New Team 7

by ashminion19

My AU. What happens when Hinata is placed in Team 7 with knucklehead ninja & last of Uchiha instead of Sakura? Will the story change towards a different end? What will be the journey of otsutsuki reincarnations all in one team? All of them having their history reunite them again. Major Sasuhina, Naruhina, might make a harem who knows. Rated M for language. I don't own Naruto.

5. Chapter 5

I don't own Naruto if I did there'd be a lot of smut.

Sasuke's pov.

The time for chunin exams was here, I really wanted to fight some strong opponents to test my strength & my progress. We met outside the examination venue, we all changed our gears & got new ninja clothes seemingly making us look more mature.

I wore a navy blue ninja capri bandages on left thigh & weapon pouches on both thighs, I wore a lose open casual kimono styled top with my clan symbol which displayed my slightly toned chest & collar bones from the training & fingerless black arm-warmers with black high ninja boots. I had a grey belt over it which secured my sword, scrolls & another ninja pouch.

Naruto wore fishnet t-shirt with black jacket which had 2 orange strips on the sleeves like his black pants had, his jacket had Uzumaki swirl with Namikaze shuriken overlapping it. (Shuriken shaped is Namikaze clan's symbol) He had bandages & ninja pouches like me & wore navy blue ninja sandals. His height was almost same as mine & you could see his toned chest from his tshirt which acted like a second skin to him.

Hinata had her hair in a ponytail with her bangs framing her face, she wore a lavender coloured sleevless low v neck tight kimono styled top with dark purple obi & dark purple shorts with black fingerless gloves, fishnet arm-warmers. She had knee high stockings & calves height black boots. She got over her body consciousness with help of Anko & Yugaō -san & their kunoichi training, She was still shy but confident in herself. Her height was around my nose, which could make it perfect for Forehead kisses not that it's bout forehead kisses.

Anyways we made our way inside the tower to register for the exams, I could see many shinobi from different villages were there. It seemed like teams from Iwa, Kumo, Suna were participating from the great shinobi villages too.

When we reached the 2nd floor there was a chaos among the genins & few chunin, it seemed like they were restraining entry to the 3rd floor with some petty genjutsu. I released my chakra in towards the room & it's number to dispel the genjutsu. My team shared a look & quietly went over towards 3rd floor.

"Where do you think you're going?" A chunin who used that useless genjutsu asked.

"3rd floor." Naruto deadpanned.

"This is third floo- wait ahhaa aren't you a smart bunch. You not only saw through the genjutsu but even dispelled it." The chunin smirked.

"My 8 year old sister in Academy casts a better genjutsu." Hinata muttered under her breath which made me smirked.

"What'd you say you bitch?" The chunin snarled.

"She said what you heard, Now back off." I scowled.

He charged towards me & I ducked easily just as I was about to kick his foot to block his ax kick, another genin dressed in green spandex stopped my kick. I could feel the power he had radiating in the way he swiftly stopped our blows. Then I saw his hands they were rougher & more callous than mine from the amount of training he did. I admire him as an opponent & he earned managed to earn my respect within few seconds.

"We should not be fighting." The guy who was in Bushy brow-sensei's team said, I've seen him fight before but never all out.

"We talked about keeping a low profile Lee." Hinata's asshole cousin said, gosh I never liked this guy. He's always sending her glare with such hatred it makes me wanna kill him.

"Hello I am Rock Lee, You're Sasuke Uchiha of the Uchiha clan. I want to be your eternal rival, I've heard a lot about you & your team." Lee said smiling.

I gave him a smile of acknowledgment.

"I'd love to fight with you one day, Rock Lee. It's not everyday I get to fight one of Maito Gai's pupil, I respect & honor his skills as I do of yours." I could see the look of shock & relief of acceptance swirling around his face.

"Thank you, Rival Sasuke." Lee turned towards my teammates.

"Hyuga Hinata, Uzumaki Naruto I want you to be my eternal rivals as well." Lee asked.

Naruto grinned & gave him a thumbs up

"I'd like to be your eternal rival, bushy brow." Lee's eyes sparkled in anticipation.

"I'd like a capable & skilled rival as you but how bout we be friends first? Then we could be friendly rivals instead of eternal rivals." Hinata proposed smiling kindly. God this smile will be my death one day I swear.

Lee shook in disbelief & nodded quickly.

"Yes we'll all be friendly rivals, friend Hinata, friend Sasuke & friend Naruto." Naruto laughed at this & nodded.

"Lee, let's go now." Another one of Lee's teammate with two buns said.

Neji as he was about to leave gave a nod of acknowledgment to me, Naruto & ...hinata? I thought this guy hated her? I was right because I could see the shock look on my teammates face.

"Did that just happen?" Hinata asked while me & Naruto nodded.

"Anyways let's go" Naruto said dragging me & hinata with him.

We met up with Team Zabuza near the registration counter with Kakashi & Shisui there as well.

"Ah, I'm glad you three are here." Kakashi chirped.

I fistbump with Daichi, Sai & Haku. Bowed slightly towards Zabuza & nodded towards Shisui & Kakashi. Hinata smiled brightly towards everyone while hugging them & Naruto grinned while doing the same as me but bowed towards all the 3 jounins.

"I cannot tell you how proud I am of you 6 you've come a long way through." Kakashi cried anime style while Shisui took a step away from him as did Zabuza to not be embarassingly associated with the crying jounin.

"I'm proud too, you all give your best & I don't expect you to finish all the exams I expect you to become chunin by the end of the exams." Zabuza said sadistically.

"I'll say one thing, Go.Wild." shisui smirked.

As we enter the waiting room, there was atleast 200 genins.

We saw the rest of the rookie 9 too.

"Ahh, Sasuke-kun! Did you miss me?" Sakura Screamed in my ear.

Her team & team 10 made their way to us as Ino quietly went & stood next to a smiling Sai talking with him. God I'm so thankful for Sai, because of him one less fangirl.

It wasn't like Ino was weak or anything, infact she was very smart & skilled. Her clan's jutsu were deadly if used correctly, due to spending more time with Sai & us she was motivated to train harder, her taijutsu improved drastically nowhere near Hinata's or Lee's level but she did much better than before. Her mother's earth affinity helped her to add multiple jutsus in her arsenal.

"Stay away from me Sakura." I scowled at the sight of her smelly pink hair drenched with nasty perfume. I'd much rather prefer Hinata's natural sweet smell of Lavender & Grass with honey, thank you.

I gave a pity look to kiba who had a sensitive nose & had to smell this all the time. I shuddered at the thought of being in same team as her. Shino finally managed to get Sakura off of me & took her away. I scooted closer to hinata to get away from the screaming banshee.

"You all are here for this thing? I knew this was gonna be troublesome." Shikamaru cursed.

"Shut up Shikamaru." Ino yelled.

"You might wanna keep it down you know." Another voice came from behind us.

"& You might you be?" Kiba asked.

"I'm Kabuto Yakushi, you all are rookie genins right? The chunin exams is a very touchy situation because all the genins are on edge. You all are rookies & already gaining so much unwanted attention." Kabuto answered.

Hinata took my hand & gave me a look, I narrowed my eyes in understanding & squeezed her hand to comfort her.

"So this is not your first time?" Shino asked.

"Nope this is my seventh try. Infact this time I'm fully prepared, I am confident enough with my skills & I know everyone's weakness & strength or atleast some of it I could share if you want." Kabuto offered before I could say anything Hinata cut me off.

"Tell me about the female Grass nin, her name is Shiore from her registration form." Hinata asked with her byakugan activated.

Kabuto suspiciously froze for a second before removing a deck of card.

"Her name is Shiore she's from Grass village, her team has completed 78 D-rank, 15 C-rank, 2 B-rank. Nothing special about her, why do you ask?"

"Just felt she gave a hidden dark vibe than others." Hinata muttered.

"I want to know about Sabaku no Gaara."

"Oh that I can do, Gaara is the youngest son of the Kazekage, he has completed around 34 D-rank, 17 C-rank, 5 B-rank & 2 A-rank interesting thing is he's never return with a scratch on him on any mission. " Kabuto smirked

"A rank mission while being genin is great, he even returned unscathed." Kiba said.

"A-rank missions are no feat returning unharmed is, it's strange." Naruto said

Suddenly the door was banged open & there stood a man with loads of scars dressed in all black with a bandana covering his head.

"Alright, baby faced degenerates pipe down & listen up." He started saying all the rules of the exams & blah blah.

We went over our designated seats & say while we were handed our papers. After a few minutes of looking through the paper I understood that the question were too hard for genin level so I knew the real aim behind the test. I activated my sharingan & used

my hair to cover my eyes slightly & copied the movements of the genin who swiftly wrote all the answers.

After I was done I looked over to Hinata with her Byakugan activated & getting the answers, while Sai used his drawing rats to retrieve information, Naruto used an imitation seal on Sakura who was sitting next to him to copy the movements of her hands to get answers, Haku created a layer of thin ice on the ceiling & used a ice mirror that he & Daichi used to copy the answers, Ino used her clan jutsu on Sakura to retrieve answers.

After all the revelation of the reason for the test & 10th question shit. A kunai zipper through breaking the window carrying a banner with the name of an all too familiar sadistic kunoichi who bursted from decorations.

