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Rating: M
(This story is rated mature for a reason.)
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Chapter 7
"What?!"
"The way Gaara react to the girl . . . the way he refused to let any of our spy near her . . . the way he looks at her; the way his behavior seems to have changed. The problem has nothing to do with the girl, it Gaara. We won't be able to do anything without Gaara letting us do so." He said with a deep sigh.
"That is why we will use both Gaara and Hinata to control each other." said a man that stood away for the group of men.
"How do you plan to do that KazeKage-sama?"
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"Alright, let's begin." Hinata said with a soft smile on her face. Hinata, Temari, and Kankuro were all at the training grounds; Gaara sitting on a roof near by. This morning Hinata informed both Temari and Kankuro that their control over their chakra were at the level to were they could start training.
"I will explain your technique first." Hinata said to Temari as she moved a bit away from the two, sitting down. "With most jutsu, the technique starts outside the body, with only having to master the control of the chakra on the inside," she began, "But with your technique you will start on the inside of the body which can be very dangerous if not careful."
"With the technique you will be doing, you're going to actually start in inside of your lungs." Hinata explained. This made both Kankuro and Temari stiffen for a moment as realization of the danger of the technique sunk in. "Because you are starting the technique in your lungs you have to focus your concentration of you chakra on you lungs, hart and throat. You concentrate on the lungs because your lungs will be expanding beyond normal capabilities. You must be careful not to burst, tare, or even damage the lungs in anyway or else you will be unable to complete the technique. If damage happens while in motion, you must not complete the technique."
"Although what I say would seem like common scene now, during a battle people tend to have a habit of forgetting their scenes. Now scene your lungs will be expanding you have to use you chakra to form a protective barrier around your heart or you might end up crushing it. But you don't want to make it to strong or else your heart won't be able to beat properly." Hinata said as she starred at Temari.
"When it comes to your throat, most people would over look that area of your body completely. But with the technique starting in the lungs your throat will be under an enormous amount of stress. With the throat you must place a barrier around it while also expanding it. Basically combining the things you do with your heart and lungs in one." Hinata said with a smile. "Alright are you ready to begin?"
"Sorry Temari but you're going to die." Kankuro said looking over at his sister, trying to hide his worry.
"Shut-up Kankuro, that's not helping!" Temari shouted, smacking him hard in the arm.
"What? No I did not mean to make it sound that bad, it's just the best way of explaining it. It's all alright, just as long as you concentrate on you chakra. Besides your technique will be much more dangerous that Temari's Kankuro." Hinata said pointing a finger at him, causing him to go a bit pale.
"I'm sorry Hinata but this is starting to make me a bit worried." Temari said looking a bit unsure. This caused Hinata to give a comforting smile towards her.
"Do not worry; you will be learning it in small steps so there is nothing to worry about." Hinata said softly. "Here sit across from me and I will we will start the first step."
"Hai." Temari said as she moved to sit directly across from her, as she saw Hinata begin to make several hand signals. Once Hinata was finished large webs of vines surrounded the sides of her eyes.
"I want you to close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing . . . good now on the chakra surrounding your lungs. Now I want you to remember this feeling." Hinata said as she watched Temari's chakra through her new eyes. "Now ever so slightly I want you to push more chakra towards your lungs, nothing more."
Temari took a deep breath as she followed Hinata's instructions, taking another big breath, but that when something began to feel wrong.
"No Temari Stop." Hinata said as she watched Temari begin to push too much her chakra into her lungs. This caused Temari to make gasping/choking sounds as she tried to breathe. Within seconds Hinata was kneeling in front of her closing off a few points of Temari's chakra with chakra filled fingers.
"Temari!" shouted Kankuro.
"Come down, just breath." Hinata said softly as she patted Temari's back as she gasped for breath.
"Temari are you alright?" Kankuro asked as he kneeled next to his sister; placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah, just sort of slipped." She said as she began to breathe normally.
"It's alright, it happens to first timers." Hinata said with a gentle smile.
"But it was such a simple thing. I feel like an ideate. I bet you didn't even to something like that." She said.
