Up From the Shadows

Chapter 17

Disclaimer: I don't own the anime/manga Naruto; nor do I profit from using any likenesses of the characters portrayed.

Dates appear as such: 'June 18 – 015 AK – Midday' meaning the obvious the 015 is basically saying that October of that year Naruto is 15

Jan 3 – 019 AK:

The rest of the week went by with Hinata following her sensei's words. Aside from eating and sleeping the couple spent their time with each other. They found a large hot tub in the house and spent many hours in it where it became a usual spot for sexual encounters as well as nearly every other place in the small house. They took their showers together, usually with them not able to keep their hands off each other, and had the same problem with nearly everything they did. Basically they were addicted to each other and they couldn't get enough. For a married couple this addiction is very healthy, but at the end of the week, with nearly constant sex, Hinata was feeling quite sore but enjoyed every bit of how that soreness came to be. This was the day they were supposed to leave, but there was a big problem, they still had no clothes but a pair of underwear each.

Currently they were sitting, Naruto in a chair and Hinata on the floor by his feet, where he was massaging her shoulders when they head a knock at the door. Naruto let his new found common sense slip as he stood up to answer the door but realized that they weren't dressed for company when he felt Hinata jump onto his back so she could look over his shoulder and hide herself from whom ever it was. Since that was taken care of the blonde opened the door revealing Tsunade standing in the door way.

"Hey baa-chan, what are you doing here? Don't you have Hokage stuff to take care of?" Naruto asked being quite surprised.

"Well I need to talk to you two, that's why." she informed with a serious face.

"Oh, are you alone?" he asked while suspiciously looking around.

"Yes." she answered.

"Good" Naruto closed the door once she entered and returned to the chair where he set Hinata down on the floor and started his massaging again while she was blushing from being topless with the Hokage.

"I'm not interrupting anything am I?" the Hokage wondered from seeing their state of dress.

"No, we were supposed to return today, but Gamakichi played a prank on us by taking all our clothes but what were wearing." Naruto replied.

"That would explain your state of dress, but I probably would put too much on with that body." She said looking at Hinata

"Why does everyone keep saying that?" Hinata asked while blushing hard.

"Because you're gorgeous angel. Why else would they say that?" He gently picked her up from behind and set her on his lap where she curled into him resting her head in the crook of his neck while he rubbed her bare back caringly. "So what did you want to talk to us about?" he asked the smiling Hokage who was watching the interaction between the couple.

"Oh, well it seems there have been no reports of your creatures yet, but there is a mass of energy emanating from a location we can't pinpoint for some reason, and we think it is the artifacts that were stolen. We believe it is some kind of summoning artifact that opens the way from a different dimension so this is most likely how they get here for your battle." the busty blonde informed.

"Well crap I liked having the peace and quiet with my beautiful wife. I suppose we should be going then. By any chance do you have something for Hinata to wear?" he asked

"I think I might have something, but it will be quite revealing on her. What will you wear though?"

"I have a scroll with a pair of pants and a shirt from training with Jiraiya that I can summon; I just hope they still fit." Naruto quickly summons his clothes and finds the black pants fit well, but his white t-shirt fit snugly enough to show off the defined muscles from years of training. "Well I guess they still fit, just a little small, what do you think Hinata?"

"I really like them, it shows off your hard work but I think they look better than mine." Naruto turned to her and nearly fainted on the spot. When Tsunade said what she had was revealing she never said how it was revealing. Hinata wore a simple pair of black shorts, but it was the jacket she wore that earned his reaction. "What do you think Naruto-kun?" she asked twirling around with a blush on her face. The tan jacket was simple but it was created to be left open and as such it wasn't large enough to close leaving a five inch gap barely covering her good sized chest and revealing her skin straight from her neck down to her waist since all she wore was the jacket.

"Well I think that crazy Jonin, Anko, will be jealous that you pull off her look so well." He told her as he ran a finger down her bare skin enticing some giggles from her.

"So you think I look good?" she asked with a grin.

"Gorgeous, I'd bet that the first guy that sees you, other than me, will knock themselves out from blood loss but if they look too long it might be from something other than that." He told her smiling.

"Although it is slightly revealing, I really like how it feels, I think I might wear something like this again even if it is mostly just around you." The married couple locked lips quickly before the blonde looked to the Hokage.

