I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. Still open to ideas and am practically begging for them. Need a pairing idea for Hanabi, Fu, and one for Choji would be nice.
Italics mean thoughts.
"Italics with Quotes mean Conversations with Kurama."
Taken
"Hanabi, you must try harder if you intend to keep up with that freak with the Byakugan," Hiashi said as his daughter struggled to copy Hinata's Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists.
Her main problem was that every time she got close to succeeding, her father would speak and break her concentration making all of her effort blow up in her face, literally. The horrible excuses for lion heads that she had formed would literally explode throwing her back a few feet. She would push herself up and continue, but it was clear that Hiashi was starting to grow angry at his daughter for failing. The courtyard she was training in was starting to turn black from burn marks and there was a spot on the tree where an explosion had cleared the bark off of it. The last straw was when the heads simply dissolved because Hanabi didn't have enough chakra to form them.
"Enough!" Hiashi said. "You are clearly not going to succeed with your current training. From now on, you will wake up at two every morning and train until ten o'clock pm then you will go to sleep. You may have half an hour for lunch. That is it."
"B-but-" Hanabi tried to say stuttering due to exhaustion and not wanting to make her father any more angry.
"Did you just stutter?" Hiashi interrupted. "A Hyuga does not stutter. Weak children that don't deserve to be trained at all stutter. Are you that child?"
"N-no," Hanabi said.
"Excuse me?" Hiashi asked.
"I'm not that girl, father," Hanabi said.
"Then form a fucking lion head!" Hiashi snapped.
Hanabi jumped at the anger in his voice and tried to form a lion head but this time her hand barely began to glow before the chakra faded.
"I see," Hiashi said. "Weak child it is. You've earned a punishment Hanabi. Come here."
"N...no," Hanabi said backing away fearing what she knew he would do to her.
"Get over here!" Hiashi said, his voice icy.
"No!" Hanabi said bumping into a pillar.
"GET THE FUCK OVER HERE YOU USELESS CHILD!" Hiashi shouted standing.
"NO!" Hanabi said turning and running toward the door.
Unfortunately for her, she was so tired that she tripped over her own feet and landed hard on her stomach. She rolled over just as Hiashi caught up with her. He activated his Byakugan and raised his hand but a boy about her age maybe a year older, appeared beside Hiashi and smashed his knee into his face then jumped and spun kicking him in the face and sending him flying. Hiashi smashed into a pillar and began to stand so the boy picked Hanabi up bridal style and jumped onto the roof of the Hyuga Compound then began moving as fast as he could toward the Hokage monument.
When he reached the top of the monument, he set Hanabi down gently and then stepped back and bowed.
"I apologize for attacking your father and for touching you without permission," the boy said following a tradition that the most uptight Hyugas followed but no one else did.
Even Hanabi hated the tradition of males needing permission to touch a female at all when saving them. The part about attacking her father was fair, though.
"I forgive you," Hanabi said. "Thank you for saving me, but who are you?"
"My name is Konohamaru," Konohamaru said sitting up and scratching the back of his head. "You're Hanabi Hyuga, right?"
"How do you know that?" Hanabi asked.
Konohamaru instantly looked away and scratched the back of his head again.
"Oh, um, you know, just rumors," Konohamaru said.
"Like what?" Hanabi asked.
"Nothing important and nothing negative," Konohamaru said. "Was your father that strict with Hinata?"
"Worse," Hanabi said. "When I go home he's going to kill me."
"Don't go home," Konohamaru said. "You're welcome to stay with me."
"Really?" Hanabi asked smirking and raising an eyebrow causing Konohamaru to blush.
"I didn't mean it like that!" Konohamaru said. "Geez, all girls are the same."
"How many aside from Moegi do you hang out with?"
"How did you know I hang out with Moegi?" Konohamaru asked raising an eyebrow.
This time, Hanabi blushed and began twiddling her fingers much like Hinata did when she was younger.
"You're a lot like Hinata," Konohamaru said smirking.
"And you're a lot like Naru...I didn't mean it like that," Hanabi said turning even more red.
