I Go Blind: Team Eight
Chapter 5: A Slap, Smile and Some Soft Shells!
Neji stepped back with one foot and bent his knees. His eyes cracked and veins around his eyes filled with charka. Kiba recognized the stance as the same one as Hinata's, but he also knew the fear she had of him. The pair dug into the ground with their sharp claws then separated to attack Neji from his sides. Neji put his hands to his sides at the last moment of their approach and made contact with their claw. He fell backwards and swirled to direct the two Kiba's in opposite directions. One flew over him and threw a kunai at Neji's back. He dodge this by pushing a palm off the Kiba who was directed under him and spinning into a handstand. The blade when into the back of the Kiba who yelled before reverting back into Akamaru. Neji's long back hair stopped gyrating and he tumbled to his feet. When Kiba rolled on the ground he saw his dog with a blade in his back. He had not have the time to respond to Neji who stood behind him. Neji reached out with two fingers and pitched Kiba's lower neck sending charka to his brain. Kiba lost focus in his eyes and fell to the ground.
Hinata had run to Akamaru and was now on the ground with a flask in her hand and removing the kunai. Neji relaxed his face and his eye sight returned to normal. An easygoing whistling carrying Bach's Bouree caught Neji and Hinata's attention and they looked over to a bush from where Shino emerged with a brown paper bag. The tune halted and he looked back at them. She was shocked when he proceeded to carry on with the tune and go on his way.
"You team lacks direction. A ninja who is ill-tempered will lead his squad to unfavourable trouble. Likewise, the self serving ninja causes distrust in his group. Your vices will also bring down the group." He said in a cold stren voice to Hinata who trembled over Akamaru. When he looked back at Kiba, he found a log. His focus snapped to Hinata who evaporated in smoke. Neji mummbled and left.
The wound in Akamura was tended to and wrapped in bandaids. He slumped in Hinata's embrance. Team eight had retreated into the bushes. "Is Kiba," Hinata paused, "going to be okay?"
"Yeah," Shino held a single destruction bug on his finger. He brought his hand and the bug to Kiba's face who was lying on the ground. The bug leaped off of Shino and onto Kiba were it entered through the nose. "The extra chakra flowing through his system will have to be drained to prevent futher damage."
He picked up his brown paper bag and continued on his way home. Before he got to the ditch between the road and the forest, Shino felt a hand tighten around his wrist. He was pulled around to where he came. Hinata raised her hand and slapped him across the face. "NO!" She commanded. He turned his head to Hinata. His glasses had snapped in the middle of the temple and they swung to the side of the unbroken temple. Her white eyes were a frozen perfection. "You will pick up Kiba and take him to the hospital. He and Akaramu are members of our team." She choked when a stream of tears poured down her face but then her voice increased in passion. "We destined to give it our all for our team."
She walked back and then turned around to say in a clear confident voice, "I'm sorry; I was not myself."
"I understand and am relieved," he removed the glasses from his bowl of a collar. "'Little by little, moment by moment, a wise man should cleanse himself of blemishes, like a smith purifying silver.'- The Dhammapada, Verse 239. I'm indebted to you." With two fingers he pulled down his collar down to his chest. A slow smile creeped on his face. "Thank you."
A-------------------
Hinata had spent the night with Akamaru in her arms in a chair next to Kiba's bed. As soon as the sunlight entered the room, she awoke with the warm body against her chest. Akamaru yawned, quickly regained his vitality and struggled in Hinata's arms to lick her face. She carefully put him down and he jumped on Kiba's bed and barked at him. "Akamaru." Hinata said discordantly. Kiba stirred and held out a hand to block the sun from his eyes.
"Akamaru!" He got up and his pet rolled down his chest to his lap. He had a large smile and held the dog to his chest. "I'm so sorry."
"Kiba." Hinata said softly. Kiba released Akamaru then put his hands behind his head.
"Hinata, you're alright."
