Kyuubi's Calm Chapter 4: Akira, a naruto fanfic

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Chapter 4: Akira

"Yasu. Yasu!" My favorite sing-song voice sounded somewhere above my head. I opened my eyes to the bright blue ones of my best friend of the leaf village. "Yasu, your eyes are blue, like mine."

"Yeah, I know." I sat up and Naruto pulled away from standing over my bed. "What time is it?" It was still dark outside. I looked around and Akira had gone outside.

"Five. It took me forever to wake you up. Also, it took quite a bit to get in here past Hiroko. She was awful suspicious." I nodded.

"I wonder if she ever sleeps." I laughed, picking myself up. Naruto laughed and went to the dresser.

"I brushed Akira and set out some food for you. Eat breakfast quickly; I want to get to training." He sat on the corner of the bed as I picked out an outfit and slipped into the bathroom. There I brushed my hair and dressed, fixing any little imperfections in front of the mirror. When I stepped out Naruto looked up from his cute little crouch on the bed corner.

"Wow, in just a few minutes you're perfect." I blushed a little and began eating. It was bacon, sausage, and eggs, scrambled. There was a small vine of grapes. When I finished I was content.

"What did you have for breakfast?"

"Half of your food." I laughed a little and walked to the door, changing the sign to 'out'.

"Come on Akira, meet you round the front." Akira trotted away from the window.

We arrived at the water in the east end of the village, the base of the waterfall. I'd put my swimsuit on under my outfit, because I was pretty sure water wouldn't support me immediately. Naruto explained the technique and gave a demonstration. I watched in amazement as he walked over to the base of the waterfall and back, about twenty feet. He even sat and jogged.

"Alright," he returned to the bank where I waited, "gather your chakra in your feet." I did. "Then, you'll have to regulate it so the water will support you. Have you ever walked up a tree?"

"No."

"Maybe we should see how you do with that first." We approached a tree about thirty feet from the water. Naruto gathered his chakra and walked up the tree, his body horizontal to the ground. I gathered my chakra as well, but as soon as I placed my foot on the tree side it slipped. Akira came over and leaned against me for a second, and I felt green chakra swirl with my own. I tried again and made a few steps up the tree. This time, I stood parallel with the ground for a few seconds. I walked back down, feeling weird. Akira walked off to graze, leaving me with my teacher.

"Good job, but see if you can even get upside-down on that branch up there." I looked up at a thick branch forty feet at least from the ground. Why'd we have to have this big tree? I focused and made it halfway. My step slipped against the bark and the slip caused my chakra to start failing in the other foot and I began falling back to the earth. Naruto leapt off his branch and stood under me, both arms out to catch.

Thud.

I stood, a little shaken, but unharmed. I looked down at Naruto and helped him up. He was at least a bit bruised, I could tell. He stretched and pulled up short when he stretched to the right.

"Sorry, I should've landed better." He shrugged it off, but I insisted on seeing it. He pulled off his shirt and I poked at the muscle. He flinched when I poked a certain spot on his side under his arm. I massaged it a little and pulled away. He cautiously examined the area and stretched it fully, not even feeling any soreness.

"Thanks. Try and get up to that branch now, and don't get distracted halfway up. It'll get easier the more you practice." This time I focused entirely and made it to the base of the branch. I tentatively placed a foot on the underside and found it no different than walking up the trunk. I lifted one foot, then the other, and found I could easily stand on one foot by increasing the chakra to it. I walked around the branch some to slight applause from Naruto. I looked down from my crouch on the underside of the branch and pushed off.

I landed upright on the ground, forming my chakra into a landing pad. It made a three-foot crater in the dirt and I examined it cheerfully.

"Can I walk on the water now?" Naruto nodded.

"Yeah, same trick, focus and this time you'll have to adjust the chakra for the moving water." I took off the outer clothes so I was barefoot and in my swimsuit. I sent Akira back for a towel, and he left at a trot, but I heard him speed up as soon as he was out of sight. I tried to ignore Naruto's stare… I'd tried on the two-piece swimsuit in front of the mirror, and it did look pretty good.

I focused, which took longer than usual, and placed a foot out on the water. It sunk a couple inches… and stopped. It felt like I was on solid ground, but I could tell I wasn't. I picked up my other foot and put it on the water, and it sunk as well, but I was only up to my knees in four-foot deep water. I concentrated as I wobbled, but just then Akira returned and I lost control, dunking into the warm water.

