Slight Hesitance
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Okay, so I'm restarting the whole 'Sincere' fanfic, since I didn't like it so much. The new title is 'Slight Hesitance'. I don't think many of you would mind much, since there was only 2 chapters.
Summary: After being sent to this dimension by a scroll, Hinata was poisoned by the APTX 4869 after she had stumbled upon Gin, her chakra still depleted from a previous fight. Now in a 7-year old body, she is found unconcious by Edogawa Conan and his friend.
Disclaimer: I own neither Detective Conan nor Naruto.
Tsunade glanced at the four teenagers facing her, "So, you guys finally decided to show up, huh?"
Naruto sheepishly grinned at her, rubbing his head nervously. Hinata twiddled with her fingers, "G-gomenasai, T-Tsunade-sama," the shy girl bowed her head.
Tsunade crossed her arms, an eyebrow raised, "Oh really? So why are you late?"
Sai remained silent, while Shikamaru answered, "Naruto here wanted to stop at Ichiraku's for 'a few bowls'," the chunin shrugged, "Turns out, a few means a few dozen for him."
"Oh well, it can't be helped," Tsunade sighed, "Naruto's stomach is like a never-ending abyss."
"Hey!"
Naruto's protest was ignored. He pouted to himself, turning his head away. He couldn't help it! Really! He was so starved!
"Anyway..." Tsunade drawled, her hands grabbing a small number of papers, "This is an S-rank—"
"Alright a mission!" Naruto cheered, "Not only that! It's S-rank!"
Tsunade shot a glare at the hyperactive boy, "As I was saying, before I was interrupted, this is an S-rank mission that I'm assigning you."
She handed the papers to the lazy chunin, who skimmed them, "Heh, sounds pretty easy, for an S-rank."
Hinata raised her hand, "B-but we're t-too inexperienced for th-this rank, Tsunade-sama."
"That's because a few B-rank missing-nins stole a highly classified document. Your mission is to retrieve it."
Tsunade nodded, "Alright, you're dismissed. Meet me at the gates in 30 minutes. Pack your bags."
The shinobi nodded, hands doing the appropriate hand seals, before they poofed away, leaving leaves that twirled around with the wind.
Tsunade grinned, "Alright! It's sake time—"
A hand stopped Tsunade's, it's fingers gripping onto her wrist. Tsunade looked up, sweatdropping, "Hehehe... Shizune! How's your day today?"
"Tsunade-sama!" As Shizune continued to rant, Tsunade's shoulder drooped.
My sake...
She banged her head on the table. Shizune didn't notice, opting to continue her rant.
The four shinobi returned to their respective homes, getting ready for the mission.
Hinata placed her pouch on her futon, placing her weapons inside. She did the same for her shuriken holster, only with shuriken.
She took her usual mission backpack from its place on the floor, neatly packing a bento, a towel, bandages, a few of her clan's ointments, and a copy of an album.
She paused, bringing the album up, flicking through pages. She smiled blissfully at the pictures, instantly being reminded of the special memories she kept stored in her mind.
Hinata liked bringing the copy with her during missions. When she is unsure of herself, she would always flick through the pages and tell herself, "You have made it this far. Why give up when you can continue?"
She slung her bag over her shoulder, holding one strap.
She turned her head to look at the clock that hung on the wall. It's still 8 minutes until the agreed time, Hinata thought.
So she began to leisurely walk out of her room, nearly bumping onto her cousin, Neji.
Neji nodded at her, greeting, "Ohayo, Hinata-sama."
"O-ohayo, Neji-niisan."
He glanced at her backpack from the corners of his eyes, "On your way to a mission?"
"H-hai."
"Very well, good luck."
"A-arigato, Niisan..." Hinata smiled at him, raising her hand to wave at him, turning around as she jogged to the door.
"J-ja!" She slid the door open.
"Ja," Neji nodded, turning back to his walk.
After Hinata had slid the door shut, Neji smiled.
No, not a smirk!
