Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Demon's of Konoha ❯ Testing ( Chapter 18 )

The last two months since Itachi came to pick up Mamoru were exhausting for Hinata. The scroll he had left her was priceless to the hopeful water master. Inside the scroll were twenty-five water jutsu's, most of which are only known by high ranking Mist ninjas. Hinata could only suspect that Kisame had a hand in writing the scroll.

 

Tani was working Hinata hard at night teaching her the most basic spells, which Hinata had to learn both the words and reactions for each word. Just saying a spell did not give the desired effect without a lot training. If that was the case people would still be able to use them. Some of the spells had side affects or drawback with recovery time and only to be used in an emergency. The most common side affect though so far was lethargy or chakra exhaustion. The memorization of the spells, the memorization of jutsu's, Itachi's training and even Kakashi's training clearly made her tired.

 

When Hinata wasn't training she could be found helping out patients at the hospital. What had started out as three patients including Tsunami quickly grew to seventy-five. Hinata was beginning to suspect that that was the entire adult population left in Waves, baring thieves and Gato's men.

 

The villagers came to her for everything from a simple bruise to child birth. Thankfully the hospital was still fully equipped, just hard to find. Everything needed was located in a locked room in the basement. They had everything including painkillers and antibiotics. For the most part though Hinata didn't rely on the medication using her own ointments to heal the aches and pains the people complained about. Her supplies though were gradually running low and sadly she wasn't sure when she was going to have a chance to pick more herbs.

 

The garden her and Naruto had planted had grown to be slightly bigger than an acre. The garden had originally started out as a small square about ten feet by ten feet that grew. The produce that grew there really fast, too fast in fact that Naruto and Hinata had started to give away most of the supplies to the other villagers. Soon the garden needed to be expanded to feed more people. Eventually it grew to the size that it is now with people coming over to help work in the garden. The rule was you can have some of the produce and supplies but you had to work in it to be able to reap the benefits. Strawberries grew in abundance with Tsunami and Hinata picking them every few hours if can to keep them from going bad. At the strawberry overflow the girls began making jam, which quickly grew in popularity. Hinata had hoped that it could be another export for the small village, but with that only time could tell.

 

Inari after an outburst about hero's being worthless was soon great friends with Naruto. Apparently after a talk with Kakashi he came to realize that he wasn't the only one without a parent. Kakashi told him about Naruto never knowing his, and Hinata and Sasuke losing theirs a long time ago. The only one still with a known parent was Sakura, and Inari was soon thankful for him mom.

 

Sasuke had repaired many of the houses around town. He had even got called to fix the hot springs bath once. The basic Tai Jutsu's that he taught the kids made them feel safer against bandits and thieves. That isn't to say that Sasuke wanted them to fight them, in fact he had always stressed that it was better to run away if they could instead of fighting. In the instance that they couldn't run away he taught them the basics to quickly disarm someone to be able to run.

 

Sakura had progressed much under Kakashi's tutelage. Under the guise of giving individual training to help each person learn new skills to better help the overall team. So far Kakashi has been teaching her Gen Jutsu's for with her excellent chakra control she was a natural. Kakashi was almost tempted to teach her a medical jutsu to see how she would do with it, but decided against it.

 

Konoha has a medical program for Chounin's. The council had decided that at Chounin level the ninjas would be thrown into more dangerous combat situations. With the opening of the medical program teaching Genin's any type of medical jutsu's were against the rules. It also didn't help that Kakashi only knew one medical jutsu and that was mostly an internal damage scan. Before she was Chounin Sakura would have to learn medical jutsu's from Hinata and that secret Kakashi would never give out.

 

As a teacher though Sakura did well and it seemed like her patience had grown in most situations, except when it comes to Naruto. He still never seems to be able to catch a break from her, although he still tries to gather her attention to help his situation from the villagers. Until she agreed to date him he would never look at another woman, he once vowed to Sasuke. Hinata though was bound and determined to wait for Naruto to realize that she loved him, and was waiting for him to notice her. Not as a teammate but actually as a woman.

