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Chapter 11: Lilies.
The signature "Nara Shikamaru" used to be synonymous of seriousness... his missions rarely required support. Even so, this time he requested that Naruto joined them on the front near the village of lightning at the earliest brevity. The Hokage was sulking while she had on her desk the names of the ninjas and the available teams…This is alarming. The enemy forces doesn´t seem to be getting weaker... I think there is no other choice, Naruto must go. Furthermore, according to the report there are many wounded, Hinata and Seishin undoubtedly would be very helpful….
A cool breeze ran through Tsunade´s office, and the splendid head of Sheishin appeared in a bow in front of her. "Hokage-sama"
"I sent for you hours ago, what hold you?…"
"I´m terribly sorry Hokage-sama, but my services were required urgently, the wounded had filled the halls of the emergency room and we did not have enough beds. Sumimasen Hokage-sama."
"Fine. Never mind. Now… How´s Hinata doing?
"That girl has a remarkable talent for healing jutsu, her purple chakra itself is proof enough, but in addition of talent, definitely med-jutsu is her call, her vocation. I´m not saying her medical training is finished, but I think that what she needs to learn, will come with experience."
Tsunade hummed for a second deep in thoughts, and then said "we have a problem on the front of a mission that has lasted dangerously and we need medical support. But its just that..." Tsunade put both hands in front of her mouth.
"There is something that you are not telling me about the child, right? And is the reason to hesitate in sending two skilled med-ninjas where are need it... there is something captivating about her, her soul is immaculate, and her heart is... Tsunade-san" Seishin said to create a climate of greater confidence "her spirit is warm and pure, and I have witnessed how the elements respond to her call, this girl… she wouldn´t be…" he stopped for a second to breathed deeply "is she the moon eyes child?"
"Seishin-san, you´ve descovered it earlier than I expected" said Tsunade as if she had just lost a bet "yes, she´s the child of the legend."
"It was a hunch" he said honestly "but Tsunade-san, that means…"
"Hmm…" an irrevocable sober hit her gesture "she could be absorbed by any forces at any time if she´s not prepared to fulfill her destiny... It´s still around 4 months away, but ..."
"Her control over of the elements, except water, is poor Hokage-sama. I ask permission to leave the hospital and focus solely on her training of elements." His eyes shined, and she painted a smirk.
"I knew that once you discovered her role, you would push her harder."
"It´s an honor to be the sensei of that who is destined to engender a new era."
"Hai ..." the blonde nodded politely "you have permission to change her training as soon as you return from this mission. You´ll be the leader, and your team will be composed by Hinata and Naruto.
"Uzumaki-san? Don´t you think that their affections might cause conflicts?"
…Haha... his eyes are as sharp as always… "When you love someone, you´re ready to sacrifice everything for the peace and happiness of that someone. You could be stronger than him, but his determination is stronger than all of us. That is why I send him."
"Hai"
"You´ll leave tomorrow at noon. Be prepared. You´re dismiss."
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With both hands covering her lips and her neck and lap soaked, she was struggling to maintain her composure and keep her sobs mum, while the intense red of her cheeks gave out the announcement of her imminent defeat. She lost the letter that flew away slowly with the increasingly icy blasts of air as a premonition of the nearby evening. She lost her strength, her balance and above all, she lost her consciousness.
…It was not exactly as I imagined it will be... Naruto placed her in a comfortable position and wait while watching the female figure breathing as he imagine a fairy would do. After a few minutes, He thought… It´s taking more than usual… I hope she´s ok
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Hinata was falling into a huge vacuum, and landed in a completely different scenario that the ones her subconscious had created before. She was again in a nightmare, no doubt. It was a barren, rocky, intimidating and endless terrain, completely infertile. All types of vegetation were absent. She took a bit of dirt between her hands …Even the earth seems dead, is just… powder....She walked aimlessly, breathing heavily and suddenly heard a couple of rocks rolling down a hill. She looked towards the sound by instinct, and there saw an unknown reptile licking the edge of his snout with a long and blistering tongue. Hinata remained motionless, watching carefully… Its seems to be hunting ... but ... What´s here to hunt?...
