Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Between Deception and Truth ❯ Jutsu Revealed ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Lord Archive 
Hinata's completes the first step of her mission to find Naruto, but he becomes upset with what is being asked of them.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 04.29.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 2.0K | Status: Completed
Hinata's completes the first step of her mission to find Naruto, but he becomes upset with what is being asked of them.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 04.29.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 2.0K | Status: Completed
Between Deception and Truth
Chapter 2 - Jutsu Revealed
By: Lord Archive
Naruto belongs to and was created by Kishimoto, all rights reserved. I'm only borrowing them.
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The brown haired, brown eyed, almost too normal looking young man sat at the end of a bar, drinking tea. He paid no mind to the buxom barmaid flirting with him, rather he listened intently to the various conversations going on. After a half-hour of hearing little more than excessive male egos, he finally turned toward the barmaid and asked, "You wouldn't happen to have seen a man with a large mass of white hair and dressed oddly? The pervert spied on my sister in the bath, but ran away before he could be punished."
The barmaid folded her arms, accenting her ample chest. "Sorry, Dear, haven't seen anyone like that here. Though if the guy is a pervert, you may want to try asking the brothel down the street."
The man nodded. He paid for his drink and barely gave a tip before leaving.
The barmaid pouted. It was rare for any guy not to tip her well.
After leaving the bar the young man turned toward and entered an alleyway. With an explosion of smoke, a young and reasonably attractive, blond-haired, young woman emerged. She would need to play on the sympathy of the prostitutes if she was going to get any information from them. If she were to appear to them as a guy, they would expect money and she didn't have much left after a week of traveling and searching. Not to mention her henge was illusionary. If a prostitute tried to feel 'him' up, they wouldn't find what they were expecting.
"Where are you, Naruto-kun?" Hinata wondered through her disguise.
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Almost three weeks into her journey, Hinata now had to resort to working odd jobs just to maintain traveling expenses, not wanting to touch the money she set aside for when she found Naruto and a place for them to hide. She found working actually helped in gathering information as she had been able to garner some trust from the people she worked with. Course, all the physical jobs she took were done while having the appearance of a man. Today had been much the same, and she was quite sore from the work she did.
Taking a dip in hot springs, Hinata wished she were alone so she could drop her appearance as a young, attractive woman. However, a daughter of the Hyuuga clan wandering by herself would be an invitation for rival hidden villages to attack and kill her for the secret of her eyes.
Sighing with contentment for the moment, she relaxed as the warm waters soothed her aches. After a moment she thought she heard something. As discreetly as she could, she performed a series of signs and whispered, "Byakugan."
Hinata didn't know if she should be upset or excited. Just on the other side of the wall was Jiraiya, spying on the women in the bath. She was sickened seeing one of his hands rubbing himself over the crotch of his pants. She bit down the temptation to either run away or give the lech the pounding of a lifetime. She was quite thankful that Tsunade had warned her of this, and that Naruto wasn't sharing in the perversion of his teacher.
As calmly as she could, Hinata exited the bath, unfortunately giving Jiraiya a good look at her false naked image. Once in the changing room, she rushed getting dressed and ran out of the bathhouse. Mixed emotions still filled her as she found the legendary ninja still spying on the bathing girls.
"Jiraiya...sama," Hinata found it hard to say the appropriate honorific for the perverted man who could've easily become the fifth Hokage and ruler of her village.
"Whoa! Mama!" Jiraiya called out excitedly at the sight of the blond bombshell in front of him. He might have ran if she looked ready to attack him. His eyes then bulged as the woman disappeared in a puff of smoke and was replaced by a daughter of the Hyuuga clan.
"I have news from Tsunade-sama," Hinata told him evenly.
Jiraiya frowned. "I'm probably not going to like it, am I?"
"I'm not sure about you, but Naruto-kun probably won't like it at all," Hinata replied while looking away uncertainly.