 

It was eight at night when Hinata left the bath house and walked back to Tazuna's house. On her feet she wore the normal standard issue ninja sandals. It seemed that anymore she only ever wore her combat boots, since she was always training. At the end of the day when she headed towards the bathhouse was when she wore her ninja sandals, and they seemed to be a nice change of pace and had a lower chance of making her feet sweat before she made it home. Taking a deep breathe, Hinata began the walk back feeling refreshed.

Walking into the house Hinata quickly took off her shoes and walked up to her room to drop off her dirty clothes and bathing supplies. Grabbing her fuzzy slippers and putting them off Hinata felt like she was walking on a cloud. Looking at the desk she had been using, Hinata seen all the papers in two neat piles, one on Mamoru Kusinagi and the other pile was on some other experiment. She had been studying the papers religiously looking for keys, hints, anything to hint at the questions that plagued her mind.

 

Shaking her head to dispel the questions that constantly wanted to torture Hinata; she quickly shut her room's door and made her way down stairs. Today was not a day for questions but some relaxing. Tomorrow Tani had decided, was the latest Hinata could take answer the singing. In the living room Hinata saw that Naruto and Inari were watching something automated on the television.

 

“Hey Hinata” Naruto said patting the spot in between him and Inari on the love seat. “Come sit with us, the third season of Digimon is out. The Old Man sent it to me for my birthday.” It was true; Naruto's birthday was a couple of days ago. Sasuke and Sakura turned seventeen a while ago. Hinata was the baby of the group and the shortest one at that.

 

Inari stood up from his spot and stood next to Hinata for a second showing he was almost her height before moving and sitting in front of Naruto's feet and leaned back using the his legs as a back rest. Taking a look at Hinata's blue bunny pajamas, even Inari could tell she was swimming in them. “Love the bunny jimmies, nee-chan.” Inari mentioned towards her sleepwear with a smile on his face.

 

Taking his eyes off the show Naruto turned to look at what Hinata was wearing. “Wow Hinata” Naruto said in amazement. “You got those pajamas two years ago and they still don't fit?” The top was a standard long sleeve button up top. The problem with it was the sleeves were longer than Hinata's arms so were rolled up to her wrists. The bottom of the top fell down past her butt; it was long enough that she could almost wear it as a nightshirt. Her bottoms fit around the waist but were clearly intended to be worn by a taller woman. The cuffs were rolled up and resting on the top of her slippers. All she needed was pig-tails in her hair and she could pass for someone around Inari's age. “You could almost pass for Inari's age.” Naruto said before looking back at the screen.

 

`If you only knew' Hinata muttered under her breathe before sitting in Inari's vacant seat on the couch. In truth if she didn't wear a minimizing bra and a tank top designed to flatter her chest, the buttons off of her pajamas would be popping off. While Hinata knew she was petite she also knew she had curves, curves that she kept hidden for the sake of not wanting any more fan boys. Even some of the village women commented on her figure and looks all with envy in there voices. She knew how she looked and as a woman was proud of it, but being a ninja and training left no time for dates. Besides the only man she wanted to date didn't like her like that.

 

“Isn't this the one where Kari and TK are older, along with a new team of digi-destined?” Hinata asked looking at the screen. In one smooth motion she curled her legs under her getting into a comfortable position.

 

“That's the one” Naruto said with a smile. “Glad I brought the first two seasons with me. Inari and I have been watching them all afternoon.”

 

“Where's everyone else?” Hinata motioned towards the quite house.

 

“Mom, Grandpa and Patches are at a village counsel meeting” Inari said with a mischievous glint in his eyes that appeared every time he called Kakashi, Patches. Once when Hinata asked him about the name earlier in their visit, all Inari did was shrug and asked if she would rather he called him Cyclops. To Kakashi's dismay, Patches some how stuck.

 

“Sakura-Chan is upstairs in her room grading papers, since she wants to be able to enjoy tomorrow with no teaching worries. Sasuke is trying out a new jutsu, that he might have invented.” Naruto answered before saying “so what are you doing on your day off tomorrow?”

 

“I am going to challenge myself to the next level” Hinata said with a blush. “If I get it correct I will tell you all about it, but I don't want to jinx myself just yet.” Thankfully the blush went away with a small sigh. As many years as she knew Naruto Hinata knew he wasn't asking her on a date, that didn't mean she didn't want him too.

