ONLY GOING TO SAY THIS ONCE: I DON'T OWN NARUTO, ANY OF THE CHARACTERS, ABILITIES, COPY RIGHTS AND ETC!

Chapter 1: A Hero In the Making

It was early afternoon when the Hyuuga Clan gathered for a clan meeting. Every main house member was there and some branch members. Not all of the branch members could attend dued to their duties. "Hiashi, why have you called us all of a sudden", said a elder Hyuuga. Before the clan leader could respond, the doors to the giant meeting room slammed against the walls. "I CALLED THE MEETING!", delaired a blonde woman wearing a green jacket. The sight outraged the elder council as members of the clan made room for their village leader. "Hokage-sama, you have no right to call a clan meeting!", stated an elderly man beside Hiashi. The woman looked at him like fire was about to shoot out her eyes. "SHUT IT FOOL! THE NEWS I BRING INVOLVES THE HYUUGA!" Needless to say everyone was quiet after that statement.

Clearing her throat, she began, "The mist hunter-ninja, Ao, is dead." Everyone in the room gasped except Hiashi. "The one that killed him is here and wishes to personally give you proof." After slight whispers of the elder council, they nodded to their leader. "Hokage-sama, please bring in the one who claims the deed." She gave a smirk to Hinata, who was sitting besided her father. With a snap of her fingers a Konoha hunter-ninja appeard beside her. He had blonde hair, a white mask with a red whirlpool design on his face, a Konoha ANBU vest with a hitai-ate stitched in the middle of it under the collar bone. Underneath the vest he wore black long-sleeve shirt with a orange stripe going up both sleeves and black, fingerless gloves with a metal plate on the back. His pants and sandals weren't anything special, just black ANBU pants and black sandals.

The hunter-ninja bowed before the council and the main family. "I understand, you are to thank for killing Ao, thief of the Byakugan." The masked ninja nodded, taking the mask off. Upon seeing the blue eye of her crush Hinata made a *EEP* sound. The clan leader glanced at his oldest daughter and thought, 'does she like him? Does she know his secret?' Looking back at the pair he continued, "Uzumaki Naruto, you have a reputation of doing...the impossible." The young blonde man smiled and bowed. "Thank you Hiashi-sama." Something was different about the blonde, he wasn't brash like when was a kid but it was something else. "Uzumaki-san, why do you cover your eye with your hitai-ate?" Naruto reached up and touched where the headband was covering up. With a sigh he responded, "I lost it in a fight with Ao, the mask I wear now is new..not the one I wore the three years I was gone." He closed his eyes and lifted his headband, revealing a nasty looking scar. "Luckily, Ao had a eye to spare", he said opening both eyes.

In the scarred socket was the very eye that Ao stole and used against Konoha. Everyone was shocked at seeing this and the elders looked disgusted. "HOW DARE YOU USE THAT EYE!", shouted a angry elder while jumping out of his seat. Before he could continue, Naruto activated the Byakugan like it was natural and gave him a death stare. The elder, who shouted at him, quietly sat back down and avoided eye contact. Deactivating his eye, Naruto responded, "elder, I needed an eye and I couldn't leave the Byakugan behind." Another elder retorted, "HOW DO WE KNOW THAT YOU KILLED AO AND NOT A HYUUGA!" Naruto pulled out a scroll and handed to the guard in front of him. The guard then handed it to Hiashi with a small bow. All the elders looked at the scroll with little interest as Hiashi opened it and applied chakra causing a puff of smoke to form. When the smoke cleared, there was the head of Ao with a missing eye.

Outraged the elders kept saying that the head was a fake and the eye should return to the Hyuuga and Naruto to be imprisoned for murder. Tsunade had enough and was about to start bashing skulls till the Hyuuga leader slammed his hand on the table hard. "ENOUGH!", he shouted as the elders tried to back away in fear. "Uzumaki Naruto is a hero to the Hyuuga. He gave my daughter courage, he showed me my mistakes, and now he killed Ao, who has being using our own eye against the Leaf!" He regained his composure before continuing. "He may keep the eye, if he never uses it against this clan or our village." The elders were about to protest when Tsunade started cracking knuckles. "Hokage-sama, is that all you wished of us?", asked the clan leader. The blonde hokage nodded with a smile. "Alright, meeting is adjourned."

