Oo MY COMPUTER CRASHED!!!! I had to retype this chapter from scratch again... Anyway, I know it's been a while since I updated last, and I'm really sorry about that ; I hope this X-TRA long chapter will make up for it. WARNING: MAJOR Hinata OOC this chapter and forward, all will be explained though.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto. All characters except Kazara Yume are copyright Kishimoto-sensei.
CHAPTER 10: Training Part Two and Hinata's Accident.
"CRAP!!! CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP!!!" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs as he slid down the tree again. WHAM. "Itai..." Naruto moaned as he rubbed the back of his head. Kuso... Why can't I climb any higher?? This is the twentieth time!!
Having fun, kit? the fox asked in Naruto's head.
URUSEI! I don't see you helping me!!
What, and miss seeing you suffer? Not likely. The fox snickered. It's way too much fun watching you fall on your head repeatedly. But, it'd be better if you somehow twisted around in midair so you at least landed on your feet. Naruto rolled his eyes.
Gee, domo arigato, ya baka kitsune. Naruto shut the presence of the demon out of his mind, and returned to the task at hand. There had to be some way of climbing, right? He'd already tried adding more Chakra, and all that did was ricochet him across the clearing. Think, Naruto, THINK!!! Sakura's already made it to the top of her tree... Naruto wearily stood up for the umpteenth time that morning, and proceeded to run up the tree again.
Yume & Kakashi
Well, they're all coming along as expected... Yume smirked as he watched his son fall down on his head yet again. Itai. He really is just like I was... I just hope... he isn't JUST like me... Kakashi looked over at his old sensei and noticed he was brooding. He walked over and put his hand on Yume's shoulder.
"You still with us, Yume?" He jumped visibly, but looked at Kakashi and smiled.
"Yeah. I'm just remembering... Naruto really is like me... I just hope he isn't EXACTLY like me..." Kakashi's visible eye narrowed.
"You don't think he's..." Yume shrugged.
"I sure hope not, Kakashi. He has that same smile... he shows it to everyone... but all it is... is a mask, a false smile used to hide his pain... the pain of being alone... unwanted... save for a few precious people..." He sighed, and looked at the easygoing Jounin next to him. "I'll talk with him later. Kami willing, having Haku in his life will have given him something I didn't have..." Yume smiled sadly, and took a deep breath. "HEY KIDS!! LUNCHTIME!!"
"WOOHOO!!!" Naruto ran over at top speed. "What're we havin, huh tousan!? Ramen!? Please say it's ramen!!" Yume laughed, and another laugh was heard across the clearing.
"He really is your son, eh Yume? Konnichiwa, dobe." Hiashi walked into the clearing carrying several bento. Yume just smirked.
"Konnichiwa yourself, jackass. You're late again."
"Just finishing cleaning up the council room. I'm going to turn it into an indoor pool. Hanabi and Hinata have been wanting one." Hinata smiled and quietly took her bento.
"Arigato gozaimasu, otousan."
"YAAAY!! ITADAKIMASU!!!" Naruto started to inhale his food.
"Hn." was all Sasuke said as he took his lunch. Sakura sat down next to Sasuke, and Haku ate his food while reading a book of medical studies.
"Naruto, once you're done, I want to talk to you privately." Yume said as he stood up.
"Sure thing, tousan!" Naruto stood up and followed his dad into the woods.
Yume and Naruto
Yume leaned against a tree. He let out a deep sigh, and looked at his son.
"Ne, tousan? What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Naruto, I know this question might be a sore topic, but you have to answer me, alright?" At Naruto's nod, he continued. "Naruto, have you ever tried... to take your own life?" Naruto's smile vanished.
"Iie... but I came close once... I was going to one night after school, but..." the smile returned to his face. "...that's when I found Haku. He showed me what a real friend is like... and I didn't want to anymore..." Yume smiled.
"Good, I'm glad."
