I do not own Naruto, in any way shape or form.
Darius is, of course, mine.
Chapter 10 – Rebuilding and New hope
Hinata woke in the hospital. She turned her head to a sound that was next to her. She saw naruto sleeping in a chair between her and another patient. He twitched a bit as he slept and hinata shook the groggy feeling from her head and pulled her self up.... a heavy weight was holding her left leg down and focusing a bit more she saw a cast on her left leg. She remembered the fall from the giant frog and the calw.
"Ow!" came a male voice on the other side of the partition. Naruto snorted in his sleep.
"Be quiet darius, you will wake hinata chan..." said a groggy naruto. Hinata couldn't help but giggle from the interaction.
"Not yet hinata, i wan... hinata" naruto suddenly shot up, shaking the grogginess from his head.
"Hai, naruto" she said smiling. She was suddenly crushed in a hug.
"Im so glad you are awake hinata-chan."
Ino glanced from the other side of the partition and smiled.
"Darius, Hinatas awake." Ino said happily. Darius peered around the corner, his face had a big smile on it as he saw his friends hugging.
"Good morning hinata, im glad you are up... Ino, could you help me up?" darius asked.
Darius came around the corner, hobbling, his arms and legs bandaged, bracing against ino for support as he limped out of bed. But what brought her the most attention was that Darius had his medallion around his neck.
"Naruto, darius has his...." hianta said happily. Darius gave a weak smile and sat down.
"what happened with the invasion, did we win, is everyone ok, naruto?" hinata asked.
Naruto explained what happened. Hew had rushed in with hinata and got her medical attention for her leg. Thedoctos said it was a clean break and it would heal. Darius was brought in for severe blood loss and lacerations and chakra exhaustion. The casaulties were not bad but there had been a few deaths.
Most of the village sustained some damage, but it was fixable.
The sound ninjas were routed and the sand realizing it had been betrayed had called off the attack immediately. Gaara was in custody and word came that the Kazekage had been ambushed on his way to the borders of of kohona and killed by orochimaru. The saddest news came when naruto told hinata about sarutobi. Darius explained the attack, the death fot he sound 4 and sarutobi's sacrifice. His funeral was being held later that day.
"hizashi came by to see you, he said that he wants to talk to you hinata after the funeral." naruto said. He had remembered the visit and the look hizashi gave naruto. It was like neji only a hundred times worse.
"Did he say anything to you naruto?" hinata asked.
Naruto shook his head, "no, but i don;t think he likes me much." Darius rached over and patted his friend on the back.
"yo, whats not to like naruto. You have a strange effect on people, we can't help but call you our friend."
"anyway, i went and grabbed you a change of clothes hinata when you are ready. The leg is set and you don't require immediate medical attention for now. "Ino told her.
"yes we should go and pay our respects to the hokage" hianta said with saddness.
The funeral was solemn. The coffin was lowered into the ground and buried with an earth jutsu. Yuliges were given, by jiraya, and asuma. All in all everyone couldn't help but shed a tear for their fallen leader. Team 7, 8 and 10 left minus kakashi... he just could never show up to these types of memorials... too many past memories, too much pain.
Hinata returned home that night and found hizashi waiting on her.
"Please enter Hinata-san. I know you know the truth of what transpired. Neji has told me he has informed you." Hiashi said with no emotion in his voice.
"Hai and i am sad and happy. Happy that my father is back and sad that neji has lost his." She said to him.
"What is past can not be changed but we can not be openly father and daughter. While i do have the mark, you are still the heiress and that is all that matters hinata. I feel tho that you may not be strong enough to lead the clan but i see you are trying to improve. What intrigues me more is what has caused this change and i suspect that the uzamaki boy and the orphan darius are responsible for this change. I will remind you hinata that while you are the hyuuga heiress, you are not to engage in any dishonorable acts that would shame this clan." Hizashi said with a stern, fatherly overtone.
"Hizashi sama, i woul.... never dishonor the clan... Naruto is a good friend..." hianta said with a blush in her cheeks. He was a very good friend.... though she wanted it to be more.
Weeks passed and things began to return to some sense of normalcy. The teams weren't sent out on missions during this time, they spent most of it cleaning up after the attack, repairing buildings, demolishing others and clearing debris.