Me & Naruto banged our heads on the desk very hard while Hinata giggled as everyone stared at us.

"My my Sasu-chan, Naru-chan I thought you'd be so happy to see me. Learn something from sweet Hina-chan." Anko cooed.

"Fuck you Anko I told you to not call me by that" while Naruto gritted in agreement.

"You should mind that flapping tongue of yours before I punish you." Anko threatened.

"What's the worst you could do? We've already been to hell & back." I challenged her.

"What do you mean by that?" Choji asked .

"Ahh nothing just a bit training here & there." Anko said cheerfully.

"By little training she means carving us up & use our blood as paint for her 'artistic' canvas, Making us swim in a pond full of allegators, tied up & be used as target practice for her, be a human lab rat to test the toxicity of her poisons." Naruto answered.

"You did all that to them?" Kiba enraged.

"They're alive now, aren't they?" Anko reasoned.

"Yep, she's sadistic as fuck." I answered while the rest of genins started backing away from her.

She then blabbed about rules & shit which I zoned out.

As we reached near the forest of death, we could see how it's name came to be. Anko couldn't keep her sadistic fantasies under control while giving everyone a shit-eating grin. We were given a heaven scroll as we made our way towards the gate, Hinata deactivated her byakugan & looked over us.

"Team Zabuza & another team from Iwa is the one nearest to us, Iwa has Earth while Haku & others have Heaven. We should joined them up ahead after we get the scrolls." Hinata proposed as we agreed with her.

Naruto created 3 set of fake heaven & earth scrolls & we all kept one set with us while Hinata had the real one stuffed in her kimono top *I swear I didn't look when she was hiding it* so due to her rather developed chest it wasn't visible to anyone but a Hyuga.

3rd person pov.

As they made their way through the forest, Hinata detected a team from the land of waterfalls, they quickly set an ambush under Sasuke's weaponry supervision & waited to attack them.

Naruto's clones spread out henging themselves as team 7 while they waited for real Hinata's signal. As soon as they were near hinata gave them the signal & the clones started attacking. It was rather easy as they beat one of them up they quickly surrendered their scroll. They had the one they needed.

"Should we get more scrolls or get on our way to the tower?" Naruto asked.

"We should head towards the tower." Hinata proposed.

"I think we should get another set of scrolls just incase but you're right too as soon as we reach the tower it's better." Sasuke said in deep thought.

"How bout we make 2 clones each & send them off to gather more scrolls while we'd be on our way to the tower. That way we'll get to the tower on time as well as get more scrolls to erase out the easy ones. Even if we face a super strong team we'd still be safe-what'dya say?" Naruto asked.

"I agree it sounds good." Hinata agreed with me by nodding.

The trio made their clones, explain them what to do as they made their way through to the tower.

"Can we take a 5 min breather?" Naruto asked.

"We just started, Naruto-dobe." Sasuke scowled.

"I really need to take a leak, Sasuke-teme." Naruto glared as Hinata yelped covering her eyes & face.

"Okay! Get done quickly dobe."

Naruto went off to find a dense bush to release himself, while Sasuke & Hinata waited. After few minutes, few twigs snapped gaining the duo's attention.

"Man, that was a relief." 'Naruto' exasperated as duo shared a look.

Sasuke swirled 3 of his customised kunai & attacked him with it, the impostor vaguely dodged the kunai as few thermal wires coated with poison wrapped around the impostor.

"What the hell, Sasuke-kun?! Why are you attacking me?" The impostor.

"Seriously who do you take us for? Your transformation skills is worse than Samdaime's 8 year old grandson." Sasuke scoffed.

"Ahh so you saw through it." The impostor changed it's voice to more eerie tone.

"I don't know who you are but you should've atleast done some research before transforming into our teammate. Naruto-kun would be rather poisoned than call Sasuke-kun anything but teme. Also he has ninja pouches on both sides, as well as an unhealed scratch on his cheek which was caused by a twig." Hinata calmly explained.

"My, aren't your observation skills on point. Just as expected from a Hyuga heiress." The impostor said poofing away his transformation. The impostor transformed into a Grass nin named Shiore which Hinata pointed out during the first test.

"Looks like your suspicions on her were right, Hinata-chan." Sasuke smirked.

"Ah so you were already suspicious of me. I have to say I'm impressed with you, fufu." Shiore cooed.

"Let's get done with this." Hinata muttered taking her fighting stance as she activated her byakugan.

"Aren't you gonna ask me about the wellfare of your blond teammate?" Shiore asked curiously.

"Naruto-dobe can handle himself against the likes of you." Sasuke scowled.

"Well well isn't your faith misplaced." The grass ninja smirked as a small snake slithered from his sleeve & but the wires off freeing him. Sasuke unsheathed his sword while activating his Sharingan. Hinata materialized few ice needles & started rapidly piercing him.

"Tch, what a nuisance." Shiore scowled.

"The only nuisance here is you." Sasuke snarled as he used a scroll to summon his crossbow. He aimed it towards him, which the Grass nin blocked but didn't noticed that they were chakra seeking.

"Eh, chakra seekers? aren't you a clever little genin." He smirked

"Oh fuck you." Came the reply.

"Looks like I need to teach you little manners." The impostor snarled while multiple snakes slithered from his sleeves towards Sasuke. Hinata's ice needles started to deflect the snakes by gruesomely piercing through their heads.

"Ugh." The nin scowled at the ice needles.

Sasuke quickly did the handsigns & yelled 'Fire style : fireball jutsu' as the flames scorched the impaled snakes & half of the grass nin's face, it melted off to reveal another paled skinned man underneath it. Sasuke engaged in taijutsu with the Grass nin but was slowly getting overwhelmed by the opponent, Hinata skidded towards the enemy fought the nin in close combat style with Sasuke. Due to Hinata's agility & superior speed with Sasuke's accuracy & raw strength they started to overwhelm the nin. Sasuke distracting long enough for Hinata to closed of Chakra points while she did the same for Sasuke to impale the nin with his poisonous senbons.

The nin quickly sprinted away & jumped on a branch to avoid close combat anymore. He did the necessary handsigns while yelling 'Summoning jutsu', a huge 5 storey tall snake appeared in front of the duo.

Hinata's eyes widened as Sasuke gritted in anger & slight fear, she noticed it & squeezed his shoulder while giving him a reassuring smile.

"We'll get through this, together." Sasuke smiled at this & nodded.

The snake's tail slammed into the duo sending them flying into a huge tree, the snake slithered to the duo & started slamming them with his tail.

Hinata used her crystal blades to impale the snake as Sasuke used his sword on the snake, their efforts summed up to almost no result. The duo panted as they took their stance again, as the nin quickly made his way infront of the duo.

"I have to say I'm impressed, you almost both had me there. I was just here for Sasuke-kun but looks like Hinata-chan is also full of surprises." The ninja smirked as he removed his melted face off.

"Once I have you both then the world will know the true power of Orochimaru." The nin said proudly while signalling his summon to continue to attack them.

As the snake was about to slam into the duo once again someone yelled 'wind style : great breakthrough' as the snake got itself slammed into the nearby tree. Naruto in his glory stood with a proud grin on his face.

"You sure took your time getting here, Naruto-kun." Hinata mumbled.

"Tch, dobe did you waited for us to get beaten up so you'll get a fancy hero entry?" Sasuke glared at his teammate.

"No I didn't, I had to fight off another stupid snake like this one." Naruto said.

"Tch the kyubi's jinjuriki. What a brat." The sannin scowled.

As Hinata was healing one of Sasuke's broken rib & her broken arm, Naruto made 4 clones & started to attack the man. Their fight was a display of raw brutal strength, as they both gave their most powerful attacks. Naruto activated his Gravity seals as they sannin couldn't move anymore, instead he started shedding his skin & getting another one.

The enemy made a beeline towards Naruto & slammed him into a tree. He slowly lifted off Naruto's t-shirt & plunged his chakra coated hand into his stomach. He screamed in agony from the pain, as hinata flinched at it. The sannin came through towards the duo, he swiftly extended his neck & bit Hinata's neck & did the same with Sasuke before they could Dodge it.

"What did..you..do?" Hinata asked slowly blacking out.

"Giving you both just a taste of power that'll make you come to me, fufu." The sannin cooed.

Hinata & Sasuke both blacked out from the intense pain seeping through them.

Haku, Sai, Daichi got the Scrolls they needed from a team from Kumo. They made their way towards the tower when they heard screams of someone in pain.

"Do you think we should check it out?" Haku asked.

"It could be Team Kakashi or some team from Konoha. We should help them if they need it." Daichi offered while other agreed as they made their way to the source of the screams. Few other teams too heard the screams as they too followed it.

When Team Zabuza reached at the source they gasped as they found team 7 all battered up, beaten & blacked out. Haku quickly started to heal their injuries from basic medical Ninjutsu he learned from Hinata.

"We will protect them till they wake up & then make our way towards the tower." Daichi said while his teammates nodded. Sai was staring at Hinata while she looked like she was in extreme pain, when Daichi & Haku noticed it.

"She'll be okay Sai. She's a strong kunoichi." Haku reassured.

"I know she is, I can't help but be scared. She reminds me so much of my sister, I cannot lose her too." Sai mumbled.

"Don't worry Sai, you're not losing anything." Daichi said patting his back.

