It was October 10th, 9 years since The Kyuubi incident and Naruto's ninth birthday, but Naruto never liked his birthday for it always brought bad memories. So on this day, to escape from all the celebrations and noise of villagers and the inevitable curses they throw at him this particular day, he stays at the top of his father's head on the top of the Hokage monument.

Naruto was lying on the stone face while gazing at the sky and a leaf in his mouth halfway just relaxing, when in a body flicker Hiruzen appeared in his Hokage's robe but without the hat and the pipe in his mouth. Naruto didn't even have to turn around to look who had arrived but he put up his mental defences for on this particular day he was supposed to be sad and depressed.

Hiruzen sighed and asked the boy, "Naruto what are you doing here shouldn't you be in the village celebrating like everybody else."

Naruto sat up and facing backwards replied, "I would if somebody allowed me to, but for some reason every year they seem to loathe my presence during this time of year."

Hiruzen once again sighed in regret and said, "I am sorry Naruto but give the villagers some time. They are angry now but once it fades away they will come around and accept you. You should forgive them."

"You always say that jiji but they never come around. But you said so I will still keep hope.", replied Naruto.

Hiruzen nodded in satisfaction. But he as well as Naruto both knew that it was almost impossible and it was not because of the reason that jinchuriki are treated harshly, but because it is just human nature to always be weary of something they can't comprehend and it was also an undenying fact that once people get habited to something it becomes an addiction, and treating Naruto harshly or rejecting him have become a habit and removing that habit is like trying to escape from addiction and it was in a society where every other person encouraged the said addiction. Truly a sad fact about human nature.

Hiruzen suggested, "Why don't you come with me. I will treat you to Ichiraku, that will surely cheer you up."

Naruto with a smile plastered on his face replied in his enthusiastic voice, "Let's go jiji."

After having a heart-filling meal at Ichirakus Naruto was returning to his apartment, reminiscing about the day he first got to eat at his favourite ramen restaurant.

[Flashback]

Naruto was 6 years old and was hunting in one of the forests on the outskirts of the village but was having difficulty finding anything due to a shortage of food in that particular season. It was also heavily clouded and he had an inkling a storm was coming. To prove his thoughts right suddenly strong gusts of wind started blowing and he had no choice but to turn back and return. Though he had now an apartment to live in but very little money to eat. The allowance for the orphan welfare which provided a minimum amount of money to all the orphans per month till they reached the age of fifteen or if they became genin was introduced in the time of the First Hokage to help those children who became orphans of war or if their parents died in an unfortunate mission.

But sadly for Naruto, the authority for the distribution of funds was handed to the civilian council during the reign of Second Hokage. The people in the civilian council were not very keen on providing any help to the demon brat so they tried to embezzle as much of his funds as possible but they still had to show a receipt of minimum allowance to the Hokage. This would not have been a problem for them just to provide false data but the obstacle was that Hiruzen Sarutobi was a surrogate grandfather to the jinchuriki and any corruption on their part would make its way to his ears especially regarding Naruto. It didn't add to the fact that in charge of the distribution of these funds was Mebuki Haruno, for the civilian council she was just the matriarch of the Haruno merchant clan but the shinobis who knew the truth about Naruto's parents knew she was the former teammate of Kushina and such whenever she gave the funds to Naruto she added a little amount of money from her own pocket.

But all that still didn't help because whenever Naruto tried to buy goods and supplies from the village the shopowners always charged triple the amount of a designated good and whenever Naruto brought up this fact with them they claimed it to be demon tax which only he was obliged to pay and though Naruto knew it was all bullshit he didn't bring up the fact to Hiruzen knowing they would still somehow try to sabotage him through some other ways and if the villagers were seen being imprisoned for mistreating the demon boy they would sure voice it against the Hokage and Hiruzen was not strong enough to fight back if they all ganged up on him. Naruto assumed this fact in mind with the assumption that the village's shinobi would also try to sabotage him due to not-so-friendly interactions with other shinobis. But he will learn in the future that Hiruzen was not backed into a corner by his enemies but due to his own fears.

Just then it started to rain and soon it poured down heavily. Naruto took shelter in one of the sheds of a small restaurant where only one old man was standing behind the counter and boiling some kind of noodles. Naruto first looked at him then looked back seeing all the people scrambling and running away to find shelter from the room. Then he looked back at the man and thought how good it would be to taste those noodles but he had no illusions about what type of villagers the people of this village were. He just hoped the man would continue his work and not notice him otherwise he will be forced out of the establishment.

