A/N: figured i'd get more into the 'time-travel' shenanigans... bloop you both badasses of different eras have just been dropped into the same dimension... for whatever reason, also, at different times... have fun~
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Hinata's Story:
There's something extremely, aggravatingly, annoying about dying… or time travel… or whatever the hell Kuro did when I took his hand…
One second I'm an old woman that's just been betrayed by my oldest most loyal confidant… yes, this sounds weird as it was Orochimaru, but when I really think about it he'd been my closest most loyal friend-father figure for the better part of a hundred years. Yes, I lived to be almost a hundred and sixty three, Hyuuga, due to our affinity for pure chakra tend to live longer lives then most shinobi if we're not actually killed in battle. You know that old guy that orders my father around? Yea, that's not my 'grandfather' that's my GREAT-grandfather… my actual grandfather died in battle because he was an honorable man… unlike that jerk…
Something I feel I may have to 'fix' this time around I suppose…
But as I was saying, I don't feel particularly 'betrayed' by Orochimaru, as strange as this entire line of thinking is, he was like my father and he watched me age into a crippled, bitter old woman. I don't blame him at all taking one of his 'grandsons', raising a village, and deciding to overthrow me, when you got as old as I was that kind of stuff became second nature. I hate to say it but I honestly think I could understand Danzo if I really tried… but he was just too young and ambitious and quite the idiot… my 'old' self can totally say that as I ran the largest country for over a century, beating the records of all other Kage in history. They can bite me in the afterlife. Only an immortal could kill the Steel Shadow and I take no insult in that.
I wonder if Orochimaru's still in the village…
What time is it?
In fact… why am I moving, I'm not walking? Kuro where the hell did you drop me!
Okay, Hinata focus, you're nearly a hundred and sixty-three, use your Kami-damned ninja training… you took down a demon… using your damn senses should be nothing.
Alright, breathe in… breathe out… Byakuugan!
….
… WHAT THE FUCK?!
Why in the nine layers of hell can't I use my bloodline eyes!
… okay… okay… breathe… breathe… by all that is unholy and Orochimaru this is annoying… okay… back to basics… I guess…
Its dark, I can't see, I feel really, really, really tiny… oh hey I can actually feel my toes without every joint being sore, suppose that's a bonus despite the whole 'no Byakuugan' thing… okay, getting the hang of this, sort of… why am I moving? Am I supposed to be unconscious? Kuro did you send me some time when I was knocked out? That's slightly creepy… Kuro?
Kuro?
… Kami-be-damned! The freakin' aspect of 'Death' that sent me here isn't even here for me to argue with… son of a bitch…
"Girl stop squirming!" a rough voice growled above me.
Excuse me?! I'm the goddamn Kenkage, no one speaks to me that way… and I haven't been a 'girl' for the better part of two centuries… I did the first thing that came to mind… or really a reflex from my old age…
I bitchslapped this cretin with the power of Jyuuken, not too young for that bitch!
My power may have waned significantly… or reverted back as I'm assuming that's what this whole time-travel thing is supposed to do, you're not very good at explaining things Kuro! And my reach may be atrocious, but this wannabe kidnapper or whatever is an idiot! Honestly, you didn't even bind me! You just have me hanging over one arm, arms and legs out, I can reach your heart you moron! I mean honestly, if you're going to kidnap someone from a clan that uses chakra directly, and we distinctly shut down organs with a tap, you'd think binding said person's ability from touching anything remotely vital would be a point to be paying attention to…
Not that I had long to scrutinize this idiot as by Jyuuken-bitchslapping him I've sent us both tumbling over… sure I can reach his heart, and would have been the 'better' target… buuut the whole point of a bitchslap is to hit the face… and I distinctly screamed out, "SHUT UP!" in the process, so numbing the entirety of his face and probably paralyzing the portion of his spine that connects to the medulla oblongata is maybe effective in just giving the guy spinal paralysis… oh right, falling…
"EEEEEEEHHH!" waving hands and giving a girlish scream are not conductive of actually catching myself. Kami, what is wrong with this body? No reflexes at all… when the hell did you send me back Kuro?!
