A/N: I have only briefly proof read this, so there might be errors. Hope you enjoy :)


Hinata knocked firmly on the Hokage's door. She hadn't been summoned, but for this rare moment the Hyuuga heiress was irate. The Fourth Great Shinobi War had been over for a year and since that time she had made jouinin rank. Her feelings for Naruto had gone unacknowledged, and slowly but surely this last year had helped heal her heart. She was no longer living at the compound, she had fought long and hard for the right to live in an apartment. Everything in her life was looking up, well until yesterday that was. She reminded herself again that she was stronger now, and that she was here to demand answers. She jumped a little with fright as she heard the Hokage invite her in.

"What is it that you need Hinata?" Tsunade asked with disinterest.

"I need a… answers Hokage-sama." The Hyuuga rapidly losing faith in herself almost whispered.

"About what?" Tsunade answered innocently with an evil sparkle appearing in her eye. This hadn't taken as long as she thought. Damn, I lost another bet. She realized in annoyance.

"I think it should be… o… obvious Hokage-sama." Hinata stutter, not sure she had the nerve for this anymore.

"Hinata." Tsunade sighed. "Do you know who I am?"

"You are the Hokage of our village of course."

"Exactly so do you think I can remember what precisely is going on with every ninja in my village at all time?"

"Well no, I don't expect that, but I just thought…"

"You just thought you were more important? Being an heiress makes you important to the Hyuuga, here you are nothing but a ninja."

"That's not exactly what I meant…"

"I am not here to baby you Ms. Hyuuga so are you going to speak up or are you going to walk out that door and quit wasting my time?" Tsunade rudely interrupted again. "I have other things besides this pointless guessing game that could use my time."

"Now wait a second." Hinata said a little louder. She was getting irritated at the situation and the Hokage.

"I just explained this I don't feel like it if you have nothing of importance to be doing here." Tsunade sighed acting completely bored.

"Fine! Why have I been taken off the active roster?" She almost yelled.

"Finally!" The Hokage exclaimed with a smile. "I was wondering how long it would take to get a little fire boiling in you."

"What?"

"You will not be leaving on a mission for the time of at least one month."

"What!" Hinata actually screeched. She wouldn't be able to float her bills with no pay and she did not want to end up going back to the compound. "How are you expecting me to live?"

"Wow. I am pleasantly surprised. The little Hyuuga does have limits. You will not be going without pay for the span of a month."

"How is that possible?"

"You have a personal mission right here inside of the village."

"Okay?" Hinata was completely lost on this entire scenario. She had screamed at the Hokage and got a smile in return and now she was being paid to stay home. She had no idea what this could all mean.

"Hinata, you are a kunoichi are you not?"

"I am." Hinata said with pride.

"As kunoichi we have different standards than that of shinobi right?"

"It is true. As women we have different vulnerabilities, but also different strengths."

"Exactly I need you to begin to work on those strengths. I need you to focus on training yourself in the areas of kunoichi life that vary from the battlefield."

"And what exactly does that entail Hokage?"

"Hinata you are not simply a very talented kunoichi. You are also a very beautiful woman, and as leader of this village I need to be able to harness all the resources within my reach. One such resource is you."

"What does beauty have to do with being a kunoichi?"

"Hinata you are not so naïve to not understand. Sakura, Ino, Tenten have all been on recon missions that only women could complete." Hinata's eyes widened in understanding.

"B-but, Hokage-sama… there… there is n-no w-way I… I c-could go on t-t-those kind of m-m-m-missions." Hinata stammered and stutter as she tried to understand why the Hokage would even suggest that kind of a mission to her. She was nowhere near capable of executing a recon mission like that.

"Exactly, Hinata you mission for the next month is to train yourself in genjutsu to cover your eyes and in the art of seduction." Hinata went so pale that Tsunade was surprised she wasn't translucent. "Hinata breathe, and look at me. I know that you and the other girls are all very close now and I know that you know that you will not be pushed too far in these missions. I just need to gain self-confidence and possibly a boyfriend. I know you have gotten over your romantic feelings for Naruto and that is why I have only began to push this. If it wasn't for the pain you were going through over the last year then you would have started this training mission much sooner."

