Krazyarchangel: Really? That's good …now about Tenten's bloodline…hehe…heheh…the author is having trouble finishing the plot so he's actually just writing these random side stories…but don't worry, it'll start off next chapter, or maybe it's already stared in this…don't really know…and Tenten's bloodline…shall…NOT be revealed yet…she'll learn about her past and heritage as well…
Evilduck: not really lol, I believe this is how he and Tenten interact…well, yes, I purposely unbalanced their personalities a little to make it more humorous XD
Manuca: Yes…0.0 tenten got her first kiss stolen by a sleeping neji…good lord she must be ticked…save the TOTALLY NOT PART! Lol and yes hitomi is a nice girl isn't she? Her sanity and calmness helps balance out lee's insanity and adrenaline…im trying to make her fit in with the rest of the naruto crew…pls tell me if im doing a good job!
Kaeru Soyokaze: lol yes asskicking and cuddling by both tenten and neji…and if you were gai, wouldn't be freaked to see two of your former pupils sleeping with each other? Not in that sense heheh…heheh…XD hey! u go on fictionpress a lot? Can u also R&R my fic? Called eternal strife…I use same penname
Asura of love: yes female mood swings…they don't suck for you, just the poor boys near you when it hits you…I unfortunately being a boy fall victim to many of these…I still have the marks to prove it XD oh yes and if any of my friends-who-happen-to-be-girls read this…uh…don't hurt me!
Harukakanata: thx lol tenten-neji does rule!
Great Saiyaman: It's called a feminine mood swing…I take it you are a boy who is not surrounded by girls in puberty…not saying that's a bad thing, just me, your limbs will thank you later…yeah I guess its one of the unexplainable things girls do…and they don't even have to be in puberty to do it XD…hehe…heheheheh…oh shit…gets the crap beaten out of him by neighbor…who happens to be girl in puberty…
The essence of popsicles: luv ur long reviews they help me out a lot! Thx for the kakashi-hentai-book correction thingy XD…yes I was aiming to make hitomi seem to be a well-mannered, polite, respectful, girl from noble family…she fits in weith lee perfectly helps keep his insanity down to a bare minimum…yes, the hyuuga elders council all main branch…hiashi actually isn't bad, he apologizes to neji and asks for his forgiveness quite humbly after his match with naruto in the chuunin exams…and usaga isn't evil, just thinking wisely, as he wants best for his daughter, and neji is quite obviously the best in both branches…
Gatzuah: thx for reviewing hope u enjoy the rest! …wow, did u really read all nine chps in one sitting?
Hibiyuru: ya know…I looked it up a couple days ago…and then forgot it again XD nice to know my story is still funny…MUST…START…DAMN…PLOT…BUT…KEEP…COING…UP…WITH… THESE…RANDOM IDEAS!
Moonlightpath: I know, neither can I XD oh wait…I did update…yeah…
Bryr: …shhh…tenten might hear you…
Note: For you Sasuke-fans out there…the now missing-nin returns with a vengeance…
Chapter 10 Teach Me o God of War…
"Hinata! Where have you been?"
"I-I w-was…u-um with my friends…I'm r-really sorry. I promise not to do this again…" Hinata looked down shamefully at her feet. Her father stood in front of her imposingly. His stern face was looking her over.
"Hmmm…you looked rather ruffled…what exactly were you doing…and which…'friend'?"
Hinata let out a small gasp. Had her father already known?
"I…am really sorry father…please forgive me?"
Hiashi smiled, "You didn't stutter on that last question…of course I forgive you, in fact, there really isn't anything to forgive. You're seventeen now. I believe you can control your own life now…choose your destiny, don't let it choose you…"
Hinata looked at her father in surprise.
"And Hinata…I know you fancy that blonde fox boy…"
This caught her attention immediately. She opened her mouth to say something, but her father turned away from her to look out into one of the courtyards near the Main Branch Complex. Hianta looked down. He knows…he'll never let me be with Naruto-kun…
"Hinata, tell me, what do you see in Naruto?"
Hinata paused. This question had caught her off guard. She started poking her fingers together again. What did she really think of Naruto. Moreover, why did she like him? What is…Naruto-kun to me?
An image of a boy shouting across the classroom at Iruka-sensei, and then one of a blonde boy fighting her cousin, and then his broken body after the failed retrieval mission of Uchiha Sasuke.
"He's…kind…nice…he has courage, which I admire. I always admire his courage, his ability to stand up to people. Even when everyone doesn't seem to like him for some reason. He always greets everyone with a smile and never lets anything get him down. I wish I could be like him, have that courage." Hinata smiled inwardly, unbeknownst to her Hiashi had activated his Byakugan and was examining her facial expressions. "He also treated me nicely too, and gave me some confidence, saying that I would be strong like Neji-niisan…and he helped change Neji-niisan too."
