Free Fall 3
AN: Hiya I'm back :)
Once again, I'm going to say the same thing that I have said in the previous chapter
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It's really quite disappointing when I receive none at all D':
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So on we go! Chapter 3 drum roll
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One word was all that came to his mind when he first stepped into the apartment 'wow', his violet eyes shimmered at the sight of the well-furnished place 'this really looks like its fit for royalty', his eyes flickered towards the female 'I wonder if she is some sort of royalty..after all, the people of this town seem to respect her'. He thought back to when they were making their way through the village, people who noticed them seemed extremely happy to see her, nodding in acknowledgement or openly greeting out loud.
He snapped back from his thoughts when he felt a touch on his left shoulder "Suigetsu-san..? " Hinata stood infront of him, her eyebrows furrowed slightly in worry or confusion "something wrong?". Now his own eyebrows shot up in disbelief 'Something wrong?..Something wrong?! this is pure heaven! You have gotta be kidding me. You must be joking me..You...oh you're serious' he realized she wasn't kidding at all when he finally noticed her unchanging expression. Inwardly sighing at the seemingly socially awkward female, he found himself doing something he has never done before "Nothing is wrong Hinata-san, everything is perfect" assuring someone.
She scrunched her face slightly, even more confused than ever before turning passive and nodding, Suigetsu wondered briefly if she knows how adorable she looked at that moment. 'Such an odd girl' he noted, thinking back as how abruptly her character changes over such a short period of time 'one moment she's scary as hell, another she's calm and collected, then now she's like an innocent little girl. I wonder which one she truly is' he frowned at the thought of his temporary flatmate having a screw-loose and murdering him in the middle of the night. Shivering at the demonic image of Hinata wielding a scythe and swinging it around crazily, he shook his head vigorously 'I have to make sure not to trigger anything that might possibly be triggered'. Following the blue-haired female down the hallway, they stopped infront of the second door in row. She glanced at him before twisting the knob and pushing the door open.
The room had all the necessary items and possibly more; alarm clock on the nightstand, multi-leveled cupboards, heck even a study table. The room looked extremely clean and well-kept, 'doesn't seem like it's used often', he shrugged before placing his things down beside the bed. Noticing that Hinata was still silent, he decided to make a small conversation "Erm.. Nice room you've got here, designed it yourself?" he felt proud of himself for coming up with a moderately safe topic.
She shook her head once "Well no, " she noticed that he kept quiet and attentive, waiting for her to say more "Sakura-chan and Ino-chan helped designed the entire apartment, the only room that I personally made arrangements for was my own room. The little items personal items you see in this room belong to some of my friends that have stayed over for the night"
He nodded "So..you live alone here?" he counted mentally all the rooms he had seen, there was the living room, the kitchen, the hallway had four doors including his own, so he assumed one was the bathroom "Kinda big for just one person isn't it?".
"Neji-nii-san visits me often during his free time, Sakura-chan, Ino-chan, Kiba-kun and Shino-kun sometimes stay over the night too" she smiled slightly at the fond mentions of her friends.
Noticing her smile, seeing as to she was slightly warming up to him, he decided to take it one small step further "So anyways..why are you chosen to be my caretaker?". She stared at him for a few seconds, trying to determine if there was any that she will be revealing if she answered his questions, deciding whether he was trying to be nice or there was any hidden motive in his questions. Noticing her observing eye on him, he understood her suspicions "I'm not trying anything bad, just don't think it's going to be good for either of us to be uncomfortable around each other. I mean, we will most probably be stuck together for awhile, so why not make it as bearably as we can?" he was surprised that he managed to come up with such a reasonable explanation.
Not to say that he was going to try anything, he didn't want to take on the whole army of Leaf shinobis, thank you very much. He just decided that he might as well learn something about the person whom he was going to have to follow around for an indefinite amount of time, and if he was being frank with himself, this peculiar female had him quite curious and interested. Seeing as she was still skeptical about the question, he changed the topic "Okay, you don't need to say whatever you don't want to" he raised both of his hands as a sign of giving in "how about we share some facts about each other?" he grinned mischievously "I'll start first then "My name is Hozuki Suigetsu, I'm from the Hozuki clan of Kirigakure".