Jiraiya appraised the modest girl in front of him and thought back to the henge she had used. "You've seen Naruto's Sexy No Jutsu, haven't you?"
Hinata blushed and nodded.
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"What the hell is she thinking?!" Jiraiya bellowed from the room he locked himself in.
Naruto looked at the closed door. "Do you know what this is about?"
Hinata nodded shyly, while watching Jiraiya intently with the ability her eyes granted her.
Naruto folded his arms in annoyance. "Care to tell me about it?"
Hinata would've looked away if it would have had done anything. "The Akatsuki have started to move. They want the Kyuubi."
Naruto's eyes widened. "You... know?"
Hinata nodded. "Tsunade-sama explained it all to me."
"Granny did that, huh?" Naruto slouched.
Hinata hid the blush on her face. "Tsunade-sama also explained what our next mission will be."
"'OUR next mission?'" Naruto repeated.
"Yes," Hinata confirmed. "I am to help you hide from the Akatsuki until you are ready to face them."
"I don't need to hide! I'll take them on now!" Naruto vowed.
"Naruto-kun, just two of the Akatsuki tracked down and killed a ninja possessed by one of the tailed demons. He had been able to access the powers of the demon, yet he still fell to them. You might be able to stand up to one, but all ten?" Hinata's voice took a pleading tone.
Naruto slammed his right fist into the palm of his left hand. "And I'm supposed to just HIDE from them? Itachi has seen me. He knows what I look like. He could track me down no matter where I go. I'd rather take it to him first."
"Tsunade-sama has seen to take care of that. Not even Kiba-kun and Neji-niisan working together would be able to track you. It will give you the time you need to train and be strong enough to face your enemies," Hinata shyly tried to say firmly.
Naruto's eyes squinted. "How will that happen?"
"You won't be yourself," Jiraiya announced bitterly, stomping into the room. He held up two identical scrolls. "You know how your transformational henge works to make your body into something else? Well, this will make it permanent. You will become the person templated into the scroll, down to the chakra."
Naruto's eye's widened in shock. "I won't be ME anymore? What about the Kyuubi?"
Jiraiya folded his arms. "When you use the scroll, I'll be right there to make sure the seals stay in place. The only difference to you will be your body and the feel of your chakra."
"There is a way to return to your original form. And with the Tsunade-sama's technique it won't be a real sacrifice. It'll return when you use the scroll," Hinata informed.
"What will return?" Naruto wondered.
Hinata lifted her right leg and took off her shoe.
Naruto's heart leapt to his throat seeing that the girl was missing a toe. "What the hell?!"
"With just your toe, Tsunade-sama will make a counter-scroll. One that will return you to your real body," Hinata explained.
Jiraiya started muttering curses under his breath.
"Why are you missing a toe?!" Naruto demanded.
Hinata gazed at the floor. "I already told you, I'm to help you hide. It would be of little help if Jiraiya or a Hyuuga was with you after you've used the technique. Once I use one of the scrolls, I will have the toe back."
"Wait? Then who's supposed to teach me?" Naruto demanded.
"Tsunade-sama thought of that, too. She gave me scrolls for us to train with," Hinata answered shyly.
"I have one question for you," Jiraiya leveled his gaze at the girl. "What good will you do as a 'guard' for Naruto if you lose your bloodline ability?"
"First of all, the primary goal is to avoid letting anyone know where Naruto and the Kyuubi are. So long as we maintain cover, there should be nothing for us to fight." Hinata shifted uneasily. "Also, I have not devoted myself entirely to the use of the Byakugan. I don't have full access to my clan's abilities like Neji-niisan has, and I know I will never master them like he has. While I have developed some advanced skills, my best ability doesn't actually require my eyes to use it. Also, Kurenai-sensei's instructed me to keep myself open to other skills."
"Isn't Kurenai a master of genjutsu?" Jiraiya wondered.
Hinata nodded. "While Kurenai-sensei does encourage mastery of ones skills, she also advised to not overly specialize. She has run into opponents who were immune to genjutsu and needed to use skills other than illusions in order to win those fights."
