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Naruto: The Heart of the Storm

Chapter Two: Memories and Defeat

"YOSH! I shall overwhelm you with my flames of youth!" Suddenly Lee paused. "But wait, you did not actually give us your names!"

"Oh yeah, well I'm Discord," The blond pointed to himself "And she is Harmony."

Sakura sweat dropped. "They aren't your real names… are they?"

The blond grinned and scratched his head. "YOSH! I have it! They will not tell us their names until we have beaten them! Is that correct?"

The purple haired girl nodded then started talking before Lee could congratulate himself. "Good work Lee-san, I suppose we forgot to mention that, but we should probably begin, don't you agree?"

Lee nodded vigorously. "Yes, and I shall make the first move!" With that Lee sped forward, aiming for the blond. Just as he reached him he leapt into a spinning kick that the blond shinobi blocked with his sheath. (A/N: remember he holds it almost all the time.)

The spandex clad Chunin flipped backwards, before dashing around to attack from behind. The blond spun to face him and as Lee approached slammed his sheath into the ground. A large chunk of earth lifted up to create a wall between the two ninja. Lee simply jumped over it, but the blond was gone. Landing gracefully he searched trying to find him.

Meanwhile, Sakura had slipped on her gloves and dashed at her opponent, the girl with the white and lilac coat who was 'watching' Lee and her partner sparring. "You should pay attention to your opponent!" She reared back her fist and…

Her punch went straight through her! A clone! The image of the girl vanished, but when Sakura looked around, she couldn't find her. Lee appeared to be having the same problem; his opponent was missing too.

And then… they were back. 'Discord' slammed his sheath into the side of Sakura's head and 'Harmony' kicked Lee from behind, sending him spiralling at the blond who flipped backwards, jumping of him in the air and landed next to his partner. The Guy clone almost crashed into Sakura, but spun in the air, placing his feet on the pink haired shinobi's hand. The pinkette caught on immediately and thrust her fist at the two shinobi. "Sakura-Lee Cannon!"

Lee flew forwards at breakneck speeds and stuck his arms out to the sides to coat hanger the pair. Discord however drew his sword, a pure black blade with golden swirls all over. He swung the blade as hard as he could and a giant gust of wind erupted around him, heading straight for the incoming green missile.

When Lee collided with the wall of air it exploded, the shockwave pushed Lee back over towards Sakura. In the air Lee realised that if Discord could knock him back when he'd been travelling at those speeds it could be deadly if he was hit again.

So Lee took of his weights.

Seeing this the pink haired shinobi realised the Chunin was getting serious. As Lee vanished from her sight she smashed her chakra laden fist into the ground sending a tremor at her opponents.

"Harmony!" The blond dashed towards Sakura, waving his sheath in front of him, somehow the earth settled back into place as he did so. Sakura prepared to punch him but then he vanished again, only to appear with his sword to her throat. "Surrender."

Lee saw Discord leap forward, but it was a blur. How can he move that fast? I could barely see him!

"You should pay attention to your opponent." Lee snapped his neck around only to see Harmony swing her sword at him. Unlike with Discords there was no giant blast of air, and Lee paused for a second in confusion. Then a giant wave hit him.

After the water had receded he easily stood to his feet but then saw the position Sakura was in. "…I surrender." Lee sounded almost sad. "YOSH! Your fires of youth burn most brightly! Guy-Sensei will be thrilled to hear about as youthful people as yourselves!"

Discord and Harmony sweat dropped. "Uhh… right… so who wants to go next?"

The Konoha 12 thought for a moment. Shikamaru and Ino's jutsu were useless against the couple because they were to fast, almost as fast as Lee! Choji knew he wouldn't be able to hit them with his Human Boulder technique because Discord could shake the ground. Shino and Akamaru (and Kiba as well he just wouldn't admit it) wouldn't be able to (or just wouldn't like) getting wet and Harmony could easily inundate them. Tenten's weapons would just be knocked away by the air like had happened before against Temari. I have to find a way to stop that! The only person who stood a chance against them was Neji, and even with Byakugan he couldn't fight them both at the same time.

"We give up!"

"Oh, phew!" Discord and Harmony both started panting and leaning on their swords. "Those attacks were a lot bigger than we usually use; if you had kept fighting we would have run low on chakra!"

The Konoha 12 performed a rather impressive collective facefault.

Harmony and Discord took one look at them, then looked at each other and burst out laughing. As they stood up Shikamaru's eyes widened. "Wait, you looked at him, and you saw all of us fall over…" He gasped.

"So you got it huh Shikamaru?" The blond stood up. The others all had confused looks on their faces.

"But that means she could see through her hitai-ite, and to do that you'd need the Byakugan or some…thing… like… it…" Neji's eyes widened.

'Harmony' got up to stand next to 'Discord'. She pulled her hitai-ite of revealing pupil-less eyes. "I do have the Byakugan, Neji-nii-san."

"Hinata! But that means-" Sakura couldn't believe it. She'd been beaten by the shyest girl in their year and NARUTO! The dead-last! Although he definitely isn't dead-last anymore… and damn he's gotten hot! Wait, Naruto hot? Sakura shivered.

