Chapter 16
Surprising A Devil.
Hinata was happily sleeping away in Naruto's arms, turns out all the training, as well as the info Naruto gave her, really tired her out, both physically and mentally, after all, it's not everyday that you hear, that the one you have a crush on, or maybe more than a crush, is an alien-hybrid, so she was too tired at the moment to think about that.
Naruto was happy that Hinata wasn't scared of him, sure she said she was confused, but that's normal, but seeing Hinata now, sleeping in his arms with cute expression was pretty much rated 2nd on the cute rating, 1st being the Cabbit family, no-one can top them.
Naruto, knowing where the Hyuga compound was, because of his pranking "history", you would've thought people, with the so called "All-Seeing Eye", would've spotted a 10 year old, who was still in the ninja academy and was considered the "deadlast", would've, at lest spotted him in the laundry room, mixing crimson red paint-powder into the washing powder and not even noticing the "color-change" of the powder.
Of course he wrote a note to Hinata about the prank, since she's never been mean to him.
Boy did Naruto make the Hyuga's veins bulge, and not because of the byakugan.
They somehow knew Naruto was responsible, him being the only one with balls to do such a thing to the so called "Nobles of Konoha" besides the Uchiha and the Senju, but without proof, they couldn't do anything to him, old man Hokage had that "twinkle of amusement" in his eye that time as well, but he had to be professional about it.
Though it didn't stop him poking fun by saying, "So you're saying a 10 year old, still in the Academy, deadlast, managed to sneak into the Hyuga Compound and managed to prank the whole clan, save for your daughter, Hinata, I find that hard to believe."
Of course Tsume was down right laughing in tears, since Hiashi Hyuga was sitting in the meeting wearing a pink Yukata, Inoichi, the Yamanaka clan head was smiling, trying to keep from laughing as much as Tsume.
Since then, the Hyuga's kept their wits about, not wanting to get hit again, but Naruto still managed to prank them a few more times with out them knowing until it was too late and there was still no evidence.
Anyway, shaking his head from the nostalgia, though that didn't stop the old "Ryoko smile" from showing, with a fang popping out.
He walks to the gate, where two of the branch members were guarding the front gate, though seeing their Heiress, Hinata, in the arms of a stranger, sleeping no less, puts them on guard more.
With one stepping forward, getting ready to save Hinata from the stranger, orders, "Who are you and what are you doing holding Lady Hinata, like that."
Since Naruto knows he looks different, kinda a blessing really, he knows the two were just doing their job, he turns slightly to show his Konoha band, that he had made to attach to his jacket, showing he was a ninja of the village and begins to explain a little, "I'm just dropping Hinata-chan off home, think one of you can get her father for me, I'll explain it to him"
He knows he was pushing it with calling Hinata's name with the "chan" ending, but he didn't care, Hinata is a caring girl and just like Mimi she was too cute for her own good.
One of the guards walked of with dignity to get the Hyuga leader, until he heard Naruto call out pink to him, just loud enough for the guards to hear, but not for the rest of the family to hear, causing the guard walking away to stumble a bit and the other to have a twitching eyebrow.
It was always fun to poke at the Hyuga's, that's why he pranked them in the past, he could always riyal them up.
Anyway, the guard walking to get the leader of the house, coughed to compose himself and carried on.
Naruto, pretended to be innocent about calling out, but with the guard glaring at him, he just continued to smile.
After a few minutes Hiashi Hyuga appeared from behind the gates, seeing his eldest daughter sleeping in a strangers arms, unnerved him slightly, not because he was afraid of the man, but because it seems Hinata knows who the person was to let her guard down and to fall asleep.
Being the man that he was, Hiashi addresses the young man, "Who are you and what are you doing with my daughter in your arms."
Naruto just smiles, knowing practically, all the Hyuga, minus Hinata, had sticks so far up their asses that they stood ramrod straight, starts to explain, "I was filling in for Kurenai, since she had a little accident, I pretty much pushed the whole team too far in training, but after a goods night rest, she and the rest of her team will be alright."
Hiashi just raises his eyebrow at that, he knows Kurenai wouldn't ask just anyone to take her place until she healed, but Kurenai must know and trust this young manto take her place, but he didn't want this person to push Hinata too far, since he plans to train her, regardless if she was too tired.
Naruto saw the look in Hiashi's eyes when he looked towards Hinata, it was nearly the same look old man Hokage has when Naruto asks him about the stares, the helplessness in his eyes say he couldn't help in that, but Hiashi had something else in his eyes as well, utter disappointment, as though he thinks Hinata is a lost cause, that didn't make Naruto happy.
Hiashi looks sternly, nods his head and replies, "Very well, hand her over so she can get ready for her Jyuuken training." Not realizing he just gave Naruto the incentive to protect Hinata from her clan.
Naruto has the look of seriousness, right now he had two options, 1. give Hinata to the man and be on his way. 2. Take Hinata away from the clan for her own protection.
Easy to say which option he took.
Naruto held Hinata tighter to him, not enough to cause discomfort, but enough for a quick escape without waking her up, "Now hold on a minute here, I just told you that she and her team are exhausted from extensive training, yet you want to push her even harder with her family training."
Hiashi felt as though this young man was questioning his families tradition, and to question the Hyuga traditions was disrespectful towards the Hyuga in general, and he made it known, "Young man, what we Hyuga do is our own will and is part of our tradition, you have no right to question the might of the Hyuga."
Now Naruto was angry, he created a clone, gave Hinata to the clone, the clone flickered away with Hinata, this shocked Hiashi, not only did this young man question the Hyuga tradition, but now he kidnapped the Hyuga heiress, and for some strange reason, the only chakra that was used was the clone.
