Grip the Sun

Chapter 2 - Do the impossible!

I've come to realize that when I write, I focus heavily on the characters faces. Specifically the eyes and mouth. This annoys me so let me know if it annoys you okay.

"Naruto look just promise me you'll show up for class when break ends and you don't have to stay behind." Iruka told his favorite student, who grinned up at his favorite teacher. "Also try to stay out of trouble Naruto, honestly trying to keep up with you during class is hard enough! Don't make me come after you during the break because you pulled some childish prank." The orange wearing ninja nodded sharply and gave his teacher a thumbs up.

"Thanks, Iruka-sensei! I promise to show up to class after break! And Naruto Uzumaki never breaks his promises!" Iruka smiled and ruffled the trouble makers hair.

"I know you don't." Naruto gave one more large foxy grin before he took off out the door. Iruka shook his head at the boy, he was so energetic it was no wonder he got into trouble so much. Iruka's eye violently twitched at that thought before he rushed to the window, threw it open and yelled down to his fleeing student.

"NARUTO! What about staying out of trouble?!" Naruto simply laughed at that and continued running until he was out of the academies grounds. "DAMN IT NARUTO!"

Naruto chuckled to himself as he walked into the Hokage tower, Iruka was a nice guy and he really was his brother in all but blood, but the he was really gullible sometimes. Walking up the stairs he saw the active buzz of the ninja of the village's main headquarters. They got their missions and their money here, and it was where the Hokage resided during the day so naturally there were hundred of ninjas inside the largest building in Konoha. Once he had reached the Hokage's office he waved to the secretary who waved back cheerily.

"Hi there Mira-san!" He said with a grin as he approached the doors, she smiled at him and went back to her work shifting through the papers that needed the Hokage's attention. He really did like Mira, she was a nice lady and was much better to him than the last secretary the old man had. That woman always had it out for him. As he walked into the Hokage's room he saw that there was already a ninja there who was talking to the Sandaime. It was when he took his regular seat , when the old man had company, next to the bookcase that he noticed the mans headband.

'A foreign ninja? Why is he here?' Naruto pondered. It wasn't common to see foreign-nin in Konoha, perhaps a Suna ninja here and there due to their peace contract, but someone from cloud was new. He raised an eyebrow as the man left the room with an angry look on his face after a solid ten minutes of talking. Walking over to the old mans desk he saw his surrogate grandfather grin at him, but his grin was halfhearted showing how tired the man was.

"So Jiji, sup with the foreign ninja? He looked pretty pissed when he stormed out of this place." Naruto asked. Hiruzen sighed and shook his head.

"Cloud is just angry over issues of the past Naruto-kun that's all." Naruto frowned and leaned on the wooden desk.

"Come on Jiji, what happened? Why is it serious enough to put an Anbu on him?" The Sandaime raised an eyebrow at Naruto's proclamation.

"How did you know I put an Anbu on him Naruto-kun?" Naruto gave him a blank look that seemed to ask the question, 'Are you serious?'

"I can sneak into Anbu HQ, while their on duty in broad daylight and repaint all their masks. I'm pretty sure that the only one in Anbu that I still can't notice is Neko, and Inu but he doesn't show up anymore, so spotting Karasu isn't all that hard." Hiruzen laughed loudly as he remembered that particular prank. Even with the entire Anbu Black Ops after him he still only got caught when Iruka found him.

"I suppose that's true Naruto-kun, the silliness of the situation made how impressive that achievement is less apparent. It wouldn't hurt anybody if you knew about the occurrence." Taking a deep breath Hiruzen gathered his thoughts on the matter. "It all started when the Head Ninja of Kumogakure arrived to form a peace treaty between Konoha and Kumo. How ever it seems that he was only using the peace treaty as a guise in order to attempt to kidnap the young heiress of the Hyuga clan, Hinata, to gain the Byakugan for his village." Naruto frowned.

"Hinata? As in the Hinata from my class, Hinata?"

"Yes she is in your class. As I was saying when he kidnapped her, Hinata's father Hiashi attacked and killed the Head Ninja and retrieved his daughter. Only once Cloud was informed their Head Ninja was dead they denied all claims to what he had attempted to do and demanded that Hiashi's dead body be turned over to them in one more attempt to steal the bloodline for their own. Instead of the clan head, his twin brother Hizashi's body was sent in his place. His Byakugan were sealed and were destroyed upon his death."

