Chapter 4: Progress and Surprise

Naruto was sitting in the training ground seven leaning against a tree with a small smile as a certain Hyuga was in his mind.

" How the Hell aren't you tired?!"

Naruto groaned at how loud Sakura was then said " Can you not yell?" Naruto then closed his eyes.

" Hey."

Naruto smiled, which was the first thing his face had done after several minutes. Naruto opened his eyes at Hinata then said softly " Hey." Naruto wasn't really different around Hinata but to Hinata Naruto was soft and quiet. On the other hand when Hinata was with Naruto she was a little more confident and never stuttered.

Hinata gave a soft smile to her favorite blonde then saw Naruto pull out the scroll with medical powder and ointment recipes. Hinata smiled going to her knees then she got right next to Naruto with a small blush bot snuggled up and they started reading noticing Sakura's glare.

* One Hour Later *

Naruto groaned as he moved a little then said " Hinata I'm bored." Naruto heard Hinata giggle so he smiled then said " Can we do something else?"

Hinata nodded, rolled up the scroll and said " Sure."

Naruto smiled then said " Good." Naruto stood up grabbing a scroll from his kunai pouch and tossed it to Hinata.

Hinata looked at the scroll and opened it, seeing a storage seal. Hinata set it on the ground then put her hand over the seal. After dumping some chakra in the seal she saw a small puff of smoke then two wooden tantos. Hinata looked up at Naruto and saw him with a wide smile. Hinata stood up with the scroll and wooden weapons then said " Why?"

Naruto smiled walking up then said softly " It's my turn." Naruto saw Hinata's face turn red but nodded so he chuckled and said " Let's get to work."

* Few Hours Later *

Naruto stepped back dodging one of Hinata's wooden blades then went for a punch for the gut. As Naruto got near Hinata's gut he saw his fist be hit away with one of her wooden blades with another wooden blade put against his throat. Naruto froze with a smile.

Hinata couldn't help but giggle when she felt Naruto grab her wrist and after a few seconds Hinata felt herself pinned to Naruto's chest with one of her wooden blades to her throat. Hinata just looked at Naruto feeling her chest pressed against Naruto's. Hinata's face got more red as she moved her face closer. Hinata stopped with her face less thanthan three inches away and she just wanted to kiss her crush.

" Lady Hinata."

Hinata jumped, turning around with her face a deep red. Hinata looked at Neji and said " Neji-i."

Neji just chuckled looking at Naruto seeing him not having his bow so he said " Where'sWhere's your bow?"

Naruto chuckled and said " At home, I don't bring it to training."

Neji nodded, then looked at Hinata and said " Hiashi-sama wants you to return to the compound."

Hinata nodded, then looked at Naruto and said " See you later." Hinata ran off leaving her wooden weapons.

Naruto looked at Neji with a smile then said " Well, good to see you Neji." Naruto then picked up the swords and left, not noticing Neji's smirk.


* Couple Weeks Later *

* Knock.*

Tsunade groaned as she used her feet to push her chair and turn herself towards her office door. Tsunade saw Shizune standing in the doorway holding a stack of files.

Shizune saw Tsunade gesture to walk up so she did and after stopping at the desk she set down twelve files. Shizune smiled and then said " Hokage-sama, Choji Akimichi is here?"

Tsunade sighed then said " Shizune you can just call me Tsunade." Tsunade saw Shizune have a smirk so she groaned and said " I know but that brat needs to learn respect. I know you respect me."

Shizune nodded with a smile and said " If you don't need anything else I'll send in Choji Akimichi." Shizune then walked into the door and put her hand on the outside handle. Shizune stood there slightly looking behind her, seeing Tsunade was a little down so she smiled and said "Tsunade, I'll bring you some Sake after the interviews." Shizune then walked out, closing the door leaving a smiling Tsunade.

