Reviewer Response
Anonomous: I get what ur saying, but I promise this will get alot better. I believe it was either you or the other reviewer that mentioned Lithak being like a Naruto with reversed looks, this comes into play later. Also, I've made a few changes to the older chapters, so Naruto is A LITTLE more in character. But he's still a little OoC
Chapter 7: Training
Lithak awoke in the middle of the night. Partly because he felt a little cold, but also because of the Hinata shivering under his left arm. He pulled her in closer and she stopped shaking. He looked over at Naruto...he could be a dumb ass and a moron at times, but he's really a good person if you look past that. Then he loooked down at Hinata, she could be a tiny bit wierd at times, and she was shy as well, but he really liked her. She was really sweet. She was his Girl...his Girl. Lithak got up and got a blanket. Then he layed back down, covering himself and Hinata up with it to make them warmer, but he pulled her close to him nonetheless. He could even feel Onimaru inside him become more at peace. Onimaru spoke with him, "She reminds me of my own, just be careful no one get's the chance to do to her what happened to the last one." Lithak nodded, he wouldn't let that happen to her, because if it did happen, he would join her.
When Lithak awoke again, it was properly, and at the right time. He sat up and went to get dressed, when he realized he still had his normal clothes on. 'I must have been tired yesterday,' thought Lithak. He heard Naruto awake across the room, who then got up in the same fashion. "Your up," said Lithak. Naruto looked drowsily at Lithak for a second, and then remembered where he was. This was also when he noticed the in the process of getting out of bed, he had knocked Sakura onto the floor. Naruto's face went rigid, and he tried to negotiate with Sakura. "Sakura, I swear, it wasn't my fault, it was just that..." But it was too late, and Sakura slugged him in the head and screamed, "Klutz!" Lithak smiled, and said, "Sakura...your crazy." Sakura turned her attention to Lithak. She leapt at Lithak and started to pummel him. "Ah, get it off me," Lithak yelled, "this thing is trying to kill me." Sakura got even madder, and started to choke Lithak. Then he flipped her over and held her down, "Naruto, feel free to come over here and tickle her to death." Naruto grinned widely, "With pleasure." Lithak continued to hold Sakura down as Naruto tickled her stomache, making her giggle wildly. Silently, Lithak made a shadow clone appear behind Hinata. He then had this shadow clone grab Hinata and tickle her. Sakura was still yelling, "WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!"
This continued for about 10 minutes until the doctor came in. "You people shouldn't be so active, your still recovering," said the doctor. Naruto looked smugly at her, "Oh come on! Recoving is no fun. At least we can have a little fun." Lithak nodded, "Naruto is right. Lay off lady, there's no reason we can't at least mess around a little bit." Naruto started to giggle, and Lithak said, "You've been hanging around Kakashi and Jiraiya too much. You're the next pervert Sennin. Great, next thing you know we'll have a pervert Hokage." Naruto punched him in the arm, and told him to shut up. Sakura got up and said, "They're just like brothers, one second they're fighting, the next they're goofing off." Hinata nodded, and sighed. "What's wrong Hinata," said Sakura, who was growing concerned. Hinata hadn't spoken all morning, apart from laughing when the Lithak clone was tickling her. "Can you promise not to tell anyone?" asked Hinata. Sakura nodded, and looked over at the boys. They were now wrestling for no aparent reason...apart from wrestling. She highly doubted they were listening. Hinata whispered in Sakura's ear. "You know I really like Lithak...well, I feel like I owe him something for helping me out of that depression. I mean, he turned my life around, the least I could do is get him one lousy gift," she said. Naruto spoke up, "Maybe you should get him some dog chow, or a dog house." Lithak sweatdropped, then said, "Yes, and then I'll have Sakura get you a scratching post and some cat nip. But seriously, Hinata, you really don't have to get me anything. I've got everything I want and need right now, and I'm probably one of the poorer people in town." Lithak walked up to Hinata and embraced her tightly. "Just stick around, that's all I want," he said softly. Hinata looked up, a glint in her eye. In that moment, she was the happiest she'd ever been. Lithak turned to Naruto and said, "Naruto, wanna go train? I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to sneak outta here."
After they had gotten outside, they went to the training grounds. They started off by warming up hand to hand. After about a half hour, Lithak offered to teach Naruto a few Jutsu. "Alright, the first Jutsu I'm going to teach you is shadow shield. You form the seals, which I will tell you in a second, then you focus the Chakra in front of you," he said, "alright. The Seals are Inu, Saru, Ryu, Inu, Ryu. I'm going to throw a stone at you, and I want you to block it with the shadow shield." After a couple of tries, Naruto got it. "Alright," said Lithak, "on to the next move. This one will drain all your chakra, so use Kyuubi's to prevent extreme exhaustion. This Jutsu is called Tentacles of Darkness. You focus the chakra into your hand, then slam your hand into the ground, releasing the chakra into the earth. The amount of chakra you use determines the radius where tentacles are active. Don't use too much, or you'll end up hitting Sakura or Hinata." The two readied themselves, and Naruto did as Lithak had said. He was successful with the skill on the first try. However, unlike Lithak, the earth turned red, and the tantacles that came out of the earth were made of fire. "I guess Kyuubi's chakra makes the Jutsu become fire," said Lithak, more to himself than anyone, "That means that the Onimaru's chakra is dark oriented." Lithak turned his attention back to Naruto, "Good job. Now, this next skill will be a lot harder to master than any other skill I've taught you. It's the attack I used on you back before we entered the forest. The Shadow Flare. Alright, your going to need to use a lot of Kyuubi's chakra for this one. Since Kyuubi chakra has a fire element, it's going to be more of a supercharged flare than a shadow flare, but the difference in damage won't be much. First, form the seals, then, form a ball of Kyuubi chakra in your hand, kinda like when your creating Rasengan. Then, just project it forward. Because of the seals, it won't dissapate, and in addition, it seeks out enemy chakra. The seals are Inu, Saru, Ryu, Ousu'Buta, Nezumi, Hebi." Indeed, Naruto did not get it within his first ten tries, nor his first 20. After a couple of hours though, he was able to form the Kyuubi version of Shadow Flare. He then made up a name for it. "I'll call it the Kyuubi Flare. It's not origional, I know, but it's the best I could come up with," he said as he scratched the back of his head.
Lithak looked toward the horizon. "The sun's going to set in about an hour, we should probably get back," he said. When they got back at the hospital, the found Neji waiting for them. "Hey little cous'," Neji said to Hinata. "What's up Neji," said Lithak, "I've been off training with Naruto." Neji nodded, and said, "I was wrong about you. Your not such a bad guy." Neji then turned to Hinata, "Hinata, I want you to come home. I'm sure Lithak can take care of himself." Hinata looked at the ground, "Bye Lithak." Lithak walked up and put a hand on her shoulder, then looked at Neji, "Actually, Neji, she's been pretty good company. It'd be boring without Hinata here to calm us down." Neji looked at something nonexistant, thinking. "Hinata, do you want to stay with Lithak, or do you want to come home for a bit," Neji asked. He knew the answer before the question left his mouth. Hinata nodded her head, and Neji left for home. The group of four started to just have small bits of conversation on any topic that came up. Eventually, they all went to bed. Hinata found herself once again laying very close to Lithak, both sleeping peacefully in each others arms.
1. Do you think I have made some good improvements from my earlier chapters
2. What do you think of the whole tickle scene in the beginning of the chapter (that was fun to write)
3. Do you think I'm going to bring Sasuke into this story (probably not...I'm not a big Sasuke fan other than the curse seal on his neck)
also, feel free to comment on stuff other than what I ask