Fourteen weeks have passed, Hinata Hyuga has grown, not just in height but she also had grown mentally, physically and emotionally. She has stayed in the Son household, but the first weeks of staying there, she had a plan that she would run away but dropped the plan when the extra training started. Videl, Her Sensei's wife, wasn't in on the idea for a while but lots of persuading from Gohan changed that. She really enjoyed the moments she had with Pan, Gohan and Videl's daughter. She already had met, Goten's and Trunks parents, but after that, Bulma and Chichi would try their hardest to get Hinata and Trunks together.
Vegeta, on the other hand, was not nice. When he first saw Hinata the first thing he did was drag her to the gravity room and have a sparring match. To Hinata, it felt like a death battle. Even though Vegeta was easily beating the crap out of her, she wouldn't back down. After the battle Hinata had lot's of bruises that would last a lifetime, Vegeta had grown to respect her and would rarely make jokes about her and Trunks. So now whenever Hinata saw Vegeta, she was ready for a sparring match with him. Occasionally Trunks and Goten would join, Goten would only join if he was there. Trunks would join so he could protect Hinata from Vegeta's wrath when Hinata ever landed a successful punch on him.
Hinata hair had grown to her shoulder, she now would wear it in a ponytail whenever training or on a mission, which was every day. For her normal attire, she wore a long sleeve lavender shirt, the sleeves would stop a little bit further up from her hand. She also wore a sleeveless jacket. The jacket had a dragon on the back, which was lavender, The jacket overall color was violet. She wore amethyst tight pants that stop to her, Gi shoes. She would always wear her Gi uniform whenever going on a mission or for training but since the Gi was basically destroyed in the sparring match with Vegeta she had to get a new one from Piccolo but she hasn't seemed him ever since her first meeting with him.
So, She wore her normal attire for the mission she was going on today. The mission was to see if Hinata, Trunks, and Goten were ready for the Chunin exams.
"Gohan! Hinata! Wake up!" Videl hollered from the living room, playing with Pan. Hinata was in the spare room, sleeping soundly with the covers covering her, nothing in the room could be heard except for Hinata's soft breathing, her hair out of her usual ponytail. Gohan was in his and Videl's bedroom sleeping, snoring very loudly. His left arm hanging off the bed and the red covers only covering his right leg.
Hinata stirred a little bit before opening her eyes slowly but then she decided she could sleep for a little longer but that wasn't an option for poor Hinata. Videl opened the door holding Pan.
"Pan, Want to wake up Hinata by yourself?" Videl whispered to Pan and what she got was a giggle for an answer. Videl placed Pan on Hinata's bed. Pan crawled to Hinata and hit her with one of her toy wand things.
Hinata woke up shocked and felt a jolt of pain on her forehead. She opened her eyes roughly and looked up at the culprit. She was face to face with Pan, one of the strongest babies in the world. "Okay. I'm awake. No need to hurt me, Pan." Hinata murmured but that didn't stop Pan from hitting Hinata with her toys.
Meanwhile, Videl left the room and let Pan do her work, while she went to wake up Gohan. She slowly got on the bed and laid her head on Gohan's chest. "Gohan wake up. Remember you guys have a mission." but still nothing so she said something that always wakes up Gohan, even though she doesn't want to say it, "Gohan Cell's back.". Gohan eyes sky rocket,
"Where?" He asked sternly, ready to power up, His hair slowly turning gold.
"I'm only joking." Videl giggled.
Gohan looked at Videl, "Wait what?". His hair reverted back to black.
"I had to wake you up somehow." She replied.
"Worst way to wake someone up." He muttered while standing up.
"Don't be a baby, Hinata has it worst. Now get dressed and meet us for breakfast." Videl told him.
"How does Hinata have it worst?" Gohan questioned after he had gotten dressed in his regular Gi.
"Pan hit her with one of her toys." Was Videls only reply. Gohan flinched imaginary the pain.
"I think I need ice." Hinata uttered, while using her hand and pointed to the right part of her forehead that was light red from Pan's toy attack. Pan sitting on her shoulders.
"Let me see." Videl called out to Hinata from the kitchen. Hinata walked into the Kitchen and saw Gohan's eyes stare at her forehead,
"Pan got you good didn't she." Gohan laughed. Hinata handed Pan to him and walked to Videl. Videl slowly placed her hand on Hinata's chin to keep her head from moving and examined the mark. Videl grabbed an ice pack and softly placed it on her forehead and wrapped it so it wouldn't fall off.
"Thank you." Hinata cheered and sat down at one of the chairs.
"May I ask what happened to you, Hinata?" Hiruzen Sarutobi, The Third Hokage asked once Team Dragon arrived for their mission, clearly surprised to see the ice pack wrapped around her forehead.
"I got hit by a baby." Hinata whispered. Hiruzen laughed,
"I'm guessing Pan hit you." Hinata nodded, "I've seen her sometimes, very cheerful and strong." Gohan, Trunks and Goten laughed besides her. "So I'm guessing you're here for a mission?" The team nodded, "Well there is an escort mission. C-ranked."
"We would like that one." Gohan replied.
