AN: Hello again. As I promised this is a longer Chapter than the past ones.
And for all of you here is the long awaited "real" entrance of Hinata.
Enjoy
Chapter 9: The trainings effects
*** Konoha Hokage place***
Tsunade was sitting in her room and looked through the recording of her younger Shinobi. She took out a sheet and began to read and whispered.
"
Hyuga Hinata.
Age: 16
Rank: Chuunin
Abilities: Strong in close and mid range battle. Excellent Taijutsu and Ninjutsu abilities. Special abilities: Byakugan.
Team: non at the moment.
Accomplished missions. 12 D-rank, 8 C-rank, 20 B-rank, 15 A-rank, 3 S-rank."
Mission Success rate: 95%
Tsunade looked at the picture of Hinata in the record sheet which was still the picture of her as she came out of the academy. She got a sad expression as she looked at it and felt deep in thought. The suddenly a knock woke her up and her face changed to a serious expression again and she said.
"Come in." The door opened and a young girl entered the room closing the door behind her.
Her long blue hair was bound into a ponytail and two long streaks hang down her cheeks almost onto her shoulder. She clothed herself in a sleeveless one-piece black-colored dress with a purple banded sash bound around her hips on which her forehead protector was held also. The dress as a whole from the waist up seemed like it should be hard for her to breathe. Even though she was covered, it left very little to the imagination and accentuates her curves. It ended several inches above her knee and was split up to her waist on each side revealing tight black fishnet-shorts which covered half her tights. Her hands were covered with long finger-less gloves and they reached all over her forearms. A pair of long leather boots with small heels covered her feet almost to her knees. She looked emotionless at the fifth but her eyes were full of coldness as always.
Tsunade scrutinize her closely and asked herself what happened to the cute and shy girl she met three years ago.
"You called for me Hokage-sama." The girl said with an annoyed voice.
"First of all you should watch your voice. I told you that before." The old woman said loud with anger in her voice.
Hinata looked at her and remained silent. Tsunade calmed down a little and began to speak.
"Well … since your old team was dispended you hadn't received any missions yet. So I decided you will join the observation force of the Anbu. You will report there immediately and receive your orders." Hinata nodded and Tsunade continued.
"I managed to team you up with your old teammate Shino because you did right well with him." But Hinata showed no reaction and still looked at the blond Hokage which seemed really pissed off by that.
"Dismissed." She said and Hinata turned around and walked to the door.
On half the way Tsunade called her back and she stopped without turning around.
"Hinata. If you want to speak about something, you know you can visit me anytime." She said with a little worried voice.
Hinata just nodded and left the room. Tsunade's face instantly changed back to sadness after the door closed and she whispered.
"What happened my dear?"
***Hell's Keep***
Jiraiya and Chyoko were sitting on a wooden bench watching the two boys while Sakura took care of the breakfast. And Kakashi was on a rock near Naruto's and Sasuke's training ground reading his orange book. Sasuke already managed to move about forty meters with the marmot stones while Naruto didn't even manage to move them at all.
Sasuke pulled the stones one after another like he tried to punch somebody. It was very hard for him and he was almost exhausted after he did it for the last thirty minutes.
"This is ridiculous. This is no training, this is torture." Sasuke thought and looked back to Naruto who was still trying to move the stones.
"Hmm … at least I do better than that moron."
Naruto tried to pull the stones after him but hadn't any success with it.
"ARGH … stupid stones. How should I possibly do this without breakfast? I'm starving." He mumbled and began to move his feet's so fast and began running on the spot.
But with this he raised the dust and throwing it at Kakashi who was sitting right behind him.
"Naruto, would you please stop that?" he said annoyed. Naruto stopped and began to breath heavily.
Chyoko watched him and a drop ran down her head. "He isn't the smartest ninja, is he?" Jiraiya sighed heavily and just spitted out a short "Nope."
After a few moments Chyoko stood up and screamed. "Stop your actions and come her."
The two boys stopped and Naruto yelled. "And how we're supposed to do that? These damn ropes won't get of."
Chyoko got angry and yelled back. "If you would use your brain a little then you might notice that if you pull your chakra out of your fingers the ropes will let go."
Both boys looked surprised at their fingers and pulled out the chakra and the loops stretched like she said. They took the ropes of and went to Chyoko.
"First we're having breakfast and then I will tell you what you're doing wrong."
After they consumed their meal Chyoko began to explain the training.
"Well … What did you notice while you were pulling or in Naruto's case trying to pull the stones."
