Opaque eyes follow the pair of the Hokage and Naruto make their way across the village and they continue their conversation. 'Naruto-kun...' The thoughts of the person came to the forefront of her mind. "He's back." They spoke softly from behind a light pole. This person had no idea when they had started to follow him but the errand they were on became a distant memory as soon as that blonde hair came into view. Tsunade-sama and Naruto stopped, the Kage had given him something with Naruto hugging her in return. This wasn't the most surprising thing that this person would see, but Naruto disappeared in a cloud of smoke and appeared inches from them, a girly yelp filling the air.

"Hi there, long time no see eh?" Naruto asks the bright red Hyūga that had to be centimeters from her face.

"N-N-Naruto-kun?" The girl stuttered out trying to keep herself together. "How did you know I was here?"

Naruto leaned on the light pole and looked at the sky. "If you weren't a shinobi I would think that you would suck at stealth." He said scratching his nose, Naruto then turned to face her again. "But the how is neither here nor there the real question however is... Why are you following me, Hina?"

Hina? Did Naruto just call her that? When did he start calling her that? A nickname from him was the last thing that she thought would come out of his mouth, and with that, the whole situation was too much for the girl now identified as Hyūga Hinata. "Wh-Wha..." That was all she managed before fainting.

"Oh shit!" Naruto forced the words as he moved in front of her to catch her before she fell on her face. Dropping with her as gravity took them both, gently he was able to somehow alter the descent to lay her back first he held her up until he could sit on the roadside comfortably and lower her head on his lap. With that Naruto couldn't help but wonder about the familiarity of the situation. 'I guess you two are sisters after all. I just hope you are not as pushy as Hanabi was.' The thought came to mind while looking at the unconscious girl. Relaxing and looking up at the sky he was more than willing to wait for her to wake up. 'It's the least I can do as the Hina I knew took care of me at my lowest.' He silently continued his train of thought. "It would be bad if I am late to meet up with Kaa-chan though. Maybe she wouldn't mind if I brought you along."

After a few minutes, Naruto heard a voice coming from above him as he was reading a book shortly after a yarn left his mouth. "Naruto?" His eyes met the girl who called out to him, one Yamanaka Ino.

(...)

Several hours earlier Shizune the apprentice and assistant to the Hokage was on her way to Kage's office with a registry of the traffic that came in and out of Konoha in the last couple of days that Haruno Sakura had brought before heading out with her friend Ino. She stopped in her tracks as she heard a trail of voices coming her way. It seems that her sibling student Sakura had returned from the lunch break she had taken, but what surprised her was that she was accompanied by two other people. "-runo-san I can't just turn it off and on, this jutsu does not work like that." Shizune was surprised by a voice that sounded like Ino calling Sakura by her family name. It all made sense as Sakura and two Inos entered her field of vision one that was being dragged in by her ear was wearing an off-the-shoulder dark blue sundress, the Konoha headband as a hair band, and the Uzumaki swirl around her neck under the first Hokage's necklace, and the other followed behind in her signature purple staring a hole in a bouquet of pink flowers. Wait, the first's necklace? The one she had given to... She had no time to dwell on it before that Ino noticed her, and with two chakra-charged strikes with the opposite middle and index fingers to the ear that looked like it was getting torn off Sakura's arm dropped limply at her side much to her surprise. "Shizu-nee long time no see!" That Ino called out running in her direction.

Taken completely off guard Shizune nearly dropped the papers in her hands as that Ino... Dressed in the dress rounded on her and took Shizune into an embrace, the moment coming almost too fast for her to process. Shizune had to readjust herself as this Ino began to tighten the hug, but after a few seconds of shared confusion, she was finally released. Though she had to confirm it she had an idea who this person was. Before she could, however, the girl noticed the miniature pig sniffing at her heels before nudging her to the approval of the girl.

"Tonton, I guess you noticed, didn't you?" Ino? Said picking up the pig. "I thought that I could at least keep my chakra hidden for a while longer." The girl finished while hugging the small animal, she then whispered so that only the two of them could hear. "Thank you for always looking after them for all these years, but I want to help... Can I?" The pig in a vest cocked her head at Ino? Before squealing her delight.

