Thanks for the reviews. Yay, holiday break is here. So maybe now I can update more often.
Ummm, some comments on some of the reviews:
DanI-chanime: umm…I literally laughed out loud.
So how did you guys like that cliffhanger.
First semester is done: 5 A+s 2 As and a 4.165 GPA. Hell Yeah.
Ch. 7. Saving Hinata.
Naruto split from the other two and started off towards the Hyuuga house hold, when he heard a familiar voice scream.
Naruto had one thought: 'HINATA!'
Naruto deactivated his 50 lbs. casual wear weights from his arms legs and torso and took off at full speed. He reached the Hyuuga house and jumped clear over the wall that surrounded the place. Naruto scanned the area until he saw something that was just plain out weird. He saw what looked like a snake slithering across the ground with Hinata clutched in a pair of arms. Naruto ran and intercepted the snake-like figure. Naruto cut off the Snake from it's exit by throwing some shuriken into it's back and jumping in front of it with a kunai held out. What happened next perplexed Naruto to no end. The 'snake's' tail receded back into it's body, forming a human, who then stood. It was obviously a ninja of some sorts, but none that Naruto had ever seen or read about. The ninja stood up, holding Hinata over his shoulder. The ninja had long black hair, a white snake-like face coupled with slit, snake-like eyes. Naruto felt a scratching at the back of his head.
Naruto quickly went into his mindscape, kyuubi yelled, "use the brute fist, use the brute fist".
Naruto went back . The ninja was laughing, "I can tell you are HIS son. Maybe I should toy with you a little bit, and see what the nine tails brat is capable of…..but I can't do that right now, I now have one of the great Dojutsu's in my posession, so I have to be going now." The ninja started to melt through the ground.
Naruto reacted almost subconsciously. He shoot forward as if he was traveling the speed of light, he kneed the ninja in the stomach, launching the ninja through a tree, while simultaneously grabbing Hinata out of the ninja's grasp. The ninja stood and started to laugh, "my my my, it seems the little kyuubi brat has some power…maybe I should kill you now so you don't get in the way of my plans".
Naruto just stood there unfazed by the threat, he set down Hinata, and said, "come and get some, you freak".
Just then the ninja sprand forward, and started to combat Naruto hand to hand. Naruto would skillfully dodge the ninja's attacks while returning a strike or two of his own. While they were fighting a group of 5 Hyuuga ran up to assist, one of which was Hiashi. The snake-like ninja leapt back from Naruto. Naruto then said, "who are you, no ordinary ninja should be able to keep up with me" Naruto sprang forward and continued to attack the snake-man with the Brute fist. Just then the snake was attacked by a Hyuuga family member from behind. The snake dodged by doing a backflip over the man. Once behind the man, the snake-ninja snapped the neck of the Hyuuga member.
The snake-man laughed while sinking into the ground, "you may have spoiled my plans to get the Byakugan this time you little demon-brat, but next time I WILL have a Dojutsu. I will master all jutsu in this world, and create thousands more". Then he was gone.
Naruto walked over to where he had set Hinata down, he picked her up and turned to the Hyuuga member's, one of which happened to be Hiashi. He said, "lord Hiashi, do you have a medic in your house" just then Hinata came to consciousness. She looked up into Naruto's eyes. Naruto returned her look. He seemed to get lost in those big, beautiful lavender eyes. They had that look of seeing through your very soul, that look that says I'm yours. Naruto didn't know how long he stared into her eyes, but he felt like he was lost in those big lavender orbs. Lost in a sea of infinite beauty and bliss.
Hinata said, "N-naruto-k-kun….thank you so much." and she jumped down from his arms and embraced him. Naruto embraced her back. They hugged for a moment or two until they heard someone clear their throat.
They both looked up at Hiashi, who said, "I hate to interrupt this wonderful moment, but my daughter you need to get cleaned up…Naruto-san….while my daughter is preparing herself….would you care to take a little walk with me?"
"Yes father" said Hinata, who looked at Naruto then walked back to the Hyuuga house, escorted by 5 Hyuuga members who walked up while Naruto and Hinata were hugging.
"Yes lord-Hiashi" said Naruto.
"Very well, I have a place I would like to show you". Said Hiashi, "follow me".
"Yes sir," said Naruot.
Hiashi led Naruto to the back end of the Hyuuga house, to a place he had never been before. It was a garden. A rather large garden that had it's own creek running through it. Hiashi turned to Naruto, "do you know what this place is?"
"No, but it is beautiful" said Naruto, looking around and taking in the surroundings. The flowers; the lush, green, grass; the tall vibrant, various fruit trees.
Hiashi said, "that it is, that it is…this is my late wife's garden….it was her favorite place to come when she was still with us…..we would come here together and just enjoy each other's company, we would bring Hinata, and later we would bring Hanabi, though she probably can't remember because she was too young. This is also one of Hinata's favorite place's as well".
Naruto grew slightly suspicious, "that is quite an amazing detail…but why bring me here….why show me this?"
Hiashi smiled, "This place always seems to calm the mood, especially if you need to talk about something serious."
