~Chapter 3~

-Four Years Later-

“Lord Hokage.” I nodded my head to the Third, my eyes on the floor in both sadness and respect. Blondie….he died two years ago saving this village. He seemed like a good guy even with our brief encounter.

The old man in front of me, Sarutobi Hiruzen, smiled warmly at me even though I could see sadness in the depths of his eyes.

“Hello, young one,” He said, waving his hand for me to stand up straight, “What is it you’re here for? No, who are you first off.”

“Well….Blondie might have mentioned me.” I muttered, scratching the back of my head with a frown and narrowed eyes.

“Blondie?”

“Uh….Namikaze Minato, I mean.” His eyes darkened in memories and I sighed.

“Right….anyway, I’m Hinome Hokori. You know….the Hinome clan? Mostly all of them slaughtered but fifty-six of us four years ago? Though….I am pretty much the last one alive from the war….” I bit my lip and he suddenly nodded, his eyes flashing in recollection.

“Yes, now I remember. You’re the girl that slaughtered over two hundred Rock ninja on her own.”

“Hehe….yeah….” I laughed sheepishly.

“So….why are you here?” He asked, getting down to business.

“Well, I told Blondie once I was done training I’d come to the Leaf and become a ninja to help. Even if the war is over, I’m still sticking to that. I wanna be a Konoha ninja.” I told him and he smirked.

“What rank are you?”

“Probably Jonin….” I murmured sheepishly. Chi let out a bark beside me. Over these four years he had grown taller, about six foot tall at the shoulder now. He had gained a collar around his throat which was red with spikes. Other than that, there wasn’t much of a difference. His gray eyes looked down at me as he sat on his haunches.

“Well….I’ll have to test you first and….make sure you’re actually a Hinome.” The Hokage’s eyes transfixed on my eye patch and I sighed, lifting it up. My blood red eye opened and glowed as tattoos went down my arms, my nails sharpened as well did my teeth. He smirked once I was down and nodded.

“Oh yeah, definitely Hinome clan.” I smiled, flipping down my eye patch as the features disappeared.

“So….this testing….when is it starting?”

“Now if it is okay with you.” I shrugged and he nodded, telling me to go to Training Ground 66.

Ugh, the place on the cliff.

I sighed but nodded, disappearing as he dismissed me. Chi and I looked up at the two-hundred foot cliff with a scowl, looked at each other before huffing and climbing the cliff with chakra at our feet. Well, my feet and hands since I was climbing it just like Chi. I could only use two but this is way faster.

In five minutes we got to the top, not even sweating and I thanked Kami that the sky was overcast today. All Hinome clan members are used to the thick forest that blocked out the sun’s rays. That’s why we could survive in subzero temperatures with only a thin sweater and some pants.

“Finally.” I called out as the Hokage and four other people appeared on the top of the cliff. I lifted myself up on my elbows, scowling over at them. My head was resting on Chi’s stomach as he curled around me.

“Why you little-”

“Hush, Ibiki.” The Hokage ordered the tall, scary man. Hint of sarcasm on that scary part.

“Hokori, this is Morino Ibiki, Nara Shikaku, Inuzuka Tsume and Hyuga Hiashi.” I raised an eyebrow, looking them all over before glaring at Hiashi. The man rose an eyebrow.

“And who’s this little brat?” Hiashi questioned while I bit out a snarl.

“You should know, Hokage, how much conflict my clan has with….his….” I spat.

“Yes, but, we needed someone to gage your chakra.” I snorted, putting a hand on Chi’s head as he growled at the Hyuga. The Hinome clan always had a problem with the Byakugan and Sharingan users. They were so arrogant. We had no problem with the Rinnegan or the other Dōjutsu type, just those two.

“Lord Hokage?” Shikaku questioned, raising an eyebrow at my reaction to only one of the five people opposite of me.

“Oh, yes. This is Hinome Hokori. One of the last of the Hinome clan. You should know of the….conflict between the Hyuga’s and Uchiha’s that she has.”

“Arrogant, weak bastards.” I spat under my breath. As soon as Hiashi learned of my origin he had returned my glare full force, also added with the veins in his eyes popping, making the Byakugan come forth.

“Shouldn’t you be talking of yourself?” He growled.

“Pah! You’re one to talk, old man! All your little Dōjutsu does is make your face all vein-like and scary.” I shot back, smirking.

“Better that then looking like a demon!”

My smirked disappeared into a growl. “What was that, swine?”

“You heard me.” The man smirked and I growled, stopping as the Hokage held up his hand.

“That’s enough. Let’s just get on with this test before someone kills the other. Tsume, judge how good she does with her ninja hound. I was going to have Ibiki fight her but….Hiashi, you can. Ibiki and Shikaku, judge how good she fights.” Three grunted an okay and bowed while Hiashi stepped forward with a smirk.

“Is it alright….if I teach her some respect, Lord Hokage?” Hiashi questioned while I snorted.

