If I Could...
The Unknown, The Ability, and The Struggle
Chapter 5
In the water
Hikari opened her eyes seeing only water around her.
Holding her breath she stayed underneath for what felt like 10 minutes.
Swimming up to the top she saw that Kabuto was no longer there. Sensing that it was safe to climb out of the water, she swam out of the river and preformed the connection technique that she made.
Once she found her two team mates where at the meeting place, the tower in the middle, she started to run as fast as she could to the place without using her chakra.
While running she felt like something was punching her from the inside out. Stopping to see if she was bleeding, she noticed that the marks at were the needle had touched her was quite big now, she also noticed that she had multitudes of cuts, bruise, and a few gashes on her body.
Feeling like she should meet her team members first she started to run even faster towards them.
Meeting place
Hikari could see her team mates and it didn't look good. Both of her friends were bleeding, tired, and they looked a little panic.
Running with all of her might she ran towards the two boys who in turned ran to her.
Stopping in front of each other they each bowed their heads to each other and stood up.
"What was the goal that Kenta-siense had for us?" She asked of the two.
"Kenta-seinses goal was to teach us as much as he could." Hideki answered.
""What was the Hikari's third name?" Hideki asked of Takeshi while facing him.
"Her third name was Makoto." Takeshi replied.
He then turn towards Hikari.
"What did Hikari say during our first mission?" He asked of her.
Hikari laughed and replied, "The first thing I 'screamed' was, 'Ahhhhhhh! What the fuck is your problem you idiots? We can't take a bath together.' I then slapped all three of you in the back of your head."
All three sighed with relief. Each knowing that they needed to talk as soon as possible to each other about what happened, but first they needed to finish the second task.
Inside the arena
All three walked into the line and stood at the and with Hikari being in the front. They along with team 7 barley made it with no minutes to spare.
As the two boys listened to what the third Hokage was saying. Hikari was looking to her right and left at the teams that made it the final part of the chunin exam.
To her right see saw a red head from Suna, a funny looking team from Sound, a random team from Kirigakure, a creepy looking team from Iwagakure, and Kabuto and his team at the end. She rubbed her arms with her hands without knowing, catching the attention of several people. She then looked over to her left seeing that all of the genin that entered from Konoha was here. She then stopped her eyes on Sasuke and he looked like a mess as did a few others. Worried she motioned with her left hand asking what happened to him.
Sasuke noticed that and moved his eyes left and right.
Hikari sighed out loud and moved her eyes back to the front and listened to what the third had to say.
"Now lets begin the preliminary fight! Please stay on the right platform only, the left is unstable." The Third Hokage announced.
Following his orders everyone walked over to the right platform.
As Hikari was walking she felt someone tug on her left wrist, turning to her left she saw Lee behind her.
"I think you should rest Hikari-chan." Lee said in a firm voice.
Hikari shook her head. "I can't, I need to do this. Im sorry but I think I'll still be ok. Anyway I've been worser, this won't slow me down."She replied with a sweet smile on her face.
Lee nodded his head in understand-mint and walked off to his team. Hikari shrugged her shoulders and continued to walk to her team members.
While walking over to her team mates she felt that someone or someones was staring at her yet again. Moving her eyes around she saw that Kabuto's team was watching her, the Sound team, the Kirigakure team, a weird boy from Iwagakure, and the Suna team. Moving faster she walked over to her team mates and friends.
While walking by Shikamaru's team she heard Ino scream making her jump and turn around.
"Ino what the hell was that for?" She yelled at her.
"What the hell? What the hell is wrong with you! You're a mess! You're soaking wet, you have gashes, cuts, and bruise all over your body, you hair is a mess, and your outfit is ruined!" Ino screeched at her while pointing towards her.
Hikari sighed and then turned around waiting for the first fight to begin.
Ino huffed at her and walked back to her team. Tenten and Hinata giggled while Sakura sighed at Hikari lack of interest of cloths and looks.
"Why are girls so weird?" Hikari muttered into her arm, that was being her pillow at the time, to Neji.
Neji looked over at her, shrugged his shoulders, and then turned his attention back to the arena.
Hikari furred her brows together and turned her head the other way.
While watching the screen flip through all of there names she saw that the screen landed on a name that she didn't know, Nobu of Kirigakure. She then saw that the name after that one was her own name only it had Hikari Uchiha.
'Never my full name.' Hikari thought to herself as she jumped over the railing onto the fighting stage.
"GO GET THEM HIKARI-KUN!" Naruto yelled out to her.
Smiling to herself she waved her hand off showing him that she heard him.
Standing to the right of the sick chunin and her opponent to her left. She saw that the man in front of her was a very thick man with a funny looking object connected to both of his sides.
The weapon was a spiked chained ball connected by a long thick chain. Hikari assumed that he might be a long range fighter, but she was not sure.
"Begin." The sickly chunin announced to the two of them.
Jumping five feet away from her opponent she moved her hands into a fighting position.
The man named Nobu laughed and laughed and laughed. He then turned to the sick chunin.
"I demean that you bring me another opponent that is not so weak looking." He laughed out.
