Chapter 18: Birth of Hatred and Compassion.

Though Naruto totally got his ass handed to him in the taijutsu fight with Yamato, he was still able to leave a few bruises on Yamato with his improvised bo-staff style that he would definitely feel the next day. Word had quickly spread to the Hokage about Naruto's skill with using his katana as a bo-staff and he was stunned for he had given the boy a week to learn the basics and so far it's only been 2 days.

But Sarutobi saw the opportunity of a lifetime to correct the mistake he had made in the past; here was a boy with limitless potential to be the strongest shinobi ever. Much like one of his former students but this time he wouldn't let him go down the wrong path.

Little did Sarutobi know that he wasn't the only one of Naruto's senseis who had grand dreams for Naruto, though they didn't know it at the time their goal for Naruto to bring about 'peace in the Shinobi world' was the same. Both Jiraiya and Kakashi wanted to train Naruto to carry on his father's destiny, while Itachi wanted to train Naruto so he would become powerful but humble at the same time.

For Itachi Naruto became like a second little brother to him, and there were some attributes of Naruto he desperately wished Sasuke would acquire. There was even one day where Itachi had brought Sasuke along with him to one of Naruto's trainings, this turned out to be a horrendous idea.

In a fit of rage Fugaku had told the adults in the clan during a meeting about how the Naruto had denied everything he offered him including the clan heir position. Soon this reached the ears of Sasuke who was greatly enraged by his father's attempted actions.

Sasuke was always attempting to gain his father's approval over Itachi, who no matter what Sasuke did always overshadowed him in every aspect. But hearing how that his father had offered the clan heir position to this Naruto guy pissed Sasuke off like no tomorrow. He often thought to himself "Why would father even consider somebody who is not even an Uchiha or did have the sharingan worthy of being clan heir, when that position should be rightfully an Uchiha's, and more specifically him.

So when Sasuke was offered a chance to meet this non-Uchiha he immediately took it to see for himself what his father saw in this Naruto guy.

Upon approaching the training ground with Itachi, Sasuke immediately scowled at the sight of Naruto who was practicing staff katas with his katana. "This guy looks like nothing special," Sasuke thought to himself.

Nearing Naruto Itachi asked, "Good morning Naruto, Kakashi is late as usual?"

Giving him a smirk, "You are correct Itachi-sensei, if you weren't so punctual I don't think I'll would get any training at all." Seeing somebody beside Itachi Naruto asked, "Is this your brother Itachi you two look alike?"

"Correct this is my younger brother Sasuke, Sasuke this is Uzumaki Naruto the boy who Hokage-sama assigned me to train." Itachi said as he rubbed Sasuke's head with his hand, whom immediately knocked it away with a frown.

"Pleasure to meet you Sasuke-san," Naruto said while extending his hand for a handshake.

Sasuke hmphed crossing his arm across his chest a said with an arrogant snide, "I don't see what father see's in you, you don't look like anything special actually…. You look weak."

"Sasuke!… apologize right this moment," Itachi berating Sasuke.

"And why should I Itachi, I'm always trying to prove I'm deserve to have fathers recognition but he always denies me it. But this weakling comes out of nowhere and instantly father lavishes him with everything in the clan. I WON'T STAND FOR IT." Sasuke yelled back at Itachi.

"Fight me you idiot, I will prove once and for it that I am the one that deserve fathers praise." Sasuke yelled as he rushed toward Naruto.

Sasuke ready his fist back in preparation to punch Naruto, but before he could move any further Itachi grabbed his arm and twisted it behind has back. Sasuke screamed out in pain as he let out a flurry of curses directed at both Itachi and Naruto.

"Sasuke I can see bringing you out to meet Naruto was a bad idea, I'm taking you home now we are going to have a long talk about this." Itachi said as he glared at Sasuke for making himself look like a fool.

Turning toward Naruto Itachi said, "My apologizes Naruto, it seems that our training must be delayed due to my little brothers blatant lack of control of his temper. As he disappeared in a shunshin with Sasuke in tow.

After that confrontation between them, Naruto made sure he saw as little of the angry Uchiha as possible. Even going as far as having Kurama alert him whenever he was nearby, so he could find a different path to take to his destination before he ran into Sasuke.

Another event that took place that year was that Hitomi suddenly announced she was pregnant, though everybody pretended to be in shock, nobody was really surprised. It was no secret to anybody in the Hyuga clan the amount of fun the Hyuga Matriarch had with her husband.

But there was nobody more overjoyed than Hinata, who loved the idea of having a younger sibling that she could play and spend time with. And as for Anko just another victim for her to torture… I mean train.