I surfaced and shook the water out of my eyes. Akira dropped the towel on the riverbank and I wiped the water off my face. I heard a laugh, and Naruto was grinning.

"I did that about three hundred times on my first tries. Don't worry. I'm just laughing because it's nice to see I'm not the only one." I tried again and began sinking in further, so I focused as I sunk up to my waist. I picked up a foot and put it on the water's surface. It stayed, so I carefully lifted the other one. It slipped again. This went on for the next hour or so, until I had a wobbly stance on top of the water, with my feet only an inch under. Naruto spoke suddenly, causing me to lose the chakra again.

"Alright, that seems like enough control techniques today." I sighed as I swam to the side. "Where are you going? I didn't say we were done training." I looked up, hardly believing we weren't done yet. Naruto stood for a minute, then tore off his jacket he'd put back on and hopped out of his pants, and stood clad in swim trunks. I paused, wondering if there would be more training, or if he was really coming swimming. It was soon answered when he backed up and charged headlong into the water, cannonballing. The wave rolled by me and I tread water to stay up.

Naruto suddenly leapt out of the water and balanced on top of it, wobbling back and forth. He promptly fell in, and I splashed at him when he surfaced.

"So, Mr. Expert, how do you explain that?" He laughed and splashed water back. I noticed we were moving towards the deeper area, so I had to tread water.

"It was difficult to concentrate. Hey, come over here, I've got to tell you something." I swam the few feet so we were treading water and had to pay special attention to not kick or hit each other by accident. "I'm trying to make this look romantic, because my sensei's in that bush over there. Don't look now, but if you want have Akira go see. I'm pretty sure you can talk to him."

By now he was whispering. I closed my eyes and contacted Akira, and found out he was already watching the stranger. I looked through Akira's gaze and saw Jiraiya. I grinned and opened my eyes again. I was facing away from the bush he was hiding behind, but felt like teasing the old pervert.

"Okay, Naruto, let's mess with his head. Let's duck underwater and make clones, then we'll swim off downriver while our clones 'cuddle'." We both giggled and ducked under water. I watched Naruto do a shadow clone and I did a water clone. We took deep breaths through one of my jutsu that pulled air out of the water and watched from underwater as our clones surfaced and started flirting.

Water-me faced the same way as shadow-Naruto and cuddled into his embrace, still treading water. Shadow-Naruto kissed water-Yasu's neck, and water-Yasu giggled. I felt if I watched much more I'd get too embarrassed so I swam downstream with the real Naruto. We surfaced after we were significantly downstream and tracked around to behind the spy.

As we approached Jiraiya we could see 'ourselves' flirting, and from this angle it looked really… bad. We made our clones vanish an instant before shouting.

"Hello, Jiraiya!" He jumped at least three feet into the air, spinning around.

"Oh, hello, Naruto!" He tried to recover, but it didn't go so smoothly. We laughed until we were both tearing at the eyes, and Jiraiya got flustered.

"In case you're wondering, I was not spying. I was going to compliment Naruto on how well he was training you, Yasu." We looked around the group and Naruto and I tried not to laugh again. Jiraiya's face fell. "Uhh… how long were you… not you?" He referred to our clones.

"Since they ducked under water."

"Which time?" Uh-oh. What HAD our clones done?

"The very first time."

"Yeah, what exactly… did our clones do?" It was Jiraiya's turn to laugh.

"You know, clones are exact replicas of yourselves, with all your feelings. Just thought you should know before I told you that they were making out." Naruto and I turned and coughed, facing away from each other and blushing furiously. Jiraiya looked at us, confused. "Oh, I guess I just let it slip, huh?"

"You pervy sage!" Naruto jumped at Jiraiya and caught the man off guard, sending him into the bush. He caught Naruto by the shoulders and stood himself up, pushing Naruto back.

"Naruto, shush. Something's not right." Naruto had only seen the toad mountain sage look this serious on rare, dangerous occasions, and I took the hint as well. We hastily pulled our clothes on and Akira met us, carrying my towel which I rung around my hair as we jogged towards town.

Just when we reached the main part of town, I recognized two ninja: the blank-headband squad. I quickly made a substitution and leapt off to the side, Naruto followed my example, and Jiraiya blended into the crowd. Akira also did a substitution and shrunk his real self down to pocket-size, so I picked him up and carried him in my hands until I remained safely crouched on the roof above where our group and the ninja would intersect. Naruto was across from me.