Jariaya looked over the city, observing the clearing of the debris. It was still inbeleivable what happened. Sarutobi, the attack... everything. The eldeers approached him after wards for the position of hokage. But that wasnt really him. He was still too focused on other things to commit to that. But he knew that he might be able to convince Tsunade to come. It would also be a chance to get to know naruto a bit more.
"I have been gone too long. I made a pormise to the kid that i would look after when ever i could and tho i have done my best "Jariaya added "I can't help but wonder that i may have let naruto down. Jariaya looked down at the city where the three worked. Planting trees in the park that were uprooted and fixing park benches.
The teams meet at the end of the day at their ususal spot, the barbecue and grill. Naruto of course complained that he wanted ramen but since his friends were here and having a good time, he decided he could live without ramen for tonight. Besides, it allowed him time to spend with hinata and darius.
The evening began to lengthen and everyone broke off to go home. Darius and Ino walked off, leaving Hianta and naruto together for the evening. Naruto walked her home only to be shocked when he found that he walked her back to the hyuuga estate. She explained that she had moved back in now that she knew the truth. She waned to make her father proud by being the best clan head she could be for him. But she always felt like she was just so weak....
"Good evening you two" Naruto looked to see jariaya sitting in a tree, seemingly waiting for him.
"yo ero sensei, what are you doing here" naruto asked in a relaxed manner
"Gah, how many times do I have to tell ya kid, dont call me that!"Jariaya said. "I got an assignment and I want you to come along with me."
Hinata looked down at the thought of naruto leaving, no matter for how long, she didn't like being away from him.
"Ah, no thnaks. I think ill pass. Besides konoha still needs the three of us in case there are any more missions, considering how short on people we are" Naruto told jariaya.
The kids got some good insight.
"Look kid, ill level with you ok. I want you to come with me. There's some things I need to show you and explain to you. The fourth wanted me to look after you more. And since I think I haven't done a great job of that. So ill teach you a technique that the fourth showed me. How about that" jariaya offered.
Naruto thought for a minute while jariaya waited. He glanced at the hinata, who was lost in thought, her face cast down. He thought about what hinata had told him about her father and her wanting to get stronger. And a smile crept across his face.
Jiraya observed the smile and then began to dread what was coming.
"Could you show us just what the technique is", naruto said, crossing his arms.
Jiraya pulled out his hand and began to flex his hand in a circular pattern and a small whirling ball of azure blue chakra formed in his hand. It danced in swirling patterns of light and glowed in the dark night, lighting up the area. Hinata looked amazed, it looked so beautiful to her. It reminded her of naruto's eyes.
"So, what ya think kid. We gonna set off the?" Jiraya said with a smile. He could see naruto was impressed.
"Yes sensei. I will agree that we are gonna set off. Cause your gonna take hianta with us too and teach her the same technique" naruto said with a sly smile on his face. Hinata shot up with a glance at the mention on naruto's plan. Out... alone … naruto.... One could see the waves of heat being generated by the poor young woman as she glowed red in the night
The sentence caused jiraya to loose his focus and the rasengan popped out of existance in his hand, causing it to jerk back with pain. The kid must be nuts.... still hes got guts.
"It is not.... unfavorable to me" a voice said. Hizashi stepped out form behind the gates of the estate. "As long as she is no burden, I will allow it." Hizashi said bowing low to his former sensei.
"Fa... Hizashi sama....." Hinata whispered.
"Hizashi sama. I will promise she will be well cared for. As much as I cared for your brother when he was my student." Jiraya looked down at hinata who was smiling happily. She gets a lot of that side from her mother but she definitely has her fathers tenacity to try.
"Gate 9 in the morning, don't be late you two" jiraya said to them and then headed off.
"Hinata, inside. It is late and you need your rest." Hizashi told hinata in a commanding voice. She bowed and went inside, the commanding voice did nothing to break the smiel she kept on her face.
Hizashi turned his gaze to naruto. "Do not bring Dishonor to the Hyuuga boy. I will instruct you that she is the heiress to this clan and as such, you will treat her as she should be treated, with the greatest respect and caring. If you hurt her, I will make sure that you will not live to see the next day." Hizashi said with conviction in his voice. The intent made naruto take a quick gulp for courage before he turned to head home.
Elsewhere, just outside of Kohona, Two figures were silhouetted against the stars and moon, embraced in a kiss promised a month before. A kiss that would change the course of a Legend.
