Since it has been a while I updated last, I will give you a short summary, of what had happened so far:

Hinata left the clan after she decided to live together with Naruto. Hanabi is appointed as the new heiress. Soon after that Hinata received the seal, without the knowledge of Naruto, which made him very angry.

Hanabi and her team (Ebisu, Konohamaru and Moegi) are currentely on a mission to the borders of the grass country, where they have to get the Fungus Pellucidia (a mushroom that cures from certain poisons). After Ebisu and Moegi left to get a shovel, Konohamaru and Hanabi are attacked...

10. The encounter with the enemy

'Byakugan!' I said and activated my bloodline possession again. I looked around.

'1..2..3,4…5… 6 grass-nins!' I reported to Konohamaru.

'We probably entered their borders! Since Ebisu-sensei and Moegi haven't returned yet, it seems like we have to take them down together!'

'Yes!' I said and went in my fighting stance.

I saw how Konohamaru made some seals. 'Kage-bunshin no jutsu!' He shouted, as some Konohamaru clones appeared.

'Come on guys! What are you waiting for!' He said.

The grass-nins were giggling as they came from their hiding spots.

'You really think you can bring us down with those?' A shinobi with an oversized brown coat, obviously the leader, taunted.

'If it is necessary, yes!' Konohamaru answered. I hoped he just would be careful. This people were dangerous.

'You passed the borders, little kids! And we don't like strangers on our terrain! You have your own country over there!' The leader said as he pointed to the direction were we came from.

'We won't leave!' Konohamaru shouted. 'Just bring it on!'

'Konohamaru-kun, be careful!' I whispered.

'Don't worry, Hanabi-chan! Everything will be fine! You just stay here!'

Konohamaru raised his right arms and pulled it down. As reaction the Konohamaru-clones ran up to the grass-nins, but all of the clones were simply pushed aside and disappeared.

The leader laughed hard. 'Boy, please, be a bit more serious, or is that all you can give?'

'NO!' Konohamaru shouted. He reached to his pocket and was about to take his kunai's, but was interrupted by the leader.

'It's our turn now kid!' He shouted.

'And you think I will wait for my turn!' Konohamaru said as he threw his kunai to the ninja's. But they dodged it.

'You need more than that to bring us down!' The leader made some seals and said: 'Doku Tsuta no Jutsu!'(poison ivy technique)

Ivy strings came out of his sleeves and were aiming for Konohamaru's chest. I'd waited long enough now and jumped in front of him. 'Hakkeshou Kaiten!' I said as I nullified the attack.

'Ha.. Hanabi-chan….' Konohamaru whispered.

'Girl, you're impressive, but don't think you defeated us now!' The leader said. 'You can only protect yourself with that attack, right? I wonder what you do when all of us attack you!'

All the grass-nins formed some seals. This was bad! What could I do?

'Listen Hanabi? Do you trust me?'

'I.. yes of course!'

'Then just don't worry about me! And only protect yourself!'

'But…'

'Hanabi please!'

'… Okay!'

'Doku Tsuta no Jutsu' The grass-nins said all at the same time. Poison ivy strings came from all directions. 'Hakkeshou Kaiten!' I protected myself from the strings. Neji's extra training has helped me a lot! When I looked up again, there was no longer any trace of Konohamaru. I was startled. Where did he go? The answer came from the leader. 'A clone! That bastard! How did he do that?'

So that's was why he threw those kunai! He wanted to distract them! I smiled. He was smarter than I thought.

He probably jumped in the water and went to warn Ebisu-sensei.

The leader putted his attention on me again. 'Butthat scaredy-catleft his cute little girlfriend…' He grinned. Girlfriend! No way! I was about to react, but I remembered my father's advice, never show your emotions to the enemy… I concentrated myself on my surroundings again. I had to keep an eye on those 6 ninja's.

'Now how are we going to kill you?' The leader looked around and watched a small guy. 'Mikio? It's time for you to gain some experience! Show that girl what we do to intruders like her!'

