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Team Blonie

by

French NaruHina

Capter 3 : Getting sttronger

Two week later our four favorite students the three blond achievement of the tree climbing exercise, Naminé got it five days prior, followed by Roxas two days later and Naruto finally made it to the top of his tree earlier that day. So everyone was eating ramen at Ichiraku's, where Teuchi and his daughter Ayame were so happy to meet Naruto's friends they gave each first bowl for free.

"I was thinking, why do we always do chakra exercises ?"

"Maybe because it's what those trainning session are for, Naruto."

"Yeah but we're already good at this now ! I don't say we should stop chakra trainning, but we coud at least focus on something else. Remenber what Axel-senseï told Hinata-chan during Taijutsu pratice the other day ?"

Flashback

"Okay class, now that warm up is over I want each of you to show me your best hand-to-hand move !"

Each student took place in front of a practice dummy and proceeded topunch and/or kick them without an once of mercy. "Geez, do they even know what a combo is ? Or a stance ?" But something caugh Axel eye, one Hyuga Hinata in the basic jyuken stance aparently in an effort of deep concentration.

"Eight Tigrams, 32 palms !" She then began a quick sequence of hits on various point of her dummy, and by the look of it Axel didn't want to be a dummy right now, however it could be better and he know how to make that happen.

"THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT ! Hinata, that move was impresive for someone your age."

"B-but I h-haven't mastered it yet..."

"And for what I've seen you probably never will..." Hinata flinched "... don't take it like that, what I will tell you is very important, so I expect you to listen well, GOT IT CLASS ?"

"Haï Axel-sensei !" came the unanimous reply.

"So Hinata, can you tell me why you didn't mastered the 64 hit version of this move ?"

"I-it hurts s-senseï" was Hinata shameful explaination.

"Exactly, and I'll tell you why... Nowadays students think you should pratice to adapt to your fighting style, but a true master like me knows that practice time must be used to alter the existing forms and katas to suit our bodies. The reason it hurts so much from 32 strikes is that your body is not adapted to the way you throw them, causing a strain, the rapid sucession of said strikes make the strain increase to the point pain become unbearable. From then you have two solution, one : you keep praticing the move like you always did 'till the pain fade away and end your life as an arched old lady; two : you alter your movement 'till they suit you and keep effective, and you'll have a nice retirement without skeletal disformation. You don't want to suffer skeletal disformation, do you ?"

"I-I guess n-not..."

End flashback

"The thing about creating his own style from pre-existent stances and katas ?"

"Exactly Naminé-chan, limiting ourselves to styles that we are only decent at could prove itself fatal in the long run, if we begin to find a suitable style now we'll avoid this problem, plus we'll be better sooner !"

"I didn't know you could be so insightful Naruto-kun..." comented Ayame.

"Thanks nee-chan, I'm just so good, that's it !"

"I t-think we should d-do it, I'll make s-some research at the l-library. Bye e-everyone."

"See you tomorow Hinata-chan !"

"We'll go too, see you Naruto !"

"Yeah, bye !" Naruto found humself alone in the ramen shop "Old-man, seven miso and two beef please !"

Grinning Teuchi shouted "Coming right now."

The next was a sunday, so they all meet at a trainning ground near the village's outskirts.

"Man ! Nami-chan can you understand why people keep looking at me on the streets and are always so fasly nice."

"Nope."

"You don't care, right ?"

"Yup."

"Hey ! Naruto, Hinata-chan, do you have an idea why the villagers want to please me so much ?"

"Sorry, no idea..."

"A-actually... it's p-probably just m-me but..." at the eager look on their faces she knew she has no way back "... it would be b-better to s-show you, can you g-go over there and turn to u-us boys ?" They did so and Naminé stood next Hinata.

"I see what you mean Hinata-chan, it's quite troubling..."

"If it's about how much we look like each other we already knew it."

"If you want relly want to know come with us Naruto-kun"

As he did so, he saw Roxas with the Hokage monument as a backgroud "Wow, I never realized Roxas looks so much like the Yondaime, that explain it all... wait a minute, Roxas looks like the Yondaime, I look like Roxas..." He fainted on the spot.

