Shakranon: I NEED REVIEWS. IF I GOT MORE REVIEWS I WOULD BE MORE COMPELLED TO WRITE FASTER. And sorry about the horribly long update, I've been kinda brain dead for the past few weeks and I procrastinate... A LOT.

Shakranon: Here we go with a another disclaimer.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN Naruto, I DO HOWEVER OWN AKUMA AND ALL JUTSU I CREATE.

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Thank you kyuubi123 for the support.

P5yCH0 its hard to interpret what your saying so I can't really reply to it, are you even from America.

This chapter takes place a couple months later. Now on with the story.

A pale eyed girl was walking along a well-trodden path lined on one side by small trees with low hanging branches. She heading towards the Hyuuga compound. There were people who came by along the path but none of them gave so much as a second thought to the girl as she walked down the path. She arrived outside the compound gates a few minutes later, she pushed open the gates and was greeted by the guard with an unenthusiastic hello and what could only be described as a forced smile. She entered the main building of the compound, she was greeted by Hyuuga Neji who bade her follow quickly. She followed the boy wondering why she was suddenly wanted. Neji led her to the training arena in the back of the compound. Their was a chair overlooking the arena that sat about 2 feet off the ground with steps leading to it that way you would have to look up at who sat there, in it sat Hyuuga Hiashi.

"Hinata you are to demonstrate your abilities, that you should be training on, to me. I need to gauge your strength for some business that I must attend to. Your opponent is to be Hannabi, you have 5 minutes to prepare." Hiashi had a very serious look on his face and was giving death glares that promised some sort of punishment if he was not pleased.

"H- Hai, father I w- will do as you say." Hinata bowed before him and stood up straight again turning to the room that was for her to prepare herself in. From the other side of the arena Hannabi stepped out of a room very much like Hinata's, she wore a skin tight black jumpsuit and had short black hair. She walked out into the arena and bowed to Hiashi. She stood up straight again and faced towards the room waiting for Hinata.

After the 5 minutes were up Hinata slowly walked out of the room and headed for the middle of the arena to stand before Hannabi. Hinata bowed to Hiashi and turned back to Hannabi. Hinata and Hannabi bowed to each other, when they stood up they both dropped down into their family battle stance, The Jyuuken.

"Begin" Hiashi called out. Hannabi immediately went in using her right hand to make a thrust to the abdomen which Hinata was only able to get her body out of the way but still got hit in the leg as she dogged. After the hit Hinata's leg became just about useless. Hannabi followed up her attack with a spin hitting Hinata in the arm, the blow completely disabling Hinata's left side. Hinata tried to charge forward but was to slow and Hannabi easily got out of the way and counter attacked hitting Hinata in the back. Hinata dropped to the ground coughing, she tried to stand back up, but Hannabi was sitting on her with a kunai at her neck. Hiashi stood up, "Fight over, Winner Hannabi."

Hannabi got up and walked back towards to the house and disappeared through the doorway. Hinata looked over at Hiashi who looked back at her shaking his head. He got up and also walked into the house. Hinata was now alone in the middle of the arena, just about paralyzed. There was a stirring in the trees next to the arena. Hinata looked up at them wondering just what could be moving the tree like that. The trees moved again only this time a figure jumped from the trees.

"Hey Hinata, how you feeling?" A young boy landed on the ground his blond hair going everywhere.

"N- Naruto-kun!" Hinata was surprised and embarrassed, because she never thought Naruto would visit her and that if he did she would not be in the mess she currently was in.

"Yeah, I saw it all, that is actually why I came to talk to you. I have a friend who would like to train you. She sees a lot of potential in you that is being wasted with this family. Your only problem is your just to scared to try anything, probably for fear of failing. Given the battle that I just witnessed you could use the help, and I can also see why you are the way you are. Your father is very supportive, isn't he." Naruto looked at her and smiled at the faces Hinata was making when he told her this.

