I have been writing like a machine today!!
I added a 2000 word chappy for my LOTR epic and I started a new story and am already on chapter #2!!
wow I am amazing!! lmao
well for those who read this I really am dying for my first review!!
and whoever gives it to me I will be forever grateful!!
lets get the story started!!
Updated: 09/20/07
Find Yourself
Chapter 2: A training glitch and the stresses of present buying
"You're doing it all wrong!"
"Show me how to do it properly then!!"
"I can't. I am nine months pregnant!"
"Well then quit complaining!"
"Hinata show him how to do it!" exclaimed Kurenai, a scowl forming on her face. She was caressing her widened midsection softly. It was evident how far along she was on in her pregnancy. It could be any time that she'd go into labor, something which Kiba seemed to have failed to notice.
"Hai sensei!" said Hinata obediently. She left her training trunk where she was refining her juuken. She jogged past Shino, who was practicing one of his bug related techniques, her feet squishing in the moisture of the freshly rained on grass, over to where Kurenai was attempting to teach Kiba how to get out of a dojutsu genjutsu.
"Can you use your new genjutsu technique on Kiba?" asked Kurenai, her composure slowly beginning to return.
Hinata put her fingers together nervously. "Demo-o, my dojutsu is-s really...um, hard to get-t out of-f." she stuttered in her normal skittish fashion. Her head bowed and eyes darting erratically with an unknown cause of nervousness.
Kurenai placed her hands on her hips and gave her a sharp look.
"Ee-k!" Hinata chirped. She turned immediately towards Kiba, not wanting to upset her teacher.
She clasped her hands together in a hand seal. "Byukagun!"
Kurenai backed up a few meters and waited until they were positioned properly. "Prepare your defense Kiba, when you're ready look Hinata in the eye." she instructed. She crossed her arms over her upper chest watching her two students.
Kiba brought his hands together. "Akamaru! HENGE!" Akamaru who was right on top of Kiba turned into a replica his masters' replica.
Kiba looked directly into Hinata's eyes and was caught immediately, a dazed look washed over his face.
Akamaru rushed out from behind Kiba, kicking up mountains of dirt, soot and rain drops in the process. He sprinted on all fours at Hinata, circled around her and took her out from behind.
"Gatsuga!" he attacked.
Kiba's eyes snapped open and quickly came to. "Yamate! Akamaru!" ordered Kiba. He ran quickly over to his fallen teammate. She was sprawled out at an awkward angle and her eyes her doing dizzying loops.
"Are you okay Hinata?" he asked, kneeling beside her.
"Hai-i" she managed to get out weakly. Her head was lolling back and forth on the ground. It was rather nauseating.
"Ooff." he sighed in relief. He wiped a streak of freshly exploited sweat off his forehead. "I thought you were out!"
When Kurenai reached them it looked as though she had just run, or waddled, a marathon, but when she spoke it was with emotion that was rarely shown. "Kiba why did you tell Akamaru to take her out using Gatsuga?" she demanded. Shino and a retransformed Akamaru were at her heels.
"I didn't! I swear!" exclaimed Kiba as he helped Hinata to her feet. He supported her from the shoulders. Her body weighed him down more than he expected. 'Damn it's probably her newly found 'chest' weight.' he thought perversely.
"Then why?" asked Kurenai quietly.
"Akamaru?" questioned Kiba.
"Bark! Bark!!" God knows how Kiba can understand him.
"What did he say?" asked Shino in his expected emotionless voice.
Kiba looked slightly puzzled, his face reddening in apparent embarrassment.
He held an arm behind his head stiffly. "Ahuuumm, Akamaru has just told me that when I was trapped in the dojutsu he felt too strong of chakra to be only training. He thought that Hinata was really a threat to me." explained Kiba trying to make it a joke while laughing in an awkward way.
"Gomen-nasai Kiba-kun-n." apologized Hinata. She seemed unable to look away from the ground at her feet.
"Huh?" Kiba was clueless as to why she was apologizing.