Naruto was about to say something but before he had the chance Chyoko said to him with an angry voice and an even angrier look. "And if you want to say that they're heavy I will hurt you so badly that your scream will be heard at all five Kage's office." And with that Naruto kept silent.
Then Sasuke began to speak. "It uses up way to much energy to pull them like this."
"That's because you don't use your chakra." She answered.
"Our chakra?" Naruto asked and didn't have any clue what Chyoko meant. Sasuke thought about it and suddenly recognized what she meant.
"You have to use your chakra to increase your power in the same way you use your chakra to increase your speed."
And even Naruto got what she meant. "Oh. I see." He said
But Chyoko instantly replied with a annoyed face "I doubt that."
Naruto jumped suddenly up and yelled at her "WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN. I'M NOT DUMB YOU RED HAIRED WITCH."
But she remained calm and just said "Then show me like he does." and pointed over to Sasuke who already continued the training and moved the stones easier then before.
"WHAT?" he screamed out surprised and ran to his stones. "I'll show it to all of you, believe it." He said as he put his fingers into the loops and began to move the stones and to everyone's surprise he managed to move them like Sasuke did.
Chyoko began to smile and said. "He's eager. I give him that."
*** Konoha: Hyuga Compound***
Hinata was in her room preparing to enter the observation force. She left the door of her room open and a young Hyuga girl watched her packing with a depressed face. It was her little sister Hanabi and she looked exactly like Hinata as she was twelve years old except for the long hair. Hanabi was worried about her sister ever since Hinata had changed. She didn't know what happened and she was very worried about her and sometimes she was also scared of her.
"What do you want?" Hinata asked roughly.
She had noticed Hanabi since she began to watch her and was very upset about it.
"I … I want you to ask where you're going sister." Hanabi asked her with a shy and scared voice.
"I have a mission." She said with a cold and angry voice as she finished her packing.
"I see." A deep man voice suddenly said. Hanabi froze instantly as she recognized her father was standing right behind her.
"Hinata. Before you leave I have to talk to you." He said with a calm voice.
"I've not much time." Hinata said and opened her backpack again and checked if she didn't forget something.
She did that probably to avoid looking at him for some reason and he felt that but he continued.
"Hinata, the council has decided that you're old enough to get married." Hinata suddenly stopped acting for a second but she immediately continued checking her backpack without any saying.
"Don't you want to say something, Hinata?" he asked and she immediately replied.
"There's nothing to say. If the council made a decision then so it will be." She said cold causing her little sister to tremble frightened.
"Well then you will accept it?" he asked but didn't get any reaction of her.
His face changed to a sad expression and he continued.
"Well then … the arrangements will be set while you're on your mission." Hinata finally closed her back pack again and put it on her shoulder.
She turned around and began to move to the door and just said "Whatever."
She passed the two of them and headed for the exit. Hanabi looked sad and scared at her leaving sister and Hiashi put his hand on her shoulder while he also watched his leaving daughter with a very worried face.
Hinata left the compound fast and headed for the Anbu headquarters and as the compound was out of sight she slowed down. Her head was lowered and she stared to the ground deep in thought as she suddenly noticed somebody who watched her. She looked up and saw Neji who was leaning against the wall of a building looking at her with an angry face.
She got angry and began to speak with a hateful voice. "What do you want?"
"I think the question is: What do you want?" he answered calm.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm talking about the marriage. Do you really want to get married?" he asked her seriously.
"If the council think it's best then it's fine with me." she said and passed him but she immediately stopped as he replied.
"Liar! You're upset. I can tell." He answered and her face changed to a sad expression for a moment but then it immediately changed back angry as she said.
"When the council has decided there's nothing you can do about it."
He stood up from the wall immediately and screamed at her angry. "Don't play stupid. It's impossible to change the council's decision for a branch member but not for the heir of the clan."
After a few moments she said with a sad voice. "It's the best for the clan."
Neji looked at her stunned and she began to walk away. He was shocked about her answer and stared at her as she slowly walked out of sight.
***Hell's Keep***
It was already noon and the boys were still pulling the stones through the area. The both already managed to pull them the first time around Chyoko's house and headed on. Sasuke was still in front but Naruto cached up very close to him. Sasuke was still pulling the stones one after another in a way as he was about to punch somebody. Naruto did the same but he felt already so exhausted that he was nearly to a breakdown.
"Come on. I have to do this. I can't give up now." He mumbled as he pulled the right stone as far as he could and then he tried the same with the left stone.
