Where Would I Be Without You-mhud07

Chapter 3:Rush to Konoha

Hello all. I know this is the third chapter in less than a week, but seriously, after this it's a chapter a week. Chapter 4 will be up next Sunday.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any characters associated to the Naruto anime. They belong to Mr. Kishimoto-san.

I kept forgetting to add that lol. R&R

"Rasengan!"

The swirling ball of chakra hit Ryoku in the small of her back. He had expected her to go flying, like everyone else had done. Instead she only skid a few feet and stopped, still standing up, with a gaping hole in her back.

"Is she dead?" Naruto asked. "No. she is paralyzed, she can't move. Leave her." Jiraiya said as he summoned a frog. "Naruuto, put those four on him." He said pointing to the frog. Sakura is unconscious, I'll carry her. You carry Hinata. Go as fast as possible, Hinata's jaw needs to be tended to soon."

"Hai." Naruto and Jiraiya picked up the girls, Naruto asking the Kyuubi to lend him chakra so he could get home fast. He was given it.

They shot off. Amazingly Jiraiya and his frog were able to keep pace with Naruto. A day later Hinata was healed and just waking up from sleep.

"Ouch." Was all she could get out. She was terribly sore. She then was a bit startled by a loud crash. She was startled even more when she was finally able to turn her head and see what had caused it.

Laying on the floor was Uzumaki Naruto, who had apparently flipped his chair over in surprise. "Naruto-kun?" she was very shocked to see him in her hospital room, and she could already feel the blush rising to her cheeks.

"Neh, Hinata-chan, I'll go tell Baa-chan your awake." He said. Hinata gasped at the suffix added to her name and started to blush even more. Naruto had also stopped briefly for a moment. "It just flew out of my mouth. Why?" he thought. He didn't wait to hear Hinata's response, and left the room.

"Did Naruto-kun say what I think he said?" Hinata whispered to herself. "What would that be?" Tsunade asked. Hinata jumped a tiny bit at her voice. "H-he used –chan in my n-n-name." She said embarrassed.

Tsunade then let a feral grin run across her face. "Oh?" she said. "Perhaps Konoha's number one loudmouth ninja has found love?" she asked as her eyebrowws went up and down.

There are no words that could describe the shade of red Hinata was at this moment. "Tsunade-sama, d-don't s-s-say things like that!" she pleaded. "Look Hinata, you don't understand how freaked out Naruto was when he got here." Tsunade said.

"What do you mean?" Hinata asked. "He didn't even mention Sakura, he was only worried about YOU." She said, pointing a finger at her. Hinata was shocked. "Me?" she sueaked. Tsunade nodded. "Mhm." "Your clear to leave the hospital if you want. I'll let you in on a secret. Jiraiya is going to take Naruto out of the village for three years. I think you should give it a try and tell him your feelings before he leaves."

Hinata had tears in her eyes. "Three years? Why?" Tsunade looked at her. "You know Naruto has the Kyuubi. Akatsuki is after that. Naruto isn't strong enough to face Akatsuki as he is right now." Hinata swallowed. "Okay, I'll give it a try." She said, determination in her eyes.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Itachi appeared in the old Akatsuki base. He looked at Ryoku. "We knew you were no match for them." He said. He walked up to her and looked her in the face. "I'm surprised they didn't kill you though. No matter. Your life ends now." He jumped behind her and distanced himself a little. He made the familiar hand signs. "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu." He whispered. The fireball completely engulfed Ryoku, the pain completely disabled her paralysis, and her mouth burst open.

As her blood turned black to match the burns on her skin. She screamed, and screamed, and screamed, yet her mastery of the Katon allowed her to hang on to a shred of life. Itachi's face showed a bit of annoyance. "It seems your greatest weakness in battle has delayed the inevitable. I'll do it myself then." He said. He took out an exploding tag and attached it to her head.

He left the base. As he walked, he put his hands into the appropriate sign and muttered "Kai." He then teleported back to the group as the explosion occurred.

"I want you to come with me for three years." Jiraiya told Naruto as they sat at Ichiraku Ramen. "Three years? What for?" Naruto asked. "To train. We have to get you ready for the next Akatsuki attack." Jiraiya told him. Naruto thought for a moment. "Can I take someone with me?" he asked. Jiraiya hadn't expected this at all. "No. I am training you." He said. "Come with me." Naruto said. Jiraiya followed Naruto into an alley back behind a building. What is it Naruto?" he asked.

"Harem no jutsu!" Naruto then turned into the blonde woman we have all come to know. Jiraiya's nose squirted blood. "Please Jiraiya-kun? Please let me take someone with me." Jiraiya's nose wouldn't stop bleeding. "Okay, okay! ONE person!" Naruto transformed back to himself. "Good. I'll go get Sakura-chan."

He hurried off, leaving Jiraiya to pay for the ramen. On the way to Sakura's house Naruto bumped into none other than Hyuuga Hinata. "Oh, hey Hinata-chan!" Naruto said. "H-hi Naruto-kun." Hinata whispered. "Can't talk right now Hinata, I have to go get Sakura-chan so we can leave." Naruto said, starting to run off. Hinata was suddenly bold. It was now or never. "Naruto-kun!" she said as loud as she could. Naruto stopped in his tracks. "Yeah?"

