Hunters Armor

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predator speak

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Hinata woke up with a moderate headache as she looked around she recognized the medical bay she reached up and touched her left temple and felt the slight raise there just a tiny line to mark where they had slipped the translator into her skull. She eased back into the the bed and smiled, Naruto would be by soon to visit her, it was one of those things she just knew, like how she knew he would save her from the alien hive. It wasn't long before her feeling was proven correct and Kwei Kwie and Naruto came into her room, Naruto was smiling and a tiny bit wobbly.

Kwie Kwie smiled "so, how are you feeling Hinata?" Hinata smiled, "I'm doing well, and it seems like the translator is working properly" Naruto piped up "That's Great Hinata I'm still getting used to knowing how to speak it" Hinata giggled, "I can tell, I'm sure you'll get used to it." he smiled "so how long before your out?" she shrugged and Kwie Kwie spoke up, "provably only the rest of the day, the procedure is an easy one but lots of things can go wrong." Naruto nodded and took a seat next to Hinata's bed. Kwie Kwie smiled, "I'm going to leave you two alone for a while, I have some things to take care of, so take it easy and enjoy the time off, things are going to get much more fun much faster,"

she left them with that statement and Hinata looked over at Naruto, "so, how bad was the version you had?" he waved it off "I've dealt with worse, I'm just trying to get used to remembering what one to use" she smiled "I know you'll figure it out quickly, can you hand me a glass of water?" he nodded and gave her a glass that was on a nightstand and she took a long drink from it. She then started probing it with her chakra like she had been doing earlier in the day.

"so it's odd to talk like this," Naruto nodded, "Yea, I know what you mean, but its kind of fun too" she nodded, "so what do you think she meant by things are going to get fun faster?" Naruto shrugged "if I had to guess I think shes gonna have us finishing our training soon, or maybe using those shoulder thingies" Hinata giggled, "what is it with guys and explosions?" Naruto shrugged, "just kind of a thing, and I think Tenten liked explosives too" Hinata took Naruto's hand, "I was just teasing, you Naruto,"

He smiled and stuck out his tongue "yea I know, I still cant help but wonder who survived that," she gave his hand a gentle squeeze "I'm sure some of them must have, gotten away," she pulled him into a hug and he hugged back, for now they were the only link left of there old lives, and that has a way of making people closer, anyone watching them could see the seeds of a mated pair in the making. it was this display of affection that the chief medical Yautja walked in on and decided to not interrupt.

It was a good amount of time before the medical Yautja came back in Hinata was napping and Naruto was trying to meditate, he didn't bother to disturb them and just ran a hand-scanner over them lightly clicking his tusks at the results, they both were adjusting well to there treatments, it looked like the male was going to have finished sorting out things by the end of his sleep cycle, and the female was showing no signs of complications, So he left to report to the Clan head.

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Kwie Kwie sighed as she was going over the information she was looking through, they still didn't know how that hive got to that planet, the natives defiantly didn't have space travel of any kind, no clans were claiming the seeding, but here in the storage bay of the clan-ship they had the queen of the hive, a rather impressive specimen to boot, and to top it off it was still bugging her that apparently a pack of identical Yautja had assaulted an Oomon settlement, things just weren't adding up on that planet. She sighed and leaned back in the chair in her room looking over at the clock, still early in the evening.

She rubbed her temples, those two are a real hassle, I still cant believe how much they've grown on me though I'll see how fast they pick up using the armor and test them out on a simple hunt, she sighed again, one of the down sides of her half-blood heritage was her odd vision, in good illumination it was basically the same as human and in the dark it was much like the Yautja picking up on the infrared spectrum but in poor light it was a mix of both, which occasionally gave her a headache also the reason she wore filtering contacts. And after staring at a screen for five hours they were starting to bug her, she plucked the contacts out and rubbed her eyes. Her two students were going to be ready for there chiva far sooner than she expected, they were both picking up everything faster than they should.

She pulled up there present medical records, both of them were in excellent health other than there odd personal traits, and that only made her think of her father and her own personal traits, being a hybrid made some things more difficult, she was smaller than all the other females and most of the males, though she was far stronger than a normal human she had to train twice as hard to be as strong as the Yautja, but the hardest part was she took so much after her mother, the only thing that really set her apart visually from a human were her eyes, which brought her back to her students, particularly Hinata, she seems to be adjusting well, but I have to wonder how shes going to take things in the long run, her eyes really set her apart. for all the world they look like they were dead, until those veins bulged then there was something resembling a pupil. She should be happy to already have a perspective mate, I still don't know my my father chose my mother. She slinked into bed mentally exhausted, wondering how well her students would do in the morning.

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In the morning Hinata and Naruto were dismissed from medical bay and went off for breakfast, they had a couple of hours before they had to meet Kwie Kwie for combat training, the dining hall was half full of rowdy Yautja and it was a new experience for both of them now that they could understand the conversation all around them, from people boasting about there latest hunt, complaining about bad luck and a few talking about them, always in hushed voices about the strange new Oomans causing a stir. It was a new thing for Naruto, not so much people talking about him, but as something interesting and not just as a menace, Hinata on the other hand was used to people talking about her in this way, it was common for people to gossip in the noble families and the Hyuuga were no exception.

