CHAPTER 12
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Last time:
"Why are you covered in grass?" Sasuke asked as Naruto walked through the door of their hotel room.
Naruto chuckles slightly, "Fell of a swing."
Sasuke just sighed, "I'm not going to ask how. Come on, we have to pack tonight so we can be ready to leave tomorrow morning."
"Why the rush? We aren't going anywhere special, and we've still got 10 months to travel." Naruto sighed.
"We can't stay in one place too long, because once people realise who we are they'll be everyone after us. We have got pretty large bounties on our heads, y'know." Sasuke explained as he finished sealing everything into his scroll.
Naruto followed his example, "Okay, I get it." He yawned as he finished up too, "Well, I'm done, g'night teme."
"Night dobe."
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"I'll miss you guys!" Yukie yelled as she embraced the three in a bone-crushing hug
"We'll miss you too Yukie-Chan!" Naruto smiled as he escaped her embrace.
"You have to come back and visit. Oh, and Naruto, Hinata, you better give me an invitation to your wedding!" She gave Hinata and Naruto a knowing look making them blush.
Sasuke chuckled at their embarrassed looks, "I'll make sure they give you one," He smirked. "Come on guys, let's get out of here."
With that, the five of them left Spring Country, leaving Yukie behind.
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"So where are we heading now?" Naruto asked as they walked along a path that merchant's usually took away from Spring Country.
"If we keep heading in this direction, we will come across a town called Joshi. It's famous for its many hot springs we can stay there for the night." Sasuke replied with confidence. "Hey, Hinata-imouto? How do you have enough money to pay for everything anyway? You don't do any jobs to get money, so how do you have all of it?"
Hinata smiled and pulled a credit card out of her kunai pouch, "I might have borrowed this from my father. He hasn't noticed because he has so many. And this is connected directly to the Hyuuga treasury."
Naruto smiled proudly, "Yeah! Take that Hyuuga bastards!"
"Well, I guess we won't be running out of money anytime soon then," Sasuke remarked thoughtfully as Hinata put the card back in her kunai pouch.
"TO JOSHI!" Naruto yelled, throwing a fist in the direction they were walking, an excited look on his face, making Sasuke sigh in exasperation and Hinata giggle slightly.
"Shut up, Dobe!"
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"How far away are we now?" Naruto asked for the fifth time in ten minutes.
"I said that we had half an hour to go! Stop asking that! I'll tell you when we get there!" Sasuke snapped, annoyed and sick of Naruto's constant badgering.
"Okay, okay! No need to be snappy!" Naruto said, Sasuke and Hinata both sighing at their blond friend.
"We're stuck with him for nine more months. Hinata, if I show signs of madness, you're going to have to kill me." Sasuke turned to the raven-haired girl who was walking next to him.
"Got it." Hinata giggled slightly, "But you have to do the same for me, because I'm pretty sure I'll be stuck with him for a lot longer than nine months."
"Yeah, well, you're going to have to tame him if you want to keep him. Trust me, if you do it would be better for everyone."
"I'll get right to that." Hinata smiled at her brother-like figure.
Hinata and Sasuke did look fairly similar, even though they weren't blood related. SO that's why they were pretending to be siblings during their travels. They had already talked about this, and if anyone asked, Sasuke and Hinata were brother and sister. Naruto was still Hinata's boyfriend and the three were on a holiday travelling across the world. They had planned this out since they first began a team, because if anyone recognised them, they would immediately have hunter-nins after them.
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Welcome to: 'JOSHI'
That was written on a sign that the five came across a half an hour later.
"Finally!" Naruto yelled dramatically as he kissed the sign.
Sasuke and Hinata just sighed at the blond as he continued to dance around, hugging nearby trees – and Hinata – dramatically.
"Okay, guys, I'm heading for the hot spring." Hinata sighed as she pried Naruto off of her and kissed him on the cheek, "You guys coming?"
Sasuke nodded, grabbing Naruto, "Yeah, we're coming; this guy really needs to relax."
"Roki, Misaki, stay out here and just relax for a bit. Okay?" Hinata patted the dogs on their heads before walking into the women's side of the hot spring.