The ninja jumped of the branch and smiled. 'With pleasure.' As soon as he had formed some seals he stretched his arms. 'Edaha Ude no Jutsu!' (Branch Arms Technique) While his arms transformed into branches with leaves I concentrated myself. The technique I was about do now required a lot of concentration. Even the tiniest lack of concentration could be fatal for the performance of this attack, Neji had told me. I got in my stance and sighed. The guy named Mikio neared me he was about to hit me when I was ready to attack. 'Hakke Rokujuuyonshou!' I shot forward. My opponent saw me coming, but it was to late for him.

'TWO STRIKES!' I hit the first two chakra holes. 'FOUR STRIKES!'

'MIKIO!' the leader shouted, 'GET OUT OF HER RANGE!'.

'EIGHT STRIKES!' My opponent couldn't move, I just cut down his leg chakra.

'SIXTEEN STRIKES!' Mikio tried to hit me, but I easily evaded him.

'THIRTYTWO STRIKES!' ….

'SIXTYFOUR STRIKES OF DIVINITY!'.

My opponent fell down. He was breathing heavy and collapsed.

'Mikio! You will pay for that, little girl! Takeo! It's your turn now!' A tall guy with two scythes walked towards me. I observed him closely as he took a threatening pose.

'Dai Kama no Mai!' (Dance of the scythes)

He jumped forward and I could just evade his first strike. I quickly reacted.

'JYUUKEN' I hit him on the chest. As he fell down, he spitted some blood out of his mouth.

'Hmmm, very well done, little girl. It seems you're not the pushover I thought you was. But you are starting to annoy me!' The boss grumbled. 'But those two were by far the weakest of us all!'

I smiled. He was probably just bluffing and even if he wasn't they had to come with better attacks. As long as they were approaching me one by one I could defeat them easily.

'Boss! May I go now?' An elder woman shrieked.

The woman looked very old. How could such an old hag defeat me? 'Lady, you better say goodbye to the world when you challenge me!' I said to her.

'WHAT! You got a lot of nerve, kid'.

'Amaya, calm down. You may fight the kid now', the leader ordered.

'HA, you better say goodbye to the world, kid.'

The woman made some seals.

'Doko Gasu no Jutsu!' (Poison Gas Technique) Was she planning on poisoning me! She breathed in some air, which made her cheeks fill up. I knew I had to act fast to save myself. I jumped in the water and got myself below the surface. I was right in time. Soon after I went under water, purple smoke escaped her mouth. I swam further in the water to get to a deeper part. This escaping route was just temporary. They would probably do something to the water and I couldn't hold my breath forever. Where was Konohamaru when you needed him?

I needed to think of something fast, before I was out of air. I needed to escape, but how? All my moves were useless under water, right… No, I had one move that could work.

I swam to the bottom of the lake and took the well known pose Neji taught me, Kaiten.

I started whirling around, faster and faster. I poured all my chakra into it. The water started to whirl around me and became a whirlpool. I used my Byakugan to locate the enemy and I shot all my chakra out with the water.

'W.. What's that!'

'I Don't know boss, but let's get the hell out of hereeeaaargh'.

The remaining four grass nins where washed away. I quickly swam topside to catch my breath. I was exhausted, I swam to the edge of the water to get out. I could barely stand up.

'When I get my hands on Konohamaru I will….'

'You will what?'

'Konohamaru! Where have you been!'

I tried to grab him to give him a nice and painful hit on the nose, but I didn't had the strength to even stand and I fell over.

'Wow, look out now'. Konohamaru caught me. 'You fought well on your own, I would only be a bother if I stayed. That's why I replaced myself with a clone. Those baka's didn't even notice. So I thought you could beat them on your own and you did.'

'Konohamaru-kun! That's not the point! We're a team! You're not supposed to leave your teammate alone in this circumstances! Did you left to warn Ebisu-sensei?'