"And how skilled are you without your eyes?" Jiraiya pressed.
"Well, I succeeded in becoming a chuunin by defeating a ninja specialized in long-ranged distance attack. While he was gloating about how my eyes were 'useless' against him, he failed to realize he had been trapped within a genjutsu I had cast on him." Hinata blushed in embarrassment. "I didn't even activate my eyes during the entire fight. All it took was for me to drop the illusion when I was next to him with a pair of kunai poking him at his... weakest points to make him surrender."
Naruto blinked. "You're a chuunin already?!"
Hinata nodded. "Yes, during the tests held last month."
"Who else is chuunin now?" Naruto grumbled.
"Neji-niisan and Shino-san became chuunin a half-year ago, while Chouji-san became one with me," Hinata answered. "Sakura-san might've made chuunin, but she was busy working on something with Tsunade-sama."
"Chouji?! HE beat ME to chuunin!" Naruto plopped onto the floor. "Man, this stinks. I can't believe I've been left behind. Even you're ahead of me now."
Jiraiya let out a low chuckle. "Could be worse, boy. And don't be upset at your wife."
"WIFE?!" Naruto shouted.
Hinata swallowed nervously. "While hiding, we are to pretend to be young lovers running away from disapproving family members."
"No kidding your Dad would disapprove," Naruto muttered darkly.
Hinata let out a strange laugh. "Actually, my being here was actually his idea."
Naruto looked completely confused. "Why would HE send YOU here to be with ME?"
Hinata began to stammer, unable to offer a reply beyond blushing madly.
Jiraiya let out an amused laugh at Hinata's expense.
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"Just wait a second!" Sakura cried out, slapping her hands down on the table, cracking it slightly. "Are you saying you had Naruto and Hinata take the full bodies of other people?!"
Hinata nodded. "And it worked, perhaps too well."
"How was this even possible? Body, blood, and chakra? How did you ever come up with such a technique?" Sakura demanded from her teacher.
Tsunade merely glared at her student. "You heard about the toe. I originally intended it as a means to regenerate lost limbs by having a person henge, permanently, into their own body. However, as I was working on it, Orochimaru pointed out that such a jutsu could be used for other applications. With it, I could henge into a ninja from the Hidden Village of Stone and assassinate someone from the Hidden Village of Mists, then henge back into my real body and there would be no means to prove that it wasn't the Stone ninja who did it. And if knowledge of how to use the jutsu became widespread, a ninja could commit untold numbers of crimes and it would be nearly impossible to prove he had done it. As such, while the jutsu may have some incredible benefits, the risks and potential damages outweighed the rewards. Still, I have used bits and pieces of the jutsu, mostly to keep myself young-"
"And to give herself a chest," Jiraiya chirped devilishly, and got smacked in the head by the glass that the hokage had been drinking out of.
"As I was saying..." Tsunade glared at her ex-teammate. "I have been finding applications of the jutsu in other ways, including using aspects of the technique to aid in regenerating Rock Lee's damaged spine."
"Why can't medic-nin at least know how to use it?" Sakura pressed.
"Kabuto," was all the answer Tsunade needed to say.
Sakura sagged. "If Kabuto had been taught that jutsu, what Orochimaru could do..." She shuddered.
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It took all of Hinata's willpower to hold Naruto down while Jiraiya cut off the boy's toe with a burning knife. She wasn't sure who wanted to scream more, Naruto or herself.
Shivering in pain, Naruto sat up cautiously, unwilling to look at his damaged foot. "Okay, give me the scroll and let's get this done with."
Jiraiya pulled out the two transformational scrolls. "Hinata, do you know which one is which?"
"I can tell the difference between them, but..." Hinata swallowed nervously.
Jiraiya raised an eyebrow. "But?"