Konohamaru pointed at her and laughed then sighed and looked around.
"So, are you going to go home?" Konohamaru asked.
"I don't know," Hanabi said. "Are you sure it's alright if I stay with you?"
"It's fine," Konohamaru said. "Then we can train together. I won't even be as strict as your father."
Hanabi smiled and nodded then looked up at the sky. There was one cloud that she could make an image out of and smirked. The image she was able to make was of her father with a kunai in the side of his neck. She would never actually want her father dead but sometimes, when he was especially bad, she would fantasize about him not being around to boss her around.
"So," Konohamaru said standing. "We'd better go tell Tsunade about it so that Hiashi can't get her to make you go home."
"True," Hanabi said standing but suddenly felt dizzy and stumbled into Konohamaru who instinctively tried to catch her to keep her from falling but accidentally caught her in a hug.
Once her dizziness had passed a half second later, she realized how they were standing at the same time as him and stepped away. They both blushed and looked away from each other.
"Sorry," Konohamaru said.
"Me too," Hanabi said.
After a moment they began making their way down to Tsunade's office using the stairs so that there was less of a danger of Hanabi falling. When they reached Tsunade's office, Hiashi was already there having a screaming match with Tsunade.
"THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU WON'T MAKE HER COME HOME!?" Hiashi shouted.
"SHE'S YOUR DAUGHTER FOR GOD'S SAKE AND YOU TREAT HER LIKE A SLAVE!" Tsunade said. "NO WONDER HINATA DIDN'T MIND BEING DISOWNED!"
"DON'T YOU DARE ACT LIKE YOU KNOW HOW TO RAISE A CHILD!" Hiashi thundered growing steadily louder. "YOU'RE SO OLD AND DECREPID YOU COULDN'T GET ANYONE TO DATE YOU IF YOU TRIED EVEN WITH THAT JUTSU OF YOURS! EVEN WITH THAT SLUT SHIRT OF YOURS! ALTHOUGH, IT DOES MATCH YOUR SLUT PERSONALLITY!"
The office was instantly deadly silent. Konohamaru could practically hear Hiashi's heartbeat speeding up at the realization that he had ticked off Tsunade. He expected there to be the sound of an explosion or even a scream as Tsunade killed Hiashi but instead the door exploded off of its hinges and Hiashi flew out with it.
"Ah, Konohamaru, Hanabi, come on in," Tsunade said cheerfully. "Your father an I were just talking."
Konohamaru glanced at Hiashi unconscious with most of his face bloodied and paled.
"Then I'm not so sure I want to talk right now," Konohamaru said.
"Oh don't worry," Tsunade said. "I don't hit kids. Only him and Naruto."
Konohamaru nodded and walked in with Hanabi.
"She doesn't want to go home," Konohamaru said.
"I should think not," Tsunade said. "So, I assume you two have an alternate plan?"
"She's going to stay with me," Konohamaru said.
"Okay then," Tsunade said. "Like sister like sister indeed. Go ahead."
Konohamaru and Hanabi glanced at each other wide-eyed at Tsunade's assumption then looked back at her and both began denying having any romantic feelings toward each other. Tsunade simply laughed and waved a hand.
"Okay, okay," Tsunade said. "Just get out of here, I'm not supposed to drink in front of anyone."
Konohamaru sighed then stood and he and Hanabi left. Tsunade reached for her bottle of sake but stopped because a group of children from the academy ran in asking for autographs with Shizune right behind them.
"I'm going to pay you back for making me agree to only do it in private," Tsunade said.
Shizune smiled and shrugged despite knowing Tsunade was telling the truth. After the children had left Tsunade healed Hiashi then had a couple ANBU members take him home.
The next day, Shizune was stuck in Tsunade's office doing all of Tsunade's paperwork while Tsunade walked around the village looking at all of the wine stores. There were quite a few of them. Just as she passed the last, Jiraiya stepped out of it and into her.
"Ow," Tsunade said. "Watch it Jiraiya."
"Sorry," Jiraiya said. "At least you have something to cushion the blow."
