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New story... its pretty experimental as I've never written action scenes before and I've never written something that didn't revolve completly around romance or smut. Seriously... I'm not ashamed to admit that ;)
Warnings: rating may go up. *gasp* Couple at the moment is KakaHina but it might change to SasuHina or GaaHina.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor do I plan to. The only thing I own is ... shuttup.
and quick note... Reviews are the bomb. Drop in give me a word or two. Tell me to write more smut... you know the usual XD
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"Your opponent is Neji" Shino eyed the girl beside him knowingly. "Give up" Shino hadn't missed the way she was shaking, how her hands were clenched so tight that her knuckles were white. He saw how her eyes kept flickering to the board displaying the name of "Hinata Hyuuga" and "Neji Hyuuga" like prizes, in disbelief. He also saw how her breathing had quickened with fear but what scared him the most was that she was steadying herself to take a step forward.
'Almost as if she were going to fight… no she wouldn't' He then realised she was going to fight her cousin, the Hyuuga genius and that she knew might be going to her death. He grabbed her arm and pulled her in front of him, ignoring the gasps that reverberated around them.
An Aburame never initiated contact, never.
"Hinata do not do this." His voice was even but Hinata knew that beneath that jacket were thousands, maybe millions of bugs capable of incapacitating her in an instant if she tried to fight her cousin. She looked to the hand that was clasping her forearm and saw the kikaichu already swarming. So she did what she could and blocked all of his tenketsu. Teardrops stained her cheeks as she watched him slump against the wall, paralyzed but not in pain.
"No, I will fight him." Her voice was free of her stutter as she whispered. She then repeated louder as her eyes swept across her now very large audience. "I will fight him." Her voice was bold with adrenaline as she looked back at her paralyzed teammate fondly, recognizing the lengths he went to, to keep her safe. "I will not let you down Shino-kun or Kiba-kun, I will fight to prove myself for myself and no other because that is my ninja way."
Shuffling out of her jacket, Hinata ignored the comments and exclamations that went around, especially ignoring the ones about her appearance underneath the jacket. The jacket was her last vestige against the hurt of the world and to be a shinobi she had to remove it. From across the arena she missed her cousin removing his headband, showing the glowing green brand across his forehead, for the first time showing his peers his caged bird seal.
The brand that exposed their family for what they were, heartless, cruel and hell bent on obedience.
The stifling silence thickened as the two white eyed ninjas, stepped out onto the brown dirt that their predecessors had all stood upon, the same dirt on which would be stained with each others blood. Young appearances aside these were two shinobi trained in the ways of the world like no other, who were ready to kill for what they believed in. Blood and death were what was destined for the children in this arena and they were part of the handful that knew it all too well. One carried the burden of her family's pride and the scars of her father's insecurities while the other carried the burden of fate and the weight of imprisonment.
They were family but in the world of shinobi that wasn't enough to hold them together. The unsettling stares of teammates and teachers felt as though they were looking straight into their bodies, which was ironic as they were the only two people in the room with the power to do that. Famous white eyes met each other as both Neji and Hinata settled into modified jyuuken stances.
The match was called to start and no movement was made. Both had their kekkei genkai's were activated.
Time stretched on but the first strike made was not physical.
"Forfeit or die."
His only response was to dodge a flying kick aimed at his head. A series of kicks were then directed at him, to which he swiftly countered and dodged. Batting away her kicks with hands glowing blue with chakra. Every time he touched her leg a bruise would form, his chakra bruising her at the slightest touch. They broke away suddenly as Hinata changed her tactics seeing the plain and obvious difference in their strength. They used the same fighting style but the way in which they executed it was as different as black and white.
Neji is meticulous, thinking through his every move making sure that everything is logical and needed; a true soldier. While Hinata is like water, fluid and uncontrolled going with what comes to her, deadly in its unpredictability but weak in its initial strength. A strength like Hinata's had to be honed and constantly tested and is not helped by the repetition and block formality of the traditional Hyuuga battle style. The one Neji so proficiently excelled at. More hits were taken and many were deflected. The damage to Neji was minimal while Hinata was struggling to slow her breathing, her laboured breaths loud against his even breathing.
