What? Oh man I hurt.
That's why. Fascinating stuff going on here though.
How so?
Let me just say that in the future, if a god of mischief offers to give you a makeover - just say NO.
I'm not turning into a girl with long black hair am I? I keep getting this image of her.
No, that's Hinata as she'll look at 16. That image was from when she tried to protect you from that Akatsuki member.
The who from the what?
Look, your memories got a bit scrambled. Understandable as they were downloaded into your brain, and then the neural network was overhauled and restructured. Your functional IQ went up. I think about sixty points. Problem is that your memories are a little messed up in the process.
Is that why all my memories seem all jumbled up?
That's what I just said. Yes, whelp.
Oh. So what else is happening?
Your physical strength and durability have increased by at least fifty fold. Your speed has been increased by roughly twenty times. Eyesight, hearing, sense of smell, all made much more acute. Your healing rate from injury is such that you practically regenerate. Broken bones will normally heal over the period of a few hours. Very resistant to poisons and disease, and once exposed to something you'll have a much stronger resistance in the future. You have a bloodline with all of this written in to varying degrees. Nice work, for a god of mischief especially.
Does it have to hurt so much?
Actually, yeah. I'd think so. At least most of the pain is being held off by me for the moment, just because all that screaming was getting annoying.
Gee. Sorry I was disturbing you.
Sarcasm. There may be hope for you yet. Oh, that's interesting. If you mate with someone, you can infect them with a lesser variant that will last at least through the pregnancy. Good thing, otherwise that bloodline wouldn't survive another generation. That could have been messy.
Do I want to know?
If you ever father a child, the baby won't kill the mother when it kicks. Hmmm. Psychic pheromones? Kinky.
"Slow down, Hinata!"
The dark-haired teenager forced herself to slow down.
They'd entered the room, Kiba's attempts to get Shino to react to a joke falling off as the air of seriousness from the guards and the Hokage registered.
Kurenai-sensei had reported in, and she'd shuffled into her usual position. Behind the sensei, between Kiba and Shino.
Then the word that Team 7 had run into problems on their mission. Upgraded to A-Rank? She'd been aware of Kiba stiffening and looking towards her.
She should have remained quiet, but hearing that Naruto was so badly injured he couldn't move, had caused her heart to clench and a dizzy feeling to sweep over her.
They hadn't seen each other since the Academy, and now he was lying injured somewhere?
Them another messenger had burst through the door, and such was the tension in the room that she'd noted the buzzing from Shino and a low growl from Kiba in response.
Naruto-kun had DIED?! Except he'd gotten better? How? What? Why?
She was aware of knowing smirks and muttered comments from Kiba to Shino, with the stoic bug-user nodding his head slightly in response.
Those were minor concerns though. Naruto-kun was HURT! She'd packed as many medicinal supplies as she could quickly lay hands on, but none of them would do any good if she didn't get there fast.
Kurenai put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't get so anxious. It won't do yourself or him any good if you're exhausted when you get there."
Hinata nodded, but her attempts to relax just didn't seem to work.
The sounds had been just too much for her. She had seriously considered just taking a kunai, going up to the comatose Naruto, and ending his misery. Not just once but several times.
She really SHOULD go check on him. Sasuke was worried too. Well, she was pretty sure Sasuke was worried too. Reasonably sure. Would you believe a definite maybe?
She'd done the tree-walking exercise quickly and easily, brightening at the mention of her superior chakra control. Not so happy when Sasuke took exception to his performance being less good than her own.
Sakura reflected that sometimes she just couldn't win for losing.
This led quickly to Sasuke practicing tree-climbing while she learned a basic genjutsu dispelling, then the basics of water-walking. While she practiced, Kakashi-sensei had to go lie down and try to recover from the strain of his Sharingan use.
The fight against Zabuza had not been good. Not only had Naruto taken an attack for Sasuke, but the way the blade had hissed and Naruto's skin had MELTED were images that Sakura felt would stay with her for awhile. If Naruto HADN'T gotten in the way, Sasuke would have caught the attack in the face.
It had been an attack without warning, even though the Demon Brothers attack had given them an indication of potential problems with this mission.
Now they were down one member of their team, and Sakura didn't hold any hope for Naruto surviving much less returning to active duty.
There was, as they'd been told, a single boy outside the house.
Three of them had long-knives, one had an axe. Strike hard, strike fast, strike those who'd been injured in the previous attack and finish them off.
Then they'd get the bonuses that Zabuza would have been paid for stopping enemy ninja.
"Why are his clothes all ripped up?" muttered Axe.
"Why is he glowing?" asked Knife1.
"Who cares?" said Knife2, raising his blade up and plunging it down.
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