I just realized that my scene divider doesn't seem to show up when I upload my story, I tried using equation, plus, minus, and even asterisk symbols but none seems to show up… I might end up resorting to asdffdsa . . . although I would like to avoid that. Today I'm going to try out cat face…

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Hinata rushed forward, her body low and both of her hands in front of her body, similar to peek a boo stance. She held her fist loosely slightly below her eye level, protecting her lower face with her fist and her chest with her elbow.

Weaving from left to right with her body, she avoided her opponents attacks and once in reach threw a fast jabs with her left hand, at last instant opening her hands into a palm strike. Throwing rapid pace left hand jabs that cut off her enemy's chakra circulation as she studied her opponent's reaction, when she found a opening she stepped forward with her left foot, tucking her right arm by her sides, her fingers pointing towards the ground and threw a reverse striking palm thrust at the opponents heart. When the palm struck her target, her fingers were pointing up.

Her opponent staggered back a few steps, gasping for breath as his body froze in place momentarily due to cork screw blow to the heart. With the twisting blow and her chakra usage, Hinata had stopped his heart for a brief second, paralyzing his body in place momentarily. When his guard was down, he felt rain of blows as her hands flickered from his sight. Then suddenly she disappeared from his line of sight as he felt a tremendous uppercut to his chin. Because of the force of the blow his body was lifted off of the ground and while in air with puff of smoke, he disappeared.

"You have gotten lot stronger." Naruto stated as he stood up side down on a tree branch. "To be able to do that to my advanced shadow clone so easily."

"Na.. Naruto kun, thank you for the spar." Hinata replied with a bow, her face had slight tint of red as she was embarrassed at the praise.

"Alright, good job you two." Kurenai called out as she landed lightly next to Hinata.

"Naruto kun, um, I was wondering why my juken wasn't so effective against you." Hinata asked when Naruto approached the group.

"Hmm?" Naruto asked with one of his eyebrow raised.

"Uh? I mean um… I was wondering if… if my techniques were weak." Hinata stammered, as if she was nervous to ask the question.

"I see, no your technique was good. But, all juken have the same weakness." Naruto replied his hands behind his head. "Your juken works because you are sending your own chakra into your opponents body to damage their internal organs, even slight tap is dangerous. However, if I can predict the area you are targeting, then I can counter your chakra with my own, neutralizing it before it damages me at all. And only thing your attack becomes is a soft friendly tap. Reason my shadow clone disappeared was because of your upper cut, when you duck down like that and throw a uppercut with strength of your lower body and rotating your upper body to add additional strength, it causes amazing amount of damage. If that had struck me, you would have jarred my brain and I wouldn't be able to move my legs, as it would effect my lower body."

"I see. . ." Hinata replied as she realized her family styles main weakness.

"That's one of the reasons why I trained you in boxing. It improved your defense, foot work, and your jabs are more dangerous then normal because of your juken. Lastly, when you fight against someone like me, your juken will be useless, but even then at least you will be able to throw some damaging punches."

"Naruto, continue with your current training with Hinata. I need to go check up on how shino is doing with his training." Kurenai said as she teleported away.

"Hey Hinata, there is something that I would like to teach you." Naruto said as he walked over to a rope that was hanging down from a large tree near their training ground.

"Um, what is it Naruto kun?" Hinata asked as she walked over.

"Like I said before, there maybe a time when your juken will be absolutely useless against your opponent. So, I will teach you this one technique to help you by pass that weakness." Naruto replied as he took up a fighting stance, his left hand in front as a guard while his right hand was tucked in to his side and held the rope.

When Naruto let go of the rope, it reared up and a large tree trunk arced down towards Naruto and Hinata. With a shout of battle cry, Naruto took a single step forward with his right foot and same time his fist shot forward. When his fist struck the tree, it violently caved in and exploded outwards, splitting the tree trunk. The two tree trunk crashed behind the duo. "That is Hun Kwan Yashō, you concentrate your chakra into your fist and enforce it, making it harder then any known metal. It allows you to by pass almost any hardness of exterior armor, and at the last moment when your fist strike your opponent, let your pent up chakra explode."

