Legacy

Chapter 18/ Calm Before the Storm

Chapter 18 – Calm Before the Storm

One week had passed since the end of the second phase of the chunnin exams and everyone was busy training or gathering information on the adversaries. Naruto was training with his godfather Jiraya. The man was a pervert but Naruto had to admit the man was strong and keen.

Naruto didn't have much to prepare against his opponent Sasuke. He went to the academy with him and like most Uchihas Sasuke favored fire Jutsus and relied on his sharingan.

Hinata was training with Kurenai. Naruto didn't know much of what she was doing and for good reason. After all she will most likely end up facing him in the finals so she should have a few surprises in store for her blonde.

If you looked carefully you would notice that both Naruto and Hinata were facing 'clan members' so to speak. Naruto was facing Sasuke and both were sharingan wielders and Hinata was facing her cousin Neji and both were byakugan users.

Naruto remembered from the preliminaries all the details of the fights. A perk of the sharingan is that it grants de user photographic memory, that's the reason why the sharingan is able to copy jutsus. Neji and Hinata were mainly Taijutsu users with Hinata being a very good Suiton user. Fuu was a bug and Suiton user but also the Nanabi Jinchuuriki. Yugito was a fire user and very flexible at Taijutsu and also the Nibi jinchuuriki. Temari was a long range wind user so her Taijutsu should be low. Shikamaru the shadow user and, like Temari, was long range type so his Taijutsu should be his weak point. Kankuro was unknown since he didn't fight. And finally there is Gaara, the sand user and the Ichibi Jinchuuriki.

## Naruto & Hinata ##

Naruto and Hinata were lying on the couch with Hinata wrapped in Naruto's arms with her back to his chest. They were relaxing after a long day of training.

"How did training go?" - Naruto asked he asked as he caressed her hair gently.

"Good, I asked Asuma-sensei for some training on daggers and trench knifes taijutsu" - Hinata replied.

"Daggers uh. They suit you, beautiful and deadly" - Naruto said. She turned around to face him and lightly kissed him and placed her head on his chest.

"Flattery will get you nowhere" - she said and he chuckled.

"Oh come you now it's true, you are beautiful" - He said and she lightly blushed.

"By the way I need some pointers on lightning manipulation" - she said.

"Did you do the leaf exercise by making it crumble?" - Naruto asked and she nodded. "Now you need to be able to channel big amounts of raiton chakra. You can do the same with couple of rocks. Since it's harder to channel chakra through them, you need to increase the output amount until the rocks breaks" - he explained and she nodded.

"And how did your training with the pervert go?" – Hinata asked and he laughed. Naruto told her about his godfather and how he was the writer of the Icha Icha that Kakashi likes so much.

"As well as it can when you have an idiot of a godfather who is constantly distracted with his research" – Naruto said sighing. "He taught me a few Katon Jutsus it's the only nature we share." – Naruto explained.

Hinata snuggled deeper into Naruto chest. She was always amazed at the warmth he provided and she always felt safe in his presence. They rested for a few minutes until Naruto remembered something he talked about with Jiraya.

"Hey Hime?" – Naruto asked and she hummed in response. "Did you know that your mother was my godmother?" – he asked.

"Really?" – Hinata asked as she raised her head and locked eyes with him.