"Yes, Hokage-sama." Hinata said conceding to the Hokage's will. She knew that the only thing arguing would do would be to upset the Hokage.

"I have also already informed Kurenai of the situation and she has agreed to help you begin the training process. She will ease you in to this for the next two weeks and after that I suggest talking to your girlfriends that is what they are there for." With that Tsunade handed the still shocked young woman a scroll and absently waved her out of her office.


Hinata was still staring off absently into space when Naruto tapped her on the shoulder. Hinata jumped and let out a startled gasp.

"Whoa, Hina-chan why so jumpy?"

"Oh, hello Naruto-kun. I was just zoned out I am sorry." Hinata said with a sigh of relief. She was scared that it would be Kurenai and she wasn't ready to face this issue, yet.

"Well I'm glad I found I ran into Kurenai-sensei early and she said if I found you to tell you that she would be at training ground 8 at seven p.m. and not to be late, because she was paying a baby-sitter to be there for you."

"Darn, alright Naruto-kun thanks. What time is it now?"

"It's only 6:30 so you've got some time. Want to have some ramen with me before you go?"

"No thanks maybe another time Naruto-kun, I have some things I need to get ready before training tonight." With that Hinata raced off leaving Naruto to shrug and head off to ramen alone.

Okay, Hinata there is no getting out of this. So you have to embrace this training and take it seriously. First things first let's make this the least amount of uncomfortable with Kurenai-sensei as possible. Hinata internally tried to push herself into bravery as she raced home to get some things to show her former, and now current again, sensei.

It was five-'til-eight when Hinata arrived at the training ground and she sighed with relief when she saw that Kurenai was already at the grounds as well. She didn't give her a chance to lose her nerve as she walked swiftly up to her sensei.

"Kurenai-sensei I don't want this process to be any more difficult than need be." Hinata said with determination. Kurenai turned to Hinata with a slightly curious look in her eyes. "So I want you to understand that I know some of what Tsunade-sama is talking about."

"That is good Hinata, but slow down…." Hinata didn't hear her sensei as she began pulling of her back pack.

"I would like to skip as much of the introduction speech as possible so I brought these." Hinata said no longer looking at her sensei and dumping the contents of her bag on the ground.

"Oh my goodness Hinata." Kurenai gasped with slight shock.

"I know it isn't a good trait, but at least now you know that I know plenty of the words that go with seduction."

"I see that you and Kakashi have something in common. Wouldn't have guessed that." Hinata stiffened as a hard to recognize male voice spoke up behind her. All of the sudden she clutched her chest, because she could no longer breathe. She couldn't hear anything over the sound of her racing heart and the embarrassment screaming doubts through her head.

"Hinata calm down." Kurenai tried to say soothingly as she grabbed the shoulders of the young woman she had been in charge of since she was twelve. "Shit, BREATHE!" Hinata finally gasped for air. "Genma you couldn't have kept your mouth shut just this once?" Kurenai admonished. "Hinata, keep breathing." Kurenai said as an after thought as she bent down to pick up the back pack and fill it back up with all the romance novels now littering the ground in front of her feet.

"Kurenai please tell me a man did not just see all those?" Hinata whispered as she almost pleaded with her sensei to lie to her.

"Hinata, yes Genma-san saw your collection, but do not worry he already knows about the special training that you are here for. He is actually here to help me with training you."

"Why?" Hinata cried. She dropped her head in her hands.

"Well I tried to tell you to slow down." Kurenai sighed standing back up to hand her student her back pack. "Basically, I am not ready to go there yet either." She gestured to the back pack. "So we are going to start with a few options of ways to overtly hide weapons in ways that are hard to notice."

Hinata sighed as she turned around to face the object of her short panic attack. I can totally survive this. Embarrassment doesn't kill you have learned that the hard way, remember? "Hello, Genma-san." Hinata said slowly bowing slightly to the man.

"Oh please Kami don't bow to me and Genma works just fine. I feel like I know you well enough already." He laughed as Hinata went red.