"Ne, ne tousan? Why did you ask me that?" Yume silently pulled off the gloved he kept on. The gloves went halfway up his forearms, completely covering his wrists. Naruto gasped when he saw scars on his father's wrists, right above the veins.
"Why, tousan!? WHY!!?" Naruto almost screamed as he grabbed his father's clothing.
"Because I was alone, Naruto. Completely and utterly alone. Before Tsunade-kaasan took me in, my life was hell. I was living by myself after my family was killed. Nobody let their children play with the orphan, the unwanted one." Yume's eyes lost their kindness and were replaced by eyes that resembled cold, hard stone. "So one night... I decided to end it..." He smiled, and the warmth returned to his eyes. "It didn't go as planned. I had no idea that I had worked myself into Tsunade's heart, like the little brother she lost. She had been walking by my apartment when she sensed my life force draining. She literally kicked the wall in after I didn't answer the door. The last thing I remember before I passed out from blood loss was her tears hitting my face as she started performing Ijutsu on me. She kept saying 'Don't die! Please don't die! Not another one of my precious people!!'" Yume looked down at his son with tears in his eyes. "I don't think she'll ever appreciate how much those words meant to me... they saved my life, Naruto. Tsunade-kaasan and those words she told me... with those words, she changed me... I had something to live for..."
"Tousan..." Naruto strangled out. Tears were coursing down his cheeks as well. His dad understood. He understood the hell of being alone... how much it meant to have just one person acknowledge that you were worth something... that you were precious to them.
"Naruto... I wanted you to know that no matter how bad it seems... never go out like that, Naruto. That's the coward's way. Besides... you never know who you might make sad if you do. Alright! That's enough of my sad story! Let's get back to the others and work on training!"
"YOSH!!" Naruto yelled. He started bouncing around again on their way back to the clearing.
The others
Hiashi watched Yume and Naruto walk into the forest. So he's finally talking to him, huh? Kakashi sighed.
"It really stinks that Yume-sensei can't use his Chakra." Sakura looked at him.
"Excuse me, Kakashi-san?"
"Hm?" Kakashi looked at her over his book.
"Just how strong is Yume-san anyway?" Hiashi chortled.
"I just call him dobe for old time's sake. In all truth, he's anything but a dobe." Kakashi nodded. I remember the first time my team went on a mission with him and watched him fight... I get chills..."
FLASHBACK
Kakashi was stunned. The six-year old Chuunin was speechless, for once. His teammates, Obito and Kachi, almost had their jaws on the ground, along with their client, an important lawyer they were supposed to protect from a crime lord's henchmen. Kakashi's jaw would have been just as low as theirs but for his facemask, which only let it hang open in shock for a couple of inches. Did he just...? No, there's no way he could have... But the truth was, his sensei HAD just incapacitated over 25 Chuunin-rank shinobi, with absolutely no jutsus or weapons, in less than 1 minute, with no fatalities. What's more, it didn't even look like he had broken a sweat. Only one thought came to Kakashi's young mind: Yume-sensei is... COOL!!
"Boy, these guys picked the wrong day to ambush our client, huh guys?" Yume asked, giving them a fox-like grin. Without any warning, he doubled over.
"SENSEI!!" Kakashi managed to catch the older man on his back and eased him to the ground. His face looked a little green, and he was holding his stomach. He gave a weak smile to his students.
"I thought that my flu was gone..." was all he said before losing consciousness.
END FLASHBACK
Kakashi mentally laughed. "We had to carry him to the village and get a doctor-" he was cut off when an acorn his him right between the eyes.
"Veeeery funny, Kakashi." Kakashi gave an o-so-innocent grin.
"What, sensei? I was just informing them of your wondrous history!"
"Smartass, as always." Yume immediately stiffened, as did Hiashi and Kakashi.
"Tousan? What's wrong?" Naruto asked.
"DOWN!!" Yume yelled just as a hail of kunai shot through the clearing. Everyone dove to the ground, except for Hiashi.
