NaruHina Story: Chapter 10

They immediately sprang into action. Gaara decided that Naruto and Hinata should go. If his suspicions were right, then they would need to go. He then appointed a temporary Kazekage and put himself on the team. They left. All moving at a full speed run. They arrived within two hours, to earth country and the village hidden in the stone. They were immediately sent to the Kage. Who was rather surprised they had gotten there so quickly but still briefed them. He told them that the person that had been taken was one of their top shinobi, though still rather young, they were already jounin skill level. But they had been capture by people who wore black coats with red clouds printed on them. The trio told him to lead them to the group. The Kage just shook his head and summoned a squirrel who would lead them to where the tracking party was now following the group.

The squirrel decided to move rather slow, not sure the group could keep up until Naruto suddenly bounded past saying "You stupid squirrel. You are way too slow."

Gaara and Hinata also bounded past the squirrel who sat there surprised. Then the squirrel went into its full running speed which was just perfect for the other three. The squirrel was still surprised, but lead them to the tracking party none-the-less.

The trio caught up and saw the group they were following up ahead. Naruto had to hold himself from springing ahead. I knew it! Akutski! That must be a jinchuriki they have then! I won't let them get away! He turned to Gaara and decided to try to plan. "Hey Gaara, our training method might work here."

Gaara just looked at him confused.

"Well, if you just make sand bullets, instead of flinging them at me, you just kinda guide them to my hands until they are lass and I have them, then I can throw them and we will have a rapid fire on the two targets. While we are doing that, Hinata can flank them and use her jyuuken to stop them for good."

Both Hinata and Gaara nodded. It sounded like a good plan. It was a good thing the trio had spent so much time training together, they now knew each other's abilities. And could even fight without saying a word. They were able to read each other's movements and react accordingly. They were a force to be reckoned with.

They bounded ahead telling the tracking squad to return to the village. Once the tracking squad retreated the Akutski members stopped and turned to face them. "Well look here. Capture one jinchuriki and three more show up to save it. How nice." The first spoke. He was unnaturally green, and had gills on the side of his neck. He almost looked like a human fish, and he held a giant sword. Naruto recognized him, from the time he had come after Naruto, he was supposed to be partnered with Itachi. Itachi and Kisame were the two members of Akutski standing before him.

He immediately relayed all he knew about them both to Gaara and Hinata who nodded. Naruto decided their original plan of throwing glass bullets would not work on these two. Instead he had a different idea.

"Hinata, Gaara, go after Kisame. Keep him busy, and if you can, injure him to the point of being unable to fight anymore."



Hinata's eyes widened and Gaara smirked. "Naruto-kun, you plan on facing Itachi on your own? What makes you think you can take him out?"

Naruto simply smirked back. "I don't plan on taking him out, I plan on buying you two time to take out Kisame. He is the weaker of the two so they will never expect me to try to solo Itachi, it will catch them off guard."

They all nodded and sprang into action. Naruto charging at Itachi being careful not to look into his eyes. Itachi was a genjutsu user, so his taijutsu should have been weak. But no matter how Naruto swung, Itachi simply wasn't there. He was just evading every attack Naruto could throw at him. And Naruto was getting pissed. He started charging up all kinds of different techniques without even using hand signs and bombarded Itachi with everything he had. He threw three lightning rasengans, all moving in different directions. Made 5 lightning clones, who all charged at Itachi. Then he decided try something new. He had never done this before, but if it hit, it would be over. He gathered lightning chakra in one hand and made a stream of water chakra with the other. He sprayed the water at Itachi who just stood there and got drenched. Then he touched the water stream with his lightning chakra. He saw Itachi's eyes widen before it hit him. Naruto smirked. I think I'll call that Lightning Surge Jutsu. He looked over to see how Hinata and Gaara were doing.

Kisame was missing his sword, which Gaara was swinging around with a hand made out of sand. Kisame was having trouble keeping up with Hinata as she dove around the sword to keep attacking from his blind spots, all the time moving as if the sword was her shield. Every time he tried to hit her the sword would appear and stop him. He was overwhelmed. Then it hit him. A blast of water with a surge. Both Hinata and Gaara looked up surprised.

"That seems to do the trick. Speaking of tricks, these guys are nothing but tricks. They are just transformed bodies being controlled." He held up the body Itachi was using and dropped it. It wasn't Itachi at all, in fact, they didn't recognize the person at all. They went over to where Kisame had been blasted only to realize that he had been controlling a body as well. They picked up the corpses and were about to go back to the village when Naruto stopped.

"Wait, where did they put the person they were carrying?"

Gaara and Hinata looked around, then Hinata activated her Byakugan and saw it. In a tree directly above them. Since Gaara was the only one empty-handed, he jumped up and grabbed the person. It turned out to be a girl. She was definitely a ninja from the way she had her weapons all arranged around her. She had short black hair and she looked like someone he had seen before, but he couldn't remember who. They took her back to the stone village and went to the Kage.

He was surprised by their efficiency. When he held out the money to pay them for the mission Gaara turned it away. Instead he looked the Kage in the eye and said "I or my teammates have no need for money. I only ask two things from you instead."



The Kage was intrigued because nobody had ever turned down money before. He nodded, giving the signal that Gaara should continue.

"I wish to know if the person we rescued was a Jinchuriki."

The Kage looked at him for a long while, then nodded. "Yes, she is a Jinchuriki. Why do you ask?"

"My next question will answer that. If she wished to, would you let her join us?"

The Kage nearly fell over in surprise. "Join you? Why would the sand village want a jinchuriki?"

Gaara was able to hold his expression. "Not the sand village. In case you haven't noticed, these two are from the village hidden in the leaf." He said Gesturing towards Naruto and Hinata.

