Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Mokushita Hyuuga ❯ Chapter 28
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By: Moghedian 
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Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 03.26.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.4K | Visits: 509 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto, not me.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 03.26.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.4K | Visits: 509 | Status: Completed
Chapter 28
Katoki rubbed the back of his head and sighed. A woman with bright orange hair and brown eyes started to fidget impatiently. The man beside her remained stoic, save a little smirk that decorated his plain face.
"Katoki-kun, just go already!" a second woman said. Her pale eyes flashed dangerously at him, and Katoki gave a nervous laugh.
"Alright, does anyone have a 3?" Hinata shook her head, the woman with orange hair, Suri, grunted before tossing a small card at Katoki. Ganjou calmly said,
"Go fish." Katoki hummed as he grouped his cards together.
"Hinata-chan, your turn." Hinata nodded and looked at the cards she had in her hand.
"Ano...does anyone have a 9?" No one gave her a card, so she picked one up. Much to her delight, she picked up a nine.
"Oh! I get to go again, ee-to...Does anyone-" The flap to the small tent the four shared was pushed open. A nondescript woman poked her head in a said with a dull tone,
"Oi, pack it up. The enemy scouted out farther than we thought. We are skipping tonight's rest and heading straight to Sunagakure." Katoki grunted and Suri sighed. Gathering the deck of cards, Suri tucked them into her pack that was attached to the back of her black pants, and started to roll her sleeping bag up. Ganjou followed suit, but not without a grunt of annoyance.
"Hinata-san, are you going to be alright? You just got over being sick..." Hinata blushed slightly at Ganjou's concerned voice, but waved him off and said,
"It was nothing. Just a little bit of food poisoning. Im sure throwing it all up got rid of it." Ganjou flicked his eyes towards Katoki, who flinched ever so slightly.
"Well then, Hinata-chan, be careful anyway, it might have been the stomach flu, that can take a few days to go away." Katoki said, as he pulled Hinata's sleeping bag out of her hands and rolled it up for her. Hinata blushed and felt annoyed at the same time.
"I'm not a baby, stop treating me like one." Suri sucked her breath in and tried to hold her face still. Ganjou had to turn his head, as his mouth wouldn't stop twitching.
"Saa! Hinata-chan, I'm just trying to be helpful!" The hurt in Katoki's voice reached Hinata's ears, and she started to tear up.
"Aa-a...Gomen! I didn't mean it! I just dont like being babied...I've been alone since I was 17 and I raised a child by myself, I dont need anyone to take care of me. Besides, I don't want you to be doing all the work." Hinata said, and Katoki sighed. Her eyes were shining, and she knew that he couldn't resist her puppy eyes.
"Guilllllt tripppp." A whisper came, floating from the corner. Both Katoki and Hinata whipped their heads around to see Suri staring at Ganjou. Ganjou turned slightly and suddenly shuddered. The amount of needle sharp killing intent aimed at him was not very pleasant.
"What was that, Ganjou-san? I didn't quite hear you." Hinata said, her words laced with ice and threats of death. Ganjou just grinned widely, albeit fakely, and waved his hand, dissmissing Hinata's words.
"No, no! Nothing, I didn't say anything in particular, just mumbling incoherantly." Katoki nodded his head once and said,
"Yea. That's what I thought. Now lets get packed up. We are in for a long run."
Kiziwari ran his hand through his bright blue hair and sighed. Adjusting the oversized sword strapped to his back, he shivered in the slight mist of the morning. Looking around in the silence of the morning, he saw other shinobi, even a few Ronin, quietly dotting the edge of the river. They were all waiting for the signal to jump across and ambush the group of...
"Oi, Gougi-sempai, who were we ambushing again?" The blue haired teen whispered. The woman who was sitting a few feet behind him shifted her legs so that he caught a peek of light blue under her skirt. He wasn't sure whether she was wearing shorts, or if he had just seen her panties, but he kept his mouth shut. Gougi was twice his age, and a whole lot stronger than him. Teasing her sai out of their sheaths, the turquoise-haired girl bit her lip.
