Hi guys!

Another fairly fast update.

I'm proud of myself if I'm quite honest.

This is from Hinata POV.

For those of you who want the others to get their powers, I think I'll reveal another next chapter.

I've got the person in mind.

Who do you think it will be? Temari, Sakura, Tenten or Ino?

I've also got their first powers figured out. They will get more, so if you think they're powers are boring then just remember that they'll get more.

Anyway, I've kept you long enough…

Hinata POV

I, contrary to popular believe, was possibly the most worried about mine and the girls' situation. It wasn't necessarily the witch or power part of it – because I have to admit I really like my power – but it was more of the whole going back to the past ordeal.

Perhaps if I believed in destiny like my cousin did, then I would also believe everything would turn out the same way because fate deemed it so. But I wasn't a firm believer in destiny, and so I was worried about doing something that would cause a very significant change in the future.

Sure, I'd managed to talk to Neji during our battle, and sure he'd agreed to try and mend their relationship, but so far I couldn't really see a lot of pros for going back in time. The cons, however, were starting to take up a lot of space on my mental pro/con sheet.

I tend to overreact with a lot of things, but when it came down to it I knew when a situation was about to go very wrong. True, my worries are probably nothing, but one doesn't simply stop worrying just because they know it is futile, regardless.

I'm most likely overthinking things. Maybe I should just focus on my power, like I had for the last four days of being in this time period. So far I could freeze people for about two minutes and inanimate objects for about five. I'd also learnt how to resume time and I have to say so far I'm really happy with my progress.

As far as the others go, we'd agreed to meet if one of us discovered a power, but I hadn't seen them so far so I assume I'm still the only one with a power.

Training as a witch hadn't really given me a lot of time to train as a ninja, but I'd managed to find some. In the future, I realised that because I could see chakra with my byakugan, I could manipulate it a lot more easily too. The Hyuga are too focused on taijutsu to even think about what I do, but Naruto inspired me when he'd learnt sage mode.

He used pure chakra from nature to make himself stronger. I don't necessarily use the chakra like he did, but I still use it. I borrow the chakra to do things like soften falls or stop objects or to help me with my jutsu. I don't merge with it, but I use it when I don't want to waste my own, or when I need some extra. My chakra supply grows vastly in the future, but for now it's barely of average, so that little technique of mine will come in handy.

I've perfected it so much that the chakra just reacts without a conscious thought; I have an understanding with it.

Right now I'm heading towards a training ground that will most likely be vacant. My body isn't as used to the strain I'm putting on it, so I need to once again build up my endurance. A pain, but essential.

Walking towards my destination, I heard two distinct voices. Instead of finding another training ground, I headed towards this one as curiosity got the best of me. If I'd have wanted to, I could have activated my byakugan, but what's the fun in that?

"Let's try this again." I heard as I got closer.

Kakashi. His lazy monotone is rather hard to miss.

I heard an undistinguishable grunt by who I assume was Sasuke before I walked out into the open and faced them with a confident stare.

Kakashi spotted me first, although he'd probably known I was coming here as soon as I headed in that direction. I'd made no efforts to hide my approach and Kakashi was beyond capable of something so trivial. I suspected Sasuke also knew someone was coming, but he probably couldn't recognise my chakra signature.

Kakashi smiled an unsurprised smile and squinted his one visible eye. "Hinata!" He said with another smile. "What brings you here?"

"I was just going to train. Thought this ground would be empty." I answered casually. In all honesty I did think this ground would be empty.

Sasuke looked at me suspiciously but didn't say anything.

"I'll just go now." I told them and prepared to turn around.

I hadn't even took a step before Kakashi was calling me back. "Nonsense. We were just going to eat. Why don't you join us?" He asked.

I thought about my options in my head but then mentally shrugged. Why not?

Sitting down, I took out the lunch I had packed and watched as the other two did the same.

I looked around and saw many palm sized holes in the rocks. So Kakashi was already teaching Sasuke chidori, although it looked like Sasuke hadn't quite got the hang of it yet.

"You're learning the chidori?" I asked Sasuke like I didn't already know.

Both he and Kakashi looked surprised, but they masked it fairly quickly. He looked over at Kakashi. "I thought you said none of the Genin would know about chidori?" Sasuke phrased his statement like a question, indicating to Kakashi that he wanted an answer.

"I did." Kakashi said. He turned to look me right in the eye. "How do you know about it, Hinata?"

"I read about it somewhere. Rather hard jutsu to learn." I commented.

