Hey there everyone! Welcome to the first "story" in my collection of forgotten plots. I've decided to upload unfinished stories, as mentioned in my "Tales of the Kunoichi" chapter 18, or 19 if you count the extra chapter. But anyways, these are all unfinished ideas I wrote a long time ago. Most of them are from at least a year ago, at minimum, although I have a few I've written the year this is going up. Doesn't mean they have too much to 'em, but hey, the idea is there.
Anyways, the main idea is not only to potentially inspire people with my little plots, and please tell me if it does!, but also to see if anyone is interested in me writing out one of them on the side. A majority of these stories have plot lines I've written down somewhere, so the original "idea" won't change too much, but I simply lost the drive to really complete them back then. With a majority of my writing focus on "Tales of a Kunoichi", the updates on a secondary story will probably be rather slow... But anyways!
Since this is going to be under a "Naruto" label, I decided to start us off with an old Naruto/Ranma ½ cross over. Classic me, huh? But it's a bit... different than what "Tales of" is doing. You'll need to know more about Ranma ½ than that one, too. But anyways! Let's see what people think of..!
A Heart Swap – Hyuuga Ranma
Even Jounin make mistakes; they reacted a moment to late to stop Neji from destroying Hinata's heart. Losing the Hyuuga heiress was a cost in itself; having her replaced with a proud and powerful martial artist was another matter entirely. Ranma ½ Crossover
Chapter 1: A Heart Breaking Wish
Ranma Saotome, currently the heiress to the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts, was getting increasingly frustrated as she stared up at the sky while laying in a water filled pond, courtesy of her so called fiancee, Akane Tendo.
The girl just didn't understand that her food, and fighting skills were awful. Ranma had been around with the girl for nearly three years and she still didn't understand that Ranma wasn't insulting her; she was just being honest. Lying didn't get you anywhere but caught in a web of problems...
Apparently so did telling the truth.
Still, despite Akane's lack of skill, she still had knack for throwing Ranma into pools of water, usually because Ranma allowed her to and because of her own magnetic attraction to water. Water just followed her everywhere, like it was trying to pull her in. This, of course, triggered her curse... The curse of the Nyannichuan or The Spring of the Drowned Girl.
Cold water, when poured on her body, caused her body to shift and change into that of a rather buxom red head that was known as the "Red-Haired Goddess" by anyone who didn't know her true form that came back when hot water was poured on her form; that of a tall and powerful man that was known as the "God-Slayer" by anyone who knew of his power.
It was a known fact by anyone who challenged Ranma before he received his title that he was deadly powerful and he only grew more powerful as time went on; ultimately ending the stream of challengers as he began to simply take them out with a flick of his wrist because of how weak they were.
No one, not even the Grand Master of the Anything Goes School, was able to match Ranma in sheer power and skill, not after he destroyed the Phoenix God Saffron. Of course, for all his power and skill, he was still unable to get out of the mess his father had put him in.
He was engaged to three separate females at the moment, each having a rather valid claim on his hand in marriage but none of them holding his heart. He had thought, briefly, that he loved Akane, but after a failed wedding that they were willing to go through with, Ranma discovered that Akane had hidden a water-filled cask that held the only way to cure his curse.
After that, Ranma distanced himself from Akane to a degree, going so far as to run ahead when they were going to school or leaving if she came into the Dojo. It wasn't the fact that he had lost the cure that upset him, something that seemed to completely baffle Akane, but the fact that she hid it from him simply because she couldn't trust him with it.
Still, dinner was another matter. He couldn't avoid dinner without Akane hurting someone else so he sacrificed himself once more to her awful cooking and received a harsh kick in the face when he noted it was even worse than the last thing she cooked.
It was quickly becoming tiring.
It had been nearly a year since Nabiki had left for college and Ranma was just about to get out of High School; where he would then be his own man to a degree. It was something he couldn't wait for because he would finally be away from Akane and, more importantly, the chaos that revolved around the Tendo Dojo.
With a sigh, Ranma got to her feet, using a burst of her ki energy to evaporate the water on her body. She just made her way towards the front gate, completely ignoring Akane's sudden cry, "Wait you asshole! Get back here! I'm not done with you yet!" Ranma just rolled her blue eyes and didn't acknowledge that she heard her.