In the doorway, Kurenai appeared in the door. "Training - now - run," she stated sincerely sounding each out bluntly. Kiba rolled out of bed and put on his shoes. In no time, he was out the door into the hallway with Akamaru following. Kurenai looked at Hinata who had yet moved. "NOW!"
Hinata bolted out of the room and caught up to Kiba. "Are you alright?" She asked short of breath.
"Yeah," he opened the main door of the hospital. When they got to a main road, Shino passed by them with his hands in his pockets. "Hey, wait up!"
B-------------------
They arrived exhausted bending over to take rough breaths. They detected three objects thrown at their direction in a frontal assault. Shino, who still had his hands in his pocket, side stepped the projectile. Hinata caught the object in two hands and heard a splat. The one heading for Kiba was intercepted by Akamaru who bit down on it. Two more objects arrived. It hit Shino in the face and shattered. He felt his face that was covered in a sticky substance. Kiba also had little time to react for the second one heading for him and as he tried to block his face, the object splash in his hand and did not stop the yellow sludge from hitting his face. Hinata openned her hands. "An egg?"
"Correct," Kurenai held a woven basket of eggs. "Today, I'm going to train you on how to control your chakra output. When you can catch these eggs without breaking them, then you will know how to adapt your chakra to adequate levels." Shino removed his glasses and wiped his face on his long sleeve. "If you master your chakra with my egg training, then you will be allowed to come with me on a mission that I promise will push your skills to the limit."
"Yahoo!" Kiba yelled. She picked at egg out of the basket and threw it. The egg broke in his palm.
"My skills to the limit?" Hinata commented and had an egg thrown at her. When her hand made contact with the egg, she withdrew her hand and shook it. The egg fell to the ground and cracked.
"This mission would not be personal, would it?" Shino removed a hand from his pocket and caught a egg in his sleeve. He turned up his hand and a group of bugs carried it out intact. "In a mission, we may have to exchange items with each other quick enough to avoid detection from the enemy. Plainly, if the object is not caught whole, the mission may turn out to be a failure." He explained. "By judging the speed of the egg, I believe that my assumption was true and this is a personal mission without the authority of Hokage. I do not agree to come on this personal mission unless my teammates decide to go."
"Who has determined you are even good enough to come?" Kurenai said.
"I did. I am good enough to be where my teammates need me." He answered.
Hinata snapped into action. She threw her arm forward and allowed the egg to roll over her sleeve. She took a step back to give the egg more to slide over as it passed over her back to her other arm. With a flick of the wrist, the egg went over her arm and to the front where her hand was waiting. The egg decreased with the contact and she caught it.
Another egg flew. Kiba grabbed onto his hood and pulled it back off his head. He reflected on how Neji's hair spun when he twisted into the handstand. The hood became a net as he spun. When he stopped spinning, Akamaru jumped on Kiba's head and brought the egg out in his mouth. He dropped in it in Kiba's hand and barked. "Good work, Akamaru."
"I see you have found unique ways of avoiding the task completely." Kurenai said. "This time, let's do it right."
C-------------------
Dry crusty yoke covered Hinata and Kiba's face and clothes. Hinata looked at Kiba who lay waste to another egg. "Kiba keeps on using too much charka in his hands and breaks the egg. I am being too soft and hurting my hand so I can't keep hold of the egg." She contemplated in her mind. Her eyes shift and narrowed to Shino who has nothing but a single stain on his sleeve. "Shino keeps on dodging the eggs or cheating. He is making an effort this time not to be involved in training."
"This should trick Shino," the instructor thought. She pulled out a kunai and threw it at Hinata. With the kunai approaching too fast, she ducked and closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes, she was behind a grey jacket. Shino had stepped in front of her.
"Shino!" She cried and looked around him. The kunai had not hit him, yet he had not got it. In fact, no kunai had been thrown. What he did hold in his hand was an egg.
"You've been holding out on us, Shino." Kurenai smiled a bit. "I threw an egg disguised as a kunai and you went for it. When you discovered it was an egg, you weren't able to dodge it and had to catch it." Her smile disappeared. "So you would have me believe. I really didn't know you were able to cheat that well. You knew that Hinata ducked so you didn't have to catch the egg but dodged it and placed the egg you had caught in your sleeve on your third throw."