He woke up to the worried faces of his friends. "My head hurts..." he quickly returned to his carefree self "That was quite the shock, ne? Bah, nothing to do about that so we'll better let it as it is, okay ?" his three companions agreed "Great ! Now on with the trainning, what did you find Hinata-chan ?"

"I s-searched through the H-hyuga library, b-but the clan is too pr-proud of the J-jyuken to consider a-altering it, so I w-went to the general library and found t-this... » she took a scroll from her jacket « it is a-about the influence o-of n-natural chakra in T-taijutsu." She then unrolled the scroll on the ground.

Elemental Taijutsu : Introduction

While it is proved that chakra affinity has a great influence upon elemetal ninjutsu execution, its usefulness in taijutsu is often misregarded. The reasons behind this fact are quite simple : chakra flow continously through the human body thus inflencing its growth since before one's birth. Since there is differents kinds of natural chaka there is in the same way diiferents effect on one's muscular or skeletal structure for instance; those difference are hardly noticeable on their own but when put together they become obvious as five kind of fighter appear. A general description of those categoris lie below.

"So if I got it right our chakra affinity determine what kind of movement will be easier for each of us. But how do we know our affinity ?"

"I al-already t-though about it. We m-must channel ch-chakra into chakra-sensitive p-paper. I-I bought s-some on my w-way h-here..."

They each took a piece of chakra paper and channeled their chakra into it. Naruto's split in two, Roxas's cracled, Hinata's damped as did Naminé's.

"If I r-remenb-ber well t-that's mean Roxas-kun is l-ligthning, N-naruto-kun is wind and we're w-water."

Roxas took the scroll "Let's see, I focus on rapid sequences of direct hits and my best suited weapons are katanas; Naruto distinguish by a great versatility and constant movement; and last but not least, you girls are mainly defensive, dodging and counter-strikking in a rotation pattern or sneaking into enemy's oppenings, thanks to your natural flexibility, 'cause you won't have a lot of really damaging move the scroll say you should try dual-kunai or daggers."

"Okay, time to pratice !"

By a month the four of them found themselves on the upper half of their class, Hinata even being third, after Sasuke and Shino; they even were top students in Taijutsu, only outdone by the Uchiha , indeed, while they were not master at it, their elemental Taijutsu trainning consisted a great asset against the other students. October 9th has always been the day of the firts general bimonthly evaluation of skill, unlike day-to-day evaluations the results of thoses were transmited to the famillies what, with the Kyuubi demise festival the next day, consisted the greatest of all motivation. While academy only started a month and a half ago this traditionwas respected, at the protest of the worts students, who wanted not to be grounded the festival's day. The written an ninjustu portion of the test took place in the morning and went without anything noticeable occuring. The afternoon arrved, and whith it the taijutsu tournament.

"Naminé-chan, do you see Roxas-kun and Nauruto-kun ? They're going to be late..." Yes, her stuttering finally disapeared...

"They went to the bathroom ten minute ago, something about doing it with a "bang""

As they were talking the dojo doors burted open and everyone jaw met the ground : dressed in white coats with a red flamme design at the bottom covering chunin flak vests and navy blue pants stood Naruto and Roxas.

"Don't tell me they dared ?"

"It seems so Naminé-chan" responded Hinata holding back a giggle.

The two miniature Yondaime's then spoke in unison "Uchiha ! Today we'll get you down !" A "bang" indeed... The reactions were various, the majority of the female population was fighting nosebleed while the males were laughting harder they ever had and gave them thumb up's.

"Whatever you say" retorted their moody target.

Iruka and and Axel choosed this moment to enter the dojo "Okay class, let's... WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS ?" "Calm down Iruka, they're just kids, they don't know what they're doing..." "Okay, the Taijutsu part of the exam will begin now, it's a mixed tournament, only taijutsu and kenjutsu are alowed, otherwise everything goes."

"First macth, Inuzuka Kiba vs Roxas" annouced Axel.

Roxas and Kiba went on the sparring area and bowed to each other, Roxas drew two wooden swords and entered his stance.

"Can I have a sword or something ?" asked a worried Kiba. Axel noded and handed him a wooden sword similar to Roxas's.

"BEGIN !"

