Chapter 26: Memoirs of a Clan head

Lying on his bed with his wife naked and fast asleep on his chest, Hiashi softly stroked her beautiful midnight blue hair as he thought back on when he first began to officially court his wife. He had known her for almost their whole life her family had been integrated into the Hyugas some 2-3 generations ago when one of the fire Daimyo's nieces married into the Hyuga clan, Hitomi's grandmother was the product of this marriage.

After Minato had instilled some courage into him, Hiashi was soon brave enough to ask permission from both his father and Hitomi's father for their consent and blessings to court Hitomi, they both almost immediately agreed to it with his father being a huge supporter of them together, but even then Hiashi still held some contempt for his father.

But while he did dislike the man, he also respected him greatly. This man gave his all for the clan including all his free time and energy just to ensure that the clan was running and prospering.

When he was younger Hiashi saw this and wanted to emulate his father and be the strong man he was, to one day lead the clan to higher plateaus of success. But soon Hiashi discover that being clan head wasn't as simple as he thought it would be.

But one part that seemed to disturb Hiashi the most was when he learned that the only reason his father had allowed him to court Hitomi was because she had family members with connections to the Fire Daimyo. "A clan head does not marry merely for love." That was the first line his father had told him during his first lessons on how to be a proper clan head.

According to his father what was necessary to find in a wife was proper lineage, connections to higher ups and wealth. But maybe it just a stroke of luck that Hitomi had all of that and more, aside from wealth blood and connections Hitomi was a powerful kunoichi in her own right.

According to his father, they would breed powerful children for the clan. This greatly infuriated Hiashi not only for Hitomi's sake but also his mothers.

Hiashi began to wonder just what his mother meant to his father. Did he love her or was she just somebody to have strong children with and clean and take care of his house?

Hiashi didn't know how life was behind closed doors. Were they a pair of loving husband and wife… this he would never find out but one thing Hiashi did know was that she was a great mother.

At least in private she was, there were times when training to be clan head just got a little too much for Hiashi. Times where he had to run off and just cry a little, somehow his mother always found him no matter how well he hid.

With or without the Byakugan she would always seem to find him, and he was grateful that she always did. She would call it her maternal instinct saying how she would always know when her son was sad and in pain.

Hiashi would spend hours talking and crying with his mother comforting him, but it saddened Hiashi knowing that after this was over. His mother would become a completely different person, to him in private she could be soothing and calming mother but in public she would take on the personality of his father stoic, stern and firm.

Hiashi promised himself that he would never allow his beautiful flower Hitomi to have to hide away her true beauty like that regardless of the wishes of the elders and his father.

And even though it was a pain to have them constantly complaining about the actions of his wife, he dealt with it because his wife was worth it…. And to a lesser extent because she had some embarrassing blackmail to use against him. While he knew his loving wife would never release it out to the public he knew he was better safe than sorry.

Because if it had ever gotten out, than Hiashi knew that it would completely destroy his reputation in Konoha and make him the laughing stock of the Hyuga clan. It had happened the night that Hitomi and he were supposed to consummate their marriage.

FLASH BACK

Night of Hitomi and Hiashi's wedding

Hiashi had just finished seeing the last of the guests that attended his wedding off, Hitomi had retired earlier to 'their' room to freshen up for their actions later on. As Hiashi walked toward what was formerly his room his heart beat quickened to almost painful levels. Finally he would be able to do what he had always wanted to Hitomi… make love to her.

It was difficult but he was able to just persuade his wife for them to stay pure until their marriage. There were multiple times when she had cornered him inside a room and stalked over to him like he was her prey, and it took every ounce of his willpower to deny her what she wanted.

Hiashi had believed in the tradition that for a marriage to be successful and prosperous one must stay pure until after they had been married, and also because he had heard rumors that the Byakugan could tell if a women was a virgin or not.

And even now Hiashi didn't know if it was true or not, he never dared to use his Byakugan on his beloved Hitomi in that perverse manner though he was tempted on a few occasions. Especially when she subtly teased and flirted with him whether it would be rubbing her leg against his under the table, or when she walked away from him with a bit of sway in her hip area.