"And we just accepted that bullshit and killed one of our own to please the ones in the wrong?" Hiruzen sighed and shook his head.

"Naruto-kun we had no evidence that the Head Ninja was not just working on his own whim. As well as the fact that we had just ended the war, had we denied them a body they would have started up the war again and we would have achieved nothing at all other than causing even more of our people to suffer." Naruto looked away before sighing and running a hand through his hair.

"I fucking hate politics." Hiruzen smirked and nodded in agreement. "But still, if we murder one of our own every time another village decides to get greedy eventually were going to run out of people to sacrifice for the greater good and all the other villages are going to try to walk all over us. Peace is good and everyone wants it, but fighting is unavoidable sometimes and it needs to be done." Hiruzen stared at Naruto with a small smile on his face, he stood and walked around his desk to stand beside the blonde.

"Naruto my boy, someday you will truly make a great Hokage." Naruto grinned up at him and Hiruzen grinned back. "Now after such a depressing conversation why don't we go out to Ichiraku's, hm?" Naruto grabbed the old man and started dragging him out of the room.

"Yes! Lets go!"

"See you later Jiji." Naruto said as he and the Hokage went their separate ways after eating. Hiruzen nodded and waved goodbye to the boy before turning a corner. Naruto turned and walked off heading towards his apartment. He sighed and scratched his head.

'So what am I going to do now? It's not like I can visit Jiji everyday and I've got nothing else to do. Oh well I'll figure it out tomorrow, its getting dark out.' Naruto lost his train of thought when he noticed a person jumping rooftops, squinting he tried to see who it was. When he finally managed to make out the person's identity was his eyes widened. 'The Kumo-nin! But why is he out jumping rooftops, Karasu wouldn't just let him go wherever he wanted.' Naruto growled and jumped to the rooftops as well, then took off silently following the Kumo ninja from a distance.

After following the foreign ninja for a while he noticed that the man seemed to know exactly where the Anbu patrols were and made sure to avoid them perfectly. Something was definitely off.

It was then that he noticed where they were.

'The residential district. Why would he...wait, the Hyugas! He is going to try and get the Byakugan again.' With that realization he continued following all the way until they arrived at the gate to the Hyuga compound and growled in anger when he saw the man swoop down and knock the guards out in one stealthy attack, slipping into the estate. Jumping down from the tree he was watching from, he landed next to one of the unconscious guards and started shaking him violently.

"Hey dumbass wake up." He said as he slapped the guys face a few times. He stopped when the man awoke, eyelids raising to reveal his white eyes. The man groaned in pain and slowly came to, he suddenly jerked away from Naruto when he realized who it was standing over him.

"You Uzumaki! So you did this, if this is one of your childish pranks it isn't funny and-"He was cut off when Naruto slapped a hand over his mouth. He looked at the boy confused on why he looked so serious.

"Listen up Hyuga-san, I have no idea who you are and I know you don't like me, but I didn't do this. We need to hurry and find out where the guy who did this went and stop him." The man violently pulled Naruto's hand from his mouth and glared at him.

"Oh, and who did this if not you? And why should I believe someone with such a bad reputation as yours?" Naruto growled and climbed to his feet pulling the Hyuga up with him.

"A Kumo ninja came to the village to talk to the Hokage about the time the head ninja kidnapped Hinata, he came here afterward and right now hes in there deciding who to steal! Now I know you don't believe me but if I'm lying nothing bad happens and I get punished, if I'm not and we wait around arguing about this then that son of a bitch gets away and it'll be all your fault." The pale eye man looked shocked for a few moments before he snapped out of it and realized how serious the situation was.

"Okay, I believe you. I don't have time to wake up the others so you will have to come with me." Naruto nodded and they took off into the compound and started searching quietly. The man looked at the boy next to him and quietly whispered out the plan.

"Alright you go up stairs, you'll find yourself in a hallway. Go all the way down it until you hit the eight door on the left. That is Hinata-sama's room. If he's there keep her safe until I arrive with Lord Hiashi." Naruto gave him a questioning look.

"Wouldn't it better if you went to Hinata's room in case he's there? I'm sure you're a lot stronger than I am." Ko sighed an shook his head solemnly.

