Disclaimer: Not mine, I do not own Naruto.

First A/N: This is my first fanfiction, please be nice to me. It is a bit scary and nerve wracking since there is a chance of getting harsh or rude comments but it's exciting as well.

Second A/N: *Actually my story has been deleted by my idiotic friend and I didn't know until weeks later so unfortunately I couldn't recover it. but I'm keeping the chapter same except for the second A/N.

Sorry to all the people who had reviewed, favorited or followed my story,I apologise from the deepest pits (armpits?) of my heart. I really mean it, except for the armpit, it just randomly came to me.*

XD :) This is inspired by 'Summoner Nin' by the point.

Have fun reading.


Shinigami's Fire Child

Chapter One: To Begin of the Beginning

Hinata stood nervously outside the door of the mother's medical room.

The silence made it worse.

She felt a chill, although there were no open windows and no open doors, perhaps it was the cold glares of the nurses whenever they passed her. After all, why wouldn't the Branch members curse the Main House members for their imprisonment? They would always curse the jailors, no matter how young or old they were.

The young Hyuga poked her index fingers together, hesitantly trying to peek through the gap of the door.

She knew it wasn't normal for it to be silent, she wished for screams and shrieks and wails to come flying from the room, and she meant no harm, she wished only it for the best.

This was her mother in labour.

And the 5 year old had secretly snuck out of her bed many times to ask the slightly kinder branch members about it. Although they were cold to her, at least they answered her questions, and that was how her knowledge of labour came to be.

She wished it was true that storks or sparrows, whichever one of the lot, gave people a baby but she knew that reality was harsh, and it meant there was another life inside her mother's stomach. It felt alien to her and she told her father about it, Hiashi Hyuga simply told her to leave it be and concentrate on mastering the Hyuga techniques.

And so... for the early months of her mother's pregnancy she clinged onto herself for support, totally unprepared for this new arrival and then she thought even more... would the new baby replace her?

Until later on in the year, her mother confronted her and gently comforted her, she showed Hinata her usual love and the young Hyuga beamed with happiness. It was subtle but enveloping and it was the essence of the Hyuga's way of love. Of course her mother adapted the version slightly. ;)

She played with her and talked to her, even asking her what to name the baby, in which Hinata grew to love her beloved mother and her unborn baby sister even more.

So when the time finally came for her mother to give birth, she decided she would wait patiently and smile at both her mother and sister when she was allowed to see them.

She waited there and slept on the floor, her head leaning on the door. It didn't matter if Hyugas weren't supposed to do that or if she was an heiress.

She would stoop low, because after all, it was for her mother.


When Hinata woke up, she felt an uncomfortable aching in her neck. What troubled her was that she felt a warm liquid on her face which she could tell was starting to dry.

It was spit.

The young heiress felt her spirit buckle under the pressure of the shame and sadness in her heart.

She couldn't quite place the words, after all the little one knew she would be hated by many Branch members of her clan but it shocked her that they would do such a shameful thing. She couldn't express her feelings, she was only 5.

The screams and shrieks took her back to reality, it was her mother's.

And although she had wished for it before, the pained screams made Hinata regret making her wish, she only wished that so her mother would be safe.

But now it sounded anything but safe.


Hours after she woke up, Hinata decided to find a hiding spot to hide in and she finally spotted the Hyuga nurses coming out, one by one, from her small corner.

"Finally!" one nurse said with exasperation.

"I know I was thinking that we would be there for another day. Curse Lady Hyuga's damn child, delaying us so much. I have children to take care of too." Another said with hidden anger

"At least, we have a break now."

"Better spend it well before Hiashi-sama comes raging in to complain about that Lady Hyuga again."

"However long it her child took, be thankful that we have Lady Hyuga's kindness to shield us from Hiashi-sama." One of them said, with gratitude in her voice.

And the others all agreed with a faint smile for their kind mistress before scampering off to enjoy their break, and to which Hinata knew it was time for her to slip into the medical room. There she saw her mother breathing heavily, with her eyes closed and a small bundle in her arm.

"O-Okaa-san?" she breathed quietly.

Her mother slowly turned towards her and smiled at her arrival and tenderly gestured for her to come to her.

"Oh… Hinata what are you doing here?"

"I-I waited f-for you okaa-san," she beamed.

"A-and t-the baby." She added after a second thought, in which her mother laughed weakly to.

"Have you decided what to call your sister, my sunshine?" she murmured softly.

"H-Hanabi."

"Oh?" her mother raised her eyebrow with a soft smile, "Why is…that?"

"Because the f-fireworks are so b-bright and I hope she turns very s-shiny and bright and everyone loves t-the fireworks…u-umm…" she struggled to come up with more reasons.

That's when her mother suddenly gasped and started breathing heavily, almost panting.

"O-Okaa-san?" Hinata asked nervously

"H-Hinata…" she tried to speak, breathing much more heavily as she did.