Entering their bedroom and sliding the door closed he noticed the room was very dimly lit with candles. Also a fragrant of white jasmine wafted through the air and assaulted his senses. The source of this overpowering aroma the beautiful Hitomi Hyuga lying on their bed on her side with one arm holding her head up. Wearing a short….. No a very short pink sleeping gown that barely went pass her hips.

With the sexiest voice Hiashi had ever heard in his life Hitomi asked….. No Hitomi DEMANDED, "Hiashi-kun…. Come here." With her index finger slowly curling repeatedly in a come here motion.

Oh how Hiashi cursed his weak mind and body at this moment, even with this angel laying on his bed calling for him he couldn't move his legs, but on the other hand his eyes and mouth were having a battle on which could be opened wider and every speck of blood in his body was currently in two places. Either leaking down his nose or pooling to harden his manhood.

And it was because of the lack of blood elsewhere in his body Hiashi did the unthinkable….. He fainted.

Yes finally his chance to make ever sweet love with his wife, and he completely ruined it by fainting into a puddle of his own blood. What would Hitomi think of him now, would she see him as weak and pathetic? And worse would she want to divorce him!

All of this ran through Hiashi's mind as he slowly creaked his eyes open, judging by the light pouring in from the rice paper shades it was morning…. He knew he had messed up badly, but a weight on his chest told him otherwise.

Looking down onto his chest was a one Hitomi Hyuga, sleeping contently still dressed in that revealing pink gown. Her breath softly tickling his chest through the opening in his robes, a crimson red blush adorned Hiashi's cheeks as he had a perfect view of Hitomi's cleavage her low cut gown did very little to hide it.

With one shaky hand he reached slowly toward one of Hitomi's breasts than fearfully touched it, running his hand over it as delicately as possible. He admired how soft and tender it felt cursing the thin piece of fabric that separated their two skins from meeting.

After a moment Hiashi allowed his hand to travel further down, running down her perfectly shaped hour glass body. He cupped Hitomi's plump and firm rear end. And just as he was about to give it a light squeeze, Hiashi heard his wife say in a soft yet strangely amused voice.

"Pervert."

Instantly Hiashi's hands shot to the side of his body and his whole body became stiff as a board. Stuttering out "Hiii… tomi-chan I'm so sorry!"

Hitomi giggled at her husband's behavior and asked playfully, "and just how long were you planning to grope me in my sleep, before you woke me up so we could have some mutual fun my love?"

"I….. I…. I….." Was all Hiashi could respond with.

Once again Hitomi giggled into her husband's chest and said, "Don't hurt yourself now… Hyuga-sama."

Trying to still his newly diagnosed speech disorder, Hiashi was able to force out a, "I'm…. soooo sorr..ry Hi… tomi-chan, I couldnnn't help my… self… you're just so beautiful…"

"Really Hiashi-kun? I was so worried you didn't want me after what happened last night." Hitomi said with a pout as she sat up and straddled Hiashi's waist.

"I… I could never do that to you Hitomi….hime." Hiashi shakily replied.

Straddling the man who was now her husband, Hitomi looked down and realized that Hiashi's eyes were unwavering from one point of her body. That point specifically being her breasts.

Softly she asked him, "Hiashi-kun…. Is there something you want from me?"

Hiashi while still staring unblinkingly at her breasts, nodded vigorously.

With a smirk Hitomi reached over and grabbed the backs of both of Hiashi's hands and asked, "Then tell me Hiashi-kun what are your desires!" with that she pulled both his hands on top of her breasts, squeezing them so he was effectively groping her.

Immediately Hitomi threw her head back releasing a moan of pleasure. Hearing his new wife moan so erotically and seductively, a fire of realization was ignited inside Hiashi.

At this point he realized that this wasn't the same Hitomi Hyuga that he had knew all his life….. but this Hitomi Hyuga was now 'HIS'

Hitomi Hyuga and at this very moment, what they both desired so badly was each other.

So Hiashi instantaneously sat up while not releasing hold of his wife's breast and mashed his lips onto hers, fully intent on being in control of what was going to happen. But sadly for Hiashi his wife had other plans and somehow she overpowered him and he soon found himself lying on the bed again pinned under his wife. Who had broken the kiss and was now hovering a couple of inches above his face.