While this interaction happened Sakura didn't know why her arm was numb nor the reason that the chakra was vacant all she could gather was the visible chakra at the points of her friend's double's finger. She was confused at why a technique that was only seen done by a certain clan would manifest itself in an outsider, and no amount of explaining can prove that person possible even with the two years of unseen training especially when it came to the dead last of their graduating year. She then turned to the perpetrator who was happily hugging Tonton without a care in the world. "Naruto." She spat out as she rushed the doppelganger with her good hand cocked into a fist.

Quickly sensing the spike in chakra the one now identified as Naruto lowered her head as soon as Sakura was about to make contact with her fist, connected with the makeshift hair band. She slid back a couple of meters with a protective hold on Tonton, positioning in a way to absorb most of the force. Looking up her eyes flashed red with slits for pupils for a split second before turning back. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Naruto shouted with anger clear in his tone.

"What's wrong with me? What is wrong with you?" Sakura questioned not giving in.

Naruto put the pig down and pointed at Sakura accusatory. "You are the one who brought me against my will, and you are the one who attacked me out of nowhere when I stopped to say hello to someone I hadn't seen in a while. And you put an innocent bystander in danger to do so, not to mention the property damage that could have happened if I chose to dodge." Sakura had nothing to say, choosing to hang her head. Naruto sighed, picking up the headband that fell off in the conflict, grimacing at the fist-sized dent in the forehead protector, and putting it in the pouch strapped to her leg. If she hadn't reacted, she would have done some major damage. Naruto then took hold of Sakura's arm one hand with green chakra forming on the opposite one.

"Wha-" Was the universal vocalization as Naruto massaged the non-functional arm with the green chakra.

"Would you hold still, it's like you've never seen medical ninjutsu before," Naruto said with a gentle smile.

As he worked Shizune could not help but be impressed that the boy was using two very complex jutsu at the same time as if it was as simple as taking a breath. "Hey, where did you learn medical ninjutsu Naruto?" She asked the girl healing Sakura.

The girl paused as if to think out the question, cocking her head and offering a light hum. "Why is it always you?" She muttered to herself, with fondness in her tone. Finishing up with Sakura's treatment she let out a small sigh. "That's a hard question to answer." She said, turning to face her brushing up her bangs to reveal her forehead to Shizune and Tonton, to mild shock. "Since I am guessing talking about my parents is still against the law, I will say this. My teacher was someone very close to us both, though she would not speak about it. I still want to learn about your uncle and her little brother who she loved so much, nee-chan." Naruto finished with a sad smile, bluffing hoping his 'Sensei' had told the Hokage about his origin, sensing both nearby.

Shizune's eyes widened while the other two looked confused. "Th-that's impossible..."

"Well as impossible as a clanless orphan with a last name, close relation with three Kage, and learned forbidden and signature jutsu created by current and former Kage." Naruto said, bringing a finger to his chin. "Then again. I would say erasing a whole clan from a village's history would be much harder, considering there are two with that clan's blood still in that village." Naruto continued with a devilish grin, playing with the symbol of the Uzumaki around her neck. "Well, I was brought here to see Lady Tsunade." She grabbed hold of a stunned Ino and Sakura walked away. "We can talk later." Naruto said as the three left a speechless Shizune disappearing around the corner.

"I-is any that true, Naruto?" Ino asked her double.

"Which part... That I am part of a clan, or that I have a close relationship with the Hokage of my lifetime." Naruto answered casually.

"All of it." Sakura spoke sheepishly.

Naruto took his time to answer, humming all the while. "I don't know what I can and can't tell you, the laws around my parents' identity are tricky, that answer will have to wait until I talk to Lady Tsunade."

The two looked at each other before deciding to shelve that particular conversation for later. Sakura noticed something and asked Naruto about it. "Why are you using her name to address her by Naruto? Don't you usually use Baa-chan when speaking about her?"

Naruto was taken aback by the questions before bursting into a fit of laughter. "Sorry... Sorry..." Naruto took a moment to catch her breath. "That was most likely because of the genjutsu that she uses to keep the illusion of her youth. I only would use it to get to her." Naruto continued. "Oh speaking about genjutsu... Ino?" She looked at Naruto to confirm that she was listening. "You may have let it slip to his nephew that Asuma-san had gotten Kurenai Yūhi pregnant."

"What?" both of the girls shouted in response.

"To be fair, that wasn't her strongest genjutsu so I broke out of it by accident."