A/N: eh heh heh… I HAVE RETURNED! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Actually that's a good thing so I shouldn't be laughing…O.o watever… anyways, here's ur next chappie!
Usual morining routine. Man, Tenten sure had to get use to this…it was a month already goddamit!
"I'm so tired… why do we have to wake up so early?" the bun-haired girl turned towards her companion. He merely shook his head. " get used to it, I've been doing it every morning for the past 2 years…"
Tenten sighed for the 5th time that morning. This was gonna be a looooong day. By now, at least they had rounded up everyone. The girls all looked equally tired except for Sakura, who seemed to be so tired she almost drifted off to sleep while running, more than once already Sasuke had to catch her from having her skull broken due to the fact that they were very high up and were going very fast. After 10 minutes or so, they finally reached the training grounds with a pleasant surprise awaiting them.
Nushimi stood in the clearing with her hair blowing behind her. She seemed to be in deep thought.
Hinata wast the first to speak/make her presence known.
"Good morning 'kaa-san"
Nushimi jerked her head towards the teenaged girl and smiled " good morning to you to Hinata"
Ino cocked her head to the side "what are you doing here 'kaa-san?"
She chuckled " well, I'm here to teach you a new technique and give you some news but if you don't want me to then…" At this, Sakura bolted straight up from Sasuke's arms startling the poor guy so much he almost had a heart attack " like hell I'm gonna miss this, now, as you were saying…?"
Everybody sweatdropped. Sakura looked at each of them in turns " What? Is there something on my face?" she reached up and put her hands on her cheeks. Now everybody fell down anime-style.
Naruto shook his head " Nevermind Sakura…"
Shikamaru wasn't even listening, he apparently was staring at the clouds watching them pass by, Tenten noticing this, decided to make the wind blow furiously making all the clouds dissapear. The pony-tailed boy shook his head and blinked then looked back up at the sky, but there were no clouds. Wait- no clouds? Tenten started to whistle innocently. Shikamaru glared at her, Neji, being a perspective one noticed this and glared back with his I'm-superior-to-you-so-stop-glaring looks.
Naruto decided to Sasuke decided to break the silence with a question.
"Hey you, your Sakura's mom right?"
Nushimi looked at the sharingan user and nodded slowly" yeah… so?"
He looked at her " How did you train Sakura?"
Now she had a puzzled look on her face, "Why do you want to know?"
"because..." he folded his arms across his chest "I want to learn too, and plus, I'm good at fire techniques too"
Neji nodded in agreement "yes… I want to know how Tenten managed to get this strong…" the mentioned girl huffed, "even if she did tell you how we trained, you wouldn't be able to survive in this so called 'training'"
He cocked an eyebrow "you don't think we can?"
Shikamaru on the otherhand looked bored but really, he was insulted by the remark "huh… you never know, we might just survive…"
Now it was Ino's turn to raise an eyebrow "ok, I'll tell you how we trained, it was more of a survival test actually, we had to do this in order to see if we were ready to learn our elements jutsu's" Ino started to count off her fingers now "first of all, we were dumped in a forest with everything imaginable, from deadly walking mushrooms to huge, big-ass dragons. Well, as I already said, we were left in the middle of nowhere with much thanks to 'kaa-san over here cause she's the one who 'misteriously' dissappeared." The long-hair blonde glared menacingly at the older woman "and we were seperated. So then we had to survive for at least a month in there, well… at least that's what the scroll she gave us said…" Sakura then took over the explaining part since she noticed Ino's voice was getting crackly due to dehydration. "yeah and then let's just say after that month we were experts and could survive anywhere you put us in" Hinata shuddered at the memory, she had been left all alone in the middle of nowhere and most of all, she was terrified.
Flashback
"s-s-Sakura-chan?" Hinata called out. No answer. "I-Ino-chan?" still no answer. "T-t-Tenten-chan?" for the last and final time, no answer. Great. Now she was absoulutely scared. Here she was, in kami-knows-where without any food, people, shelter, and most importantly water-! Wait. She's not left without water though. The faint words that Nushimi gave her before entering the forest came floating back to her in her mind. Hinata, you are the guardian of water. Whenever you are all alone without anything, don't panic, you still have water and that's basically what you really need to survive.