"I'll put you in the hospital again," Tsunade warned.
"I didn't say anything," Jiraiya said.
Tsunade rolled her eyes and began walking back toward her office. Jiraiya followed at a distance.
Once Hanabi had woken up and gotten cleaned up and changed into clothes Tsunade had had delivered to her, Konohamaru asked what she wanted to do first. Since he had gotten up and gotten ready for the day before her, they could leave immediately.
"I don't know," Hanabi said.
"It's simple," Konohamaru said. "What do you usually do in the mornings?"
"My father usually makes me get up at five to train and if I'm this late he punishes me first then makes me train extra late," Hanabi said.
"It's only five thirty," Konohamaru said.
"I know, I slept in so late," Hanabi said genuinely amazed.
"I gotta ask, what punishment would he generally give?" Konohamaru asked.
"He would paralyze my arms then make me spar him," Hanabi said. "He really only ever did it to Hinata and made her spar me but he did it to me a couple of times."
"That's harsh," Konohamaru said. "Okay, what do you want to do?"
"Um...I don't know," Hanabi said. "What do you want to do?"
"How about we go get breakfast?" Konohamaru asked.
"But, my father says that eating anything other than lunch will make me get fat," Hanabi said.
"He's full of it," Konohamaru said. "You won't get fat from having breakfast in the mornings. With the training schedule he had you on, it's a wonder you haven't died from malnutrition."
"Are you sure I won't get fat?" Hanabi asked.
"I eat five times a day and probably don't burn half as much energy as you and I'm not fat," Konohamaru said.
"True," Hanabi said. "Okay. Where do you want to eat?"
"Up to you," Konohamaru said.
"I don't know anyplace," Hanabi said.
"What do you like?" Konohamaru asked.
"Um, bananas and milk," Hanabi said blushing.
Konohamaru grinned then shook his head and sighed.
"That's it, I'm going to show you what real food is," Konohamaru said. "And I know just the place to start."
"Not Ichiraku's," Hanabi said. "I hate ramen."
"Oh fine then," Konohamaru said rolling his eyes. "Yakiniku Q is good to."
Hanabi smirked and shook her head then they headed to the restaurant. When they got there, Konohamaru got an order of self-cook pork chops and Hanabi simply got a salad.
"That's not much of a breakfast," Konohamaru said.
"And pork chops are?" Hanabi asked.
"Fair enough," Konohamaru said. "So, what do you want to do for training?"
"Well, my father was trying to get me to use the Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists," Hanabi said.
"Do you want to learn that?" Konohamaru asked.
"Kind of," Hanabi said.
"Then maybe you should ask Hinata to teach it to you," Konohamaru said.
"True," Hanabi said. "But, my father doesn't want me associating with her."
"I doubt he would want you associating with me either," Konohamaru pointed out. "I did beat him up after all."
"True," Hanabi said. "Maybe I could keep trying to learn it on my own though."
"If you want," Konohamaru said. "What am I going to do for training?"
"I suppose we could spar," Hanabi said.
"Okay," Konohamaru said as their food arrived. "You want some pork?"
"No thank you," Hanabi said.
Konohamaru shrugged and began to cook his pork. Hanabi ate her salad slowly and finished eating about the same time as Konohamaru. Konohamaru paid the bill and they headed to a clearing just outside the village to train. The first thing Hanabi did was try to form a lion head. When it exploded, Konohamaru caught Hanabi.
"Maybe you should try less to form a lion head and more to gather chakra," Konohamaru said. "Maybe the head forms itself and may not be a lion for you."
Hanabi nodded and did as he expected. To both of their surprise, a head formed over each hand in the shape of a tiger. Unlike Hinata's, Hanabi's tiger heads were white.
"Told you you could do it," Konohamaru said. "Now, want to spar?"
"Sure," Hanabi said.
