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Last time: Akatsuki gets involved with Four Corners
This time: Fights and something that should make you Hinata fans out there happy!
"I heard that you tangled with the Four Corners. Did you kill them?"
Naruto stopped walking. He was strolling through the streets of Lahan, taking in the state of the town and the surrounding mountains as the sun sank below the valley ridges. It was a small town, but the houses and buildings were all smashed together, making a whole maze of alleys and back alleys and dead ends and other nooks and crannies.
"Nah, they ran off before we could get anything done," the blond answered the speaker, turning around to see Ren emerging from an alley beside him. "They shouldn't do too much though. My team and I have dealt with Akatsuki before this, so it shouldn't be anything major." The ronin began walking with the jounin.
"That may be, but even insignificant whelps can get lucky and cut down even the greatest of warriors." The older man glanced sideways at his companion. "I'm sure that this holds true for you as well?"
"Yeah. My sensei always told me that a shinobi needs to 'look underneath the underneath'."
"A wise philosophy."
They lapsed into silence for a few minutes, just strolling through the village. Finally Naruto broke the silence.
"Hey, why don't you come and meet my team? I'm sure they'll like you."
"No. I'm not allowed to show my face in the estate. I have been permanently banned from there."
"Aw. Oh well. I'm sure you'll run into them eventually." The blond frowned. "Speaking of which, I'd better be getting back. Sakura's going to bash my head in if I'm late."
Ren chuckled. "Sounds like you have violent teammates, Naruto-kun."
"You have no idea," the other deadpanned, then dashed off, vaulting easily onto the roofs of the houses and buildings, the evening crowd pointing and whispering at the ease and grace that the shinobi moved with. Ren watched then laughed and turned away, heading for the hut he lived in on the edge of town.
"Where have you been!?" Sakura demanded the moment Naruto walked through the door of the team's room.
Naruto decided it was too easy to pass up. "I had to help an old lady with her groceries…"
"Bastard!" Sakura shrieked, a vein going in her forehead, her fist crashing into Naruto's face and sending him flying through the door. Hinata blinked as Naruto landed, eyes swirling and a massive knot on his forehead, at her feet.
"N-Naruto-kun?" She asked.
"Leave him Hinata-chan!" Sakura fumed, massaging the bicep of her raised arm. "I'm not done with him yet!"
Neji's arm appeared and blocked her way. "As much as Naruto deserved that," he stated, "the fact remains that we need him intact for this mission. Please refrain from breaking him too much."
"Sure," the kunoichi replied, brushing past the genius only to find a stone doll with a childish face drawn on it and wearing Naruto's cloak in front of her. Three more veins bulged on Sakura's impressive forehead. "DAMN YOU NARUTO!"
Naruto, reclining on the terra cotta roof of the main house, shuddered as Sakura's yell echoed over the grounds, several of the patrolling samurai stopping and looking around for the source of the noise. He shuddered.
"Jeeze," he muttered, "Sakura-chan's really violent."
'Well you keep pushing her buttons,' his inner demon replied.
Naruto grinned, unrepentant. "Yeah but it's fun." The fox sighed and shook its mammoth head. Humans. Couldn't live with them, too big to flush down the toilet. The sun had vanished a couple hours ago and the grounds began to empty as the shifts began to rotate out for the night.
An explosion rocked the grounds, the sky lighting up orange as the light from the detonation flashed over the estate, the wall that abutted the foothills of the mountains blown inwards from some kind of hit. Smoke and fire billowed into the sky, blotting out the rising moon and the emerging stars. Naruto was on the scene just as the samurai were arriving. Something shot from the billowing smoke and Naruto's eyes widened as the samurai around him simply burst apart in a shower of blood, splashing him and the ground around him with the fluid.
He turned as he heard the almost invisible noise of a foot hitting the ground.
"Aisha, right?" He asked. The woman was standing behind him, her naginata firmly planted on the ground, the blade stained red. The kunoichi grinned.
"That's right."
Naruto pulled out a kunai and held it out. The two wind users stared each other down for a moment, then vanished, blurs and showers of sparks filling the air as the two ninja met, clashed, separated and met again, going ever faster until even the blurs were invisible. They reappeared in a deadlock, Naruto now holding two kunai and fending off Aisha's blade.
