Haha, I find it just funny how I'm welcoming the next month with a chapter of "Saiyan Shinobi"! XD That's just ironic on SO MANY LEVELS from me =P Now I'm sure you're all curious about the current pairing results and here they are!
Gohan/Sakura: 6
Gohan/Ino: 9
Gohan/Hinata: 23
Gohan/Tenten: 11
Gohan/Temari: 19
And the results of the poll are as followed; In first place is Gohan X Tenten with 23 %, Gohan X Temari and Ino are both in second place with 20 % followed by Gohan X Hinata in third place with 19 % and Gohan X Sakura is in last place with 16 %. Continue voting as there're four more chaps left! ^_^
Now with all that said let the chapter begin and remember I don't own Naruto or Dragon Ball Z! If you haven't figured that out by now then I don't know what else to say to you XD
Hinata panted as she wiped sweat from her brow as the voice of her father snapped her from her train of thoughts.
"Again!" Hiashi's demanding voice commanded as she continued managed to get up in order to combat her younger sister, Hanabi in more training. Despite the girl being only seven years old, she was way more skilled in the art of the Hyuga, the Gentle Fist, than compared to her sister who was five years older than her.
Hinata yelled as she charged at her sister before she was thrown to the ground with ease. As Hinata lifted herself from the ground, frustrated tears built in her eyes as she was reminded of her failure.
"I believe this calls for a lunch break." Hiashi said although Hinata could hear the disappointment etched in his voice. Before anyone could retort, Hinata dashed out of the room.
"Elder sister!" Hanabi tried to follow before Hiashi stopped.
"Enough. Do not go after her." Hiashi ordered as Hanabi sighed before she reluctantly agreed.
"…Yes father….." Hanabi half-heartedly agreed. Despite being above her sister in terms of skills, she still looked up to her sister. She was so kind-hearted and welcoming after all.
Hinata ran through the village before deciding to stop as she caught her breath. It wasn't fair. Why was she given the burden of the Main branch? And because of this her father was extremely strict with her, taking no mistakes whatsoever. She knew deep down her father was ashamed of her….
Before she could think anymore thoughts, a familiar voice cut her off.
"Hey it's you!" One Son Gohan yelled as Naruto trailed behind him.
In the week since he started his Ki training, while he wasn't even a quarter of good and skilled as Gohan was, he was able to make an orb of Ki from the size of a fly to the size of a baseball.
"Hinata? What's wrong?" Naruto asked as he got right in Hinata's face.
"Uh, Naruto?" Gohan sighed.
"Yeah?" Naruto nonchalantly asked.
"You're too close." Gohan replied as Naruto turned his head before noticing Hinata's face was as red as a beet. Before the boys could say anything, HInata feel back dazed with swirly eyes.
"I…uh….think I did something bad." Naruto nervously laughed as Gohan sighed.
"You think?" Gohan retorted with a hint of amusement.
After about five minutes Hinata woke up under a tree.
"Uhn…." Hinata moaned as Gohan decided to speak up.
"Are you okay?" Gohan asked as Hinata sat up.
"Yes I am. Thank you, Gohan." Hinata gratefully thanked the hybrid who smiled in return.
"Of course." Gohan replied as Naruto decided to speak up.
"So why were you out here anyways Hinata?" Naruto curiously asked as Hinata frowned.
"It's…nothing…." Hinata lied as the two preteens weren't convinced.
"The way you were running and your overall body language weren't proof of just 'nothing'." Gohan reprimanded as Hinata sighed. There was no hiding anything from Son Gohan was there?
"Now tell us, what's wrong?" Gohan inquired as Hinata reluctantly decided to spill her guts out in the open.
"It's my father…I haven't been able to keep up with my training…I can see it within his eyes….I'm probably nothing but….a failure to him…" Hinata replied as she was near tears in the end, much to the anger and disgust of the two boys…
"A failure?" Gohan asked.
"What the hell is wrong with him!? No parent should think of their kid as a burden!" Naruto yelled as Hinata shook her head.
