"Ah, my old friend sent me this I think you'll want to take a look." I get up panting form the effort I had just put forth to go and sit by the old man who handed me a paper. I read and I felt a part me sting at the thought of everyone taking the news but I knew I made the right choice.
"No regrets Yodo." I hand him the paper and I make my way back into the center of the meadow I had dubbed my training area.
"Do you feel anything about the article informing Hinata hyuuga is MIA and is presumed dead with her comrades? I wasn't aware this was apart of the plan." He seemed angry, well as much as Yodo could be anyway.
"What do you want me to say Yodo? I've told you why I left so you can understand why I can't go back."
"I thought this training was so you could go back."
"I don't know Yodo, I can't tell you if I will or won't ever but I like to tell myself I won't because it's easier for me to try and forget."
"What are you really trying to forget Hinata-chan? Is this about you being blind or is about him?"
My concentration is lost at Yodo's words and my head goes dizzy.
"Him?"
"I know a broken heart when I see one." I lie down on the grass and look us feeling the sun on my face is a feeling I'll never tire.
"Is that why I'm here? Why I'm blind? Who knows?"
He sits beside me and I feel regret as I hear I tired sigh come from his lips.
"Some times I worry about you breaking."
"I'll bend till there's no room but I won't break, I refuse." He laughs at me before he tells me to get up and keep practicing as he takes his cane and whacks me in the stomach.
"Oomph!"
"Never let your guard down!" I roll to my side and I avoid his swift attacks with ease before he jumps back and summons water clones and the seals to keep me on my toes as always.
When the day ends I go to my research and Naoya makes dinner settles on his studies with music in the background.
"What is this?"
"A plant, Kira gave to you as his Honey." I roll my eyes but as I gently touch the plant I inject some of my chakra and when I do I'm surprised to find theses some already there. When I focus on the plant and it has its own chakra source! This is a whole new branch of research altogether.
I play with its chakra and I summon all its chakra to a point in my palm and it swirls but I know I can't adsorb foreign chakra, nobody can with out a seal and using an item, yet.
I smirk as I write with one hand and perform experiments with the plants chakra with my right. As I study the plants chakra I find it has different properties then human chakra. Are chakra is more of a gaseous state while the plants has two types, one like ours and a liquid form, they from a cycle from gas to liquid as the plant creates more chakra and it rows in order to have a larger capacity.
So the gaseous states are unmixable but what about the liquid state? But how do you turn Chakra into liquid?
"Naoya please get me a glass of water." He complied quickly thinking nothing of it till he saw the plant.
"You know Kira is going to rant when he finds you killed the plant already." I take my right hand and transfer the chakra back into the plant but at an all gaseous state so that meant the plant was staying dead for now.
"I'll fix it later."
I focused my chakra into the water and as I studied its progress I realized that in order to change chakra states I would need my body to change its production and temperature of chakra. Chakra comes from the heart so I closed my eyes and focused to the point where I burnt open the skin of my heart with my chakra. I felt the pain but I continued making a valve instead of my heart just pumping it out to unneeded places.
I pulled my chakra out of the water and back into me while I dumped that water into the plant to empty the cup. I put the cup down and put my hand over the cup. I focused the chakra to come straight through the valve in concentrated river till I felt trickling on my palm.
"What is that?"
"What does it look like?"
"It's a dark, glowing blue liquid." I smile as I send out my chakra wave so I can see for myself the liquid chakra. Hmm, I wonder if I can make a solid.
I gather the liquid and I focus the liquid into my palm before I closed my eyes and focused on the state of solidness.
'Your palm is glowing." I let my power ease and when I open my palm I feel a warm stone in my hand.
"What's going on?"
"Research, I don't know where it will lead me but there's always a first step right? And as far as your question goes I would listen to your instinct which is telling you I just changed the form of chakra into different states Naoya-kun."
I smile as I hand him the stone and I can tell he almost doesn't believe it himself but he saw me do it and is holding said proof.
"Hinata-chan?"
"Hai?
"Can I help you, with your research?"
"Of course, I don't with what but we'll figure that out."
Another week has passed as my research as been primarily on the plants and so far in my notes each plant of a different type has different signatures and even then I've taught my self the texture and smell of each. Yodo and the others are helping me by talking me to the mist green house where they grow plants all over the land there. As it happened one day I figured out the ability to transfer chakra into a dying plant from the live ones with success. Now if I could only transfer that into human I'd have a whole new healing technique that could save a lot of people.
When I wasn't doing my research I was training with Yodo and my other senses. I was on equal fighting level with him no despite his agility. And days like this turned into weeks and weeks into months before I knew it I had been here a half a year.
"Wah my darling fiancée!" It never ceases to amuse me how Yuki manages to beat the crap out of Kira.
"Hai?"
He wants to ask you if you'd come on a mission with us to Iwa."
"No!!! Naoya I wanted ask my honey!" Hmm, no one in Iwa would recognize me and it would be a good chance for me to collect some research.
"Hai, I think it would be a very good idea, please come Hinata-chan."
I look at Yodo and I can tell he's anxious and worried about something as his chakra is telling me so.
"It would be my pleasure minna." They all smiled at me as I heard the clocks grind in Kira's head as he plotted some chance he get alone with me which usually ended with Yuki beating the crap out of him.
So I walked in the back with Yodo and the other three were distracted I found it was a good time to ask what was wrong.
"Yodo there's a reason you wanted me on this mission with you ne?"
"Ah, as ever seeing as always Hinata-chan."
"Flattery changes nothing Yodo."
"Can't blame for trying right? I suppose you haven't heard any news about anything really?"
I shake my head agreeing with him. I pay more attention to my research then to anything else these days.
"There's some rogue Nin going about, dangerous business Hinata-chan and I feel safer if there's another jounin here to help me protect the kids."
"I'm not a jounin anymore."
"No but your at the level of one." I grunt an answer, I'm I jounin level again?