Tsunade turned to Naruto as people were leaving the room. "Naruto meet me in my office, and we will discuss what you wish to do." The hunter-nin nodded before lowering his hitai-ate back over his eye. When he turned to leave, he was stopped by Neji and Hinata. The blonde sighed, "I imagine, you guys are mad too?" Neji looked at his one blue eye and responded, "not at all but you do look pale." Hinata nodded while trying to look up at Naruto. The blonde look at his friends, "yea...I'm not use to it yet, it gives me a incredible headache. So far baa-chan wants to remove me from duty for a month or two so I can train with Kakashi-sensei." Both Hyuugas looked confused at him. "U-Uhm Na-Naruto-kun? Why K-Kakashi? He doesn't have the Byakugan", questioned the heiress. He ran his hand through his hair before lifting his hitai-ate, showing his pale eye. The blonde pointed to the new part, "this is not originally mine. So that means I have to concentrate even harder to activate it. Kakashi-sensei has the sharingan and he isn't part of the Uchiha." Neji moved his hand back and forth in front of the eye. "Can you see through it without activating it?" Naruto nodded, "it works like any other eye."

He activated it and looked around the room. "The thing I don't understand is, how does this not make you sick? I can see everything all around me without turning around." Before they could respond, naruto collasped punching his head. Neji quickly shut off the chakra flow to his eye and helped Naruto up. The blonde thanked Neji between pants. "N-Naruto, you don't l-look so g-good." He gave his usual fake smile, that didn't fool either Hyuuga. "Don't worry Hinata, I'm just not use to having a kekkei-genkai", he said before fainting. Neji caught the blonde before he hit the ground. "Hinata-sama, please get Lady Tsunade. Naruto needs medical aid!" He picked Naruto up carefully. "I will take him to guest house two, meet us there."

Hinata nodded and rushed to catch Tsunade as Neji carried Naruto to the guest house. Five minutes later the Hyuuga heiress caught up with the blonde Hokage. "Tsunade-sama come quickly, Naruto-kun needs medical attention." The news wiped Tsunade's smile off her face and she followed Hinata to the house. Once inside, they saw Neji with his Byakugan active standing beside Naruto, who was passed out on the couch. "WHAT HAPPENED!?", Tsunade demanded as she rush to Naruto. Neji looked at her while deactivating his eyes. "Hokage-sama, Naruto was using the eye and he just passed out. I looked him over and he isn't chakra depleted. Using a medical jutsu, Tsunade moved her glowing hands over the eye. "Damn! There was a trap on the eye itself. I'm guessing Ao activated it before dying." She turned to Neji, "get him to the hospital NOW!"

Without hesitaion, Neji picked up the passed out blonde and ran as fast as he could to the hospital. Hinata was starting to cry silently, afraid that the eye was killing her love. She looked up when she felt a hand on her shoulder, it was Tsunade. "Don't worry Hinata, I should be able to get the issue resolved." She gave the future heiress a reassuring smile before running out the door. Five hours have passed since Naruto passed out. Word has spread to all their friends about Naruto's return and his mysterious illness. Eight of the Konoha twelve walked into the hospital as a group, only to find Hinata crying in the waiting room. The girls of the group got to her first and tried to calm her down.

"What's wrong Hinata?", asked a concerned Ino as she wrapped her arms around the Hyuuga. Between sobs, Hinata responded, "Naruto is dying because of that eye!" The group was confused but was broken out of it with a killer intent. Looking back at Hinata, they saw her glaring at Sakura with her Byakugan active. The pink haired medic slowly backed away, only to have her shirt grabbed by the angry Hyuuga. "IT'S YOUR FAULT! IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU, HE BECAME A HUNTER-NINJA!" She lowered her voice and continued, "if you didn't dump him after he brought Sasuke back then he would still have both his beautiful blue eyes." The girls except Sakura, pried Sakura's shirt free and separted the two girls. The pinkette was too stunned to react, all she did is stand there with a look of horror. "Hinata, what do you mean by both eyes, did he lose one?, asked a curious Tenten.