At this Roxas launched himself at high speed toward poor Kiba who barely had time to parry an horizontalslash from Roxas left sword. Quickly Roxas put his other sword behind Kiba left leg and pulled it while he was pushing with his left hand, throwing his opponent off balance. Kiba landed on his back and imediately rolled to the right, barely avoiding a strike to the head, he began to stand up but Roxas was already on him. As kiba was on one knee Roxas brought down his swords meeting Kiba's which he was holding a hand at each extremity, Roxas then procceded to struck on it like lightning on a iron pole. Kiba felt his arms go numb, his grip on his sword loosened earning him a kick in the chest sending him on his bac again, unable to move in time he felt the tip of Roxas right sword on his neck. "Don't try to use weapons you're not familiar with, you would have been more chalenging if you were not focusing so much on blocking my blows" stated Roxas as he helped him up.

"Winner : Roxas"

The matches followed one another, Naminé had been defeated in quarter finals by Sasuke leading to the following semifinals : Hinata vs Roxas and Sasuke vs Naruto.

The match betwen Hinata and Roxas was pretty much one-sided sinc Hinata broke Roxas weapons with a jyuken strike,forcing him to close range fight, wich is usualy suicide against a Hyuga. At the end Roxas was lying on the group pain coursing through his body from closed tenketsu points.

Sasuke and Naruto went face to face.

"I guess it's time to see if you can live up to your words dope..."

"Just wait and see teme."

"As if the dead last could even lay a finger on me."

"Sorry but last time I checked I was 28 out of 62."

"Could you just shut up and fight ?!" half-yelled Axel.

Sasuke took his intercepring fist stance and waited for Naruto to make the first move, what the blond happily did. He want for a direct punch in the face, which was avoided by a simple head movement. Sasuke smirked "Way too easy, even the little girl proved herself more challenging..." forgotting by the way that said "little girl" was older than him and that Naruto was not the most surprising future ninja of the academy for nothing. Taking advantage of the fact his hand was behind Sasuke's head he grabbed a handjul of raven hair and slammed his forehead onto his face. The Uchiha quickly grabbed his bleeding, and probably broken, nose with both hands from the pain permitting Naruto to knee him into the jewels. As the Uchiha fell on the groud the whiskered Yondaime spoke up « You're way too cocky for your own good, Uchiha. I hope you learned better than underestimate me again."

"Winner : Naruto Uzumaki"

Anyone who didn't train with Naruto could only look at him in amazment : he didn't deffeated the rookie of the year, he humiliated him. "Geez, it was time someone put him in his place, way to go Naruto !!" cheered Kiba, their yaoi fangirls encounter didn't get them closer as anyone would think due to Sasuke's unchanging attitude.

"He damaged Sasuke-kun beatiful face ! Kill him !" " He didn't have the right to do that, it was a vicious tactic ! Sasuke-kun should win by disqualification !" Shierked one pink haired banshee, who got eliminated by knocking herself out, before being silenced by a stream of fire who brushed past her head, courtesy of a redhead chunin.

"What part of "everything goes" didn't you understand ?"

Naruto went to his friends who congratuled him for his victory when he realized "I'm up against Hinata-chan ? NOOOOOOOOOO, I don't want to be poked to death..."

A slightly red Hinata was already up and asked "Should we go Naruto-kun ?"

"Of course Hinata-chan, give me your best" "What did I just said ? I soooo dead now..."

"Okay, now for the final of the first bimonthly taijutsu tournament of Konoha ninja academy, let me introduce to you your champions: UZUMAKI NARUTO VS HYUGA HINATA !" The entire class looked at Axel like he grew a second head "For the tittle of number one student in taijutsu, BEGIN"

AN : Yes, Naruto got a brain. I hope I got Naruto&co progress not too quick, they use genin to chunin trainning method so I guess it's only natural they got stronger than those who stick to the academy standarts. Naruto is not stronger than Sasuke at this point, Sasuke greatly underestimated him and allowed him to pull two nasty hits which would put most guys on the ground. I have Exams next week, so no uptade for a little while.... Next chapter : Naruto and Hinata have their match, it's Naruto birthday, Axel's girlfriend is revealed, secrets are revealed and lies will become true.