"They made me do the same mistake dozens of times to fully understand the technique, among other things." Hinata said with a far away look in her eyes, this caused both siblings to freeze before looking away uncomfortably. "Try it again, except concentrate on just making a barrier." She said with a gentle smile.
Temari gave a strong nod before closing her eyes; breathing deeply. Hinata watched as the chakra around her lungs began to form into a very fragile looking barrier. Hinata smiled as she nodded her head in approval.
"Good, Good just keep doing that." She said, "I'm going to go and get Kankuro started a bit a ways." She said motioning for Kankuro to follow her as she began to walk away. They walked until they were about fifty feet away before stopping.
"Alright Kankuro, are you ready?" Hinata asked with a small smile.
"Sure?" he said a bit nervously.
"Alright well your move, like Temari's, starts within the body, but scene your jutsu involves fire it a bit different." Hinata said as she turned her head to look up at the sky. "The same things apply with you like they do Temari, same dangers but this jutsu involves you actually making a creature come to life."
"You start out like Temari, but as you blow the air out you're going to turn it into fire the second in passes your lips. This means your going to have to be a bit more careful not to burn your face off. One of the reasons you use your index finger and thumb to blow between, they help make sure the fire goes out and not up. But it's also the same thing that helps brings life to the fire creature."
"But there is something important you must remember, you must create the creature with you chakra yourself. The hand singles do not create the creature, you do. So you must have a mental image of the thing you want to create. So what you must do is to be able to perform the jutsu from inside your body with ease. You have to be familiar with it and it must be as easy as breathing to you. So you can put enough concentration into your creation."
"But this is the most dangerous part, you must be able to control you creature one hundred percent or else it will go wild and destroy everything in its path. You must also be able to cancel out your creature. This technique takes up a lot up chakra, so you must have a large amount, if you don't do not do this technique." said Hinata as she turned to look at him in the eyes.
"But if you become advance in the technique you can take it much, much further. You can start the fire inside your body, ride your creature, see what it see; hear what it hears; feel what it feels, the possibilities or endless." Hinata said with a smile. "Ready to start?"
"Ready as I'll ever be." He said a bit nervous and excited.
"What your going to first learn is blowing the fire out from between your fingers, then you will move on to what Temari's doing." She explained, "I want you to memorize these hand singles first." She said demonstrating each single.
"Once you're finished with that I want you to press you fingers to you lips and blow," she said demonstrating again. "scene you not blowing chakra but air, the flames with not go very far. Once you are able to make a large burst of fire come from your fingers we will move onto the next step." Hinata said with a nod of her head.
"Alright 'sensei-chan'" he said with a grin as he began to make the proper hand singles. But when he blew between his fingers he was only able to make a flame the size of a pebble.
This caused him to get a little up set as he continued the same thing over and over trying to make it larger. Yet each time he did so there was little improvement. With that Hinata walked away from him to sit down on the stone arena to watch the two with her new eyes, making sure they did not hurt themselves.
But as she did so her mind began to wonder over the events of the previous night. The men she fought were not on the edge of the canyon were she last seen them; she was able to see with her chakra filled eyes. But there was also no sign that there ever was a fight. This made Hinata very uneasy, something was going on.
That's when her thoughts turned to the way Gaara acted last night, although it had not changed much. He still had that look in his eyes but she noticed that both his siblings did not notice it. This confused her greatly. Was it all in her head? Was Gaara acting the same as always and she was just assuming that there was something different or what?
She could see him on the roof top, with her new eyes, watching her. He wasn't acting any different than before. Hinata was confused beyond compare, is he acting the way normal people usually act?
With a deep sigh, Hinata slowly began to relax as she let the whole issue slip away from her to the depths of her mind. Then taking a deep breath she placed a small smile on her face and walked over to Temari to help her out.
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"Come on Hinata, I want to see!" Temari wined on the other side of the door. It had been almost three week since they were at the training grounds and Temari decided that now would be a good time to shop.