"O-Okaa-san, s-shall I call t-the n-nurse? I-I am s-scared f-for you, o-okaa-san…" Hinata spoke faster, babbling as she went.

Her mother raised a hand and gently calmed her down, smiling at her with complete confidence and reassurance.

"H-Hinata this has h-happened to me… before… when you w-were… born, but this…" she paused, panting, "t-this time… I'm sure I won't make it. I w-would… rather s-spend it with you…"

"My d-daughter… y-you have... to do something f-for me… d-do it for me…" and then she continued without letting her daughter respond.

"Take o-out the second t-tile on t-the wall… y-yes t-that one…take it out."

Hinata was shocked to see a huge roll of paper inside the wall but did as her mother instructed. She soon found out that the huge roll of paper which towered over her small height was called a scroll.

"I w-want… y-you t-to learn it…Hinata… I-I beg y-you my d-daughter….l-learn it."

"H-Hai…" the young Hyuga replied, sounding slightly scared.

"Promise…m-me y-you will take c-care… of Hanabi. Take care of y-your father… the w-whole clan." She breathed slowly, steading her words.

"Hug me once Hinata." Her mother said with desperation.

"Okaa-san!" she hugged her mother, uncertain of what was happening, she just knew that she needed to hug her mother who looked ill. She was totally unaware that these may be her mother's last words.

She was hugged back by her mother and a pair of tiny hands.

"L-Let no o-one see the s-scroll, not… even your f-father. Only the H-Hokage and that's if he finds o-out or else don't."

Her mother let go and said.

"Run… Hinata a-and hide it. My daughter r-run…"

She ran, and then she figure rightly so, because if she hadn't then the Hyuga nurses would have caught her. She heard them scream 'Lady Hyuga!' when she was in the end of the corridor and ran away, hiding the scroll in a safe place when she got back to her bedroom.

By the time she got back to the room and peeked through the gap of the door before scurrying back to her room as a Hyuga nurse spotted her and glared at her, somehow willing for daggers to come out of her eyes and stab the poor child.

Hinata scurried back very quickly to avoid the nurse's scurried away so quickly that she nearly knocked over an old Hyuga maid, and didn't take a second glance. She scurried away so quickly that she was completely out of breath when she reached her room.

In fact, Hinata scurried away so quickly she missed the final words of her mother.

"Hanabi is a nice name, ne, Hiashi?"


Hours later after the group of nurses had left, Hiashi stared blankly at his unresponding wife; his beautiful, gentle wife, the other half of his soul… gone.

"Come back." He commanded her.

Nothing.

He tried so many times, it didn't work. Then grief took him, and cradled with his heart.

"Come now, get up, my dearest."

"Come back, I beg you." He tried again, "Come now, my sweet wife, we'll watch our children grow and look at the fireworks together."

She lay still.

A tear dropped down from his eye to her cheek, their teardrop streamed together, connected by their undying love.

"I love you…" he croaked, his heart wrenching under his chest.

"How will I live without you?" he questioned with maddened grief.


In the night, Hanabi's wails echoed throughout the Hyuga Compound, protected her father, masking Hiashi's weeping and saving his dignity as the clan head.


The Hokage was shocked to hear that the Hyuga clan was hosting a funeral, and for Hiashi's wife.

If only Minato was here… then he could have retired and had the time to relax and finally forget about the stress of the whole village in his hands… but then that's just how things turned out to be, he thought sadly.

And of course, he was shattered when he found out he had to cut off on Icha Icha Paradise reading time because of this funeral, but he was came to pay respects to the whole Hyuga clan.

Hiashi Hyuga's wife was a kind woman who welcomed him warmly and offered him her tea and dumplings whenever he came.

The Hokage noted there were important guests from all around the Shinobi nations, all the kages and their powerful supporters, maybe even their ANBU-levelled apprentices. Everyone had come, and they should. Only foolish ones would dare deny the request of the clan rumoured to be one of the four most powerful dojutsu clans, it would be like playing with fire and in the end they would all be burned.

The Hyuga clan were solely loyal to Konoha, but he was sure the Hyuga clan liked a leader who would attend to their requests rather than a leader who disregarded them. If he was that kind of leader, he would have been slapped by his forefathers and also he was sure that the Hyuga clan wouldn't be too pleased about that.

He suddenly saw the eldest child of Hiashi's and pitied her, he knew Hiashi was strict and without her mother's soft touch who knows how this child will be turn up in the future? He was certain she would suffer.

Soon after the burial ceremony had finished, it started raining heavily which resulted to everyone shuffling back to the Hyuga Compound for some shelter and protection from the pelting rain.

The Hokage saw something outside from the window and he instantly went out to investigate, since he had a sinking suspicion about what or who might be out in the rain.

His suspicion was correct.

The 5 year old daughter of the clan head, stood there, mournfully staring at the grave of her mother.

