Hello all! i'm back
Here is the new chapter, as usual thank Hikari no Okami, my beta, otherwise this chapter would be so terrible you couldn't even read it XD
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TRAINING TO THE DEATH"
"You seem strangely happy today, Hinata-san" told me Kurenai-san on our usual walk to the academy
"You t-think so? Well, it's a f-fine morning isn't it?" I replied
"Yes, yes it is" she said with a small smile "how have things been going at the academy?"
"T-they have been i-improving" I said
"That girl…the one that was with your friend Naruto-kun, who is she?"
Suddenly the image of Midori-senpai in those woods at night with that man of red clothes came to my mind; she had said 'HIS son' she was talking about Naruto-kun? And if so, she knew something about Naruto-kun's parents? Maybe she was helping train other people, and she was simply talking about some other boy. I had to investigate the matter.
"Is something the matter?" asked Kurenai-san, apparently I had been silent too much
"No, n-n-nothing" I said a little ashamed "she's an older girl that's helping us train, she's the top student of her generation"
"I see, so she's giving you advice on your extra training?"
"Yes, Naruto-kun w-wanted to do more and b-better training, now t-that he knows how hard Sasuke is training a-after the aca-academy"
"Not wanting to be left behind by his rival is it?" questioned Kurenai closing his eyes "and with your family; how are the things going?"
"Well, t-t-things haven't changed; they r-remain the same as a-always" I said lowly "but I think I'm getting used to it"
"I suppose that's ok, just don't let it damper your other sources of happiness, I'm sure you know that not all families are like that"
"Yes I understand it's the weight of being an old, respectable family of Konoha"
"You are right, more than you know. You will be a good information gatherer shinobi if you choose such path" Kurenai said smiling
"T-thanks" I managed to say trying not to stutter, but the compliment caught me by surprise
"We have arrived" said Kurenai after a few more seconds, the academy doors where just a few steps away "give my greeting to naruto-kun, I'll come to pick you up the usual time" said Kurenai-san I nodded, waved her good bye and she disappeared
I walked to the door where Naruto-kun was already waiting for me "hey Hinata-chan!" he greeted me happily
"Good m-morning Naruto-kun" I replied with a small smile
"Check this out!" Naruto-kun took out a small paper and started concentrated very hard
"That's one of the papers Midori-senpai gave us" I recognized the paper, but before I could say another word naruto-kun was surrounded by a large amount of chakra, so much that I could see it without my Byakugan, since when was Naruto-kun able to call on such a large amount of chakra? Even more, did Naruto-kun have this amount of chakra?!
The paper that Naruto-kun was holding in his hand suddenly was cut in half. He finished concentrating and took a deep breath
"Heh! How's that uh?" asked Naruto-kun with a toothy smile
"W-wow Naruto-kun! So you are a wind element user" I cheered not only surprised and happy but also very proud for him, he had finally managed to do it!
"Surprised? Haha! This is nothing for me! I'm the future Hokage after all!"
"O-of course!" I said smiling
"Hey! Can I see you do it again?" he asked
"You mean using a chakra paper?" I questioned back
"Yeah! You do it so easily!" he cheered
I took out the spare paper Midori-senpai had given me the day before, I placed it in my and concentrated my chakra to activate it, expecting to feel it getting wet. However something different happened.
First it rugged, then it got cut in half, and one of the part burned and the other got wet
"W-w-what happened?" I asked scared!
"I dunno!" said naruto-kun almost yelling, he was clearly surprised
"M-m-maybe this one do was broken?" I asked, why would it react like this today?
"Yeah, yeah!" said Naruto-kun trying to act as if it wouldn't had surprised him "that most be it" he crossed his arms "let's go Hinata-chan" he said walking into the academy, I followed him in silence, and turned once to see the almost extinguished fire and the wet piece of paper that were the remains of the chakra paper.
