It has been four days since Sasuke left. Naruto is being board in the hospital bed.

" A couple bowls of ramen will be great. I haven't eaten ramen for a decade."

Suddenly the door opened and a pink haired girl entered the room. She looked at Naruto with sorrow filled eyes.

"H-Hey Sakura-chan?"

"Hey Naruto"

A dead silence remained at the room until Sakura broke the silence.

"So...How are you?"

"I am good " He replied with a pained face.

Sakura was about to say something but Naruto cut her.

"I am sorry Sakura-chan. I could not keep my promise. I am sorry Sakura-chan...I am so sorry. But you don't worry as I promised you I will bring Sasuke back next time." Said Naruto with a smile and a thumbs up pose.

"You don't have to anymore Naruto." This left startled with an open mouth.

"You don't have to bring him alone anymore. Next time I will go with you. I will become strong and we will bring him together."

Naruto looked at Sakura for few second and gave her signature foxy smile.

"It's a promise for lifetime Sakura-chan."

" See you later Naruto. Bye."

As she gave Naruto a sisterly hug and was about to leave the room, then Naruto called.

"Sakura-chan I-I need your help. I have a date with Hinata, but I don't know a single thing about dating so will you give me some advice" Naruto Asked her blushing.

"So, the knuckle head finally realized about the shy girl's feelings. I say its about time you realize the poor girl's feelings. She loved you as long as I remembered her."

"Y-Yeah. I am an idiot but i am trying to right my wrongs."

" So you are not going to ask me anymore?" She asked teasingly.

"Sakura-chan." Naruto protested with a hurt face.

"OK..OK I will help you with your date with Hinata, but you owe me one ok?"

"Yeah Yeah. By the way Sakura-chan the more we spent time together the more I came to realize I don't love you as the usual boyfriend-girlfriend does. I love you as a dear elder sister who would bonk my head if i do something wrong." Naruto said lovingly.

"Yeah. I also came to love you as a younger brother I always wanted."

Sakura kissed Naruto on the cheek and started to leave with a happy face.

" you don't worry Sakura-chan. I going to train with Ero-sennin for three years. When I come back we will kick Sasuke-teme's ass and I will play match maker and you will have little stuck up uchihas around you."

Sakura stopped moving hearing about little uchihas. She blushed darker shed of red and leave the room a with a happy smile.

xxx

"BAKA" shouted sakura as she bonked on Naruto's head.

"But Sakura-chan I like orenge."

"NO. Now I have my chance. I wil get you out of this orenge monstersity."

She picked up a black cargo pant and a white full sleeve V-neck tee shirt." here try this out". Naruto picked the pant and tee-shirt and went to trial room. 1 minute later Naruto come out looking like a real hunk.

"Now you look presentable. when hinata will see you she could not resist herself."

Naruto blushed like mad." you think so ?"

"what? are you insane? even then with your orange monstrosity she could not prevent herself falling for you. don't sweat thing."

" Thanks sakura-chan for the vote of confidence."

" Yeah ..yeah lets go to Higurashi weapon shop and get you out of you orange jump suit."

" but I love my jump suit. I feel comfortable with it."

She picked his left ear ." it is not a debate. i am ordering you, not suggesting." and with that she pull him for their destination with his ear on her finger.

" ah ... ah .. ssakura-chan It hurts." could be heard all over the konaha.

xxx

HIGURASHI WEAPON SHOP

"welcome to higurashi weapon sho... hey sakura, naruto what can i do for you today?"

" hi ten ten I am here for this baka's all over wardrobe change"

" at last somebody takes the initiative."

" hey I am still here" pouted Naruto

" bye the way what do you need?"

" well lets see A black pant, a dark blue v-neck full sleeve tee shirt , a pair of black shoe, a pair of finger less hand gloves, a kunai holder and a ninja pouch ah and some white bandage. yes thats all. and yeah give 3 pair of both."

" ok. Naruto do you want to add something?" asked ten ten.

"unnn.. yeah. add konoha spiral on the back of the shirt or on the left sleeve .

" ok .if that is all give me half hour. and it will be done."

xxx

AFTER HALF HOUR

ten ten come form the workshop with three bags.

" here all done. and only 12,500 ryo."

Naruto pick 12500 from his gama-chan and hand it over to ten ten. he then picked up the bags. he and sakura turned to leave.

" come again soon."yelled tan ten.

they are now at the road.

" hey sakura-chan I was thinking if i were to date hinata-chan, should i not ask his father first?"

"well it is proper to ask for her father's permission."

" yeah. i thought so. I will ask her father."

" be care full i heard hyuugas are stuck up bastards."

" dont worry I can handle a hyuuga " " I say we go now to hyuuga compound and talk to him."

" are you insane Naruto going wiyh out preparation?"

" dont worry who do you think I am? I am always ready" and with that Naruto grabbed sakura's hand and pull to the hyuuga household.

xxx

HYUUGA FRONT GATE

two guards were at the front gate standing. Naruto and sakura standing in front of the gate.

