Note: I don't own Naruto, but you should know that by now.

Note2: Let me know if you disagree with some of what I did anywhere.

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Naruto and Hinata are running through the forest trying to track Kiba with Akamaru's sense of smell.

" Grrr.. this is my fault, I should've stayed more alert." Naruto thought to himself.

Naurto used his heightened hearing to listen for any noises that might have come from Kiba, as well as noises from anybody trying to spring a trap on Hinata and himself. However, he heard nothing.

Somewhere in the woods…..

Kiba is bound and gagged, and apparently unconscious. The three ninjas surrounding him wore dark brown and red clothing. Wearing dark red head bands with flames on them, insinuating that they are from a village hidden in the flames ( made up village.) . They seemed to be in their mid teens. One was a girl with firey red hair. Another was a boy who was kind of short for his age. He had black hair and deep red eyes. The third was a young man of a massively powerful build, he had dark red hair that was completely buzzed.

"Uzumaki and the Hyuuga girl should be aware of his absence by now. And with his little mutt's sense of smell they should be able to sense where we are." Said the girl.

"Which is good 'cuz we want that, 'cuz we're gonna surprise 'em, right?"

Said the big one who obviously wasn't the bright one in the group.

" (sigh) right." Said the girl who was disappointed in her teammates' stupidity.

"Byakugan!" Hinata said. She then scanned the area they were running through to see if they were getting closer to Kiba. However she had found nothing.

Luckily, Akamaru's nose was helping them go in the right direction. Soon after Naruto, Akamaru and Hinata stopped at a certain area of the forest where Kiba's scent ended. Naruto observed the area.

"Hmm, a wide open area, a perfect place for us to be sitting ducks. This is obviously a trap." Naruto thought carefully surveying the area. Hinata had reached the same conclusion as she scanned the area for booby traps. As Naruto took a step forward a kunai hit right by his foot. Naruto noticed something about the kunai, while traditional kunai have white tape around the handle, this one had red tape. It also had a light on the back of it's handle which started beeping.

"Huh?" Naruto said.

Suddenly the Kunai exploded. Luckily, Naruto and Hinata jumped away just in time.

Then the three fire ninja jumped down from the trees.

" Hmph, I expected a quicker reaction from the great Uzumaki." said the girl

Naruto and Hinata got into their fighting poses.

"You bastards are the ones who kidnapped Kiba aren't you?" Naruto shouted.

" Tough to get more obvious than that." Said the shorter fire ninja.

"Tell us where he is!" Naruto demanded.

" Make us." Said the big one. As soon as he said that he found Naruto's foot square in his gut, knocking the wind out of him.

" What the hell just happened?" said the girl

" I didn't even see him move." Said the shorter boy.

Suddenly Kiba awoke in the area he was left in and attempted to loosen his gag with his tongue. In the mean time he was yelling out through the gag.

Naruto heard him off in a distance.

"He's over there!" Naruto shouted.

"You won't reach him brat!" The fire vixen said.

She then pulled out another explosive kunai and lunged at Naruto. However she felt two palms against the side of her midsection. She looked to her side to see that the attacker was none other than Hinata. Hinata sent the fire ninja back 15 feet. Hinata then held up her arms guarding Naruto and Akamaru. Hinata then turned her head to Naruto.

" Naruto….. you and Akamaru go free Kiba…… I will hold them off." Hinata said in a somewhat soft-spoken courageous tone.

"Hinata……" Naruto said, not wanting to leave his teammate to these 3 jackals alone.

Hinata gave a smile to Naruto.

"I….will be fine, but hurry so you can come back to help."

Naruto was still hesitant, but nodded and complied as he took Akamaru in his arms and bolted off quickly to find Kiba. The short fire ninja went after Naruto but Hinata jumped in his way.

"Do not concern yourself with him when I am the one you should worry about." Hinata said.

The short fire nin jumped back knowing that this was a Hyuuga and getting within close range is not smart. The other two fire nins got to their feet and came to side of their comrade.

