Chapter 030

A pregnant young woman in her early to mid-twenties with long red hair wearing a beige strap dress and blue short-sleeve shirt was walking through a large house making her way into the kitchen. Entering the kitchen she came and found a blonde spiked haired man clearly the same age as her dressed in Jounin pants and shirt without his Jounin vest sitting at the table in the kitchen reading a green colored book. There was no mistake that he looked indulged in what he was reading.

"Minato" a sweet feminine voice called out as the approaching female entered the kitchen, "We have company, Dattebane."

The man turned to see who the figure was. Putting the book down, Minato turned to smile at the figure Kushina kindly invited inside.

"Jiraiya-sensei," Minato greeted, "It's great to see you again. This book you wrote was is a great read."

"Yeah," Jiraiya said skeptically, "But my book didn't make that great of success on sales in the market."

"That's too bad," Minato replied, "This book, "The Gutsy Ninja," was really terrific. I love how the protagonist despite all oppositions kept fighting and persevering with no desire of ever giving up on anything, determined to meet success until he finally accomplished what he sought to do."

"True," Jiraiya contemplated, "But I think I'll sex things up a bit in my new books. I'm sure I'll have better success if I do that."

"Still Jiraiya-sensei," Minato smile brightly, "The lead character of this book is someone I'd like for my son to turn out as. In fact, Kushina and I were hoping we could have your permission to name our unborn son after the lead character of your book."

"Are you really sure you want to do that," Jiraiya asked in disbelief, "I mean, I only came up with that name while eating a bowl of ramen. Though if you did name your son after the character of my book, I guess that would make me his godfather, right?"

"It's a beautiful name, dattebane," Kushina agreed with Minato, "I'd love for our son to have and bear that name, Na-"

An alarm clock suddenly went off…

(Naruto's Bedroom)

Naruto groaned with the loud sound of his alarm clock going off giving him a loud wakening.

"Uuuggghhh," Naruto groaned, "Ah man. I've been having one of those dreams again."

Naruto stretched and looked at his alarm clock.

"5:50 am," Naruto said, "Two hours before the Academy starts and the Genin Exams. That's enough time for me to clean myself and do my routine exercises."

The blonde wasted no time in getting himself cleaned, dressed up and getting something to eat before. While having his breakfast, Naruto thought back to the dreams he had been having recently. Lately he started having dreams of Jiraiya, Yondaime, and a certain beautiful woman with really long red hair named Kushina who clearly was involved with Yondaime, evening being pregnant with a son for him.

"Strange," Naruto thought, "There was no mention of Minato ever being married or that his wife was ever pregnant for him. But those dreams looked and felt so real. I was even able to smell the environment. Their voices and that of Jiraiya's, and all these other faces and voices I've been hearing in my dreams. And why I having these dreams and visions. I hope I'm not losing it…"The Gutsy Ninja," I wonder if such a book exist and if Yondaime really did name his suppose son after the lead character of that book. In my dream, it was said that it was Jiraiya's first book. Things are really getting weirder in my life.

"And that woman Kushina…she even talked like me; "Dattebane"…Or is it that I talk like…"

Naruto thought about the possibility of what he recent dreams could mean.

"No way! I mean it can't be possible! Can't it? But…what if it is…"

For the past number of nights Naruto started having dreams of experiences and memories that clearly weren't his own. Since then he had been trying to make sense of what was happening to him. He had yet to tell Hinata about it, knowing that she too wouldn't be able to make sense of it at all either. For the time being, Naruto decided to deal and handle the matter on his own without getting others involved.

Putting that matter off to the side for now, Naruto got up from his seat and made his out through the balcony after closing the door behind him. Leaping off the balcony, Naruto ran up the walls of a nearby building and started leaping from roof to roof to his next destination.

(Meanwhile)

Hinata was up and ready to leave. She was at the front entrance putting her sandals on when…

"You're on your way out to the Academy this early in the morning Hinata," Hiashi said as he approached and stood behind her. Hinata, having placed her sandals on, turned to her father.

"Yes," Hinata replied, "Today is the Genin Exams…and I want to be at my best for…when I take them today father. After today when I pas-sed the exams…a-and received my head protector bearing our village's crest, I will be acknowledged as an adult, not a child. I'm leaving early so I can go and…be-better prepare myself physically and mentally before I earn and take my place among the ranks of the ninjas of our community."

Hiashi nodded in approval, "You spoke like a true heiress Hinata. Very well then; I'll allow you to leave and prepare for the Genin Exams."

"Thank you father," Hinata said before turned and leaving the house. Just as she was about to go through the door…

"When you see Naruto," Hiashi said with a surprisingly serious tone, "Deliver this message for me."

"What message father," Hinata asked a bit worriedly.

"Tell him that he too better not fail the Genin Exams," Hiashi said, "Inform him that his failure will reflect badly on both you and me."

"How could his suppose failure reflect poorly on you father," Hinata asked, wanting to know where her father was going with what he was saying.

"I allowed him to associate with you and our clan over the years and never once did I object to him being seen with us despite his mischievous…yet, entertaining actions towards the ninjas and the rest of the populous.

"The way I've seen him handle and escape the various ranked ninjas he targets with his infamous pranks makes it very clear that Naruto has potential to be a most promising ninja if his skills in setting traps and being an escape artist can be properly honed and strengthened. And I've seen how your time with him has strengthened you too Hinata, and I don't need my Byakugan to see that. Though there's still room for improvement."

Hinata had to fight hard to keep a calm composure. She never heard her father talk so highly of Naruto before nor had she heard her father gave her such needed encouragement. She felt so very happy and excited and her confidence was only growing stronger as a result. Part of her even wanted to run up and hug her father for just those words alone.

Hiashi cleared his throat and returned back his normal demeanor, "…Just tell Naruto to do his best and don't mention to him what I said to you just now. (Turned and walked off) I don't want him thinking that I'm going soft. I'm not the Sandaime Hokage."

Hinata stifled a giggle that escaped from her mouth. It was more than evident that her father had already taken a liking to Naruto over the years ago though he didn't want Naruto to know that, at least for now. With a new vigor, Hinata made her way out of her clan's estate and hurried to her next destination.

(A Little Later)

Naruto was sitting on top of the Hokage Monument, on the head that represented Yondaime. Presently, he was in a meditating stance as he was facing and watching the gradually rising sun ascending over the horizon of Konoha, which slowly brightened the darkened skies. As he sat there, another figure quietly approached him from behind. Reaching him, the figure knelt down and planted a kiss on his right cheek.

Naruto's eyes snapped opened to see a smiling Hinata facing him.

"Good morning my Moon's Eye Spring Rabbit," Naruto greeted as he pulled Hinata down onto his lap and kissed her hotly. The Hyuuga heiress embraced and kissed Naruto back with the same amount of passion. A minute later, they reluctantly pulled their lips away to catch their breaths.

"Did you wait long for me," Hinata asked.

"Not really," Naruto said, "Waiting for you never takes long at all, because you'll always chase after me, wanting to overtake me."

"Naruto-kun," Hinata giggled as she snuggled deeper into his embrace before resting her head on his left shoulder.

"Father gave me a serious message that he wanted me to relay to you," Hinata said with a collective tone. Curious, Naruto asked, "What did he say?"

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