2 teams from Sound made their way to team 7 & team 11. Haku noticed their presence & alerted his team, the activated the traps around them but the ninjas from sound narrowly evaded it.

"What do you want?" Sai gritted.

"We just wanted to kill that team & have their scrolls but looks like we have another one to mess up with too." A guy who had his whole face bandaged up except one eye with a furr coat on his back said.

A/N : I added teams from Sound, Iwa & Kumo, wanted to spice stuff up. also I'm not really good with fighting scenes I'm sorry but I still try.

There were 4 guys & 2 kunoichis all dressed in dark weird sound clothes. Team Zabuza readied their fighting stance & glared at the sound ninja.

"Let's see who messes up with who." Daichi smirked while activating his Lion's Will.

Haku quickly started attacking the sound nin with his senbons & ice needles as Sai created multiple beasts from his ninja art while Daichi engaged used taijutsu & Ninjutsu. Haku's superior speed overwhelmed the two ninja who were trying to attack him until the same blabbering guy used his gauntlet to release sound waves which paralysed him, Haku clutched his ears screaming as they bled. The same ninja tried doing it to Daichi & Sai but failed, soon the rest of the sound ninja started distracting them enough to let the man in gauntlet use his sound waves.

Haku rose up a little despite the pain as he saw his teammates getting attack by the same jutsu as him he aimed a Senbon on his neck paralysing him the instantly. He tried aiming his Senbon on others but with blurry & dizziness taking a toll on him due to which they narrowly dodged it.

Just as they started seeing black spots in their visions another blur of Auburn hair came rolling taking down one of the ninja while others barely dodged. They looked over to see Team Zabuza at their aid, Sai gave a thankful look to Ino who just smirked.

"Thanks, Beautiful." Ino blushed but maintained her posture.

A kunoichi with grey top, black & white camouflage scarf & dark ninja pants used her kunai & started attacking Ino. Shikamaru used his Shadow Paralysis to hold 2 of them off, Choji used his Partial expansion to punch the ones in Shikamaru's hold. Another green blur came in to attack the ninja who was sneaking up on Shikamaru.

"You'll not be hurting them today." Lee smirked giving a thumbs up to Team Zabuza.

"Fuck this. What are you, pests? You keep coming one after another it's not funny." The guy with bandages yelled.

"Let's show these brats our real power, Dosu, Zaku." The kunoichi said to her teammates.

"Yosh, Kin let's go." Zaku yelled.

Team 9 who were also one of the team to hear screaming along with Sakura made their way on the branch observing them. Sakura got separated from her team & heard the screams so she decided to follow it.

"Damn it, I proposed to go alone to search for scrolls to help cover more are. This Lee started helping others." Neji cursed while Tenten tried to calm him.

Meanwhile with the genins.

Kin started attacking Ino who used water based jutsu against her but due to kin's sound waves it evaded her jutsus. Due to multiple enemies, it wasn't safe for her to use her Clan's jutsu. Slowly the sound waves started to overwhelm Ino as she engaged in taijutsu but the sound waves made her dizzy & less concentrated.

Dosu used his Gauntlet on Choji who was also clutching his ears screaming in anguish. Zaku made his way towards Shikamaru throwing Kunai & Shuriken as the shadow user tried to block it all. Sakura jumped in to help Ino while she used genjutsu on Kin, within few minutes Kin broke free from the genjutsu & started attacking both the kunoichi.

"We should help them, Neji!" Tenten said.

"We can't, you know that." Neji yelled.

Meanwhile Lee was attacked by Zaku's jutsu, paralysing him. Kin brutally stabbed Ino & elbowed Sakura's ribs as she held them by their hair, Ino quickly swiped off a kunai to stab her while chopping her hair off in the process. Kin cursed at Ino as she kicked Sakura in the face & punched Ino in the stomach, Ino fell on her knees in pain as Kin kneeded her in chest as she started coughing up.

"Such a pretty face, it's a shame I'd have to ruin it." Kin laughed sadistically while tracing a kunai on Ino's face.

"Let's see you try it." A voice came from behind.

•••

(Gore, Blood, Flesh, etc all the disgusting thingy's content ahead. Read at your own risk.)

Everyone turned towards the source of the voice, They were all hit with dark, sinister chakra dripped in killer intent, Ino & Sakura visibly shivered while the rest had a chill go down their

spine. The dark aura surrounding them made the genins want to vomit, which Lee & Choji did. Even from a good distance Neji & Tenten too could feel the intense chakra paralysing them all in fear.

There stood team 7 in all it's glory, with Dark Orange-ish red Chakra surrounding Naruto, Dark Purple-ish Violet & Dark Blue-ish Indigo surrounded Hinata & Sasuke. Hinata stood in the middle with Naruto on her left & Sasuke on her right, with cold hard stare of a brutal killer. The killer intent spilling out of the three could be sensed at the tower, Haku was sure of that.

The Konoha genins backed away as they appeared while the sound nin tried to keep up a brave façade. Then Hinata giggled sadistically with a cold yet arrogant smile on her face, it was disturbing to the genins who were used to seeing the warm, happy, welcoming Hinata. The contrast of the sickly sweet smile with the dark aura surrounding her made everyone stare at her in awe g fear.

The three dark genins simultaneously turned their heads towards Kin who had a kunai in her hand trembling. They vigorously made their way in front, their walk screamed respect, power, dominance - with an emanation so dark it feared them to even breathe.

(A/N : i had to keep myself from writing respect, power, BANANA! I'm sorry _ )

Naruto made his way towards Zaku who was attacking Shikamaru during their chaos, Hinata turned towards Kin while Sasuke did the same to Dosu. Their walk was slow, graceful, dignified like a predator walking towards it's prey, Sasuke started grinning as he made his way to Dosu, he aimed his Gauntlet on him & send sound waves bit it made no difference as Sasuke still stood their grinning sickly like a psychopath. Naruto's unusual hard face sending daggers towards Zaku, she felt his hand trembling in fear. Hinata stood tall, graceful, confident with a pleasingly vicious smile on her pale- creamy skinned beautiful face.

Dosu started using his Gauntlet with maximum force but it accomplished nothing, Sasuke activated his Snake Mantle & yelled 'Lightening style : Piercing arrows ' as multiple arrows materialising from thin air around him & pierced through Dosu. He screamed in pain while Sasuke unsheathed his sword cutting off the hand which has his Gauntlet on, blood splattered on to his pale face as he grinned at the sight with his Sharingan activated, with one sleek swing Sasuke impaled his chest as his screaming died out slowly.

Naruto's Kyubi's cloak which looked like his Fox Sheen, he used his Chakra tail to bring Zaku forward as his clawed hand gripped his throat lifting him up, Zaku used a kunai in his to attack him but his kunai broke as soon as it clashed with the cloak. Naruto's eyes hardened more at his pathetic attempt as he whispered 'wind style : wind palm gale' air bursted through in palm puncturing Zaku's throat. Blood & bits of flesh splattered everywhere as Naruto threw his lifeless body away shaking his hand to get rid of the flesh & blood. Zaku's body lied over there as his head was twisted fanatically with a mushy goo of vocal cords, flesh, blood which was his throat 3 minutes ago.

Hinata removed her kunai swirling it around her finger as she walked graciously with an eerie, gleeful look on her face. She giggled as she saw Kin shaking in her boots, she circled her observing her like one playing with it's prey.

"Do I scare you?" Hinata asked joyfully smiling.

"No.. you d-d-don't. You s-should be worried abou-u-t y-yoursel-l-f " Kin stuttered acting brave.

"Oh my! I'll be fine, After all..." Hinata trailed off while getting closer to the trembling figure, tracing her kunai on the side of her face.

"... you're weak." Hinata giggled.

A/N : Inspired from Gojo

"You were complimenting about my friend's face, weren't you? I have to say you're pretty beautiful yourself. It'll be a shame if it's stained or scarred, wouldn't it?" Hinata asked cheerfully as she clapped her hands together grinning.

"Let's give you a makeover, shall we?" Hinata asked expectantly looking at Kin.

"I don't know much about them but I'll see what I can do." Hinata mumbled as she got a kunai from her pouch.

Kin was about to stab Hinata's back as she crystallized all of her back shocking Kin when her kunai broke. She kicked her down as she laid ther while stabbing her crystal blades through her hands.

"Now I don't want you moving during the process it's for keeping them in place." Hinata scowled all the cheerfulness gone.

She slowing started tracing a kunai on her face, she slowly started carving the side of her face as Kin screamed in agony & begged her to stop, she thrashed her legs around to find a way to stop Hinata. Hinata materialized two more crystal blades & plunged them into her knees, the sound of the blade shattering crispy knee joint could be heard clearly.

She continued to carve her face up until she was able to lift a layer of skin which looked like a disfigured face.

"Ahh look at you, you look so pretty. We can actually see the real you or more like your real face." Giggling at her own own joke. Kin stopped screaming & glared at Hinata feeling naked, disgusting.

" I don't like the look you're giving me." Hinata said in a serious tone.

She looked in thought as she did few handsigns, yelling ' crystal Style : glowing thorns' as multiple lilac thorns of crystal impaled Kin as she yelled cursing in pain finally losing her breathe with half-lidded eyes closing in.

"There problem solved." Hinata smirked as others watched in horror.

