Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Amaterasu ❯ The Hunt ( Chapter 6 )

Amaterasu

Chapter Six: The Hunt

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"Hey, Mister!" Hinata called out to a young man who was hiding behind a tree. The man screamed and ran away. “Um…” Hinata stared at the man's retreating figure. She turned and walked forward. The birds screeched in the distance and seemed to fly away in terror.

Hinata ran towards the sound of the birds, covering her ears to shield from the horrible sounds. Then she saw something she was sure she would never forget. The village she had came upon was covered in blood and the whole place literally reeked. People's bodies were torn in half and scattered around and a dismembered arm lay by her feet. And in the middle of the village, Kyuubi was sitting on the ground eating part of a bird.

Hinata let loose a scream. Kyuubi looked up at her. “Ah, so you found me.” He gave her a wide grin that showed his fangs, full of blood. Hinata held her stomach and kneeled over on the grass. `I'm going to be sick' She finally coughed and spit up anything she had previously ate in a disgusting manor.

When she was finally able to stand, she looked around only to find out he had left. “Dammit.” She cursed. “Stupid fox.” She leapt over all the torn bodies even as her stomach lurched dangerously. She had to catch him, but how? She didn't have the speed nor the strength to match Naruto much less Kyuubi.

She opened up her bag and took out all her traps. “Looks like I'll have to use these.”

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“Stupid Girl! Keeps following me.” Kyuubi hissed in irritation. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see her following him. He sped up trying to make her lose him.

Everything was going fine till he activated one of her traps….

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When she lost track of him she came upon a new village. `Good, he must not have made it here…..yet.' Hinata sighed. She needed time to come up with a formidable plan to capture him, unfortunately she didn't have quite enough time. He might kill a whole new village before she thought of anything. She had a feeling regular traps wouldn't work quite so well. As she walked by a restaurant it was the smell of the food that gave her the perfect idea.

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Ropes, kunai, nets, and holes. What did she take him for, Stupid? Who would fall for such easy traps? Kyuubi snorted at her weak attempts to capture him.

`Get out of my body!' Kyuubi snorted as his pleading. The stupid boy had been annoying him nonstop since he had taken over his body “If you're not strong enough to take it back by force then I doubt you deserve this.” He hissed.

Kyuubi picked up his pace again and ran off, until he saw a bowl of ramen next to a backpack laying on a rock. Naruto's stomach growled loudly. “Che, annoying.”

`Ramen!' “Oh Shutup!” `Ramen! Ramen! Ramen! Ramen! Ramen!' “Grrr…Fine I'll eat it!! Just Shut up!” Kyuubi reached for the bowl of ramen, failing to notice the thin wire that looped around his leg as he activated Hinata's trap. It pulled him up by his legs and hung him upside down, in which the ramen spilled all over him. The last thing Kyuubi remembered was a sharp and immense pain in his head knocking him unconscious.

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“N-Naruto-kun?” Naruto heard Hinata's soft voice as he regained consciousness. He slowly opened his eyes to look into Hinata's eyes filled with concerned. “I'm glad. I thought for a minute you were seriously hurt when I knocked you out.”

He tried to sit up but immediately laid back down because of the immense pain that filled his head. “W-what happened?” “Let's see…Kyuubi took over your body and I had to knock you out so Kyuubi would revert back to this stone.” She held up the bright red stone so he could see Kyuubi hissing at him.

“H-he looks m-mad.” Naruto stuttered. The last thing he had wanted was an angry fox near him or in his body. Naruto spring right up. “That's right!” He glared at Hinata. “You spilled my ramen! And why does it taste like blood in my mouth?” Hinata gave a nervous laugh.

“Anyways, Naruto-kun, if your feeling better…were staying at an inn, and it has a nice hot spring. Why not take a bath while I go get you some more ramen?” Naruto sniffed himself. By the expression on his face Hinata could tell (And knew) that he didn't smell so good.

Before she left she quickly threw some towels at him. “I'll be back! I also need to grab a new map…I lost mine.” “Kay…” Naruto picked up the towels and left.

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“That will be $7.75 for the ramen and the country map, Hinata-Ohime.” She quickly handed him the money needed and was about to leave when she had heard a rather interesting conversation.

“Lord Orochimaru said that the red stone is with the Princess of the Leaf Kingdom. If we find her and the stone we will be able to prove ourselves to Orochimaru. He said he'd take us in as his apprentices!”

“That would be wonderful.” Said the second man. “Hopefully soon he can take over the leaf kingdom. He'll have a harder time with the water kingdom.”

The first man lowered his voice to a whisper that Hinata could barely make out. “They say that the legendary Amaterasu stone , the one that is blue and rivals the Kyuubi stone, still protects the kingdom from harm.”

