Chapter 32: Love during the Chunin Exams.
Middle of the night, Hinata's room
While it had been quite an awkward chat between the 3 after that whole lack of clothing mishap, Hinata didn't really mind since she had gotten her Naruto-kun back. She slowly and softly ran her fingers across Naruto's chest who just mumbled something as she snuggled into his side. Oh how she missed the moments like these and she would not allow anything to threaten them… not even Naruto himself.
Naruto had explained to both Hitomi and her on what had happened and while the whole incident with the drugs was not entirely Naruto's fault… he still should have sought help out earlier, instead of trying to ride through it. "Well maybe he will take this as a lesson." Hinata softly whispered as she slowly drifted to sleep in Naruto's arms.
They had decided along with the Hokage that this whole incident never happened and the death of the little girl to go unmarked. And while it felt wrong to leave no memory of the young girl… it had to be done so that no leverage could be used against Naruto.
Aside from that, the rest of the week passed fairly normally, the only difference was that Kurenai-sensei was still away on a mission. And Naruto's rank of acting Chunin was extended till Anko and Kurenai's return so that he could lead Team 8 in doing their daily D-ranks and the occasional C-ranks.
It was as Team 8 was heading back to Konoha, when they bumped into Team 7 who were returning back from Wave Country. With Sasuke look as pissed off as ever… maybe it had something to do with the giant burlap bags him and Sai were carrying.
They were greeted by Kakashi who as usual was reading his favorite book, "Yo where you guys coming from?" Kakashi said with an eye smile.
Naruto gave him a smile back and said, "Just returning from a C-rank mission Kakashi-sensei, how was Wave Country after I left?"
"Take a look for yourself." Kakashi said as she made a motion toward Sasuke and Sai. "All of this is fan mail and gifts for you."
Sasuke and Sai both threw the giant packages toward Naruto, Sai had a smile while Sasuke just sneered at Naruto and said, "I don't understand why we had to carry all of this back for the dobe anyway… those idiots in Wave country should have just mailed them instead of making us carry them."
Kakashi gave Sasuke an eye smile then patted his head and said to him, "Now, now Sasuke-chan… giggle giggle… they paid us to do it think of it as a D-rank mission…"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Sasuke yelled out.
Kakashi just let out another giggle while Kiba questioned while grinning, "Sasuke-chan?"
Sai gave Kiba a smile then said, "A nickname he was rewarded after he was defeated by a superior Shinobi."
This intensified Kiba's curiosity as he asked, "Tell me more." Kiba happily said.
Just as Sai was about to say something he was interrupted by Sakura, "SHUT UP SAI, STOP TRYING TO EMBARRASS SASUKE-KUN!"
Sai ignored Sakura and said, "Remember that kunoichi that was with Zabuza?" Kiba nodded
"Yeah she was really hot of course I would remember her!"
Sai continuing said, "Well Sasuke-chan believed himself strong enough to defeat her in battle, and dared to challenge her while saying that after he defeated her he would take her back to Konoha to be his servant… Safe to say he lost, badly too and while he was able to unlock his Sharingan… he passed out when she fired her ice senbon right into his balls I believe them to be destroyed now, he also let out the girliest and most high pitched scream I've ever heard in my life… though I must say the howler monkeys screech comes very close to matching it."
Kiba burst out laughing while Sasuke just snarled and yelled, "SAI YOU BASTARD, IMMA KILL YOU!"
Kakashi grabbed Sasuke shoulder and said, "Calm down now Sasuke-chan or I might start having second thoughts on recommending Team 7 for the chunin exams…"
Sasuke just growled at Kakashi while giving the man a glare, He would take his sensei's crap for now… but soon with his newly unlocked Sharingan he would surpass all of these idiots… than they would see who would have the last laugh.
To the side by the large burlap bags Shino was looking through one of the bags when he stood up holding an instant photograph in his hand with a blush on his face, "While Sai's story is quite entertaining I believe we should turn our attention to bagful of… racy photos…"
Kiba bounced over the moment he heard the word racy photos and grabbed the photo out of Shino's hand immediately his eyes nearly bulged out of his head, "SWEET KAMI! SHE MIGHT AS WELL WEAR NOTHING AT ALL."
But before Kiba could appreciate the photo anymore Hinata snatched it out of his hands, "She turned it over and read the note written in lipstick on the back.
Too my loving Daimyo-sama
Please come visit me I your ASSistance!
It came complete with a large heart drawn on it and the girl's name… Hinata flipped it back over to look at the photo and blushed lightly but ultimately glared at it heavily, the nerve on this woman she was minimum 30 years old and she was wearing a leotard that was at least 2 sizes too small.