Ok, at least she was calming down a little bit now. Suddenly a loud roar came out of nowhere and a beast the size of a tiger came charging it's head at her. Hinata jumped out of the way before throwing a bunch of kunai's towards the animal or whatever it was. The blades struck head on killing it quickly. The Hyuuga girl breathed a sigh of relief. Well, things could be worse. Like if it started to rai-
Hinata didn't get to finish her sentence before a light drizzle started to pour down overhead, it soon turned to a heavy downpour completely soaking the already shivering girl. Well, well, well… she just had to say it didn't she? She made a mental note to herself, before saying something that could make your situation worse, please think it over carefully. She made another note that the word 'carefully' was emphasized.
The blue-purplish haired girl now sat under a tree hugging her knees. She wanted to go home, back to Konoha. Is this really what her mother had thought of to be training? I mean, what kind of training is this! Leaving your daughters in the middle of nowhere expecting them to suvive and then dissappearing into oblivion probably having an nice time eating in some fancy resteraunt! Hinata clenched her fists. Boy, was her mother gonna get it once she got out of this stupid place.
The first week of her suvival test was pretty bad. She was practically dying for food and was running low on chakra due to the many attempts to produce water. On her so called 1 thousandth 98th time, she managed to expell some water, not much but just enough to quench her thirst. She nearly screamed out in happiness had it not been for the many times she had been attacked due to her foolishness in making any loud sounds.
It wan't long from then that she met Sakura. Hinata was walking aimlessly around the forest while looking for her usual meal, some nuts and berries, if she was lucky, she could hunt for the animals that actually are edible. It was then she saw the pink haired kunouchi. The cherry blossom was apparently in a battle with an animal or monster of some type and was having the upperhand. Sakura did a flame jutsu and ended the battle. And being the smart one she was decided to cook it for a meal. Once Sakura had started a fire and was waiting for the meat to be cooked, Hinata decided to make her apperance.
Now, the reunion was a pretty happy one, except that Sakura could hardly speak due to dehydration which Hinata decided to cure.
"Hey Hinata" She asked me "Where were you the first week? I was looking all over for you and the other 2"
I just smiled "well, let's just say that I had the same goal but was faring pretty badly…" Sakura widened her eyes. I had no idea what made her do this until she spoke up "OMG! Your not stuttering anymore!" She then put a hand to my forehead "do you have a fever? Are you delirious? Are you feeling dizzy?" I sweatdropped. I hadn't noticed that I didn't stutter anymore because I really didn't have anyone to talk to. "Yeah well… come on, once we're done eating we'll go find Ino and Tenten ok?" Sakura grinned. I smirked "Deal"
Well… that was the best meal I had in days. It's always better to have some meat on your menu isn't it? Plus, sharing with your friend isn't that bad either.
Ok, it was now sunset and Sakura and me weren't having such good luck, we hadn't found any signs of the other two and we were hungry again, it was of course noon when we last ate of course. It was all peaceful until-
"EEEKKK! HINATA! FOREHEAD-GIRL!" a high girlish shriek pierced the air.
Sakura whipped around and threw a kunai at the over-excited blonde. "don't you EVER call me forehead-girl!"
Ino just smirked.
"Well isn't this a wonderful reunion…" I sighed.
This time it was Ino's eyes that turned wide, not Sakura's
"Oh…My…God… Hinata…. Your not stuttering anymore!" she jumped up while squealing excitedly.
Wow… like that's news… Sakura sweatdropped.
"come on, let's go find something to eat, I'm starving"
Ino smiled and started walking eastward. Me and Sakura followed.
CLANG!
I activated my byakugan(sp?) and took out a kunai by reflexes, Sakura and Ino did the same. Clang! There it was again. That sound of clashing metal. I wonder what that could be?
"you wanna go check that out?" the green-eyed kunouchi asked. I nodded. Well, it wasn't everyday that you heard metal crashing against metal in the middle of the forest now right? As the trio made their way stealthily towards the sounds.
When they got there, they gasped.
(A/N: can you guess who or what they saw? Dun dun dun!)
there in front of them stood a very evily smirking Tenten. On the floor surrounding her there were weapons littered everywhere while a few carcasses lay limp on the earth in front of her.
"HOLY SHIT-!" Sakura went like O.O
Tenten whipped her head around to face the new visitors.
