It was still dark and chilly when she walked into the training grounds, she needed to be stronger, she wanted to be able to endure more, she had to find a way to advance her defenses so she would always have an absolute defense and her blind spot would always be protected.
Hinata activated her Byakugan. Being apart of a tracking team she developed her eyesight, seeing up to a 360 degree range of 10 kilometers both in width and length. Already having known how to use her Byakugan like a telescope to see things from far distances, she trained herself in using her Byakugan to magnify and zoom, seeing the smallest things including insects, even using their body heat to detect them.
Creating four clones around her, she stood in a Gentle Fist stance, the clones attacked taking kunais out before throwing them at her. With precise chakra control that was said to be on par with one of a medical ninja, she let streams of chakra flow from her palms, she turned on her toes, moving her arms in all direction making them a blur, as chakra flowed around her . Everyone of the kunais dropped to the ground broken or in half, Hinata stopped spinning to smirk at her clones, who smiled back.
They charged at her this time, fixating her Byakugan to focus only on their tenketsu, she let the chakra from her fingers making contact with each of them. Hinata dipped low as she spin kicked one of clones making it fall to the ground, blocking a palm that was aim at her chest she flipped over the clone placing both her palms on it's back and infusing her chakra before flipping off watching as the clone disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Two other clones came at her together, she dodge thier attacks and moved at a little faster pace than she was before, defeating them using the Palm Bottom simultaneously resulting in them both turning into smoke. There was one more, she defeated three clones, so where was the last one? Relying on her X-ray vision, she searched the area looking for the missing clone.
Hinata jumped away from the spot she was just standing, shifting her body in order to dodge the attack that came from her clone. The clone tried again this time using it's foot to place at kick at Hinata's temple, shielding her temple with her hands, Hinata blocked the attack, before grabbing the clone's foot and throwing it to the ground. The clone got up, running towards Hinata again, when she was close enough Hinata placed her palm up straight blasting the clone away with a Eight Trigram Vacuum Palm, defeating the last clone.
Hinata sighed noticing that the sky had turn an orangey color and the sun was beginning to rise, she found her way to her favorite lake, so she could wash up a little. She still had work to do but she was getting there.
The sound of loud knocking woke the last Uchiha from his sleep.
"Sasuke!" the voice called.
He didn't answer, hopefully the dobe would get the idea and leave him the fuck alone. Who comes knocking at someone's door so early in the morning? Seriously.
"Bastard open the damn door!" Naruto yelled a little louder this time.
Sasuke groaned and turned on his side pulling a pillow over his head.
"Shut the fuck up!" he yelled back when his patience had run low.
"I would if you'd open the damn door." the blond retorted.
Sasuke got up, walking out of his bedroom, he yanked his apartment door open and glared at the blond standing in the corridor.
"What's up teme?" Naruto greeted.
"Naruto why are you here at six in the fucking morning?" Sasuke asked in a calm tone.
The blond scratched the back of his head and was grinning stupidly.
"Well you see I, uh, I was wondering if you wanted to and train?" Naruto said.
Sasuke glared at him.
"You woke me up at six to ask me that?" he asked.
"Well…" the blond trailed off.
"No." the Uchiha said and began to close his door.
Naruto pushed his foot in.
"C'mon teme. You aren't doing anything." he said.
Sasuke just stared at him before turning around to go back to his room.
"Hn." he said.
Naruto grinned he knew he had won.
They walked into Training ground 7 in silence finding the perfect spot to spar Naruto stopped, turning to face the brooding Sasuke he got into a battle stance he grinned at him.
"Don't hold back teme." he said.
The Uchiha smirked as he cracked his knuckles.
"I wasn't planning too dobe."
The Uzumaki chuckled running towards the raven and attacking with a blow to the head, Sasuke blocked it spinning out of the way before the blond could land another attack on him. Naruto seemingly seeing this used it to his advantage, running towards the other male he aimed a foot at his stomach. Sasuke smirked, activating his Sharingan, he countered sending the orange Hokage spinning to the ground.
Naruto got up and pulled out a kunai, the Uchiha copied him drawing his sword, both ran at each other and their weapons clashed. Drawing their weapons back, the both tried to land kicks at each others abdomen only for both to dodge and countered using the blades of their weapons. The sound of metal was heard again, both men grinned at each other.