Damn! Hinata's grown, and not just up! Thinking along these lines Kiba almost got a nosebleed. (the pervert.)

"YOSH! Naruto-kun and Hinata-chan's flames of youth burn brighter than I had expected! To be able to defeat Sakura-chan and myself is most impressive!" He did his thumbs up pose, and both Naruto and Hinata blinked to avoid being blinded by his shiny teeth.

"When did you guys get back?" Kiba asked.

"Only this morning, Kiba-kun.

Then Tenten spoke up. "What's with the swords? Can I see them? They look awesome!" Tenten rushed through her questions, it was obvious she was really interested in the two shinobi's swords.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at the kunoichi's behaviour. He'd only really seen Tenten ate the Chunin exams, and so although he knew she used weapons, he had no idea she was such a fan of them.

"Well… uh… sure." He held up his sheath and drew the sword. "This is Atsureki-" He began, before Tenten suddenly cut in.

"ATSUREKI!" She screamed. "You have Atsureki!?" She spun to face Hinata. "But that means that you have Enkatsu!"

The two nodded. And Tenten realised that no-one knew what was so special about the two swords. "Atsureki, or Discord, is one of a pair of blades, the other is Enkatsu – Harmony." She began. "Not only are both swords incredibly powerful and well made, but the sheaths are designed to be used in combat too. By channelling chakra into either the blade or the sheath you can do different things.

"Atsureki can create blades of wind, but Naruto used it to create a wall of wind, that means…" Naruto raised an eyebrow as Tenten thought. "That means that he could probably use it to carve up this training ground with ease! I mean if it's made for small blades, then to do a blast like that is…" Tenten started drooling.

A small cough interrupted her imaginings. "Oh, right sorry. Anyway Atsureki's sheath can break the ground beneath the wielder into clumps, and shift them, effectively making close combat a lot harder because the wielder would be used to the shifting center of balance, but their opponent isn't." She gasped. "And that rock wall you made was like the wall of air!" She started drooling again but snapped out of it herself.

"Enkatsu on the other hand uses water. The blade absorbs water from the air and can use it to make blades or whips that can be used long range, it's like a jutsu without the handsigns! Hinata used it much the same way Naruto used Atsureki, by pumping much more chakra into it then needed to make the effect a brute force one, rather then the supple effect it's made for." Tenten looked around at the others. "If they had used their swords like they were made to be used; Sakura and Lee would be dead right now."

After waiting for that to sink in Tenten continued. "As you can guess the swords are used for offence and the sheaths for defence. But rather than using earth to defend the wielder, Enkatsu uses fire."

"What! How can fire be a defence? All it does is burn stuff!" The Inuzaka interrupted.

"Exactly. Would you run into a ball of fire?"

The Konoha 12 looked at each other, then at Naruto and Hinata, and their swords. They realised just how powerful the pair had become.

Ino slid up to Naruto's side, "So… just how strong are you Naruto-kun?" Shikamaru groaned at Ino's shameless flirting, but it was Hinata's reaction that shocked the group. She grabbed Naruto's shoulder and pulled him down into a hug, and slammed their lips together. As Naruto responded (by deepening the kiss and wrapping his arms around her) Kiba wolf whistled, Choji stopped eating (for a second or two), Shino stood still, Ino and Sakura gaped and Tenten tried to calm Neji down.

The Hyuga prodigy was staring wide eyed at the couple, his eyebrows raised and his eyes twitching. "Wha… bu…and… Hinata-sama!"

"YOSH! Congratulations you two! You have found happiness in the fiery passion of your youth!" Cue collective sweat drop.

The couple broke apart (but kept their arms around each other) and looked at the group. "Oh… yeah, we uh… we're kinda together now… yeah…" Naruto scratched the back of his head.

Suddenly the girls squealed and dragged Hinata away, ruthlessly interrogating her on what had happened on the trip. The guys on the other hand were trying to restrain Neji, who seemed set on beating Naruto into the next century. With his fingers. Chakra enhanced fingers to be sure, but fingers none-the-less.

"Geez Neji calm down! You take your job of protecting Hinata way too seriously." (I know it's a role not a job but – eh – it's Kiba) Kiba was pushing against the Hyuga but when he spoke Neji stopped.

In fact, everyone except him and Choji seemed to stop and stiffen.

"Um… guys, what happened?" Seeing the looks on their faces the Akimichi and Inuzaka knew something bad had happened.

"No-one likes to talk about it, so it's no surprise you haven't heard." Both boys cocked their heads in confusion. Neji took a deep breath before continuing. "Hinata-sama is no longer a Hyuga."

A/N: Wow. I really didn't mean to make this into a cliff hanger but… eh it happened. It just felt right to stop there, and explain what happened next chapter. On a related note; how much of the training trip do you guys actually want to see (via flashbacks and possibly just through conversation)? I've already decided on a few key moments (Naruto and Hinata's first kiss, getting their swords) that sort of thing. What do you want to see?

So, please review with your ideas and opinions! Until next chapter: Hyuga no more!