"They told us that it was Kumo shinobi...at least Jounin rank. Probably ANBU though. Are you ready? They are a good while off, but I can feel their chakra. There must be a bunch of them. Quick, go spread the word, but boy, do it quietly.
"Hai, Gougi-sempai." Kiziwari said, and gave a small salute, tapping the shiny Ame hiteate that sat across his forehead. Moving quickly, he managed to inform most of the ambush group before he himself could clearly feel the Kumo group's chakra. Turning to the river, he saw Gougi standing on a rallen tree stump, her arm raised, waiting to give the signal. Kiziwari ran through handseals in his mind as he eased his sword out as quietly as possible.
Swish...swish...swish... That was all Hinata could hear as she concentrated on jumping from branch to branch through the thick forests of the Fire Country. Looking all around her, she could only spot 8 other ANBU, not including her three companions, that were in plain sight. Hinata was amazed that the small group of 30 or so ABNU that Kumo currently had in it's ranks could hide itself so well. She was amazed at the amount of sound that the group wasn't making.
"NOW!" Some one from the front shouted. Both Hinata and Katoki whipped their heads to the front of the group, when an explosion rocked the ground and trees, some where in the background someone let loose a bone chilling scream. Hinata lost grip on the branches and slipped off, but Katoki caught her elbow and tugged her up. Suri wasn't so lucky. When she looked down, she saw the kunoichi shakily dusting off her shoulders, and rubbing her side. Ganjou was helping her walk off the slight limp she had. Katoki clicked his tongue but whipped his head around as a branch snapped behind him.
Swoosh-clunk! The blonde ducked and pushed Hinata off to another branch just as a giant sword sliced through the mist, narrowly missing Katoki's head. The sword embedded itself in the tree, and Hinata heard a quiet curse from infront of them. Raising her hands to form a set of seals she hadn't used in a while, Hinata let loose the proper amount of Chakra and said,
"Byakugan!" Instantly all of the colours in her vision inverted, and she could see everywhere at once. But she instead focused her sight to where she heard the curse and saw a boy, in his late teens, she guessed, running towards the tree Katoki was in, his hands flashing through a complicated series of seals.
"Doton: Chikyuu no tatekou!" The boy yelled. Hinata let her byakugan go as she raised a hand and yelled at the blond who was still staring at the sword.
"Katoki-kun! Watch out!" Hinata shouted. Katoki looked at her, but it was a moment too late. A tall and sharp column of grey slate rose out of the ground and struck him in the stomach. The shaft continued to rise through the trees, carrying the man untill the white eyed woman could no longer see him. Hinata gazed down at the boy angrily and praising kami-sama that he didn't see her, she pounced out of the tree, directly on top of him.
"MmmmaaahH!" He yelled, but Hinata paid no mind. She activated her byakugan again, and struck the tenketsus on the boy's arms and legs as fast and hard as she could. When she rendered him immobile, she tumbled back and took a deep breath. The boy was moaning in pain and wriggling weakly on the ground. Taking a step over, she pulled him up by his collar, causing his hiteate to unwind and fall out of his blue hair. Putting the boy down, she picked up his hiteate and reddened in anger.
"So the Iwagakure are ambushing us? How like them." Spitting beside the boy's head, she poked his chest, effectivly getting his attention.
"Name?" She said, rather harshly. The boy whimpered, so Hinata dug her nails into one of the tenketsu burns on his arm. The boy's whimper turned into a cry before he said in a desperate voice,
"Ki-kiziwa-wari!" Hinata let go of the boy's arm and sat back.
"Well, Kiziwari-san, once I find my partner that you so graceously sent into the skies, I will come back and finish what I started. Now, dont even think about escaping. You cant move. Never mess with a Hyuuga, boy." Hinata said coldly, as she disapeared into the trees.
A great white flash blinded his eyes for a split second before the massive pain in his shoulder struck him. Holding back every movement, he looked forward, into the eyes of the pain-giver. They were as red as the blood he could feel trickling down his arm.