Backing away Naruto threw the kunai at Sasuke who deflected it, looking at the blond again the raven dropped his sword, it was time to finish this. Running toward him, Sasuke disappeared kicking Naruto in the back only to see that the blond disappeared leaving smoke behind. Bending backward, the Uchiha narrowly dodge the dobe's foot, stopping the other foot that was approaching fast. Sasuke moved out of the way, watching as Naruto came at him and using a Fuma Shuriken Sasuke pinned Naruto to a tree ending their spar.
Taking a break from training Team 8 sat at a table in Ichiraku's eating bowls of ramen.
"Hinata you need to cut down on the training." Kiba said slurping at his noodles.
Hinata stopped eating and stared wide eyed at Kiba.
"But I need to get stronger and training is the only way I can Kiba-kun." she replied a little to loud for someone as softspoken like herself.
"He is right Hinata. You need to rest." Shino said calmly.
The shy blue haired Kunoichi said nothing as she picked back up her chopsticks and resumed eating her ramen.
"Sakura let go of me." a cold voice snapped.
"But Sasuke-kun." another voice pleaded.
Their heads shot up to stare at the door watching as Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto entered the shop. Sasuke glared at them but mainly at Hinata and his gaze seemed to hold hers, making Hinata uncomfortable, like she did anytime she saw him, she quickly turned her gaze away but she still felt him giving her an icy glare. She heard Kiba growl and she looked up at him, seeing his eyes, they were full of rage and his fangs were bearing.
"Gomen." Hinata said softly.
Her teammates looked at her.
"I'm leaving now." she said quickly getting up and leaving before they could say anything.
Sasuke watched her as she left, giving a satisfied smirk that he intimidated her enough that she did.
"Kiba don't." Shino cautioned.
"Oi Uchiha." he heard the Inuzuka called.
Sasuke turned to see Kiba walking up to him and he stared into his angry eyes.
"I don't care what you have against Hinata but I want you to stay away from her." the dogboy growled before leaving.
Shino placed the money on the table as he too got up and left.
"Here you go." Aymame said.
Placing three bowls of ramen in front of Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura said their thanks before they ate in silence.
"Teme why can't you be nicer to Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke turned to look at him but choose not to answer.
"She did nothing wrong, she just completed her mission like she was suppose to." the blond continued.
And because she did, I'm here and I hate her.
"Leave me alone dobe." he said.
Completely feeling ignored Sakura tried to start a conversation.
"I wonder where Kakashi-sensei is?" she said.
"That ass probably jerking off somewhere." Naruto said.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted as she punched him across his head.
"Sakura-chan." the blond whined.
Sakura sighed as she looked across to Sasuke once she saw him getting up.
"Ne, Sasuke-kun where are you going?" she asked.
"If you must know, I'm going home." the Last Uchiha said.
"Oh I'll walk you Sasuke-kun." she squealed.
"No, I want to be alone. Frankly you're annoying." he said as he walked out of the shop.
"Give him time Sakura-chan." Naruto said.
Yeah, but how much time did he need?
Sasuke slammed his door closed and gruffly made his way to his living room, he needed some peace and quiet, he was with those idiots all day and all Sakura seemed to do was cling to him, he wanted to beat her till she couldn't move. He was happy to get away from them, Naruto and his constant talking and Sakura and her fangirl ways were just to annoying just like everything else in this village. He hated being back, he absolutely hated this village and he hated everyone in it especially the Hyuga.
He scoffed as he remembered threat the Inuzuka made to him earlier, like he could hurt him, he was ten times stronger than Kiba. His thoughts drifted back to his first encounter of the Hyuga when she fought him in the forest, he had to admit she was strong, she was able to block his attacks that were hard for some others to do and quickly attack him with her own. He was really surprise when she she blocked his last attack and whatever move she did on him that had him unconscious for a week had him rattled.
What he didn't get, was that when he was attacking her in his hospital room, she didn't even seem to defend herself, she just let him bash away at her. He didn't know how it would have ended if Naruto didn't stop him, but she would have been in a hospital room herself if she'd let him continue to beat her. Sasuke shook his head, getting those thoughts out of his head, it's been a month and he was still thinking about them.