Hinata bit her lower lip "My name is Hinata, ex-Hyuuga clan of Konohagakure". Suigetsu was slightly taken aback by the 'ex-Hyuuga' she had said 'Ex-hyuuga? Does that mean she got kicked out? or did she leave on her own?' Suigetsu have heard of the Hyuuga clan, the clan whom inherited one of the San Daidojutsu, he also knew that the only ones whom did not get branded the curse seal were the Main branch..so did that mean.. "Ahh Hinata-san, when you say ex-hyuuga.."
Hinata's eyes visibly dimmed at that mention "I used to be the Hyuuga Heiress, that's why I don't have the Branch seal, my sister replaced me as Heiress". She didn't understand why she was sharing something of such with something she had just met, though it wasn't something that was much of a secret anyways. He seemed genuine in his curiosity and she couldn't sense any ulterior motive. She briefly wondered what made him join Sasuke's team..then again, shinobis weren't meant to lead peaceful lives, rogue ninjas could have just been out to search for power.
Suigetsu scratched his head, trying to make sense of what she told him, he didn't understand how someone like Hinata would get removed from position.. she seemed to be strong, strong enough to be his guard and knock someone like Sasuke into the wall.. so why? 'or did she willingly give it up?' he frowned.
Hinata looked at the clock on the wall before heading off towards her own room "Suigetsu-san, we will be leaving in thirty minutes time, if you want to freshen up, the bathroom is the door just beside yours". 'I should probably freshen up too' Hinata frowned slightly before heading off to her private bathroom that was connected to her room.
"Come on Teme! It's been such a long time since we've seen each other, shouldn't you be more excited?" the Blond next-in-line to be Hokage shouted gleefully before doing a little dance. The pink-haired shinobi watched from the corner of the room as the previous two teammates of hers converse among themselves, well more like one was shouting and the other was being a perfect wall. Sasuke crossed his arms infront of his chest "If you haven't realized Dobe, I'm not here willingly" he shook his bandages and chakra restrainer around, tugging forcefully before sighing and giving up.
"Ahh it doesn't matter Teme, as long as you're here then it's fine. Dattebayo! Told you I will bring you back!" he sniggered before doing a 'thumbs-up' at Sasuke. Raising a delicate eyebrow, Sasuke wondered if Naruto was any of the Anbu that fought him last night..maybe he was Skull? "Dobe, if I remember clearly, which I'm sure I did, you had nothing to do with my current being of in this town" he gave his signature smirk(you know the one that melted the hearts of millions of babes~). Naruto sulked for a moment before his usual grin came on "Of course I did Teme", Sasuke's eyes widened at this "though I was on another mission in Suna, I was the one who convinced Baa-san to send out people to get you back! Though it would have been so much faster if I did it by myself, Dattebayo!" Naruto grinned even wider.
'So it's not him' Sasuke frowned, he knew the idiot wasn't one who would lie and even if the Baka tried to, lying was what Naruto was unable to do even if he bet his life on it. Deciding not to dwell on the matter too much, he refocused on the babbling idiot infront of him who hadn't realized that no one was listening 'some things never change'.
"Oh yes! Speaking of Ramen, let's go get some now! The hospital food must not taste so good eh? All bland and- OW!" Naruto winced as Sakura punched him. Even though the punch wasn't enhanced with chakra, it still hurt like crap. Ignoring Naruto's whining completely, she spoke "Naruto keep quiet for awhile won't you, we are in the hospital now, not the streets..although..I am kind of hungry" she admitted shyly.
"See? That's the spirit Sakura-chan, let's go to Old Man Ichiraku's for Ramen now!" he said before doing another dance. Sighing, Sakura walked up to Sasuke's bedside "Come on, you know the only way to get him to shut up is if we do what he wants". Sasuke was about to comment about how it was none of his business before Sakura undid the Chakra Restrains from his hands. Raising an eyebrow, he looked towards Sakura, "what? don't look at me like that, you're not supposed to be a prisoner anyways, just under supervision", Sakura frowned at his assumption.
