Uchiha’s Butterfly - Volume 3 Chapter 79 There And Back Again

“Hina-chan, can you bring your mommy here?” she patted the raven-haired girl’s head.

“Y-yes… Nee-sama.” Hinata slowly walked towards the center of the district with an ice cream cone in her hand.

“Hehehe, I did not watch Sis kick-ass for so long ~dattebayo.” Naruto laughed out.

“She is not here to ‘kick-ass’ Dobe,” Sasuke replied, licking a strawberry ice cream.

“Can it, Teme! Every time Sis fights, she kicks-ass! ~ttebayo”

“*Sigh* Naru-chan, there is a big difference between a fight and a spar. Hizashi wants to teach his young child some humility, that’s why I’m here. I’m not going to wound my friend, would you hurt Sasuke-kun or Hina-chan?”

“Ugh, but I always wanted to see you fight seriously, Sis. ~ttebayo.”

“Dobe, I can’t understand one thing, how did you finish your ice so quickly?”

“Sasuke-kun, he is not eating them – as you do,” Kaname explained with some happiness in her voice.

“What do you mean, Nee-san?”

“Naru-chan is inhaling ice creams. He ate three ice cones already.”

“*Sigh* As always Dobe. Your appetite knows no bounds. That’s why Hinata-chan brings you three bentos for breakfast. Every. Single. Freaking. Day! I thought you were collecting them or something. You will get fat this way.” the Uchiha boy scratched his head peeved at his blonde friend.

“Yes… Praise me more, Teme.”

“I WASN’T PRAISING YOU!”

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“Hoo~ so the losers went and split to their sister. It does not change anything, once a loser – always a loser. You can’t defeat a talent of a Hyga, even your big si-”

“Neji. Enough!” Hizashi yelled at the boy, “How many times do I need to say that you are wrong? At least today, I can show you that talent isn’t everything. Thanks for coming, Kaname-san. I’m sorry for my boy, he is delusional in his own grandeur.” the long-haired man bowed his head towards her.

“Father! You shouldn’t bow to someone weaker than you! Now that we’re free from the Cursed Seal, we the Branch family should stand on the pinnacle-”

“*Sigh* And who do you think broke us free from the seal you mentioned? I don’t know where I made a mistake in his upbringing.” he pointed at Neji, “Only if my love survived Neji’s birth…”

“Pft.” Sasuke snorted with laughter, looking straight into Neji’s angered eyes.

“Oups, I will stop calling you a bastard, from now on, you’re a ‘Mistake’!” Naruto has thrown in his two cents.

*Bonk*

“Not nice, Naru-chan.” Kaname’s glared at the boy.

“Ugh…” Under his sister’s intense gaze, Naruto finally broke, “I’m sorry, Neji-senpai.”

“As you can see, Hizashi, both parties are in the wrong. Can we continue towards the more enjoyable part?” Kaname asked, smiling at him.

“Hahaha, you never change, do you? As you wish.”

“STOOOOOP!” A woman’s shout interrupted the two.

“Wha? Oh, Aunty Shiori. What’s up?”

“*Wheeze*… Don’t what’s up, me, Kana-chan! Why wasn’t I invited?!” the woman breathed hardly after a quick sprint. Her left hand was occupied, holding Hinata under her arm. A little baby, Hanabi, was hanging in a sling in front of the woman. “It’s rare to see Hizashi-kun get his ass kicked, I prepared some popcorn for the occasion!” she greeted them with a big box of the white fluff.

“Grrr… You too, Shiori-sama?! There is no way that someone as talented as my father may lose to some second rate-”

“Yay! Popcorn!” Naruto’s shout dwarfed the long-haired boy’s gloating.

“You just ate, Dobe.” Naruto clearly ignored Sasuke’s comment.

“What are you waiting for? Did I come here for nothing?” Shiori put Hinata back on the ground next to Naruto.

“… Let’s pretend we didn’t notice that Hizashi, what are the rules?” Kaname asked.

“I want to make it a tad bit even spar, what would you say if we don’t use any djutsu (Eye Techniques) bar the passive ones, Kaname-chan?”

“Hmph, of course, she wouldn’t stand a chance against a Hyga.”

“Neji-chan, you are wrong.” Shiori corrected the boy, “It’s a handicap for her, not for your father.”

“Sure, I will not use anything too destructive.” Kaname nodded her head.

