HWA!
Hey guys, im back with a new instalment of New paths! A few things I should mention. I changed the title from 'Inviting the dark' to 'Naruto: New Paths' mainly because inviting the dark seemed a little too dreary and uninviting. And while Naruto has a darker persona, I wouldn't consider him a majorly dark character like most other dark Naruto based stories, so even though he is a darker person, I decided to change to a title that seemed more inviting.
Many other things have gone on in my life, but I've tried to make room for my new chappie, I know your excited for a Hinata/Kiba battle.
Now, like my previous chapter(but I will state again) Kiba and a few others are a bit OOC because the chuunin exams while helping to place the story line and follow through with the final portion, im going through the character development of characters. Kishi doesn't really explain why people get their persona's and leaves us to guess. (Excluding the more major characters) However I myself shall go more into detail.
The main OOC thing however that I don't want flames for is Kiba, while he still views Hinata normally, he respects her a bit less since Kiba was usually only loyal to his team members and in this story, Hinata is not one of them.
And a few of you might post about this so ill get it out of the way. Yes, I finally did purchase Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, and I will say it is quite fantastic. There were only a few things about it that I didn't enjoy.
The character roster was good, but each person was only given one jutsu and one Ougi/Ultimate jutsu, which is a downgrade from the first game minus the ougis. Coupled with the fact that the Ougi's were so short kinda bothered me. I understand they made them shorter to not drag them out during the online matches, but if they did that, they could have at least given an option jutsu or ougi, the fighting just seemed really restricted in that sense, which kind of limited the experience. The other thing I didn't like is the online. Yes its fun and I play it frequently, placing me in the top 250 players of the world, but as you rank higher, the players get cheap. Not much in the fighting sense(but I shall say Puppet user spammers are annouying), but they usually turn off the game when they lose, or I've even seen hackers online. I'd be higher in rank but I don't play as often as others because I have stuff to do. LIKE WRITING THIS AMAZING STORY!
But I do have a lot of fun playing, especially in the unranked match. And I recommend it to anyone with a PS3 or xBox360 Shout out to ChewieCookies for lots of online fun :D
For those of you who have this game on PS3, send me an online friend request, I go by Kimiten_raze.
IMPORTANT! READ BEFORE YOU BEGIN STORY!
Some of you had concerns about my OC Kimiten. Some you liked him because it would cause a plot twist, some of you thought my story was fine without him(which im happy you said that, because it means you like my story :P) And some of you were neutral. I will state that the reason I put him in the story is that Kimiten has been an ongoing OC of mine for years and I wanted to give him a little shine, but not steal the light. He won't be involved in the main story very much after the Chuunin exams, but will probably make an appearance later on, probably in events revolving around Kabuto and Orochimaru. However, I tried not to just throw him in for my own entertainment, and I already have a plot revolving Kimiten that will make him more attached to the main story instead of him giving off the vibe of a filler character. You'll see what I mean in later chapters.
But the main message is, Kimiten won't be included as annoyingly often as you might all anticipate, so you don't have to worry if you don't like OC's, and I'll try to make his scenes as comfortable as I can. Also, I tend to notice usually only the best stories have an OC somewhere :P
"Naruto's True Nindo" = The old man that Naruto meets.
"Naruto vs Sasuke: The Aftermath = No specific permanent OC, but quite a few poke their heads in.
I'd go on but you get my point. Just try to bear with Kimiten if you don't like him and for those of you who do, well this isn't a message for you as much as the others :P
Also, I was sure I'd posted this in a previous chapter but I haven't apparently, or maybe I have but I won't check again. When all fight scene chapters are done, I'll be deleting them all and reposting them all in the same chapter for one super long, super action packed, super fluffed up chuunin exam special!
Without further Adieu, here is your newest chapter!
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Kiba versus Hinata
As soon as the names were read, the fine hairs on the back of her neck stood on end. She hoped for a fight, and yet she didn't. She was worried, and somehow determined. It was finally time to show the world was she was made of. No ands, ifs, or buts. This was the real deal. No hidden meanings, no exceptions, no practice run, this was a no holds barred 1 on 1 battle.
Hinata focused her gaze toward the floor where she planned to jump to. It was time.
