sprung up from the ground and roared its mighty head making the villagers stop cold turkey.
"Wh-what?!"
"What is that?"
The water dragon glared down at the villagers before shooting towards them engulfing them and sending the fools far away from the boy and into the dark parts of the forest. Naruto opened his eyes to see water on the ground and smile, "Alright, it worked!" he then looked around, "I thought I heard voices earlier, did I imagine it?"
The water dragon brought the villagers gathered here to kill Naruto to the dark place of the forest where it left them on their own before vanishing. Before the stupid men could do anything one of them screamed and disappeared making the others frightened. Looking around they saw no one but that didn't mean they were being watched, before they knew two more of them disappeared, then another guy, then another guy making them scared and the should be.
You never mess with the forest of Konoha.
Naruto simply practiced unaware of the begging carnage of the foolish male villagers that tried to kill him just not too long ago, "Hmmm, okay let's try the other one then I'll go and get lunch before coming back to get right back to it again." He preformed another hand sign, Tiger → Snake → Rat → Snake → Tiger, "Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Style: Water Wall)!" taking a deep breath he sprouted some water out of his mouth and formed a wall around him before cutting the jutsu off, "Okay, I got them memorized to memory now." His stomach grumbled, "Now I'm hungry, I'll head over to Ichiraku then."
He walked out of the forest and spotted some buildings to jump from so he could head over to his favorite place but something stopped him. Stopping on one of the buildings he sensed a chakra signature that felt gentle and kind, yet very deadly when it wants to be surrounded by three individuals. Following the signature he stopped when he spotted the figure and it was indeed surrounded by three individuals that had bad intentions, something he all too familiar with, "Being mean to a girl is just wrong." He jumped down getting their attention making the three boys step back from the girl as she jumped in surprise when he landed in front of her, "You shouldn't be mean to her just because your bored. Its not nice."
"Huh?" one of the boys smiled.
"Get lost you loser!"
"Yeah, your nothing but some stupid orphan anyway!"
Naruto rolled his eyes, "Your stupid."
"What did you say?"
"I said. Your stupid." Naruto smiled.
One of the boys charged at him sending a punch but due to the blonde boys enhanced senses he felt it coming and ducked then sent a hard punch to his gut making him fall over and grip his stomach in pain. Naruto stood up and stared at him, "Attacking a blind person isn't very smart. That's why I called you stupid earlier." He didn't wait to hear the replies of the other two because he made the shadow clone hand sign, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Jutsu)." Two clones appeared before the boys and they had their sight so they could see them. The two clones attacked the other two boys punching one hard in the face, while other one kicked the other boy in the gut making him hold his stomach in pain too.
Naruto sighed and dispelled the two clones before turning to look at the silent girl, "Are you okay?" he felt her flinch when he turned to speak to her.
"U-Um, yes I'm fine. Th-thank you." She bowed.
"Good. I don't like it when people bully others, its not right." Naruto crossed his arms.
"Um, I-I'm Hinata Hyūga. What's your name?" Hinata asked politely.
"Naruto Uzumaki." He smiled.
Somehow Hinata felt herself smiling as well, "I-Is it true that you're blind?"
Naruto nodded, "Yeah I'm blind, but I can still see where I'm going by listening and sensing."
"Listening and sensing?" Hinata tilted her head in confusion.
He nodded, "I can hear the birds chirping clearly, I can hear people walking around, and I can sense where they are too. But for special people I can see and sense the blue aura around them but sensei corrected me and told me that it wasn't aura but chakra. I sensed yours, so that's why I came here. Its kind and gentle, yet strong."
Hinata blushed when he complimented her like that. No one else had ever complimented her, not even her father, "Th-thank you, Naruto-kun."
"Your welcome Hinata-chan, by the way what color are your eyes? I bet their really pretty." He smiled.
She blushed even more when he complimented her eyes, "W-Well s-some p-people say its l-lavender."
Naruto blinked then smile, "I can see it, oh wait actually I cant but I think I know that your eyes are the most prettiest eyes in the whole village."
If possible she was redder now than she was ever before. It was official, she already had a crush on the boy.
Naruto's stomach grumbled again, "That's right I'm still hungry, I'll see you around then, Hinata-chan." He jumped up on the side of the building before jumping from rooftop to rooftop heading towards Ichiraku leaving a blushing and smiling Hinata behind him.
Yep. She already liked the boy.
Naruto yawned as he headed towards his apartment after having a good meal at Ichiraku's again. As soon as he was done with lunch, he went back to the forest to train some more and was utterly exhausted so he was trekking back to get some sleep. It was already nighttime anyway, so there was no point in staying any longer even though he wasn't afraid to walk through the forest at night like some people. He was on his way home when he sensed Hinata's chakra running fast but so fast the he couldn't keep up himself. Sensing where she was heading he followed after the signature and saw a suspicious individual carrying Hinata below his arm making him mad, "Mokuton: Shinobigaeshi (Wood Release: Bamboo Spikes)!" thrusting his arm forward bamboo spikes formed and slammed in the back of the kidnapper making him cry out in pain and fall to the ground while dropping Hinata in the process but Naruto was able to get to her in time before she could fall to the ground.
Hinata opened her eyes finally and saw that Naruto was staring at her full of worry, "You okay, Hinata-chan?"
She blushed, "N-Naruto-kun? Where am I?"
He set her down, "You were being taken away by that bad guy." He turned and saw the guy was getting back up and glared, "Hinata-chan, get back."
"B-But!" she was about to protest.
"It's fine, I got this." He smiled.
