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Last Academy Day
We woke up early the next morning. I walked to the bathroom and stood in front of the washstand, taking a look at the preteen that gazed back at me through the reflection. Her long dark blue hair, a little messy because of the night, reached bellow her shoulder; her large opalescent eyes shone brightly, and her pink lips curved into a small smile
"Good morning" I said to the girl
"Good morning Hina-chan" greeted Habataku "you are every happy today"
"Why shouldn't I? Naruto-kun is finally back! 3 weeks has been a long time without him" I said splashing some water into my face
"Yeah! I've missed you too Hina-chan!" I raised my gaze and saw him entering the bathroom "Who are u talking to, anyway?" I blushed. Did he listen to my small talk with Habataku?
"I-I-I-I-I'm o-only talking to m-m-myself" I said turning around swiftly, closing my eyes with a silly laughing, when I opened my eyes Naruto-kun was a few inches away from my face, my face grew hotter
"Hinata, I thought you had solved your stuttering already, what happened? That's the first time I hear you stutter in a while…unless…" he trailed
"…unless?" I dared to ask
"unless…something's wrong…you only stutter when something troubles you or you are nervous" he said with a grin "so…which is it, Hina-chaaaan?"
I had to think fast "I'm…um…nervous…because of the exam! Yes that's it!" it was the perfect excuse "the last ranking test today and the Gennin exam tomorrow!"
"Eh?!" he raised an eyebrow "But Hinata! You are even better than me, and that Taijutsu you use is awesome, with those flips and the jumps, you can't possibly be nervous!"
"Well, still, I get nervous" I said taking a step back putting some distance between our faces
"Don't worry Hina-chan! You'll kick ass as always!" said Naruto-kun giving me the thumbs up
"If you two don't hurry up I'm going to put you to run laps around Konoha" Sora-nee-san appeared at the door "I'll be waiting for you in 15 minutes at the courtyard, don't be late" she started to walk away "Good morning and, by the way, I like your pajamas Hinata, very sexy" with terror I looked down to see my outfit, apparently when Naruto-kun had entered the bathroom I accidently had splashed some water on my night t-shirt which was white, and with the water it had became translucent. (Beta note: The author is a perv ¬¬)
I could feel the blood rushing to my face…and Naruto-kun staring at me wasn't exactly helping, closing my eyes and trying fiercely not to pass out of shame I rushed to my room and locked the door
"Why didn't you told me?" I demanded to Habataku
"You want me to say the truth, or you want us to continue being friends?" she asked me innocently
"How many times have I told you that I will take my time with Naruto-kun?" I asked her "I don't need him to have a picture of my underwear through a wet shirt. That won't make him fall in love with me"
"But I could make him start thinking about you as a girl, and not just as his friend, Hina-chan" she calmly said
"Arg! Nevermind Habataku, I'm going to get dressed" I said a little pissed at her.
I walked to the wardrobe and took out my usual outfit: a light lavender dress with a cherry blossoms design in the bottom which I wore above a fishnet body suit, leg warmers also lavender in color, and my mother's jacket on top of the dress. I wore it opened in the front, Naruto-kun didn't like it with the zipper up, he said that I had to be a little more extrovert and that jacket covering my body wasn't exactly a good sign, Neji-nii-san had agreed so I guessed that if I wore it opened I would make them happy and still use my mother's memento. It was shooting two ducks with one kunai.
I combed my hair and tied it up in a pony tail at the base of my head, with a final check up at the mirror I walked out of my room. I wasn't Sakura, but at least it wasn't that bad, from certain angles I even thought I looked cute.
On my way outside I passed in front of the bathroom, the sound of water falling told me that someone was taking a shower, it was probably Naruto-kun, because he had gone to bed last night without taking a bath.
"I guess it's a shame there's a seal around the bathroom that stops the Byakugan, uh? Hinata?" Habataku asked me
"Drop it already" I said blushing yet again
"I've told you I know this technique that would help you bypass the seal and peep into the bathroom, yes?" she continued
"No, I won't peep on Naruto-kun while he's taking a bath; that would be rude" I said walking down the stairs
"Yes, yes, you'll wait until you are his wife to see him naked…if that ever happens…" she said lowly "five years Hina-chan, five years. In five years he hasn't asked you out even once"
"He takes me to have ramen from time to time!" I defended, although I knew those weren't exactly dates
"But that's because of that game you play, and only because you always win. Well, that's until yesterday, and honestly, that doesn't count" she replied "he's getting popular, a little more with each passing day…do you want some other girl to have him first?" she asked trailing of the words a little bit.
