CHAPTER 10
Sorry it took so long for me to load, but I found out one of my friends has a cancer tumour in her lungs… she's my second friend I know that has cancer… I love you babe, get better soon. We're all praying for you xx
Well, on a higher note, she's not in a coma anymore, and she's talking, although her speech is slurred.
Anyway, onto the story.
** DEMON COUPLE **
** DEMON COUPLE **
"Am I dead, Hina-chan?" Naruto asked, lying face-first on the ground, his left arm twitching slightly.
Hinata just smiled, and sat down cross-legged on the ground next to him, "No, Naruto-kun, you're alive."
Naruto smiled, and although was feeling sore from his training, he managed to look up at her "No, I pretty sure I'm dead. Because I'm looking right at an angel."
Hinata blushed cutely at Naruto's corny comment, "You're cute, Naruto-kun. Corny, but cute. And I'm positive you're alive right now."
"Well, I guess that's good. But Old-man Moji likes to torture me too much." Naruto complained, pulling himself into a sitting position.
"Haven't you thought that he might torture you because you call him 'old-man' all the time?" Sasuke sighed, standing a couple feet from the group.
"Teme? When did you get here?" Naruto sighed, standing up and brushing the dirt off of his new black pants.
Recently, Yukie had taken the three of them out to town, determined on getting the trio new ninja clothes. None of the three actually wanted her to take them shopping, but there was nothing stopping Yukie when she put her mind to something.
Hinata was first to get new clothes, which contained a tight white shirt, black shorts with her kunai pouch sitting on her left hip and, of course, her black gloves. Her white shirt was plain on the front, but on the back was the word 'Ookami' (Wolf) in black. She had approximately twenty-seven senbon hiding throughout her outfit, and another fifty in her kunai pouch. She was starting to get used to using senbon, and having them hidden in various places, like under her gloves, in her hair, in her shorts and even one or two down her bra. She knew that if she lost her kunai pouch or someone was searching for her weapons, she'd still have some on her without them noticing. That is, unless the stripped her, but even then they probably wouldn't notice the senbon in her hair.
Hinata smiled as she reached her hand up to touch the fake white camellia that was behind her ear, remembering Naruto giving it to her with another corny comment, "My love for you will last until this flower wilts." He got a big kiss for that one. He was pretty good at the corny, but cute comments that he would give her from time to time, and she was certain that she would wear this flower behind her ear for a very long time. Plus, it suited her outfit. She also wore Naruto's necklace, the one Tsunade had given him. After seeing each other again, Hinata had tried to give it back to him, but he said she should keep it, that he wanted her to look after it for him.
Naruto was the next unfortunate victim of a wardrobe change. He wore a dark-blue muscle shirt, black shinobi pants, a dark-orange jacket and, of course, he had his Konoha hitai-ate shinning beautifully on his forehead. The jacket he now wore was plain orange, with his classic red swirl on each shoulder and the word 'Kitsune' (Fox) engraved on the back. Yukie had taken a lot of effort to get each of them an engraving on the back. He also had his bow and arrow slung across his back, where it was easily reachable for him to use without much effort. He also wore the silver wolf necklace that Hinata had given him in a letter so long ago with pride. Naruto quite liked his new outfit, and his teammates, well, mainly the shorts that his girlfriend was wearing, that showed her smooth strong legs that he adored so much. But he quickly removed those thoughts from his head after remembering the comment she made about all her senbon hidden in her clothes and that no-one would able to find them all. He sighed to himself with a content smile, just happy that she was kind and would never hit him with a senbon anyway… well, unless they were training.
Sasuke learnt to not complain after the upside whack to the head Naruto got for complaining about shopping, and took his punishment seemingly willingly for the sake of not to get injured. Sasuke's clothes were a lot like Naruto's, just different in colour. His muscle shirt was a light grey in colour, but his pants the same black as Naruto's. He wore a dark-blue jacket, with the Uchiha clan symbol on the shoulders instead of Naruto's red swirl. Also, written on the back of Sasuke's jacket was the word, 'Hebi' (Snake) and he had his sword sheathed on his right leg, his kunai pouch on his left. Sasuke looked up at the other two, who seemed as they were thinking about something; their eye's a distant look in them as the still stayed on the training ground floor.
That's when he remembered he hadn't answered Naruto's question, "I got here just now, Moji-san says that trainings over for the day. We have our finishing test tomorrow; and we have to beat him to finally finish our training." Sasuke recalled, looking at the couple as they snapped out of their thinking state.