"Well baa-chan, if we are to return to Konoha today we need to go before I take Hinata out of these clothes again." He announced while tightly embracing his wife.

"That's settled then; I'm not waiting for you guys to do that so let's go." Tsunade led the way out of the small house, but not before Naruto left his version of the Hirashin seal so he can return easily. As they started down the trail Hinata jumped on Naruto's back wrapping her legs around his waist and her arms loosely around his neck.

"I love you." She whispered in his ear.

"Love you too angel, you comfortable?" She just made a quiet grunt before her head fell limp on his shoulder. Tsunade looked at them with a strange, questioning look on her face. "Uh, she is subtle in saying she is tired." He answered without stopping progress carrying his sleeping wife. For the next 3 hours they ran in silence until the gates of the village appeared in the horizon.

"You should probably wake up your wife now" Tsunade suggested before hearing some noise from the couple.

"She is awake… and she's sucking on my neck." Naruto wiggled and squirmed until he got away from his pouting wife.

"Hey I was having fun; it isn't like they stay there anyways." Slowly the reddened spot on his neck faded into nothingness while he was still wiping off the wetness she left.

"I don't care what you do to me behind closed doors, but we'll be in public soon and since you're the Hyuuga head now, you need to act like it in front of everyone." Naruto helped his wife stand only to lock eyes on her pouting face. "And Hyuuga heads don't pout." He moved swiftly and caught the protruding bottom lip in a deep kiss. Letting go he saw the pout was replaced with a smile.

"I suppose you're right Naruto-kun, but once we're in bed the facade is over." He just smiled at her and pulled her closer as they continued walking to Konoha with his arm around her. The couple, with Tsunade, stepped through the gates as the guards immediately fell to the ground with drool leaking from their mouths.

"Hey baa-chan, I think you should make sure to have one female guard on duty; that was way too easy." Naruto observed.

"I will definitely look into it." Replied the Hokage as she made note to reprimand the two chuunin at the gate. The three continued walking through town until they felt a powerful surge of chakra stopping them in their tracks.

"This is the energy from the shadow dimension… the dimensional rift has started early. Hinata, we need to get ready for the battle." In a billow of smoke the couple was gone. Tsunade quickly followed suit and took off to the Hokage tower to call an emergency meeting. An hour later the office was packed with all the usual high level Jonin.

"I'm sure you have all felt the chakra spike earlier today. It is our belief that this is the opening of a dimensional rift to the shadow dimension. Within the next few hours we will be sending a group to intercept whatever comes out of the rift. As much as it goes against everything I know, only Naruto and Hinata will go to fight them, this is what they have been training for over the past months. The rest of you will be strengthening the defense of the village incase something goes wrong with their battle." Announced Tsunade.

"Wouldn't it be prudent to send more than two?" inquired Shikamaru

"No, under normal circumstances it would be, but these beings will be far from normal. Naruto is the only person equipped with jutsus to combat the threat, as such it should only be him and a single person in support to avoid friendly attack. Since Hinata works well with him they are the logical choices. You are all dismissed… Naruto, Hinata, be careful." No one else said a word as the group filed out of the office leaving the Hokage, Jiraiya, and the married couple.

"You know, this isn't how it was supposed to happen, so I can't predict that we will make it out. I will assure you that none of those creatures will make it to the village." Naruto mentioned. With that the couple left silently.

"Jiraiya, go and keep an eye on them, I have a feeling something is going to go wrong, something just isn't right almost like we are living a fake life and someone is just watching from the sidelines." ordered Tsunade.

"I've been having that same feeling since the Kyuubi attack. Almost like it all wasn't supposed to happen starting from Naruto's birth, but I just thought is was my age." Jiraiya quickly left leaving Tsunade to ponder what was to come.

"Hinata, I don't like this feeling I have, something bad is going to happen. I would tell you to wait behind for me, but I know I will need you, besides, you wouldn't let me." concluded Naruto.

"You are right my love, we will do this together and come out of it together." With a smile and a hand squeeze the pair ran to meet their enemy. After a half hour of running they came upon a large flattened forest where a great number of dark beings were massing at, each walking out from the swirling void. They inched closer until they could make out the figures.

