Chapter 3

Hinata awakes later. She blinks her eyes, not recognizing the white ceiling. She blinked again, trying to take the fog from her eyes as she slowly sat up. Her body ached with pain. Her body was feeling hot and sweaty. Sweat dripped down the side of her face. She raised her arm and wiped the sweat off her forehead. Suddenly the door opened and a medic nin walked inside. The medic nin was pretty with her blond hair that was pulled into a bun on the back of her head. Her eyes were a chocolate brown color and were skimming over the paper she was holding in her hands. The medic nin smiled when she was done reading the paper and walked over to the hyuga. She reached for a small box off to the side and grabbed some gloves and slipped them on her hands before she turned back towards the hyuga.

The medic nin gently touched the hyuga's face before she nodded and wrote something down on the paper she was holding before she asked the hyuga to lay down. Hinata did so and the medic nin placed a glowing hand over hinata's body. She hummed quietly and wrote something done again. " Alright hyuga-san, everything seems fine however you did deplete your charka so you should rest for a while." She said before she turned, threw the gloves away and walked out. Hinata watched the woman go before she laid back and stared at the ceiling. ' Depleted my charka? But…I don't even remember what happened in that fight?' Hinata thought. And it was true. She didn't remember what had happened during that fight. The last thing she could remember was a burning pain in her body and tai's shocked face before everything went black.

So what had happened during that fight? Had she won or had tai won? How had she won? All these questions were circling around her head and was slowly giving her a headache. She tried to push these thoughts away since she knew that she wouldn't get any answers. Sighing the hyuga sat up and untangled her legs from the blankets. She threw her legs to the side and touched her feet to the floor before she stood. She noticed that her clothes were laying on the chair beside the bed. She walks over to the chair and grabs the clothes before heading into the bathroom to change.

A few minutes later she was back into her clothes and quickly left the room. She closed the door quietly behind her, making sure not to catch anyone's attention before she looked around, making sure that nobody was around before she started walking down the hallway. As she was walking down the hallway, she could feel her body heating up again. Sweat dripped down the side of her face as she pushed herself to continue walking. Her body heated up more as the sweat gathered along her forehead. Hinata gave a small gasp as her chest constricted. A pain soon filled her whole body and had the hyuga falling to her knee's. The hyuga grabbed the shirt in front of her chest and squeezed her eyes shut as the pain filled her whole body. Tears gathered at the corner of her eyes from the pain and before she could try to call out, she blacked out.


Ryoku blinked before smiling. He was happy that he was picked next. He smiled and went to push off against the railing but he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned and saw lexy looking at him with a look of concern on her face. " Be careful ryoku." She said. Ryoku smiled and nodded before pushing off the railing. His body sailed through the air for a few seconds before he landed on his feet. He stood straighter before turning towards his opponent. Joshua had short black hair that barely touched his shoulder blades and grey eyes. His bangs were pushed back into his hair. Two pieces framed the sides of his face and the ends caressed his chin. He wore a black turtle neck shirt, black pants and black ninja sandals. He had a blood red obi tied around his waist and held his sword in place. Joshua gave ryoku a smirk before he turned towards the anbu who nodded and yelled begin.

Ryoku smiled and pulled out his small black dagger. The hilt of his dagger was a off-white color with red and black bandages wrapped around it. The blade of the dagger was black with a small crow on the left side of the blade. You could barely see the crow but what made it stand out was the glowing of its red eye. Joshua didn't pull any weapon out as he got into a fighting position. Ryoku nodded his head and shot off. Joshua matched ryoku and also shot off towards his opponent. Both met in the middle and clashed. Ryoku dodged and blocked Joshua's fist while Joshua dodged and blocked ryoku's blade. Both didn't seem to be getting any hits in and once they realized that they pushed away from each other. They landed a few feet away. Both gave each other a smile before shooting off again.

As he was running ryoku was quickly doing hand signs while holding his dagger out in front of his body, just in case Joshua flew towards him and tried to attack while he was doing hand signs. Once the hand signs were done a clone of ryoku stood beside the original as they both ran off towards Joshua. The first ryoku trailed back behind the second one while the second one raced off faster towards Joshua. The second ryoku as soon as he was close slid down across the floor and knocked Joshua off his feet before the second ryoku lashed out and kicked Joshua before he landed on the ground. The second ryoku then flipped up and grabbed Joshua's legs and swung him around. He swung him around twice before he slammed Joshua into the ground. Then he let go of Joshua's legs and slammed the heel of his foot into the boy's thigh.