Her walk quickly turned into a burst of speed that would make anyone green with envy, her body going across the town of Nerima in nearly an instant. She settled on top of one of the taller buildings in the area and simply sat down to think, crossing her legs and arms with a frown on her face.
What would it be like to simply leave all of this behind? Get away from Akane and her insufferable family. Ranma could safely say that only Mousse and Ryoga were good company now, with Mousse finally seeming to realize Ranma didn't want anything to do with Shampoo and both of them realizing Ranma was completely out of their league.
But even they had their annoying faults and if they acted out of 'character' in front of others, such as the old Amazon matriarch Cologne, then it would start a barrage of questions that none of them wanted to bother answer. The only real thing Ranma could do to get out of the mess was leave; leave and find a way to make sure they never found her.
The only problem was how to do that, but for once the Gods seemed to be on Ranma's side and answered her plea, though not in the way she wished.
Ranma groaned, feeling her chest suddenly tightening up and, before she could even let out a scream of pain, she fell back with glassy eyes and blood dripping out of her mouth onto the roof she was resting on.
It would be some time before anyone found Ranma's unconscious body, but her mind was already long gone...
"You are weak, Hinata." Came the spiteful voice of one Neji Hyuuga, cousin of the very woman he was insulting as they stood across from each other in a large arena. It was the middle of the Chunin exams in a large tower the Genin had fought to reach and now were fighting a series of preliminary bouts to see who would go to the next stage.
Sadly for Hinata, she was 'fated' to go against her cousin that she loved dearly, despite his extreme hatred for the Main House of the Hyuuga Family, which Hinata was the heiress of. Even as he insulted her, she felt nothing but love for her cousin and it showed as she smiled softly at him, even as blood dripped from her mouth from one of Neji's earlier attacks.
"I won't go back on my word, Neji-niisama." She whispered softly, her eyes showing compassion that angered Neji even further. "I will change the Hyuuga, for the better, and I will win here. I swear on my Nindo, my Ninja way." The Hyuuga truly were one of the most broken clans, despite their arguments otherwise.
Neji was apart of that broken chain; a line of hatred created from the Hyuuga sacrificing Neji's father to Hinata's and then branding the boy with the Caged Bird Seal, preventing him from ever disobeying a member of the main house and destroying his eyes should he ever die. His hatred was born through ignorance and mistrust, causing him to blame others that had no hand in his pain.
But he was far too young and inexperienced to realize his folly; that hatred blinded those who lost themselves to it, no matter how powerful they were.
With a scream of anguish that was unfitting for the young and powerful Hyuuga, he charged forward, intent on ending Hinata's life then and there. The Jounin in the room, who were set there to watch their own Genin fight and to make sure no one died for no reason, tensed up and prepared to intervene in case Hinata could not dodge the blow that was aimed for her heart.
They were stopped as a loud voice rang out, threatening to deafen those closest to it's source, "Go Hinata! You can do it! Show him who's boss!" It was a blonde boy, his bright blue eyes wide with excitement and care for his lavender-eyed friend. It was his words that previously got the girl to fight, to make it so she didn't feel the need to back down to any challenge that presented itself.
His words gave her power.
'Naruto-Kun... believes in me!' Hinata thought with a smile, watching the approaching form of her cousin with tears brimming in her eyes. She would not fall here... Not without proving that Neji was wrong, that she, someone who failed at everything, could become someone great.
With her own cry, she met the surprised Neji head on, slamming a charged palm strike into his neck and shoulder, sending him skidding across the ground with his head hitting against the wall. She panted, her eyes half open as she stared at his fallen form and he made no attempt to get up; the chakra point in his spine had been temporarily shut off, preventing him from moving.
There was silence in the room, the only sound being Hinata's heavy panting, before Hayate walked up to the girl. The brown-haired Jounin slowly lifted his hand, nodding. "Winner... Hinata Hyuuga!" A loud cry came from the blonde again, but it was silenced as Hinata suddenly fell to her knees, causing all eyes to widen as blood poured from her mouth.
Hinata had hit her target dead on; resulting in her victory... But so did Neji. With her heart nearly completely obliterated, her life was quickly ending. Still... despite all the pain, despite all her depression as she knew her life was going to end, she still turned her head up to look towards the blonde who had pushed her to victory.
