101 Wires
"Coast is clear. Kiba, you tail him. Hinata and I will scope out the house," Naruto said. Kiba nodded and hopped out of the tree, leaving Hinata and Naruto alone. Hinata glared at the rope wrapped around Naruto's waist.
'I hate you.' She thought maliciously. Yes, the rope had saved their mission, but it was still attached to very embarrassing memories.
"-nata. Hinata. Hinata!" Hinata jumped and looked at Naruto. He looked at her, concerned.
"Are you okay, Hinata-chan?" he asked worriedly.
She blushed.
"I'm fine. Are you ready?" She cast one last glare at the rope before hopping out of the tree. Naruto blinked in surprise and followed her.
"First, we need to go around the perimeter of the house and find the easiest place to get in. Be careful, this guy might have some traps lying around. Use your Byakugan and step lightly," Naruto said sagely. He had much experience with traps and such. He himself was a master prankster, and he knew all of the tricks.
Hinata nodded and activated her Byakugan. They began to circle the house. They discovered a few traps with her Byakugan and Naruto's experience, but, thankfully, they didn't trigger any. Thirty agonizing minutes later they made it back to the front of the house. They came to one conclusion.
The easiest way in was the front door. However, it was by no means easy to get in. Apparently, Kakashi was not the average ninja. He had sealed the front door off with a number of strange seals. Naruto had seen seals like this only once: when they received their mission scroll. The seal on the scroll had to be blood activated. If Naruto was correct, Kakashi's seals were kind of like that as well, but Naruto was pretty sure only Kakashi's blood would do the trick. Heck, what was the point if anybody could get in with a little blood?
If they chose that route, then their only option was to somehow attain a small sample of Kakashi's blood. Hinata thought that was going to be impossible because the man was a Jounin and the likelihood of him getting hurt in the village was incredibly low. He was too well trained for that.
Naruto decided that it was too much of a risk to confront the man, plus it would totally blow their cover if they attacked him randomly and stalked him all over Konoha waiting for him to bleed. Besides, Naruto thought waiting for someone to start bleeding was slightly creepy and only psychotic people did that.
Like Anko.
Well, with the easiest way in impossible, it looked like Hinata-chan was going to have to go through the window like they had originally planned. Oh, well.
Naruto hoisted Hinata up to the window, and she grabbed the ledge and pulled herself up all the way.
"Remember to keep your Byakugan activated and not to trigger any traps. You see any on the window?"
Hinata bit her lip and scanned the entirety of the window pane and glass.
"No...and that gives me a bad feeling. Shouldn't there be traps on the windows, too?" she asked uncertainly.
"Yeah," Naruto paused in thought, "if it was me, I would leave the window free and have traps right below the window. That way they relax a little bit, jump down, and BAM, get caught in one of my awesome traps. Just be careful and, if anything happens, scream. You are more important than this mission."
Hinata's face flushed red once again.
"T-thank you." She opened the window carefully and scanned the floor. Naruto was right, there was a trap right below the window. She leapt over the trap and crouched. Her eyes opened wide.
There was ninja wire only a breath away from her face. She leaned back and took in a deep breath.
"I'm in, and I avoided the trap. I'm going to take a look around."
"All right." She heard Naruto's voice from outside.
Hinata looked around the room and broke out into a sweat. There was ninja wire strung up everywhere. There seemed to be no pattern to it, and it would take a lot of effort to work her way around the house. She wondered how the man had the time to put the wire up. This had to take hours each day!
-With Kakashi-
"Hey, sorry I'm late. A black cat crossed my path and I had to find a way around it. Unfortunately, I had to walk all the way around the village."
-With Hinata-
Hinata painstakingly contorted her body in strange ways to navigate the house. She had never treasured her flexibility more. Finally, in the center of the room, there seemed to be an end to the madness and ninja wire. In the center of the room was a seal. It seemed to be connected to a majority of the wire. Maybe if she deactivated it then the wires would all retract? Or maybe it was itself a trap…
"Naruto! I think I found something. It's a seal with a bunch of ninja wire coming out of it! Can it be deactivated?!" she shouted. She hoped he could hear her even though she had already gone into the next room, the living room as opposed to the bathroom she had just left from.
"No! Today is just for scouting. I'll look up seals and see what kind of seal that is. Maybe I can find a way to deactivate it when we are all in there and reactivate it to replace the wire after we are done here. Do you see any books?"
"No! Not yet!"
"Okay! Keep looking!"
"All right!"
Fifteen more minutes of maneuvering around wires later, Hinata found it. There was a giant cabinet with glass doors. Inside of it had to be at least fifty Icha Icha books. Hinata blushed. There was a reason why she knew about Icha Icha. In fact, her whole clan knew about it, and they were warned away from the books. When Icha Icha had first come out years ago someone in the clan had bought a copy. He loved it so much that he shared it with his friend. And then his friend shared it with his friend and so on and so forth. Soon, every Hyuuga had read the Icha Icha book, and they loved it.
When the next book came out, every Hyuuga had bought a copy to read the first day it hit the shelves. This book was even raunchier than the first. In fact…it was too raunchy.
The blood loss…they had lost many good Hyuuga that day.
The Icha Icha books had been banned in the compound since that day. To be caught with an Icha Icha book was a great crime, and no one wanted to risk punishment. No matter how deliciously perverted those books were.
Hinata herself had not read a single Icha Icha book, and she wasn't too sure she could survive it if she did. But…she was curious.
She snapped out of her thoughts and slowly made her way out of the house.
"So what'd you-wait a minute." Naruto closed his eyes for a moment. Hinata was about to ask what was wrong when his eyes snapped open. He grabbed her arm.
