Authors note: sorry for the REALLY late chapter, but due to beta issues i have being waiting for it to be beta'd due to the delay i thought i'd post up the chapter now for all of you, and get a beta'd version of 7/8 up when i find a new beta.
Konoha Academy:
Team seven, consisting of Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuga Hinata all sat in the class room, far too excited over who they had been teamed with to even notice what teams their friends got stuck with. Now we delve into the minds of these three young ninja to discover what they are really thinking.
Hinata: 'I'm on Naruto-kun's team. I'm on Naruto-kun's team. I'AM ON Naruto-KUN's team! Naruto-kun was excited to have me on his team, excited, about me. Wait, if I'm on Naruto-kun's team that means I'll have to be around him. I don't know if I can handle it. I don't want to be turning bright red every time he looks at me and fainting that would be bad, epically on missions. What am I going to do? ' all the mean while to the real world Hinata is glowing red, and going through a number of shades of red not known to man.
Naruto: 'Cool, I have Kakashi for a teacher, and Sasuke is on MY team. Oh and that Hinata girl is on my team to, hmm I wonder what she will be like. I know from the pale, almost…lavender? Eyes that she has that she has the Byakugan, so she must be from the Hyuga clan. What did Kakashi say about them? Eh I'll worry about it later. She looks pretty, but she's weird, shy and quite. I think she may be a nice girl. Eh again I'll worry about it later.
Sasuke: 'YES, NO FANGIRLS, but damn, I do have a girl on my team, um Hinata, I hope she doesn't mind me reading Icha Icha paradise (AN: what don't you think hanging around Kakashi for 4 years would have an effect on him?) around her. Meh if she does I'll point out Kakashi doing it, cus if I can't read it then he can't either. Oh and Naruto is on my team too, this will be fun. I wonder if he will tell her about the Sharingan.
"Ok that's all class, just wait here and your Jonin teacher will show up soon" with that Iruka heads out the door feeling sorry for Team seven, who with Kakashi as their teacher will have to wait forever. He doesn't know how much Kakashi likes this team.
Time skip 5 minutes
A Red eyed women walks into the classroom, about a foot past the door she says "Team Eight, I'm Yuhi Kurenai your Jonin teacher, please come with Me." and with just that brief sentence walks back out the door while her team hurries after her. Just as she walks back out the door a man with light brown skin and a cigarette in his mouth and says "team Ten, I am Sarutobi Asuma, your Jonin teacher, meet me at the Korean Barbeque" as he finishes he walks out the door just like Kurenai did. Naruto and Sasuke decide to head over to Hinata to talk while they wait for Kakashi.
"Hay Hinata" a carefree Naruto says as he sits down next to her. Turning her an even brighter red then before from when she was thinking about the team assignments.
'get a hold of yourself girl, you will be no help to Naruto-kun in the field if you faint at his presence, now just breath in and out, good and talk' even with her mental pep talk all Hinata can manage is to stutter out "h-he hello Na-Naruto-kun" before quickly stopping to keep herself from embarrassing herself too much.
"What do you say we all get to know each other, while me and Sasuke know each other pretty well from training together we don't know a thing about you, so let's introduce ourselves to each other, as Kakashi won't be here for at least three hours." At that Sasuke snorts, "yeah, he is the definition of late and lazy. Not once has he ever been on time to, well anything and then he comes up with these cheap excuses like 'I got lost on the path of life' how do you get lost on the path of life?" Hinata chuckles lightly at the normally quite Sasukes, outburst while Naruto falls to the floor laughing. Just as Naruto is recovering and stands a puff of smoke appears at the bottom of the room revelling Kakashi. The moment they laid eyes on him all Naruto and Sasuke could do was staring wide eyed with their jaws on the ground in shock. "Kakashi, your, your, on time, THE WORLD IS DOOMED" screamed a frightened Naruto, earning him a whack across the head by Sasuke. "Shut up Naruto" says Sasuke as he pulls out a kunai and throws it at Kakashi "it can't be Kakashi at all, it's clearly an imposter." Kakashi, while slightly shocked at his former secret students and his current real student's outburst, manages to catch the kunai and pocket it. "Come on Sasuke and Naruto, I can be on time." His reply is Naruto saying "yeah, for the new release of those pathetic Icha Icha books." Before breaking out in laughter earning a glare from Kakashi and Sasuke, while Kakashi just glared Sasuke put words behind his glare "what's wrong with Icha Icha?" demands Sasuke, angered that Naruto would dare insult his precious books. All Naruto can do at the glares and Sasukes comment is just laugh harder. While poor Hinata is left out on all this not knowing either Kakashi or whatever this Icha Icha is. So in a rare act of bravery she decides to voice her question.
