As soon as he could, Naruto ducked into an alley and used his power to shift into his violet headed form, before turning invisible and flying off to one of the training sites that he used where people wouldn't be watching him. Taking his visible form again, the ghost boy took off his track suit so that he was dressed in his black t-shirt and a pair of boxers so that he would not be linked back to the fox boy everyone looked through. Then he spoke, "Shadow clone jutsu! " to split in about five clones so that he could perfect his use of his ghost form. Then he began to fight against those clones, dodging their kicks and punches using his ability to phase through solid matter.
"If I can get this right, I'll have another option when I have to dodge. I can just get let their attack to go through me, making their fighting styles useless against me." It was after two of the clones had vanished due to suffering too much damage, that the other three took out their kunai and threw them at him. Watching those throwing knives carefully, he used his instincts to allow those blades to pass through him before he moved to flip in the air as he flew. Using that flip, he then grabbed the same kunai that had just flowed through his flesh. He turned those weapons against their users, causing two of the trio to pop out of existence. But the third one was clever enough to use it's own phasing power to avoid being hit.
Deciding to get back to being out numbered, Naruto summoned four more clones to do battle with him. The original clone then nodded to the new quartet to come over to him so that he could make a plan, which the four other clone follow and move so that they could listen to him. The glowing green eyed boy also took that time to prepare for the battle that would be coming up, trying to think of a way to get the clones to suffer enough harm to cause them to go pop. Shortly, the five clones moved into a circle formation around the real violet haired boy for an all-out attack. They moved as one as they attacked him on five sides, causing him to react to the attacks of the five. Dodging one punch only to have to phase through a kick while twisting out of the way of another kick, he was learning how to use his powers when under a complete attack. He tried to give as good as he got, but it was hard to grasp something that could become intangible.
It was after the pop of the first clone that gave Naruto his answer, to try to phase at the same time as he grasped a clone that was phasing itself. Doing that had given him an easier time in causing his attacks to gain traction on his doppelgangers. Taking care of three more of his duplicates, he hit a surprise as the fifth clone used that same trick against him to throw him into the bushes that ringed the training ground. For a second, the ghost boy was distracted. Then he was really confused as he saw all around him at once, seeing beside him as well as behind him. Looking down at himself, he noticed that his hands looked different and he seemed to be dressed differently but in a familiar look.
Moving out of the bushes, he turned to face his doppelganger. The clone said one word, "Hinata? "
It was then and there that Naruto figured out what it was that was happening to him, 'I must have some how taken over Hinata's body, which means that I'm in her body. Which is way I can see all around me, she has that Byakugan thing that Iruka told me about when he told me about kekkei genkai.' The first moved that he did was try to dismiss the clone that he had created, which seemed to work even as he was in someone else's body. Then he wonder what would happened when he left the body that he was possessing. Phasing out invisibly, he watched as Hinata slowly came out of what looked like a dizzy spell.
"W-wh-at hap-pen-ed? I-I thought I-I heard Na-na-ruto-kun." Hinata said in her soft voice as she stumbled across the words, looking like she was confused with the state that she was in. She continued, "I-I was on th-the other s-s-side of th-those bushes." Naruto not wanting to revel his bloodline yet, with to behind some other bushes without being seen and then reversed his transformation so that he was his usual blond self. Then he walked out from behind the bushes.
"Hinata, I thought I heard you. I just had to go for a leak before I get ready to start some training in before a big test tomorrow. What brings you here? " He asked her, as he was curious about what it was that had brought her to this private location. He had tried to pick out a place that he could practise his ghostly powers without being spotted, but that was something that he would have to put on hold for now since he had an observer.
Hinata blushed for a minute before she spoke again, "I-I was lo-oo-ok for so-ome herbs, to-oo make he-ealing s-s-salve." She looked like she was nervous to be here for some reason that couldn't tell. Naruto remember thinking that the young heir looked weird, but now after seeing her bloodline as well as having his own he saw that she was cool. Then he got an idea to combine some more training, while helping Hinata with her job.
"I can help, " he said as he focused on the sign that would activate the shadow clone jutsu. Soon over a hundred Narutos appeared in the training ground, and the blond boy continued, "I can use my clones to help you look for the herbs that you need for your salve." The blond boy and his duplicates all took on foxy grins as they were glad that they were helping a friend while getting stronger at the same time.
Naruto could swear that his white eyed friend seemed to fill with a colour of red that he had never seen on a human for a couple of seconds before it starts to fade. This cause him to ask her, "Are you feeling alright? You looked like you we going to be sick. Are you getting sick, Hinata?" She just shook her head side to side as she turned her head down.
"N-n-no, I-I was j-j-just glad th-that you wa-wanted to hel-elp me." Hinata said as she looked up at Naruto with her face a slight pink and a soft smile. Smiling back, the fox boy moved his clones in on the quiet girl so that she could tell him what her herbs looked like so they could look for it together.
(Posted Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:52)
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