"O-Okaa-san…"

"Y-You never told m-me… that y-you were going t-to… die…" she whispered, "You j-just said y-you wanted to s-spend some t-time with me. If I k-knew… this w-was going t-to h-happen then I w-would have told t-the n-nurses right away."

"C-come back okaa-san."

"I promise I'll look a-after Hanabi and o-otou-san r-really well, s-so you can c-come b-back now." she sniffed

"C-come back n-now!" she cried, stomping her feet on the ground. It was almost like a temper tantrum, the hokage sighed sadly as he saw the scene, the child was only five but yet the hesitant way she stomped already told him that this was her first time experience for her.

He was sure it may be the first and last time for her as Hiashi would practically kill her if she didn't conduct herself as a proper 'Hyuga' and to her status; the heiress.

He leaned in, barely managing to hear her. The rain was pouring down even more heavily, drenching both the Sandaime and the small mournful Hyuga heiress.

"E-Everyone needs y-you. I n-need you. I m-made a p-promise to you to protect Hanabi, but h-how will I d-do t-that?"

She bowed down to her mother's grave, her face touching the ground her mother was buried in then she wiped her tears.

"O-Okaa-san, y-you told m-me to a-always h-have the Will of Fire." she smiled sadly, "so I'll do my best."

The Hokage looked with astonishment, was she truly 5?

She spoke like someone more mature and of a bigger age, and the thing he admired most, she spoke with so much resolve.

Hinata, the heiress of the cold and arrogant Hyugas, spoke with so much kindness and hidden Will of Fire while being drenched in the down pour of rain. He mused, the little Hyuga truly was something.


"Hello," he smiled kindly.

"H-Hello." She squeaked back before her eyes widened. She hurried into a clumsy bow as she realised that he was the Third Hokage of the village, the village leader.

"H-Hokage-sama, f-forgive m-me f-for being v-very v-very berry rude." Realising her mistake, she scrambled to put her hands on her mouth embarrassedly.

"Very, n-not b-berry H-Hokage-sama."

The Hokage laughed at the stumbling Hyuga, just like a kindly old man who found something funny should.

"Don't worry, it's quite funny actually. Hinata-chan is it?"

"H-Hai." She whispered, her fringe dripping with droplets of rain.

"Wait a second, Hinata-chan." The Hokage put a hand up and fiddled with his cloak.

He suddenly pulled out a pick frilly umbrella, quite large actually, with prints of humorous little monkeys dancing about. Then covered their heads over to protect them from the rain.

"So Hinata-chan…"

"H-Hai h-hokage-sama?"

He frowned and shook his head at Hinata before telling her the reason why.

"Hokage-sama makes me seem so old." He droned with childish annoyance.

"Call me Jii-chan!" he flashed a very shiny smile.

Hinata was confused with that twisted logic, and her young 5 year old mind was working hard to figure out why the hokage said such weird things. It was mind boggling, but she agreed to it simply.

"O-Okay… J-Jii-chan."

The Hokage beamed with happiness and flashed another shiny, almost eye-blinding, white toothed smile. Hinata thought sluggishly, that surely only angels were capable of such white teeth and that eye watering smile.

She looked back at the Hokage once her eyes stopped twitching and watering.

~ The Hokage looked victorious, he sure was glad that Might Gai gave him some tips on how to brighten his day (teeth), and boy it sure worked a treat! ~

Hinata prepared herself as the hokage suddenly looked very victorious and totally aiming to converse with her.

She gulped as took one final glance at the unusual umbrella and smiled nervously.

Then they talked a little more, Hinata was opening up and she wasn't stuttering as much. The Sandaime was really friendly and let her pull his beard.

"J-Jii-chan, I'm not sure h-how to t-take care o-of the clan…" she sighed

"A-Am I supposed to b-be 'Hyuga' just like f-father said?"

The hokage felt sad to see the young Hyuga troubled by such a thing no young child should face. He felt deeply sorry for her.

"Never Hinata-chan." he wanted to guide the young Hyuga, "You must never be like the Hyuga, and I can see kindness is in your heart. Will you really be cold or arrogant? No, never… your mother would have never wanted that for you..."

"Okaa-san…" she whispered to herself, her eyes open. Realising what the hokage said was true, after all her mother always told her to be Hyuga was not always best.

Her mother always told the young Hyuga hopes for her, how she wanted Hinata to be happy and not be so Hyuga-like.

"Thanks J-Jii-chan."

Smiles and sweets were shared.

Hinata received a strawberry flavour lollipop and was happy and relieved to hear those words, those words that lit up her whole spirit and filled it with hope.

She hoped she would stay strong and hopeful.

Also, she smiled.

She was pretty sure she had got herself a very nice, kind grandpa.


Constructive criticism allowed.

A/N: This is a fanfiction that I hope will be quite long or at least medium sized. I hope you will all be sweet to this amateur writer.

Tired Symphony.