On the other hand at this moment Kiba took the opportunity to dig through the pile of pictures with a face splitting grin. "You think that girl that hangs out with Zabuza sent Naruto-sensei one of these pictures." Kiba asked to nobody in particular, hearing this Hinata focused her glare onto Kiba than grabbed him by his ear…
"Ow… OW OW WAIT HINATA THAT HURTS!" Kiba cried out in pain, as Hinata dragged him away from the bag. After dragging Kiba out of her way she reached inside her sleeves and with a poof she unsealed some pieces of highly flammable paper and a set of matches, right as Kiba was about to ask what Hinata was going to do she threw the paper onto the bag of photos then lit a match and threw that onto the bag as well causing the entire thing to go up in flames.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Both Sasuke and Kiba yelled out though for completely different reasons.
Kiba fell on his knees while clutching and crying onto the bottom of Hinata's Kimono, "WHY HINATA! WHY MUST YOU TAKE AWAY THE PHOTOS!
Sasuke on the other hand had a shocked expression on his face, he couldn't believe it he dragged the giant heavy bag all the way back to Konoha just for Hinata to destroy it within minutes…
Naruto let out a loud cough and said, "Kiba let go of Hinata." With a drip of venom in his voice, while he knew Kiba wasn't doing anything perverted to Hinata… but Kiba was still a pervert regardless and Naruto didn't like it when prevents touched his Hinata-hime.
Kiba let go of Hinata but didn't stop crying at the loss of those wonderful photos. Hinata turned her sights onto the second bag ready to burn that one as well, but Naruto halted her by raising a hand while he reached into the bag and pulled out a piece of paper. "Fear not Hinata… this bag does not contain the same improper materials as the last one. These are just letters of gratitude and other little tokens of appreciation", Naruto said as he took out a little knit doll of him and handed it to Hinata.
"Oh this is cute…" Hinata said as she examined the doll which actually looked quite like Naruto. But the more she stared at it the more she had bad thoughts about what the person who made it could have done to it…
They could have snuggled with it while they slept… They could have made out with it…
Or the worst they could have used it as a fill in for Naruto for their more… perverted desires!
Instantly Hinata shifted her hand so she was only holding the doll with her thumb and index finger by one strand of its hair. Hinata made a mental note to have everything in that bag disinfected before Naruto did anything with them.
Dropping the doll back inside the bag, Hinata created a shadow clone to bring it back to the Hyuga compound, so she could personally see to it that the stuff inside was cleaned properly.
"Well I'm sure there's going to be more of that from Wave Country… you are very popular in Wave Country Naruto-kun…" Kakashi said…
"Speaking of Wave Country… Are you going to sign up for the chunin exams?"
Naruto along with the entire Team 8 sweet-dropped, "Those two things have no colorations what so ever…" They all thought.
Naruto let out a sigh then said, "Well Hokage-sama personally registered me for it… he thought I was going to have second thoughts on signing up…"
Kakashi said with a sense of pride in his voice, "For the Sandaime to personally recommend you and submit your application, I have to say that speaks volumes about your skill as a Shinobi."
Naruto rubbed the back of his neck and said with a small smile, "Thank you Kakashi-sensei it's only because you Yamato-sensei… and my other sensei's… taught my so well." Naruto said purposely excluding Itachi from the list as to not infuriate the time bomb that was Sasuke Uchiha…
Kiba who had apparently gotten over the loss of the photos immediately pounced onto Naruto's back, "Say Naruto-sensei! Do you want to recommend us for the Chunin exams you know how awesome I am… and Shino and Hinata as well!"
Naruto pushed Kiba's face away his own and said, "I hope you don't do this to Kurenai-sensei when you want something from her… and as for your request I cannot do that because I am not your jonin-sensei only she or the Hokage can apply you for the exams."
"Ah damn." Kiba said looking immediately depressed, seeing this Naruto said in an attempt to cheer Kiba up. "While I can't personally register Team 8, I could always put it a good word for you with Kurenai-sensei."
"Really?" Kiba asked with in a chipper mood.
Naruto just nodded and said, "Of course… since we finished our C-rank in record time why don't I treat you guys to lunch while we wait our turn to meet with the Hokage?"
Kiba fist pumped the air, "Yeah that sounds awesome let's go!" Kiba said as he began marching toward food district of Konoha, he walked a few feet the turned around and asked. "What are we eating anyway?"
Naruto answered, "Cinnamon buns."
Kiba let out a long groan, "Again!"
Naruto just said while Hinata dragged him by the arm toward the bakery, "Yep again."
Two week later
Kurenai and Anko had both returned from their nearly 2 month long mission scouting out potential hide outs for Orochimaru, they were all pretty much dead ends… most of the bases were all either long abandoned or recently decommissioned. Anko was pissed that she didn't get a chance to go at that snake bastard that made her life miserable but a mission is a mission, at the end of the day she got paid and another A-rank mission under her belt.