But he only managed to pull it half the way until he fell down on his knees with exhaustion breathing heavily. He looked at Sasuke who still pulled the stones and it looked so easily. "How does he do it?" Naruto thought and was about to stand up again as Chyoko suddenly screamed.
"Okay boys. Take a break and get over here and eat something." As Sasuke heard that he also fell down on his knees with exhaustion.
After they took their meal and drank some water Sasuke was about to get back to work but Chyoko stopped him.
"Rest for at least an hour before you continue." She said but Sasuke replied immediately.
"I don't want to waste time with resting." As he tried to stand up he immediately felt all his body was powerless and he fell back on his butt.
"HEHE … Can't move can you, Huh?" Chyoko laughed and Sasuke yelled at her.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME YOU OLD BAG?" receiving a stone breaking hit at his head.
"I didn't do anything. You are just exhausted that's all. You should do the same as your friend here." She said pointing at the sleeping Naruto who lied at the ground with his arms and legs stretched.
Sasuke got angry and fold his arms offended. "He's not my friend."
Chyoko just laughed and the next hour past fast.
"Okay boy's. Continue with your training." Chyoko said and Naruto woke up with a sleepy face as he mumbled as he rubbed his eyes.
"Break's already over?"
Sasuke who was just sitting the whole time stood up immediately and went back to his stones. Chyoko looked at him a little worried.
"I hope he had recovered enough." She thought and then looked at Naruto who just took a big sip of water before he jumped up and said with a big smile and an ambitioned face
"Then lest get started." He ran over to his stones and Chyoko got a smile and wondered. "This guy is something else."
Naruto putted his fingers into the loops and mold chakra into them. After the loops tightened he clenched his fists and began to pull the stones and he was surprised because it was much easier than before.
"Hey? I gut used to it. HEHE. Now I'll show you Sasuke." He thought but he stopped as he looked at Sasuke who seemed to have much more problems.
It was much harder for him than before and he couldn't understand why. He still tried to pull the stone again but he ended up exhausted on his knees. He breathed heavily and sweat dropped down his head and he felt as he would have just run two marathons.
"What's wrong with me? Why can't I move the stones anymore?" he thought and then recognized two legs standing right next to him.
"I told you that you should have rest." Chyoko told the Uchiha boy.
"What would that make a difference?" he asked and Chyoko just moved her head to Naruto who already started to pull the stones and it was obviously that it was much easier for him.
"What the hell?" Sasuke said with widened eyes as he saw his rival catching up to him. Naruto pulled the stones until he cached up with Sasuke and ask him worried.
"Are you alright?"
"Of course I am you fool." He shouted angry at the blonde making him look stunned.
"No you're not." Chyoko said and both boys looked questioningly at the red haired woman.
"Let me explain how this whole thing works. This area is filled with spiritual energy caused from the spirits. This energy effects your body directly and causing a faster exhaustion. But on the other hand it increases your training success as well."
"HUH?" both sighed questioningly.
Chyoko began to smile and said "Let me show you."
She walked to the nearby rocks and lifted up on of the stones who was bigger then her upper body. Jiraiya, Kakashi and Sakura also watched the scene and except for Jiraiya the other two's were anxious about what she was up to.
"Catch!" Chyoko shouted and throw the stone right at the boys.
"WHATCH OUT!" Sakura screamed in fear as she saw that and Naruto was stunned looking at the giant stone who was about to crush him and he couldn't move. Sasuke was also shocked but instinctively he jumped up and hit the stoned. With a loud noise the Stone shattered into pieces and except for Jiraiya and Chyoko all present looked shocked at Sasuke. He was so perplexed about what he just did that he couldn't even move a bit.
Chyoko slowly walked back to the boys and began to say "Like I said: This area increases you trainings success."
The boys looked stunned at the red haired woman and both thought what the heck was going on.
"To say it in numbers: One hour of training here is as if you trained a whole week at any other place."
With big eyes the boys looked at her and didn't believe what she just said.
"And the same goes for your recover. Naruto did the right thing and slept for and hour so his body could regenerate. You should have done the same but you don't listen to me."
Sasuke looked at his hands and began to grumble about himself. Then suddenly Chyoko took his hands and removed the loops from his fingers and said.
"So now you're going to take a nap while you Naruto will continue training." Naruto nodded and Sasuke followed Chyoko to the place their where eating their lunch.
He sat down and looked at Naruto who disappeared behind Chyoko's house. He thought about Chyoko's words and was about to lie back as he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Are you alright Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked him worried.