It was time…
Naruto noticed she hadn't made a motion to move for a bit, and a slight pang of worry hit him.
"Don't tell me you're going to quit…" He asked disappointedly. Hinata's head shot back up to meet his gaze, meeting his challenge as well as his eyes. Hinata smiled.
"I've been waiting for this for a long time."
Naruto raised a brow questioningly . "It's only been 3 matches Hinata, I wouldn't exactly say it's been a long time." He chuckled slightly, although he wasn't sure why he was laughing.
Hinata took on a look of longing and remembrance, remembering her past. She hadn't waited 3 matches. She'd been waiting her entire life to prove she had what it took, not just to be a ninja, but a person.
"It's been much longer Naruto…I'm sure you would understand…" She could only mutter before turning around to take off. Naruto was deep in thought at the meaning to her words, but his eyes snapped open when he remembered something else.
He reached hastily for her hand before she made her jump, stopping her.
Although Hinata wasn't stopped by him pulling her back, she immediately stopped as soon as she felt his rough hand touch her own. She turned to meet his gaze.
"Hinata, there's something you shouldn't forget. When Asuma and Kurenai were talking about Shino's genjutsu, Kurenai said 'Of course, I'm a genjutsu specialist-why wouldn't I teach all my students genjutsu?' That can imply that she taught Kiba a genjutsu too, just make sure your aware, kay?"
Hinata smiled, she'd nearly forgotten that fact. "Thank you Naruto-kun, I'll make sure I remember." Finally turning around, she jumped down to the battle field.
Kiba was reminiscing his strategy for this fight. Every Jonin sensei had a special motto that they go by, and they test their students with the survival exercise to determine whether or not they can conduct this skill. Kurenai explained to them her motto once his team had passed the test.
'Always plan ahead, pay attention, and remember every little thing where it counts.'
Kiba at first had failed miserably at that during the survival exercise. He hadn't planned anything, he wasn't paying attention, and he didn't memorize any details to his sensei's ambush. Nothing could be more embarrassing than running face first into a tree trying to bull rush a lady.
Shino stood beside his passive and silent partner. Kiba really learned his lesson that day, but no way in hell had his motives or attitudes been changed at all. Kiba once got too comfortable hanging out with Shino because Shino was a 'bro', and Kiba started talking a little too personally about his sexual attractions and what he liked. Kiba often muttered about bothering having Sakura on his team was. He stated that Sakura in her own right was pretty but compared to many she was not much of a looker anymore.
This is where Shino worried he might be the sole passing member of his team during these exams.
For Kiba stated one of the hottest girls in his graduation class was Hinata. Sakura was actually there to hear that part, and she could not for the life of herself understand how Hinata would be considered attractive and she stated this, but Kiba remarked, 'I've seen her take off her jacket when she was training after class, and if you saw what I'd seen, you'd probably go lesbian.' To which he received a large smack.
So much like Naruto had just done, Shino placed a hand on the Inuizuka's shoulder, and pulled the boy to look at him.
"Watch yourself Kiba. Like Sakura, I'm sure you would have believed a match against Naruto would have been easy and I shall admit, I'd have thought so too. But look how the fight turned out; Naruto won and Sakura was humiliatingly defeated. I'm sure Hinata is no different."
Kiba chuckled; he raised his arm to chest level and flexed it, squeezing the muscle with his other hand as a slight warm up.
"That's the most I've heard you talk in ages Shino."
"Than you know I'm serious, don't let her distract you."
"You got my word." He swore, as he rushed down the stairs to meet his opponent.
On a more secluded end of a stand, Kankuro shivered slightly at Hinata's pupils.
"What the hell? She BLIND? How the hell is this even legal to put a blind ninja in the chuunin exams?" He mocked slightly but Gaara narrowed his eyes in focus.
"Shut up." He merely said, and in a second Kankuro considered installing a zipper to himself. Gaara was a very powerful boy, even if he was the youngest in the family they had. Despite being common sand ninja, the three siblings of the sand were truly the children of the Kazekage, the ruler of the sand village. Gaara never spoke to his father, and Kankuro could sympathize.
Would you talk to someone who tried to kill you?