"hello. I am her to see hiashi-san" stated Naruto. the guards gave Naruto a critical look as they were examining the visitors.

"ok. come with me."

Naruto and the guard were walking through the hyuuga compound. Naruto was enjoying the view. suddenly they stopped in front of a house. the guard go few step forward and tap the door few times. answer come after some time.

" who is it?" asked a rough voice.

" hiashi-sama a boy is here to see you."

there was long pause and then " let him in here.

the guard show Naruto to the room where hiashi was seated. Naruto bring all his guts and opened the door. there was a man with long black hair and white pupil less eyes.

" oh naruto! what do i owe your pleasure?" asked hiashi with a surprised tone. Naruto bring all him confidence and made his mind though he was slightly nervous.

" hello hiashi-san" hearing his honorifics hiashi's lest brow rise a little with little amusement, because no body,even hokage have never talked with him with out 'sama' .

" hello"

"hello.."naruto said nervously.

"so why are you here ... if may i ask?"

"you see i was asking for..."

" huh? .. I could not understand what you said. so if you would..."

"w..well you see if you would give me permission to d..date hinata.."

hiashi's left eyes rose a bit. looking over naruto's face to examine him.

" so you want to date hinata?"

"y..yes . if you would allow me to date her ."

" I will think about it. But first answer me one question. you could have dated hinata with out let me knowing about it. but why would you ask me for permission?"

"well you see you are her father , so its proper toask for you permission. if you permit me I would love to date your daughter."

hiashi was looking at naruto's face as if he was see through his soul.

" you know I have always thought you were a trouble, but after chunin exam i came to see you as a new person. if you can impress me in a duel i would allow you to date my daughter"

naruto look up to hiashi's face for a moment in hope and gave him his usual foxy grin." you are on"

"come with me to the training field" ordered hiashi.

naruto followed hiashi to the hyuuga training field.

"all is allowed in this spar except deathly blows." naruto gave him a nod.

they both stood there expecting another to attack first. Hiashi got into his gentle fist and waited for naruto to attack first. Naruto lose his concentration as charged forward. Naruto tried to punch and kicked several time but all was blocked by hiashi. naruto created several shadow clones and ordered them to charge forward . hiashi dispelled the clones and the area was covered in smoke . seeing the chance naruto created several clone and henged them into small stones and scattered them around him and hiashi. the smoke cleared and hiashi could not see naruto . even with his byakugan his could not pin point naruto. he was looking for his opponent, suddenly a hand come out of the ground with a kunai in its grip . it could save stabbed hiashi in stomach. seeing that the kunai could severally hurt him his yelled" KAITEN", and a dome of chakra deflected the kunai and throw naruto to the side.

" very good strategy. you appear where the enemy expects you the least. indeed very good tactics. you could have gained the rank of chunin."

" thank for the complement but we have a spar to continue."

" indeed. I think its time to finish the spar." and with that hiashi sped forward with out giving naruto a chance and yelled 8 TIAGRAMS:64 PALMS."

"2 PALMS"

"4 PALMS"

"8 PALMS"

"16 PALMS"

"32 PALMS"

"64 PALMS"

as hisashi's attack made naruto skid backward. a smile pestered on hiashi's face" now its over"

naruto gave his smirk and said" you think so?" and suddenly naruto puffed into smoke.

'h..how is it even possible i have seen him to take all the blow. he could not survive except it was a clone from the beginning. clever .. very clever . lets see naruto what else you can do."

" so it was a clone all along?"

" yeah."

suddenly stones around hiashi puffed into naruto and bring their kunai and throw them at hiashi. hiashi was stunned by the shadow clones. he regained his composer and saw hundred of kunai flying at him . he formed a chakra dome and started spinning and yelled "KAITEN".

after a second hiashi stopped his kaiten and there was loads of kunai here and there. but he could not found naruto as all the clones were dispelled by the poewer of kaiten. suddenly nareuto came out from behind a tree

" you are an unpredictable ninja naruto. you alredy made me use KAITEN twice. where did the shadow clone come from?"

naruto gave hiashi his foxy grin and said "well when you first dispelled my clones there was a lot of smoke and i took it as my chance and created several shadow clone and henged them into stone and when you came closer to them the henge dispelled and the clones threw kunai at you."

hiashi looked at naruto at amusement and thought about his skill in tactics.' you are indeed chunin metarial. may be in next meeting i would nominate you for chuni. but lets see what more you can do'

"a good plan. but i am still standing. and its time for you to taste the ground."

hiashi bring his chakra in his palm and shouted "HAKKE KUSHOU(8 tiagrams : air palm)"

a fierce thrust of wind hit naruto and sent him flying. hiashi smile as he saw naruto flying became confused when naruto again puffed into smoke.