"Uuuggghhhnnnnn...." Katoki groaned and rolled over clutching his stomach. A sharp jolt told him that whatever jutsu that kid hit him with, probably shattered his hand. Looking down, he saw that he was laying on a small platform of solid grey stone. Looking over the edge, he saw that he was quite far up. Far enough that he could see the smoke from the various small explosions. Occasionally he saw a nin jumped out from the trees, but only to dissapear again among the foliage.
"Katoki! Are you ok?" a soft voice called. Looking over, the blonde saw his indigo haired partner sprinting up the side of the column.
"I'm fine, just a little winded!" he called. A few seconds passed and Hinata jumped up onto the platform and knelt beside Katoki. Her hands lit up in the special green fire and she pressed them against Katoki's stomach.
"I'm fine, really! You dont need to heal me." He tired to push her hands away, but Hinata shook her head and flicked his broken hand. Katoki sucked in his breath and Hinata reddened, but didn't say anything.
"There. You had minor bleeding...and I fixed most of the bones in your hand. They will be sore for a few days, try to avoid using taijutsu with it though." Katoki sighed and nodded.
"C'mon, let's go. I caught the one who made this column, I plan to interrogate him, but I need your help. I'm still, technically, a rookie ANBU." Katoki gave off a tired sounding laugh and rolled off the rock, soaring through the air untill he dissapeared into the trees with a loud Swoosh. Hinata smiled and quickly followed him.
"Great. So the Ame and Iwa are planning to ambush us all before we get to the border. What cowards!" Katoki said, banging his fist on the ground. The boy with blue hair, Kiziwari, was blissfully unconcious. His right forearm was twisted in the wrong direction, and twitching slightly.
Katoki didn't seem to mind physical torture as much as Hinata did. She nearly lost her dinner as she heard the tendons groan and snap. The poor boy screamed as hard as he could. By the time he stopped screaming, Hinata noticed that the explosions stopped, and the forest was silent. She could feel chakra prescense moving around, but she couldnt hear anything. A quick check with her eyes showed her that of the 30 ANBU that left Kumo, 13 were left, including herself, Katoki, Ganjou, and Suri. The three other medic ANBU had their hands full with treating the injured ANBU. Hinata felt that she was obligated to help, as some of the injuries were serious, but Katoki felt that this might have been a good learning expeiriance.
"Hinata, your face is a little green. Daijoubu?" Hinata wrinkled her nose and turned her head away from the boy.
"Lets go join the group. There aren't many left...I want to heal who I can. This is a disaster...." Katoki nodded and stood up beside the white eyed woman.
"Oi, you two, glad to see you are ok." a plain man with brown hair called. Hinata gave a small wave and blushed slightly.
"What? You think some measly Ame-nin could off us? Pfft. Get a life, Ganjou. Maybe a steady girlfriend too." Ganjou laughed as Suki sourly nursed both her broken arms. Hinata clicked her tongue and went up to the orange haired kunoichi.
"Here, I suspect that the other medic nin didn't have enough chakra to heal broken bones?" Suri nodded. Hinata's hands lit up in fire again and within a few seconds, she mended the bones to a point where they could withstand light combat.
"Arigato...Hinata-san, don't waste your chakra. We still need to get to the Sand base camp." Hinata nodded at Suri and wiped beads of sweat from her brow.
Katoki approached the small group, which surprised Hinata, as she hadn't been aware that he had left.
"Alright, everyone calm now? We have 13 nin left that are in fighting condition, and two that need real medical care. Any Ame or Iwa nin left alive will rot out here. I received information from an Ame nin I captured, and he said that they have spies along our travel routes, and plan to ambush us all in an attempt to reduce our numbers. As you can see, we are down more than half. Does anyone have a summon who can deliver messages fast?" a small murmur in the crowd.
"I can summon a wolf...He'd be a bit small, as I dont have much chakra left..." One man said. Katoki opened his mouth to respond, but a very short woman in the back piped up. Her voice suggested that she was very young, although her bird mask covered her face.
"I can summon a sparrow. Faster than a wolf, and a small one takes alot less chakra." Katoki nodded.