I landed on the ground with a loud thud! My captor was twitching every so often and honestly annoying the crap out of me. His arm was heavy, surprisingly so, seriously was this guy nothing but pure muscle caked onto more muscle? Why does that seem familiar to me? I gave up trying to 'lift' his meaty arm and just rolled out from under it… seriously, what the hell… I stood up and looked down on the squirming man.
Oddly, my mouth felt like working again, "Damn, I'm short…"
Really, I am. Kami I don't ever remember being this short… was I seriously this short once? I mean, I know I got shorter as I got older, age tends to do that when your joints and ligaments all like to scrunch up, but eh… no, I don't remember being this short… or with this squeaky of a voice… I rubbed my throat while looking down at the guy squirming… man I'm tired… a Jyuuken strike like that shouldn't have taken this much out of me… even in my old age I continued to grow my reserves so this is rather pitiful… there was a reason I remained the Kenkage for over a century.
Oh damn, he's foaming at the mouth… I should probably call a medic or he'll die… hrm…
"HINATA!" something yelled from behind me… wait, what? Is that my father?
Well, fuck, guess this moron was saved by the proverbial bell… I went to go kick him for good measure but for some reason this body just froze up at the sound of that man's voice. Damnit, I forgot how 'conditioned' I was to being afraid of him… nothing a couple hours training shouldn't fix I suppose…
My father came rampaging up towards me… okay, I'm tiny and barely come up to his knee… he's really scary with that Byakuugan flaring… when he finally stops in front of me, panting deeply and turning his head from the almost-corpse of my captor to my own wide white eyes, seriously I'm just staring at this man, he's been dead to me for decades and I honestly don't ever remember him looking this fierce or young…
Something in the body must have finally woke up as I can feel tears welling up in my eyes and my body shaking as I say rather pitifully, "O-Otou-s-sama…" and reach out for the man.
His Byakuugan recedes and for probably the first time in my memory he looks… relieved… or something like it, "Hinata," and he scoops me up in those long wraps of his robes and just hugs me.
My father hugs me… my father is hugging me… I'm nearly a hundred and sixty-three years old transported back to some point I can barely remember and honestly… I can't remember a single point my father actually hugged me.
Now I know the tears are mine, know it's not just a reaction from this far-too-young body as I wrap my tired, tiny, scared arms around the man's strong neck and just mumble incoherently…
"Thank you Kuro… Thank you…"
I gripped tightly to the strange yet familiar man's collar with all the effort my little hands had. I don't know how long I held on to him.
People came and went, harsh words were had, chakra spiked, and I swear the old Hokage even showed up with a troop of ANBU. If I weren't completely wiped; mentally, physically and emotionally I would have probably started yelling at him for his incompetence as a leader… honestly, I'm a clan Heiress and some random person just nearly kidnapped me? Where were the ANBU on duty? Where were the guards? Where were ANYBODY that wasn't my own father?! This kind of bullshit did not fly in Ken, Jin and I made sure of that…
But I was too drained… too enamored with holding my father… we'd never had an easy relationship, and if this is what I think it was, and glancing down at the man ANBU were dragging off to a hospital… that was a Kumo Hitea-ate… I don't know… I'm conflicted at this point. Jin was a great man that helped me take down the demon, died less than twenty years later for the sake of one of my children… this man was sent by the 'Raikage' to take me to them, by 'A'… by Jin…
I just went to sleep… crying over the past, crying over the future… my father had no idea thinking I was just stressed from the concept of being kidnapped. I don't really remember how this all went in my previous life, it was nearly a hundred and sixty years ago, that's a long time to care about such memories, I just know it was pretty much the start of my father's descending disappointment in me and my cousin's misguided hatred.
