I don't own Naruto. But if I did, the current mizukage wouldn't have a kekkei genkai. That just makes no sense to me given Kiri's recent history.
Chapter 25: Bad Things Begin For Akane
The next day Naruto and Hinata gathered all their friends together to tell them they were engaged. Ino and Tenten squealed in joy while the rest just offered some congratulations to the couple. Chouji asked who was catering and Kiba asked where they were going to honeymoon, earning him a hit on the back of his head from Sakura. Shikamaru asked not to be forced into doing any of the preparations and Lee shouted about how joyous this line of events was for them all. Ino raised the question of who the maid of honor was going to be, and all kunoichis present, except Hinata, argued with each other on who it should naturally be. No guys did the same regarding the best man position however, but Kiba did bring up the issue regarding the bachelor party.
Akane meanwhile was being watched over elsewhere. Due to recent behavior most everyone felt it was best if she wasn't left unsupervised. So while her parents were busy mingling with their friends, she was with Hiashi at the Hyuuga estate. She could have gone anywhere really since her parents weren't planning on being out for too long. However, her adoptive grandfather, the only one still alive by the way, insisted she be with him for some time. Hinata had a good idea why and hoped everything would work out for the girl. Especially since Hanabi was out for team drills and thus couldn't encourage her to act out again.
When they were alone, Hiashi and Akane sat down on the porch in the backyard looking at the decorative koi pond. Akane thought it was beautiful and the plants smelled terrific. And if she hadn't been taught otherwise, she'd probably be trying to claw one of the fish out of the water to eat like an animal. Instead she just sat down next to Hiashi in a completely relaxed and informal pose, as opposed to his own formal appearance. To give them something to do as they sat there for the time, the Hyuuga head drank some green tea while the Uzumaki girl guzzled down a soft drink she had sneaked in.
"So Akane-chan, are you happy your parents are going to be wed soon?"Hiashi asked politely.
Akane shrugged. "Sure. But honestly I don't see what'll be different after that except that Okaa-san will be around more often. I like that, but outside that I see no reason to get excited."
Hiashi nodded in understanding. "Well, how about someday having a little brother or sister?"
"That I like a lot. Not sure which one I want more though. A brother might be more fun to play around with, but a sister can be too." Akane mused.
Hiashi had a good idea what she meant by 'play around with' and grinned friendly. "Planning on being a little hellraiser like your dad, huh?"
Akane grinned like a fox. "From what I've heard, I already am. And Baa-chan told me never to stop."
'Of course she'd say that considering the mountain.' Hiashi thought to himself. The phrase 'Give me sake today' was still up there on the monument, and Tsunade had one Anbu team go up to make sure it didn't fade away yet. Of course, the amount of liquor she was being given was much smaller than on that first day, probably due to a growing alcohol shortage in the village, but it was still coming in. Apparently some people thought it was Hokage's orders rather than the graffiti of a small child.
"Don't forget you need to train hard too if you want to be as good as Naruto-san." Hiashi added. She nodded, and he continued. "Speaking of which, I heard from Neji that you've already shown remarkable talent, almost prodigy-like even."
"Prodigy-like?" Akane asked, not understanding the term.
"Meaning you're naturally very talented, practically born for the task." The young girl showed she understood now. "Mind showing me some skills?"
"Anything in particular you want to see?"
"How about that Rotation move and sixty-four palm move you copied from my daughter?" Hiashi asked.
Akane gave him an uncertain look. "Did I do something wrong?"
"No, I'm just curious to see if you actually did learn to do those just by watching someone else." The Hyuuga head told her.
Akane slowly stood up. "O-okay then. Can you set up some weapons or something so I can do it right?"
Hiashi went to go get some kunais to encourage her, praying she didn't actually get hurt. If she did he didn't know who he should be more afraid of, Naruto or Hinata. 'Well, if Hinata is anything like her mother, and kami knows she is, then probably her.' He thought to himself. Nevertheless, he got what his granddaughter asked for and was ready to use them.
Akane didn't really need any weapons thrown at her to effectively show off the Rotation. All she did was close her eyes, spread her arms to make a cross formation, and spin around fast while emitting chakra from all the points on her body. In no time she had created a chakra dome like a Hyuuga could. Hiashi was impressed at her understanding of the technique without actually having it explained to her, and curious regarding the red color of the chakra. She stopped when she got sick from spinning, a natural side effect of the jutsu that even Hyuuga got and took years of practice to overcome.
Akane plopped on the ground trying to remember which direction was up, her spinning eyes unable to give her an answer. Hiashi patiently waited for her to regain her equilibrium. "How was that?" She asked as she sat up, holding her head. This time affected her more than last time probably because then she was running on adrenaline and couldn't really feel the full effects.
"Impressive. I myself couldn't do that for that long until I was thirteen." Hiashi told her. "I am curious to why yours is red. Making it have a color is unnecessary and a waste of chakra."
"Umm... I wasn't trying to give it a color, Jii-san." Akane replied.
Hiashi arched his eyebrows. 'Then that was the natural color of her chakra? But I've never heard of a human with red chakra before. What could that mean?'
Akane stood up and brushed off her clothes. "Okay, I'm ready for the next one. Throw those up so they'll land on me."
Hiashi complied and threw a dozen kunai into the air above her. They soon pointed down and looking ready to impale her. Akane readied her chakra and cried out "Protective Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms." Chakra blades came out of her palms and she swung them around swiftly to knock all the kunais away from her. This display only lasted a moment but it impressed Hiashi greatly. Sadly, because Akane lacks the byakugan, she couldn't see all the kunais and one managed to slip past her defense, cutting her deeply on her right forearm and making her cry out. Since she was wearing a short sleeve red dress there was no damage to her outfit, just her flesh.
