I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, I'm just a fan I enjoyed the anime but I love the fanfics, even more, they made me fall for the whole franchise. Whether I will have Oc's in the fic or not depends entirely on how the story goes.
Chapter 29
Itachi and Sasuke jumped through the familiar rooftops of Konoha heading to the Hokage's administrative building. Both Uchiha's had a relaxed undertone about them as they traveled side by side.
Sasuke would admit he liked this. It was a scene he had imagined his whole life, honestly speaking he thought it would be happening later in his life when he was stronger and a jonin. Sasuke let a small smile grace his handsome face.
"What are you smiling about Sasuke-Kun?" Itachi asked his brother as they landed on a bridge dashing to the other side and completing twists and turns while clearing obstacles in their way that made many civilian citizens of Konoha appreciate living and being a part of the ninja village.
"It's nothing." Sasuke told his older brother while dropping the smile turning it into a cool frown. They cleared another roof and landed on the road and continued their run toward the tower. The distance was quite a lot because it was located in the middle of the village.
"You know you can talk to me Sasuke-Kun." Sasuke looked at Itachi from the corner of his eyes and thought about it, he wanted to ask Itachi how he could get stronger, how he could be as great as him, and how he could win over someone's affection. He decided against it, something deep within him telling him Itachi was his rival too and asking for help would be conceding defeat.
"It's Nothing important." Sasuke told the older Uchiha who raised an eyebrow at the response, Sasuke always knew what that action meant it was for you to explain and Sasuke grumbled something.
"Can you repeat that?" Itachi asked and Sasuke blushed, he couldn't say it out loud again. It was too embarrassing for Sasuke he was embarrassed to have 'that' talk with Itachi.
"It's nothing." Sasuke told his brother as they reached the open space surrounding their destination and they began walking towards the door.
"Foolish little brother." Itachi simply said. Sasuke was used to hearing the phrase but never tried to decipher its meaning let it wash over him and drift off like the many other times he heard it.
Reaching the Administrative building they were greeted by two chunin at the door with sensory skills to identify incoming threats.
"Itachi-San." The guard on the right nodded at Itachi who returned the courtesy while the Chunin on the right looked at Itachi in awe, the young man was a big fan. His greeting came out in a stutter.
"W-wel-come b-back Itachi-San sir." The Chunin greeted stuttering out his words and throwing in a salute in there like a soldier speaking to his superior. Itachi nodded at him.
"Thank you, it's good to be back." Itachi replied patting the Chunin older than him by a few years on the shoulders as he walked past him and into the building. Sasuke followed suit behind him barely getting a glance from the guards.
It was nothing personal to Sasuke he just hasn't made his name yet, those two Chunin understood Itachi was one of their biggest hitters easily an A-Rank shinobi and he was 19. Itachi's track record was not just the pride of the Uchiha clan but the village as a whole and the best part.
"He is so humble." The Chunin who had his shoulder patted said with a small smile and awe as the door closed behind them.
"Itachi's always been like that, I remember how we use to place bets on how quickly he would finish a mission when we were all Chunin." The much older Chunin who couldn't rise in ranks anymore smiled at the memory.
"I wouldn't mind calling him my Hokage one day." The younger Chunin said and the older man couldn't help but agree though it would be something unheard of, an Uchiha Hokage.
'Even random Chunin revere Itachi, this is the result of strength.' Sasuke's mind read the situation that occurred wrong. His belief that Itachi was loved for his strength was only one part of the story.
Itachi was respected for his strength, liked for his ideology, loved for his kindness, and watched for his growth. There are many strong ninjas in the elemental nations, but only those who show humility gain, not the fear of the weak but their respect.
"Come in." At the indication to enter the office, the two Uchiha brothers entered to find the welcoming smile of Hiruzen Sarutobi the third Hokage of Konoha.
"We have returned Hokage-Sama." Itachi said to his leader as he and Sasuke walked up closer to the desk of their commanding Officer.
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Hinata and Naruto had finally reached the latter's front door. Placing a hand on the doorknob Naruto twisted and his door clicked open due to a seal acting as a lock mechanism before he and Hinata walked in.
