NaruHina Story: Chapter 1

It was time. Naruto was now leaving on his three year training mission with Ero-senin. There were a few delays and for reasons he didn't know about, Hinata was going with him. I'll have to watch her around Ero-senin. He couldn't understand how Obaa-chan could be stupid enough to make Ero-senin take her for three years. All that Obaa-chan had told him was "Hinata is a lot like you Naruto. She will be safer traveling with you and that stupid perv, by the way, keep an eye on Jiraiya since Hinata is going."

He let out a long sigh; this was going to be a boring three years.

They traveled for three days, and the only conversations that happened were Jiraiya giving orders or Naruto yelling at him for getting too close to Hinata. Ero-senin tried to explain that Hinata was too young for him, which made Hinata start to turn bright red from hearing it, but Naruto would not believe him.

After a week of traveling they found themselves in the middle of a desert. "Ummm, Jiraiya-sensei?"

"Ahhh, so you do speak Hinata. What is it?"

"I was umm... I was wondering... where we are..."

"Finally noticed we aren't in Fire country eh?"

"Well...umm...yes. This looks like sand village country...but it's really calm...and...and empty."

Once he heard that Naruto realized she was right. "Yeah, where the hell are we Ero-senin? You can't take us to enemy territory and expect to train us there!"

Jiraiya sighed. This was going to be a long three years. "No we aren't in Fire Country anymore. But we aren't in enemy territory either Naruto. We are in Neutral Country, as all the Kage call it. This place is known only to the Kage and 2 of their most trusted ninja. It is under a never ending truce. If anyone starts a fight in here, all we have to do is send word out and all other countries will attack and annihilate the cause, which is why there have never been any fights here. Not to mention it is a secret place. Tsunade has already alerted the other Kage of our presence here so there will be no surprises if they decide to come here for some peace. This is where we will be training our entire time. Got it?"

Naruto had sat down expecting a long explanation, and now he was just sitting there scratching his head. "So, if Akutski come here and try to kill me, all the countries will try to kill them?"

"No, the Akutski don't belong to any country specifically, so they are out of bounds of the truce, but this country is sealed to actually be hidden from anyone who doesn't know about it. The only reason you two were able to see it is because I lifted it long enough for you to notice where we are. Now that you noticed it I can return the seal and you will still be able to see it."

"Ummm... Jiraiya-sensei..."

"What is it Hinata?"

"You said there are two people besides the Hokage that know about this place, if you are one of them, umm…. Who is the other?"

"That would be Kakashi. Tsunade, Kakashi, and me are the only ones in our village who knows about this place. He will be making a few stops to check your progress and report your training back to Tsunade. Any other questions about this place before I truly amaze you?"

Both Hinata and Naruto shook their heads. Naruto had lost track of the conversation long ago, but he wasn't about to let them know.

"Ok, now for the fun part, getting a house!" With that Jiraiya made a few quick hand signs and slammed his hand on the ground.

Naruto could only stare. "I thought you said we were getting a HOUSE?"

Jiraiya had a grin on his face. "What do you mean Naruto? This is a house."

"That's no house! That's a damn mansion! And where the hell did it come from!?"

Jiraiya sighed. "Naruto, didn't you see what I did?"

"Of course I did! You made some seals and hit the ground and a house appeared. I wanna know where the hell it came from!"

Jiraiya sighed again. "Naruto you can be so stupid sometimes. Hinata, why don't you try figuring out what I did?"

"I ummm… it looked like… umm… a summoning jutsu to me."

At least one of them has some brains. "Your right Hinata. It was a summoning jutsu, and it's going to be one of the first things you both learn here."

At hearing that Naruto jumped in the air. "Alright! First day at our new place and I'm already learning something!" Though Hinata could only stare at the ground and shift her feet nervously.

"Not so fast Naruto. You need to learn one technique before you can summon shelter." Jiraiya cut into his cheering.

"Why do I have to learn a technique to summon? You just sign a scroll in blood, make the seals, and poof, you have a summon."

Jiraiya sighed again. At this rate he would be breathless just from trying to explain things to the loud-mouth knucklehead.

"Naruto, what are the other things that you have seen summoned?"

Naruto started to think back. "Well, there were the dogs that Kakashi-sensei summoned in the fight with Zabuza. We summon toads. Obaa-chan summons slugs, and that Orochimaru guy summons snakes. That's all I've seen. But I don't see what that has to do with summoning these houses."

"And what do all those things have in common Naruto?" When he saw Naruto with a confused look he turned to Hinata. "Maybe you can answer it Hinata."

"I umm…" she didn't want to show Naruto up, but she saw him looking at her and expecting an answer. "Well….all the umm… other summons are living things."

"That's right. You use blood to sign the scroll to summon living things, but this is just shelter, no thoughts, no flesh, and no blood in these summons. Notice I didn't even bite my thumb when I did it."

"Then how the hell are we supposed to summon shelter?" Naruto was getting annoyed at the explanations, which he only understood half the time.

Jiraiya made a few quick seals and a wooden plank appeared in his hand. When he showed it to them they saw that the names on the plank were burned into it. There was a handprint burned into the wood below each name.

"Umm… Jiraiya-sensei? Are we going to be learning how to burn our names into the wood?"

"In a way, yes, you will be Hinata. The real technique is going to be actually turning your chakra into fire and pushing it out of your hands. Observe."