The Kazekage had tried to kill Gaara not because he hated his son, but he viewed him as a monster for an irreversible reason. Gaara had a demon sealed within him in his navel. 12 years ago, the host of the demon previously was going to die soon, and an elderly woman named Chiyo saved the village by using her knowledge in sealing to transfer the demon to Gaara. Although Gaara had to carry the demon, most people found him the demon itself, and disregarded him. Gaara was sad but never evil or scary before. But when the demon first spoke to him when he was 8 years of age, and told Gaara he could give him a reason to live, Gaara started dealing with the demon and learning more about how to use it's skills in combat, despite the dastardly response he received from his family members when they figured out he even had contact with Shukaku, the one tailed beast.
This is why everyone in the village now feared him instead of hated him. Would you fuck with a boy who had the power of a millennium year old demon?
Gaara broke Kankuro from his thoughts.
"That fool clad in green beet that useless Temari. The girl before you is probably no different…" He trailed off, standing still and motionless, thinking of all the strong ninja in the arena. "I will kill them all. That is my reason….for living!" He stated in a hollow manner, the voice of the demon within him overriding his own once again.
Kankuro however still didn't dare to comment.
Back in the field, Hinata and Kiba finally entered their relative stances. Hinata was determined and Kiba was cautious. Naruto was the worst in the class, if he got this strong, he'd hate to see how far Hinata had gone, or worse, Sasuke himself!
Naruto looked on with a slightly worried gaze, and was scolding himself for being such a weenie. He'd just told Hinata to not worry for Chouji earlier, and now he was getting all sappy and worrying too. Despite this, he turned to Sasuke.
"Think she can do it?"
Sasuke looked down at them. "I dunno." He replied with a studying state. It wasn't that Sasuke didn't care, but he wasn't so nervous like his teammate. Which kind of made Naruto jealous in a sense- he'd been trying to keep his worries on the down low, but Sasuke was doing a better job of it and was probably not even trying.
However, currently Naruto was not willing to be occupied with such a trivial detail, and found himself watching the match that had him on nerves edges.
Hayate rolled his shouler once before lifting that shoulders arm respectfully.
"May the match between the combatants, Hinata and Kiba, now ensue."
Hinata's nerves hit her like a train traveling at the maximum speed. She nearly dashed for Kiba directly, but stopped herself and stumbled.
Kiba was alert and noticed this as well, but his nerves were of a more positive outlook, and instead dashed with a sharp eye. Akamaru, his canine, companion not falling behind.
Hinata's eyes widened by her mistake, but she righted herself by rolling in the direction she stumbled in, and evaded Kiba. However, her form had been sloppy.
Kiba turned around again, showing his claws as he dashed off his bent knee. Hinata stood quickly and was alert for his assault.
She narrowed her eyes in a wavering concentration, and spun on her heel. "Rotation!" In no time, a large sphere encompassed her. Kiba's eyes widened as his momentum carried him to the ball, but reflexes kicked in, and he jumped over the ball with a front flip and landed on the other side of the rotation. He watched as the ball spun, waiting for it to finish and winked to Akamaru who was still on Hinata's other side, and he barked.
Hinata stopped the rotation after not feeling an impact.
'What's he planning?'
As soon as the velocity of the rotation slowed, Kiba threw 3 kunai at Hinata's limbs. She was quick to dodge, but then Akamaru came up behind her with a ninja wire and ran around her quickly, tying her legs together. Hinata, having just moved her legs to dodge the kunai, started to fall over, but Kiba was upon her and with a quick burst of speed, punched her in the chest as she flew back a few feet.
As Hinata skidded and rolled, she untangled herself and slid to her feet painfully.
Naruto gripped the railing in front of him. And Kakashi could only comment.
"She's nervous." Naruto narrowed his eyes.
"Why…why is there a reason to be nervous? If that were me I'd be fine…" He argued, slightly wishing that his level of thinking would reach Hinata. Kakashi put a hand on the boys shoulder.
"Not everyone is like you Naruto. Hinata is a shy person, it's hard for her to compete under all these eyes watching and judging."
Kiba flexed his hand with a shock however. He hadn't meant to punch her THERE…..
Although no one noticed, Kiba had punched her chest and felt her breast on the side of his wrist. He blushed, but shook it aside.
