"Blind"
by EfrainMan

Naruto is © Kishimoto Masashi/Shueisha/Viz Shonen Jump. Y_Y Warning, some spoilers ahead, as this takes place during the events of Chapter 177 (before Orochimaru's men attack Sasuke). You have been warned.

A/N: Update of m455!v3 proportions! Three whole pages on Word! 8B

Cookie6: Where do people get these ideas? o_O

Huh. . . some people got sumfin' agin InoSaku. . . I think it's kinda cute. . . cuter than SasuNaru, newayz. :p

Lady Adako: Very interesting data. . . too bad this is fiction, ne? But Sharingan supposedly had origins in Byakugan. Byakugan can do all Sharingan can, and lots more, so. . . who knows? ;)

Part 4

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Naruto was pumped. Earlier, he'd found a note delivered that said to meet Hinata at the roof of her apartment building at 4 pm. She would train him until 6. He was practically dying in anticipation all day, and now here he was, ready to learn new skills. Standing in front of him was Hinata, smiling slightly, her cheeks quite red, her fingers playing with each other.
"All right! Let's get this party started!" he shouted, then froze at Hinata's slightly shocked expression. He chided himself and said, "Ah, sorry. . . good afternoon," he bowed, then grinned. Hinata stifled a giggle.
"Good afternoon, Naruto-kun."
"Thanks again, Hinata-chan! I'll be a very good student."
"I'm very happy to help." She felt her blush deepen a bit.
"Great! So what do I do?" He was ready. Hinata took a deep breath. There was Naruto-kun. Standing two feet away from her. Looking at her. Listening to every word she said. All of his senses trained on her. Watching her like a hawk. . . she shuddered and took another deep breath.
"Naruto-kun. . . uh. . . I h-have to tell you that many abilities of the Gentle Fist style can only be accomplished w-with Byakugan. Blows have little force alone, their main objective being to force chakra into your opponent in such a way that it p-punishes their internal organs. But it only works if you are able to hit their inner chakra channels. Uh. . ." He's staring at me. . . calm down. . . focus on the lesson. "Byakugan are required to see those chakra channels within. Therefore, I will not be able to teach you that."
"Okay. . ." he said, only somewhat disappointed, "it's all too gruesome anyways."
"Alright, um. . ." deep breath, "however, I can teach you the basic Taijutsu used, as that is merely learning how to propel the body with great celerity."
"Huh? Celery?" Naruto asked, confused. Hinata giggled.
"Celerity. Quickness in motion."
"Oh." He chuckled embarrassedly.
"That's what we'll start today," she said with a smile, less flustered now.
"Great!" Naruto shouted. Then he looked up at the sun. He had practically run over here, so he was a little sweaty. He took off his jacket and said, "It's kinda hot, and we're gonna be runnin' around a lot, right? I'll feel better this way." Hinata blushed again when she saw the boy's figure underneath the jacket and hoped that girls didn't get nosebleeds, too.
"You should probably take yours off, too, Hinata-chan. It's thicker than mine!" Hinata was about to decline when she realized that not only was he right, it was also an opportunity. Normally, she was far too shy and apprehensive to use sex appeal to catch Naruto's eye. But here was a chance. With the very equanimity that Naruto had instilled in her in the Chuunin exam, she took off her jacket and set it down. Her face was crimson.
Naruto was flabbergasted. 'There's a girl under all that,' he thought.
"Wow. . ." he said softly. Hinata blushed even deeper and smiled. Again, if there was an inner Hinata, she'd be jumping up and down in elation.
"L-let's c-continue. . . as you m-may or may not know, T-Taijutsu does not require Chakra. . ."

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Sasuke awoke for the second time that day. Luckily, he was fully rested and no one was pounding at his door. His mindset was clear: Hinata. After stretching, he looked over at his clock. . . which read 5:59 pm. He froze in horror when he realized he'd slept through the day. He cursed and walked over to his window where he could see the neighboring complex's rooftop. Hinata's complex was shorter than his.
'How could this day get any worse?' His question was answered when he looked at the two figures sitting on the rooftop. His fists clenched and his face scowled when he realized they were Naruto was sitting on the ground and Hinata kneeling next to him, handing him a glass with a liquid. They were talking about something, smiling. Sasuke gritted his teeth. They stopped talking and were just looking at each other for several seconds. Sasuke fumed. Naruto said something, and they both looked away. Naruto got up and grabbed his jacket while finishing his drink. He was about to leave when Hinata walked over to him and leaned up to his face. But Sasuke's vision was blocked by Naruto's head. What did she do?! Did she whisper something to him? Or did she-
He put on a shirt and ran out of his apartment. He was halfway out of his complex as Naruto left and Hinata began walking back to her room.