Hinata turned away from them. "One scroll contains the form of a distant cousin of mine. With it I would have a better chance to keep my eyes or the ability might change to something else. The other scroll holds a cousin of Naruto's, not as distant as my cousin, but still not close enough that you would really use that term to refer to the relationship. While the chakra level is lower than Naruto-kun's, there would still be more than you have, Jiraiya-sama."
"I have a cousin?!" Naruto wondered. "Why didn't anyone tell me?!"
"Had a cousin, and not all that closely related," Hinata corrected. "In a sense all of Konoha are our cousins. Just some more closely related than others."
"Oh." Naruto sagged.
Jiraiya frowned at the way the girl presented this. "There's a problem with this, isn't there?"
Hinata nodded shyly. "The scroll of my distant cousin is of a guy, while the one for Naruto-kun's is a girl. It really amounts to which is more important, our ninja skills or our gender."
Jiraiya rubbed his chin. "So basically, if Naruto wants to keep Rasengan, he would have to become a girl. If he was to remain a boy, he MIGHT develop a bloodline limit with his new eyes."
Hinata shifted nervously. "Even if he did, it could take years of training to use any abilities from them."
"So I'd be a kick-ass girl or a pansy-ass Hyuuga, huh?" Naruto growled. "Yeah, that's some fucking choice."
Jiraiya folded his arms. "You can guess which one I think is better."
Naruto scowled at him. "Of course you'd say go for the better power, Pervert-Sennin."
"It would help you achieve your goal to bring Sasuke back," Jiraiya reminded.
Naruto turned and gazed at the girl with them. "Do you want to remain a girl?"
Hinata nervously pressed her fingers together while blushing madly. "I... I want to protect you, Naruto-kun."
Naruto growled as he lashed out and grabbed one of the scrolls. "Let's get this fucking over with."
"Take off your shirt first so I can apply a seal quickly if needed. Hinata, keep an eye on his chakra. If you see a second set that isn't human, tell me immediately," Jiraiya ordered.
"Naruto-kun, do you want to know which scroll that is?" Hinata questioned nervously.
The boy didn't reply as he struggled to remove his shirt. Setting it aside, he didn't look at her when he answered, "No."
Hinata's throat felt extremely dry, and swallowing did nothing to soothe her. She kept her eyes off the scroll as she activated the Byakugan for perhaps the last time and began to watch him intently.
Naruto opened the scroll and quickly read what he needed to do. He noted that there were some similarities to a summoning jutsu. He bit into his finger and splashed a line of his blood onto the scroll before doing the require hand seals. Power seemed to flare as he slapped his hands to the designated spots on the scroll.
While Naruto's body became obscured by smoke, Hinata could still see through it. She now knew very well which scroll her crush had grabbed. But that was of little importance at the moment. "Jiraiya-sama!"
The girl didn't need to say anything more as already the fiery chakra began to fill the room. Jiraiya's hands flared with spectral fire as he drove his fingers into Naruto's waist. Immediately, the Kyuubi's presence faded from the room, but the legendary ninja didn't let his guard down. He focused on the task to make sure that the monstrous tailed-demon was properly sealed inside the living prison.
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Sakura's mouth was agape. She didn't know what to think. "Which scroll did Naruto use?
"Hello, Sakura-chan."
The pink haired teenager turned around and wanted to scream. While physically older than Sakura remembered, she would never forget the purple hair and those cruel brown eyes of her first enemy. But the person standing before her wasn't Ami. "Naruto... Is that really... you?"
A sad smirk played on the girl's face and the brown eyes spoke more of joking mischief than bullying pranks. "Afraid so. You won't have ta worry about me chasing after you now."
Sakura turned away and not believing her eyes or ears. Her eyes bulged as Hinata disappeared in a puff of smoke, revealing a young man with raven-black hair and serious brown eyes. She shook as stood up. "Excuse me, I need a drink of water."
Naruto let out a short chuckle. "She took it better than I did."
Hinata shared in the laugh, his hand touching his face where he had once bore an injury, but had been healed for some time. "We both had issues adjusting to the changes."