"That goes with my responsibilities as a Hyuga…." Hinata sadly said as Naruto stood up.
"I say we go have a talk with your 'dad'!" Naruto growled before running off.
"Naruto wait!" Gohan tried yelling to no avail.
"Naruto! Darn it, guess we gotta go after him." Gohan sighed as the two followed the blonde. They eventually found the blonde lost in a random corner of the village as he had no idea where the Hyuga household was.
Eventually the group made their way to the Hyuga household. It was a large martial-arts dojo like household.
"Whoa, this is huge!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Yeah it really is." Gohan agreed before Hinata meekly gestured the two to follow her after walking inside.
The two boys were eventually led inside to where Hiashi was talking with the Hyuga elder.
"Oh Hinata. You're back." Hiashi stated.
"Yes father." Hinata replied as Hiashi's eyes darted towards Naruto and stopped at the sight of Gohan.
"Ah…it's you." Hiashi said as Gohan noticed the distrust evident in his voice.
"Yeah. I'm Son Gohan." Gohan politely introduced himself.
"What brings you boys here?" Hiashi inquired as Gohan decided to speak up.
"We hear you've been having problems with Hinata's training." Gohan began.
"And because of that she's been really emotional!" Naruto added as Hiashi scoffed.
"It turns out she's not fit enough to be clan head." Hiashi coolly said as Gohan felt a vein come to his head.
"…What?" Was all Gohan managed to ask.
"She's a failure…weaker than her sister five years her junior. I suppose it was a waste of time with her then." Hiashi stated as Hinata felt tears come to her eyes while Naruto grit his teeth in rage. Sure the two weren't friends but Hinata was never outright mean to him.
"You bastard…" Naruto growled before Gohan put an arm in front of him.
"So you think just because she doesn't perform to whatever standards you have that she's a failure?" Gohan asked, although inwardly he was pissed.
"That is correct." Hiashi bluntly replied as Gohan exhaled.
"Well, have you considered the fact that you're not a very effective teacher?" Gohan asked as Hiashi looked at Gohan.
"Excuse me?" Hiashi asked.
"You're clearly to hard on her. I bet if I worked with her, she'd be better, I guarantee." Gohan asked as a look of amusement adorned Hiashi's feautures.
"You? Really?" Hiashi bemused as Gohan didn't waver.
"That's right. Give me a week and she'll be a better student!" Gohan proclaimed as Hinata looked shocked at him.
"W-what!?" Hinata stammered as Hiashi glared at Gohan, losing his previous amusement.
"Okay then. I give Hinata a week to work with you and we'll see if she can get better without my assistance." Hiashi said to Gohan who smiled.
"Sounds like a fair bet." Gohan grinned as Hiashi said nothing more before leaving to his own devices.
"Uh…Gohan…you probably shouldn't have done that…." Hinata stammered as Naruto yelled, "Yeah! What about my training!?"
"It's fine. I can work with each of you one day each. Sound fair?" Gohan smiled as Naruto shrugged.
"I guess…" Naruto agreed while rubbing the back of his head.
"Alright then, Hinata. Let's go to the training field." Gohan said before the Hyuga priestess reluctantly followed.
As soon as the two got there, Gohan immediately stood across from her.
"Okay, show me your form." Gohan instructed.
"Right." Hinata said before getting into her stance and immediately Gohan caught onto her problem.
"I've figured out your problem." Gohan said in realization as Hinata raised an eyebrow.
"Which is?" Hinata inquired.
"Your pose lacks any confidence. In order to be an effective warrior, you need to have confidence in yourself." Gohan explained as HInata sighed.
"Well…as you can see…I haven't really had the best reasons why…." Hinata said as Gohan walked up to Hinata before putting his hands on her shoulder.
"You can't let what other people think bring you down. What matters is what you think about yourself!" Gohan explained as Hinata's eyes widened.
"Believe…in myself?" Hinata asked.