My mind rushed to show me images of Naruto-kun kissing some other girl like Sakura or Ino or Azumi…a deep pain fell on my heart
"Of course I don't!" I said almost yelling
"You…don't?" at the end of the stairs there was my father, looking at me with a surprised face
"Father! I…Good morning!" I said with a small reverence "I'm sorry for raising my voice, I was thinking out loud"
"Good morning Hinata. Please try to be more careful in the future; breakfast will be ready soon, make sure you, and the Uzumaki siblings, get there on time today"
"Yes, father"
"Very well, off you go, she's waiting for you outside" without another word he continued his way to the dojo, surely he was on his way to train with my sister.
I reached the gardens in time and met up with Sora-nee-san. Her outfit was the standard: Black leather boots above the knee, blood red mini skirt, purple silk blouse, and her black leather jacket on top, her hair was dyed electric blue with blonde stripes. She changed her hair color and style around every month
A few minutes later Naruto-kun came walking into the courtyard
"There you are! One minute more and I would have put you to run around Konoha!" she said almost yelling "now bring your lazy ass here!"
"Yeh, yeh, I hear ya, Nee-san" he was wearing his orange jacket with sheep in the inside, it always kind of reminded me of Kiba's jacket, but in orange; his brown pants with orange lines running on the sides, his black t-shirt showing bellow his opened jacket, and his goggles on his forehead, separating his cute face and his golden shinning hair. "Come on Nee-san, it's early in the morning and Hinata-chan and I have the end of the academy year around the corner. Can't we just skip the training these two days? Besides we've been training hard the last 5 years!"
"That's just one more reason not to skip a training lesson!" she said almost cheerily
"Ok, ok, ok! But, can we do it after the exam, ne? It's the same if we work out in the morning or in the afternoon, right?" Naruto-kun almost pleaded
"Fine" yielded Sora-nee-san "but when you return from the academy you will have to do all the exercises without complains, deal?"
"You bet!" said Naruto-kun happily "let's have breakfast early today Hinata!"
"Sure" I accepted smiling
"A race to the house?" he asked me
"You're on!" I said smiling, he answered with a smirk
"Ready, set, go!" with that Naruto-kun ran as fast as he could, and I stayed back, channeling chakra, preparing my taijutsu technique
"MOON JUMP!" I cried and suddenly I appeared at the door way, seconds before Naruto-kun got there
"Hey your teleportation's faster now!" he said surprised, before going to that 3 week training trip I could beat you on my feet alone but, your amazingly fast now!
"It's still too slow to use effectively in combat" I declared matter of factly
"It's still cooler that running and jumping around" he replied
"More tiring too" I reminded him
"Point taken, but in a life or death situation it could be a life savior or in a steal mission, going in and out without running could give you an edge"
"Point taken"
Dropping the discussion we entered the house and had our breakfast, Sora-nee-san, along with my father and Hanabi-imouto-san; joined us some minutes later. After finishing our meals we got prepared to go to our last day at the academy. We were walking through the village when Naruto-kun said:
"Nee, Hinata! I've got a great idea! A masterplan! The prank of all pranks! The perfect ending for my academy student period!" he said happily and excited
"What's in your mind Naruto-kun?" I knew he was up to no good
"No, no, I'll let it be a surprise, but trust me! It's HUGE!"
"Huge?" I asked him curious
"Yeah huge as...as the Hokage Mountain!" he said with his usual toothy grin
"As long you don't get yourself killed Naruto-kun"
"Don't worry, don't worry Hina-chan, its fail proof!" he said confidently
We arrived at the academy, the scenario was the same from a the last months…several of the younger students were hushing and gossiping around…over the years my ear and sight had developed incredibly…and even if they were talking in low voices I could hear them all perfectly
"Hey isn't that?" a girl said
"Yes he is! The Uzumaki boy" replied another
"You are right he's kind of cute, with his blonde hair and blue eyes!" said a third one
"I wonder why my dad told me to stay away from him…what a shame" said the first one again
"My daddy said the same to me…" the third girl admitted
"All our parents say the same….but that gives him that mystery aura around him!" the second said, I was close to having enough of the talk…I wish I could just not listen to them…but something new appeared that morning
"Hey look over there!" it was a boy this time, older than them…probably just a year bellow us
"The Hyuuga girl? She's way out of your possibilities!" said another boy…where they talking about me?!