"Okay, Hinata." Kurenai interrupted. "Let's start with Genma's reason for being here hair accessories." She said with a clap of her hands. "He's the most advanced senbon user in the village." Kurenai chuckled as Hinata looked between the two of them with a quizzical look.

"Oh okay." Kurenai quickly went to work twisting Hinata's hair up and placing senbons in it to hold it in place. Hinata was surprised when Kurenai handed her a mirror to show case the effect of the senbon hairstyle.

"I want you to keep this set of senbon and try practicing doing this yourself every day for the next month until you can do it within fifteen minutes, and remember you can ask any of your friends to help you if you can't figure it out for yourself." Hinata simply nodded as Kurenai told her it was time for her to leave.

"What I thought you were training me in this process?"

"I am, but you can't get a better senbon trainer than Genma and my hour is up. I got a child waiting for me remember Godmother?" Kurenai stated simply. Hinata nodded again feeling guilty for being nervous when Kurenai should be home with her son. "I leave her in your hands Genma." She waved to both of them and then was gone.

"Okay, before we work on getting them out of your hair, we'll start with a basic throwing lesson." Hinata nodded and followed Genma to the targets he had set up while Kurenai was doing her hair. Hinata appreciated his uncaring demeanor it made the situation much easier to deal with and she started to ease up.

Genma started by showing her the best ways to hold a senbon and the most effective ways to guide one when throwing it. He couldn't help, but be slightly impressed at how well she listened and how quickly she picked up the lesson. Also, besides the mental lashing he kept giving himself he was impressed by how well she pulled of the hair style. He knew he had seen more complicated ways of putting your hair up with the senbon but the loose bun with six senbon in it really looked good on the girl.

"So like this Genma-san." Hinata asked throwing another senbon and hitting the bull's eye again flawlessly.

"Please drop that horrific and then it would have been the perfect shot." Hinata rolled her eyes they had been training for an hour already and she was hitting the target perfectly or almost perfectly pretty consistently now. Genma decided that it was enough training for the day. "Well Hinata, I think that you are exceeding Kurenai's expectations as well as mine. Let's call it a night shall we." He said as he walked over to help her retrieve her senbon.

"That would be fine Genma-s… Genma. I need a good drink anyways." Genma almost dropped the senbon in his hand in shock. "Something wrong?" Hinata asked him as she took the senbon from him.

"No, you just shocked me for the third time today that is all." He said with a shrug as they walked out of the training field. Hinata didn't ask what the surprises of the day were as she blushed figuring at least the first one was too embarrassing to acknowledge again. "Hinata you need to practice the senbon for at least 30 minutes a day if you plan on getting off this forced leave in a month."

"Okay I definitely will practice an hour a day then. Thank you for the training Genma." She smiled at him before quickly racing off in the direction of down town.

"Tomor…" Genma started before he realized she was already out of ear shot. He shrugged smiling to himself as he realized that if he wanted to train her again tomorrow then he was going to either have to hunt her down tonight or tomorrow. He shrugged. He wasn't in a drinking mood so tomorrow would be soon enough. The poor girl need an emotional break for the day any ways. He shook his head as he thought the Hokage crazy for trying to get this girl ready for a recon mission in only a short time. "There is no way that girl will become a seduction expert in that time frame." He chuckled.

"Who's a seduction flunky?" Kakashi asked appearing beside Genma in the street.

"Hinata Hyuuga."

"The shy stuttering Hyuuga?"

"Yep, it seems Tsunade has put her into a seduction crash course. I was recruited to train her with the senbon by Kurenai."

"Well how'd that part of it go, since I already got the seduction jist of it?"

"She's a natural with it, and the senbon hairstyle doesn't look out of place on her like it doe on most." Kakashi only nodded and Genma could tell the odd man was scheming. "Don't get involved with her seduction training Kakashi she just started today."