With an evil looking grin she said, "Oh so naïve so silly, after you left me all hot and bothered last night do you really think I'm going to let you dominate me…."

Hiashi just blankly stared back in surprise.

"I don't think so Hyuga-sama." She whispered

End Flash Back

Even now thinking back on that memory Hiashi still shuddered at this wide untamable side of Hitomi. But regardless of his wife's tendencies in bed, Hiashi still loved the women more than anything.

But that was almost ripped away from him when he learned of the death of his best friend and the current Hokage, Minato Namikaze.

Slowly he grew colder and even pushed away his wife's affections at times; he immersed himself in work and training, so much that even the birth of their first born barely bought a smile to his lips. The truth was with his determination sapped the once proud Hiashi Hyuga was now falling to the mad whispers of his council.

As much as he tried to resist them occasionally one of their mad murmurs would firmly root itself inside his mind, one that stood out above the rest was, how his wife and daughter were the weak link of the Hyuga clan.

Not even one year of age and they with their all seeing eyes had already deemed Hinata unfit,

"She's too much like her mother."

"She will not be fit to lead the clan."

"Outcast!"

"Worthless!"

"Weak…."

These were the words that ran through Hiashi's head constantly as he was basically forced to watch his wife and daughter from the shadows. The women that he loved so much at one point…. Now shunned by him, but it had to be done right?

Hitomi would understand right, in the end everything he did all the times he denied her of her happiness and love it was all for the good of the clan, he had no choice as cold as Hiashi was to his wife she never changed, she refused to change to fit the set Hyuga standard, and thus Hiashi was forced to hide his wife away to protect not only her but the clan's image. Breaking the vow to himself.

And all because Hitomi was as headstrong as she was beautiful and it just tore Hiashi inside to see the pain his wife was in, And Hiashi would have no problem slaughtering an army just to destroy those who had hurt his precious flower….. But what could he do when that person who was the source of all her pain and suffering was himself?

The nights Hiashi would silently cry himself to sleep as he stared into the face of his sleeping wife; he knew nobody should ever see him like this. But there were times Hiashi wished Hitomi would wake up and witness him crying so than she would comfort and smother him in her love and embrace.

And only now did Hiashi realize maybe Hinata and Hitomi weren't the ones that was weak and worthless but he himself was the one that was weak and worthless. He didn't want to imagine what would have happened if he had allowed this to continue to spiral out of control.

If his wife had actually been murdered, would he live his life drowning himself in guilt? Or would he become a shell of the man he once was, cold… bitter…..

This possible future horrified him to no end, and it came so close becoming a reality had it not been for Naruto…..

Maybe it was a stroke of luck that Naruto had saved both his wife and daughter, or maybe it was destined to happen. Hiashi had been pulled from the darkness once by Minato and now it was ironic that another Namikaze would once again help him find his way.

Though it was kind of a humiliation that he had only realized how foolish he had been when his wife and eldest were nearly ripped away from his life.

But Hiashi need not think these foul thoughts anymore, he had gotten back into good graces with his wife and his eldest daughter was now flourishing under their new neo-juken style.

With everything within Hiashi's personal life starting to look up, he could now focus on other issues at hand. One of the major ones that had been bugging him for a while was his nephews change in attitude the last few years.

While Neji had always been sort of unemotional and stoic. Hiashi put it off as a side effect of having his mother die early and also being touted as the prodigy of this generation of the Hyuga clan….. well atleast in standard juken, while Hiashi would be hesitant to admit it and the elders would straight up deny it. But the truth was that standard juken was inferior compared to Anko and Hitomi's version.

The flaw of standard juken was it was too stiff and if given enough time studying it and practicing against it you could start to read its next attack, this flaw came from memorizing a standard opening stance. By knowing and differentiating between the different stances.

One could expect how and where the strikes were coming from.

But during the past few years Neji had definitely become colder and more arrogant especially toward Hinata.

This had led to more than a few altercations to break out between Naruto and Neji, while they never escalated into anything more than a few busted lips and bruises between the two….. Well mostly Neji on the receiving end. But it did create a lot of tension between them.

Which Hiashi hope to resolve when he had a private talk with Neji and while Neji did promise that he would not direct any hatred toward Hinata or provoke Naruto in anyway, Naruto still caught Neji glaring at Hinata from time to time prompting Naruto to state coldly, "Keep glaring at Hinata like that and I will tear your eyes out of their sockets!"