There in front of them stood a huge mass of little black beings with yellow eyes (think of those little heartless dudes from kingdom hearts). Just then three vampiric beings about a normal human's height appeared cloaked in tattered black clothing (This is a combination of multiple suggestions, so I thank you) each holding a chain that connected to a single collar around the neck of a giant beast a story high. This beast was built like an elephant with a clearly demonic looking horned head resembling that of a ram. It hind legs were almont like a buffalo while his fronts were like hands. (Search for Horned Demon on google and you'll find a creature from Might and Magic... just imagine that as a dark shadow creature.) After the beast finished emerging more of the little black creatures continued to spill out.

"Hinata, those little guys will be your target. They should be able to be destroyed, but leave the other four to me. I will start out by stopping the creatures from coming out, from that point just do some damage and destroy as many as you can." After a quick kiss Naruto leapt from the hiding spot running through hand signs ending in a strange sign.

"Dimension Door!" All attention was brought to the blonde as his own swirling void formed in front of the other making it so every creature coming through the gate would step into the other sending them back to their dimension. Shortly after landing in the clearing he was joined by his wife with Byakugan flaring.

"You are intruding in our land. Please remove yourself or we will remove you ourselves." Announced the blonde with determination.

"We… will not… leave… This… world… is now… ours." Breathed out one of the three cloak wearing beings.

"Well then lets party." Naruto led off with a handful of shuriken taking out some of the little creatures as they burst into smoke like shadow clones before dropping down and ripping through a handful of the little bastards with straight up taijutsu while Hinata did the same a few feet away. Apparently there were some of the little dudes that were much more resilient than others making it hard to dispose of them in a single punch. Having to kick it up a notch, Hinata started using chakra in her attacks while Naruto focused on some of the kyubi chakra causing his fingernails to grow into small daggers as he continued to rip though the thousands of the fodder creatures. The couple found themselves back to back while the little creatures surrounded them.

"Well I guess their idea is to tire us out with the worthless ones while they wait to finish us off." He voiced getting a grunt in agreement. "I guess we should step it up a little more." Naruto pulled out the hilt carried by Rantou and pushed the kyubi chakra into the sword producing a translucent red blade.

"When did you find out you could do that?" Hinata asked after seeing the sword using the Byakugan.

"I figured this out when you were preparing the wedding." He replied before dashing forward obliterating tens in each slash. Hinata followed him defeating the ones he missed on their charge to the leaders and their pet with a small bladed sword Naruto gave her on the anniversary of his so called death. After slashing through at least 50 more critters they finally reached where the 4 higher classed beings were located.

"Alright, you bastards are next." Without waiting for a reaction, the blonde threw three kunai at the feet of one of the vampiric humanoids and disappeared in a flash before reappearing, slashing and repeating cutting and slashing some more before coming to a rest before the creatures while it looked like nothing was damaged. "Well damn, just as I thought. These guys are ones that can't be destroyed. Hinata, keep those little shits off me while I try some stuff on these guys." He got a nod in return as he witnessed the three humanoids unhitch the leashes from the beast. "Ah crap" Naruto disappeared again in a flash but dropped out sooner than usual and came hurtling at one of the cloaked beings at a high rate of speed and landed a heavy drop kick launching it into the portal back to its dimension.

"Well that's one down." Dashing away from the enemy group he turned and saw the being that spoke earlier jump upon the huge beast while the other pulled out a scythe like object and readied an attack. "I guess I can step it up another notch." Dividing the hilt Naruto added his chakra again producing two reddened blades while Hinata was frantically beating down the hundreds of the little creatures jumping towards the blonde.

"Our… turn…" rasped the beast tamer " Darkness spear…" spikes jutted out from the beast's neck before countless black spears launched outward towards the Kyuubi vessel. Naruto was caught by surprise with the attack and quickly activated the Hirashin just to reappear in mid-slash from the scythe user. Quickly twisting in air he half heartedly deflected the slash with one blade while slashing outward with the other. Naruto landed hard right outside the portal and grabbing his shoulder sliced from the scythe. The attacker launched forward for the death blow but found nothing since his target just reappeared behind his kicking the bastard into the portal.

"That's two down." Naruto rose slowly this time as he found his Hirashin wasn't fully mastered yet and required too much chakra. With that and the large amount of chakra being used to hold the portal open and the swords, he only had enough left for one of his new dimensional attack.