Joshua cried out from the pain but didn't let it get to him as he spun his legs around and knocked the second ryoku to the ground before he flipped himself up. The second ryoku jumped up as well and threw his fist out but Joshua dodged it and punched the second ryoku in the cheek. It didn't seem to hurt the clone as he pushed his fist away and sent his own fist at Joshua, nicking him in the cheek as well. Both continued to trade blows while the first ryoku stayed back and smirked. The real ryoku reached towards his necklace and gently lifted it up and placed a kiss on the black/purple necklace. The real ryoku then placed the necklace back into his shirt and ran towards the battling boys. Joshua and the other ryoku were still trading blows before the other ryoku jumped back and away from the boy. The second ryoku then pulled off his short sword at his side and held it vertically in front of his body. He lightly touched the blade, trailing his fingers down the blade leaving a small trail of blood in its wake. The blade glowed before the glow disappeared.

He flipped his sword once in his hand before he raced towards Joshua who quickly pushed himself off the ground and dodged every swipe that he tried to make. The second ryoku swiped once more with his sword before he fell to the floor and landed beside the real ryoku. The real ryoku was also pulling out his short sword and was pushing a little bit of his chakra inside the sword. The sword glowed a eerily black color before it disappeared and snapped back inside his body. Ryoku then did hand signs again and made a another clone. Once the other clone appeared, he softly whispered his plan before he disappeared. Joshua flipped down from the ground and barely dodged the kunai they had threw his way.

One of the clones then shot off and headed towards Joshua but when Joshua threw his arms up to block the attack the clone just simply ran past him and stood at the corner of the room. That clone held his sword near the ground, its tip barley touching the ground. Joshua turned and looked at the clone with a look of disbelief before he turned to the second clone. He was also just standing there with his sword pointed to the ground. Joshua blinked before he smirked. ' So that is his plan…' He thought. Joshua smirked before he slowly reached down and placed his palm on top of his sword. He smirked more and looked up and saw the real ryoku doing hand signs, his chakra slowly surrounding him before he raised his sword and flew down towards him. A image of a large crow could be seen behind him but Joshua ignored it as he waited for the right moment. Dust and smoke filled the area as the attack seemed to hit its target. Once the dust cleared ryoku was surprised to see that Joshua had thrown his sword out and blocked the attack.

Joshua smirked when he saw ryoku's eyes widen. He smirked more and slowly started to push ryoku back, who was too surprised by him being able to dodge the attack. However he soon broke out of it and threw his leg out and pushed off against Joshua's stomach and flew back and away from the boy. Once he was far enough away he pushed a little more of his chakra into the sword and waited. Joshua grunted softly at the attack before he smirked. He raised his sword and ran off towards ryoku. Once he met he swung his sword around, trying to strike but ryoku blocked each and every attack. They soon met in the middle, their swords clashed against each other. Joshua smirked and started pushing his strength and weight against his sword, trying to make ryoku back down but the boy seemed to be able to hold him off. " Just give up already ryoku. I know all of your moves…" He said. Ryoku ignored him as he pushed against his sword. Both pushed a little bit more before they separated from each other.

They didn't stay separated for long. Once they both caught their breath they raced off once more towards each other. Their swords met in the middle and rubbed roughly against each other. They both pushed their strength against the other but it didn't seem to be working. Both glared at each other, although Joshua was smirking. " I know a lot about you ryoku Hajima…of the crow clan." He said. Ryoku's eyes widened slightly and that gave Joshua the chance he needed. Joshua smirked and quickly pushed against ryoku one more time, making ryoku stumble slightly, since he was still he shock of what he said. Once he pushed ryoku more, he threw his leg out and kicked ryoku's legs out from under him. Ryoku dropped to the floor and Joshua lifted his sword and swung down. Ryoku rolled to the side before he slammed his palms on the ground and lifted half his body up, dodging the second strike that Joshua had tried to get him with.

Ryoku then rolled himself over and dodged the last strike. Ryoku flipped himself back over to his second clone. Ryoku nodded towards his clone before both him and the clone raced off towards Joshua who was smirking and holding his sword up to block the attack. The clone jumped in front of the original ryoku. The clone threw his sword up, the sword spinning as it flew up. The clone smirked when Joshua had looked up towards the sword and didn't notice the clone coming. The clone held a second sword as he passed by Joshua. Joshua grunted as blood spurted out his mouth however the third clone that had been forgotten cut through him like the second one. He coughed up more blood. The real ryoku jumped high in the air and grabbed the sword that was heading to the ground. It pushed extra charka inside the sword before he pushed off and raced down towards Joshua. He started to glow a eerily black color and an image of a crow stood behind him as he flew down. The crow's red eyes were focused right on Joshua. " Karasu Strike!" He yelled catching Joshua's attention. However it was too late for the boy to try to dodge as the crow that overtook ryoku's image soared down. Dust rose when the strike hit its target and once it disappeared they could see ryoku standing over Joshua's body. He was breathing heavy but was smiling. Joshua however was very stubborn and was trying to stand once more however the clones wouldn't let him as they hit him by the hilt of their swords, knocking the boy out. The anbu nodded and yelled that ryoku had won.