"I'm fine." he said and roughly moved her hand from his shoulder and lay back to take his nap. Sakura looked at him with sad eyes and was hurt by his rough action. She turned away from him and began to fall deep in thought.
The day pasted and the dawn already broke in as Sakura and Chyoko were making the dinner ready. Naruto and Sasuke were still training but this time Sasuke was behind Naruto and tried to catch up to him but they had the same speed.
Then suddenly Chyoko screamed "Dinner is ready."
And Naruto stopped and began to remove the loops from his fingers. He turned around and saw Sasuke still continuing the training.
"Hey! Don't you want to eat?" he asked and Sasuke just said while he still pulled the stones.
"I have to make up the lost hour first." Naruto smiled at the passing Uchiha and then walked to the others to take dinner.
One and a half hour past and Sasuke also had finished dinner and the group was sitting around the campfire. It was the same picture as last night: Chyoko and Jiraiya sat there drinking sake while Kakashi was reading his book on the on side while the younger Shinobi sat quiet on the other side and stared into the campfire deep in thought.
"So? What do you say about your new apprentices?" Jiraiya asked the red haired women.
The three younger Shinobi looked up from the campfire waiting anxious of her answer. She looked at the two boys and began to speak with a serious voice.
"It's still too soon to say anything about their progress. But I have to say that I already have trained much more talented Shinobi."
Naruto look disappointed back into the campfire and Sasuke stood up and walked away offended. Sakura watched the Uchiha boy and was sad and she wanted to cheer him up. Even though he was very rough to her she still cared about him because she was still in love with him. She stood up and followed her love to the near forest.
As Naruto saw Sakura following him he spoke surprised and a little sad "Sakura-chan."
"Don't worry about them. It's about time that they begin to talk." Chyoko said to the blond boy and he was very surprised about the fact that she seemed to know about the two of them.
"How do you …" He stumbled and looked questioningly at the woman.
"It's obviously that she loves him." The red haired woman said and Naruto began look down at the ground with a sad expression as he was worried about his teammates and especially about Sakura.
Sakura looked at the sitting Uchiha standing a few meters away from him for nearly a minute before she decide to set right next to him. She did so but the Uchiha boy didn't even react or look at her. He just stared into the deep forest and Sakura looked at him for a while with a sad face. Then she also looked into the forest and began to think about what to do or to say. She really wanted to propose to him but she was afraid to be rejected. The fact that he is back didn't make her feel any better since he attacked Naruto in the hospital.
Sasuke was aware of her presents but ignored her. He was too pissed off because of Chyoko's last comment and also over the fact that he messed up the training today. Even thought he cached up to Naruto he was really pissed by the fact that they were still even and his proud was hurt. Then he began to think about Sakura and was a little annoyed about her presents. He couldn't tell if it was the fact that she was just around him or the fact that she saw that he messed up and it made him angry though he couldn't understand why he even care.
"Why are you following me?" he asked the pink haired girl with a cold voice and she suddenly froze.
"Don't you have something better to do?" he asked her again and she just mumbled an afraid
"Sasuke-kun!" and then she looked sad to the ground and pulled her self together. "I am worried about you." He looked questioningly at her as she continued. "I watched you since you came back and you act so cold and you're eyes are so full of hate. And … I …"
His face turned angry and he got a little louder. "You are such a pest. Quit following and staring at me the whole time!"
The pink haired girl looked scared at the angry Uchiha.
"I didn't come back to Konoha; I was forced to. And stop looking at me with these sad eyes of yours. You're pissing me off."
Sakura's eyes widened as a painfully feeling ran through her body while her eyes filled with tears and began to tremble. This made the Uchiha even angrier and he couldn't control his next words anymore.
"Didn't you listen to me you bitch? Quit staring at me like that."
Then suddenly a loud smack echoed through the whole area and all present looked at the pink haired girl which just smacked the Uchiha boy.
"You're such an asshole … I … HATE YOU!" she yelled at him and ran crying into her tent.
Then the others looked at Sasuke who still was sitting there holding his cheek.
The next two days passed without any special events. The boys trained with the stones all day since yesterday afternoon they pulled them with ease around the house. The only thing that had changed in the meantime was that Sakura didn't even look at Sasuke anymore and she began to take care of Naruto more and more.
She asked him how he feels and took care of little scratches and they also talked about what happened in the past 3 years they were separated. Sakura seemed to enjoy taking care of Naruto but he knew that something was wrong. It was not so that he didn't enjoyed the time with Sakura but deep down he could tell that her behavior was just because of Sasuke.