Naruto just smirked at this, putting his hands behind his head "Anyways Teme, even if you do try to escape, we'll just drag you all the way back yeah?" he chuckled before winking. Sasuke knew Naruto would do whatever he promised, he himself had been someone to be involved in such bond-to-word situations. Feeling a headache coming up, he pinched the bridge of his nose before getting up to change "where are my clothes?" he looked down at the ugly hospital gown he was dressed in 'who changed me?' he twitched at the thought of someone touching him unnecessarily.
"Hinata-chan!" a familiar voice came from behind them before Hinata got attacked by a white mass of fur "down Akamaru, don't keep Hinata all to yourself yeah?" Kiba chuckled before tackling her down with a firm embrace of his own. "Kiba-kun!" Hinata giggled before hugging her long-time friend back. Then another quiet voice sounded as a new presence joined the three "The one who is hogging her is you, why? because-" Shino was cut off as Hinata pulled him in to the hug. Shino tensed slightly before relaxing, placing one of his hand on her head and patting lightly, a small smile crept up to his lips, covered up by his high collared shirt.
Kiba then noticing the odd person standing there looking at them while standing in a spot awkwardly, pointing a finger at Suigetsu he asked "who's he Hinata?". Hinata turned to see who he was pointing at then smiled again "He's my current mission Kiba-kun, Tsunade-sama asked me to guard him until he's proven to be not of a threat to Konoha. He's Uchiha-san's companion, and is currently staying with me for the time being".
Kiba growled slightly at this and walked towards Suigetsu "Oh, I remember you.. you're the one who can turn into water eyh? You better not try anything funny on Hinata or I'll tear you apart and feed you to Akamaru, got it?" he glared menacingly at Suigetsu who stared back "Tear me apart? I'll be the one who rips your guts out, wanna have a go dog boy?" he grinned almost manically at the thought of slashing and tearing out limbs. They both stepped up challengingly, the air around them growing tense..well until a hand came firm in between them, pushing them apart "stop". Hinata now standing in between the two, one hand comfortingly on Kiba and the other warningly infront of Suigetsu.
"Ahh! Hinata-chan, Kiba, Shino! All of you are here? wow what a wonderful gathering this is! Dattebayo!" Naruto suddenly barged in, slinging one arm around Hinata and the other around Kiba. "Tch, don't just put your arm around us like that Baka!" Kiba sulked jokingly before nudging Naruto in the stomach.
"Naruto! Baka, I told you to wait for us, don't just go running around like-" Sakura glanced up to see their company "Oh ohaiyo Hinata-chan, Kiba-san, Shino-san!" then she turned to see face the odd person clad in violet, tilting her head to the side. Sasuke slowly trod over, hands stuffed in his pocket, bored expression on his face "Suigetsu, what are you doing here?".
Suigetsu turned to face the raven-haired male "Hinata-chan here" purposely emphasizing on the suffix "Is my care-taker, and I have orders to not leave her side". Sasuke raised a brow at his 'friend's' change in demeanor and sudden familiarity with the female, then smirked when he realized that Suigetsu was only trying to piss people off.
"All right all right, enough with the chit-chat, I'm hungry so let's go get some Ramen!" Naruto did a thumbs-up before dragging and pushing everyone into the small Ramen stall. Seeing as how the shop wasn't big enough of a space for them to choose their preferred seats, they made do with whatever they could and sat at the seat nearest to them. It went with this strange yet somewhat satisfying arrangement; Sakura, Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, Suigetsu, Kiba and Shino.
"Oh man, I wanted to sit next to Hinata" Kina sulked at pouted like a child. Giggling at his cute expression, Hinata soothed her teammate "Ano, it's okay Kiba-kun, we will have lots of other chances to sit beside each other neh?" she smiled gently, causing Kiba to blush slightly and Suigetsu to smirk. Sasuke was somewhat bewildered at Hinata's kind manner, 'is she the same person who made a hole in the hospital wall?'. While their meals arrived and some chatted happily, Hinata had ignored Sasuke's presence completely, not that he minded it one bit.