"Unfortunately, I'm quite sure that Hiashi-sama would't believe you if you came to him. That and you just need to keep him occupied until we arrive. Now go, time is of the essence."

Naruto silently agreed and moved up the stairs without a sound. Once he made it to the next floor he ran down the hallway, making as little noise as possible until he came to the eighth door to the left. He saw that the door was cracked open and heard a thump. He burst in the room and saw that the Kumo ninja had Hinata in his arms unconscious. The man's gaze turned to him and his eyes widened, he quickly jumped out the window with Naruto lunging out after him. He chased the guy as he ran through the gate and jumped into the trees again. Naruto growled as he tried to keep up but was quickly falling behind the much faster man.

'No! Come on damn it, I can't let him get away!' Naruto thought and started jumping through the trees as fast as he possibly could but still the man was slowly fading out of his view. 'Come ON!' Suddenly the bark under his feet cracked as he kicked off of it and blasted forward as a warm feeling began to spread through his body. Ignoring the odd feeling for now he quickly caught up and dove at the man driving his shoulder into his side, sending the Kumo ninja crashing to the ground and Hinata into the air. Jumping up he caught his classmate and immediately bolted back towards the compound.

"N-n-naruto-kun? W-why are y-you..." Looking down at the girl in his arms he saw her wide, confused eyes and red face. He gave her his best grin and watched, confused himself, as her blush darkened.

"Hey Hinata, don't freak out, but right now were running from that guy who tried to kidnap you." Hinata gasped as the memories of before she was knocked out came back to her.

"A-are you okay N-naruto-kun?" Naruto laughed a bit despite the situation the two were in.

"I should be asking you that question Hinata." His ears twitched as he heard the Kumo ninja getting closer to him. 'Shit, what do I do? Wait that one guy went to get Hiashi, so like he said all I have to do is occupy him until they show up." He jumped down to the ground and placed her down on her feet.

"Alright Hinata you run back and I'm gonna take this guy down. You find your dad, tell him whats up and bring him here okay?" Hinata looked at him with a worried look.

"Are you going to be okay?"

"Of course! This is the future Hokage you're talking to." He turned and got ready to charge forward when he heard her soft voice speak up again.

"I know." Naruto blinked and looked back. No one other than the old man had said that they believed he would become Hokage. Smiling softly he turned back towards the incoming enemy. Hinata started moving toward the estate to get help, but stopped when he heard his voice again.

"Hinata-chan." Hinata felt her heart skip a beat at hearing her crush use that suffix on her name and waited for his answer with a rosy blush. "Thank you." A sweet smile appeared on her face and she dashed into the trees.

"You're welcome." And with those words she disappeared. Naruto took a deep breath and braced himself for the coming fight. He noticed that the warm feeling in his legs had spread through his entire body and that he was feeling stronger every second that ticked by. Looking down at himself his eyes widened at the wisps of red chakra that were flowing off his body. He clenched his fist and smirked. Whatever this red chakra was, it felt good. His eyes snapped to the treeline when the Kumo-nin arrived and jumped down.

"Alright you little brat I don't know how you caught up to me, but you will return the girl or die." The kumo ninja growled when Naruto just grinned at him.

"Yeah sorry about that but there is just one small problem, she's not here. Hell she's probably back at the Hyuga compound right now and everyone knows who you are and what you tried to do. You should just give up, you're not leaving Konoha alive." The ninja roared in anger and glared at the blonde academy student

"You think this is a game kid? Well then I'll just have to kill you, and as many Hyuga as I possibly can." With that the man dashed forward, kunai at the ready moving at such speeds that even with his new red chakra boost he barely jumped away from the attack. The man then threw his kunai at him forcing Naruto to duck, only for him to see the man finishing a set of hand seals when he looked back up.

"Raiton: Gian!" Naruto let out a yell of pain as the large bolt of lightning moved too quickly for him to react, slamming into his chest and sending him crashing into a tree, cracking the bark. The ninja let out a laugh and started another chain of hand seals.

"What happened to all that confidence and bravado you had merely seconds ago? Face it kid you're out of your league, its impossible for you to beat me." Naruto groaned in pain and pushed himself off of the tree, landing on his feet and looked up at the man.