The past two days the Uchiha boy couldn't really concentrate of anything because was thought about the smack Sakura gave him and regret what he said to her. He didn't know why he suddenly began to think of Sakura the whole time but he was pissed as he saw the pink haired girls talking and taking care of Naruto made him angry and sad at the same time. But he didn't say or show anything because he wasn't really sure what suddenly got into him.
In the morning of the third day they boys were confused as Chyoko said to them that they will first eat breakfast before the training will continue. They sat together in the grass and took their meal and Sasuke looked over to Sakura every few seconds. "What's wrong with me? Why so I have to look over to her all the time." He asked himself and suddenly remembered the smack she gave him which he could still feel on his cheek.
Then he began to think about how rude he was to her and he felt sorry for that because he didn't want to but his anger had overwhelmed him. "Do you want another rice cake Naruto?" Sakura asked the blonde boy with a smile. "Sure. Thank you Sakura." He answered and the Uchiha boy began to get angry again which he also couldn't understand. "Why am I so angry about the two of them?"
After they finished breakfast the boys stood up and were about to continue their train but Chyoko stopped them by asking.
"Where are you going?"
"We're continuing the training. What else do you think." The Uchiha answered and the red haired woman stood up and gave them a sign to follow her.
The boys looked puzzled at each other but followed her. They walked about 20 meters away from their breakfast place where two equal soccer ball round stones where placed. She stopped between the stones and turned around. She looked at the two boys and began to explain.
"First of all you did very well. You finished the first part of the training."
"We did?" the blonde asked surprised and she nodded while the Uchiha boy looked annoyed at her.
"And what was the meaning of this training?" She looked at him and began to smirk.
"You didn't recognize anything, did you?"
"The only thing that changed is that our muscles grew but there is nothing more." The raven haired boy answered.
"Well then I will show you what changed. Naruto, please make alternately a few sit ups and push ups and you Sasuke watch him carefully with your Sharingan." She said and the boys looked puzzled but then began.
The Uchiha activated his Sharingan and watched Naruto making alternately sit and push ups.
"This ... is … unbelievable." Sasuke stuttered with wide eyes as he watched at his blonde team mate. Naruto stopped and looked puzzled at the Uchiha.
"So Naruto tell me what you just did." He looked at her with an annoyed face and said.
"I did alternately sit and push ups as you told me."
"Did you use your Chakra?" she asked and he shook his head and then the red head looked at Sasuke.
"And what did you see?"
"His chakra moved through his body and concentrated at the muscles which were used for the sit and push ups." The raven haired boy answered and Naruto asked impatient.
"What is this all about anyway?"
Chyoko began to sigh because she hoped that the boys would realize it by themselves but she had to explain this.
"The training with the marmot stones is not only to build up your muscles but also to automate your Chakra flow when you're using your muscles."
After a few moments of silence Sasuke began to say. "But to automate the chakra flow to a continuously training over mere months is needed."
"And that's the point while you're only able to accomplish it in this area." She answered and to all surprise Naruto said.
"And we were training for almost nine month, right?" Sasuke and Chyoko looked surprised at the blond ninja because they didn't believe that he had understood it so quickly.
"That's right Naruto. I'm impressed."
The Uchiha's head lowered a little and anger came up in him but he was suddenly interrupted by Chyoko.
"Well then let's start with the next training. Before I explain what you have to do next I will show you."
The red head stretched both her arms right to the ground and held them over the two stones while her body was still upright. Then suddenly the stones jumped up from the ground and Chyoko cached them. Both boys were stunned after this demonstration and couldn't even say a word.
"Impressive, isn't it?" she said and let both stones fall down to the ground again.
"Then let me explain what I did. First I collected chakra inside my hands and pulled the collected amount out in one shot." She said and stretched her right arm again and pushed the chakra out of it and the boy's could see the grass was pressed down by the chakra as if the wind would have blown from above.
"Like this. But I didn't let loose of the chakra and pulled it back immediately after it reached the stone." And again she collected chakra in her hand and pushed it out and the grass was pressed down again.
But a moment later the grass moved straight up as if something would pull it out and the stone began to jump up again right into Chyoko's hand who cached him.
"You see? This is your next objective." She said and let the stone falling down again.
"But what is this training for?" Naruto asked the red head and she smiled.
"Give me one of your kunai's." she said and Naruto pulled one out from his pocket and gave it to her. She threw it down and it drilled half the way into the ground. And then she just stretched her arm and the kunai jumped into her hand.