 

“Cool Inari and I are going fishing. Sakura and Sasuke have Bridge Duty” Naruto mentioned as he hit play on the DVD player. Bridge Duty simply meant that it was there turn to guard Tazuna so he could finish the bridge. No matter what they did for the village guarding Tazuna was what he was being paid for.

 

Hinata only made it through a few episodes before she felt exhaustion from the day catching up to her. Closing her eyes Hinata felt her head hit something soft. `Glad this arm rest is soft' Hinata thought. `After a small nap I will go upstairs to bed. Why am I so tired all of a sudden?' Hinata thought as she fell asleep.

 

Naruto tore his eyes off the screen when he felt Hinata's head hit his lap. Looking back at the screen Naruto couldn't help but blush as Hinata wrapped her arms around his waist snuggling closer.

 

`She's curled up like a little fox; all she needs is a tail.' Kyuubi said from inside his cage. `Why don't you chase this one instead of the banshee? She's strong, can cook and doesn't think you are an idiot. She knows about me and still obviously accepts you, or else she wouldn't be sleeping on you. Where else are you going to find someone like that?'

 

`Kyuubi she's like my sister. I've known her since we were five. It's not like that between us. She's a great girl don't get me wrong but to me Hinata's just one of the guys.' Naruto answered giving the same answer that he gave everyone when they questioned his relationship with the sleeping girl on his lap.

 

`I don't know kit. I just feel comfortable around her and it's not normal for humans to have that affect on me.' Kyuubi answered before rolling up into a ball not unlike Hinata's. `No training tonight kit, but tomorrow night we are making up for it.'

 

“Hey nii-san” Inari said from his place on the floor. Turning around Inari smiled at seeing his nee-chan sleeping on one of the boys he considered his brothers. “Why don't you date nee-chan instead of trying to impress Cotton Candy.” Inari had named Sakura Cotton Candy or Bubblegum. While Kakashi's was help in respect, Sakura's wasn't. Don't misunderstand as a teacher Inari had all kinds of respect for her, but as a person she was annoying.

 

“Et tu Inari” Naruto muttered under his breathe before giving Inari the same speech he had just given to Kyuubi moments before. For some reason when he said it out loud it sounded hollow to even his ears. Apparently Inari caught it as well.

 

“Your loss then” Inari said with a shrug of his twelve-year old shoulders. “If she's still single when I turn eighteen I am going to ask her out. She's too good of a person to let go as one of the guys. Don't worry someone else will see how great she is and sweep her off her feet.”

 

“What are you talking about Inari” Naruto asked wondering where Inari was going with his comments. Sure Naruto didn't like the thought of Hinata dating any at all, but he figured all brothers thought that way about there sisters. Of course he was positive since he didn't have any, but Hinata and Sasuke was the closest he got.

 

“Nothing nii-san” Inari said standing up stretching. “I am going to be. I'll be ready to go fishing before six.”

 

“Night Inari” Naruto said as the boy walked out of the room. Shifting around on the love seat, Naruto kicked his legs out so he was lying down with Hinata sleeping soundly on his chest. Wrapping an arm around the girl so that she doesn't fall off, Naruto never realized he had fallen asleep with Hinata in his arms.

 

Later that night as the others came home they were shocked at seeing Hinata mostly asleep on Naruto. Sasuke was the first to recover and with an evil smirk ran to his room for his digital camera. Returning down the stairs Sasuke passed Inari as he was coming out of the bathroom. Without saying anything but with a huge smile on his face still Sasuke continued on his mission. Inari at seeing the smile on his normally brooding nii-san followed wondering what was going on.

 

Once back in front of the loveseat Sasuke began to take pictures of the sleeping couple. This time Naruto had both arms around Hinata's waist and a leg wrapped around one of hers. “One of the guys my ass” Inari motioned towards the sleeping couple, wondering how they could not sense they were there. They were the cream of the crop and they were alerted to the presence of anyone else.

 

“What was that Inari?” Sasuke asked before viewing the pictures on his camera, making sure he had some good ones. Some were cute, but all were for blackmail.