They took their place and Hanabi chose not to use the Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists, or in her case Tiger Fists, so she took her usual stance. Konohamaru threw several kunai at Hanabi and she dodged them all then activated her Byakugan and saw a second Konohamaru had been hidden as a kunai. Just as he got in range, she spun and hit him with Gentle Fist destroying him since he was a clone then she spun back around just in time to avoid a punch from Konohamaru and punch him in the stomach so that he wasn't hurt too badly.
"Not bad," Konohamaru said. "Let's try this."
He leapt back and into the air then threw three shuriken.
"Ninja Art, Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Konohamaru said.
All of the shuriken multiplied until there were hundreds of them. Hanabi spun and began to use Eight Trigrams Rotation and blocked the ones that would have hit her. Then four of the shuriken turned into Konohamaru clones and charged at her with two Rasengans. Hanabi leapt into the air and the Rasengans exploded against each other destroying the clones. Just as she began to descend, Konohamaru appeared behind her and wrapped wire around her. Then he landed and caught her then set her against a tree and leaned against one directly in front of her.
"I would have killed you before you could catch me if it were a real fight," Hanabi said.
"If it were a real fight I would have started with that jutsu," Konohamaru said.
Hanabi sighed then looked down at the wire. It wasn't sharp so it wouldn't ruing her clothes but it was strong enough that she couldn't break free. She sighed and looked at Konohamaru in annoyance.
"Let me up," Hanabi said.
"I don't know," Konohamaru said grinning wickedly. "I like women tied down."
"Very funny," Hanabi said.
"Look left," Konohamaru said.
Hanabi did and saw a clone with a kunai twirling it around on his finger.
"Hurry up," Hanabi said.
"Nothing's free," the clone said.
"Then I guess I'm staying tied up," Hanabi said.
"Ouch," Konohamaru said. "That's not what I wanted anyway. I was going to say that you had to buy me lunch. You were the one who was thinking about kissing me."
"Oh," Hanabi said turning bright red. "Just let me go."
The clone grinned and cut the wire before disappearing. Hanabi pushed the wire away from herself then stood.
"Want to try again?" Hanabi asked. "I'll fight you for that lunch."
"Sure," Konohamaru said. "After you."
Hanabi activated her Byakugan then formed her tiger heads. Konohamaru instantly used the Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu but Hanabi spun with the tiger heads and the shuriken all shot back at him. He used the jutsu again and blocked them then jumped into the air narrowly avoiding Hanabi's attack. He spun grabbing a kunai and began to throw it but Hanabi threw one of her own and hit him in the shoulder. He hit the ground hard and the kunai that had hit him fell out. He lay completely still and every second Hanabi's fear that she had seriously hurt him grew.
After about fifteen seconds of him not moving, she finally ran over. The moment she was close enough, he spun and tripped her then pinned her arms to her sides with his knees and smirked.
"It took you fifteen seconds to think that you hurt me," Konohamaru said. "what if you really had. I could be dead."
Hanabi blushed at how gullible she had been, how slow to check on him, and and the fact that he was sitting on her. Konohamaru stretched his arms up over his head yawning then smiled.
"Let me up," Hanabi said.
"Nah," Konohamaru said. "I'm pretty comfortable."
"Please," Hanabi said.
"Nope," Konohamaru said.
Hanabi sat up and shoved him backward off of her and tried to stand but their legs got tangled together and Hanabi fell forward onto Konohamaru. As if Karma had something to prove, when Hanabi landed, her lips crashed into Konohamaru's. Both blushed and Hanabi threw herself off of him blushing even more when she tripped over his feet again and landed against the tree where she had been tied up. Then her surprise overcame her brain and she froze staring at Konohamaru. He sat up face still as red as hers but grinning from ear to ear.
"You know," Konohamaru said. "If you wanted a kiss you could have just asked."
Hanabi simply stared at him struggling to remember how to control her body and he stood.
"You okay?" Konohamaru asked.
Hanabi managed to nod and pushed herself up and Konohamaru grinned again.
"What's so funny?" Hanabi asked.
"You're covered in mud and twigs," Konohamaru said.