Ryoku smiled and slapped hands with his clones before they disappeared in a puff of smokes. Once they were gone he pushed off the ground and landed on the railing. He jumped down and was about to turn towards his teammate when he was tackled to the ground. He blinked in surprise and looked down to see a crown of dark blue hair. His eyes softened slightly as lexy buried her face into his chest. He smiled slightly, a light blush crossing his cheeks as he wrapped his arms around lexy's petit form. They stayed like that for a few minutes before lexy sighed and opened her eyes. She slowly unwrapped her arms around his body and pushed away from him. Ryoku smiled when he noticed the blush on her cheeks. Lexy sighed again and moved away from ryoku and looked back towards the next match. Ryoku smiled.


Somewhere farther away there was a old looking house. The building looked like someone hadn't been living there in years. There were cobwebs at the corners of the room and different sized and colored spiders crawled around them. Many of the objects in the room were thrown around or tipped over. Shards of glass were spread all across the floor. However even though it looked like no one had lived there in years it seemed that there was a group of people there. In a larger room on the left side of the building near the back was a group of people. They were sitting in a circle with their leader at the top.

" Are the preparations complete?" A male voice asked. There was a sound of shifting before the person sitting next to the man reached out and handed the man the document she was looking through. The man nodded his thanks before he looked over the document, his eyes hardening slightly as he read through it. Once he was done he burned the document before turning towards the other people in the room. Another person shifted, this person further away from the man.

" It seems tai failed us." A female voice said. This one came from the left of the man but was further away then the one who had gave him the document. Their leader nodded, his eyes hard and dark. They knew not to bother their boss when he was like this. They all shifted again as their leader opened his eyes again and placed his hands in front of his face. " Alright…Vincent you shall go to the village hidden in the leaves and capture the woman that we want." He said. The man named Vincent stood and bowed to his boss, his black hair spilled over his shoulders as he did. Their boss nodded and the man straightened up before he turned and disappeared.


Vincent raced through the forest, his form looking like a blur to anyone who was untrained. He pushed off another tree and sailed through the sky, his long black hair with violet high lights blew around him as he flew down and landed quietly on the tree branch. The horns sticking out of his hair twitched slightly and he sneered slightly before he pushed off the tree branch he was standing on and landed on a large tree near the village entrance. His different colored eyes glanced around, counting how many guards were standing around plus the other guards that were hidden in the shadows. A smirk crossed his dark complexion as he counted how many guards there were. He sneered though when he felt their chakra. ' Such weak ninja.' He thought. He reached behind him and pulled out a large shuriken and smirked as he brought it up towards his face. A sudden wind picked up and lifted the long red scarf around his neck.

Pushing softly off the branch, he lifted himself in the air and pulled his arm back and let the shuriken fly. The shuriken zoomed through the air and striked the first ninja in the back. Vincent smirked as he pulled a string that he had around his finger and pulled the shuriken out of his back before throwing the shuriken again and striked another ninja. This continued for a few minutes before it stopped. Vincent smirked as he zoomed and landed beside the injured or dead guards. He smirked and kicked one of the dead guards before he jumped down and zoomed through the darkness, searching for the one that his boss wanted. He sniffed the air above him and shook his head when all he smelled was dirty, sweaty humans. He scoffed and quickened his pace.

He stopped above a large looking house and smirked when he finally caught the scent he was looking for. He smirked, his different colored eyes flashing into a darker color before he flashed away. A few minutes later he landed on a sill of a window. He peered inside and smirked more when he saw who he was looking for inside laying on the bed asleep. He pulled out a large kunai and stuck it underneath the window and slowly shoved the window open before stepping inside. He stepped softly on the floor before he walked over towards the bed and looked down at the sleeping female. He reached out and gently touched her cheek before he leaned down and slipped his arms underneath her legs and lifted her up. Her head tilted to the side and rested against his chest. Vincent smiled and turned around ready to leave but before he could take a step the door was flung open. He turned and smirked at who he saw.