As Akira and my substitutions came even with the blank-headband ninja, they lunged, throwing a steel rope around 'Akira's' neck and punching my substitution from the back of the head into the ground. Naruto and I lunged from opposite sides of the street at that moment, right when the substitutions went up in a poof. Jiraiya stopped us and dragged us through the air by our ankles, and a few seconds later we were all outside the village a quarter-mile from where 'we' were ambushed. As I was dropped onto the ground with Naruto, I looked up at Jiraiya.

"Not a good idea to attack in the middle of town. Out here it's much safer. Set an ambush, they'll be here shortly."

"But-"

"I got you here so fast because I am a Sannin. Get to work; they'll probably come through there." He pointed to a gap between two trees, then jumped into hiding. I realized Akira wasn't near me, so I tried to sense him. Naruto tapped my shoulder, though, so I set up a small trap by using chakra to dig a ditch a foot deep and three feet long, and filled it with water, sprinkling dirt over the top so it looked solid. Right past it Naruto set up a trip wire and made copies of a kunai and lodged them in the trap. We ducked into the same bush right off the side, but decided we should split up: easier to ambush and whatnot.

I sensed Akira and felt him moving toward here. I realized with horror, he'd been captured! I also realized Jiraiya knew and had planned we'd get Akira back here. Just how much he'd planned I didn't know.

Akira! I called by our connection. I felt his panic ease, but not his reflexes; the headband ninja were dragging him here. I sent him a picture of the traps and told him exactly what they were, and through his alarm I felt the recognition. Soon I heard squeals and broke my connection with him. He was dragged into sight, and I nearly lunged at the kidnappers right there, but Jiraiya appeared at my side and tapped my shoulder, causing me to keep my feelings in check. He vanished as quickly as he appeared.

I focused on Akira and my senses raged: I heard the dripping of sweat from Akira's coat, and the labored breathing of the ninja, as well as the tiniest leaf movement from the breeze, but I couldn't hear or see my team. I knew exactly where Naruto was, and I also knew Jiraiya was definitely on my team. I leaned slightly forward, feeling the tension and trying to relax and think clearly. The lead ninja came close to the traps, but stepped back as Akira recognized the dirt and pulled away.

Suddenly, Akira lunged forward and the ninja were dragged along as Akira leapt the traps and got clear before the ninja tripped them. Akira was free as the headband ninja struggled to free themselves from the shallow pit and escape the hundred or so Kunai. I saw Naruto leap clear and did so myself then ran at Akira, hoping Naruto would hold off the ninja as I worked at undoing the steel ropes that cut into Akira's skin. They were around his neck, head, barrel, and legs, and all were tied together. Akira hadn't been injured like this in a long time, and I nearly panicked. I took a kunai and brought it down on the main cable. It did nothing but pull the ropes, causing Akira pain. I concentrated and did a slicing jutsu with water.

Akira's cords went slack to my relief, and he shook himself. They were still wound about him, but no longer digging in. I turned to see the ninja getting beat on by Naruto and grimly smiled. I vaguely wondered if Naruto had killed before as I ran in to assist him. The ninja leapt away with jutsu and I realized they weren't very injured at all. They glanced nervously at each other, then nodded silently and severely. One lifted a small box I recognized as a walkie-talkie.

"Backup. And take the weapon out." I shivered. These ninja seemed to be afraid of 'the weapon'. Naruto stood at my side and we bore kunai in our hands. The headband ninja turned and started running. I took off after them unhesitant, jumping and landing on the girl's back, shoving her into the dirt at about 20 miles per hour. Naruto came up on the side of the guy and tripped him, delivering a stunning kick to the back of his head as he fell. I took my kunai and held it at the girl's throat. She glared at me as I pinned her to the ground. I held her until Naruto came over and knocked her out as well. We carried both ninja back to where Akira was and tied them to a tree with Akira's ropes. As I pulled off the last steel cord and Naruto finished tying the ninja, a dull 'clunk' was heard of a shurikan smashing into a tree trunk.

Akira ran at me and I swung onto his back, lifting Naruto to sit behind me. We waited and watched patiently, realizing it had been Jiraiya warning us of the backup. Naruto hopped off and made shadow clones that hid in various parts of the forest. On Akira I manipulated his chakra and had him walk backwards up a tree trunk into the branches, and we held ourselves in place by chakra. The forest settled into silence again as we waited.

A third ninja was heard: the backup. Now we just had to figure out the weapon. I used Akira's chakra to keep his blood from dripping and giving away our position. The third ninja came into view and kicked a crate. I immediately recognized the hellhound and closed my eyes.

