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Sorry everyone for the delay! Without further ado, here's the next installments!

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So the next day she was up and training again, fighting as if it was her death if she gave up. Her fiery determination that Neji had awakened was on the hottest setting, not even the water of defeat could put it out. It made her focus, use her chakra better, react faster, so much that Neji wasn't afraid to use some of his techniques on her.

"Good! Fight as if this is your last battle! Don't give in to anything!"

He knocked her back with a blow to the head, but she got up immediately, a trickle of blood coming from the wound. She was panting a little, but her focus didn't waver. She charged at him, not hesitating for anything, even if she was fighting her teacher.

Suddenly, he caught her hands and his eyes went to normal, looking towards the house. "Mitsuki, Sasuke! I didn't expect you to be back so soon!"

Sasuke looked stunned, and Mitsuki had activated her Byakugan, Hinata seeing her real mother's eyes for the first time. Her mother, the one who had given her the Kekkei Genkai. She had been named for her aunt, not her mother. But she didn't know the whole story, so she couldn't judge what her mother was going through in her youth.

"Welcome home, Ok—" Her mouth was covered by Neji's hand.

He reported, "Hinata-chan has improved greatly, as you can see. She might be able to become one of the better genin that graduated this year. She's all ready to hand in her papers as a ninja—"

Mitsuki's eyes widened and she looked over at her husband, who turned a sickly shade of green. "Neji, is Naruto receiving them as usual?"

"Yes, is that a problem?"

"In person?"

"Yes."

Mitsuki turned the exact shade of green as her husband. "She's going to meet Naruto…"

"She already did, Mitsuki. She knows the truth."

The ninja woman turned from green to white in a split second and she stammered, "He told her?! How did you figure it out?!"

"She's a perfect balance between you two, Mitsuki. It's quite simple. Anyone who sees them together will know, they're so alike. I think you might have a problem when she becomes a chunin, or a jonin. Almost everyone in the village has seen her around, loitering like her father."

Mitsuki closed her eyes and sighed, lowering her head. "Hinata, how do you feel about this?"

Neji let his student go and the girl ran up to her mother, a smile on her face. "Hyuga-sama, I'm just glad that I know who my parents are. Can I call you Oka-san?"

"Do you know how long I've wanted you to call me that, my dear one?"

Hinata jumped into her mother's arms and cried, "Oka-san!"

Unknown to them, Itachi was watching, a slight smile on his face. So. Hinata was really his half-sister through their mother. How many men was she with then, if she had four children already and she wasn't even in her thirties? Were Hiro and Seiji even Sasuke's? Considering that they looked exactly like a combination of the two, he guessed they were.

But what would happen if it was found out he was the bastard son of the man who'd caused the Uchiha genocide? No one had ever questioned him being Sasuke's, because any child of either of the men would look a certain way. He himself never questioned it, never known his mother's dark secret concerning him. But at least he'd been told by his mother herself. Hinata hadn't had that gift.

He observed that she was getting better at her chakra control, much better now that she could fight her teacher like she had been. She would be quite ready for being trained by a jonin teacher who they would be assigned to. That made him confident that him pushing for her to pass the test wasn't a wasted effort. He might've been a powerful jonin or part of the ANBU now, but he chose to do it all at a normal pace, which didn't please everyone else. He felt too young to be so responsible for things. He needed to grow and mature more before accepting that his genius would help him more than hinder when it came time to jump forward in promotions, such as the Chunin and Jonin Exams. With Mitsuki and whoever else would be on their team, they would be unstoppable, because she had potential to be a great ninja, despite how poorly she'd done in school.

After they turned in their papers, it would only be a matter of days before they would become genin under a jonin teacher. And he was looking forward to it, since it would be a learning experience, should he want to take on a genin team when he was done having fun being free doing the hardest missions he could get his hands on.

Neither he nor Hinata had any clue on what was facing them, becoming ninja. For in the near future, they would be put in danger that they couldn't handle, even as a team.

And it would be the fight for their lives.


Now they're going to get a Jonin teacher! Any guesses as to who it is? Any takers?

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