(At The Uchiha District; Two Hours Later)
Sasuke was sitting at the entrance of his late clan's empty estate. He was thinking long and hard about everything Hinata told him. Despite everything Sasuke told her about Naruto's perverted girl-crazy character, Hinata still found things good about Naruto, and in the end she still chose Naruto over him.
Why would Hinata choose to be with that pervert? She could do so much better with me, an Uchiha with more dignity and a better reputation in the village. She said she loves Naruto and claims that Naruto loves her. How could she believe that despite knowing what he does so openly? What kind of misleading lies did Naruto get Hinata to buy into? Sasuke wondered. He only got angrier and more frustrated the more he thought about it.
A moment later, though, Hinata's words about Naruto came back to mind, 'I'm the only one who truly knows Naruto-kun. Everyone else knows what he wants them to know…You don't know Naruto-kun as well as you think.'
"I don't know the dobe as well as I think she says," Sasuke wondered aloud. After Sasuke calmed himself down, he thought about what she said in correlation with recent events that transpired during their mission journeying to Nami no Kuni, and their experience while they were there. Sasuke was giving Hinata's words serious thought, especially when new unexplained information about Naruto surfaced that Naruto himself refused to explain, even to Kakashi. And speaking of Kakashi, he and no doubt others evidently know something about Naruto's red chakra, but are forced to keep it under wraps by orders of the Hokage.
"Naruto graduated as the dead last of our class. Yet Hinata says that the dobe helped her become stronger, smarter and faster than before. He beat Haku, stopped Kakashi from killing both Zabuza and Haku, and then Sakura and Kakashi both witnessed Naruto wipe out Gatō's entire army in seconds before feeding Gatō to the sharks. He basically completed the mission on his own while I was unconscious."
Hearing those words come out of his own mouth left a nasty aftertaste. As the Rookie of the Year, Sasuke felt insulted and undermined. He balled his fists tightly as anger began eating him up.
"How could this be? How could Naruto have grown this strong while I was left in the dust? Who the hell was secretly teaching and training him?" Sasuke growled out loud to no one in particular. After taking a moment to calm down, Sasuke sought to contemplate the situation and figure out where he could have gone wrong in his battle to prevent Naruto from surpassing him.
"I better start finding ways of keeping tabs on Naruto and whoever is teaching him," Sasuke decided as he got up and walked into the empty Uchiha District.
As he entered, Sasuke muttered to himself, "Hinata said that she improved in her skills and knowledge, and is better than she was before. I also recall that the dobe mentioned that all of the females in the Hyuuga Clan are expected to learn how to cook and take care of a household. Those factors, combined with her coming from a noble clan that has a powerful bloodline limit, and being very pretty and knowing she will only grow more beautiful as she grows older, simply put, make her the only woman capable of becoming a proper wife to me, and matriarch to the revived Uchiha Clan.
"My only problem is Naruto, who has a firm grip on Hinata. I don't know how long it'll take me to get Hinata to dump and leave Naruto after she sees him for what really he is, but I'm sure with some patience it can done."
(Much Later The Evening)
Naruto and Honoka were making their way from the Hyuuga Compound over to where Naruto lives. For Honoka, it was a pleasant experience being a guest there and being entertained by both the clan heiress and her younger sister. Hiashi later came by and introduced himself while making himself known as both the clan leader and the girls' father. Honoka politely introduced herself as Naruto's new older sister regardless of their relations as distant cousins.
In their discussion, Honoka inquired of their compound's architecture and how it was evident that the Uzumaki Clan had a hand in the compound's design and construction. Hiashi admitted to that truth and explained that the Uzumaki's craftsman skills were favored by their ancestors. However, when the hierarchy of the council decreed that the history of the Uzumaki would be removed from their village's history books, that also meant that Hiashi wasn't allowed to openly discuss such information with his daughters. He also mentioned that his late wife vehemently objected to this, wanting both Hinata and Hanabi to learn everything about their heritage and legacy and how the Uzumaki had a hand in it. He explained that with the Hokage being overruled there wasn't much that the Hokage or Hiashi alone could do.
Naruto saw how so much was denied and stolen from him over the years and how the hierarchy was allowed to get away with it. Naruto and Honoka were planning to change that.
After another twenty-seven minutes, the two Uzumaki reached their destination. Honoka looked at the building complex Naruto lived in and needless to say, she wasn't too thrilled about it, considering that it was located in the slums of the village.
"This is where you live, Naruto-kun?" Honoka asked.
"Yeah. I'm sorry it's not the ideal living area, but I make do with what I have. I know from the outside it doesn't look like much, but inside is another story," Naruto replied.
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