During class that day I asked Iruka-sensei if someone could be attuned to more elements than the one he or she was born with training; but he said that he hadn't heard of someone that had been able to do so.
Later that day Mizuki-sensei taught us a new ninja technique, a simple illusion of ourselves that could be used to create a diversion to force the enemy into lowering his guard, he called the technique "Bunshin no Jutsu" or "Clone Technique", it was easy, much more than the Water Needle Jutsu that Midori-senpai taught me. However poor Naruto-kun couldn't perform a single clone no matter how hard he tried, his clones would be pale and couldn't even stand, let alone move; to make things worse Sasuke was able to create 8 clones, Ino performed also 8 and Sakura created a good 6 clones while I could only do 3.
That remained me how incompetent I was. Yesterday I felt like I could do anything but after seeing Ino, Sasuke, and Sakura doing so good I noticed how I was completely talentless. Naruto-kun and I were sitting sadly by out tree after class that day when Midori-senpai reached us.
"Hey guys, why the long face?" she asked
"What long face?!" Naruto-kun stood up and smiled, although I could tell he was faking it
"For a sec I… nevermind! How was your day?"
"Ter-" I was starting to answer when Naruto-kun answered even higher
"Good! Good! Everything was perfect, can we start our training?"
"It's ill mannered to interrupt someone, even if you are trying to protect that someone, Naruto-kun. You have something to say Hinata-san?" Midori-senpai talked calmly
I negated with my head
"Ok, then, let's start today's session by performing Bunshin, Iruka-sensei told me you were taught that today"
"That's a simple technique!" replied quickly Naruto-kun "a ninja of my power doesn't need to do that! Why don't you teach me a cool new technique? Yesterday you told me you would teach me a wind technique"
"Well if it's a technique so simple for a ninja of your level I'm sure it would be a piece of cake to perform it just to shut my mouth right?" she said smiling nicely
"Eh…about that…" Naruto-kun smiled and took two steps back placing his hand behind her head
"What's the matter Naruto-kun?" with a small poof another Midori-senpai appeared behind Naruto-kun, and he bumped into her
"eh? so this one is the real? The one in front is…?" asked Naruto-kun point from one Midori-senpai to the other
"Nope" said the first Midori-senpai touching his head
"W-w-what this? T-two Midori-senpais?!" I asked activating my Byakugan but found that both had chakra systems!
"You have a twin?!" asked Naruto-kun
The second Midori-senpai disappeared with a poof, the remaining one giggled "No, it's my newest ninja technique; it's called 'Kage Bunshin', it creates a solid clone, not just illusions like the usual Bunshin" she explained.
A shadow of sad covered Naruto-kun's face, I thought I understood him, if he had problems with a regular bunshin how could he use a more advanced technique?
"Now" continued Midori-senpai "this one is a forbidden technique, Jounin level, but I believe that with the correct amount of training one of you could perform it, and because this isn't a genjutsu like bunshin your regular performance is such technique won't affect Kage Bunshin at all" at those words Naruto-kun's eyes recovered their shine, but I started to have my doubts: forbidden Jounin level technique? What was she teaching us?
"I'm pretty new to the jutsu myself but as you were able to see I can perform it, but it's not that useful in battle at my level. For today training session, first I'd like to see Hinata's Water Needle Jutsu and after that we'll have some physical training and in the last minute we'll start with Kage Bunshin and I'll give you both some elemental techniques to train on your own, how does that sounds?" she asked
I was a little worried of how could we endure such a routine, but Naruto-kun started to yell excited that he wanted to start already and I heard him mumbling something about defeating Sasuke, as such Midori-senpai took out a bottle of water
"Hinata-san, if you please" she said taking a few steps back to give me room. I took a deep breath and walked in front of the tree that would be the target
"Stay calmed" Habataku whispered to me "You can do this" that voice, the voice of my mother, it gave me a spark of hope and determination
"C'mon Hinata-chan! You can do it!" cheered me Naruto-kun. My heart skipped a beat and my face grew hotter 'I won't fail in front of Naruto-kun!' I told myself.