Naruto interrupted anymore thought, he was pissed, this man, Hinata's father, was choosing tradition over family, that just pushed his buttons, "You mean to tell me that you care more about tradition than you do about your own daughter's well-being, a man once told me, people who abandon mission are trash, that's true, but those who abandon they comrades are lower than trash."
Hiashi knew he was talking about Kakashi, meaning Kakashi knows who this young man was.
But Naruto wasn't finish, he continued strong, "And right now, since your "tradition" is your mission and hinata is the comrade you're family are abandoning, you and the rest of your family, are lower than trash, tradition can only take you so far, but it's also tradition that times have, and always will, change, it's about time, you Hyugas change with the times as well."
Before Hiashi could retort, Naruto finishes, "Until the Hyuga changes they foolish tradition, I am going to protect Hinata from the Hyuga family, right now it's obvious that Hinata is in danger, it just pains me that I have to protect her from her own family, I know at first she'll be upset about not going home, but I'll tell her why later, so for now I'll go before I vaporize the whole Hyuga from here."
Naruto flickers away before he heard anything from the Hyuga leader, not wanting to make Hinata sad anymore than she'll be from what he's gonna tell her, by using his beam to make a hole in her father's chest.
Because there was no chakra used, Hiashi couldn't order anyone to try and find both his daughter and the young man, until the man or his daughter made an appearance, though right now, because of Naruto's words Hiashi had a lot to think about.
The man made a compelling argument, time does indeed change, he never said to forget tradition, but to change tradition, since it should be like time, always remembered and honored, yet changes with the times.
Yes, Hiashi has a lot to think about, but right now he needs to sort out a few things, being Hinata's abduction.
With Naruto.
Right now, Naruto was away from the village, hell he was over the ocean, he flew from land, flickering until he was far enough to do one thing, release his anger on the ocean, not enough to cause damage to the ocean floor, but enough to calm himself down.
He couldn't believe the stupidity of the Hyuuga clan, to put tradition first and the family second, was down right aggravating.
Firing beam after beam after beam, all he saw was Hiashi's, stuck up face, granted Hiashi wasn't showing it, but that's what it felt like to Naruto.
After about 10-15 minutes, he finally vented, sighing in not using the Hyuga's compound for his "target practice", but he knows Hinata would be miserable if he destroys her family, no matter what they did Hinata was and always will be forgiving, it's just in her nature.
That's when the clone that took Hinata to his apartment dispelled, gaining all the clone's memories, he flickers away.
After the clone took Hinata.
was in his apartment, seeing Kurenai sitting up with Mimi laying in her lap, with the clone taking care of her, feeding her some food, which Kurenai was loving, she noticed the other clone with Hinata in his arms.
She had a feeling she wasn't going to like the reason why Naruto has her, one female student, with him, sleeping in his arms.
2 floated over the bed and settled hinata on the right side of Kurenai, not wanting to disturb Hinata.
2 then filled in Kurenai's questions, from why Hinata was tired, to just before he "kidnapped" her from the Hyuga clan, the last one made Kurenai's eyebrow twitch, she wanted to yell at Naruto for his foolish, air-brained idea to kidnap the Hyuga Heiress from her clan.
But she didn't want to wake Hinata up ether.
She also couldn't fault him on doing it ether, ever since she knows Hinata and her clan, for obvious reason she just couldn't call the Hyuga Hinata's family, it just didn't give the feeling of a family.
God how many times did Kurenai just wanted to throw caution to the wind and say 'fuck the Hyuga's damn tradition and to hell with the consequences', but she couldn't find the strength to do it, yet one person did just that, he flew in, swiped Hinata away, spat in the eye of the stuck-in-the-past clan and took her to safety.
Naruto became Hinata's knight in shining armor.
Before she could say anything, 2, puffed away, turns out the clone only had enough chakra, to drop off Hinata and explain what happened before he got to the apartment.
Kurenai huffed at that, just when she was going to tell him off and thank him for saving her student, up he goes in a cloud of smoke.
It wasn't long before the original showed up, phasing through the door to the kitchen.
As he lands he looks towards Kurenai and sees she's upset, knowing his clone explained what happened, he sighed and moves towards her, may as well get his lumps over with, though they wouldn't hurt, but it would make Kurenai feel better.
Before he could say anything, Kurenai grabbed hold of his jacket, pulled him towards her and gave him a passionate kiss, that took him by surprise, she pulled away with a string of drool connecting them together, showing that there was tongue action as well, she smiled at him and said, "That was for saving Hinata and wanting to keep her safe from her clan," Smiling at Kurenai's thank you gift, he thinks to himself, "maybe I do that to get more "gifts" from her."
Before he could agree with himself on that, he felt a hard hit sending him into the floor, luckily his head phased through it before he could hit it, pulling his head out, acting in pain, no point in getting a female's wrath and show it doesn't hurt, it'll just make want to try more harder next time.
With an angry look, Kurenai finishes, "That's for, no doubt, getting into trouble with the Hyuga Clan in the future," Then the ranting came, of cause he "fought" back with his own retorts.
They didn't yell at each other loud, because Hinata was sleeping, the were arguing like a married couple, though they didn't realize that, until the clone taking care of Kurenai pointed it out, which Naruto dispelled, along with the clone with his team since the day had finished.
Both Kurenai and Naruto were blushing at the "married couple" comment his clone made, but they both liked the sound of that, of course they wouldn't say it out loud, but they could tell by looking into each other's eyes that they liked it.
Naruto got undressed, except for his boxers, got into bed and snuggled with Kurenai since it was a small bed and fell asleep in each others arms.