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Chapter 3: A New Life
Adjustment issues plague Naruto and Hinata as they must deal with their bodies and with the relationship they're supposed to have while hiding.
Chapter 2 - Jutsu Revealed
By: Lord Archive
Naruto belongs to and was created by Kishimoto, all rights reserved. I'm only borrowing them.
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The brown haired, brown eyed, almost too normal looking young man sat at the end of a bar, drinking tea. He paid no mind to the buxom barmaid flirting with him, rather he listened intently to the various conversations going on. After a half-hour of hearing little more than excessive male egos, he finally turned toward the barmaid and asked, "You wouldn't happen to have seen a man with a large mass of white hair and dressed oddly? The pervert spied on my sister in the bath, but ran away before he could be punished."
The barmaid folded her arms, accenting her ample chest. "Sorry, Dear, haven't seen anyone like that here. Though if the guy is a pervert, you may want to try asking the brothel down the street."
The man nodded. He paid for his drink and barely gave a tip before leaving.
The barmaid pouted. It was rare for any guy not to tip her well.
After leaving the bar the young man turned toward and entered an alleyway. With an explosion of smoke, a young and reasonably attractive, blond-haired, young woman emerged. She would need to play on the sympathy of the prostitutes if she was going to get any information from them. If she were to appear to them as a guy, they would expect money and she didn't have much left after a week of traveling and searching. Not to mention her henge was illusionary. If a prostitute tried to feel 'him' up, they wouldn't find what they were expecting.
"Where are you, Naruto-kun?" Hinata wondered through her disguise.
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Almost three weeks into her journey, Hinata now had to resort to working odd jobs just to maintain traveling expenses, not wanting to touch the money she set aside for when she found Naruto and a place for them to hide. She found working actually helped in gathering information as she had been able to garner some trust from the people she worked with. Course, all the physical jobs she took were done while having the appearance of a man. Today had been much the same, and she was quite sore from the work she did.
Taking a dip in hot springs, Hinata wished she were alone so she could drop her appearance as a young, attractive woman. However, a daughter of the Hyuuga clan wandering by herself would be an invitation for rival hidden villages to attack and kill her for the secret of her eyes.
Sighing with contentment for the moment, she relaxed as the warm waters soothed her aches. After a moment she thought she heard something. As discreetly as she could, she performed a series of signs and whispered, "Byakugan."
Hinata didn't know if she should be upset or excited. Just on the other side of the wall was Jiraiya, spying on the women in the bath. She was sickened seeing one of his hands rubbing himself over the crotch of his pants. She bit down the temptation to either run away or give the lech the pounding of a lifetime. She was quite thankful that Tsunade had warned her of this, and that Naruto wasn't sharing in the perversion of his teacher.
As calmly as she could, Hinata exited the bath, unfortunately giving Jiraiya a good look at her false naked image. Once in the changing room, she rushed getting dressed and ran out of the bathhouse. Mixed emotions still filled her as she found the legendary ninja still spying on the bathing girls.
"Jiraiya...sama," Hinata found it hard to say the appropriate honorific for the perverted man who could've easily become the fifth Hokage and ruler of her village.
"Whoa! Mama!" Jiraiya called out excitedly at the sight of the blond bombshell in front of him. He might have ran if she looked ready to attack him. His eyes then bulged as the woman disappeared in a puff of smoke and was replaced by a daughter of the Hyuuga clan.
"I have news from Tsunade-sama," Hinata told him evenly.
Jiraiya frowned. "I'm probably not going to like it, am I?"
"I'm not sure about you, but Naruto-kun probably won't like it at all," Hinata replied while looking away uncertainly.
Jiraiya appraised the modest girl in front of him and thought back to the henge she had used. "You've seen Naruto's Sexy No Jutsu, haven't you?"
Hinata blushed and nodded.
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"What the hell is she thinking?!" Jiraiya bellowed from the room he locked himself in.