Hanabi looked at her back and saw that he was right. Her entire back was so caked in mud and twigs that if she lay on her stomach, it would be an effective camouflage. Her hair was worse and was so matted that she couldn't run her fingers through it without pulling a clump of hair out. She realized that Konohamaru was also muddy but not nearly as bad as her.
"You're not exactly spotless yourself," Hanabi said.
"I'll clean easily," Konohamaru said. "A garden hose could clean me. You, not so much."
Hanabi rolled her eyes then sighed.
"I'm going to clean up," Hanabi said. "I'll meet you...where?"
"Ichiraku's," Konohamaru said. "I won so I get to pick."
"Fine," Hanabi said. "I hate you."
"Oh so that's why you kissed me," Konohamaru said grinning and instantly jumped back out of the way of an attack.
Hanabi sighed then turned and went back to Konohamaru's house and removed her clothes then got into the shower. She got the mud off of her body first then removed the twigs from her hair so that she could clean it. Unfortunately, Karma again wanted to embarrass her but on a much larger scale this time. The moment she had removed the last of the twigs from her hair, something, rough, black, and thick covered her eyes and a cloth pressed against her face over her mouth and nose. She smelled chloroform and felt light-headed. Her head began to spin, then her senses began to feel clouded. Then there was nothing.
When she awoke, she was still blind folded and from what she could tell she was tied into a wooden chair with a netting back and should have a netting seat but that had been cut out. She could feel that her hands were tied to the back legs and her ankles to the front and the back of the chair ended about two inches below her neck. She tried to activate her Byakugan but suddenly felt her stomach instantly begin to scream. It was obviously a jutsu seal of some kind but the pain had been too bad for her to figure out what it was.
"So the princess wakes," a gruff masculine voice said before laughing. "And here I was hoping we'd have to kiss her, or better yet-"
"That's enough," another even deeper male voice said. "We're not here to enjoy ourselves. We're here for the ransom."
"And after we get the money and kill that rich bastard?" the first voice asked clearly asking permission.
"Then she's yours," the second sighed. "Honestly, you would think that those girls from the last twenty villages would be enough to keep you entertained. Where did they go anyway?"
"You know I always kill them after they stop fighting me," the first said. "It's so much less fun then."
"Enough," the second said. "Let's just make the goddamn call."
"Alright," the first said. "We'll-"
Just then Hanabi heard glass shatter to her right and the two men shouted in surprise. Then she heard metal clattering against cement and hitting something solid that they stuck in. One of the two shouted in dismay and fear then let out a thick gurgle and she heard something heavy slump to the floor.
"Who's there?" Hanabi asked
She heard someone walk over to stand behind her then heard them crouch. Then the ropes around her wrists and ankles were cut and she instantly pulled the blind fold off and looked behind her. It was Konohamaru. She stood and took a step back and nearly tripped over something. She looked down and saw the corpses of the two men. One had kunai and shuriken sticking out of his torso and the other had his throat cut nearly to the bone from the front.
"You...killed them," Hanabi said.
"I had to," Konohamaru said. "They would have-"
Before he could finish, Hanabi stepped forward and threw her arms around him puling him into a hug. He hugged her back and after a moment, she pulled back enough to kiss him. He kissed her back and after a few seconds pulled away and blushed slightly.
"You know, you're still naked," Konohamaru said.
Hanabi instantly turned bright red and wrapped her arms across her chest while crossing her legs.
"Don't worry," Konohamaru said. "I have an idea."
Just as he said this, a grey cloak a little taller than either of them fell through an open sky light and Konohamaru caught it then put it around Hanabi. She put her arms out through the sleeves and held it closed.
"Who's is it?" Hanabi asked.
"It's Shino's old one," Konohamaru said. "When I found out they had taken you, I had him find you and he gave me told me that you would need it before I came."
"I see," Hanabi said. "I should get home and finish washing my hair."
"It looks clean to me," Konohamaru said. "You should get dressed though."
Hanabi nodded and she and Konohamaru headed back to his house. After that, the day was fairly uneventful. Hanabi bought them ramen for supper since they had missed lunch then she and Konohamaru thanked Shino for his help.
THE END
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