Quintessence

A Chouji X Hinata Fanfiction

Hey all! Tankou001 here with an all new chapter of Quintessence! I hoped you liked the last one, and I plan to make each new chapter even better than the last if I can ^_^

In all honesty this fic isn't going to take place nearly as much in Konohagakure No Sato as Pulchritudinous. In fact most of the fic, if all goes as I plan (hardly ever happens) then it will take a lot of time in Hyōga Sanmyaku during Chouji, and Hinata's one month "honeymoon."

Still the next Chapter or two WILL be in Konoha through an area of the Chuunin Exams.

Also, has anyone reading this ever tried putting lemon juice, and eggs in their ramen to make it better? The bagged stuff isn't the greatest, but I love ramen so that is just a little word of advice for my fellow Ramen lovers out there. I think Chouji would be proud XP

Also before I go anywhere with this I want to tell all of you wonderful readers that somewhere in this fanfic there will be many different surprises that would fall outside the norm. Please look for them ^_^

Enjoy!

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Chapter Two: The Pulchritude Of Realized Potential

"Hizano-kun! Swing harder! This isn't Juuken training anymore! I want to see ferocity!" Akimichi Chouji called out. For a week he had been training his team, and getting them ready for the awaited Chuunin Exam. "Anka-chan, put more precision into your tanto strikes! You won't do half as well with your father's blade if you can't use a regular one." Chouji stepped toward Ibana Maya. "Maya-chan, find the target, and strike it clean! You hesitate too much with your spear, I want it to fly straight forward when you attack, if you hesitate the angle will be off, and you hits won't be as clean. If you stray too far in any direction the hit will be flawed, and you won't do as much damage." Chouji gave a roar to pump up his team. "Remember guys, this is the real deal! You either succeed in the Chuunin Exams or the other team kills you. I trust none of you want the latter so get better! We are leaving for the exam tomorrow in the Mountain Country so don't waste any time in getting as good as you can get!"

Chouji was positively pumped for his team going to the Chuunin Exam. Asuma had pumped everyone up similarly at Chouji's Chuunin Exams, and Chouji knew that he could only pump them all up better. "Listen you guys. Once the second test comes along in the Chuunin Exams I won't be around. The Mountain Country is very cold right now in mid-winter. You three will need to work together in the cold of the mountains to not only survive, but destroy the other teams, and get to the goal line. So even on our way you three will need to train." Chouji looked at Hizano, who had been struggling a bit for the past week. He had moved from Juuken, a martial art based purely on grace and flexibility, and then converted entirely to the polar style, a martial style that was entirely based on strength, and hard swings that would decimate fields of opponents in a single swing, yet left him so very open for attack. "Hizano-kun! Come with me, the rest of you keep training!"

Hizano looked at his teacher, and nodded, frost covering his arms, and shoulders, his eyes having somehow in the past week faded from violet to a dull icy blue. They still were Hyuuga eyes, but they held a bit of a bestial tint that Chouji had never before seen in the eyes of a Hyuuga. Still Chouji paid this no mind. Instead he brought Hizano away from where the group trained. And faced him. Hizano spoke up a bit, not sure why exactly he was being singled out. "Chouji-sensei? Why have you brought me away from the team?"

Chouji sighed. "Hizano-kun, I think it is time that I showed you what you are preparing for." Chouji reached to his back, and grabbed a large scroll that had been tied up to his armor. He ripped it from its place, and flicked it out, the scroll unrolling through the air into what looked to be at least thirty feet of parchment. Four strips near the beginning were written in, the fourth bearing Chouji's own name, Akimichi Chouji written ornately in blood as well as all of the other names. "This, Hyuuga Hizano, is the great polar scroll! If you are to become a user of the polar summons, and a successful master of the Polar Katas then you will write your name in your own blood upon this parchment, unafraid of the future that it may bring you."

Hizano looked at Chouji and hesitated. "Chouji-sensei... Do you think I am ready for this?"