Naruto looked at the closed door. "Do you know what this is about?"
Hinata nodded shyly, while watching Jiraiya intently with the ability her eyes granted her.
Naruto folded his arms in annoyance. "Care to tell me about it?"
Hinata would've looked away if it would have had done anything. "The Akatsuki have started to move. They want the Kyuubi."
Naruto's eyes widened. "You... know?"
Hinata nodded. "Tsunade-sama explained it all to me."
"Granny did that, huh?" Naruto slouched.
Hinata hid the blush on her face. "Tsunade-sama also explained what our next mission will be."
"'OUR next mission?'" Naruto repeated.
"Yes," Hinata confirmed. "I am to help you hide from the Akatsuki until you are ready to face them."
"I don't need to hide! I'll take them on now!" Naruto vowed.
"Naruto-kun, just two of the Akatsuki tracked down and killed a ninja possessed by one of the tailed demons. He had been able to access the powers of the demon, yet he still fell to them. You might be able to stand up to one, but all ten?" Hinata's voice took a pleading tone.
Naruto slammed his right fist into the palm of his left hand. "And I'm supposed to just HIDE from them? Itachi has seen me. He knows what I look like. He could track me down no matter where I go. I'd rather take it to him first."
"Tsunade-sama has seen to take care of that. Not even Kiba-kun and Neji-niisan working together would be able to track you. It will give you the time you need to train and be strong enough to face your enemies," Hinata shyly tried to say firmly.
Naruto's eyes squinted. "How will that happen?"
"You won't be yourself," Jiraiya announced bitterly, stomping into the room. He held up two identical scrolls. "You know how your transformational henge works to make your body into something else? Well, this will make it permanent. You will become the person templated into the scroll, down to the chakra."
Naruto's eye's widened in shock. "I won't be ME anymore? What about the Kyuubi?"
Jiraiya folded his arms. "When you use the scroll, I'll be right there to make sure the seals stay in place. The only difference to you will be your body and the feel of your chakra."
"There is a way to return to your original form. And with the Tsunade-sama's technique it won't be a real sacrifice. It'll return when you use the scroll," Hinata informed.
"What will return?" Naruto wondered.
Hinata lifted her right leg and took off her shoe.
Naruto's heart leapt to his throat seeing that the girl was missing a toe. "What the hell?!"
"With just your toe, Tsunade-sama will make a counter-scroll. One that will return you to your real body," Hinata explained.
Jiraiya started muttering curses under his breath.
"Why are you missing a toe?!" Naruto demanded.
Hinata gazed at the floor. "I already told you, I'm to help you hide. It would be of little help if Jiraiya or a Hyuuga was with you after you've used the technique. Once I use one of the scrolls, I will have the toe back."
"Wait? Then who's supposed to teach me?" Naruto demanded.
"Tsunade-sama thought of that, too. She gave me scrolls for us to train with," Hinata answered shyly.
"I have one question for you," Jiraiya leveled his gaze at the girl. "What good will you do as a 'guard' for Naruto if you lose your bloodline ability?"
"First of all, the primary goal is to avoid letting anyone know where Naruto and the Kyuubi are. So long as we maintain cover, there should be nothing for us to fight." Hinata shifted uneasily. "Also, I have not devoted myself entirely to the use of the Byakugan. I don't have full access to my clan's abilities like Neji-niisan has, and I know I will never master them like he has. While I have developed some advanced skills, my best ability doesn't actually require my eyes to use it. Also, Kurenai-sensei's instructed me to keep myself open to other skills."
"Isn't Kurenai a master of genjutsu?" Jiraiya wondered.
Hinata nodded. "While Kurenai-sensei does encourage mastery of ones skills, she also advised to not overly specialize. She has run into opponents who were immune to genjutsu and needed to use skills other than illusions in order to win those fights."
"And how skilled are you without your eyes?" Jiraiya pressed.