That was when he saw the beast look at him while his tamer called out "Darkness Flame!" a great ball of black fire came hurtling toward him but never contacted as a dark haired girl stepped in front of him with her defense fully active gasping for breath.

"Hinata, are you ok?" he called out to her seeing her fatigued state.

"Kind of, but I can't keep this defense up for much longer. I'm drained of chakra." She replied still holding back the dark flame.

"I'm not any better, I only have enough for one dimensional attack that will send those last few back, but I need a clean shot." He took up a thinking pose and came up with many ideas but threw them all out immediately. His thoughts were halted when Hinata spoke to him.

"I can only think of one way for this to work, I will have to distract it until you can launch your jutsu." she sadly stated.

"Does your idea lead to your death like all my ideas did?" he asked in the same saddened state as the flame just kept coming.

"Um… yes, I can only hold the defense for a little longer and it will be shortened drastically as I move to cover you. I'm sorry, but this is how it must be. If I choose to live, Konoha will fall. You know full well the lives of all our friends out weigh a single life. Try not to take it too hard and live on for me." Naruto hung his head in defeat since he knew everything she said was correct but he didn't want to face the fact that his wife will no longer be there.

"I know you're right, I will try to survive, you will be known to us all as an angel." Tears fell from his face as he kissed her one last time and jumped out from behind her defense with his jutsu ready "Dimension Transfer." His jutsu flew out and contacted the remaining intruders as he heard the horrid screams of his wife when her defense fell burning her with the black flames. Naruto ran to her not even watching as the enemy was engulfed in the swirl of darkness sending them back to their realm, and fell to his knees with tears rushing from his eyes.

"I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to protect you, it was always you protecting me." He couldn't look at her burnt lifeless body anymore and started to blindly slash and hack at the dimensional device until it fell to pieces closing off the portal. With the portal closed he cancelled his dimension door and returned to his dead wife. He took off his jacket and wrapped it around her small frame before carefully picking her up and hugged her to him as he took off for the village. Upon arrival in the village he was greeted by the Hokage thinking everything went correctly.

"So did your battle go well? I see your wife is sleeping." Naruto looked at her with pained eyes.

"Yes, she's sleeping… permanently." He continued to carry her through the crowd until Tsunade stopped him.

"I'm sorry Naruto, you can't handle this, let me take her." Reluctantly he handed her body over. "Now go and try to collect yourself before tomorrow when we have the funeral. Please be strong for her like she was for you when you died." Naruto nodded and lifelessly walked off in no real direction.

Jan 4 – 019 AK:

Naruto was on auto pilot through the funeral. He felt nothing as everyone paid there respects and left the area until everyone was now gone except Tsunade and Sakura.

"She is gone Naruto, please realize that and grieve for her. If you don't you could destroy yourself." Sakura pulled him into a hug before leaving.

"You know Naruto she is right. With all your knowledge of the future to prevent this you still couldn't; maybe she was destined to die that day." The Hokage left him to his thoughts and disappeared.

"Destiny, maybe she really was destined to die." Tears fell once again as he pondered that statement. "Destiny? If she was destined to die then I was destined to lose to Neji, I can't accept this." Naruto dropped to his knees still crying until he lifted his head to the sky. "ASSHOLES, I MAKE MY OWN DESTINY! I CHOOSE WHAT HAPPENS IN MY LIFE, WHO ARE YOU TO SAY WHO LIVES AND DIES, HAVEN'T I SUFFERED ENOUGH?!" He laid his face into his hands and continued to cry until he felt and heard nothing. The eerie stillness was enough to pull anyone from the brink of insanity. Looking up his hands, he saw the leaves on the trees were completely motionless and saw a strange, yet familiar guy standing in front of him.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked through his watery gaze.

"Unfortunately you are in the same boat countless others have been in. We are tuned into a different reality letting us manipulate time and space. My name is Naruto, I am you 10 years in the future and I was the one that sent you the letter. Every time I change something, another parallel reality comes into existence but the result is the same. I will teach you to become a traveler like me and hopefully together we can find a solution to all this." he replied

"So you are basically me? I can buy part of it but I will not become you, you have failed where as I will change my destiny, like I have said before I write my own life. If you have all this ability why can't you stop it? Why just a cryptic letter? If there are so many realities that you have seen then there are more like you. Why can't you all fix it together?" The real Naruto asked.