"I guess this ends our training session early for today. We need to go back to into town. Hinata needs to get looked at by Sakura just incase if she need healing. I'll leave you two to do that." said Kurenai motioning to Shino and Kiba. "I'll be going back to my house. You have the rest of the day off." and with a silvery poof of smoke Kurenai was gone.
"Yippa!! We get to leave practice early!" shouted Kiba loudly. The trees rustled to the disturbing sound.
"Do you have to be so loud?" complained Shino as he reached to support Hinata's other shoulder.
"Umm...I am not sure. Lets find out!" exclaimed Kiba even louder, thus rustling the trees for a second time.
"It was a rhetorical question..." Shino stared at Kiba, as though just realizing he was the dumbest person he had ever seen.
"Ino-pig calm down and help me buy a present for birthday girl!!"
"But-but-but!!"
"Come on!" exclaimed Sakura trying to wench Ino's arm off of the package, with due success, courtesy of the monstrous strength she inherited from Tsunade. "The L'Oreal jumbo pack will still be there in a few days." consoled Sakura.
'Not if I have anything to do with it Shanaro!!' screamed inner Sakura. Sakura smiled artificially, her mouth twitching at the side. Ino seemed to not have noticed her inner battle.
"It's so beautiful though..." cooed Ino, her eyes dazed and unfocused. She was now admiring from every angle, tilting her head to get the best view.
"You can't buy it Ino. You only have enough money for lunch. You've already spent all of it on Tenten's present, all your new clothes, and CDs." scolded Sakura. She took Ino forcefully by the arm and dragged her effortlessly out of the store.
"Forehead girl, you really are a party pooper sometimes." pouted Ino as Sakura, her hundred dollar shoes scrapping the dirty outdoor grounds.
They went into the next store on the road.
Both stopped and stood frozen just inside the store.
"Wow…well…this IS pretty amazing..." said Ino dumbfoundedly, her dazed gaze returned. They were in a store that sold only extremely high class jewelry and ridiculously expensive baby blue accessories.
"Next store!!" exclaimed Sakura. She had to resort to dragging Ino out of this store as well.
Outside the store they were flanked by Kiba, Naruto, Lee, Choji and Kankuro.
"Sakura!" "Sakura-chan!" yelled Kiba and Naruto in unison. They glared at each other as though arguing. "Ino!" "Ino!" they greeted in unison again, and glared at each other for a second time.
"What is it guys?" asked a both physically and mentally exhausted Sakura.
"This dumbass hurt Hinata while they were sparing!" yelled Naruto shrilling, pointing a finger accusingly at Kiba.
"That's not true!" protested Kiba, pointing a finger back at him.
"Hello Sakura-san! Are you shopping for Tenten-san?" asked Lee.
"What are you doing here Kankuro-kun?" inquired Ino.
"Ino-chan...didn't you hear? My sister and I were sent here for the festival at the end of the month and chose to come down early for Tenten's birthday." explained Kankuro.
"I got Tenten a 25$ gift certificate for the barbeque!" exclaimed Choji.
"QUIET!!"
Everyone froze, and slowly turned towards Sakura. She was volatile, leaking out chakra from rage. Everyone knew she was in a deadly mood.
"Kiba is she in critical condition? If not onegai allow me to buy Tenten her present within the next 10 minutes then I will go with you to go see her." Sakura said smoothly. Her eyes were clenched shut. No one would dare interrupt her when she was in temperament like this.
Kankuro stalked stealthily behind Sakura and slipped his arm around Ino, outside of Sakura's vision even if her eyes were open. Together they slowly and silently tried to escape Sakura's wrath. They crept quietly towards a nearby path they were almost there when…
"Ino don't even think about going off with Kankuro to do who knows what." Sakura threatened, her eyes snapping open. The rest of the group burst out laughing as Ino and Kankuro trucked back.
"Can I help pick out her present??" asked Naruto with wide apprehensive eyes.
"Don't even think about it. Knowing you you'll go running to Tenten-san and tell her what I got." replied Sakura, point blank.
Naruto bowed his head in mock defeat and scuffled away with the other guys.
"Kiba get your ass back here!" demanded Sakura.
"Hey why can he come and not me!?" complained Naruto. Kiba stuck out his tongue at him like a child.