 

“I asked Naruto-nii earlier why he doesn't date nee-chan instead of chasing after the Bubblegum Princess. He said he doesn't see nee-chan that way, but as one of the guys. I don't cuddle with my guy friends, and certainly not like that.” Inari said watching the scene in interest as Hinata attempted to burrow her head deeper into Naruto's chest, only to have him tighten his grip on her.

 

“Naruto's a very intelligent person I will admit.” Sasuke explained “however when it come to Hinata and her feelings he is a dumb shit. Eventually he will realize what we've known all along. She's been in love with him and nothing will change that.”

 

“In that case I bet he won't realize it before he's twenty.” Inari said scratching his chin.

 

“I saw twenty-one” Kakashi said looking at the sleeping couple. “Sasuke's right he's oblivious to her feelings.”

 

“I saw eighteen” Tsunami said placing a hand on her belly to calm her babies kicking. “Any later than that and Hinata will more than likely just kiss him to get it over with.”

 

“I saw the end of summer next year.” Tazuna said looking at the scene with interest. “You don't hold a friend as if they are your lifeline like that. Sasuke what's your bet, and I want a picture.”

 

“I agree with Inari at twenty. Until he gets Sakura out of his system, he won't even consider Hinata or any other woman for that matter. I will send a few pictures once I get it printed.” Sasuke answered looking at his two best friends with longingly. Eventually he would love to find a girl that would look him like that and Sakura wasn't it. That wasn't love it was lust and he knew the difference.

 

“Very true we will have to see what happens.” Kakashi said before leaving the others to go to his room to sleep. Normally he would make a perverted comment or something, but looking at them like that he just didn't have it in him.

 

“I'll grab them a blanket” Tsunami said with a smile. “Everyone to bed there's work and fishing in the morning.”

 

As Inari and Sasuke made their way back upstairs Inari asked “Hey Sasuke-nii, why don't you date Pepto-girl? That way Naruto-nii and nee-chan can get together.”

 

“Pepto-girl” Sasuke asked raising his eyebrow in question.

 

“You know Sakura” Inari said with a grin at the new name he gave the girl.

 

“Inari, I thought you liked me what did I ever do to deserve that treatment?” Sasuke asked softly as to not wake the sleeping girl.

 

“I do like you nii-san, I was just picking geez.” Inari said returning to his room. “See you tomorrow.”

 

Naruto woke the next morning and realized a few things real fast. One he wasn't in his room. Two was that he had to pee really badly. The third was that he had the curse of men everywhere. Morning wood, only thing different about this time was that when Naruto looked Hinata was sleeping on him, with her leg touching the bottom of his erection.

 

`Shit, I've got an erection and Hinata is on top of me. Great I have to think of things to quickly get that down. Alright let's see Kakashi in a Speedo.' Naruto cringed at the though. `Ahh not working completely, umm Choji doing a strip tease.”

 

`Stop stop, trying to kill me. That's it then prepares to die” Kyuubi said from inside his cage as he attempted to gouge his eyes out at the thoughts Naruto was having. “I am a Demon Lord, and even we don't stoop that low as that type of psychological warfare. What the hell are you trying to do?”

 

`Morning Fuzz-ball and take a look for yourself.' Naruto said as he felt Kyuubi flare into his consciousness.

 

“Wow kit and you said you felt nothing for her. What you really should do is pull her pants down and plunge into her repeatedly. While you are doing that bite her neck at the name and release a little of my chakra. At that point you will be mated for life.” Kyuubi said proud of his kit for wanting the female to make his own.

 

Quickly images of Hinata naked, and Naruto thrusting himself between her legs repeatedly while she moaned his name appeared in his mind. Other images of them in other sexual positions completely flashed through his mind bringing his erection back so hard to the point it ached.

 

`Shut up Ero-Kyuubi, it's not like that between us. I wanted to get rid of the erection not bring it back. She's my best friend I don't need to think of her like that.' Naruto said before moaning as Hinata brought her leg up unconsciously rubbing it against his erection.

 

“Your loss then” Kyuubi said enjoying his vessels discomfort. “You know you could always just wake her up.”