Chouji smiled. "If you are not ready then I will personally let myself become a frozen statue on the highest peak of Hyōga Sanmyaku to show how I failed as your teacher. I don't think I was as worthy as you to become a master of polar bears. Now will you sign this scroll?" Hizano nodded, tears forming at his eyes. Still Chouji's voice roared out. "Don't you cry Hizano-kun! Only lesser bears cry, and lesser bears are culled in polar society! Are you a lesser bear?"

Hizano wiped his tears. "No! I am not a lesser bear!"

Chouji nodded, his face serious. "Then sign! Sign this parchment in your own blood, and embrace the polar bear way!" Hizano wasted no time in taking a kunai from his bag, and cutting deep into his thumb, not even wincing at the pain he must have felt. He signed his name, and smeared the blood about his hand, pressing the blood soaked hand against the parchment under his name.

Before the Hyuuga could even pull his hand from the parchment a great bear appeared. He stood what had to be at least thirty feet tall at the shoulder, and was covered in shining black armor. He looked at Chouji, and then at Hizano who still hadn't pulled his hand from the scroll, his fingers feeling as though they had been frozen to the parchment. "You are the young cub that I have been told of by my son. Akimichi Chouji, this is the cub that you bring into our midst. Do you truly feel that he is worthy of the polar way?"

Chouji nodded, stepping up to face the great bear. "I have told the cub personally that if he cannot handle this endeavor then I will personally allow myself to become a frozen statue on the highest peak of Hyōga Sanmyaku in order to face my shame. I believe he is more worthy than I was, although he may be younger."

The great bear appraised Hizano, and nodded. "Cub, you will stand, and come to me. I must test your will, your potential might before I accept you." Hizano nodded, and tore his hand from the parchment. Coincidentally his finger had been frozen to the parchment. The instant the bear lord had appeared the whole area had become covered in frost, every surface freezing, even Chouji's armor, and Hizano's flesh. He stepped boldly up to the bear, and stood firm. "Cub? Do you fear me? Do you fear what I may do to you?" Hizano hesitated, but shook his head. He couldn't be afraid now. Still the bear growled, and roared right in Hizano's face, the Hyuuga not moving at all, but also feeling his face become covered in frost. No heat existed in this bears lungs. "Then you are a fool! You must know your king's presence, and fear it! Still... You have showed the bravery I seek. I will accept no fear n my clan, and thus I will accept you, but only for now. If Chouji, the cub that he is, will accept you, and if my own son believes you worthy then I will tolerate your presence in my clan. Still.." The bear king looked at Chouji. "When you bring this cub to Hyōga Sanmyaku he will need food. You have half starved this child, his forelegs are scrawny, and his forepaws small. The hind legs which he stands upon are similarly weak. When he arrives we will be lucky if the small amount of fat that lies on his body will hold the weight of the snow the lands on him. If he can carry a fish harvest back to his cave I would think it a miracle. I shall teach this cub, but if he fails I shall personally make sure you keep you vow, Akimichi Chouji."

With that the bear king was gone, leaving the area frigid, and uncomfortable to even stand in. Hizano felt colder than ever before just from the bear king's presence. Chouji sighed, and fell to his knees. "I think we are both lucky even to be alive right now..." Chouji breathed heavily as though the whole time he had been holding his breath. "The bear king has only four times before accepted a human into the polar clan. He is a warlord that has no equal. You are lucky, Hizano-kun... Now... I will teach you how to call upon a polar bear. The king should be expecting it." Chouji showed his hand to Hizano, the butt of his palm covered in scar tissue from years of biting into it for summons. "Bite into your palm as I do, and press it against the ground. No polar bear would fit on your head as Yuji-Yuki fits atop mine so the ground is best. Just think of the bears, and thy will come to you. Do as I do." Chouji bit into his palm, and pressed it against the ground. "Kuchiyose No Jutsu."