Kiba looked behind Shino and in the direction the egg should have continued. "Wait, why don't I see any place were the egg should have landed?"
"Good question," she took Hinata's hand and unfulred her fist that held a complete egg. "Hinata caught it."
"But.. but," she blurted, "I didn't feel anything."
"Your hands completely numb," she held her hand, "and broken. Congratulations, you made it to the second part. Head with me. Kiba and Shino, throw eggs to eachother. I'll come back soon and give you one more chance."
When the two girls left, Kiba turned to Shino, "I never thought of you as a cheater."
Shino nodded.
D-------------------
Kurenai and Hinata stood in front of a line of eggs. "The hardest place to form charka is in the feet. If you can walk on the eggs without breaking them, then you will have perfect control over your chakra." Kurenai slowly walked across the line of eggs and got to the end. She turned around to Hinata. "Now you try."
Her first step crushed the egg. "I can't do this."
"I don't want to hear feelings. Keep on task."
Hinata took another step and smashed the next egg. The egg after that was able to hold her to break the next one. She cracked a few eggs but at the end she had mastered the training. She stood at the end and could not face her instructor. "Good work," Kurenai said and headed back with Hinata. The boys were tossing an egg back and forth.
"We're ready!" Kiba declared. She took two eggs and threw them. They were both able to catch the eggs without breaking them.
"You're dismissed." She said. "Practice running up trees with only using your feet. Tomorrow you'll have a second test and if you pass it, I'll allow you to come with me on my mission."
E-------------------
The night before the mission, Kiba rummaged the pile of clothing that lied on his bedroom floor. His dog leaped out from underneath a grey overcoat and barked to indicate that he found two soldier pills. Kiba grabbed and placed them in his pocket. He rubbed his Akamaru's head. "Good boy!"
He rested in the heaps of twisting blankets that were on his bed. "Hah! We are going to haul ass tomorrow." He spoke to his dog who put his chubby head on the edge of his woven basket. "Hinata and Shino are going to recognized why I'm the leader of this group. You're second in command, Akamaru. If the team goes down, I'm blaming you." He turned around and pointed at his dog who whimpered. Kiba rolled to his back. "Don't go soft on me, Akamaru. You should have stood up for yourself."
"Hinata's a nice girl isn't she? Dislikes Naruto and Shino, what more can a man ask of a woman?" Akamaru growled. "Yes, she is going to have to like dogs too."
F-------------------
Glowbugs filled the Shino's room and gave it light. On the floor of grass two unfolded scrolls extended with one tarantula and four lack widows crawled on the paper of each. The scrolls rolled up when he started to perform hand signals. When the rolled up all the way, Shino bent down and wrapped a sticker to hold the paper. The scrolls went into his pocket.
"Asian Mustard and Black Widow protect me." He said.
G-------------------
Hinata walked in the dark alleys of her estate. "Hinata," her father, Hiashi, said. He stood in a simple dark purple robe, and walked along a small stone layered with his hands behind his back. His hair covered his back in a black veil. "Hinata, what are you hiding from your father?"
She jumped and then looked towards her father. She responded in her normally quite voice: "I don't know what you're saying."
He grumble and closed his large moon eyes. "Yes, I understand. It's about the near future."
"The future?"
"You will kill an enemy adversary soon." He predicted. Hinata stepped back and her bear kneel hit a cold rock. She fell backwards and sunk to the hard dirt ground. His eyes averted from the scene from that Hinata frantically fleed.
-------- End of Chapter Five ------------
Next Chapter: The mission is happing next morning and each genin has something to bring. Shino is bring along some super spider, Kiba has his soldier pills and Hinata will have to deal with the idea that she may have to kill a person. The resolution is drawing near.
Notes: You can consider this to be the second part of the last chapter.
Predictions: Should I let Hiashi fill this in?
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as eggs are good for your health. Aren't they? I'm a bit confused on the matter.