Hinata continued on to discuss several other endearing aspects of Naruto, her pale face occasionally lightening up as she spoke of her crush.
"…and he has a big heart…"
Hiashi nodded without looking at her. He sighed.
Hinata didn't like his reaction. She was worried that he might rebuke her, or say that she could never be with Naruto.
"Father! I, I am sorry, but I can't listen to you, if you order me to stop loving him, because…I-I just can't do so! I want to follow my own path and choose my own life! And I love him, with or without your consent." She slowly looked up at the back of his head defiantly. Then Hiashi did what Hinata had least expected.
He laughed. He, for the first time in Hinata's knowledge, laughed loudly, giving off a booming sound.
"My daughter, is that not what I just said to you? I want you to be happy, choose your life. Something I was unable to do myself…that Naruto boy. An interesting character. I noticed you stopped stuttering whilst talking about him. He must be rubbing off on you." Hiashi's eyes twinkled with amusement. "Well Hinata, I guess, you couldn't have made a more perfect choice…the only problem, is convincing the Council…I believe there are some things you must know about Naruto. He is no mere boy. He is much more. I will leave him to tell you when he feels it is time."
And with that, the head of the Hyuuga clan strode off, leaving a pleasantly surprised Hinata.
Sasuke sat upon a tree branch, glaring down at a sparkling stream nearby to his right. He was an S-ranked missing nin now, having been deemed one by Konoha about five years back. His new and now ex-master, Orochimaru, had disappeared after a second brief but brutal war between Konoha and Sound, approximately a year after the original one had been fought shortly after his departure from Konoha. Sasuke had deserted Sound after surmising that Orochimaru may have been using him as a tool all along.
He still hadn't found his brother, and he still lusted for revenge. His bloodthirst was evident in his now cold, cruel Sharingan eyes. He had been working alone for the past three years now, taking one mercenary jobs to earn a hard living, while training himself to death. He leaned back against the bark of the tree. Suddenly, a random image of lost friends, especially one certain pink-haired kunoichi, flashed through his mind. Sakura…
A clacking noise announced the arrival of his targets along dry, dusty road on his left. Almost casually, he leapt off the branch into the middle of the road.
"Who the hell are you?"
The riders stopped at the sight of Sasuke. The leader suddenly noted Sasuke's headband.
"You're a leaf nin? What are you doing in Cloud territory? Answer!" They immediately drew their weapons out and began to form a semi-circle around Sasuke
"KATON Karyuu ENDAN FLAME WALL NO JUTSU!"
The Cloud Shinobi screamed in twisted agony as they were instantly incinerated by the blazing blue flames.
Later that day, Sasuke claimed the bounty due, and he returned to a small village where he secretly resided. As he walked down the hill towards the village, he noted that there seemed to be some sort of meeting at the town square, as he could see the lights at the center of the small village. He quickly took off his itae headband and hid it in his pocket.
He half skipped in a hurried fashion, half ran down the forested slope through the trees towards the village in the distance.
Tenten stood still, her head cocked adorably to one-side, all the while gaping at Neji.
Neji was finding it hard to remember what he was trying to do, as he stared back at Tenten's kawaii confused expression. Dammit Tenten stop that…
"Yes…" he faltered as she cocked her head to another side, "STOP STARING AT ME LIKE THAT! Ok…as I was saying, I am willing to teach you not only the proper Gentle Fist Form, but the Hakkeshou Kaiten as well…"
She shut her mouth and smiled at him mockingly, "Is this another joke, Neji?"
"No…you wish to become the strongest kunoichi, ja?"
"Yes…but, aren't you banned from teaching me those Hyuuga techniques?"
"Actually, I wasn't even supposed to know the Kaiten, but I taught myself. Being a Side Branch Member, they never expected me to learn the Kaiten, so I never received any instruction not to teach it. We'll pretend that you taught yourself the Gentle Fist." His smirk grew wider.
"Really? YOU ROCK!" She proceeded to glomp him and they both fell backwards.
At that moment, Gai happened to come upon them yet again, while running laps like he always did at midnight. Sweating and puffing, he gaped at the two.
Neji looked back, and pointed at Tenten, who blushed. It stayed silent for a while, with the wind blowing through the trees. They all just stared at each other without speaking.
Gai then suddenly began to cry.