"I wasn't going to involve myself." Genma gave him a sideways look. "Or anyone else. I was just thinking that I understood Tsunade's point of view of once." It was a shocked look he got this time. "Hinata is naturally attractive even in baggy clothes and sans make-up. She has medic training and she is an expert at gentle fist. Both jutsu can be deadly when used right and they both take very little time accomplish their outcomes. Then add in the Byakugan add she becomes an incredibly valuable resource to utilize for recon missions and naturally she is valuable for seduction. Only she needs the confidence to apply her natural weapons to a mission." Genma nodded slightly in understanding. He also felt uneasy about calling Hinata a resource, but he silently buried then deep within himself. Genma turned to head to his apartment and wasn't surprised when the Copy-nin disappeared. They had been friends to long for Genma not to be use to Kakashi's curiosity getting the best of him and then the man simply disappearing again.

As Genma reach his apartment his mind wondered back to all the books lying on the ground at Hinata's feet. He could have hung back longer, but when an opportunity as priceless as that arises he just never seemed to have the self-restraint to not say anything. He had almost felt bad when the girl almost fainted, but she had proved to recover better than he had expected.

Across town Hinata was well on her way through her third bottle of sake when Ino sat down on the bar stool beside her. Hinata silently slid the bottle between them. Ino silently responded by pouring herself a shot. It went without saying that they both were having a bad day. None of the four kounochi ever went to the bar alone unless it was solely to drink as much as they could humanly manage. They both sat silent through two more bottles.

"It's your turn to rant first." Ino offered.

"Only because I rarely have anything to rant about." Hinata chuckled lightly as Ino stuck out her tongue. "Tsunade took me off the active roster so that I can spend the next month working on my seduction ability for recon missions."

"Whoa, that's got to being driving you nuts. Did you start the training today?"

"Yeah, but I also only found out today." Hinata said as she pointed to her hair. "I'm going to need you to teach me how to do this, because I have to take this seriously and she said I could get help from you girls."

"Well then who did your hair?"

"Kurenai, she's my sensei in this, but only for the next two weeks. Right now I'm learning the art of the senbon from Shiranui Genma."

"Well that's definitely an easy place to start, but if Kurenai didn't do anything other than set you up to train with Genma do you think she's any more comfortable with this than you?"

"No, you should have seen her face when I showed her my romance novels in hopes of skipping a lecture about what I needed the training for." Ino chocked on her sake as she laughed. "Oh it gets better I was so nervous I dropped a whole back pack full at her feet and just after I explained that I knew what the training would entail. At that exact moment Genma spoke up to state the unknown common factor with Kakashi that I had." At that Ino laughed so hard she had to grab her ribs and wipe the tears from her eyes. Hinata glared.

"I'm not laughing at you exactly, but Hinata you are the only person I know of that ends up with stories like that. No one else is that unlucky."

"I know." She groaned dropping her head on the bar. "What went wrong with your day?" She asked hoping to divert attention from herself.

"I was informed today that my personal life is going to take a serious hit after the next academy graduation." It was Hinata's turn to choke, but she wasn't laughing.

"They're going to trust you with children?" It was the only thing she could think, but as soon as the words left her mouth she realized she had completely been tactless.

"Yeah, I know I am so disappointed." Hinata sighed in relief as Ino took no offense. "Why am I getting stuck with a genin team? I don't want to have to watch over a bunch of brats." She wailed. "How am I going to date with a bunch of annoying kids around? We all sucked as genin you know. I don't want to deal with a tiny whiny girl, a blonde with way too much energy, an extreme over eater, or even a twelve year old who has my ego! They're going to make me get gray hair." Hinata laughed as Ino even refused to be in charge of someone like herself.

"You get a quiet shy girl like me. Though that's probably not good either. A girl like I use to be would kill over at some of your antics." Hinata chuckled.

"Oh crap not only do I have to keep others from killing the brats, now I've got to worry that I might kill one."

"What about your clothes those pervy boys will have a hay day with you. You know like a miniature Kiba."

"No. I refuse to accept that kind of kid." Ino wailed again it was her turn to drop her head. "I have got to come up with an unbeatable team test." She said with a burst of enthusiasm. "I'll just have to talk to the old team Kakashi members and Kakashi himself. Problem solved!" Ino thrust her fist towards the ceiling signaling her awesome fix to her problem. Hinata lightly chuckled again. "So back to fixing your issue. How long did you say you have again?" It didn't bewilder Hinata any more at how fast Ino could switch topics or moods.