The moment Hinata walked in and closed the door behind her, she felt a hand wrap around her waist and another get placed behind her neck before warm lips crashed onto her own.
"Mmh mmh." Hinata did not expect it and for a second she had forgotten everything as she wrapped her arms around the blonde attacker's neck and deepened the kiss.
"Hime." Naruto whispered in between the kiss and that's when Hinata remembered who she was, who he was, where they were, and most importantly how this could hurt a friend.
"Mmh Naru, Mmh to we can't." Hinata after trying and trying had finally found the strength to push away. At first, she planned on getting the message to her 'friend' in between the kiss so it lasts longer but she wasn't experienced enough in that field to pull that stunt so she had to push away.
Naruto after being pushed away also seemed to realize who he was, who she was, where they were, and most importantly his girlfriend Ino who loved him dearly. The blonde chuckled nervously as he backed away from Hinata who still stood against the door blushing and pouting.
"Naruto-Kun." Naruto gulped at the voice, and Hinata sounded angry at him. "I think I should leave." At her words, Naruto grimaced before sighing.
"I'll control myself." Naruto said with another sigh but then he looked up at Hinata and smiled a big toothy grin. Hinata felt his emotions crash into her senses there was nothing but gratitude, happiness, trust, want, and respect but the strongest was love it made her warm.
Hinata's eyes widened at the thought that all those emotions were aimed at her, a small blush grazed her cheeks as she swayed a little almost about to faint. She felt so happy and yet so sad that all those emotions he felt for her she couldn't accept and not because she didn't want to she definitely did, but their circumstances would not allow it.
"So please don't leave, I just ugh it won't happen again I promise." Naruto continued talking and Hinata heard the words. She had to believe in them, a promise from Naruto is like he's telling you a fact about the world.
"F-fine." Hinata relented though she kept a watch on his signature he was still Naruto and the guy was stubborn. Hinata placed a hand on her lips and smiled a little, Naruto kissed her for the second time. There was guilt there as well but the happiness of knowing her feelings were reciprocated was keeping them at bay.
"You are sleeping on the couch." Hinata informed the blond who blinked in confusion at the order and opened his mouth to protest only to shut them tight when Hinata glanced at him. It was the same look Tsunami gave him in wave country there was only one answer.
"Yes, ma'am." Naruto groaned out and Hinata nodded stiffly not even gracing him with a smile he was on a tight leash now he knew it, but he couldn't help it if Naruto Uzumaki felt a certain way he acted on it. He is always true to himself and his feelings and right now he was just happy to have Hinata in his life.
"Love just feels great." Hinata decided Naruto had to shut up, even more, the moment she sat down she concentrated on avoiding reading his emotions which were all as loud as he was, and pointed in her direction smacking her across the face every other second.
"I never knew it would feel this great you know, at first it was so hard and confusing, definitely hurt too but when I watched you sleeping for that week I just kept thinking how beautiful you are, how I missed you and your smile." Hinata felt her heart sing, she wondered if her best friend was always so sweet with his words.
His emotions were so loud to her that they demanded all her attention but what Hinata was most happy about was the fact she couldn't see his big smile, it's what she loved most about him. She wouldn't last long with the combination of his words, feelings, and smile she would faint she knew it.
"I'm sorry for earlier, I wasn't thinking. I didn't believe it at first but love does make you do stupid things." Hinata giggled at that and Naruto smiled walking up to the couch he would be getting personal with come bedtime and sitting down next to Hinata. He fidgeted a little before he took her hand in his and raised it to kiss the back.
"Is this okay?" He asked and she giggled nodding.
"How about this?" He asked as he kissed her cheek and Hinata smiled nodding once more.
"Great! I'll settle for those then I swear." At his words, Hinata brought her face close to his face so close their noses were almost touching Naruto blinked and she blinked. He gulped looking into her eyes and got lost, his head began moving forward and Hinata smiled at the act when their noses touched before grabbing his cheeks and pulling.
"Ouch ouch ouch." Naruto protested and Hinata laughed before turning his head around and kissing him on his cheek then turned it again kissing him on his other cheek.