Although Hinata was still a bit confused by the whole 'shopping' thing, she felt like she was just starting to understand it. You supposable go shopping when you have money, which you spend on anything that 'grabs your eyes', which she was confused about. How can an object grab your eyes and why, are they trying to blind you? This mad Hinata uneasy as she stuck close to Temari for fear on going blinded.
You also spend hours to decide between two things to buy, only to decide to buy both in the end. That confused her even more, but Temari had done this 'shopping' thing more that she had so she knew more. Also you must remember to buy something for someone else no madder how the person will feel about it.
They were now in a shopping store, where Temari was having Hinata try on as many things that she could get her hands on. Although at first Hinata did not object to the long clothing, slowly things continued to get shorter and shorter. This made her feel embarrassed, but apparently 'everyone wears it'.
"Come Hinata, I'll be the only one to see you in it, so there nothing to be embarrassed about." Temari said trying to convince Hinata to open the door.
"But Temari . . . it's really tight and it's . . . showing a lot of skin." Hinata said as she blushed.
"Don't worry just let me see."
". . . Alright." Hinata said as she unlocked the door and stepped out. Hinata's blush became darker as she tried to pull her shirt down that just barely covered her chest, which surprisingly was a decent size. She then tried to pull her shorts down a bit to try to cover her legs, which just barely covered her butt.
Hinata's blush became even darker as she saw a few men from outside stop to look at her. One man looked like he was having a bloody noise, although she didn't understand why.
"Temari." Hinata said looking towards the window. When Temari turned to look out it she began to shout at all the men just standing around looking at Hinata, causing them to disappear fast.
"Dame dirty perverts." Temari muttered under her breath. "O.k. Hinata, maybe that was a bit over board. We'll buy the twelfth thing you tried on, and then we can go look a PJ's." Temari said with an excited smile. So far the term 'shopping' for Hinata was starting to seem like what Kankuro would call a 'chore'.
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"You both have done very well to day." said Hinata as she, Temari and Kankuro were walking back from the training ground. Gaara, deciding to walk with the three of them today, walked a few feet in front of them. "Temari, I think you might be able to do the technique fully, and Kankuro I think you might be able to form your creature soon." Hinata said with a smile.
"Aww, why dose mine have to take so long." complained Kankuro as he placed both hand behind his head. "It's making me so depressed."
"Oh stop complaining you big baby, you should be happy that Hinata is even training your lazy ass." said Temari with a loud yawn.
"Sorry Kankuro, but because is involves fire, we have to take it slow." she said giving him a sympathetic look.
"All right, hey Hinata you know what might cheer me up . . . letting me see the new cloths you bought." said Kankuro with perverted glint in his eyes, causing the pale Hinata to turn very red.
"I Swear Kankuro If You Lay One Finger On Her I Will Rip You Apart Slowly!" hissed Temari in a dark voice.
"Temari also bought you some PJ's too, right?" said Kankuro with a smile, seeing how far he could push the subject.
"KANKURO!" shouted Temari.
"I'm only joking." He said with a laugh. With in seconds Kankuro's laugh died in his throat as Gaara gave him a very dark glair over his shoulder. "Just joking, I swear." He squeaked out quickly, holding his hands up in defense as silence fell on the small group.
"Why didn't you wear you new clothes today Hinata?" ask Temari, secretly hurt because of it.
"It's because . . . I've never had such nice, new clothing before. . . I want it to last as long as possible and I . . . I felt that training in them might ruin them. I want to wear them for a special occasion." Hinata said with a small smile as she looked up at the sky. This made Temari smile before she to looked up at the sky.
"Yeah but that doesn't include your PJ's." Kankuro said with a snot.
"Hinata, let me borrow your sword for a second so I can shove it up Kankuro's ass." spat Temari as she glared at her brother.
"I don't think Kankuro would survive such an injury if you're going to point it straight up." Hinata said with a slightly thoughtful look on her face, as she placed her hand on the handle on her sword. This cause both Temari and Kankuro to stiffen a bit as the both looked at Hinata's long Katana that laid innocently at her side. Neither knew why she brought it to day and didn't want to find out.
