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Destinies Changed, Hearts Changed: Part X

Shadows crept around the stadium in the darkness, staying away from the silvery light of the full moon. It was the place where the Finals of the Chuunin Exams were always conducted, this time, more desolate than before.

The moon shown directly above the stadium cast a spotlight in the middle like on a show. The walls around them were shrouded in darkness as also where the spectators sat to watch. Nothing moved and everything was dead silent, their main focus was on middle of the large coliseum.

Figures in the dark stood and prowled around near the seats, trying to get a better view. Not many were there, but there were enough to make a sufficient crowd.

After the destruction at the Hyuuga Estate, Hinata had agreed to the challenge, and had then taken some time to change into suitable clothing. During that time, many who had been passing by, some of them being her classmates and acquaintances stayed to watch the outcome.

"You think she'll be okay?" A boy in a large jacket with a dog at his side turned to his teammate.

"I'm…" Shino gazed at the two combatants and then looked across at two figures that stood away from the rest in the darkness, "…not sure…" Mainly he was worried for his former teammate. She had never been the competitive person and just barely gets by in their missions.

Gaara and Neji stood away from the rest of them, on the far side were no one dared to lurk, and was shrouded in darkness, their presence barely noted.

On the other side where most of the shadows stood were Chuunins, Genins, and Jounins, including many members of the Hyuuga.

A blond boy bent over on the rail turned back to his former teacher, knowing the importance of the time, asked in a low whisper.

"Kakashi-sensei! Can't we do anything about this?"

"We can only watch, Naruto."

"She'll get hurt out there!"

Kakashi glanced over at Hinata.

"We can't do anything about it, she agreed."

The wind carried their whispers of anxiety to the two dark figures on the ground lower to them. Two girls dressed both in black stood with lighted tension, facing each other.

The shorter one had her long black hair tied up in a ponytail, slid into her fighting position, her left hand raised in front of her, palm towards the other girl while her right hand was lowered near her thigh. Veins near her white eyes appeared.

Up on the stands, the red-haired boy growled lowly.

The other girl, her dark blue hair tied loosely behind her, raised her left hand the same, but her palm was not directed towards the other. Her right hand reached down towards her holster.

Hinata reached for four shurikens and instantly lunged through the air at Hanabi, commencing the fight.

Murmurs could be heard from one side of the stands as the second girl had started first with an obvious attack.

"What the hell is she thinking?!"

Neji gripped onto the bar in front of him.

"Her Byakugan isn't even activated!"

Gaara frowned as he watched Hinata charge towards Hanabi. He didn't exactly know what she was doing now, since he had always been the one attacking her first. But by not activating the Byakugan, she was saving her chakra for another technique.

One that they had picked up from a scroll of a dead man on the trail in the Earth Country. Actually they had found two scrolls. But he wasn't sure if she was going to use both. She hadn't mastered both of them yet, but got very close though. The techniques though, to his account, also had consumed a lot of her chakra, and she was still a little shaky on such a dangerous technique.

Hanabi braced herself for contact as she aimed directly for Hinata's heart. At the last moment, Hinata bounded up and flew to the other side behind Hanabi and threw her shurikens back.

The shurikens missed Hanabi on both sides and landed on the ground near the opposite side. Hinata bounced off the wall and landed on the ground, the darkness covering her as she stood in the shadows of the wall. Her hands were placed together as she mumbled something incoherently.

Her Byakugan was still not activated and Hanabi took that chance attack at her. She charged towards Hinata and thrust her left arm in front, followed her right. Every hit she went for made contact. Hinata coughed and stumbled backwards as she raised her arms slightly to block half the attacks.

"Come on, Hinata!" Kiba hollered into the endless night. His voice bouncing off the vacant walls of the stadium.

Hinata's back was now to the wall. Hanabi's left hand went towards Hinata's stomach. At that moment, Hanabi's right fist went straight for Hinata's face.

The older girl leaped back with a sudden jerk of her body.

Instead of slamming into the wall, she melted into it, disappearing from sight.

"What the hell?!"

A blond boy on the other side of the stands yelled.

"Where'd she go?"

Naruto looked expectantly at his former teammate, Sakura who shook her head.

"It's not Genjutsu…it was real…"

Sasuke, on the other side of Naruto peered over. The move intrigued him and he wanted to find out what it was.

Their former teacher spoke up from behind them.

"That's a really advanced technique."

"WHAT?!"

Other Genins and Chuunins who stood around him looked at him. Naruto pointed at the wall.

"What is it then?! Ne, ne?!"

"Darkness Shadow technique of the Earth Country. I've seen it before. Advanced, kind of like your Kage Bushin."

Hiashi watched in silence at the fight for the heir of the Clan. Hanabi had always held an advantage in the Gentle Fist style against Hinata, and he had always thought Hinata was useless.

But now, Hinata wasn't even using the Gentle Fist style. She was using regular taijutsu and some kind of advanced ninjutsu as she disappeared into the wall. Her fighting strategies had totally changed. Hanabi would have to use her head now, unlike the other times where she had just overwhelmed Hinata with different hand combos.

She couldn't have learned that from her Genin teams. He gazed over to the other side of the stadium where Gaara and Neji stood, watching the battle. Neji held a shocked look at the scene as the sand boy merely looked amused.

The sand boy…that was what Hanabi had run to him to talk about. He was probably the one who taught Hinata this. The boy looked up from the match as if sensing Hiashi's gaze at him.

Gaara frowned at the man that was staring at him. Hinata's father or not, Hiashi was the first one on Gaara's list to die. He didn't hold any real personal grudges against the man, but the man was hostile to his Hinata, and that was the reason behind it all.

Hanabi stared at the crater on the wall where her older sister used to stand. Hinata had just disappeared from sight, and it wasn't Genjutsu because Hinata had stopped her earlier attack.

Suddenly her head jerked to the side and she leaped up.

Three kunais embedded themselves into the wall. If she had been there slightly a second after, she would've been impaled in the back.

Near the other wall, shrouded in darkness, Hanabi could make out her sister's form. She directed herself to that direction, but was taken by surprise by another fist that almost made contact with her jaw if she hadn't stepped back.

Hinata stood on her right, arm outstretched in a fist. But near the other wall, Hinata still stood. Hanabi's Byakugan told her still that both were real.

"Kage Bushin no Jutsu?" She smirked, "No problem." She had been hitting Hinata's clone the whole time too, that's why Hinata could still use her chakra.

She raised her left hand to block off another attack on her left by another clone. Hanabi ducked to avoid the first clone's fist and grabbed the arm of the other and her hand at the stomach of the clone and watched as the clone flew backwards into the wall. The first clone jumped back to avoid the collision.

The clone didn't hit the wall though. It sank right through like before.

Hanabi backed up as she heard a low chuckle.

Kage Bushin didn't sink through the walls upon impact…they exploded.

On the ground around her near the wall, five clones raised through the ground and the place on the wall where the clone had sank through, another walked out.

"Don't…underestimate me…"

~End Part X~

^_^ I'm horrible at making up new moves…Hinata's new technique was just words added together…^^…oh and it's not finished yet, next chapter you'll see its advantages and disadvantages!

For now, review, please!

Random Note:

Okay, so I'm watching TV while doing this, and I get to that Barbie and Ken with the baby commercial. Well you know that right? Anyway, my point is that…I don't think they ever got married…I never saw a Barbie and Ken wedding thing…-_-; Yea I got no life…

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