I performed the hand seals and concentrated on the water of the bottle closing my eyes. I could feel my chakra around the water and taking it and keeping it together, slowly I sculpted it into a senbon needle, reinforcing the shape with more chakra and finally threw it forward, I could feel how it splash against the bark of the tree, I noticed I had completely stopped breathing, as such I took a deep breath
"Amazing Hinata-chan!" Naruto-kun complimented me, but I was sure it had been terrible
"Splendid!" Midori-senpai was clapping!
I opened one eye, trying to see what had happened, I saw the tree, its bark splashed with water but nothing else. I released a depressed sigh
"What was that?" asked Midori-senpai
"I failed again" I said lowly
"Don't say come here" Midori-senpai took my hand and walked to the tree, placed my hand over the bark "feel here" she said passing my hand up and down "can you feel that little hole on the bark?"
"yes"
"that's the exact point in which you hit it" she told me "your jutsu improved at such point that u were able to leave a mark on the tree, for just a day that's a huge achievement, specially for someone so young"
"Yeah, Hinata-chan you kick ass!" said loudly Naruto-kun. I turned to see him and smiled, it was the first time I had failed and yet I was congratulated, I wanted to cry out of joy.
Midori-senpai put us to run laps to the whole square, then several series of pushups, sit ups, and abdominals too. After almost a whole hour she stopped us and handed each one two scrolls a red one to each other and a green one for Naruto-kun and a blue one for me
"The red one contains the Kage Bunshin, I trust you with this information, that's one of the leaf secret ninjutsu, as such you have to handle it with care and never show it to anyone else. The other one is an elemental jutsu" she said "I'll give you both a small demonstration on the elemental jutsu but you guys will have to practice those on your own"
I opened the blue scroll, it had the name 'Water Cannon Jutsu' apparently after reading it quickly it was a jutsu that sent chakra molded water out of the mouth of the ninja in the form of balls, it was great to use when you had no other water source but your own saliva
"Ok watch carefully, I'll start with Naruto-kun. Yours is the 'Wind Edge Jutsu' it's the base for another wind jutsu called 'Wind Scythe' it consist on keening the edge of a blade, kunai, or shuriken using the air around it" she took out two shuriken "a regular shuriken can deal some damage" she said throwing it against a wall, bouncing harmless against it "but a wind edged shuriken is even more powerful" she said concentrating some chakra on a shuriken and performing a few hand seals, making it glow green and throwing it against the same wall and it cut a small section of the wall passed through it like butter and hit the wall on the other side of the street!
"THAT'S-THAT'S JUST AMAZING!" yelled Naruto-kun
"I-incredible! Such p-power!" I stuttered unable to hide my surprise
"Now now, there are shinobi that could have penetrated more walls!" said Midori-senpai "I hope you can get this ninjutsu Naruto-kun, I know it could be hard but if you keep practicing I'm sure you'll get it"
"ALL RIGHT! I'll go check this stuff right away!" said Naruto-kun opening his scroll
"Ok just don't wander too far we'll check that Kage Bunshin ok?" she turned to see me "ok now Hinata-san let's see that Water Cannon jutsu, how does that sound?" she said smiling
"um, ok"
"Right, I'm sure that you understand the basics of water manipulation right?" she asked me with her so calmed voice
"I d-don't master it yet, but I know the t-theory" I replied
"That's great, you're so smart; now this jutsu is kinda like the last one, but instead of altering the shape of the water now you will use chakra to produce more water using your own natural source as the base, look it's not as complicated as it may seem, just look carefully" she made three hand seals and suddenly her cheeks grew bigger, as if she had something in her mouth and threw a small ball of water from it, she took a deep breath after that "wow, I must be careful with those demonstrations…too much chakra" she said smiling but taking a hand to her forehead "I guess it's hard to understand just from watching it, but once in your mouth you'll understand it. First it will be useful only to create water where you can't access it, but if you mold enough chakra in it you could use it as an attack"
"That's u-useful" I replied to her helping her standing
"Yeah, It is, usually water ninjutsu are more complicated to perform because either you need to use a body of water of pull the water in the air and that's tiresome, this is a simpler technique to use have water nearby"
I helped Midori-senpai walk to the tree and she sit there
"Thanks Hinata-san, now practice your ninjutsu, we'll see if we have time for me to recover a little before you have to go"
Naruto-kun and I practiced for several minutes, and certainly it wasn't so difficult, but I couldn't create water, only more saliva, although Midori-senpai told me that I almost got it
After that we practiced that Kage Bunshin technique, it came to be an extremely difficult technique, it left me depleted after a single try I had nothing else to give, however Naruto-kun kept trying, he wasn't anything close to be exhausted, and when Kurenai-san came to pick me up he was still trying.