Gaara continued, "I do not wish to have the Jinchuriki for the sand village alone. You see, the three you see before you, we are all Jinchuriki."

The Kage looked at them all, one at a time. "Jinchuriki, gathering. What is the purpose of this?"

Gaara had been expecting the question, and he had an answer ready. "We are gathering all the Jinchuriki together, once all Jinchuriki are with us, there will be a great battle against the nine members of Akutski."

The Kage was really interested now. "Akutski?"

Gaara nodded. "They are the people who attempted to kidnap your jinchuriki. You can always find them for they never hide themselves. They all wear black robes with red clouds printed on them."

The Kage was ecstatic. "So you want to take my Jinchuriki and use them for a war?"

Gaara shook his head. "I wish to befriend them, if they are willing. We shall become comrades in combat. Against the common enemy: Akutski."

The Kage nodded. "If they choose not to go?"

Gaara just folded his arms across his chest. "We have no wish to fight fellow jinchuriki or the villages the belong to, we will leave in peace if they choose to stay here with a possibility of getting kidnapped again."

Gaara's tone of voice was obviously convincing for he immediately told them to follow him as he led to the hospital where the girl was laying in a bed. She looked like she had just woken up. When she saw the Kage she thought she was in trouble, until she saw the three accompanying him.

"Are you the three that saved me? Thank you so much. I can't believe how strong those guys are."

Naruto just grinned and said "Hey no problem for a fellow Jinchuriki."

The girl looked surprised. "You're a jinchuriki?"



Naruto nodded and said "We all are." Gesturing to his two companions.

The girl now had very wide eyes. As if she didn't know what to think about being in one room with three other people who were like her. Then Gaara stepped forward.

"We came here to ask you something. You don't need to make a decision right away. You can give us your answer within the week before we must leave the village."

The girl looked surprised. This must be a serious question for him to be giving her so much time to think about it. She nodded, indicating she was ready to hear it.

"We want you to join us. To travel with us and help other jinchuriki who get captured by Akutski. Once all the Jinchuriki are together, we shall have one major battle to destroy Akutski once and for all."

The girl looked as if she was considering it, until she looked back at them and asked "What happens if I say no?"

Gaara smiled. "Your Kage asked the same question. If you say no, we leave in peace and you can stay here with a possibility of you getting captured again."

She nodded. "I will sleep on it. You can have your answer tomorrow night."

Gaara nodded and they left the room. The Kage told them that he had rooms set aside for him, though they were cheap as he didn't want to make his country poor by providing for guests. They all just nodded. He asked them how many they actually needed and when they said they only needed two, he looked more surprised than ever. Naruto put his arm around Hinata and told him they would share one. He just nodded and had two rooms set aside for them to use.

Naruto walked into the one he and Hinata had been given. "I thought he said this was a cheap room! This is better than summoning shelter to stay in!"

Hinata looked around. This was a rather big room. With a really big bed. They decided to take turns showering as the didn't want to make too much noise. And then both lay in the bed. They were trying to decide on what they should do. They were both bored but neither wanted to make much noise in case someone overheard. Naruto looked at her. Her laugh isn't really that loud I guess. They were laying side by side, her arm was around his neck and his arm went under her back and his hand came out just by her side. Perfect.

Hinata didn't know what hit her. One second they were laying there bored, the next she was laughing and struggling to stop Naruto. She had one free hand as her other was pinned below Naruto's neck. But he was able to use both his hands. And she couldn't take it. She struggled and squirmed, laughing the whole time, but unable to do anything about it.

Naruto grinned as he saw Hinata laughing there and unable to stop, he decided to stop long enough to let her catch her breath. She just looked at him panting for breath. "Well Kitty, bored now?" he asked.



Hinata just smiled. He was right. In a way, it had been fun. Though when she thought about it, she hated being pinned down the way she was now, though that was what made it fun in a way. If she had both hands free she could easily fend off Naruto. So this way was better for her. Besides, from the look on Naruto's face, he enjoys touching me and making me laugh. She smiled at him, finally calming her breathing. "Naruto-kun, no I'm not bored anymore."

Naruto sat up, releasing her trapped arm and turned to look at her. "what do you think about it though? It's fairly quiet since your laugh isn't that loud."

Hinata thought about it and again found he was right. "Naruto-kun, I just hate the being pinned down part…."

Naruto suddenly got an idea. "You stay here I'll be right back!" and he instantly was gone.

Hinata lay there wondering what he could possibly be doing when he shot back into the room with a few finger traps. He grabbed her hands and put the finger traps onto her fingers, no matter how hard she pulled, her hands were stuck in front of her. She was getting worried now. What is he going to… She never got to complete the thought as Naruto's fingers dug into her sides and she found herself rolling around laughing uncontrollably. After just a minute Naruto stopped. "Better?"

Hinata thought about it for a bit. She guessed it was better. She nodded to him but before he could start again she told him she was tired now.

Naruto nodded and undid the finger traps to release her. "Goodnight Kitty." He said as he kissed her good night.

But Hinata was not about to let him get off with just that little kiss. "Goodnight my fox" she said as she rolled on top of him and pressed her lips against his.

Naruto was surprised at first, but he kissed her back. He realized for the first time how soft and smooth her lips were. Oh no! I'm turning into Ero-senin! But he didn't dare stop Hinata from kissing him. They stay like that for a few second before Hinata pulled away, and drifted off into sleep. Still laying on him.

Naruto decided to just fall asleep instead of moving Hinata. She looked so peaceful that he didn't want to disturb her. They stayed like that for the entire night.

Mean while, in the hospital a certain girl lay awake, trying to make a decision, thinking of all the pros and cons of going or staying. There certainly was a long list of both. She fell asleep in the middle of her long mental list though and decided to get a scroll tomorrow to write it all out. She had till tomorrow night anyway.

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