Shino noticed this, and nodded approvingly.
Hinata stood with a labored breath. However that wasn't too major of an injury. She nearly buckled under the pressure of the eyes on her. She almost wanted to quit. She wanted it all to be over and done, she wanted-"
Soon her desperate eyes reached Naruto's worried ones. Of all the people watching, he mattered the most to her.
I notice you more than anyone else. He had told her.
Her eyes narrowed as she remembered his wonderful words. He noticed her, but if she failed more, than he would only notice her in a bad way, she wanted to desperately change that. Hinata needed to be as close as perfect as she could in this fight. She still stared at Naruto while alert for Kiba, and smiled at him.
Naruto remained impassive, but he wondered what this mysterious young lady was thinking, and why she was smiling at him, almost conveying some secret message he could not decode. It troubled him to great extremes.
Hinata sighed a long smooth sigh, bordering more on a long outtake of breath, trying to calm her nerves. She knew what she would need to do to truly face her fears and worries. If she didn't face them all now, they would haunt her.
Hinata reached for the zipper of her loose jacket, pulling it down and open, letting it drop to the floor as the cool, unfamiliar breeze filled the crevices of her skin her jacket had once covered. This left her in nothing but a tight T-shirt that just reached the hem of her pants. The shortness of the shirt teasing a man to wish it would role up to reveal her creamy skin.
One of Hinata's largest worries came from her consciousness of her figure.
Abuse from her father left her to believe she wasn't worthy to be looked at. As she grew into a teenager, those fears turned into self consciousness of her body instead of her shame of the family. She knew to face all of her fears; she needed to rid herself of the shell she wore.
Kiba's eyes buggered out of his sockets at the once familiar sight before him, remembering that shapely figure very well. Naruto couldn't help but blush at her bold move. Even Sasuke had to stop the red tint on his cheeks as he closed his flustered virgin eyes for before composing himself and regained his composure. Even Ino couldn't help but be slightly unnerved by her slenderness.
Hinata noticed the eyes and she blushed with shame, thinking that they thought she was hideous. But she had done it, she faced it and it was over.
She turned to Kiba still gawking at her, and she was suddenly filled with an overwhelming hatred. They thought she was ugly, a nasty monster. Soon her anger boiled to rage. She became angry with everyone's calculated gaze. Why did everyone have to judge her? It wasn't fair! She was shy, but she also had pride. Her fists shook at her side as her anger overwhelmed her.
"Don't look at me!" She yelled furiously and made a mad dash for Kiba. Kiba was taken by surprise when she was upon him with a deadly palm to the chakra points in his right shoulder.
He cried out in pain as the hit forced his body to do a 360 turn in the same spot, only to be met by another hit in the opposite shoulder, repeating the effect in the opposite direction.
Once he was facing her again, she flew an onslaught of hits at him, automatically activating the Byakugan to view his chakra networks as she pelted away at his chakra points in a rage.
Hinata was in a focused rage of power. Her eyes darted to new chakra points faster than she could remember ever doing so before.
Here! There! That way! This one! She kept repeating as she quickly struck the pinheaded chakra points, counting in her head how many she had hit as a subconscious way to help keep focused on the task. Soon she started to whisper them out loud in her hazy focus.
"…4…8…16…" She whispered, only stating the double of the previous number. With each hit, Kiba could feel his chakra being sapped away, or merely, sealed away. Hinata started to scream with each hit.
"32!"
However, Akamaru was upon her in a moment and leaped at her blurring arms.
Hinata noticed this through the Byakugan, and spun around once and sent a large palm on the dog's stomach, and the dog skidded back painfully. Kiba's eyes widened at seeing his companion knocked back, but saw his escape. He jumped back and threw a kunai at Hinata forcing her to dodge back as well, earning him considerable distance from Hinata, and beside Akamaru.
"Take this pill, you know what to do."
Akamaru barked and ate the chakra pill his master handed him, and Kiba ate one as well. Akamaru started to turn red in fur color and his attitude became more feral. Hinata noticed a boost in chakra from both.
"Alright Hinata, you forced me to use this!" He yelled. Kiba bent low into a charging position, and Akamaru jumped onto his back.