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Hinata was beside her open apartment door, and she couldn't stop thinking about her conversation with Naruto when they finished their training. The words they interchanged were practically straight from her fantasies. The biggest smile was on her face as she repeated them over and over in her head. But the best part was when he was about to leave. . . and she reached up and-
"Hinata!" She was snapped out of her reverie when an all too familiar voice called to her. She quickly turned to face Sasuke. An angry Sasuke.
"W-what?" She knew something wasn't right.
"What were you doing with Naruto?"
"N-Naruto? What do you-eagh!" Sasuke shoved Hinata into her apartment and closed the door.
"What are you-"
"I thought you said you didn't have any free time?!"
"W-what do you care what I d-do with someone else?"
'Dammit!,' he thought, 'she's already being drawn to someone else!'
"I care because we're gonna rebuild my clan together. I wanted to be more civil about this, but you've left me no choice." With that he reached out, grabbed her and forcefully planted his lips against hers. Her surprised scream was muffled. He then pulled her into a tight embrace when she tried to squirm out. This restricted the movement of her arms. Her protests were muffled again when his hands began to rove over her back and he began to push her back. But this gave enough leeway for her to move her arms a little, and she brought them together against his midsection as hard as she could. He groaned and his grip loosened just enough for her to push away. With a couple of feet separating them, Sasuke looked up to receive a bit of a shock. Hinata had assumed her fighting stance. He smirked.
"Don't make this any harder than it has to be," he said. He began to walk towards her, his hands in a seal.
"Stay back!" She performed a quick seal. "Byakugan!"
"Oh, now that's what I like about you. You're strong when you need to be. But you can't defeat me. Kage no Bushin!" Sasuke shouted. He wondered what Naruto would have said had he known that he had copied his skill quite some time ago. Hinata was caught unawares by the appearance of the two shadow clones, and so was only able to ward off one before the other kicked her side. She stumbled back only to find herself stopped by a body, her arms being held behind her back. She was pushed down onto her bed where she was turned over, her arms being held back not only by Sasuke's grip, but by the weight of their bodies. Sasuke bent down and kissed Hinata again, hard. She squealed when he forced his body between her legs. She tried to scream when she felt him begin to move rhythmically against her, the hardness between his legs rubbing up against the soft flesh between hers. It wouldn't be long, she realized, before he would try to remove her clothes. Oh, God, he wanted to. . . Hinata arched as the sensation between her legs grew. Sasuke broke the kiss.
"Feels good, doesn-" his words were cut off when Hinata brought her head down and slammed the top of it into his face. He growled at the sudden pain and stepped back. Hinata quickly got up and delivered a blow to Sasuke's stomach. Unguided by her Byakugan, the open handed punch did not rupture any vital organs, but it did throw Sasuke back several feet. She quickly turned and ran out the door, never looking back.
"Hinata! The hell! Get the fuck back here!" he shouted. In a short time, he was up and following her.
When Hinata made it outside, she picked a direction and ran. She wasn't really afraid of Sasuke. She just wasn't sure she could beat him. She needed to find a Jounin, an ANBU, or. . . up ahead she smiled as she saw. . .

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"Naruto-kun!" Naruto turned to the familiar voice calling his name, wondering what she was doing out here. He had barely walked a block and a half when he was called out.
"Sakura-chan, hey!" He ran over to the open air Okonomiyaki place where she was sitting with Ino. Before Naruto got to them, Ino leaned over to Sakura and whispered, "Watch this. I'm gonna show you my Maximum Sex Appeal Technique, and Naruto's gonna be my guinea pig." Ino winked at her, and Sakura blinked in surprise. She stared at her as she got up to greet Naruto, her hips swaying.
"Hello, Ino-san," he greeted cordially.
"Hello, Naruto-kun," she replied in her most sultry voice. Naruto froze and looked at her funny. "I'm really happy to see you," she continued as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled her body tight to his. Her face was millimeters away from his. "I really missed you." Her words were dripping with sexiness.
"What the heck is wrong with you?" Naruto asked. Ino fell down in a twitching heap and Sakura started to laugh out loud. Naruto just looked at them, clueless.
"Nice try, Ino," Sakura said, "but it takes more than that to cut through his thick skull."
"Hey!" he shouted. Sakura and Ino giggled.
"What're you doing around here?" Sakura asked him as he sat down with them.
"Heh. I was gonna ask you the same thing. I'm gettin' some special training 'round here. It's a surprise, though! You two?"
"Sakura and I were just-"
"Hanging around here all day, that's what!!" the restaurant's owner shouted.
"The hell?!" Ino shouted.
"That's right, you two twerps've been here all day scarin' my customers away!"
"We most certainly have not!" Ino and Sakura shouted.
"Sheeet, whenever anyone comes up you start talking' to 'em, get all up in their face and your eyelids start twitchin'!"
"We're flirting with them, old man!" Sakura shouted.
"Flirting?!" he then began to laugh boisterously, almost falling over. The girls' veins were about to pop, their hands clenched in fists.
"At least we've been buying your crappy Okonomiyaki!" Ino shouted. They continued to argue. Naruto just looked at them, horrified.
"Naruto-kun!" He turned to the sound of the voice calling out to him, and was taken aback by the sight of Hinata running towards him fast. "Hinata-chan!" The girls turned to him and then Hinata. But as soon as they saw Sasuke running up behind her at full speed, they got up and began to go to them. Hinata finally reached Naruto and quickly grabbed onto him tightly.
"Naruto-kun! Help me!"
"What's going on?"
"Hinata-chan?"
"What happened?"
"I. . .I. . . Sasuke, he. . ." she was about to cry.
"Naruto, give her here," Sasuke said as he caught up to them. He indicated to Hinata.
"Hinata-chan, what's the matter?"
"Naruto, give her to me. This is none of your concern." Sasuke was getting closer. Hinata moved behind Naruto. He had no idea what to do. Ino moved up to Hinata and placed a hand on her shoulder. Hinata looked at her.
"Tell us what happened."
"Sasuke. . . he. . . he," then it dawned on her, "he tried to rape me!"

To be concluded!