13 The Hyuga Affair. (2/2)
The party continued and many people came up to congratulate Hiashi on his daughter's birthday, many people gave gifts to Hinata, and talked to her like she was some prized doll instead of a living person. Kibo shook his head at these shameless people trying to gain favor from the Hyuga clan, Kibo looked to Naruto and asked, ”Why don't you give here your gift?” however Naruto's eyes seemed glued onto the dressed up Hinata, ”So pretty.” Naruto said under his breath, Kibo grinned and nudged his elbow into Naruto's ribs. ”When are you going to give Hinata her present?”
Naruto's face was flushed as he stuttered, ”There are too many people around her; I don't want them to associate me and the Hyuga clan. They might start calling them bad names.” Kibo shook his head and said ”Yeah, sure!” in an ironic tone. As he headed over and greeted Hiashi, he pulled out a lunch box ”The Hoshi clan greets the Hyuga head.” Kibo said holding out the gift, it was 6 cinnamon rolls made by using the Chakra cooking method.
Hiashi took out one and bit into it to test for poison, once he bit into however it surprised him greatly, he felt a slight improvement in his Chakra; after eating the rest of it he nodded his head before saying, ”You are the new clan that has joined Konoha recently, I can see you are quite the genius, and know that the Hyuga clan welcomes your clan to the Village as our trusted allies.” Kibo and his family bowed before taking a step back, Hinata saw Naruto in the crowd and hid behind her mother. Her mother seeing this smiled and giggled, Hiashi saw Naruto and thought, ”So that's Minato's Kid huh?” He, as the head of the Hyuga clan was on good terms with Naruto's dad, he felt bad for the child in his heart, yet he was glad someone who supposedly didn't know of the Kyuubi adopted him.
Kibo kept an eye out on the Kumo, when it came time for the party to end everyone began leaving including Kibo's family, he knew he only had a few minutes to catch the Kumo Ninja escaping from the estate, so after the gained some distance, Kibo grabbed Naruto's arm and told his parents ”Naruto forgot to give Hinata her present, go on ahead without us.”
Naruto's face was bright red, and he was about to protest when Kibo yanked him along. Seeing this Niwa and Aka laughed, as they continued on home. Naruto and Kibo were almost to the Hyuga compound when a shadow could be seen leaping over their heads. Kibo didn't wait to activate his Tengan to see the Kumo Ninja carrying Hinata in a bag on his back. Kibo grabbed Naruto and used his Flicker Technique to get ahead of the Kumo Nin.
Kibo filled Naruto in on the situation as they traveled, Naruto who was taken by surprised spoke with a hint of worry. ”Why aren't we supposed to have peace treaty with Kumo? How could they dare break their word and kidnap Hinata Chan? I won't let them get away with this Datebayo!”Kibo smiled as he tracked the Kumo path and headed out in front of him.
Naruto and Kibo hid in a tree, while Kibo formulated a plan, ”I'll use my Tengan to slow him down, when I charge the enemy, you grab Hinata and get her back to the Hyuga compound.” Kibo looked at Naruto with a sly smile as he finished with an ”Oh and don't forget to give her your present.”
Naruto blushed before saying ”What about you?” Kibo shrugged his shoulders ”I'll be right behind you with the prisoner in tow.” Naruto jumped off the tree to get in position for the ambush, Kibo jumped out and waited directly in the Kumo Ninja's path.
”This is great! I can't believe I managed to sneak out. Hahah I'm gonna make so much money off this Hyuga Bitch!” The Kumo was busy reveling in his own success that he almost missed two Shuriken flying towards his legs; the Kumo Ninja jumped over them and saw a boy standing in front of him. ”You got a lot of nerve kidnapping my brother's future wife.” Kibo said confusing the Kumo when he started laughing in relief, ”Time to go back to bed little kid . . . wait did you say kidnap . . .” Before the Ninja could finish the ring in Kibo's Tengan slowly moved counter clock wise, as the Kumo Ninja's entire body started to slow.
