This is the most fun I've ever had writing something. It feels good to have all these people are reading my story, so thank you everyone who keeps reading this. Here begins the next chapter.
Chapter 30: The Tiger comes! Temari Vs. Hinata!
Naruto, Sakura and Pakkon continued to dash through the forest after Sasuke, "It seems he has stopped again, this time one of the people he pursued stopped and the other is running off. However it seems another presence is about to intercept the fight. We have to hurry."
"Right," said Naruto and Sakura picking up the pace.
"So, Gaara is moving by himself now?" asked Sasuke.
"Yes, and soon he will awaken, then Kohona's destruction will begin," she said.
"You don't want to do this, do you?" came a voice from behind Sasuke. He spun around and saw Hinata standing behind him, "go on Sasuke, I-I'll handle this."
"Fine, but don't expect me to care if she kills you, since your stupid enough to fight in this condition," he said as he took off. Temari tried to chase after him, but was blocked by two Kunai.
"So it seems I'll have to fight you then," Temari sighed readying to swing her fan, "I know your not up to fighting with your injuries yet. I'll make this quick."
She swung her fan, but Hinata quickly jumped down to a lower branch avoiding the wind gust. Hinata countered by throwing two Shuriken which Temari easily dodged, though Hinata took the opportunity to preform some fast seals and called out, "Kyuichose No Jutsu!" and bit her thumb a little pressing her hand on the ground in front of her. A Tiger appeared that stood to the height of her lower ribs.
Hinata hopped on its back, "Lets go Treyu," the Tiger nodded in response and jumped up into the leaves of the Trees. Temari quickly shot her head around tracing the Tigers movements through the leaves. She dodged several Kunai thrown periodically from the Leaves.
Temari noticed a pattern in the Tigers movements and yelled out, "Sicklying Wind!" And swung her fan at where the Tiger would be. The hit was right on, though the tiger was mostly fine, only a little stunned since the leave and branches absorbed the brunt of the blow. She was about to attack again until she realized that Hinata was no longer on the Tigers Back. She quickly turned around blocking Hinata's left hand with her left since the other held the fan, but couldn't block the blow from Hinata's right hand, and palm strike right into her abdomen.
After the hit Temari barely managed to back flip to another tree and kneeled over holding her gut with her left arm. She strained and swung her fan creating a regular gust that sent Hinata crashing into the base of the tree she was on. Since Hinata was still hurt bad since she still hadn't fully recovered.
"Even though this hurts like hell," Temari said, "I still have an advantage."
"I-if I were a-alone then you would," Hinata managed weakly. With that Temari was head butted hard by the Treyu, sending her into another Tree. However Temari landed feet first on the base and swung her fan.
"Sicklying Wind!" and the Tiger took the brunt of the attack and puffed into smoke, "Dammit, there is no way I'll catch up to Sasuke now."
This time around they realized they couldn't waste time going around the fight, so went straight ahead through this fight.
"We can't slow down guys," Naruto said Panting. However his beat changed fast when the saw the fight. A tiger had just disapeared after a gust of wind hit it, and Hinata and Temari were both on tree branches panting and preparing to charge each other again.
"Hinata!" yelled NAruto stopping.
"P-please NAruto, go ahead," Hinata breathed heavily.
"But Your still not better yet!" yelled NAruto.
"I-I-I wont' lose Naruto-kun, so please go on," she replied.
Naruto was about to jump in but forced himself to go ahead, "Alright Hinata-Chan, I believe in you," and took off with the others.
"Are you sure I shouldn't help her NAruto?" asked Sakura as they ran off.
"As I said, I believe in her. She may always seem week and have little confidence, and if we help her now we may destroy what little confidence she has left. Besides, as I said I believe in her," Naruto smiled at the end of it, knowing he would see his team mate again.
Suddenly Hinata seemed to become invigorated, "You really like him don't you?" asked Temari as she noticed Hinata regaining her strenght.
"H-h-he is the one I admire, i-if he believes in me, I-I won't lose," she said sternly.
"Lets end this then, Sickling wind!" Temari yelled as she swung her fan. Hinata spun around the other side of the tree landing on a branch, however several branches began to fall towards her from above. She managed to avoid them by jumping to a tree on her left, but Temari was already coming down from the air right at Hinata. Hinata had not time to dodge so instead used her left hand to grab the Closed fan that crashed down towards her. She barely managed to stop it and attacked with her right arm and hit Temari right in the gut again, this time however Temari fell off the branch and plummeted towards the ground. She closed her eyes sure she was about to meet her end, however some one had caught her mid-fall and grabbed onto the tree slowing them to a safe fall.
"Are you okay?" came the weak voice of Hinata.
"Why did you save me?" asked Temari realizing Hinata had used the arm she hit with the fan to hold her, "Especially since that completely broke your arm."
"I-I-I said it before, y-you don't r-really want to do this, s-so your n-no enemy," Hinata Weakly smiled as she sat up against the same tree as Temari.
"Looks like were both unable to continue the fight, huh?" Temari said Weakly.
"I-It would seem so," Hinata smiled as the two of them passed out under the tree.
Either one or two more chapters to finish up the arc with Gaara. And no, there will be no HinataxTemari. Please R&R.