Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ True Hyuuga Genius ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

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By: Nightblade888
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 02.17.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.0K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Work In Progress

Team eight stayed with Team seven while Kakashi was recovering from his bout with chakra exhaustion. He was unconscious for the first day and a half that the teams were in wave, so team seven didn't have much to do. Team eight was working on their original mission, with less than heart lifting results. Wave was in a lot of danger from the missing ninja and various employees of Gato, should he be killed or removed. With the morale of the town in the dumps, things would go poorly if they were invaded. All of this was obtained in the first day, which only spoke to the condition of the village. If some foreigners could waltz in and get such information, than the town had little to live for.
 
Kakashi, once he regained consciousness, picked up his questioning where he left off. Kurenai was guarding Tazuna, since her team wasn't out and were currently helping Tazuna's daughter, Tsuname, around the house.
 
“Kurenai-san, what was your team doing out here, didn't you just complete your first c-rank mission a couple days ago?” The lazy and still slightly dazed jounin asked his opposite number.
 
“Due to the bounty put out on Tazuna, we were ordered to investigate the status of the Wave to see how they would react to the sudden change in power, should he die. It's pretty bad; they're nearly broken, both economically and spiritually.”
 
Kakashi seemed to be in deep thought at her statement. “Hmm, so because my team isn't ready for a c-rank, Sandaime-sama sent your team as a ghost to make sure we survive this.” He correctly deduced. He was a master of seeing `underneath the underneath', after all.
 
Kurenai wasn't surprised at his discovery and just nodded.
 
“Any idea as to when Zabuza will come back?” The pepper haired man inquired. He would be out for about two weeks himself, and if the demon of the mist returned, than things would be bad.
 
“None, but I took out his help, so he'll have to come up with a counter for your sharingan all by himself. He wasn't much better off than you in terms of chakra; I believe Hinata managed to seal off the tenketsu in his sword arm, so he'll be one armed for a while.” It was true, when Hinata had leapt onto Zabuza's sword to escape; she had streamed some of her own chakra down the blade into his arm, disabling it. “He's going to come back, and he'll have someone else with him, he's not stupid enough to take on two jounin by himself. I'd expect at least another ninja, but I don't want to guess at any more that he might bring.” Kurenai was expecting at least another jounin, if not two or a jounin and a pair of chuunin.
 
“Is your team up to shinobi confrontation?”
 
“Yeah, we're ready. I'm worried about your team. I heard what happened with Sasuke, is he really dumb enough to rush into a fight by his self?” She inquired.
 
Kakashi sighed. Sasuke was a definite problem. It was because of the lone boy of his team that he had to be rescued by team eight. Sasuke's refusal to work with his team had held Ino back from forcing the enemy jounin to release him.
 
“Yeah, I know, we're going to have to train them for the inevitable now, so I guess we'll have to do a team building exercises.”
 
“My team is fine in that department, so you'll be on your own; we still have a mission to complete.” Kurenai corrected the more experienced man. “We might be around to train with you, but that would be about it until Zabuza returns and if he has brought friends with him.”
 
Kakashi nodded, knowing that there would be no changing Kurenai's mind.
 
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Sasuke had recovered fine, he had more of a broken pride than a broken bone, but to him it was as if his life was over. If he couldn't beat this chump, than how could he kill his brother? Not even his favorite sport of insulting Naruto could cheer him up. The blond had grown much more than the avenger, something that was noted with great disdain by the dark boy. While Sasuke was delving deeper into depression, Ino was greatly annoyed at her teammate. If Sasuke hadn't jumped the gun, she could've easily gotten Kakashi out of his predicament, but it just couldn't be that easy, could it? She was mostly hanging out with Sakura and Hinata, when the girl was around, doing various chores around the house, which was surprisingly large for the number of occupants it sheltered. The boys of team eight, were quiet, a rare feat for Naruto, but they helped out as much as the girls, so she didn't mind the blonde's curious attitude.
 