"Not bad," the Jinchuuriki said as he strained to hold back the other. "Maybe we underestimated you guys." Aisha swept the blunt end of the naginata at Naruto's groin, which was blocked, only to reverse the direction and send the blade screaming downward. Naruto threw himself backwards, the blade digging into the ground and slicing it apart in a spray of earth. When it settled, there was a gash just like the ones Naruto and the others had found a few days earlier in the pass. But that didn't help him any since he already knew her element.
"And we underestimated you!" Aisha bit back. She smirked. "Who would've thought we'd have to fight a Jinchuuriki?" Naruto hesitated a split second at the mention of his demon and paid for it in blood.
Aisha's blade swept across his body and opened a deep gash from right shoulder to left him. Naruto stumbled backwards, clutching the gash, as the naginata darted forward, just a dim streak in the moonlight, biting into him again and again, blood spattering the shattered wall and the grass as well as dying the ornamental pond crimson. Finally Aisha reversed her swing and opened another gash that went the other way. Naruto was thrown backwards, flat onto his back, wincing as he lay there.
He was trying to let the wounds heal up some. If he moved too much now, Kyuubi would only be wasting chakra since he would just be always reopening the wounds by moving around and fighting.
"Hmph. That's it? For someone who is the cage for Kyuubi, you don't put up much of a fight. How Akatsuki had so much trouble with you, I have no idea." Naruto's eyes, shut till now in an effort to stave off the pain, snapped open at the mention of the cloaked missing-nin organization.
"Akatsuki?" he demanded, sitting upright, wincing as the two gashes across his chest reopened and began bleeding anew. "What do they have to do with this!?" The kunoichi scowled as she realized that she'd said too much. "Tell me!"
"Why do you care?"
Naruto lunged, his eyes flashing crimson for the briefest of seconds. His wild blow was easily deflected and the blade of the naginata bit deep into his thigh, the leg instantly giving out and sending Naruto crashing to the ground. Aisha stood over him, weapon raised.
"Too bad we have to take you alive," she said. "But at least Itachi didn't say you had to be whole. I'm gonna slash of your legs and make you easier to carry." The weapon flashed, right as a hail of senbon flashed from the shadows. Aisha leapt up, somersaulting over the rushing silver rain, landing feather light behind it. "Who's there!"
Three kunai flashed from another direction, and Aisha again leapt clear. "Another one?" Her naginata flashed and the grass bent as something left the edge and shot away into darkness. Naruto's eyes widened. It was startlingly close to the Fuuryusen he'd seen Ren use on him, but it moved slower and didn't seem to be as powerful. He could only guess at why, but supposed it had something to do with the iaido portion of the attack.
Again senbon streamed from the shadows, but this time it was only from one source. Apparently the first attacker had been cut down.
"Now I've got you!"
Aisha charged, zigzagging to avoid a third shower of needles. The naginata's blade flashed as the kunoichi missing-nin hurled the weapon like a spear. She heard it hit something in the shadows and went to it. She frowned when she saw that there was no one there, no one but three discarded scrolls that were probably the source of the senbon rains.
Aisha leapt backward as someone dropped from the bottom of the veranda's roof, a sword sticking into the teak floor where she'd been standing a moment before. Fortunately, she'd had the presence of mind to seize her naginata on the way out. The figure lunged again, the sword twirling and dancing with a grace that Aisha had never seen before. Sparks burst like fireworks as the steel weapons met again and again, parrying and striking at the wielder of the other. The attacker hurled something, which Aisha batted aside.
There was a muted puff and smoke obscured the veranda.
"Smoke bomb!"
A katana blade shot from the gloom, nearly slipping Aisha's guard and slicing her side open. The missing-nin spun away from the blade only to have another spear at her. She jumped back ducking as a third blade shot from behind her. The naginata flashed on instinct and the black shadow holding the sword was cut in half, but burst into smoke before the halves hit the ground.
"Shadow Clones too?" She spun the weapon in her hands furiously, deflecting the flurry of attacks that came at her from the smoke. She forced them back and raised the naginata. "Screw this! Fight like a real ninja!" Aisha began to spin the weapon, focusing her chakra into the ends and converting it to wind before pushing it out around her.
The smoke began to swirl, forming a miniature tornado before dissipating completely. The sources of the attacks were expose. Each one was Tenten, and each was fighting to be pulled in by the suction of the tornado. Aisha allowed her body to spin with the momentum of her weapons and slashed each Tenten across the chest.
Both exploded into smoke.