But just like always his luck betrayed him and a growl came from his hungry stomach which caught the attention of the shopkeeper. He looked up to see a small scrawny-looking boy half wet from the downpour looking into his restaurant. But when he stared back the boy got frightened and backed away but still poked his head inside when the shopkeeper signaled him to come in.

Naruto was skeptical because this was the first time someone called him into an establishment. He was on edge thinking the man was plotting something. But contrary to what he assumed the man put up a bowl of noodles with some vegetables in it in front of him. First Naruto thought it was poisoned but he had been eating various unsavoury plants from the forests and thought he could handle some little poison some took a bite out of the bowl. Just as he started chewing his widened to comical proportions. He took another bite, then two, then three and soon he gobbled up the entire bowl. For Naruto who ate nothing but wild flora and animal meat he cooked on fire and other expired items he got from the market this food tasted heavenly and had a genuine smile finishing up the bowl.

[Flashback End]

Since then it has become Naruto's favourite eating place. He had been going to that place ever since nearly 4 times a week for it was the only restaurant that treated him unbiased. They did not overcharge him or sell him rotten food. Sometimes they provided him with food even if he had no money. Naruto came to know that the name of the restaurant owner was Teuchi, a retired Chunin from the Second Great Shinobi War and his only daughter Ayame, who treated him like a little brother. Naruto almost felt that they were family and they were a few of his precious people.

As Naruto neared his apartment he saw a few of the drunk villagers going to the red-light area. But they were coming from the direction of the building in which his apartment was located. He had no doubt that these people were trying to find him to relieve all the festival heat, but not finding him there they would have surely trashed his home. Since the year they tried to kill him, many who were involved were arrested due to Hokage's orders but were released again due to pressure from the council and this led to more anger towards Naruto. So they tried again the next year but Naruto wasn't so stupid and vowed to never be used again by the villagers. So he opted for different tactics. If a mob was formed to hunt him, he would either lead them to a Uchiha Police Patrol area or towards the Hokage Tower so he could have possible eyewitnesses and may help Hiruzen in punishing those fools. Or if it were a single person or two three drunks who tried their luck on him, he would lure them towards the training field or near the heavily forested area which was his turf since in those places he could simply kill them and escape. He also suspected that someone high on the order chain was helping him cover those cases because no one could get away from doing so many murders. But since no one had contacted him, he suspected they were waiting for him to make a move. Someone very manipulative might have been behind that. Since then people have been unable to take their anger out on him except the harsh glares, isolation and badmouthing. So they resorted to physically damaging his properties. This included trashing his apartment.

He quickly ran forward to escape from being noticed and reach his apartment quickly. When he reached to the top floor he noticed some wooden shards lying around and moving closer to the apartment noticed a broken door. He did not need to see inside to know the condition. Just like always the kitchen utensils and bathroom sinks have been destroyed, the mirrors have been shattered, his bed was torn apart, all the food would have been wasted and the walls and ceiling would have new graffiti and this time they used real blood as he could smell from the new demon kanji on his front wall.

He winced seeing all this destruction and knew he had his work cut out for him. Previously when these things happened, he would just replace them with some items from his parent's home, but he decided to not take any losses due to villagers. So recently he would tail one of the offenders and mark out his home and when the time is right, he would steal all the utensils or other useful items he is in need from the offender's home. He also didn't discriminate while stealing, anyone who was involved was fair game, whether they were rich, poor, coming from shinobi clans, or were businessman, either they were basking in wealth or they could not feed their kids two meals of a day, he didn't spare anyone. All the anger he had inside him would be directed towards that soul for if none of them could see the difference between a human and a demon, then they themselves were no longer human.

Just as Naruto was about to storm off to tail one of the assailants a pink plain box with furly packaging caught his eye. The package was perfectly tucked behind the pot with plants. It was just outside his apartment door where Naruto put a big plant for good looks as he was someone who loved plants.

'Why did this plant remain unharmed? Did they leave it because it looked like someone else's property? Are they really this stupid to forget that except me, no one lives in this building?', contemplated Naruto.

But he was even more puzzled with who would parcel anything to him. 'Is this the villagers' doing? Are they trying new ways to annoy me more."