"Okay, what do you need to talk about" asked Naruto
"where you learned the brute fist" said Hiashi.
Naruto gulped, "I dunno what you're " Hiashi help up a hand.
"Don't play dumb with me….I know what I saw while you were fighting that snake-man" said Hiashi.
Naruto sighed, "I learned from…." he points at his stomach.
"but how" asked Hiashi.
"I make shadow clones at night while I sleep and he trains the clone, and then it's memories transfer to me when I awaken", said Naruto.
"Naruto…..I don't know if Kyuubi told you this but…..never mind…you'll find out soon enough…just forget what I said." said Hiashi.
"what, oh don't do this to me man….this is gonna kill me…come on…please please please please" begged Naruto.
"No, you need to find out on your own" said Hiashi.
Naruto slump's his shoulders disappointedly, "oh alright…say, lord Hiashi".
"Yes Naruto" replied Hiashi.
"Don't you think we should report this to the hokage" asked Naruto.
"Do not worry about that, I will handle that for you, and if you want you can double check behind me later."
"Oh okay, that's great, say, lord Hiashi." said Naruto.
"Yes Naruto" said Hiashi.
"Could I take Hinata with me to train some with my team, if that is alright with you" asked Naruto.
"well considering much of her growth and new confidence is because of you, yeah I'd say I approve of her accompanying you to your team training."
"Good," Said Naruto.
"Oh and Naruto" said Hiashi.
"yes lord Hiashi" replied Naruto.
"Please don't make me get the family sword after you, I would love to have grandchildren from a Namikaze one day" said Hiashi making a slicing motion with his arm over his manhood.
Naruto gulped, "y-y-y-y-yessss s-ss-s-s-s-sir…w-w-w-why w-w-w-would y-you b-bring something like t-that up…I don't even know what that really is"
"Oh really…then why are you so fazed by the threat…have you already been having perverted thoughts about my daughter" said Hiashi, with a slightly angry voice at the end.
Naruto paled. All of a sudden Hiashi was in front of him with a sword. He swung at Naruto who ducked and ran. Naruto said, "I haven't thought anything, I swear".
Hiashi says, while chasing Naruto, "Stop Naruto…I just wanna take a little of the TOP".
Naruto paled again with sweat running down his face, and ran even faster screaming, "stay away"
Just then Hinata opened the door to the garden and saw this scene. She slapped her palm to her forehead, "guys are such idiots".
Later, at the training grounds.
Naruto and Hinata walked up to the training ground. The waited a few minutes until Sakura walked up. Sakura said, "Hey Naruto-kun, Hinata-chan."
"Hey" and "Hello" were the replies.
A moment later Sasuke walked up with a tiny smile on his face. He said, "Naruto, Sakura….ummmmmmm"
"Hinata" said Hinata with a 'you know damn well who I am' tone.
"Oh yeah, Hinata" said Sasuke.
Naruto said, "Okay, I think we should train by means of a tournament of matches. It will be Hinata vs. Sasuke, and then me vs. Sakura, and the winner of those will fight"
"all right" said everyone.
The first match was Sasuke and Hinata. Naruto would be the "referee" for this match.
Naruto said, "okay, here's the 'rules'…1. I will call the match when I feel it is sufficient….2. We will try to avoid killing. And trust me, when I say we will 'try' I mean I will interrupt to stop any blow I think will kill someone.
They all nodded. Hinata and Sasuke both walked forward in the large open field. The both got down into stances. Hinata in the gentle fist, and Sasuke in a stance with his left leg turned to the front and his right to the back and his right hand on his pouch, with his left hand out front, palm facing out. Sasuke said, "So, are you ready to get wiped the floor with".
"I may not be as talented as you…yet….but I won't go down without one hell of a fight" said Hinata.
"oh we'll see about that" said Sasuke.
"You ready Hinata," she nodded, "you ready Sasuke" he nodded, "begin" said Naruto.
Sasuke shot forward and sliced Hinata across the chest, she looked perplexed for a moment, before poofing into smoke. Sasuke thought, 'a shadow clone, but how? Naruto must have taught it to her'. Just then Sasuke felt the ground underneath him erupt. He narrowly escaped a small explosion that had a radius of 5 meters, (about 15 feet). Sasuke had dodged by doing a few back hand springs, when he stopped he was barely able to lean to the side to dodge several kunai thrown at him, 'exploding shadow clone hidden underground, this girl is good. How much do you train her Naruto, and how good are you now'. He turned to the direction the kunai had come from but felt a kunai pressed against his back. He spun and slashed her again, she poofed again. He thought 'another shadow clone?'. Sasuke looked around then thought, 'oh wait, I need to get in some cover'. Sasuke jumped into a tree, he hid in the leaves expertly. He just barely dodged by jumping forward as Hinata descended upon him from above. She was now chasing him, she was attempting to hit him with some good old fashioned, painful, Gentle Fist strikes. He was dodging, and he noticed her Byakugan, and he said, "wow, this is all the Byakugan can do, I'm not impressed." Just then Sasuke started being pummeled from behind by some Gentle fist strikes. He was soon left a crimpled pile on the ground. "But How" he asked.
