Naruto's Newly Found Love - Chapter 3
After the past few days I've learned a lot about who I am, I care about those close to me, I want to protect my friends and I want to save those who need me. I can't change who I am, I will risk my life to save someone if I have to. Even though I say I can't risk my life because of me being with Hinata, I can't change who I am and then there's the fact that Hinata fell for me for my dedication to being a Shinobi and a shinobi will risk everything to protect their village, their family, their friends and also to complete their missions.
On our way back to Konoha, with about an hour or two to travel, we were ambushed by the Akutsuki member Deidera, he had long blond hair and wore the typical Akutsuki cloak, long &black covering the body with red clouds across it. We've been told about the Akutsuki only recently and their capabilities, also about some of their distinct jutsu and other attacks that they use. Deidera is an earth type chakra user however he has a twist up his sleeves, literally. He has mouths in his hands so that he can mould clay and infuse it with his chakra. He uses the clay as bombs, his jutsu is quite unique and rare, not many people know of this jutsu either.
"Naruto Uzumaki!" Deidera exclaimed.
"What do you want Akutsuki?" I asked.
"We're after jinchuriki's of tailed beasts, does that answer your question?" he replied.
"Why are you after the jinchuriki's?" I questioned.
"You'll find out soon enough, ha ha ha!" Deidera had said whilst flying through the air on a clay bird.
We were going to run when we saw one of Deidera's jutsu, it was a large clay dragon, we had to take this seriously, we could not let him kill us, I ran Hinata out of the fight as she was still injured from the mission. Sai had flew into the air on his ink bird after Deidera, we hadn't got a plan, so we must fight and hope for the best. Sai had crashed onto the ground after being hit by one of Deidera's attacks, Ino was trying to get a direct hit with her mind transfer jutsu but she wasn't close enough for it to hit. I was only able to get him after one of my shadow clones, my clone grabbed him and I sent more to hold him down. Then I charged up my rasengan ready to get him. Suddenly I was blasted of my feet by another member of the Akutsuki, this one was even more of a criminal than Deidara, we have heard that Kakazu had five separate hearts all taken from some of the most powerful shinobi across the land. Each heart belonged to a person that could use different chakra natures and with all five he could control the five elements. This wasn't going to be easy but we had to win for the sake of Konoha, I must win for the team, to save them all. It was at this point that Sai had recovered and begun using his super beast scroll jutsu against Deidera, Ino was busy against Kakazu using her flower bomb jutsu, however he kept getting past it and continued to pummel Ino to a pulp. Whereas Sai was having more luck and was able to beat Deidera in speed and combat, both he and Sai came crashing to the ground leaving a devastating hole in the floor beneath them. I waited for a moment to read Kakazu's moves but he was way too fast, I couldn't do anything to help Ino unless I knew how I could beat him. I wasn't able to find a way of beating him, his moves worked so well in succession its like he has perfected his techniques over 100's of years. Well I guess I have to just go with my instinct rather than have a plan. I tried to get him with rasengan normally but he just wouldn't stay still, so I used my multi-shadow clone jutsu to try restrain him but he just blasted them all away. What am I going to do? I just can't break through his defence. At this point in the battle Sai was still unconscious lying opposite Deidera and Ino was lying on the ground in pain from the attacks that Kakazu had used against her. It was only me left and I had to help my friends no matter what, I gave it all I got but I was suddenly intercepted by a strange man who wore the Akutsuki cloak. We had information on many of the Akutsuki members but not this one, he was tall, blue skinned and had shark like teeth, on his back he carried a large weapon of some sort that I believe to be a sword wrapped in bandages but I couldn't tell as he knocked me out within seconds of me seeing him.
"NARUTO!" Hinata screamed at the top of her lungs. She had come rushing through the trees as fast as Kakashi sensei. All of a sudden I had been dropped on the floor and I could barely open my eyes but I saw Hinata fighting against the mysterious guy who had knocked me out previously.
"HINATA!" I screamed as loud as I could manage. "Get away from him we know nothing about him and you might not be able to beat him at this rate." I carried on.