"Wow. I get it." Naruto said enthusiastic while Sasuke moved to one of the stones and lifted it up … or better said he tried at first.
He realized that the stones are weighting almost the half of the marmot stones.
"Why do we have to train with these? Wouldn't it be better to start with a kunai?" the raven haired boy asked.
"Normally yes, but you shouldn't forget about the aura of Hell's Keep. Your trainings success is increased here. And it shortens the time in which you're accomplishing such things. So to shorten the time you should start right at the highest difficulty. I promise you master this in about two days." She answered him and the Uchiha nodded but then the suddenly looked at Naruto who already started to train.
After a few seconds Sasuke also started and Chyoko looked at them for a moment with a smile before she turned around and headed back to the others.
Meanwhile in the forest outside of the Hell's keep area a Shinobi sat on a tree and meditating. His black long hair reached down over his shoulders and covered almost the half of his pale face. He wore the same cloak like Ryo and Tora and on his hips there was also the hilt of a sword. He meditated and concentrate onto a special person and he whispered "Ryo!".
***unknown Hideout"
Ryo was sitting on something what could be described like a throne. It was made of big bones and was totally out of symmetry and looked very uncomfortable. In the big slightly enlightened room there were about ten other people which also wore the same black cloak as he did. The attention of all present was right at the one who stood nearly in the middle of the room with an annoying smile on his face. His blonde hair was bounded together to a short ponytail and a big strain covered the left side on his face.
"Why did you attack Suna, Deidara?" Ryo asked the blonde still grinning man.
"I wanted to test my new power which you gave me Ryo-sama." He answered and bowed a little forward.
"What did you think you're doing? We're not supposed to take any action which could bring our organisation into trouble." A short grey haired Shinobi yelled angry at Deidara.
He was a little smaller than Deidara and quite a noisy one. Ryo closed his eyes for a moment and touched his sleeves and it looked like he felt a pain caused by the noise.
"Soda, please stop yelling." He said with his calm and emotionless voice and opened his eyes again. Soda instantly bowed and apologized.
"Please forgive me, my lord. But it makes me furious how this scum disregard your orders." Ryo looked at Deidara who still had this annoying grin on his face.
"Why did you choose Suna Deidara?"
"I wanted to test my power against another carrier of a spirit sword my lord." Deidara answered and Soda looked again angry at him. The Ryo continued.
"From now on you will need my agreement for every action you're planning. If something like that happens again then you will regret it, did I make myself clear?"
Deidara nodded and said "Of course my lord. Please accept my deepest apology."
A few moments later a projection of a person suddenly appeared between Ryo and Deidara. It was the image of the person which was meditating in the forest of Hell's Keep.
"Report in Hojo!" Ryo said to the projection which answered immediately.
"My lord, I have to report that there are 5 Shinobi inside Hell's Keep. But as I feared my soul projection can't make out anyone of them. The only thing I managed to explore is that they were trained by Chyoko. But I cannot say which one and how many."
"That's a pity. Come back here immediately Hojo." Ryo said and the projection disappeared.
"It looks like we will have to do something about it." Ryo said and all present glared at him.
***Hell's Keep***
The day past and Naruto and Sasuke have made good progress through the training. At the end of the day they managed to lift the stones almost half the way to their hands just using their chakra. But they were really exhausted after that and so they go to bed right early.
Next day after breakfast they continued their training while Sakura was cleaning up and wash the dishes in a little tub in front of Chyoko's house. As she was almost finished she suddenly recognized that the door of Chyoko's house was not closed and was swinging with the small breeze. She stood up and walked to the entrance in order to close the door.
The door was opened wide caused by the wind and she moved her body a little bit into the room to catch the door knob. But before she reached it she just saw a slightly blue shadow that came towards her head very fast. That was the last she recognized before she lost consciousness and fell backward to the ground. Chyoko who watched the two boys instantly felt something and turned around to Sakura seeing her falling to the ground. With a shocked face she immediately ran to the pink haired girl and screamed "SAKURA!"
As the others heard Chyoko's scream they instantly stopped all their actions and ran to Chyoko's house. Chyoko arrived first and looked at the pink haired Kunoichi for a second before she realized that the door to her house was open. Her face changed instantly angry and she pointed her hand at the door and closed it with just her chakra. Then she kneed down and prepared herself to help her. In the meantime the others where arrived and saw Sakura lying on the ground with widened lifeless eyes.