She saw its long tongue thrown to an empty space and caught an invisible prey. It opened its snout as tunnel, and started to swallow air... curious as she was, she said "Byakugan!" thus; Hinata drowned a scream when she saw a little girl struggling to escape from the stifling, asfixiating tongue, as a boa constrictor that was dismembered her little by little. As a reflect of her body she bent forward, with the intention of running to help her, but then, she saw her straight in the eyes, a 4 years old Hinata crying and holding to the animal's mouth to prevent from been swallowed. The impression made her sweat... cold sweat, shaking legs, wilt, ruffled heart… she knew that sensation far to well. It was fear. ..Ohh... God! Please...! Don´t…. she tried to calm herself, and all she could said was "Drop her! Leave her alone!"
But the reptile didn´t even look at her. She tried to move, but a black column was locking her feet to the ground as the most iron padlocks would do. She saw down in her legs a wave of pests running up calling her by name. She jumped with all her might. Terror imprisoned her. Then turned back to where the girl had been previously to found only a closed snout, and that killer tongue, pointing to her with appetite.
"Heeeelppppp!!!" she cried. And a terrible echo answered her:
`What makes you think you deserve to be rescued? You can´t do anything by yourself, you´re always holding back your teammates, you know it, you´re a dead weight to carry for everyone. Wouldn´t it be better for everyone if you just stop existing? You selfish little brat, you´re worthless `
Hinata opened wide her eyes, biting her right index finger, feeling her wobble legs and arms got drenched with sweat "Who… who are you? What do you want from me? Why do you said such things?
`I´m that one who speaks the truth, you´re a waste of time and effort, not to mention air. You´re an heir that would ashamed the ineptest of the heirs. You don´t deserve to breathe, you don´t deserve to feel... you don´t deserve to be. `
The earth began to melt, and in an instant, the volcanic heat melted Hinata´s clothes and shoes. With her naked feet, felt a burning sting …Oh.... My goodness… Some clods of earth became small burning flames that appeared to be waiting for a chance to burn her, and the sky began to become dark. The pain was so real... This is a nightmare... has to be... but I have never had one this real... this is a dream! Wake up! Wake up!... she denied with her head, but not very convinced with herself. She felt the memories of a different word running away, melting along her skin; she thought she had lived there since the beginning of time, and it was now that she woke up from the Konoha dream.
`You couldn´t dreamed… dreams are for the living, you´re empty; that cannot be called life, no one would care about you´
From the clouded sky emerged stormy sounds and dozens of arrows descended meeting Hinata´s breath. She felt, in her nakedness, an electrical promise of terror in each streak. Avoiding the burning rain, which seemed to find her with its malicious arrows and resisting the burns on her feet on each jump, she was finally hit by a lightning. The hit made her believed she had split in two, and despite she had time to protect herself, her body crashed into the ground which violence enough to bury her in stones. She lay hurt and confused, and just then started to notice that her arms, legs and belly beginning to crack and fall apart... I'm disappearing...
`Dust to dust… ashes to ashes` the echo laughed.
Her legs and hips were already part of the rugged terrain, lightning gave up searching for her, and she heard a loud laughter from far away. Without anything to do, she was losing her body and the desire to have one; she put her head on the floor and began to mourn…
She cried big tears that round down to the dusty land, and one by one, formed around her head a green halo of grass and nascent flowers, vibrating nature...
A petal rubbed her cheek, and she could hear like an echo far away "Hinata… Hinata wake up..."
She saw the flower surprised, recognizing something familiar in it... What ... what is it? I think… its call a flower…yes… a flower… it´s a lily… lilies... lilies! Naruto-kun! Naruto-kun! He is real, he must be... A caress in her nose welcomed her to the world that moments before seemed so nebulous, and was received with a pair of blue eyes, visibly concern.
"Hinata?... are you ok? " the ninja tenderly embraced a beautiful woman, yet all he felt was a growing alarm...
"Na... Naruto-kun! Why... why did you… do that?" She said, covering her moon eyes with Naruto´s sweater, looking around like she was lost.