With a bloody smile, she held her hand up and gave him a small thumbs up, before collapsing to the ground, the last thing in her sight being Naruto's surprised stare.
Hyuuga Hinata was dead.
...Or so they thought.
The medic Nin that had grabbed both Hyuuga off the field to heal them were staring with wide eyes as Hinata suddenly sat up, blood dripping from her mouth and a frown on her face. They had her on a rolling bed with the intention of delivering her straight to the Hyuuga compound in the village, but hadn't even got two feet from the medical bay.
She coughed once, then twice, before shaking her head and looking around with a surprisingly blank look on her face, despite having just came back from the dead. She suddenly snapped her head towards the head doctor, who had just been about to lean over her to preform a diagnostic Jutsu on her body, but was now just staring at her with wide eyes.
She had been dead, not two seconds before, and now she was staring at him with a blank expression. Had he not been trained for the most stressful situations, he probably would have fainted as she spoke...
"Where the hell am I now?"
Chapter 1 – End: The first chapter ended up being way shorter than I though, while the "thick" part of this story came in the second chapter. Since it's the first story, I decided to just include it!
Chapter 2: New friends! New enemies! New... body?
Ranma was not happy, at all. There had been an odd pain in her chest when she was on the roof of a building, and now there were four men in white staring at her as if she were a ghost. The pain in her chest was gone but she could feel blood drying in her mouth, meaning she must have got hit pretty hard for blood to come out of the inside.
That or Akane's cooking affected her body worse than she thought it did.
She could feel that this body was not like it was before. Her chest felt a tad lighter, her limbs felt heavier, and she could feel a dull ache throughout her body. It also felt... smaller, more compact but just as agile, if not more so, than her normal body. She'd have to test it out later to be sure, but Ranma was certain that she was currently not in her own body and she didn't figure the doctors were any help unless this was their fault.
Which she doubted since they looked as surprised as she was.
Still, she was getting increasingly annoyed by the way they just stared at her and she let out a sigh. "Seriously, where am I? This doesn't look like the clinic." She noted that her voice was different, softer but still as attractive as it normally was. She spit out some of the blood in her mouth before starting to hop off the bed, which seemed to finally snap the men in white out of their trance.
"W.. Wait! Hyuuga-Sama! You mustn't get up..." One spoke up, trying to push her back onto the bed but to no avail as he found himself easily overpowered by the girl, even though being called "Hyuuga-Sama" had left Ranma too shocked to really try.
'Hyuuga-Sama? Okay Ranma, stay calm. You've dealt with this before... sort of. Just act aloof and get more information.' She turned her gaze towards the man and pushed his hand off, a frown on her face. "I feel fine. What happened?" She sat on the bed, stretching her arms above her head and letting out a tired yawn. Boy, her body suddenly felt rather sore, as if she just got beat up by Ryoga in a spar.
No way that happened though.
The man seemed obviously surprised at her question, as if he expected her to know the answer. "Uh, well... Hyuuga-Sama, you fought Neji-San," She arched her eyebrow at the spiteful way Neji was said, but didn't comment, "And received a crippling blow to your Tenketsu on your heart... To be honest, Hyuuga-Sama, you shouldn't be alive." Ranma just shrugged her shoulders, even as she puzzled out the information.
'I don't recall anyone named Neji and I definitely don't recall fighting. Something weird is going on around here... Again.' Ranma briefly wondered why everything happened to her in some way or form, but was brought out of her musings as the doctor spoke up again.
"Hyuuga-Sama..." Ranma held her hand up, stopping him as she stared down the hallway, a frown on her face. Something was coming and it was powerful, not nearly close to her level, or even Shampoo's, but enough to warrant her being wary.
A moment later, a beautiful woman turned the corner, her red eyes showing extreme worry that changed to surprised happiness as her eyes met Ranma's. In an instant, faster than Ranma could blink, but not faster than she could see, the woman was pushing Ranma's head into her chest and the martial artist could feel tear drops dripping onto her head, though she was blinded by the mounds pushing against her face.
"Oh Hinata! I thought you were a goner! I'm so glad you're okay!" The woman cried out, pushing Ranma's face even closer her chest. Normally such a stunt would cause Ranma to blush and push away, but she simply sat there, too shocked to return the gesture as the woman worried over her... Over her! She was Ranma Saotome! Heir, or Heiress, to the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts! No one worried over her! She was stronger than that!
