"Really? For sure, oh no. Woe is me," said Naruto, sarcasm heavy in his voice. "Whatever am I to do? Where am I to go?"
"You're not exactly taking this the way I expected you to," noted Mizuki, feeling as if something was wrong.
"TWO PALMS!"
Mizuki stumbled forward as he was abruptly hit right in the kidneys.
"FOUR PALMS!"
He blocked one strike only to have that arm suddenly go numb and feeling heavy somehow. Meanwhile the attacker's other hand reached in and hit him in the solar plexus. Which responded by seizing up.
"SIX PALMS! EIGHT PALMS!"
Mizuki couldn't feel most of his body, other than it seemed to weigh more than the Hokage Tower. He fell off the tree branch and caught a glimpse of a girl less than half his height descending with him and STILL attacking.
"TWENTY FOUR PALMS!"
"Wow," said Naruto. "Good job, Hinata."
Unable to move from where he was sprawled on the ground, Mizuki stared at the shy little wallflower who seemed to have become something else at the moment.
Two years previously:
"Odd," said Hinata, checking a scroll.
"Oh, that," said Naruto, glancing to see what she'd found. "That was an experiment they did during the time of the Second Hokage. Apparently jonin level ninja tend to be a little nuts. There's also some disorder that hits ninja in wartime that causes problems. That was an attempt to work around it."
"The development of a second personality, a combat personality that takes control when there is a genuine threat?" asked Hinata as she read on the subject.
"Yeah, apparently there were two ways to go about it, and that one was discredited in order to pursue some program where the shinobi would sacrifice ALL their emotions instead," said Naruto. "Some guy named Damno Shitzlotsu or something. Oh! Here's a fuuinjutsu text I haven't read yet! Lucky!"
Hinata smiled and went back to sorting the scrolls, putting one in her sleeve to just have some light reading later.
Present:
The threat was gone, and the cold precise mind determined it was no longer needed.
Hinata shivered and made a little startled noise as she realized how badly beaten Mizuki was. She undid a single tenketsu strike so that he'd stop turning purple and could breathe again.
Really, some of the discarded things in those scroll libraries were so interesting.
"I got an idea on what to do with him," said Naruto. "Iruka-sensei, can you give me a hand?"
Iruka broke off gaping at Hinata to stare at Naruto. "You're going to prank him? Now?"
Shadows congealed and the Hokage stepped out. "Interesting. What did you have in mind?"
Anko Mitarashi opened the door to find a thoroughly tied up chunin in a basket on the doorstep to the T&I complex. "What the hell? Oh, a note."
Dear Interrogation Department.
My name is Mizuki and I have been a bad boy.
I tried to betray Konohagakure and kill loyal
citizens.
As a bad boy I need to be punished.
"You gotta be kid... Hokage-sama?" asked Anko, seeing the Hokage nearby.
A single nod and a handsign replied.
"Oh," said Anko, now grinning as she looked down at her gift. "And here it isn't even my birthday."
Mizuki's eyes were wide and he managed to whimper as he beheld the unholy joy in the woman's eyes.
"How can I resist?" said Anko, dragging the paralyzed nin inside. "This'll be SO much fun."
Mizuki's whimpers doubled in volume.
The door closing somehow sounded much like it had been made of iron and stone and much much heavier.
"Hinata?" asked her father, stern as always as she entered the compound.
"I have just completed a B-Rank mission for the Hokage, father. Assisting in the outing of and capture of a chunin traitor," said Hinata, slipping into her "combat persona" briefly.
Her father was silent for a moment. "I see. Then the missing of today's practice was unavoidable. Your ranking?"
"Is currently unknown within as the scores have not been tallied," said Hinata, still embracing her combat persona. "I am relatively certain that I am within the top five scorers."
"As expected as a member of the Hyuga main family," said her father, equally cold. "It is good that you are taking your responsibilities seriously."
"Yo! Old man! I made genin!"
"I was there, Naruto. Good job, by the way."
"It's my first step on getting to wear the hat! Believe it!"
"No! The hat is mine!" Trip! Thud!
"Who's the rugrat?"
"My name is Konohamaru Sarutobi! Don't you forget it! How dare you trip me!"
WHACK! "That's for interrupting me. Damnit! I had a long prepared speech here! I even threw in a couple of innuendos and a catchphrase I hoped to use for the next year!"
"Well Naruto, since you have it all written down. Why not just go ahead?"
"Nah, mood is completely ruined. Maybe I can rewrite it for the team sorting thing."
"You... you hit me!"
"If you call that a hit, are you really ready to become a ninja? Here, have an exploding carrot."
"A carrot? I hate... 'exploding'?"
BOOM!
"Interesting. It explodes but only causes brief stunning while covering the target in lightly smoking ash? Something you came up with for pranks?"
"Yeah, I still got a bunch of 'em left over from when I was doing pranks. Have to find other uses for them now I'm a genin."
"That... that... THAT WAS NEAT! How did you do that?!"
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