Chapter 5: A Slap, Smile and Some Soft Shells!
Neji stepped back with one foot and bent his knees. His eyes cracked and veins around his eyes filled with charka. Kiba recognized the stance as the same one as Hinata's, but he also knew the fear she had of him. The pair dug into the ground with their sharp claws then separated to attack Neji from his sides. Neji put his hands to his sides at the last moment of their approach and made contact with their claw. He fell backwards and swirled to direct the two Kiba's in opposite directions. One flew over him and threw a kunai at Neji's back. He dodge this by pushing a palm off the Kiba who was directed under him and spinning into a handstand. The blade when into the back of the Kiba who yelled before reverting back into Akamaru. Neji's long back hair stopped gyrating and he tumbled to his feet. When Kiba rolled on the ground he saw his dog with a blade in his back. He had not have the time to respond to Neji who stood behind him. Neji reached out with two fingers and pitched Kiba's lower neck sending charka to his brain. Kiba lost focus in his eyes and fell to the ground.
Hinata had run to Akamaru and was now on the ground with a flask in her hand and removing the kunai. Neji relaxed his face and his eye sight returned to normal. An easygoing whistling carrying Bach's Bouree caught Neji and Hinata's attention and they looked over to a bush from where Shino emerged with a brown paper bag. The tune halted and he looked back at them. She was shocked when he proceeded to carry on with the tune and go on his way.
"You team lacks direction. A ninja who is ill-tempered will lead his squad to unfavourable trouble. Likewise, the self serving ninja causes distrust in his group. Your vices will also bring down the group." He said in a cold stren voice to Hinata who trembled over Akamaru. When he looked back at Kiba, he found a log. His focus snapped to Hinata who evaporated in smoke. Neji mummbled and left.
The wound in Akamura was tended to and wrapped in bandaids. He slumped in Hinata's embrance. Team eight had retreated into the bushes. "Is Kiba," Hinata paused, "going to be okay?"
"Yeah," Shino held a single destruction bug on his finger. He brought his hand and the bug to Kiba's face who was lying on the ground. The bug leaped off of Shino and onto Kiba were it entered through the nose. "The extra chakra flowing through his system will have to be drained to prevent futher damage."
He picked up his brown paper bag and continued on his way home. Before he got to the ditch between the road and the forest, Shino felt a hand tighten around his wrist. He was pulled around to where he came. Hinata raised her hand and slapped him across the face. "NO!" She commanded. He turned his head to Hinata. His glasses had snapped in the middle of the temple and they swung to the side of the unbroken temple. Her white eyes were a frozen perfection. "You will pick up Kiba and take him to the hospital. He and Akaramu are members of our team." She choked when a stream of tears poured down her face but then her voice increased in passion. "We destined to give it our all for our team."
She walked back and then turned around to say in a clear confident voice, "I'm sorry; I was not myself."
"I understand and am relieved," he removed the glasses from his bowl of a collar. "'Little by little, moment by moment, a wise man should cleanse himself of blemishes, like a smith purifying silver.'- The Dhammapada, Verse 239. I'm indebted to you." With two fingers he pulled down his collar down to his chest. A slow smile creeped on his face. "Thank you."
A-------------------
Hinata had spent the night with Akamaru in her arms in a chair next to Kiba's bed. As soon as the sunlight entered the room, she awoke with the warm body against her chest. Akamaru yawned, quickly regained his vitality and struggled in Hinata's arms to lick her face. She carefully put him down and he jumped on Kiba's bed and barked at him. "Akamaru." Hinata said discordantly. Kiba stirred and held out a hand to block the sun from his eyes.
"Akamaru!" He got up and his pet rolled down his chest to his lap. He had a large smile and held the dog to his chest. "I'm so sorry."
"Kiba." Hinata said softly. Kiba released Akamaru then put his hands behind his head.
"Hinata, you're alright."
In the doorway, Kurenai appeared in the door. "Training - now - run," she stated sincerely sounding each out bluntly. Kiba rolled out of bed and put on his shoes. In no time, he was out the door into the hallway with Akamaru following. Kurenai looked at Hinata who had yet moved. "NOW!"