"I've got one month before I can even attempt to go back on the active roster."

"Well we'll start with a lesson in senbon hair styles after I teach you that one tomorrow afternoon. It's easy it won't take you long to figure out at all. You're going to need a shopping trip too. Are you allowed mission expenses on this?"

"I have no idea I was so frustrated and then bewildered I didn't ask, but I was told I'm getting B-ranked mission pay. I think it's because Tsunade knows I just moved out on my
own to be honest. I'll find out before we meet up tomorrow."

"You girls need another bottle?" The bartender interrupted. Both girls nodded and Ino took her turn paying for this one. Hinata shot a burst of chakra through her system to burn up some of the alcohol in her system. It was one of the perks of being medic trained you learned how to sober up quickly if called out for an emergency.

The girls spent the rest of their evening chatting about their various life issues of the day and then a fair amount of time was spent on Ino's dating life. Hinata never could understand how Ino could even keep up with all the guys she had let take her out to dinner. Where did the girl find all the time she always wondered, but she guessed that you always found time for the things you wanted to do. Hinata took the opportunity to chat Ino up about the latest shinobi gossip. She was surprised by some of the new couples, and was more surprised by the couple break ups that had happened.

"So, I have a boy question for you?" Ino suddenly asked just as they were getting up to head home.

"What's that?" Hinata asked breezily as she had left herself a little tipsy.

"How's everything going for you on the boy front?"

"I don't understand what you mean."

"You know, how's the dealing with Naruto going?"

"I am soo over it I can't even believe it sometimes." She giggled and spun around.

"Really? Any new interest then?" Ino asked. Shocked that the girl could so easily brush off the Naruto situation. Ino could still remember not that long ago having a tipsy Hinata crying, because giving up hurt more than being ignored.

"You know I hate to say it after the day I had, but that senbon teacher is pretty cute, and you know I think my type has gone in the opposite since getting over my childhood crush. I am totally digging the quiet and mysterious thing."

"Like Kakashi?"

"Yeah, exactly he gives off this air like no one is good enough to break through to his heart. It gives me chills."

"What?!" Ino laughingly exclaimed.

"What it's not like I want to jump his bones per say, but sometimes there are people, not Kakashi, that give off that same air and I get the urge to put myself to the test." Ino laughed.

"You have decided you like the hard to get? I'm glad I didn't have you as competition for Sasuke back then."

"Oh goodness, it is like Sasuke!" Hinata stopped in the middle of the road. "I am so glad I learned this without ever getting sucked into that disappointing fandom." Hinata faked a shiver. Ino simply held up her middle finger as she kept walking. Hinata laughed as she jogged to keep up.

"Despite your rudeness I am really happy that your heart has mended." She smiled.

"It has with a lot of help from you." Hinata said bumping her shoulder into Ino's. "Your encouraging words really helped. You were the only one willingly to share how you had felt and how you moved on." The girls hugged as they realized they were already at Ino's apartment. "See ya tomorrow." They waved and Hinata feeling a million times better skipped home.

Genma was still lying awake in his bed as he heard the person in the apartment above him get home. He chuckled to himself when heard the stumbles to reach the bed. He of only a few reasons a person would be stumbling to get to bed at this time of night, or well morning. It reminded him that Hinata had said she was going drinking. He took a moment to let himself sense the chakra above him, wondering if he'd be that lucky. It didn't take long and he learned he wasn't that lucky. He did get the feeling that he should know the chakra though, so he had at least met the person before.

He grumbled to himself as he rolled over yet again. He apparently needed a good drunk night too. It had not been his week either. His team had failed a mission, his friend was in the hospital, and then he was in charge of training a very unique kunoichi that was invading his extra brain space right now. How was a man like him supposed to teach her to be sexy while killing someone, she was so damn naïve. Why had Kurenai roped him into this? He cursed Kurenai as he drifted off to sleep.