After a few calming breath Hinata started to study her opponent and go over her attack options. She was starting to realize just how foolish her first attack had been, her opponent was a forty foot long, armour plated, two ton CROCODILE! and she had let her emotions lead her into a head long charge at it. She had only survived because she'd gotten clear of it before it had launch a serious counter attack.
Quickly going over her options Hinata found that her fighting ability was severly limited in this body, even with access to the enhanced chakra supply that Naruto's body had the lack of the Byakugan and her bodies natural flexability ment that Hinata couldn't use many of her profered technigues. She also didn't have the time to go over and memorize Naruto's own Jutsus.
Hinata was still trying to figure out how to proceed when the creature did it for her and launched a head on attack at her.
Mustering all the chakra she could, Hinata throw herself into a left shoulder roll up the beach to land in a crouch, then she had to immeadiatly throw herself to the right to avoid the follow up attack.
It became immeaditaly apparent to Hinata that this creature had a high level of physical abilaty, its reaction time, exelleration and turning radius inperticular had Hinata dodging every few seconds and she didn't want to think about the strenght of those jaws if they got her. The loose sand of the beach wasn't helping her ether sence it required that she use a small amount of chakra to prevent her from sinking in and to give her grip when she had to make quick manauvers.
After a proticularly close call Hinata finally managed to put enought distance between her and the croc to start thinking about more then get out of its way.
'What am I going to do now?' Hinata thought 'I can't out run it and I don't have the flexibility to use my most powerful jutus.'
'Your thinking too much Hinata chan' Hinata jumped slightly, she had forgotten about about the portion of Naruto's mind that still resided in this body. Hinata felt her mind fall back into the subconsuse part of its self and the part that was Naruto's split off.
"Hello aguin" Inner Naruto said.
Hinata looked around confused for a second before turn to the shadow.
"Why did you call me here?" she asked, the shadow sighed as he walked behind her and gave Hinata a hug from behind.
"Tell me Hina chan do you think we're fighting at full effience?" shadow Naruto said. Hinata had to go over the last couple minutes of the fight she was in the middle of before she gave her answer.
"No......... and thats the strange part, I know Naruto's body can move faster then I've been able to get it to. I remember what you told me but I just can't move any faster and I'm burning alot of chakra doing what I can right now."
The shadow Naruto hummed for a few seconds before sighing.
"I guess I didn't do a very good job explaining the first time" Naruto turned Hinata around so he could look he in the eyes "Hinata chan do you understand the concept of Muscule Memory?"
"Yes, its at movement or action that has been used so many times that in no longer requires the active input from the brain to pull it off."
Naruto nodded as he reviewed her answer, "Good now tell me what would happen if a body programmed to react in one way started to get conflicting signals at the same time from the brain."
Hinata had to think for a moment before she answered, "Well the signals from the brain would override the signals from Muscule Memory, but there'd be a delay while the two fought for dominance."
"Correct" the shadow said then moved on, "now do you get it Hinata, you've been trying to fight as a Hyuuga in a body that wasn't trained to fight that way." Hinata nodded slightly as she listened "Also theirs a second part to this." Hinata looked at the shadow confused "Yes, you see not only is there Muscule Memory, there's also a thing called Chakra Memory, It works on the same concept only it deals with Chakra not Muscule."
"Grrrreaat!" Hinata's voice was just dripping with sarcasum "now how am I supposed to make this work?" she asked.
Shadow Naruto chuckled as he responded.
"Just stop thinking about how you move so much an you'll start to move better. As for the Chakra Memory I'd suggest that you let a small portion of your Chakra move freely through the body and see how it react in certain areas. Once you've got that down then it should make is easier to control." the shadow finished explaining as he walked back into Hinata and fused with her.
Hinata blinked and found herself once aguin facing the giant crocodile acrossed the sand. She and the croc continued their stare off as Hinata put Inner Naruto's suggestion into action. She felt her body loosen and turn to fully face the reptile, her right hand hang next to the shuriken holster on her right leg, her left hand mirriored her right and her legs bent even more then she normally would.
While her body set itself up a part of her mind began to let some Chakra flow through her Chakra network and mapout each twist and irregularity. Hinata was almost distracted by how interesting Naruto's Chakra network was and how resilliant it was built.
After a few moments of staring Hinata felt that she had more or less figured out Naruto's Chakra network and had filled it with a conciderable amount of Chakra.
Hinata was about to make a move when the giant reptile charged at her. Hinata held her ground until the last second then made a short hop forwards and to the right, as the croc's head turned to track her Hinata fired and Air Palm straight into into it's muzzel, knocking it's head to the side.
"Empty Palm!, Empty Palm!!, EMPTY PALM!!!" Hinata shouted as she dumped three more attacks into the reptiles head and throat, breaking teeth and quashing its throat in the prossess. Then Hinata spun on the spot as she concintrated as much Chakra as she could into one final attack.
"TWIN EMPTY PALM!" Hinata dumped all that stored Chakra into the creature's ribcage, causing it to compress and expel all the air in its lungs and picking it up and tousing it twenty feet down the beach to land on it's back with a loud thud.
Not that Hinata excaped without same pain as the back blast from that attack throw her fourty feet in the opposite direction and burned her hands to the point of blisters. Hinata lay in a daze for a few moments as she tried to get her barings after the impact with the sand when she heard some shouts coming closer.
"HINATA!" Hinata's vision was suddenly filled with a mass of pink and black hair as Sakura and Kurenai leaned over her.
"How do you feel?" Sakura asked.
"OWWWWH!" Hinata growns back.