Chapter 14

"Hell what did I get myself into?" Hinata muttered to herself while on her way back to camp. "Dammit this is so troublesome."

"What is?" Itachi's voice came from behind her.

Hinata twirled around, "Itachi-sensei."

"What's troublesome?" Itachi asked again.

"I stupidly agreed to a sparring match with Koran, Mitoki, Gaara and Toby in an hour at the waterfall." Hinata admitted quietly.

"Very well. I'll be there watching as well all the other members who wants to. Try not to lose." With that Itachi walked past her and into his tent.

"Shit." Hinata muttered under her breath, "I have the worst luck anyone can ask for. Better go think of some strategies."

Hinata continued walking, past the camp area and towards the forest, jumping onto a tree branch and started thinking.

"Ok I know all the boys can use all the elements but Gaara's strong element is Earth and Wind, Mitoki's is Water and Wind, Koran's is Fire and Lightning. Koran's going to be tough. I don't know Toby's though. I'm at a huge disadvantage for ninjutsu. If they come at me altogether with ninjutsu then I'm dead. I guess I have to use my katanas this time. I HAVE to make sure they don't use ninjutsu together. So I should take out Koran first then Gaara, then Mitoki or Toby. Dang Itachi for forbidding me from using katanas during the tests. At least I have medical jutsus and my Byakugan. I shouldn't use my Byakugan until I really need to." With those thoughts Hinata walked back to her tent to retrieve her katanas.

Hinata walked back to camp sighing, "I never should've agreed to that sparring. Curse my temper and because of Itachi I can't back down. I'm in a mess"

When she got to camp she just happened to meet Itachi near her tent, "Hinata come here." Hinata obeyed and walked over. She had learned to obey Itachi no matter what.

Flashback

Itachi was training Hinata for the 3rd day of taijutsu nonstop. Hinata was panting on the ground in front of Itachi's feet while Itachi was looking as though nothing happened, glaring down at Hinata.

"Get up Hinata."

Hinata was trying very hard to get up but her legs seemed to be unable to move.

"We need to continue. Get up."

Seeing that Hinata still hadn't gotten up yet he sighed and walked over to her and pulled her up by her hair.

"Let's continue,"

Hinata ran at Itachi again and attempted to punch him but he blocked it. He disappeared from Hinata's view (she wasn't allowed to use Byakugan during taijutsu training).

"This," Itachi said from behind her, "Is for not getting up." He kicked her and she landed in a heap against tree, pain coursing through every part of her body.

Itachi walked over to her and gazed at her angrily. "You should've dodged that."

"G-gomen." Hinata replied, wincing at her wounds.

End Flashback

That was one of the flashbacks of one of Hinata's memories, the other being the stutter part.

Flashback

"Take out a kunai." Itachi ordered Hinata.

"H-hai."

Itachi closed his eyes, counting to ten to calm down and not use Tsukiyomi on her for stuttering.

"Don't stutter." Itachi said as calmly as he could.

"Hai, g-gomen." Hinata tried her best not to.

In a flash Itachi was behind Hinata with a kunai against her neck, "Say that again, WITHOUT stuttering."

"H-hai, gomen." Hinata tried.

Itachi applied a little for pressure against the kunai, receiving a thin trail of blood against her neck.

"Without stuttering."

So it went on and on for several minutes, until she could not stutter completely in her sentences.

End flashback

Itachi continued, "I've talked about it to Leader and he said that instead of sparring it will be a proper match. The 4 of them against you. All the members are going. It starts in 5 minutes and the waterfall. The boys have already been informed." He turned around and left a shocked Hinata behind.

"My luck just gets better and better. Trust him to make my life hell." She said sarcastically, once Itachi was out of earshot. She went inside her shared tent and grabbed her twin katanas before heading back outside.

As she entered the waterfall clearing she saw all the members, even Leader, sitting on different tree branches, leaning against tree or sitting on rocks. Luckily for Hinata the boys weren't there yet. Itachi beckoned for Hinata to go to him so she slowly walked towards him, "Yes, Itachi-sensei?"

"Are you ready?"

