Seals of Fate
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Chapter 10: Training for the ones you love.
It had been only a few hours since they had arrived at Tazuna's house. It was rather large, two stories tall, with several guest rooms furnished for the ninjas to use. After setting Aliera down in her room, which she was to share with Hinata, Naruto and the rest of team eight went downstairs to eat and talk.
Approaching the table, they looked over Tazuna's family once again. Tazuna's daughter, Tsunami, was a very kind and pretty young woman, looked to be in her twenties or thirties, who cooked amazing meals considering what she had to make do with. Inari, Tazuna's grandson, was a resentful child, snorting at the ninjas, but never explaining why. Inari went to his room as soon as the ninjas entered the room. Naruto, his stomach grumbling, was the first to break the silence.
"Eh heh heh, ano… Can we get some food soon? Fighting kinda made me hungry…"
Looking at Naruto with displeasure, Kiba said "Whaddya mean fighting made you hungry, you haven't done any fighting the past few days!"
The rest of team 8 also shot Naruto accusing looks, as if he had been purposefully avoiding fights. However, Naruto was not one to take such looks lightly.
"If there had been a good time to do so, I would have. However, I wanted to see your teamwork and the last fight was only something Aliera could handle". Thinking to himself, Naruto added mentally 'actually, I probably could have taken him out permanently, but I felt no need to start another fight with that hunter-nin with Aliera in such a state.
The bickering continued for quite awhile, until Tsunami set down curry in front of them. Digging in, all of them had smiles on their faces. It was, quite simply put, delicious.
"Thanks Tsu-chan!" Naruto shouted to her, while she blushed slightly, then turned away and scolded him. "Don't talk with your mouth full!".
Of course, the blush did not go unnoticed by one ninja, however she had tried to hide it. Kiba, ever the young lecher, spoke up in his 'I'm an innocent little boy' voice: "Tsunami-chan? Can I get seconds?"
"Of course. To protect someone you must be strong, and for that you must eat. Now go on, take more!" Tsunami leaned down in front of Kiba, holding out a bowl to allow him to take more curry. However, this also allowed Kiba to get an eye-full down her shirt, which was rather low-cut and hanging off of her. Seeing him leering, with the bit of drool coming out his mouth and the blush across his face, Tsunami realized what had happened.
"IF YOU WANT SECONDS THEN HERE YOU HENTAI!" Tsunami screamed, pouring hot curry onto the boy's pants.
Kiba was up in less than half a second, but before he could move, Hinata shouted "Suiton: Cleansing Water no Jutsu". Water from their glasses moved up and over, landing on the curry, washing it clean off and possibly saving Kiba's manhood. "Thanks Hinata-san…"
At the same time, Tsunami stormed out of the room, and Tazuna turned to Kiba with a surprisingly sympathetic smile.
"She doesn't take kindly to perverts… If I were you I'd be careful how I acted around her from now on…" After pausing for a moment, Tazuna added thoughtfully "She tried to do the same thing to me when she saw me reading Icha Icha Paradise. Now I can only read them when she does the shopping."
Hinata and Shino, growing increasingly uncomfortable as the conversation continued, stopped eating. Shino, being more annoyed at the time, said quietly "Not everyone likes girls y'know…"
At that, everyone stopped eating, and stared at the bug-boy, who, realizing what he had said, released bugs from himself. In a threatening tone, several octaves deeper than normal, and carrying great authority, decreed: "If what I just said ever leaves the room, you will all be devoured by my bugs, got that?"
All he saw were nods of agreement. They finished eating, and Naruto decided it would soon be time to wake Aliera up and tell all of them of the more important issues. Everyone went about their business, and two hours later they all met upstairs in Aliera's room.
"Uggh, uh… I feel like hell. What happened?"
"You used Amorphia Taiga (Life Source River) and passed out from chakra exhaustion shortly afterwards."
"Ah". Aliera rubbed her eyes and sat up. Looking around, she recognized her team and Naruto. "What happened to Zabuza?"
"He's still alive." All of team 8 looked at Naruto as if he was crazy.
"What do you mean he's alive? You saw what Aliera did to him, and that Hunter-nin went off to dispose of the body. Aliera even said he was dead." Kiba pointed out.
Naruto frowned at Kiba's stupidity, once again. "Hunter-nin's are supposed to dispose of bodies on location, taking only the head for identification, and possibly the weapon though it wasn't available in this case. Also, the Hunter-nin used senbon needles. It is very hard to kill someone with senbon, however putting someone in a near-death state is quite possible. Given the burns and his need to replace his weapon, Zabuza will probably be able to attack Tazuna again in about a week. Aliera, do you agree with my assessment?"
Aliera nodded, then said "That jutsu took a lot out of me… I won't be up until I can fix my chakra coils again and restore my chakra. Did you bring me my sword?"
