Honestly, why are all fights like six episodes? Ninja fights should often be super fast.
Mika frowned as he woke up. " When did I got to sleep?" he turned, looking at Hinata, in his bed, curled up against him. They had napped together several times, it was nothing special, but he could not remember going to be for the life of him. "Wait,Tsunade, she must have knocked us out. I remember coming in after hearing Shizune confronting her and... HINATA!"
Hinata bolted up, just as Naruto and Shizune, who was on the floor, did.
Within seconds, they were all trying to go for the window, just as a kunai shot across and nearly killed Shizune. After finding out Jiraiya was drugged, and Shizune tried to help him recover with a tonic, they bolted after where Shizune said Tsunade had to be.
In the span of twenty minutes, they learned a lot and Mika vowed to kill Tsunade if she actually gave in to Orochimaru's desires...and from the look of Hinata's face...
She felt the same freaking way.
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They eventually reached Tsunade, and Jiriaya saved her with a smoke bomb stopping Kabuto from killing her. Mika turned to Hinata. "Ready?"
"Completely."
Just as he suspected, after Tsunade kicked some ass then got forced into a haemaphobic panic attack thanks to Kabuto cutting his palm, a confused Naruto charged Kabuto with malice and rage. To stop the boy from dying, Mika grabbed the back of his shirt and threw him back, and then charged with Hinata at his side. Slashing with his blade, Mika forced Kabuto the leap back, which they were counting on as Hinata flipped into the air and peppered Kabuto's legs, forcing him to stumble as he landed.
Mika slashed hard, carving a bloody swath across Kabuto's chest, and kicked his face in so hard his nose shattered and he went flying into Hinata's next attack. "Thirty Two Sleeping Palms!" The man screamed out as his body was shut down, turning off nerves and muscles, leaving him a slump of a man. With blade in hand, Mika almost ended it, ready to slam his blade down, right through Kabuto's chest...
Only for Orochimaru to be there, blade extending out of his mouth, piercing Mika's shoulder as Hinata shoved him away in the last possible moment. The Snake Sanin backhanded Hinata away, only for Mika to black out not from pain but from the blade's poison taking instant effect on his young, small body. Like sheer acid, he felt it surging throughout his body, a terrible agony that shattered daylight and plunged him into darkness...
:::
Hinata cursed as Tsunade, the newly proclaimed Fifth Hokage, patched Mika up. She was ashamed, Orochimaru's one hit knocked her out, not too shocking as the man was a real beast, but still... it was shameful. She had barely been able to protect Mika. She wanted to kill something, anything.
"Will he be okay?"
Tsunade nodded. "He will be fine. Orochimaru did aim to kill, but you saved him from getting a fatal hit. Mika will need some help as we go back to the Leaf, but he will be fully recovered when we return."
"Good... good..." She sighed, happy.
"Do you really want to be Hokage?"
"Honestly, yes, I do."
She sighed. "Jiriaya told me you were suggested to ANBU, you and Mika... would you like that? To gain the skills and experience to become Hokage one day?"
That made Hinata beam. "Put us on a team, give us some real training, let our bodies get some growth since we are both really small... you will never regret it."
Mika groaned suddenly, and they both turned to him. "ANBU, for us both?"
"Of course that is what wakes you up." Hinata muttered.
"Well, really?"
Tsunade nodded. "Let me see your full records. I will likely make you part time ANBU, the rest of the time you will be needed for regular missions. We are in need of public faces... it will take time but I will make you famous. Your ass kicking of that Kabuto kid, it was graceful and swift. If Orochimaru had not intervened, he would be dead...and he was a high A rank ninja." Both Hinata and Mika hummed with pride at that. "We will work on your path later, but for now let us focus on recovery and getting back to the Leaf."
"Alright, I am really sore anyway." Mika muttered and Hinata felt her grief fade away every so slightly.
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
This was a joy to write.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.