Chapter 38
ALRIGHT GUYS IT'S THE HOLIDAYS NOW! I get very bored during the hols so expect the story to finish pretty soon. Anyway, enjoy the chapter
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Hinata faced Kiba edgily as the explosions continued in the distance. The chakra spike growled in the air as the feral man and his calm opponent.
Kiba dropped into a stance Hinata hadn't seen in any place other than textbooks due to the implications of using it. His stance was low and he bared his fangs but the most disturbing thing was that the stance was perfectly symmetrical. Right down to the fingers.
Kiba had only three fingers now, larger and covered with thick, wiry hair. Each one had a vicious nail protruding from it that was 4 inches long. His fists, if they could be called that, were open and pointing towards his head with his forearm pointing straight up. His legs were elbow width apart with his thighs at a 90-degree angle to his shins. In all honesty, he looked like a bastardised 'H'.
Hinata slid smoothly into her Jyuuken stance and carefully watched for any openings. Her Jyuuken had been improved constantly over the past time. Whenever Naruto was on a mission, she would be running herself ragged training.
"Kiba, you are scum. You abandoned us. You have no right to say you were even associated with Konoha. You dishonoured my clan, the name of Konoha and even the name of shinobi. I will stop you!" yelled Hinata in a burst of confidence that only her love for her village and her boyfriend could give her.
Hinata struck first, aiming a hard palm thrust to Kiba's solar plexus but was blocked by him turning onto one foot and spinning knocking her into his back. Then she tried to jump away hastily but was caught by surprise as his arms clicked around and grabbed her. Now with Hinata in his grasp, Kiba shook his head until the straw hat he was wearing fell off. The result was enough to make a civilian sick. Another head was attached to back of his head. The head of Akamaru. He was growling loudly at Hinata and leapt forwards, or backwards depending on your point of view, with his teeth out and getting ready to sink them into Hinata's skin.
Akamaru was close when Kiba howled in pain and loosened his grip on her enough for her to flip backwards to safety. Akamaru let out a questioning bark until he saw Kiba's hands were smoking.
"So… you have improved your Jyuuken enough to let out chakra from your arms. I would call it impressive but I'm sure Neji could do it when he was 10" mocked Kiba as he turned around to face Hinata.
"Byakugan" whispered Hinata as she activated her bloodline.
She launched into a brutal Jyuuken attack on Kiba who was shocked at this sudden boldness that Hinata had shown. She broke straight through his defence in a liquid movement and struck him in the heart with a direct Jyuuken point.
She expected him to fall to the floor with blood spewing out, but she was wrong. All Kiba did was look down then look up with an even bigger grin plastered on his face.
"I think you can tell now," said Kiba smiling ferally "I have completely fused with Akamaru. We are one. GATSUUGA!"
'Please work' thought Hinata as she faced the Fang Over Fang that had now flattened several buildings around them. She focused her chakra into spikes on her palms, spinning the chakra like a bullet but keeping it contained on her palm.
Kiba saw this happening and wondered what it was. 'What the hell? She never had this good chakra control in school and even then she had maybe the best in class'
Slowly, she flowed her arms around her body and let the chakra spread out into a line but held it there with gentle, constant pulses of her chakra making it flow upwards. Gradually, she sped up the whole process until her arms were blurs.
'I see, she's making a shield. Well, I've yet to meet a shield that I cant get through.'
"Shugohakke Rokujūyon Shō!" called Hinata as the Gatsuuga collided with the barrier and Kiba let out a roar as the chakra met his face. The pain of the technique caused him crouch over, panting slightly and tending to his body wounds quickly. He saw that the power of the Gatsuuga had forced enough of Hinata's chakra back into her that she was injured too.
Kiba jumped away to see he had burned away the majority of her Jounin vest and left her with only her mesh vest on and some support bandages underneath.
"Déjà vu hey?" said Kiba
That struck something in Hinata, a memory she had been repressing for 8 long years. The moment Kiba started his assault on her when they were a team together.
Hinata put her head down as the memory played over in her mind over and over again.
Flashback 8 YearsHinata had just taken her team of Kiba, Akada and Dorigo to her favourite place in the whole of Konoha. The waterfall where her mother took her for picnics before she died.
"Alright guys, I know a lot about you personally but I never quite got your combat abilities. Your test is to try and remove my headband one way or another. I don't care how it happens as long as it is within Konoha Law." Said Hinata getting into a Jyuuken stance and ready to fight the upcoming onslaught.
Kiba got a maniacal grin on his face as he conferred with his teammates. They all got the same grin and ran off into the bushes. Hinata slid out of her stance and decided to look for them the scenic way.
As she admired the flowers she thought of what her mother said to her on the last picnic she took with her mom. 'If you ever lose your way, come here and I will guide you.'
"I remember mom," said Hinata to no-one in particular
She was walking along with her head in the clouds when she tripped over a tripwire that had been hurriedly placed in her path. Normally she would have dodged it but today she wasn't concentrating or had her Byakugan activated.
The tripwire triggered several kunai with wires attached from the foot in a complicated system that only one person she knew could make.
"Akada" muttered Hinata as the wires trapped her in a tight hogtie and said trap mistress emerged from some bushes.
Kiba and Dorigo came out of a tree a few hundred feet down the path and walked up.