In an instant a tall polar bear appeared next to Chouji. It was hardly the size of the bear king, but it was easily a grand opponent to face. The bear smiled at Hizano, and bowed his head. Hizano nodded, and bit hard into his palm, feeling the warm blood splatter against his teeth. He pressed his hand against the ground, and spoke up. "Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" He thought on a polar bear, the greatest polar bear he could think of. At that moment a colossal jet of smoke exploded from his position, and clouded a mile of the area. Chouji could be heard crying out, and a great crash as well, and Hizano looked upward a the smoke cleared. The largest thing Hizano had ever seen was now present. He recognized it from when Chouji had rushed to Konoha before to save the village from the Hyuuga coup.

This bear was an elder, and looked down at Hizano with a testing glare. "WHO DARES SUMMON ME!!!!"

Chouji raced to Hizano's side, and grabbed the back of his neck, slamming his face to the ground, and bowing similarly. "My apologies, great elder! This cub is learning our ways, and ha stepped outside his rights. I will punish him suitably!" The bear growled, a sound that shook the very trees around the two, and poofed off into smoke, leaving nothing behind. Chouji slowly raised his head, and looked at Hizano, amazed. "I would be angry at you if it weren't for the fact that you just summoned the previous bear king. That bear was put away by the current, but he is the single highest elder in the council. Don't do it again, but I congratulate you. You definitely have the power to wield the bears" Hizano smiled, but was then cuffed in the head by Chouji. "That doesn't mean I am not going to beat you around! You are a cub, and I have to punish you as I have promised! Now..." Chouji paused as he heard a rustle. He looked back to his own bear, and silently gave a signal, the polar bear turning, and charging into the bushes, and pulling out two young women. It was, of course, Anka, and Maya.

Anka was the first to speak up. "We haven't dropped any eves, sensei! We just saw a giant beast appearing from the trees, and came running!"

Chouji grumbled, and gestured to his bear who set Anka, and Maya down before disappearing. "Alright... Just keep all of this quiet..." Back to your training! We have until tomorrow to train before heading off into the Mountain Country! Get going, all of you!" Chouji smiled, and followed them as they all ran off to train. He couldn't wait for his team to succeed at the Chuunin Exam, but in order for that to happen they would need to make the most of their training.

Meanwhile Hyuuga Hinata trained in the mountains behind Konoha. It was lightly snowing on the cliffs, and Hinata's team was running about in the snow, warming up for their extensive training which would occur over the night. While Chouji trained his team in the day Hinata excelled at training her students at night. She had heard that during the winter the Mountain Country had very long nights, and because of this she was sharpening her team's senses in the dark. Se had even studied upon her tea's cans, and special traits. Over the past week she had been working with Kyogi, but she had found that Ty Dao knew even less about her own kekkei genkai than Hinata had at the beginning. Knowing this Hinata pulled Ty Dao aside. The Hazumi girl had been staying in boiling water for the past week, and even though her lack of physical activity was apparent Hinata knew that he idleness was helping her a lot more than any running, or sparring would have done. Now the girl was ready for movement, and hard style training, and so Hinata led her to a frozen lake. "Ty Dao-chan... I know that you are ready for hard style training. This will be your training tonight. By morning I want you to make this frozen lake boil."

Ty Dao's eyes went wide. She had heard f such acts, but they were a hundred years old, and more. Their was no way an eleven years old girl like Ty Dao could make a lake boil. "Hinata-sensei! I couldn't do that! My father had never even done it!"

"Well then he wasn't trying as hard as you now was he? I want this lake to come to a solid boil, and want it done before we leave tomorrow morning. You have been undergoing fever training all week long. That cauldron has become white hot on the outside, and you have turned all of the water inside into steam, and sat atop the white hot metal, I have seen this. I think it is time you showed all of us just how far your body temperature can go. When this lake comes to a roiling boil I will return, and let you out, but until then you will stay in it." Hinata spoke out, smiling a bit. She knew that it was possible, and she knew what happened if Ty Dao were to push her kekkei genkai that far.