 

`Good idea' Naruto thought before gently shaking the girl awake. “Hinata, Hinata it's time to wake up” Naruto said as he gently shook her shoulder.

 

“Don't want to comfy” Hinata muttered into his chest as she gripped him around the middle tighter. Her leg gently resting on his bladder, complete with weights.

 

“Come on Hinata. Could you at least go back to your room to sleep? I have to pee and you're heavy.” Naruto said feeling the full weight of Hinata's training weights. Normally the girl's weight wasn't much but when you have to pee, and trying to concentrate on losing an erection, it was too much. Hinata moved over and released Naruto completely allowing him to move. Finally free, Naruto jumped up and ran off to the bathroom but not without noticing the hurt look on Hinata's face.

 

Releasing his bladder, Naruto was glad that he barely made it out with embarrassing them both. But then remembering Hinata's disheveled look and the adorable way she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. Feeling tightness in his pants again Naruto looked down and noticed his erection was back. `Damn' he thought. `Hopefully this will be over soon. Although why did Hinata look upset when I asked her to move?' Wondering what he could have done to upset her. He saw the upset look in her eyes as they filled up with tears. `Whatever I did I had better apologize. I don't want Hinata mad at me.' Naruto thought as he washed his hands thankful that his erection was gone.

 

Leaving the bathroom Naruto knocked on Hinata's door before opening it. Her pajamas were on her bed and Hinata was no where to be found. Looking at her open window he could only surmise that she left from the window. Entering his room to get dressed Naruto saw that Sasuke was already gone from the room that they shared. Grabbing the supplies that he needed, Naruto got dressed and met up with a waiting Inari as they headed out fishing.

 

Hinata was standing on the ocean top trying to calm down. She was sure that Naruto didn't mean that she was heavy in the way that it sounded, but that didn't stop her from being pissed. `I am not heavy I am only 110lbs with my weights off.' Hinata thought `I know Sakura weighs more than I do. I bet if it was her he wouldn't have asked her to move.'

 

“Hinata concentrate” Tani yelled from the shoreline. “This is only something you can do. You can't use my help with this. Now answer the damn singing. We went over this many times before you know what to do.”

 

Clearing her head of all thoughts of Naruto, Hinata had noticed that indeed the singing was loudest right where she was standing. Raisings her arms up until they were chest high, her palms facing the water before she began the chant like many people before her. “I am a Water Master Adept. Challenge me and let me prove myself to call you to battle.” Hinata said hearing the singing stop, as the water began to ripple around her.

 

`You have answered the call and like the people before you. You shall be tested. If found wanting you shall die.' The voice said that was once singing, now sounding like the crashing of water on the waves. Water swirled in front of Hinata as if a miniature hurricane was formed. Water came in at all sides adding into the hurricane, making it gradually increase in size. Wind blew screaming as it went past whipping past Hinata's head and into the vortex. Suddenly as if it never happened the water and wind disappeared and in it's place stood a body of water in the shape of a girl.

 

“Let us begin” the body of water spoke, but from where Hinata knew not. The body had no distinguishing parts: no mouth, nose, ears, nothing. Hinata knew it was a girl though because of her shape and because of the lumps in the shape of breasts in front of the body around what would be the chest area. The body stuck her arm out and Hinata watched fascinated as the water molded itself into a staff.

 

`Looks like I will fight with weapons.' Hinata thought `thankfully a staff is my weapon of choice'. Reaching into her leg pouch Hinata grabbed the three bars of metal resting there. With out taking her eyes off of her opponent Hinata snapped the bars into place revealing her staff. Getting into a defensive position Hinata readied herself as the water staff came at her head. With the tip of her staff Hinata stuck her leg out to give her swing more power as it went to block the attack. Instead of hitting the staff though it went right through it with the water staff heading towards Hinata's head. Quickly leaning back so that the staff went over her instead of hitting her, Hinata flipped out of the way throwing her staff towards the beach. `Looks like traditional weapons won't work' Hinata thought `she just flows through things. What could I do? Fire would be an insult on a water test so jutsu's it is.'