"We can't, this is how it was written, and you must try from here."

"What the hell are you talking about? I lost my wife, I caused pain in everything and you say you can't change a single aspect. We beat Neji in the chuunin exams, we even changed Tsunade's mind and got her to be the Hokage when she thought is was a worthless job. We have a freaking demon stuck inside us and you say it is beyond us to save the most important thing in our lives?" The future Naruto looked at him in disbelief, suddenly the area started filling with different forms of the future Naruto. One with an eye patch and even one missing an arm. They continued to pop into existence looking at each other.

"Naruto, you are the real one. Only you have the power to change destiny. We never defeated Neji, and the Kyuubi never attacked so early in our lives. In your timeline I see that Orochimaru did something that disrupted the fabric of reality. There really should only be one timeline, but as you can see there are countless ones. We must act fast before everything collapses from all of us occupying the same area. Now that we have found the right person we can fix the events of your life sending you to your correct timeline and restoring everything to its rightful place."

"Huh?"

"Hahaha, I know it is hard to figure out just trust me you will go to a timeline different from your own, but it should have been yours from the start. Things will be different but Hinata will be alive. Do you want to go there?" asked the future Naruto.

"You don't really need to ask." With a grin from all the present forms of the future Naruto they all did hand seals simultaneously and started a strange chant.

Unravel the events that have come to pass,

Let those which were not to be done

Reverse its course to be undone

Return this mortal to his place

Where his soul longs to be

Rebind the chains of time and space

Merging us all to live in he.

"Things will be quite different when you get there, live well." With those final words the area went completely black void of any light, all that could be heard was a solid beep like a heart monitor flat lining. Suddenly a sharp beep was heard, then another until there was steady beeping and the darkness started to fade into a blinding light, but there were people here. His eyes started to focus and he saw that he was in the hospital and suddenly he felt a tight pressure wrap around him.

"Na-Naruto-kun, y-you're awake! I-I thought I l-lost y-you." Naruto was elated at finding his wife alive, but why was she stuttering? Something was off.

"Um, Hinata, what are you doing?" she blushed and removed herself from him hanging her head.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry N-Naruto-kun, I-I f-forgot y-you d-don't like h-hugs." He couldn't believe his ears, apparently things were different here, but how much different?

"Hinata, come here, I need to tell you something." She leaned a bit closer, "no closer, it's a secret." She blushed hard as she moved within an inch of him when he grabbed the back of her head and pulled her face to his locking their lips. Hinata's eyes grew wide when she felt the sudden contact but easily melted into the kiss. She was enjoying every moment, even more so when her lips parted a bit as his tongue made its way into her in exploration. Hinata let her hands wander around his chest when she felt something surprising her again. Reluctantly she broke away from the blissful kiss.

"N-Naruto-kun, is this really you? We've been betrothed since we were eight but you have always ignored my affection and then now you give me the most passionate and wonderful kiss in the world." Suddenly she yanked on his hospital gown exposing his upper torso. She lightly traced her fingers across his well defined muscles all the while blushing. "And when did you get muscles?"

"Hmm? I trained hard to get these." He replied stumped.

"But you haven't trained since you failed out of ninja academy almost 9 years ago." she informed

"That is strange… wait, what is that chakra spike I just felt?" he inquired making Hinata's face pale.

"Shit that's Yondaime-sama, your father. I think he just summoned the boss of the toad summons to fight the demon that just arrived a few moments ago, I was supposed to be at the front lines already but I came to check on you." Hinata quickly stood and put on a white cat mask and went to leave but was stopped by a very strong hand.

"Are you telling me the yellow flash, my father, is fighting the Kyuubi no Kitsune now?" Naruto asked being pleasantly surprised.

"Um, y-yes, but how did you know it was a nine tailed fox? You've been out cold for days"

"I'm coming with you." He proclaimed causing her to square her shoulders to him.

"No, you are nothing in a ninja battle, you will stay here." Naruto was shocked at the order but knew his previous self must not have been like him. Ignoring her protests Naruto bolted to the hospital closet and threw on some clothes.