Hikari's eye brows twitched but she remembered that one must keep a unemotional face when fighting.
To herself she thought this man had better learn not to underestimate there opponents no matter who small or tall they were.
While Nobu yelled at the chunin she ran straight towards him and kicked him straight into the wall.
"Never turn your back on your opponent you moron, even a little kid knows that." She stated out loud.
She saw that she must have hit the nail on the target cause she got him, Nobu, pretty mad just by saying that.
"I tried to be nice and let you live but now you are going to die!" Nobu yelled at her.
Hikari saw that he grabbed the object on his hips and swung it at her.
Quickly she flipped over the incoming object and prepared to land a hit on her opponent.
"Thought that was it girl?" she heard Nobu yelled at her.
Turning to her right she saw that the spiked ball was now heading towards her. Thinking fast on her feet she did a few more flips to gain speed and direction in which she would prepare for her next attack. Landing on her feet in the middle of the arena she stood straight up.
Breathing in and out as a slow pace she closed her eyes and then reopened them. Staring straight at Nobu. She then jumped up into the air and slowly dissolved into the wind.
"That won't work on me kid!" Nobu yelled at her trying to find her.
Knowing that he did not know what was about to happen she smirked herself in satisfaction.
"What the hell are you doing kid?" Nobu yelled out in frustration.
All of a sudden Nobu was getting hit with was looked like an a thousand invisible punches or needles.
"Ahhhhh!" Nobu screamed in agony as Hikari continued to do what she was doing.
Keeping the face of a killer on her face, she stopped in front of Nobu, poked him in the head, and watched at the man named Nobu fell to the ground.
"The winner is Hikari Uchiha." The sickly chunin announced.
"Way to go Hikari-kun!" Naruto yelled at the same time Lee yelled "Nice move!" to her.
Laughing to herself she started to walk over there, when she felt a sharp pain go up on the left side of her waist.
Kneeling on the ground her hand instinctively wanted moved to were it hurt but she stood back up with the help of Tenten, who some how appeared down there along with the others. Smiling weakly up at them Hikari felt her head become heavy and hot, no longer being able to stand or move correctly she feel to the floor. Before she fell down she saw that Sasuke what above her, looking incredibly mad at her.
6 hours later
Hikari licked her lips together and tried to move her arms only to find that they felt like they weighed a ton. Looking at her surroundings she saw that she was in the hospital.
Not wanting to be there she grabbed the needle out of her arm and walked out into the hallway. Only to see that her team mates were standing right outside the door.
"What the heck are you doing here? More importantly what happened did you guys win? Are you ok? No one hurt you guys to much did they?" Hikari asked while looking over her two team mates.
Hideki slapped her hand away from his face and turned to face her.
"We're here because you passed out. I lost my fight but Takeshi won his. I just got out of the hospital 30minutes ago. And last but not least no one hurt us both that much, baka." Hideki explained to her.
Hikari sighed in relief but stood straight back up.
"You lost! But, I mean, um, uh, ahhh, how?" She screamed to Hideki while holding the front of his shirt so that his face was near hers.
"My lost is nothing. Do not worry about it. Furthermore you have made it to the third part of the exam. Do not do anything stupid." Hideki said turning his head away from her.
Hikari letted go of his shirt and walked over to the phone and dialed a number.
"What are you doing now?" Hideki asked in a slightly irritated voice.
Hikari turned around and putted her index finger over her lip and then turned back around.
"Hello? Ahh yes it is, I was wondering were she may be? Yes, ok, thanks. Please tell her it is time to drop the bomb. Yes, yes she'll know what it means. Again thank you and I'll be at the normal place, she'll know what that means too, again thank you." Hikari said over the phone.
Turning back to the directions of her team mates she saw that someone that she didn't know run towards her.
Still standing there she waited for the person that was now in front of her to catch their breath.
"Sorry mi-mi-miss but the Third wishes to see you right now." The message gasped.
"Very well I will come and see him right away." Hikari replied.
Turning back to her team mates she bowed down and then took off to with the message to go see the Third Hokage.
Looking over to her right she could see that the poor message could not catch his breath.
"You know we can run slower if you need to. I don't mind newbie." Hikari said looking straight ahead.
"Thank you miss. How did you know I was a newbie? Oh if you don't mind me asking." The messager asked looking up at her as they started to walk.
Hikari giggled to herself.
"For one you dress like a genin. Two you are out of breath. Three altho you are tall your face still looks younger then mines. And thirdly you called me miss." Hikari replied smiling to herself.
In the Hokage tower
Hikari stared at the magnificent two doors. Gathering herself back together and tried to fix the way she looked before entering but gave up.
Knocking on the door twice she could hear a faint come on.
Upon entering she saw that the Kages of other villages where here along with some of their ninjas.
While bowing to her village leader Hikari said, "Im sorry for interrupting but someone said you called for me Third Hokage-samsa, but I can come back later if needed."
"No need my child. Please raise. I have a very important task of you." The Third replied to her.
He motioned to her to have a seat next to one of the Kages.