"Don't worry Hinata, Temari too much of a pussy to do it to loveable old me." He said with a playful tone, trying to lighten the sudden tension.
"You Kami-da-"
"Well would you look at that boys."
Both Kankuro and Temari's heads whipped around as four young men walked out of an alley.
"Fuck off Haru." spat Temari as both her and Kankuro moved into slightly move defensive stands, while Hinata and Gaara looked at the sense with slight curiosity
"What, can't I say hello to my favorite little bitch?" said Haru as he elbowed the blond men standing next to him. Haru was slightly tall with dark hair and dark eye, and looks that could make any girl blush.
"No, now Fuck off!" shouted Temari, trying with every fiber of her being not of rip his throat out.
"Temari, calm down." Kankuro gently said with a worried look on his face. Haru and his gang, a group of people you never want to piss off, seemed to have it in for Temari. Kankuro silently curse as he knew Temari's fierily temper would end up with a bit of a fight on their hands, and with Temari having been train the entire day would means that she would not win.
Kankuro took a shaky glance at Hinata trying to take in her reaction towards the situation. What he saw made him stiffen; Hinata's face was completely blank. Kankuro cursed again, he had not the sliest thought on how she would react to violence towards herself but the idea on how she would react to violence towards someone she knew was an even more unknown danger. This made Hinata a hazer and if she was a hazer that also made Gaara one too, leaving Kankuro the only level headed person in the entire mess. Which he knew was very, very bad.
"Oh don't tell me you're still mad about that whole ANBU incident." Haru said with a smirk and a both a brown and black hair men began to laugh.
"You mother-fuc-"
"Temari don't" said Kankuro firmly.
"Yeah Temari don't, listen to your brother and be a good little girl." Haru spat.
"Temari Don't!" shouted Kankuro as she leaped at the group of men throwing a punch at Haru, but fatigue made her slow and anger made her careless. Haru easily dodged the blow as he twisted himself behind her putting her in a neck pin.
"Temari!" shouted Kankuro as he made a move towards his sister only to be stop as the brown hair man stepped in front of him.
"Now, Now Temy what's with all this hostility? Maybe you need some since knocked into you." said Haru as both the black and blond hair men slammed their fist into her stomach.
"Stop it!" shouted Kankuro as he saw them sending their fist down again.
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". . . H-Hinata."
Both the black and brown hair men laid severely feet away, one unmoving and the other with a broken noise and what looked like a rib or two bruised. But what made him the most uneasy was Haru, who was several feet back on his knees with. . . . Hinata crouching behind him with her sword at his throat.
Hinata look as if she was made of stone as a strong breeze blew her in front of her face, giving her a hunting look. Time seemed to have frozen for the small group of people as they watched the scene in front of them in fear. Yet while the others wore looks of horror, Gaara wore a dark smirk on his face.
"That was not very nice of you Haru . . . a ninja such as yourself should have more honor and pride in himself then to disgrace himself in an act such as this." said Hinata in a dark, yet oddly innocent voice.
"I-I-I . . . Y-You-" he tried to gasp.
"You know where I come from; if a man were to bring such disgrace upon himself he would take his own life, even for something as small as this. . . But you don't seem like a man brave enough to do such an act." Hinata said as she slightly moved herself so Haru would be able to look at her out of the corner of his eye. Hinata's face seemed to lay completely in shadow behind her hair except for two lavender tinted eyes that seemed to glow hauntingly. "Would you like me to help?"
"OH Kami- HELP!"
"Hinata Don't!" shouted Temari.
Hinata slightly turned her head to look up at the look of fear on Kankuro and Temari's face before taking a glace around at everyone. The young man with the broken noise sat their, wide eyed, shaking, like the young brown haired man that stood by Kankuro. The blonde man still laid unmoving, making Hinata wonder only for a second if he was alive or not. But when her eyes fell on Gaara, Hinata felt something twit inside. He was smiling, no not smiling; he never smiles; he was smirking. He was loving the show in front of him.