"I-IT JUST GOES BY SOOO FAST! ONE MOMENT YOU'RE MY GENIN CELL, THE NEXT MOMENT YOU'RE JOUNIN AND MAKING OUT WITH EACH OTHER. WAAAHH YOU'RE ALL GROWN UP NOW!"
Then he smiled happily at them through the tears.
"Oh…my Neji and youthful Tenten, I hope you two live to have many children and long and blessed lives together…"
He then proceeded to streak off crying about no more youth.
Neji froze where he was, in Tenten's arms. He did not just hear what Gai had said. He didn't…just say…wish…that Tenten and I would have…CHILDREN?
Tenten actually started giggling. She had read his mind.
"Aw come on Neji, he was probably just joking." She smiled and released her vicegrip on him.
They stood up, looked at each other, and turned away blushing.
Neji, trying to retain his cool façade, fought the heat and sudden impulses down, and said, "Okay Ten-chan, let's begin…" Then he realized what he had just absentmindedly called Tenten.
"Neji? Did you hurt your head." She looked at him with motherly concern. "I believe you just called me Ten-chan?"
Neji was still turned away from her, but he had just lost the battle to control his facial expressions, so the least he could do was make sure that he didn't turn around and let Tenten see him in this, this, most embarrassing state. But then again, it already wouldn't be the first.
"Okay, the Kaiten…take a guess on how it is performed…"
"It requires immense amounts of chakra and perfect control over it. You channel you chakra through the palms and fingertips of your hands and spin as rapidly as possible, like a gyroscope, and releasing the concentrated chakra to form a sphere around your circular perimeters…and the spinning is what causes the chakra barrier to deflect attacks…
"Good, very good…I see you've kept your eyes open every time I hit you with the attack." He smirked as she made a rather obscene gesture at him. "Now Tenten, that's not very lady-like, is it?"
She hmped and crossed her arms, looking very cross indeed.
"Now let me demonstrate…Hakkeshou: KAITEN!"
Neji went into a twisted crouched stance, with his arms outstretched and positioned for balance, and immediately he straightened up and began spinning rapidly, starting unusually slow, but then speeding up, eventually creating gale-force winds.
"See Tenten? To continue spinning, you pivot of the tip of one foot and throw your other around to gain momentum and speed.
Tenten couldn't believe her eyes; his Kaiten seemed to get stronger every time he used it.
Soon, Neji was rotating within the confines of a golden sphere of solid chakra, expelled from his palms.
"Tenten," he called from inside the sphere, "Try doing what I just showed you! Remember to concentrate the chakra into your hands!"
"Um, okay Neji…"
Tenten closed her eyes and inhaled a large breath of air, to calm herself, and boost her concentration. Once she felt confident, she imitated Neji's starting position, and immediately threw herself into a spin. She found this to be particularly easy. Now came the hard part, as she spun faster.
Ohmigod this is insane! I'm gonna hurl if I keep this up…She then attempted to force out the chakra from her hands. She found that she couldn't solidify the chakra. She tried harder, and she felt some of her chakra leak away. At first, she thought she had did, until she noted that she still hadn't creating a sphere, she was just trailing a thin wisp of chakra with her hands.
Shehe then stopped to catch her breath. Neji had stopped to watch her. He smiled slightly. "Well, you have nice form, it's the chakra expulsion part that's hard. Of course I was surprised you were able to get the physical movement so accurate on your first try…actually took me about three months to stabilize the spinning…but then again, you are about eight years older than I was then…"
"Let me keep trying…okay? Just watch and give me by-the-second instructions…I'm pretty sure I can get it…" She gave him a pleading look.
He closed his eyes smiling, "Well…that's why I'm here…"
They trained for hours upon hours.
"I think I got it! I THINK I—" She abruptly stopped spinning and collapsed onto the ground in a heap.
"Tenten…take a breather, you look like hell now…" He was meditating underneath the low branches of a willow, as Tenten struggled valiantly but hopelessly to perform the Kaiten. He got up and walked over to Tenten, who was crumpled on the ground.
"…Tenten…get up…I am not carrying you…"
She lay on the cold earth in a fetal position, huggin her knees to her chest.
"Neji…my stomach hurts…ugh…"
"You've used up all your chakra I believe. And I guess we should have dinner, or breakfast, as its almost morning…"
She mumbled something under her breath. He leaned closer trying to figure out what she was saying.
He heard, "Neji…I can't move…please help me?"
She lay rather still in that fetal position, her exhausted eyes closed as she began to doze off. Her white silken shirt was now dirtied with sweat and grime. Neji hadn't seen any girl save Tenten train this hard. He frowned, realizing that she had fallen asleep, evident from her steady breathing and the gentle rising and falling of her chest…
ACK DON'T LOOK THERE!