"Looks like we caught someone a little careless today. Lets have some fun to drill that fact into her"
"NO KIBA!" yelled Hinata as he picked her up by the hogtie and started walking her to the waterfall to start his 'drilling'.
End Flashback
This brought out a sudden wave from Hinata. Her anger coursing through her veins. She faced Kiba differently now than she did previously.
"You really are stupid Hinata. Even if you kill one of my hearts, the other one is still functioning and healing my paralysed heart"
'He's right, as long as the heart is beating, blood is flowing and the nerves are connected to the area, almost anything can be healed. This means he has another heart somewhere in his body. I guess I'll just have to FIND IT!' thought Hinata as she stood up straight and focused her Byakugan's gaze on Kiba.
"So it appears you've actually grown a backbone now. Too little too late. SOUTOUROU!" yelled Kiba as he was engulfed by a sphere of chakra that grew to huge proportions then slowly drained away to reveal the Double Headed Wolf. One of the Inuzuka clan's most dangerous techniques, the Soutourou is feared for its size, power and ridiculous speed making it an almost unstoppable form. Hinata was temporarily shocked at this and she dropped her Byakugan.
"DAIGATSUUGA!" yelled Kiba as he started the spinning that made the move.
Hinata waited carefully as Kiba approached her shield of chakra before calling its name.
"Stop This Bitch!" yelled Kiba menacingly.
"Shugohakke Rokujūyon Shō!" said Hinata as the giant two-headed wolf sped over to her. The speed itself was causing shockwaves to ride through her body faster than an orgasm.
The giant Soutourou smashed headlong into the barrier created by chakra causing waves of chakra to emit as the two superpowers collided in an explosion of epic proportions, wrecking several blocks of housing and shops in its wake.
Hinata saw her barrier weakening as the Soutourou started breaking through it. She had to do something and fast.
Kiba knew he was overpowering Hinata as he could feel himself pressing forward so he pressed more into it until….
BOOM
Hinata broke the chakra holding her barrier up and let Kiba fly past her into another row of housing while she nimbly dodged to the side, examining the wounds that the slicing winds had caused her and got ready to do something she only ever learnt the theory on.
The giant wolf appeared over her again as she got into a Jyuuken stance that seemed very foreign but familiar at the same time.
For her, time flowed in slow motion. She saw the Soutourou running at her. 30 feet.
She slowed her chakra right down till it was almost stationary.
20 feet.
She pushed the chakra out of every tenketsu in her body.
He started spinning. 10 feet away.
She Spun.
"DAIGATSUUGA!"
"KAITEN!"
The yells came simultaneously but the effect was obvious.
The sphere of blue chakra completely enshrouded one of the figures and the other, much more huge, figure was blown backwards very slightly as if they were of balance. That was all that was needed.
The chakra slowly disappeared revealing a panting Hinata but she wasted no time. She activated her Byakugan and struck Kiba in two places, the place where his normal heart would be and precisely 34mm to the right of the liver.
Time stopped at that moment. Feral Boy met Noble Girl once more, for the last time. Their faces no more than a few inches apart and each felt the others breathing.
Then it struck, Kiba grinned a wild grin… and coughed up a large splatter of blood on Hinata's face. She made no emotion so far, she just stood there, like a sentinel.
"I guess you won our final spar" coughed out Kiba as blood dribbled down his chin. "How did you find out.. 'cough'.. Where my second heart was?"
"Byakugan, just before you transformed" muttered Hinata quietly.
'This means he has another heart somewhere in his body. I guess I'll just have to FIND IT!' thought Hinata as she stood up straight and focused her Byakugan's gaze on Kiba.'
"Always with the bloodline, first .. 'cough' Naruto then Itachi… 'cough' and now you. Shows that a Kekkai Genkai .. 'cough'.. makes all the difference in this world. Sorry to disappoint you" said Kiba with a smile
Kiba's head lulled as his eyes started to cry blood. A seemingly beautiful end for such a wild man. Hinata picked up his body and started carrying him towards where she could feel Tsunade's chakra. As she carried him, with some effort obviously, she didn't notice his ring slowly disappearing from his finger.
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Naruto had now summoned his Kohai to help fight alongside him. Even with them helping, he was still having a hard time attacking Hiketsu.
"I thought the Kitsune Kohai were the most feared summons for their powers? Even your 'Speed Trio' cannot keep up with me." Said Hiketsu from his location on the underside of the top of the Konoha gate. Naruto used Hiraishin to get there but before he got there, Hiketsu was always somewhere else.
"Come back here TEME!" yelled Naruto as he unleashed a bit more Kyuubi chakra.
Hiketsu hesitated for a split second but that was enough for Naruto to roundhouse kick him into the forest surrounding Konoha.
"Fool, the Gobi has just transferred his powers to me. It appears my little Fang has died"
"Fang…. Kiba!" yelled Naruto "YOU RECRUITED KIBA!"
"Why yes, he proved to be quite a worthy asset after you killed Hidan and Kakuzu…"
"Bastard!" yelled Naruto as he charged with renewed vigour.
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A/N: Ok guys, I realise that the Akatsuki Leader is called Pein/Pain now but I started this part with his name as Hiketsu Tenshi so he is keeping that name.
Anyway, review and give me some opinions for what fights you want next. I want your opinion on this or else I will just go in some random order.
Till next time, Laters.
Zephyr-Tai-Ji