Yes, Mistress. Misaki nodded to her mistress before watching her disappear behind a door.
Hinata smiled to herself as she took off all of her clothes and placed them in one of the lockers supplied, placing her fake white camellia on top of her neatly folded pile of clothes. Humming to herself, she placed a towel around her body and walked out into the hot springs.
That's when it hit her. Hinata felt a presence staring directly at her. Looking around, there was only two other people in the hot spring, and the two blond women were having a pleasant conversation with each other. And neither of them were looking at her.
She heard a very quiet perverted giggle from on the other side of the wooden wall and caught sight of a small peep-hole in the wood. Stupid pervert. She thought to herself as she turned her back to the guy, activated her byakugan and made it look like she was running her hand through her hair but really pulled out a senbon and threw it accurately through the peep-hole.
Hinata's eyes widened when she saw the old man jump out of the way of the senbon and resume the same position as before. Scowling to herself, she deactivated her byakugan and removed herself from the hot spring to give the guy a piece of her mind. Tightening the towel around her, she walked out of the hot spring and towards the still giggling man, "PERVERT!" She growled at him, and kicked him away from the peep-hole.
She knew this guy was a ninja, or else he wouldn't have been able to dodge her senbon. Hell, he wouldn't have even been able to see the senbon until it was too late. The man quickly got off of the ground, "You're good, I barely noticed you. But I am the legen–" He was cut off by two half-dressed people and two dogs intruding in the scene.
"What the hell is going on here?" A half-dressed Naruto yelled, only wearing pants and one sock, with Sasuke by his side, both of their hair dripping wet.
Naruto locked eyes with the pervert that was peeping on the women's spring, "Ero-sennin?" He asked incredulously.
Sasuke's eyebrows rose, "This guy was your sensei?"
"This pervert was your sensei?" Hinata re-phrased his question.
"Pervert?" Naruto glared at the older man, "You better not have been peeping at Hinata-chan…" He said, voice low and threatening.
Jariyia just looked at the three, "Nope. I was hoping, but she never took her towel off. She would've been great research for my next book though, by the look of –" He was interrupted once again, but this time it was a punch to the face.
Hinata was blushing madly when Naruto punched Jariyia in the face, "Shut up! You damn pervert, stop damn staring at my girlfriend!" Hinata tightened her towel around her while Jariyia got up off of the ground.
"Girlfriend, ay? Well, I have taught you well. She is so much better than flat-chested pinkie you were after before." Jariyia nodded to himself in acceptance.
"Whatever, Ero-sennin. Let's go sit down somewhere; I have to tell you everything!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Uh, Naruto-kun? You and Sasuke-nii should probably finish getting dressed first. And if you hadn't noticed, I'm only in a towel. And I'm not leaving like this." Hinata informed.
"Oh, right." Naruto smiled, scratching the back of his head. "Wait for us outside when you're done." And gave her a peck on the forehead.
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"So, why are you with two missing nins?" Jariyia asked Naruto as the six of them were sitting in a booth of a small café.
Naruto and Hinata were on one side of the booth, Jariyia and Sasuke on the other, with the two dogs lying on the floor by their feet. "Well, you know how when we were training I'd always talk about this girl I missed so much and wanted to see so badly?" He asked, making Hinata blush brightly.
Jariyia nodded, "Yeah, that was Hinata-san, wasn't it?"
Now it was Naruto's turn to nod, "Yeah, and when I finally got back she wasn't there, and we went to the hokage's office and she showed me that letter? Well, I was determined to see her again and then when I went to Suna to save Gaara she showed up. We talked and I tried to get her to come back with us, then I tried to go with her, but she told me I shouldn't become a missing nin without at least thinking about the consequences. Then she told me she knew where Sasuke would be, and she said I should have my decision by then when we see each other again." Naruto summarized, "Then we found Sasuke, and he decided to leave with Hinata, and I now I am on a mission which involves keeping an eye on two missing nin. Well, it was originally one, but I got another one added onto the pile. Oh, yeah, and I've gotta convince these two to come back to Konoha with me when I'm done."
