As awesome as her "new" jutsu is, I cant include Hinata's cool jutsu in my fanfic because gasp It's not canon… Yup.
So that's why she doesn't have it here. Otherwise… This fight would've gone much better for her. :D
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Hinata was frozen in petrifying fear.
Kabuto leered at her with razor-sharp fangs, eyes casting a cruel red glow in the dim lighting.
Move you idiot! hissed a voice inside of Hinata's head. Move unless you want to die!
Shaken from her terrified trance, Hinata staggered backwards a step. Kabuto continued to advance slowly, enjoying her terror. He stretched his arm towards her neck, pushing Hinata back.
Hinata took another shaken step backwards. For a moment, she felt her foot connect with the tree branch. Then suddenly, her foot slipped sideways inside of her shoe.
She tumbled backwards, white eyes frozen wide. With a loud thud, she collided with the tree trunk and tried to rapidly blink away the bright lights dancing in her head.
She could feel the empty room in her shoes - Naruto's shoes. His shoes had been too big to start with, and now they had caused her to stumble. An accident that might prove fatal.
Hinata tried to swallow, but felt a heavy lump catch in her throat. She heard Kabuto snicker. He sounded much closer than before.
Hinata slowly lifted her head to face him.
Kabuto hovered directly above her, talons poised to grab her throat. He sneered down at her.
"Pathetic," he spat at her face. And he lunged for her jugular.
She scrabbled backwards madly, her fingers tearing up bark in her effort to get away.
But he caught her.
His sharp claws encircled her neck, and he pulled her up and ruthlessly slammed her against the tree.
Sharp stars exploded behind Hinata's eyes as pain shot through her body. She tugged at his hand, but to no avail. Kabuto didn't lessen his grip, yet to Hinata, it almost seemed as if he was allowing her a minute amount of air. He wasn't ready to finish her off just yet. He wanted to toy with her first.
Kabuto grinned wickedly at her weakening struggles. "Gaki," he purred. Hinata watched as a smirk widened on his face. "Don't you know that you were doomed to fail from the start?"
"I... will... never...fail... My Nind…o- " Hinata managed to gasp. Spent, she tried to banish her lightheadedness.
"Baka!" Kabuto snapped in annoyance. "You were doomed to fail because I know your precious Byakugan's TRUE weakness."
"No... weaknes- eck!" Hinata felt Kabuto's grip on her throat tighten.
Kabuto sneered at her ignorance. "How were you ever supposed to succeed your father if you are so incredibly stupid? The Hyuuga have more than one weakness. The Byakugan isn't as invincible as your family would like everyone to believe."
Hinata stopped struggling.
"Oh, yes, the Byakugan's blindspot is mentioned in several ancient texts. You just have to know which ones to look in. However..." Kabuto's smirk widened. "The Byakugan has more than one weakness."
"Lies," Hinata began struggling again.
"I foresaw your denial; however, this weakness that I speak of is not always apparent to the Byakugan's user."
Hinata ceased her struggle once more.
"I learned this through careful observation and research. I'm not even sure if anyone else knows of it. But I can assure you, my dear little Hyuuga," Kabuto tossed her a haughty glance, "That this weakness is more crippling than a blind spot.
"There are jutsus that require short bursts of a sizeable quantity of chakra - like your Godaime's super strength or Naruto-kun's Rasengan. But there are other jutsus that require a constant amount of chakra, if only in a small stream-"
Hinata's eyes widened. Like my Byakugan...
Kabuto continued. "If these constant jutsus don't get enough chakra, certain parts of the jutsu begin to fade away until the component fails altogether. Not the entire jutsu, perhaps, but just bits and pieces of it begin to fail when the user starts running out of chakra."
Kabuto finished his lecture and leered down at her. In his other hand, he brandished a kunai. Tightening his grip on her throat, he murmured mockingly, "Guess which part of your Bykugan fails first?"
Hinata felt the world grow dim and fuzzy; her thoughts swirled around uselessly in her mind. Which part? Which part?
