Vengeance for Two

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You will probably find some people are OOC


2.Train Me!

Sasuke stepped into Training Ground No.3 just as a light sprinkle of rain finally came from the clouds so high above. 'I'm right on time, but is she?' taking a little look around, Sasuke spotted Hinata sitting underneath a large oak tree on a hill that seemed to overlook the majority of the training ground, turning her head back and forth periodically 'like a camera' searching for him, he thought.

Sasuke smirked at the thought of resemblance and walked over to her, slowly with his hands stuffed into his pockets as usual. Hinata blushed and smiled shyly as he approached, his unmasked gaze lingering on her as she sat waiting for him in the shadowed grass of the tree trunk. "H-hello, Uchiha-san." she stuttered out, although it seemed a little easier for her to speak to him than usual, after all, why be afraid of someone if they were willing to pull a favor for you with seemingly no demands of repayment? Sasuke nodded as to acknowledge her presence and stood next to her, just leaning against the tree.

Hinata wondered what he was thinking, he didn't seem to find her request odd at all, as a matter of fact, when she left him earlier, he seemed almost glad that she brought it up. Sasuke continued to stand there, unknowingly already passing his first lesson onto Hinata 'although it is one she probably already knows' he thought. They waited, Hinata sat next to him while he stood and both simply watched the sky for about an hour before he finally broke the silence. "It looks like you already have patience on your belt." he said, keeping his voice and facial features as stoic as he possibly could. "U-umm h-hai S-S-Sasuke-san, it w-was one of the f-f-first things that Kurenai-s-sensei taught us!" was her reply, it was kind of irritating, having her stutter so much when it was hardly necessary. He fought down an unnecessary scowl and kept his annoyance from entering his face as he told her "You shouldn't stutter so much, it makes people think you're scared, and when they think you're scared-" he looked down and met her lavender eyes with his coal ones "-they try to take advantage of you." he finished. Sasuke walked down the hill to a flat grassy area at the base of the hill, motioning for the Hyuuga heiress to follow behind him. Then they began, it first started out with higher level shuriken and kunai techniques, than switched over to practicing the Taijutsu physical arts, it was there that Uchiha Sasuke found out just how deadly Jyuuken (Gentle fist)could be. As they laid down on the grass to rest, an idea came to his mind… 'What if…? What if we could teach each other techniques the other already has in their arsenal? It would be so much more effective than simply practicing all day long…' It would help him get stronger, and strength was what he desperately needed, and so did she.

Sasuke stole a glance at the panting girl laying just a meter away from him, and decided to mention it after they finished today's training, they still had an hour to burn before she finally had to go home before it got too late. Hinata was exhausted, she had never trained so hard in such a short amount of time! It was worth it though, she had decided after seeing the immediate improvement in her shuriken targeting capabilities after doing as Sasuke instructed. Before, she could probably only graze the target with several shuriken, only about 1 or 2 actually hitting somewhere near the center, but just 20 minutes of watching Sasuke throw, all shuriken managed to impact themselves reasonably close to the center, and one of them even hit a bulls-eye, which was a big deal, because Sasuke had managed to rig a moving wooden target and it was pretty small and fast, hitting it wasn't as easy as it looked. Hinata turned her head over to find Sasuke staring straight at her, not bothering to hide it in the least, she blushed and turned overto face theopposite direction once more"W-What is it…?" she asked over her shouldercuriously. " I was just thinking," he said, decidingthat maybe it was just better togo ahead and tellher now,"What if we were to teach each other techniques we already know? It would be better than doing just this."

Hinata thought for a moment. What could she teach him? All of her techniques required the Byakugan something that Sasuke clearly had no access to, but after thinking back on the many scrolls she had been forced to study, one of them mentioned the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan, its huge memory capacity and ability to copy just about every technique it saw. Maybe Sasuke could become capable of Jyuuken if he memorized chakra points that she showed him while he had his Sharingan active, and maybe help him concentrate his chakra into his fingertips and palms. Sasuke would of course, have plenty to show her.

Hinata turned to him once more, no longer finding him staring at her, but instead he had gotten up to examine multiple targets he had strategically placed around the training ground to help her practice. She smiled quietly to herself, rarely would she ever find willing help, if he had not come around, she would have probably been issued a private instructor, someone who was ordered to help her, that didn't mean the person wanted to. Her teammates would always help her of course, but she didn't want to burden them too often, and everyone else didn't seem to have much free time going on. Hinata sat up and waited patiently for Sasuke to finish his examinations, and as he came back he nodded to her. "Not bad, you hit several bulls-eyes and nailed each and every target with at least three shuriken, including the moving ones." he stood over her and noted that she wanted to say something, due to the fact that her mouth was partially open, and moving, but nothing actually coming out. "What is it?" he said, though not unkindly, but rather slightly tired. "Um, about your idea Sasuke-san,-" he noticed she didn't stutter " I think we should give it a try."