Sighing in a tired way, he bent down and gathered up the sleeping girl and carried her out of the clearing and through the forest towards Konoha. They had actually trained, (well, Tenten mostly) thorugh the night and well into the morning. It was about noon now.
Hitomi walked around Konoha, satisfying her curisosity. She loved Konoha. It was almost always sunny, with beautiful shades of green, red, yellow, purple, and many other colors surrounding her on every side. Everyone seemed to be so at peace and friendly towards her, and she couldn't help herself from smiling.
She smiled warmly, when a small group of children surrounded her, clamoring to touch her hair (currently a dark purple with black…A/N think misato katsuragi-style from NGE). She absolutely adored children.
"Wow! You're really pretty!"
She laughed as some of the little boys began complimenting her on her features.
"Really now, no need to be so courteous." She patted a little on the head as she knelt down to be eye to eye. "So what's your name?"
"Shugo…are you the ninja girl from Hidden Rain?"
Hitomi blinked, aught off guard. But she quickly regained her posterior and smiled, "So who told you that?"
"My mommy and daddy!" He grinned widely at her, apparently proud of what he had overheard.
"So what were they talking about?"
"They said something about a treat…or treaty? And then they said you were getting married to the Hyuuga Neji! I wanna be like him, 'cuz he's soooo cool! I saw him in the Chuunin Exam!" Out of the corner of her eye, she could see several women laughing as they watched the little boy.
Hitomi laughed, "So Neji does have a large fanbase here. Well, thank you very much for the information!" She stood up and said good-bye to all the children clustered around her, and she began to walk away, when she heard a large crash and several screams and shouts.
She whipped around, and watched in horror, as several burly men plowed their way through the children. Little Shugo was being held up in the air by his collar, by the largest man. He had an eyepatch with a thick brush like mustache.
"So you're 'da bitch who got my friends injured…so I take it you like kids…yeah I love kids too, I love to rip 'em apart and take out their little hearts!"
Hitomi's eye twitched in annoyance. Coldly and emotionlessly, she replied, "Sir, if you would, release the child, he has done nothing wrong."
"The little prick bumped into me."
"Well forgive him then. He only, as I said, a child."
At that moment, a flustered looking women ran into the street and in front of the giant. Hitomi guessed that she was Shugo's mother. "Please sir! Let my child go! I'm really sorry if he has done anything wrong, but please, he's only 4!"
"Outta my way woman!" He backhanded her viciously, sending her crashing to the ground. Hitomi plunged a hand inside her robes.
The Shugo's mother got up again and went back in front of the man and his friends. "Sir, I beseech you let my son go!" She begged him pleadingly.
Hitomi hated seeing people like this. But maybe, just maybe, the man might have some moral in him…
To her shock, she watched as the man pulled out a knife and plunged it into the mother's stomach. Shugo screamed, "Onee-san!" as he watched her mother crumple to the ground with a pool of blood forming around her.
"You INSOLENT, UNFORGIVABLE BASTARDS!" Every syllable in Hitomi's voice shook with anger as she glared at the group. "You're going to pay dearly for this…"
They laughed at her, "So you're going to kill us all? By yourself?"
"I need not kill you fools, you aren't worth it…" She noted that there were several containers of water behind the men.
She clasped her hands together in a hand seal. "Water-style SUI NEEDLES."
The water in the barrels behind the suddenly rose into the air to form glistening spikes. She gestured with her hand at the men. In a split second the men were impaled by dozens of long needles of water, which were turning red with the blood. The leader dropped Shugo, who ran to his mother's side.
"SHE'S A FSKING NINJA!"
"What did you expect?" In a flash and a puff of smoke, she was in front of the man. She frowned, "You're supposed to be on the ground now…" As if by her command, all of the men crumpled to the ground.
She quickly spun around to kneel beside Shugo's mother.
Hnn…deep, but nothing I cannot handle…She quickly performed a deft series of handseals, and her hands began glowing with a white aura. Shugo watched in astonishment as the bleeding wound began to slowly seal itself magically before his eyes. A second later, there wasn't even a scar left to show any sign of the former injury.
"Wahh! NIISAN YOU'RE SOOO COOOL! YOU SAVED ONEE-SAN!" Hitomi was sent sprawling backwards when Shuge launched himself her midsection, squealing with happiness.
She laughed and hugged him back as she stood up with him. His mother had regained consciousness and saw Hitomi hugging Shugo.
"Uh, Miss?" She checked her wound, which had disappeared without a trace, "Did you do this?"
Hitomi nodded as she picked up the four-year old.
"Thank you very much!"
