First Naruto fic, hope you enjoy. More on the way.
Disclaimer: I own nothing in Naruto, if I did Haruna would be wearing less...
Chapter 1 – Two Weeks
Hiro Sarutobi perched perfectly still atop the ancient oak tree. He had his back towards the setting sun, he could not have anything messing with his sight here. He gathered his chakra slowly, compressing it deep within himself in order to best utilize his technique.
Breathing slowly he closed left eye, putting all his focus into his right. Releasing his chakra into his eye he felt the odd bulging sensation that he always felt when it was activated.
'Byakugan' he thought rather than said as his eye finally awakened.
His vision exploded outwards, the world around him becoming both clear and confusing as he sought out their quarry. The trees became nothing beneath his gaze, transparent wraiths that left him with a near blank hill filled landscape.
He could see his team mates, each a few dozen trees from him waiting for him to begin. Negiko on the right, he could see her tense petite shoulders quaking slightly. He could not blame her, it was her brother they were looking for. Ita was to his left and as usual these days she showed no feeling at all.
He let his eye settle into its awakened state before kicking off from his tree. As he darted forward he saw the others head into action, Negiko heading opposite to him and Ita beginning their agreed spiral search pattern.
If Ryo was in these woods they were going to find him, even he was not fast enough to escape Team Dō 2. He hoped he was correct in that assumption, they had been searching for Ryo for over a week and he had been gone for a days before they started. If thus lead turned out to be false they would have to start searching differently or the next time they hear any word of Ryo would place him firmly on the missing-nin list.
That was exactly what they were here to prevent.
An hour passed, then two. Hiro's Byakugan was almost as good Negiko's but it was not his own and the strain was starting to wear him down. He had a 700m cubed sight that allowed him to survey the forest in massive chunks. But even with its help he was starting to lose hope, he had almost searched the entirety of his half of the forest and he had yet to see any sign of human activity.
He could feel his eye throb dangerously and the outer rim of his vision began to blur dangerously. Landing panting on a thick tree branch he let his chakra go and his vision returned to normal. He would take a minute to himself then get back on the search, the sixth told him to take break like this with his vision. When not fighting let it go or suffer the after effects of over use, the horror stories he had been told about such cases had kept him good and paranoid.
'Just one minute' he told himself again, covering his right eye in a vain attempt to speed the recovery. He was usually better than this but after a week of searching...'Just one more minute.'
His drowsiness was broken by a burning sensation on his left hand. Looking down sharply he saw the small circular seal had gone yellow, Negiko had found him.
All thoughts of rest gone he let his Chakra burst through him and his vision exploded outwards. Leaping through the tree he darted towards Negiko's half of the forest, he was so focused on finding her he did not notice Ita coming up beside him at first.
He almost slipped out of the trees when her oddly clear quiet voice came from right next to him.
"Follow me..." was all she said, but it was all he needed to hear. He let her take the lead as they picked up the pace.
An irrational fear was growing in his gut, there was no chance of Ryo hurting Negiko but...He was out of it right now, he may forget she was his sister. Stupid yes, unlikely yes, but it did not stop him from wishing Ita would go faster.
His fears it seemed were not as mad as he had thought however. As always with Ryo's techniques, he heard it before he saw it. A great boom like the odd sound he heard from some of the more powerful explosions. What he saw however was a small orange figure appear suddenly in his extended vision, flying over their heads.
"Ita keep after him!" he ordered breaking off from her and reversing direction sharply. He half ways flew through the trees his vision focused on the rapidly descending figure in the sky. Over taking her just in time he dashed up the trunk of the nearest tree, ripping through the branches as he went. Launching himself from the top at just the right moment, he caught the girl in his arms just in time.
He landed rougher than he wanted to but luckily he did not seem to have hurt her. Just when he was feeling quite the hero he felt a powerful hand pushing at his jaw from beneath.
"I'm fine you idiot," she shouted at him her Byakugan eyes still active and glaring at him, an angry blush covering her small cheeks. On closer inspection he realised that there was indeed not a scratch on her, in fact he imagined he caused more damage to himself going after her than had been done to her.
"Sorry," he said awkwardly dropping her a little unceremoniously onto her feet. She huffed at him before kicking off after Ita and after smacking himself in the forehead, Hiro followed.
They were not hard to find. If there was one time that Ita showed emotion it was when Ryo was involved and her furious shrieks could be heard from over a hundred metres away.
"I told you not to bring her!" Negiko shouted back at him, "if she gets to him she'll rip him in half!"
"Then move faster then!" he shouted back focusing his vision on the source of the noise. He could she her, her wild black hair had come free from its braid as she fought...He felt his thoughts sharpen, all thoughts of Negiko and his exhaustion gone. It was him, Ryo Uzimaki and he was winning!
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