The man stood up slowly and charged at the boy but Naruto wasn't worried he quickly made the snake hand sign, "Mokuton: Mokusatsu Shibari no Jutsu (Wood Style: Silent Strangle Jutsu)!" tree wood sprouted from he ground and went towards the kidnaper and the man found himself bound unable to move.
"Wh-what?!"
Hinata was amazed, "A-Amazing…"
Naruto stared at the man not at all happy he tried to kidnapped his friend, "I don't know who you are but you tried to kidnap Hinata-chan, so that means you're a bad person," he narrowed his eyes at the still bound man, "I learned this move from the forest and haven't had time to use it yet, but I'll use it now." He formed the snake hand sign, "Mokuton: Kajukai Kōrin (Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees)." Trees started growing from the surface where they were making the man stop struggling to see what was happening. As the forest around them was being created flowers began to bloom and release pollen making the man's eyes feel heavy and he soon drifted into unconsciousness. Naruto sighed and released him when the man passed out.
"Naruto-kun that was amazing. How did you do that?" Hinata asked in awe.
Before the blonde could tell her he passed out himself due to exhaustion, "Naruto-kun!" she went over to him trying to wake him up but stopped when she realized he was only sleeping and smiled, "Thank you." No longer after she said that her father appeared as well as the Hyūga guards, she wondered how long they had been here or maybe they just got here. No, something told her that they were here the whole time and saw what Naruto did to save her.
Was that a good thing? Or a bad thing?
Naruto opened his eyes slowly sitting up from the futon he was laying on and yawned while stretching. Looking around he saw he was surrounded by fancy looking walls, even his clothes were fancy because he was wearing an elegant hakama. He tried to remember just what did he do to get himself in this predicament then remembered, he saved Hinata from a kidnapper, then he knocked him out, then he passed out himself. He was really tired.
The sliding door opened alerting him, "Uzumaki-sama, Hiashi-sama requests your presence in his office." It was a member of the Hyūga branch house, he could tell.
Naruto found himself nodding, "Okay." He got up from the futon and neatly making the blanket before following after the branch member that was taking him to meet Hiashi. He heard about the man before from Jiji, he said that the man was really st-st-stoic that's the word, so he had to behave himself just like Yamato-sensei said: "Manners are always important." He stopped walking when the bodyguard did.
The guard knocked, "Hiashi-sama, I've brought Uzumaki-sama."
"Send him in." a voice on the other side ordered.
The guard opened the door allowing Naruto to walk inside and stared at the tall man before him. Naruto bowed his head in respect and Hiashi did the same to the boy as he watched him sit before him in his office.
"Naruto, first allow me to thank you for saving my daughter last night." Hiashi actually smiled.
Naruto bowed his head a little, "It's fine. I'm just glad Hinata-chan is alright."
"As am I, you did a very brave thing yesterday but it was also dangerous. You passed out right after that man did." He frowned.
Naruto smiled nervously, "Well actually, I've been practicing Suiton all day yesterday while training and felt really exhausted so I was on my way home to get some sleep."
"Suiton? Then what was that you used last night?" Hiashi asked curiously.
"Mokuton. I've been able to do it for awhile now and just started to practice it." Naruto explained.
Hiashi's eyes widened, 'So I was right, that was the famous Shodaime's Mokuton he used yesterday.' There was something else he wanted to ask, "Naruto, if you don't mind me asking. Your completely blind aren't you?"
Naruto nodded, "Yep. I don't need my eyes to see or feel things when I can either sense or hear them. I'm able to see a person's chakra or sense it, that's how I was able sense Hinata nearby me when she was being kidnapped yesterday. I can also feel the vibrations in the earth too, like those three jerks that were trying to bully her yesterday. I felt one of them send a punch my way but I was able to detect and counter it."
'So he can ready a person's movements simply by feeling vibrations in the ground? I've never heard of such a thing before.' Hiashi was intrigued now, "So you saved my daughter twice yesterday then, thank you."
"There's no need to thank me Hiashi-san, I should be thanking you for even letting me stay here. I didn't mean to intrude." Naruto said honestly.
"You don't have to apologize, after what you did yesterday me and the elders came to a conclusion. Naruto Uzumaki, you are hereby protected by the members of the Hyūga clan. Should any of the foolish villagers try anything they will face our wrath. You are also welcome to come to the Hyūga manor as many times as you like." He smiled.
Naruto was taken by surprise but smiled anyway and bowed, "Thank you very much, Hiashi-san."
'You'll be calling me Father soon when you turn 18.' He didn't mention the he and the elders decide that he and Hinata were engaged and neither child knows about it, 'Seeing their reactions should be somewhat interesting.'
Hiruzen sighed when he put a piece a paper down from the Raikage demanding the head of Hiashi Hyuuga as compensation for the death of their ambassador even thought the man had confessed that it was the Raikage himself who sent him here in the first place to steal the Byakugan secret through Hinata. The man was executed not too long ago for trying to kidnapped the girl and now they were demanding compensation. It was a good thing that they didn't know about Naruto possessing the Mokuton otherwise they'd be asking for him too, he smiled when he heard from Hiashi yesterday that the boy had saved her from the fool using another one of Shodaime's technique's yesterday. The boy was progressing but Tenzo was obviously worried when he heard Naruto had passed out yesterday having already seen the boy as his little brother as well as student. He already made preparations for the boy to enter into the academy ignoring both the council and shinobi's protests. He is the Hokage and he made the decisions not them.
And he won't be alone because Hinata will be by his side the whole time.
Next Time: Starting the Academy!