Speaking of training with Anko after much discussion and planning with Hitomi, they both had worked together to develop a form of juken combined with the snake style taijutsu. And on Hitomi's first test run with using the new form of juken she proved it was definitely a revolutionary break through.

She quickly tore through the ranks of the Hyuga clan and soon came to challenge Hizashi, whom was touted as the second only to Hiashi. Though Hizashi first started out going easy on his brother's wife, not wanting to hurt her or possibly the baby. He soon realized he had made the same mistake so many others had, and that was underestimating Hitomi Hyuga. With this strange form of juken that actually seemed more like dancing then fighting she was unhittable even for somebody at Hizashi's level. Her flexability which once seemed to be her vice became her greatest weapon.

This allowed her to completely blow away the Hyuga elders and Hiashi himself when she was able to successfully counter Hizashi's Eight Trigrams Sixty-four palms by either parrying the strike or completely dodging it. Then to all the males of the council's dismay she took a page from Anko's book and gave a swift kick to Hizashi's nether regions, though it wasn't chakra enhanced like Anko's it still sent Hizashi to the ground in pain. And all the other males immediately grabbed onto their own in fear.

The elder's wanted to start educating every Hyuga in the clan in this new style of fighting calling it neo-juken or snake juken, but they soon realized it was impossible without the agility and flexibility Hitomi possessed. Even when Hiashi attempted to learn it he fell cleanly on his rump when attempting some of the more limber-required moves.

The only person other than Hitomi that was able to learn it was Hinata, who completely excelled in it when compared to her normal juken which was very subpar at best. While also learning the neo- juken Hitomi agreed with Anko that Hinata should start training in other arts. So when Hinata trained with her mother she was introduced into the art of archery, while Anko to the horror of not only Hiashi but Naruto as well started teaching Hinata the ability of projecting snakes from her sleeves.

For now it was manageable because Hinata could only send one out, though Anko assured them by the end of the year she would be able to summon 3-5….. From each hand, Hiashi feared for those who had ever wronged Hinata.

FLASH FORWARD

One Year later

The next spring marked the time when Hitomi was due to give birth; during the time of her delivery Hiashi had gathered every single Hyuga private doctor to the delivery room. Just in case there were any complications due to any residue poison left in her body.

But by the blessing of Kami, Hitomi delivered a perfectly healthy baby girl which they named Hanabi. Though Hiashi had wanted a boy, there were advantages with having a second daughter. For if some sick twist of fate that Hinata's relationship didn't work out with Naruto, than both of his children would still be exempt from the cage bird seal. Most of the time females weren't branded with the seal, well at least until they were married.

Both Naruto and Hinata whom were now 5 years old, loved looking after Hanabi. Spending all the down time from training with the little baby Hanabi, though they soon realized that looking after a baby wasn't as easy as it sounded. They never did any of the fun baby stuff that they read about in books, all Hanabi really did was poop and pee all the time. And if she wasn't doing that she was just sleeping.

Even Anko found it her quite boring when she visited Hanabi, currently Hanabi was sleeping in a crib that Naruto had made with his Mokuton abilties. Because it was made with chakra it was not only sturdier and more comfortable but surprisingly quite insulated which was a plus for Hanabi.

Peering at the baby from over the cribs fence Anko exclaimed with a mouthful of dango, "Not much is she? This time could be spent training instead." once should her disregard for someone's age.

"Anko-chan she's not even a year old yet, you can't really expect much from her… at least not yet." Naruto said while wringing out a towel used to clean Hanabi over a bowl of water.

"He's going to be a great father one day Hinata-sama, all the other females are saying how lucky you are." One of the Hyuga matrons who were carrying for Hanabi said with a giggle. It was no secret to any of the females of the Hyuga clan how much Hinata 'enjoyed' Naruto's presence, as many of the other in the clan did as well. While Naruto was in true sense a gentlemen he didn't possess the stoic stuck-upness majority of the Hyuga men had. This led to Naruto being the dream husband of a majority of the Hyuga females, even the ones who were already married and those that were quite older than him. But they never took any action in fear of retribution from the Hyuga heiress.

Hinata blushed and responded, "Ayumi-san we are still too young to be thinking that far ahead." Though she was still a tad young that didn't stop Hinata from fantasizing about life with Naruto when they grew up and having children of their own. Hinata didn't know the specifics of how exactly a baby was made yet, but she did know enough that it usually involved two people who loved each other very much and did things that required quite revealing and close personal contact with one another.