"Please do. Summon one old enough to speak, we dont have enough time to write this down. Tell it to fly straight to the Raikage." The short girl nodded and Hinata watched as she flashed through some seals before shouting in her high pitched voice,
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" A puff of smoke, and twittering around her head was a fist sized, yellow sparrow. A few words were spoken to it, and the sparrow took of towards the east at a dizzying speed.
"Yosh! We shall fight along side Gaara-kun and defeat the Iwa shonobi!"
"Lee-sensei!" A smaller voice called. Lee looked at his near identical student and gave him a large thumbs up. Fei's big blue eyes sparkled as returned the thumbs up.
"Lee, I must congradulate you on your student's sucess...It's almost like watching my teaching life all over again!" Both heads swivelled towards the voice and instantly the room became brighter.
"Gai-sensei!" Both Lee and Fei yelled and group hugged the older man.
"Fei-kun! I congradulate you on your advancement to Jounin! You made it faster than Neji did when I was teaching him!" Gai yelled, and jumped up to roundhouse kick the air. Fei was practically dancing, sturring up dust and sand around his feet.
"Gai-sensei, you show so much of the flames of youth!" He said, and Gai started to cry before embracing both Fei and Lee into another hug.
"Will you three shut up and go away! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Someone called from a tent not to far away. Lee blushed and said to his student and teacher,
"Alright! We can continue this tomrrow, but that young man is right! We need to some sleep, for tomorrow we fight!" Fei nodded and happily skipped to his tent, follow closely by Lee and Gai.
Tsunade-sama! I have a letter for you!" Shizune said, bursting in through the large doors of the blonde's office. Tsunade sat up and said,
"Ma? Wha? Ok! I was busy doing reports, Shizune." Shizune sighed and reached over to peel the report that she had been 'doing' off of her face. The blonde Hokage blushed and coughed.
"Well, whatever. What is this letter? From who?" Shizune pulled a rather thick scroll out of her bag and handed it to Tsunade.
"It doesnt say who it's from, but it did come with a small mini letter." Shizune handed a small peice of paper over to Tsunade, and she opened it.
"It says: 'I thought that you should know the truth, considering how much both of them adore you, Tsunade-sama. I thought that if I dont come back from the war, some one should tell him how his father died.'". Shizune's brow furrowed, and Tsunade glanced at the scroll.
Picking it up, Tsunade opened it and noticed that it was written like a journal.
Ohh! I'm so excited! I was dancing around earlier, but Hanabi-chan came into my room and told me to be quiet. I apologized, of course, but I made sure to give her a smile. I'm going to tell him today when he picks me up for training. I decided to make my journal into record for all the events that happen untill my baby is born. I'm only worried about one thing, I dont know how Otou-san is going to take it. I know he will yell at me, I might even be banned from the complex for a while, but nothing he says or does will make me give this baby up. It's time for me to meet Neji-ni-san, so I will write in you later.
Tsunade was in awe.
"Tsunade-sama, why is your face like that?"
"Hinata..." She whispered. Shizune barely caught it. The hokage unrolled the scroll even more and saw that the next entry was tear stained.
This cant be happening...It has to be a horrible dream...Naruto-kun....WHY!!?? It's been about three weeks since I found out I was pregnant. He...I didn't even get to tell him...I want to follow him! Why? I thought that maybe if I sit here in this strange room and do nothing, I would die peacefully. The constant pain in my heart should be enough. I'm writing this now, because I feel that soon, maybe really soon, I can join Naruto-kun, and I want to leave proof that I existed. maybe Neji-ni-san will tell someone where I am, so that they can collect my body. Maybe he will collect it himself. I dont care. My heart...it just, everytime I breath, even think, it hurts...
"Oh Kami-sama...She's alive..." Tsunade said, looking up at Shizune, she said,
"Where is Neji! He needs to report here as soon as possible!" Shizune blinked.
"Tsunade-sama, Neji-san is fighting in the war...He left a week ago..." Tsunade sat back down and sighed. Waving her hand she said to her assistant,
"Leave me then. I will call for you when I need you." Shizune nodded slowly and backed out of the office.