Ty Dao reluctantly nodded, and stepped out onto the frozen lake surface. Before long her feet were melting through the surface, and the girl was hopping to avoid falling in, and when finally Ty Dao reached the center of the lake she fell through into the cold water beneath the frozen surface. Hinata smiled, knowing that y Dao would son heat the water around her, and be in no danger of freezing. She walked back to the training grounds, and found Temano and Kyogi sparring lightly, still warming up for the main training. Still that main event was beginning now, and Hinata held up her hand for them to stop. "That's enough warming up, you two. The training starts now." Hinata looked at the horizon, the sun about half way sunken past, the sky lighting up in pink, and orange.

Hinata looked at her two remaining students and spoke up yet again. "I know that you two have your own separate ways of training, and I hope you understand that I as one cannot train you both at the same time. Instead I will do what I should have done to train you separately." Hinata formed a few hand seals. "Kage Bunshin No Jutsu." In a cloud of smoke there was another Hinata that appeared next to the first. The first Hinata smiled, and spoke up. "My copy will train you, Temano-kun, and I will train you, Kyogi-kun."

The first Hinata grabbed Kyogi's arm, and led him off, the other Hinata escorting Temano to a bare area not too far off. "Temano-kun, you excel in wood jutsu. I have no illusions to being able to use such jutsu, but I have read up on them for the past week. You are not using your wood element jutsu to the fullest, and nor has your father. The first Hokage, the man that your father received his ability to use wood element jutsu from, knew at lengthy what he could do, and after a week of studying such thing I now know what you are capable of. I want you to make a forest out of this bare area. The ground is solid with stone, but the crack hold the promise for saplings, and as the roots grow the ground will be ground to rubble, and then to rich soil. You will start with a single tree, and make a forest of evergreens here."

Temano looked at Hinata, and frowned. "If my father cannot do such a thing how could I?"

Hinata grinned. "Tenzou-senpai simply doesn't know he can do such things yet. Still he could make a forest if he tried. Konohagakure used to be a barren wasteland until the first Hokage made it into a rich forest. You will make the next ten miles from here away from the village a similar, albeit smaller forest."

Temano frowned, but Hinata simply sat down, and waited. "I'll help you out." Hinata formed some hand seals, and at the tip of her fingers appeared a small ball of electricity. She tossed it a ways away, and where it hit the stone the snow melted, and a crack appeared. "Get to the crack quickly before it fills with snow. I won't make another one for you." Temano quickly went to the crack, and placed his hands together, a small sapling growing at the place where the crack was. The ground was solid stone, but Temano was not going to give up.

The next Hinata finally let go of Kyogi at a cliff face. "Kyogi-kun. Legend tells that the sage of the six paths was the one to create the moon, but when the Nagamori clan appeared in the world only a decade after he traveled the world, and showed it Ninjutsu they shot at the moon with their eyes, and blasted the craters in it that we see every night so that the moon would be more than a simple, undecorated globe of stone. Legend also tells of how the Nagamori clan split apart and ventured deep into the earth using their eyes to carve into the world countless caves, and subterranean cities that are said to lie in ruin deep below the surface of the earth. I don't expect you to blast a crater in the moon, but I want you to carve out a cave ten miles long into this cliff face."

Kyogi looked at Hinata for a moment, then laughed. "That's funny Hinata-sensei. I thought for a moment that you were serious. Alright, what do you really want me to do?" Hinata stared at Kyogi silently, and he realized that Hinata wasn't joking. "I can't carve a cave into the world like my ancestors did! You are insane! You only just this week taught me how to make my eyes fire cones instead of beams, and how to light them. I'm not ready to carve a ten mile long cave in the ground!"

Hinata smiled. "Well then you will fail at the Chuunin exams, and stay a genin forever. Do you want that?" Hinata sat down in the sow, and gestured at the cliff wall. "Well? Are you going to just give up?"