"All of them were clones? But the original was behind the senbon, I know that." Aisha looked around and quickly spotted the real Tenten, scooping up Naruto, and supporting him. She made a hand seal, made three more Tentens then all four hurled smoke bombs.
"No!" Aisha lunged, not about to let her quarry get away so easily. The clones lunged from the smoke and grabbed at her. "Stay back dammit!" A quick flurry of attacks on her part had all three clones dispelling, but by the time the kunoichi was able to clear out the smoke, Naruto and Tenten were gone.
Inside the mansion, Tenten set Naruto against a wall and began to wipe dried blood from his chest so the wounds didn't heal over it and run the risk of infection. "Are you all right?" she asked as she cleaned the wounds, which were healing up fast.
Naruto winced as she brushed ragged nerve endings. "Yeah, just give me a few minutes and I'll be fine."
"What happened?"
"Aisha showed up."
"From the Four Corners?"
The other jounin nodded. "Yeah, and I think they're working for Akatsuki." Tenten blinked.
"Seriously?"
"Yep. That bitch out there mentioned Akatsuki and capturing me for Itachi."
"What do they want with y-. Oh, right, they want the fox."
Naruto nodded. "Those two have been after me for years, but I managed to give them the slip when I left. They didn't bug me till I showed up in Konoha again."
"But what gets me is that the other three from the Four Corners aren't here…"
A series of muted thumps met their ears. Naruto checked his wounds, saw they were healed, then was up and running, Tenten hot behind him. They burst out the main gate, not running into Aisha, who was either looking for them or had rejoined her comrades in the town.
Lahan was burning.
Three pillars of smoke rose lazily into the night sky. As the two, now joined by the lord's family and Neji and Sakura, watched, there was another explosion and a fourth pillar began to rise.
"They're attacking the town?" Sakura shouted, sounding horrified.
"We have no choice," Neji said tersely. "We have to engage them."
Naruto nodded. "Right. I'm taking their leader, Hyotoko or whatever the hell his name was."
"You sure?" Neji asked. "You're a wind type. He's fire. Not exactly in your favor."
Naruto snorted. "Since when has anything ever been in my favor?" he asked. Neji shrugged, knowing that he wasn't about to be dissuaded, and that Naruto, who was probably the strongest of them all if you counted the fox, probably would have no trouble defeating the leader. The blond hopped up on the wall's roof then vaulted off into the city.
"Jeeze. Some leader," Sakura sighed. "He goes and leaves his own team behind?"
"It's Naruto," Tenten answered with a smile. "What're you going to do? I'm taking that weapons bitch by the way."
"The lighting guy is mine," Neji said. "I know I can handle him."
"So looks like I get the earth guy again." Sakura finished. "Wow, déjà vu."
"If it ain't broke don't fix it," Neji answered. "Let's go!"
They blurred away and were gone.
"Everyone," Hinata murmured softly. Oda looked at her with disdain, but she didn't notice, she was too busy watching the gate.
"Father," he said finally, "are they going to die?"
"We can only hope that they kill each other," Yoritomo replied. "Then we won't have to pay and the Four Corners will be gone from Lahan." Hinata suddenly stepped up to him and there was a sharp crack as she slapped him as hard as she could across the face. And since Hinata was a former ninja, Yoritomo was almost knocked on his back.
"You will not say that about my family and friends!" She said firmly, a fire Yoritomo had never seen blazing in her eyes. For the first time, he felt uncomfortable. Hinata had always been a docile wife, no matter what he said to her. To have her stand up to him was something entirely new.
A new feeling erupted inside him.
Hatred.
He hated that damned Uzumaki Naruto and his team for what they'd done to him. They'd wrested control of his very home from him, evidenced by Hinata's sudden backbone. And he also hated Hinata for defying him. He was the Lord of Lahan dammit! He would not be disobeyed in his own home!
"You damned whore!" He shouted, reaching to his hip, where his daito sat. In one swift move, he pulled it clear and slashed at his wife, not caring if Konoha sent an assassin after him for killing one of their own.
The blow passed over Hinata, burst into a log with a puff of smoke. She'd never been there to begin with.
"What?"