Hinata fought against the ten-ton weights pressing on her eyelids. Don't faint!
Her mouth formed words, but she lacked the air to voice them. I'm sorry. Naruto-kun.
Her eyes closed, and her world was dark. In flashes of brilliant light, she saw her life fly backwards before her eyes.
The flower. Naruto-kun's kiss. Training with Shino-kun and Kiba-kun. Kurenai-sensei disappearing in a whirl of pink petals. Neji-nii-san trying to stare her down at the Chuunin exam. Her father telling Kurenai-sensei to take her because he had no use for her. Kurenai-sensei first introducing herself.
Kurenai-sensei! The pink petals!
As Hinata fought pain and unconsciousness to put her thoughts back on track, she felt Kabuto's kunai resting heavily against her throat. Using little less than inhuman strength, she brought her hands up and together over Kabuto's arm, and formed the familiar hand sign.
"No!" Kabuto hissed. The kunai at her throat pressed harder, and Hinata could almost feel it breaking her skin.
Forming what little chakra that she couldn't feel but knew that she had, Hinata pressed her hands together firmly. "The part that fails... is my ability to see through genjutsu!" And she scattered her own chakra.
"Kai!"
"NO-!" Kabuto's monstrous image faded, and Hinata felt his fingers and kunai disappear.
Hinata opened her eyes, and overcome with exhaustion, her body slumped against the tree trunk.
"Very good, Hinata-san," Kabuto said. Hinata's eyes darted around the forest trying to find the voice's true source.
The apparition that Kabuto had conjured from the genjutsu hadn't really been Kabuto, but just something to explain the sensation of choking that she had felt as Kabuto manipulated her nervous system.
"You obviously don't know who my sensei is," Hinata replied only to make Kabuto speak again. "Yuuhi Kurenai."
"An established genjutsu user, if I'm not mistaken," Kabuto said. Hinata closed her eyes to focus. His voice was coming from below. "Which I'm not," Kabuto added.
Hinata nodded to herself. Definitely from below. She dared not use her Byakugan. She still needed enough chakra to perform Hakke RokuJyuYonShou.
"But..." Kabuto continued. "You were mistaken."
"What-"
Then Hinata looked down. Kabuto stood over Naruto, a kunai to his throat. Apparently, Kabuto's jutsu hadn't worn off on Naurto who spasmodically kicked out at Kabuto. Kabuto easily dodged.
"You true weakness as a shinobi and as a Hyuuga isn't your Byakugan's failings. It's your own."
Hinata's eyes widened.
"Naruto-kun is your real weakness. In your effort to please and protect him by staying and fighting, you have spelled his doom. Because of you, he is nearly paralyzed and open to attack. You assumed that you were my target, not him. I know what I told you, but a ninja must see through deception. Thus, Naruto-kun will die for your stupidity."
"Naruto-kun! No! But why?"
Kabuto pushed his glasses up on his nose and blocked a messy punch from Naruto. "Orochimaru-sama ordered me to assassinate Naruto-kun to prevent him from falling into the hands of Akatsuki."
Hinata sucked in a sharp breath. She couldn't risk throwing a kunai at Kabuto in her current state; she might hit Naruto-kun.
So it was a good thing that she had predicted this move.
"Now Naruto-kun!" Hinata shouted.
Instantly, a dozen Naruto's materialized out of the trees and grabbed Kabuto, effectively holding him in place.
Wide-eyed at the sudden turn of events, Kabuto struggled against the surprise attack. But to no avail.
Naruto's eyes glinted a fiery red as slitted pupils seemed to mock Kabuto's helplessness. The whisker marks on his cheeks stood ragged against his skin. He growled, "Teme! Now you're going to pay for hurting Hinata."
Agilely, Hinata leapt off her branch and approached Kabuto.
"Filthy bitch! How did you know?" Kabuto snapped at her.
Hinata smiled slightly. "You were fighting him when I first found you two. You could have easily located me if I was your target, not him. Plus, in every fight you kept trying to make me run away and desert Naruto-kun."