She was about to move on to another one of Sound's blacked out ninja when Neji jumped in with Haku as she closed off his Chakra points while Haku knocked her out. Her teammates were too finishes with their fights but we're soon knocked off by Haku & Neji. They all gathered as they bandaged themselves up.

"What was that?" Choji finally breathed out.

"We don't know, but whatever it was it wasn't good." Ino answered.

"But why were they acting like that, it's...so..unlike them." Shikamaru reasoned.

"We found them knocked out, beaten & battered up when we followed the source of screams. It looked like they faced a powerful enemy, it must've been someone truly significant if they could cause this much damage to them. Team 7 is not a team which can be easily taken down." Daichi said.

"I think it's because of the seal on their necks, Sasuke & Hinata both have one while Naruto lacks one. It looks like some sort of cursed seal I'm not sure, whatever it is the way they acted just now was it's evil doing." Haku answered.

A few branches rustled through as 2 set of team 7's clones came. They looked at the the scene in shocked, contemplating what happened.

"What happened guys?"Naruto asked as one set dispelled themselves.

"Long story short : team 11 found your real selves knocked out then they were attacked by 2 sound team the rest of us intervened when things got tough but it was slowly overwhelming us then you guys woke up all under the influence of weird & scary chakra around you with cloudy, black marks all over your body. Then you killed the ones who were going to kill us." Ino said lightly making it look like it was no big deal knowing that none of them knew what they were doing nor that they even wanted to.

Hinata gasped clamping her hand over her mouth while Sasuke & Naruto held a confused stare.

"Why would we kill them so brutally." Naruto whispered.

"You were under the influence of the seal you have on your necks. It wasn't your fault it was controlling you running in your deepest darkest emotion. You guys didn't knew what you were doing, don't blame yourself they would've killed us if you guys didn't interfered." Shikamaru explained.

"C'mere I'll heal you all, you all have severe injuries." Hinata whispered slowly as she made her way to heal everyone.

Naruto & Sasuke shared a look while removing 4 scrolls from their bags. They handed one to Shikamaru, Neji, Daichi & Sakura.

"It's the extra scrolls we were supposed to collect from the genins teams." Sasuke said slowly.

"You all retrieved 4 scrolls?!" Lee asked in disbelief.

"We ambushed them." Naruto simply shrugged.

"We can't accept this." Neji said while Shikamaru nodded in agreement.

"You helped us, fought for us, saved us when you didn't have to. Please accept them, they don't even scratch the surface of the debt for helping us." The indigo haired girl said slowly avoiding eye contact.

Hinata's clone healed everyone as it dispelled itself from the lack of chakra. All the teams made their way towards the tower, team Zabuza waited for the rest of the team 7 to wake up & continued their journey in silence.

Team 7 reached the tower around the sunset of the first day with rest of the rookie genins in tow.

Hiruzen & few elite jounins & ANBU were informed of the Orochimaru's meeting with Team 7 in the forest of death. After the genins were patched up, they were called by the hokage in the meeting room of the tower.

They entered with their heads down & in utter quietness.

"You called us, hokage-sama?" Sasuke asked.

Kakashi, Shisui, Zabuza Anko, Yugaō, Gai, Hayate, Genma, Yugo, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Iruka, Kurenai, Hiashi, Asuma & Hiruzen himself were all in the meeting room. The genins avoided eye contact from everyone.

"I was informed that Team 7 had a rather abrupt confrontation with one of my former student & rogue ninja, The Sannin Orochimaru. Is it true?" Hiruzen said with a strict voice.

"Yes it is." Naruto answered.

"Will you care to elaborate what happened in as fine detail as you can...?" Hiruzen asked as the genins reported them of the whole incident in utter details.

Everyone tensed up at the part when they were under the cursed seal's control. Kurenai & Gai flinched at it while a shiver ran down everyone else's spine, Kakashi & Zabuza's eyes hardened at them mention of their violent behaviour.

"I see, thank you for explaining everything." The genins nodded slowly

"What is there on your cursed seal? It looks like overlaying of another seal." Jiraiya asked.

"Naruto-kun made a temporary seal for us to surpress the pain & stop all source of exchange of influence, chakra, power." Hinata explained.

"You were able to overlay one of Orochimaru's seals?" Tsunade asked curiously.

"It's not my best work I know but I tried what I could in 10 minutes." Naruto said slowly

"Naruto, Tsunade isn't asking about it as a degrade to your skills even I can't completely overlay Orochimaru's seals in days but you were able to do it in minutes." Jiraiya explained with a proud look as Naruto stared in disbelief.

"Where do you think Orochimaru must be now?" Asuma asked other jounins.

"I bet he'd be planning something evil again hiding in the corner like a snake he is." Anko gritted.

"About that, I don't think he'd be moving much for 4-5 days or even be able to use any jutsu after it for that matter." Sasuke said.

"What do you mean?" Zabuza asked.

"I made a special paralysing poison it's from this rare herb which only grows in pre-spring on the full moon. It's unique in It's own way as it's antidote is the same herb itself. The herb only grows in forest near Naka shrine which I already used all to make the poison & it's antidote." Sasuke answered while Shisui had s proud face with Anko

"So you're sure he'll be immobile for a few days?" Yugo asked.

"I'm sure I'm the only one with the antidote to it & I do not plan on giving him, ever." Sasuke gritted in anger.

"What was that about not being able to use any jutsu?" Hiruzen asked raising a brow.

"I increased the density of my chakra along with it's charge & forced my chakra into his Chakra system which destroyed all the chakra points & will keep eating his chakra coils until my chakra is extracted from his body which only a skilled Hyuga or a very strong medical ninja with skills like Tsunade-sama herself. Even if he sheds his skin or body chakra coils remains the same, which is why he'll be unable to replenish, manipulate or infuse chakra in anyway." Hinata explained.

"That's...a very clever thing to do." Hiashi said proudly.

"How were you able to change the natural density or charge of the chakra?" Kurenai asked.

"Extreme chakra control plus the byakugan helps." Hinata answered.

Kurenai & other looked at the others with awe.

"C'mere squirts I'll heal you." Tsunade offered.

" Thank you Tsunade-sama but Hinata already healed us all." Sasuke said.

"What were your injuries? Sure getting slammed by a snake would do more than a couple of broken bits." Tsunade asked.

"I had 5 broken ribs, sprained ankle, dislocated shoulder & a stab wound from a branch," Naruto said.

"Shattered spine, twisted knee joint, a stab wound from kunai, broken fingers," Sasuke continued.

"Cracked wrist, broken pelvis joint, dislocated knee, a stab from kunai as well." Hinata finished.

Tsunade had an eerie look of satisfaction.

"You three, listen carefully. You gave your best out there, I'm very proud of you three. Three rookie genins against a a legendary sanin is not a fair fight, many teams of chunins or jounins died when they faced a powerful man like Orochimaru. You three not only managed to hold your own but also left him with severe after effects. I could never be more proud, we ninjas it's kill or be killed. Do not doubt your killing instinct, if you didn't killed them they would've killed you all." Kakashi said with an unusual serious tone as others inwardly agreed.

The genins nodded & were dismissed to rest for the Preliminaries.

•••

All the jounins turned towards Kakashi with shocked expression.

"What?!"

"Ah, nothing it's good to see you so attach to your youthful genin team." Gai exclaimed while Kakashi shrugged.

"Their progress hokage-sama... it's too rapid for a genin team. Are you sure about it?" Kurenai asked.

"I know their progress is rapid but I don't see any problem with it. They'll be huge assets to us in the future." Hokage explained.

"But don't you think with a power as much as theirs one of them might betray the village?" Asuma asked while all the ninja who trained with team 7 glared at him.

"No they will not, I'll admit before arranging genin team I was little skeptical about Sasuke's fidelity to the village in the future seeing his brother's actions, Naruto losing control over kyubi & going on a rampage but now I can see the bonds they've formed it's too strong for them to betray one another, they might not be loyal to Konoha but they're loyal to their team. The only one I am worried about is Hinata." Hiruzen sighed.

"What about her? She seems like a sweet, strong, skilled girl." Jiraiya asked.

"That's the problem, she's too strong & too skilled, you might not believe it but I've seen her manipulation skills, It'll make our best spy make a run for their money but she's never used it for anything evil which is good, she might be very kind & a gentle soul but there's a darkness in her with Orochimaru's seal running on her deepest darkest emotion I don't want to be on the receiving end of her anger. I'm worried she'll one day snap & let the darkness control her. If she's anything like her mother & father she'd be our greatest asset or our most formidable foe, the power she possesses is simply too great to control. Her matured Byakugan with precise Hyuga techniques, her crystal release, her medical skills, her manipulation skills these all are individually just dangerous to fight against she possesses them all."

"I understand your reason to worry Hokage-sama but I assure you that I, Hyuga Hiashi, Clan Head of the Hyuga will make sure that Hinata will never betray the leaf. She might possesses great power & skills that'll point her out as potential traitor but she takes after her mother she would never do anything to add stain on her name. Even if she slips into darkness I'll personally go after her, pursue her to come back show her the light she needs." Hiashi explained.

"I owe my life to Hinata I won't stand there watch her drown into darkness, even if I have to break every limb in her body to straighten her mind I will because my loyalty & life is to serve her." Zabuza said.