"See that rope over there?" Naruto asked as he pointed at another rope that hung on near by tree. "Its attacked to a punching bag, go ahead and practice on that for a while."

She was slight hesitant as she walked over to the rope. Nervously taking a fighting stance as she began to concentrate chakra into her fist. Allowing the energy to gather and build. 'It feels like my fist is going to explode.' Hinata thought as she put her left hand on the ropes. With determined look, she pulled on the rope focusing on the sand bag that was now arcing towards her.

Just as Naruto had showed her, she took a single step forward while simultaneously throwing a reverse straight punch. When her fist connected with the bag, it didn't show any sign of damage in the front, but the back side of the bag exploded outwards violently, showering sands everywhere. Naruto stood gawking in the side at the display, his fingers pointing at the bag with his mouth and eyes wide open. "Au… duh… uh…. Huh?" he stammered as Hinata took a deep breath and stood straight once more.

"How'd I do?" She asked with radiating smile.

After brief bit of silence, Naruto finally answered excitedly. "Wow, that was great! I can't believe you succeeded in first try! Just practice on your own on random poor tree and you'll master it in no time. When you are comfortable against trees, move on to boulders. If you can't find any borders, you can blow holes in houses near my house."

'Holy shit, she is amazing! How the hell did she lose to Neji all those years ago? That was freaking Hung Kwan Yashō! Why the hell was she so weak back then? Maybe she just started to grow later then now. . . anyways that technique took me three feckin days to master and she does it after seeing it only once. . . I wonder if byakugan is really that useful.' Naruto pondered as he watched Hinata blow more holes into the two halves of tree trunk that was used to demonstrate before. "Maybe I should teach her the heavenly spin. . ."

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"Well then, for your next mission. . ." Iruka trailered off as looked for another mission for Naruto's team. "Well you guy can help clean up the fields."

Naruto's eyebrow twitched as he crossed his arms and glared at Iruka. "No." He stated turning his head away from Iruka's gaze. "That's way too boring."

"I'm sorry for the rudeness Iruka san." Kurenai apologized with a small bow.

"Is your team ready for harder mission Kurenai san?" Hokage asked with slight hint of mirth as he gauged Naruto acting like a child.

"Hai, I believe that they are capable of higher ranked missions, sir."

"Then I have just the mission for you." He replied with a grin, "If you would come in Tazuna san." Slowly the sliding door to the waiting area opened, revealing an old drunk wearing peasant's garb with piece of rope tied around his forehead.

"What's this? They are bunch of super brats!" the client retorted as he took swig of his sake. "Especially that blond, with a super girly looking face, are you really a ninja?"

Naruto's eyebrow visibly twitched, his mind racing miles per second. 'God. . . does this mean I have to fight them again? Or . . .' Naruto's grin grew into full blown smirk as he visibly became more excited. "Alright! I'll take it! I Uzumaki Naruto sama will personally take on this challenge" He exclaimed to Hokage who was now barely holding onto his laughter.

"Alright everyone, pack up and meet at the main gate in an hour." Kurenai commanded, with a salute three genins promptly took off to pack.

As the group traveled down the worn road in the forest, Naruto was busy yammering with Hinata who occasionally responded. Before the group could realize what was happening, two figures suddenly appeared from the puddle of water behind them and promptly warped Kurenai in chainsaw chains, with a mighty pull she was tore apart.

"Kurenai sensei!" Hinata called out in horror as she watched her sensei torn to pieces splat onto the ground.

"One down, two to go." The attackers called out as clawed hand pierced Naruto's throat, after discarding the body, they promptly rushed at Tazuna, ignoring the other two who have begun to move. "Mission complete!" Assaulter shouted as his clawed guanlet prieced into Tazuan's stomach, grabbing the intestines and yanking them out, Tazuna fell as he vomited blood.