"I know you're going to be gone for a long time, and before you leave I…I j-just want to say that I….I-I l-…" she couldn't do it. "I have to go!" she said, and ran off, tears streaming down her face.

Naruto looked after her. "What was that all about?" he said aloud. "Oh well. Sakura-chaaaaaan!" he yelled, running towards Sakura's house. A few minutes later the situation had been explained to both Sakura and her parents, and, after some arguing and a visit to the Hokage, Naruto, Sakura, and Jiraiya were heading through the gates of Konoha to train for the next three years, with the gennin and the other nins of the village seeing them off.

"So, what are we going to do next Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked excitedly. "Your attacks primarily focus around the Kage Bunshin. This makes you one dimensional." "What about me?" Sakura asked, looking at him.

"You, Sakura, are not very strong in either Taijutsu or Ninjutsu." "Don't worry though," Jiraiya said, seeing Sakura's face. "We will work on both of your Taijutsu. I plan to make you both as good in Taijutsu as Rock Lee is at the moment." "Awesome!" Naruto exclaimed.

"I'm not finished." Jiraiya said. "I have reviewed both of your families past records. You both are strong in two elements of Ninjjutsu. I will focus on these two for each of you." He finished.

"What are our elements, Jiraiya-sama?" Sakura asked. "Sakura, your Ninjutsu training will focus on Katon and Doton." He said. "Naruto, your Ninjutsu training will focus on Suiton and Raiton."

"Yosh!" Naruto yelled. "What are we going to start with?" "We will spend four days of the week on Taijutsu, and three on Ninjutsu. What we start with…" he looked at them. "is up to you."

"Hmmmm…" Naruto thought aloud. "I'll let Sakura-chan pick." He said. "I think we should work on Ninjutsu first, but I have an idea Jiraiya-sama." She said.

"Enlighten me, please." Jiraiya said with a smile. This girl had some brains. "I think we should alternate each day: Nin on the first, third, and fifth days of the week, and Nin on the second, fourth, sixth, and seventh days. That way we won't lose as much in one part while training in the other as we would if put the days all together."

"That's actually a pretty good idea, Sakura." He said. Then Jiraiya stopped in his tracks. "We will start here." They were standing in the middle of the woods. "Who's first?" Jiraiya asked.

Tsunade was sitting at her desk, doing paperwork for once. All of a sudden Hinata burst into the room and ran up and hugged her, bawling her eyes out. Tsunade was surprised, this was uncharacteristic of Hinata.

"Hinata, what's wrong?" she asked. "I couldn't do it!" she cried. "I couldn't tell him and now he's GONE!" "Hinata, CALM DOWN!" Tsunade yelled. Hinata quickly stopped crying and dried her tears.

"Now, what happened?" she asked. "I was too scared. What if he had rejected me?" "I understand. Come here." Tsunade said, giving Hinata a quick hug. Hinata suddenly asked a question that Tsunade hadn't expected.

"Tsunade-sama, will you train me?" Tsunade was shocked. "What?" "Will you train me to become a med-nin? To become as strong as you?" Hinata asked again. "Hinata, I don't think you have enough chakra control to become as good a med-nin as me." Tsunade said.

"I can show you!" Hinata said. "Let me show you what my chakra control practice has done, and if you still don't believe it's good enough, I will leave."

Tsunade was intrigued. "Deal." She said. "Follow me." Hinata followed Tsunade to her personal training ground. "Okay. Are you ready?" she asked. Hinata nodded. "Here we go."

Tsunade cut a wire, and no less than 200 shuriken were launched toward Hinata. Hinata made a quick seal. "Tsuin Tenrai Uchimono!" she whispered.

Ten beams of chakra shot out of her fingertips. They were a good 12 feet in length. Hinata began swinging these beams all around her. Twenty seconds later, every single shuriken had been cut in half. None had gotten anywhere close to Hinata.

To say that Tsunade was stunned would be an understatement. "Did I do good?" Hinata asked nervously. "Hinata…that was amazing!" Tsunade said. "I will gladly take you on as my apprentice." Hinata smiled with pride.

"I'll go first, Jiraiya-sensei." Sakura said, stepping forward. Jiraiya nodded. "Okay Sakura, the first jutsu you will learn is Goukakyuu no jutsu." He said. Sakura gasped. "Sasuke's technique?" she asked. Jiraiya nodded. He showed her the hand seals. "Focus a large amount of chakra in your chest, and push it up and out through your mouth. "Okay." She said. She made the hand signs.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu!"

That's it for this chapter! It's a new record word count! I went crazy with this chap lol. I want to say: I got the name of Hinata's new jutsu from Songbird21's fic "The Colors of Life and Death" book 2. I strongly suggest you guys read books 1 and 2, they are awesome!

Also, I realized while re-reading chapter two, that I completely forgot to put Shino in the fight. I forgot about him. Lol. Sorry for the mistake if anyone noticed it.

Till next time.

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