Among the firsts things Anko did when she got back to Konoha was eat dango… make out with Naruto… eat more dango… train Naruto into the ground to make up for lost time then eat more dango… life was great for her. Though she wished that she got to spend more time with Naruto outside of training, it seemed he had a very set time schedule some days would be completely devoted to Hinata, the next would be helping at the Yamanaka flower shop then after that day was helping Hana at the vet and afterwards came Anko's time with him… which she spent mostly eating dango.
What could you say… Anko loved her dango, and kami bless the person that makes her choose between Naruto and her favorite treat…
And while Anko ate her dango, Hinata on the other hand had her hands full with training and dealing with all the 'gifts' Naruto received from the denizens of Wave Country.
Hinata pretty much served as a filter for all incoming mail for Naruto, she did not want him to have to lay eyes on any girl's naked body outside of hers… giggle giggle… and maybe the other girls in the harem… but mostly if Naruto's eyes should be wandering on any girls naked torso it should be hers… and sometimes her harem sisters… just sometimes.
At first it had seemed cute and all when the drawings from 6-8 year old girls came, some consisted of them being married to Naruto standing at the alter… disapprove of that, others with them and Naruto holding hands and running through a meadow… disapprove of that, and the really ridiculous ones with them kissing Naruto… DEFINTELY DISAPPROVE! These girls were what 6-8 years old where were they learning all of this!
Was she like this when she was their age? Hinata's eye twitched slightly as she turned her head toward one of the walls in their room which was plastered full of drawings of her and Naruto she had done… Well maybe she was just a tiny bit like them when she was younger, but still this was getting out of hand.
And the worst thing about it was that Naruto felt he was obligated to write back to them! He would summon an army of his clones and have them spend hours upon hours just writing his thanks and appreciations even though Hinata had clearly informed him that this was just going to encourage them to write and send more stuff.
But he still did it because he believed that as a former Daimyos he owed it to his people to write back to them, dam Naruto and his sexy sense of honor!
But at least they were all the way in Wave country and couldn't really do anything other than send lewd photos and write love letters, on the other hand the females of the Hyuga clan could do other things.
Hinata remembered once walking into one of the laundry rooms to find one of the female servants rubbing one of the knit dolls of Naruto across her face which held a look of giddiness. Or the other time when she walked in on a whole group of them drawing pictures of Naruto and them together and laughing and giggling at some of the intricate scenarios they had drawn up…
And while they would apologize to her, Hinata knew ultimately that the moment she turned her back and left the room they would resume their giggling and fantasizing. But at the end of the day Hinata had one thing that they didn't… and that was that she was the one that got to really kiss, hug and love Naruto-kun not those other girls…
"TAKE THAT" Hinata yelled while punching the air in front of her.
A moment later she heard a knocking on the door as somebody asked, "Hinata-sama are you alright, I heard yelling?"
Slightly embarrassed at her actions, Hinata replied, "No I'm alright thank you for your concern." Then returned back to her work filtering through Naruto-kun's never ending supply of fan mail.
Couple of days later
Konohamaru ran as fast as he could down the alleyway but he slipped and tumbled and few times and landed on the floor he quickly turned his head around and saw an approaching shadow around the bend of the alleyway, quickly he scrambled back up to his feet and began running again for his life again. He was so engrossed in looking behind him; Konohamaru didn't even see or realize he was going to run into somebody until it was too late.
"UMPH" Konohamaru said as he fell onto his behind, then he was roughly picked up by the collar of his shirt and bought to face level with a… cat?
The cat then said, "Yo… Punk ass kid you just bumped into me."
Not really knowing what to do Konohamaru just let out a loud scream… "HELP I'M BEING ABDUCTED BY A GIANT CAT! BOSS HELP ME I DON'T WANT TO BE A SCRATCHING POST!"
A girl behind the boy said, "Kankuro watch you're language around children, and for Kami's sake put him down!"
The newly dubbed Kankuro said as he pulled back his fist and turned his head to the girl behind him, "No way… first this punk runs into me without saying sorry then he calls me a giant cat, I'm going to show him a thing or two in manners!" Kankuro turned his head back forward and too his surprise, he was no longer clenching the boy's shirt in his hand but he was clenching nothing but air and his fist that had been drawn back to punch the boy was now being held in place by the hand of a tall blond boy with the little kid standing next to him.
The blond boy gave him a smile and said, "My apologies Shinobi-san… my friend here seemed to have gotten a little too carried away with the game we were playing and he is sincerely sorry for bumping into you before."
Naruto said as he forced Konohamaru to bend his head slightly in repent.
Kankuro shook his hand free from Naruto's grip and said with a hmph, "Well since you're willing to apologize then I'll let you off the hook this time kid, but watch where you're going next time!"