"What the!" one of the assaulter cried out as he was covered in swarm of small black bugs, he suddenly felt faint and fell to the ground, due to chakra exhaustion. Before second one could move into action, Hinata suddenly appeared directly behind him, veins appearing around her temple as her bloodline limit was activated. "Hakke Kū-yashō!" heavily imbued chakra palm thrust slammed into her enemy like a jackhammer, her chakra exploding outwards violently at the impact of the thrust. The receipient of the attack felt as if his intestine had liquidized, blood splurging out of his mouth as he flew back like a rag doll with such force that when he hit a tree, he simply warped around the tree in unnatural angle, his back clearly broken.

Hinata looked forward in surprise, she didn't think her attack could be so devastating. Naruto simply clinged as Hinata took her first life. First kill was always the most difficult one to deal with, it was even worse when the life you took was by pure accident.

Naruto laid a calming hand on Hinatas shouler, who simply spared at her palm, tears slowly falling down her face. Kurenai also walked over calmly, comforting her student.

"They seem to be hidden mist's chunins." Naruto replied as he slowly walked towards Tazuna. "Its time for you to talk old man, tell us the truth." Naruto replied as he crossed his arms, looking slightly more intimidating.

"Alright. . ." the old man finally replied, his demure serious for once.

"Not to me, to her." Naruto replied as he pointed at Kurenai who was currently comforting her student. "She's the sensei, it will be her decision on rather or not this mission will continue."

"Alright, when you are ready sensei, I need to have words with you." Tazuna replied as he walked over to nearly by tree and set under the shade. Before long, Kurenai left red faced Hinata to have a talk with Tazuna, and Naruto moved into to comfort her.

"I won't give you a sugar coated speech about how first kill is the hardest, and it will become easier later on. Frankly it never really gets any easier, and if it does become easy and you don't feel any remorse at killing, that means you have lost part of your self already and you should retire as a ninja. Know this Hinata, no matter how hard it is, there will come a time when you will have to use lethal force with intent to kill in order to protect your loved ones, this is what it means to be a ninja Hinata. Sometimes we have no choice but to kill our enemy to protect our family and friends. If you can't do that, then you should quite being a ninja while you still can Hinata." Naruto replied softly as he gently petted the crying girl on his shoulder.

"I'll be fine Naruto kun." She replied as she wiped her tears. "I just have to become stronger, and more skilled so that I can protect my friends with out having to kill unless. . . I have to."

"Good." Naruto whispered into her ear and kissed her forehead. "I never thought you would mix Hung Kwan Yashō fist with Hakke Kūshō" He replied with a smile.

"I . . . I read a manual on Hakke Kūshō, it sounded so much like what you taught me that I incorporated it." Hinata replied as she twiddled her fingers.

"Good, that was the second part of that technique." Naruto replied with a grin. "The final version of that attack can only be used when you combine what you just used with Hakke Rokujūyon Shō. It's a technique invented by two super geniuses of konoha during war time."

"What is it called?" Hinata asked as she looked into his eyes.

"Hakke Bakuhatsu Rokujūyon Kushō"

"Well guys, now that I know the situation, I would say that this is at least a B-rank mission. Whether we continue this mission or not, I would like to leave it up to the team." Kurenai replied as they walked over to the group.

"I would like to continue, its good chance to test our capability." Shino replied, finally having all the bugs return into his body once more.

"I. . . I would like to also continue." Hinata whispered as she looked up with determination burning in her eyes.

Naruto simply smirk and replied. "Well, that's two out of three already, and I already agreed to this mission back at the village, and I don't go back on my words. That is my nindo."

Kurenai sighed as she turned around to face Tazuna. "Well then, we will be continuing with the current mission, we'll just have to put the difference in fee on the tab." Kurenai replied as they continued on with their journey.

Rest of the trip was done in utter silence, Hinata and Naruto walked side by side trailing behind the group slightly while shino moved on ahead as the scout. "Take cover!" Kurenai shouted as she tackled Tazuna to the ground.

A six foot long object sailed above their head, imbedding it self in the tree trunk before it's path. When the group stood once more, more alert of the situation, a figure suddenly landed lightly on the hilt of what appeared to be Zanbatou of some type.