Hiashi knew that these weren't idle threats, and if provoked Naruto would do that to Neji and anybody else that insulted Hinata. This level of protectiveness that Naruto had for Hinata was borderline obsessive.

Though Hinata didn't seem to mind it… in reality she seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. While Anko had taught her to be a strong kunoichi, Hinata still loved being spoiled by Naruto's love for her.

Hitomi had found this to be completely adorable, even feeling slightly jealous herself. She would pout and ask while throwing herself onto her husband body, "Why don't you spoil me like that." All the while running her hands all over his body.

Afterwards Hiashi would have to submit to her will and basically be her toy till she was satisfied….. which usually took quite a while.Hiashi soon began suspecting that his wife and Naruto were actually conspiring together.

Anytime Hitomi felt she needed a to reinforce her will on her husband, she would ask Naruto to go through the whole theatric performance of unnecessarily pampering Hinata so Hitomi could justify her actions done to him.

Or maybe Hiashi was just being too paranoid. His wife wouldn't do something as absurd as that….. right?

Hiashi shook his head to clear it of that ridiculous notion, than slowly slipped out of his wife's grasp and off his bed. Immediately he heard Hitomi groan in displeasure of losing the warmth of his body, and on the inside closet pervert Hiashi was throwing tantrum about leaving his wife for something as trivial as morning exercises.

Which by the way Hiashi had only recently picked up due to his wife complaining how out of shape he was, Walking down the hallways toward the communal dining hall which usually had at least 1 chef there at all times, Hiashi bumped into Naruto walking out with a whole tray of food.

"That is quite the amount of food you have their Naruto, I can only assume it's for both you and my daughter?"

"Correct Hiashi-sama, as you might know Hina-hime isn't much of a morning person. But still we like to wake up a couple of hours earlier so we can spar a bit before heading off to the academy." Naruto replied.

"I see, well I wish you two the best of luck today in class." Hiashi said before they gave each other a short bow and Naruto went toward Hinata's room.

Hiashi wiped his head around a couple of times, ensuring that his wife was nowhere around to witness what Naruto was doing. He knew that she would never let him live that down.

But still as much as Naruto put Hiashi on the spot multiple times, Naruto had bought more than enough fame to the Hyuga clan to make it worth it. Hiashi had received multiple praises and complaints of how strong Naruto was.

Many of the praises come from his two anbu sensei's who gave Hiashi occasional reports on the status of their training. And also from the Hokage who only had good things to say about his latest apprentice.

Most of the complaints were usually from the civilian councils who were saying that Naruto was getting too strong for his own good. Even going as far as to request the Hokage teach Sasuke instead who they believed to show more potential than Naruto did.

So the Hokage had put out a challenge for Sasuke, saying since the council believed so much in their Uchiha than they would have a duel between Naruto and Sasuke and the winner would become his apprentice.

The civilian council immediately agreed to it, well under the condition that Naruto wasn't allowed to use his mokuton blood line.

It was an odd request but Naruto agreed to it, seeing as if he didn't than the civilian's would start throwing fits. And not wanting to waste anybody's time or sanity he simply agreed that he wouldn't use his Mokuton in the spar.

After saying his greetings to Hayate who was too protector their match, Naruto took a seat in the middle of the sparing circle. And assumed the meditative position he had learned back in Mount Myoboku he took this as the opportunity to recap on his recently learned skills, for he already expected that Sasuke would most likely be late and take his sweet time to get to the training field.

And Naruto was right it wasn't until after 20 something minutes did Sasuke show up arrogant and conceited as ever, "Bloody ridiculous." Naruto whispered to himself while still in the meditating position with one eye lazily open.

Even the Hokage looked slightly displeased at Sasuke's actions, Shinobi were supposed to be on time especially when called by their superiors. He would have to have a talk with the boy soon about this but at the moment he didn't want to waste any more of both sides of the councils time. Seeing as they had waited 20 minutes already.

Explaining the challenge the civilian council had set up for Sasuke, Sasuke's face instantly turned to a grin as he saw this as the chance to prove in front of the governing council that he was the superior one. And become the new apprentice to the Hokage and gain the power necessary to kill Itachi.