Her eyes immediately lit up "OMG! You guys!"
Flashback end
Hinata was jolted out of her thoughts when Naruto shook her by the shoulders "Hinata? Are you ok?" She smiled "Yeah, I'm fine… just remembered some stuff that's all…" she mumbled.
"ok, now what was the news that you wanted to tell us 'kaa-san?" Sakura questioned eagerly
"let's just hope it's not another mission…" Ino's mumble managed to go unnoticed.
"Well, I was just wondering, do you guys all want to go back home for a month? You can bring your boyfriends along too"
"YAYAYAYAYAY!" Ino jumped and wrapped her arms around the pineapple head causing him to almost fall over.
"that is only if they agree to go Ino" Nushimi pointed out
The pony-tailed blonde stopped jumping and did the puppy eyes towards Shikamaru "Please Shika-kun? Pplllleeeezzeeee?"
He sighed, it was futile to even TRY to resist those puppy dog eyes of certain doom."fine, just…stop it with the eyes…"
Sakura just stated plainly "Sasuke-kun said he would go, I asked him a month ago, I was gonna ask you if he could come over but whatever…"
"don't even bother to ask Tenten, I'm going ok?" Neji looked a Tenten from the corner of his eyes. He could tell she was dissapointed that she couldn't do the puppy eyes of doom at all.
Nushimi looked delighted. "Ok! Good, now go and pack your stuff, we leave in an hour."
"WHAT!"
"just do it" and she dissappeared.
"O crap! Sasuke-kun! We have to hurry! It takes us 1/2 to get here plus we have to pack and go back! Auughh!" Sakura started running dragging a very confused Sasuke behind her.
Neji just smirked "heh… lucky for me and Tenten, the Hyuuga mansion is just a 5 min run away…"
Tenten grabbed Neji's hand "Then let's go pack, grab a bite to eat, and go shopping for weapons!" everyone still there sweatdropped. And with that, the Hyuuga pridiogy was dragged away.
"Come on, we're the only ones left, let's go. Naruto and Hinata already left because they got bored listening to us." Ino started to walk away from the training grounds with a sighing Shikamaru behind her.
Hyuuga Mansion:
Neji's room:
"ok, 60 kunai's? check. 60 shruikens? Check. 5 senbons? Check…" Tenten started checking things off on her list.
"Wouldn't it just be easier to see if you have your scrolls instead of counting all your weapons one by one?" the so called Hyuuga questioned from the bed. He, apparently, had finished packing because he only had a few personal possesions that he needed to bring and clothes.
"Shut up wise guy"
"hn…"
Tenten glared at her while he just smirked back.
"what are YOU glaring at?"
"what does it look like?"
"…baka…"
he smirked once more before pulling her into a hug.
"I wonder why we always end up fighting one way or another…"
"is that supposed to be a trick question?" Tenten smirked.
He glared his that-wan't-funny glare.
Tenten just smile right on back. "Hey Neji?"
"Hn?"
"Close your eyes for a second."
"Why?"
"just
do it"
"hn…" he shut his eyes.
She leaned in and gave him a kiss on the lips. Neji's eyes shot wide open (A/N: sumthin along the lines of: O.O lol)
"wha….you…that…me…?" he stuttered.
Tenten smiled. "Yes, I did just kiss you, now let's go, I want to get there early so I can get ready. We're going to have to run 2 days straight you know"
As she jumped out the window with her bags, she heard him yell one word "WHAT!"
later when everyone had gathered back at the training grounds. Nushimi had told them how they were going to travel.
"Ok, we're going to go in groups of 2, I'm sure you know who your partner is already" the older woman stated "and we will go south for a day and a half till we hit a cliff that looks freakishly similar to the hokage mountain except with no faces carved in. then we're going to take a break there since the guys will probably be getting ready to collapse" she ignored the glares being directed at her "and then we'll go east from there. Everyone got it?"
they nodded.
Nushimi smiled "Ok! Let's go!"
Everyone gathered chakra in their feet before taking one last look around and then dissappearing.
Little did they know of the trouble heading their way…
A/N: ok ppls, I'm ending my chapter here cos' I want to start a new fanfic and my brain has just been nagging at me to write it so ja ne!