End Chapter 28
Katoki rubbed the back of his head and sighed. A woman with bright orange hair and brown eyes started to fidget impatiently. The man beside her remained stoic, save a little smirk that decorated his plain face.
"Katoki-kun, just go already!" a second woman said. Her pale eyes flashed dangerously at him, and Katoki gave a nervous laugh.
"Alright, does anyone have a 3?" Hinata shook her head, the woman with orange hair, Suri, grunted before tossing a small card at Katoki. Ganjou calmly said,
"Go fish." Katoki hummed as he grouped his cards together.
"Hinata-chan, your turn." Hinata nodded and looked at the cards she had in her hand.
"Ano...does anyone have a 9?" No one gave her a card, so she picked one up. Much to her delight, she picked up a nine.
"Oh! I get to go again, ee-to...Does anyone-" The flap to the small tent the four shared was pushed open. A nondescript woman poked her head in a said with a dull tone,
"Oi, pack it up. The enemy scouted out farther than we thought. We are skipping tonight's rest and heading straight to Sunagakure." Katoki grunted and Suri sighed. Gathering the deck of cards, Suri tucked them into her pack that was attached to the back of her black pants, and started to roll her sleeping bag up. Ganjou followed suit, but not without a grunt of annoyance.
"Hinata-san, are you going to be alright? You just got over being sick..." Hinata blushed slightly at Ganjou's concerned voice, but waved him off and said,
"It was nothing. Just a little bit of food poisoning. Im sure throwing it all up got rid of it." Ganjou flicked his eyes towards Katoki, who flinched ever so slightly.
"Well then, Hinata-chan, be careful anyway, it might have been the stomach flu, that can take a few days to go away." Katoki said, as he pulled Hinata's sleeping bag out of her hands and rolled it up for her. Hinata blushed and felt annoyed at the same time.
"I'm not a baby, stop treating me like one." Suri sucked her breath in and tried to hold her face still. Ganjou had to turn his head, as his mouth wouldn't stop twitching.
"Saa! Hinata-chan, I'm just trying to be helpful!" The hurt in Katoki's voice reached Hinata's ears, and she started to tear up.
"Aa-a...Gomen! I didn't mean it! I just dont like being babied...I've been alone since I was 17 and I raised a child by myself, I dont need anyone to take care of me. Besides, I don't want you to be doing all the work." Hinata said, and Katoki sighed. Her eyes were shining, and she knew that he couldn't resist her puppy eyes.
"Guilllllt tripppp." A whisper came, floating from the corner. Both Katoki and Hinata whipped their heads around to see Suri staring at Ganjou. Ganjou turned slightly and suddenly shuddered. The amount of needle sharp killing intent aimed at him was not very pleasant.
"What was that, Ganjou-san? I didn't quite hear you." Hinata said, her words laced with ice and threats of death. Ganjou just grinned widely, albeit fakely, and waved his hand, dissmissing Hinata's words.
"No, no! Nothing, I didn't say anything in particular, just mumbling incoherantly." Katoki nodded his head once and said,
"Yea. That's what I thought. Now lets get packed up. We are in for a long run."
Kiziwari ran his hand through his bright blue hair and sighed. Adjusting the oversized sword strapped to his back, he shivered in the slight mist of the morning. Looking around in the silence of the morning, he saw other shinobi, even a few Ronin, quietly dotting the edge of the river. They were all waiting for the signal to jump across and ambush the group of...
"Oi, Gougi-sempai, who were we ambushing again?" The blue haired teen whispered. The woman who was sitting a few feet behind him shifted her legs so that he caught a peek of light blue under her skirt. He wasn't sure whether she was wearing shorts, or if he had just seen her panties, but he kept his mouth shut. Gougi was twice his age, and a whole lot stronger than him. Teasing her sai out of their sheaths, the turquoise-haired girl bit her lip.
"They told us that it was Kumo shinobi...at least Jounin rank. Probably ANBU though. Are you ready? They are a good while off, but I can feel their chakra. There must be a bunch of them. Quick, go spread the word, but boy, do it quietly.