But my father only held me, tucked me into bed and I swear he mumbled how proud of me he was…
Sigh… without even trying I feel like I've already screwed something up…
Naruto's Story:
Alright! Third time's the charm! That's what they say right? Right? I mean that is a saying isn't it?
Okay, first things first… when the hell am I? Kurama/Yoko told me last time these cosmic reset type dealies only work on important emotional/traumatic events… the last time it was the first time I was kicked out of the orphanage… I may of handled that badly by proceeding to level the place but I blame that on the complete nausea from the 'trip' and having no idea what the fuck just happened, I was kinda just stabbed in the throat by my best friend previously not to mention the whole losing everyone I cared about… buuut it may have also been from the whole I was a five year old with suddenly a doubled up Bijuu and, well, she was kinda a bitch… details…
Anywho… when am I? I get the feeling it won't be that 'event' as I already did that, maybe the quasi-person-demon that Kurama/Yoko is sent me somewhere a bit further ahead? I feel slightly taller from the last reset and they're kinda quiet…
Wait… wait… wait… I think I may know what this is… least from my past two experiences I think I may know what it is… looking down, yep I'm wearing that scraggily white shirt and those orange shorts… and those woods nearby…
I rub my hands together, in my first lifetime this had just been another random event that occurred, just another moment of me trying to do the 'right thing' to get someone to notice me as a hero. Last time I remembered it clear as a bell thanks to how I died, thinking about her, so I knew exactly what it was, every detail and I kicked those bullies asses and saved her, showing how cool I was, asking if she was okay and while not getting so much as a thank you from her I knew that look now, I knew that even though she didn't say it she was grateful… it became an important moment to me as it became the first time I truly met Hyuuga Hinata…
Seems that old Kitsune's really got it in to have me hooking up with her again… I mean I would anyway, but because this became such an event for me… well… uh… thanks furball… ehehehe…
All I hear is a snore as a response… guess the Kyuubi didn't mesh this time or just doesn't care… oh well, off to save my princess!
I creep closer to the woods where those bullies must have taken her… any minute now and I'll hear her cry out for help, then I'll jump in with that old Uzumaki charm and save the day… oh great Kami I still think like this? Fuck, must be being a kid again… yea, I'll blame it on that…
… c'mon…
… any second now…
… okay, I can definitely sense them…
… uh, Hinata?
"Oh, what the hell!" my scratchy prepubescent voice cries out as I stomp into the forest…
Well… well, that was certainly not what I expected to see…
Those three bullies are down, sure, but… what the fuck? Sasuke? I have to blink a good number of times to register what the hell just happed… or figure out what just happened… Sasuke, Uchiha Sasuke with his little emo-starting-duck-butt hair is on the ground crying… and HINATA is the one in a perfect Jyuuken form scowling at the downed bullies crying out in pain… are, are her eyes active?
"I told you three before to leave him alone!" she called out fiercely… what the hell? Hyuuga Hinata and fierce do NOT go in the same sentence… at least not for a few years after she grows up, gets confidence and becomes a total badass babe… but still… what the fuck? Sasuke?!
I'm stuck behind a tree just staring with my mouth wide open… that's… that's my Hinata… but… not? I mean, sure, like I said, give her a few years… but she's supposed to be shy as all hell at this age… and since when does she do anything with SASUKE!
Speaking of the runt, he's rubbing his nose and standing on his feet, okay he's got the Uchiha scowl going but why does it look so damn 'cute'… I can just hear the fangirls going wild… where are the fangirls? "Hina-chan…"
What?
"Let them go…" he rubs his bloody nose on his sleeve, "They're not worth fighting…" wait, what? "Onii-chan would be mad if we got caught fighting those weaker than us again…"
…
WHAT?!