"Because he has to bring me to see Hinata-san afterwards." explained Sakura with an evil glint in her eyes.
"Get going guys." mouthed Ino.
"See you tomorrow Sakura-san!" exclaimed Lee as the group left.
"Is she always like this when she's with you?" whispered Kiba.
Ino nodded solemnly.
"Hurry up!" ordered Sakura harshly. She led them towards the next shop at a quick pace.
Kiba and Ino followed her with hunched shoulders.
Each of them naturally browsed in sections as far away from the others as possible.
"Wow these are perfect!" exclaimed Ino in awe. She held them up in front of her and began to jump up and down, unable to contain her happiness.
Kiba came from around a nearby shelf rubbing his ears that had picked up on her squeal. "...what is it?"
"Come on Kiba!" encouraged Ino holding two silky things with strings on each end, in either hand.
"Umm...silk socks?" asked Kiba offhandedly. 'How the hell am I supposed to know?'
Ino's face fell. 'Are you kidding me' she thought.
"Their mini hair wraps!!" yelled an excited Ino who was jumping up and down.
Kiba looked completely lost.
"For her buns silly!" she joked like a school girl and poked Kiba on the nose.
"You guys are so loud. I could hear you from the other side of the store." complained Sakura as she stalked over to the excited pair, or rather, excited Ino and disgruntled Kiba.
"Look at what we found Sakura!" exclaimed Ino.
Sakura closed her eyes in anger and tried in vain to lessen her popping blood vessels in her forehead.
"Whatever it is the answer is no."
"No, no! Sakura it's something you can give Tenten! Look!" Ino hoisted the hair wraps in the air again.
Sakura's eyes instantly lit up. "Their beautiful!" Sakura jumped up and down just as Ino had done previously. Kiba was looking at her with the utmost disbelief. 'Women…' When she calmed down again she looked at them closer.
"Their perfect, except she needs a different colour." Sakura observed. She could help scoffing at the baby blue, clearly Ino's favorite colour. Sakura searched through the selection on the shelf's and finally found one to her liking.
"Ahh, perfect." sighed Sakura. It was a whitey, beige with a tint of pink and gold strings.
"It is a perfect match to new her training clothes!" Sakura's eyes lit up again as she realized she finally found a good present for the tomboy. "I am going to pay for it, and then were going to see Hinata!" hollered Sakura as she ran to the cashier.
"She really is always like this isn't she?"
Ino sighed. "Yea…"
'It is a real feat at how some people can so obnoxious, loud, annoying and disrespectful, but yet some can be so quiet that you can't even notice them.' thought Neji.
Shino and Kiba had come to the Hyuuga compound supporting his injured cousin. They told him that it was a training accident. Since then Hinata had been given the pain killers which made her drowsy. Then Kiba had left in search for Sakura and since then the shoji had been perfectly and completely silent.
'Silence is golden.' he thought.
Neji returned his attention to his creations. He had finally decided on what to give to Tenten. He was making a homemade kunai set, with a golden lace around the handles and her name engraved into the sides in a whitish beige colour. He concentrated on his current kunai engravings. He was almost done.
"Why in the hell did you get her a kitten Kiba!? I mean holy shit what's she gonna do with it!?" yelled Ino.
'Fuck concentration blown.' Neji almost growled in agitation.
"Well I understood that she couldn't look after a dog because they have to go outside and do you know what, but cats are more independent and can fend for themselves for a month or more at a time if need be." replied Kiba in a sad attempt to be logical.
"Uggh! Insufferable!" declared Sakura and Ino in unison.
"Ohh there is Hinata." said Sakura motioning to a sleeping pallet as she and her company made their way through the shoji doors. Shino was sitting beside her. He seemed to be grooming his bugs. Creepy...
The trio walked over to Hinata, Kiba sitting beside Shino.
"Hey Neji, what are you doing?" asked Sakura attentively.
"I am making Tenten's present."
"What would that be??" pressed Ino annoyingly.
Neji had the very strong urge to roll his eyes.
"I am making a kunai set for her."
"Wow." mumbled Ino in awe.