"KAITEN!!!" The kunai stopped when they were within a foot of Hiashi. Then, he spun rapidly like a top, a dome of solid Chakra formed, spun the kunai around him, and shot them back where they had come from at least twice the speed they had entered the clearing. Several cries of pain sounded from the bushes. A dozen shinobi jumped out of the bushes.
Jounin, by the looks of them... but what's their village symbol? A music note? Never seen that symbol before... Yume looked at Kakashi. "Hey Kakashi. What village are they from? I don't recognize it." Kakashi grunted, and lifted his forehead protector from his left eye.
"Sound. Orochimaru started it after he abandoned Konoha."
"A Sharingan? That means..." Yume trailed off. "That's why I couldn't feel Obito..." Sasuke was speechless.
SHARINGAN!?! But he's no Uchiha!! HOW in ALL HELLS could he have one!?! Sasuke was practically panicking. Yume glanced at Kakashi and Hiashi. They both nodded, which meant he was to lead.
"State your purpose." Yume said. The Oto-nin captain stepped forward and sneered.
"But of course, Yondaime-sama..." The honorific was filled with spite. "Our purpose was to gather intelligence, but I see we've found something far better. Orochimaru-sama will be quite pleased to hear that you're alive. He's been bemoaning the fact that you killed yourself before he got a chance to repay you for stealing his rightful title of Hokage."
"Rightful my ass." Hiashi spat. "That snake should have been honored to have been a Jounin, for all his crimes."
"Silence, you pompous buffoon! Orochimaru-sama is one of the three Sannin! How dare you-" a Jounin on the end began to speak, but found it very hard to talk with no oxygen getting to his brain. Once he slumped over unconscious, Yume let go of his neck.
"Sorry, but I'm not ready to reveal that I'm still alive yet. So, none of you can leave here alive." All warmth vanished from Yume's eyes, and cold, slate-blue eyes surveyed the stunned Jounin around him. Looks like that surprised them pretty good. Yume snapped his fingers and Hiashi and Kakashi charged into the fray. Hiashi hit two at once with his Sixty-four Hands technique, while Kakashi merely gave a few Jounin a chop to the back of the neck, paralyzing them. The remaining Jounin narrowed his eyes, and looked over at the kids.
"If I'm going to die, I'll take the heir with me!!" At blinding speeds, he grabbed Hinata and threw her headlong into a tree. Her skull connected with a resounding crack, and she slid to the ground, motionless. A trail of blood ran down the tree.
"Hinata-chan!!" Naruto ran over to her. "Speak to me Hinata-chan!! Daijobou?" He put his hand on the back of her head and it came away with a spot of blood. Hiashi's eyes narrowed as he activated his Byakugan again.
"For harming my daughter... you shall pay the ultimate price! Hyuuga Forbidden Technique: Eight Hands of Destruction!!"
"CRAP!" Yume yelled. "EVERYONE OUT OF THE CLEARING, NOW!!!" Hiashi closed the distance between himself and his opponent in no time at all. He connected his palm with the chest of the other man.
"First Hand!"
"Second Hand!"
"Third Hand!"
"Fourth Hand!"
"Fifth Hand!"
"Sixth Hand!"
"Seventh Hand!"
"Eighth Hand!" Hiashi leapt away from the man, landing in a tree on the edge of the clearing. The man sneered.
"What was that supposed to do, pretty boy? It didn't hurt at all!!" His confident smirk vanished when a large amount of blood spurted from his mouth. Hiashi smirked.
"Goodbye." With that one word, the man explodes in a bright flash of light, leaving a good sized crater in the clearing. Sakura was visibly shaken.
"What... what happened to him?" she managed to get out. Hiashi sighed.
"That is a kinjutsu of the Hyuuga clan. It opens all of the victim's eight celestial gates at once." Haku's face went from pale to green faster than Naruto ate a bowl of ramen, and he stumbled over to the bushes and promptly lost his lunch.