Naruto was going to answer for Konohamaru but was interrupted by a smug voice from behind him, "Huh apologizing to strangers from other villages… how weak have you become dobe…"
Naruto turned his head to see Sasuke standing a couple of feet behind him with the smug as ever look, since Naruto was no longer the acting Chunin of Team. Apparently full blown arrogant Sasuke had reemerged, Naruto scowled at that… just when it seemed like he was making the tiniest of improvements, Sasuke takes 5 steps backwards…
Sai who was also standing nearby say, "I do not see how Naruto-sama is weak? Suna is one of our allies and meaningless fights before the chunin exams would do nothing but damage our already strained alliance with Suna, Am I not correct Naruto-sama.?"
Naruto turned and gave Sai a smile and a nod, though he really wanted to know how Sai knew about the tension between Suna and Konoha. But that he would save that for another day as suddenly Kurama said to Naruto.
"Kid! There's somebody strange in that tree behind the girl!"
Naruto turned around and looked up at the tree, while he couldn't see anybody there he could feel the chakra radiating off them even though they were trying to suppress it. Turning over to the girl Naruto said. "And I assume that the boy in the tree is with you guys?
Both the girl and Kankuro tensed hearing this; Kankuro took a few steps back from Naruto as suddenly a red head boy appeared in front of Naruto with a sand shunshin.
He said in a cold voice, "Pathetic you're a disgrace to our village Kankuro…" Turning back toward Naruto the red haired boy said, "You on the other hand are strong… you're different… you're like me!"
Out of nowhere inside Naruto's mind Kurama began roaring with laughter, "It's the little one tailed pip squeak Shukaku sealed inside the boy. And judging by the large black rings around the boy's eye's then Shukaku's eternal bitching must keep him awake at night. I swear if I didn't personally know that Shukaku was male then I would have guessed he was a female constantly pmsing with all the whining and moaning he does."
"Or it could be the byproduct of a faulty seal… nevertheless I would be careful Naruto regardless of how many tails a bijuu has they are still extremely powerful entities." Hashirama added on.
Kurama reached over and patted Hashirama on the head a few times, though because of Kurama's giant size it just made Hashirama's knees buckle. "Aw Shodai-chan I didn't know you thought so highly of us." Kurama said as he let out another giant roar of laughter.
Back in the outside world Naruto said to Gaara, "Yes we are similar aren't we… we are both scorned and hated by the ones we protect… and we both have found ways to deal with it… however I am very intrigued on the specifics though?"
Gaara's eyes widened hearing Naruto say that, than his face screwed into a maniacal grin. "Of course I will oblige you in my methods, when I get a little thirst I just precede to have my daily consumption of blood from my enemies that's what keeps me going, and you know what mother is telling me! Your blood is what will quench my thirst…"
Naruto took a step forward so both their foreheads were nearly touching and matched Gaara's grin, "I welcome you to come try… because I dearly await that day you do… brother!"
"I do as well." Gaara said as he took a step backwards, "Kankuro Temari we are leaving." In a swirl of sand the 3 of them were gone.
Konohamaru looked up at Naruto and asked, "Hey boss what was that whole thing about? He looks nothing like you how is he your brother?"
Wrapping a hand around Konohamaru's shoulder Naruto led him away while saying to him, "I will tell you one day Konohamaru, but for now promise me that if you ever see those guys again… you will steer clear of them, they are very dangerous people."
Konohamaru just nodded and said, "Alright boss."
Sai watched as Naruto and Konohamaru left and said to Sasuke, "You see Uchiha-chan not all disputes need to be settled with fighting, if you had taken a page out of Naruto-sama's book then maybe you will still have your balls."
"SHUT UP SAI! MY BALLS ARE JUST FINE" Sasuke responded and then stormed off it anger.
With a confused look Sai asked Sakura, "Why is he so mad… it's not like he was going to ever use it anyway."
Sakura was going to take a swing at Sai for mocking her precious Sasuke-kun but he was already walking away from her. Split between going to comfort Sasuke or beating up Sai… well her choice was obvious.
Little did the group of both Suna and Konoha Shinobi know they were being watched from the shadows the whole time, "Namikaze-kun the photos do no justice for your actual looks. I can't wait to meet you soon." The spy said as she melded back into the shadows.
Later That night
Hotel
Gaara had locked himself up in his sphere of sand, this was the first time in a long time he was actually worried. Why was Gaara worried well because Shukaku for once wasn't actually constantly whispering maddening thoughts of bloodlust and death to him… ever since that meeting with that Naruto Shukaku had been unnaturally quiet, heck Gaara was tempted to try sleeping at the moment he doubt that Shukaku would even want to take control of his body and risk stomping on the Kyubi's home turf. It wasn't hard for Shukaku to realize it was Kurama the moment Naruto had appeared, the absurd amounts of ambient malevolent chakra that saturated the air was clear evidence on who it was.