The morning came and Naruto, Hinata and Jariaya meet at the gates of kohona. Kurenai waited for them, and rose as they approached. A glance between kurenai and jariaya and the Sannin nodded and she fell in next to them as the two students watched. The gates o fKohona were far behind them as they came to a camp site for the night.
"N-naruto.... why... why did you wa want me to... come?" Hinata asked. Looking over at naruto as he warmed himself by the fire.
"I made a promise that i intend to keep hinata, remember... i would protect you. To help that, i knew that if jiraya could teach me this technique, he could also teach you as well. Besides, i didnt want to spend this entire trip with ero sensei." Naruto said smiling at his friend.
Hianta blushed. He wanted to spend time with her.
"Ok kids, tonight im gonna show you this basics of the technique. This is the Rasengan, a technique that the Fourth Hokage created. This is pure spatial manipulation and there is no formal training process, no technique that can help you learn this faster." Jariaya said, handing each of them a water balloon. Naruto and hianta stared at the water ballon questioning just what they were for. "With just your chakra manipulation, try popping the water balloon. Thats the first step." Jiraya.
"Now the second reason you guys are out here. Kurenai and i were sent to find the canidate for the fifth hokage." Jiraya explained.
Naruto looked up from his effort to pop the water balloon. "hey, whats wrong with me.... i should be the fifth hokage ero sensei."
Jariaya sighed..."Kid, you got a long way to go but trust me the woman i have in mind is the perfect candidate. Shes one of the last remaining true senju and her grandfather was the first hokage. And she was my teamate. The third Sannin, Tsunade." Hinata was concentrating hard and suddenly her balloon burst. Naruto and Jiraya looked amazed. Kurenai looked like it was exactly what she expected to happen.
"Wow Hinata, thats incredible!" naruto exclaimed. Hinata looked down. Naruto had not even got his balloon to wiggle a bit. She wondered if he disliked her for completing the first part so quickly.
"I guess you already have great chakra control. Typical of a hyuuga heiress i must say." Jiraya said. He reached into his bag and handed hianta a rubber ball next. "The second step is to do the same to this. This step is all about power." Hinata took the ball and immediately began trying but found it much more difficult.
Naruto had the balloon almost pop quite a few times, it was only a matter of time before he could get his pop but hianta found the rubber ball more difficult to work with.
A few days past and they were still traveling on their way to the village jiaya expected to see tsunade. Hianta and hinata worked hard. Naruto had managed to pop his water balloon and they were working the rubber ball together. But the amount of chakra required was difficult. Both could make the ball bubble and ripple but required a lot of effort to do so. It was late before the two gennin finally collapsed from exhaustion.
The next morning naruto woke up with a great yawn and found he was against a tree. The morning was just dawning through the trees. He couldn't remember when the last time he got such a great night sleep. Trying to rise, he felt something pressed into his shoulder. Looking, he found black hair covering his shoulder and hinatas quiet breathing as she slept against him.
Suddenly he felt like he didnt want to get up, it felt nice to have her sleeping against him. Well, ero sensei would want to get started early naruto thought.
"Hey... hinata... hinata..." he gently tried rousing her from her sleep. She had a smile across her face and sighed. In hintas mind, she dreamed of naruto and her dancing on a cloud, lit by a cool autumn sun. He held her tight and made her feel so safe.
The gentle rousing woke her up with a sigh. "hmmm..." hianta moaned lightly and snuggled into her pillow..... she suddenly realized she didnt have a pillow..... then what was.... she looked at naruto who was suddenly inches from her face. Her face suddenly flushed and became red.
"N-n-n-na-aru---to?" she whispered.
"Morning i think we over worked our selves last night hinata" naruto told her and she merely nodded wide eyed. She had slept with naruto all night long. The thought caused her to be rather wousy and she suddenly began to black out before naruto caught her.
"Well, you got an interesting touch there kid" jiraya told him.
Kurenai chuckled a bit. Naruto just looked confused and concerned.
"Come on kid, we are almost to the village. Tsunade should be by here anytime" Jiraya said.
Naruto reached down and picked hinata up. She was much lighter than what she appeared. What was that smell he thought... flowers?
They reached the village after a few hours. Hianta woke up and appologized profusely before she insisted that she was fine to walk again. They each took their respective balla nd continued to concentrate, passing tips on what worked and what didnt. Both destroyed their rubber balls almost at the same time. Jariaya gave them water balls again and this time told them to make the water swirl but not destroy their balloons.
