Title: Changing It To Fit
Full chapter 6!! I'm continuing the story! :D
A/N: Holy fudge! 30 reviews for the last chapter. -grin- I like that, let's make it a trend, okay?
Don't even say anything to me about Bri's 'Deathly Bowels' story…just, no. It makes me laugh, but honestly. -shakes her head-
One last note, I'm aware that I messed up the team numbers. I'm not really inclined to change it at the moment since it is such a minor thing. Also, I suck, at, commas, I know it, and, I'm working on it. (The excessive commas were intentional there...heh.)
One last-last note, I'm going to be using pure English from now on. All technique names will be in English, the only thing I will keep is the honorifics. (ie: -chan, -sama, etc.)
Disclaimer: What do you think? I wouldn't be writing a fic about it if I owned Naruto. I'm just…borrowing it.
Hinata batted at the irritating sensation on her nose. The thing obliged and stopped for all of two seconds before starting again, this time accompanied by masculine giggling. Hinata groaned and rolled over to go back to sleep in the warm grass...
Something tickled her side and she grumbled again, "'ruto...stopit."
"Wake up Hinata-chan, don't you want to hear how my test went?" Naruto asked gleefully.
She immediately sat up, "Okay, I'm awake. Tell me everything that happened!"
"Well, if you insist..." Naruto began.
Naruto listened to Kakashi absently, the only parts of his speech that registered was '...underneath the underneath...' and '...come at me with killing intent...'. Sakura had obviously taken Kakashi's warning about breakfast to heart. Naruto could hear her stomach growling loudly even over their teacher's rambling. She protested Kakashi's apparent death wish, only to be reminded that Kakashi was a jounin and she only a genin, as such there was no way she could kill him even if she tried her hardest.
Naruto listened with half an ear for a while longer, waiting for Kakashi to get to the point and running over his new jutsu in his mind. Finally, Kakashi said, "Begin!"
"Mass Shadow Clone Technique" Naruto called out as soon as he noticed that Kakashi had stopped talking. The clones all lept at Kakashi who had taken out a little orange book and was giggling periodically while countering all of the clones' attacks. Sasuke and Sakura dashed from the clearing, using Naruto's ruckus as a cover to escape and find good places to observe from.
"You'll have to do better than that Naruto-kun." Kakashi informed him lazily as he dispelled another clone.
"No problem!" Naruto shouted as he mentally ordered his remaining clones to regroup.
Two clones remained behind and baited Kakashi, staying just out of range to attack but asserting that they would attack if they saw an opportunity. The remaining Narutos conferred for a few moments before each removed four kunai from their weapon pouches.
"Take this! Mass Shadow Kunai Technique!" the clones shouted in unison as they threw their kunai at their teacher.
Kakashi calmly removed a kunai from his weapon pouch and blocked all the kunai that would have actually hit him. Naruto, despite being able to perform the technique, was not very accurate with it.
He cursed and vowed to practice with it later, but in the mean time, he and all but one of his clones charged Kakashi with a battle cry. The two that had been hanging back brought up the rear of the attack. They were all quickly dispelled, but the real Naruto released his kunai henge and made a grab for the bells. He missed, barely.
Deciding it was time to retreat, Naruto made a few more clones to distract Kakashi in case he decided to pursue, before dashing into the forest to hide.
1/31/08
I'm putting this story on an indefinite Hiatus. I am in my Junior year of highschool and have other things to worry about, this story is getting so hard to write. I don't know if I'll continue or not, but I actually have another story in the works that is nearly finished and so won't be so hard to keep up with. Come to think of it, I probably won't end up continuing. If anyone wants to take up this story, I'd be ecstatic. Just say so in a review and I'll be happy to put the link in my profile or something.
4/26/08
I think I might give this another try. I've gotten back into writing and find myself wanting to write the rest of this very badly. Sorry for the mid-chapter note, but it was there before and I've decided not to change it. I'm going to be trying to change my writing style for this story though. I want to get it finished up within 20 chapters so I'm gonna have to skip ahead a bit. Maybe there will be an abrupt surprise ending or something...who knows. But I want to hurry through to the chuunin exams in this chapter so any descriptions of missions will be brief at best. Even the wave mission will be brief since it will happen almost exactly the same way.