Kyogi looked at Hinata for a bit, dumbstruck. Still in a moment his eyes went serious, and turned a deep orange, the Nagamori boy turning, and firing a wide cone of fiery energy into the side of the cliff. "I won't fail the chuunin exam!" he cried out as he stepped forward toward the cliff face. Hinata smiled, and made another clone to hurry to Ty Dao at the lake.

As the clone arrived she saw that Ty Dao had made progress. The ice atop the lake was all melted away, and ceasing to freeze anymore. Hinata placed her finger to the water but found it rather cool to the touch. Ty Dao floated in the water at the center of the lake, her skin a deep red as the inside of her body burned like white hot fire. Hinata cupped her hands to her mouth, and called out. "Burn hotter! The speed of heat cannot be attained if you stay so cool!"

Ty Dao, red hot already in the center of the lake nodded, and could be seen shaking, the water around her becoming agitated, and flaring up in steam around her. Hinata had studied for nights on end at her home with Chouji. Chouji had done similar study as well, and found out secrets of his own. Still Hinata had found that Ty Dao's own clan had at one point had a member who had reached the speed of heat, and disappeared in a flash of heat that was so hot that it stole all of the water in hundred of miles from his location. That great area of no water was now the Wind Country. Of course Hinata didn't want such a thing happening to Konohagakure, but if Ty Dao had the heat sufficient to boil an entire frozen lake then she would reach the next step in her training to reach the speed of heat. Ty Dao had such power in her. She just needed to realize it just as Hinata's other students did for their true power.

The Hinata with Temano smiled. Already Temano had created a small orchard of evergreens. Still the process seemed a slow one, and the trees, however fast they wanted to grow, were having a hard time forcing their roots trough the solid stone of the mountain. Nightfall had already long come, and Hinata was sitting, watching Temano burn through his chakra trying to grow a forest that Hinata knew very well the young man couldn't make. Her goal wasn't to have her students actually pull such amazing stunts. No, Hinata just wanted them to push themselves to their limits. She wanted her students to push so hard that their sheer determination alone would win them the title of Chuunin. Their skills would follow suit if their courage, and determination was unending. "Temano-kun, grow those trees faster. The sun is only hours away, and at the rate that your trees are sprouting it will take a year for this forest to grow full."

Temano looked back with an expression of exhaustion, but he nodded, and pumped his heart, and life into the growing of his trees. More sprouts came, and ripped through the stone. It was faster, but no way could it possibly tear through ten miles of stony mountain in one night at this rate. Still it made Hinata proud that her student was working so hard. Perhaps he didn't have an ultimate goal like Ty Dao, or the cocky determination that kept Kyogi's lust for power forever existing, but Temano had a sort of calm realization that he was of a dieing breed, an endangered species of wood users only two strong, and that drove him to be the very best that he could be. If he could be as the first hokage he would fulfill those dreams to make himself the mightiest of his kind.

Back at Kyogi Hinata clone followed the Nagamori into his already well built cave. Kyogi had delved a straight line many hundreds of feet down, but Hinata spoke up to him, noting that he had only been working in that single straight line. "Kyogi-kun, I am concerned with your progress..." Kyogi halted his delving, and turned back, the area around his eyes red, and burnt from so much use. "You think that a cave only consists of one tunnel, but a cave system goes many miles in many directions. I don't want a single tube ten miles long... Like your companions I want ten miles all around. Temano is growing a forest ten miles wide, and Ty Dao is boiling a lake five miles wide, and hundred of feet deep. They are even succeeding faster than you. Am I to think that you are the weakest of the team after working with you specifically all this week? Don't let me down, Kyogi. Show them that you are the best."