Opening both his eyes Naruto tilted his head toward his shoulder, where a tiny bird was examining what it thought to be a new statue on the training field. Naruto smiled at the small bird before gently waving it off his shoulder.

Standing up and stretching his relaxed muscles, Naruto gave a short nod to the Hokage signaling he was ready.

Sasuke smugly stepped into the sparing circle, and continued to smirk at the impassive Naruto while Hayate explained the rules.

"No killing… No assassination jutsus… No Summoning's… No Bloodline… Winner by knockout or Ring out."

Naruto nodded in agreement and inwardly chuckled, nearly all those rules were really directed at him. But Naruto knew it was mostly the civilian councils doing, the lengths they went to protect their precious Uchiha it made Naruto laugh.

Hiashi watched from the sideline as Hayate was about to start the match, he thought to himself. "Such fools they are. They invested so much of their time and effort into the Uchiha-brat, too bad it was an absurd investment."

Watching Hayate drop his hand and yell out "BEGIN"

In a blink of the eye the match was already over, it had many of the civilians staring wide eyed at the spot Sasuke once stood, which was now replaced by Naruto.

Sasuke on the other hand was found on his back some 15 meters out of the ring. Even some of the clan heads were shocked at the raw speed and power behind that one kick Naruto had landed to Sasuke. The Hokage standing next to him was chuckling and clapping as Hayate called the match in Naruto's favor.

While the civilian council would have called for a punishment of some sort they had more pressing matters to attend too, like the health of their precious Uchiha who was unconscious and bleeding. From god knows what attack the demon had used.

Naruto looking over at the knocked out body of the Uchiha asked Kurama and Hashirama, "You think my interpretation of a Dynamic entry was overkill?"

Kurama and Hashirama turned to each other than started sniggering and attempting to hold their laughter in, Kurama than stated. "To anybody else maybe….. But to an Uchiha not named Itachi most definitely not!"

Naruto just shrugged and said, "Hmm okay than just checking."

Back in the outside world the Hokage had walked up to Naruto and said, "Quite impressive Naruto-kun, I hope to further test your skills let's say…. Friday after school?"

Naruto just bowed and replied, "I will be there Hokage-sama, now if you don't mind I must get going… I have to buy a generous amount of both dango and Cinnamon buns to make it up to Anko-hime and Hinata-hime for skipping out on tea time."

With a nod from the Hokage, Naruto left the training ground and headed toward the Bakery to first pick up the Cinnamon buns.

Somewhere nearby the 3 clan heads from the Yamanaka, Nara and Akimichi stood around a small fire, in a gloomy and solemn tone Inoichi said, "Brothers… today another has fallen to the might of the female race." The 3 dropped their heads down for a moment of mourning than Shikaku took out a small humanoid statue made of straw and had a pair of blue pants on. Taking the pants off the statue Shikaku threw it into the fire then he said, "Here lay the pants of Naruto Uzumaki-Senju for he will not be wearing them in this relationship." With that Shikaku put the doll away than stamped out the small fire. Turning to his 2 brothers he asked, "So want to hang out?"

Inoichi shook his head and said, "I wish I could, but my wife is making me stay in the store just in case another Might Gai Rock Lee Sunset Kinjustu pandemic breaks out again."

"Yeah I would hang out but wife needs me to go back to the store and take stock of this week's shipments." Choza said gloomily.

Shikaku just slumped his shoulder let out a sigh and said, "Well I guess I better head home than….. wife probably has something for me to do as well….."

With one more collective sigh the 3 clan heads split up and headed back toward their respective homes and wives.

A Few days later

Naruto was finally on the last scroll from the whole stash Itachi had left him, seeing how the pile lasted Naruto a good couple of years it was quite large. The contents of the scrolls ranged from reviews of the basics too new jutsus and stances, unraveling the last scroll Naruto raised an eyebrow at the fact that it was almost blank except for one tiny storage seal in the middle. And a piece of paper that came along with it, written in what Naruto remembered as Itachi's hand writing it said, "Something your father would have wanted you to have."