"We understand your emotions Zabuza as her sensei & her guardian I will be there. I will make sure she's on the right path even if it's the last thing I do." Kakashi gritted.

"I don't see why we have to worry about Hinata-chan betraying leaf, have you guys seen her with her team? She'd gladly lay her life to save anyone in this room, hell she'll lay her life even for a stranger. She might have darkness in her, everyone does but that doesn't mean it'll overwhelmed her kindness, her byakugan, crystal release, manipulation, medical jutsu are nothing in front of the strength her kindness possess. If anything she'll do everything to make sure we never go down a dark road. Let her embrace her darkness it's a part of her she'll never betray us or do anything evil unless it's the people she cares about are in the question, then she'll fight, a fight she'll aim to kill. I won't stop her from that, it's who she is, a strong, intelligent, skilled kunoichi who deeply cares about the people around her. Her love

for everyone runs deeper than her darkness will ever be." Shisui said with focused & determined face.

"Shisui's right, if we start worrying about every kunoichi's loyalty who's too skilled & strong for her age then we're setting a bad example. She has the two brats after all they'll beat sense into her & Sarutobi-sensei, do not ever doubt a kunoichi's loyalty, we kunoichi's take loyalty very seriously anyways I want to train her, train her in medical Ninjutsu her skills surpass mine when I was a jounin. I want to pass on my legacy & knowledge to someone who'll be one of the greatest kunoichi's the shinobi world has ever seen." Tsunade explained.

"I cannot allow you that Tsunade, we've already decided to send Hinata to someone who'll not only work on her medical ninjutsu but also her lineage as a Hyuga. I cannot tell you who yet because it's classified, I'm sorry." Hiruzen sighed.

"Tch" Tsunade gritted.

"You're all dismissed."

Day of Preliminarily exams.

"Congratulations to all of you on making through the Second exam, even though more than half of the genins weren't able to complete the second stage there's still many to take on the final test which is why there's gonna be a preliminary exam to sort out the best of the best." Hayate coughed up g explained them all the rules while a small audience of few civilians, chunins, clan members, jounins cheered for the genins as the legendary sanins, anbu & hokage watched.

"The names which shows up on the screen will stay & fight while the rest will wait for their turn." Hayate ordered.

The names of the genins started to spin on the screen.

Neji Vs Sakura.

A few gasps came from the crowd while some cheered, Neji made his way to the arena while Sakura was feeling nervous for her fight as she knew Neji was a genius prodigy. She was about to forfeit when she felt someone squeeze her shoulder she turned to see Hinata were determined eyes & an intense expression which made something turn inside her.

"You got this Sakura." Hinata gave an encouraging warm smile to her Sakura felt sudden surge of confidence when Hinata said it. She turned towards the rest of her & team 7 in which Naruto & Kiba grinned while Sasuke & Shino nodded. She felt happy that someone believed in her, that she had someone cheering for her.

"You better win billboard forehead I want to fight you in the finals & wipe the floor with your big forehead." Ino cheered in her own unique way Sai tried to calm her excitement.

"You got it " Sakura said while making her way down as Hayate gave the signal to start.

"Haruno Sakura, a rookie genin from a civilian background." Neji analysed.

"Don't underestimate me Hyuga." Sakura gritted.

"I never was Haruno-san, you see previously I use to believe in the fate, that fate is decided but recently due to some events my eyes opened & realised my mistakes. The previous me would've disregarded you as a weak wannabe ninja civilian fangirl but now my perspective has been altered."

"What changed?" Sakura asked narrowing her eyes.

"I spend most of my life resenting main family & my cursed seal. I blamed my father's death on my cousin Hinata when she didn't had nothing to do with some recent events made me realise that she was always looking out for me even though I hated her, abused her, never left a chance to belittle her or humiliate because I believe that it was her destiny to be weak, to be a disgrace on main family, to be disbanded as an heiress. But she proved me wrong, even after my wrong behavior towards her she still strives to complete the goal to help me get freedom. I now know that fate isn't decided by someone else but we decide our own, I know one day you'll be a strong, formidable kunoichi if you aim at it, that's why I want to fight you." Neji said calmly while Hinata gasped.

"I'm sorry for everything I've ever done to you Hinata-sama. You did not deserve it, you never did. Please forgive me" Neji said with a small smile.

"There's nothing to forgive you for, I never was angry with you. You're my brother, I can never be truly angry with you." Hinata said with a bright smile while tears pooled her eyes.

"Thank you for not disregarding me as someone not worthy to fight you. I promise to give you my best." Sakura said while charging towards as did Neji.

She made 2 clones which engaged in taijutsu with Neji, as soon as his gentle fist attack made in contact with the clone it bursted into cherry blossoms & glitter while forming a mild mist. He was about to attack another clone when it dispelled itself, only to realise that the clone planted few explosion tags. He quickly threw the explosion tags towards his left as jumped away from it using Rotation to stray the flames & blast away.

Just as he was about to charge ahead he realised he was under genjutsu, the chakra control was so fine it was hard to detect even with his byakugan, Sakura stood in front of him while Neji began to attack in the empty air, keeping the the tiger handsign while her eyes closed.

"What is she doing?" Choji asked.

"She's forming multiple layers of genjutsu to confuse his byakugan, her chakra control is very fine it makes it almost impossible to detect it with naked eye" Kurenai explained.

"Doesn't byakugan see through genjutsu?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yes it does, but if her chakra control is as Kurenai-sensei says it is, it's hard for a byakugan to detect a genjutsu like that too & she's layering multiple genjutsu which will strain the byakugan & confuse the user into unsettling reality. It's mesmerizing to see the control she has over chakra." Hinata explained.

"How amazing is her chakra control?" Naruto asked.

"If I'm not wrong she's just a few steps behind Hinata regarding chakra control. If she continues like this she could be a great medic or even a genjutsu master." Shisui answered.

"Wow" The genins breathed.

Neji releasing himself again & again from the genjutsu was starting to be tiresome for him, he took a kunai out to plunge himself in the thigh. To let the pain, break through multiple genjutsu.

As he broke through it he charged towards Sakura who took her kunai out. The battle was quite short from there as Neji gave no opportunity for Sakura to form a genjutsu. Taijutsu matched with Neji soon started to overwhelm her as she tried her best to keep up. He struck her lung, as she fell back coughing up blood & collapsing.

"Winner Neji Hyuga." Hayate annouced after checking on Sakura.

Hinata quickly made her way to the arena as Tsunade followed from the Hokage's seats, She quickly opened the closed genjutsu points while healing her punctured wound.

"I...l-lost." Sakura coughed up.

"It's okay, You won in my eyes. I'm proud of you, you held your own against someone I, once dreaded & feared to face. You have my respect." Hinata smiled at her.

"You almost won against me, Haruno-san. You've gained my respect & trust as a fellow comaradie, your skills are a forced to be reckoned with." Neji explained with a calm face.

"T-thank..youu.." Sakura answered as Tsunade made her way towards them.

"You did good Sakura, I'll take care of her injuries from here Hinata." Tsunade said.

"But.."

"I know as medical ninja our first instinct is to heal but you have your match soon you'll need your energy." Tsunade explained while Hinata nodded.

Hayate annouced for the next match.

Sasuke Vs Kankuro

The battle begun but was over soon as Sasuke's use of weapons with chakra strings, thermal wire & chakra seekers started to overwhelm Kankuro after which Kankuro collapsed suddenly indicating that he's been poisoned. Everyone cheered for the Uchiha as he walked back towards the bleachers. Hinata & Naruto tackled him into a hug while Zabuza & Shisui proudly nodded as Kakashi patted his head, Anko fangirled in the background as it was her special poison which Sasuke used. Hiashi walked towards the said boy while extending his hand.

"Congratulations on your win, I'm sure your parents would've been very proud to see the ninja you've become." Hiashi gave him a proud look.

Sasuke's eyes teared up as he hugged Hiashi surprising him.

"I'm sorry I lost it for a second." Sasuke said while bowing.

"It's okay, you & Naruto are like the sons I never had." Hiashi smiled.

The screen started rolling off multiple names again stopping on..

Haku Vs Shino

The battle was in Haku's favour since the beginning as he used his ice needles & senbons to destroy the bugs swiftly, his speed helping him even more greatly. Soon Shino had no choice but to forfeit.

Lee Vs Gaara

(Same as canon but Gai intervened before Sand Coffin.)

Yaroi Vs Kurotsuchi

The match quickly ended as Kurotsuchi attacked him with two B rank Earth jutsu. ( I know she wasn't a part of the exams in canon but I added the Iwa & Kumo teams too so why not.)

Temari Vs Shikamaru

(Same as canon with Shikamaru forfeiting but in the preliminaries instead of finals)

Naruto Vs Kiba

Naruto used his clones to overwhelm Kiba with Sheer speed & raw power. He quickly used a B rank wind jutsu to immobilise Akamaru while engaging in Taijutsu with Kiba, he finished the match with his Uzumaki Barrage.

Choji Vs Karui

The two ninjas charged towards each other, Choji blocked many lightening based jutsu & Karui's sword while Karui dodged Choji's boulder & partial expansion. The match ended in a tie as both were unable to continue anymore.

Sai Vs Ino

The two ninjas made their way towards the arena hesitating to attack the other one.