There breakfast was a fast affair both were hungry after yesterday and didn't want to linger in the crowd, one think Kakashi always taught them was its best to blend as well as you can as often as you can. They headed for the usual kehrite where Kwie Kwie had been training them Naruto knocked on the door and they waited. It took a bit but Kwie Kwie opened the door, "hey, you two are a little early, but by all means come on in and feel free to get started where you left off" they both smiled and went in and picked out there weapons, Hinata with the combi-stick and Naruto had moved on to the basic glave "have fun Hinata, I've got a bet to win." and he deployed his clones to the ceiling Hinata extended her combi-stick and activated her byakugan sliding through the basic katas and starting in on the advanced again.

There two hours seemed to flow by for all three, Hinata had moved on to the wrist-blades by the end of it and Naruto had mastered the glave and the maul, all he had left to learn now for non computer guided weaponry was predator shuriken and spear-guns, both of which he should have no problems learning. They traveled off to the communal kehrite Naruto and Hinata stayed in step behind Kwie Kwie as she lead them up onto one of the catwalks she motioned for them to stand next to he as she leaned against the rail.

"take a good look kids," she swept her hand out over the kehrite were dozens of yautja were sparing and practicing with hand to hand weapons. "these are your people now, you are part of this proud tradition I honestly think both of you are almost ready to take your chiva," both of them smiled at her praise, "but I want you both to think about more than just becoming blooded, you two have very special skills, I think you two are the right kind of people to become arbitrator's, so I wanted to go more into detail about them." Hinata smiled and Naruto nodded, he was the one to speak, "I remember you said they hunted badbloods like the ones that attacked my home, and they could stand in for elders for disputes."

Kwie Kwie smiled, "good memory, but that was the simple version, arbitrator's uphold the law of there clan and of the yautja way of life, many many generations ago before the yautja left home-world they weren't all than different from humans, they were wandering tribes pitted in eternal war among themselves. In time Paya gave the light of her word to her people and they set aside the ways of war for the ways of the hunt, instead of killing one another her people showed there prowess by hunting the lesser beasts of home-world. The clans that were the best hunters became the leaders, and over many generations they learned and created new technology for the hunt, there were some who were blessed by Paya with great knowledge of technology and they would lock themselves away for months and years at a time and emerge with new incredible technology." she took a moment to breath and let things settle for a moment.

"and so over many generations the yautja people became to much for the home-world to support and they had to find new hunting grounds, each clan turned to there own to build vessels. each one created there new homes the great clan-ships the very same ones that move through the void today, only the few gifted by the light of Paya know the true workings of the vessels. The clans spread out across all of space in search of new pray leaving those blessed by the light of Paya to guard the home-world. In the depths of space they found the greatest prey the Kinde Amedha the hard meat a beast that had spread across the stars before them and would be the ultimate test of adulthood. And so the tradition of the Chiva was formed, each clan forming there own rules for it under the guiding light of Paya some rules were agreed upon by all clans, those we hunt must be worthy prey, we must not over hunt, and the Kinde Amedha must never be allowed to take a whole planet." she gave a small smile,

"but even if a culture agrees upon rules individuals have there own way, some broke the rules some outright ignored them, and some broke the rules to punish those who broke the rules and so those with the light of Paya called on the clans to send them there greatest and most honorable hunters, those hunters were taken in by those of the light of Paya and trained them taught them secrets of the way and gave them the mark of Paya. they were the first of the Arbitrator's, no arbitrator has ever spoken of what they learn when they become Arbitrator's but we all know they are all the guardians of the light of Paya and of our people" she took a deep breath, it had been a long time since she had heard that story for herself, the odyssey of the stars, it was what inspired her to aim at becoming and arbitrator.

Hinata and Naruto both had a sense of wonder, it was a beautiful story Hinata was the one to speak "that was beautiful Kwie Kwie, so they protect the whole way of life?" Kwie Kwie nodded "yes, and I think you two are well suited to it, I want to get you two ready for that if your willing, and if you willing, take the arbitrator trials with me when I take them, as a team." Naruto had a big grin on his face, "You bet especially if we can keep things like what happened to our home from happening again." Kwie Kiwe hugged them both, "now kids, lets go enjoy some good food, after that I think its time I have a personal spar with the two of you."