"Two words: Shadow clones" Hinata said.
Sasuke forced himself to stand up, he opened his eyes and one tomoe (little black 'symbol' in the sharing an' ) appeared. Hianta noticed that he had a new surge of chakra. She attacked him again, but he dodged them all flawlessly. Sasuke thought, 'this girl is serious, I need to end this quick. Even with this new sight, if I let this drag out, she'll wipe the floor with me'. Sasuke did some back hand springs to retreat, he pulled out a bit of wire attached to some kunai, then threw them to wrap the advancing Hinata and pin her to a tree, he walked up and placed a kunai to her neck, and said, "I win this time".
Hianta smiled, "Oh really".
Sasuke felt a kunai at his back, he smirked. Hinata looked worried, her Kunai sunk through Sasuke, she thought, 'a regular clone' (the one that's just and image). Hinata turned around to catch a slug in the face, sending her back into the same tree her shadow clone had been in, then Sasuke wrapped her in wire this time. He held a kunai to her throat again, "this time I know this is really you, I have won…you put up a hell of a fight, by all rights I should have lost…get used to the compliment, because that is the only one you will get from me."
Hinata let her head slump, Naruto called it, "the victor is Sasuke". Sasuke let Hinata down, she then went and sat down where Sakura was previously sitting. Now a Naruto clone was being the referee, and Naruto and Sakura both nodded and the clone said begin.
Naruto thought, 'hmmmm….I can't use too much on her, I'll have a little fun with this, then later I'll kick Sasuke's ass'. Naruto made some weak shadow clones, whom he had run at Sakura while he sneaked into the woods behind himself. Sakura had already destroyed the 20 some odd clones causing the one being the ref to say, "daman, your getting your ass handed to you by Sakura" to which the last clone, right before it was destroyed said, "hey, your me, you idiot". Sakura instantly looked around then ran into the woods, Naruto smirked and thought 'too easy'. He sent a new shadow clone to suicide run at Sakura, the clone got ten feet away from Sakura, who was hiding behind a tree, and exploded. (he stayed that far away so as not to hurt her, just to flush her out). Sakura jumped out of her hiding spot, and landed, right below Naruto. He, without any sound, slipped from his perch in a tree and fell right on top of Sakura. He pinned her to the ground, one hand in each of his, and his knees keeping hers pinned. He moved their hands to where he made a sign to make a shadow clone. The clone pulled out a kunai and held it to Sakura's throat. "I win" said Naruto.
Sakura smiled, "fine, whatever….but Naruto…GET THE HELL OFF ME!".
Naruto jumped up and ran off, dispelling his clone to send the memories to the clone waiting in the field. The clone announced to Sasuke and Hinata, "Naruto has won" he then dispelled.
Naruto and Sakura came walking into the clearing out of the woods, and Sakura hit naruto on the head. Naruto rubbed his head, "what was that for"
She said, "at the end there we were in a very compromising position."
He said, "what are you talking about. I wasn't even thinking about that. Wow Sakura, you're a pervert"
She just got a vein on her forehead, punched him on the head, and said, "Shut up and I'll be the ref for your and Sasuke's match".
They made it back to the other two. Naruto said, "Hey Sasuke I can tell you have little chakra left. How about we go take a lunch break and come back"
Sasuke replied, "hn…sure…whatever"
Naruto said, "how about Ichiraku ramen, on me"
Hinata said, "oh yeah, I can go for that"
Sakura and Sasuke both said, "sure".
A few moments later.
The group of Shinobi walked into the ramen stand. Teuchi looked up and said, "Oh Naruto, Hinata, ummmm oh yeah Sasuke and Sakura. What will you guys be having?"
"I'll have miso pork ramen, three bowls" said Naruto.
"I'll have the same just with two bowls" siad Hinata
Both Sakura and Sasuke ordered one bowl of beef ramen. (a/n: thank (enter whatever deity here) for ramen, as a broke college student, I know how great ramen is :D).
The group sat there, eating there food and chatting about the two matches. They were mainly chatting about how kickass Hinata had been during the battle. However, Hinata was being really humble.
"No, I wasn't really that great" said Hinata.
"Oh we beg to differ, we have all agreed, and we have a 3 to 1 vote Hinata, we win. You kicked ass." Said Naruto.
"yeah. You really did. If I hadn't unlocked a sliver of my sharing an I'd have lost, you were severely kicking my ass" said Sasuke with a smile. Sasuke then thought, 'wait, what the hell, I'm not suppose to get close to anyone. No friends, I am an avenger. I guess I can make a couple on my way to killing that bastard'
Hinata sighed, "oh okay, I guess I did okay"
Naruto stood up, pulled out a frog wallet, to which both girls giggled. "What? It is my little friend" said Naruto, to which Teuchi, Sakura, Sasuke, and Hinata all burst out laughing. Naruto blushed, pulled out money and paid for the meal. He said, "are you guys coming or not"
They all left out of the ramen shop and headed back to the training ground.
Once their, Hinata stood back while Sakura stood a little ways away from Naruto and Sasuke. She said, "Naruto" he nodded, "Sasuke" he nodded
She shouted. "BEGIN"