"You both better fight with everything you've got. I know you care bout the other too deeply to hurt them, but if you don't give it your all it'll be an insult on the other one's skills." Sasuke gritted in anger.

"Yeah, Sasuke-teme is right. Fight with honour & fight to determine your strength & weakness then work on it together." Naruto yelled from the stands.

"Do your best, both of you." Hinata cheered happily with two pom pom in her hand which no one knew where it came from.

"Let's give it our all, Sai-kun." Ino smiled.

"I agree.." Sai replied which taking out his scrolls g charging towards.

Sai used the beast art to rapidly create ink creations sending them to attack Ino, while Ino used her kunai's to dispel the ink creations. Ino quickly did few hand signs throwing multiple small fireballs towards Sai. Sai dodged the fireballs while charging over her & engaging in Taijutsu.

Ino was starting to get overpowered due to her lack of speed, she kicked sai while jumping away. Sai sent more ink creations towards Ino as she did the handsigns & released water bullets out of her finger tip destroying the creatures. As Sai was making more ink creations, Ino made a water clone & quickly substituted herself with the clone, the clone used water bullet to deflect the ink. Sai used Ink flush to immobilise Ino & aimed his kunai over her throat.

"Give up." Sai said calmly.

"Not yet." Ino smirked while dispelling herself.

The real Ino did the necessary handsigns & used Earth-style headhunter jutsu which she recently learned courtesy of Kakashi. She made her way through which doing her Clan's handsigns, soon Ino's body went limp on the floor which Sai stopped struggling against the earth.

"I, Sai, Give up now." Sai said.

"Are you sure?" Hayate asked skeptically.

"Yes."

"Winner Yamanaka Ino." Hayate annouced.

Soon Sai lost his consciousness as Ino got up, she disabled the jutsu as Sai woke up.

"Congratulations beautiful." Sai said smiling.

"Thank you.." Ino blushed.

"That's my daughter bitches!" Inoichi exclaimed loudly from the crowd as Ino yelled at him for not embarrassing her.

Tenten Vs Daichi

The two made their way to the arena & begun as Daichi activated his Lion's Will while Tenten readied her scrolls. Tenten striked first swirling 100's of kunais, shurikens at Daichi as he dodged most while his cloak deflected the rest.

Daichi did handsigns & threw multiple fire lilies at Tenten, she summoned a metal shield to block them. Daichi replaced with a clone secretly & sent it towards Tenten who dodged multiple incoming weapons. Tenten was getting frustrated from not being able to land any hits so she used the strongest jutsu in her arsenal.

She quickly summoned her scrolls & used Twin Rising Dragon on Daichi without realising it was a clone. She cursed as the attack was wasted on a clone. The real Daichi closed his eyes meditated for 10 seconds then opened his eyes to reveal dark black pupils with a violet ring with 4 big & small dots circling inside. The crowd gasped at it & stared at him in awe.

"What's that?" Shino asked.

"It's Kanjōgan, it's a bloodline limit from the Ryu clan like the Byakūgan & Sharingan." Yugo explained.

Daichi quickly did handsigns while keeping eye contact with Tenten, she freezed up & started screaming in horror. Her skin slowly burning while she yelled for it stop, begging for the pain to go away.

"What's he doing to her?" Neji asked worriedly.

"Kanjōgan has the ability to make you feel emotions, the name of the eye itself say 'Emotion eye'. It requires making just an eye contact for it to activate, he can act the opponent mentally & physically by making them feel Pain or anything else. Like now he making her feel pain but lightly burning her skin, but she's feeling as if she's been burned by the Hellfire or Amaterasu itself." Yugo sighed.

Tenten soon collapsed as Hayate annouced Daichi as the winner.

Kabuto Vs Hinata

Hinata looked over to her friends & sensei as they all an encouraging look. Naruto shooked her shoulders in anticipation while her father patted her head - Shisui, Anko, Yugaō, Gai all nodded their heads as Zabuza & Kakashi hugged Hinata while crying. Sasuke grabbed Hinata from the bone crushing hug by Kakashi & Zabuza, he wished her luck while smiling.

"I want to fight you in finals, Hina-chan." Sasuke smiled.

"Then I need to make sure you will." Hinata smiled back hugging him. Sasuke quickly kissed her forehead before anyone could see with a light hue over his face. Hinata blushed while smiling & made her way towards the arena while hokage chucked after seeing the secret exchange.

"Let's give our best Kabuto-san." Hinata said determined.

"As you wish, Hinata-san." Kabuto smirked.

•••

Hinata activated her byakugan while taking her fighting stance. Kabuto quickly realised that it wasn't a Hyuga stance & warily infused his chakra to make Chakra Scalpels. He charged towards Hinata as they engaged in taijutsu, Kabuto tried to use his scalpel on her but she blocked all of his hits with ease.

Hinata was about graze a finger over his lungs but Kabuto caught her wrist before it touched smirking, Hinata smirked back while as she used her wrist to release chakra & lock the chakra points of his hand, the blue fade of chakra quickly diminished from one hand while it went limp. Kabuto cursed under his breath & scratched over the right side of her stomach with his other scalpel & tried to overwhelm her with his speed, Hinata kicked him away & dashed forward.

"Null" she yelled as a small seal on her limbs glowed.

"Oh my he's a dead meat." Zabuza chuckled sadistically.

"What do you mean?" Kurenai asked.

"Hinata uses weight seals on herself, it was almost as much as mine when I last asked her which was a month ago. I'm sure she has added more weight to the seals." Gai explained.

Kabuto was shocked by her renewed speed as she started attacking him, she kicked his arm after kneeing him in his lungs, Kabuto jumped away before getting more damage. He did few handsigns yelling 'Wind style : Palm Cannon Release' as a gust of wild wind escaped his palm towards Hinata.

Hinata made 2 clones while she started healing her injury, the clones quickly started waving their palms in the air while yelling 'Eight Trigrams : Twin Protection Palms' Kabuto forced his chakra point to open while hissing in pain.

The real Hinata did few handsigns while yelling 'Eight Trigrams : 640 shots' as 64 shots of air in group 10 erupted from her palm & precisely closed off Kabuto's chakra points.

"That's not a common Hyuga technique." Kabuto panted.

"I created it." Hinata answered.

Kabuto charged towards Hinata which his Chakra swords this time, she swiftly caught his wrists smirking as a purple burst of energy blasted from her fists in the shape of wolf as she yelled 'Gentle Fist : Twin wolf fangs' Kabuto could feel his chakra depleting rapidly as he struggled out from her grip jumping away.

Hinata made her way towards Kabuto with her Twin wolf fangs activated as the crowd watched at her in awe. She striked towards him absorbing chakra & closing chakra points whenever she got the chance. She incorporated her Vaccum Palm with her wolf fangs & blasted Kabuto away closing his chakra points & absorbing most of it.

She deactivated her Twin wolf fangs as she did multiple complicated handsigns. A portal opened in front of her as the temperature of the arena dropped down quickly while yelling 'Ice style : 10 thousands secrets of heavenly death'. The crowd watched mesmerized as multiple ice shards came from the portal with a blinding speed attacking Kabuto.

After few second the pierced shards melted as Kabuto screamed in pain, trying to heal himself but failing. Hayate went over & checked Kabuto as he wasn't in a any condition to continue.

"Winner Hyuga Hinata." Hayate announced as Naruto started yelling & congratulating Hinata while Ino cheered with pom poms different than Hinata's which again no one knew where it came from. Her friends & Sensei congratulated her while her father stood there with a smug & proud face Hiruzen was all too familiar with.

Kabuto was sent to the medics as Hayata gathered all of them again, he gave them all a random number from a bage & asked them their numbers.

"Who got one?" Hayate coughed.

Daichi & Ino raised their hands.

"You're gonna go against each other in the finals next month." Hayate annouced.

"Two?" Naruto & Temari raised their hands.

"You'll go against each other." Naruto grinned as Temari smirked.

"Three?" Hinata & Kurotsuchi raised their hands.

"You'll go third." Hinata smiled while Kurotsuchi stood with a smug face.

"Four?" Neji & Haku raised their hands.

"You know the drill." The both prodigy smiled at each other.

"Five?" Sasuke & Gaara raised their hands.

"You're the last one to fight." Hayate announced as both the genins smirked in anticipation.

•••

Team Zabuza & Kakashi gathered in a small restaurant with Shisui, Anko, Yugo, Tsunade, Jiraiya & Yugaō.

"So what'll you all do now?" Tsunade asked while sipping her sake.

"I'm going to train Haku under me for the next whole month." Zabuza said shrugging.

"I'll be training Daichi with Yugaō for the next month." Yugo said calmly.

"I'll be teaching the blondie squirt while helping the pale paper with his beast art." Jiraiya answered.

"I'm taking Hinata-chan to train under Yamure-san. Her official training starts after the Eclipse but I want her to get started before." Shisui said nodding towards Hinata.

"I'll train the Hairbutt with Kakashi." Anko smirked as Sasuke made a crying face.

"That's good, all of your training is sorted." Tsunade praised.

"What are you gonna do, Tsunade-sama?" Haku asked.

"I'll be getting prepared to take over as Hokage, the pink haired girl, Sakura she asked me to make her my apparentice so I'll be training her if I get time." Tsunade shrugged.