"Oh, yeah, we'll kick the old man's ass!" Naruto smiled widely, "Uh… Sasuke? Can you help me up?"
Sasuke chuckled, "Come on, dobe, let's get back to the hotel." Sasuke said as he slung Naruto's arm around his shoulders and Hinata led the way back to their hotel.
** DEMON COUPLE **
"Okay, let's make a deal. If we beat Moji-san, I will let you take me on a date tonight." Hinata said to Naruto as they walked towards the dojo with Roki and Misaki by their sides and Sasuke walking a couple metres ahead of them.
Naruto grinned widely, "Finally." He had been asking her and trying to get them to go on a proper date for ages, but they had always been exhausted from training or busy with other things. "But what if we lose?"
Hinata just gave him a mysterious look, "Will we?" She asked, making Naruto smirk.
"You're right. We won't lose." He grasped her hand as they walked casually towards the dojo.
** DEMON COUPLE **
"A few rules you have to follow." Moji said in his wise voice as he stood in the center of the dojo, his left hand firmly on his walking stick as he spoke to the three teenagers. "One, only one of you can battle me at a time, think of it as if it's a wrestling match, you have to tag another person so they can jump in and fight, all you need to do is yell out 'switch' and then swap with another person. Two, no nin-jutsu, but you can use chakra to strengthen your moves and weapons, but Naruto-kun can use his shadow clone jutsu, and Hinata-chan can use her jyuken because it's her taijutsu style. Three, you can't use Roki-kun or Misaki-chan during this fight, and four, only you will win once either of us are unable to fight, which means if even one of you are unconscious of unable to continue, the match is over, understood?"
"Hai!" They all said at once, before turning to each other, "Who's first?" Naruto asked.
"You." Sasuke said confidently. No-one had actually said anything, but Sasuke was sort of the leader of the group, and no one really disagreed with that choice. He kept quiet and lingered in the back during most confrontations, making people usually believe that Naruto was in charge, but all three of them knew that Sasuke was practically the leader of the group from some un-spoken agreement. "Naruto, you shall go first. You have the most stamina out of all of us, and your shadow clones would be able to see how he fights, me and Hinata will watch and decipher his strengths and try to find a weakness as you fight him, then tell you of what we came up with when we swap."
"Okay, that's fine with me. Let's get this going!" Naruto smiled as Hinata and Sasuke sat on the edge of the dojo where two chairs were already set up and waiting with Misaki and Roki laying down next to the chairs, heads on their paws.
"As you wish." Moji said, getting into an unfamiliar stance that none of the three had seen before. His legs were parted about shoulder-length apart, leaning forward slightly with his walking stick in front of him, both hands clutching it securely.
After a quick dissection of his stance, Naruto noticed that it looked like a defensive stance, so he had to be careful. He pulled his hands together in a familiar hand-sign as he called out, "Kage bushin no jutsu!" and five clones popped out in a line next to him, two of them reaching for their bow and arrows and the other three charging.
The real Naruto stayed back and watched as Moji flung his walking stick across the ground, tripping up two of the three clones, but they quickly regained their balance. The two that held their bows out, pointed at Moji fired, the first arrow being knocked away by Moji's walking stick and the other hit a clone, effectively releasing it. The Naruto clones punched and kicked Moji, who was defending himself very well, releasing another clone as he pulled a kunai out of his pocket and stabbing it into the clone without any of the Naruto's seeing him. Moji, however nearly lost it when Naruto shot an arrow at him, hitting him in the calf, which he wasn't expecting, and the Naruto he was in close combat with landed a punch to his shoulder. But before the clone could to any damage, Moji pressed a hidden button on his staff and three small black balls came rolling out the bottom of his walking stick, all three blowing up in black smoke, filling the dojo completely.
Approximately three and a half seconds later, Sasuke and Hinata heard Naruto call out, "All my clones are dispatched, and I can't see through this smoke!"
Hinata, who had her byakugan opened, yelled out, "Switch! I'm the only one who can see through the smoke and we need to make sure we conserve our energy as much as possible."
"Alright," Naruto called out as he ran towards Hinata's voice, and Hinata ran out onto the dojo, byakugan activated.
Sasuke helped Naruto onto the chair and told him everything he saw as Hinata got into her stance, her right hand forwards, palm out, one leg in front of the other and her left hand fisted underneath her chin, blades on her left hand already out. "Let's do this Moji-sensei." Was all the warning as she ran towards his figure in the smoke. She watched him get into a defensive stance as she reached him, and dodged the kunai that were thrown in her direction. He didn't want her to get close, because he knew she was an excellent close-combat fighter. So he was trying to keep her back. Quickly, she pulled out some senbon that was hiding under her left glove with her bladed hand and threw them at Moji, but he sensed them and dodged before they could impale his neck and temporarily paralyse him like she intended.