Reluctantly she sat next to him.
"Please talk among yourselves. Im afraid we may be sitting here for a while until everyone is here." The Third announced to everyone in the room.
Hikari looked around the room.
While looking around she saw Ibiki and Anko was sitting beside her while everyone else was sitting with their respected village. From Iwagakure the Kage sat in the middle with two people on his right side and a boy to his left. The two to the Kage's right was a black haired girl and a black haired man, while to his left a long hair blond kid near her own age sat next to him. Next to the Iwagakure group the group of Suna was next. The Kage this time had three genin, Temari, Kankaro, and Gaara to his left and two guards to his right. Beside the Suna group was where the Kirigakure group sat. The Kage this time was sitting at the end closes to the Third. Beside the Kage's two people sat there. One had and glasses on while the other had an eye patch both owning blue hair.
Sensing that no one was going to talk she turned her head to the Third Hokage.
"Say Third-sama, I was wondering have you seen where Sasuke went?" Hikari asked of him.
The Third laughed out loud and looked towards her.
"I do not know but I am sure he is fine. But you should look after yourself too, Hikari-kun" The Third said reassuringly to her.
Smiling at his answer she just shook her head replied.
"I can't Third. If I only did that Im sure my team mates and friends would fall to pieces. Before my very eyes, they can't heal themselves for crap Third-sama." Hikari giggled out.
Some of the people in the room chuckled at the joke while others just sat there.
"I am sure they could learn." The Third said confidently.
Still giggling to herself she shook hear head no again.
"Sorry Third but the only ones who could do that would be Ino, Sakura, and Hinata. Other then that the boys are a lost cause."
The Third smiled at the thought of seeing the boys that Hikari hanged out with trying to learn how to heal from her.
Soon afterwards everything went quite yet again.
Hikari shifted her weight and looked straight ahead at the wall.
All heads turned to the right hearing the sound of the door opening.
Hikari looked behind Anko to see that Kakashi was entering.
"Kakashii-seinse!" Hikari yelled at him while he was rubbing the back of his head.
"Sorry but I saw that the an old women needed my help so I..." Kakashi started to say until Hikari interrupted him, "Yeah yeah yeah old women, a black cat, or a running heard of bulls, we've heard them all go get some new excuses that can be real."
Kakashi smirked underneath his mask and then walked over to the empty side of the Hokage.
"Sorry Im late Third Hokage-sama." Kakashi apologized to him.
The Third just laughed it off but then turned back to everyone else in the room.
"I have here with me some people that can show you around Konoha. Ibiki will show Suna around, Anko Kirigakure, and Kakashi Iwagakure. If your genin have any questions they can come and find Hikari-kun who will most likely be at the theater or the training grounds near the forest. I would personal do this myself but I have some other maters to attend to so please excuse me." The Third explained to everyone. He then stood up and walked out of the room.
Hikari watched as the Third left the room. Turning her head back to the rest of the people in the room she saw that everyone was getting up. Getting up herself, she starting to walk over to the window, until a hand grabbing her waist stopped her. Turning around she saw it was Kakashi.
"You know its one thing to show up late but its another making your now guest to wait on you." Hikari stated in a bland voice.
Rubbing the back of his head with his other hand and whispered into her ears.
'Sasuke is ok, do not worry about him. He is with me and I'll keep him safe. Now go have fun shopping with Ino.'
Hikari felt her face become red as Kakashi guided his guest out of the room.
"YOU JERK!" Hikari screamed grabbing her only shoe that she had on and tossing it at Kakashi.
Laughing at her antics, Kakashi walked out of the room with his respective group.
Sighing to herself she turned back to the window.
Looking out at the village she saw a family with three playing together. Feeling a pain of longing she turned around quickly and almost ran into the genin from Iwakagure.
"Sorry about that, um..what's your name?" She asked of the blond headed boy.
"Deidara, un" Deidara replied to her.
"Well it's very nice to meet you. Deidara-san, my name is Hikari Uchiha but everyone calls me Hikari-kun or something like that I guess. Well I need to go meet someone, you can come if you have nothing to do?" Hikari asked of Deidara while walking to the door.
"Sure why not un." He replied to her.
Looking back over her shoulder she saw that some others looked like they wanted to come to.
Sighing to herself, she yelled out while walking out the door, "The rest of you can come if you want."
Please write a review of this story!
Well anyway that's about it so here are some important details about the story:
time setting when they get their teams and the chunin exams are coming up soon
Hikari is a tomboy, so she acts, talks, and dresses like a boy for the most part which is why almost everyone says kun at the end of her name instead of chan minus her teacher Kenta.
The meaning of the Title:
The unknown refers to how Hikari does not know what is happening to her and her team mates and her friends
The abilities refers to the fight Hikari had with Nobu
The struggle refers to her struggle with Sasuke and everything else
Song picked:
"again" by Yui, the ending song to the first season of Full Metal Alchemist
Remember all rights belongs to the person who made Naruto I only own Hikari and the rest of the OCs that will appear later on.
Also all other stuff that is related to the story shall be on my D. Account which there will be a link to later.
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