"Ninja art of beast mimicry: Man beast clone!"
This time, instead of the human transforming, Akamaru turned into a copy of Kiba, and jumped off of his master and to his side. Kiba made additional hand signs and suddenly he distorted from sight. Hinata gasped.
"What?"
'Is it his genjutsu? Why can't I see through it with the Byakugan?' She pondered.
But soon the humanoid Akamaru was upon her spinning ferociously like a top and yelled in Kiba's voice.
"Fang over fang!"
Hinata jumped over the spinning clone but was suddenly impacted by something invisible as she was sent flying back and crashed into the wall with a mighty noise.
"Gah!" She coughed blood and saw that Akamaru was watching her to see if she made a move.
"Why can't I/she see his genjutsu!" Both Naruto and Hinata muttered as he watched on and she fought hard.
Kakashi, being the handy dandy teacher he was, filled in once more. "The Byakugan like the Sharingan has many different stages in which it's seeing and eye techniques increase. I'm going to suspect that his genjutsu is too high leveled for Hinata's current Byakugan level to detect."
Kurenai stepped in. "Yes, I figured that this type of genjutsu fit Kiba's style of ruthlessness. But there are 2 critical weaknesses. It only takes away from the sight of the opponent, and it takes up much chakra to contain. The fact that Kiba is using this after having some of his chakra sealed, and also with the Fang over Fang technique, he's prone to run out of chakra soon. If Hinata can thwart this, I can't see how Kiba would have enough chakra to keep going. If he uses too many pills in between intervals of time that aren't long enough, he'll suffer the effect of an overdose."
"That technique she was using to seal his chakra network… that was a secret Hyuuga technique known as the '8 trigrams 64 palms'. She told me she hadn't learned that." Neji commented.
All of team 7 chuckled and Sasuke spoke for the first time in a while. "Hinata may be shy, but she's the type of person to learn new things in the heat of battle, which is a shame because Hinata doesn't like to fight much in the first place."
Naruto turned and focused on the match, knowing that Hinata was in grave danger. She was so close to victory, but so close to failure, he worried for her wellbeing as she sported labored breathing.
'Kiba's defiantly tougher than Sakura…' was his only thought.
Hinata noticed Akamaru spinning at her again. Once again she jumped over him as he tunneled into the wall, but this time she knew what was to come.
"Rotation!" She called out as she waited for the real Kiba to impact the sphere.
Soon enough, it came, fighting the rotation in a furious battle of sparking chakra. Until both Kiba (visible or not) skidded back. The invisible Kiba grunted as his invisible body was flung back .. And Hinata widened her eyes at this.
"I can…hear him…" She muttered weakly.
So, she knew she could hear him. However, Hinata's powers were within her eyes, and she wanted double affirmation that she could track him. She attempted to pulse chakra into her Byakugan to enhance her vision, but to no avail. It seemed it was a battle of sound with Kiba.
Akamaru charged at her with spinning ferocity towards Hinata again. She skillfully dodged him as she noticed the sound of the real Kiba again.
"Here it comes!" She thought.
The sound was muffled and didn't seem to come from any direction. But she could hear it. Soon, the muffled sound, while still muffled increased volume. She narrowed her eyes in confusion, until she could feel the ground shake.
"Below!"
She jumped up high from the ground, just as the ground crumbled and gave way to an invisible spinning top that came up. Hinata narrowed her eyes and only one thought ran through her.
'Naruto…'
Soon, she herself started to spin.
"Rotation!" She yelled as the giant blue sphere collided with Kiba, sparks and chakra erupting from the area of the collision. However, Hinata's rotation was stronger, and coupled with the fact that it repelled as well as defended, Kiba was sent crashing to the earth. He finally lost control of his genjutsu and he became visible.
Hinata wasn't finished as she descended down after Kiba as he plummeted to the floor, and crashed down on him with a palm to his chest, earning a cry of pain. Only one comment was uttered from Kiba.
"Damn…you're pretty hot." As he fell into unconsciousness.
"Eeep!" Hinata yelled as she jumped off him. Hayate was beside her in a second, checking on Kiba. Hinata, knowing that she had won, looked toward Naruto and smiled.