"Why don't you just run? Leave Naruto-kun behind?" Kabuto taunted her. "There's nothing you can do for him. Why not just save yourself? You can't possibly defeat me."
Hinata shook her head to clear away the memory and continued. "You helped me realize that you were using genjutsu when you were bragging. Before you cast it, I noticed that your senses were heightened. The chakra was forming around your sensory areas. It was the exact same formation of chakra that Kurenai-sensei uses when she and Kiba-kun are sparring. Her chakra clumps around the senses to keep herself attuned to reality and not become too obsessed with the genjutsu that she's placing on Kiba-kun; thus becoming less vulnerable to attack from another person."
Hinata smiled again and formed the seal for Byakugan. She lowered her center of gravity and put her hands in perfect Jyuken form. She closed her eyes and focused what little chakra she had left.
Suddenly her eyes snapped open, the veins on the sides of her forehead stood out. "Jyukenhou, Hakke Roku Jyu Yon Shou!"
In her mind's eye she could see a series of glowing green circles illuminating the ground below her feet. One by one, Naruto's kage bunshin disappeared in individual plumes of gray smoke. Finally Kabuto was left alone, petrified in fear.
Time seemed to slow to a crawl, and Kabuto seemed frozen in place.
"Two strikes!" Hinata used her two fingers to push her chakra into Kabuto's system, envisioning all the chakra points that Neji-nii-san had showed her. Kabuto shuddered under the blows.
"Four strikes!"
"Eight!"
"Sixteen!" Hinata's hands moved faster than normal eye could see. Little bursts of chakra forced themselves through Kabuto's body and out the other side.
"Thirty-two!"
"Sixty-four strikes!" Hinata finished off the move, the last strike to the heart.
Kabuto's damaged body flew back and into a tree. Leaves fluttered down, shaken from their posts in the canopy.
Kabuto's head lolled onto his chest, and his body went limp.
Hinata sighed. It was finally over.
A sudden weariness claimed her, and her knees buckled. She felt a gentle pair of hands catch her.
"Good job Hinata-chan. I'm glad I trusted your plan."
"I'll take that as a no," Hinata slipped Naruto's shoes off his feet and onto her own. They didn't fit perfectly, but they would have to do.
Hinata hesitated by Naruto. Then she placed a light kiss on his cheek.
"Stick to the plan, ne? Naruto-kun?" she whispered in his ear.
"The trap will work, I know it," he replied.
She hung her head for a moment, and then she stood to face Kabuto.
"Oi! Hinata! Naruto!" Hinata's head snapped up. A welcome sight greeted her.
"Shino-kun! Kiba-kun!" Hinata smiled. Oh well... Better late than never.
Kiba landed in the clearing followed shortly by Shino and Akamaru. "Are you alright?" Kiba asked. Then he spotted Kabuto's unconscious form. "Kusso! What the hell?!"
Naruto excitedly explained Hinata's cunning in her battle against Kabuto. Shino gave Hinata a deep nod of respect. Hinata smiled in return.
"Ahh! Hinata! Sugei!" Kiba pounced on Hinata and enveloped her in a great hug. Akamaru licked her cheek.
"Ah! Ittai!" Hinata flinched. The wound on her arm and the bruises on her body and throat from Kabuto's genjutsu throbbed in pain. Kiba quickly stepped back and apologized.
Shino helped prop Hinata up. "We should probably send a message to Tsunade-sama requesting ANBU backup to pick up Kabuto."
Kiba turned around. "You're right, Shino, we need to – Kusso!! Shino! Where'd Kabuto go?"
Hinata whirled around. Kiba was right.
Kabuto was gone.
The only indication that he had ever been there was the slight indentation in the leaves where he had lain.
"B-but I saw him! And he... he..." Hinata stuttered, at a loss for words.
Suddenly a crunch of leaves.
Hinata whirled around.
Naruto lay on the ground, unconscious.
"Naruto-kun!"