She'd had some medical training as well as herbalism, though largely self-taught. She made her own medical balm, which helped her with bruises and such she'd suffered from after particularly harsh training sessions in the family style.
She looked over his chakra network first, then layered in various other information. One of the reasons that the Byakugan required such amounts of time training and perfecting was in that ability to see through things and determining what layers to see through.
Naruto was different. He was twelve centimeters taller than previously, and his overall mass had increased. However his chakra reservoirs and body fat were dangerously low. Some small degree of body fat was necessary for health, but Naruto's looked as if it had been burned completely out.
Naruto's stomach gurgling and growling got her attention to that as well.
Hinata frowned as Naruto had apparently been abandoned by his team while he ran a fever or was sick. Well, she wouldn't do that!
Never mind that she was alone with a helpless Naruto-kun. Never mind that his clothes had rips all over them that showed skin. Never mind that his lips were slightly open, looking soft and inviting.
"AGH!" said Hinata, wanting to hit herself in the head for such terrible thoughts. Though really, if you compared them to Sakura's declaration that she had to kill Naruto to save him - kissing him while he was asleep wasn't anything at all!
Her hands were too cold to check temperature, so she braced herself and tried to do it forehead-to-forehead.
Of course, when she was less than two inches away, she saw those eyelids flicker open. Of course - she froze in place. Of course - Naruto's eyes slowly focussed on the girl next to him whose mouth was open in an "O" of surprise.
"I-I-I-I..." managed Hinata before leaping away. It was really a pity that she came down on a rock which twisted underfoot and she fell on her butt.
Just let me die of embarassment right now, thought Hinata to herself.
"Wha happen?" asked Naruto.
"I- I- I was just checking your kiss, Naruto-kun," said Hinata. Eyes widened again. "No. No. I mean, checking your temperature! That's right! That's all I was doing!"
"eh?" asked Naruto, still looking at least half-asleep.
"You've been sick, and I'm trying to take care of you," said Hinata, looking down and tapping fingers together.
"Did I die?" asked Naruto. "Are you an angel?"
"No-no-no, I..." Hinata's voice broke off as Naruto went back to sleep. Her blush went up two notches and she stared at her fingers as she realized what he'd said. He called me an angel?!
There was a brief moment of smiling at absolutely nothing at all before she got out a hankerchief and wet it down from her canteen. Naruto's just running a fever or something. He couldn't possibly have meant - THAT.
Kurenai had been leading her group for a long time, they'd gotten moving before first light, and she was on the look out for missing-nin.
She was therefore not amused at all when she went up to the house and someone tried to brain her with a lamp.
Kurenai slapped a quick set of handsigns together as she dodged, then tapped the pink-haired attacker in the forehead. "Magen: Gikyoku No Ningyou Akumu!"
"What's going on?" asked a boy, drawing a kunai.
"Sasuke Uchiha, isn't it?" asked Kurenai Yuhi. "Where's Kakashi?"
Sasuke looked at the apparently-paralyzed Sakura, then at the woman with the Leaf headband. "Over here."
"She'll be okay, though I'm going to recommend a thorough psych eval," said Kurenai. "I'm Kurenai Yuhi, jonin for Team 8."
Sasuke relaxed ever so slightly as Shino and Kiba entered behind the woman. He didn't recognize her, but he certainly recognized the loud dog-boy.
"Whoa," said Kiba, noting the girl was still holding the lamp as a blunt weapon. "She freeze up?"
"I used a genjutsu on her," said Kurenai. "One I've been working on. The 'Nightmare Puppet Show' should keep her from doing anything for a little while."
"Why do that?" asked Sasuke as the woman walked by him.
"Other than she was about to kill your teammate Naruto while he was unconscious while arguing with herself about how she had to do it for his sake?" asked Kurenai, looking back at Sasuke.
"Oh," said Sasuke.
"She's a fangirl," summed up Shino.
Sasuke shrugged but then nodded, acknowledging the point.
Slowly the lamp dropped from Sakura's fingers.
Kiba sighed, picked the girl up by grabbing her around the waist, and moved her a little further out of the way. "I gotta hear this explanation."
Shino nodded, already following Kurenai along. "I have taken the liberty of dispersing allies in the area to inform me of intruders."
"Good idea," acknowledged Kiba.
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