Kakashi nodded his head and continued eating. I was about to eat some more of my food when an idea hit me. "You guys know Naruto fairly well, right?" I asked.

They nodded. "Why?" Sasuke asked.

"What's the best way to get on his nerves?" I asked. They seemed surprised by my question.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes. "I thought you liked the dope. Why would you want to get on his nerves?"

I smirked slightly but shook my head. "You don't need to know my intentions."

His eyes widened slightly in disbelief but then they relaxed again. I was, after all, one of the only girls that didn't have a mega crush on him at this time. "Well…I can usually get on his nerves by just opening my mouth, but I'd probably say mocking him?"

"Hmm." I nodded my head. Naruto may have been excited about our battle, but I don't think he'd actually go all out on me. I needed something that would get him to release the demon, but insulting him didn't bode well with me. I don't know, maybe getting him to release a crazy powerful demon was a suicide mission, but I'd read about the nine tailed fox in the BOS. There was more information in there than any other book could provide.

It was a high ranking demon. A simple spell wouldn't work. Usual demons that witches dealt with were from the underworld, but these demons were from this world, and destroying them wouldn't have a very good impact. Regardless, I still wanted to see if I could contain it.

Snapping out of my thoughts, I decided I'd give Sasuke some advice for his fight with Gaara. "Gaara of the desert…I hear he's looking forward to his fight with you." I remarked after it had been silent for a while.

"Where'd you here that?" Sasuke asked.

I laughed. "Please, Gaara doesn't exactly keep his intentions to himself. Word gets around. But anyway, back to what I was going to say."

I looked Sasuke directly in the eye and saw that he was actually interested in what I was saying. Kakashi also looked intrigued. "You may be power hungry and ultimately one of the most antisocial people I know, but you also have morals. Gaara doesn't. He doesn't care about anyone apart from himself and he's blindly driven by his desires alone."

"What are you saying?" Kakashi asked.

"I'm saying," I started as I began to pack the empty tubs of my lunch away, "that Gaara doesn't think. He just does. In other situations, that'd probably be really useful, but in a battle against someone as intelligent as Sasuke, it'd be easy to outsmart him if done right." I finished my small speech with a few hand gestures to emphasise my point.

"Gaara would seem harder to beat than that." Sasuke commented.

"Oh, don't get me wrong; he would still be really hard to beat, but he's definitely not of the strategic nature. His sister? Yes, but him? No. Think about Shikamaru. He's constantly planning ahead, making sure he has unlimited options for if something goes wrong. All I'm saying is being fast physically might not be enough to beat him." With that I stood up, planning on making my way to a different training ground so that I could finally actually train.

"Wait!" Sasuke called.

I turned around to face him and raised an eyebrow.

"Fight me."

Wait, did I just hear him right?

"You want me to fight you?" I asked.

He nodded and Kakashi clapped his hands in glee. "Good idea, Sasuke. It could help you both. Training alone can only go so far."

"Okay." I agreed. Honestly, I hadn't fought anyone since Neji, and I couldn't even focus in that fight because all I was thinking was that I needed to stop freezing everyone.

Sasuke and I stood facing one another. Kakashi made a hand gesture that signalled us to start.

I got into the traditional Hyuga stance and waited for Sasuke to attack. When he did, we engaged in taijutsu for a while. He was fairing rather well considering my years of experience, but it was evident quickly that I was superior in taijutsu so he changed tactics.

He jumped out of view and I automatically activated my byakugan.

Sasuke was sitting in a tree a few metres away gaining his breath. I took a kunai out of my pouch and threw it in his direction. He dodged it and then send a few flying towards me. I also dodged and waited for his next move. I briefly saw him close his eyes and when he opened them again he had his sharingan activated.

I'd have to be careful now; he wasn't copying my jutsu.

I watched him carefully, wondering what his next move would be…And then he vanished. Wait- he didn't vanish; he's just going at a speed even my eyes can't comprehend. I could just see a faint blur of chakra, but at least I'd know where he was coming from.

I stood still and waited.

A breeze hit the left side of my cheek and I reached out just before a punch could connect with my face. I span around in rotation and sent him flying towards a tree, but he managed to right himself and land on a branch just before hitting it.

He looked at me with narrowed eyes, then he vanished again. I expected another attack, but instead he zoomed from place to place before heading back into the trees.

What's he up to?

ZOOM. A kunai came flying towards me, but it flew past my head. I frowned; Sasuke had better aim then that. And then he smirked and an avalanche of shuriken and kunai came flying towards me. I help my hands out on instinct and then scene froze.