Despite her thoughts, she couldn't help but feel a pang of disappointment when the woman pulled away, smiling tearfully down at her. "I can't believe you beat Neji... How are you feeling?" Ranma squirmed under the concerned gaze and shrugged her shoulders.
"Fine, chest kind of hurts." A lot, now that she focused on it, but not enough to make her wince. "Can't say I remember what happened though." Apparently that was the wrong thing to say as the concern turned to surprise and the woman tilted her head slightly.
"Not a single stutter?" Ranma gave her a confused stare but she seemed to just shrug it off, turning her head towards the doctor. "May Hinata return to the stands or do you need to do more tests?" The doctor who Ranma had previously been talking to spoke up, a nervous look on his face.
"Kurenai-San..." So her name was Kurenai? Ranma mentally tacked that down as she glanced towards the doctor. "We haven't done a single test. She just suddenly sat up." Kurenai gave Ranma a surprised look that fell into a concerned frown.
"Well, perhaps she should..." Ranma frowned, knowing she wouldn't learn anything of the situation from a hospital bed.
Ranma suddenly hopped to her feet, shaking her head to hide her stumble. "I'm fine. Let's go." Kurenai frowned but glanced to the doctor, unsure of what to make of Ranma's behavior. The doctor hesitantly nodded and Kurenai sighed, grabbing Ranma's hand only for the girl to jerk it back with a surprised look on her face. "Uh, just surprised me is all..." She quickly said, noticing Kurenai's concerned gaze return.
She allowed Kurenai to lead her to a rather large circular room where she could see several people standing on an upper-area while a few men stood below, pushing mops across the ground in order to clean up a red stain. They did turn their heads as she entered and their eyes grew wide as they saw her standing there beside Kurenai.
Everyone looked at her, actually, and it was rather annoying. Angrily, she glared up at them, putting her hands on her hips in a manner that seemed to surprise them even more than her appearance in the room. With a hmph, she made her ways up the stairs with Kurenai following behind, seeming just as bewildered as the rest of the room.
As she settled to leaning against the wall behind her, she nearly fell over as a orange and blonde blur suddenly appeared beside her and she found herself staring into a pair of bright blue eyes. She felt an odd heat in her chest and tilted her head slightly as the boy smiled at her brightly with a few tears tracks on his cheeks, showing he had been crying a bit, "Hinata! You're okay!?"
She flinched slightly from the volume of his voice and nodded her head, crossing her arms over her chest. She noted the boy was barely taller than her, which was very unnatural since her female body was usually very short. 'I have to find a mirror after this.' Her thoughts almost distracted her enough to miss the boy getting beside her, smiling his bright smile.
"I'm glad you're okay. I thought..." He shook his head slightly and shrugged, "Well, I guess it doesn't matter, but you sure kicked Neji's ass!" Ranma had to smirk slightly, even though she didn't actually fight this 'Neji' character.
Still, this kid was obviously her friend and apparently didn't notice anything strange about her so far, "So what happened anyways? I'm still feeling a bit woozy." Her comment got her an odd look from the boy but he seemed to shrug it off rather quickly, though she noted Kurenai was glancing at her even more now.
"Well right now they just finished cleaning up the floor and..." The blonde boy was interrupted as a boy clad in what looked like a green jump suit suddenly yelled out as he fell to the ground, smirking towards a red haired boy that appeared across from him in a swirl of sand. Ranma watched the scene curiously as the boy with the bowl cut began to ramble on about how he would "youthfully defeat his opponent."
Ranma was silent, along with her blonde companion, as the battle suddenly started. 'So this is some kind of tournament thing?' Ranma thought as she watched the boy, Lee, dance around spikes of sand. After a few moments of watching him dance around his opponent, though not getting a single hit in, Ranma stroked her chin thoughtfully, 'He's fast, but he has no hitting power. It's almost like he trained his legs more than his fists.'
"Gee, fuzzy brows is really fast." Ranma nodded her head to the blonde's comment, a frown on her face.