The village was small but there was a small gaming casino on one side of the town. Kurenai and jiraya watched as the villagers passed, the villagers seemed to be eyeing them or at least certain ones did. A few ran off before they could get a word edge wise.
A ways in, a small gang of thugs stopped them and demanded that they pay the town toll for passage through their town. It was a small fee but they ade a mistake, sayign that in leiu of payment, they would ignore it if they could have an hour with kurenai. Jiraya and kurenai smiled. Naruto and hinata were horrified when Kurneai agreed. They could still hear the screams as the men were tortured under kurenai's genjutsu mastery.
Inside the gaming casino they found her. A beautiful striking women. In for being in her 50's she had the image of being in her 20's. Tall, blonde hair much like naruto's. Her most striking feature to jirayas mind had always been her chest. 103 cm he thought and laughed at how the flat chested tsunade had become so well endowed.
"So, the mighty and legendary Tsunade, its been ages" Jiraya said as he slipped in across from her. A swift Senboun pressed to his throat reminded him that he forgot to say hi to tsuandes assistant. "Shizune, wow, you are sneaky arent you."
A Robed women in her late 20's appeared from the other booth and removed the needle to his throat. Bowing deeply, she stood next to her master. "master jiraya, always an honor. ."
"What brings you here Jiraya. Still hunting orochimaru and serving the old man?" Tsunade said scoffing and taking a sip from her sake cup. She hadn't been in konoha for a long time for good reason. She disliked the palce and the memories it invoked in her.
Jiraya frowned, "Sarutobi is dead Tsunade" She choked on her sake and then the painful memories of her master flooded her mind. The great Sarutobi. Goen the way of her borther, dan, the fourth.
"I told the old fool that he would only get himself killed."
"HEY! Don't disrespect the Old man like that! The Old man was a great man" naruto said.
"Baka! How did you get in here and what do you care. He was my sensei." Tsunade retorted.
"Baka!? Baa chan!" naruto retorted.
"Do i look old to you baka!
"But your in your 50's, you probably did that so no one could see your wrinkled skin. I beat you look like a baa chan if that genjutsu was stopped!" Naruto told her
Jiraya sighed and hinata tried to say something to naruto but nothing seemed to come out. Tsuande and naruto continued to argue and taunt one another. Verbal jabs. Pretty soon they both were stepping outside to settle their differences.
The humilating defeat naruto suffered was by far his worst. Beaten by an old woman in her 50's. With one finger no less.
"I won't stop, thats may nindo. Im gonna show you and everyone that i will be the greatest hokage ever! " He charged her and tried to form a rasengan. For an instant, the chakra molded itself and began to form the swirling sphere but it back fired on him and exploded sending him back and knocking him down.
"Pfft, you are teaching him that technique, you must be senile jiraya. A baka like him could never learn that jutsu." Tsunade said.
"Your wrong! Naruto can learn it, he never gives up and its his determination that will see him through!" Both Sannin were surprised when that came from the little hyuuga who stood helping naruto up.
"I will bet that he cant!"Tsunade said boastfully. "But i tell you what. I'll give him a week. If he can do it, then he can have this necklace" Tsunade pointed to the 1rst hokages necklace, worth more than an entire village.
"He will do it, i believe in him!" Hinata said with force. Her conviction in naruto written on the stern look she gave the sannin.
Naruto looked over at her and saw for the first time not his friend, but a believer in him. Some who had faith in him.
Hinata looked at the rubber ball she had and then at naruto. Focusing all her faith and conviction, the rubber ball exploded in a shower of rubber dust. Picking up he friend, she and naruto left to go and train perfecting the move.
Jariaya and Tsunade moved inside, sitting back at the booth they had left.
"Look Tsuande, i know you hate the place, but we need you. I can't commit to what the job needs. I'm needed in other places. But you, you are the granddaughter of senju tsunade. I know you. I know why you can't stand Kohona, that your heart doesn't want any more greif. But what would your brother or dan say right now Tsuande. they would want you to be happy tsunade, they would want to do what ever they could for the village. Please, give it some thought."
Tsunade was deep in thought. Orochimarus offer earlier that day resounded in her head. Still, she looked at naruto and she saw them in him. Why? She wanted them back more than she could bare but she knew orochimaru was no good for his word. Not to be trusted. Liar.