Hinata bolted out of the room and caught up to Kiba. "Are you alright?" She asked short of breath.
"Yeah," he opened the main door of the hospital. When they got to a main road, Shino passed by them with his hands in his pockets. "Hey, wait up!"
B-------------------
They arrived exhausted bending over to take rough breaths. They detected three objects thrown at their direction in a frontal assault. Shino, who still had his hands in his pocket, side stepped the projectile. Hinata caught the object in two hands and heard a splat. The one heading for Kiba was intercepted by Akamaru who bit down on it. Two more objects arrived. It hit Shino in the face and shattered. He felt his face that was covered in a sticky substance. Kiba also had little time to react for the second one heading for him and as he tried to block his face, the object splash in his hand and did not stop the yellow sludge from hitting his face. Hinata openned her hands. "An egg?"
"Correct," Kurenai held a woven basket of eggs. "Today, I'm going to train you on how to control your chakra output. When you can catch these eggs without breaking them, then you will know how to adapt your chakra to adequate levels." Shino removed his glasses and wiped his face on his long sleeve. "If you master your chakra with my egg training, then you will be allowed to come with me on a mission that I promise will push your skills to the limit."
"Yahoo!" Kiba yelled. She picked at egg out of the basket and threw it. The egg broke in his palm.
"My skills to the limit?" Hinata commented and had an egg thrown at her. When her hand made contact with the egg, she withdrew her hand and shook it. The egg fell to the ground and cracked.
"This mission would not be personal, would it?" Shino removed a hand from his pocket and caught a egg in his sleeve. He turned up his hand and a group of bugs carried it out intact. "In a mission, we may have to exchange items with each other quick enough to avoid detection from the enemy. Plainly, if the object is not caught whole, the mission may turn out to be a failure." He explained. "By judging the speed of the egg, I believe that my assumption was true and this is a personal mission without the authority of Hokage. I do not agree to come on this personal mission unless my teammates decide to go."
"Who has determined you are even good enough to come?" Kurenai said.
"I did. I am good enough to be where my teammates need me." He answered.
Hinata snapped into action. She threw her arm forward and allowed the egg to roll over her sleeve. She took a step back to give the egg more to slide over as it passed over her back to her other arm. With a flick of the wrist, the egg went over her arm and to the front where her hand was waiting. The egg decreased with the contact and she caught it.
Another egg flew. Kiba grabbed onto his hood and pulled it back off his head. He reflected on how Neji's hair spun when he twisted into the handstand. The hood became a net as he spun. When he stopped spinning, Akamaru jumped on Kiba's head and brought the egg out in his mouth. He dropped in it in Kiba's hand and barked. "Good work, Akamaru."
"I see you have found unique ways of avoiding the task completely." Kurenai said. "This time, let's do it right."
C-------------------
Dry crusty yoke covered Hinata and Kiba's face and clothes. Hinata looked at Kiba who lay waste to another egg. "Kiba keeps on using too much charka in his hands and breaks the egg. I am being too soft and hurting my hand so I can't keep hold of the egg." She contemplated in her mind. Her eyes shift and narrowed to Shino who has nothing but a single stain on his sleeve. "Shino keeps on dodging the eggs or cheating. He is making an effort this time not to be involved in training."
"This should trick Shino," the instructor thought. She pulled out a kunai and threw it at Hinata. With the kunai approaching too fast, she ducked and closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes, she was behind a grey jacket. Shino had stepped in front of her.
"Shino!" She cried and looked around him. The kunai had not hit him, yet he had not got it. In fact, no kunai had been thrown. What he did hold in his hand was an egg.
"You've been holding out on us, Shino." Kurenai smiled a bit. "I threw an egg disguised as a kunai and you went for it. When you discovered it was an egg, you weren't able to dodge it and had to catch it." Her smile disappeared. "So you would have me believe. I really didn't know you were able to cheat that well. You knew that Hinata ducked so you didn't have to catch the egg but dodged it and placed the egg you had caught in your sleeve on your third throw."