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Lunch was a simple affair and still a mildly interesting experience for Naruto and Hinata, as understanding the words flying around you makes for interesting times particularly for people trained to keep and eye and ear on there surroundings at all times, it wasn't long before Naruto and Hinata were in one of the larger rings of the communal kehrites across from Kwie Kwie, she gave them a preditory smile "Same rules as always kids, this time you two against me, use anything you have but no killing strikes, other than that show me what you've learned"

Kwie Kwie extended her combi-stick, Naruto settled into a stance and so did Hinata, Naruto was first to assault springing forward with a low kick, Hinata came in after him with a high punch Kwie Kwie use her combi-stick to vault over Hinata and swung the tip towards Naruto's exposed back he twisted out of the way and created a shadow clone behind her who began a furious assault of punches, Hinata came in from behind with a roundhouse kick to Kwie Kwie's back and the real Naruto came in from the side with a low kick, Kwie Kwie was parrying the clones punches and managed to slip in past the clones guard tossing him into the path of Hinata's foot and kicking Naruto in the shin.

Narut ignored the pain and created a pair of shadow clones and Hinata activated her bloodline the veins around her eyes bulging Naruto began to crowd out Kwie Kwie each one alternating attacking and defending keeping Kwie Kwie on the defensive, Hinata went to support mode and was peppering Kwie Kwie with shuriken Kwie Kwie was getting frustrated, just facing the two of them was hard, they work together amazingly well, and its not like either of them are a pushover to begin with. Kwie Kwi compacted her combi stick to half length and wielded it like a sword and deployed her wirst blades she backhanded a Naruto with the wrist blades as she parried a kunai strike.

She went into a low twisting strike with the combi-stick on one of the others both dispelling into clouds of smoke she rolled out of the way of a kick from Hinata and blocked a punch from Naruto who rolled back from the clash as Hinata stepped up to the front line, he created a ring of clones around the edge of the sparing area as Hinata started a high speed series of strikes at Kwie Kwie's mid section Kwie Kwie was having a hard time parrying each blow they came fast but not hard, she had to split her attention between all the ranged weaponry flying in at her and Hinata, each projectile coming within a fraction of an inch of Hinata but always missing and forcing Kwie Kwie to barely twist out of the way this is harder than facing a hoard of drones Kwie Kwie smiled, and swung low with her wrist-blades and extended her combi-stick at Hinata's chest forcing her back.

Kwie Kwie scooped up some of the projectiles on the ground near her and returned them into the ring of clones dispersing several and charging down a few more, weaving out of the way of more shuriken and kunai she leaped into a back flip after making contact with a pair of clones gracefully going over Hinata's head as she was coming in for a strike Hinata launched into a spin and pushed out a field of chakra as Kwie Kwie was going over head, just managing to hit her with the edge of her kaiten sending her sailing into the waiting fists of several Narutos.

Kwie Kwie was slammed back towards Hinata, Kwie Kwie twisted with the impact and rolled into a kick using Hinata as a springboard to regain her footing tossing several of the shuriken on the floor into the remaining ring of clones and coming back at Hinata, she retracted her wrist-blades and extended her combi-stick to full length launching into a rapid spinning assault. Hinata absorbed most of the blows on her training weights Hinata was taken off guard by Kwie Kwie retracting the combi-stick mid strike and grabing her arm, Kwie Kwie used her superior strength and size to pull Hinata into a swing and launch her at one of the Narutos closing in, who piled in to catch her. Kwie Kwie took advantage of there distraction to slam her combi-stick into several of them, she leaped back as she felt a pressure wave just miss her head.

She took a ready stance as her two students got to there feet, She had a smile on her face as did Naruto, Hinata was calm, and Kwie Kwie bowed, "Good, work kids, time for a breather, I know you can go for longer but the two of you together are more of a challenge than I was prepared for." that brought a smile to Hinata's face along with Naruto's. She gave them a sly little smile, "But that doesn't mean your ready to start hunting or take your chiva yet," her canines showed over her lips as she smiled, "but you are ready to get your awu'asa and learn its usage."

Hinata and Naruto smiled and Naruto shouted "Yes One Step Closer!" Kwie Kwie gave a small smile and then bopped him on the head, "Don't get over-confidant, after all doing anything in armor is a whole world of difference" her smile darkened to a serious and even expression, "besides that you two need to remember something, the world you live in now, killing is a thing of pride, and trophies must be taken, your armor is your personal base in the wilds and away from ship." she knelt down to look them both in the eyes, "are you ready to step up and take pride in what we do, because I don't want you to fail, above all else I want to see you two succeed even if it meens delaying the major stepping stones so you have time to adapt"

Hinata and Naruto simply smiled and held each-others hands, Naruto spoke "We know its going to be hard, But we don't Have to kill people right, we can just stick to the Demons and animals right." Kwie Kwie nodded with a smile on her face and Hinata finished "Then we can handle it," her grip on Naruto's hand tightened "We need to keep moving forward"

Kwie Kwie nodded and stood, "we will get your armors fitted, and then I will take you on your first hunt, you can get used to the armor on the journey to our destination"

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Authers note,

my apologies for the lateness in the posting of this incomplete chapter, i would have liked to finish it before posting but real life issues have complicated things and the progress of this story is now on hold untill further notice, sorry for the inconvenience and i hope to post with regularity after my RL complications are resolved