Pivotal (Sasuke and Hinata)

Fight

After Hinata, Sakura and Ino came back to Konoha after their mission, the three of them went to meet Lady Tsunade.

"So girls, report to me about your mission," said Lady Tsunade.

"The village is still intact. It just the villager who got hurt. But one thing that bothers us the most is the attacker," said Sakura.

"Attacker? Wasn't the village been attacked by the bandits?," asked Lady Tsunade.

Hinata spoke up, "Actually, they are not bandits. The head village told us that they didn't take anything."

"Yeah, that's right. They only came and ambush the people of the village. One more thing that confused us the most was the attacker have the same face," said Ino.

"So, you mean that they are not common people, but a shinobi, right?" Lady Tsunade guessed.

The three of them nodded. Not long after that, Lady Tsunade dismissed them. Sakura and Ino went to their homes and same goes with Hinata.

"Hinata-neesama, welcome home," greet Hanabi.

"I'm home. Where's father?" asked Hinata.

"Father went outside and didn't come home yet," said Hanabi. "Are you okay, Hinata-neesama?"

"Oh, yes. I'm alright. Just tired, that's all," said Hinata with a small smile on her face. She knew that Hanabi worried about her a lot. "I'm going to take some rest."

Hinata walked inside the house and went into her room. As she took a sit on her bed, she remembered what happened yesterday.

"Then let's make a deal. Tomorrow, I'll summon you"

"What deal are you talking about, Sasuke?" Hinata talked to herself as she stared at her right hand. "Stupid me. Why did I beg him to help me get stronger? He is not the type to say 'yes' and voluntarily help."

Suddenly, Hinata thought of Naruto. She smiled a bit and said, "Well, Sasuke is the opposite of Naruto." She blushed a little and was fanning her face.

Then she brushed off the feeling and took a bath. After changing into her training attire, she went to the yard of her house and started training alone. After a few hours of training, Hinata took a break and sat under a nearby tree.

But in a blink of an eye, Sasuke was standing in front of Hinata.

Hinata was shocked by the sudden appearance and quickly looked around her. She was no longer in the yard of her house.

"W-What the.." stuttered Hinata.

"Well Hinata, you come prepared," said Sasuke as he stared at Hinata who still sit on the ground.

"Come prepared? What do you mean by-." Hinata words got cut off by Sasuke.

"Fight me," said Sasuke. "That's the deal."

"Wait, what? That is not how you make a deal?!" Hinata was quite unsatisfied.

"Well if you don't want to, then the deal is off. I won't help you. End of story," said Sasuke as he walked a few step away from Hinata.

"W-Wait!" Hinata shouted as she got up and Sasuke turned to her. "H-How's the deal works?"

"Simple. If you win, I'll help you. But if you don't, this will be our last meeting and I don't want to see you ever again," explained Sasuke.

"But, it is quite unfair. You are much stronger than me a-and I'm weak," said Hinata as she stared at the ground.

A familiar voice spoke up, "She's right, Sasuke." It was Juugo. "Be easy on her. Or at least make it fair."

After Hinata heard that, she silently hoping that Sasuke will consider that.

"No" came out straight from Sasuke mouth.

Then Karin said, "You're too soft-hearted, Juugo. The reason why Sasuke make this deal is he want to get rid of that girl once and for all."

Hinata was slightly annoyed by that statement. "Get rid of me?Is that your reason, Sasuke? Well, then I won't back down. I'll fight you. But I would like to add something. You can hit me as much as you want, but if I manage to hit you once, I win."

"That's sound interesting," said Karin.

"Okay, fine then," said Sasuke.

The both of them were ready to fight and the one who attacks first was Hinata. It can be seen that she was going all out and Sasuke easily dodged Hinata's attacked. Sasuke attacked her with some Jutsu and the fight continued. Hinata was injured here and there, but Sasuke is still unwounded. She used the Medical Ninjutsu to heal some of the injuries, then she continued to fight.

"Is that all you got, Hinata?," provoked Sasuke.

Hinata gathered all her energy and tried to attack again. She was going to do a direct hit when suddenly someone shouted.

"Watch out, Sasuke!"

Then Sasuke looked towards the voice and saw a large sword was flying towards him. He barely managed to dodge that but what surprise him the most was a sudden hand that touched his chest and send him flying backwardly. It happened so fast that he realized that he was already laying on the ground.

Sasuke got up and saw Hinata was dumbfounded. Then Sasuke shouted, "SUIGETSU!!!!!"

As Suigetsu came running towards Sasuke, Hinata was standing there with a shocked face.

"I win... I hit Sasuke... I WIN!!!" shouted Hinata.

"No, wait! That doesn't count. Suigetsu distracted me!" explained Sasuke.

"No way. You never said anything about distraction and it was so obvious that you got hit by me," said Hinata.

"Sorry, Sasuke but Hinata did hit you and that counted," said Juugo.

"Yeah, can't deny it," said Karin.

After hearing that, Hinata jumped as she shouted, "I WIN!!"

Sasuke was devastated, then he grabbed Suigetsu. "You're dead today, SUIGETSU!"

"S-Sorry, it was a mistake. I was just playing around with my sword," explained Suigetsu.

"Because of you, I lose this fight and can't get rid of her, you understand that!" said Sasuke in angry tone.

"Whatever you say, Sasuke. But from this moment on, you're going to help me to become more stronger," said Hinata with a bright smile on her face.

Started from that, the interaction between them slowly become closer.