"Tch…" did she just spit on the ground? Oh my god, Hinata just spit on the ground… why is a part of me squealing about that? The Hyuuga heiress just kept glaring at those peons as the shuffled around on the ground, "Just because someone doesn't attack you doesn't mean they're weaker then you," oh god she just kicked one of them in the stomach… "It just means they're smart enough to not bother with weaklings like you…" and another kick… dear sweet kami… I hide behind the tree more as I'm afraid she'll see me… I mean she's got her eyes active, she should see me anyway… right? Oh fuckit… I glance back and she's walking off with Sasuke…
Ugh… something in me just boils at that… screw that Hinata just kicked a bunch of kids asses at this age, but there's no way I can stomach her walking off with Sasuke like that… fuck that, hell no, I draw the line there!
"Hyuuga Hinata!" why the fuck did I just jump out from behind the tree like Konohamaru?! Why am I pointing and shouting at her? Why does this seem strangely familiar! "I c-challenge y-you!" WHY AM I STUTTERING!
She turns on me, her eyes are no longer active, so that's nice, I like those pale lavender eyes when they aren't so fierce and active… plus she could get pretty scary with those things, flashbacks of pregnancies past make me shutter… I have to shake my head as now is not the time or place to be thinking about my future wife… er… maybe? Why is she just looking at me like that? So critically… so… I don't even know, that is not the loving adoration I'm used to seeing from my Hinata…
Yoko what cruel world did you drop me into you evil bitch!
"Oi, Teme!" oh god Sasuke's voice is so squeally it's really annoying… I glance over to him, he's got a bloody nose he keeps sniffing up with his hands in tight fists and just glaring at me with those black eyes… this is supposed to be my brother right? Well… to be honest I never really paid much attention to Sasuke before that whole deal with his family… I mean it hasn't happened yet, and I had no idea what all that stuff's problems was the first time around, and last time I caught Itachi and he explained everything, how depressed he was about not being able to be killed by his brother and all that… damn, I should probably try and do something about that this time, I mean seriously, I owe it to the guy, he was a real hero to Konoha for putting up with all the bullshit he was put through… oh, right, mini-Sasuke… uh… "How many times do we have to say it, Hina-chan isn't going to fight you!"
"Well why the hell not?!" seriously, why the hell not? She just beat up three brats for his sake, why not kick my ass for my sake? Damn that sounds weirdly masochistic… why am I wanting to fight with her all of a sudden? Since when are Hinata and I enemies? Rivals? What the fuck?
Something about her eyes shifted strangely, I know that look… that's not the look of a little kid, that's the look of an analyzing jounin. Then she stepped forward, nudging Sasuke to the side with no real resistance from the boy but he still had that looking-down-on-me look in his eyes… I really want to punch him… well, sorta… more his 'future' psycho-self, after what he did to Hinata and our kids… to Iruka and Anko's girls… I can't help the growl and anger that starts to spread in me, I can already feel the heat of the Kyuubi's chakra coursing through me…
I didn't even see it…
One instant Hinata was on standing next to Sasuke, the next something like a cannon hit me in the chest and I was on the ground, feeling numb all over and suddenly drained… where'd you go Yoko?
Dizzily I open my eyes and see her standing over me, looking at me critically again, a distinct crease in her brows, "Don't start that, Uzumaki," why does that formality hurt so much, "I already said I was the one that will become Hokage, so stop trying so hard…" and she turned away with this flat look I'd only ever seen on other Hyuuga…
Where was my Hinata?
I coughed, placing a hand on my chest as that hurt like hell… "Like…" breathe damnit, "L-like h-hell…" I pulled myself to my feet, grinning. I don't want to be Hokage, not this go around, I did that shpell… I did the whole being 'the leader' thing last time… didn't get me anywhere; just lost even more people… she can have it… I stared straight at her, hard and true as when I stared down the Raikage before beating him in that arm wrestling match, "Y-you can have the hat-ttebayou!" there was an odd look in her eyes, one I can't quite place… "Cause I got a better goal in mind, hehe!" and I gave her the biggest, widest grin I could offer…
I came back here for you Hinata… come hell or the end of the world I'm gonna get you back!
