Chapter 2: Training
"Why did you lead me here, Shiranui-San?", asked Hinata curious.
The school day was over and her wolf companion had told Hinata they had plans.
What plans she wouldn't tell, till Hinata walked them to one of the abandoned training areas of the village.
The place was overgrown with plant life.
It was clear that no one had used it in years.
The brooch shimmered and turned into Shiranui's floating anthropomorphic wolf form.
"Is it safe to show you like that Shiranui-San?", wondered the Hyuuga Heiress, carefully looking around.
It wouldn't surely be good if someone saw Shiranui. She was too alien, too strange.
The people in Konnoha would not accept her.
"Don't worry Hinata-Chan.", reassured Shiranui. She made a fast sequence of hand signs and a dome of Chakra built around the training ground. "This place is one abandoned and thanks to my Jutsu we are safe from prying eyes."
"Oh alright."
"And what we are doing here well…", the Hoshi-Kami made a dramatic pause for effect before she told Hinata: "It's time to start your training! What you learn at the Academy and at home is quite frack not enough. Maybe for a normal person, it is enough, but you aren't. We need you to get in top shape to handle your godly powers."
Dejected Hinata looked at the ground.
Even after a whole week with her, Shiranui was still so sure she was the Messiah.
Did she not see how weak in the Juken she was? Had she not heard how her father had dismissed her as a failure.
Did she not comprehend that even if she was a Clan Child people like Sakura Haruno were better in Chakra control than her?
The blue-haired girl had been so sure that Shiranui would see that Hinata was to wrong choice, yet it didn't happen.
"Now Hinata-Chan, what is it with this gloom?", tutted the wolf, rubbing in comfort their cheeks together. "You don't see or feel it, but your body is already changing. Your Chakra is. Why did you think your Chakra Control got so bad all of a sudden?"
"Because I'm a failure…"
A growl came out of Shiranui. "I will eat your father's heart for breakfast if he doesn't start to treat you with respect!"
"N-No, please don't."
"You are way too kind Hinata-Chan. On one hand, it's a wonderful trait on the other some people don't deserve it."
The Hyuuga didn't know how to answer that. But Shiranui didn't need an answer, she just petted her cheek.
"Where was I…Ah yes, your Training. From this day forward I will train you to become the goddess, the savoir you are meant to be…So…to start I want you to run 50 leaps around the Training Ground!"
Hinata wasn't a person to deny training, even if she didn't believe she was a goddess, more training was always good.
So she started to run.
The training was brutal.
50 leaps around the training ground.
Then 50 leaps, while using the leaf chakra control exercise.
And then 50 leaps, leaf chakra exercise and Shiranui throwing Shurikens and Kunai at her.
If she lost the leaf, the round started anew.
After that Hinata lay like a starfish on the ground. Her lungs were on fire and she felt how close to Chakra's exhaustion she was.
But Shiranui was not done with her.
Oh no.
50 sit-ups, 50 push-ups and 50 squats.
Then again while doing all this she needed to keep the leaf on her head.
Sadly this was only the first day of her hellish Training. The Hoshi-Kami pushed for more any day.
For the first time in her life, Hinata wanted to die.
Death would be a mercy to this!
Everything hurt! Everything!
Three months went by and Hinata couldn't believe it but…she had gotten stronger, also she could control her Chakra again.
She was faster and swifter.
More flexible and resistant.
Her senses became sharper.
Shiranui had a smug look on her face as Hinata noted all the changes in herself.
Then came the day Shiranui tested her Chakra Nature.
Shocking would have been an understatement.
The paper split into five parts, one got wet, one caught fire, one turned to dust and crumbled up.
She had all five Chakra Nature.
"I told you.", sing-songed Shiranui. "You are the one!"
Now besides the "normal" training, elemental manipulation was also practised.
For that, her wolf friend taught her the Kagebushin-No-Jutsu.
Without a problem, Hinata made on the first try 100.
"Look what power lies in you!", told her Shiranui proud.
The Hyuga Heiress and her clones just looked dumbfounded at each other.
So now with Kagebushin on her side, Hinata could train even harder and faster, since what her clones learned, she learned to.
Another three months passed and it was now half a year ago that she met Shiranui.
When Hinata looked into the mirror, she didn't see a meek girl, she saw a shinobi.
Things had changed also at home.
Thanks to Shiranui's training her Juken was so good, that she hadn't a problem defeating Hanabi.
Her father had been surprised. Even more, after she defeated him.
"You may have even surpassed Neji, daughter.", said her father with a proud glint in his eyes. "You are truly the heiress of the Hyuuga Clan."
In school, she was also the top kunoichi. No one stood a chance against her. Her Shurikenjutsu hit always bullseye and in the battles, she always won.
This should make her happy, but Hinata felt nothing.
She still didn't believe she was the Messiah, yet couldn't deny her extreme progress.
She was something different.
Whether it was good or not would show the future.
The next six months Shiranui made her training even harder.
It was unbelievable that it could get harder, yet her Hoshi-Kami friend managed again that Hinata wanted to die.
Any day she was brought to her limits, only to surpass them.
It seemed Hinata didn't have a limit, she only grew stronger and stronger.
And then a whole year had passed.
It was time to graduate from the Ninja Academy.
Now it would show if this hellish year would pay off in the real world.