"Your forgiven, I have something important to inform you about." Hinata said getting serious and Naruto felt the lovey-dovey atmosphere change.
'What the heck Hime read the mood' Naruto thought with a sweat drop this was crazy it changed so fast like watching a princess gale movie and someone came changing the movie and playing a documentary about rocks from Iwagakure.
"What did you want to talk about?" Naruto asked and Hinata took a deep breath before speaking.
"The masked man." Hinata said and Naruto finally joined the new channel as he too got serious putting everything that happened in the last few minutes on the back burner he gave Hinata his undivided attention.
"I cannot say for certain he is Uchiha or even human, he looked like a mixture of two people put together right down the middle. His chakra reserves were high maybe as large as a Kage." Hinata explained and Naruto listened not even blinking as though he would miss something.
"So he is not an Uchiha?" Naruto asked and looked a little down, he thought he had found a lead on his mother's murderer.
"I said I couldn't say for certain Naruto-Kun but he did have a Sharingan in his right eye or I think it was the Sharingan, the pattern was different. It looked like a fuma shuriken and it was only in one eye the other eye socket was empty." Hinata explained and Naruto balled his fists wondering if he had found the culprit.
"You said he was like two people put together?" Naruto asked and Hinata nodded before explaining.
"Except for his face, the rest of his body seems a mixture of two beings, I would recon the right side is artificial and the left is his true body." Hinata guessed and whether she was right or not it was the only logical call she could make from what she saw.
"Why do you think the right side is artificial?" Naruto inquired and Hinata paused to wonder how she could explain it before it clicked.
"You know how you have the Kyuubi sealed within you when I use my dojutsu." Hinata activated her eyes with but a thought and placed her hand on Naruto's naval above his clothes causing Naruto to look down as well.
"I see your chakra but I also see a small red flame burning in a small box where your chakra pool begins its circulation." Naruto looked back up at Hinata in shock and she smiled a little at him glad she could be of any kind of help.
"The masked man has light blue chakra on his left side and a second chakra source with its own pathways on the right side circulating green chakra." At Hinata's words, Naruto got confused.
"Are you saying he has two distinct chakra networks?" Naruto asked and Hinata nodded her head.
"Do you think it was him?" Hinata finally asked the question that bothered her and Naruto thought about it long and hard.
"I don't know, but thank you Hinata-Hime, you brought me a step closer to understanding the truth." Naruto said smiling at the girl and she smiled back as she deactivated her dojutsu still in awe at the fact she had it.
"Are you gonna tell your clan about your eyes?" Naruto asked and a new conversation began, they went back and forth about how to do it. Naruto mentioned they should make it into a prank and Hinata immediately shook her head no.
Conversations came and went, returned, and went into deeper details that at the end of the day the two genin fell asleep on the couch.
Naruto was the first to start getting comfortable on the sofa, as he laid down with his legs going up on Hinata's thighs, Hinata had begun tickling his feet until Naruto turned and instead placed his head on her thighs as they talked and laughed recalling cool moments in their mission to Wave always dodging the heart of the story their feelings for each other.
Naruto in his position was the first to doze off, Hinata had contemplated waking him so she could move to the room but she couldn't bring herself to do that she remembered his sleeping face and how cute it was that she just sat there twirling a blonde lock of his very long mane of hair in a finger and fell asleep in that position.
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"Are you sure his back?" Sakura asked Ino and the platinum-blonde girl sighed as she rolled her eyes at her pink-haired best friend.
Ino and Sakura were making their way to Naruto's apartment, they had heard from Amy whose uncle was on guard duty last night that team Itachi also known as team 7 had returned from their month-long mission to Wave successfully. Nobody knew the details of the mission except that it was only a C-rank.
"Yes Sakura, you were there when Amy barged into my house at 6 in the morning and told us." Ino made sure to emphasize the word 'us' because if Ino was happy to hear that her boyfriend was back Sakura was equally as happy to hear her crush was back after a full month.
"That girl will never change, she's such a gossip queen." Ino gave Sakura a look and Sakura was smart enough to blush in embarrassment at the hypocrisy of her words.