The look on her face was priceless… why, I even think there's a bit of that old pink in those cute round cheeks… hehe, oh yea, Yoko you bitch… whatever you did to tamper with this world, I'll beat it! Cause I'm Uzumaki-fucking-Naruto!
I turned a bit of a sinister grin to the Uchiha next to her and said the first thing that came to mind, "You better watch yourself you bastard, cause I won't forgive you, you'll be the first on my list to my goal!" it's funny to watch mini-Sasuke squirm… I should probably give him some slack, he's only like six, still got his family and pre-crazy… but he's standing between me and my goal… even if I do want to help his brother, and maybe avoid some of his crazy, standing between me and my future wife is not somewhere anyone should be!
I strutted up to her, that's right, strutted, even if I was still holding the sore spot on my chest as I gave her the most sinister fox grin I could muster. She may not have been the 'meek' Hinata from my previous childhoods, but she was still Hinata, my Hinata… and there was nothing in this world that could get between me and her, death, Sasuke, Madara, whatever Kami-itself… nothing was going to get between me and my goal…
So I did the most off balanced childish thing I could do…
I leaned in and kissed her, right on the lips… that's right, age six and already I kissed my girl! Take that you kitsune bastards!
I could hear Sasuke coughing and sounding extremely disgusted, and I think even the word 'cooties' was used… I'd have to snicker at that later… Sasuke saying 'cooties', snort…
Hinata was stiff, and really I only gave her a peak, I'm just a little boy and she's just a little girl and I just wanted to get this 'new' her off balanced… so I was happily surprised to lean back, grinning like the fox I am, and watch her go absolutely red from head to toe…
Then pass out…
"YES!" I could not help but jump up and do a happy dance! "THAT'S MY HINATA! WOOHOO!"
"Y-you jerk!" mini-Sasuke squealed, wow he's got a high-pitched voice at this age, "T-that doesn't count! You cheated!" he looked so red and angry, I hope he's not jealous, I don't want him liking my Hinata, she's mine! Though beating him in this would be kinda nice… hehehe…
I came down from my happy-dance giggling, grinning so wide to put the Kyuubi to shame as I poked him in the shoulder, "All's fair in love and war! Nanananana!" then blew him a raspberry…
He turned even more red, I think the quote was lost on his childish brain but the gist was obviously understood, "You cheated!" oh god it looked like he was throwing a hissy-fit, ha! "I'm telling Ko about this!"
Ko? "wait, wha-?"
And that was about as far as I got before getting a real Jyuuken strike to the chest, which sent me flying into a tree a good couple of feet away.
"Don't. ever. Touch lady Hinata again!"
I managed to keep my eyes open long enough to catch a glimpse of one really big, really pissed off, really having his Byakuugan flaring Hyuuga with short cropped hair. Holy hell, who was this guy? That's not Hiashi?! Okay, looks kinda like him with short hair, but then most Hyuuga look alike except Hinata for some reason but… er… wha?
Sasuke seemed to just give this little snort, his to become patented Uchiha scowl crossing his face as he promised me all sorts of pain with that look for doing something to Hinata while this Ko guy picked her up and started to leave with the little Uchiha at his heels…
Well, that was weird…
If it weren't for the encroaching darkness from this possible concussion I'd probably think more on this odd turn of events… as it is… eh, darkness is nice…
Hehe, I got to kiss Hinata, I got to kiss Hinata…
A/N: I've got to say writing as 'old Hinata' is funny as hell, because she's OLD, grown so damn much she's completely unrecognizable from her 'young' self... while Naruto is and always will be 'Naruto' no matter his age... -snickers-
obviously, since 'old' Hinata got dropped her first, she's already started some shenaningans... now what will these shenanigans be? well i'll just have to get to those through her view point now won't i, muahahahaha... welcome to a strange new world Naruto~
thanks for the reviews, nice to get such a decent response to something so random...
Comments, questions, opposing views? you know you want to review~ :3
Till next -salute-waves- Sayounara, Mina!
-Ikasury
