AN: I am terribly aware of the fact that I haven't posted in…forever. I have just been very busy with some business at school. I have missed this place...
Anywhosers, this chappie will probably finish off the childhood of the characters (I am unsure because I have yet to write it, lol) and the next will begin on their teenage hood. Do you know what that means? Of course you do... (If ye don't then ye haven't read too many of mine stories)
I made up Goubo, because I'm too lazy to figure out an elder dog's name from the Inuzuka family. If someone does know, then please tell me!
Naruto, Sasuke, Kiba, Hinata, Ino, and Gaara=7
Neji and Haku=8
Naruto was crouched beside Orochimaru, watching the two little girls interacting loudly behind the Yamanaka flower shop. They were fighting, over Sasuke, and were getting rather violent. One of them had soft pink hair and the other was blonde, a lighter shade than Naruto's own. Apparently the blonde was 'Ino-pig' and the bubble gum was 'forehead girl'. Those names made Naruto's childish side giggle with delight and mirth while his soldier side remained stern and observed with cold calculation. He and Orochimaru were looking for recruits, not little girls who could come up with kick ass names.
"Shut up!!" screeched Ino-pig suddenly, shoving forehead girl roughly with the palms of her little hands.
Forehead girl fell back, her bottom hitting the ground solidly, and began to cry. Ino-pig fell back for no reason, bursting into horrid tears that made her gasp in pain.
Ino felt her hands shake, all four of them bouncing around her laps and she realized that she had double of everything. She gasped with two throats, four lungs powering her cries of lamentation. She stood up with her four legs, watching with four eyes as her mother and Sakura's mother rushed toward her and grabbed her shoulders. The women asked Ino what was wrong, trying to get her to stop screaming long enough to form a coherent sentence.
"I fell!" Ino cried with two voices, looking over at herself in horror.
She could see her own body, through Sakura's eyes, could see the tears streaming out of her eyes. Ino could also see Sakura, her face pinched in pain, her eyes wide with fear. Both girls had the same consciousness yet were supposed to be two different people.
This sudden shock made her cry harder, her four different eyes streaming with tears and Ino used her real body to lash out, slapping her mother harshly and transferring to another being with sudden and inhuman speed. She looked down at her own body again, backing up many steps to try and get out of this sudden and horrible situation.
Orochimaru was smiling to himself even as Ino made the three females start bawling in utter terror.
"So, that is the Yamanaka family secret. Their daughter can transfer and control multiple bodies at once. I would love to be able to test her limits." The man looked down at his faithful soldier, "Add her to the list."
Naruto was watching as the three figures grabbed Sakura's mother and she was added to the list of how many people Ino had control of. The three women swayed, unable to stay standing for another moment and Naruto felt Ino's chakra snap back into her own body with enough force to knock her out cold.
It would seem that there were drawbacks to controlling too many people at once.
Kiba was running around in his backyard, playing with the elder dogs of his clan. His own puppy refused to play with him, preferring to sniff out rat holes and eating large amounts of food. Akamaru hated Kiba, every time the little boy would try and pick him up the dog would bite him, hard enough to draw blood most of the time.
Being a naïve child, he decided to try touching the puppy again when he noticed it lying on the ground, taking a nap by its favorite tree. Akamaru shot up when he felt his would-be master's hand upon his back and bit down on the nubby fingers, making sure to tear at them a little bit before taking off. Instead of wailing like a baby about it Kiba ran after the puppy, having no intent of harming the little shit, just wanting to ask it why he was always hurting Kiba. The other dogs loved the child, they always wanted to play with him—even Goubo, despite his arthritis—yet this doggy wouldn't.
It was almost an hour later when Akamaru thought he had finally lost the little boy in the woods. The dog knew the pack leader would be furious with him but...
A fully grown wolf bit down on Akamaru's neck, tearing open the soft flesh and flipping over the limp body. The male's serrated teeth easily shredded the vulnerable stomach of the puppy and ended its life. The others of the starved pack waited impatiently for the leader to eat its fill of the kill. A young wolf—still small enough to be dominated by the elder for a couple more months—jumped forward and snapped at the little body for a large portion of meat, hoping to assert his right to eat now too. He was challenged and they began to quarrel over the small body of the dead animal. Their lips curled back into vicious snarls, their teeth sharp and stained bright red with the blood of another of their kind. These were desperate, hungry animals ready to do almost anything just to stay alive.
Kiba fell into the small clearing, tripping over the dead tree that had made the space. The wolves stopped bickering instantly, their starved stomachs immediately making them allies against more dinner. The little boy noticed the wolves, the dead puppy, and began to cry, his eyes spewing tears so pitiful that even the she-wolf (desperate to feed her cubs) hesitated in attacking.
"Go away!" his cry was carried with chakra, making it booming and so authoritive it seemed even the tallest of trees wanted to listen, "Don't hurt me!" he screamed it over and over again, his chakra depleting faster and faster until his little body was exhausted and the wolves were many miles away.
Orochimaru was staring silently at the boy, "Add the Inuzuka to the list, Gaara."
The red head was sad that he wasn't able to kill the wolves—or the boy—but added the correct kanji to the list. The kanji for Uchiha Sasuke, Haku, and Yamanaka Ino were already there, so he added Inuzuka Kiba right below them.
When they left Kiba was lying beside his dead puppy. The clearing had grown about a foot wider, all around, by some power beyond such a small child.
Neji and Hinata were sparring in the family dojou. Hinata didn't really want; she didn't like it whenever she and Neji had to fight. He had challenged her and, according to her father, it would be disgraceful the main family if she let him go unpunished. She didn't want to punish him, her heart just wasn't blood thirsty or cold like the Hyuuga family desperately wanted.
Neji's open palm slapped her knee and she got him in the elbow. Her leg felt numb but, with enough concentration, she could still move it enough to run away from the next secession of attacks. Neji was infuriated now, pissed because his cousin had managed to hit him and make his left arm useless. They began to move faster, their bodies twisting like dancers in a wonderful ballet of violence and beauty. Two figures were lurking at the door of the building, unknown to the two figures whose sole concentration was each other.
Their movements picked up again, chakra levels skyrocketing until their little bodies reached maximum. The intensity made it hard for Hinata to breathe, her lungs gasping with each breath and her body shaking with power. Neji was smiling; the exhilaration of fighting with Hinata was so intense it was almost sexual, taking them both to planes of existence higher than could be understood.
Hiashi rushed into the room, his clear eyes aglow with furry at the power coming off the two in droves. He envied them, hated his brother for fathering the more powerful of the two impossibly strong Hyuuga.
"What have I told you of sparring together?" he snapped, stepping in to stop them.
The two hadn't noticed the man though, too caught up in their own power trips to notice his pale flare of chakra—by comparison. He was hit by four deadly amounts of chakra, two in his arms and two in his midsection. The chakra ripped into his body, destroying chakra pathways as it went careening around in his body.
Neji's power was convened too hazardous for use and blocked by his curse seal. Hinata was too grief and fear stricken to ever tap into the power again, deciding to never use it again if she could help it. Orochimaru and Naruto wrote Hyuuga Neji and Hyuuga Hinata down upon their list.
AN: I know this is short as shit and I'm sorry, I don't have nearly as much time as I would like, to devote to this dern thing so you are stuck with my shitty filler chapter...