Hinata laughed as Naruto described the horrible technique that Kakashi had used on him, "Thousand Years of Pain". She remembered him grousing about that even a near decade after it had happened in the future.
She zoned out for a few moments, thinking about how some things seemed inevitable. Like the teams for example, some students had done better or worse this time around and the teams had remained the same.
Naruto was exclaiming over Kakashi's deception when he had left Sakura tied to a stump (she had done the least to get a bell) and told them not to feed her, only to come back and pass them for disobeying his orders.
"Your jounin-sensei sounds...interesting, to put it lightly." Hinata commented.
"That's one way you could say it." Naruto muttered darkly, "now then, tell me about your jounin-sensei!"
And so she did.
Missions passed in a blur for Hinata and Naruto, before they knew it a whole month had come and gone and Hinata could tell Naruto was getting sick of all the menial tasks that were D-Rank missions. Naruto threw his fit in front of the Hokage and was given a C-Rank for it. He'd gone to tell Hinata the great news and she'd remembered his future self telling her about the mission to Wave. She told him to be careful and to practice his medical skills a little extra on the way there before wishing him luck.
Hinata's team was given a C-Rank shortly after Team 7 left the village. It was a simple two day escort mission and nothing of any real consequence happened. They were attacked by bandits once, which was why their client had hired them in the first place, but they were quickly dealt with and hadn't posed much threat to begin with. When Team 8 returned, Team 7 still wasn't back from their mission to Wave. Hinata was left practicing alone for a week and a half before Team 7 finally returned, looking slightly beat up but otherwise okay.
Naruto continued to get better at his medical skills, though he would never be as proficient as almost anyone else in his age group could be due to his inability to control his chakra with enough precision for the more difficult jutsu. The both of them had expected this, so it wasn't much of a disappointment. Naruto could still use medicine the old fashioned way, and Hinata was good enough for both of them.
They were all nominated for the chuunin exams in the same week, foreign nin started to flood the village. Most specifically a certain team from Grass and another from Sand. Konohamaru and his friends had been bugging Naruto for a game of ninja all week and he'd finally relented on the condition that Hinata come too.
"Sure Naruto-kun. It'll be fun to play with Konohamaru-kun, Udon-kun, and Moegi-chan." She replied with a smile.
"Great, then get ready Konohamaru, you'd better run because the first game is hunter-nin and missing-nin!" Naruto shouted out before giving chase to an already fleeing Konohamaru.
Udon and Moegi looked at eachother and then at Hinata who had an uncharacteristically predatory grin on her face before dashing off in the same direction as their boss and his idol.
The game was progressing well, with both genin tagging an academy student and then being tagged back in turn, when Konohamaru ran into someone's leg with a loud thump and an 'oof!'.
"Watch where you're going you little runt!" A boy with odd make-up on growled down at Konohamaru before picking him up by the front of his shirt.
"Hey! You over there, let Konohamaru go right now! He didn't mean to run into you, what's your problem?!" Naruto shouted as he ran up to the boy holding the Hokage's grandson and a blond girl with a funny hairstyle and a giant fan on her back.
"It's none of your business, but this kid ran into me and that pissed me off. Someone is gonna have to pay or I'll be in a bad mood for the rest of the day! This runt is gonna get it!" Make-up boy yelled angrily.
"I wouldn't do that to the Hokage's grandson if I were you." Hinata said calmly, walking up behind Naruto with Udon and Moegi hiding behind her legs fearfully.
"Kankuro, stop it. If that really is the Hokage's grandson you could get us into a lot of trouble!" The blond hissed.
"Feh. Fine, the brat isn't worth it anyway..." Kankuro grumbled.
Something flashed into existence next to Kankuro and said, "Kankuro, stop it or I'll kill you."