"Just don't consider his offer Tsunade." Jiraya told tsunade. The look of how crossed her face. "Because if you betray the leaf village, my friend or not. I WILL KILL YOU."
Naruto and hianta practiced out of the town. For 6 days they had practiced together and both showed the wear of working for so long and hard. Hinata had chakra burns in both hands but neither wanted to quit. The area around them was littered with small craters in stone, crushed trees, craters in the ground. Once more they tried, once more they formed the swirling sphere and once more they charged a rock. The collision ate at the stone but back fired again.
Shizune found them slumped against a rock. Hinata was definitely suffering from chakra exhaustion. Her limit was reached and it was amazing that she had stayed out for so long. Her hair was matted with sweat, twisted in tangles, cuts bruises and laceration from splinters and rock shards. Naruto hadn' stopped, but he was nearing the point of exhaustion. One final attempt against a tree sent him flying back.
"Can't give up... "He muttered, passing out next to his friend.
Hinata and Naruto had a strange dream that night. An enemy they couldn't beat, neither her or naruto. It was a brutal creature and mocked them, endless darkness despair. Dark eyes, darker than the darkness peered out at them. It mocked her and called her weak and useless. It told him he was a failure and had no power to protect those he loved. Their courage ebbed, it was unbeatable. Suddenly light shown through the darkness, another set of eyes, strong, radiant, like two stars Exploding with light. Seperate, you can be conquered it told them. Together, you will not fail. And in the dream, they both looked at each other, slowly putting their hands in each others Hand in hand they tried again and it shone through the darkness, radiant light, the ball was not blue, it was silver and blue in their hands. The Darkness cried in defeat as the light drove it away.
They awoke with the same start. Stared at one another for moments. They joined their hands and tried together to form the ball again. The sphere began to form, storms of chakra swirlign in their joined hand. And the sphere formed and they marveled. Brillant, azure blue and silver as in the dream.
"Seperate we can be conquered", naruto muttered.
"Together we will not fail" Hianta finished.
"Remember these words" a voice said and faded into the dawn as the sun broke over the horizon.
Elesewhere
She stared at the man before her, no longer her friend, no longer her teammate, no longer her comrade. Twisted and sick. He had become everything that they fought against and down right evil. She wondered where it all went wrong. A time long ago when they were a team, when they fought for a common cause. Now, each was no longer the same. Each had taken a different path. Jiraya trying to redeem his friend, orochimaru descent into madness and her apathy towards everything the world had thrown at her.
"So, will you heal my arms then Tsunade? You can see your loved ones again. I know how much you want to hold them again tsunade hime" Orochimaru told her. He sized the situation up and knew her weakness. Her fear and her longing for her loved ones restored. She could not refuse him.
Shizune and jiraya arose and immediately felt it. Kurenai had no strength to move. What ever tsunade had given them, effected kurenai more than the others. Tsunade did not want them to interfere. She was going to accept his offer they thought.
Naruto and hinata had walked in, their exhaustion and fatigue gone and their spirits renewed. Their astonishment at the sight before them showed their worst fear. Jiraya stumbled out of his room and shizune was in no better condition.
"Tsuande, Hianta, find tsunade!" Jiraya told her as he panted.
Byakugan!
And she concentrated while naruto helped his sensei up to a seat. Shizune pulled out two vials of a strange blue liquid and injected both jiraya and herself. The numbing drug faded but did not vanish. It would take much longer for the drugs to be expelled.
"There i see her and orochimaru" Hianta told them.
They dashed out of the Inn and made their way as fast as they could towards. Tsunade. Jiraya couldn't help but wonder why? Orochimaru could have made only one offer she would consider. Jiraya frowned. He hated that snake bastard for everything he did to him, to her. And now he was playing an emotional card that struck a nerve in him.
An earth shuttering explosion resounded around them followed by the sounds of battle. Hinata was concentrating and she saw what was transpiring before the others. Tsunades words before the fight, making orochimaru promise to not harm the village for doing this. Her attempt to kill orochimaru with a medical technique. Kabutos interruption a second later and the battle had begun with a display of tsunades legendary super strength.
Tsuande surmized that kabuto had skills as a med nin. She hit im once and it should have been enough to put him down. And he was using skills she developed, instant super strength and speed tho not as finely developed as hers.