"Yeah," Anko said, "You can be my matron when Naruto-kun and I have baby's princess." Anko on the other hand knew exactly and pretty well in-depth how babies were made, and did she ever intend on doing it with somebody else that somebody specifically being Naruto.

Ayumi just shook her head with a slight smile, she was quite used to the two bantering over Naruto. Little did those two know Naruto actually had legal right to marry both of them when it came time for it.

Hinata scowled at Anko and said, "Well I bet if I had babies with Naruto-kun, ours would be stronger and cuter."

Anko got up in Hinata's face and they began butting foreheads, which actually was quite common between the two.

"Yeah!" Anko exclaimed

"Yeah!" Hinata replied

"YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

Ayumi asked Naruto as the two continued to go back and forth, "Should we stop them?"

"Not yet, we should wait to see if it escalates into snakes and juken strikes flying back and forth." Naruto answered with a sigh. And too think these two were best friends.

"What do you mean wait till it spirals out of control Naruto-kun, shouldn't we stop them before that happens." Ayumi questioned.

"There are a multitude of reasons why I refuse to stop them, if I were to stop any one of them then somebody would cry that I was showing favoritism and even with my abilities I doubt I could stop both of them at the same time. Anko's snakes are more agile then my wood is same goes for Hinata's new juken stance."

Back with Hinata and Anko they were still sending jabs at each other. "Succubus!!''

"Spoiled Brat!"

"Pine Apple Tree!"

"Hime doll!"

But before they could continue they were cut off by the sounds of Hanabi crying. Looking over at the crib, they saw both Ayumi and Naruto tending to Hanabi.

"Do you think she's hungry or in a need of a change of diaper this time?" Naruto asked

"Well let's find out Naruto-kun." Ayumi said while moving Hanabi to a table nearby, Peeling the diaper away. Ayumi was able to detect with her years of being a matron the incoming stream of urine that Hanabi was about to let out, instantly twisting to the side as the stream came out full force. Ayumi was just able to dodge it but not Naruto who had been standing somewhat behind her and got a full blast of Hanabi's quote on quote suiton attack.

"Nice."Naruto said in a monotone voice

One of the Hyuga Meeting rooms

With Hitomi she was dragged into a room by the younger females of the Hyuga clan, in their so called baby shower for Hitomi.

"Girls you do realize that baby showers are usually only for the first child right?" Hitomi protested.

"Yes we do Hitomi-sama but there were some things we wanted to talk to you about." One of the females said.

Hitomi sighed to herself, but also seeing a chance of getting away from taking care of Hanabi which had been quite stressful for a while was well worth it. "So what seems to be the problem?"

"Well we greatly admire the way you and Hiashi-sama respect and love each other so much." One of them asked

Another said, "While we show so much love and admiration for our husbands, they rarely show us any in return."

Hitomi giggled and said, "So the problem you ladies have is that marriage is not as hyped up as you thought it would be, and that your sex lives have become distasteful and bland?"

They all nodded their heads while blushing slightly. Giggling once more Hitomi walked over to the window and closed it than over to the door made sure it was locked. Turning to the females she said in a hushed voice, "If anybody asked I had no part in this and you went out and bought it yourselves." Reaching inside her sleeve's she grabbed a book and threw it onto the floor in front of them.

One of the braver ones picked it up and read "Icha Icha: Soothing Medical Kunoichi? How can this perverted book help my marriage Hitomi-sama?"

"Girls educate yourselves and be spontaneous." Hitomi said than she turned her back to them. "And remember I took no part in this, it would be even better if nobody knew this….. baby shower never happened." With that Hitomi opened the door and walked out the room.

The remaining females in the room all gathered up behind the brave one who had picked up the book, she turned around and they all gave her a nod of approval. As she opened the book to the first page and read,

"I distinctly remember why I first entered medical school. It was seeing all the malnourished children and women that were left behind after a war. It sparked a conviction in me to go and help treat these people. But to my displeasure I quickly found out medical school wasn't cheap…"

TWO DAYS LATER

Hokage's training field

Naruto was scheduled to train with the Hokage, because of how incredibly busy the job of Hokage was usually their appointments were canceled or postponed to a later date. But today the wizened Hokage assured Naruto that he would be available and he better be ready because they had a couple of lesson's to make up.

When they had first practiced they used thin bamboo stalks, Naruto thought it would have hurt less but when he was hit with the stalks boy was he ever wrong. The bamboo stalks actually hurt like hell every strike it let through felt like a whip coming down on his skin. A punishment the Hokage would say "For letting your concentration slip, and to help push you to new heights."

