"You are not weak Hinata," Naruto said in a firm voice, as he placed his hands on the girl's shoulders. Hinata looked up at Naruto as he spoke, "you just have yet to come into your own strength, but it's there. However you need to find the right reasons to gain that strength, which are not to impress a boy."
"What are your reasons?" Hinata asked, hoping that if she knew the reasons of someone else, she could try to find out her own.
"At first my reason was simply because I wanted to be acknowledged, it was stupid but that was why I tried so hard." Naruto's eyes began to glaze over and his voice softened as he continued, "however as time went on and I gained people who did acknowledge me, my reasons changed." Naruto looked at Hinata, "now I fight and gain strength so that I can protect the people who are most important to me. The people who I have found a family in, the Konoha eleven, the people I met in my travels… it's for them I try to get stronger, so that I can protect them."
Hinata was silent for a moment as she thought about her reasons, really thought about them. Now that she was thinking a little more clearly, she realized that what she had been doing was no better than when Sakura and Ino had tried to gain Sasuke's affection. Everything she had done was for Naruto, but now that Naruto made her realize this she did not really have a reason… or did she?
"I… I think I want to gain strength to protect my family, and make them proud of me." Hinata said as she looked at Naruto, "I don't want them to think of me as weak, or a burden anymore."
Naruto gave the girl a smile, "that's a good reason, wanting to help your family is one of the best reasons anyone can have. I know that with that desire in mind, you will gain strength." Naruto stuck his hand out to the girl, "friends?"
Hinata looked at the hand and then back to Naruto before smiling, "Friends," she said as she took the hand.
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Naruto stood out on the field with the Shinobi council, Tsunade, Kenchi and Tenten, all of whom he was going to show his seals to.
"Now that everyone is here I figured we'd better get this show on the road," Naruto said as he took out sealing scroll and unraveled it. He unsealed the contents revealing several different scrolls of various seals, ink and a brush. Grabbing the first seal Naruto unrolled it, "I am sure you all know of the standard exploding tag, which by adding chakra will make it detonate and in some cases can set a timer for a slight delay. But what if they did not just explode? What if instead they launched an A rank jutsu, or a cloud of deadly and poisonous gas."
"Are you saying you can create a scroll that has an A rank jutsu in it?" Tsume asked incredulously.
Naruto smiled, "I could tell you yes, but I think it would best to show you." Naruto created a clone who took one of the small tags in the scroll, walking several feet away before channeling some chakra into it as he set the scroll on the ground. The clone poofed out of existence and Naruto turned to Tsunade, "Hokage-Sama could you make a Kage Bushin please?"
Tsunade raised an eyebrow but did as asked, less than a second later a clone appeared. "Good," Naruto said as he turned to the clone, "I want you to go over to the scroll." As the clone did as instructed Naruto turned to Hiashi, "Hyuuga-Sama would be so kind as to turn on your Byakugan and tell me what you see?"
Hiashi nodded and did so; truthfully he was quite curious to see what they boy came up with. As the Tsunade clone got within five feet of the scroll, everyone became shocked as a giant dragon made of lightning launched out of the scroll. It roared as it homed in on the clone, smashing into it before exploding in a shower of sparks.
"It… it reacted to her chakra," Hiashi said his voice for once filled with awe. The others heard what he said and looked at the now burnt out scroll in shock.
"Yes it reacts to any chakra signature that does not belong to the person who used the scroll, though it can be set to recognize other signatures as well." Naruto smirked as he looked at the gob smacked audience, "as you can see things like this could easily tip any engagement or skirmish in our favor, just imagine if you were to create a minefield of these and placed a camouflaged dual layered genjutsu over them, an enemy comes within five feet of it and they suddenly find themselves within a barrage of A rank techniques…" Naruto left them to imagine the potential of his strategy for awhile. Once they got over their awe he began showing them some of his other seals, with each one being more impressive then the last. Finally Naruto got to the seal he had really worked on this week, "for this next seal I'll need a volunteer, it has to be a female."
The last request had stopped several of the males from stepping forward; unfortunately it also made the females wary. Tsume Inuzuka however took it as something of a challenge and stepped forward, "let's see what you've got pup."
Naruto smirked, "very well follow me so I can apply the seals," Naruto picked up his ink and brush and headed into the tree line. Tsume despite being surprised followed him as well, once they were out of sight Naruto stopped.
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