"That's nice, I'm sure Sakura must be very happy." Hinata muttered smiling.

"Yes I guess.." Tsunade sighed as Kakashi scowled.

"Kakashi what got your boxers in a twist." Anko asked while stealing Shisui's food which he pretended to not see.

"I do not like that girl, she has said mean, cruel things to little one on multiple occasions because she think that little one stole 'her Sasuke'. She had tried to belittle, humiliated & hurt her many times. She gets on my nerves." Kakashi gritted.

"I agree I don't like her too I don't even know why you would try to be nice with her after all that she did to you." Zabuza asked turning towards Hinata.

"Us girls have gotta stick together." Hinata simply shrugged.

All the genins & jounins stared at her while she sighed.

"Sakura isn't that bad, she's really strong, smart, skilled. Yes she did tried to hurt be in many ways before but it was because she wanted people to support her, acknowledge her, cheer for her. She might not like me but I want to be someone who does all those things for her. Her parents due to civilian background don't support her being ninja, she doesn't have any ninja friends except Ino which also has a friendly rivalry with her. Everyone needs someone to depend on, I have you all she doesn't that's why I want to be that person who she can depend on." Hinata finished smiling sadly.

Everyone nodded their heads in understanding, Tsunade smiled warmly at Hinata while Jiraiya bawled over in amazement which everyone ignored except Yugo who tried calmly the pervert sannin. They all said their goodbyes & went to prepare for a month long training session.

•••

One month later.

Team 7 was to meet Kakashi on the day of finals near the arena, the whole month none of them saw each other so they all were unknown to the progress their teammates made or the new things they learned.

Hinata packed them couple of onigiri to eat before the finals, Anko threatened Kakashi to reach early with Sasuke.

"So Hinata-chan what new things did you learn? I learned many cool things from pervy sage." Naruto grinned.

"I'll tell you what I learned if you both tell me yours." Hinata smiled.

"Fair enough." Sasuke smirked.

"Okay I'll start, I learned an awesome jutsu which was my dad's, pervy sage taught me it's more better to just show you later instead. I also started working on more advance complicated seals from Mom's clan scrolls & I learned how to summon a toad it's awesome. Do you guys know what's summoning?" Naruto asked excitedly.

"Of course we know what's summoning, Naruto-dobe I have a snake summon. Anko gave me scrolls which were needed for summoning anyways I think snake are much cooler than sappy toads. I too learned a new jutsu, Kakashi taught me & I also improvised it to use it with

my sword. My accuracy & potency of poison & weapons have improve kudos to Anko." Sasuke smirked.

"Toads aren't sappy Sasuke-teme. Snakes are dumb like you. Very not cool." Naruto yelled.

"Well while being genins & having summons is a feat itself regardless whatever the summon is, if it's helpful & skilled I don't see the need for summons to be 'cool'." Kakashi butted in.

"That's true sensei." Hinata nodded.

"What about you little one, you got yourself a summon?"

"Yes I do, I have one with an owl summoning from my clan." Hinata smiled.

"Hyuga clan has a summoning contract I didn't knew about it." Kakashi questioned.

"It's only for main branch bit even then they're very picky on deciding who their summoner will be." Hinata answered.

"How picky." Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"I'm the only one they agreed to be the summon for since past 100 years." Naruto stared in shock.

"Well that's certainly picky." Kakashi smirked.

"Wait, Hina-chan you said you have 'one with owls' that means you have more than one?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes, Yamure-san signed me up with Wolves too. They're really nice & strong." Hinata nodded.

"You have 2 summoning?" Kakashi asked as Hinata nodded.

"Damn just when I thought I'd be the only one with cool summons." Naruto saddened.

"It's okay Naruto-kun, it takes loads of chakra for me to summon both of them at the same time so I do only one of them." Hinata reassured.

"What else you learned?" Sasuke asked wiggling eyebrows.

"I developed & matured my byakugan range better, I also learned a few new techniques from Yamure-san while Shisui-niisan helped me with taijutsu there. She's a really skilled medic too she's really old so she knows all the ancient jutsus, surprisingly they're more quicker & effective than the modern medical Ninjutsu. I also found out I have 3 major chakra affinity Water, Wind & Lightening. I customized few of my own." Hinata answered excitedly.

"That's so cool hinata-chan." Naruto yelled grinning while Sasuke smiled nodding.

"Thank you." Hinata said shyly.

"I'm so proud of you all, I couldn't ask for a better team truly." Kakashi eye-smiled.

"Does that mean you're so proud that you'll show what's under your mask?" Sasuke asked hopefully.

"No" Kakashi deadpanned.

"Ugh" both boys pulled their hair in frustration.

"Sensei I don't know why you hide your face, you're so handsome it isn't like there's something bad or ugly you want to hide." Hinata asked.

"You've seen his FACE?!" The boys yelled simultaneously as hinata nodded.

Kakashi shook Hinata's shoulder asking her, " you've seen my face? How? When?"

"During our mission to wave, when we fought Zabuza-sensei for the first time. You were too exhausted & collapsed that's why you weren't able to keep a layer of chakra on your mask. So when I was seeing to your injuries I saw your face with my byakugan." Hinata smiled as Kakashi slipped down crying & wallowing himself in self-pity.

"So what does he look like? Does he have Fish-roe like lips? Or buck teeth?" Sasuke started shaking Hinata asking her.

"Teme you'll make Hinata-chan dizzy but wait even I want to know but I'm not that crazy atleast." Naruto tried getting the poor girl from the uchiha's death grip.

"Sasuke-kun...no he doesn't have any of those. Infact he's really handsome actually not that I think I know why he wears mask. Because if he didn't I'm sure he'll have a whole village as his fangirls. He also has this cute beauty mark on the right side under his lips, it really makes him more attractive. If sensei was any young I would've hitted on him." Hinata answered dreamily with heart eyes as Sasuke's eye twitched.

"Bakashi-sensei, never remove your mask ever or I'll make sure you never live to see another sunrise." Sasuke glared while his blonde teammate nodded.

"Keep your filthy pervert hands to yourself, she's mine." The Uchiha growled

"& you..." Sasuke turned towards a shocked mad blushing hinata.

"The only guy you'll be hitting on is me." Sasuke yelled while walking off into the arena for the finals. Hinata blushed furiously breaking off from her trance.

"Did he just said that?" Naruto asked after a minute of silence.

"Yes he did, looks like our little emo-chan has a crush on little one fufu, I ship." Kakashi cooed.

'THUD'

Naruto & Kakashi turned their heads to see a red faced Hinata on the floor.

"Let's pick her up & get inside." Kakashi picked his sweet little genin & entered the arena.

•••

The cheering & roaring from the audience was loud & clear. The arena was vibrating from the noises as the genins came down.

The sensei's, jounins, chunins & sannins were in the audience as ANBU was spread out everywhere for security.

Team 7 gathered in the arena with others after Hinata was awake, everyone stood up & bowed towards the Kage stand to welcome them.

Hayate (he wasn't killed because Dosu already died, so he never heard Kabuto & Baki's conversation) introduced Raikage, Kazekage, Tsuchikage, Hokage one by one.

Raikage attended the Chunin exams because he was furious as all teams from Kumo were eliminated he wanted to check the strength of other villages & their genins themselves. Tsuchikage attended to determine her granddaughter's skills & strength as well as other Iwa nins, Kazekage was there to see his children's fights who were in the finals.

Hayate settled the roaring crowd while the genins made their way towards the stands with their sensei's & jounins. Haku asked for the 1st token genin to step up ahead for their battle.

Daichi Vs Ino

Team 11 cheered for Daichi as Team 10 did for Ino. Hinata quickly hugged both of them wishing them luck, promising that she'll be cheering for both of them. Naruto grinned while Sasuke smirked at the two opponents.

Sai was conflicted between Daichi & Ino but they assured them no matter who he cheered for the other one wouldn't be offended. Sakura hugged her former bestfriend/rival wishing her luck as Haku patted over to Daichi.

"I have couple thousand ryos on you, you better not make a fool out of me in front of Asuma." Zabuza smirked while fistbumping.

"Oh fuck you Zabuza, Ino's gonna wipe the floor with that limp face." Anko cheered for Ino while yelling about Girlpower.

"Show them the power of a true kunoichi." Hinata smiled.

They made their way downwards in between facing each other off as Hayate signaled them to begin their match.

Ino & Daichi both stared off for few seconds while smirking, Daichi activated his Lion's Will while taking out two kunai's charging over towards Ino. The said kunoichi opened up a scroll to summon a whip, shocking the audience.

"Since when does she knows how to use a whip?" Naruto asked in awe.

"Her mother was an expert in weapons her signature was a whiplash." Asuma smirked.

Ino quickly ducked over the incoming kunai's while lashing over his open shin. The wound started sizzling making Daichi hiss in pain as Ino smirked.

"Did she just did what I think she did?" Sasuke asked with wide eyes.

"If you're thinking about customizing her whiplash into a poisonous rope, then yes she did. I might've taught her a few about poisons here & there. Be ready to pay up Zabooboo." Anko smirked.

"Fuck off Anko." Zabuza glared at the sadistic jounin.

Daichi charged at her & battling in close combat, his speed started to overwhelm Ino as she kicked him away. She dud multiple handsigns yelling ' Earth style: Bedrock Coffin' tentacles like creatures rose up from the ground as she trued to escape it's grasp. The jutsu broke his left leg while cracking his knee joint.