'Hanabi-chan! If I stayed around you had to concentrate on me too! That would've only slowed you down! I stood nearby, to interrupt when it would be necessary, and send of a clone to find and warn Ebisu-sensei.'

I looked away from him. Although his arguments were partly true I was still mad at him.

He took me by my shoulders. 'Listen Hanabi, I'm sorry, okay? Next fight will be mine, I promise...'

I looked at him again and just nodded.

'Come, let's go and find Ebisu-sensei and Moegi-chan'.

He lend me his shoulder to lean on and we walked of. Suddenly we heard something.

'Kuchiyose no jutsu!'

We saw some smoke coming out of the forest. It surely were those grass-nins, so I didn't defeat them after all... I tried to see what they summoned, when the leader appeared from behind a tree.

'Time to die, little white-eyed brat!'. It was the leader. 'Shito Tousekiki no Jutsu!' (catapult tongue no jutsu)

Out of the forest a giant red thing shot out. I pushed Konohamaru away from me, to prevent him from getting hit. The red thing caught me.

'Hanabi-chan!' Konohamaru shouted.

'Oh look at that, it seems like your pathetic boyfriend has returned.'

I twitched. Pathetic? Yes. Boyfriend? No way! No emotion, no emotion, just get out of this sticky situation. What was this sticky, dirty thing I was grabbed by anyway? I had not enough chakra to break free. It pulled me into the forest, I looked over my shoulder and saw the thing that caught me. It was a giant lizard. Was it a… chameleon?

'So what do you think of my precious Nijiiro?'. The boss laughed.

'Kuchiyose no jutsu!' Was that Konohamaru? That means…

'Enma!'

'Haha, that's a stupid little ape! Do you guys really think, that fur ball can make a difference in this fight?'

'Hanabi-chan? I told you next fight would be mine right?'

'Yeah, yeah! Just get me out of this dirty tongue already!'

Konohamaru and Enma looked at each other and nodded. They jumped towards the huge creature that hold me. 'Henge, Kongounyoi!' (Transform, Diamond-Like Hardness) Enma changed into a large diamond-hard staff. Konohamaru took him and slammed the stick on the head. The chameleon let go of me. I fell down, but Konohamaru was fast. He was already there to catch me.

'Wait here and watch how I defeat that stupid reptile okay!' He said putting me down on the ground.

'Don't think I'm done with it! Fukashi no jutsu!' (invisibility technique)

Slowly the appearance of the huge summon disappeared.

'The chameleon can adapt to his surroundings, so little kids, I'm sorry but this little game is over!'

'Damnit! What can I do now!' Konohamaru snapped his fingers. 'It looks like this will be a game of good luck!' Konohamaru ran towards the direction the chameleon had disappeared and just hit somewhere. But there was nothing but air. Soon after, Konohamaru was swept away by something, probably the invisible tongue. He flung in the air and bounced against a tree.

He scrambled to his legs and wiped away the blood of his mouth. 'Damnit!'

'I told you before, you can't defeat Nijiiro!'

'NO!' I said as I got up to my feet. 'Konohamaru! Let me help out!'

'But...'

'We're a team, Konohamaru-kun! Take me on your back, I will be your eyes! Byakugan!'

The veins in my eyes popped up and the chakra of the giant summon became clear to me. Konohamaru watched me and nodded. He took the Enma-stick and ran towards me.

'JUMP LEFT!' I shouted to him seeing how the tongue tried to hit him again. He could barely evade it.

'You have to hold grip yourself.' He said as he reached me and took me on his back. 'I need to hold En…'

'JUMP RIGHT!' I interrupted him clinging myself on Konohamaru. He was right in time to avoid the tongue of the chameleon.

'Wow, that was a pretty close one' My teammate said as he observed the damage that was created.

'LEFT!' I shouted again as I saw a huge mass of chakra nearing us. I knew that was the tongue.

