Aktasuki horses! Hope you guys like this version better.
Hinata poked her head into the stables. Her white eyes scanned the new horses. She was never much of a horse girl, but her father insisted on her learning. Apparently there could be times where ninjas had to get somewhere quicker than usual and to do that they usually needed a nin-horse.
Hinata walked timidly into the stable. She walked up to the first stall. There a giant horse snorted and looked down at her. It was a blue horse with a darker blue main and tail. It had pure mischief in it's eyes. Hinata reached out and petted the horse's soft muzzle.
"I wouldn't do that," A calm voice advised
"O-oh!" Hinata swung around to see the ranch owner. She had long brown hair that went down to mid-back length. She wore a dark green shirt and had black pants, "Sorry."
"Oh, it's okay. I just didn't want you to lose your hand!" The women laughed, "You're the Huuyga I'm supposed to teach? Alright!" The women Held up a white lead rope, "Lets begin. I'm Fang by the way. We'll put you on…" She surveyed the stalls, "Well we got nine new horses. I'll put you on…actually since I'm so nice, I'll let you choose the horse you'll ride. You can choose the horse that almost bucked me off and tried to trample me several times, Temper. The horse that tried to rip my arm off with his sharp teeth, Zilla, or you can choose the sweetheart that let me ride her, Dolly."
"Umm," Hinata stared at her bazaar new sensei. Did she really even have a choice? "Dolly please."
Fang smirked and walked down the aisle with Hinata trailing behind her. They reached a stall marked 'Dolly' and Fang slid the stall door open and put a halter on the hose inside. She was beautiful. Dolly had white fur with a long blue main and tail. The strange thing was that someone had put a paper flower behind her ear.
"Alright Hinata," Fang had put on a saddle and attached a lead rope to the halter, "Follow me to the arena.
As they walked Hinata observed all of the new nin-horses. The one she had saw before had a label jaws on his stall door. All the males were stallions. There Was Clay a blond horse with a really long main and tail. Then there was trickster a black horse with a orange star and muzzle. Next was Raven a pure black horse. Zilla was a half black half white horse who had really sharp teeth and dark green mane and tail. Gramps was a copper horse with black stripes all over him (Even on his muzzle) Temper was a pure white horse with purple eyes and a weird medallion. Roach was a white horse with black hair (Creepy) Then there was Pierce who was orange with a black star and marks on his face. Last was tomato a light red horse with a dark red main and tail.
"Wow," Hinata muttered
"What?" Fang asked, "Oh, yeah most of the new male horses are pretty big. At least Raven, Clay, and Tomato are a hand less in size than the others. They're pretty strange. I'm not even sure of their breeds…"
"Yeah," Hinata nodded. She was already afraid of riding a horse, but riding one from that height might actually kill her from fright.
They had reached the door of the arena and stepped in to a gigantic room. The floor was mostly dirt and there were some blue barrels and jumps spread around the vast room.
"Oh, woops." Fang stopped, "Hinata can you get the fly spray. Even this late in summer there are pretty bad horseflies. It's back in the tack room on the table to the right."
"Hia," Hinata turned around, glad to delay her first time on a horse a little longer. She re-entered the stable. All of the horse's ears perked towards her. The stallions were the only ones in the stable. Fang had mentioned something wanting to keep the stallions and Dolly separate in their own herd. They kept looking at door ignoring Hinata, "F-Fangs back in the arena with D-Dolly."
Okay, she was going crazy. Hinata felt her-self flush in embarrassment, why had she explained the situation to the horses? The stallions had their ears trained on her now. Hinata began her walk to the tack room feeling on edge.
After she got the fly spray, she headed back almost at a trot of her own. That is until a big white muzzle grabbed her arm.
Hinata yelped in surprise and froze. Looking back she nearly screamed as fierce purple eyes inspected her.
"F-Fang!" Hinata squeaked, unable to take her eyes off the horse.
"Temper!" Fang roared as she flew in Trailing Dolly behind her. She forced two finger into Temper's mouth and pushed against soft gum until his mouth slid open. Hinata was surprised by the impressed look she received from the Burnett, "Well I think he likes you."
"W-what!" Hinata gave Fang a strange look
"Yeah, he does," Fang assured, "Wanna try riding him?"
"NO!" Hinata shrieked and blinked in surprise. She hadn't meant to sound harsh…she was just scared.
"You don't believe me…" Fang scratched her head thinking, "If you don't trust me how do you expect me to teach you? Well, I could always prove I'm right….and I know I am."
"How?" Hinata wondered.