 

Walking back towards the fighter Hinata unconsciously moved through a set of hand signs. Moving her hand out Hinata gathered water into her hand via her chakra and formed a water sword. Bringing it up Hinata quickly blocked another shot from the staff and was relieved to see that it stopped the staff. Bringing her sword up over her head Hinata began a basic kata that she learned along with the boys. That was how weapons training began. Itachi had brought seven different weapons and taught them a basic kata with each. Which one flowed with them and worked the best was the weapon they were mostly trained in. That didn't mean they didn't know the basics though, and with two katana users in the group, Hinata knew her fair share.

 

Soon the girl with the staff was on the defense as Hinata wanted to smile. It appeared that she only knew basic defense and attacking with the staff or else Hinata would be in a world of trouble. Sure a katana was great and all but a staff's moves are limitless. After a few more strikes against the staff the girl brought her hand up showing Hinata to stop.

 

“Very good, you know how to use water to make a weapon but what will you do when you don't have time to use jutsu's.” The body said raising her hands up making bursts of water shook at the girl. Dodging swiftly Hinata moved through hand signs making shield after shield to find that she wasn't able to make them fast enough and soon she was on the run. Dodging swiftly Hinata was barely able to miss the next set of water bullets attempting to hit her when one grazed her cheek. Releasing her chakra to flow around her Hinata felt more in control as the more bullets headed her way.

 

`Crap' Tani muttered to herself from the shore line. `That one almost hit her. Hinata you better pull something out of this. She's moving to fast. What going on with Hinata eyes? Is that the Byakugan?'

 

Hinata dogging felt her vision waver before looking out in blue and grey. Everything around her was grey, save for the water she was on and her opponent. `What is going on' Hinata thought before moving her hand up watching the water flow with her movements. Quickly moving out of the way of more bullets Hinata raised her hand in a punch and watched at the water obeys her movement.

 

With a grin on her face Hinata began a fresh assault on her opponent using the water as a shield. Picturing in her mind what she wanted she watched as the water began to swirl over her legs and arms. Using the water to shield against her opponents attacks Hinata began using Tai Jutsu to make attacks on her opponent. Water was hitting water and neither was giving an inch when Hinata jumped back and raised her arm sending a water dragon out of the water. Raising her other arm she smirked as she had one on each side of her. Bringing her arms out to point at her opponent Hinata watched as the dragons followed her bidding and went to attack.

 

Splashing and loud crashing sounds were heard as Hinata dodged out of the way of the waves that erupted from where they hit the ground. Looking around Hinata noticed the body was no where to be found. `You have passed the test pasted down upon the ages. You may now call upon us for battle. You have done well Water Master.” The ocean answered before going silent leaving Hinata panting on the surface.

 

“Hinata, you did it” Tani yelled running excitedly to the girl, waving her arms occasionally in the air as she jumped. “You have passed one of the hardest tests. Hinata I am so proud of you.”

 

`Why was I called a Water Master and no a Water Master Adept” Hinata asked standing up, looking at her other body in the eyes.

 

`Because to control salt water like you did is considered the hardest water element to master. After the attacks with the weapons you were worthy to call upon it during battle. It went one step farther and that's when you started to control it without hand signs. That is the test of a true Water Master.” Tani explained.

 

`HINATA' a voice called out from the forest making its way towards the ocean. “WHERE ARE YOU?”

 

`Someone's coming. We will talk later about your Byakugan activating.' Tani said before disappearing as Naruto came through the woods.

 

`My Byakugan never activated' Hinata thought as slowly Hinata made her way to there Naruto was standing, going slow to look for her staff.

 

Running to where the girl was standing Naruto grabbed her hand and said. “Tsunami's in labor, you have to get there fast. She's at the hospital, hurry.”

 

“I dropped my staff and I can't find it.' Hinata answered blushing lightly at Naruto grasping her hand.

 

“Then I will find it for you later. But you have to hurry she's in a lot of pain, and I think her waters broken.' Naruto said pulling on Hinata's hand so she had no choice but to run.

 

`Naruto” Hinata started to say as she ran with Naruto through the woods.

 

“Less talky more running” Naruto said as they began to run faster jumping through the tree branches as fast as they could, to make it to the hospital. “We can talk later, I promise.” Together they ran through the woods at full speed holding hands, heading towards the hospital where Tsunami awaited.