"Well then." The Hokage said and turned to an Anbu, "Bring in Shoji Shin. You are supposed to bring Shoji-San back to his home village with his baby."
"Wait, we're supposed to escort both, Shoji-San and the baby." Hinata asked.
"Yes, but it is very important to bring the baby back to his home town safe and sound."
"Why?" Trunks asked.
"The baby was born in a noble clan in their village. The clan name, Ryu."
"The baby's name?" Gohan asked.
"Takeo."
"Warrior Dragon," Hinata muttered. "The whole name means Warrior Dragon."
"Good observation, Hinata." Hiruzen complimented.
"We have brought him." The Anbu said once he appeared with a man that was holding a baby.
"You may leave Anbu-san," Hiruzen said, once the Anbu left, he turned his attention to the new arrival, Shoji. "This is the team that will escort you to your village."
Shoji looked at each team member up and down, "You give me a grown man that looks like he hasn't been in a fight for a while, a lavender haired boy who has no hairstyle taste, A boy with black messy hair who looks like he has only seen innocent things and a girl who looks like she can't defend for her life." The turned to the Hokage, "You could have a least given me a team full of boys."
That last part triggered Hinata immensely. 'What's that supposed to mean?'
Gohan could sense that those words triggered his students. Luckily for him, they didn't take action. "I can assure you that my team is full of well-trained shinobi's.", Gohan informed Shoji.
Shoji sighed, "Alright as long as the baby and I get to the village safely."
They had started walking to the village, Shoji would give directions time to time. Hinata was greatly upset at what he said about her.
'He's the one who can't defend himself.'
The ice pack on her forehead would block a little bit of her vision. The wound still hurt but it was getting better.
"Hinata." Trunks said, walking closer to her, separating from the group a little. "I don't like this guy." Trunks muttered indicating Shoji. "Goten doesn't like him too."
"Yeah, I don't like him. He has something against girls. Do you see the way he glares at me." Hinata explained.
"Yeah, I saw."
After that Trunks went back to Goten. They kept on walking getting closer to the village.
"We should stop here," Gohan told the group, once they spotted a nice opening. "Trunks go get wood, Goten what about you get some water with Hinata." The students nodded.
Once Goten and Hinata were next to a river, buckets in hand, Hinata decided to speak. "Goten what do you think about Shoji?"
"He's mean." Goten answer while filling the bucket with water, Hinata doing the same.
"Yeah, I know."
The two filled their buckets and went back to the group. Once they were back they saw that Trunks had already come back with wood, fire place already made. They started cooking food, once over they all went to sleep except for Hinata. Hinata got out of her tent. When outside she started doing meditation. She sat in a cris cross position, her hands in a fist, both fist making contact with each.
Meditation.
Drago had mentioned it was a good way to calm down nerves and lessen stress, while they were doing some training.
Clear your mind.
Calm down.
Focus on your breathing.
Stay relaxed.
"What is that?" Shoji's voice interrupted her meditation. "Some of your weird training."
"I was meditating. If you can't be kind, then be quiet please." Hinata shot back.
"That's stupid, no matter how hard you train, you never improve. Your stupid if you think you can improve with training."
"Well excuse me, but I'm not a mirror. So stop comparing me to you."
Shoji huffed and went back to the tent.
Hinata didn't feel like doing meditation anymore. She went in her tent and went to sleep.
The next morning everyone was up and ready to start heading out on the road again.
"Gohan? Why is everything so dry? It was raining yesterday." Hinata spoke her concerns.
"I noticed that too. I'm sure everyone else did too. Goten, Trunks did you notice?" Gohan replied and turned his attention to Goten and Trunks and asked.
"Yeah, we noticed," Goten replied for the two. "It's weird."
"Maybe a genjutsu?" Trunks suggested. His backpack strap on his right shoulder, right hand holding the backpack strap too. His eyes focused on the dry area around them. He then looked at the trees.
'No rain drops. Nothing.' Trunks thought. He quickly looked behind him and saw Shoji and the baby a couple of feet behind them. "Stay close to us!" He hissed to the men. Ever since the encounter with him last night when he came back from outside.
~Flashback~
Trunks had gotten outside to do some extra training. He opened up his tent door and looked outside and saw Shoji and Hinata talking.
'Why are they talking?' He thought. He brushed it off and just thought that they were fighting or something. He found a nice spot where he could do some training. He was doing push-ups.
3,123. He counted in his hand.
3,124.
3,125. "Your training too?" Shoji's voice knocked him out of his concentration making him lose count and fall to the ground.
"What do you want?" He asked as calmly as he could.
"You know. You Saiyans disgust me." He said with venom.
Trunks eyes widen. "What did you say?" Trunks said trying to keep his cool. Much like his Father, he hated it when people talk badly about his heritage. "You don't even know what Saiyan are." Trunks shot back.
"I know what Saiyans are. You kill people for fun. You're monsters."
"That's not true! Take that bullshit back!" Trunks yelled, His hand in a fist.
"Aww, What are you going to do? Transform and kill me?"
~End of Flashback~
He hated this guy's guts so much. Trying his best to keep his Saiyan side on the down low.
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Alright, that's chapter 9!