"Raiton: Jibashi!" Naruto screamed as several bolts of electricity impacted various points on his body and fell to his knees. He growled to himself as the man continued laughing and taunting him, and felt as the warm feeling of the red chakra quickly became an intense burning. It felt like his whole body was on fire! He clenched his eyes shut and grit his teeth as another lightning technique sent electricity coursing through him, at the same time he felt something simultaneously pulling at his mind. He gasped as even more red chakra enveloped him forming a cloak around him and a tail extending out, slowly he began to stand up against his will. His vision started going blurry and all the color was tinted a dark red hue.

"What the hell?" The man whispered to himself and shook his head, whatever the kid was trying to do he would just end him before he got the chance to use it. It was when he made his first seal that he felt a presence behind him and ducked under an open palm that blasted chakra into the air where his head was just seconds before. Jumping away and turning to face the new arrival he grinned maniacally and ducked under a second palm thrust from another Hyuga.

"Hiashi Hyuga, how nice to see you! It was hard to decide whether to steal your daughter or kill you in your sleep." The cloud ninja yelled with a grin. "After all, I've waited so long to get revenge for my brother!"

"So you were the head ninja's brother?" Hiashi growled out, his veins bulging out of his face, Byakugan blazing.

"Yes! I am Jiro and I will be your death!"

"Father, Ko-san!" Hinata shouted as she ran into out of the trees.

"Hinata-sama! I thought we told you to stay in the compound!" The man now revealed to be Ko yelled. " Never mind, stay by the boy! We will handle this!"

'Kill..." Naruto heard a dark voice echo through his mind and groaned in pain as the burning increased into an unimaginable pain which consumed his entire body, looking up at the three fighting ninja his eyes locked onto Jiro and he felt an immense amount of bloodlust and rage cloud his mind and slowly gave into the voice's will. He gasped in shock when Hinata landed next to him

"Naruto-kun are you alright?" Hinata asked and reached forward but when her hand came in contact with the red chakra covering his body she pulled her hand back with a hiss of pain, Her palm now red with a bad burn.

'Kill him, now! And her! Kill them all boy!' But this time Naruto's eyes were locked onto the red palm of the Hyuga girl and simply stared at the wound. He clenched his fist and felt his now long and sharp nails dig into his hand. He had hurt her just from her getting near him with this power?

'No.' He heard the demonic voice roar in anger at his defiance. He looked at Hinata's eyes and saw the pain in them. 'No, no, no.' He never wanted anyone to be scared of him, he never wanted to cause any pain.

'YOU WILL OBEY ME BOY!' The red chakra increased in volume rushing through his chakra coils and slamming his mind with another wave of rage and malice. But he ignored this and turned his eyes to the two Hyuga men fighting against Jiro. He watched as the man kicked Ko across the forest and into a tree.

'NO!' He felt another spike of chakra in his body, but this time it was his own. He felt the two chakra's raging inside of him combating against each other. He saw the kumo nin electrocute Hiashi with an lightning jutsu and raise and kunai preparing to end Hiashi who had fallen to his knees. That was the final push. His chakra smothered the red chakra and it disappeared from his body and his coils leaving only his chakra. He felt all of it gather into his hand and quickly build up as Jiro swung his kunai down closing in on Hiashi's head.

"NO!" With that cry he threw his hand forward and all the chakra that had gathered there exploded out and took the form of a chain. It flew through the air and wrapped around Jiro's hand, which was mere inches from plunging into the clan heads skull. Swinging his arm with all his might Naruto swung the chain through the air dragging the Kumo-nin by his arm and slammed him into a tree, breaking the tree in half with the man's body.

Throwing his other hand forward a second chakra chain came from this hand quickly covering the distance to Jiro and wrapping around his leg. With a roar Naruto spun in place and the chains followed swinging in a giant circle and pulling the dazed and broken Kumo ninja with them. Naruto sharply threw his hands down and slammed the man into the ground creating a small crater.

The three Hyuga watched in awe as Naruto repeatedly slammed Jiro into the ground, forming several craters all over.

'Naruto-kun, this is..it's incredible!' Hinata thought watching with wide, amorous eyes.

'Kushina's chakra chains? But how? Unless he really is Minato's son!' Hiashi smiled at this revelation. 'Perhaps I misjudged you, Uzumaki.'