Putting the note aside and examining the seal Naruto noticed it had the Yondaime's Hokage Stamp on top of it. The ink was red so Naruto guessed it was stamped with his father's blood, which could only mean that this was a blood seal and required either his father's blood or his descendant's blood.

Running his index finger across the seal a couple of times, Naruto pondered should he unlock it…. What secrets did his father leave for him in this scroll?

Letting off a soft sigh than he bit his thumb and ran it across the seal while pulsing some chakra into it. In a small burst of smoke one of his dad's Hiraishin kunai appeared from the seal.

Picking it up Naruto examined it; it looked exactly the same as the one Jiraiya had in Mount Myoboku. "Why would my father go to such lengths for this one kunai?"

Standing up and exiting Hinata's room who by the way was busy learning more kunoichi specific arts with her mother, Naruto left the Hyuga compound and headed toward the memorial stone where Kakashi would often hangout.

Entering the field where the stone was kept, Naruto saw Kakashi by his normal spot in front of the stone while reading the latest Icha Icha book. Which so happened to be Icha Icha: Adventures in the Misty Mountains, which Naruto had a suspicion he had written using the experience and research from their mission to Kumo and Kiri.

According to Jiraiya the females in Kiri have the most soft creamy snow white skin, and Kumo's girls had them really nice breasts second only to Tsunade…..

When Naruto heard this he nearly took Jiraiya's head off with his katana, for some reason to Naruto it sounded too much like Jiraiya was describing Hinata….. Her beautiful silky alabaster skin and Hinata just so happened to be an early bloomer, thinking of it caused

Naruto to drool slightly but he mentally slapped himself, "No Naruto not the time to be perverted, you have other things to do."

Without turning around Kakashi asked, "Hello Naruto-kun how might I help you today?"

"I found one the Yondaime's Hiraishin Kunai's in a scroll, and I wanted to ask if you could take a look over it. And maybe figure out what's so special about this specific kunai." Naruto replied.

Handing the kunai over to Kakashi he flipped it a few times and twirled it around, "Where did you say you got this kunai from again?"

"In a scroll that Itachi-sensei left me." Naruto answered.

Kakashi glared slightly at Naruto and said, "And you do remember what I said about the things Itachi gave you! They could very well be dangerous knowing what Itachi is capable of."

"I remember Kakashi-sensei, and do you remember I told you that I had Hinata-hime look over all the scrolls with her Byakugan for anything suspicious." Naruto replied understanding Kakashi's concern because he didn't know the truth behind Itachi's defection.

Kakashi just let out a sigh and said, "Yeah I know… but you're just the last person I have from my past to relate to left. I can't bear to lose you too."

"Thank you for your concern Kakashi-sensei, it really warms my heart that people like you, the Hokage and both Hinata and Anko care about me so much."

Giving Naruto one of his patented eye smiles Kakashi replied, "And don't you forget it… oh and about your kunai, its heavy."

"Huh?" Naruto asked in confusion.

Handing the kunai back to Naruto, Kakashi said, "Most wouldn't realize it but I'm positive that the kunai that Itachi gave you is heavier than the normal ones the Yondaime normally used."

"Would that make any difference too it's use being heavier." Naruto asked.

Kakashi shook his head and responded, "Maybe for a normal kunai, but not really for the Yondaime's Hiraishin kunai's. Because he wasn't using them to directly kill people, so I can't really see a reason to make them heavier. It might actually be less efficient."

"Maybe we should test your theory out then." Naruto asked while turning his head over toward one of the nearby trees.

Kakashi just shrugged and said, "Go for it."

Aiming for the center of the tree Naruto launched the kunai at it and to his surprise and Kakashi's, the kunai instead of going straight started flipping in the air like an axe would when it's thrown.

The kunai's handle hit the tree and bounced off with a thud, walking over Naruto picked up the kunai and inspected it quickly noticing the impact from the tree had seemingly caused the ring on the handle to be displaced slightly.

Examining it more closely, Naruto's eyes widened than he gripped the ring and twisted it counter clockwise, revealing that the ring was actually part of a screw on cap.

Screwing it completely off revealed that the Kunai's handle was actually a hollow compartment that currently stored a small scroll. Taking the scroll out and unraveling it. Naruto's eyes enlarged and said in a whisper,

"Hiraishin!"