"Ano…what is Icha Icha?" with that small statement all three males just stare at her. Feeling like she has done something wrong she starts to sink into her seat, before she can move more than an inch Naruto replies "these stupid perverted books written by some perverted hermit called Jeria or something" "ITS JIRIYA" yell Sasuke and Kakashi at the same time. All Hinata can do is let out a little chuckle. Kakashi deciding cut this short before it drags on any longer yells to his team. "Meet me on the room in 5 minutes" before they can even turnaround he is gone in his trademarked puff of smoke and leafs.
Roof top 4 minutes later:
"Ah good, your early, that's highly important for a ninja. If you're late on a mission you or your teammates could wind up dead" says Kakashi, who if you could see behind his mask would be smirking, to the three slightly panting genin in front of him. As not only did they have to sprint all the way up 5 flights of stairs (AN: no clue how many there really are but let's just make it 5) then search over the entire roof of the academy, before discovering that Kakashi was in fact on the roof of an adjacent building, so they had the choice of sprinting back down the stairs over to the other building then up all its stairs, or jumping across the rooftops to the other building. For their continued well being the genin decided to jump across the rooftop. Naruto, being the first to recover yells at the still smirking Kakashi "Your one to talk, you are ALWAYS late, normally at LEAST 2 HOURS!" Kakashi, while smiling under his mask, puts his hands over his heart and said in mock hurt "you wound me Naruto, to say such cruel untrue things about your teacher. I was mostly on time for our meeting today" Sasuke could have sworn that if he wasn't wearing a mask Kakashi would have poked his tong out at Naruto. "Moving on, let's all introduce each other, name, likes, dislikes, hobbies, dreams you get the idea." Hinata feeling a little left out not knowing anything about her new teacher decides to speak up "ano, Ka-Kakashi-sensei c-could you g-go first?" a still very shy Hinata manages to slowly stutter out. 'A shy heiress eh?' "Ok then, my name is Hatake Kakashi, my likes and dislikes hm… are none of your business, hobbies? I have lots of hobbies, and I don't really have a dream." 'All I found out was his name' thought a slightly depressed Hinata that her idea didn't work. Luckily for her Naruto decided to fill her in. "as he told you his name is Kakashi, his likes are that perverted book of his. His dislikes are people, like me, who burn his books, which is very fun and enjoyable you should try it." With that Sasuke and Kakashi cringe at the idea of their other teammate also being a Icha Icha burner. "His hobbies include reading those books in public and collecting more of them. His dream is to collect every Icha Icha book and have the writer of that smut autograph them all."