"Oi Hinata-chan, Baa-chan was saying that-" Naruto suddenly shouted out loud even though she was only a seat away, noodles hanging visibly from his mouth. Sakura smacked him "Shannaro! Don't talk with your mouth full of food Naruto, it's so gross!". "Yeah!, and don't shout at Hinata like that, you loud mouth twerp!" he shouted back at Naruto.
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"Wow that escalated really quickly" Suigetsu murmured out as he sat beneath the shady tree, watching the blond and brunette male making snark remarks at each other before smirking and heading off to the opposite sides of the sparring area. The others stood by the side of the court, three seemingly discussing something while Sasuke stared boredly off to a faraway place. Neji, Lee( I don't care if he's dead, he's forever alive to me! T^T) and TenTen had met and joined their little gathering along the way after hearing that a little sparring was to be held.
Naruto shouted back to the group "So how are we doing this? One to one? Rules?", Sakura and Hinata shared a look before nodding, "Last man standing, first to hit the ground loses. Usual rules" Sakura stated and the others walked off to the side. Naruto and Kiba, if it was even possible, grinned even wider at the last park. Hinata found her spot at a branch above Suigetsu's place and the others walked towards them. "So.. who's going first?.." Tenten asked as she looked to the other seven who was finding a place to watch the fight. As usual, the over-enthusiastic Lee was the first to respond "Me! I would love to challenge either Naruto-kun or Kiba-kun, OH the youthful match that shall-" his speech was cut off by a weary Tenten "Okay okay, so who's second?".
Sakura looked around at her friends before speaking up "Guess I'll be second then". Nodding, "I'll follow up as the third, and since you guys aren't about to volunteering yourselves.." Tenten trailed off "Neji shall go as fourth, Hinata as fifth and last but not least Shino. Everyone fine with that?" she asked for confirmation.
"Ano Tenten, maybe it's better if we let Shino sit this one out, he has injuries still from his previous mission and I think the movements might cause his injuries to open up" Sakura frowned, knowing his injuries as she herself had been his attended medic. Shino kept silent before nodding in consent, he knew his own limits after all.
With all the attention back to the two guys who were surprisingly waiting patiently, Sakura gave the go "Match.. 3,2,1..START!". Before anyone had even took another breath, the two charged impulsively towards each other, spinning and sending full-powered kicks and punches, aimed with no intention to hurt, but accurate enough to injure. Naruto slid back slightly after receiving a kick to his stomach and took advantage of the distance, making his signature hand signs "Kage Bunshin-no-Justsu!" and created three shadow clones. "Chaaaaaaarge!" he shouted before all four Naruto dashed towards Kiba. Avoiding each Naruto with ease, Kiba quickly dispelled the clones before confronting the last one "you're going to need more than that to beat me" he huffed, before increasing his attacks.
"Alright then, let's see how you handle this!" Naruto smirked wider before making the hand signs again "Kage-bunshin-no Justu!" and three hundred Narutos' appeared, filling the entire area. With one quick signal, all the clones charged towards Kiba. Perspiring like crazy, Kiba dodged each and every single one of the clones, hitting them and shoving. Spotting a blind area in Kiba's defense, Naruto seized the opportunity and sent a full blown kick towards it, only to be intercepted by a white blur. 'Poof!' the clone disappeared into a grey fluff of dust.
"Aww damn it! I knew something was up" some of the Narutos' that were left groaned before disappearing too as Akamaru clawed through them with his razor sharp claws. Kiba smirked "Akamaru, let's go! Gijū Ninpō: Jūjin Bunshin" and the white puff of smoke revealed two crouching Kibas' that were snarling menacingly. Not waiting for any reaction, both Kibas' charged towards Naruto at blinding speed and attacked from both sides. Not knowing where to look, Naruto realised too late as Kiba sent an upper cut, followed by a swift kick to his groin. Landing a few metres away, Akamaru and Kiba prepared for their next attack "Gatenga!" rolling at a ferocious speed in a buzz-saw like shape towards Naruto, a few hits managed to make contact, causing much damage.
