12 crazy uncle

Hinata, who was delivering food, arrived at the Namikaze estate. She couldn't help but shiver seeing Naruto wolfing down his food again. What exactly happened during his training? Or is it because of puberty? She shook her head.

"So, Naruto kun, recently I achieved the mastery of 'Eight Triagrams Thirty Two Palms. Yesterday, I managed to last for an hour against Kurenai sensei during a spar. She was really impressed with my chakra control. It was all thanks to the training you gave me!" Hinata was beaming while telling her stories.

The Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms is a branch of the Gentle Fist fighting style from the Hyuga clan. It is essentially a halved version of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms but it seems to be no less effective. This technique is used to close off the flow of chakra through thirty-two chakra points of an opponent's chakra pathway system. This eliminates their ability to use chakra for quite some time and makes it difficult for them to move

Hearing Hinata's words, Naruto ate even more carefully.

"Too delicious. Your cooking is as delicious as always. So, do you want to spar together after this?" Naruto said while licking his lunchbox.

"…" Hinata didn't know what to say about this behavior. "Sure, why not."

"Not bad, you've improved. Especially in term of self-esteem. Hinata, I have great expectations of you…" Naruto said, like some sort of team captain, after finishing his meal and wiping his mouth. Hinata rolled her eyes.

"By the way Naruto kun, since there was a sale yesterday, Kurenai sensei bought me a new training suit. How does it look?" Hinata asked as she got up and did a little spin, showing off her lavender training suit. Her spin sending a light fragrance wafting to Naruto.

Naruto smiled and nodded. "Very beautiful."

Hinata happily raised her chin while blushing. "Hehe. It's okay as long as you like it."

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Naruto and Hinata continue their training as usual until late in the evening before stopping. As usual, after their training, Naruto will walk Hinata home. Sometimes they would slowly wander around the streets while watching everyone in the village trying their best in whatever they're doing, increasing Naruto determination to train harder and protect these innocent villagers.

The two of them chattered and laughed as they walked. Hinata saw a light blue scarf in a specialty clothing store. It looks so warm and would be great for winter. Naruto saw the longing in Hinata's eyes. "What? You like it?"

"Let's go, it's too expensive. It costs 10000 Ryo. I can embroider it myself later." Hinata shook her head. With her hands clasped behind her back, she took the lead and walked away.

Naruto looked at Hinata and smiled. He then remembers the red scarf that Hinata gave him in his previous life.

Hinata turned around and couldn't find Naruto. She doubtfully looked over when she saw Naruto walk out of the store with a light blue scarf. She felt happy, but at the same time, worried and guilty. "Umm. I already said it was too expensive. You need the money for your living expenses. Go return it."

"Hinata, I earned a bit of money from old man Hokage. It's the money left by my father. This is a present for you. Please receive it." Naruto took the well wrapped scarf and put it in her hand.

Hinata doubtfully looked at him. She leaned over and whispered. "I'll pay you back later."

"It's okay. But if you insist, please embroider a similar scarf for me. One with red in color would be good." Naruto said with a mischievous smile.

"…" Hinata was speechless. But then she blushed after imagining herself personally embroider a scarf for Naruto.

Hinata contently held her new scarf. Seeing her so happy, Naruto couldn't help but smile.

"Naruto kun, crazy uncle is over there!" Hinata's words made Naruto stop. He looked over into the street that Hinata was pointing at. A bald, middle aged man wearing a worn trench coat was there. His two hands inside his pocket walking towards them.

"Crazy uncle…" Naruto glanced at the middle-aged man and couldn't help but sympathize a bit. The so-called crazy uncle is a veteran from the third Shinobi war. During the war, he fell under a genjutsu used by one of the anbu from the village of the Mist. In the end the genjutsu accidentally break his mind.

"Oh, it's you guys." The man who was called crazy uncle looked at the couple who had just arrived.

"Oh, do you guys know? Yesterday I saw a lizard escaped from the zoo! Worst of all he was naked! Do people these days have no shame!? I feel that our youngsters nowadays are becoming more shameless day by day. Look at you two going on a date. You're both still like six years old! I wonder if it's legal for lolicon to date another lolicon…" Crazy uncle complained, while making a speech like some public speaker. He looked towards the endless sky and sigh hopelessly while closing his eyes.

"…" Naruto and Hinata was speechless

After half an hour of talking, crazy uncle slowly got up. From his pocket, he took out a straw hat and put it on. He looked towards the two, smiled and waved goodbye. "I'm going…" He stuck his hands in his pocket and left with a melancholic expression. The sight of his depressed back made people feel sorry for him.

Crazy uncle walked out of the street and thought of something. He took a few steps back and shouted towards Naruto and Hinata. "Be a bit more careful at night, this village has been dangerous lately."

Naruto turned. "Is there something wrong with the village?" Naruto was a bit skeptical. Nothing worth noticing has happened in this time period during his previous life.

Crazy uncle nodded. "Anyways, just be careful at night. When I was walking around the eastern district, I saw a few Kumogakure shinobi performing chicken dance. What a terrible jutsu that was."

Naruto nodded, "I got it."

Crazy uncle then started walking away again while humming a nursery song.

"It's alright, don't think too much. We're in center of Konoha and the Hokage and his anbu squad are always watching." Naruto smiled towards Hinata. The two of them left the small street and started walking towards Kurenai sensei's apartment.

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"You don't have to. You should go home first, this isn't far from my place." Hinata smiled and refused Naruto when they arrived at a corner of an alley near Kurenai sensei's apartment.

"Oh, okay then…" Naruto nodded and turned around to leave.

Hinata watched Naruto's back, her smile suddenly becoming stiff. She unhappily whispered. "Dummy. Leaving just like that…" She pouted as she picked up her scarf wrapped in a paper bag. She looked at the scarf and a smile returned to her face. She turned and started walking towards the apartment.

Naruto walked for a bit then turned back. After thinking over it, he figured it was still better to send her home. He could also check out her room while he was there. Naruto's mind was filled with mischievous thought. He started walking back, passing through the marketplace. He walked by an alley and suddenly stopped his steps.

In the alley there was a bag and slightly peeking out of it was a blue colored scarf. He suddenly recalled crazy uncle's words. Naruto's head went "bzzzt", and he felt an intense wave of dizziness.

Naruto held his breath, and advanced forward. As soon as he took a step forward, his entire body suddenly became motionless… what he saw in front of him was a fresh red bloodstain.

Naruto's heartstrings tightened as he rushed over like a violent gale. He immediately knelt in front of that puddle of blood to see that the bloodstains are still fresh and warm.

Not far from the bloodstain, Naruto saw two broken kunai.

Apart from this, there weren't any traces that a fight had occurred here. Against a jounin level ninja, how could Hinata have any capability of struggling and resisting?! Naruto expression turned grim, his body radiating a thick aura of killing intent.