"You were shaking" he said with his head down "I thought you might be cold and I had no other way to warm you up..."
"Why are you hurting me like this...?" she cried flushed, without even heard a world he was saying. She walked away from him with panic in her gaze... and fell on her knees, shedding tears with her fits on her lap and the back hunched, with her cheeks, lips and forehead showing a cherry color. She awoke with a high fever, and since then, was in a trance that seemed to devour the life of her eyes. "Why ?.... Why?" she kept repeating, breaking down...
"Hinata... I ... I just ..." …I´m so stupid, what was I hoping to hear? Of course she is hurt! I betray her confidence, that one that I won as his friend, she wouldn´t want to reject me... she is so…
"Why are you playing with my feelings?" she murmured.
Whaaaaaaaaaat? Feelings??? ... "Feelings? Hinata... hold on, what do you mean?" he asked with bewilderment eaten his bowels.
"Stop! Stop...! ... Enough" and she began to whispered "just...stop please ... I can´t resist it anymore..."
Both immersed in their own volcanoes, never happened to noticed that the irises began to turn into black and red color, the wind was blowing in all directions as the crashing waves of a rough sea, the only thing that made them woke up was a violent shaking of the cliff, a movement so sudden that couldn´t be natural. Both put out a kunai, but although they looked carefully, there wasn´t any sign of an enemy. In that brief moment of shinobi clarity, Naruto took the opportunity to say
"Hinata? What do you mean by that?"
She was again on the edge of unconsciousness when the young man came and knelt down next to her. Lowered his head without trying to touch her, and said in the tone of those who confesses a great crime "I can´t... I can not resist the idea of being away from you Hinata. When I see you I feel something strange in my belly, my chest hurts, my lips and hands kind of tickle… and when you're with me, I want to learn all the words in the dictionary and read every day, I want to whisper to your ear a fairy tale every night, declare your forehead the kingdom of my lips, and your lips, the entry of my home." With his fingertips, he lightly rubbed her withe, smooth, impeccable hand while she sighed as if that touch had returned her to life.
"I… I… I love you Hinata" he said out loud feeling relieved. (by the way, in spanish there´s a way to say that you care about someone in a romantic an intensive way, but not love them yet, that´s what I mean, íts "Te quiero").
"I ... I ... I love you too Naruto-kun, I have loved you for so long…"
…Did she... did she just say she loves me?...
Her moon eyes sheared tears of stars and his celestial eyes shone with amazement. …Am I dreaming?...both thought. They looked into each others eyes, sinking into the sweet shivers of the other...
"Why... why did´t you tell me before?" he asked.
"How… how could I talk with someone who hardly... realized I was there?" she responded.
He knew exactly what she was talking about. It was something that had been one of the foundations of the very way he saw the world, only that where he decided to scream, she chose to remain silent and keep walking...
The wind blew gently.
Naruto had embraced her sometimes, when she fainted, or that time she was sick, but... the fact that his embrace got a response, made of the contact a divine touch. He sunk his nose into the fragrant and long cascade of blue night hair, felt her small hands printed on his back, the fine tremor of her female body, her sweet exhalation running all over the skin of his neck and finally, felt a shy little push that took him to the horizontal plane and parallel to Hinata's lips.
…Her touch is better that a thought…
…His eyes are brighter at this distance…
For a few seconds they remained face to face, 10 cm away. The surrounding lilies changed color from green to blue... purple… violet… crimson... pink…withe.
Hinata came a bit closer, and Naruto closed his eyes. But she turned the obvious and expected way to the left, gently pressing her lips against the first of the marks on his left cheek, move down a little and laid a second kiss and then a third one in each whisker....
…She´s kissing me, this is so... for a brief moment Hinata pulled back a little. Our hardly-casanova-friend was feeling a spinning spiral of heat from head to toe, and thinking she was regretting, the minimal distance between them froze him …Don´t...don´t go.... He could taste the warmth shadow of her blush that she left over on her way to the other side, and there in his right cheek, she kissed his three marks in the same way she did in the left.