"Come on. He's close." They climbed back into the tree. Two minutes later Kakashi came strolling down the road while reading a book. With her Byakugan on, Hinata recognized the book immediately. It was the 2nd Icha Icha. She looked at the book in awe.
Kakashi, ignorant to the plot about him, entered his house. Much to Hinata's and Naruto's shock, they saw him pass by the windows and enter another room seconds later.
'How?' Hinata thought, 'it's like those wires aren't there at all?! But…but what if they actually weren't there anymore?'
Obviously there was a way for Kakashi to disable his traps upon entering his house that only took moments.
Three hours later, Kakashi left the house with a small pack on his shoulder. He turned down the road he came from and vanished from their sight.
Ten minutes later Kiba came down the road. He waved to his friends and walked up the tree.
"He's gone for the day. From what I could tell he got a mission out of the village."
Naruto and Hinata relaxed.
"Great! What'd you learn today?" Naruto asked.
"Well, he's always late for stuff. And he knows Anko-sensei. He didn't really do much today," Kiba said.
"He knows Anko-sensei? He must've made her mad or something if she gave us this mission." Naruto titled his head sideways.
Hinata inwardly squealed at how cute the simple motion was before she turned her attention back to the mission.
"Maybe not," she started. "Anko-sensei probably chose Kakashi because she knows him. Did they look friendly, Kiba?"
"Yeah, they seemed pretty cool around each other."
"Well, Anko-sensei is more sadistic around friends or people she knows than strangers. She was nicer when Naruto and I first met her. Actually, let me rephrase that, she was more…pleasant to be around. Not nice…definitely not nice," Hinata muttered the last part remembering how Anko had blackmailed her.
"What'd you guys find out today?" Kiba asked.
"His house is booby-trapped to an extreme degree. There's ninja wire everywhere, and I don't want to find out what happens to someone if they touch it. I think that's why he's always late to places, though. The ninja wire traps must take hours to set up. However, it only takes him moments to get inside. I think when he enters the house from the front door, the traps automatically disable."
"And the Icha Icha books?" Naruto asked with a frown.
"In a large wooden cabinet with glass windows, but there is a seal on the front. I think it might be a lock."
"Probably blood activated or something. My sister has one on her diary. Hers is tuned to her blood, though, not just family blood. I know. I tried to open it."
Naruto nodded his head determinedly.
"We've got ninja wire traps, blood seals, and Kakashi himself to get through. This is going to be as hard as getting Ino to admit that Sasuke is a douche."
"No, Naruto. That's impossible. She'll never admit that," Kiba said, grinning.
The three pre-Genin burst into giggles.
"Anybody got any ideas?" Naruto asked, leaning against the tree. He absentmindedly played with the rope he had left up there.
"When you think about it, it all comes down to Kakashi and his blood. Our main mission is getting the book off him. To do that, we need to get close. To get the other books, we need his blood to disable the traps and open the bookcase." Kiba scratched his head.
Naruto frowned to himself.
"You said that he was friends with Anko, right? I…I have an idea." Naruto sat up and moved his hands into a position that was familiar to Hinata.
"Sexy no jutsu." A poof of smoke and girl-Naruto appeared.
"What the? How the heck is a henge gonna help?" Kiba asked.
Girl-Naruto grinned at Kiba and pushed his chest up. This time he had made himself more…well developed.
"This isn't like a henge. It's a physical transformation."
"I don't believe you." Kiba said in disbelief. Naruto smirked at him, grabbed Hinata's hand and put it on Naruto's breast and squeezed.
Hard.
Hinata's face turned a dark red, and she swayed as her vision blackened and then cleared.
"I-it's real," she said, blushing madly and pulling her hand away. Kiba looked between the two, very confused. His face scrunched up before he shook his head.
He wasn't sure if that was hot or not. He put it out of his mind. He was so not going there.
"Right. Okay, you're a girl now. Now what? How's that gonna help us?"
Naruto closed his eyes and concentrated... another poof and there stood Anko.
Kiba's jaw dropped.
"We can't get the blood, but I'm sure Anko-sensei can," Hinata said as she caught up with Naruto's thought process.
"Okay, you look like Anko-sensei, but can you act like her?" Kiba asked doubtfully.
Anko-Naruto raised her eyebrow at the challenge and smirked. He turned to Hinata.
"Listen, gaki, I have a new special tor-er…training in mind for you today." Hinata paled. Naruto sounded too much like Anko for comfort.
"You see this rope?" Anko-Naruto smirked. "I'm thinking maybe we can play a little game with it."
Now, it goes without saying that Hinata hated that rope. It also goes without saying that Naruto played Anko-sensei just a little too well. All these factors combined with the under the bed incident that happened months before…well, let's just say that Hinata had a little outburst.
She punched Naruto-Anko in the face. Hard.
Naruto flew out of the tree and landed on the ground, unconscious. The transformation jutsu ended and he changed back into himself.
Kiba gaped.
Hinata gasped, absolutely horrified at what she had done. And then the last few moments caught up with her.
Naruto had said he wanted to play 'a little game' with her using rope. Maybe, just maybe, her Naruto-kun wasn't as innocent as he portrayed himself to be. What if he meant all of those innuendos that he spewed out day after day? What if…what if he had read Icha Icha and wanted to do those types of things with her?
Hinata fainted so suddenly and so fast that she didn't even have time to blush. Unfortunately, Kiba also didn't have time to catch her, and she fell out of the tree.
Kiba looked down from the tree at his two unconscious friends. He soon joined them on the ground...laughing hysterically.
Next chapter: Feeling up Kakashi and breaking and entering.