Nodding in the affirmative, Naruto handed said item to her, but as he did so, Hinata got a confused look.
"Aliera, I thought only you could wield that sword… how was Naruto able to pick it up?"
Naruto, having not realized this oddity, also began to wonder how it was possible. Aliera, sensing the building confusion in the room, responded before anyone could procure meaningless guesses.
"Simple, it allows me and the one I choose to wield it next to touch it."
At this, Naruto's eyes went wide. "You mean… I'm going to be the next one to wield Kie? Will you show me how? When? What else can it do? Can you start teaching me now?". Naruto started bouncing up and down with excitement, a rare act for him since he had not done any such thing since his second year as GTN.
Aliera sighed. "Naruto, I'll start teaching you soon, but you don't get Kie until you're Hokage."
Looking down in defeat, Naruto returned to the matter at hand. "So wait, Aliera, will you be up in time?"
"No, not likely, but we can't return to Konoha in the condition I'm in, nor any of you travel back alone, you could be targeted by Gatou. We're just going to have to stay here. Naruto, train them, and train yourself. In a week, you must be able to defeat Zabuza."
All of them looked shocked, but quickly resigned to their fate. Naruto, seeing their downtrodden looks, decided to distract them.
"We can do this. Come on, all of you, we have to train."
(In the woods, 15 minutes later)
Speaking in an authoritative voice, Naruto addressed team 8. "Now, I know you are all strong, and our teamwork it good. I won't be able to train you in much, since I have to train myself, but I suggest you work on your family jutsus and work your asses off. If you need a sparring partner, come find me. I will be with Tazuna-san at the bridge and can make some Kage Bunshin. Also, here."
Naruto reached into one of his scroll holders, and pulling out a tiny scroll. Opening it, he unsealed a very large scroll. Opening that scroll, he looked it over, then turned to the team.
"Look at this." They complied, and saw the scroll was labeled, in order, with the kanji for 'Basic', 'Advanced', and 'Master'.
"This scroll contained many chakra control techniques, elemental jutsus, and theories that should help you master them. To unlock the scrolls, push some chakra into it. Smaller scrolls will pop out, giving you categories to choose from. Unseal the items in those, and it will give you information. To re-seal them, make these three seals:" Showing them the seals. "And put chakra into the scroll, and put it into the appropriate slot. Now this is my personal library. Don't damage anything. I suggest you only use the basic techniques. You won't master anything else in such a short time."
Moving out of lecture mode, Naruto continued. "Now, In order to use your time efficiently, I want you all to find out your chakra affinity. Kiba, you already know yours, so you can get started. Shino, come here and push some chakra into this."
Holding up a card, he handed it to the bug-user. Channeling some chakra into the card, it suddenly crumbled. Naruto, quite surprised by this revelation, exclaimed: "A lightning type… Now that's unusual. I'm not sure how exactly this works… Shino, are you bugs an extension of your chakra, or will you be turned into a human bug-zapper?"
Curious and annoyed at Naruto's apparent interest in his clan, Shino elaborated. "My chakra and my bugs can be either separate or joined. If they were always joined what kind of ninja would I be? I would need bugs to do a henge!"
This being the loudest all of them had ever heard Shino speak, and the longest he'd ever talked for, the group was stunned. Naruto, feeling a bit nervous around the boy, told him he could go to work. However, not long afterwards, Naruto heard Kiba mutter "Maybe coming out of the closet loosened him up a bit."
Needless to say, that night Kiba would wake up with many, many bugs in his sleeping bag.
"Hina-chan, c'mere." Shyly walking over, happy once again to be relatively alone with Naruto, she looked both ways until she was sure both Kiba and Shino were busy. Then, she calmly reached up and enveloped Naruto's lips in a long, hard kiss. Lapping against his bottom lip, asking for entrance, they opened their mouths. Pressing herself to him, Naruto wrapped his arms around her, pulling her tightly against himself. Closing their eyes, they continued. A few minutes later, they broke away from each other, only to hear the lack of training going on. Looking around, they saw Kiba with his jaw on the ground, and Shino with his nose in his jacket, scowling. This wasn't his idea of a show. Naruto was the first to break the silence…. again.
"What, you've never seen two people kiss before?" Naruto asked incredulously.
Kiba simply snorted, and looked back to his scroll. Naruto held out a card to Hinata, who channeled some chakra into it. The card became wet, which was really no surprise, since she had already learned a few water jutsus pretty easily.
"Okay, you all know your affinities. Now get to work!"
Poofing away before they could ask any more questions, Naruto left his personal 'library' behind and accompanied Tazuna to the bridge.