"It's called the Bunshin no Jutsu," said a voice from behind him. Yoritomo spun and saw his wife walking towards him, but she was totally different. She was dressed in a training shirt with a deep v-neck and mesh across the V and coming out of the sleeves and pants that stopped halfway down her shins, mesh emerging from the ends there too, the whole outfit clinging to her perfect figure. Her long hair was pulled back in a high ponytail that swayed behind her as she walked. She looked beautiful, in a savage and dangerous sort of way. "To try and kill your own wife…Do you really hate me that much?"
"You dare to stand against me?" Yoritomo demanded, his teeth bare, gleaming like his sword's blade. "Know your place woman!!"
"Before I came here, I vowed that I would not simply roll over and let others walk over me like dirt," Hinata answered. "I failed miserably at that, but seeing Naruto-kun and Neji-nii-san, Sakura-san, and Tenten-san reminded me of why I made that vow in the first place." She stared him straight in the eye, something she'd never done before. "It was to prove I was not a failure and that I can bring honor to Konoha!"
"So defying your husband is bringing honor? You stupid girl! You disprove your own words!"
"No," Hinata answered, pulling something from her pocket and unfolding it. "I'm going to help my friends in the village. If I sat around and did nothing, my father, my cousin, and the Hokage would be ashamed of me." She raised the object to her head and tied it in place. When her arms fell away and she looked up, Yoritomo recoiled slightly to see the proud leaf of Konoha standing out from the center of the hirai-ate. "Now let me pass."
Yoritomo planted himself in the middle of the gate outside, Oda looking surprised at his stepmother's audacity, his head moving like he was following a tennis rally. She'd never shown as much resolve as she did now. "No!" Yoritomo thundered. "You will stay here."
"I will not," Hinata replied, jumping into the air, feeling a thrill she'd forgotten years ago flood her system as she soared easily to the top of the wall. True she'd never trained since coming to Lahan, but it was like riding a bike. You never forgot how to do it. She alighted on the top of the wall, to find a sword blade at her throat.
"You will not go."
Hinata backed up a step and faced Yoritomo, who was flanked by two of his honor guard, who, Hinata was pleased to see, didn't look too happy about fighting her. "Yes I will. Now let me go."
Yoritomo shouldered his sword. "I will not allow it. Those shinobi have been nothing but trouble. Before they arrived, the Four Corners would never have dreamed of entering Lahan. But now they have, all because of those shinobi. They will kill each other and we will be rid of both problems."
Hinata bowed her head. Yoritomo smirked, victoriously. "I see. So that means I have no choice but to make you move."
The lord's blade came up to defend as Hinata's fingers began flying together, knitting a seal sequence that she would never forget. The blurring hands stopped.
"Byakugan!"
Hinata looked up, the chakra coils on the sides of her head bulging as immense amounts of the woman's chakra was funneled into her eyes, which were veined and a little bloodshot. It was a disconcerting sight and Yoritomo took a step back before he stopped himself.
"Kill her!"
"But my lord," one of the guards protested, but before he could go any further, a silver snake bit into his arm and blood gushed from the slash. The wounded man cried out and fell to one knee, clutching the wounded limb.
The last guardsman gulped, then drew his sword and put his facemask, a grotesque, demonic, iron face plate, into place and raised his katana. "Hinata-sama," he murmured. "Please forgive me, but I cannot defy my lordship Yoritomo-sama."
"Please forgive me," Hinata whispered, "for what I am about to do."
"I'm sorry Milady!"
The guardsman charged, katana held high, but done sloppily, so the Hyuuga woman would be able to hit anywhere she liked. Hating herself every minute, because the guardsmen genuinely pitied her situation and were often warm and friendly towards her, Hinata's hand darted forward, pressing gently to a series of pressure points that when struck in the right order, would knock out even the strongest of men.
Sure enough, the moment Hinata stopped, the man passed out, collapsing in her arms, and she laid him gently out on the roof.
"It appears the dirty skills of a shinobi have not abandoned you," Yoritomo remarked bluntly as he raised his katana to striking position. "But I need not tell you that I am leaps and bounds above these other men."
"I don't doubt you are," Hinata answered, sinking into the basic Juuken stance. "But I will not lose here. I must help my friends!" The two sprinted at each other, Yoritomo's sword and Hinata's eyes flashing in the moonlight as they collided.
On the ridge overlooking the village, Itachi and Kisame watched impassively as explosions thundered in the town, adding even more pillars of smoke and haze to the chaos below. One battle in particular was standing out, which could only be Naruto and Hyotoko. There were explosions erupting with an almost alarming frequency as the two chakras collided.