'Listen Hanabi! I need to get close to him,' Konohamaru said jumping to the left, 'I will run towards him and..'

'LEFT!'

'Damnit!' He jumped again. 'Just continue giving me hints and tell me where that beast hides out!'

'Okay! He's current… RIGHT!'

Konohamaru evaded the tongue again.

'He's currently positioned at half past one!' I told him.

'Thanks!' Konohamaru turned a little to the east and ran forward. 'RIGHT….LEFT…RIGHT…RIGHT…LEFT, now jump up high!' I instructed him.

Konohamaru jumped up and landed on the tongue of the enemy. 'What's this?' He questioned.

'Just continue running forward! You're on his tongue right now! Jump of on the right side when I tell you to, and give a smack to the left, you can't miss him… NOW!'

My carrier obeyed and hit the chameleon fully on his temple.

'Nijiiro!' The grass shinobi shouted as he saw his summon falling unconscious. As soon as he landed on the ground the chameleon disappeared.

'How did you..!'

'You saw it yourself' Konohamaru said. Next to him was Enma in his ape-form. 'You can better admit it, we defeated you.'

'Do you really think so! There are still 4 of us!' The grass nin said. 'Come on guys! Those kids are exhausted, let's give them the final blow!'

'You mean this guys?'

'Ebisu-sensei!'

'That's right' He said as he dropped the bodies of 3 grass nins. 'They were already injured, but I fought them and now they are unconscious.'

'W..who are you!'

'You want to now the names of the ones who defeated you and your silly companions?' Ebisu questioned. 'Then you should know their names too!'

He watched me. 'It looks like you did the most, am I right?'

I smiled. 'Hyuuga Hanabi, it was a pleasure to fight you lot.'

'Konohamaru! Future hokage of Konoha! Just watch my words! And of course Monkey King Enma' He added pointing to his summon.

'I'm Ebisu! Their wonderful teacher!'

'And Moegi!' My female teammate said as she jumped from behind the grass nin and hit him on the head with a shovel. 'The most sexy kunoichi in the world…'

'It looks like we defeated them.' Konohamaru said watching the unconscious enemy. 'Well done everyone and thanks Hanabi, Enma!'

'You too, but you still have a long way to go to reach the level of your grandfather.' The monkey responded

'What do you mean with 'a long way'?' Konohamaru answered irritated. 'And why do you say that so suddenly?'

'Well you said you're the future hokage, but just as I say, you are far from the level Sandaime Hokage has achieved.'

'No way!'

'Yes way.'

'Hmmpf! Just watch me! There will be a time I will reach the level of grandpa and you know what? I will even surpass him!'

'Hmm, I wonder… Hanabi-san, you did great!' Enma said as he putted up his thumb. I nodded. 'Thanks'

'Well, see you next time!' With a poof the monkey king disappeared.

'Why did he say that! He complimented Hanabi, but me…' He looked up and watched me and blushed. 'Of course you did great, Hanabi-chan…'

'In the end we did great teamwork, didn't we?' I said hoping he would cheer up a bit.

'Yes! We did!'

'So.. Are we going back to the tent or shall we start looking for the fungus?' Moegi asked.

'Let's do our job first, that's why we came here in the first place. Moegi, you take care of Hanabi! Konohamaru, you will start digging up the Pellucidia and after I get rid of those grass-nins I will join you, okay?'

'Right!'

'Ebisu-sensei? There are two defeated ninja by the waterside.' I said.

'You defeated them too?'

'I did.'

'Very well done! But what else could be expected from someone with your power?'

I smiled, since I knew better. Not only Konohamaru, but myself too, still had a long way to travel on the path of ninjahood. I wanted to prove myself to my team, to my clan, but most of all to my father and Neji...

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A/N: It has been a while since I worked on this story. But at least I finished this fight. (Thanks The Only Mighty One for helping me out:-)) The next will appaer sooner since I already have the ideas and writing non-fighting scenes is a bit easier.