All three of them stood apart, breaths heavy and perspiring madly, Naruto covered in bruises. "All right, my turn!" Naruto huffed out and made a thousand shadow clones "Didn't think I'd go down so easily did ya?" Naruto smirked and leaped up with all of his shadow clones "Shihōhappō Shuriken!" and Kiba's eyes widened when a barrage of shurikens came flying down at top speed towards them. Dodging to the best that he could, he was so focused on the shurikens that he failed to avoid Naruto's incoming attack at his rear "Uzumaki Naruto Nisen Rendan!" as he shot up to the sky "U-ZU-MA-KI!" and dealt the three final blows.
Kiba crumpled to the ground totally exhausted, his body covered in tons of light bruises. Chuckling slightly before giving a thumbs-up to Naruto, he yelled as loud as he could "Change!" and slumped his head back to the ground. Lee skipped happily to the battle grounds, making his usual pose and flashing his signature 'teeth-bling' image before charging at Naruto. Seeing that things was about to get rough and knowing that her teammate was unable to move, Hinata quickly moved. Before anyone had noticed, she disappeared from sight, only to reappear with Kiba on her shoulders. 'Woah what the hell?!' Suigetsu nearly shuddered when he realized that dog-boy had suddenly 'pop' and 'teleported' to his side.
The match was closed to an end when Naruto went into his tailed-beast-mode to match Lee's speed. Using mini-shuriken-rasengan as a distraction, Naruto cleverly used it to his advantage and pinned Lee to the ground. The match hadn't lasted that long and Lee wasn't injured much, so he was still extremely energetic "That was such a Youthful sparring session! Yosh!" Lee gave a cheshire smile before limping away "Change!"
Sakura zipped in with a flash of pink.
Sakura had won the match with Naruto with her quick wits and the advantage of Naruto's one moment of mistake. She knew how he fought and though it was extremely tough because of his rapid recovery rate, massive amount of chakra and unpredictable moves, Sakura attacked endlessly and tripped Naruto, effectively ending the fight "Awwr no fair Sakura-chan! That was just one time and.." Naruto trailed off and pouted before plopping down between Sasuke and Neji. The Hyuuga genius smirked at the Kyuubi vessel, shaking his head and sighing "you never learn Naruto".
"Changing in!" Tenten gave warning before engaging in battle with Sakura. Sakura held a long battle with TenTen, her excellent Chakra control was a huge challenge for Tenten, but Tenten finally emerged as winner when she surprised Sakura with the undetected hidden explosive tags on her hundreds of Kunai after her Sōshōryū. Coughing slightly before spitting out some blood, Sakura gave the sign "Change!" before she wobbled out of the 'arena'. Hinata appeared by her side, lifting Sakura up and flashed away from the area "Eep!" Sakura squealed the slightest when she felt herself being lifted.
'Woah! What?' Suigetsu startled when Sakura 'pop-ed' up beside him, he nearly felt his heart leap out this time and sighed, glancing at Hinata 'she really needs to stop doing that' he frowned before refocusing back to the fight. Sasuke watched with an impassive expression but his thoughts were far off from that, looking at Kiba, Lee, Sakura and Naruto from the corner of his eye, he nearly smirked when he watched them all battle it out 'they've really improved a lot', then his sight trailed over to the blunette that was sitting beside the bug-user 'I wonder...'.
"Kuso!" Tenten yelled as she watched wide-eye as her own weapons, that had been reflected by Neji's Hakkeshō Kaiten, flying towards her. Grabbing two spare Kunai she had kept in her pouch, she quickly defected the oncoming assortment of weapons. A few senbon that were too small and too fast to deflect sunk into her arm that she had used to shield her face. Neji charged towards her, closed off the tenketsu on her left arm and sent a kick to her stomach. Knowing that she was at great disadvantage, Tenten quickly rolled out of the way from Neji's next attack and yelled "Change!".