Think… strategy… animals… fire? Chakra control… strength, chakra… Akira, hold up. We'd do best to take the ninja. How do we tell Naruto to go after the hellhound? The enemy ninja probably knows this area is being watched… he'll let out the hound and it will find us. We must move before it finds us. I will move… just gotta wait. I want to see the hound first.

The box opened and out streaked brown fire. I stared as a skinny wolf-like creature stopped ten feet out from the crate and looked around, ears swiveling. I paid extra attention to holding Akira up. As the hound moved, I discovered it was only a regular dog, starved, and cursed with the desire to kill and power over its body that made it immune to flame attacks. I slowly pulled some chakra up to my chest, forming the right signs.

"Fireball jutsu!" Akira was ready this time, and I released his feet from the trunk. When we dropped on the ground I saw the ninja's eyes widen in fear. I figured I probably would too if faced with a black-as-night demonic horse blowing fifteen-foot flames out its nose that licked back along it's bleeding coat and past its rider, and that mass just dropped out of the sky.

The hellhound was not intimidated for its curse, but Naruto quickly punched it aside when it lunged for me atop Akira. As he and the hound moved around each other, both on all fours and snarling (I thought it was a little weird, but was seeing a little red: these people were after my best friend in the world, Akira) I faced the ninja. Akira snorted and smaller flames flicked out of his nose. The third ninja was a guy, and I signaled Akira to charge with the slightest shift. In battle, we spoke a different language that was completely our own, and extremely undetectable but effective.

I swung off Akira and planted a foot on the third ninja's chest. (We'll call him KareWa) KareWa slid back a few feet but remained on his feet and caught my leg, spinning it. I had no choice but to spin with it, and each time I came around I pressed off his chest unnaturally hard. Akira skidded to a halt right after I leapt off and bit hard into KareWa's shoulder. My sudden freedom let me send attacks at KareWa's face and they were all blocked. As Akira and I let loose a barrage of punches and kicks, KareWa dodged or blocked. I tried fakes and distracting him from Akira, but it was no good. He sent a punch back and I held up my hands to block. It was a square block, but it banged my wrists and hands.

I began to try kicking, but he hooked a leg behind mine and I was forced to start a retreat, now on the defensive. I kept blocking by crossing my forearms and dodging: Akira kept swinging and missing. I suddenly felt my back press to something.

"Naruto?" I was shoved against his back. His clones had been dissolved already.

"Trade?"

"Alright." We switched sides instantly and I began fighting the little hound turned to a demon. Akira assisted me, and after some time of dodging and striking, Akira landed a good blow on the poor animal's ribs. I could see nicks from Naruto's kunai, but I fought without weapons. The hellhound made a vicious lunge, maddened by its pain from Akira. I ducked and brought my hand up under the animal's neck, flipping it in mid-bound and landing it on its back. I really didn't want to kill the animal, but I knew it was irreversibly cursed. I reached back into my weapon pouch but remembered I hadn't packed it, so I reached for a nearby kunai from Naruto's trip-wire trap.

I took hold of it and painlessly made the killing cut, but had to hold the now fiercely struggling animal down as its life liquid drained from its neck. It slowly became harmless and I lifted my arm, covered up to my elbow in blood, and it was all over my shirt from lying across the top of the poor animal to keep it from getting away. Once I finished that cruel business, I joined Naruto by his side.

He had cuts, for KareWa had started using his kunai as well. I carried the one I found to kill the hellhound and darted in quickly, taking turns with Naruto. KareWa still held us at a stalemate, and I knew Akira was done fighting: he'd lain down by the dead hound, clearly resting. I developed a large amount of cuts on my forearms, shallow and deep, and remembered something: chakra. I changed my strategy and started diving for the spot on his shoulders that would stop his ability to move so quickly. I received a series of fine cuts on my torso. On a particularly daring jab, I felt the full pressure of misjudgment: KareWa sent a flying punch straight into the middle of my chest and I was hurtled backwards, feeling pain and tasting blood; my rib had splintered. I crouched, recovering swiftly, not from pain but from shock. I stood and charged, on what I said was my final try; I hit a chakra point on his arm, the same point Neji had hit on me. KareWa took his first step back, surprised, and in that moment of hesitation I hit the other point, figuring it would be symmetric. Naruto moved his Kunai to KareWa's throat and the fight was over: we tied him up with his comrades.

