===July 10, 10:08 AM, Konoha Hospital===
After Hinata's crippling match against Neji, Naruto became worried about Hinata's condition and went to visit her. Yet, when he went to the receptionist to ask where Hinata's room is, the receptionist refused to answer Naruto's inquiries and threatened to kick him out for 'disturbing the peace'. Knowing that arguing with the receptionist is a waste of time, Naruto went outside then proceeded to locate Hinata's room through peeking into each window. After about 3 minutes of searching, he looked in a window on the second floor and found Hinata in a hospital bed hooked up to an array of medical equipment. As he attempts to gain Hinata's attention, a hand grabbed Naruto and dragged him into Hinata's room. Naruto looked around to find out who pulled him in and he froze on the familiar figure of Kurenai Yuuhi, Hinata's Sensei. As she stared down at him with her crimson orbs, she growled out. "What are you doing here, Uzumaki, and why were you trying to sneak in the window?"
Naruto stood up and stared at Kurenai. "I tried going up to the front desk but the nurse wouldn't tell me what room Hinata-chan was in. I wanted to make sure she was okay after what Neji-teme did to her. She was one of the only people in the Academy who cared about me. Like she said, I never go back on my word because that's mine and her nindo." Naruto replied, Kurenai smirked. "I'll give you 5 minutes, then you have to leave because visiting hours are over for the morning." As she heads to the door, she stops and looks over her shoulder. "She cares about you. If you break her heart, I promise I'll break a part of you that will make you lose all interest in girls, understood? She's the closest thing I have to a daughter."
After Kurenai left Naruto unclenched his legs let out a big sigh. "I've got to remember never to upset her." He walked to the bed, took the chart and looked at it, but can't make heads or tails of it. "Maybe setting up paint bombs in the Uchiha compound while Iruka-sensei was teaching us about medical terms wasn't a good idea." Putting the chart back on the hook, the only sound in the room is the continuous beeping of the machines hooked up to Hinata. He moved a chair next to the bed and paused a moment when he noticed Hinata had an ample chest, but then he'd never seen her without that big coat. He quickly pushed those thoughts aside, sat down and took her hand. "Hinata-chan, I don't know if you can hear me or not, but I'm going to train really hard this month and I hope you can be there to see it. I'm going to show Neji that fate isn't predetermined. Once the Exams are over, I'd like to get to know you better; we could go out to lunch. I'm not sure what you like to eat but we can always go for ramen, and if things work out the way they should we can do some missions or training together." As Naruto stands up, his gaze falls upon Hinata one last time before he jumps through the window promising to beat Neji for her.
A few seconds after Naruto jumped out the window, a smirking Kurenai walks out of the shadows. "Are you going to pretend to be asleep all morning?" Hinata gradually opened her eyes as her face goes bright red in embarrassment, then began poking her index fingers together.
===A block away===
Meanwhile, Naruto is walking down the street. 'Okay, the first thing I need to do is find Kakashi-sensei to help me start my training. I hope he'll teach me a lot of new jutsu.' He thinks. As Naruto continues walking, he notices Kakashi coming towards him. "Okay Kakashi-sensei, when are we going to start my training?"
As Naruto rants on about all the super cool jutsu he wants to learn, Kakashi quickly tires and shouts. "Naruto shut up and listen to me! I will not be teaching you. I'm going to be training Sasuke for the Finals."
Naruto looks at his Sensei in shock. "But what about me? I'm going to need training if I'm going to keep my promise to Hinata!"
Kakashi lets out a breath. "Naruto, you need to listen to me very carefully. The truth is you have no skills as a ninja; you were the dead last in the Academy. You had some of the worst grades I've ever seen, you only graduated on a technicality. Ever since you became a ninja, you've relied on pure dumb luck, you rush into battle without thinking, and all you've ever done in a fight is throw Shadow Clones at the enemy. You yell and scream when you go into battle about how the enemy can't beat you. The only reason I put you in the exams in the first place was to help Sasuke. Once he gets promoted, I'll be taking him as an apprentice and I'm going to have you sent back to the Academy if not dropped from the program completely. You have a zero percent chance at beating Neji, even if I spent the entire month training you, it would be a waste of my time. I have tried to teach you in the past but you don't pay attention to what I'm saying."
As Kakashi continues to rant about how bad of a ninja Naruto is, he's looking down with tears streaming down his face as he listens to the words of his Sensei. Having enough of Kakashi's verbal beat down, Naruto looks at him with fury in his eyes and shouts out. "Shut the hell up! You're supposed to be my teacher, but you haven't taught me anything besides how to climb trees! Now you are just standing here being a hypocrite; I remember the words you said the first day we became a team, you said 'In the ninja world, those who break the rules are trash but those that abandon comrades are worse than trash' and now you stand here and you're abandoning me to go train Sasuke. If that's not being a hypocrite, tell me what is." Before Naruto can continue his rant, Kakashi slams his fist into his stomach.