Kyogi scowled. "I won't let any of them best me! No anti-social loner, or over-active tomboy is going to beat Nagamori Kyogi!" Kyogi ran back to the entrance of the cave, and Hinata flashed back as well, and bore witness to Kyogi's determination. The young man stopped just short of the cave entrance, his eyes glowing orange. He faced the depths of the cave, and spoke out, knowing Hinata was behind him. "My goal, my ninja way is to become the best ninja that ever walked the earth. These eyes are gonna win me the world!" Kyogi raised his head, and fired three cones from his fiery eyes, blasting in multiple directions to carve out the caves. Hinata hadn't the slightest idea that Kyogi had figured out that he could do this yet but she was, as with Temano, proud that Kyogi was determined. Of course she knew her student couldn't do it, but she knew that his heart was in the right place.

Back with Ty Dao the lake was steaming wholly. The level of the lake had gone down sufficiently, and Ty Dao's heat could be felt from Hinata's own position. The lake, still, was massive, and as Hinata lowered her hand to the water it was only as warm as a bathtub would be. She placed her hands to her mouth, and cried out. "You'll have to do better Ty Dao-chan! Your teammates are getting done with their tasks faster than you! Will you settle at being slower than them? I thought you were going to be faster than anyone at anything. You are looking pretty slow to me right now!"

Ty Dao out in the water heard this, and rose up atop the water. She wasn't using chakra the stay afloat. No, Hinata hadn't taught her team that yet. Hinata could see that the very steam that rose from around Ty Dao, the boiling that centered around her body was simply lifting her to the top of the water. Hinata used her byakugan to see Ty Dao's lips, and could openly read them. She even felt like she could hear Ty Dao's voice as she spoke. "I won't be slower than anyone! The heat of my body will fuel the fastest thing in existence, and I will be faster than anyone else! Nobody will move with more celerity than I will! NOBODY!" Hinata did hear this last word, and Ty Dao's body erupted in flames, her body white hot as she turned int a blazing inferno from the inside out.

Back at the steadily growing forest Temano was being similarly drawn on by Hinata, and he spoke out. "I will live up to my reputation as a wood user. The wood element jutsu only belongs to two people now, and my father needs not be troubled with his future. He has a son that will make his clan bigger, and succeed in alerting the world to the ways of wood. I vow to make Utagau a name that the world knows, and respects. The forest that I grow will be the mightiest in the world!"

At that moment all three of Hinata bore witness to the single most amazing thing that the Hyuuga had ever seen. Kyogi, with his powerful eyes, ripped though the mountain's cliff face, burning hundreds upon hundreds of grand tunnels through the mountain ten miles long, and ten miles wide. As the young man turned back his eyes were glowing orange, and the skin around his eyes no longer burnt, but instead a deep crimson. These crimson markings spread from Kyogi's eyes like the rays of the sun. Ty Dao, with her body hot as the very core of the earth itself didn't boil the lake, but went even farther than that. The lake frothed over, and was turned to steam in an instant, the ground that Ty Dao stood on a hundred feet, and more below glowing with the heat that the eleven years old girl put off around her. Ty Dao's own clothing having been stripped from her body, even her mask having been vaporised in the great heat that she put off. Her whole body glistened with black lines that swerved up her form like trails of steam that had burned their places on her body as ash, and would remain forever. Temano raised his hands in determination, his sleeves exploding as chakra burst from them to be spent. In seconds ten miles, and more of heavy forest ripped from the ground at his fee, tearing through the stony mountain ground, and grinding the earth into rich soil which covered the great roots of the countless evergreen trees. He fell to his knees in exhaustion, and as Hinata came up to him she saw that on his arms where his sleeves had once been there were markings like vines, and branches, and one those vines, and branches leaf patterns filled the gaps making his arms look as intertwining forest scenes. What little fair skin that could be seen on Temano was red as though the markings had been burned into the skin on his arms.

Hinata was so amazed that at that moment her clones disappeared, and the Hinata with Kyogi led him back to Temano. The Hyuuga woman picked up Temano, and led the three to the lake where Ty Dao sat in the falling snow, breathing heavily. Her body was nude, but Kyogi turned his head, and Temano was too tired to do anything but lay on the ground much less sit up to look. Hinata walked down into the still heated lake bed, and dared only get close enough to Ty Dao to not have to yell. She threw Ty Dao a scroll, guessing that the girl would at least boil her clothes off as she had done each night for the past week. Still se hadn't guessed that Ty Dao would have completely burnt them to nothing. Ty Dao got a new pair of clothing from the scroll, and a new mask, putting on her clothes. The clothes, unlike the replacement clothes for the past week, were a new attire.