I slumped against the nearest tree's trunk, slowly examining the extent of my injuries. A rib was cracked but not out of place, so it would heal alright, chest severely bruised, but my heart was intact, and my forearms were nicked and scratched, as well as most of my torso. Naruto was pretty scratched up, but they were shallow. Jiraiya leapt from the canopy.

"All right, good job, you two. I'll interrogate these guys, and I want you two to pay attention. This will be a good lesson in info gathering." Naruto lifted me by my upper arms and I winced, but walked over to Jiraiya. He turned to the three captives, all awake now.

"What is your purpose?" The captives remained silent. "Alright. Secret fear jutsu!" Jiraiya closed his eyes and laughed, opening them a second later. "Now tell me or your worst fears will come to life in front of your very own eyes. I know somebody doesn't like being humiliated, and you, miss, seem to be incredibly afraid of spiders." The two original ninja flinched, but still didn't speak. "Very well. We'll go the ringleader, who seems to have the whole idea. We'll save time." Jiraiya's voice was grave, but there was a hint of laughter in it. I watched curiously as Jiraiya bit his finger, coating his fingertips all in blood.

"Last chance. No? Well then, Summoning Jutsu!" I nearly laughed as a giant toad appeared and KareWa let out a small squeal.

"All right. I'll talk, just… make the toad go away."

"I think I'll keep my dear friend here, in case you feel uncooperative. Now, why were you after this stallion?"

"This black stallion is a legend among our people. He is said to possess powers not unlike the nine-tail fox when it has reached full maturity which takes about twenty to thirty years, and it possesses that power until its death. The past few were killed, and the one before that was raised by a ninja until one day it killed its master and began destroying our villages, making a five-year plague. We are going to kill this one before he possesses that kind of power."

"How does the legendary horse get that power?" KareWa glanced at the toad, taking a deep breath.

"He is brought up around ninja, taking some of their chakra, but not keeping it; he multiplies it and fosters it within his own body. Now he possesses all the chakra of the girl who raised him, by the time she's thirty he will have one hundred times the chakra of any Kage, and be equal to the nine-tail in ferocity."

"Has a stallion ever been brought up on the good side?"

"It may be possible, but there are very few people who could bring up a Kuroy Yoake. A Black Dawn. We came to kill this one. The chance of this particular stallion finding one who could raise him is so small that it is better not to take the chance." Jiraiya nodded.

"Go on. Why this particular stallion?"

"This one was an outcast in his herd, and if horses reject something, it is often for a great cause. They most likely fear him. His dam, when she kicked him out of the herd, nearly killed him. If this girl hadn't found him, he'd be food for some travelers or predators." KareWa's companions looked on anxiously, obviously nervous that he was disclosing so much information. Jiraiya seemed satisfied.

"All right, how long will this stallion live?"

"Until he is killed, or chooses to die. He will remain feeling, looking, and acting as if he were a ten year old horse, no matter how long he lives."

"What powers, besides the chakra multiplying, do Kuroy Yoakes possess?" KareWa hesitated.

"They can change size, anything from double their real size to only as big as an ant. Also, they're gifted in a special way, each time. This one seems to be skilled with flames, but they usually have a supernatural power, like changing the weather, or seeing the future, or flying. It seems that this one's power hasn't been discovered, but it's not going to be a good one."

"Okay, that's enough. Should I take you back to the village for further questioning, or release you? I don't think that's a very good choice: you don't seem like you'd let this pass." The ninja all of a sudden got very nervous. I could tell easily from my distance of fifteen feet, and Jiraiya was only five feet away from the leader. Speaking of him, KareWa glanced at his comrades.

"Self destruction jutsu!" They yelled in unison, and Jiraiya realized their plan just in time: he scooped up Naruto in one arm and me in the other as the three ninja exploded. The pain from being so suddenly moved made a few more drops of blood fly from my mouth and I let out a small cry. Their bodies and everything they carried (not to mention the tree) were in tiny pieces, scattered around a twenty foot radius.

"So, it was a suicide mission: succeed or die. He probably wanted us to kill the horse with that information. Well, Yasu, I won't kill your stallion, but I'll be watching very closely from now on. I'll have to go report this to the shenobi: they'll want to know, just in case. They'll probably let you stay for a while once I tell them you're just visiting. I'll carry you both to a hospital?" He asked us as we sat on the ground, still panting a little.