"No need to thank me…they deserved it," she nodded at the groaning thugs on the ground. "Your son?" She handed Shugo over to his mother.
"Thank you," she bowed to Hitomi, who abruptly bowed back in politeness, "So you must be the daughter of the Rain Kage?"
"That is correct."
"So the rumors were true, you are beautiful, polite, and very noble."
Hitomi blushed at the praise, and mumbled a thank you, bowing again.
"Ahh, you don't need to bow to me, Lady Usaga. You are of noble blood, I am just one of the townsfolk!"
Hitomi shook her head. "No, I'm just a girl who happened to be born at the wrong place, wrong time, and in the wrong family."
"How can you say that? The Usagas are very prestigious, a clan. It would be an honor just to work for them!"
"Yes, but still…" she looked away, her eyes lost, staring into eternity, "sometimes it would be better to be normal…"
She turned to look back at Shugo's mother, "I am sorry, I'm placing my trouble upon another person again." She clasped a hand to her head, tired.
"Are you alright, Lady Usaga?"
"Hitomi…just plain Hitomi, please, um…your name, I do not know yet…?"
"Kenta…Musamori Kenta."
Hitomi nodded, her hand still placed over her temple. "My apologies, it is getting late…I-I am a bit tired now…um…Musamori-san? I beg of your leave…"
Kenta nodded, and Hitomi turned to leave. She turned slightly and waved good-bye, smiling when Shugo waved back at her with his tiny hand.
She left through the Eastern Gates of Konoha, to be by herself in the forest. After showing the ANBU guards her identification and travel papers (and they saluted her immediately after finding out who she was).
End chp 10
Hitomi: Good Evening everybody! So how is everyone? (smiles warmly at everyone)
Neji: you can cut it with the cuteness…
Tenten: I win!
Neji: what?
Tenten: You said "cute"!
Neji: I said "cuteness"…
Tenten: "cute" is part of "cuteness"
Neji: …
Hitomi: She is right, Neji-san, "cute" is the root for "cuteness" …
Neji: …Women are so troublesome…
Shikamaru: I hear ya, Neji (pats Neji's back sympathetically) so troublesome…
Neji: …Where did you come from?
Shikamaru: oh, I was just running away from—
Temari runs into scene
Temari: Shika-kun! (glomps shikamaru) Oh hey Tenten! Whats up? (hanging off Shikamaru's neck grinning madly)
Tenten (halfheartedly watching the "couple") Oh nothing really…the usual…(glances at Neji)
Temari: (winks) Oh, so still no luck?
Neji: …You understand that I can read your minds practically…
Tenten and Temari stick tongues out at Neji…Shikamaru rolls his eyes…
Temari: Hmmm…still the cold fish…
Neji: Who's a cold fish?
Temari: You! Tenten, don't sweat it, I'll work him over (cracks an evil grin as she releases Shikamaru from her death grip)
Shikamaru: Hey Hyuuga…some advice…run like hell…
Neji: Why?
Temari: BECAUSE OF THIS! (suddenly appears above Neji and drops a cage over him)
Neji: I do hate the female race with such a passion…
Temari: Oi! Tenten! Wanna put him in your room?
Hitomi and Shikamaru: 0.o
Tenten: (smiles happily and hugs Temari!) THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!
Temari: No problem! I love doing this! Matchmaking is so fun!
Neji: She call this matchmaking? Tenten? I hate you…
Tenten: (hugs cage) Iknow…but we're still going to get along just fine, right Neji-kun?
Neji: …
Hitomi: Oh dear…
K ppl review...and please make reviews longer and just a little more detailed...if thats not too much to ask...cuz it will help me a lot more in my writing, in other words, ill update faster...comments, questions, and constructive criticism and naruto corrections needed in reveiws pls
here's a little bit of the next chapter, which is mostly about Hitomi XD...
Alone in the forest, she leaned against a tree with one hold, clutching her forehead with the other. Curses…my head hurts…
Why was I born into this family? Why couldn't I have a normal life? She suddenly lashed out and cleaved the tree in half with a one chakra-powered slash. Tears began falling slowly out of her eyes. She remembered how her family had beaten into the fact that she only lived to further the integrity of the Usagas, and would listen to her father, the head of the clan, whether she liked it or not. Why can't I control my life…it's my life…not yours, father…not yours…
She danced gracefully through the forest, in a solemn, sorrowful set of movements, whipping around her pure-white chakra whip at the trees, whispering, "I want to live a normal life…I want to start a family of my own wishes…I want to travel around the world…"
She suddenly fell to the ground, weeping. "FATE! GIVE ME MY LIFE BACK!"
Dammit dammit DAMMIT!