"He won't win though. His legs are fast but his arms are slow." The whiskered boy gave her a curious look, tilting his head. She sighed slightly, pointing at the red-head he was fighting named Gaara. "That boy's sand is slower than his feet, but not his hands. He didn't balance himself." Kurenai glanced over, smiling a bit at 'Hinata' being so observant, though there was still concern in her eyes.
Ranma was also very interested in the sand technique Gaara was using, but she figured it was some sort of special technique only he could use... Then again, that never stopped Ranma from learning techniques before; she could use Saffron's fire techniques to a degree after all.
With that in mind, she watched the fight more carefully and focused on the way Gaara was controlling the sand. Unconsciously, she pushed ki towards her eyes to get a better focus but when the world suddenly expanded she jumped, her eyes wide. She could see everything around her, in a 360 angle if she did the math right, and there were odd blue lines covering everyone's body.
Kurenai seemed to notice her jump and turned towards her, placing a hand on her shoulder, "Are you alright, Hinata? Why did you activate the Byakugan?" Ranma nodded her head at the first question but gave her a confused glance at the second.
"What's a ..." She bit her lip and sighed, knowing that asking such a question would just get her thrown into the hospital again. "Uh, just watching the battle." She figured that it was an eye thing, considering her sight just changed. Let it be known that Ranma was anything but stupid; she just wasn't book smart.
Luckily, Kurenai seemed to accept that answer and turned her own eyes to the battle, missing Ranma's eyes widening. Everyone was surrounded in this odd blue glow that reminded her of ki, but mixed with something else. 'Physical and Spiritual Energy? I never thought of mixing the two...' While Ranma was not the most spiritual person, despite having met and defeated several types of spirits, she still had a massive reserve of both Physical and Spiritual energy, something that seemed to have carried over to her current body if she was any judge, but she had never bothered using the Spiritual energy for anything other than a Moko Takabisha which took shape due to her emotions.
...But if she could make it a physical shape with her ki, then she wouldn't need to rely on her emotions anymore... Ranma shook her head, clearing her thoughts and focusing on the 'energy' she could now see.
There were only two people in the room that had nearly the same amount as her; an old man sitting down in a chair and the blonde boy beside her who was lit up like a bonfire. There was also an odd red swirl of the energy swirling in his stomach, but she ignored it as she focused on her prime target; Gaara.
The boy also had a rather large reserve of this strange energy, but not the same amount the boy beside her had. Unlike the whiskered boy, he also had a steady stream of murky brown energy coming out of his body and mixing with the sand he was controlling. It was rather amazing watching a spec of energy connect with sand and move it individually while at the same time staying connected with the rest of the particles.
She could probably imitate it to an extent, but it was easy to see the draw backs of it. Other than the sand remaining around his feet that had blocked several of Lee's attacks, she found that he had to remain still while controlling the sand in order to focus on moving it.
'Still, I could probably adapt it to something. Maybe a sneak attack in the middle of a fight?' That was a pleasant thought, but it was a short one as she saw Lee suddenly spin in the air, landing on top of a giant statue in the shape of two hands making some sort of seal.
"Lee!" Her head tilted slightly, putting a larger version of "Lee" in her vision and she arched her eyebrows slightly at the sight of his body. She couldn't see it clearly due to her 'Byakugan' vision, but she could tell he was very fast and strong with just a glance. Unlike Lee, it was obvious the guy trained his fists as much as his legs. "Take them off Lee! I approve!"
Ranma's face fell, as did many others, at the odd sentence before Lee nodded solemnly, standing up on the statue. "I swore I would only take these off if Gai-Sensei permitted it or a precious person was in danger... Now I will show you my true youthful power!" With that, he slid his orange leg warmers off, revealing a pair of weights.
Ranma rolled her eyes slightly, watching with a bored expression as they hit the ground and made two large craters in the arena. Her blonde companion wasn't quite as quiet as she was about it though, "Whoa! Those must have been super heavy! I bet fuzzy brows can win now." He grinned as he saw Lee blur across the field, too fast for anyone to see clearly...
Except for Ranma.
"He won't. Sorry, kid." She had a bitter smile on her face as she stared down at Gaara, ignoring the shocked look Kurenai was giving her. "He might have a fast body, but the red head has a faster mind." Naruto frowned at her words, scratching behind his head.