'damn that kage bunshin of his becoming annoying.'

suddenly a yell break his thought"RASENGAN" as he saw two naruto was forming a sphere of pure chakra. naruto completed RASENGAN and started to run toward hiashi. hiashi was awestruck seeing a genin using a A-rank jutsu, which was even made by fourth hokage. he broke out of his trance asnaruto as merely two hand instincts made him move in spin and formed a sphere of chakra around him and yelled"KAITEN"

two jutsu collided and a boom could be heard even from five hundred meters. as the jutsu clashed against each other they started to repel the users and ended in a huge shock wave. the shock wave throw naruto and hiashi backwards. hiashi was able to regain his balance and skid backward and stood still. but naruto was on hi back.

"what the hell ? how can you use RASENGAN ? and what happened back there?"

" oh that jiraiya-sensei tought me the RASENGAN. and as for what happened back there ,when last time the stone dispelled their henge i made two of them not to lose henge and let them stay as stone. and when the clones dispelled I made a stone dispelled its henge and replace it with me and myself henged into a stone. and you sent the clone flying. I was waitng for you concentrating on the clone so I could dispel my and the clone's henge and form a rasengan. and you see I can not perform RASENGAN like Jiraiya-sensei or the fourth as I lack chakra control I need a clone to concentrate the chakra as i produce it. and thats happened."

Hiashi looked at naruto in amazement,wondering about naruto's skill in ninjutsu and tactics.' He is obviously chunin material'

Xxx

Hinata was coming home from team training. She saw his father and naruto was walking to training ground. She thought should she tail them or leave them alone. She could not prevent herself from following them as she wanted to see what was going on. She reached the ground and saw his father and naruto was about to start their spar. As the spar go on she could not but feel proud of her naruto-kun. ' you are so powerful. I wish I could be as strong as you'.

Xxx

Hiashi knew hinata was watching them from the beginning. He wanted his daughter to see the spar.

"But you are on the ground an I am on my feet"

" so what? I will beat you next round dattebayo."

And with naruto was once again on his feet and ran towards hiashi and engaged in taijutsu battle. 'naruto I have seen your ninja skill but I want to see your mental strength' thought hiashi. He suddenly gain an idea and through a kunai at the left side of naruto . naruto saw the kunai coming but the direction was not at him. He looked at his behind on the left and saw hinata standing there. The kunai was going straight towards hinata's left shoulder. He saw the kunai gaining distance towards hinata. He had to save his friend. So he did only thing he could do at the moment. He used replacement technique on hinata with him self. Suddenly hinata was at where naruto was standing. She looked up to his father in a questioning look. She turned around and see naruto was standing where she was a moment ago and a kunai on his left shoulder. Hiashi stood there amused at boy's will to sacrifice himself for his friend.

"naruto-kun" hinata called out in worry.

Naruto turned around and saw hinata. "Hinata-chan what are you doing here? We were sparing . you stood there you have been hurt."

Hinata felt joy seeing naruto worry about her.

"I am sorry naruto-kun but I wanted to see you and father spar. You were amazing."

" you think so hinata-chan?"

" yes naruto-kun "

Thay were talking when they heard hiashi leaving. "Hey !wait are not finished yet. I still have to beat you so that you will let me date hinata-chan" shouted naruto.

" you really thought you could beat me. Not as you are now. May be in future. And you can date my daughter as long as she wants to." And with that hiashi was on his foot. But he stopped again " you know naruto I am impressed with your skill. In next council meeting I will nominate you for chunin."

Naruto was dumbstruck ,the head of the hyuuga clan thought he was qualified for chunin." You... You really think so? You really think I am power full to be chunin."

Hiashi just nod.

Seeing hiashi nod , tears come out of naruto's eyes." Than... Thank you . thank-you for believing in me. I will make you proud hiashi oji-san and that's a promise." Yelled naruto in happiness.

Hiashi give a box and turn to leave . he had a smile on his face.' Minato my friend he really is your son'.

Hinata was with naruto. Blood was flowing out of naruto's wound .seeing this hinata. Said" let's go naruto-kun. So I can bandage your wound. And on the way you could tell me what was that about."

Xxx

Naruto told hinata everything. Hinata was happy that naruto would do this for her. Now naruto was at the gate of the hyuuga compound. Hinata was beside him.

" so hinata-chan will you go on our date tomorrow " asked naruto happily.

" of.. Of course naruto-kun "

" that is great so I will pick you at 7pm tomorrow. Bye hinata-chan." And with that naruto ran out of the compound.

Hinata stood there a happy smile plastered on her face, thinking about what will happen tomorrow on their date.

Xxx

Sakura stood out side the hyuuga compound for two hour. She was irritated waiting. Suddenly she saw naruto come out of the compound running. She was curious what happened in the compound that naruto was running.

"hey naruto-baka what happened there ? Why are you running. You know I was bored out here waiting."

" sorry sakura-chan . I am really sorry to make you wait."

" it's OK. Just tell me what happened already. "

"well. You see...