I assessed what my options were. I could use rotation again, but continuous uses of my chakra in amounts that large were sure to have a bad effect on me. Definitely need to work on my chakra supply.

I thought about coating the weapons in nature chakra, but then dismissed that thought because surely Kakashi would be suspicious as to how I could use that type of chakra. Then again, he was already suspicious of me, but why add fuel to fire.

Then it hit me; my protective eight trigrams. Sasuke had the sharingan, but he couldn't copy my superior flexibility so I doubted the jutsu would work for him.

Smiling in satisfaction, I unfroze the scene, but not before looking towards both Sasuke and Kakashi. Sasuke was holding a thin wire in his hand and Kakashi, although he'd previously been reading that orange pervert book of his, had put it away in favour of watching our match.

I waved my hand and less than a second later everything unfroze. My hands automatically came together and I closed my eyes for a brief second.

They shot open. "Protective eight trigrams, sixty two palms!"

My hands were a blur as they defected every weapon that came my way. When I was finished, I was breathing heavy. Stupid lack of stamina. I need to improve that if I'm going to fight Naruto.

My fellow ninja were looking at me with wide eyes, like they'd never seen that jutsu before. Of course they hadn't; I created it. That sent a jolt of pride to my heart. The first jutsu I'd ever created. I'd been the first of the rookies to create one, if you didn't count Naruto's sexy jutsu, which wouldn't really do much in a real battle.

I smiled briefly before my eyes focused on Sasuke now. He came running towards me and I settled back into my Hyuga stance. So we were back to taijutsu then…

Okay, so maybe not.

He flashed through hand sighs at an impressive speed before holding them up to his mouth. And then a huge ass fireball came flying towards me.

I didn't have a lot of options, being as tired as I was, so I did the first thing that popped into my head; I punched the ground. It wasn't a normal punch, it was a Tsunade and Sakura punch. One that made the ground raise in front of me enough that it shielded me from the massive fireball. Forget adding fuel to fire; I might have well have been Hiroshima back in 1945 at this point.

Breathing slowly, I stepped out from behind my shield of rock. Kakashi held up his hand to signal us to stop fighting and then he clapped his hands. "That was a very impressive fight. I never knew you had so much skill, Hinata. No offence."

"None taken." I said as I walked towards them.

Sasuke didn't say anything but he looked impressed as well.

I wanted to make one thing certain. "You better not have copied my protective eight trigrams. I made that jutsu myself and I intend to keep it to myself."

Sasuke shook his head. "I didn't. You're too flexible; it wouldn't have worked for me." Just like I thought. "You made it yourself? That's actually kind of cool."

A compliment. An actual compliment. From Sasuke Uchiha. Oh! Sakura was going to have a field day when I told her about this!

"Thanks"

"I have to agree with Sasuke. Very cool indeed." Kakashi said.

I glared at him. "You best not have copied it, either."

"I didn't." Kakashi assured me. "It's rare for a genin to come up with their own techniques. I'll let you keep it to yourself."

I nodded my head before turning back to Sasuke. They'd already seen me use medical ninjutsu, why not use it again? "Here," I said, walking towards him, "let me heal your wounds."

Sasuke looked hesitant but eventually let me heal him. I started with the cut on his cheek before moving onto his arms and hands. "You've put a lot of strain on them." I commented as I healed the external and internal injuries. "I'd recommend taking a break from chidori, at least for a day."

"I have to train." Sasuke agrued.

"I'm not saying don't train, just don't you that particular technique. Why don't you do some research on Gaara or something?" Sasuke seemed to consider that. He nodded and I smiled. I was one thing to get the Uchiha to talk to you, but it was another thing entirely to get him to listen to you.

"Good." I handed him a small tub.

He looked down at it, confused. "What is it?"

"It's the Hyuga clan secret ointment. It'll heal most external wounds. Consider yourself lucky; I don't give that to many people."

Sasuke looked from the tub and back to me. "Thanks." He slipped it into his pouch. "We should fight again."

I smiled again. Clearly I'd earned the Uchiha's respect. "Yes, we should."

I bid a small farewell to him and Kakashi and then headed home. Maybe things would be okay. Of course, I'd never let my guard down, like a good ninja never should, but at least I'd be a bid more optimistic that this whole thing wouldn't end in disaster.

So this was a lot longer than the other ones and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I tend to ramble on when it's about Hinata…So sorry to anyone who didn't like this chapter.

I guess that's it for now.

See ya later, alligators!