But Shukaku couldn't blame Kurama for that, heck if he had a near infinite source of chakra then he would also be flaunting his chakra everywhere. But he didn't so Shukaku would need to bide his time and then attack when Kurama least expected it then he would show that overgrown fox a thing or two about power.
Day of the Chunin exams
Hinata groaned slightly as she felt the rays of the sun hit her face, she snuggled deeper into Naruto in order to preserve what little time she had left before they had to wake up. Today was the day of the Chunin exams and that most likely meant that Naruto and her would be separated for the next few days, Anko had dropped them hints here and there on how the test was going to be and Hinata was most displeased with having to live in the forest of death for a few nights without her favorite pillow, sigh… the life of a Shinobi
She had long gotten over the fear of that forest, when she and Naruto were 8 Anko took them there and left them their alone overnight… without informing the rest of the Hyuga clan. Safe to say Hitomi called to arm basically the entire branch family and was ready to flip Konoha inside out to find her daughter and future son-in-law…
And she would have done it had Anko not walked by compound to investigate all the noise and activity, Anko being Anko told Hitomi what she had done with Naruto and Hinata and never before had anybody in the entire Hyuga clan seen the levels of rage rolling off Hitomi… even the Sandaime's encounter with Hitomi a few years earlier didn't match up too this amount.
I mean it was perfectly understandable you put two 8 year old children in a forest that basically was renowned for killing genin and potential chunin… yeah you would be a little more than just upset.
Hitomi quickly disbanded her search parties and dragged Anko along with her into the forest of death and basically slaughtered everything in her path to find Naruto and Hinata.
When they found the two children the sight was rather comedic, a nice little one family wooden house had been built high or most likely grown by Naruto on the side of one of the trees and a nice little spiral stair case wrapped around the tree trunk leading from the house all the way to the floor.
Hinata at the base of the tree sweeping the floor like she had been doing it for her whole life, completely ignoring the fact that they were inside the bloody forest of death!
Hinata even pretended they were just lost travelers stopping by for tea and directions for fun, "Oh! Travelers we don't get many in this neck of the woods, my husband is out hunting he will be back shortly will you join us for tea?"
Hinata said with a cheerful and happy demeanor. She just loved it when she got the chance to call Naruto her husband
Hitomi's eye twitched violently at this as she tried to process this absurd situation in her mind
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Sadly her mind just couldn't compute what in the world was going on, but any further thought would have to wait as leaves rustling to the side of her immediately attracted her attention. Even though she had thoroughly thinned the population of wild creatures inside the forest when she cut her path to Naruto and Hinata but that didn't mean she was going to let her guard down.
Focusing on the spot where the sound was coming from and the vegetation was shaking violently, she tensed up waiting for whatever was in that bush and when Naruto walked out with a tiny grin and dragging a giant dead boar by one of its tusk behind him Hitomi sweat dropped.
Thank god Naruto decided to be more serious at the moment when he asked, "Lady Hitomi it's a surprise to see you here and is that Anko-chan you are dragging behind you?
Hitomi released Anko's shirt from her grip and walked over to Naruto and Hinata grabbing them both into a hug, "We were so worried about you two when you didn't come home!"
Anko rubbed the back of her head slightly and said, "Oops I might have forgot to inform the Hyuga clan about our special training…" Hitomi gave her a glare which Anko just responded with. "What I was going to get dango you can't blame me!"
Safe to say that training inside the forest of death was over the moment Hitomi found them and punishment for Anko had been dealt out swiftly… no tea or dango for a week, and for Anko that was hell and a lesson well learnt…
Back with Hinata she lifted herself off of Naruto's body as her inner pervert groaned at the loss of Naruto's warm torso. Puberty could be a bitch sometimes… aside from the now monthly periods Hinata was experiencing. Her sensual dreams of Naruto had increased in both levels of perverseness and frequency, sometimes it would include doing things that were so kinky or weird that Hinata often wondered where in Kami's name did they came from… but in the name of all that was Hyuga she wanted to try it
But regardless she didn't have time to think about such matters, what was her number one priority now was preparing herself for the Chunin exams, she had to make her Naruto-kun proud and also her clan…
She and the rest of Team 8 were to meet up with Kurneai-sensei for some last minute advice then head to the academy for the first part of the exam.
Naruto on the other hand was just going to head straight to the academy because Anko being Anko was just going to sleep in and be lazy till she had to help with the second part of exam.
Tenderly stroking Naruto's cheek and giving him a soft peck on the lips she stood up to begin her day.
Few Hours later
Naruto was heading by himself toward the academy, thus the life of a one man team… but in reality the benefits outweighed the cons of this set up, one example was pay for missions was only split between him and Anko instead of between 4 people then there was the issue with team chemisty, because Naruto made his own team even though his clones could be rowdy sometimes. They worked together in perfect unison. And lastly Anko's favorite benefit was all the privacy they got with each other.