“Yes, I would appreciate that.”

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(PoV Hizashi)

“!” pushing the chakra into my eyes, the range of my sight grew until I saw everything around me. I observed the raging red river cruising throughout Kaname’s body. Her reserves were massive, Kaname’s chakra pathways were filled to the brim with her violent reddish chakra.

She gave me the traditional Handseal of Confrontation, waiting for my response. Two Sharingan eyes were evaluating me, there was some enjoyment showing in her glowing-red eyes.

I replied with another Seal of Confrontation. Three seconds later, that felt like a minute, I heard Shiori’s shout, “Begin!”.

I jumped back, knowing that, as the stronger one, she will attack me first. I was right as she flickered towards my last position. “!” (Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm) A vacuum shell projectile was compressed using the Gentle Fist, formed to attack Kaname-chan. In response, she created a shadow-clone, that soaked the damage from my attack, hiding her behind a cloud of smoke created from its dispersion.

Thanks to the Byakugan, I noticed Kaname-chan calmly standing in the middle of the cloud with her hand on her hip, and a smirk on her face. ‘Should I attack? Byakugan gives me an advantage. No, it’s most certainly a trap.’ Preparing my defense, at the last moment, I noticed Kaname-chan’s clone falling towards my back from the room’s roof. ‘What?! She knows of the Byakugan blindspot as well?!’

Her kick was brutal, I felt the bones in my right arm screaming at me after I barely blocked it. I swung my left arm towards her Tenketsu Points hidden in Kaname-chan’s thigh, only for her to delicately move her leg at the last second, making me miss them. “Hahaha, you’re an irynin, of course, you would know where the Tenketsu Points are.” I laughed out, hitting her again and again, only for each of my punch to miss the target. Kaname-chan was clearly playing with me, dodging my more powerful hits by minimal movements and letting the light ones graze her far away from my designated aim.

[Tenketsu Points, tl. Pressure Points – nodes from which chakra can be released]

Jumping away from her, I prepared for my next move.

“Hahaha, keep going, father, show her that our clan is the better one, fate decreed you as the winner!”

‘*Sigh* Neji… Blind as ever…’

“Are you the real one or the clone?” I asked her.

“The real one, Hizashi. Give me your best.” she requested.

“You’re at a perfect distance for it. Let me see how you deal with the technique reserved only for the main branch. !” [Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms] I launched myself towards her, two of my palms aimed towards her abdomen, “!” [Two Palms]

She dodged me, rotating her body on her right leg. She stood next to me, with the red Sharingan boring into my eyes, I already knew she shut down my best technique, who knew, that the Hyga’s trump card could be disabled by a single well-timed dodge. My arms were over-extended if she was an enemy Kaname-chan could kill me right this moment. Instead, I felt a sharp sting of pain coming from my palms, leaving it for later I continued the technique, again targeting her and calling out: “!” [Four Palms].

‘Guh, I… I can’t do it? Hahaha, she dislocated my wrists!’ The pain of hitting my palms onto her body made me lose my concentration and dispersed the chakra I held at the ready. I noticed Kaname standing and smiling sinisterly in front of me, she flickered to my left, knowing her counterattack is coming, I tried to use my last resort of defensive measure. “!” [Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven]

I released all of my chakra out of my body and started to rapidly spin over my left shoulder, unfortunately, Kaname-chan had a different idea. I felt my legs lose the connection with the ground and her hand pushing me on the scr.a.p.e of my neck. The room swirled in front of my eyes, up-down, left to right, the last thing I saw was Kaname-chan’s foot in front of my eyes, and then blackness.

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(PoV back to normal)

“Huhu-hahaha! Nice save, Kana-chan! Hahahaha!” Shiori laughed, after seeing her brother-in-law do a somersault-double-air-pirouette, and having his head secured by Kaname’s foot before it crashed into the floor.

“Hahaha, see Teme? Sis kicked ass!”

“But… But father, couldn’t lose against someone like her! She must have cheated, the fate-”

“Neji-kun,” Kaname turned towards the boy, “The talent is only a part of what we are, ninjas can become stronger with teamwork, hard work, or other means. Would you believe me, I couldn’t keep a leaf glued to my forehead days before my first academy lessons? *Sigh* Wake up boy, fate does not steer our lives, we do.” She explained in a calm level voice as she started to heal the sprains in Hizashi’s wrists.