"Yes. If you don't have faith in yourself you can't ever hope to get better." Gohan said as memories of his childhood and the fight against Nappa and his lack of confidence came floating through his mind.
"You know Hinata, I wasn't as confident as I am now. I used to run away and hide from battles…that would get some of my friends hurt…." Gohan began a little sadly as Hinata frowned as she felt his pain.
"Oh Gohan…." Hinata said before Gohan looked up and smiled.
"But I changed and became more confident….My master told me how important it is to trust and believe in yourself…Only then can you truly become strong." Gohan finished as Hinata was silent but his words seemed to have struck a chord as Gohan decided to add more.
"So if a wimpy, whiny crybaby like me could do it, you can too!" Gohan grinned as Hinata's eyes widened.
"Really?" Hinata asked.
"Really." Gohan answered as a small smile adorned Hinata's features.
"You're right….I'll work on it…." Hinata smiled as Gohan told her to try again.
"Again!" Gohan said as Hinata tried to
After a while, Hinata was able to get about 15 percent more confident in herself before showing off her gentle fist abilities on a nearby tree.
"Amazing…" Gohan marveled before he decided to clear his throat.
"Alright, we'll work again on Wednesday, is that okay?" Gohan asked as Hinata smiled.
"Yes thank you." Hinata smiled before the two walked back into the village where they ran into Kiba and Shino.
"Oh Shino! Kiba!" Hinata exclaimed.
"HInata! You're with Gohan?" Kiba raised an eyebrow.
"Hi." Gohan greeted with a smile.
"Yes. Gohan, these're my friends. Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame." Hinata introduced her friends.
"Yo!" Kiba greeted as he figured if Hinata liked him, maybe Gohan wasn't as bad as everyone made him out to be. Although Shino was still unsure about Gohan.
"It's nice to meet you both." Gohan smiled before his eyes came upon the appearance of Akamaru.
"Aww….what a cute dog." Gohan smiled as Kiba grinned.
"Hehe thanks. His name's Akamaru and he's a ninja hound. Akamaru say hi!" Kiba instructed as Akamaru's eyes opened as he came across Gohan and surprisingly jumped in his arms.
Akamaru licked the half-saiyan who laughed heartily.
"Haha I like you too Akamaru! You remind me a lot of my old pet Icarus!" Gohan laughed before returning him to his owner.
"Heh if he does that to you, especially on your first meeting it seems like Akamaru can really trust you!" Kiba grinned as Shino was still silent.
"So what's Gohan doing with you anyways?" Kiba asked as Hinata explained the situation.
"And so Gohan here is training me for the next week." Hinata explained as Kiba laughed.
"Well given what we saw in class it seems like he'll be a really great instructor! Right Shino?" Kiba asked his friend who was still silent, slightly unnerving Gohan.
"Uhm…is he okay?" Gohan asked as this guy was creepier than even Vegeta.
"Haha, he's alright. He just does that with people he doesn't know. Isn't that right Shi-"Kiba tried asking as Shino walked off, leaving a confused trio of preteens together.
"Yep…the people here really are strange after all….." Gohan sighed as unbeknownst to any of them, one particular squirt was watching the whole thing from behind a tree.
"So that's Son Gohan? I'm gonna kick his spiky haired ass and then I'll become Hokage!" The young voice of Konohamaru Sarutobi giggled before running away to the nearby candy store.
And that ends Chapter 6 everyone! =D Don't worry everyone, we have one more chapter of this slice of life arc before we get into the juicy stuff! XD
How do you guys like that! Like Naruto, Hinata has become Gohan's protégé. Man he'll be more of a teacher than even Kakashi! XD Also I hope you guys liked the Gohan X Hinata moment in today's chapter! I call the ship name….Gohata! XD Don't make fun of me for the name because I dare any of you to come up with any name better! XP
In any case, please don't forget to let me know your thoughts on the chapter and with everyone please remember to fav, follow and review and expect the next chapter coming on February 15th!
Until then, stay beautiful you lovely FF NET people! ^_^