All Hinata could do was nod as all her energy was spent on the killer intent. By now Neji came back and noticed the group around Hinata. He walked up to them and sat down. "Naruto is resting now, Tsunade discovered a poison trap on his new eye." The group now noticed Neji was there except Sakura, who was lost in fear, pity, and guilt. "Neji, what happened to Naruto? Where was he all this time?",asked Kiba. For thirty minutes Neji told the tale of what happened to Naruto and his reason for leaving. Now all the girls were glaring at Sakura for her unforgivable act. They stopped after Hinata, of all people, pointed out that Naruto wouldn't want anyone to be mad at her.

"Why did you show anger at her then?", asked Ino. Looking at the blonde, the Hyuuga sighed. "Because I love Naruto, and the thought of him hurt...brings out rage and sorrow and so many other emotions." Ino squeezed Hinata's hand, "go tell him how you feel, trust me. Now go to him." Hinata wiped her eyes and started walking to the receptionist desk. When she was gone, something clicked in Lee's head. "Neji, did you said Naruto-kun has the Byakugan?" The statement made the rest of the group realize this and look at Neji.

Meanwhile, the young Hyuuga heiress was walking down an empty hall toward a certain blonde's room. 'B-10, B-11, B-12...ah B..13...is that someone talking?', thought Hinata as she tried to listen to a conversation in the room. Inside Tsunade was talking to Naruto about what happened. "You know that you have to move on from her. Sakura...well...all the women in her family are fan-girls. She probably won't notice anyone else until Sasuke cheats on her, breaking the illusion that makes him "great"." Naruto sighed, "I know Tsunade-sama, maybe I was never meant to get married and have a family. I mean, look how I started my life. People beat me constantly, stole what little I had, and refused me service. If it wasn't for a kind spirit that left me clothes on my birthday every year...I think I would've killed myself."

Hinata gasped, hearing the terrible childhood Naruto never talked about. She also felt joy because it was her that left the clothes for him every year. Tsunade heard the gasp behind the door and smiled. She looked at Naruto and started another coversation, hopefully one that will turn into something. "What do you think Hinata?" Naruto perked up. "Hinata? She is very nice, a bit shy but caring. She is also very beautiful and don't get me started on those gorgeous eyes. To be honest I don't know much about her, except that she use to get picked on as a child." He gripped his covers in anger as tears began to form in his eyes. "I tried to protect her and even after protecting her, that clan of her's would beat me up." Naruto released his covers from a death grip and looked out the window. "The man she marries, will be one lucky man." Tsunade smiled at the injuried man. "Oh, what makes you think that?" He looked back at her and smiled. "She is more talented than Sakura-chan..er..Sakura. Hinata is strong, brave, smart, dependable, very resourceful, caring, and a very family type person. Those are just the traits without the use her Byakugan. When she uses that there are like hundreds of new positive traits. I bet she could even beat me without the Byakugan." Tsunade laughed then looked out the window. "I thought you didn't know Hinata that well."

Naruto's face turned blood red with blush. "I..uh...I...I...I..." Tsunade laughed really hard at the sight of a dumbfounded Naruto. "I am assigning Hinata to aid you in your training, but you will have to stay in here for a week. I'm serious Naruto, that eye is not naturally yours so it needs time to recover. Well I got paperwork to do, I'll be back tomorrow to check on you. Tsunade walked over to the door and opened it, then she walked into the hall seeing Hinata blushing. The blonde Hokage shut the door and looked at the Hyuuga. "Hinata, did you hear everything?" The pale-eyed girl nodded. "Take care of the gaki, Sakura...she really hurt him and now he has the Byakugan. That gives you a chance to help him and to show your feelings." The girl nodded again, afraid her voice will fail. Tsunade put a hand on her shoulder. "Good luck Hinata and don't worry, he isn't spoiled." Hinata looked confused at the Hokage as the older woman returned a devious smirk. "You know what I mean." After a few seconds, the Hyuuga's face was completely red and a little blood was starting to run out her nose.

The Hokage laughed at the sight. "Who would've thought the shy Hyuuga Hinata would have perverted thoughts?" Seeing more blood starting to flow out, she handed her a tissue. "I'm kidding Hinata, it's natural to have those thoughts. Even more so at your age." Tsunade waved her good bye and walked down the hall, leaving a blushing Hyuuga leaning against the wall.