"Like this," Fang opened the stall and pushed Hinata in.
The blue haired girl yelped and fell to the sawdust covered floor. The giant white horse jumped around and lowered it's head to meet Hinata's eyes.
"H-hello," The Huuyga had sudden images of her maimed body and felt her heart pound inside her chest. That is until the horse nuzzled it's muzzle into her chest, "YELP"
"Yeah it's male," Fang nodded in amusement and cracked the door enough to let Hinata out, "Okay come back out here,"
"Okay first I'll show you how to mount." Fang led Dolly over to a mounting block. It looked like a stepladder almost, "Step up. Good now put your foot in the stirrup. Your other foot," Hinata blushed and obeyed, "Good! Now pull your-self up and throw your leg over her back." Hinata was on, "Great! Now don't fall off,"
Hinata sat perfectly still allowing her hips to move with the horse. Fang adjusted her position and lengthened the stirrups a bit. Then she led the horse out to the middle of the arena and clicked her tongue.
"Woah,," Hinata whimpered and grabbed with horses main. It felt as if she was going to simply slip off at any minute.
"Don't worry sweetie," Fang cooed, "That's all how we feel when we first ride. It'll get more fun after a few lessons. Although your legs will hurt. Just be thankful it's not winter when your legs freeze!"
"Hmm," Was all Hinata could respond with as the horse started to slow for the scared girl's sake. They were going in circles around Fang who was giving more and more lead rope to lengthen the circle.
"Now don't squeeze with you legs," Fang commanded, "Otherwise the horse will go in a trot! Oh not with your knees either deer, then Dolly will stop," Hinata started to get used to the feeling of riding, "That's it relax and let your legs go like a washcloth or a rag doll."
Hinata smiled she bet Naruto would love horseback riding too! Maybe they could ride to gather it would be like a…No he liked Sakura not her. Hinata's head fell.
"Keep your head up!" Fang quickly warned. Too late.
Dolly froze and backed up slightly. Hinata's gaze snapped back up, "W-what happened? Is Dolly okay?" She patted the horses gorgeous white hair.
"Haha!" Fang laughed at the girls innocence and concern, "It's okay Hinata! Dolly probably just thought you saw a snake! You see ninja-horses like Dolly is trained to be weary of enemies and usually get over little problems like that, but Dolly hasn't been trained that much yet, so she's still like a normal horse." Dolly snorted and glared at Fang for being called normal, "Well some can understand us pretty well than again…You want to try a trot?"
"N-no Thank You!" Hinata replied quickly, "I'm just getting used to a walk."
"Okay we'll start out slow," Fang nodded as if talking to her-self, "Then we'll work our way up."
"Okay," Hinata realized something, "I'm not wearing a helmet!"
"You won't have time to take one on and off during a mission anyways," Fang shrugged. That's when Hinata decided she may not survive these lessons.
Hinata sat on a bench in the stables rubbing her sore legs. Fang had told her to leave whenever and had left after feeding all the horses and letting all, but the new nine out in the fields for the night. She had muttered something about not wanting any unwanted ponies popping up because of the stallions.
The blue haired girl sighed. She limped over to Dolly's stable and patted her neck. She even fed her a horse treat. Fang had gave her a few sliced up apples.
"You're a very nice girl," Hinata softly talked to the horse, "Thanks for being, so gentle. It was my first time riding a horse."
There was a neigh in the stable opposite of Clay. Trickster had poked his head out of the little window on his stall bars. Someone had opened all the horses little windows. Trickster bobbed his head and pawed the ground insisting on an apple piece of his own.
Hinata walked over and fed him and he nuzzled her. She turned and realized all eyes were on her. For she was the keeper of the precious apples. She blushed even though they were just horses. She looked at the first stall where Jaws was grinning? Opposite of him was Raven who didn't seemed interested. Down a row was Clay and opposite of him was Tomato. Then down a row was Roach *Shiver* opposite of him was a supply room. Down a row was Gramps and opposite of him was Temper. Down a row was Zilla and opposite of him was the nuzzling Trickster. Pierce was down a row staring at Dolly who was opposite of him staring back.
Hinata went down the rows giving them all apple pieces. She could have sworn Zilla had a different Winnie then before.
When she got to Temper who she was still scared of, because of earlier events. He took the apple piece and even nuzzled into her chest...again…
She went home tired and hungry from the ride. She fell asleep in her nice soft bed. Almost as soft as Dolly's fur.
Sigh I haven't written in forever. Okay hears the first chapter of the new version. Feel free to comment on any chapter. Flaming is allowed if and only if you use your account names.