"I'm going Hinata-chan; now hold on to me tight, this will be a rough landing." Hinata stood there dumbfounded as Naruto ran up to her and wrapped his arms around her and did a few hand signs and there were gone in a brilliant flash. Suddenly Hinata saw as she was falling with him down towards the giant toad and crashed upon his head next to the older blonde who was arguing with his summon.

"What do you mean I'm dead? I'm standing right here now fight the demon with me." That was when he finally noticed the intruders. "Naruto, Hinata what are you doing here?" the Hokage demanded

"Ahh, Naruto, how was your honeymoon?" called out the toad causing Hinata to rage under her Anbu mask as the two stared at the younger blonde.

"Well I can say it went well, but I think I will have to not treat Gamakichi anymore since he took all of our clothes, but I think your wife gave him the idea." They heard the loud bellows of laughter coming from Gamabunta hearing the story.

"Well it isn't like you had a need for clothes anyways… now why is the Kyuubi attacking, isn't he still sealed?" the toad asked

"Yes the seal is still intact, but only you and I know what is going on, we are in a different timeline from the one we are used to." Hinata looked at her betrothed again and removed her mask.

"What is going on? Have you been cheating on me?" she asked with pure anger.

"No angel, there was an event that screwed up the whole timeline I lived in. In my timeline I was married to you about a week ago and we had a wonderful honeymoon but you died in a battle that wasn't supposed to happen. I was distraught and to make a long story short, there is now only this timeline like there should be, and I'm not exactly the Naruto you knew, I also have more chakra then both of you combined." They were both speechless until the older blonde saw Naruto pull a special kunai from the Hokages pouch and smeared his own blood across the seal. Suddenly Naruto just hurled the kunai at the fox and smiled.

"I will take care of my old friend Kyuubi." The Yondaime recognized the jutsu and dropped his jaw as Naruto disappeared in a yellow flash.

"How the hell did he do that?" wondered the older blonde while the toad was chuckling.

"You should see what he has done with your Rasengan; he has added wind manipulation to it." Replied the laughing toad seeing the man nearly faint.

The giant 9 tailed fox demon was thrashing the country side annihilating everything in its path as it approached within eye sight of Gamabunta, Hinata and the Yondaime. The three could barely make out the form of Naruto standing in its path but heard him loud and clear and cringed at his rudeness to the demon.

"Hey you bastard Fox! Get your worthless ass out of here!"

"I don't waste my time on weak humans like you. I want to destroy all strong beings to prove I'm the strongest. I heard this place held the most powerful fighter in the world so I came to fight."

"So, you oversized piece of shit, you truly were absolutely evil. How would you like to fight someone more powerful than him? Fight me since I am the vessel to a powerful demon."

"Hokage-sama, is Naruto really a demon vessel?" Hinata asked.

"Our previous one wasn't, but this one I don't know." He replied as he continued to watch the encounter.

"Really? This may be interesting then, tell me brat which demon do you hold?"

"Since you asked so nicely, bastard, I'll tell you. He was the most powerful being in existence until it was sealed inside of me after I was born, by my father, to save the village." The Yondaime gasped at this and Naruto continued, "I have sealed inside of me the greatest demon that ever existed, the KYUUBI NO KITSUNE!" a giant blast of chakra erupted from within the blonde as large tendrils of chakra formed nine tails about his body as well as the large claws, fangs, and eyes of the demon. Naruto was surprised that all the chakra from his demon came to life around him, but couldn't think on that right now.

"Now tell me, how is it to look in the mirror you murdering bastard!" he asked in a raspy voice. The Kyuubi stared into the blonde's eyes and saw his own look back, but what got to him the worst was the absence of any and all fear in his face. From his view point the young ninja was not in the least bit scared of the ultimate demon.

"I've had enough of your lies kid, I am here so I can't be sealed, now die!" the fox brought one of his own claws to bear and went to swipe at the shinobi and found his paw stopping inches away from him. "What the hell? Why can't I strike you?"

"My guess is that your chakra can't hurt me like it can't hurt you. Now I will give you the chance to leave all humans alone or be defeated by my hands."

"Well I must admit you are as powerful as I am and I can't hurt you, but that won't keep me from killing everyone else in this village since the majority of your chakra can't hurt me as well." The demon chuckled as he reared back to launch himself towards the village only to feel a sharp pain all over his body. He looked towards Naruto and saw his shirt burst into flames revealing the glowing seal on his stomach. "What is this… answer me!" screamed out the fox in pain.