"I don't care Naruto I have to protect you as much as I can, even if I lose my life trying." she said back to me. At this time I had suddenly just burst into a new mind, I didn't care what but I had to do something to protect Hinata, she is the only person who has ever truly liked me since I was young even knowing of the kyubbi that is buried within me. I put all of my strength into beating the stranger that instead of my normal rasengan I conjured up a massive rasengan that could completely obliterate someone if it had enough force put into it. This strange man suddenly vanished as I went to hit him with the massive rasengan and I couldn't see him around the immediate area, Hinata used the byakugan to scan as far as possible and because of the adrenaline that she had when fighting against that guy it had improved her vision with the byakugan by many times more than what she could through training. She was amazed for how he had disappeared without a trace and couldn't see him retreating anywhere although he was gone. We went back to the first site where we had tangled with Kakazu and Deidera. Sai and Ino had finally recovered from their unconsciousness however they weren't able to move fast and we weren't able to see Deidera or Kakazu so we assumed that they had disappeared. I ran ahead to gather the medical core ninja to meet up with Ino, Sai and Hinata. Hinata's injury had disappeared now and she was fine so she made sure the other two were safe, whereas they had multiple injuries to their arms, legs and their abdomens and could barely move let alone walk or run back to the village. We met up with them after the med core had gathered the materials and tools they needed to fix the others injuries. A few hours later and we all returned to the village, Tsunade had come to the gates to see us.
"What happened to you two? Why did you get so torn up?" Tsunade had asked Ino and Sai.
"Lady Tsunade, Ino and Sai must rest for several days, it is best you get your information from the other two members of the mission." Said one of the Medical core ninja.
"WHAT DID YOU DO NARUTO?" Tsunade screamed with all her veins popping out.
"Wait Lady Tsunade, Naruto did nothing wrong. We were ambushed by the Akutsuki!" Hinata interrupted.
"WHAT, THE AKUTSUKI!" Tsunade bellowed in complete astonishment. Do you know of which members attacked you?" She replied.
"Well, only two out of the three we recognised. The two we know of are Deidera from the Hidden village of stones and Kakazu of the Hidden Waterfall. The other assailant we did not recognise, he had blue shark like skin and teeth, he also carried a large weapon that was wrapped in bandages. I believe he could be one of the seven swordsman of the hidden mist village." Hinata had explained to Tsunade.
"Ah I believe we have new information on this Akutsuki member, I think it arrived this morning just after Naruto had left to find your team, We have been told he is a rogue hidden mist village ninja named Kisame Hoshikagi and Hinata your suspicion is correct he is one of the famous seven swordsman of the mist. However his is also relentless and known as the tailless tailed beast." Tsunade exclaimed.
"How can he be a tailless tailed beast?" Naruto questioned.
"Easy he can replicate the power of which a tailed beast possesses and could more than easily beat a jinchuriki that doesn't have sufficient control over their power and even likely come of untouched against a jinchuriki who has complete control of their tailed beast!" She continued.
"That can't be can it Lady Tsunade, that just doesn't make sense." Hinata said with a confused look upon her face.
"It is true he could and probably would if he wanted to, not even Naruto would stand a chance against him" Tsunade replied. She continued to say "Lets pick this up in a few days when Ino and Sai have recovered from their injuries completely. Goodbye Naruto, Hinata." She turned and walked away towards her mansion leaving Naruto and Hinata to embrace each other.
Naruto reached for Hinata's hand and pulled her closer to him, embracing her slowly but tightly to show her that he would protect her. She welcomed this embrace with open arms like she would do every time they hugged.
Naruto whispered into Hinata's ear "Hinata, you mean so much to me and I can't believe that you would risk your life to save me. Thank you for always being there for me and please stay with me forever, I've been so blind not seeing that you were right there for me all my life and I don't want to go another part of my life without you by my side. I love you."
Hinata cried before squeezing tighter and tighter and then finally broke the silence by whispering back to Naruto " I love you too and I will stay with you no matter what, you made me who I am and I could never leave you. You are the person that I could always look to for inspiration and for guidance. You are amazing and I wouldn't be me without you, I'm the luckiest girl in this world because I have the bravest and most courageous person as my partner. Please don't ever change who you are even if I'm in trouble, you make my life easier and hopefully I make yours better." She finished by staring into his eyes for several seconds before he pulled her closer for a kiss. Hinata's face turned as red as a tomato and Naruto could feel her relax as he kissed her. She slowly returned to a normal colour and embraced Naruto once more before returning to her house for a good nights rest before continuing with her training.
"Goodnight Naruto, I love you and I'll see you tomorrow." She spoke before disappearing in the night sky.
Naruto stared as she disappeared between the rooftops all he could see before she had gone out of sight completely is her long blue hair in the moonlight which made it shimmer and look as radiant as a blossom in spring.
"Goodnight my true love" He said softly into the night sky, hoping that she could hear.