"Hai, Gougi-sempai." Kiziwari said, and gave a small salute, tapping the shiny Ame hiteate that sat across his forehead. Moving quickly, he managed to inform most of the ambush group before he himself could clearly feel the Kumo group's chakra. Turning to the river, he saw Gougi standing on a rallen tree stump, her arm raised, waiting to give the signal. Kiziwari ran through handseals in his mind as he eased his sword out as quietly as possible.
Swish...swish...swish... That was all Hinata could hear as she concentrated on jumping from branch to branch through the thick forests of the Fire Country. Looking all around her, she could only spot 8 other ANBU, not including her three companions, that were in plain sight. Hinata was amazed that the small group of 30 or so ABNU that Kumo currently had in it's ranks could hide itself so well. She was amazed at the amount of sound that the group wasn't making.
"NOW!" Some one from the front shouted. Both Hinata and Katoki whipped their heads to the front of the group, when an explosion rocked the ground and trees, some where in the background someone let loose a bone chilling scream. Hinata lost grip on the branches and slipped off, but Katoki caught her elbow and tugged her up. Suri wasn't so lucky. When she looked down, she saw the kunoichi shakily dusting off her shoulders, and rubbing her side. Ganjou was helping her walk off the slight limp she had. Katoki clicked his tongue but whipped his head around as a branch snapped behind him.
Swoosh-clunk! The blonde ducked and pushed Hinata off to another branch just as a giant sword sliced through the mist, narrowly missing Katoki's head. The sword embedded itself in the tree, and Hinata heard a quiet curse from infront of them. Raising her hands to form a set of seals she hadn't used in a while, Hinata let loose the proper amount of Chakra and said,
"Byakugan!" Instantly all of the colours in her vision inverted, and she could see everywhere at once. But she instead focused her sight to where she heard the curse and saw a boy, in his late teens, she guessed, running towards the tree Katoki was in, his hands flashing through a complicated series of seals.
"Doton: Chikyuu no tatekou!" The boy yelled. Hinata let her byakugan go as she raised a hand and yelled at the blond who was still staring at the sword.
"Katoki-kun! Watch out!" Hinata shouted. Katoki looked at her, but it was a moment too late. A tall and sharp column of grey slate rose out of the ground and struck him in the stomach. The shaft continued to rise through the trees, carrying the man untill the white eyed woman could no longer see him. Hinata gazed down at the boy angrily and praising kami-sama that he didn't see her, she pounced out of the tree, directly on top of him.
"MmmmaaahH!" He yelled, but Hinata paid no mind. She activated her byakugan again, and struck the tenketsus on the boy's arms and legs as fast and hard as she could. When she rendered him immobile, she tumbled back and took a deep breath. The boy was moaning in pain and wriggling weakly on the ground. Taking a step over, she pulled him up by his collar, causing his hiteate to unwind and fall out of his blue hair. Putting the boy down, she picked up his hiteate and reddened in anger.
"So the Iwagakure are ambushing us? How like them." Spitting beside the boy's head, she poked his chest, effectivly getting his attention.
"Name?" She said, rather harshly. The boy whimpered, so Hinata dug her nails into one of the tenketsu burns on his arm. The boy's whimper turned into a cry before he said in a desperate voice,
"Ki-kiziwa-wari!" Hinata let go of the boy's arm and sat back.
"Well, Kiziwari-san, once I find my partner that you so graceously sent into the skies, I will come back and finish what I started. Now, dont even think about escaping. You cant move. Never mess with a Hyuuga, boy." Hinata said coldly, as she disapeared into the trees.
A great white flash blinded his eyes for a split second before the massive pain in his shoulder struck him. Holding back every movement, he looked forward, into the eyes of the pain-giver. They were as red as the blood he could feel trickling down his arm.