'He beat down the Kyuubi's chakra with his own! And these chains made of pure chakra, he made them without even using handseals. Maybe there is more to you than I originally thought.' Ko

Naruto had his chains release the beaten and bloody man sending him flying into a tree. His chains then flew forward with the thrust of his hands and wrapped around the man and tree several times, binding him to the wood.

"Hey, Jiro!" The beaten man slowly raised his eyes to meet the boys revealing a large bruise on his cheek, as well as a black eye and a lot of blood running down his face. "Earlier you said that it was impossible for me to beat you. Well it seems I need to inform you of something. Naruto Uzumaki is going to be the Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves! The greatest one ever! And he doesn't know the meaning of impossible!" Jiro chuckled and gave Naruto a crazed and bloody grin.

"Nice speech kid but it's to bad you still lose!" Lightning crackled into existence in front of him and formed into a ball. "Raiton: Raiky-" he was cut off by a palm thrust burying itself into his gut.

"Shotei!" (1) Hinata shouted and a blast of chakra was expelled from her hand. Jiro coughed up blood the lightning jutsu dissipating into nothing as the broken man fell into unconsciousness. Naruto grinned and let his chakra chains dissipate as well.

"Yeah! Go...Hinata..." Naruto tiredly cheered out and fell forward face planting into the ground.

"Naruto-kun!"

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It was the steady beeping of the heart monitor that woke him. Cracking open an eye Naruto groaned as a painfully bright white flooded his vision.

He hated hospitals so much.

Taking a sharp breath he sat up and grunted as his muscles readjusted to being used again. Slowly his vision came into focus and the ringing in his ears ceased. He attempted sitting up only for a hand on his chest to stop him. Looking over he saw Hinata with a small blush on her cheeks stopping him from getting up.

"I'm s-sorry Naruto-kun, b-but the doctor s-said you shouldn't g-get out of bed so s-suddenly." Naruto wanted to argue, he really did, but it was the it was the worried look in her face that forced him to comply with her wishes.

"Alright." He muttered out and laid back down. He didn't know why but he felt his heart skip a beat when a sweet smile appeared on her face. Sighing he resigned himself to his fate.

"How long have I been out?" Hinata's smile turned into a nervous one.

"Um...two days."

"Oh." Naruto sat in silence for a few seconds before he snapped. "Two days! Come on, that's such bullshit! I didn't want to be asleep for that long." His rant sent Hinata into a fit of giggles. After pouting for a few seconds Naruto joined her in laughter. Once they calmed down Naruto turned his gaze on the girl next to him.

"So Hinata-chan, what happened after I passed out?"

"Well, after you fell unconscious several Anbu showed up with Hokage-sama. The Anbu took away Jiro and Ko-san picked you up and the Hokage came with us back to the Hyuga compound. He explained to us that Jiro had been entered into the Bingo book as a missing ninja about a month after the first Kumo incident. Yesterday he told us that Jiro woke up and he is in interrogation now." Naruto gave a happy smile at that.

"Good, if he had still been a Kumo ninja we probably would have had a war on our hands." Hinata smiled as well.

"Hokage-sama made the same deduction." Her words made something click in Naruto's mind and he remembered something about the other night.

"Hinata-chan, did you mean what you said?" He continued when Hinata gave him a confused look "When I said that it was the future Hokage you were talking to you said you knew that. Did you mean it?" Hinata's blush returned with a vengeance and she began pushing her fingers together.

"W-well I-I..." She took a deep breath in an attempt to calm herself down. "Yes, I did. You always shout it out during class and nobody believes you, but I always thought you could do it." Naruto grinned at her.

"You're the second person to ever tell me that in my entire life." He gave her a big grin. "So when I said thank you, I really meant it. What you said it meant a lot to me."

"There was one other thing Naruto-kun. Those chakra chains that you used, what were they?" She stared at him expectantly and Naruto furrowed his brow in thought.

"No idea." Hinata gave him a incredulous look and Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"That, Naruto-kun, was a bloodline I thought I'd never see again." Both jumped in surprise and looked to the door where Hiruzen stood, along with Hiashi and Ko. Naruto gave his grandfather figure a confused look.