" It makes no sense for you to die like this, it's the Uzumaki kid we're after. We have no interest in you. Why don't you be a good little girl and just run away and we won't kill you."

Hinata looked at the ground.

"That is unfortunate……. " Hinata said.

The fire team looked at her puzzled.

"…..that you do not take me seriously. Because that is a grave mistake."

Hinata then looked up.

"Byakugan!" Hinata said.

"(Hmph!) have it your way." The female fire nin said.

Back in the woods. Naruto is blazing down the forest with Akamaru tracking Kiba's scent.

"Man, Hinata alone with those 3 freaks from the Fire land. I don't like those odds one bit." Naruto said.

Back at the fight…..

The large ninja charged Hinata.

"I got her!" he said while trying to deliver a fast jab to Hinata's head.

Hinata however, ran past the mammoth teeanager and with a blur of hands, struck some of his Tenketsu. This barely affected the giant as he quickly rebounded. He then took a deep breath.

"Fire Breath Jutsu!" as giant flames emitted from his mouth.

This technique was similar to Sasuke's fire ball jutsu, however this attack was much greater and far more devastating.

Hinata flipped back just managing to avoid the attack. However as she landed, she saw something quite bizarre, a small stampede of what appeared to be flaming horse-like creatures charged her. She jumped up and ran from the stampede running up a tree as the stampede charged into it, setting the tree ablaze. Luckily Hinata jumped down before the tree went up in flames.

" Ahh, I see you managed to evade my attack." Said the female nin.

Hinata looked at her strangely for a moment.

"You see the technique of my jutsu is that I can manipulate flames into any shape or form I choose, for example……"

The female nin made a blur of hand signs "Dragon Fire Jutsu!" she shouted. Then from behind her, a giant flaming dragon appeared. Then with the movements of her hands she set the flaming beast after Hinata.

"I won't give up." Hinata thought to herself.

Though the dragon of fire was massive, Hinata was simply moving to fast for it to catch her.

"How the hell is she evading it? I saw the tapes of the preliminaries of the last exam, and last time she was nowhere near this fast!" The short Fire nin thought.

Hinata kept running for her life with the large fire dragon slowly closing in on her. Using her Byakugan she noticed something off in a distance, then as a slight grin crept up on the corner of her mouth, she ran faster.

Meanwhile in the woods….

Naruto and Akamaru finally found Kiba then quickly set him free.

"Come on ! We gotta go! Hinata's in trouble!" Naruto shouted.

With that they ran off to save their teammate.

Back to the fight…..

The Fire team was watching from a distance as Hinata ran further away from the attacking beast.

"Hah! she can't outrun it forever, sooner or later it's gonna catch…." The female nin started but stopped instantly when she saw a giant cloud of smoke emit into the sky.

"'The hell is that?" the short nin thought as they ran to see what happened. As they got to the area of the evaporation they saw Hinata standing on something. She stood with her hands on her hips staring straight at her opponents.

" Now if I were fire, what would be the one thing in the world I would fear more than anything else?" Hinata said.

The Fire nins looked on as they saw Hinata was standing atop a river.

"You think we're afraid of water bitch?" The female ninja said.

Hinata then made some hand gestures as she put her hands to the surface of the water. As the fire ninjas were about to attack they noticed something very peculiar. Water droplets were rising up from the river.

"What's this?" The big ninja said.

Soon what was once a few water droplets turned into many, then many more, then an incredible amount of water droplets were suddenly in the air.

"Nice water show, but is this supposed to do anything?" The female ninja asked.

With that a droplet fired at her, hitting her in the arm. Though it was only a water droplet, it felt almost like a bullet. Suddenly the water droplets rained down at the Fire ninjas. Some were striking and the pain of it was horrible. The ninjas gained some distance seeking shelter behind the trees.

"What….the…ffff…." The big ninja was about to say.

"Not over yet you little snot!" the female ninja said.