"Well, I succeeded in becoming a chuunin by defeating a ninja specialized in long-ranged distance attack. While he was gloating about how my eyes were 'useless' against him, he failed to realize he had been trapped within a genjutsu I had cast on him." Hinata blushed in embarrassment. "I didn't even activate my eyes during the entire fight. All it took was for me to drop the illusion when I was next to him with a pair of kunai poking him at his... weakest points to make him surrender."
Naruto blinked. "You're a chuunin already?!"
Hinata nodded. "Yes, during the tests held last month."
"Who else is chuunin now?" Naruto grumbled.
"Neji-niisan and Shino-san became chuunin a half-year ago, while Chouji-san became one with me," Hinata answered. "Sakura-san might've made chuunin, but she was busy working on something with Tsunade-sama."
"Chouji?! HE beat ME to chuunin!" Naruto plopped onto the floor. "Man, this stinks. I can't believe I've been left behind. Even you're ahead of me now."
Jiraiya let out a low chuckle. "Could be worse, boy. And don't be upset at your wife."
"WIFE?!" Naruto shouted.
Hinata swallowed nervously. "While hiding, we are to pretend to be young lovers running away from disapproving family members."
"No kidding your Dad would disapprove," Naruto muttered darkly.
Hinata let out a strange laugh. "Actually, my being here was actually his idea."
Naruto looked completely confused. "Why would HE send YOU here to be with ME?"
Hinata began to stammer, unable to offer a reply beyond blushing madly.
Jiraiya let out an amused laugh at Hinata's expense.
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"Just wait a second!" Sakura cried out, slapping her hands down on the table, cracking it slightly. "Are you saying you had Naruto and Hinata take the full bodies of other people?!"
Hinata nodded. "And it worked, perhaps too well."
"How was this even possible? Body, blood, and chakra? How did you ever come up with such a technique?" Sakura demanded from her teacher.
Tsunade merely glared at her student. "You heard about the toe. I originally intended it as a means to regenerate lost limbs by having a person henge, permanently, into their own body. However, as I was working on it, Orochimaru pointed out that such a jutsu could be used for other applications. With it, I could henge into a ninja from the Hidden Village of Stone and assassinate someone from the Hidden Village of Mists, then henge back into my real body and there would be no means to prove that it wasn't the Stone ninja who did it. And if knowledge of how to use the jutsu became widespread, a ninja could commit untold numbers of crimes and it would be nearly impossible to prove he had done it. As such, while the jutsu may have some incredible benefits, the risks and potential damages outweighed the rewards. Still, I have used bits and pieces of the jutsu, mostly to keep myself young-"
"And to give herself a chest," Jiraiya chirped devilishly, and got smacked in the head by the glass that the hokage had been drinking out of.
"As I was saying..." Tsunade glared at her ex-teammate. "I have been finding applications of the jutsu in other ways, including using aspects of the technique to aid in regenerating Rock Lee's damaged spine."
"Why can't medic-nin at least know how to use it?" Sakura pressed.
"Kabuto," was all the answer Tsunade needed to say.
Sakura sagged. "If Kabuto had been taught that jutsu, what Orochimaru could do..." She shuddered.
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It took all of Hinata's willpower to hold Naruto down while Jiraiya cut off the boy's toe with a burning knife. She wasn't sure who wanted to scream more, Naruto or herself.
Shivering in pain, Naruto sat up cautiously, unwilling to look at his damaged foot. "Okay, give me the scroll and let's get this done with."
Jiraiya pulled out the two transformational scrolls. "Hinata, do you know which one is which?"
"I can tell the difference between them, but..." Hinata swallowed nervously.
Jiraiya raised an eyebrow. "But?"
Hinata turned away from them. "One scroll contains the form of a distant cousin of mine. With it I would have a better chance to keep my eyes or the ability might change to something else. The other scroll holds a cousin of Naruto's, not as distant as my cousin, but still not close enough that you would really use that term to refer to the relationship. While the chakra level is lower than Naruto-kun's, there would still be more than you have, Jiraiya-sama."
