Naruto's Newly Found Love – Chapter 4
A few days passed since we returned to the village, Naruto and Hinata have seen each other every day since. Nothing much has happened either; it has been calm and relaxing for most of the village ninja well all but two of them anyway.
"KIBA!" Shino screamed into the distance
"What?" Kiba replied
"Have you seen Hinata around lately?" Shino questioned him
"No I haven't but I heard she's been spending a lot of time with Naruto lately? What do you care anyway?" Kiba asked with a puzzled expression
"We've been given a mission but if she's busy then we should do it without her then!" Shino said whilst staring into the sky.
"What's the mission?" Kiba exclaimed
The two discussed the matter and headed off to gather the necessary equipment to aid them on their mission, neither one thought to go get Hinata and that may be an action worth regretting if things went wrong.
"Ok so where are we headed first then?" Kiba questioned Shino
"We are heading to the edge of the village hidden in the grass to meet with a shinobi who will then take us to the actual village" Shino replied
"Why do we need to meet someone why can't we just go straight there?" Kiba said in a quick response
"Well we may be attacked on the way to the village but with a shinobi of the hidden grass we should be fine and it means no fighting" Shino said with a lack of enthusiasm
"Right then let's get going then" Kiba exclaimed whilst jumping on to Akumaru for the long trip.
The two young shinobi left off into the distance ready for their mission. Whilst they left Hinata had headed to see the Hokage and talk to her about any new missions, but when Hinata reached the office she did not get the news she had wanted.
"Hinata, I thought your team had been given your mission and set off an hour ago?" Tsunade questioned her
"I was never informed of a mission Hokage, does that mean Kiba and Shino have gone without me then? Why would they do that though?" Hinata said worryingly
"I'm sure this is a big misunderstanding but without you I don't know what will happen" Tsunade said with hesitation
"Where were they headed?" Hinata interrupted Tsunade's train of thought
"They were sent to the borders of the hidden grass, to meet a guide" Tsunade replied
"I must hurry after them!" Hinata said in a hurry as she rushed past Shizune who fell to the side
Hinata rushed out the city gates with only a small pack of weapons to take with her, you could tell from the saddened expression on her face that she was upset with not being told about the mission and that she wanted to be with them, to protect them, to protect her friends. She reached the edge of the forest that surrounded the Leaf Village and saw the prints of several shinobi, one set was Shino's, one was a paw print which meant it must have been Akumaru and there was another only faint as if it wasn't supposed to be there. Who could it be? Are they being followed? Hinata didn't know but she knew she couldn't take the risk and she began to chase them down.
As she began to get close to the border of the grass land she could see in the distance a fight that must have began recently as she couldn't hear it a few minutes ago. She reached the scene and saw that two shinobi were lying on the floor unconscious it was Shino and who must have been the guy to meet them as the band around his head was the grass villages symbol, but where's Kiba, she looked around frantically scanning the surroundings, she noticed a small trail of blood of into a clearing. She followed it to see Akumaru on the floor and Kiba on his knees, bleeding severely.
"KIBA!" Hinata bellowed
"H-Hinata." Kiba said faintly as his face hit the floor.
"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" she screamed at the hooded villain that attacked her teammates
"Huh another victim is it? I'll take you out just like I did them" The hooded figure exclaimed
"Try it" a voice came from behind Hinata
"Kurenai-sensei" Hinata said with a surprised tone
Cherry blossoms came cascading down onto the battlefield and started to surround Kurenai as she walked towards the strange opponent. He sniggered and with a wave of his hand started to blow the petals away from himself and her revealing where she was. As he did this Hinata lunged towards him with her air palm techniques, with one hit she pushed him back several feet, then another few feet and again. She knew she had to do something to help but what, holding him off won't do much to help, whilst she fended off the villain Kurenai seemed to disappear into the ground with her hair camouflage jutsu, she appeared behind the opponent and began to make hand signs for her demonic illusion: Tree Binding Death jutsu. Hinata noticed and carried on attacking the enemy, as she struck his body he protected himself with a wind barrier, he grabbed her arm and pulled her close then kicked her down to the floor, at this point Kurenai was ready and had already reached him. Hinata looked up at the enemy and saw him in the middle of the air screaming to be let go.
"Who are you?" Kurenai asked
"None of you business!" he shouted
"Fine, I'll remove your hood and see which village you came from!"
Kurenai removed the hood to see that it was a shinobi from the Land of the wind, to be exact the Village hidden in the sand.
"What business does the sand village have with us here?" she questioned him
"We were hired by a man to stop the shinobi of the leaf getting into the grass village." He replied hesitantly
"Now let me go!" he exclaimed
"Why should I?" Kurenai said with a laugh
"Because if you don't more shinobi will come to find me!"