"Bloodline? What do you mean Jiji?" Hiruzen smirked at the shocked look the Hyuga's were giving the boy.

"Uzumaki, you should refer to the Hokage in a proper manner." Ko said, irritated with the boy's lack of respect to their leader. Naruto simply coked his head slightly.

"What do you mean? I've been calling him that since I was little." Hiruzen chuckled and waved off the three's unbelieving looks.

"It's quite alright, Ko-san. Naruto-kun has indeed called me that since he could talk, before he even knew what a Hokage was. Now Naruto-kun, a bloodline is an ability passed down through a family that gives the owner a unique ability. Such as the Hyuga clan, they have an ability passed down their clan called the Byakugan." Naruto glanced over at Hinata who nodded.

"Yes, the Byakugan gives us 360 degree vision and allows us to see the chakra network of a person." Naruto grinned at her.

"That's awesome!" He turned his attention back to the Sandaime. "So those chains were a bloodline?" Naruto's face suddenly changed from happy to dead serious. Everyone felt the mood change in the room and tensed up at the look in his eyes. "That means you've been lying to me, doesn't it old man?" Hiruzen sighed and nodded.

"I'm afraid so Naruto-kun." Naruto clenched his fist and glared at his sheets.

"So all those times I've asked you if you knew who my parents were, you just lied to my face."

"Yes, but it was for a good reason." Naruto looked up and they stared at each other, neither willing to back down. Naruto sighed and relaxed, and the tension that had filled the room disappeared as well.

"Fine, I believe you." Hiruzen was visibly relieved at his acceptance. "But I want an explanation, now."

"Naruto, I would love nothing more than to tell you everything. But unfortunately I still can't. The reason you can't know, that everyone can't know, is that your parents made a lot of enemies over their lifetimes. These enemies would love nothing more than to kill these people's son. But I will tell you this. Your chakra chains are called the Chakura no Kusari. They are the kekkai genkai of the Uzumaki clan, and were passed down to you from your mother." Naruto stayed quiet, taking in the information. He looked to the old man with a hopeful look in his eye.

"Are you sure there's nothing else you can tell me Jiji?" Hiruzen smiled and reached into his robes. Pulling his hand out he revealed a beautiful bracelet. The bracelet was a silver chain and it had a red swirl charm hanging off of it that looked expertly crafted, as well as a beautiful miniature gold tri-pronged kunai.

"This bracelet was a gift that your father gave your mother. Since I can't tell you about them I want you to have it." Hiruzen walked forward and dropped the bracelet into Naruto's waiting hand. The boy couldn't take his eyes off of the bracelet. This was the only thing he had of his mother left, even if he didn't know her he felt his chest tighten. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Hinata's staring at the bracelet with sparkling eyes. Looking back at the bracelet he frowned.

'I love this, I really do, but I would never wear it. I don't want it to just sit around collecting dust.' He looked back at Hinata who still had her pale eyes locked onto the bracelet in adoration. Hiruzen grinned and Hiashi and Ko got little smirks on their faces when they saw the contemplative look on Naruto's face. 'Maybe..I should...'

"Hey, Hinata-chan." the girl managed to tear her eyes from the bracelet long enough to look at her crush.

"Y-yes Naruto-kun?" Naruto held out the bracelet to her and her eyes widened.

"I want you to wear this okay?" Hinata gasped and nervously shook her head as she blushed a dark red.

"N-no that's y-your mother's b-bracelet! I-I couldn't take this from y-you." Naruto shook his head and grabbed her wrist, he slipped the bracelet onto her and snapped the lock into place.

"I really want you to Hinata-chan." Hinata just looked confused and he smiled. "The only reason I have this bracelet is because of you. And besides, its a girls bracelet. I would never wear it, and I don't want it to sit around and gather dust. I would rather have the girl that saved my life wear it." Hinata, still unconvinced, brought a hand to the bracelet on her wrist and tears started welling up in her eyes.

"A-are you sure I'm the o-one you want to wear it? I mean th-there are other-" Naruto reached forward and grabbed one of her hands in his and whatever words she meant to say caught in her throat.

"I wouldn't want anyone but you to wear it Hinata-chan. Okay?" She nodded as tears stated rolling down her face. Naruto got worried and squeezed her hand a bit and she met his eyes. "Don't cry about it Hinata-chan, you don't have to wear it if you really don't want to." Hinata shook her head again but this time for a different reason.