But his curiosity overtook his caution and he went to pick up the parcel. But just as he bent down a distinct smell was captured by his nose. 'This smell, it's Hinata's.' For Naruto training in the wild gave him different perks and one of those was heightened sensory capabilities, it also didn't add to the fact that due to daily stalking of Hinata, he had memorised the girl's smell and could always differentiate that sweet lilac smell with other sweet scents.

'What is this? Why would she gift me anything? What's her objective with this?" More questions popped up in Naruto's mind than he had answers for. He knew Hinata had a crush on him and for the love of Kami, he couldn't understand why. He secretly gathered information on her through various means, by trying direct conversation with her as much as possible before she fainted, or through her friends who were only a handful, or stalking her in the Hyuga compound and was deeply disturbed by the no. of photos she had of him secretly in her closet. But in any of those situations, he could never spot a clue which would give away why she would fall in love with the academy's dead-last and village pariah.

Then Naruto once again looked at the box, he took it and went inside and laid on the table which was still somehow intact. Then opened the wrap and took the lid, he saw a cake in orange colour and cream on top with chocolate whips and a strawberry on top. On it was written, "Happy Birthday Naruto". He was stunned seeing this, for in his entire life, nobody had gifted him anything or even wished him Happy Birthday except The Hokage. This was the first time someone took the effort to gift him something and wished him a birthday. He was feeling a new sense of emotion by this act of kindness and he didn't know what. It made him feel warm inside and very relaxed also when her thought came into mind he experienced a sudden jolt. Though Naruto didn't what he was feeling at that time, unknowingly Hinata through her tenacity had melted his frozen heart. Somewhere in his darkness, a spark was observed.

'I can't wait anymore for the answers, I have to ask her myself. But she always faints when I'm near her. Why don't I use a genjutsu to seek answers. Yes, a simple B-ranked one would be enough.'

Though at the thought of using something harmful on Hinata caused a pang in his heart. He always thought villagers had killed the part of him that felt empathy. He had become such a cold person that if the village burned down today, he would not even feel some kind of sympathy for them. But just potentially using a minuscule amount of chakra for a girl he didn't even know about started causing him pain. Unknowingly, The cold-hearted personification of Hatred, Naruto Uzumaki was falling in love himself.

[ The Next Day]

Hinata was a very shy girl with a timid personality. Ever since she was a child she always wanted to see the good in people and kindness was nature she was just born with, even her mother for the first five years of her life always taught her good moral values such as honesty, integrity, kindness, mercy and others. So when her mother passed away while giving birth to her younger sister, she asked her to look after the family she left behind. Hinata always tried to play the peacemaker, she raised her younger sister with kindness and compassion her father was unable to provide, she treated her father with utmost respect and always tried to follow his orders, she also tried to build a bond with her direct cousin Neji. Hinata also respected the branch members of the Hyuga family the same as the main family.

But hailing from one of the major and most prominent clans of Fire country this compassionate personality from the clan heiress was seen as a form of weakness. The main branch detested her for she was unable to display talents comparable to the branch family's prodigy Neji and her sister who was five years younger than her displayed more proficiency in Hyuga Clan Taijutsu 'The Gentle Fist'. But the truth was she was stronger than her younger sister Hanabi, and since she promised her mother to take care of her in their mother's stead she always held back against her afraid of hurting her. This caused her to be even mocked by the branch members thinking the girl who was going to lead them into the future was so weak. Her father may not have shown her but he genuinely cared about his daughters and he pushed Hinata so hard because he wanted her to be strong enough to protect herself. For the ninja world was a place full of vultures who would dive in any smell of blood to cut open the flesh and her being weak was an open invite to them. He didn't like it one bit but he had to be especially hard on his elder daughter.

Even outside of her clan, she was not very welcome. Due to her being from one of the great clans of Konoha, civilians rarely approached her and they were also scared of the guards that were always present with her. In the academy hailing from a better background, blessed with good looks and intellect she became a source of jealousy for the fellow kunoichi-in-training, and having an overtly shy nature she became more reserved and due to this some of the civilian girls found it easy to bully her. Though her treatment didn't get worse from a few curse words and very rare physical treatment, it was still enough to break her spirit even more.