With that she once again performed the Dragon Fire Jutsu. As the dragon made it's way over to Hinata she again made hand signs and slammed her hands against the surface of the water. Out of the water rose a dragon similar to the one about to attack her except this dragon was a dragon of water. As the dragon of fire pushed forward Hinata launched her water dragon against it. The two dragons cancelled each other out creating a large cloud of evaporation.

"I see, that's how she took care of the previous dragon." Said the short Fire ninja.

"Time to finish this!" the large ninja said."

Suddenly the four could hear Naruto, Kiba and Akamaru coming.

"It's this way! Their scent is getting stronger!" Kiba shouted.

The large ninja ignored their words and advanced towards Hinata. Until he was grabbed by the arm by the female ninja.

"Toru, no! we have to regroup!" she said.

Though he hesitated because he wanted to fight, the large ninja obeyed the female ninja and ran off.

Hinata gave small sigh of relief . Then smiled

"I … held my own, and I wasn't even scared. I can't believe it!" Hinata thought to herself as she smiled proudly.

"Hinata!" Naruto shouted as he and Kiba ran across the river.

"Hinata are you ok?" Naruto said putting his hands on Hinata's shoulders.

Hinata noticed a look in Naruto's eyes she had never seen before. They looked almost like they were on the verge of tears. They had a look of deep caring and concern in them. But he was glad Hinata was ok. Hinata giggled and nodded. Naruto looked around.

" What happened to the fire team?" Naruto asked.

Hinata looked at him softly " They ran away." She said.

Kiba was shocked. While Naruto had a look of glee on his face. "You…chased them away?" Kiba asked, knowing how strong those 3 were.

"Well no, I…." Hinata attempted to explain that they heard Naruto and Kiba coming and that's what prompted them to leave. But Naruto interrupted her.

"You bet she did, they found out they were outclassed from the start. They didn't stand a chance against Hinata, Believe It!" Naruto said.

Hinata looked down blushing frantically.

"Naruto…." Hinata thought to herself. "…….Thankyou"

Later….

Naruto, Kiba and Hinata had found a new place to camp. Kiba started a fire.

"That was great work Hinata, taking on all 3 of those freaks by youself? Man." Kiba said.

Naruto was smiling.

" Well…. I also have a little surprise." Hinata said. Kiba and Naruto looked at her puzzled.

Somewhere in the forest….

The 3 Fire ninja were walking through the woods.

"Grrr, I told you we shouldn't have underestimated the Hyuuga girl." Said the short ninja.

"Thank you, you're being very helpful." Said the female ninja sarcastically.

"Hmphh" said the large ninja checking his side to make sure he has the scroll.

"little brat, well at least we didn't lose…." The large ninja stopped dead in his tracks. A look of terror came over his face. His two comrades looked back at him already knowing something was wrong.

"Toru…….where's our scroll?" the female asked in a stern manner.

"Uh.. I got it. It's uh, somewhere" He said as he began to frantically search every area of his large powerful body.

Back at the camp ground….

Naruto and Kiba looked down at what Hinata had presented. They both had looks of excitement on their faces.

"Is that a…." Kiba asked.

Hinata nodded.

"….Heaven scroll?" Naruto finished.

"Mm-hm, during an exchange, I managed to see it with my Byakugan and snatch it off the big guy without him even noticing." Hinata said.

Back in the forest…..

"YOU LOST OUR SCROLL?" The female ninja bellowed.

Her powerhouse teammate guarded his head knowing he was gonna get a beat down.

"YOU IDIIIIIOOOTTT!" she screamed making it heard through the whole forest.

Back at the camp ground……

"So did I do good?" Hinata asked shyly.

"Did you do g… Hinata You Totally Rock!" Naruto said as he lunged toward Hinata hugging her and laughing .

Hinata wished this moment could last forever.

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Next Time

Kiba: Ok, we got the scrolls, now we need to make sure we hold onto them.

Naruto: Right, hey I got a few ideas.

Hinata: Next time. Stay on guard. Not out of the woods yet.