Naruto still couldn't understand why she was always looking at him. Little did he know that if he wasn't there, she would not have the confidence and focus to face Kiba.
Hayate checked his vitals to see if medical attention was required. All that had been damaged was his chakra network, and those would reopen soon enough.
"Kiba is unconscious and unable to continue. However he does not require medical assistance. Hinata is victorious."
"Woah, Hinata was awesome…" Ino sighed with awe, and Shikamaru could only agree without comment. Kiba was hefted up to the sides and was set down against the wall. Kurenai knelt beside him and ruffled his hair.
"You did fine, you stupid mutt. Your only mistake was forgetting she could feel you coming and not just hear you." She whispered as she stood up again, and Hinata walked passed her.
"Hinata!"
Hinata turned to her. "Yes?"
Kurenai smiled. "You did fine work, I'm sure your father would be proud." She announced. Kurenai had been something of a special sensei to Hinata. Her father had disregarded her and left her in the care of Kurenai, who while Hiashi never cared for, noticed she treated Hinata as a mother figure in the academy. Poor Hinata even heard Hiashi call her weak trash towards Kurenai when she was listening in on one of their convorsations. It was because of this that Iruka was meant to put Hinata in Kurenai's squad. However, when Naruto killed Mizuki and chose Hinata as his female teammate, everything had been re-done.
Hinata showed sad eyes but a glad smile. "Thank you." She whispered as she walked back towards her team, when surprisingly, Naruto bombarded her with worry.
"Hinata! Are you okay?" He asked. Before he had been jealous of Sasuke's skill to remain dark and cool even in Hinata's case. But Naruto realized he should just give up this trait in Hinata's case, as he instinctively always had an eye out for her.
"Naruto I'm fine…" She tried to argue. She didn't want him to worry, and she wanted to feel like she had completely dominated Kiba, even though in reality he'd almost beaten her.
"No your not!" He argued sharply. "You're a mess…" He said in a lower tone calming his nerves down. He'd been worried the entire match. "Look at you're…" Naruto trailed off as his eyes scanned her wounded stomach. It had been ripped open when Kiba hit her with the Fang over Fang. The gash was circular in shape and red. Surrounding it was a ring of creamy unwounded skin, and the rest was still covered by the undamaged area of her shirt. Naruto was hit with a sense of extra worry to see the wound up close, and was mesmerized by the healthy skin. It seemed to fill him with an eerie calmness and yet worry.
Naruto didn't speak as he reached slowly and touch her wound with hazy eyes. Hinata yelped.
"Ow!"
"Uhh sorry Hinata…Do you have ointment? Will it hurt an open wound?"
"Yes…I-I have ointment, and n-no…it won't…hurt too much…I think." Hinata stuttered, slightly nervous at how Naruto stared. Did it really look that wounded? She set her thoughts aside and handed him the ointment. He opened it and rubbed his finger lightly across small areas of the wound. Hinata remembered the all familiar touch of Naruto applying the ointment.
But soon Hinata started to feel a pang in her stomach as his hand descended lower. She couldn't explain it. Like hot water rushing down her back and turning cold as it reached her knees making her shiver with a pleasure she'd never felt. Naruto started rubbing the wound harder to get into the tight crevices of the ripped up skin. And soon it felt like a knot was being tied in her stomach. It filled her with a feeling so extremely foreign she started to become nervous and she stopped Naruto.
"Um..Naruto, I think I'll be fine." She muttered.
Naruto only raised a brow at her strange behavior but thought nothing of it. He smiled. "You did great Hinata, I'm happy you won. If Sasuke lost now, I'd laugh my ass off." He commented with a snort. Hinata giggled and Sasuke's eyes narrowed into thin lines in mock anger.
"We'll see." He challenged.
"The next combatants will show on screen now."
The screen text rolled and rolled, until finally, 2 names were picked.
Shikamaru Nara versus Tenten.
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Well this chapter ended up longer than i anticipated. But I suppose that's better then it is unexpected. What to say…there really isn't much I haven't talked about in the opening AU, so I'll leave you to your daily lives. Also, lately I've been having trouble concentrated on pretty much anything, so if I made a strange spelling error it's to be expected, but please let me know so I may fix it.
Thank you and I hope you enjoyed.