"What's up with you Hinata? And don't call me kid, you're as old as I am." He huffed slightly, seeming put off by Hinata's odd mood, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki; you know that! Is something wrong with your head Hinata?" 'Hinata' just blinked at him curiously, scratching her cheek.
"Huh? Is there? Sorry, Naruto. I'm still a little out of it. Having your heart almost explode would do that." Naruto's eyes widened and surprisingly he put a hand on her shoulder, smiling in a way that unnerved her and made her cheeks oddly hot. 'Whoa what's with this body? It's like he just hit a switch.'
She shivered from the contact, unable to stop herself from blushing as he grinned at her, "Well, I'm glad you're okay Hinata! Still, maybe you should get some rest soon..." The concern was flattering but Ranma pulled herself away from his hand, trying to get her breathing under control.
'Okay, note to self... This guy can't touch me. It's like my body is allergic to him.' She shook her head and, in order to keep him from getting too worried and touching her again, she smiled at him with practiced ease. "I'm fine, Naruto. Don't worry." He just smiled and nodded, turning his eyes towards the fight just as Lee, after moving back from a recovering Gaara, starting to cross his arms over his chest.
"Gate of Life... Open!" The power rushing off Lee was incredible, especially to Ranma who could see it, but her eyes narrowed as she saw how the energy was getting to him. It was like a flood gate; the ki that had been keeping his body together was going through the blue lines in his body now rather than being held back inside him. Now it was pumping more energy than it should into his body, turning his skin red and his eyes white.
The effect was obvious in an instant; he seemingly teleported in front of Gaara, smashing the boy into the air before his sand could even register that he moved. Ranma winced to herself as Gaara was kicked higher and higher before being wrapped up in bandages, for the second time in the fight, and started to get bounced up and down by Lee's fist, looking a lot like a white and red yo-yo.
Naruto was staring with wide eyes, barely able to catch the speed Lee was moving at, and he gulped slightly, not being too eager to fight something like that. He did glance to Hinata to see how she was reacting but found her just frowning and staring up at Lee. "What's up Hinata?"
Ranma didn't even glance at him, completely focused on the fight, "He's lost. That power is killing him." Naruto frowned and turned towards the fight again just as the attack ended and Lee landed on the ground, panting with his skin returning to it's normal shade. It looked to be over as Gaara made no attempt to get out of the crater that Lee left him in.
At least until the sand away from the crater suddenly lifted up, revealing Gaara's slightly chipped and smiling face... a smile that was anything but pleasant as sand began to crawl up Lee's leg and arm, causing his eyes to widen as the pressure began to build up.
Ranma growled in annoyance and shoved her hand forward, surprising the two beside her as she sent out a wave of energy, working it around the sand like Gaara had done. It caused several eyes to widen but none widened more than Gaara's as the sand was pulled back, allowing Lee to pull away and raise his hand slowly to surrender.
"God... dammit." Ranma muttered as she fell to her knees, grasping her chest and panting as the energy she sent out dispersed. It was surprisingly tiring to do and a small notch of respect went up for Gaara for dealing with it constantly. Though that respect was quickly draining to slight panic as she realized the boy was staring at her with wide eyes and sand was quickly darting in her direction. She tried to move but the pain in her chest, which she had been ignoring before, was now paralyzing her limbs.
Luckily, a brown-haired man with sickly eyes and a sword jumped in the way, slicing through the sand like butter and glaring down at Gaara. "The match is over. Rock Lee surrendered. Get back." He coughed softly right afterward, but it had the needed effect. Gaara slowly made his way back to the steps while the man turned his gaze towards Ranma who was being helped to her feet by Kurenai. "I should disqualify you for interfering."
Ranma glared at him slightly, not sure what she was going to be disqualified for but unable to take the words laying down, "I did what I had to do. He was going to crush his bones to powder. Sorry for doing your job." At least she assumed it was his job to get in the way in case things went out of control, considering he had blocked Gaara from attacking her.
The man gave her a slightly annoyed look before jumping down again, not commenting while calling for the last two contestants. Everyone was staring at her rather than the contestants as they made their way down, a large boy with brown hair and a boy with a mummified face and a gauntlet on his arm.