Neji turned his attention back to his work as Ino sat next to Sakura. The kunoichi were opposite of Shino and Kiba.
Sakura examined her throughoutly, with a look of utmost concentration. She was far from the tease she had been the hours previous.
"It is not too bad." she said after her assessment was complete. "I can heal her to 100 percent in less than 10 minutes. However judging by my intense training session this morning with Tsunade-sama I will be extremely exhausted and I will need one of you to bring me home." she said expertly, motioning to Kiba and Ino who nodded immediately.
She got to work.
Sakura was right. She was done in a little over nine minutes. Hinata was wide awake and the medic was dead tiered.
"Gomen-nasai Kiba-kun, Shino-ku-un, Sakur-ra." said Hinata her head bowed.
"You didn't do anything wrong there is no need to apologize." replied Shino.
"Uhh, yea what he said." added Kiba.
"No sweat." whispered an exhausted and breathless Sakura. She was forced to lean on her elbows for support.
Ino was long gone from the pallet in turn of annoying the crap out of Neji about his gift to Tenten.
"These really are beautiful. Their so detailed and authentic." Ino said admiringly. She was examining one of the finished kunai between her fingers.
Neji completely ignored her.
"Their so many of them, and most of them aren't even kunai. Damn you're using every single weapon in the world here."
"Ahh!!" squeaked Hinata, earning her the attention of most of those in the room. "I-I don't have a-a present for Tenten!"
"We can't go now most of the stores will be closed." said Shino
"I am sure she'll understand." said Kiba trying to console his distressed teammate.
Kiba's comment seemed to have the reversed effect. Hinata was almost on the verge of tears.
"Tenten gav-ve me-e the nicest training-g clothes ever-r for my birthday..." she mumbled in regret.
"The kunai set can be from both of us." offered Neji without even looking up from his work.
"Really nii-san?" asked Hinata.
"Hai." replied Neji sparing her a glance before returning to his work.
"Arigato." thanked Hinata.
"That was sweet of you Neji!" pushed Ino still examining his kunai. He understandably ignored her yet again.
"Oh my god, Sakura!" Ino squeaked.
"What is it?" asked a wiped out Sakura.
"His kunai match your head wraps perfectly!" Ino exclaimed as though it was the most amazing thing ever.
"Yea."
"Cool."
"Great."
"Whatever."
"Guys!! That really is amazing! I bet Tenten will be thrilled."
No one ever took the effort to reply.
"Ughhh, fine! I bet you 20$ that she will be thrilled and notice that they match, and think that we planned that!" yelled Ino who was pointing her manicured finger at Kiba.
"Hey why me??"
"Because you always bet."
"What about Sakura, she gambles more than Tsunade!"
Ino glared at him 'No way will I bet forehead girl, first off I hear she's far more skilled than Tsunade at making money gambling. Second I would never hear the end of it if I lost to her.'
"Fine!" gave in Kiba.
"Can we go now I feel like I am about to collapse." whispered Sakura.
"Yea okay lets go." said Kiba as she hoisted Sakura onto his shoulder, while Ino took the other.
"Do you need my help?" asked Shino.
"No I think we're good." answered Ino.
"Bye Shino-kun." said Hinata
Shino nodded respectfully and left.
"We ready?" asked Kiba.
"Think so."
"Bye guys."
"See ya tomorrow!"
"Be sure to thank you cousin again for helping you out Hinata!"
Hinata giggled at Ino and waved.
'So their matching Tenten will like that.' thought Neji.
End of chapter 2!!
Next chapter will be up within the week and that will be Tenten's party!!
Everyone will be there so don't miss it!
Translations:
Hai: yes
Kunoichi – female ninja
Onegai - please
Shananro: Damn it
Sensei: teacher
Henge: transform
Yamate: stop
Dojutsu: is a technique that is preformed with the eye. It can read genjutsu, taijutsu and ninjutsu. i.e. Saske's Sharingan is a dojutsu.
Genjutsu: illusionary technique
Taijutsu: hand to hand combat. i.e. Lee and Gai are taijutsu specialists.
Ninjutsu: ninja techniques, these are preformed with hand seals.
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