Hinata leaped off from the branch she was standing on and stood a few meters away from Neji, bowing slightly in respect "Neji-nii-san". Neji smiled a minuscular bit before bowing "Hinata-sama" and moving into the famous Hyuuga stance. To everyone's surprise, Neji took the first move to attack, his footsteps as light as ever, his movements a flow with rhythmic patterns. Hinata kept her eyes focused on her opponent, her whole exterior had changed to a stoic and professional one. Finally getting into her own stance, she braced herself for Neji's attack, his Byakugan already activated. Then, she gracefully swirled and dodged just as Neji's open palm swung towards her. Careful not to get near his hands, she defended herself with blocking of his wrists with her own. Swing, dodge, block, dodge was all Hinata was doing, never the one attacking. their hands and legs moving at an extremely fast pace, was at a speed that would appear invisible to un-well trained eyes.
Neji studied closely to Hinata's every movement, observing closely for any weak spot that could be used 'There!' he acted fast and proceeded to perform Hakke Rokujūyon Shō, slamming his palms towards Hinata's chest area and successfully making contact "two strikes" he called out and was about to close off her tenketsu until he realised how horribly wrong he was in making that move. Standing face-to-face, Hinata's arms were stretched out holding his shoulder and with one sharp twist she forced his hands to twist facing opposites sides. Then, he felt AND saw it, as she took one big step back with his arms still in her hands, she slid it downwards, closing each and every one of his chakra points her hands passed through. Realizing the danger he was in, he quickly bent his elbow before she could go any further and pulled back fiercely away from her.
His arms left slightly numb from all the closed tenketsu, he forced himself to unblock a few vital ones, the strain on his chakra path extremely painful. Hinata took a step back before making an extremely familiar continuation of signs, Neji's eyes widened slightly before taking a few steps back, preparing himself.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes slightly as he watched her make the hand signs, Sakura tilted her head to the side in slight confusion while Kiba openly expressed his shock "Eh? isn't that?.." Naruto piped in "Kage-bunshin-no-jutsu!" he grinned widely at Hinata's usage of one of his signature moves.
Neji braced himself and tensed slightly when all three copies of Hinata charged towards him with incredible speed, and just as they were about to strike him down, he released his ultimate defense and attack taijutsu move "Hakkeshō Kaiten", releasing the chakra from his unclogged tenketsu and spinning. The force of the chakra caused Hinata to shoot back out, the clones disappearing after each flew backwards and landed harshly on the ground. Stopping finally, he breathed out heavily as a drop of sweat trickled down his forehead. His breath hitched at that moment as he felt the cold surface of metal against his neck and the next thing he knew, he was slammed down to ground, though not quite forcefully. 'What? when did she?..' to say Neji was stumped would be an underestimation compared to the amount of confusion and shock he was feeling.
After a short moment of silence, applause erupted followed by cheers. "Wow Hinata-chan, how did you do that? I mean...that was so Youthful!" Lee gave two thumbs-up as his eyes glowed with wonder and admiration. "Yeah! that was really impressive Hinata, stepping back at the last moment" Kiba whistled, or tried to, considering how dry his throat was at the moment. Hinata smiled slightly before looking down back at Neji "It was nothing much really, I was just lucky to go last. It's not really fair after all, you guys all had to fight more than one opponent" she replied modestly. Neji smirked slightly at his cousin's words. Suigetsu looked passively at the group before making his decision, stepping towards the 'Arena', he cleared his throat for attention before stating "Change,".
The group stared at him incredulously before knitting their eyebrows together in confusion. Suigetsu sighed before repeating himself "Changeeee" he dragged it on purpose. Hinata stared at him for a moment before walking up to the opposite side. "Wait Hinata-chan, you really want to fight this guy? You don't have to you know?" Sakura was especially worried for Hinata's welfare, the others nodded in agreement. Hinata smiled reassuringly towards them "It'll be fine" she said before facing Suigetsu. Hinata grabbed a scroll from the back of her pouch, tossing it open in mid air and made a few hand signs, biting her thumb, she smeared a thin line of blood across it. Now in her hands, she swirled a sword the height of her body and tossed it to him, catching it with ease, he found that the sword was lighter than he thought it to be "It's not the same, but the sword had adaptable abilities. It reacts efficiently when your chakra is applied".