Due to a lack of familial love and compassion and experiencing the ugly truth of this cruel world a darkness brews in her heart. But just like in darkness light comes barrelling in its domain always in every unexpected way, in Hinata's life also hope came in a unique way in the form of Naruto Uzumaki. He gave her the courage to move forward where she faltered, he gave her the will to never give up where all her paths were blocked. It was just a small gesture of help from him, but it always came in when she needed it most and she was able to carry on due to this. This led to a spark of curiosity in her to know more about the blonde boy who for some reason was always hated by everyone but for some reason never gave up. So she followed him and tried to find where he found his hope, and the answer she came up with was himself. She saw that he didn't have anyone important in his life and was rejected by most of the villagers but just smiled through it all and moved forward never looking back. She always sensed the darkness in him but it never dettered her for she also had the same kind of darkness but never knew his depth.

As days passed by and she got to know him more and more through her little secret activities she began to see him in a very different light. She was not captivated by his smile but by his determination to always progress and the will to never give up. So much time spent upon him caused a change in her and this change was the admiration of the blond but as time passed by the admiration grew deeper until she started to love him with all her heart. She wanted to be like him- to give hope, she wanted to be with him and share all his joys and misfortunes, she wanted to be the light of his darkness as he became the light of her darkness.

Hinata Pov,

'I hope Naruto-kun got the cake I left for him. I wish I was there to congratulate him in person but I had no choice but to obey the curfew.', thought Hinata as she was on her way to the academy.

The previous day was Naruto's birthday and she wanted to surprise him since all his friends didn't know his birthday and he was not very keen on celebrating it. So for the previous 2 weeks, she spent most of her free time with the maids in the kitchen trying to learn to make a cake. This has been a hobby of Hinata to try and make new dishes to please her father and when she came with the request that she wanted to learn to make cake, it didn't strike them out of the ordinary.

Last evening she snuck into the building but since except for Naruto no one lived there she wouldn't call it sneaking but she didn't know that. First, she knocked on the door for a response but getting none she assumed he was not present at home so she decided to leave the gift at the door, but she didn't want anyone trying to steal her gift and with the kind of place he was situated in, she had no doubt someone would try it. So, she looked around for alternatives and noticed a gap behind the plant pot with a tall herb growing in it. If one would not try to notice they wouldn't see anything there. She left the gift behind the pot with a note on it reading 'Happy Birthday Naruto'.

Remembering last night's events she couldn't help but blush and many thoughts swirled in her head like 'Did Naruto-Kun like the cake?', 'Did he even notice it?', 'Would he know that I was the one that left it there?' Just thinking about these things she reached the academy. Her thoughts were disrupted when she saw her classmate Sasuke Uchiha complaining to another person who slightly looked like him arguing that he wanted to come to the academy alone. Just seeing that familial bond she hoped her family would be like this.

She entered her designated classroom and sat on the farthest seat in the last row. Some moments later Sasuke entered the classroom followed by Shino and the three of them sat in silence waiting for other classmates to arrive. None of them initiated a conversation since all of them were content with the silence. Soon other classmates began to fill in the room and half an hour later the class was filled with all the students. Hinata saw Naruto enter the classroom with friends Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi and Kiba Inazuka where he was animatedly chatting with Kiba, Choji was munching on a pack of chips and Shikamaru was yawning.

As soon as Naruto came into the classroom his eyes made contact with Hinata's and due to this, her breadth was caught in a hitch. Many thoughts rampaged in her mind. 'Did he find the cake? Does he know it was me who left it there? Did he see me before I left? Does he know that I secretly follow him around every day after classes end? Does he know that I took secret pictures of him? Does he know that I took one of his torn jackets he left one day at the training ground and use it as a night suit whenever I feel lonely?'

Before her mind delved into the bottom of the abyss she slapped her cheeks to come out of her stupor which brought some incredulous looks from her fellow seatmate and she flustered bright red in turn. She looked again in front to see that Naruto was again in an argument with a girl namely Ino of Yamanaka Clan. She was somewhat saddened to see that and thought she just jumped to conclusions. She went back to being somewhat stoic and like this class had started.

After half a day when the bell rang, Iruka took his register and went out for lunch, similarly many of the students also ran to get out of the classroom. Hinata looked around to see Naruto had disappeared. He always went away somewhere secret during lunch and she just thought he went away somewhere in the village to have lunch. She took out her bento and went outside in the training fields under the shade of a tree to eat her lunch alone in a relatively quiet place.

She was eating her lunch in peace when three girls approached her.

"Look at this friends the stuck-up has no friends to eat with. Don't you have anyone to keep you company?", said one of the girls to her friends.