Hinata couldn't believe it someone was offering to help with her training, and not only that but this person might actually be nice to her unlike her current trainers and father. She looked at Naruto "W- Will they really t- train me?"

"Yes, if you want I can take you too her right now." Naruto waited patiently for her answer.

Hinata started thinking about not sure what to do.'On one hand I get to train and become powerful enough to finally be let off my fathers leash, but I'm disabled right now the only way to get there would be for Naruto to carry me.' Hinata sat there thinking about it for awhile then came to a decision"Yes, but I can't m- move so y- your going to h- have to carry me." Hinata started to blush. Naruto looked down at her.

"Okay." He quickly picked her up and jumped into the trees. He then started jumping through the branches as fast as he could go, heading for his house. He got to the edge of a large clearing and stopped. He could smell something but couldn't quite put his finger on it. "Hinata do you smell something?"

Hinata was puzzled by the sudden question, "N-No, I don't."

Naruto had a serous look on his face. Then the smell came to him, it was the smell of burning flesh. "Hinata I'm going to put you down for a little bit. I smell burning flesh and I need to investigate." Hinata nodded, and Naruto set her down against a tree and jumped away towards the smell. He bounded through the trees into another clearing and saw a man laying in the middle of it. It was quite obvious that he was dead. His body was still burning slowly the only parts that were still recognizable were the face and the upper half of his torso, other than that he was just a pile of ashes. From what could be recognized of the body he looked like your average cliché thug. The face looked familiar to Naruto but he couldn't remember from where.

"Hello, is anybody here?" he called out not expecting any answer. Then he remembered where he had seen the face. It was this morning, an Iwa nin had been in a fight with someone. This was the guy the Iwa nin had fought(1). Naruto quickly scanned the surroundings for anything that could be a trap or some sort of trail. There were some broken branches and crushed bushes heading towards Konoha but apart from that there wasn't much else that was interesting.

"No use in just standing around." Naruto turned and headed back to Hinata, but was stopped by a noise coming from behind him. Naruto turned quickly only to see a flash of steel coming towards him. He jumped back but the blade still got him. A large gash appeared on his right arm, Naruto quickly looked at the wound seeing it wasn't to serious and that it would heal in about a minute. He looked up again to find his opponent but he couldn't find him. He checked left, right, up but he didn't have chance to do anything else.

"BOO!" The attacker yelled and brought his saber down on Naruto. Naruto again had to jump away barely avoiding any serious damage. Naruto quickly turned around kunai in hand again searching for his assailant. Not seeing him Naruto quickly turned around thinking he was gonna do another back attack.

Then a voice called out "Kiri Gakure no jutsu" as soon as the words fell from his mouth a small mist started to roll into the clearing. The mist got denser and denser until Naruto couldn't see his own hand more than an inch away from his face.

'Shit, if this is how hes gonna fight I might be in trouble. Kyu-chan I think I might need your help.'

'Hmm... what's going on?'

'I kinda got in a fight with a kiri shinobi and hes a lot more powerful than I thought he was.' kyuubi did a quick scan of his memories.

'Shit... you are outclassed, damn I need to step up your training. If you want this over just let me out.'

'I don't want to destroy the guy, I want to know who he is and why he's attacking me. I will let you out though so you can stretch your legs.'

A small pop could be heard from in the mist. The assailant who was sitting in a tree watched the mist for any disturbance that would show where his prey was. The mit swirled around a lot showing where the location of something appearing. The noise however confused him, a pop could mean all kinds of techniques, be it a bunshin or otherwise, and any of them would be bad since they could potentially lead him into a trap.

"Thank you for letting me out. Now go find your new friend while I stretch a little." Kyuubi looked towards where she could feel Naruto's chakra coming from.

"Hai, hurry up though this guy is pissing me off." Naruto ran off in a direction trying to get out of the mist by running in a straight line, but quickly stopped running after slamming into a tree for the 5th time. Naruto looked towards the top of the mist and yelled "COME AND GET ME, YOU PUSSY."