The second man looked over to Hinata. “Oi, what are you looking at?” Hinata quickly hid her face. “Nothing…excuse me.” She said softly. The second man glanced at her one last time before returning to his conversation.

“Hey wait a minute…” Said the first man. “Wasn't that, Hinata Hyuuga…the leaf kingdom princess?” The second man thought for a few moments before rushing after her.

Hinata sped up as she realized she was being followed. Although she was losing most of the ramen in the bowl that wasn't her main concern at the time. “Wait up!” Yelled the first man. She increased her speed and finally lost them.

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“Naruto-Kun!” Hinata called to him. She swiftly landed in the hot spring area, nearly slipping on water. “Oh Hinata-Chan….?” “We got to get out of here. Orochimaru's men are looking for us. I wondered why everything was going pretty well. Since the snake incident nothing relating to him has happened.”

“Orochimaru?” “Yeah…the guy after the stone's power.”

Hinata quickly pulled out her map and scanned it. Naruto quietly got out of the water and put on a white kimono, then walked to stand by Hinata. “So where are we?” Naruto asked. “Were about here, Zagos.” She pointed to a map a city a little distance from the Zinabe Mountains. “Then that means we have to cross the mountains to get to the old granny's house?” (Tsunade sneezes.) “Unh.” “Alright. Let's go, Hinata-chan!”

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“Woah, these mountains are huge! How exactly do we cross them?” Naruto wondered. Out of the corner of the eye he could see another person, standing with a horse by her. She glanced over to Naruto and gave a friendly wave. Slowly she came over to where they were standing. “Where are you guys going? Crossing the mountains?” She slowly asked.

“Yes..” Hinata said quietly. “Were going to see a woman named Tsunade. She lives in Konoha.”

“Yup. Tsunade-sensei, she sent me to take you guys across the mountains, shall we go?” The two nodded their heads. “What are your names? I'm Sakura Haruno, Tsunade's apprentice.” “Uzumaki Naruto.” “Hyuuga Hinata.” Sakura giggled. “Nice to meet you.” “Uhn.” Naruto replied gruffly. Hinata just remained silent.

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“So, you have Kyuubi with you right?” Sakura asked. “Uhn!” Naruto held up the stone so Sakura could see Kyuubi's reflection in the stone glaring at her. “How unpleasant.” She quickly turned her attention back forward. Sakura glanced back at Hinata. “Your sure quiet…is something wrong?” Hinata shook her head. She was a little saddened that Naruto hadn't talked to her since they met Sakura, he was too busy talking to Sakura. Hinata thought it would be best to leave them talk.

“”So what's the granny like?” Sakura turned around to look at him. “Granny? She's far from it. She has almost inhumane strength and quit short tempered. She loves to gamble but she always loses. Isn't it funny that she finds out something is wrong if she wins?” Sakura laughed. “She's a harsh sensei that mainly focuses on healing techniques but I'm sure she can train you good.” “Magic, eh? I never was able to pass the academy.”

“Eh!?!” Sakura yelled a little loudly. “Sorry…You've never passed an magic academy.” She laughed. “You must be a baka!” “That's not true, Sakura-san.” Hinata said quietly. “Kyuubi said he had great power.” (Although Kyuubi also said he was stupid.) She whispered to herself.

“Well anyway we'll find out when we get to Tsunade's.” Sakura said. “How long till were there?” Sakura thought for a few moments. “5 days or so. We have lots of walking distance to cover and caves to go through and animals to fend off. Mountain travel isn't very safe around this area.”

They slowly covered the distance to the first cave. “Okay, don't talk at all in the caves!” She whispered a warning. “Why?” Naruto asked. “SHHH!” She quieted him. They quietly walked for a while in the caves. “AAACHHHOOOO!” Naruto sneezed loudly. The cave shook slightly. “Crap! Run for it!” Sakura yelled and broke out into a full speed run. Stalactites came crashing down from the top of the cave and bats began to screech horribly, angered to be woken up.

“Ahhh!” Hinata screamed as she ran for the cave exit which was not to far off. The sound of the stalactites breaking on the ground was extremely loud. As they made it out they panted hard exhausted. “You, Baka!” Sakura lightly punched Naruto. “Sorry…” Although they didn't make it out completely unharmed, the stalactites had cut through various places of their skin all over their bodies, and the clothes had tears all over.

They pitched camp as they ended their exciting first day in the harsh mountains. “Ugghh! And I just bought this new suit too, NARUTO!!” Sakura got up after bandaging her wounds and chased Naruto around for a bit till they were both too exhausted, and fell asleep.

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