"Well, kid, you've done a lot while I had been gone. There's been some commotion while you've been gone. Apparently, an old Konoha nin, by the name of Takisho has been experimenting and creating some unknown unbelievably strong half human creatures. And he's trying to get back at Konoha. We don't know anything about the creatures yet though, which is why I'm around, the last one was found in spring country, so I'm headed there to check it out." Jariyia explained.
The other three people on the table's eyes opened up in recognition, when Hinata decided to speak up, "Umm, Jariyia-sama? He's no longer in spring country. It was one of the mutants. We've already seen him, and he isn't the least bit human." She shuddered at the memory, getting a reassuring hug from Naruto and a sympathetic look from Sasuke.
Jariyia's eyebrows shot up, "Well, well. I need to know everything you know about him." He turned to Sasuke.
"I don't know much, you should be asking Hinata, she was the one who had first hand-experience with him." Sasuke pointed out.
Hinata shuddered again before turning to Jariyia, "Er, well. His name was Lust, and his name was the best thing to describe his attitude. He told me he has six other brothers. Like him, I mean, all mutants, he disguised himself as a human, the only odd thing about him as a human was his bright orange eyes." Hinata summarized rather awkwardly. "When he was in his true form he looked rather… demented. He had a hunchback, huge muscly legs and a small torso. He still had his orange eyes, but he wasn't human."
"How come Hinata had first-hand experience and the rest of you didn't?" Jariyia asked, rather confused.
Naruto sighed and patted Hinata reassuringly on the back, "That's not something we want to think about, Jariyia. If you want I'll tell you later, but some of us would rather not relive those events right now."
Jariyia just nodded in understanding, "Well, overall, I'm proud of you boy. You seem to have come far since I last seen you. And you've done a great job in looking after Hinata-san."
"Thanks a lot ero-sennin." Naruto acknowledged with a small smile.
Hinata smiled too, gently getting up from Naruto's lap, "Well, I'm going to go back to the bathhouse. This time, I'm actually going to get in the water. And there better not be any more perverts. I really need to relax all my muscles."
Sasuke nodded to the girl, "If you need us, get Misaki to seek us out. We won't be too far, probably looking for a hotel."
Hinata nodded in recognition and thanks, before turning to Naruto who had started to speak. "We'll see you soon." He smiled at her, earning himself a peck on the cheek before Hinata walked out of the room.
"Wyyt-sshhh." Jariyia made a whipping noise.
"He is whipped." Sasuke agreed with a smirk.
"I am not whipped!" Naruto complained, earning an 'oh, really?' from both Jariyia and Sasuke.
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"That was relaxing." Hinata sighed as she walked out of the hot springs. Misaki? Where are the boys? She thought as she walked casually down the road.
Sitting outside 'The SunnySide Hotel' getting a bite to eat. Hinata heard Misaki's voice echo through her head.
Thanks, Misaki. Are you with them? And what about Jariyia-sama?
Jariyia isn't with Sasuke and Naruto but me and Roki are staying with them… it's close to that restaurant we stayed at lunch.
And with that, the conversation ended and Hinata walked towards the group. A bustling feeling ran over her as she was about to reach the group, causing her to freeze, and look around. Someone strong was near. Realising they might be watching her; she acted natural and walked the next ten steps to her comrades.
"You feel it too, huh?" Naruto asked as he saw Hinata acting uncomfortable. He went over to give her a hug when she stopped him.
"Wait. If there is someone watching us, we don't want to give them any information about ourselves." Hinata said rationally, watching as Naruto nodded in agreement, although he had a disappointed look on his face.
"Hinata, check our surroundings with your byakugan." Sasuke said.
Hinata did as he said, but what she saw wasn't a good thing. "Fuck!" Hinata cursed loudly, making Naruto and Sasuke turn to her alarmed. Hinata never swore. Ever. So something was seriously wrong.
"What is it?" Sasuke asked.
"We have to move. Now!" She ordered.
Naruto grabbed onto Hinata, "Hinata! What did you see!"
Hinata took a deep breath. "Orochimaru."
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END OF CHAPTER 12
Sorry it took me soo long… I was camping! man, I love camping… but we only ended up staying out there for five days instead of the eight we planned to, because if we didn't leave, the water would've rose up so high it would've blocked our exit… now THAT wouldn't have been fun… haha lol.