"Don't look at me like that Ino pig!" Sakura shouted with an embarrassed blush on her pretty face. "You're the worst of us all." Sakura continued and Ino smirked.
"The future head of Torture & Intelligence has to build her skills somewhere." Ino simply said and Sakura gaped, was her friend serious? that sounded like an excuse Naruto would use. Sakura simply shook her head at the blonde.
Reaching the front door Ino knocked three times and waited. She was so giddy a smile miraculously appeared on her face, just thinking of her golden boy opening that front door and giving her a big smile.
"Coming!" Ino began bouncing on the small of her feet as she heard footsteps coming closer after Naruto's voice called out.
"Calm down Ino." Sakura simply told her friend shaking her head and rolling her eyes at the blonde's obvious excitement.
The moment the front door opened Ino jumped on the person who opened it all she needed to see was that long mane of golden blonde hair as a description of who she was looking forward to seeing for more than a month.
"Umph." Naruto grunted as he placed his arms under his attacker's thighs who wrapped her legs around his waist. she hugged him close and Naruto got a nice whiff of her scent. He noticed how much heavier she had gotten since the last time he had carried her and how his fingers had a firmer grip on her thighs. Naruto had to admit they were very nice thick thighs, was Ino always this stacked on the thigh department?
"Goldie-Kun!" Ino whispered happily and Naruto couldn't help but smile she must have really missed him. Ino brought her face back so she could look into his face and she smiled before blushing and stealing a quick kiss on his lips.
"I missed you." She told him with a beautiful smile plastered on her beautiful face, Naruto felt a pang in his heart that he couldn't say the same but smiled his best smile for her and did what Naruto Uzumaki did best he was honest.
"You've gotten heavier Ino and your thighs feel so nice." Naruto gave said thighs a nice squeeze. "Can I bite?" He said with a roguish grin and Ino blushed at the complement slapping his shoulder as she giggled in appreciation, Naruto always noticed when something about her changed.
"Naruto-Kun has your clone arrived yet, the orange jacket is comfortable but it's kind of small." Ino looked over Naruto's shoulders who stiffened at the voice and saw Hinata coming out of his room wearing a bright orange jacket that if Ino wasn't mistaken was the one Naruto wore when he painted the Hokage monument.
That was all Hinata wore Ino didn't know what was under but that was the only clothing she could spy on. The bright orange jacket reached above mid-thigh if Hinata bent forward she would flash someone. Hinata was fidgeting with the ends of the jacket trying to bring it lower as she walked with a orange towel wrapped around her head.
"Hime." Naruto called out and Ino didn't know why but she felt a pang. Hinata looked up and blinked before her eyes widened when she tried to find Naruto's location with her sensory ability but instead found two others there, Ino and Sakura.
"Eep!" Hinata jumped and ran for the room, she knocked her head on the door frame causing the towel to come loose revealing her wet hair but she quickly recovered and ran inside closing the door behind her.
"Hey boss I got Hinata-hime the clothes she asked for from Hanabi-Chan...oh hello Sakura, hey there Sunshine." A clone of Naruto not knowing what it had just missed handed a scandalous-looking Sakura a bundle of clothes before dispelling and winking at Ino in the process.
"Stupid clone." Naruto mumbled in irritation.
AN
MMH DRAMA AND WE JUST RETURNED, Naruto and his woman are so full of life...
Next chapter tomorrow last chapter I lied about the 14 Feb thing. Bite me
Next chapter we have a mission I think? And we explore other Rookie 9's thoughts on the changes to canon events like...
Yoh I won't lie I find Shikamaru's smart overrated there is no way a lazy person like him could beat Temary who is talented, smart in her own rights...then we get him who is lazy and unmotivated I hate unwarranted wins then he becomes Chunin that was the dumbest decision in the history of Konoha how is a person who can't even motivate themselves gonna motivate others...that win in the Chunin exams was stupidly planned worse he used the hole Naruto used to defeat neji "WOW!" I'm rolling my eyes by the way... don't worry I'll teach you guys how to motivate a Nara mwahahahahaha...