(4 days later)
1000 Narutos could be seen in an open field early in the morning not far from a bridge, training on a very odd technique. However, suddenly, all but one disappeared. The single remaining clone picked up a leaf, which promptly disappeared from sight entirely, as if it had never been there. Not far away, at a bridge, there could be heard a boy, no older than 13, yelling something about goddamned frickin headaches.
Not far away from where the clones had been, a boy surrounded by bugs lit himself with some kind of burst of light, a boy with a dog could be seen cutting up the ground by pointing his hands at it, and a girl… was nowhere to be found.
Deep in the forest, Hinata woke up in the middle of a small clearing, only to look over and see a girl picking… herbs? Lifting herself up, Hinata turned to the stranger, and addressed her in a weak voice.
"Excuse me? Um… what are you doing?"
"Picking herbs to help a friend." She stated simply. She had long black hair, and wore a pink casual kimono (well, as casual as a kimono gets). Hinata though 'No surprise there'.
"What were you doing out here? You look pretty beat up."
Shyly, Hinata responded. "I was training, I need to get stronger."
"Why?"
Pondering the question briefly, Hinata said "To protect the one I love."
The black haired girl looked at Hinata with surprise, then smiled. "That's good. If you protect those precious to you, you will grow strong. Never forget that."
The girl then began to walk away, but was stopped by a voice. "Wait, what's your name?"
"Haku."
And then, the black-haired girl disappeared. Shrugging, Hinata turned back to her training. Jogging to a nearby stream, she began forming handseals.
(Two days later, night-time)
Aliera awoke to see the same ceiling she had the past few days. She still hadn't regained the energy needed to be able to fight. She could only pray she'd be fine by morning.
At the same time, Naruto and Hinata entered the house. Everyone else was asleep, or so they thought. Having not had any free time to themselves, and due to Kiba and Shino wandering around in their training, they had not found any time to be together. Sneaking up the stairs, they both entered the boy's room, right next to the girls. Entering quietly, Naruto and Hinata locked the door behind them.
"Are you sure this is okay Naruto? I mean, what if Kiba or Shino come back. What if Aliera wakes up?"
"It will be fine. Plus, I want to spend some time alone with my Hina-chan.
Over the past few months, the two had grown close. Every free day they got, they spent together. Naruto just couldn't stand being watched over by a Hyuuga whenever he was with her, and for the first time in awhile, they were completely alone. Pushing two futons next to each other, they laid down, and embraced each other.
"Hinata, there is something I want to tell you. I've been thinking about this a lot, and I hope you understand…"
Hinata's full attention was now on Naruto.
"I haven't had all that many precious people in my life… I should say, I overheard that girl talking to you, I've been keeping watch on all of you the past few days, and I want to say…"
He was cut off by Hinata's expression. She was now blushing crimson. 'Did he hear me? Did he hear me say that I… that I…
"Hinata" He whispered softly. "I love you." Then, leaning in, he kissed her. However, this kiss was different for the both of them. The others had been amazing, but compared to this…. This was heaven on earth. They moved closer to each other, Hinata pressing herself against his body completely, wrapping one leg around his. They lay there, embracing, kissing for what seemed to them, to be eternity. The softness of their lips pressing against each other, the warmth of the tongue, the connection, the spark, the lust, the attraction… the love between them. All rolled into one, heavenly experience.
Hinata was in a state of absolute bliss, but she wanted more. She broke away, and lifted up Naruto's shirt… to his great surprise.
"H-Hinata-chan? … W-what are you doing?" He moaned softly, as his shirt was fully removed, and she traced her fingers up and down his toned, tanned body.
"I just wanted to… be closer to you." She slowly began removing her coat, revealing the tight shirt underneath. Pressing still closer, she took his hand, and put it to her chest.
"Hinata…"
"It's okay. Just, for now… I want to be close to you, just once, in case we die tomorrow…."
Suddenly, Naruto became stern. "Hinata, I promise you, we will not die tomorrow. I will protect you with my life, and I promise I won't die either. It will be fine, we can handle it together."
Though Naruto hadn't known it, Hinata had been nervous about what could happen tomorrow. Sure, Naruto was strong, but having checked up on Aliera, she knew he'd be facing Zabuza alone….
"Do you promise?"
"I promise"
And like that, they fell asleep in each others arms.
(outside the room)
"I hear breathing inside the room, and Naruto and Hinata couldn't be anywhere else." Kiba told Shino.
"Whatever. Kiba, just because they are in a locked room together doesn't mean they did it. Now lets just go sleep on a couch or something. We clearly aren't getting in there, and I don't trust you not to fondle Aliera once I fall asleep."
"Harsh dude…. Harsh"
End chapter 10: Hoped you liked it. It took forever to write and get to my beta reader's satisfaction. Now, if you'll excuse me, it is late and I would like to sleep… I have lots of tests tomorrow.
Next chapter is the revealing of Naruto's bloodline limit. Plz Review!!