Naruto's words triggered an immediate reaction from the boy in the tree. "YOU LITTLE SHIT. I'M GOING TO BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF YOU." The boy jumped out of the tree aimed at the spot where he had heard Naruto's voice.

"And now the fun begins." Naruto was a little surprised since this was the first time he had heard the boy speak clearly, but the fact was that voice sounded familiar to him but yet not familiar at all. He didn't have time to dwell on the subject though, because he herd the branch that the assailant had launched off of snap from the pressure. Naruto not expecting such an immediate reaction quickly prepared for the impending assault from the boy.

Naruto stood in the clearing hoping for the teen to do something that would allow his plan to work. Naruto didn't have to wait any longer though, and to top if off it was exactly what he had wanted to happen. Naruto could feel the blade pass through his arm, but before the other teen had the time to withdraw the blade Naruto had grabbed on to the hilt of the sword not letting the teen take the blade from its current position.

There was a sudden very strong gust of wind and all the mist started to blow away. When the mist was gone you could see kyuubi on the other side of the clearing still blowing out air. She closed her mouth and the wind stopped blowing. "There you are. Oh Naru-kun did you really get hurt like that already."

"No, this was part of my strategy to negate his speed. If he can't get away from me then I can beat the shit out of him all I want."

"Naru-kun you might want to let him go."

"Why?"

"because he is sealing and whispering something."

"Shit." Naruto turned back to the the other teen, but he realized it was to late to do anything. Naruto caught a few of the words he had spoken before he had finished the Technique, and they had confused him because they weren't part of any technique he had ever heard of. The words he had heard were '... demons give me thy power and unleash the cat of hell upon my foes, Pounce Edena.' Then an explosion had gone off and Naruto was sent flying back wards where he hit a tree and slumped to the ground.

"Damn that hurt, what the hell was that." Naruto looked up at his assailant and saw a big cat, that was made of blue flames sitting next to the other teen.

"I'll take over from here Naru-kun he is obviously out of your class right now." Kyuubi walked towards the new found summoner.

The teen looked at Kyuubi, "My fight is not with you ma'am." The teen made a steep bow. "So if your taking over for this boy then I'm sorry to displease but I will be taking my leave of you." He straightened him self then turned and walked away.

"That was odd." Naruto watched the teen disappear into the trees. "I think we should get back to Hinata she is probably worried about me."

"Your probably right, but now I want to know how he has the ancient form of summoning. The summoning you shinobi use is just a bastardized version of what you just saw, highly inefficient due to the weakness of the summons and very exhausting when used over long periods of time."

(Back with Hinata)

Hinata watched the sky wondering how long she had been sitting here. She watched the birds fly across the sky. If only she were free like them, If only she could finally spread her wings and fly away from her father and the clan. Then she would be free and could be like the birds. She heard some small chatter to her right and quickly looked towards it. She saw Naruto coming back to the clearing she was in only now he was with a very beautiful woman. Hinata stood up and waited for them to approach.

'Kyu-chan what should we call you when Hinatas around, so that she doesn't figure out who you are?'

'I think we should call me Achlys, it's what I would call my self when I was in my human form.'

'That sounds good, what language does it come from, it's a very odd name?'

'It's greek, which is a very old language that has been forgotten by the current populace.'

'Theres Hinata, ready to meet your new student.'

'This is gonna be fun.'

Kyuubi walked up to Hinata, "So your Hinata, right?" Hinata nodded. "What was that speak up."

"Hai."(2) Hinata squeaked.

"Good, I'm going to be your new sensei. You can call me, Achlys." Kyuubi smirked at the girl before her, "Don't worry about your confidence problem, I'm going to find a way to destroy it."

Hinata nodded, and looked back into the sky 'Maybe I will be able to fly like you, much sooner than I thought.'

