AN: Hello there, and welcome to the second chapter of this story! I've recently got new ideas about where to go with this story, so here's hoping it's still good. I apologize for taking so long on this and my other fics as well, but I've struggled with the actual writing part ^^u
deidara-chan's lover214: ACK! Please don't do that! It sound's painful! Look, here's the next chapter!
Chapter 2: night-time fighting.
Hinata walked into the small clearing that her bodyguard had suggested camping in, and dropped the pile of firewood onto the ground. She carefully constructed a small fire pit, and lit the fire they would need.
"That looks like a good fire!" Hinata jumped and looked over her shoulder. Hidara walked into the clearing, pulling something behind him. "You've done this before." Hinata nodded gently.
"Hai, I usually made the fire pit, while Shino-san and Kiba-san hunted the food, and Kurenai-sensei cooked." Hidara nodded thoughtfully, before dropping the unidentified item.
"Well…I'm happy to cook if you want me to." Hinata smiled faintly and nodded her consent. "Right then…you happy with boar?" He hefted the carcass of a dead adult wild boar into the air, holding it by one leg. He grinned madly at her before putting it down "Stand back." It wasn't a request, Hinata could tell. She moved back slightly. In one swift movement Hidara had unsheathed his sword and slashed it through the dead animal.
"Kenjutsu: Cut and gut." Hidara's katana slashed through the air, and Hinata could have sworn that he was holding two for a moment. In a few moments, the boar had been de gutted, and the guts had somehow ended up in a neat pile. Both ninja's looked at it for a moment. "…you know, I still don't quite know how it does that…" Hidara muttered, slightly concerned. Hinata giggled at him, starting to laugh harder when he glared, mock pouting at her. Hidara shook his head and started to prepare the meal.
1 ½ hours later
"I just don't get it." Hidara said, picking some food from between his teeth with a senbon needle. Hinata looked over at him questioningly. "Why send a Hyūga, more than that a main branch Hyūga, to Kumo, when they've been trying to steal the Byakugan for decades?" He sighed and shook his head.
"I-I think that it's a political move." Hidara raised an eyebrow. "If Kumo kidnap me for my Byakugan, then Konoha will have an excuse to attack, and since the war has only recently ended, Kumo won't be able to fight back as effectively." Hidara nodded thoughtfully. "Did you fight in the war?" Hidara froze up at the question.
"…yup." He suddenly stood and stretched "I'll take first watch…you train or sleep, you know…whatever you usually do on missions when the others are either asleep or on duty." He trudged off, balancing a kunai on one finger as he went. Hinata let out a sigh, and moved over to the tree line. She calmly activated her Byakugan, and started going through the gentle fist movements, trying to perfect her stance. She continued doing this, repeating moves over and over to get rid of any holes in her defence, until she realised that it was well into the night. She stretched, her muscles tight from the workout. She set off across the camp, searching for her bodyguard. She eventually found him sitting in a tree, watching the road.
"Umm…Hidara?" He grunted in response. "I'll take over the watch now." He looked down at her.
"You sure?" He saw her nod, and jumped down. "Want some company then?"
"Aah, you don't have to, you must be tired." Hidara laughed slightly, and leant against the tree. They stood in silence for a while, before he spoke, keeping his voice low.
"You have noticed the five ninja's trying to sneak up on us haven't you." Upon seeing Hinata nod, he rested one hand on the hilt of his sword. "On your word."
The two stood in silence, with Hinata's Byakugan silently activated and Hidara's hand flexing on his hilt. "Now!" Hinata suddenly shouted, throwing a kunai into the trees. Hidara drew his sword in an arcing motion, deflecting three shuriken. The two ninja's moved, pressing their backs together.
"You might as well come out, we know you're there." Hinata's voice was clear as she spoke. After a few moments, five ninja landed around them, all wearing headbands with a music note on them.
"Seriously? You guys are still around?" Hidara asked, tilting his head to one side. "I thought you guys were all captured and either executed or imprisoned." He caught a kunai that flew at his head, and threw it into a tree. "Go figure."
One of the sound ninjas snarled and charged at Hinata, shouting a battle cry of "Die Leaf Scum!" The Hyuuga heiress ducked under a blow, and retaliated. "Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm!" She slammed her open palm into the man's stomach, and he went flying back.
"One sword; Quick draw!" With her Byakugan enhanced vision, Hinata could see that Hidara had sheathed his sword and moved into a Kenjutsu stance. Suddenly the sword was out of the sheath and whistling through the air, ending the life of one of the ninjas as it cut through their throat. "Well that worked." He muttered, feeling immensely smug with himself. He quickly went on the defensive as two more ninja's attacked him.
Hinata blocked an attack from the fifth ninja, and started to seal his chakra points, one by one. After trading several blows, the sound ninja attempted a jutsu. Hinata moved quickly, dropping into one of the most feared stances of the Hyūga clan. "You're in my range." She moved quickly, her arms a blur as she struck time and time again. "One palm, Two palm, Four palm, Eight palm, Sixteen palm, Thirty-two palm," She spun and shouted out the attacks full name. "Eight Trigram, Sixty-Four palm!" Her arms blurred as she struck again and again, her final blow knocking the enemy ninja out and sending him flying. "I-I did it." She whispered, before turning to her companion.
"Good job Hyūga!" Hidara said, facing her with a grin. His two opponents were lying on the ground, bleeding. "Let's get moving, shall we?" Hinata nodded, and went to pack up when her Byakugan noticed something.
"Behind you!" Hidara started to turn, drawing his sword as he did, but was grabbed around the throat.
"Don't move, girly." A sound ninja had snuck up on them, and was holding Hidara hostage now, a kunai pushing into the swordsman's throat. "One move, and he's dead." Hinata glared at the man, but noticed Hidara smiling.
"Don't worry Hinata, I've got this one!" He grinned before wincing as the Kunai dug deeper into his neck. "ouch!"
"Shut up." The ninja growled, before glaring at Hinata again. "Here's what's going to happen. You're going to let me leave, and not mention this to your superiors, got it? In exchange, I tell the others around here not to kill you."
Hidara laughed. "I'm sorry, but we just wiped out your squad, what makes you think that any other sound nins we meet won't face the same fate?" He chuckled. "Besides…you're right where I want you."
The sound ninja growled, and went to end Hidara's life for insulting the power of the Sound, when he found himself flying backwards. Hidara hand gathered a large amount of chakra on his feet, and shoot backwards, crashing the two into a tree, enemy first. The sudden impact caused the Sound nin to drop the Kunai.
"Ninja art" Hidara started, taking hold of his sword with both hands. He spun the blade so the point was touching his stomach. "Seppuku!" With that one cry, he stabbed himself.
The sword sliced through him and the sound ninja, impaling the two and digging into the tree.
"Hidara!" Hinata cried, rushing over to the two. She carefully, but quickly, pulled them off the tree, and pushed the dying Sound ninja off the blade. Laying her bodyguard on the ground, she wiped the foreign blood off the blade, and started doing hand signs. "Ninja art; healing palm jutsu." her hand started glowing green with the healing chakra, and she moved it to the wound on his front.
Just as she started to heal it, a hand grabbed her wrist. Flinching, she glanced at the arm, and saw who was holding her.
Hidara grinned.
"Surprise."
Hinata did something she hadn't done for a long time.
She fainted.
AN: And that's your lot!
Sorry it took so long, but I didn't know quite how to write this one at times.
A quick translation;
Seppuku – Stomach-cutting, also known as Honourable suicide.
See you next time!