After a few seconds of staring at the closed door, Tsunade turned back to face the window and after a couple of minutes Tsunade heard her office door open so she turned back. Tsunade saw Choji Akimichi enter with a potato chip bag in his hand. Tsunade gestured to sit then saw Choji sit while putting some chips in his mouth. Tsunade stayed silent for a few seconds then leaned back grabbing the first file and said " Choji I want you to give me a run down of your skills and Jutsu."

Choji nodded, throwing a chip in his mouth then said " I have increased strength, I'm decent with kunai and I know my clan's Taijutsu. For my jutsu I know the Clone jutsu, Replacement jutsu, Substitution jutsu, Partial Expansion jutsu and the Human Boulder jutsu."

Tsunade nodded and then said " Out of the Konoha Twelve, who do you trust the most?"

Choji threw a few chips in his mouth and said " Easy, Shikamaru."

* One Hour Later *

Tsunade sighed, leaning back mumbling " One more." Tsunade then sat up hearing her door open and saw Naruto enter and Tsunade had to admit Naruto's outfit change was for the better. Tsunade then gestured for Naruto to sit and after seeing her favorite blonde sit she opened his thin file and said " I'll admit I'm also using this to update your file."

Naruto sighed standing up and said, " That's not my file."

Tsunade looked at Naruto and said " What?"

Naruto sighed and said walking to the nearby bookshelf " Have you touched any of this?" Naruto looked back at Tsunade to see her shake her head so he looked forward as he stopped then said scanning through the books " When I turned about ten Jiji found out my file wasn't right and he knew it would continue so he hid my real file."

Tsunade nodded seeing Naruto pull out a thick book with a lock so she said " I don't have the key for that and neither does Jariya."

Naruto nodded looking at the book and said " I know, I swiped the key from the office right after his death." Naruto saw Tsunade shocked so he chuckled and said " I didn't know who was going to be Hokage at the time and I didn't want anyone to screw with what the Old Man did." Naruto then held up the book and said " This is everything. Naruto then reached into a secret pocket on the inside of his jacket and pulled out a key. Naruto unlocked the book then set it in front of Tsunade and then sat.

Tsunade opens the book to see an image of Naruto and basic information about him.

Naruto just leaned back and said " It will take you a while to go through that but that has everything. The basics are my skills, my money which I have in Ichiraku and my ownership of the Uzumaki compound." Naruto saw Tsunade looked up in shock so he chuckled and said " One day when I was young I asked why my last name was Uzumaki and I found out because it's my clan."

Tsunade nodded, turning a page for her eyes to go wide again. Tsunade looked up and said " You have a field medic license."

Naruto nodded and said " Yea, and before you get ahead of yourself I can't perform medical ninjutsu. It's impossible."

Tsunade looked at Naruto in confusion and said " I know you have more chakra than me but with control and long enough focus you can."

Naruto shook his head and said " I've been channeling chakra since I was born and huge amounts go through me. If I channeled so little in my hands my coils would explode."

Tsunade nodded seeing he had a point and after a few seconds said " Well, then." Tsunade then looked at Naruto and said " Why don't you live in the compound?"

Naruto just smirked and said " I got my reasons but the biggest one was because the Old Man told me that I can't until I can defend myself which I agreed to."

Tsunade nodded and then said " The Uzumaki's are known for their seals but they had stuff for everything." Tsunade pointed at the diamond tattoo on her head and said " When I was first working on this it worked but the seal would destroy itself and what it's on. Kushina Uzumaki the fourth's wife is from Uzushikare and got some scrolls with one being tattoo seals. I had Jariya's help."

Naruto chuckled and said " I bet he loved it." Naruto saw Tsunade nod with a chuckle so he said " Why haven't Konoha cleared out the village?"

Tsunade sighed and said " The village had a seal that made the walls impossible to destroy and no one could enter beside Uzumakis."