Ino summoned 2 earth clonese to take the blow of 2 fire jutsu Daichi back to back threw, Daichi summoned 3 clones who used their kunais to keep Ino at bay as he meditated to activate his dōujutsu. Ino created 4 earth clones who charged at Daichi's clones while she closed her eyes & blindfolded herself.

Daichi dispelled his clones to see Ino with her eyes blindfolded as he cursed inwardly, Daichi quickly engaged with Ino's four earth clones destroying 2 of them. One clone used ' Earth style: Dark swamp ' to drop Daichi into a swamp which materialized from below him while the other used ' Earth style : Fanged Pursuit' as 3 Fanged creatures went off to pursue the opponent.

Ino infused her chakra depending on her sensory skills to locate Daichi's correct position. She moved her hands towards an invisible quiver getting an arrow as she readied her bow, she took a deep breath calming herself as she blindfoldedly shot her invisible arrow.

The crowd watched in confusion till they saw Daichi's chest just few inches away from his heart getting impaled. Everyone gasped when an arrow materialized from his impaled chest.

"What happened what did she use?" Kiba asked as inoichi explained.

"It's an ancient clan jutsu, it's called 'Strike of mind arrow' it's an arrow which is made from chakra due to her mind materialized it."

Hayate checked over to Daichi who couldn't continue as he announced the winner as Medic came over.

"Winner Yamanaka Ino." The crowd roared in cheers

Tsunade, Anko, Sakura, Tenten, Temari, Kurotsuchi, Hinata, Kurenai all cheered loudly for the kunoichi as Zabuza sulked.

"Alright, next match contestant come up" Hayate coughed.

Naruto Vs Temari

Naruto quickly hugged his teammates, Kakashi & Jiraiya as they wished him luck. Hinata & Sasuke bribed him with limited edition special imported Ramen. All konoha genins cheered while most of the audience hesitantly cheered, rest of the team 7 & 11 noticed this while sharing a look then started yelling out Naruto's name cheering for him loudly. Everyone in the arena soon followed their suit & cheered for the blondie.

Naruto & Temari made their way in the middle glaring at each other with fire in their eyes. Hayate signaled them to begin their battle.

Temari undid her fan from her back while smirking, she swung her fan towards him tired of waiting for him to attack. Naruto swiftly summoned 30 clones letting them take the blow of her jutsu blowing most of them away.

"You can't win against me, I'm a wind user." Temari smirked.

"Oh yeah, guess what so am I." Naruto smirked back.

Two clones who hid themselves under an invisibility seal revealed up behind Temari as one did the handsigns yelling 'Wind Style : Great wind scythe' just when the other yelled ' Fire Style : Hellfire Hose' the combined attack overwhelmed Temari burning half of her fan.

Naruto dashed forwards yelling 'Null' as the seals on his limbs glowed in a familiar way. Temari scowled in irritation while using whatever that was left of her fan towards Naruto. He quickly dodged the oncoming wind attack with his speed & engaged in close combat.

He swiftly placed two seals on her with noticing under the context of taijutsu. He jumped away & send over another wind attack ' Wind Style : Beast Tearing Gale' Temari moved out of the way of the attack while jumping into the opposite direction. Her eyes widened as the

gust of wind turned sideways way on to her, she swung her fan accross to block the attack while barely managing to do so.

"How did you do that?" Temari gritted.

"Do what?" Naruto asked confused.

"That turn." Temari glared at him.

"Oh that, it's for me to know you to dot dot dot." Naruto grinned.

Temari three another wind attack towards the blond ninja as he summoned the clones to take the blow. After the arena cleared up , Temari gritted in anger & went to swing another gust of wind when Naruto yelled 'activate' all of her movements stopped as she fell on her knees & knocked down.

"Wha-tt..d-d-did you d-do..." Temari breathed out barely whispering.

"I placed a gravity seak on you, so it must be feeling like you're an 100 gigantic boulders in you." Naruto grinned as Hayate inspected Temari.

"Winner Uzumaki Naruto" the crowd erupted in cheers & yells.

Naruto went back to the stands grinning widely while everyone gave proud looks.

"Number 3 you're up!" Hayate annouced.

Hinata Vs Kurotsuchi

Hinata looked over her friends & sensei's nodding & smiling in encouragement. She hugged them all as Naruto started teasing Sasuke for hugging Hinata so long they both blushed madly as she made her way to the middle.

Kurotsuchi stood there giving her a smug look, Hayate gave the signal they needed & jumped off to the stands.

"Isn't she 3rd Tsuchikage's Granddaughter?" Sai asked.

"She is, she's supposed to be one of the strongest genin from Iwa, she's just a year or 2 older than Hinata. It's rumoured that she has Lava release kekkai genkkai." Shisui explained.

"Lava release as in actual lava?!" Choji asked munching his chips as Shisui nodded.

"You can't win you know." Kuro smirked.

"Oh yeah? Why is that?" Hinata faked curiosity. Kuro smirked yelling 'lava release : blazing fists.' as her fists glowed reddish orange while the crowd gasps in awe.

"My lava release will annihilate you." Kuro again made a smug face.

"Is it though?" Hinata questioned innocently while sweetly smiling which just aggravated the Iwa nin more.

"Why you little bitch-" Kuro cursed Hinata as she charged towards her.

Hinata smirked when Kuro entered within the range of her dividation. She crystallized her hands shocking the Iwa Kunoichi.

Hinata quickly dispelled her crystallization as she engaged in taijutsu with her. She quickly sealed few chakra points on her left hand rendering it useless as she couldn't mold or infuse chakra from it.

She quickly jumped over behind Hinata doing handsigns yelling 'Earth Style : Stone lodging destruction' as multiple stone in spear form materialized. Hinata smirked as she yelled '8 trigrams : thunder blade rotation' she used a Hyuga rotation as she incorporated it with lightening & crystal release sending crystal blades & lightening all around.

Hiashi & rest of the Hyuga clan stared in shock seeing the effect of a customized rotation, Hiashi took a sharp breath understanding the huge difference between the two. The Hyuga elders roared in objection as Branch family stood proud with Hanabi, Neji & Hiashi - the main branch just stood with wide eyes.

Kurotsuchi fell back from the attack clutching her stomach which bleed as one of the blade pierced her. Tsuchikage watched the whole battle with complete concentration, realising that her granddaughter isn't as strong as he thought she would be while scowling.

"Forfeit." Hinata demanded.

"N-never.." Kurotsuchi said while gripping herself to stand up again.

"Don't say I didn't warned you." Hinata's eyes hardened giving an impassive look as Kurotsuchi tried to attack.

"I..c-cannot lose, not here, not today, not against someone like y-you." Kuro spat.

"Against someone like me huh? Well, you shouldn't be saying such stuff when your in a delicate situation especially when you're within my range of dividation." Hinata stared hard at the Iwa nin.

"What do you mea-" Kuro was cut off when she saw Hinata mold her chakra into 2 swords in both of her hands. She charged towards the Iwa Kunoichi yelling '8 Trigrams : 128 blades' she pierced her blades into Kuro's chakra points destroying them internally & externally.

The Iwa nin fell back & collapsed, Hayate inspected her situation as the medics came in.

"Winner Hyuga Hinata." Hayate announced as it broke the trance the whole crowd was in. The all cheered for the Konoha kunoichi while others stared in awe.

Hiashi & the Hyuga clan except the elders gave a proud look while the sensei's & other genins cheered. Tsunade came in to check Kuro as fast as she could while Tsuchikage did the same.

"It's already... healing...What did you do?" Tsunade turned towards Hinata.

"The jutsu I used would've destroyed her chakra points, it would've end her shinobi career so I didn't destroyed the chakra points just graze them enough to lock them immobilising her while I infuse my chakra from the blades to the wounds so it was already healing her as soon as the blades touched them. So now you don't need to heal her completely just enough for the wounds." Hinata explained as the Kage & the sannin stared at her in awe.

"I... Thank you for not destroying her chakra points when you could've done it so easily. Iwa is indebted to you due to your generous favour." Tsuchikage said to the Konoha nin.

"It's okay I did what anyone else would've done, I really didn't wanted to hurt her. It's alright not Iwa or you owe me anything for not hurting someone." Hinata smiled warmly at the Kage as she nodded patting her head slowly.

Hinata made her way back to the stands to her friends as Tsuchikage & Tsunade gave Kuro to other medics.

"She has exceptional skills for someone her age." Tsuchikage said while watching Hinata hug her friends & Senseis.

"Yes, her skills will surpass mine no time." Tsunade smiled.

Hayate annouced a break for everyone as they went off to eat, prepare for their matches, congratulate & cheered for everyone.

•••

A/N : I don't do much a/n because no one likes an author blabber shit instead of writing & posting chapters but I had to write this one. It's my senior year & due to everything I might not be able to update as frequently as I would want to but I'll do whatever I can. Please recommend your friends or others of the story because it takes lot of effort to write whatever I write & when people don't vote or comment much it makes me want to sometimes discontinue the story. I started this story because I had an amazing plot in my mind, with many OC's, twists & level ups in every character's strength but the lack of response & feedback demotivates me sometimes. I'd really appreciate your reviews & comments. Thank you!