"Alright, than lets go." Naruto turned to leave and the two women followed him. They walked to the house in silence. They just listened to the sound of the forest while they walked, Hinata because she liked the noise of the birds and beasts in the forest. Naruto and Kyuubi were listening for another attack by their mystery assailant.

They arrived at the clearing where the house was. The house wasn't finished but it was getting there. The first floor was done and the workers that Sarutobi had hired were working fast on the second floor. They had all the house sidings up and were working on the roof which was almost done. There were bundles of lumber that were stacked next to the house covered by tarps.

"Well Hinata welcome to our humble abode. As you can see it's still under construction, they just have to finish the roof and then the walls inside. Right now it's only a shell, they say it should be done within the next two months at most."He points over to well worn and very destroyed circle of ground, "That is were Achlys and I have been practicing, and were you will do your practices while under Achlys' tutelage. Now, I will let you get started on whatever it is Achlys wants you start on, and go help the workers."

"First, I need to gauge your abilities to see were I should start you on my training plan."Achlys walked into the middle of the training circle. "Now I want you to come at me with the intent to kill. Ready, GO!" Hinata ran forward with her byakugan activated, she was going to try to get a quick knock out blow, as she approached her target she brought her arm back and sent it forward aiming for an area near the heart that would slow the blood flow, weakening the target but not killing them. However, Achlys easily dodged around it and sent her hand into Hinata's stomach.

Hinata was sent flying back about ten feet then rolled about another 5 before coming to a stop. Achlys walked towards Hinata as she was getting back up. Hinata turned to face Achlys, she charged forward again, this time she was going to try for a blow to Achlys' legs to stop her movement. As Hinata came up on Achlys she crouched low to the ground, as she went down she gathered chakra in her feet, she made sure she was aimed at Achlys' legs, and released the chakra in her feet causing her to be launched towards Achyls. As Hinata thought she was gonna make contact, Achlys pulled her leg back and punted Hinata away like a football.

Hinata hit the ground in a jumbled heap. She stood back up shakily, she was breathing hard. She looked at Achlys, she hadn't even broken a sweat.

"That's enough, I can see your at your limit. I hate to say it but that was amateur at best.

-In a dark room-

A Shadowy figure sat in a black throne like chair. A young man was standing before him looking at the man in the chair. The youth looked like he was trying to decide something. The man in the chair stood 'He looks like he could use another session.' The man quickly did some hand seals and a small laser hit the youth in the forehead, "Did you complete your mission?" The mans voice came out slightly raspy. The youth had a blank look come across his face then all of a sudden he sprang to life and was immediately on his knees bowing his head towards the man.

"No, my mission was not a success. I was able to fight the kyuubi vessel but I was not able to bring him here. My failure was due to my lack of ability to stop him from bringing out the kyuubi and for my failure I offer you my life." The youth pulled a small knife from his boot and brought it up to his neck.

"The kyuubi being released was not your fault, and as you are still valuable to me, you will not kill yourself at this moment."

"Thank you my lord." The youth looked up to his master. "What would you wish of me now?"

"Leave me for now, I will call you when I have use for your talents." The youth stood and bowed. He turned and left the room. The man slowly sat down grunting and feeling the pain in his joints from being so old.

-Back at the house of Naruto-

It had just started turning to night when kyuubi had finished with Hinata for the day. "Achlys-sama my father is probably going to start worrying about me, so I should head home. Say bye to Naruto for me."

"I will send Naruto for you when it is time to train again." Achlys looked at Hinata 'I really worked her hard today, she is probably not going to be moving in the morning.' Hinata turned and walked back towards her house.

1 This Is not the bartender from before, that happened a couple months ago in the story.

2 I got tired of writing the stutter so pretend she still has it till I say she doesn't.

Shakranon: I am sorry for the length of update time. I apologize a thousand times and hope you forgive me.