Entering the Academy Naruto took the stairs one flight up and noticed that standing by the door to room 301 were two Genin… or two supposed Genin. Naruto gave them a cheerful wave before heading up another flight of stairs.
The two disguised Chunin sweet dropped at being so easily spotted by Naruto, well they couldn't blame him the boy was rumored to be near jonin level already so something like a simple genjutsu or henge couldnt get by him.
Naruto arrived at the designated room earlier than most of the other contestants as Naruto was only one of the few people in the room. If Naruto had to estimate there was only 3-4 teams at the moment in the room, none of them of which he knew.
But he didn't have to wait longer until the room started filling up with more familiar faces, there was Team 10, Team 9 and Team 7 that was now waiting for the exam to start, Naruto was having a conversation with Ino about flowers when suddenly he felt somebody lean on his back and whisper into his ear in a low sensual voice, "Hello Namikaze-kun."
Naruto immediately tensed up hearing somebody call him that and that fact that he did not recognize the voice to be Anko's or Hinata's scared him slightly. While Ino didn't hear what the girl had said to Naruto she was pissed that some random hussy from Kami knows where could come and interrupt her Naruto and me time… she moved to push her off Naruto but Naruto stopped her when he raised a hand to halt her movements.
"What do you want?" Naruto asked in a serious tone with a slightly turn of his head to face the girl behind him.
"A moment of your time, I just want to talk." The girl said as she traced Naruto's jawline with her finger slowly, Ino on the other hand was fuming with anger… just what power did this girl hold over Naruto and while Naruto had multiple girlfriends, Ino knew he was still extremely loyal to each of them and would never cheat on them. So she slowly realized that this girl must have some power over him.
Naruto stood up from his seat and followed the girl to a corner at the back near the windows. Only when she turned around to face him did he get his first chance to properly see what she looked like, she had short black hair with pupil-less eyes similar to Hinata's but hers with pink instead of lavender. But really what concerned Naruto was her standard Iwa uniform and hitai-ate.
She reached up to stroke his face, but Naruto caught her wrist gently and held her lightly in place. As to not hurt a foreign Shinobi he knew nothing about, "How do you know about that name?" Naruto asked in a deadly serious tone.
She let out a giggle while lifting her other hand to rub across his chest and replied, "You know… the bingo books really do no justice on your real looks… Namikaze-kun" once again whispering out the last part quietly so no one else would hear. "And seriously the blind death and stupid in Iwa could tell the similarities between you and your father… how most of the population of Konoha doesn't is a real shocker to me…"
"Well I would be most thankful if you don't run around spreading the truth to everybody… it could cause major riots to break out… and I seem to be at the disadvantage of not knowing who you are." Naruto responded as he let go of her wrist. This allowed her hand to continue its path toward Naruto's face as she leaned her body into him then when her lips were just mere inches from his face she whispered seductively out, "My name is Kurotsuchi… but you can call me Kuro-chan and about your request… I will if you promise to marry me."
She leaned in to kiss him but jumped back when a loud bang shook the room, turning her head toward the noise she barely had time to lean back and dodge the rooms sliding door flying at her effectively splitting her from Naruto. The door smashed through the window and fell to the ground below but Kurotsuchi's attention was drawn to the girl that was now standing in front of her.
By the look of her eyes Kurotsuchi could tell she was a Hyuga clan member, and while Hinata looked angry as hell she still said in a sophisticated voice, "Now maybe I didn't hear correctly from outside but I swore you just asked MY HUSBAND to marry you!" well at least Hinata said it rather quietly and only Kurotsuchi had heard her, because other people were staring at the two kunoichi expecting a fight to break out at any moment between them.
"Now, now princess… why don't you go home and play tea party with your royals and servants. This is where real Shinobi come to play. So take your kimono, hairstyle and pampered self and trot on home where your ponies await." Kurotsuchi responded
Hinata gave the Iwa kunoichi a slight leer at the jab at her attire and hair style. "Well clearly my skill as a Shinobi is high enough to allow me to dress as regal as I please… unlike some unsophisticated fools I see."
While Hinata was never much of a trash talker, she felt the need at the moment to stake her claim on Naruto. Even though she was sharing him already… this Iwa kunoichi didn't need to know that.
"Well maybe we should put your belief in your skill to the test then princess!" Kurotsuchi said as she raised her hand in front of Hinata and flexed it slightly as it started hardening into a fist of stone.
"I agree." Hinata responded as she flared her Byakugan and raised a chakra laced palm.
But before either of them could get any further in their threats a loud voice boomed in the room, "QUIET DOWN MAGGOTS! AND GET TO YOUR ASSIGNED SEATS!"