Hinata looked up at him, blushing slightly, but with a determined expression nonetheless. Sasuke smirked and gave his trademarked 'Hn' signaling a yes. Hinata stood up and once more followed him to the center of the training ground.

For the next 6 weeks this was a routine, every day after training with their team they would do whatever reconstruction work was assigned to them, Sasuke and Hinata would embark to Training Ground No.3 to practice Weapon, Taijutsu, and Ninjutsu techniques. Once they had spent about an hour on those, they began teaching each other whatever they knew, sparing absolutely nothing for the sake of getting stronger. They would only break this routine whenever a mission came up, and even then they tried to keep it as short as possible. Their relationship towards each other also began to grow along with their skills, as it was impossible to spend so much time together and not really try to get to know each other, Hinata found that he was experiencing a pain very much like hers, loneliness, although from a greatly different cause, she found herself feeling sorry for him and tried to avoid the subject instead, talking about what each other liked. It was a little difficult to get him to speak up sometimes, but she was the same way, and it was not uncommon for them to have a sudden block of silence in their conversations. A comfortable silence, that neither had any problem with, but wouldn't mind if it was broken by one of them speaking on something.

Of course… This arrangement couldn't be kept a secret forever, although neither Hinata nor Sasuke had specifically agreed to keep it a secret, they found themselves reluctant to answer truthfully when confronted with a question of where they went all afternoon by their teachers. It became quite obvious however, when on one mission Team 8 was attacked by Otonin and Hinata had baked the enemy squad leader with Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu! and as was expected, Kurenai-sensei was taken aback. How could Hinata have mastered Fire Style techniques without her ever knowing? This one in particular was a signature jutsu of none other than the famous Uchiha clan no less. Kakashi had the same outlook on a similar mission when he rushed to help Sasuke, only to see his opponent crumple in a heap, burn marks from where his Tenketsu was utterly decimated. Curious as to how their students managed to grasp such techniques, Kurenai and Kakashi shadowed their respective students all they way to Training Ground No.3 and what they saw, they pretty much expected, but were nonetheless still surprised to actually see ; Sasuke and Hinata.

"Well, well, well, spending some quality time with the Hyuuga heiress now are we? I guess you don't hate girls that much after all…" Kakashi smiled behind his mask as he was content simply watching fromthe tree had chosenas the unlikely pair sparred below him. Kurenai landed softly on a thick branch just beside his and after a moment of surprise on her face, she smiled, content to watch just like Kakashi and let the Genin train.

By the 7th week, Hinata and Sasuke were equals in terms of skill and strength, and the rest of the Rookie Nine had noticed their huge improvement and similarity in just about all fields combat. Everyone knew they were training together now, and it sprung a mixed reaction from rest of the Rookie Nine, but they agreed to keep their findings from the other two despite Sakura and Ino's violent urges to break them apart. They did this mainly because of the huge improvement in their moods, having someone he was actually able to talk to and compare with, Sasuke was now beginning to open up, ever so slowly to those around him, and Hinata was simply happier than she was before, even more so than when she was when she saw Naruto, which was all the more reason to keep it the way it was. Of Course… No one could afford to let the Hyuuga household realize what's going on, Hiashi, despite almost hating his daughter, still cared heavily for her impacts on clan honor.

Hinata was once more on her way to Training Ground No.3, she found herself happily humming quietly to herself all day long in anticipation of Training with Sasuke-kun (They had both given up calling each to each other with far out formalities.) for some strange reason though, something just didn't feel right, although she had been happier lately the mood around the entire village seemed to fall even further during the past few weeks. Sasuke had mentioned it during their last session and as she thought about it, she recalled that the rest of the Rookie Nine was relatively hush-hush, at least whenever she or Sasuke came around… 'Wonder why?' she thought. Hinata finally ceased humming as she came into the training ground to find Sasuke standing in the middle of the field already, which was odd since she was usually first. Then she saw that he was lugging around a lot more weight, an entire backpack to be more precise, though what it contained she didn't know, all she could tell was that it made her get a very bad feeling.


R&R Please, im working on legnthening the chapters, so dont worry about that though.