Kiba looked behind Shino and in the direction the egg should have continued. "Wait, why don't I see any place were the egg should have landed?"
"Good question," she took Hinata's hand and unfulred her fist that held a complete egg. "Hinata caught it."
"But.. but," she blurted, "I didn't feel anything."
"Your hands completely numb," she held her hand, "and broken. Congratulations, you made it to the second part. Head with me. Kiba and Shino, throw eggs to eachother. I'll come back soon and give you one more chance."
When the two girls left, Kiba turned to Shino, "I never thought of you as a cheater."
Shino nodded.
D-------------------
Kurenai and Hinata stood in front of a line of eggs. "The hardest place to form charka is in the feet. If you can walk on the eggs without breaking them, then you will have perfect control over your chakra." Kurenai slowly walked across the line of eggs and got to the end. She turned around to Hinata. "Now you try."
Her first step crushed the egg. "I can't do this."
"I don't want to hear feelings. Keep on task."
Hinata took another step and smashed the next egg. The egg after that was able to hold her to break the next one. She cracked a few eggs but at the end she had mastered the training. She stood at the end and could not face her instructor. "Good work," Kurenai said and headed back with Hinata. The boys were tossing an egg back and forth.
"We're ready!" Kiba declared. She took two eggs and threw them. They were both able to catch the eggs without breaking them.
"You're dismissed." She said. "Practice running up trees with only using your feet. Tomorrow you'll have a second test and if you pass it, I'll allow you to come with me on my mission."
E-------------------
The night before the mission, Kiba rummaged the pile of clothing that lied on his bedroom floor. His dog leaped out from underneath a grey overcoat and barked to indicate that he found two soldier pills. Kiba grabbed and placed them in his pocket. He rubbed his Akamaru's head. "Good boy!"
He rested in the heaps of twisting blankets that were on his bed. "Hah! We are going to haul ass tomorrow." He spoke to his dog who put his chubby head on the edge of his woven basket. "Hinata and Shino are going to recognized why I'm the leader of this group. You're second in command, Akamaru. If the team goes down, I'm blaming you." He turned around and pointed at his dog who whimpered. Kiba rolled to his back. "Don't go soft on me, Akamaru. You should have stood up for yourself."
"Hinata's a nice girl isn't she? Dislikes Naruto and Shino, what more can a man ask of a woman?" Akamaru growled. "Yes, she is going to have to like dogs too."
F-------------------
Glowbugs filled the Shino's room and gave it light. On the floor of grass two unfolded scrolls extended with one tarantula and four lack widows crawled on the paper of each. The scrolls rolled up when he started to perform hand signals. When the rolled up all the way, Shino bent down and wrapped a sticker to hold the paper. The scrolls went into his pocket.
"Asian Mustard and Black Widow protect me." He said.
G-------------------
Hinata walked in the dark alleys of her estate. "Hinata," her father, Hiashi, said. He stood in a simple dark purple robe, and walked along a small stone layered with his hands behind his back. His hair covered his back in a black veil. "Hinata, what are you hiding from your father?"
She jumped and then looked towards her father. She responded in her normally quite voice: "I don't know what you're saying."
He grumble and closed his large moon eyes. "Yes, I understand. It's about the near future."
"The future?"
"You will kill an enemy adversary soon." He predicted. Hinata stepped back and her bear kneel hit a cold rock. She fell backwards and sunk to the hard dirt ground. His eyes averted from the scene from that Hinata frantically fleed.
-------- End of Chapter Five ------------
Next Chapter: The mission is happing next morning and each genin has something to bring. Shino is bring along some super spider, Kiba has his soldier pills and Hinata will have to deal with the idea that she may have to kill a person. The resolution is drawing near.
Notes: You can consider this to be the second part of the last chapter.
Predictions: Should I let Hiashi fill this in?
Comments and suggestions are welcomed as long as eggs are good for your health. Aren't they? I'm a bit confused on the matter.