Hinata looked up to see it was three of her classmates. They were not from some prominent clans but mere civilian students. Due to their lack of training, they were failing behind their rank which caused more distress to grow and they blamed the the students from shinobi clans. Nevertheless, all of the students from the clans were not so weak to be pushed around so easily except Hinata who due to her timid nature and kind heart was dubbed weak in front of the students. But recently she had been doing well in her taijutsu lessons due to which her rank was on the rise, other civilian girls didn't like the fact that she was gathering more attention from them so they started actively trying to sabotage the poor girl.

Hinata flinched at the mocking tone, her fingers tightening around her chopsticks as she fought to maintain her composure.

"Maybe she's just too good for the rest of us," chimed in another, her laughter sharp and cutting. "After all, she's supposed to be the pride of the mighty Hyuga clan. Though you wouldn't know it by looking at her."

The third girl stepped forward, her eyes narrowed as she scrutinized Hinata's modest lunch. "Is that all you're eating? No wonder you're so scrawny. Doesn't your fancy clan feed you properly?"

High above, unnoticed, a figure perched among the branches with the ease of a leaf swaying in the breeze. Naruto, who had stealthily climbed the tree to enjoy his lunch away from the world's prying eyes, watched the scene unfold with growing dismay. His hand found a small pebble, and with a flick, it flew, striking one of the bullies squarely on the forehead.

"Hey, knucklehead!" the girl yelped, her hand flying to the spot where the pebble had hit. "Who did that?"

Naruto seized the opportunity, jumping down with the agility that belied his often clumsy demeanour. He landed beside Hinata, his presence suddenly shifting the balance. With a grin that held the promise of mischief and the assurance of unwavering support, Naruto faced the intruders.

"Why don't you pick on someone who can fight back?" he taunted, his voice ringing with a challenge. "Or are you too scared to take me on?"

This sudden save from her crush and Hinata to blush brightly. When other girls noticed who interrupted their fun gained a scowl on their faces. "What are you doing idiot? This is none of your business.", commented one of the girls.

"Oh, this became my business when you tried to bully her in front of my eyes even when she did nothing to you."

"So what you are trying to play hero. Don't forget if I complain to teachers you will get punished again and they will believe me over you anytime.", the girl replied with a smirk.

But Naruto was undeterred by this and let out an even bigger smirk as if taunting them. "You may get me in trouble with the teachers but would you three really like to be on my next prank's hit list? You wouldn't want your precious Sasuke-Kun to see you all bald."

All three girls paled hearing this and one let out a quiet whimper and the previous girl gained a scowl on her face. "Come on guys, this is just a waste of our time. Let's complain about him to Iruka sensei." They left the place albeit with a slight stomping on the ground. Naruto turned and looked at Hinata worryingly as she had her head down and tried to avoid eye contact with him.

"Hinata are you okay? Did the girls say anything weird to you? Don't mind their words they are stupid and are just jealous of your achievements."

Hinata looked up slightly and replied in a meek voice, "N..N..Naruto-kun, you didn't have to help me. I became a burden to you. I..I am sorry." And she bowed her head down, though she was very happy that Naruto came to her rescue.

"Nonsense Hinata, how could I even leave you alone and honestly those girls were really getting on my nerves.", he replied cheekily.

Though in his eyes a different calculating look was there. 'It is a great time to strike, I won't get another chance like this so easily and we are also completely isolated.'

Naruto enthusiastically took Hinata's hand saying, "Come on now no one is here and you can eat your lunch in peace and if anyone comes to disturb you again you can just rely on me." And again dragged her towards the tree.

But as he reached the tree he sent out a tiny pulse of chakra by his standards and a kind of pulse hit Hinata but she ignored it thinking it was just her imagination yet her consciousness entered a trance-like state. Unknown to Hinata she was caught in a genjutsu which was generally used by the Uchiha Police Force and the Yamanaka Clan interrogators to obtain information from the prisoners and captives. Naruto gained knowledge of this technique from the scrolls in his father's library. This was an easy technique since it just used chakra to be infused into someone else's brain to release specific hormones which put them in an extremely drunken and trance state, then if you ask them something they will babble everything out. But this was also very counterproductive since one who had knowledge about this justu could counter it by just rotating his chakra in his chakra pathways and forcing them through their brain.

Naruto didn't like the idea of using this on Hinata but his curiosity was eating him, so he resorted to extreme measures.