The next thing she knew senbon were flying at her in an alarming speed, all coming out the end of his staff. Hinata got as low to the ground as possible to dodge the senbon and spat one senbon of her own out of her mouth which was heading towards his foot. Luckily for her, he didn't notice that one until it impaled a ligament in his foot, making him need the walking stick a lot more than before.
Smiling to herself, Hinata jumped up and once again charged towards Moji, swinging her clawed hand across his torso, which was stopped by his staff, but that was only a decoy, her left hand was sent over to his arm holding the staff, and blocked some of the tenketsu in his arm. By now, the smoke had all faded from the room, and Hinata was surprised to see the bottom of his wooden staff suddenly peel of the edges and reveal a long blade that looked a lot like a sword with a wooden hilt. He swung around and knocked Hinata off of her feet, but she twisted her body mid-air to dodge the blade that was coming down on her, but she was impaled by quite a few senbon. Landing on her feet, Hinata did a couple backflips to create distance between the two of them, breathing heavily. "Switch!" She called out, "Sasuke, he's got a sword, you would be best suited for fighting him now since you know how swordsmen fight." And she retreated to the chairs.
Sasuke passed her as she was walking and patted her on the back saying, "You did good," As he continued to the field and Hinata took a seat and started healing her injuries.
"Any weaknesses?" Naruto asked as she sat down.
"I tore a ligament in his left ankle, and he can't use any chakra in his right hand anymore, so that means no more tricky stuff with his staff, he won't be able to change it anymore, so it will stay a sword." Hinata summarized.
Naruto just smiled at her, "That's my girl." And tussled her hair slightly before turning back to the fight.
Moji was panting by now, since he had already been through Naruto and Hinata, and all Sasuke and Moji were doing were parrying and blocking, that is until Sasuke pulled out a kunai with his free hand from his kunai pouch and pierced Moji's left shoulder with it. But Moji used that to his advantage, he spun his leg across the ground, tripping Sasuke up and sliced Sasuke's leg with his sword. Luckily for Sasuke, the wound wasn't deep, but it was painful, quickly getting back into stance, Sasuke charged once again: strike, parry, dodge, dodge, feign, parry, parry, strike, dodge, and he continued to close up with their sensei as the other two watched intently.
In the corner of his eye, Sasuke saw something shine on the ground, so, doing a leg sweep to distract Moji, he reached down and picked up the senbon, throwing it at Moji's injured arm with deadly accuracy, then running in with his sword before Moji could gather what was going on. Sasuke smirked when he got a hit, slicing along Moji's left leg, rendering it useless, and Sasuke jumped forward, holding his sword to Moji's throat. "We win." He smirked.
Moji nodded, and Sasuke retracted his sword, sheathing it at his side as Hinata ran over and started healing Moji's wounds before working on Sasuke's. She had already healed Naruto while the two were standing back and watching the fight, so everyone was soon in perfect condition.
"You did well," Moji started as the six of them (including the animals) took a seat on the floor, "You have all passed my expectations and there is nothing more I can teach you. What you need now is experience, and, knowing Naruto, he will be getting in enough trouble for all of you to be able to get more than enough of experience." Naruto protested rather loudly at that as Hinata giggled and Sasuke chuckled. "I am proud to be teaching you, and, one day, when you all are highly known ninja, I will be proud to tell people of how I taught these legends." He smiled gently, gaining a hug from Hinata. "You've probably stayed here in spring country for far too long, you should probably continue your travels. But if you ever pass by, you know where to find me."
Hinata gently broke her hug, "This is definitely not the last time we'll see you, Moji-sensei." And with that, Hinata bowed respectfully and gave the man a kiss on the cheek, "Thank you."
"Hey!" Naruto complained, "Naw, now look old man, you're stealing my girlfriend away from me." He joked, making everyone laugh. He then held out a hand for Moji to shake, "Goodbye, old man. This is probably be the last time we'll see you in a while."
Sasuke then held his hand out to be shaken, "Yes, we shall leave tomorrow, as I heard someone has a date tonight." He gave a pointed look at his teammates, who just smiled (Hinata with a small blush). "Goodbye, Moji-san." And he also bowed respectfully as they headed off back towards their hotel to pack, and for Naruto and Hinata to get ready for their date.
** DEMON COUPLE **
END OF CHAPTER 10
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