Little Hinata gave a small chuckle at how obsessed her teacher seemed to be with those books, while yet again inventing new colours with her blush over Naruto talking to her. All the while Kakashi is giving a little pout over Naruto revelling too much about him. Deciding to get a tiny bit of payback Kakashi says "Ok then Naruto since you felt like telling everyone about me, you go next" at that Naruto just looks back at Kakashi and cheerfully begins "ok, My names Uzumaki Naruto, My likes are ramen, Kakashi-sensei, Sasuke and Hinata-chan" at both being mentioned in his likes and that suffix Hinata turns (if it's possible) redder "my dislikes are the three minutes that it takes for instant ramen to cook and people who judge others without first getting to know them or for things out of their control. My hobbies are eating different types of ramen and training. My dream is to eat every type of ramen, and become the greatest hokage ever!" with Naruto yelling out the last part. 'Just as I thought.' Was all Kakashi had to say, well think. Sasuke on the other hand was thinking a lot more 'stupid Naruto, my ears are STILL RINGING, did he have to be so loud, all of us, well expect Hinata, all ready knew all of this. Eh well, it is Naruto' while Hinata was still stuck in a loop of 'he likes me, he likes me, he likes me' over and over and over did I mention and over? "Well then, Sasuke your up" "My name is Uchiha Sasuke, I like Icha Icha, Naruto-baka," at that yell of Sasuke-teme could be heard ",Kakashi-sensei. I dislike my brother, and people who dare speak ill of, let alone destroy, Icha Icha books. My dream is to restore my clan, and to kill my brother so he can never hurt anyone else." 'That's pretty good for someone who went through what he did, luckily for us all Naruto was there for him. '
"ok onto the shy one, you're up" Hinata looks up, despite her face STILL being covered with the world record for a blush from Naruto's little speech, and she tries to speak, but ends up stuttering badly. "m-my n-name is Hyuga hi-Hinata, I like…." As she quickly glances at Naruto, blushes even MORE and continues "…my little sister, I dislike people who look down on me and think I'm weak." She manages without stuttering but her voice was getting quieter and quieter. "m-my ho-hobby is fl-flower pressing and my dream is…"she glances at Naruto again, and blushes even more again. Then quickly says "to be-become a go-good he-head for my clan and to fix the problems between the branch and main houses." While managed to not shutter for the last part. Both Sasuke and Kakashi looks at Hinata, then Naruto and think at the same time 'she is madly in love with him, and he is still too thick to notice it. She'll probably have to hit him over the head with a sledge hammer to get him to realize. Even then I'm not sure.' With Kakashi continuing on 'even 7 years training with me and he still somehow turned out to be just as slow as his father. Maybe it's genetic? It took Kushina slamming him into a wall and kissing him for 2 minutes before Minato realized she love him. That is after 2 years of everyone dropping hints. I think I may have to help them along' then for reasons unknown to the three poor genins Kakashi starts laughing manically. After a few minutes when he has recovered Kakashi decides it time to tell them about the test, even though he knows they will pass. "Ok listen up, tomorrow is our first mission together." Naruto, while being slow has great memory "but Kakashi-sensei, you said that all teams get tested before they get any missions" with that Kakashi face-plants as he staggers back up "yes…that's what the mission is. Survival training. Meet at training ground seven at seven. Oh and don't eat breakfast, or you'll puke." With that Kakashi vanishes in a puff of smoke. Sasuke and Naruto look at each other. Nod, then turn to Hinata "eat a medium sized breakfast, and meet at 9 not seven." And with that Sasuke disappears in a puff of smoke and leafs while Naruto stays behind. "Hinata-chan would you like me to take you home?" not trusting her mouth to speak Hinata just nods her head. Naruto then grabs her around the waist and says "hang on" and they both disappear in a puff of smoke before reappearing in front of the gates of the Hyuga manor. "Here we are. Hay Hinata-chan, after we pass Kakashi's test tomorrow want me to teach you how to do that?" still not trusting her mouth Hinata just nods. "Ok then after the test stay behind and I'll work on it with you." Then Naruto disappears in puff of smoke.
Training Grounds: 5 minutes later
"kage Bunshin No Jutsu" with that 100 Naruto clones appear. "Ok, ten of you go over there and spread yourselves out; I'm going to see if I can use bunshin Daibakuha with Normal shadow clones. Ten more of you split your selves up and spread your selves evenly, I'm going to try and learn the Swamp of the underworld jutsu, on you. I'll practise using it for one target try submerging you at various levels. Then I'll try a more powerful version of it on the rest of you clones to see if I can take you all out in a single hit." And with that Naruto gets to work training to surprise Kakashi with the new attacks he knows.
Elsewhere on the training grounds: same time.
"Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu" just then a tree gets completely destroyed from the powerful fire attack. "good, that will defiantly surprise Kakashi, hopefully it won't kill him, but oh well" Sasuke flashes threw a large set of hand seals then lowers his left hand while griping it with his right. A small ball of barley visible chakra appears in his hand. Sasuke pulls his arm back then thrusts it forwards yelling "Raiton: Raibakuhatsu" the second he is done the ball lightning shoots out of his hand straight towards the tree. The second it hits the tree it explodes destroying a good portion of the tree. "He won't be expecting me to be able to do that yet."