A real, genuine, sincere smile!
And the reason he was smiling was because of Hinata. Yes, the shy girl had grown up. She was getting stronger, he noticed once when they were training.
He would block and block and Hinata would occasionally slip past and hit him.
He was proud to call Hinata his cousin, proud enough that he even thinks of Hinata as his sister.
"Alright. The leader for this mission is Shikamaru," Tsunade nodded at Shikamaru, "Second-in-command is Hinata," she nodded.
"The site of the scroll should be somewhere in this forest here," she gestured to the forest, "They just took it awhile ago so they won't be too far away."
"Understood," Shikamaru said.
Tsunade smirked, "Come back soon, you hear?"
"Yeah, yeah, let's start the mission already, Obaa—"
The Legendary Sucker punched Naruto in the gut, forcing him to fly away, much like the way Sakura does.
"I-itaiiii!" Naruto whined, a fountain of tears falling down comically.
Shikamaru sighed miserably, "This is gonna be a long mission."
Hinata smiled at him reassuringly, dropping her hand on his shoulder in comfort, while Sai simply smiled his usual fake smile.
After Naruto had finally stopped crying, they jumped of their places on the ground, hopping on trees rapidly.
Tsunade looked at the disappearing dots of lavender, orange, green and black, "Maa, I hope they accomplish this mission. That scroll is really important."
She positioned his back to the wall, "Sensei said that if anyone got their hands on that thing... Then the other dimensions are doomed."
"But anyway," she brought a hand to her hair, brush her bangs out of her face, "I have faith in them."
Hinata panted, narrowly avoiding a dozen of kunai, sweat dripping off her face. Her byakugan blazed, searching for the opponent's tenketsu, "Juken!"
She dodged as another appeared above, her palm hitting his chest. She slipped into a stance, ready to take on any more of them.
They had underestimated the amount of missing-nins. It seems that Tsunade is a bit like Naruto, saying 'few' when they really mean 'a few dozen'.
Sai drew a couple of lions, Shikamaru was beating his opponent with his strategy, and Naruto... Naruto had unleashed a large amount clones that filled all the spaces.
The three sweatdropped at the flood of Naruto clones as they charged at the poor, oblivious nins.
"ALRIGHT!"
"IT'S TIME TO KICK ASS!"
"WOOHOO!"
"TAKE THIS!"
They watched in silence, waiting patiently for Naruto to realize that the missing-nins were all dead.
Shikamaru wiped his sweat, Naruto falling his example, although more exaggeratedly.
Sai placed his scroll and paintbrush back to its original places.
They then turned to Hinata, who nodded. She activated her byakugan once again.
Hinata bit her lip in concentration, skimming the forest. She noticed no hidden traps, but noted that there was a strange light around the scroll. She glanced at Shikamaru, silently asking him through her eyes.
He nodded in approval, his gaze sliding onto the scroll.
She walked to it, observing the strange light that seemed to brighten when she came close.
Her hand raised over the scroll, slowly dropping down until her hand hit the scroll. She carefully took it out of its place on the ground.
She let her hand fall to her said, returning back to the others.
Naruto hugged Hinata, "Alright! Now that we got this mission wrapped up—"
When Naruto had suddenly embraced the now blushing madly girl, she had dropped the scroll in surprise, forcing itself to unfurl.
The bright light, it was glaringly bright that Hinata was temporarily blind.
The others, however, weren't, since they didn't see the light, having no byakugan.
The three gasped as some kind of force that they couldn't see, except for Hinata, grabbed the girl, who had her hand out, trying to desperately hold onto anything.
Naruto dashed, his hand out, "HINATA!"
But he was too late.
Hinata was taken.
Shikamaru and Sai sprinted to his side. Naruto shook his head, dropping it low.
"Mendokuse, what are we gonna tell the Godaime?"
The jinchuuriki drowned in his thoughts, all saying one thing.
Hinata...
TBC
Soo... This chapter is really short, but I'm hoping to make it longer in the future.