Thanks for the reviews! My longest chapter yet
The action starts here, sorry if i've made any mistakes or if the description of the fighting isnt very good.
"Ahem"
Tsunade decided to interrupt to save the girl from another fainting spell, and also just to get Jiraiya and Kakashi to quit their giggling.
Both teens turned around to the cause of the disturbance, and remembered why they were here – or in Hinata's case, even more confused.
"Oh yeh Baa-chan, Sakura-chan said something about a new apartment you've got for me."
Naruto's cheesy grin grew and his eyes were full of anticipation.
"Yes Naruto-baka, we had to move your stuff out and clean that war zone you called a apartment for an elderly man who wanted to be nearer to the shops."
Tsunade stated, informing Naruto just why he was moved. She headed towards a cabinet on the side of her office and plucked out two keys from a drawer.
"There's the key to your apartment: No. 105 near the west gate, the storage facility is on your way there; here's the key for your storage room"
That said she handed over a second key that she had retrieved from the drawer.
"Your apartment is near the Hyuuga estate, so I suggest you walk Hinata home after running in to her and making her faint before getting your stuff"
She then moved to sit back down behind her desk and grieve for her poor sake that was taken by that evil woman Shizune.
"Woo! I can't wait to see my new apartment!"
Naruto shouted while doing, what can only be described as a very disturbing Naruto victory dance. He then looked over at the now normal-coloured Hinata and got an idea.
"Hey, Hinata-chan why don't you come check out my new apartment with me while I walk you home?"
He asked while blinking at her with his best puppy-dog eyes he could muster.
Hinata looked up with a tinge of pink on her cheeks at the mention of her name, looking in to his now watery cerulean eyes - how was she meant to say no to that?
"Ok Naruto-kun" She silently congratulated herself on not stuttering during that brief speech.
"Cool! See ya later Baa-chan!"
Naruto yelled as he half lifted half dragged poor Hinata off of the couch and out of the room. Using Naruto as a distraction, Jiraiya headed towards the window hoping that Tsunade had forgotten about Naruto's earlier statement. Just as he reached the opposite sill that Kakashi had vacated earlier when he got bored he felt a rather large killing intent from behind him.
"YOU! You were meant to be training him! Not perving on women's bathhouses, don't you do that enough!?"
She yelled as she grabbed him by the collar and dragged him back in to the room.
Outside the Hokage's office, crying that sounded similar to a ten year old child could be heard. Obviously Tsunade needed something to do since she now had no sake to drink thanks to Shizune. Kakashi sweat-dropped as he heard the screams, but he was smart enough not to attempt to help and continued his walk while reading his beloved book.
As the two teens where heading towards the west gate a huge crash was heard, followed by the warning siren. Each shinobi pulled out a kunai and took to the roofs of the nearest buildings. Hinata gasped while Naruto growled, the south gate had been demolished by a huge snake summoning, not just and snake – but Manda. There was Chaos throughout the village; an unexpected attack at this time of day was extremely rare. As the giant snake made its way further in to the village, the brave shinobi of the leaf tried desperately to bring the monster to a halt. Their efforts where in vain, things got even worse when from behind the oversized snake hundreds of Sound shinobi flooded in to the streets.
"N-Naruto-kun! The academy students wont have had chance to evacuate yet" Hinata pointed in the direction a couple of Sound shinobi where headed in as she and Naruto continued to leap from rooftop to rooftop, deflecting weapons that were sent their way.
"Damnit! Come on Hinata we'll leave these guys to handle them"
He jabbed a finger towards a group of Konoha ANBU who had just appeared, heading towards the mass of sound shinobi that was growing in size.
As they approached the academy they could already see several chunin including Iruka fighting to protect their students, at this moment they were loosing – it was two sound shinobi to every chunin. Naruto and Hinata both rushed in to aid them, Naruto making hundreds of Kage bunshin (Shadow clones) in the blink of an eye. Hinata ran at the two sound shinobi who were fighting Iruka, gathering chakra in to her hands she sent a jyuuken strike through one of the shinobi's back – killing him instantly. The other shinobi turned around just in time to receive a deadly accurate jyuuken strike to his heart, causing it to stop mid-beat. Iruka just nodded his head in appreciation and ran to help his fellow chunin along with Hinata. Naruto had already taken out 23 Sound shinobi, only loosing a mere 40 shadow clones in the process. He lined his shadow clones around the children who had not been evacuated yet, in total there was 9 children all with fear evident in their eyes.
A Naruto clone knelt down to the children, his gentle eyes somewhat soothing their fear and anticipation.
"Hey, don't worry guys; our ninja would never let anything happen to you lot. I promise I won't let you get hurt."
The children calmed a little hearing these words; each held on to each other and created their own little circle around the known weaker ones among them. All had a kunai in hand, as they had received some training while at the academy. Though they all knew they could do very little but at least try to protect themselves from stray kunai and shuriken as the battle waged on.
Hinata imbedded a kunai in to her current opponent's temple, successfully killing the man with very little effort. As she looked round the playground – now turned graveyard for Sound nin she noted a Naruto clone talking to the children while the other clones had them covered from every possible angle. She smiled gently at the fact that he was at least able to calm them down, if only a little. Jumping in the air to avoid a barrage of shuriken and kunai aimed at her, she landed behind her attacker and hit a nerve in his spine with a jyuuken strike, effectively crippling him. Now panting due to her extensive use of chakra, since she had been training all morning and now trying to defend several small children from a never ending army of enemy nin.
"Naruto! There's a break in their forces, you and Hinata need to get the children out of here!"
Iruka turned just in time to deflect a kunai and ran off towards the smug looking nin who had thrown it when his back was turned. Naruto made sure that his clones still surrounded the children – with extra clones carrying the children due to their fear and the fact that he could move faster this way. Hinata jumped down to the front of their makeshift formation and started at a steady speed towards the edge of undamaged forest past a section of the south wall that had been destroyed by the large snake.
Naruto was surprised at Hinata's endurance, he could tell she was exhausted but she continued to press on. He knew Hyuuga's had naturally low chakra, and he had seen Hinata do countless jutsu's during her fighting. Naruto was impressed; she had come a long way while he had been away. 'She must have pushed herself to increase herchakra capacity since it's a wall known weakness of the Hyuuga clan.' He thought to himself has he follow her lead through the giant hole that was once a good section of the south wall.
Don't worry, there's alot more fighting next chapter.
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