Our princess felt her entire skin wrapped in a vibrant, unknown and delicious sensation. She pulled back her head enough to see Naruto straight in the eye and, heart on hand, whisper to him "It´s you... the sum of everything that builds and constitutes you draws me closer to you, but the things that makes you different are the ones that invite me to love you."
"... Hi. Hinata..." A couple of drops rolled down moistening his ears, tears that weren´t his. Naruto closed his eyes and put his fingers around the withe velvet neck and approached to her with a kiss… A warm, soft and innocent touch of their lips that was the entrance to a paradise where they were completely lost in each other, and where they find, touch by touch, the way home…
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Seishin was meditating on the backyard of the Hyuuga mansion. He was planning how, where and how the training will have to be so he could manage to get all done in such a short time… No matter how naive I allow my self to be, I can not assure that she will dominate all elements... her nature is water, akin to earth, and the forest is loyal to her. But the fire and lightning... not fit at all with the her essence, how could I plant a seed where to begin with has no way to flourish in there?...
"It is late ..." he heard from far.
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"What do you mean you didn´t find it? I told you to have care with the bodies!, if they discover the truth it will all be ruin... and if that happens, you´ll be hanging above an abyss by anything but your tongue" A voice that was normally closer to be a whisper, now stood as a strong blow to the neck.
"Sumimasen Sensou-sama, but... but ...I can´t keep the front cover like this. I haven´t eat one in weeks..."
"You'll have your repulsive meals! But beware..."
"Hai..."
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"Ohayo gosaimazu Seishin-sensei" Hinata greeted in a good mood.
"Ohayo Hinata-san. It seems you had a good night."
Her eyes gave the impression of being lost in a different time and space, but when she listened to Seishin with such indirect, she came back to reality, smiled and said with an innocent enthusiasm "Hai!"
"I'm glad. We have a mission today. The Hokage asked us to be there at 10:00 am. Will you be ready?"
"Sure sensei. I will go and get my things..."
"By the way, Hinata-dono, the next time the young Uzumaki-san brings you home, it would be better to say your good bye at the main gate."
Hinata lowered her eyes, made a bow, and got going praying that Seishin would have been the only witness. They walked to the Hokage´s office talking about the relations between elements and the uniqueness of each of them separately.
"Water, Hinata-dono, is the lifeblood of the world. Its essence involves balance. The flow of the element will always be searching to be one with the environment, and its use it in battle will require calm and mental calculation."
"Mental calculation Seishin-sensei?"
"Hai... Hinata-dono you´ll see, any movement on the battlefield must be planned and measured, as you know. But when using water jutsu, the lose of mental concentration is equal to break the barrier that contains it and probably share the destiny of the enemy."
She nodded. Intrigued by the manner in which he spoke ...so young, yet so bright…
"The air is the breath of earth. It requires freedom to manifest, is a changing element. It´s use in battle involves a considerable level of self-control, you have to make of air jutsu an art, because, it mainly requires concentration."
"Seishin-sensei… What´s the difference between air and water handling, if both of them requires…?
"I understand your question. It is actually very simple. Water carves roads alone its way, it creates rivers over time, find its place in constant motion and never ceases to follow its own course. The air, on the other hand, splits in bursts of all sizes and to all directions. Its effect on other natural forces it's by mere chance, like and obstacle that goes unnoticed. When you use water justu it's sure that it will adapt to any form you give it, while the mental image and technique go hand in hand. The air, when its being manipulated, always try to escape, so the attention on air justu goes more to the element itself than to the intention you have in using it on battle, most of the time, the air techniques uses the inherent strength of the air trying to escape to do harm to the opponent. Therefore, being a on total self-control is only the basis of air jutsu.
"Oh… I see… that´s impressive…" she said marveled.
When they arrived to Hokage´s office, our kunoichi was smiling for the nebulous of ideas that hover in her head: last night, the smell of lilies, the essence of the elements, the excitement of a new mission... and ¡bum! Out of nowhere, there he was, with a slight blush in the cheeks and his eyes staring at her contemplative.
" ... Ohaio Hinata"
"O… Ohhayo Naruto-kun" she said without looking at his celestial, bright eyes.