Sasuke watched closely as the two prepared themselves for the signal to start 'this might be interesting' he smirked inwardly and wondered briefly about how Hinata was going to fight against Suigetsu, seeing as her usage with Byakugan was rendered almost completely useless. Sakura shared a worried look with the group before sighing and raising her hand "Ready?...Go!" and Suigetsu charged towards Hinata.
Swinging wildly but with perfect precision, Suigetsu swiped down at Hinata ferociously, making her dodge and giving her no chance to attack. He thought about how maybe he was going to win this quickly, after all Byakugan users' attacks proved useless against his body. Hinata ducked low as the sword came slashing at where her head was a moment ago, her hand went quickly as she applied chakra out from her finger tips and tapped Suigetsu on his arm, but nothing happened. Suigetsu chuckled when he realized what she had tried to do and shook his head 'that won't work girly' as she slid a few spaces away from him. Acting her Byakugan, she studied the chakra lines on his body 'something's not right' her eyes narrowed as she looked at the odd flow of his Chakra paths.
'So what are you going to do now eh?' he felt myself grin wider as he watched her study him from afar. Deciding not to give her the advantage, he shot towards her, sword held in steady grip behind her. As he slashed towards her, his sword met contact with another metal surface, releasing a high pitched 'clang' due to the force. Now in her hands was a normal-sized katana, she spun it around swiftly, blocking each of his attacks with her own swing. Gaining momentum, she swung rapidly now, parrying his attacks and blocking some. Then, Suigetsu suddenly spun and crouched, aiming his sword at her legs. Hinata leaped just in time and swooped down towards his shoulder. Instead of meeting contact, there was a swishing sound before his body split where the blade should have made contact with, Suika no Jutsu. Her eyes widened slightly in shock before she regained her composure and leapt back, narrowly dodging the sword that would have cut her head clean off her shoulders.
Taking this moment to prove her suspicions, she made a sequence of hand signs "Suiton: Mizu Hari" and a hundred of water needles shot towards him. Suigetsu smirked at this and let the water needles make contact with his body, absorbing the water jutsu with ease. Hinata blinked at this before the corner of her lips twitched. Grabbing a scroll from her back pocket, she tossed the whole length of scroll towards Suigetsu, it ending a little away from his feet. Making another sequence of hand signs, she slid her hands down the blade, causing it to sparkle up with fierce blue lightning. Then she sped towards Suigetsu, with the sword in one hand, she bit her thumb and smeared the blood on the scroll, releasing huge waves of water to the ground. Knowing that if the blade touches him at the slightest would cause him to suffer a much unwanted electrocution, he tensed and watched her move cautiously.
Dodging carefully each and every one one of her swings, he took a few steps back before a wet splash came to his ankles. Hinata then disappeared from his sight and he turned around to realize that he had stepped right into the middle of the huge puddle of water she had made earlier. "Hōryū Raika no Jutsu!" he heard and turned just in time to see her palm come in contact with the water, his eyes widening in each fraction of a second as he watched the blue streaks of lighting headed his way. "Oh..fuck" was all he could say before he felt the current strike through painfully in his body.
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Sasuke was impressed, he admitted to himself..no Sasuke was very impressed. Hinata was one of the fastest ninja he had ever met other than Lee and Gai, she had near- perfected skills in the art of wielding a katana, she had thought of and pulled off a very well-layed out strategy within such limited time, and she had exceedingly vast knowledge in Jutsus..'what the hell did she do for the past few years?' Sasuke questioned bewilderedly. He remembered how hard of a training he had to go through to match up to his brother's level, and the only reason he endured was to sought out revenge. He glanced at the blunette, remembering from small figments of his memory that she was an extremely shy and quiet girl, then he compared the past mental image of her with the present one infront of him..'what happened to her?' he wondered.