Seeing the broken door and broken window Ibiki was intrigued, though you couldn't really blame these kids… you had hundreds of adrenaline pumped genin from different countries packed into a room you expected a fight or two to break out.
As the students went to take their seats Naruto found that his seat was conveniently located next to Hinata. Who by the way was ecstatic about this, from here she could keep an eye out for those who wanted to steal her Naruto-kun away especially that Iwa Kunoichi
Ibiki walked to the front of the room as the last few genin took their seats and said to them, "Okay brats listen up because I'm only going to say this once. My name is Morino Ibiki and I will be your examiner for the first part of the Chunin exams… I've notice that already there has been animosity between the participators in this room but for now there will be no more fighting in this room or you and your team will be disqualified and thrown out."
Turning to the blackboard Ibiki started writing the rules of his part of the exam on it. There was no cheating and if you were caught you were penalized by the proctors for it. Then there was how the test was administered everybody started with 10 points and if you got a question wrong they deducted a point off and if you were caught cheating they deducted a point off. And lastly if you lost all or points then you and your team was booted out.
After letting the few nervous mumbles quiet down, Ibiki signaled for the test to begin, turning his test over Naruto let out a sigh when he saw it and thought to himself, could they be any more obvious with this… no mere genin could solve these questions and by giving that whole speech about not cheating then they were basically just giving the test away… well at least for the people who used their brain.
And while most of the other genin were cheating already some hadn't realized that the point of the test yet. Like Sasuke for example who was glaring holes into his test, Sharingan not so useful when there's nothing to copy is there Uchiha…
While Sakura on the other hand was finally useful for something… brain smarts. But still even with all the books she had read the test was still incredibly difficult for her as she was sweating and concentrating heavily on her paper.
Naruto just shook his head slightly and turned his test back over then closed his eyes to meditate for a while… at least until he had the answers. When Hinata had knocked that door through the window it had created the opportunity Naruto needed, at any given moment Naruto had dozens of his shadow clone scattered throughout Konoha. And more important there was one in this room right now… high above on one of the overhanging lights perched a small bird that looked very much like Yondaime-sama.
It hopped around the light while occasionally peering over to investigate the going on's below, Naruto had to admit his clone was giving the performance of a life time it did this for another 10-15 minutes before flying back out the window and once out of sight… POOF!
With the memories flooding into him Naruto slipped his index finger and thumb under his forehead protector to massage his forehead from the sudden influx of knowledge, turning his paper back over he quickly jotted down all the answers he had gotten and afterwards laid back returning to his meditation. He would need to conserve his energy for whatever Anko threw at him later.
Why Iwagakure sent a Genin Team 2 months ago Tsuchikage's office
It was another paperwork filled day for Onoki as he sat at his desk, going through the normal everyday forms. Mission scrolls, reports from the borders, reports on the students in the academies and one invitation to the Chunin exams being hosted by Konoha. This was not the first one that the Sandaime Hokage had sent to him and like the rest Onoki ignored them, Iwa still had a bone to pick with the now deceased Yondaime but since at the moment it was a time of peace. The best Onoki could do was ignore the Hokage's letters and basically give him a proverbial middle finger.
Tossing the letter of invitation into the trashcan Onoki picked up the next document which was labeled.
URGENT
NEW DEVELOPMENT
Onoki licked his finger and opened the document with a bored look on his face, on more than one occasion did his council members over exaggerate on the severity of the forms. So Onoki wasn't expecting much from this until he read the first line in which his eyes nearly bulged out of his head and he immediately hit the intercom and called for his Commanding Jonin Kitsuchi who was also his son to report to his office.
Only a few minutes pass when Kitsuchi entered his father's office, he looked in to see his father floating above the ground staring out the window with his back to him. Kitsuchi asked, "You wished to see me father?"
Without turning to face Kitsuchi Onoki responded, "Read the document on my desk…"
Kitsuchi walked over and picked it up and like his father he was very clearly shocked at the implications of the documents. "The Yondaime has a son?" Kitsuchi asked as he flipped through the documents and pictures.
Onoki was just about to reply when suddenly he heard banging and scuffling from the ventilation shaft from the ceiling of his office. Both men stared up at the opening on the ceiling as it shook as if somebody was trying to either break or open it.
When the grate finally swung open a book dropped down from it and landed on the floor and opening, the book had opened when it hit the floor and what both men saw was a picture of the Yondaime. Onoki immediately floated over to it and picked it up. It was the bio of the Yondaime ripped out of an old Bingo book.
But the part that irritated Onoki to no end was the fact that the part where it said
RUN ON SIGHT
The word "RUN" had been crossed out and instead replaced to become
HUG ON SIGHT
Tiny hearts were drawn all around it and around the Yondaime's picture, more banging and shuffling was heard in the ventilation and then finally a young girl fell down and landed on her butt. Onoki growled at her and asked, "Kurotsuchi is this yours!"