"Weak." Hinata's soft voice barely carried over to Neji and that gave him sick pleasure knowing that she could barely keep up with him. The heiress to the clan which has taken his freedom could not keep up with him a branch member. Oh yes, Neji liked this feeling. He didn't acknowledge what she was saying till she started repeating it again and again. "Weak weak weak weak weak wea-…"
"Hinata-sama forfeit now… it is your destiny to be weaker than me, stop this now" he cut her off getting bored of her self-loathing. She had no idea of real pain, she was part of the reason why his father had died, all to protect the clan's precious heiress. What a shame that the heiress was so weak.
"NO!" That was the first time anyone had ever heard Hinata yell and the silence that followed it was deafening. Neji stopped preparing his chakra in shock.
"You are the one who is weak Neji-niisan" She took a tentative steep forward, her hands covered in blue flames as she settled into her gentle fist stance.
"You are consumed with a hatred for me because I'm part of the main house, when you are constantly trying to prove yourself worthy to be in the main house!" her eyes were like ice as she raced forward. They were on par, matching each other kick for kick, punch for punch. They broke away once again, Hinata's arm hung uselessly at her side all of its tenketsu points blocked while Neji shifted his weight onto his left leg as his right leg had a large gash running down the side of it from a kunai.
"Who do you think was the one who received father's beatings for protesting against your seal? Me!" Neji ignored her, what good would it do to believe her lies? He rushed forward and reappeared behind her in the air, delivering a chakra enhanced kick to the left of her spine right behind her lungs that propelled her forward till she rolled along the floor, unmoving. Slowly and shakily she stood up coughing blood into her hand. She wiped her hand along her shirt watching, not caring that it seeped through and stained. Now her shirt was as stained as she was, useless.
He stood away from her unmoving.
"Why do you stand up? Fate is something decided at birth and no matter what you do, no person can escape their destiny."
His cold voice cut through her. She knew that he didn't believe her but she also knew that she was standing on a precipice and that her next words would decide how this match ended.
"I stand because I've decided that it's my destiny to be strong. What about you Neji-niisan? What's your destiny?" Her lavender eyes glinted like steel, like a true Hyuuga as he froze and heard her words for what they were, the unmistakable truth that he'd been trying to deny. His eyes narrowed and his body started shaking with rage. What did she know of destiny? She was free while he would always be a caged bird, obedient and imprisoned. Rage filled his mind as his whole world squared onto the ninja in front of him. Killing intent was choking the air. The sound of shuffling was all that could be heard for the next minutes as the two Hyuugas were pitted against each other using their own variations of the gentle fist style. No loud smacks were heard as neither needed brute strength to fight.
From afar the spectators watched in awe as two very different styles of gentle fist clashed. Neji started concentrating his chakra into his hands steadily preparing for the final attack. Hinata deliberated her next move as he rushed forward, hands glowing with concentrated chakra. Preparing to dodge she wondered why he would do such a thing
"No…" she recognized this, if it hit her she would go into cardiac arrest. Panicking she quickly made the hand signs to activate the caged bird seal which glowed sickly green against Neji's white pallor. Neji lost focus as he recognized the hand seal, panic settled in quickly before being replaced by rage just as fast. He then did the unthinkable, he missed.
The genius prized by the Hyuuga, missed.
His hand had been angled higher than intended and the trajectory of the attack was changed. Instead of a fatal hit to the heart his hand made contact with her throat, breaking his cousin's vocal cords and fracturing her vertebrae. Before he could inject any more chakra to make the move fatal he was kicked back by a jonin. Hinata had no time to activate the seal when blinding pain shot through her. Her hands flew to her face as she tried to scream.
Her severed vocal chords making no sound only a bloody gurgle as the pain intensified so much she blacked out.
Medics rushed to Hinata, not even bothering with a stretcher, hands already glowing green with chakra. Desperately trying to heal the damage and stop the blood. If they didn't stop the bleeding now she would die. It was a reality all shinobi had to learn to deal with but none were expecting it so early. From the sideline a devastated Shino watched from the sideline while being held back by a crying Kurenai. The jonin holding back Neji struggled as he fought back like an enraged animal. Screaming protests until they were forced to knock him out and drag him off to the infirmary.
The image of blood coursing down Hinata's throat as she tried to scream and the picture of her eyes filled with terror and pain was burned into the mind's of all shinobi present. A dark atmosphere hung around all the shinobi as they all watched the now blood soaked medics call for Kakashi, the only able to put Hinata in a coma. Sharingan activated Kakashi swooped low and used his fingers to pry her eyelids apart before looking into her glazed eyes, he then shunshined out of the arena holding Hinata, into the infirmary.
The exams were postponed till the next day in respect.
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