Chapter 9: Preliminaries
Kazama Hinata looked down at the gathered genins and sighed. She blocked out everything that the Third Hokage was saying, having heard it before, and instead tried to think of what might happen since she traveled back in time. Who knows how much her teams arrival might mess up the order of teams for the preliminaries.
"First up: Uchiha Sasuke and Akado Yoroi"
All well, there goes that theory.
Hinata watched contentedly while Yoroi kicked Sasuke's ass untile Sasuke managed to pull a win by getting under Yoroi's guard and proceeded to defile one of Lee's signature moves by copying it.
"Um, winner: Uchiha Sasuke. Next up, Aburame Shino against Abumi Zaku"
Hinata just watched as Shino beat Zaku using tricks to get around his guard and finally beat him when he plugged the holes in his arms.
"Winner: Aburame Shino. Next is Kankurou and Tsurugu Misumi"
Hinata was starting to get really bored by this point, all the matches were exactly the same as before! You'd think her teams existence would have changed the line up at least a little! Her eyes wandered over to her younger self, she remembered what had happened at her chuunin exams. Walking over to her younger self, Hinata looked at Kurenei and made sure she got the message that Hinata would not harm the younger one before talking to her younger twin. (Im gonna call them Kazama and Hyuuga right now, or it'll get confusing real fast)
Kazama Hinata tapped Hyuuga Hinata on the shoulder. Hyuuga Hinata looked up at her older counterpart in slight shock. Kazama nodded farther away where no one would hear or see them. Hyuuga looked up at her teacher shyly, Kurenei smiled at Hinata and nodded, signaling it was alright to go. Kurenei watched as the only other female instructor led the Hyuuga heiress away, thinking to herself.
'The way she moves and walks might be related to the Gentle Fist Taijutsu style now that I think of it. But what really makes me trust her is her hair color. The only people in the whole world with Blue hair so dark, it could be mistaken for black, are Hyuugas' Thus, Kurenei came to he conclusion that she could trust the other teacher alone with Hinata. As long as she could see them.
Hyuuga Hinata looked up at the lady who had led her away before quietly asking, "um, w-why did y-you want t-to talk t-to me?"
Kazama Hinata looked at her younger counter-part gently before speaking. "When you fight, I want you to remember that you're here right now for a reason and no matter what happens and no matter who you fight, you can win. And besides, Naruto will be watching"
Hyuuga eeped and turned red.
"I saw you looking at him. Now listen, im going to tell you a secret, but you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone. Especially your family, then I'll tell you some other things that may help you"
Kazama Hinata heard, but didn't really listen, to the proctor announcing the next match.
"Momochi Haku against Yamanaka Ino!"
Hinata Hyuuga nodded and they walked even farther away from everyone else. She watched as the older lady reached up and touched her eyes, gasping when she saw the jounin remove a pair of contacts from her eyes. Revealing the Hyuuga Byakugan eyes.
"Now listen, my Grandfather was a branch member of your clan, but he ran away. He met my grandmother and so on and so forth. We still have the Byakugan, but it is impure compared to your clan's kekkei genkei. However, I can show you something with it. I want you to pay careful attention to what im going to show you, since it might actually give you an advantage in your next fight" Kazama Hinata remembered that she had learned this little trick in a couple of hours, she only hoped that her younger self would be able to get it in a couple of minutes. She looked over at Arashi and made some hand signals, telling him to drag his match out as long as possible.
"H-how w-would this t-trick h-help me?"
"You'll see"
Kazama Hinata glanced at the ground to check up on the fight. Ino was losing badly. It looked like she had managed to dodge the first few senbon, but now she looked like a pincushion. The winner was declared as Momochi Haku.
"Next fight: Temari versus Tenten!"
She had to hurry. Turning to her younger self, she took out a bottle of water that had been attached to her waist.
"You know the general theory of Kaiten, right?"
Hyuuga Hinata nodded.
Meanwhile, Tenten got her ass kicked by Temari.
"Winner, Temari. Next match: Nara Shikamaru and Tsuchi Kin"
"Meh, troublesome"
Arashi looked around, though he was a little upset that his dad hadn't been aloud in since he was the Tokikage and all, but still. He tried to think of some way he could drag his fight out, if he got on of the harder guys then it would be easy to drag it out for an hour or so. But if he got someone like that Ino girl, then that would both make it difficult and make him look weak in front of the others.
He watched as at first it looked like Shikamaru was losing, but then beat Kin by using her own weapons against her. He felt just a little twang of jealousy for the other guys creativity. But it was gone as soon as the guy yawned again. Arashi watched as the sick looking proctor called out for the next contestants. He watched as some fat guy eating chips walked down the stairs into the stadium. He then looked around for the next contestent, noticing that a bunch of people were staring at him, he looked up at the giant screen. Seeing his name on it, he laughed hesitently before jumping over the bar and onto the ground.