"I have a cousin?!" Naruto wondered. "Why didn't anyone tell me?!"
"Had a cousin, and not all that closely related," Hinata corrected. "In a sense all of Konoha are our cousins. Just some more closely related than others."
"Oh." Naruto sagged.
Jiraiya frowned at the way the girl presented this. "There's a problem with this, isn't there?"
Hinata nodded shyly. "The scroll of my distant cousin is of a guy, while the one for Naruto-kun's is a girl. It really amounts to which is more important, our ninja skills or our gender."
Jiraiya rubbed his chin. "So basically, if Naruto wants to keep Rasengan, he would have to become a girl. If he was to remain a boy, he MIGHT develop a bloodline limit with his new eyes."
Hinata shifted nervously. "Even if he did, it could take years of training to use any abilities from them."
"So I'd be a kick-ass girl or a pansy-ass Hyuuga, huh?" Naruto growled. "Yeah, that's some fucking choice."
Jiraiya folded his arms. "You can guess which one I think is better."
Naruto scowled at him. "Of course you'd say go for the better power, Pervert-Sennin."
"It would help you achieve your goal to bring Sasuke back," Jiraiya reminded.
Naruto turned and gazed at the girl with them. "Do you want to remain a girl?"
Hinata nervously pressed her fingers together while blushing madly. "I... I want to protect you, Naruto-kun."
Naruto growled as he lashed out and grabbed one of the scrolls. "Let's get this fucking over with."
"Take off your shirt first so I can apply a seal quickly if needed. Hinata, keep an eye on his chakra. If you see a second set that isn't human, tell me immediately," Jiraiya ordered.
"Naruto-kun, do you want to know which scroll that is?" Hinata questioned nervously.
The boy didn't reply as he struggled to remove his shirt. Setting it aside, he didn't look at her when he answered, "No."
Hinata's throat felt extremely dry, and swallowing did nothing to soothe her. She kept her eyes off the scroll as she activated the Byakugan for perhaps the last time and began to watch him intently.
Naruto opened the scroll and quickly read what he needed to do. He noted that there were some similarities to a summoning jutsu. He bit into his finger and splashed a line of his blood onto the scroll before doing the require hand seals. Power seemed to flare as he slapped his hands to the designated spots on the scroll.
While Naruto's body became obscured by smoke, Hinata could still see through it. She now knew very well which scroll her crush had grabbed. But that was of little importance at the moment. "Jiraiya-sama!"
The girl didn't need to say anything more as already the fiery chakra began to fill the room. Jiraiya's hands flared with spectral fire as he drove his fingers into Naruto's waist. Immediately, the Kyuubi's presence faded from the room, but the legendary ninja didn't let his guard down. He focused on the task to make sure that the monstrous tailed-demon was properly sealed inside the living prison.
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Sakura's mouth was agape. She didn't know what to think. "Which scroll did Naruto use?
"Hello, Sakura-chan."
The pink haired teenager turned around and wanted to scream. While physically older than Sakura remembered, she would never forget the purple hair and those cruel brown eyes of her first enemy. But the person standing before her wasn't Ami. "Naruto... Is that really... you?"
A sad smirk played on the girl's face and the brown eyes spoke more of joking mischief than bullying pranks. "Afraid so. You won't have ta worry about me chasing after you now."
Sakura turned away and not believing her eyes or ears. Her eyes bulged as Hinata disappeared in a puff of smoke, revealing a young man with raven-black hair and serious brown eyes. She shook as stood up. "Excuse me, I need a drink of water."
Naruto let out a short chuckle. "She took it better than I did."
Hinata shared in the laugh, his hand touching his face where he had once bore an injury, but had been healed for some time. "We both had issues adjusting to the changes."
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Chapter 3: A New Life
Adjustment issues plague Naruto and Hinata as they must deal with their bodies and with the relationship they're supposed to have while hiding.