Jiraiya walked over to a nearby tree, made a few quick hand seals, and stuck out one finger and with a few quick strokes his name was written into the bark of the tree. "Now both of you come over here." When Naruto and Hinata got closer he did it again, showing them the seals and when he was finished with the seals, he showed them his hand. It was glowing red with a 

tiny layer of yellow around it. "Now, the hand signs I used were to convert my chakra to fire, after that it's all chakra control." Hinata should have no problem with it but I think it will take Naruto a few days to be able to do it.

What he wasn't thinking about at that moment was that Naruto actually already knew the rasengan. So chakra control in his hands he had practice with.

"Ok, now, here's the signs: ram, horse, tiger, and this is a rare one you don't see much, dragon." Jiraiya showed them each sign as he said it.

Naruto made the signs and started to gather chakra in his hand, but he shouldn't just get a layer of chakra surrounding his hand…instead he formed a rasengan. But it wasn't a rasengan, because it was made of fire chakra, not just chakra. And Jiraiya had completely forgotten that Naruto could use rasengan.

"Naruto!"

"What? Did I do something wrong?"

"Well, yes and no. You are supposed to be forming a layer of fire chakra around your hand. But instead you made a fire chakra rasengan. Which, might I add, is a new technique."

"So, since I messed up on your technique, I created my own? Is that what you mean?"

"Well, yes. Remember the fire rasengan for later. For now try concentrating on the fire chakra layer."

Jiraiya turned away from Naruto to check Hinata's progress. As he expected she already had enough control over her chakra to do the technique easily. At this rate she would have the technique down way faster than Naruto. He then walked over to Hinata.

"Well Hinata, excellent chakra control, as I expected. Now that you can get the layer on your entire hand, you need to concentrate your fire chakra to just one finger so u can write your name."

"Hai Jiraiya-sensei"

He went back to Naruto and was surprised that Naruto actually got the fire chakra to cover his hand and get out of rasengan spinning. He went over and gave Naruto the same task he had just given Hinata. He then sat down on a stump to watch the two in deep concentration. Hinata frowning with the effort of concentrating fire chakra to just one finger, while Naruto eyes were closed to slits and his bottom lip stuck out. It was actually a comical sight.

Once they both were able to concentrate fire chakra to just one finger, he had them practice burning their names into some of the nearby trees. Then came the part Naruto had been waiting for. Time to burn their names into the plank. Naruto was too excited to hold his hand steady, so he told Hinata to go first. Hinata though, was too nervous to hold her hand steady. So Naruto ended up going first anyway. He slowly burned his name into the wood with one finger coated in fire chakra, and pushed his chakra to surround his hand. He burned his handprint into the plank and stood back. He was just about to attempt to summon when Jiraiya stopped him.

"Hold on Naruto, we don't know how big of a house you will be able to summon yet, so let Hinata sign first and then let me remove mine so there will be extra room here."

Hinata went up and slowly burned her name into the plank, then pushed a print into the wood underneath her name. Jiraiya removed his house with a big poof of smoke. Then he told Naruto to attempt summoning. Naruto made the signs and slammed his hand to the ground. Out of nowhere there was a…. a….. a little tent. Really little, like mouse size.

"Not enough chakra put into it Naruto." Jiraiya said rather crushingly.

"Well just you wait! I'll be able to summon the top mansion by the time I'm done!" Naruto declared.

Mean while Hinata was sitting off to the side rather nervously. Naruto was a chakra freak, if he couldn't put enough chakra into the technique, what the hell was she supposed to do? She didn't have nearly as much chakra as Naruto. She looked up nervously as Jiraiya turned to her. Well here goes nothing. She made the sign and put as much chakra as she could into the technique. She heard a thump and looked up and even though it was what she expected, she still was surprised to see a tent just a little bigger than Naruto's.

Dammit! She's doing better than me! I need to pick this up a bit. Naruto got rid of his little tent and called up as much chakra as he could without asking the fox for some, he made the signs and slammed his hand into the ground. Thump! That was a good sound. He looked up to see a nice little house. A little over-excited he ran into it to explore around it. He noticed it was a 2 bedroom house, with a bathroom running off of each bedroom. There was a nice kitchen and when he looked through the cabinets, he let out an excited whoo-hoo! For he found an entire cabinet full of ramen. Hinata was still sitting outside trying to summon something bigger than the little fox tent she had. And it was getting dark. Jiraiya summoned a little house for himself. Naruto looked out his window and saw Hinata still sitting there trying to summon a house, but it was getting late and he definitely didn't want her getting invited into the house with Ero-senin for the night.

"Hey Hinata-chan!"

Hinata looked up startled to see Naruto walking toward her.

"It's getting kind of late Hinata-chan, my house has two bedrooms, you wanna stay in one for the night?"

Hinata was starting to blush, but she reminded herself that they would be staying in two different rooms.

"Hai, Naruto-kun. Arigato."

Jiraiya stood watching out the window as Naruto invited Hinata to stay in his house for the night. It starts. He knew Hinata had a crush on Naruto, but Naruto was just too stupid to notice it.

"Lots of food in the kitchen so help yourself Hinata-chan. I'm gonna go up to bed. Good night Hinata-chan."

"Thank you again Naruto-kun."

Hinata made herself a quick dinner and was about to go to bed when she realized she had no idea which room Naruto was in. It was a fifty-fifty chance that she would walk into his room. She could use her byakugan, but then she would see Naruto no matter what. When she got up closer she realized the part of the door was just slightly darker, and when looked at closely, it turned out to be words. Naruto must have practiced his wood burning a bit more before he went to bed. She realized the letters actually spelled out her name. Hinata-chan. Well, apparently this was her room, so she went in. It was a rather nice room considering it was summoned by a slob. She went to the bed and plopped down on it and immediately fell asleep, she couldn't even remember being that tired before.