4 Knight in Shinning Armor

~Time skip 3 years~

It's been three years since he became big brother to Naruto. Naruto became very clingy afterwards but got over it after some time maybe realizing that he will not leave him.

Naruto also constantly pestered him to come and live with him and he finally compiled after a whole month of pestering. It's not that he don't want to live with him but that time Naruto was overly clingy and he didn't like the idea of sleeping with Naruto hugging him which was very likely if he accepted before Naruto got over his clinginess. But the main reason was the request from Yugao which made him decide to live with Naruto but not without a condition that she will cook for them once every week.

He got very close to Yugao since he would always talk to her while she cooked for them. Since Yugao found Alex very mature for his age, she could hold a decent conversation and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere. Naruto though never knew about Yugao since she always cooked in the morning and Naruto was a heavy sleeper.

Yugao has even started to open herself up fully with Alex and would time to time express her dissatisfaction towards her missions and superiors to which he would always laughed off much to her annoyance. She was also a frequent visitor these days since she could feel peaceful whenever she was with him.

He has also changed a lot these years. He was of height 127 cm with the weight of 25.3 kg. Unlike his age, he had a build of 8 year old along with his handsome face; he was pretty popular among young girls.

Even though he was well liked, due to him being together with Naruto most of the time; they rarely approached him. Still, he made friends with Ino, Shikamaru and Choji. They came to play with them most of the time in the evening while Ino would follow him even during daytime watching him train and doing so herself asking him for instructions most of the time after she found his training spot half a year ago.

She was also the leader of his fan club while Sakura was the leader of Sasuke fan club. They would always quarrel with each other over who was better not that he mind though.

His skills also got improved by leaps and bounds after he bought many ninja skills and hand to hand combat experiences from some of the best martial arts masters. He also taught Ino some hand to hand combat and tried training Naruto as well but he would always find an excuse to not train and he gave in and stopped asking him to train.

Today was a special day since this was the he was waiting for. Today was the day Hinata would be bullied by other kids and Naruto was supposed to be her knight in shining armor but how could he let that be. Even though he liked Naruto's character, he was after all trying to have a harem of beautiful girls for himself and how could he let Hinata who was his favorite female character in Naruto be together with Naruto.

He walked towards the place of the incident and waited for the bullying to happen since he didn't know the time of the incident even though he remembered the place. He waited for two and half hours and finally the incident happened.

Hinata was walking to her training place where she always trained when three kids blocked her path and started mocking her on how disgusting her eye looked. She obviously could take care of them all by herself but due to her timid nature, she didn't fight back and was mocked and laughed at. He could sense one shinobi hiding most probably her protector but he didn't come out and stop the bullying.

He then decided to take action and came in front of her and started beating them reminding them that they shouldn't bully other. After they ran away, he turned to Hinata and extended his hand towards her asking

"Why didn't you fight back? You are obviously stronger than them"

She took his hand abid shyly.

"I –I ….."

She couldn't say anything to him since he was right. She could take care of them but she was scared to take action.

Seeing her not able to answer, he just let it be said

"You don't need to worry about it. It's okay to be afraid of fighting. All the shinobi are afraid to fight. It's just that they are already used to that fear and can neglect it. You will be able to do so in due time as well so you don't have to feel down about it"

"Um" was the only word that came out of her mouth

"My name is Alex by the way. What's yours?" he asked even though he already knew

"M-My n-name is Hinata Hyuga." She answered with a red face

"It's nice to meet you Hinata"

"Likewise"

They then started talking with each other while walking in the direction of hyuga compound. It's a gentleman's duty to escort a lady after all.

While walking through the snow, he never separated his hand from hers and she also never resisted. He would tell jokes from time to time which helped Hinata calm herself. She was fidgeting while talking at first but started talking normally as they started talking more and more but she would still turn red whenever he smiled at her.

After they reached the hyuga compound, he said goodbye to her and walked away but left a strong Idolization in the growing maiden's heart which would slowly bloom to love overtime.