But now Naruto was using his katana, and to his grief the Hokage was using Enma in his staff mode. And though the Sandaime looked like an old man his speed and strength was unparalleled when compared to Naruto's other senseis. It took every bit of Naruto's concentration just to keep from letting the Hokage add another bruise to his collection. He had quite a collection already and he wasn't looking for more.

Sarutobi yelled out as he spun the bo staff above his head than brought it downward for to squash Naruto, "Naruto-kun I hope you haven't been slacking off, cause today I'm not going to go easy on you."

Knowing the chance of him actually being able to withstand the smash was near impossible, Naruto opted to roll away instead. But by the time he was able to regain his composure Sarutobi was on him again going through a flurry of jabs and swings. Even with his wooden pillers blocking most of the strikes, Sarutobi was still able to sneak in a strike to the ribs.

Falling to his knees Naruto grimaced at the pain, he knew most likely that at least one rib was broken if not badly fractured. Seeing Naruto failed attempts to stand up while still clutching his side Sarutobi dropped his stance and walked over to him.

"I think we should stop with the bo-staff training today, your body needs time to recover from its beating." Sarutobi said as he walked over to where he had folded his robe and picked up the pipe that was on top of it, placing it into his mouth he looked over at Naruto who was now on his knees out trying to catch his breath.

Unknown to both Sarutobi and Naruto, his chest had taken an enormous amount of damage. And had it not been for Kurama, most likely he would have been dead from internal bleeding. So the only reason why Naruto was still down was because Kurama was currently prioritizing the most vital areas to heal first.

Sarutobi walked over the Naruto and asked, "Naruto-kun are you okay?"

"I am sorry Hokage-sama, it seems my skills are not at your level.

I'm sorry for disappointing you" Naruto said demoralized.

"Nonsense Naruto-kun, you at the moment should not compare yourself to me you are still young, while I am an old veteran Shinobi who has seen many years of battle. If you would have beaten me in battle I would have immediately crowned you the next Hokage on the spot." Sarutobi said trying to cheer Naruto up.

Giving a slight smirk to Sarutobi Naruto said, "It was a bit foolish of me to compare myself to someone as powerful as the Hokage wasn't it?"

"Hmm a tad bit foolish, but being powerful isn't all there is to being Hokage." Sarutobi said.

"What do you mean Hokage-sama?" Naruto questioned.

"Though being powerful is a necessary trait when it comes to being Hokage, you also need compassion, heart, and willing to sacrifice everything including your family for the sake of the village." Sarutobi answered.

"That seems like an awful amount of weight on ones shoulders, I don't think I would be able to do a job like that Hokage-sama. Knowing I have to send out my family or friends to missions that could possibly result in their deaths I just can't live with that." Naruto said with respect for the Hokage.

"It is hard Naruto-kun, but if anything I believe you one day could become Hokage." Sarutobi said hopefully.

"Maybe one day Hokage-sama, but I highly doubted it. I might have compassion for the village. But It is a one sided affair, how am I supposed to justify helping those who wish to hurt me or ridicule the ones I care for?" Naruto said with a hint of anger in his voice.

Attempting to reassure Naruto Sarutobi said, "One day I believe they will accept you and the Kyubi and see you as the hero you are Naruto-kun, isn't that what Jiraiya-chan believes in, I have faith that you can make people understand and lead them into a bright future."

"Thank you Hokage-'jiji' for having such faith in me." Naruto said in a slightly more cheerful tone.

Ruffling Naruto's hair slightly Sarutobi said, "And if you want to lead those precious to you then you have to grow stronger for them, so enough with the chit chat Naruto-kun let's get back to training with what little time we have."

Under the conviction of helping the ones that Naruto held dear to him, he intensified his training to points that would make both Might Guy and Rock Lee green with envy. He was often offered the chance to join the academy early and possibly graduated the same year, just based on his strength and ability to absorb new information and skills like a sponge. If one had to rank Naruto based on his skill it would probably be high Jonin to Kage leave, just because how unbeatable he was in combat with his control in Mokuton

But Naruto humbly denied them all saying that he'd much rather enjoy what remained of his childhood and he definitely preferred going to class with Hinata. Though he kept that part to himself.

3 years Later

Night before First day of the Academy

Hinata and Naruto were in their usual sleeping positions of Hinata snuggled into Naruto's side with her head on his chest and his arm wrapped around her waist. She had insisted he do it because she said it made her feel safe and protected. Whispering softly to Naruto Hinata asked.

"So tomorrows the day we finally get to go to the academy?"