Hinata gulped, "Not reall--- I mean yes." Hinata changed her answer under Itachi's glare.

"Try to at least take out 2 of them."

"Hai." Hinata said just as the 4 boys were approaching.

Hinata glared at them as if to say, "Look what you got me in to."

"Forget about beating them." Hinata thought, "I'm killing them when I have the chance."

Hinata walked away from Itachi once he dismissed her and took her defensive battle stance, knowing they would make the first move.

"Start." Leader said from the branch he was sitting on and instantly all 4 boys disappeared.

"They're fast." Hinata observed silently, "But I'm faster."

Hinata regretted thinking those words because just then she ducked from Mitoki's punch, blocked Koran's kick, swiveled around Toby's kick and Gaara……wait where is Gaara.

"Crap." Hinata muttered under her breath, remembering Gaara's Earth Element. She jumped up just as Gaara's hand shot from underground. Unfortunately that's exactly what the boys planned. She met with all four boys in the air and sighed.

"No way she can get out of that." Hidan yelled to Itachi.

Itachi was going to literally kill Hinata if she lost here. Maybe not kill but probably train like hell, starve, punish her or do all that together. Not that he wouldn't do that if she lost altogether.

Hinata punched Koran as hard as she could without chakra, out of anger and he fell straight towards the ground, landing with a BOOM.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu." Hinata said and another 2 copies of Hinata appeared.

The real Hinata jumped back to the ground while the 2 clones did Rotation. The rotation knocked Toby, Mitoki and Gaara to the ground but when both the rotations met it created a resounding crash.

"I think I may have overdone that. That was easy." Hinata thought, while her clones disappeared, "Oh well, 3 down 1 more to go."

"You have trained her well, Itachi." Leader said, from his branch.

"That was one hell of a big explosion." Hidan said.

Hinata deactivated her Byakugan and got into an offensive stance, ready to fight Koran, 1 on 1. Koran ran towards Hinata and aimed for a kick in the stomach. Hinata jumped back and ran towards the water, "Water Style, Water Dragon Jutsu." Koran jumped out of the way and landed on a tree.

Hinata activated her Byakugan. "It seems that the Akatsuki members is at least a fourth of a mile away from us. I can use Water Tsunami and make sure it doesn't get to them." Hinata thought.

While she was thinking Koran managed to kick her in the stomach.

"Damn." Hinata muttered under her breath while she was flying towards the tree. Once she recovered she ran back to the waterfall, "Water Style Water Tsunami." Water rushed out from the water fall and invaded the whole area. Hinata spotted Koran on top of the water and activated her Byakugan.

Hinata appeared right in front of Koran, "Koran, you are within' my field of range." She told him, "8 Trigrams, 64 Palms." She hit all of Koran's tenketsu points perfectly and he fell unconscious. She deactivated her Byakugan and turned towards Itachi.

Hinata felt her stomach and groaned, "Dang that kick was chakra filled. I think it broke one of my ribs. It was partly my fault for letting my guard down. Dammit, I'll never hear the end of it from Itachi about that never let your guard down lecture. He's gonna kill me for not evading that simple kick."

Hinata's hand grew green as she started to heal her broken rib. She finished just as Itachi approached.

"Hinata come with me. You still need to work on your taijutsu. But first open Koran's tenketsu points." Itachi ordered her.

"Hai." Hinata walked over to Koran and filled her hand with chakra. She tapped Koran's heart and he seemed to jump up.

"Alright." The Leader said, just arriving, "It's only 3 p.m. so everyone has the rest of the day to do whatever. You will not be doing anything for the next 2 days as well so it's your time. But I expect you to train as when we get to the Hidden Rain you will fight another Akatsuki member. I must see some improvement or else….. This time I will pick for you. Dismissed."

"Hinata," Itachi called, "Go over to the training grounds 3 immediately. I will meet you there. Oh and we will be training for the next 2 days and a half nonstop so get ready."

Hinata groaned under her breath as she walked over to the training grounds 3, dreading the next 2 and a half days as well as the training Itachi was going to put her through.

Next chapter will be training time. I will update soon and more often since school's finally out. R&R!