In honesty, she was jealous of Hinata, she was on a team that could actually work together, as evidenced by their actions against that missing ninja. While Sakura wasn't drooling over Sasuke she was still infatuated enough to try and tell Hinata the story of how he defeated the Demon brothers, despite Hinata's protests that she already knew. It wasn't good for the team if one of the members would subjugate themselves to another one, that wasn't the exact opposite of what should be accomplished. Not for the first time, she wished she had been placed on a team with Shikamaru and Chouji, like her father had wanted. A new generation of the Ino-Shika-Chou team would have been nice to work with, although the expectations might have been a bit high, she wouldn't have to put up with an arrogant teammate and a chronically late sensei.
 
She returned to her work, while visions of a boy named Haran drifted in and out of her head, never realizing that the object of her affection was within 100 feet of her at any moment.
 
Sakura was a bit angry with team eight, to tell the truth. They had butted into their first true mission as ninja, when there wasn't any need to. So what if Kakashi had been caught, and Sasuke was a bit banged up, they could still take any enemy, right? As much as she tried to say yes, a voice in the back of her head said that she, along with her team, would be dead if it wasn't for the timely arrival of their comrades.
 
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The next day, team eight was gone soon after dawn, so they could get an early jump on their mission, as their first report was due today, and they wanted to have a good amount of information to send back. They couldn't get in the heart of the city, incase Zabuza or another one of Gato's hired ninja were out in force, but the twins were able to use they range to note the different living conditions throughout the country, while Shino used his insects to do much the same thing, but he also used some to mark any suspicious people, mostly just people who were much better off than the others, or those who were `visiting'.
 
Kurenai was writing out their findings as they were reported in, and after translating them into the standard code used for sensitive information, she sealed the scroll up and summoned a messenger falcon to return the data. They returned to Tazuna's house just in time to catch team seven leaving for some training.
 
Deciding that they should at least attempt to work together, Kurenai decided to volunteer her team to participate in the team building exercises. The tree-climbing exercise was one of the first things Kurenai had attempted to teach her team, keyword being attempted. All three had already completed the exercise, and in the case of Hinata and Haran, they had also completed the water-walking exercise. Suffice it to say that these three had a great deal of fun watching team seven try and climb the trees while tied together with rope.
 
Seeing how pointless it would be to wait for them to finish, team eight left to do their own training, mostly involving taijutsu, but also Kurenai introduced a new subject, chakra nature and its manipulation. She explained that everyone's chakra had its own `nature' or type that it would make it easier for each person to learn a certain type of elemental techniques. She explained that nature manipulation was a jounin level skill, and couldn't even be attempted before the individual had an understanding of raw chakra manipulation. The jyuken was an example of raw manipulation. When a jyuken strike lands, the chakra wasn't formed by any hand seals, and wasn't intended to become something else, like the elemental techniques. To some extent, Shino's control over his kikaichu was raw chakra manipulation, although not on the same level as the Hyuuga's.
 
“Take one of these and channel a bit of chakra into it. This is a special type of paper; it is made from trees that have been raised with a lot of chakra. If your paper splits in half, for example, you have wind nature chakra. Go ahead and see what happens, and I'll explain which nature you have when your done.” Kurenai handed out the small square slips of paper and waited for the show to start.
 
Hinata's paper crinkled halfway down the paper from the top, but once it reached the midway point, it turned wet from there down. Shino's paper simply turned to dust after he applied his chakra to it, while Haran's did almost the exact same thing as Hinata's, except where hers turned wet, his split in half. He ended up with two different pieces of paper.
 
“Well, Hinata, it seems that you have two chakra natures, as do you, Haran, this isn't uncommon, as most jounin have multiple natures, but for someone your age to have two different natures is rare. Your main element, since it is on top, is lightning, same for you Haran, but Hinata, your secondary nature is water, while yours is wind. Shino, your nature is earth. Now that's not to say that you don't have another type, but it will take a lot of work to be able to perform nature manipulation with them.”
 
She then put them to work, trying to learn how to perform simple techniques without hand seals, the easiest step in raw chakra manipulation. Although this in itself isn't raw chakra, by learning to do techniques without hand seals, it helps later.
 
After one day, team eight had made about as much headway on their task, as team seven had with combined tree walking, not too much. They made their way back to Tazuna's house to get some dinner and rest, because tomorrow, team seven would return to guard duty, well Sakura and/or Ino would, they could both do the tree-climbing exercise individually, just not tied together. Team eight would continue their mission and training regimen. Unfortunately, this period of clam wouldn't last.
 
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