"Yep, starting tomorrow we are going to be officially Shinobi in training and we will get the chance to meet new friends." Naruto responded, "And possibly enemies" Naruto thought thinking about Sasuke and his meaningless hatred for him.

"Is a little bit scary isn't it?" Hinata asked.

"Hmm" Naruto said as he moved the arm from her waist up to her head to softly stroke her hair. "Yes it is a bit scary, there's so much out there we don't know about."

"But you will always be there for me right?" Hinata asked tilting her head up to look at Naruto, whom she had discovered a while back that she had fallen so madly in love with.

Looking back down with a smile, "Of course I will, I would protect you, Anko-chan, and the rest of your family with my life Hinata-hime."

Satisfied with his answer Hinata snuggled her head deeper into Naruto's chest and said in a faint whisper, "Thank you Naruto-kun."

First ever OMAKE!

It was sunset and Hiashi had just finished the day's paperwork, deciding to take a walk to clear his mind and work his muscles a bit he left his office and strolled through the compound toward the gardens. Walking through the compound he tensed as he felt some was off.

He noted that even though night was approaching quickly none of the lights or candles was lit. He would have a talk with some of the servants when he saw one. Then it suddenly struck him from his entire walk from the office to where he was now he had not encountered another person.

Though Hiashi Hyuga was a strong and daring Shinobi of the leaf, he felt fear grip him as he watched the shadows of a tree project through a window. Hastening his pace he swiftly jogged over to one of the more used meeting rooms, sliding the door open revealed an empty and dark room.

Now running down the hallway toward the kitchens he rip the door open praying to Kami somebody was inside, but to his agony the kitchens were just as empty and dark as the meeting room.

Drip

Drip

Drip

Cold-sweat ran down his forehead as he looked over and saw the source of the dripping was a leaky faucet,

"Water bills be dammed," Hiashi thought as he slammed the door shut. Taking off through the compound and toward his house, entering his house he immediately ran to his eldest daughter's room to find it empty as well but right when he opened the door to her room he swore he heard the sounds of Hinata giggling into the wind.

Chest heaving and sweat dripping down his face he shakily slid the door open to his own room and entered it, as was the rest of the compound and his house the lights were off and the only source of lighting was the setting orange sun coming through the window. But unlike the other rooms he had visited this one wasn't as empty….. as he thought.

Closing the door behind him and walking over to his wife's dresser looking for something to wipe the sweat from his brow, he suddenly heard the sounds of water sloshing from their bathroom. Turning around to face the door of the bathroom he noticed it was opened half way, but to his horror the bathroom itself was completely dark.

He listened shaking in fear as he heard the sounds of water splashing all over the tile floors than a his heart nearly jumped out of his chest, when suddenly a hand emerged from the darkness gripping the half opened door. Stepping out of the bathroom revealed Hitomi soaked from head to toe in her kimono dragging her feet out of the bathroom with her head pointed down toward the floor.

Heavily stuttering Hiashi asked, "My love?"

What he got was a whispy emotionless voice, "Hiashi-kun."

Than he choked when he saw it! In her other hand their it was her favorite 6 inched purple torture tool. Hiashi fell on his rear and he tried to push himself backwards whimpering.

He was rewarded with cackling from his wife than in a deranged voice she asked, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING HIASHI!" Lifting her head he saw the same possessed ghoul like face his wife had used the other day.

It was at this point Hiashi could only do one thing and one thing only and that was scream.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Bolting up into a sitting position Hiashi clutched his chest, trying to catch his breath he said out-loud to himself. "It was just a dream."

"Hiashi-kun are you alright," Hitomi asked while softly rubbing her husband chest who had woken her, in his jostling from sleep.

Still breathing heavily Hiashi replied, "Thank you for your concern my love but I'll be fine just give me a moment."

Still with a look of concern on her face Hitomi reached across Hiashi to his nightstand and opened his drawer to find some tissues to wipe the sweat off his face. Hearing the rummaging of his wife he turned his head to help her find whatever she was looking for, looking down into the open drawer his blood instantly turned cold as he saw lying inside was that dammed purple vibrator. His body tensed up and his wife felt it turning to look at her husband she found him staring at the vibrator with a glassy look.

Completely interpreting her husband's intentions wrong, she grabbed the tool ran it across his face and asked, "Oh does a certain prisoner want to be interrogated again?"

Hiashi let out a cross of something that was a choking noise, a gasp and a whimper at the same time before his wife sealed her lips over his.

"Kami help me." Was all Hiashi could think.

EH not the most action packed chapter but it this is one of those little necessary in-between chapters that are needed every now and then

Next chapter will begin the Academy Arc stay tuned everybody.

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