"Uuuggghhhnnnnn...." Katoki groaned and rolled over clutching his stomach. A sharp jolt told him that whatever jutsu that kid hit him with, probably shattered his hand. Looking down, he saw that he was laying on a small platform of solid grey stone. Looking over the edge, he saw that he was quite far up. Far enough that he could see the smoke from the various small explosions. Occasionally he saw a nin jumped out from the trees, but only to dissapear again among the foliage.
"Katoki! Are you ok?" a soft voice called. Looking over, the blonde saw his indigo haired partner sprinting up the side of the column.
"I'm fine, just a little winded!" he called. A few seconds passed and Hinata jumped up onto the platform and knelt beside Katoki. Her hands lit up in the special green fire and she pressed them against Katoki's stomach.
"I'm fine, really! You dont need to heal me." He tired to push her hands away, but Hinata shook her head and flicked his broken hand. Katoki sucked in his breath and Hinata reddened, but didn't say anything.
"There. You had minor bleeding...and I fixed most of the bones in your hand. They will be sore for a few days, try to avoid using taijutsu with it though." Katoki sighed and nodded.
"C'mon, let's go. I caught the one who made this column, I plan to interrogate him, but I need your help. I'm still, technically, a rookie ANBU." Katoki gave off a tired sounding laugh and rolled off the rock, soaring through the air untill he dissapeared into the trees with a loud Swoosh. Hinata smiled and quickly followed him.
"Great. So the Ame and Iwa are planning to ambush us all before we get to the border. What cowards!" Katoki said, banging his fist on the ground. The boy with blue hair, Kiziwari, was blissfully unconcious. His right forearm was twisted in the wrong direction, and twitching slightly.
Katoki didn't seem to mind physical torture as much as Hinata did. She nearly lost her dinner as she heard the tendons groan and snap. The poor boy screamed as hard as he could. By the time he stopped screaming, Hinata noticed that the explosions stopped, and the forest was silent. She could feel chakra prescense moving around, but she couldnt hear anything. A quick check with her eyes showed her that of the 30 ANBU that left Kumo, 13 were left, including herself, Katoki, Ganjou, and Suri. The three other medic ANBU had their hands full with treating the injured ANBU. Hinata felt that she was obligated to help, as some of the injuries were serious, but Katoki felt that this might have been a good learning expeiriance.
"Hinata, your face is a little green. Daijoubu?" Hinata wrinkled her nose and turned her head away from the boy.
"Lets go join the group. There aren't many left...I want to heal who I can. This is a disaster...." Katoki nodded and stood up beside the white eyed woman.
"Oi, you two, glad to see you are ok." a plain man with brown hair called. Hinata gave a small wave and blushed slightly.
"What? You think some measly Ame-nin could off us? Pfft. Get a life, Ganjou. Maybe a steady girlfriend too." Ganjou laughed as Suki sourly nursed both her broken arms. Hinata clicked her tongue and went up to the orange haired kunoichi.
"Here, I suspect that the other medic nin didn't have enough chakra to heal broken bones?" Suri nodded. Hinata's hands lit up in fire again and within a few seconds, she mended the bones to a point where they could withstand light combat.
"Arigato...Hinata-san, don't waste your chakra. We still need to get to the Sand base camp." Hinata nodded at Suri and wiped beads of sweat from her brow.
Katoki approached the small group, which surprised Hinata, as she hadn't been aware that he had left.
"Alright, everyone calm now? We have 13 nin left that are in fighting condition, and two that need real medical care. Any Ame or Iwa nin left alive will rot out here. I received information from an Ame nin I captured, and he said that they have spies along our travel routes, and plan to ambush us all in an attempt to reduce our numbers. As you can see, we are down more than half. Does anyone have a summon who can deliver messages fast?" a small murmur in the crowd.
"I can summon a wolf...He'd be a bit small, as I dont have much chakra left..." One man said. Katoki opened his mouth to respond, but a very short woman in the back piped up. Her voice suggested that she was very young, although her bird mask covered her face.
"I can summon a sparrow. Faster than a wolf, and a small one takes alot less chakra." Katoki nodded.
