Before she went though, she sent a plaintive look towards Naruto.
Naruto had left off his trading of questions with the Hokage to turn, hug her, and thank Hinata.
Kurenai had been around for awhile. She was therefore quite amused to see the girl who was ferociously blushing and trying to hide the little smile showing.
Naruto, the loudest ninja. Hinata, the quietest kunoichi. Truly an odd pairing, but she'd known of it ahead of time. She just hadn't expected to see Naruto pick up on it. Her bet would have been that it would take him several years and a direct confrontation to get the clue.
Kurenai continued to walk besides the quietly smiling kunoichi, reviewing what she'd seen. Both had been fairly hesitant and not confident in what they were doing. Hardly surprising. From what she'd seen of Naruto and what she knew of Hinata - neither had a lot of physical contact with another person. Or emotional for that matter. It was to be expected that they'd be very hesitant about the whole thing.
Though why she kept getting pictures of Hinata swinging around lightpoles and skipping through water puddles was likely due to the various body-language clues she was getting.
She HAD been present though because she was a genjutsu specialist and expert on mental attacks. She had watched Naruto Uzumaki and come to several conclusions that she'd have to share with the Hokage.
One being: do NOT seperate Hinata and Naruto for long. There was something almost feral showing up in Naruto's body language. Hinata reinforced Naruto's humanity, or at least that was how she was reading it. Naruto seemed to calm down instead of twitching or flinching as much. Like a wild animal in a cage.
Second, and something she'd buried as soon as she'd realized it, was that Naruto was reacting to things around him by a method other than sight or hearing. In order to form a genjutsu and properly weave it, you had to establish a mental link with your target. This could be done by a number of methods, eye contact or a musical note or something similar.
There was a suspicion, but she'd have to wait until later to check further into it.
"Here we go," said Kurenai Yuhi on seeing the gate to the Hyuga compound. "The sorting for teams will be in two days. Be ready for it."
"Yes, I will," said Hinata with a quick bow towards her sensei.
"All right, Naruto, Hinata is gone," said the Third Hokage. "Perhaps now we can discuss things more privately." Not that they don't make a cute couple.
"Privately?" asked Naruto, distracted a bit by the idea of being part of a 'cute couple.'
"Wind techniques and Fire techniques that are NOT normal jutsu," said the Third, groaning a little as he lowered himself to a seat. I'm getting way too old for this. No matter how strong you are, or how many jutsu you master - age catches up with you eventually.
"I don't know how to explain any of that," said Naruto. "I just do them."
"Which is part of the difficulty with them," said the Third Hokage. "Normally you have to understand what you're doing in order to do it. Tomorrow morning we're going to arrange a demonstration of these talents."
Sakura stopped as another shopper stood nearby. "Ino? What are YOU doing, just standing there in the street?"
Ino Yamanaka slowly brought up one hand and pointed at something skyward.
"Eh? Why can't you just -" began Sakura as she looked up herself.
Overhead she saw Naruto Uzumaki, with Hinata Hyuga trailing along behind, swooping up into the morning air. It was not simply leaping from building to building. This was slow, graceful, and soaring up above the buildings of Konohagakure without any apparent concern for anything like gravity.
"Oh," said Sakura.
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