"Well well, if it isn't if it isn't hidden mists missing nin Momochi Zabuza kun." Naruto called out as he stepped forward.

"Hmm, you appear to hidden leaf village ninjas, but I don't have information on any of you. Which means none of you are worthy opponent, sorry but that old man is mine." Zabuza stated calmly.

"Hinata, Shino, guard Tazuna san." Kurenai whispered as she took up a fighting stance. Zabuza hopped off of his sword, grabbing onto the hilt and kicking away from the tree to dislodge his blade, rushing towards Kurenai.

Suddenly tree root grew before Zabuza, warping around his body, feet, and arms, immobilizing the man. Kurenai's face began to fade in from the tree, until her upper body was visible. Silently drawing her Kunai, she slit Zabuza's throat. With a splash, the body turned into water, following the laws of gravity once more and making a small puddle.

Before Kurenai could react, Zabuza appeared directly above her, falling straight down towards her head with his blade. She closed her eyes, out of reflex and flinched. When the expected blow did not come, she slowly opened her eyes to see Naruto standing before her with a katana, blocking the downward slash, his left arm was on the back side of the blade giving it extra support.

"Sorry to interrupt sensei, but he has too much experience for a new jounin to take on. You don't try to start a coup unless you are strong enough." Naruto replied calmly, with no visible strain on his voice.

"Oh? You seem to know quite a bit about me." Zabuza replied with a smirk that was visible through his mask.

"Ah, I studied up on it, You could say I was one of supporter for your coup. I didn't like the way mist village did things back then, and I still don't like how they are now." Naruto replied as he punched his own blade upwards, the new angle of the blade causing Zabuza's giant sword to hit the ground next to Naruto.

"You had a wonderful idea but your execution of it was done rather poorly. You should have gathered more supporter, maybe allied your self with another hidden village and then when your force is greater then the current kaze's, go for the coup."

Jumping away from the horizontal slash, Naruto landed lightly, holding his hilt with both hands and taking a traditional kendo stance, blade pointing towards his enemy's nose.

"When your plan is somehow leaked, you don't have time to gather anymore forces, I had to act."

"And because of that, you are now a missing nin, traitor to the hidden mist village. So you decided to stick with Gato to rebuild your strength, so that one day you may try to take over the village once more."

Zabuza's eyes narrowed as his glare intensified, sending waves of sword ki and killing ki. Hinata clinged at the sudden feeling of dread, the air felt heavy and wave of dread grew bigger and more sinister, as if it was trying to engulf her whole into darkness. With a small shout, Naruto dashed forward, thrusting his sword out towards Zabuza's face.

Zabuza stepped back and to the side as he felt more then saw three thrust in split seconds, before he had time to counter attack, he had to bring his blade up into a block as thrust turned into horizontal slash as Naruto spun his entire body to add power into the swing.

Zabuza skidded back several feet at the force of the blow, surprised at the level of skill displayed before him. Then he realized something that came as a shock, the boy was just playing around with him.

"I got to say that your friend is rather good at concealing her self, but she is not good enough." Naruto replied as he sheathed his sword, holding onto saya with his left hand, his thumb pressing onto the hilt of the blade so the sword would not click into place and taking a Iaijutsu stance.

"I see, I didn't recognize you at first but you must be Van Soujirou." Zabuza stood with his both hands on the handle of his sword, blade diagonal , its tip pointing almost touching the ground behind him.

"It seems that my friend's reputation precedes him. Sorry to say but, I'm not Van, my name is Uzumaki Naruto. I recommend that you put me in your bingo book Zabuza kun, it'll come in handy one of this day. Why don't you retreat for now? We can have a chat later, I do have some things I must discuss with you in. . . private."

"Oh?"

"We can fight any time we want, and the bridge wont be completed for another couple of weeks, so what's the rush? Its not like you can't destroy the bridge even if it is completed."

With out another word, Zabuza glared at Naruto as he disappeared with swirl of water. "Now then, let us hurry up and head to Tazuna san's home. We have some training to do."