"That red bastard's not doing too bad against the fox kid," Kisame remarked.
"It doesn't matter," Itachi replied. "All we need is for Hyotoko-kun to last long enough for him to wear Naruto-kun down. We need nothing more, nothing less."
Hyotoko grunted as Naruto's shin blasted into his ribs, throwing him through a building and tumbling over a table inside where a family cowered beneath it, and out the other wall. Naruto lanced through the hole, bounced off the table, and out the second hole on the other side, getting above the flame affiliate and hurling a volley of shuriken.
"Got you!" Naruto shouted. His enemy was in mid-air, utterly helpless, and wouldn't be able to do anything to prevent it. Hyotoko made a series of hand seals.
"Katon! Housenka no Jutsu!"
The swarm of mini fireballs sprayed like agitated moths from his mouth and melted the incoming volley to nothing but flying drops of molten metal. Naruto had to hand it to the Flame Man; he certainly lived up to his name. His affiliation for his chosen element was high as well. Those fireballs had been, instead of orange and red, the purest white with blue thrown in, denoting the intense heat of the flames.
Hyotoko rolled, dodging a punch from Naruto that shattered the ground and managed to get back to his feet. His hands flew together again. "Hijutsu! Hi no Yoroi!"
"Uh-oh!"
'A Kekkei Genkai!?'
"Ah shit."
Flames erupted around Hyotoko, clinging to his skin, which turned red like a lobster, with flames enveloping his hands, feet, and his hair became actual flame as did his coat and pants. "This is my Kekkei Genkai, the Armor of Flame. It burns even hotter than kitsune-bi and will protect me from any attack because of that heat. It's an absolute defense."
"There's no such thing," Naruto retorted, though he wondered secretly how he was going to defeat that armor. "I'll find a way through!"
"You can try," the other shinobi answered, taking a few steps forward, the ground hissing as his feet met the dusty street, "but you will fail."
"Won't know till we try!" Naruto snapped back, rushing straight at the literal Flame Man.
Enishi and Sakura's fists smashed together, the force of the impact shattering the ground as the energy passed from their fists into the street. They drew back and circled again.
"Not bad," Enishi remarked. "Who was your sensei?"
"Tsunade-sama."
Enishi's eyes widened. "Tsunade? The Tsunade!? Tsunade the Slug Princess and the Godaime of Konohagakure?"
"Uh, yeah. That's the one." Sakura answered, wondering to herself how many women out there could be named Tsunade. Enishi seemed to come to realized something.
"I see. In that case, holding back against you would be futile. I will get myself killed if I do that."
"Huh?"
The other shinobi shucked his jacket, letting the garment fall to the ground. "I must use that technique." His hands flew together and the next thing Sakura knew, rocks of all shapes and sized had flown from the ground and the surrounding area to bond to his body, making him look like something out of a comic book.
"Oh great. Now what?"
"This is my Kekkei Genkai. My clan was slaughtered before I was born so it has no name, but I'm sure the results will speak for themselves." With that, he charged forward and drew back. Sakura dodged back from the heavy blow and the force from it blasted a massive crater in the street, shattering the houses around them, which were mostly empty. Enishi had allowed the innocent people living there to flee before he and Sakura started fighting. Sakura had no objections and had been more than eager to allow the citizens to flee.
She rolled to one side as Enishi's rock shod fists slammed down where she'd been standing just a few moments ago. The apprentice to the Hokage had to blink when she saw that there was a sizable depression there.
"Shit," she marveled.
"Yes. That is why we are called the Four Corners," Enishi told her.
"You mean…"
"Yes. Each member of the group has Kekkei Genkai like this one." Before Sakura could consider the implications of that statement, Enishi was charging at her with more speed than she ever thought possible, the ground quaking as his granite feet hit. Enishi lunged and a spray of rock and earth ripped down the street, raising a cloud visible even from where the Akatsuki members were standing.
Kisame whistled. "Damn Itachi. Hope those Konoha yuppies are up to this."
The traitor Uchiha nodded. "It would seem," he answered with his usual monotone, "that both we and the Konoha shinobi have underestimated the Four Corners."
"Think the Leaf brats will lose?" The shark asked.
Itachi said nothing in reply, watching impassively as a fierce electrical storm began rising on the other side of Lahan.