Naruto nodded when his eyes widened then he said " Wait, Jariya has a seal he uses when he makes new seals." Naruto saw Tsunade confused so he said " He calls it the defusing seal. If he creates a seal and it goes wrong but he can't undo it, the seal overpowers the other seal and eats it."

Tsunade nodded already seeing the down side and said " It's smart but only Uzumaki's can alter or apply."

Naruto nodded and said " So instead of ink we use my blood."

Tsunade's eyes went wide and she said " What?"

Naruto nodded and said " Jariya taught me how to make explosive seals and he told me that I could use blood."

Tsunade shook her head and said " It'll kill you."

Naruto chuckled sadly and said " I have fast regeneration."

Tsunade looked at Naruto and stood and said " I'll think about it." Tsunade then said " I think I need Sake though and go through this." Tsunade saw Naruto standing so she said " Hey, I have one of the best medical field kits. I can get you one."

Naruto shook his head and said " Hinata got me a good one."

Tsunade smiled and said " You spend more time with her."

Naruto nodded and said " So are we going to get to the questions?"

Tsunade shook her head and said " No, from what I've got from the others I have what I need."

Naruto nodded while standing , then he said with a small smile, " Tsunade, can I ask you something?"

Tsunade nodded thinking ' He never called me by my name.'

Naruto looked down and after a few seconds let out a sigh and said " Can I be promoted?"

Tsunade was shocked and said " W-What?"

Naruto sighed then said " I defeated Gaara even though everyone says it's Sasuke. I fought Orochimaru and Jariya taught me a lot."

Tsunade looked at Naruto and after a sigh said " Naruto truth is I would but I don't think it's time." Tsunade saw Naruto in shock so she let out a soft smile and said " Naruto, you're powerful I'll admit and if you were anyone else I would but…"

Naruto put his hand on his stomach and said " O-Oh."

Tsunade shook her head and said " Not that." Tsunade saw Naruto look at her so she smiled and said " I talked to Iruka and from what he told me alone for what they did to you." Tsunade looked at Naruto for a few seconds then said " You went from having just a few people to more including me and I want you to have a little bit of a real life. Just in case of anything." Tsunade saw Naruto nod then leave.

* Knock.*

Tsunade jumped a little then looked at her window to see Jariya enter. Tsunade sighed leaning back and said " What do you want?"

Jariya sighed and said " He's right." Jariya saw Tsunade shocked so he leaned against the wall and said " Tsunade when we left to look for you the minute we left Naruto relaxed. He likes not being known as anyone, just someone else."

Tsunade let out a sigh and said " Jariya."

Jariya shook his head and said " I'm just saying." Jariya then smirked and said " On the other hand Naruto isn't wrong he might be able to break the Uzumaki seals."


* Next Day *

Naruto was leaning against the wall of a room with the rest of the Konoha Twelve and he was strangely silent.

" Hey."

Naruto looked to his right at Hinata and just gave a small smile and said " Yea."

Hinata smiled with a blush and said " You seem down."

Naruto nodded and said " It's nothing." Naruto felt Hinata grab his arm then he saw her look at him. After a few seconds he said " fine, I'll tell you." Naruto saw Hinata smile so he said " I fucking hate that look." Naruto saw Hinata smile then giggle which made him think ' Man that giggle…'

" Why the hell are we even here?"

Naruto sighed when he heard the door open so he looked at the door which was on the other side of the room away from everyone. Naruto saw Tsunade enter with Shizune who was carrying five Chunin flak jackets.

Tsunade let out a sigh then stepped up and said " Yesterday I brought you all into my office one at a time and asked you questions." Tsunade let out another sigh and said " The reason was to change the teams as I had better ideas and also who to promote." Tsunade saw everyone was excited but her eyes landed on Naruto seeing him looking away. Tsunade let out a quiet sigh then said " First is promotions." Tsunade let out a small smile and said " Shikamaru Nara, Neji Huya, Tenten, Rock Lee and…" Tsunade paused for dramatic effect and after a few seconds said " One Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto's eyes went wide and he jumped and yelled " Hell yea." After landing Naruto smiled seeing everyone look at him he chuckled but when Naruto felt the soft skin of Hinata's hand intertwine with his hand and he felt his heart race Naruto smile got bigger. After a couple of seconds Naruto moved and grabbed his flak jacket and said " I don't have to wear it right?" Naruto saw Shizune shake her head so he smiled then said " Ok." Naruto then walked back towards Hinata and looked back at Tsunade holding her hand.

