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Hiashi Hyuga knew that he was in trouble as he looked over the transformed Naruto with his byakugan. The boy's chakra had turned a deep red color and he was very concerned about the level of chakra coming off the boy. This fight had just gotten quite a bit more dangerous. If he wasn't careful, he might even lose his life.
The transformed Naruto snarled at Hiashi and ran at him. Hiashi raised his hands in a defensive stance but Naruto hit him with a punch that sent him reeling back against the wall.
"You killed Hinata!" The transformed Naruto roared as Hiashi got back to his feet and hit him with a strike to the chest that only managed to drive him back a step. Otherwise he showed no other indication that he had been hit. "Tonight was the night Hinata was supposed to get her answer! But you took that away from her!" Hiashi ran at him and hit him with a lightning fast barrage of punches that he was able to mostly avoid; only taking a few hits to the stomach."
"My daughter was a threat to the clan!" Hiashi shouted back as Naruto ran at him and tried to hit him with an uppercut only to have Hiashi barely dodge it. "I made sure that she would not corrupt the clan! With her in charge there would have been nothing but chaos!"
Naruto finally managed to get in under his guard and managed to send him flying up into the air with a powerful uppercut to the chin. "Hinata saved my life during Pain's invasion! And you still killed her! What right did you have to take her life away?"
Hiashi landed on his knees and staggered back to his feet. He was bleeding from the mouth and from a gash under his chin where the uppercut had hit him. This boy's power was almost exactly equal to his own. But he could almost sense something underneath the chakra, something malicious...something dangerous.
"I had every right!" Hiashi retorted as he gasped for air as one of Naruto's strikes struck him in the stomach. "I am her father!"
Naruto snarled in rage as he heard Hiashi's words. "You're the worst possible father there is! What kind of father kills his own daughter?"
"A father who had the best interests of the clan at heart." Hiashi said calmly. "A father who knew that his daughter had to die so the old ways of the clan could survive." Naruto snarled again at his words and ran at him and attempted to slice him with a Kunai knife only to have Hiashi dodge Naruto's attack again. Hiashi then retaliated by hitting him directly in the chest with all of his strength behind the attack, sending Naruto flying backwards into a wall. He slammed directly into it and landed in a heap besides Hinata.
Naruto huffed and puffed heavily as he attempted to draw breath as he staggered back to his feet just in time to see Hiashi slowly advancing toward him. "You have interfered in matters that do not concern you. You should have left when you had the chance. Now you will die."
No...I won't die...not now! Not to this horrible excuse of a man!
Naruto slowly got to his feet and stared at Hiashi. "I won't die. Not to you...You murdered Hinata, you murdered someone who loved me and that is something that I'll never forgive."
Naruto ran at Hiashi who confidently attempted to strike him only to have Naruto jump over his head and then kick him in the back. Hiashi was unprepared for the force of the blow and was sent flying into the already damaged wall making an imprint in the wall. Hiashi got to his feet and looked him over again with his byakugan.
Same level of chakra, same amount of chakra coming off the boy. What could possibly be different that he managed to hit me so hard?
Before Hiashi could react, Naruto was behind him again and kicked him up in the air before jumping above him and then kicking him back down to the floor which nearly shattered under the force of the impact.
Before Hiashi had the chance to get up, Naruto gripped him by the throat and lifted him up and stared him directly in the eyes even as Hiashi unleashed a series of pinpoint strikes to his chest. Naruto dropped him to the ground and clutched at his chest in agony.
Hiashi simply stared at him and then lifted Naruto up by the throat. "I was going to make your death painless but you simply don't know when to stop. For your crimes against the Hyuga clan your death will be made as painful as possible."
"Not today Hiashi!" A voice shouted from the window. A dark figure dropped from the tree outside the window and slowly moved into the light. A figure with flowing black hair and a handful of kunai knives in both of her hands.
Kurenai had arrived.
"This does not concern you Kurenai. You have no business interfering in Hyuga clan matters. Leave now or suffer the fate that these two will suffer."
"Hyuga clan business becomes my business when you try to murder one of my students." Kurenai said angrily. "I'm going to tell you one last time: Leave Hinata and Naruto alone and I won't have to hurt you."
"You think highly of your chances against the head of the Hyuga clan." Hiashi commented as he dropped into a battle stance and charged at her. Kurenai easily dodged the first strike and managed to scratch his face with one of her handful of Kunai before nearly being hit by one of Hiashi's gentle fist strikes, she jumped backward and then threw of the kunai at him only to have him easily dodge it.
"What seems to be the problem Kurenai? You know you can't use Genjutsu against me, my byakugan can see through it. All you have are your tools and they are not enough to stop me. Leave now and you will survive. But your student must die for the good of the clan."
Kurenai simply ran at Hiashi in response and landed a devastating barrage of punches to his chest and stomach at the same time that Hiashi managed to land a devastating hit to her chest. They both went down in pain clutching their chests.
"You need to stop this Hiashi." Kurenai gasped as she held her chest. "Let them go."
Hiashi rose to his feet still clutching his chest and limped over to the two who were still lying on the ground and he raised his fists and brought them down, one on each of them as he hit them directly in the hearts.
And then the calm expression that was on his face abruptly vanished as the two bodies vanished in two puffs of smoke.
Shadow clones!
"While you were fighting Kurenai-sensai, I managed to get back up and I managed to hide Hinata. You won't be harming her anymore. Not after I'm through with you"
Hiashi scanned the ceiling with his byakugan, he didn't see the attack coming from underneath. Naruto slammed through the floor with a rasengan that was tinged with red that sent Hiashi flying up into the roof headfirst and then he landed on the floor besides the hole in the floor in a heap. Naruto turned to Kurenai and slowly limped toward her.
"Kurenai...sensai...Hinata was badly injured...I thought she was dead, she needs to get to a hospital now!" Naruto gasped slowly. Hiashi's relentless attacks on him from earlier were slowly beginning to catch up on him. A few of his chakra points had been sealed and his internal organs had been badly damaged.
"Where is she Naruto? I can get her there soon if you tell me where she is."
Naruto grinned weakly at her before collapsing to his knees. "I...hid her outside. In the tree branch outside...the window." He muttered before finally collapsing on the floor.
Kurenai grabbed Naruto and tossed him over her shoulder and then looked out the window to see Hinata laying on one of the tree branches outside. Her breathing was slow and labored. Kurenai put Naruto down on the branch and looked over at the two of them, she could only carry one of them and Hinata was the more seriously injured of the two of them.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but I need to get Hinata medical care now," she said sorrowfully, "I promise I'll send someone back for you, but until then you have to hold on!"
Naruto grinned and nodded once. All that mattered was that Hinata was alive, for now at least. So far he had managed to avert the future that his older-self had warned him about.
Hinata...please live, he thought as he managed to get to his feet and limped after Kurenai as quickly as he could.
((Fear not, it's not the end of the story. There are probably...two more chapters at most. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.))