Ty Dao's new outfit was, in fact, different than Hinata had ever seen. Hinata had received the scroll for such an outfit when Ty Dao arrived, but hadn't know what it looked like. Ty Dao's floor length hair was tied up, her hair threaded through a long hairpiece, and then braided. Even after being threaded upward through the six inch long hairpiece Ty Dao's platinum hair reached her feet, and at the end she tied a red kunai with black fire markings on it. On the right side of her face Ty Dao arranged her hair so that it mildly resembled Yamanaka Ino's own hair. The outfit had shoulder plates made of steel, that attached to a top resembling a bikini which was made of purple silk. Her new mask, like the last, was a deep purple, almost black. Elbow length leather gauntlets of purple adorned Ty Dao's arms, and a shirt of purple silk bandage wrapped countless times around Ty Dao's torso. It bore similarity to Yuuhi Kurenai's own dress, but instead of a dress it was just a top, the silk bandage wrappings wider, and only wrapped up to Ty Dao's mid-torso, the rest tying up around her neck, but leaving her breasts only to be covered by the purple bikini top. A cut skirt of sorts hung from Ty Dao's waist, though it was cut open in the front, and looked rather ragged. Tights the same color as her mask adorned Ty Dao's legs, and the same silk bandage wrap as her top covered the lower half of Ty Dao's shins, her feet adorned with heavy black shoes that looked to weigh a ton.

Kyogi finally turned around when his teacher, and Ty Dao got out of the empty lake. He smiled, and wolf whistled, the twelve years old young man always having had a bit of a crush on Ty Dao, and the fact that Ty Dao no longer wore the thick white linen that she normally kept as her attire only proved to make him more attracted to her. Ty Dao could be see even through her mask smiling slyly at him. Hinata helped Temano sit up, and looked at her team. "I am proud of all of you. I told you to take on things that I hardly thought you could do a fraction of, but now I see I was wrong to underestimate you. You three are more than ready to take part in the Chuunin Exam, and after seeing what you have done here I know that all three of you can make Chuunin, and will grow up to be wonderful ninja. There is no way that you three can't become even better ninja than I." Kyogi punched his fist into the air, Ty Dao cried out with excitement, and Temano simply smiled. "Now the night is still young, and I want to tell you all to get to bed. You have done far more than enough training this night to finish the Chuunin Exam as well as the whole week before now that has only proven to make it all better. You are all dismissed."

The three went off, Kyogi helping Temano get home. Hinata wasn't sure exactly how the three were going to do in the Chuunin Exams, but what her eyes had just taken in was enough to prove to her that they would at least survive it all. Only time would tell what really happened. Hinata made her way back to her house, seeing Chouji waiting inside for her, a smile wide on his face. "I have been waiting for you, Hinata. How did your team do? You think they are ready for tomorrow?"

Hinata smiled, and nodded, walking up to Chouji, and kissing him on the lips. "They did well, how is your team?"

Chouji smiled, and kissed Hinata back. "They did wonderful. I am sure they will become Chuunin at least faster than I did. Still we need to get to sleep. Our day starts early tomorrow. Maybe we should hold back on the usual events tonight."

Hinata giggled, and pressed her lips fiercely against Chouji's. "I don't think so. We have all the time in the world."

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There ya go I know it is kinda irritating that there has bee no lemon yet despite the fact that there has been plenty chance for it XD

Let's just say I am saving up the awesome for it XD

Just so you know what happened with Hinata's team also will happen with Chouji's. Something insanely awesome WILL happen to the other three. It will just not be this chapter XD

Yours,

Tankou001