Even though he was only under the influence of Kibo's Tengan for a second, the Kumo Shinobi had perceived it, as if it were 10. The Kumo Nin's hand loosened releasing Hinata, just as he was about to tighten his grip, Kibo flickered in and quickly charged up his Chakra. With a loud bang he made his Chakra turn into a bright starlight that blinded the Ninja. Naruto had already jumped out from the bushes and grabbed the bag Hinata was in; after jumping on to a tree Naruto pulled her out and saw she was still unconscious, he then began carrying her towards the Hyuga compound as fast as he could.
While Naruto played night and shining armor, Kibo continued to face off against the enemy Ninja; although he was blinded he still managed to swing his sword down at him. Kibo frowned because this guy had the power of a peak Chunin, but Kibo's physique due to training was far tougher than your average Genin once he added his Star Armor his Physical parameters doubled.
Using his speed he flickered behind the Kumo, the Chunin responded by twisting his torso in an attempt to hack Kibo in two. Kibo flickered again, this time he did so twice one to make a feint, and the other to perform a spinning ground kick to the back of his foe's ankles. The Kumo smiled and prepared to take the hit, he positioned himself to counter Kibo by stabbing straight down at him; unfortunately for him he had vastly underestimated Kibo's raw strength.
If he had raised his Chakra levels to withstand the attack he would have at least only suffered minor injuries. However there's no medicine for regret in this world, in this spit second Kibo released his gravity suit's weight and struck at full force. The sounds of bones cracking could be heard as the back of the Kumo Ninja's head fell heavily onto the ground, as the Kumo let out a scream of pain he knew he had to kill himself. He tried to bite down on his tooth but found something obstructing his actions.
Kibo stood over the Kumo using his Star Chakra to mold a muzzle, the ninja tried to use his hand signs but a thin wire formed rings around his each of his fingers and pulled them away from the center of his palms. Afterwards he yanked out the poison capsule along with the Shinobi's tooth and tied the Kumo Ninja up like a farm animal. The Ninja was staring daggers at him, but this just made him laugh and tease the weakened foe. Using his wings he started to fly back with the Ninja as his prisoner. A chime went off in his head that made him even happier.
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Meanwhile when Naruto was making good progress he felt Hinata starting to wake, he stopped for a second and hid at the base of a tree. When she woke up seeing Naruto he face turned bright red, ”N . . . Na . . . Naruto!?” Looking around she was completely lost to what was happening. ”That Kumogakure Ninja kidnapped you, but Nii Chan and I saved you.” Hinata noticed that Naruto was still carrying her like a princess, she felt faint when Naruto said. ”I'm sorry I didn't give you my present earlier.” he pulled out a carved wooden white lily flower and put it in her hands. Naruto was extremely good at this woodcraft, though one would have to be good with understanding three dimensional structures to properly use a Transformation Jutsu. Who knew that Naruto would pick up wood carving after reading a mental training book that could help improve his visualization skills?
The flower was very realistic, Naruto even had someone from the Yamanaka clan's flower shop paint it. ”I thought you'd like a flower that would never wilt.” Naruto said looking at Hinata's stunned, flushed face. He was about to put it away while saying, ”I'm sorry I should have bought something.” This forced Hinata to snap out of it as she grabbed his hand, ”No; I love this! It's the best present I've gotten all night.”
Naruto stared at her for awhile before they both noticed her hand was still holding his. Naruto laughed trying to shake of his nerves when he thought ”What the hell am I feeling right now.” He's heart rate started to pick up, as he quickly shook his head, ”There's no time for this, I have to get Nii Chan help.” With that Naruto held on tighter to Hinata and carried her all the way back to the Hyuga Estate.
When he arrived he saw a group of Hyuga members scurrying about, Hiashi saw Naruto walking up with Hinata in his arms, ”You!” One of the Hyuga members shouted when Hiashi lifted his hand, ”Young man could you please explain.”
Naruto placed Hinata down and said, ”You got help my brother, he's holding off that Kumo Ninja!”
”Father, Naruto rescued me!” Hinata said as she ran into Hiashi arms crying, Hiashi looked to Naruto with a thankful expression when they heard the sound of a body slamming into the snow piled grounds.
”No need to worry Naruto, this guy underestimated me, and paid dearly for it!” Kibo appeared releasing his Star Wings.