"Why do you think so?" asked back the first
"Because she's crazy for me!" assured the other boy
"Yeah right" laughed his friend…were they really talking about…me? Nah, they could be…I'm sure another Hyuuga was at the academy and I didn't know… yes that HAD to be it
"Hinata?" asked me Naruto-kun "are you ok, you are all red! You didn't catch something over the night, did ya?" he asked me placing his hand over my forehead
"I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I'm ok, don't worry Naruto-kun!" I said taking a step back
We entered our class, everyone seemed so nervous, well everyone besides Sasuke of course, he always seems so calmed.
The tests for the ranking of our class included a written exam, shuriken practice, an endurance test, and finally a sparring between two people of our class to test for resourcefulness, taijutsu, ninjutsu, control, and witness.
The written exam wasn't that difficult, although Naruto-kun seemed to have a few problems with it…he's never been that good at written tests. The shuriken test consisted basically on landing as many hits in a row as possible; I got 45, Naruto-kun 56 but it was still little against the 100, which was the max score, that Sasuke achieved, but Ino which was the second best at shuriken got only 65 so ours wasn't that bad.
Finally the fights against each other had arrived; we were just about to begin the sort in order to select our opponents when Mizuki sensei arrived at the training ground
"Iruka-sensei!" he said appearing in a smoke cloud "You won't believe this!" he said
"What's the matter Mizuki-sensei?" he asked
"The Hokage Mountain! Someone painted graffiti all over it" he said, I was very surprised! Who in the world would do that?! Wait…Naruto-kun? Was this what he meant about something huge? Apparently Iruka-sensei had thought the same thing, because he turned around towards us
"Naruto, do you know something about this?" asked Iruka-sensei
"Me, sensei? I've been right here with Hina-chan all day long! I couldn't have done something like that, but the one who did it is a genius no doubt!" it was clear he was lying, but he had also said the truth: he had been with me all the day, so even if Iruka-sensei knew he was guilty he had no proof against him.
"Ok, each one of you will come to the front and take a little paper out of this box" he pointed a little box "each paper has a number in it, we will use them to select the pairs"
Each one of us passed and took out a little paper. I took out the number 3, Naruto-kun took out the number 16, and as such we waited until Iruka-sensei called our numbers.
I was the second to fight, I was paired with Magoro Oshikuru: he was the dead last of our generation, even so he wasn't exactly an easy prey. His best aspect was taijutsu, and he was decent enough using weapons, his specialty was the steel wires.
Both of us approached the center of the courtyard, everyone was watching us.
"You can beat him Hina-chan! Just be confident in your abilities!" cheered Naruto-kun
Oshikuru was a tall boy, very slim, he used dark grey clothes that covered all his body except for his head, his long pants, and gloves ensured that the steel wire wouldn't hurt his body; he used his dark hair very short, and his face was carved with several scars, no doubt he had been training trying to become stronger, but his most noticeable aspect was that he constantly ported a lot of wire around his legs, arms and chest that created an armor of some kind for him.
We fell into fighting positions and waited for Iruka-sensei to give us instructions.
"Well, this is not a fight to the death, so I'll stop it in the moment I consider it's prudent to do so. In the same fashion you are allowed only to use the special dull weapons we gave you, you can't use regular weapons that would endanger your opponent life, is it clear?" he said repeating the same thing he had said the last fight, both Oshikuru and I nodded "well then ready…fight!"
Oshikuru charged at preparing to punch me "I've been training hard for this day!" he took out a lightning scroll and placed in on his arm the wire around his hands was sparking, it was apparently charged up with electricity. In a swift movement I deflected his punch towards the ground, forcing him to discharge his electricity
"Get ready for a moon jump!"Advised Habataku, I knew it would slow my movements to prepare the chakra but even still I would follow the advice; with a rush movement forward and making use of his momentum and I threw Oshikuru into the air to buy me some time; however, he twisted in the air as I started channeling my chakra for my technique. He took out two shuriken and threw them at me; even if they were dull they could damp my movements if they were to hit me, so I took out a kunai and parried them. The moment Oshikuru landed on the ground he pointed his hand towards me and the wire that was rounded up on his hand and arm propelled towards me, menacing with tying me up. I was forced to move backwards, and fast, for the speed and length of the wire was greater than I expected, when he was close to catching me up I was ready for my technique
"MOON JUMP!" I disappeared and as calculated appeared behind Oshikuru, I charged forward to stop his movements with my Jyuuken, but the wire around his leg caught me by surprise and before I could react it was already around my body, locking my movements
"I got you! I got you!" Oshikuru cheered happily commanding the wire on his other hand and leg to tie me up. Focusing his chakra the wire started to charge up with electricity, which ran fast towards me, I had no other choice but to reach the small fan I was hiding up in my jacket and open it
"Wind Scythe Jutsu!" the force of the molded air chakra freed me from the wire, I charged forward planning to attack, but I realized the wire tied up around his body would impede any Jyuuken blow to affect him completely, and if I were to reckless to get close to him, he would catch me again. Thinking in no other option I controlled some water from the nearby school pond that was several yards behind Oshikuru and prepared three water needles and kept them in standby, waiting until I could make an opening, however I had to be fast since I could only hold the needles for few seconds.