Tsunade looked over the twelve ninja then said " First I would like you to know I've rebuilt the teams to consist of an assault team, medic team, tracking team and capturing team." Tsunade saw everyone nod so he said " The medic team consist of Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga and actually you guess don't have a sensei." Tsunade saw the three shocks so he said " Kakashi is no longer a Jonin sensei but is willing to teach you Sasuke. Naruto has Jariya while Hinata has her clan and Kurenai." Tsunade saw the three nods so she said " The capturing team will consist of Shino, Ino and Choji with your sensei being Asuma. The tracking team is Shikamaru, Kiba and Sakura with your sensei being Hana Inuzuka. The Assault squad is just team nine."

Instantly everything became loud for Hinata but not out of reaction but from the noise and she was looking around realizing Naruto slipped out. After not finding Naruto she activated her Byakugan and found Naruto running out of the building which made Hinata frown.


Iruka was sitting in his classroom grading some assignments when he heard his classroom door burst open. Iruka looked up to see Naruto catching his breath. Iruka stood up and said " Naruto, is everything ok?"

" I got promoted, I'm a Chunin!"

Iruka jumped at Naruto's yelling but Iruka smiled then said " Finally."

Naruto smiled as he held his feast in one hand and said " I know."

Iruka walked up to Naruto and said " We need to celebrate." Iruka saw Naruto nod so he said " I got something in mind but it's a surprise. Invite who you want."

Naruto nodded and then said " Ok." Naruto then turned and ran off yelling " I'm going to go tell Yugao."

* Twenty Minutes Later *

Naruto was in front of Yugao's home bent over catching his breath and after a few more seconds Naruto did. Naruto looked around for a few seconds then knocked on the door.

" Come in."

Naruto grew scared hearing Yugao's voice so he opened the door and entered. Naruto stopped in the doorway to see Yugao leaning against her counter and he could tell she was really sick by her face." Naruto walked up and said " Yugao are you ok?"

Yugao looked at Naruto for a few seconds then put her hand on her stomach and said " Yea."

Naruto looked at Yugao to see that her stomach was bigger than it was a couple months ago so he said " Yugao what's going on?"

Yugao sighed and said " I'm pregnant Naruto and I'm just a little sick."

Naruto looked at Yugao and said " A little, you look exhausted." Naruto saw Yugao nod tiredly so he said " How far along?"

Yugao sighed letting out a heavy breath then said " Seven months." Yugao saw Naruto in shock so she let out a small chuckle then said " I know, I don't look at it but I am."

Naruto took a step forward and said " When were you going to tell me?"

Yugao let out a sigh then said " You were busy."

Naruto saw Yugao's legs give out so he moved catching her and said " Well, I'm not now." Naruto looked around and said " Where's your couch?" Naruto saw Yugao gesture to it so he moved her there and helped her lay down.

Yugao smiled and said " It's Hayate's I found out just after his death."

Naruto nodded feeling Yugao's forehead feeling she was hot so he turned walking to the kitchen and said " Do you have a name."

Yugao shook her head and said " No."

Naruto walked in with a wet rag and said " Ok." Naruto set the rag on Yugao's forehead and said " Well, do you know the gender?"

Yugao shook her head to see Naruto sit in a chair so she said " Why did you come here?"

Naruto's eyes went wide then said " Not right now." Naruto saw Yugao shake her head so he said " I got promoted, I'm a Chunin."

Yugao weakly smiled and said " Good."