"Hinata . . . please don't." whispered Kankuro as he took a step towards her. She took one more look at the man shriveling in front of her before removing her sword in a flash and returning into her sheath before anyone could notice.
"I do not want to see such a shameful act from you again . . . or next time things will end differently." Hinata said as she stood up and began walking back towards Temari and Kankuro. Within seconds all three men, dragging the fourth, ran back down the ally and out of sight.
"Hinata! What the hell were you thinking!" shouted Temari, causing Hinata to freeze in her tracks. "What did we say, No fighting and No Killing!"
"But . . . But you-" Hinata tried to stutter, her eyes wide.
"Hinata, do you have any idea what just happened!" Temari shouted again.
"But they were hurting you . . . I thought that . . .I thought that I was helping." said Hinata with a hurt expression on her face that made her eyes look out of place.
"Do you have any idea what their going to do now! Their going to go to the KazeKage and tell them some bogus story about you attacking them for no reason! Their going to try and take you Away!" screamed Temari.
"Temari, stop it. She was only trying to help . . . and remember she did not kill any one. She just broke up the fight. No one really got hit. I think" Kankuro said, mumbaling the last part, in a serious yet calming voice.
"Yeah But-"
"Look what your doing." hiss Kankuro angrily at his older sister. That's when Temari saw the look on her face and the way her hands were shaking ever so slights.
"Hinata," Temari said as she slowly walked over to her, "I'm sorry, I'm just really scared right now."
"I didn't mean too, I thought I was helping." mumbled Hinata as she began to play with her fingers.
"It's alright; it's not your fault," said Kankuro as he began walking in the direction of home, "Come on lets get home before anythi-"
"Kankuro what's-" started Temari before her eyes landed on the masked ninja before her brother.
"The KazeKage wishes to see you all immediately" stated the masked man before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. The group stood there for a moment unable to move before Kankuro said the one thing that was all on their minds.
"Shit!"
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The small group stood in the dark room as they felt the KazeKage's slimy gaze crawl over them. Both Temari and Kankuro stood there trying to act as calm as possible prying to Kami that he did not know about the fight.
Hinata stood there, no madder how much the urge to move to all four burned through her system. She stood close to Gaara, feeling a bit more secure being near someone stronger, as she felt the tension in the room become thick and heavily.
"My, My Hinata you seem very different. Have you gotten taller?" asked the KazeKage with a smile crawling onto his face. Hinata continued to stand still refusing to look at the KazeKage. "You are also looking exceptionally beautiful this fine evening too."
"What do you want." said Gaara's emotionless voice. The KazeKage sat there for a moment his gaze turning cold as his eyes fell upon Gaara. Both Temari and Kankuro stiffed as they felt like the air around them was being sucked away. The two powerful men glare at each other before a deep sigh escape the village leader.
"I have a mission for the four of you." the KazeKage said in a serious voice.
"WHAT!" shouted Temari, before flinching back a bit as the KazeKage laid his cold glare upon her.
"I said I have a mission for the four of you. The village of the hidden leaf is having a very large tournament to strengthen relations between some of the villages. All willing fighters can compete, and I have selected you four to represent as you village's ninjas. I expect at lest one of you to make it to the finals." He said as he leaned back in his chair.
"B-But KazeKage-sama, the Hyuga Compound resides barely half a day from the village. What if they find Hinata?" asked Kankuro nervously.
"Well then I guess your going to have to think of something." spat the powerful man, "you leave tomorrow morning, Dismissed."
"Oh and Temari," shouted the KazeKage as she was just about to step throught the door, "I don't want you fighting anyone outside the fighting arena. ... wouldn't want Hinata to have to deal with such a troublesome task." he said as Temari read the hidden meaning behind his words.With in seconds the four of them were out of the room and through the front doors.
"Are you sure that was a smart idea KazeKage-sama?" asked the masked ninja as he stepped out of the shadows, walking over the window to get a better look of the girl.
"Yes. . . I am very sure. . .everything is going according to plan." He said as a sudden laughing fit escaped from him.