Kurotsuchi grabbed the book from her grandfather's hands and said, "And what if it is old man!"
Onoki face palmed and thought, "Where did I go wrong tell me former Tsuchikage's what did I do wrong in my past life that you have to punish me like this!"
See it is often said that every man women and child in Iwagakure despised the Yondaime with all their hearts and would chase him and his kin to the ends of the earth for revenge for their fallen comrades.
But that statement wasn't entirely true see… while the male Shinobi hated the Yondaime a lot of it had subsided… and as for the kunoichi they were smitten by the Yondaime's handsome features and skill in combat especially the younger generation and his granddaughter while extremely loyal to Iwagakure was definitely no exception to that.
Heck Onoki swore that Kurotsuchi was the president of the Yondaime's fan club… but he would never admit it for the sake of his honor…
Onoki tried to snatch the book back from his granddaughter and said, "How many times do I have to tell you to stop worshiping that man!"
Kurotsuchi playing keep away with her grandfather just responded with, "Oh move on old man! That was years ago and you can't hold a grudge over something that you started!"
"DON'T YOU ARE TRY TO TEACH ME ON HOW TO DEAL WITH POLITICS! I won't take any of your advice especially not from a pubescent brat like you! Now give me the book before I beat the Yondaime fan girl out of you with it then destroy it in front of you!" Onoki said angrily.
Kitsuchi who had been watching this whole time just let out a sigh, these two were always arguing with each other over the tiniest of things. And while he disliked the fact that his daughter was so infatuated with the Yondaime, she was loyal to Iwa and he trusted her to make the right decisions in life even if she was absurd like being infatuated with a dead person… she would grow out of it…
Though the next thing that came out of his daughters mouth was rather concerning.
"I want to go to Konoha for the exams this year!" Kurotsuchi demanded.
"OUT OF THE QUSTION! THE ONLY WAY YOU'RE GOING TO KONOHA IS THROUGH MY DEAD BODY!" Onoki yelled back.
Kurotsuchi leered slightly at her grandfather and said, "I thought you were known as Onoki of both scales… so much for being a fence sitter when you refuse to let go of what the Yondaime did… for years even though the Sandaime Hokage has sent his sympathies and petitioned for a formation of an alliance between our two nations, but you in your ever stubborn demeanor just ignored every single one of those letters… Now I'm offering you the chance to establish a lasting alliance with Konoha you cannot turn this away!"
"And what if I do deny you requests… what if I just demote you and have sentence you to non-stop D-ranks for the next year. What will you do then my dear granddaughter?" Onoki responded with annoyance clear in his voice. His granddaughter had definitely hit on a few sensitive points
Kurotsuchi just gave him a smirk and said, "I'll report you to the Daimyo then…"
Kitsuchi decided to step in before it got out of hand, "Kurotsuchi apologize to the Tsuchikage immediately! You can't just threaten Tsuchikage-sama like that even if he is family…"
Without breaking her glare with her grandfather Kurotsuchi just said, "Butt out dad! This is between me and the old man."
Kitsuchii was shocked at her response and was even more shocked when his father said to him, "Yeah stay out Kitsuchi… I want to hear what this little brat wants to say! So what are you going to report me for girl!"
"Clearly incompetence old man! You are so blinded by your age and hatred that you can no longer lead this village!"
Onoki asked with a raised eyebrow, "And why would the Daimyo believe anything you say? What would say too convince him."
"Simple." Kurotsuchi responded, "By informing him that you are denying my plan which is basically denying me from securing the safety of Iwakgaure and its people."
"How is your absurd plan going to apparently secure the safety of Iwagakure? Onoki asked with a lace of amusment in his voice
"If he is really the Yondaime's son than one day the truth will come out, and when the truth does come out let's say one of our Shinobi attacks him or his family for some grudge that they still hold because you refuse to resolve it. Then hypothetically speaking let's say the Yondaime's son knows the Hiraishin… what will stop him from using it to finish off what his father started… and whose fault will it be then? None other than your old self who refused to make let go of a grudge and basically impose it on everybody living in your city." Kurotsuchi responded.
Onoki clenched his fist slightly than closed his eyes in thought or a moment and said, "FINE, go to the dammed exams this year for all I care… and take Suzumebachi with you maybe she can earn her family some respect back… and realize that if you mess this up… it's on your head not mine!" with that said Onoki picked up the documents on Naruto and threw them at Kurotsuchi who caught them and opened them to see the photo of Naruto and immediately a blush adorned her face. She softly whispered to herself, "Namikaze-kun you're mine!"
What you think about the sample I wrote? Good? Bad?
Intriguing?
Sorry about late update it's that time of the year… reports and midterms so much work.
Didn't expect Kurotsuchi did you! Though I might have made her kinda OCC who care it's all fun