"Begin!"
Arashi looked at the fat guy. Fat guy looked at Arashi. He took out a bag of chips from who knows where and started eating. Suddenly from the stands, he heard that guy who he had temporarily been jealous of yell,
"Hurry up and beat him Chouji!" The blond one next to him followed his example,
"Yeah! Kick his ass Fatty!"
Fat Guy, as Chouji was dubbed, froze before yelling,
"I'm gonna squish this bug quick, the I'll kick your ass for that Ino!"
Shino only took slight offense.
Arashi smirked, good. He just had to play pretend at being that type of guy who didn't know any attacks whatsoever and just defended until his opponent ran out of energy. Good thing his dad always told him that "the fastest one will win the race". Meaning, even if his form was sloppy, even if all the rest of his skills sucked, as long as he was the fastest, he would win.
Arashi watched calmly as Fat Guy made himself fatter and start rolling towards him. He continued to dodge, wandering how long Fattys chakra would last. He stayed away from the walls so fatty wouldn't run into any of them on accident and waste chakra. He knew that Fatty might actually become a problem as the match went on since he was starting to need less and less chakra to propel him, and only needed it to turn him. Arashi just kept right on dodging though. It went on for at least an hour. He started to lose track of time. The other genins were all wondering if the little kid in front of them was really all that strong. Naruto looked up at his mother, who shook her head at him, then turned back to Fatty. He jumped deftly to the left and...
Continued his ever dodging.
Shikamaru was watching this match, slightly interested. His strategic mind was naturaly trying to figure something out. He saw the little kid look at his teacher, who shook her head. That was when it clicked in Shikamaru's mind. The kid was buying time! He knew that something was up, but now he knew that the brat was buying time for his teacher to do something. He took a mental note that she was talking to Hinata and doing hand movements and some other things, but he couldn't figure out what. All well, too troublesome.
Another hour passed. Half the genins were sleeping.
A half hour passed, three fourths of the genins were sleeping. But Arashi caught a nod from his Mom and thought to himself,
'Now the fun really starts'
Forming a seal with his hands, he called out
"Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!"
A clone formed next to him. Then they dodged Fatty as he came through in between them again. The bunshin formed some more handseals, before calling out,
"Henge!"
The clone turned into one of those horns like at a football game. Naruto caught it and pressed the button on top very hard.
EEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!!
Every genin in the stadium proceeded to awake to a very rude awakening. Arashi dodged another roll by Fatty as his clone then changed into a Megaphone.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Shinobi and Kunoichi, may I have your attention please!" He dodged another attempt and continued his dodging while taliking.
"I am pleased to bring you, this once in a lifetime opportunity! The one and only chance you will ever have of watching a six year old kid beat up a gimungous fat ninja!" Chouji didn't take kindly to being called fat and sped up. Arashi dodged so he was over by the wall this time, and Chouji proceeded to roll right into it. By this time, everyone was fully awake and paying attention. Chouji then deactivated hi jutsu to get unstuck from the wall easier.
Arashi took this chance and activated his Byakugan before deftly closing a few of Fatty's tenketsu. He only closed the ones to his arms and half the ones to his brain, succesfully knocking him out.
Neji recognized the style and activated his own Byakugan. He took liberty of noticing that Arashi was wearing contacts. He watched as the next fight came up,
"Winner: Kazama Arashi. Next, Kinuta Dosu and Haruno Sakura"
Arashi blinked. That was all. First his eyes were open and the match started. He blinked, and Pinky was on the ground.
"Winner: Kinuta Dosu. Next is Uzumaki Naruto versus Inuzuka Kiba"
Arashi was a little interested in this fight, since the blond was the guy whom he had previously named Miniature Strangely Idiotic Tou-san. Arashi sweat dropped at that.
'A little long, neh? Hmm, what about Mini-idiot? Yeah, that works.'
Arashi watched as Mini-idiot came up with some quick strategies on the fly. That seemed to actually be his specialty, working under pressure. Could be useful in the right person. Arashi laughed softly to himself,
'It's the opposite of Lazy from earlier!'
He continued watching, near the end of the match his mom walked on over. She leaned against the wall and watched the rest of the match quietly. She was worried about whether or not her younger self would win against Neji, though this trick would seriously help, Neji was considered a genius for a reason. The match ended with Naruto bashing Kiba's head into the ground. Making those watching wince.
"Winner: Naruto. Next is Hinata versus Neji"
that's all. Please r & r and tell me who you want to win when you do.