Kabuto sized his opponent for a moment. Even in her 50's and out of her prime, she was a monster to fight. Truly one of the sannin. He thought about a course of action to take as they strared one another down. Adjusting his glasses for a moment, he formed blue chakra around his hands and leapt at his opponent. Tsunade easily dodged the blows physical contact but a block with her right arm sent pain shooting through her body. Using the distraction to his advantage, Kabuto quickly struck her leg, dropping Tsunade to one knee.
"Chakra scapels??? you damaged my muscles?" she surmized.
Kabuto smiled evilly. Even the sannin couldn't move if her muscles were damaged. He had won the fight. He readied and flung a chakra charged fist at her, only for her to catch him with a full on super strength infused punch to the gut. Kabuto sailed 20 feet and bounced on the ground, before he bounded to his fight at faced his opponent.
"Ah, I see you healed the damage I caused. My, you are worthy of the title Sannin aren't you". Kabuto told her.
"Please Kabuto, stop playing with Hime there." Orochimaru told kabuto.
He charged again, zipping in an dout of her punches and kicks. A chakra scapel passed close barely cutting tsunades skin a bit when she swept his legs out form under him. Hitting the ground, she drove her knee into his solar plexus. Kabuto acted fast. Slcing his hand open he used the one fear she had agaisnt her and threw blood all ove rher face.
Tsuande gasped and trembled as she fell to her knees. The blood was everywhere and her vision was loosing its focus. Kabuto kicked her off of him and she landed hard agaisnt a boulder.
"my my that hemophilia is dreadful isn't it" orochimaru taunted to her. "I was quite serious about what I told you tsunade hime. I would have brought back your two loved ones for you. But now, you ARE just going to have to die... pity. Kukuku"
Kabuto moved in and grabbed tsunade by the hair and raised a chakra scapel up. Tsunade batted the hand away but kabuto kicked her in the stomach a few times.
"Your finished, just accept it!" Kabuto said.
Fuuton: Gale Blast!
Kabuto flew back several yards tumbling and writing himself in the air to land on his feet
Duuiton: Swamp of the Earth!!
A dark, swampy earth appeared underneath orochimaru and kabuto. A quick leap back and orochiamru and kabuto just managed to clear the swamp trap.
Hinata, shizune and naruto landed next to tsunade. Jiraya landed facing off with orochimaru and kabuto. Orochimaru just smiled his sadistic smile. Kabuto eyed the toad sage with particularly with anxiousness. He then smirked as he saw jiraya was not at his top form and surmised why. He was poisoned.
"Kabuto, shall we greet our guests properly?" Orochimaru said.
Naruto took a defensive stance. Kabuto and orochimaru. They were trying to hurt tsunade. They were going to pay. For Darius, He would make them pay. Hianta saw them and she knew what she wanted. Orochimaru had hurt naruto and Darius. Jiraya saw the kids and their conviction, taking a deadly stance to face off against orochimaru.
"Naruto and hianta, help tsunade. Shizune and i will deal with these two." Jiraya told them and the two gennins looked at jiraya with a pleading look. "Trust me guys, you arent ready"
Kabuto attacked first, leaping at shizune. He threw scapels as he leapt around while shizune dodged and spit needles out at Kabuto. Shizune went through a quick set of seals and exhauled a poisonous cloud of gas. Kabuto quickly gathered his thoughts and barely maanged being envolped byt the poisonous jutsu. Seeing he was out ranged by the needles and her poison jutsu, kabuto switched to a close range attack, diving into shizunes she was skilled as an apprentice to tsunade, she was not skilled enough. The chkara scapels cut her left and right leg tendons before Kabuto hit the pressure point on the back just below the neck, instantly paralyzing shizune.
Orochimaru and Jiraya immediately began attacking one another. Orochimaru and jiraya were both good at taijutsu and jirayas toad fu, tho greatly weakened, porved a good match vs. orochimarus snake style. Neither struck a below and orochimaru unhinged his neck and lunged at jiraya with deadly speed.
Wild Lions Mane!
Jirayas hari grew long and prickly and caught orochimaru fast, with spines and quills. Orochimaru manged to hit jirays shoulder tho and jiraya had to quickly disengage from the pain.
"my,my jiraya, all this time and im still better than you even when we are handicapped... you will be a fittign morsel for manda. That poison is a paralytic poison. It wont kill you, tho after im through here, you may beg me to kill you... just like sarutobi...kukuku" Orochimaru said evilly.
Kabuto through shizune down and naruto and hianta took up their fighting stances in front of Tsuande.
