Takes place at the beginning of Naruto Shippuden, right after Naruto returns from his training with Jiraiya.
Naruto & Hinata managed to form a close friendship prior to Naruto's absence. Now that he's returned, there is more than one reason to take...
Five days later, just outside of the Nara Clan forest...
Hinata watched from a dead tree branch above, as Naruto slammed the wind style rasengan into Kakuzu below, pounding the Akatsuki deep into the ground and breaking the man's body into thousands of pieces.
With the enormous amount of chakra that Naruto used to create the modified rasengan, the jutsu was so powerful that Naruto had to use even more chakra to keep it from blasting apart as soon as it was created, all while keeping three shadow clones active at one time. This made Naruto as vulnerable to Kurama as he would ever be. So Kakashi directed Hinata to stay above the fight where she could visualize all of the Narutos at one time.
After team ten returned to Konoha from their secret mission to track down the two Akatsuki, who had been hunting and killing jinchuuriki and bounty within the surrounding area, the entire village fell into a deep and unrelenting despair.
Asuma Sarutobi was dead and the Akatsuki were responsible. The shock hit Hinata even harder, after knowing the happiness in Kurenai's life just the day before.
Three days later and after Asuma's memorial, team ten left the village again to go after the two Akatsuki. Kakashi led them this time, leaving Naruto's training to Yamato. He asked that his team seven be sent as back up as soon as possible. But everyone was on pins and needles about that decision, especially the hokage.
In a fluster, Sakura appeared at the training field the next day and relayed that Lady Tsunade had ordered Naruto's jutsu finished and for team seven to leave as back up within twenty-four hours or she was sending another squad.
Yamato began a protest, but Naruto only responded. "Twenty-four hours, huh? I guess we'll be up all night working then."
"You ok?" Naruto looked at Hinata. She nodded back in agreement, and they set to work.
Naruto made the deadline, finishing a fully formed wind style rasengan, which he promptly named rasenshuriken based on its shape.
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But, the jutsu still had not been tested in battle when they made it just in time to the stand off between Kakuzu and Kakashi, Choji, and Ino. It also wasn't exactly... impressive.
So it was not all that surprising when the ninjutsu failed to do... anything, on the first attempt.
"What the hell was that?!" Kakuzu growled. "This is the infamous nine tailed fox jinchuuriki? This is what all the fuss was about?!"
The enemy shinobi scoffed. "False advertising."
After the jutsu failed with Hinata completely suppressing all of Kurama's chakra, Kakashi quickly recalculated. "You're going to have to let Naruto access just enough of the nine tail's chakra to keep the jutsu stable. But to prevent the tailed beast from going overboard, you'll have to watch all of the Narutos at all times! Even the ones hidden for the attack. You'll need to be high up."