"No, I'm alright. I have to take care of Akira: those cuts will become infected unless I take him back home. He has to stretch his legs, and then I'll wrap his injuries." Jiraiya looked reluctant. I stood and jogged over to Akira, proving my strength, even though every time my foot fell hurt a lot. I was glad they couldn't see me wince. Naruto shrugged.

"I'll watch her; go deliver your report or whatever. I'll also clean up the dog here."

"I'll get him." I said, summoning the chakra for a fire jutsu already.

"No, allow me." Jiraiya lifted the body. "Do you guys want any of the skin or anything? We could use this, you know." I considered.

"No, I'm good."

"Me too."

"Suit yourselves" Jiraiya took off at a run, soon disappearing. I turned to Akira and Naruto examined the tree, which stood by only a little of its core, still intact. He shoved it, letting it fall away from Akira and me. I picked up Akira's head, carefully, to not disturb the lacerations, and Akira opened his eyes, sighing. He lifted himself and with a groan got to his feet.

"Naruto, could you go get a silk rope or something? Make sure it's nice and soft." He nodded and disappeared as well. "Akira, come on. Time to go. You need to get home, so you can heal. I'll wrap up your legs here, and then you'll get better, so let's move-" I coughed a little and my hand moved to my chest. It began hurting more: the shock was wearing off. I moved forward, leading Akira towards the village.

"All we have to do is make it back." Akira grunted and began walking as if he hadn't been cut in numerous areas, sometimes deeply. It hurt for me to keep up, so I walked very smoothly. Naruto arrived with a silken rope.

"I got that from Hiroko; she had it in her room." I looped it around the top of Akira's neck, being careful to not touch any cuts. We sort of lead each other back to the hotel with Naruto following along. Almost everyone who saw us looked at us in an odd way, but they were ignored. I wiped my sleeve across my mouth and saw the dried blood.

When we arrived at the hotel I took Akira around the back and tied him outside my room. I took out the bandage rolls and a sponge, and with Naruto's help, brought the water bucket over. I carefully wiped down all the injuries and wrapped them, using a lot of wrap. I eventually finished and Naruto refilled the water bucket with clean water. Akira drank out of it as I did, although I cupped it in my hands, noticing they had turned the blotchy purple of bruises. I lead Akira around the pasture once to let the bandages settle, then went inside to tend to my own wounds.

I washed carefully and slowly, and was surprised to find that even after my hour-long bath Naruto sat on the bed, tossing a ball up and catching it. I had to wrap up my rib, so I tried it, but it was no good. I kept getting it crooked in the back.

"Naruto."

"Hmm?"

"Could you help me wrap this? Just stand behind me and when I pass you the wrap pull it across and hand it back." He nodded and stood behind me while I started the bandage. I held my arms up, and Naruto practically did all the work. I was still in my bath-clothes (What do you wear in a bath? Nothing. But I had on shorts.) and would have been embarrassed, but I was too tired. The bandaging was finished, and it covered what a shirt would. I took what was left of the roll of wrap from Naruto and put it away: I'd be able to do it myself from now on because I healed quickly.

"How are your cuts, Naruto?" He shrugged and pulled off his shirt, using my mirror to look. He was covered in small scratches, nothing more.

"Guess I'm alright. I heal quickly. Are you going to go to bed now?"

"Yeah, I think I will." Alright, if you need me I'll be around."

"Hey, could you give a message to Hinata?"

"Yea, sure."

"Please tell her I won't be there to train today." Naruto nodded and walked out, closing the door behind him. I stared at the ceiling, unable to fall asleep, as it was only two in the afternoon. After a few minutes, my door swung open and Hinata herself came in.

"Yasu? Are you alright? Naruto told me about this morning. If you feel alright, I could still teach you some pressure points." I sat up and smiled.

"Thanks, Hinata. Sure, but I'll need to get some food and rest, so it'll have to be a short lesson, I think." Hinata took a roll out of her pocket and unwrapped it, handing it to me.

"Please, take this. It has some vitamins in it." I took a bite and felt a little better; it was after lunch, and I like my meals. She sat on the bed and began teaching, using my arms as the example, pressing gently on the points. I felt the potential, and realized I'd have to memorize the spots accurately.

After two hours, Hinata left, and I had a good idea of chakra points for the arms. I laid down and pretended to sleep until I finally fell asleep.

Well, I'm at chapter 4. I'm supposed to be doing math homework, but my darn priorities are crooked. And kind of backwards a little. Well, if you're going to review, no flames please. I don't want my virtual story to burn. I like it, a lot. Cause I wrote it how I wanted. For Me! -