"The hell you are going to hurt Baa-shan." Naruto boasted. Hianta was silent but her stern face told kabuto that she would not be moved.
Kage bushin no Jutsu! Hianta and Naruto said.
A dozen narutos and a single hinata ran in. Kabuto was surprised, it was a new tactic he hadn;t counted on but he was skilled. Narutos clones puffed out of existance one byu one but hianta's held up well. Kabuto was throguhly impressed. He had managed to avoid a majority of the damage from the attacks but every now and then the disraction from narutos clones allowed the hinata to strike a tenken point, jutting down his chakra.
Kabuto dispersed the last clone and tagged the hinata clone with a chakra scapel, causeing it to disperse. He turned to face the two children when he heard the noice. Tsuande looked up in front of her as she saw it. The swirling chakra began to form in narutos and hinatas hands that were joined together. Orochimaru and jiraya watched with true shock as the sphere formed in their hands and was not blue but silver and blue.
Rasengan Combination!
Kabuto had no time as the two slammed the swirling ball of chakra into kabutos stomach. The swirling ball exploded with power and engulfed the medic nin , chewing its way through the ground and rock until it exploded like a little nova. Hioanta and naruto hit the ground, panting from the exhaustion, not realizing their hands were still clasped together. Kabuto lay against a rock, chakra burns all over his body.
Naruto dusddenly coughed up blood and collapsed to his knees, grasping his chest. Kabuto, laughed from where he lay. He had cut several artieries in narutos heart and the chakra points that connected it to the seal. Kyuubbi couldnt heal this.
"NO, Naruto...please , you can't die....you have to live... darius... your dream for hokage... i need you too.." Hianta broke down and cried. Tsunade souddnely saw it all. Sh wanted to believe in him, the irritating baka. Hinata saw it, jiraya saw it,... he believed like they did. She didnt want hinata to suffer her pain with dan. She was wanted, and needed.
Tsuande moved over to him and began to heal naruto. Kabuto laughed. The fools thoguth he was down. His regeneration....no!!!! He collapsed again... too much damage.... cant heal it all... he coughed up blood. Those kids... defeatesd him....
Interesting move tsuande but futile, i think ill just end his little love interest right now. Orochimaru stated and the kusanagi came spitting out of his mouth. He dove at hinata who only watched in terror as orochimaru came diving down at her and a spray of blood hit hinata. Tsuande stood between her and orochimaru, and he saw the determined look in her eyes.
"NO, not any more orochimaru. I let despair take a hold of me and hold me its prisoner. But these two showed me what i should be." Tsuande said pulling the sword out of her body. The sword wound bleed profusely but tsunade smirked. "Hinata, naruto, thank you. You showed me the road that i should take. Hear this Orochiamaru, you snake Freak! Im going to protect my friends, those that i love, everyone that needs me. Because im going back tot he hidden leaf... as the 5th Hokage!
Cellular regeneration!!!
The mark on her forehead disappeared and she healed all her wounds almost instantly.
Orochimaru was taken back.. jiraya may be disabled but tsunade was at her full strength and kabuto was near dying. And he had No way to do jutsu. Well, well, he still had another avenue to take to get his arms back.
"Futile Tsuande hime, but we will meet again. And i will burn that accursed village to the ground..." Orochimaru promised. "I have very powerful allies besides just manda..kukukuku..." The air around them became deathly cold, and darkness bloated out the clouds. Two eyes of a black darker than night opened and and the very souls of the two sannins froze with fear.
The darkness disappeared and the snake sannin and his cohort were gone. Jiraya moved over to where shizune was and helped her up. Tsuande continued to use her jutsu to heal naruto who looked peaceful as he slept. Hinata was deathly worried, her face was paler than normal.
"Will he be ok tsuande sama?" Hinata asked woriedly. Her eyes were begging for a miracle. She didnt want to loose him.
Tsuande smiled softly, "He will be alright" Tsuande said. Naruto weakly opened his eyes, looking up at tsuande and hianta over him. The pendant hung freely in front of him. Hinata had a loo of releif on her face. Naruto smiled.
"Guess this is mine now huh...Baachan" he said looking at her.
Tsuande smiled and took of her pendant. She placed it over his head on on his neck. She wanted to believe in his dream, just one more time. She gave him a kiss on the forehead. "i think i should have stipulated the rules a bit better but i think you are gonna be one heck of a hokage one day baka."