Neji scowled to himself as Rai cackled madly, leaping over Neji's darting fingers that were aiming to close a series of chakra points that would disable the odd lighting that had suddenly covered his body. They had seriously underestimated the Four Corners, getting overconfident about winning when it was clear that while the Four Corners weren't at Akatsuki's level, but as B or A-rank missing-nin it didn't mean that they weren't formidable and had some odd form of bloodline or jutsu.
"What're you looking at?"
Neji's eyes widened as he realized that Rai had appeared right in the blind spot for his Byakugan. Force of habit saved his life.
"Kaiten!"
The sphere of chakra threw the speedy shinobi away, but he flipped over onto his feet in mid flight and skidded backwards before he was gone in a pulse of electricity, nothing more than a faint blur, even to someone like Neji.
The missing-nin's cackling filled the empty street around Neji, though puffs of dirt erupted here or there, or a building's corner burst into splinters as Rai landed somewhere then pushed off again, bouncing around like a rubber ball thrown around in a cramped room.
"Keep trying jounin-san!" The hyper shinobi called, his voice seeming to echo from everywhere at once. "You'll never catch me as slow as you are!"
Rai materialized right in front of Neji, a kunai already speeding towards him. Neji leaned, the kunai grazing the jounin's cheek, making a small trail of blood leak down his face.
"Yeah! First blood to Rai!" The missing-nin crowed. "Am I awesome or what!?"
Neji's response was to sink into a familiar stance, one both he and Rai knew like the back of their hands. "Hakke Rokujuuyonshou!" Neji lanced forward, fingers moving like darts. Rai looked nervous as Neji's attack closed in, then there was a thud and a massive cloud erupted around them.
"Dodge girly! Come on!" Aisha cackled as Tenten blocked another swing from her naginata, a biting wind erupting from the curved head and slashing open Tenten's upper arm. "What happened to all that strategy you used back at the estate?"
Tenten scowled as she ignored her new wound, instead picking up a pair of spear and hurling them one after another at Aisha, trying to hide one in the other's shadow in an effort to catch her off guard.
"Useless!"
There was another burst of wind and the spears shattered like sticks. Tenten clenched her jaw. This wasn't good. She knew from experience that a wind-user's abilities were her worst nightmare. Her first match with Temari was enough to prove that. The question would be getting close enough to the other kunoichi to use her shorter-range weapons, either that or use a weapon or weapons that she could control from a distance…
The Konoha kunoichi blinked. She had just the item in her inventory. Tenten's fingers came together in a familiar seal, one that a certain blond jounin had taught her.
"Ninpou! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
There was a puff of smoke and where one Tenten was, there now stood two.
Aisha raised one eyebrow. "Oh? And what is a Kage Bunshin going to do for you?"
"This," Tenten answered as she and her clone both pulled out sickles that were attached to weighted chains. The dual sickles passed by Aisha, dug into the ground, then the two Tentens were running in opposite directions, winding the long chains around Tenten's prey, binding Aisha's arms to her body, the naginata's head pinned to the ground. The clone and original continued to wind the chains closer, the idea being to keep Aisha immobilized until the sickles could be embedded in her body.
To Tenten's surprise, Aisha formed a quick single hand set of seals. A pulse of wind ripped across the area, shattering the houses, sweeping the dust from the street and shattering the chains of the sickles and blowing both Tentens away, one of them just poofing from existence.
The grit in the winds gave Tenten some nasty cuts, one particular above her left eye that kept leaking blood and blinding her. That didn't really register at first because she was dazed from a hit to the head and had a massive headache, which indicated a probable concussion. Finally she managed to wobble upright and stagger back into the barren street.
Aisha looked impressed. "You're not dead? Well that's not too bad, so I guess we can play a bit more."
Tenten blinked, trying to clear the spots from her vision. "That's what you think," she managed to slur out. Great. Definite on that concussion, but Tenten didn't have a choice but to fight through it and try to outdo this kunoichi bitch.
She gave her head another shake in a last ditch effort to clear the spots, ignored the flare in her headache and dove once again into the fray.
Well that's it and it's almost late. Sorry about that. School's slamming me right now. Hope you enjoyed the Hinata bit. I wasn't going to have her fight in this chapter, but after thinking about it, I realized that Hinata would never allow her friends to almost get killed while she sat back in an estate. Now Yoritomo is going to find out that Hinata is a bit more powerful than he thought. Also, if this was lacking, sorry, it's more to set up for the meat of the fights later on. So, until next time...