Getting close to him I swung the fan and performed another technique "Fan the Flames Jutsu!" if his wire could conduct electricity they would conduct the heat of the flames too! The wind moved by my fan became flames and heated up Oshikuru's wire armor; he was forced to get rid of it unless he wanted to get burned and at that moment I commanded the water needles to stab his back, stopping his movements for a moment.
Completely tired with the chrakra usage I managed to tap Oshikuru's forehead and use my Jyuuken to tap a tenketsu that knocked him unconscious, but even if it lasted a few minutes it was enough to give me the victory
"That's enough, Hyuuga Hinata is the winner" declared Iruka-sensei, smiling I fell on my back completely tired
"GREAT!" Naruto-kun was next to me in a matter of seconds, but I was so tired that I lost consciousness. When I woke up Naruto-kun was by my side "You were great! I guess no one expected you to use ninjutsu so repeatedly! Everyone was so surprised! Even Sasuke and Ino were surprised about how you managed to keep those needles in the air! HELL! I'm amused you trained so hard these last three weeks!"
"But even so, I can't stand more than two or three minutes of battle in that intensity…my chakra and endurance aren't good enough" I said smiling sadly
"Hey hey, Midori-senpai already said it…there's a lot of time…you did better than most of us…Your ninjutsu is remarkable for a academy student, don't worry" said Naruto-kun smiling confidently
"Thanks" I said to him with my cheeks a little hot
"Stand up, you already missed two fights, Ino and Shika showed awesome ninjutsu…I guess they got jealous from your display" he said grinning toothily, that grin that reminds me of a cute little fox
"That's the first time I see Shika fight so seriously" said Sakura
"That lazy bum? He was super slow to finish his fight, your forehead is messing with your sight, Sakura?" said Ino. Some time from now they stopped being friends and start fighting over every little thing
"Shut up Ino-pig! You know that's the first time Shikamaru wins a fight and not just gives up right after starting!"
"Silence girls!" commanded Iruka-sensei "The next fight will be Haruno Sakura and Nakamura Azumi"
"GREAT ITS SAKURA-CHAN'S TURN!" cheered Naruto-kun "GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT SAKURA-CHAN! AZUMI YOU BETTER SHOW ME WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF!" as natural Naruto-kun was friendly to everyone…but it wasn't that simple with Azumi
"SHUT UP NARUTO!" yelled back Sakura
"Why do you treat him like that?" asked Azumi to Sakura. Azumi was a slim and thin girl, slightly taller than Naruto-kun, she always used a short kimono, white on the shoulders and dyed of purple from there to the end, going from pale on the uppermost part to deep on the bottom. She
was the weapon master of our generation, second best in fighting skills, she used usually a Katana, but today she was wielding a wooden sword. Her hair was black and framed her face, slightly above her shoulder line and she had light blue eyes.
"The way I treat Naruto doesn't matter to you" she said very politely
"Of course it does!" Azumi was the first girl to give up on Sasuke and turn her sight to Naruto-kun, it was clear the she liked him "She likes you so very much and yet you only ignore him, make him feel bad, and follow after that cold, emotionless guy?"
"Why you-" started Sakura but Iruka-sensei interrupted her
"That's enough girls, you already know the rules; remember to only use dull weapons, if you draw keen tools you'll fail the year ok? On your guard, ready, fight!"
In a fast movement Azumi performed a Bunshin technique and replied into 8 copies all of them drawing her wooden sword and surrounded Sakura which answered Bunshin with Bunshin and attacked Azumi, but she was way faster and in three seconds destroyed all the illusions and put Sakura's neck to her sword
"That's enough!" said Iruka-sensei
"You are not worth of his attention, and your crush will never care for you…he'll knock you out and leave you there if you ever get on his away…" Azumi said coldly, and walked to us "Hey guys! Did you saw me?"
"You did well Azumi" I said calmed
"You kick ass! What a blinding speed! I'm sure even Sasuke would have a hard time matching it!"
"Well thank you Naruto!" she giggled
"Silence please, the next fight will be between" he checked his notes "Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto"
Sooner than everyone expected!! WILL NARUTO BE ABLE TO DEFEAT SASUKE?
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