"Please do. Summon one old enough to speak, we dont have enough time to write this down. Tell it to fly straight to the Raikage." The short girl nodded and Hinata watched as she flashed through some seals before shouting in her high pitched voice,
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" A puff of smoke, and twittering around her head was a fist sized, yellow sparrow. A few words were spoken to it, and the sparrow took of towards the east at a dizzying speed.
"Yosh! We shall fight along side Gaara-kun and defeat the Iwa shonobi!"
"Lee-sensei!" A smaller voice called. Lee looked at his near identical student and gave him a large thumbs up. Fei's big blue eyes sparkled as returned the thumbs up.
"Lee, I must congradulate you on your student's sucess...It's almost like watching my teaching life all over again!" Both heads swivelled towards the voice and instantly the room became brighter.
"Gai-sensei!" Both Lee and Fei yelled and group hugged the older man.
"Fei-kun! I congradulate you on your advancement to Jounin! You made it faster than Neji did when I was teaching him!" Gai yelled, and jumped up to roundhouse kick the air. Fei was practically dancing, sturring up dust and sand around his feet.
"Gai-sensei, you show so much of the flames of youth!" He said, and Gai started to cry before embracing both Fei and Lee into another hug.
"Will you three shut up and go away! Some of us are trying to sleep!" Someone called from a tent not to far away. Lee blushed and said to his student and teacher,
"Alright! We can continue this tomrrow, but that young man is right! We need to some sleep, for tomorrow we fight!" Fei nodded and happily skipped to his tent, follow closely by Lee and Gai.
Tsunade-sama! I have a letter for you!" Shizune said, bursting in through the large doors of the blonde's office. Tsunade sat up and said,
"Ma? Wha? Ok! I was busy doing reports, Shizune." Shizune sighed and reached over to peel the report that she had been 'doing' off of her face. The blonde Hokage blushed and coughed.
"Well, whatever. What is this letter? From who?" Shizune pulled a rather thick scroll out of her bag and handed it to Tsunade.
"It doesnt say who it's from, but it did come with a small mini letter." Shizune handed a small peice of paper over to Tsunade, and she opened it.
"It says: 'I thought that you should know the truth, considering how much both of them adore you, Tsunade-sama. I thought that if I dont come back from the war, some one should tell him how his father died.'". Shizune's brow furrowed, and Tsunade glanced at the scroll.
Picking it up, Tsunade opened it and noticed that it was written like a journal.
Ohh! I'm so excited! I was dancing around earlier, but Hanabi-chan came into my room and told me to be quiet. I apologized, of course, but I made sure to give her a smile. I'm going to tell him today when he picks me up for training. I decided to make my journal into record for all the events that happen untill my baby is born. I'm only worried about one thing, I dont know how Otou-san is going to take it. I know he will yell at me, I might even be banned from the complex for a while, but nothing he says or does will make me give this baby up. It's time for me to meet Neji-ni-san, so I will write in you later.
Tsunade was in awe.
"Tsunade-sama, why is your face like that?"
"Hinata..." She whispered. Shizune barely caught it. The hokage unrolled the scroll even more and saw that the next entry was tear stained.
This cant be happening...It has to be a horrible dream...Naruto-kun....WHY!!?? It's been about three weeks since I found out I was pregnant. He...I didn't even get to tell him...I want to follow him! Why? I thought that maybe if I sit here in this strange room and do nothing, I would die peacefully. The constant pain in my heart should be enough. I'm writing this now, because I feel that soon, maybe really soon, I can join Naruto-kun, and I want to leave proof that I existed. maybe Neji-ni-san will tell someone where I am, so that they can collect my body. Maybe he will collect it himself. I dont care. My heart...it just, everytime I breath, even think, it hurts...
"Oh Kami-sama...She's alive..." Tsunade said, looking up at Shizune, she said,
"Where is Neji! He needs to report here as soon as possible!" Shizune blinked.
"Tsunade-sama, Neji-san is fighting in the war...He left a week ago..." Tsunade sat back down and sighed. Waving her hand she said to her assistant,
"Leave me then. I will call for you when I need you." Shizune nodded slowly and backed out of the office.
End Chapter 28