Uh, I feel like I hit my head. Oh, I did. Hey I fainted in front of Naruto. She felt something pat her forehead, it was wet and cold. Hinata opened her eyes quickly and caught the outline of something blurry. She opened them again and let her vision come into focus. Naruto was trying to take care of her by sponging her forehead with a wet cloth. He saw her eyes and pulled back. "Hey there!"

"What happened?" Hinata asked quickly. She observed that Naruto was dressed and remembered. She blushed a bit and didn't realize that she was as she looked around his room to find herself on his bed. She sat up and brushed her hair out of her face.

"You fainted." Naruto said. He sat the washcloth in the small kitchnet sink and brought her an already prepare glass of water. "I called Sakura, she said you would be fine."

She took it and drank out of it slowly. "Oh, sorry about that… It's em.. embarrassing." She took another sip and handed it back.

"I'm just glad you didn't fall off the balcony, I wasn't completely awake yet. Sorry about that…" Naruto said and set the glass down next to the sink. "I did set an alarm, but it didn't go off."

"It's okay. Things like that happen." She said. She watched as Naruto grabbed the scroll off the table and brought it over. He sat down on the bed next to her and handed it to her. "Did you catch up to where I was reading?"

"Took me all day yesterday." He said and turned towards her. "I'm a slow reader, why don't we take turns reading it out loud?"

"Okay, I'll start." She opened the scroll and looked for the spot she left off on. She found it,put her finger as a guide and began reading. "We had an attack on the village shortly after that, it was night and they killed the guards on the way in. They were two bounty hunters; I guess the Senju's leader had a pretty big bounty on his head. I was surprised to see when they didn't make it ten steps past the first building. Three young boys stopped them, one in particular did something unique; he hit a chakra point by accident.

"They were honored and given a small reward for it, but they liked the attention better. The kids had potenition but I had a thought. I could see that chakra point. That charka point hurt the bounty hunter's chances greatly and I could see it, they couldn't. I told Michi this; I was surprised when he just starred quietly at me. It took me years to learn that that was his thinking face.

"The next morning I woke up to find Michi had recruited one of his clansmen to help me focus my idea. At first he went on about balance and how it was important. He then told me why. He was going to train Michi and I in precision attacking, something not widely studied mainly because a precision attack takes years to master.

"We started by catching flying needles in the air. Precision takes a quick eye. For two weeks we had needles tossed at us from dawn to dusk. During the nighttime I spent time drawing on Michi identifying the chakra points that would cause the greatest response. Michi almost died several times from me missing. I was lucky he loved me."

"Hm?" Naruto chimed and held out a hand offering to read. Hinata handed over the scroll with her finger by the phrase she left off at. "By the time I finished I had found sixty-four points of impact. These specific points if hit would cause the chakra to be cut off for a while and the person to be somewhat hard of movement. It was what I needed; this would be the defining act for my clan.

"Michi's clansmen helped me come up with how I was to do it. We were careful and only practiced it at night in the basement of my home. I became even stronger as my chakra honed and then one night it came to me in my head like a soft dance. Two, four, eight, sixteen and thirty-two. I felt like water twirling in the air as the clansman dropped before me. I hit all sixty-four impact points.

"Every night I practiced with Michi. I finally found a rhythm to attack to. Over time I'd start focusing chakra, giving a little tap I could cut someone's liver in half. Michi named it for me, the Gentle fist and my main maneuver, the Sixty-Hour Palms. It was the beginning of the Hyuuga clan's fearsome reputation as I have seen it throughout my life, but not the most important aspects as I have seen it."

There was a quick rapid knock at the door followed by "Naruto!" Called quick. Naruto set the scroll down and sighed. "Just a minute."

He got up and walked over to the door answering it. Shikarmaru stood there grimacing. "Hey, Naruto, I… Oh, hi Hinata. Are you busy then, I was only going to bug you about lunch?"

"Um…?" Naruto asked and turned to Hinata.

"We were just having a book reading. We can finish it later." She said and rolled the scroll up setting it on his nightstand. She walked over to the door. "I'll stop by tomorrow at the same time so we can continue reading it."

"Okay, later Hinata." Naruto said.

"Bye Naruto, bye Shikamaru." Hinata walked out the door and jumped off the balcony disappearing.

"That's weird." Shikamaru said and looked at him with an evil grin. "I didn't know you could read."

"Shut up." Naruto said punching him in the shoulder. Shikamaru grabbed his shoulder and rubbed it. "So, lunch on you or me today?"

"I paid last time. Anyway, you know you have a mission tomorrow, right?" Shikamaru said as Naruto closed the door following him out.

"No."

"So what are you going to do about Hinata?"