"No! I-it's not because I don't want it, I-I j-just. Um..." She bowed her head low to him in thanks. "T-thank you for the gift Naruto-kun. I'm just c-crying because I'm happy that's all." Naruto laughed.

"Oh, well thank you for accepting it Hinata-chan." Hinata nodded and dried her tears with her sleeve. Hiruzen, still grinning mind you, finally decided to cut in.

"All right you two, I need to get back to the office so Naruto-kun I signed for your release, you can leave whenever you feel ready." With that Hiruzen left to Naruto thanking him and Hinata blushing profusely. Looking over at the guests in his hospital room, Naruto smiled and sat up.

"Well I guess we should leave, right? No need to stay in a hospital longer than needed. He swung his legs out of his bed despite Hinata's sudden cry of protest and stood up. Only to fall flat on his face. Groaning in pain he looked down at his legs to see his left in a cast.

"W-what!? When the hell did I break my leg!?" Hinata rushed over to his side asking if he was okay and taking his hand pulling him to his feet where he struggled to gain his balance. Hiashi chuckled and spoke up.

"Uzumaki." Once the Hyuga clan leader had gained the blonde's attention he continued speaking. "I need to thank you. For protecting and saving my daughter despite your own life being at risk. The Hyuga clan is forever in your debt." Hiashi and Ko slightly bowed their heads in respect.

"Nah don't worry about it." Both sharply looked up in surprise. "It was worth it, and technically Hinata saved my life there at the end. So I'd say were even." Hiashi, a normally emotionless man couldn't help but stare at the boy in wonder.

'Minato, your child...he truly is something.' Hiashi nodded.

"Fine, but my pride as a clan leader wont allow that to be the end of it. Come back to the Hyuga compound with us, we'll have dinner." Naruto nodded with a grin.

"Sure."

"After that I kept visiting for dinner the entire summer. About a three days after that me and Hinata went on our first date." Everyone stared at him. "What?" After exactly one minute of awkward silence Kiba spoke up.

"So what you're saying is that you fought a missing ninja, defeated him, and unlocked a bloodline?" The couple both nodded. "Bullshit." Naruto blinked and looked down at Hinata who was uncharacteristicly smirking at him victoriously.

"Told you." Naruto sighed and scratched the back of his head.

"I guess it is kind of unbelievable isn't it?" Kiba pointed at him angrily.

"Of course its unbelievable! There is no way, in hell, that happened!" They heard a mirthful chuckle from the door and Kiba, when he realized who was standing in the doorway, looked like a fish out of water. "H-hokage-sama!" Hiruzen just gave an amused look and stepped into the room.

"Yes indeed, it does sound unbelievable but I assure you, on my honor as the Hokage of Konoha it's the truth." Kiba stared at the old man and rapidly turned his gaze from his Hokage to the smirking Jinchuuriki.

"B-but, but." Ino simply patted Kiba's shoulder.

"Bottom. Of. The. Barrel." Everyone laughed when Kiba got a defeated expression on his face.

"Okay, the food is finished young ones. So lets go eat." They all nodded and headed off to the kitchen. Except Choji. He had started running at 'the food is finished'

(1) Shotei simply translates to palm bottom. Hinata hits her opponent with the bottom part of the palm and injects them with chakra. Ususally nonlethal.

Yup! I'm giving Naruto the Chakra Chains of Kushina! I thought about what to give him and nothing really seemed to fit until I came to this, so I hope you enjoy him having this power.

My review thank you! - Rose Tiger, Alpha Liege, GD12, Dreaded Rasengan, aelita444, aryaputra, charliegoldfish, ladylavender, a guest, and Vallavaryan

I also thank all who favorited and followed this story. I can't express my gratitude enough for taking an interest in my work.

aelita444: No I'm not going to bash them in this story. Sasuke really has no importance in the plot until the Chunin Exams because he really doesn't care what anybody does unless it directly affects him. And Sakura is just glad to have Naruto off her back so she doesn't really care about what they do either. No interference with Naruto's life, therefore no bashing.

ladylavender: Honestly, other than Naruto and Hinata, I have no plans for the other characters and their pairings. So I guess with time anything could, or could not, happen.