Again thaks for all the reviews. Chapter 5 should hopefully be up in the next day or two.
Enjoy!
Naruto booted open his door and hopped inside. "Ow...sorry Hinata, I need to take better care of your body"
"Ano...its...um ok Naruto-kun"
"Naw, I need to be more careful while I'm inside you"
Hinata blushed, "N-no it's ok"
Naruto grinned, "No its not, check the cuts I got earlier"
Hinata glanced down at the scrapes Naruto had received during the earlier battle. They were completely gone, only a faint white line traced their presence
"That's...that's"
"Heh, I heal fast Hinata, one night is all I ever need to recover from anything"
Naruto began turfing weapons, scrolls and towels off his bed doing his best to hide his bunny pyjamas from Hinatas sight.
Hinata giggled, Bunny pyjamas, so cute...
"Ok, beds ready I'll sleep on the chair"
"N-no its..."
"What you think we should sleep together?"
Hinata hit beetroot red
"N-no it's just, this is your home and..."
"Nani? You're my guest; it's my fault you can't go home anyway. Don't worry in the morning we'll probably be back to normal"
Damn I hope so thought Naruto, he didn't like the thought of Hinata getting the glares he got all day.
"Naruto-kun...gomen nasai!" Hinata exclaimed.
"Huh?"
"You are being really nice and all I'm doing is imposing..."
"Look Hinata" Naruto twisted uncomfortably "I don't mind you being here...in fact, I get pretty lonely here so...anyway good night." He broke off awkwardly.
Hinata froze as Naruto turned away. He-he actually liked having her around. A feeling alien to the young Hyuuga began to blossom within her.
Hope.
And deep within her new body, inside a cage with no locks...something grinned.
/At last...a real opportunity/
A new day dawned in the village of Konoha.
It dawned as many other days have dawned, without particular sign or portent of all the difficulty, chaos and trouble to follow.
Three old men sat infront of three noble and established houses of Konoha.
These three old mens names had been lost to the passage of time and family. To their respective children and grandchildren they were each known only as Grandfather.
To each other they were Ino, Shiko and Cho.
As was their habit, Ino and Shiko were engaged in a game of shougi, while Cho prepared their tea and heaped criticism upon each players tactical choices.
They also waited to greet their grandchildren as they went out, to live vicariously through their descendants.
With a crack of wood the door to the Akimichi burst open and the proud young scion of their clan "Chouji" burst forth, "NNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I can't eat anything, I'm already too fat! God No!"
He sprinted down the street at a most uncharacteristic speed.
His mother bearing a bowl of rice that could have easily fed 10 hungry sumos leaned out the door looking deeply shocked.
The two gamesmen looked askance at their stout colleague.
Cho shrugged, "It sometimes takes the Akimichi clan men like that, the pressure to be in fighting condition at all times can weigh heavily on us...and girls are often cruel"
The other two, shrugged, that was an acceptable defence of some embarrassing behaviour and both acknowledged his defence of clan pride.
A howling figure sprung from the top of the Nara clan townhouse, landed in the street glanced around in terror and bolted in the same direction as the fleeing "Chouji".
"Wait up, they want to make me jog! JOG! I can't let that happen!" "Shikimaru" howled.
The Nara patriarch evenly met the gaze of his two old comrades.
"My grandson is a tactical and strategic genius already in peak physical fitness, having recently attained the rank of chunnin its clear he wants to take a break from his physical training in favour of working on his leadership and escape skills."
The other two held up a pair of metaphorical eight out of tens.
Sensing a new form of entertainment the three elders turned their chairs towards the Yamakara Flower shop.
They were not disappointed.
In a shower of glass the top window of the shop burst open and Yamakara Ino leapt to the ground, turning back towards the window he screamed in terror "I can't take a bath or change my clothes! She'll kill me if I see this body naked!"
With that "Ino" sprinted in the direction of her two departing team mates.
The other two turned to their aged comrade expectantly.
He opened his mouth hesitantly then sighed, no explanation came to mind save.
"That girl has always been odd."
The other two nodded in triumph.
And they returned to their game.
Hyuuga Neji awoke to a heavy sensation on his chest.
Odd he thought it felt as though someone was lying partly on top of him.
He opened his eyes...his green eyes and witnessed a most curious sight.
His own body was lying partially atop his...female form.
With that the crushing awareness of the previous day's activities returned like a tsunami. Neji's mental state was fragile enough at the moment without the following two occurrences.
The first (which unfortunately precipitated the second) was Rock Lee moaning "Sakura-chan" from deep in the bowels of sleep. Neji's entire body went rigid as Rock snuggled deeper into Sakura's soft form.
The second was the sudden awareness of a new presence in his mind, its shape was that of his hated new body and he recoiled in shock as he realised she was addressing him.
"What the hell do you think you are doing, cavorting with that Hyuuga jerk, what the hell happened! Why aren't you after Sasuke-kun! Have you given up you coward!"
This demon halted her assault.
"Wait...you aren't Outer Sakura, EEEEEEEKKKK! Some pervert has invaded our mind! "
Inner Sakura began hurling abuse at Hyuuga Neji, faced with mental assault on one level, molestation by his own form on the other and feeling rather alone and cast off by destiny Hyuuga Neji did the only thing that he could.
He ran from the Hyuuga house.
Like a little girl.
A Scarlet blur passed two guards of the Hyuuga estate cursing loudly.
"That's odd" one commented
"What, a half naked girl sprinting from young Neji's quarters in a serious state of emotional distress"
"No"
"The fact that she was howling at herself in two voices?"
"No"
A second white blur passed them at speed.
"The fact that Neji is actually chasing after the girl for once?"
"No"
"Then what?"
"That it was the one hopelessly obsessed with the Uchiha, rather than the bobble haired one from his team."
"Your obsession with the love lives of the genin is as always...disturbing"
With that the young heiress of the Hyuuga clan, Hyuuga Hinata sprinted past the clan estate clad in a very distinctive orange jumpsuit carrying three carrier bags loaded with copious amounts ramen, laughing at the top of her lungs.
"I take it back" said the first. "That's very odd"
"We should still grab her though"
Uzimaki Naruto was ecstatic.
He'd gotten up early to buy Hinata and himself breakfast. But instead of being treated like dirt like usual the shop keeper had bent over backwards to fill his order. He'd even given a discount to "Hinata-sama" He didn't even feel guilty, as it was both minor payback and he'd been ordered to keep the body swap a secret. Yessir this day was looking up.
"Hinata-sama, you must come with us, your father commands your presence!"
He stiffened on being addressed from behind.
Ah, the famous Uzimaki Naruto luck appeared to still be in full force.