"This would be the seal that holds the Kyuubi within me with the help of my chakra and my will, since you are also the Kyuubi, I can will you into the seal. Say hi to my Kyuubi when you get there, I'm sure you will have much to argue about, but don't think about escaping he can't help you there." The Kyuubi screamed louder as the seal formed on his head before he burst into a large plume of pure chakra and started filtering into Naruto's abdomen as he started to scream out, falling to his knees, as all the red chakra retreated inside his body. Before his head hit the ground he felt himself being nestled between soft flesh.

"Naruto-kun," Hinata started as she stroked his spiky hair holding his head to her chest, "In my dreams you had a hidden power and was hated by the village you loved for holding it within. I had many different dreams but none were the same, recently they have gotten more intimate. Probably the weirdest and most embarrassing thing for me was one of them Neji-nii-san walked in our bedroom and interrupted an act." Naruto gasped at the revelation before he smiled and caused her to jump when he talked to her.

"That was an embarrassing moment, but if I remember it correctly, you didn't mind it for too long." Hinata blushed at being caught telling him of one of her best kept secrets. "I have a question to ask, since you dreamt that moment, then you must have had dreamt others. So tell me, do you really not have to shave?" Hinata's now bright red face just nodded shyly.

"So all those dreams, they were your life? It was those dreams that caused me to love you deeply and longed to be married to you. Why is it that I have the person I dreamt of for so long sitting right in front of me when I thought they were only dreams?" she asked in full wonder.

"From what I can tell, your dreams are my life. Also I believe that when the jutsu was performed to bring me to a parallel timeline, your soul called out to mine and brought me to you. Your Naruto died and I took his place to heal the sorrow we both felt. We have each other again now, and I won't let you go. I want to marry you in this timeline and love you in every way you saw me love you in your dreams." She couldn't blush anymore and just decided to lightly kiss his lips.

"I would like that very much, but there are some things I'd like to try that you didn't do in my dreams." His eyebrow raised in interest.

"And what would that be?" he asked

"That, you will have to wait until we're married." She teased before taking his lips in a deep kiss ravaging him in passion before she was interrupted by the current Hokage

"Naruto, we have much to talk about, including strengthening that seal you have." informed the Yondaime

"Yes father we do, but right now I'm busy." Naruto turned around and pinned his love to the ground before starting a make out session with her accepting greedily. After they finally parted the Yondaime had returned with a camera.

"Alright you two, I need a picture of you both." Hinata smiled and removed her Anbu mask and stood next to him, immediately he held her in a light embrace and stared lovingly into her eyes, then the camera clicked. "This will make a great picture." commented the older blonde.

"I know, we've seen it before, it will look awesome, wont it Hinata-chan?" she nodded in agreement with a reddened face and the group of three walked back into the village with cheers for their heroes for defeating the great beast.

(This was the exact picture they saw in the room at the Hokage tower a while back in Chapter 13)

(Epilogue)

"Hokage-sama!" called out a young Jonin charging through the door. "You have been summoned to the hospital, your family line is about to grow right now."

"Thank you Konohamaru" the Hokage quickly left the tower and arrived at the hospital in the midst of the commotion.

"Hokage-sama, get you ass in there!" screamed a pink haired medic as she pushed the blonde into the hospital room where a large breasted woman was currently positioned at the business end of the dark haired woman. (Ha-ha business end…)

"Hinata, I'm here." He said as he took her hand.

"Naruto-kun, I thought you were going to miss it."

"Come on angel, I'm the Hokage, I don't miss important events." Hinata gave a slight smile before she nearly crushed his hand. A few moments later crying was heard as a blonde haired boy was brought to his parents wrapped in cloth. "He's beautiful Hinata, maybe he should have a sister to grow up with." Hinata smiled back at her husband and looked at their child.

"I agree, but don't bring that up again until I'm not in pain or I'll kill you." She kindly told him. He wasn't scared, on the surface, and lightly kissed her forehead.

"I won't, now get some sleep; you will have plenty of time with our son after you wake." With a weak nod she fell asleep dreaming of the future; for the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

...Later