“Sure….” The Hokage muttered. Though, he did sound doubtful.

Chi barked over to me and I shrugged. “Your choice.”

“What did he say?” Shikaku whispered to Tsume.

“He asked if he should intervene in the fight.” She answered, furrowing her eyebrows.

“Alright, come at me fool.” I mocked Hiashi, lifting up my eye patch as my eye burned blood red and the tattoos formed, “Let’s see how a demon fights a scary-faced old man, shall we? Superior Dōjutsu versus weak Dōjutsu.” He scowled over at me as the other three gasped, Hokage smirking to himself in amusement.

I wonder what he’s seeing in that little chakra sensing eye of his.

-3rd Person POV-

Hiashi blinked as the young girl across the field from him lifted up a black eye patch and opened up a blood red eye. In a second it glowed and flame tattoos appeared on her arms as well as tattoos under, around and beside her eyes.

So this is her markings…. He thought to himself as he watched the girls teeth become sharper as well as her nails.

He smirked over at her. “Going straight to powering up? You must know your weak normally.”

The girl paused with her hand on the large dog behind her. Her chakra burst forth in black and red and she growled, her golden eye glowing as well.

“I’ll destroy you for that.” She bit out, her right eye closing and her tattoos disappearing although her teeth and nails stayed the same as well as her glowing gold eye. She flipped down her eye patch before rushing at him. The man she faced was shocked for a moment. Even without her Dōjutsu powering her, she still had an unbelievable amount of chakra.

“Let’s see how you like being tossed around some.” She suddenly spoke from behind him and the man’s eyes widened as he was slung forward, right towards the dog that sat leisurely to the side. The dog suddenly smirking, showing razor-like teeth as two bat-like wings sprouted from his back and knocked the man back towards the girl without even getting up.

Much to the Leaf ninja’s surprise, too. They didn’t even see Hokori making the hand signs for her ninja hounds Shadow Bat Wing Jutsu.

“Let’s see how you like a little bit of fire.” The Hinome girl grinned, making the signs before sucking in a large amount of oxygen into her lungs then breathing out blue fire at the man heading towards her. Luckily for Hiashi he used a quick Substitution jutsu, appearing behind the girl. As he went to cut off her chakra network, she turned around with such speed her couldn’t see her for a moment, only seeing where she had been before feeling a kick on his side and being slung towards the edge of the cliff Training Ground 66 rested on.

“Now that you’ve seen me….normally. I’ll use my little Hinome.” Hokori told the man as he flickered about thirty feet away from her before he fell down the two-hundred foot drop. The girl flicked her eye patch up again, the tattoos returning as she started running around him, swirling up a huge whirlwind of dust. Her companion lifted himself up from the ground, lifting off the ground with his wings as he hovered fifty feet off the ground in the center of the tornado, not gaining the attention of the Hyuga man who was too busy watching the girl’s movements.

“Double Flame: Dirt Tornado Whirlwind!” The girl shouted as she made hand signs and Chi pictured them in his mind. They both took a big gulp of breath, not caring about the dust they breathed in and the tornado suddenly turned into one of fire, not dust as well as the fire coming from Chi’s mouth swirled into a whirlwind going the opposite direction.

Everyone in Konoha could see the huge fire jutsu that reached well over a hundred feet as Chi had gained height with a few flaps of his wings.

“What’s that?” A boy with silver hair wondered as he came back from a mission. He stared at the large fire, silently jumping onto the roof of the Hokage building and removing the cover over his right eye to reveal a blood red eye with three toma markings. It was the Sharingan eye from his fallen comrade.

Both his eyes widened as the fire tornado exploded and he saw what looked like a huge wolf with wings in the sky. “Is that a demon?” He muttered.

Meanwhile, at the Training Grounds, Hiashi was breathing deeply and wincing from the burns that littered his body as he lay on the ground.

“I could of killed ya with that, ya know? I decided not to though. Oh look, a rhyme.” The fourteen-year-old girl chuckled at her sentences as she hovered over the grown man.

“Y-you….little-”

“Ah ah, old man,” The girl tsked, waving a finger at him before pointing, “I wouldn’t say anything you arrogant little bugger. I may hate you less than the Uchiha’s but your still annoying. And you know now that I could kill you.” She finished with a grin.

“Yes well….thank you for not doing that. How about we move on to the next test?” The Hokage chuckled as Ibiki and Shikaku lifted up the burnt Hyuga. Chi landed next to his owner, his black wings disappearing. Shikaku eyed them for a moment, frowning along with Tsume.

“If I may, what was that jutsu?” Tsume asked the girl who smiled.

“It’s something we picked up in the Land of Birds. It’s called ‘Shadow Bat Wing Jutsu’. It’s really handy, especially when we get into some tight jams.” All the older shinobi nodded as Hokage told the girl the next test would be held at the Hokage building and would be a written test.

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Authors Note

Hehe, she just beat Hiashi’s ass x3
Peace!
~Mew