"Y-y-yes Gaara..." Kankuro stuttered, sounding much less cocky in the face of the red head that had appeared. He threw Konohamaru at Naruto and backed away from the new boy.
"My apologies, he meant no harm. I am Gaara of the Desert, that is Kankuro, and that is Temari. We are here for the chuunin exams that are being hosted in your village." The red head, Gaara, explained in a slightly hostile monotone.
Sand began to swirl around the boy and Kankuro and Temari edged away from him. He had a crazed look in his eyes as he gazed at Naruto, "I look forward to spilling your blood in the exams. Kankuro, Temari, let's go."
And then they were gone. Naruto shivered and Hinata told Konohamaru corps. to go home for the day.
"I don't like the looks of that Gaara. He seemed almost..." Naruto trailed off, not sure what to say.
"Insane? Crazed? Blood-thirsty? I think all three are apt descriptions. These exams might be more interesting than I'd thought." Commented a voice from behind them.
Naruto and Hinata turned to see Sasuke standing slightly behind a small decorative tree on the side of the street. How they hadn't noticed him before was beyond them but he appeared to have been there for a long time.
"You bet they're gonna be fun!" Naruto crowed, "I can't wait to kick your ass Sasuke-teme!"
"Psh, in your dreams dobe." Sasuke smirked.
Hinata sighed as another argument broke out between her two best friends. Lately they'd been arguing more and more, it was exasperating, but it was the way they bonded. Hinata knew that they were almost as close as brothers, especially after the Wave mission where Sasuke almost died. After that mission Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura had all thrown themselves into training. Even the usually pathetic pink-haired fangirl had laid off her crush on Sasuke and been training just as hard if not harder than the boys on her team. Hinata had been surprised when the girl had come to her for help with training. Now the silly diet Sakura had been on was in the past and she ate three meals a day instead of one. Hinata had convinced her that it would be more rewarding to train more and eat more, all it had taken was a hint that Sasuke liked strong kunoichi to light a fire under the girl.
Sakura was another person that had changed from Hinata's memory of her at this time. Unlike last time, the girl kept her hair in a long braid down her back with spiked wire concealed inside after her hair had been used against her in a spar with Hinata a week prior. She couldn't bring herself to get her hair cut, so it had been a compromise. Anyone wanting to grab her hair now would suffer the consequences.
The day of the chuunin exams arrived and things went as they had last time. Lee and Sasuke got into a fight after it was established by Sakura that their was a genjutsu on the door and they were all really on the 2nd floor. Sasuke lost again.
Hinata and her team got there slightly before Naruto's team, but the nine rookies all stood in a small group at the front of the room near the doors. Ino attacked Sasuke with a squeal and a hug while Sakura started to rant at her about staying off of 'her' Sasuke-kun.
Kabuto showed up and showed them the stats of Gaara and Rock Lee, confirming that Gaara should be feared and that Lee was a highly skilled taijutsu user. The team from Sound attacked him for insulting their village and Ibiki slammed the door open demanding quiet.
Naruto was placed next to Hinata again, and managed to get three answers off of Hinata's paper before they both noticed a chuunin looking at them and writing on a clipboard. Naruto stopped after that and decided to bet on the tenth question.
Forty-five minutes later the tenth question was given. Naruto saw Sakura about to give up and slammed his hand down on the desktop. He proclaimed that he was going to be Hokage and that he would do so even if he was a genin forever. This boosted the confidence of everyone left in the room and no one else declined the tenth question.
Ibiki sighed and passed everyone left to the surprise and outrage of nearly every genin still in the room. There was shouting and protests before Ibiki shouted for quiet and removed his headband to show the room the scars he'd gotten under enemy torture. No one protested after that, and the Anko burst through the window.
Okay, that's all. I'll finish with the chuunin exams, finding Tsunade, and we'll see if I actually have Sasuke defect or not. He's got more ties now, so he may or may not.
I actually want to wrap this story up within 5 chapters. Maybe I'll see if I can do it by ch15. I know where I want it to end, it's getting there that's the problem.