“Guh… the heck happened?” Hizashi woked up a minute later when a ball of cold water washed over his head.

“*Pft* You got owned, my dear brother.” Shiori cutely snorted with laughter.

“I see…” Kaname extended her two fingers towards him, “Heh.” he caught her fingers with his, creating the Seal of Reconciliation, marking the end of their duel. Kaname pulled him back up onto his feet.

“Thank you, Kaname-chan. You are almost as fast as Minato-kun was.” Hizashi praised her.

“You know that’s not true, his Hiraishin was one of a kind.”

“Kana-chan, that doesn’t mean, you can’t get even faster. You are an amazing kunoichi already.”

“Oh, I have… some plans for that, aunty.” Kaname winked towards the woman.

———

(Three days later)

“*Wheeze-Wheeze-Cough* You are insane, Kana-chan.”

“Thank you, Doofus-kun. Dodge them this time, no more blocking.”

Kakashi, with Obito’s Sharingan active, has to dance around a constant hail of kunais raining down on his position. Within two minutes, the training field got covered by the blades, with Kakashi on the ground barely holding his eyes open.

“Good enough for the first try, Doofus-kun.” she praised him.

“*Wheeze*… Damn you. How this training could help me master the Sharingan?!”

“You are not an Uchiha, it’s the reason you’re losing consciousness after the use of Sharingan, Doofus-kun. We, the Uchiha, have very developed chakra pathways leading to our eyes, you need to work them out a little.” Kaname explained.

“*Cough* Hmm, okay. And why the use of sharpened weapons in training?” the jnin’s outfit was in taters.

“An incentive, Doofus-kun.”

“Incentive? For what?”

“I did not want you to half-ass your training,” Kaname shrugged.

“I shouldn’t have asked…”

“I’m going back to the rebel camp today, Doofus-kun. If you want to continue the training, ask some Anbus or give Guy-kun your collection of kunais. Should work the same.”

“Have you seen what Guy can do with a kunai? He splits them in half using only his three-middle-fingers! Imagine the power he can throw the kunai with… No, I will stay with Anbu, Kana-chan.” Kakashi replied sarcastically.

“I see my training works, you are still conscious, hahaha.”

“*Sigh*… I’m just too tired to think about the lack of chakra in my body. But thanks, Kana-chan.”

“You’re welcome, Doofus-kun. Are you able to go back alone? I need to go collect my rowdy young chnins.”

“Sure, it’s nice weather, I will rest here for a little while and return home in an hour… or six. Stay safe out there and good luck, Kana-chan.”

“Are you sure? I can give you my clone to escort you back?”

“Just let your senpai keep the rest of his respect…” Kakashi murmured.

“Hahahaha, as you wish. See you in a month or so, Doofus-kun.”

“Bye.”

———

Kaname with her team, arrived at the rebel camp the next day at sunrise.

“Give us a break, Kaname-sensei! We run here the entire night!” the boy complained.

“No. You do remember our deal, don’t you, Koji-kun?”

“We do, Sensei. We won’t miss a day of training, and you let us scout the neighborhood without your supervision.” Torune nodded his head.

“Prepare yourself and meet me at the waterfall,” Kaname ordered, heading towards her tent and donning her training suit.

Five minutes of intense combat against her clones on top of the pond near the waterfall made Kaname’s outfit soaking wet. Hearing the rustling of the leaves coming from the side of the camp, she expected to see her young students joining her training. Instead, a wide-eyed Utakata stood there gaping at her short sports pants and black sports bras that uncovered her beautifully shaped belly.

“Ah, Slime Boy, Hi. What are you doing here?” she questioned, stopping the barrage of her clones.

“H-h-hi?” he replied shyly, he observed the droplets of water running around the side of her face, down her neck all the way between her-, “Guh.” Utakata tried to turn his eyes sideways, but his body did not listen to him.

“Oh… You like what you see, Slime Boy?” she teased, posing a tiny bit.

“Shut up, Saiken!” He shouted out, even redder than before, “*Guh* Both of you… I need your help Kaname-san, I heard you’re the best person to ask for some training around here. The life of a hermit has thwarted all the training I did under my master.” Utakata turned his head around, avoiding looking at her.

“Hmm, sure. But I’m not sure how do you want to spar, without looking at me, Slime Boy.” Kaname continued her teasing, she observed his eyes glance at her once, making his cheeks red once again, “Hahaha! Let’s start!”