As she walked into the training grounds that evening, she was not expecting to see him there, she was not expecting to see anybody at this time, that's why she always trained in this training area around this hour. So how did he know where to find her? Or was it by chance that he was here?
"Hyuga." he said calmly.
She blinked once at her name being called looking at him again.
"Wh-what are you doing here?" she asked.
Sasule smirked at her.
"I'm just here to test something out." the raven replied.
Hinata stared at him confused.
"And what is that?" she questioned.
"You came here to train am I right?" the Uchiha asked.
"Hai." she answered with some suspicion.
"Then fight me." he said.
Hinata stared wide eyed at him.
"Wh-what?" she exclaimed.
Sasuked didn't bother telling her again, he wanted to see if she was as strong as he thought she was when they first fought or if his mind was playing tricks on him. If she wanted to survive, she would just have to defend herself so he attacked. Hinata reacted right away dodging his attacks and blocking the ones that came to fast, weaving her way during their battle looking for the right moment to attack back. He left one spot open on his left, his perfect defense had a crack in it and she took it to her advantage, striking him in that one spot hitting one of his tenketsu. He groaned and stepped back, his eyes were black with three red intercepting ellipses in the center, Hinata gasped as she was in a world that was red and black, she was surrounded by a number of Sasukes and each had a sword coming at her.
Hinata dodge most of them, hitting most with her Gentle Fist making them useless as she tried to find the real Sasuke among them. Her eyes opened as she coughed out blood as she looked down at the blade through her chest. Blood dripping from both her mouth, her chest and the agonising pain she felt, Hinata tried hard not to acknowledge any of it. She twisted her body kicking the Sasuke who had stabbed her with a powerful kick to the chest, dismissing the pain that she was feeling. She reached back taking the sword out with a grunt of pain and throwing it at the furthest target among them, he dodge it with ease and she knew she had the right one.
Being sliced by swords as she fought her way through, chakra coated her palms as she managed a blow on each of the clones she saw, nearing Sasuke she sped up jumping in the air and landing on quick strike against his chest before everything became clear again. Hinata breathed slowly as she tried to recoup from that attack, she watched as Sasuke got up still glaring at her with those red and black eyes but she could tell he was tired too...and very angry. Getting back into battle stance again, she barely had time to see him disappear before being right in front of her aiming a punch at her face.
The kunoichi slapped his hand away and used her Gentle Fist on his stomach, feeling the pain of his chakra points being closed, the Uchiha kicked the girl away. Hinata picked herself up again, she made the first move this time, knowing he was going to block the first few attacks she'd throw at him, she responded to this when she jumped in the air, Sasuke moved and Hinata knew what he was going to do. Sasuke fist connected with her back and he was shocked when Hinata disappeared and he turned only to be met with a foot to the chest, to her surprised he disappeared too. Coming at her full speed and delivering a set of blows that had Hinata holding in her screams of pain, he threw her to the ground, using his sword he aimed it at her right arm, but Hinata rolled on her side but she couldn't get away freely, leaving her with a deep cut. She covered her arm and stared at the man in front of her, she saw him smirked at her obvious pain before leaving.
Hinata sighed as she sat up ignoring the pain and looked for her bandages and healing ointment made specially by her clan. After taking care of her bruises, the young woman got up and made her way to her home and as soon as she got to the gates she collapsed. The last thing she heard was Ko calling out to her before she blanked out.
Opening her eyes slowly Hinata looked around noticing that she wasn't in her room.
"We told you to take it easy." she heard Kiba said.
She turned around to see Shino, Kiba and Akamaru in her...hospital room. The events from yesterday evening starting coming back to her before her mind went blank.
That's right I collapsed.
"Ko brought you here afterwards." Shino stated.
The door opened and Tsunade came in.
"Ah Hinata. You're up." she observed smiling.
"Hello Hokage-sama." the shy girl greeted.
Tsunade nodded, before doing a quick checkup on her.
"You collapsed from extreme exhaustion. You've been training to hard and it's been taking a toil on your health. So I'm taking you off missions and you are not suppose to do any more training until you are better. You need to rest." the blond woman stated to the Hyuga.
Hinata looked down.
"Hai. Tsuande-sama." she said.
Tsunade said nothing more as she turned to leave she stopped again.
"That's an order." the Hokage said with a smile before closing the door.