"WHAT HAPPENED!" Naruto screamed and Chyoko screamed back
"SHUT UP I HAVE TO CONCENTRATE." After she mold the right amount of chakra she bit in both her thumbs causing the blood to stream out. She touched all her other fingertips with her thumbs and the began rapidly to paint seals on Sakura's face. The other presents looked at her stunned because of the incredible speed with which she covered Sakura's face with her seals.
After that she formed rapidly many hand signs ending with the boar sign and tipped the pink girls forehead with her index and her middle fingers and said "RELEASE!" After she spoke those words all the seals wandered over Sakura's face to her fingers and vanished in a red flash.
What happened meanwhile in Sakura's mind:
The last thing she saw was this blue silhouette coming towards her head and then she found herself lying on the ground surrounded in darkness. She immediately sat up and looked back and forth. As she was about to ask where she was she suddenly heard a mysterious noise and recognized a blue glow from behind.
A shiver ran down her spine and she slowly turned her head to see what was behind her. And what she saw let her froze in fear and her eyes widened to their maximum. It was a giant Snakelike creature with blue sheds and several black and red lines and wings on what you could call a back. The head of the Snake looked more like a kind of dragon with two horns on the head and another two hors side wards her cheeks which were grown backwards and also were covered with blue sheds.
The snake moved slowly to her in a spiral and revolved around the pink haired girl two times before she stopped and slowly lowered her head until she was only a few meters from Sakura away. The girl locked frightened at the snake and feared the worst as the Snake suddenly began to speak with a deep voice.
"Who are you little girl?" she asked the girl but Sakura wasn't able to say anything because her whole body trembled in death fear.
"Hmmm … It seems my appearance is too overwhelming for you. My apology." The snake said and Sakura calmed down even if she was very surprised about what the snake just said and the snake moved her head a little backwards.
"Don't worry little girl. I won't do you any harm." The snake said and Sakura relieved a bit and asked the snake with a scared voice.
"Who … are you?"
"I am the Snake spirit Gavion." The snake answered but then suddenly looked up into nothingness as he had heard or something but Sakura didn't hear or feel anything.
"It seems I have to go now … Farewell." The snake said and Sakura came back to consciousness.
As she came to her she breathed loud and heavily and sat up immediately.
"Sakura are you all right?" Naruto asked worried.
"Of course she's all right." Chyoko said running her fingers through Sakura's hair making the girl look at her.
"She just met a spirit. That's all." She said looking at the pink haired girl with a little smile which vanished after a few seconds and she spoke to all loud and with an angry voice.
"So you all have seen what happened if you try to walk into the house without me being around. I told you that before and I tell you again. DON'T WALK INTO THE HOUSE, UNDERSTAND?"
All present nodded and Sakura looked down with a sad expression and felt sorry.
"Okay, but would you explain us what happened?" Naruto asked and even Sasuke waited in tense.
Chyoko sighed and began to explain. "My house is not only my living place but also the home of the spirits. They are just living chakra which is flowing through the house. And if someone without a spirit or me enters the house he will be hit by this chakra. The spirits don't know through what they are flowing until they hit a person and melt together with that persons mind for a second."
Chyoko looked at Sakura again and continued. "You were very lucky that you only were hit by one spirit. If you would have been hit by more spirits then maybe even I couldn't help you anymore."
Sakura was still looking depressed on her knees and after a few moments of silence Chyoko continued.
"Well then. Let's just be glad that it ended this way. So get moving boys and continue with your training." The boys nodded and walked back to their training but they were still thinking about Sakura and hoped she would be alright.
Chyoko helped the pink haired girl standing up and Sakura suddenly began to apologize with tears in her eyes.
"I'm so sorry, Chyoko-sempai. I'm so clumsy and useless."
"Don't say that. It was my fault. I should have told you all about it a while ago. So don't blame you for this." The red haired woman said and then she took her to a bench and they sat down.
"You should rest for a while because you may still be in shock." Chyoko said and Sakura nodded.
Then she asked the red head. "Chyoko. I saw something after I past out."
"You saw something?" Chyoko asked the girl surprised.
"Yes. It was eh … something like a giant snake." Sakura continued and Chyoko was shocked but didn't show it to the girl.
"The snake said that her name is Gavion and that it he's the Snake spirit. Did I just dreamed that or was it real?"
Chyoko looked stunned at the girl and waited a few moments before she answered with a smirk. "It was all real."
The pink haired girl's eyes widened and hundreds of thoughts ran through her mind but she couldn't hold any of them.
"But don't tell the boys what you saw, okay?" Chyoko said and the pink haired girl nodded before she looked over to the boys and began to watch their training.