"Fine but you must leave now" She exclaimed as she released the jutsu entangling him
The shinobi ran off into the distance, Kurenai and Hinata rushed to Kiba, Akumaru, Shino and the unknown grass shinobi to aid them. Once they were conscious again they headed off slowly towards the Hidden grass.
"So who might you two be?" the grass shinobi questioned them
"Kurenai Yuhi and Hinata Hyuga" Kurenai replied to the young shinobi
"Wow Kurenai as in the genjutsu user Kurenai? I also specialize with genjutsu but I'm nowhere near as good as you" He spoke whilst blushing
"Well it's nice to see a young shinobi who practices the art of genjutsu" She responded
The group reached the hidden grass village and were taken to the village's leader who spoke to them briefly.
"To show are allegiance with the hidden leaf we are sending two of our best shinobi to live in your village and you are too take them with you, One is my Daughter Tsubaki, she is a weapon specialist and the other is Sumiko who is a water jutsu specialist. Please take care of them for me and tell the Hokage thank you" He said to the group
"We shall protect them with our lives sir!" Kurenai replied
The group walked outside and introduced them to the two new members of the village. After that they headed off to return to the village, again they reached the border and immediately became more alert because of what happened.
"We must be careful not to get surprised, stay alert everyone!" Kurenai ordered the group
"Yes ma'am" Kiba exclaimed as Akumaru barked
"Yes" the rest replied
The group reached a clearing safely by the woods towards the leaf village and then a group of shinobi blocked the path ahead. Staring them down the shinobi began to throw kunai at the group, each being deflected easily these were chunin ninja at best and several must be genin still as well.
"Team 8 positions, Tsubaki and Sumiko we will defend you, if need be fight with us" Kurenai exclaimed
"Of course" they all agreed
Hinata stood between Kiba and Shino, Shino's bugs were already moving towards the enemy and Kiba began his Fang over Fang jutsu to break the line of shinobi ahead. Hinata quickly lunged into the 64 palms technique against the leader of the enemy. Two of the genin had been knocked out by Kiba's fang over fang. A chunin was fighting Kurenai at close combat preventing her genjutsu to be useful but Sumiko used her Water Snake Mouth jutsu technique to wash the enemy away, taking another two along as well. There were now only two left, Shino used his insect sphere technique on the chunin he was fighting to have his bugs feed on his chakra. Now hinata was still fighting the leader of the shinobi group and was beginning to struggle, the others tried to step in.
"No I must do this myself!" Hinata shouted
The others stood and watched as Hinata slowly began to get beaten up, but just as Kurenai was going to step in she noticed Hinata beginning to use a new technique.
"Gentle Step: Twin Lion Fists" Hinata yelled as the enemy was propelled backwards into a large tree behind him
"Wow" the others all said as it happened
"Hinata when did you learn that?" Kurenai questioned her
"Well I didn't have it down properly so I didn't tell you I had been working on a new technique" She replied
"That doesn't matter now anyway, well done everybody. Let's get home!" Kurenai exclaimed
The group reached the village without any more trouble and headed straight to the Hokage's office.
"Welcome back team 8 and my name is Tsunade and I'm the Hokage welcome to the village this will be your new home, please settle in as best you can" Tsunade greeted the group
"Thank you Hokage, my name is Tsubaki and this is Sukomi, it is a pleasure to be able to help our villages become allies" Tsubaki responded
"The shinobi outside will take you to your new home, please rest for a while" Tsunade spoke
The two girls left the room after saying goodbye to team 8 and Tsunade; they were taken to the far side of the village to their new home by the gate of the village.
"Well done team 8, I will inform the leader of the grass village that they arrived safely. Go and rest for now and I will let you know when there is another mission for you, dismissed" Tsunade exclaimed
The team left and went their separate ways; Kurenai went to see Asuma over at Yakiniku Q where team 10 hang out, Kiba went home to his mother, Shino went home too and Hinata went to Naruto's house to see him before she headed home. As she knocked the door she waited for him to answer but nothing she knocked again, still nothing. She decided to leave it and walked off towards her house when she noticed Naruto sat atop the Hokage monument staring towards the moon.
"Naruto!" she yelled to him as she waved
"Hinata, where've you been?" He said whilst smiling and jumping down to where she was stood
"I had to go on a mission, what have you been doing?" She responded whilst blushing at him
"Just sat waiting to see you" He replied blushing bright red.
"I better go rest, goodnight Naruto" She said as she kissed his cheek and then turned to disappear off home
"Goodnight!" He responded as he waved to her still blushing bright red