Kurenai glanced at the last two fighters before pulling Ranma close to her chest, frowning down at the girl who was holding her own chest in obvious pain. "We should get you to the doctor, Hinata. It looks like using your chakra like that opened your wound..." Or at least that's what she assumed, but there was no way for her to really check, "After that, we're going to have a talk."
Ranma shook her head however, causing Kurenai to narrow her eyes at the stubborn martial artist, "I'm fine, just give me a second..." She closed her eyes, ignoring everything around her as she focused her energy on healing her body, unknowingly causing her form to glow a bright green.
In a moment, her pain faded and she lowered her hands with a smile, "Much better..." She muttered, glancing up to see Kurenai's shocked expression.
"How did you..?" The red-eyed Jounin seemed completely taken back by the action and Ranma couldn't help but smile, though she was spared answering as Kurenai's attention was taken by a loud crashing noise as the brown-haired boy, Chouji, turned into a massive ball and rammed into a wall.
Ranma could already see what he was doing, due to her enhanced sight with the 'Byakugan'. She had to admit that expanding one's body fat was rather interesting, though she could see no way to use it herself. 'Maybe Pop would use it? He'd probably like having another excuse to eat.' She grinned at her own thoughts, unknowingly leaning back with her shoulder against Naruto.
The blonde glanced at her and smiled slightly, leaning against her a bit as well as he watched the fight. The white-clad Nin, Dosu, was hopping around like a rabbit, dodging all of Chouji's attempts to hit him until the Akimichi hit another wall.
Dosu swung at him, punching his enlarged stomach and jumping back just as Chouji returned to his normal size, promptly losing his lunch over the floor. Dosu smirked under his bandages at the sight as Chouji swayed on his feet. "Ugh what happened..? I thought..." The Akimichi grumbled out, barely able to form a sentence.
Dosu chuckled softly and seemed to have no problem explaining things to his opponent, "Expanding your body and hiding your ears was a good strategy, but I could still send vibrations through the water in your body." The large Akimichi nodded slowly, raising his hand soon after.
"Winner, Dosu Kinuta." Hayate called out, watching Chouji make his way back up the stairs. "Now, will all the winning contestants come down and take one paper from this box to decide the match up of the third exam." As he spoke, the Jounin held up a small box.
All of the winners made their way down, though Ranma had to be 'reminded' by Kurenai to do so and Kakashi took one for Sasuke, due to the Uchiha being unconscious still. One by one they took a paper out of the box and stepped back. Hayate nodded at them, "Please state your number."
After everyone had done so, Hayate took the papers back from the group and placed them back in the box. "The battles in the third round will be as followed:
Naruto Uzumaki VS Hyuuga Hinata
Gaara VS Uchiha Sasuke
Kankuro VS Aburame Shino
Temari VS Dosu Kinuta, with Shikamaru Nara receiving a bye due to the uneven number."
Naruto gave Ranma a nervous look, but the girl didn't even seem to notice as she rubbed the back of her head, not recognizing most of the names said. Hayate coughed into his hand, looking up at the group of Genin. "You will meet up at the arena in..." He paused, coughing again, causing several people to twitch impatiently. "... in Konoha. You've got a month to recover and train. Dismissed." And with that, he turned and walked away, heading for the Hokage who stood nearby and the two moved together towards the nearest exit.
The rest, now having very no business, followed suit... Though there was a brief scuffle as one particular Genin failed to walk with the correct group and was being dragged slightly by her arm towards the door. The pout on her face made several pause, but those that knew her were more unnerved than anything.
Konoha's little Hyuuga couldn't be that cute!
Chapter 2: End! And with it, the first "story" in the unfinished collection. The last bit, following the fight listing for the upcoming Chunin exam, was written in just before I uploaded this for anyone curious. Might be why it seems to stick out slightly, at least for me... Would probably change it if I made this into a full story!
Anyways! Tell me what you thought! What happened to Hinata? Is she really dead? What about Ranma's body? How will everyone reach when they know the truth~!? What about Ranma's family? How will they react to finding out Ranma could, potentially!, be dead in their world!?
I actually know all the answers and more since I remember what the overall plot was going to be. The next one will be up... at some point! I'll do some light editing on it and make it a pure Naruto one, followed by a pure Ranma one! I'll break the theme with something else … eventually!
Be sure to tell me if the story catches your fancy! Expect more to come! I think I've got at least a dozen!