Hello, I just got rid of my writer´s block. So here I go…

Five Konoha nins quickly turned their heads. They saw five water ninja clothed in clothes really similar to the guys´s from before.

One with long katana in his hand said: "You did pretty bad things to our comrades, you know? And we´re gonna get you for what you did. Let´s fight! "

Everyone got ready into fighting stance. It looked like those guys were stronger than those from before. Naruto took the one with katana. It looked like he was the boss. Other boy charged at Hinata. He was using nothing than his hands and legs to fight. Neji with really short guy. Tenten was already thro wing all kinds of weapons at her opponent. The only one left was Shikamaru. And his opponent was….girl.

Shikamaru sighed: "A girl again? And she looks the same as the first one…how troublesome."

Girl´s eyes narrowed and she said: "So you´re the one who had beaten my sister. I´ll avenge her!" Shikamaru looked really bored. He used his Kagemane to stop all her tracks. Her eyes widened in fear.

"You know, you shouldn´t fight, you´re still a kid. Shut the hell up about some revenge. You´re not capable of doing it. So just give up," he said as he released her. The girl was really frightened and fell on her knees. Shikamaru just had to knock her out.

"Too easy," he said. Just at that moment he coughed out some blood. What the hell, he thought. Then he noticed. The girl had poisoned him with tiny needle. It was jabbed in his left shoulder. Shit, was Shikamaru´s last thought before he landed at the ground unconscious.

Meanwhile Neji and Tenten were doing pretty well. They were watching each other´s backs. Enemy was not as strong as they thought. Finally they knew they were in trouble and tried to get away as their comrades did before.

Tenten smirked:" Looks like we have to pursue them again. That will be fun." Neji simply nodded and they ran after those two at full speed.

Hinata was fighting with the close combat specialist. Even with her Byakugan she couldn´t see some of his moves. He had kicked her in stomach, chest and her right thigh already. Hinata knew she had to end this quickly before he did even more damage. Finally she saw some opening and used it. She sent chakra impulse into his brain and it knocked him out instantly. Hinata was breathing heavily. She turned to look at Naruto, only to see the guy with the katana cut Naruto deep into his shoulder.

"Naruto-kun!" screamed Hinata. She was about to run to him but Naruto´s voice stopped her.

"Stay there, Hinata-chan, I´ll take care of him." Hinata nodded and watched carefully. If something bad happened, she was ready to help Naruto-kun.

But it looked like he didn´t need her help at all. One of Naruto´s hidden clones kicked the enemy into his back and other one grabbed his katana. Then the third one kicked the guy in the air and real Naruto used some pretty strong kick on him. The water nin was defeated. He laid on the ground and wasn´t moving at all. Naruto got up and did a good guy pose.

" See Hinata-chan? It was way too easy." Hinata looked at him. Only to see one other ninja aiming kunai on Naruto´s head! Naruto couldn´t see him, his back was turned to the enemy.

Hinata screamed: "Naruto-kun, watch out!!" She took out three kunai and aimed one at the kunai flying towards Naruto and the other two at the ninja. Naruto turned his head to the kunai only to see it be knocked by Hinata´s. At the same time the last ninja fell down. He didn´t expect any counterattack so he wasn´t defending himself at all.

Naruto looked back at Hinata. He was slowly replaying what happened in his mind. When he finally got it, he came to Hinata, took her by her shoulders and looked directly in her eyes.

"That was pretty close. Thanks, Hinata, I owe you one," he said as he slowly let her go. Hinata wasn´t able to say one thing. Naruto was really close to her just a while ago. She was so glad that he was safe. She wanted to hug him, to say how much he meant to her, that she wouldn´t be able to live if something bad happened to him. But she wasn´t able to do it. God, I promised I´ll be stronger, she thought.

Meanwhile Naruto went to the body of the last water nin. He was one of the guys who Tenten and Neji fought before. Looks like he survived that fall and was waiting for good opportunity to kill the whole time. Naruto was really glad that Hinata was there.

Hinata asked: "Who was that? Is he still dangerous?"

Naruto turned to her: "He´s the guy from earlier. And no, he´s not dangerous anymore. He´s dead."

Hinata´s heart stopped. Dead? She killed that person?

Naruto saw something in her eyes but didn´t know what it was. But he was sure it wasn´t anything good. He wanted to ask her what´s wrong, but was interrupted by Neji and Tenten. Neji was supporting Tenten, who was bleeding heavily.

"What happened?" asked worried Naruto.

Neji answered in icy tone: "Those guys were defeated. But Tenten was hurt when she jumped in front of me to defend me. She took the blow instead of me." Neji lowered his head. He could still see Tenten´s face when she got hit. It was replaying in his head again and again.

Hinata snapped of her own thoughts when she saw Tenten. She got up immediately and started to coordinate everyone.

"I´m not as good medic-nin as Sakura-san, but I´ll do what I can."

She healed Tenten´s wound and bandaged her. Then she shifted to Shikamaru. The poison wasn´t life threatening but she had to take it out. After she was done, she turned to Neji and Naruto.

"We´ll have to stay here at least for two days. Neither Shikamaru nor Tenten should move for two days." Both boys nodded their heads and went to tie enemies up. Hinata sat down totally exhausted. Healing took a lot of chakra and that fight wasn´t easy either. She watched as Naruto and Neji tagged all ninjas together. Slowly she drifted off to sleep.

TBC

This is the end for now. I´m really tired. Now it´s…WHAT? It´s 1:37 A.M. already? Gotta go to sleep… How did you like this chapter? Please review.

- your Petrushkaa :-)