When I was leaving Midori-senpai came to me with a warning "don't practice That jutsu on your own"
I understood why, I was lacking the control or chakra capacity to perform the technique, it was extremely dangerous, if I were to overdo it I could end up dead
The full moon was shinning high in the sky that night, and luckily for me my father canceled our evening training and organized a spar with my sister the next morning
However I had no rest for that night "well now it's the time to start the Taijutsu training we talked about" said Habataku
"W-w-what? Tonight? Can't we wait? I'm t-terribly exhausted! I can't move" I asked her, but more likely I pleaded her to please start another day
"I'm so sorry, but this needs to be performed under the full moon, as such…take out your clothes, and go outside, I'll explain your training"
Removing my clothes I walked outside in the middle of the night
"ok, go into the pound over there, for the following month you will dance under the light of the moon, from this full moon to the next, the dance is hard, complicated and extremely tired, however it's the basic for the training for you to master this movements"
The dance was as hard as she had told me, I was sweating direly after only a few minutes, my feet ached and my body was lump, yet even like that I could still move my arms and legs, performing the tiresome steps of the "moon dance" as Habataku called it.
I kept falling once and again, yet Habataku cheered me in a firm tone, bringing me up to my feet every time, dripping from both the sweat and the water of the pond I danced to the moon for hours, until finally Habataku told me to go to sleep.
Heavily and slowly I stepped out of the water, making one step at a time my way back to the house. I was completely exhausted, but it was too soon to get my rest apparently
"There's someone over that wall!" warned me Habataku, the adrenaline rushed to my muscles and I picked up my robe covering up my body as well as I could
"W-w-w-who's t-t-t-there!" I cried out
"Hinata-chan!" It was Naruto-kun! He crawled down the wall, and walked slowly towards me. His clothes were ripped on several spots, had mud all over and he looked terrible, his hair was even more messy than usual and his eyes, usually bright and dazzling now were dull, half closed
"Naruto-kun, what in the world happened to you?" I asked him, he smiled
"That's the second time I hear you say a phrase without stuttering" he half-laughed
I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks "Don't go saying weird stuff at a time like this Naruto-kun! You are battered! Tell me, what happened to you?" I asked him worried
"Heh, you didn't stuttered again…and I like your robe" he said falling to his knees, I ran to his side
"Nar-" I tried to press about what had happened to him but he talked again
"Nee, Hinata…Don't go trying that Kage Bunshin Jutsu…is a killer" and suddenly he collapsed over me, I feared the worst. I checked his vitals…and my fears increased
"FATHER!" I yelled calling him in the night
That's it, please read and review, let me know what you think about the story so i can improve it
We are getting close the point in the that we'll take the original timeline, as such i have a question
Who should be their jounin sensei?
1.- Kakashi
2.- Anko
3.- Midori
4.-Kurenai
5.-Ebisu
6.-OC
7.- Other (tell me who)
Tell me your answer in a review, if you can add a reason of why it would be better, but the number or the name alone is also ok.
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