"Haku-kun!" Sakura ran over to him. He was trembling violently.
"Please... please tell me you're joking..." he strangled out. Yume shook his head.
"No, Haku. He's not joking. If someone's eight celestial gates are all opened at once, it turns them into a veritable time bomb. Their body will be overloaded with Chakra and unable to hold all of it in. as a result..." Yume trailed off.
"Ninja go boom, to put it simply." Kakashi lazily stated while reading his book again. Yume could feel a vein pulsing on his forehead.
I SO have to burn that book... But Jiraiya-sensei'd just get him another one... Yume shook his head. He turned to Hiashi, who was examining Hinata. "How is she?" Hiashi looked her up and down with his Byakugan activated.
"She looks alright, no concussion or head trauma, but it's strange..." Yume walked over.
"Nani?"
"Her Chakra flow has reversed." Yume raised both eyebrows and whistled.
"Well THIS ought to be interesting..." Sasuke and Sakura walked over.
"Ano, Yume-sensei? Why should this be interesting?" Sakura asked with a confused expression on her face. Yume shook his head.
"A person's Chakra flow, or more precisely, the way a person's Chakra flows, determines that person's personality. If her flow's reversed, then her personality..."
"...has reversed as well." Sasuke finished quietly. Yume nodded. Hinata groaned as her eyes fluttered open.
"Otousan? What happened?" Hiashi smiled.
"You hit your head pretty hard, Hime-chan. Can you sit up?"
"Un. I think so..." She slowly sat up and rubbed the back of her head. "What happened to the enemy?" Yume stood up.
"We took care of them. They won't be walking anywhere anytime soon." Hinata smiled, and Naruto crouched next to her.
"I'm glad you're alright, Hinata-chan. I was worried." Hinata's face lit up, and she launched herself at Naruto, engulfing him in a hug.
"NARUTO-KUUUN!! You were worried about me?? How sweet!!" Naruto was at a complete loss for what to do. He looked to his father, and noticed he was trying very hard not to burst into laughter. His eyes had tears in them, and he was making muffled snickers behind his hand.
"Ano, are you sure you're feeling alright, Hinata-chan?" She was a little close for his personal comfort. She nuzzled her head in his shoulder and sighed.
"I'm perfectly fine now that my Naruto-kun's here with me." Her cheeks had a small blush, which was nothing compared to Naruto's face that currently resembled a tomato. Kakashi was looking between them and his book, raising an eyebrow. Hinata noticed, and she did something quite unexpected.
"HEY!! DON'T COMPARE US TO WHAT'S IN THAT DIRTY LITTLE BOOK OF YOURS, KAKASHI-SENSEI NO HENTAI!!!" She seemed to have found the voice she had never used during her childhood. She seemed shocked at what she just did, and her hands went to her throat. "I just... shouted..." She said. Hiashi sighed in relief.
It looks like her Chakra flow is stabilizing again. I told her she needed to be more outspoken, but that was a bit much... She now seemed to have reverted back to the old Hinata, except she was still a little more outspoken. Yume clapped his hands once.
"Alright! Let's keep doing the training! I think we'll split you up so you won't be as inclined to distract each other. Sasuke and Sakura, go to that side of the clearing. Naruto and Hinata, the other side. Haku, you just lost your lunch, so you're in no condition to train yet." Said boy closed his mouth before the protest that had been forming could get out. "You want to be a medical ninja, so you should know the limits of the human body." Haku nodded slowly and took out his scroll again. As the kids were walking away, Hiashi gave a sideways glance to his old friend.
"You wouldn't be trying to get them closer together, would you dobe?" Yume smirked.
"Absolutely, jackass. Absolutely." Yume heard another yell of pain, and noticed Naruto landed on his head again. "Why is that boy so much like me?" Hiashi laughed.
"I don't know, but it brings back memories."
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