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After his initial surprise and small pang of jealousy, he had quickly shaken it off. Let the goofy idiot meddle with seals. They had never really interested Sasuke in the first place.
What really bothered Sasuke about the blonde was neither his aptitude with seals nor his tendency to goof off. No, what truly bothered him was how much the blonde reminded him of his older brother's friend Shisui.
This wasn't just because that they both could always be found smiling and had a joking personality. What truly startled him was how fast the blonde was.
Now, Kiba was fast. It was one of his strong suits and essential for his feral fighting style. Naruto's speed put his to shame. He didn't know when the change started to happen, but now he actually was starting to find it challenging when he sparred with the blonde.
Not because of his fighting style. Kami no. Naruto's fighting style was simply pathetic. He mostly fought like an all-out brawler. There were occasional glimpses of moves and techniques that he was unaware of, but it seemed like he was either just learning a style and trying to incorporate it or just not very adept at it yet. It was obvious when he poorly tried incorporating the academy taijutsu style into whatever the hell he was attempting, and it came together in a big sloppy mess.
But the boy's sheer speed made up for his ineptitude in technique. He was even faster than he was, though he was loath to admit it. On top of that, the guy just didn't know when to stay down. Whenever he got hit, he just bounced back up like nothing hit him. The only times that Naruto even came remotely close to beating him would be because the blonde would tire him out.
What kept Sasuke on top was his precision and technique that he had spent hours perfecting. Naruto just telegraphed his movements too much, making it easy to exploit his weakness.
Sasuke remembered a particular session, when Naruto had finally been able to get through his guard and deliver a clean hit to his jaw, knocking him back. The blonde had been so shocked and ecstatic that Sasuke was easily able to bounce back and answer Naruto's hit with two jabs to the stomach and a kick to the head.
The boy fell on his back trying to regain the wind that had been knocked out of him. As he reeled on the ground, Sasuke absentmindedly rubbed his jaw. That had actually really hurt.
Before the blonde could get back up and retaliate, Iruka had intervened naming Sasuke the victor. Naruto grumbled but stuck his hand out when Iruka asked him to make the seal of reconciliation. Sasuke returned the gesture and smirked at him.
It hadn't been one of his arrogant smirks, but rather a smirk of acknowledgement. He had actually gotten a clean hit on him for the first time, and he had done without resorting to any tricks. He had done it purely with his own ability in taijutsu. The blonde had been surprised by the hidden message and offered one of his rare, grateful smiles in return.
Sasuke was never able to find out how the blonde had managed to get that fast. His pride prevented him from simply asking the boy how he had done it. Even if he knew deep down that Naruto was better than he appeared, he would rather be caught in the midst of a sea of roaring fan girls than ask the "dead last" for help.
The thought made him shiver. He supposed he could do worse than having the blonde as a teammate. At least he was passionate about a topic uncommon in the shinobi world. It would at least be better than being paired with the Haruno or the Yamanaka. He shuddered again as he turned his attention out of the window again. He watched the bird flying over head as he began to think about his training regiment he would begin when class was finally over.
Hiashi Hyuuga sat at his desk shifting through the mountain of paper work that was the bane of all clan leaders in Konoha. As he worked on his proposal to another clan, he found his thoughts drifting back to the puzzle that had surrounded his eldest daughter.
It had been two years since the incident within the Hyuuga Clan library, and his mind was still trying to process what exactly had happened.
For centuries, the main family was tasked with advancing the research and decryption of the mysterious stone ring. After numerous attempts and years of research, only a handful of lines had ever been translated. Only two things were known for certain about the stone: that it required the byakugan to read its contents and the history surrounding how the stone arrived under the clan.
The monument had been a treasure safeguarded within the Hyuuga compound long before they migrated to Konoha. During the times of feuding clans, it was a shrine where the current leader would come under the full moon and meditate in the center. It was said to contain the secret origins of the clan, the byakugan, and the true duty of the clan. In the clan's early years, only the current clan leader was informed of the secrets within the tablet and how to reveal them.
Now, no one knew its contents. Many cited this due to a particular fire that had erupted during a surprise attack on the clan's compound. The raid from a rival clan resulted in almost half of the clan's documents being destroyed. While some scrolls could be rewritten from memory, some information was forever lost. The leader of the clan had perished during the battle, and had failed to pass on the secrets of the shrine to his heir.
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