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The sun was still fairly high in the sky when Kakashi and Danny came to a halt in front of three tall stakes that were sticking out of the ground. They looked around, but the area was deserted.
"Hm…I guess they're not here yet…" Kakashi muttered.
"Who?"
"A couple of people…" Kakashi replied vaguely.
"Okay, and why are we meeting them here?"
"Well…we're not quite sure how Vlad managed to acquire the sharingan. Although you've proven to me that you know how to fight against a sharingan user, we feel this to be a bit insufficient and we want to give you an extra edge."
"What kind of edge?" Just then, they heard a whistling noise coming from down the path. They both spun around and saw Naruto, who was slowly making his way over to them.
"Huh? What are you guys doing here?" He asked.
"What are you doing here?" Danny responded.
"I was on my way to meet Konohamaru…but hey, I asked you first! What are you both doing here? I thought you were supposed to be training!"
"This is the last stage of Danny's training," Kakashi answered, just before there was a large whooshing noise and two women suddenly appeared right in front of him. One was tall and had long, black hair and red eyes. She was wearing a red top and a lot of bandages. The other was shorter and had brown hair. She had big, gray eyes and was wearing a sweatshirt with white lining on the hood, arms, and waist, and black leggings.
"Hinata?" Naruto asked confusedly.
"Danny, this is Kurenai sensei and Hinata Hyuuga."
"Nice to meet you," Danny said. "So…what exactly are we going to do here?"
"We're going to give you the other kekie genkai that is present in Konoha village."
"Huh?"
"The sharingan is the unique ability of the Uchiha Clan. We don't know how Vlad acquired it, but in order to combat him the hokage ordered us to imbue you with the byakugan, the unique ability of the Hyuuga Clan."
"The Hyuuga Clan is one of Konoha's oldest," Kakashi added, "and their byakugan is very carefully guarded. The head of the clan doesn't even know that we're going to do this; there would be uproar if he found out. That's why," she turned to Hinata, "you're not to tell your father about this." Hinata nodded.
"That's… th-thank you…" Danny stuttered, the realization of how big a gift the hokage was giving him sinking in.
"Ooh…can I stay and watch?" Naruto asked excitedly. As soon as he spoke, Hinata spun around to face him, as though she hadn't known that he was there before.
"Naruto…" she said softly, and began to blush slightly. Kurenai pulled a small canister of black ink out of one of the folds in her uniform and unscrewed the top.
"Come here," she ordered, and Danny approached her. She took a needle-thin brush and dipped it in the ink, and then drew several lines made up of letters on the skin next to Danny's eyes. Everyone else crowded around expectantly.
"This may hurt a bit," Kurenai warned as she closed the ink canister and immediately began forming seals with her fingers. Danny tried to keep track of the signs she was making, but there were too many and they were moving too rapidly for him to be able to discern them. Finally she stopped and pointed the index and middle fingers of her right hand three inches away from his eyes.
"Eye-altering jutsu!" She shouted, as a point of lightning formed on the end of each finger and shot into his eyes.
When Sam and Tucker, and later Jazz, had asked him what it felt like to be caught in the Fenton Portal when it was activated, he had simply answered "painful". He had always felt that the act of half-dying was one of, if not the most painful thing he'd ever been through. He was wrong. As the energy made contact, he felt a searing pain shoot through his eyes that seemed to go right through to his brain. After what felt like an eternity, the lightning ceased and Danny clapped his hands over his eyes. He staggered back and screamed, and as he screamed he unleashed a Ghostly Wail several orders of magnitude greater than the one earlier that day, when he was fighting Kakashi. Everyone jumped out of the way as the sonic blast tore large grooves in the ground in front of Danny and knocked down several trees that were in the way. Finally, the Wail died down as Danny ran out of energy, and he collapsed on the ground.
"-ny…Danny…" Danny moaned and rolled over. Suddenly, he was hit by a wave of something cold and wet. He immediately shot up.
"What the heck was that?" He demanded. Naruto was chuckling nervously as he tried, unsuccessfully, to hide a metal bucket behind his back.
"I told you we didn't need the water," Kakashi chastised him. "He was just waking up on his own." He turned back towards Danny. "On a lighter note, it seems as though the jutsu was a success." Everyone else crowded around and looked at Danny's eyes.
"Cool!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Why? What happened to my eyes?" Danny asked them. Kurenai held up a hand mirror.
"Take a look for yourself." Danny took the mirror and looked at his reflection. When he saw his eyes he received a shock greater than being hit with the bucket of cold water.
His eyes had, for lack of a better term, lost their pupils. Instead of being a blue iris with a little black dot in the center, there was just a large blue oval. The whites of his eyes were still there, but it seemed as though the blue had enlarged and taken up a larger part of the visible portion of his eye. He noticed that his eyes were very similar to Hinata's although his were blue, not gray.
"Weird…but my vision is still the same."
"That's because you haven't used the byakugan yet," Kakashi explained. "First build up your chakra, then say 'byakugan!'"
"I'll show you," Hinata said. She arranged her hands into the basic hand sign, and after a few seconds looked up and said, "byakugan!" The veins around her eyes immediately enlarged and her eyes seemed to gain a huge amount of raw power. She relaxed, and her eyes returned to normal.
"Now you try," she said. Danny closed his eyes and concentrated, and when he felt as though his chakra had built up enough he yelled "Byakugan!"
Danny looked up and was amazed. It was as though his vision had become a hundred times as precise; he could see every blade of grass on the ground and every splinter on the wooden stakes behind him. He vaguely noticed that he could see in almost 360 degrees, although there was a slight blind spot. When he looked at Kakashi, Kurenai, Hinata, and Naruto, he noticed that he was able to look through their skin at a network of blue fibers that crisscrossed all the way through their bodies.
"What's that blue stuff inside of all of you?" He asked.
"It's our chakra network," Kakashi answered. "The sharingan allows the user to see and copy everything that a person does outwardly. The byakugan is different; it allows the user to see a person's chakra." Danny looked down at his hands, and noticed that he had a similar network of chakra crisscrossing through his body. However, instead of being blue, his chakra was green.
"That's interesting…" he mused. "It seems as though my chakra had integrated with my ghost energy and become something totally new."
"So should we call it, like, Chaktoplasmic energy?" Naruto piped up. Everyone turned to stare at him, and Danny saw their eyes move over, in slow motion, and he was able to literally see the annoyance radiating from their gazes. Then he noticed something strange, and half a second later realized that it was Hinata; when she turned to look over at Naruto, it wasn't with annoyance at all. In fact, it looked as though…"
"Hinata, you're blushing again!" Naruto stated. "Are you sure you don't have a cold or something?"
"Naruto," Danny sighed, then deactivated his byakugan and watched as his sight returned to normal, "you're so clueless."