"Hinata who are you?", he started with basic questions to gauge if the jutsu worked as he expected or not.

"I am Hinata Hyuga, the heir of the Hyuga Clan from Konoha.", she replied in a monotonic voice and stuttering was also gone.

"Tell me Hinata Hyuga, do you have a crush on Naruto Uzumaki?"

"Yes, I have a crush on Naruto Uzumaki."

This much he expected from her, now the real questions will begin.

"Do you just have a crush or do you love Naruto Uzumaki?"

"I love Naruto Uzumaki with all my heart."

Naruto was somewhat surprised to hear this. He just thought she had a silly crush on him but didn't know her actions were the result of her genuine feelings. He had never expected such a precarious situation. So seeing no other choice he just continued with the questions.

"Why do you love Naruto Uzumaki?"

"Naruto is the source of my strength. It is Naruto who gives me the will to move forward even if I just want to give up on all the expectations, seeing him not giving up and just striding towards his goal motivates me to just keep on with all the hard work. It is his resilience against all rejection from the village that made me fall in love with him. There are also past instances where he unknowingly helped me multiple times and I can't help but be grateful to him for what he had done."

Naruto was stunned to hear those words. He never thought in this god-forsaken village there would be someone who would love him and see his inner qualities and not just the bigoted villagers' opinions. He didn't know what to make of this situation and after a very long time, his emotions were in turmoil trying to make sense of her words.

"Explain these past instances with Naruto.", he wanted to know when were those times that he had helped her.

"First was during my third birthday, I was returning from the celebration hall to the clan compound during a chilly winter but I was lost in the dark night when a boy of my age came to help me, he was wearing thin clothes and was himself shuddering but he still comforted me and helped me reach home. Later I learnt his name was Naruto. One other occasion was when I was five years old and a few boys from the academy were bullying me for being a Hyuga but he came to help me by trying to beat up those kids and himself got hit, I was taken away by my guard and was unable to thank him but he just smiled at me. Later I found out that he was in the same class as me so I tried to get close to him but due to my shyness I was unable to talk to him and I thought to leave him alone for his own good, but I still followed him wanting to know more about him, slowly but surely seeing him every day going through all that hate and carrying the darkness in him behind that jovial smile made me admire him and this admiration soon turned into love."

Naruto didn't remember those incidents very well but he had an inkling which incidents she was talking about. Now he had just one final question since he was very sure that she just fell in love with a mask, not the real him.

"What would you do if the Naruto you knew was just a fake, what if he was not so jovial and kind to other people, what if he had a much more sinister side, what if he was not what you thought?"

"I fell in love with Naruto due to his unyielding will of never giving up and always striving for better. I would still fall in love with him if he was not a good person because he has every right to do so. Every day carrying this much darkness in his heart and the village still pushes him more further. I would give everything just to be with him."

Naruto had never heard any more compassionate words towards him, he was truly moved in his heart. His control slipped and Hinata came back to her senses, she just blinked in surprise for one moment she was going to eat and the next she couldn't remember what happened to her.

"Um..Naruto-kun w..what were we doing?", and on cue bell rang signalling the resume of remaining classes.

"Naruto steeled his face and plastered a grin saying, "Let's go back Hinata, I wouldn't want Iruka sensei scolding you due to me." He grabbed her hands and dragged her back to the classroom meanwhile she was blushing like a tomato due to Naruto holding her hand.

For the next few days, Naruto was the one who trailed Hinata. He infiltrated the Hyuga compound which in itself was a huge headache but gave him more practice against more secured locations. In the Hyuga compound, he truly saw what Hyuga Hinata's real personality was like, he saw how kind and shy person she was, but he also saw how strong-willed and hard-working she was, how she loved every member of her family and didn't discriminate anyone, even though she was put down by everyone she stood back up again to try for more. He saw many qualities of her that he had never seen before and unknown to him she pierced his shell to enter his heart and unknowingly her wish came true as she became the light of his darkness.

"Ha Ha ha ha ha ha ...ha. I can't believe it but it is true. Monsters can fall in love and this monster fell in love with a God-sent angel", laughed Naruto.

He didn't know where this would lead him but there was one thing he definitely knew. Naruto Uzumaki had found his goal and he would obtain it no matter what.

Sorry guys for the extremely long chapter, but I was very passionate about this one and I really wanted to finish this in one go.

Hope you have enjoyed it.

Future chapters may or may not be this long.

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