Hiashi rushed to her to check on the damage. It was bad, bleeding and surely going to scar. But before he could ask for someone who might be able to hear him to go get the medical supplies, he noticed that the edges of the wound were glowing red and starting to heal. This caught all of his attention so he didn't notice she reached into her pocket to pull out the specially-made healing balm that Hinata had given her not too long ago. Akane just put a dab on her already healing wound, wincing a little as she rubbed it in. This apparently stimulated the wound to heal faster, and just as quickly as it had been cut into her, it was gone. No scar, but the new flesh was tinted pink for now.
Akane acted like it was nothing, but Hiashi wondered whether or not this child was truly blood-related to Naruto. Eitherway, he foresaw her surpassing him in the future, and quite possibly someday actually being the hokage after him. That is if Konohamaru didn't beat her to it, as Hanabi had pointed out.
"So what do you think, Jii-san?" Akane asked when done with her arm and pocketing the balm.
"You sure exceeded my expectations, Akane-chan. I must say if you were a true Hyuuga you would be considered the next great prodigy after Neji." Hiashi responded.
"Too bad I don't have those eyes of yours, then I could do that chakra point hitting thing you guys do. All I can do is go thru the motions." Akane thought aloud.
Two of the older members of the Hyuuga clan council came outside and were clearly seen by Hiashi and Akane. Their faces were difficult to read. One was a man who had a mustache and was grey and balding stepped forward. "Hiashi-sama, just what are you doing? Are you actually teaching an outsider our clan style?"
Hiashi lightly frowned and stood with his arms resting at his sides between them and Akane. "No, I wasn't, Hisuke-sama. She evidently learned those feats on her own just by watching attentively. I was merely confirming the extent of her abilities."
"What you should be doing is enforcing the clan's right to punish those that dare insult us by trying to steal our methods." A senior woman next to the man named Hisuke commented. Her voice sounded like someone who had smoked regularly when young and occasionally still did.
Akane stepped backward when the word 'punish' was mentioned, but Hiashi stepped forward instead. "Punish for stealing? She's just a child, Hiori-sama. And children learn by imitating. How the hell do you think you learn the Gentle Fist yourselves?"
"Even so, this girl is not a member of either of the Hyuuga clan branches and thus is unallowed to know such things." Hisuke countered. "We need to erase such knowledge from her mind to ensure our secrets don't leak out."
Hiashi crossed his arms. "You can't do that. And before you say anything-"
"You know full well it is within our rights to demand this, Hiashi-sama." Hiori stated fiercely.
"And you know it is within my rights to refute this." Hiashi stated back. "And as I was going to say before you cut me off, this girl is under the custody of my daughter, who has every right to teach her adoptive daughter what she knows, whether or not she has the byakugan. So even if you do erase her memories of these maneuvers she'll just relearn them later."
"It must be done. We demand it." Hisuke declared.
Everyone then felt a kage-level amount of KI coming from Akane, who looked as mad as an Uchiha being showed up. "No one's doing anything to my memories period! And if anyone tries, I'll rip off a part of your body barehanded. And I don't know which one I'll pick but it will hurt and you will cry."
"You are in no position to order us around brat." Hisuke frowned at her, having no effect as her KI was almost smothering.
"And you can't tell me what I can and can't know." Akane argued. "And if you make me forget and I relearn, you just gonna make me forget again? I'll just relearn all over again. What you're wanting is completely pointless."
"Rules are rules impudent girl." Hiori told her sternly.
Akane didn't understand the put-down but didn't need to. "Otou-san said rules are only worth following if they make sense. And yours doesn't." By now her KI was significantly less, but still there as if on guard for something she didn't like.
"She's right. And I've already told you she has the right to know this style. Besides, without the byakugan there's little she can actually learn properly so what are you afraid of?" Hiashi told the elders. "And if I hear you try to do anything to her mentality I will remind you that my power in his clan is not purely political."
Hiashi, like all Hyuuga, was not one to make an idle threat and the elders knew it. Sadly, all their power was political so if faced with a fighter they could do nothing themselves. They wisely chose to drop the matter and just walked away. The clan head placed his hand of Akane's head comfortingly. "Sorry for that matter. Sad to say some people like to believe the world works with their own interests in mind."
"I know. Those two crones weren't the first ones like that I've seen. And I gave the others a piece of my mind when they tried something like that." The young girl replied.
Hiashi smiled at the girl's innocent carefree spirit, something one usually didn't see in the Hyuuga compound in anyone over four years of age. He didn't want to see that lost, and decided the same thing regarding any children Hinata would later have with Naruto. He had wondered if maybe he should give the couple a house on the estate as a wedding gift, but if they lived there Akane and her future siblings would be surrounded by Hyuugas all day and be expected to comply with their lifestyle. Now he knew his daughter's family needed to live off the estate, where Hyuuga clan policy couldn't apply to them.
Before he could think much more on the subject, he felt a strange surge of chakra coming from north of the compound. He activated his doujutsu and saw seven foxes, twice as big as normal ones and all with multiple tails, all swarm into the area. Akane must have sensed them too and got defensive. The foxes pounced and landed to make a circle around the two, and they didn't stay still for a moment longer than necessary. All seven lunged at Akane, leaving Hiashi alone, and managed to bite her. She yelled and tried to tear them off, and Hiashi managed to knock one off the girl. Before he could do anything to the others, the six foxes disappeared in a puff of smoke, and they took Akane with them.
Akane Uzumaki had just been kidnapped by foxes.
Please don't hate me. You'll find out more on her fate soon I swear.