Hyuga Manor: same time
"Hinata, come with me to the Dojo, you will be sparing against your sister." Hiashi said to his daughter before turning and walking towards the dojo. With Hinata quickly saying "Hai o-tou-sama" before quickly following behind him. Once they get there Hinata sees that Hanabi is already waiting. They both slide into the Hyuga Juken stance and their father says "begin" with that they are off. Hanabi charging in with a powerful Juken strike to Hinata's chest, but Hinata manages to block it with a Juken strike back. While this is slightly surprising for her weak sister Hanabi just ignores it and continues to attack Hinata. Just before she can hit Hinata on the arm sealing the Tenketsu in her right arm to stop her from attacking or defending with it Hinata has a flash back
Flash back no Jutsu:
"Here we are. Hay Hinata, after we pass Kakashi's test tomorrow want me to teach you how to do that?"
Flash back no Jutsu KAI
Remembering this Hinata realizes that if Hanabi beats her today she will be too weak tomorrow, with her Tenketsu only partly re-opened. If there is one thing that can motivate Hinata to actually attack her little sister is the fear of disappointing Naruto. With that she is off. Quickly cancelling out Hanabi's attack with a Juken strike to her arm at a speed Hinata didn't even realize she possessed. Hanabi after being blocked retreats up a bit and decides her sister might put up a fight for once. So it's time to break her spirit. "Hay Hinata seems you're not as much of a weakling as I thought. Maybe if you keep training by the time you're put in the branch family you'll be better than that loser you like." Now Hanabi expected this to break her sister. But it had the opposite effect. It made her angry, so now Hanabi is about to learn a very important lesson. You don't want an angry Hinata after you. "Never speak about Naruto like that again." Says Hinata in a low and surprisingly angry voice. Smugly Hanabi replies "what you going to do about it?" what Hinata has to say in response is shocking to all "you are in the range of my divination. Jukenpo: Hakke Rokujūyon Shō" the second those words are out of her mouth Hinata is off. "Two palms, four palms, eight palms, sixteen palms, thirty two palms, sixty four palms." With the final strike Hanabi is sent flying. With the clan medics rushing in to see if she is ok.
Hiashi is shocked 'how can Hinata do that? She could never use the Hakke Rokujūyon Shō before so what changed? Maybe it is the boy she likes. I will have to investigate, but first.' "Congratulations Hinata for your first victory over your little sister, you are dismissed." Said Hiashi in his normal tone so as to hide his surprise, but all Hinata needed to hear was the congratulations to send her to cloud nine. Not only had she defeated her little sister but she could now use the Hakke Rokujūyon Shō. Hinata was so excited 'maybe I can use that tomorrow during the test I could impress Naruto-kun' and with that she ran off to her room to dream.
Authors note:
Raiton: Raibakuhatsu: or lightning blast, it looks a lot like the Chidori at the start. But instead of having lightly flying everywhere it's condensed in a small ball. Then the user performs a thrust just like with the Chidori, but at a distance. This sends the ball flying in a straight line at its target. When the ball hits something it creates a large explosion that also fries everything inside the blast radius with high powered lightning. It's a High C/low B rank Jutsu, for a couple reasons, it uses half the chakra of the Chidori (so still quite chakra intensive) from converting raw chakra to lightning instead of using lightning nature chakra, as Sasuke doesn't know that yet, can only fly in a straight line at a medium speed, so it is pretty easy to dodge for a ninja of any skill.
As for Hinata using the Hakke Rokujūyon Shō well, I'm sure that at one point in time her father would have tried to teacher her it. And with her stalking Naruto, she would have seen how hard he trains, even if she would never be able to find him with Kakashi, so she would train harder to try and impress him, and all she needed was the confidence and motivation to use it. Which little Hanabi provided. Insulting someone a person loves is very bad idea for your health.
With Naruto and Hinata: Naruto does that to everyone, he either makes them um names, case in point fuzzy brows, or adds kun/chan to the their name. as of right now Naruto does not consider Hinata anything more than a friend, and will slowly (I'm talking a VERY long time) before he realizes Hinata's feelings for him, and realizes that during this time he has started to grow closer to her.
Next time on AFE: The bell test: pass or fail
call015 : in my opinon that generally results in a very over-powered naruto. which is only good for certain plots, this story is not one of those plots.