Chyoko was very surprised about what Sakura experienced and thought. "I can't believe that this girl is able to carry a spirit. Maybe there really is a little hope." Then she looked over to the boys. "I wonder if the two of them are able too."
The dawn already began and Chyoko walked to the boys while she said,
"Okay, boys. That's enough for today."
Naruto looked at her a little sad and asked. "Already over? Please let me try it one more time."
Chyoko sighed "You really don't know when it's over, don't you? Well try it one more time and then you'll quit for now, promise?"
"Promise!" he said and got a fox grin while he thought "Hehe … eat this."
Naruto stretched his arm downwards and collected chakra in his hand and with a loud "HA!" the stone jumped up landing right into his hand.
"HEHE … Not bad, HUH? I really rule." Naruto said with a big grin on his face.
Chyoko smile at them with closed eyes and said. "Well done you two. You're getting better and better."
"HEHE … Yes we … huh … WE?" Naruto stumbled first smiling and then looking puzzled as he turned his head over to Sasuke who also held his stone in his hand.
"WHAAAAT?" Naruto yelled with saucer eyes and couldn't believe what he saw.
"You're not the only one who can surprise people." The raven haired boy said with a smirk and let the stone falling down to the ground and slowly passed Chyoko.
Naruto looked depressed to the ground and mumbled. "Damn … I wanted to be the first at this sort of stuff just one time."
The red head put her hand on his shoulder and said with a smile. "You will tomorrow. I'm sure of that."
Later that evening after they finished their dinner the six sat around the campfire like always with the exception of Sakura and Naruto who had switched places.
"I'm impressed how fast you mastered this exercise Naruto." The pink haired girl said and the blonde began to blush a little and scratched the back of his head.
"Well it was nothing. To be honest I was able to do it short after lunch but pretended I didn't because I wanted to surprise everybody. Hehe."
"Don't brag so much you moron. I did it even a little sooner and was about to do the same but you couldn't shut up like always." The raven haired boy said annoyed.
"You're lying." Naruto yelled at the Uchiha and he just responded with a simply "NO!"
Naruto got angry and jumped up. "How can you say that you did it earlier than I am? How could you possibly tell when I managed to do it?"
"I have my Sharingan you fool. An on top of that you acted so obviously that even Sakura could notice it." Sasuke said and his look wandered to Sakura who looked very angry at him but then her head lowered and she glared at the ground.
The Uchiha boy felt suddenly terrible as he saw her and realized that he was rude again but Naruto disturbed him in his thoughts.
"Don't brag with your stupid Sharingan the whole time. You didn't notice it, believe it." he said and sat down as he spoke the last words and was about to continue with his speech as Chyoko suddenly interrupted him.
"That's enough you two. I'm sick of your claiming who is better." She yelled angry and the boy's looked quiet and angry into the opposite direction.
Then after a few moments Sasuke stood up and walked to his tent. And a few seconds later Naruto began to yawn and also walked to his tent.
After a few minutes Sakura began to ask Chyoko about something that she wanted to ask her the whole time but was afraid of her at first as she looked at her so hateful.
"Chyoko-sama. May I ask you a question?"
The woman looked at Sakura questioningly. "Sure. What is it?"
The girl looked at the ground with her hands on her knees and asked. "Would you please train me too?"
The red head looked a little surprised at her but then she got a smirk. "Why the sudden change?"
Sakura looked up and her eyes trembled as she spoke. "I want to get stronger so I will not be such a burden. I don't want to rely on the help of others."
"You mean that you don't want the two of them to have to protect you in a fight." Chyoko said and Sakura's head lowered again and she glared to the ground.
"I will train you." The woman said and Sakura raised her had instantly in surprise and looked at her.
"To be honest I always had in mind to train you from the first time I saw you." Chyoko said and the pink haired girl looked at her.
"Then why didn't you train me?" the girl asked and the woman answered.
"That's because you already have a perfect chakra control. That's why you don't need this kind of training anymore."
Sakura looked at her for a moment before she asked. "How do you know that? You didn't even test me like them."
"First of all, I am able to see your chakra flow like the Hyuuga's. And besides you are a medical ninja and to be one a perfect chakra control is needed." Chyoko said and Sakura thought about it and remembered her training under Tsunade and recognized that all the things she trained her are quite similar to what the boys are training here.
"So don't worry. I will train you." The woman said and Sakura nodded with a smile.
AN: I hope you liked it, especially the length. Please review and tell me how you like it and if I should keep up longer chapters.
Thanks for reading.