AN OBSCURE LOVE

WARNING: In the beginning of the French translation of Naruto, Uchiha was spelled "Uchiwa". Then, all my writing are writing Uchiwa too. Dont BOTHER me with that.

NDA: For the chronology, that occurs after Itachi (and Kisame, --but who care of Kisame? He isn't a bishonen.. . on the other hand Itachi.. . mmmmmm) tried to take away Naruto and escaped.

First chapter: remember

Quiet and discrete as always, Hinata goes in the streets of the village of Konoha. She heard what the professors said between them, she learned what had occured at Sasuke and Kakashi, and at Naruto. She wouldn't be entitled to know. . But she spied on Jounins with her Byakugan, reading on their lips after they brought back Sasuke to the hospital. To tell the truth, she wanted to know how Naruto was. And she had learned THAT...

That Itachi was back.

Itachi.. . Itachi Uchiwa.. . Itachi.. .

Feeling tears to go up in her eyes, Hinata started to run. She don't want anybody to see her crying.. she enters the forest and stops in a small clearing where she lets finally her pain spout out.

she cries in an uncontrolled way while her memories remake surface brutally. It was so a long time, why, why I'm not able to forget it?!

--Flash Back

It was the end of the afternoon, and Hinata only wandered in the forest. she had bad marks in the academy and she didn't dare to go home to announce it to her father. he was disappointed so much of her weakness and her bad results. However Hinata did all that she could, she wants that her parents are proud of her. ... Then she took refuge in the close forest among trees and bushes, so discrete that the animals let she go among them without fleeing.

Suddenly, her glance fixed on the ground had seen a pair shoe appear right in front of her. Frightened, she raised her head and discovered that an Anbu was upright in front of her. he wasn't tall and his face was hidden by a mask representing cat-like. Hinata began to tremble of fright facing this powerful unknown man.

"What are you doing here, little girl?"

Hinata felt fear paralyse her and didn't manage to answer. Then the Anbu withdrew his mask, revealing a face which fixed in the spirit of Hinata. Delicate and still childish features , the young boy wasn't more than 12 years. Black eyes bordered of long black lashes looked at her calmly. Long black mock of hair fell down on both sides of its frontal stringcourse with drawing of leaf. The remainder of his hair was attached in his back by a bond. He doesn't say anything while Hinata detailed his face, noting that the small girl gradually ceased trembling.

Hinata felt a heatwave invade her gently. she felt reassured. . strangely. Even when she was with her father, she didn't feel so calms. She wasn't afraid. Timidly, the small girl advances towards the Anbu and put her small hand in his .
And always in silence, they moved towards the village, enjoying the quiet company one of the other. When they arrived close to the residence of Hyuga, the boy stopped and said:
"You are a Hyuga,aren't you the heiress? what is your name?"
"Hi.. . Hinata." she answered with her soft voice. she raised her eyes towards him.
"I am Itachi. Itachi Uchiwa."
She had heard about him, the genius of the Uchiwa clan. Her father would have liked that she is able to compete with him for the honor of the Hyuga clan. Hinata felt suddenly shame of keep close to so strong personn, she which was so weak. Releasing the hand of the boy, she left, running to home without turning over nor even thanking him. He looked at she leaving, his glance reflected . . . little sadness.

When they met again in the forest, Hinata hiding to cry, Itachi seeking calms and loneliness, she asked for forgiveness of have left without thanking him , nor saying him goodbye. An unperceivable smile floated on the lips of the boy. Hinata didn't control well the byakugan and had difficulty to decipher the feelings of people, but she understood those of Itachi. From this day, they were often found in the quietude of the forest. Hinata was intimidated a little at the beginning, and Itachi spoke little. But gradually they managed to open their heart one with the other. Itachi appreciated the softness and the kindness of the small young lady. She alleviated him. Hinata felt in confidence with Itachi. With him, she could be herself without having shame of it.
She also learned to know the feelings which hid behind the beautiful face, this darkness which slept at the bottom of him, this vacuum which sometimes made he doubt. An inextinguishable thirst for power which made he seeks always further. An indifference for the life, the death, the pain and the other men. Terrible fate of this child-man, not having never had right to the weakness and innocence.

And Hinata understood that soon the village would be too narrow for him, that he would need space and wind, freedom. That he would soon leave alone, in the search of his ideal. And Hinata understood that this day came when she found him in the forest this day. His glance indicated that his decision was made.
"Then, do you leave?"
he didn't reveal surprise by the fact she guessed his intentions.
"Yes, I come to say you good-bye, Hinata."
"You can't ...take me with you ?"
"Not. I want leave alone. And you are too small, you would be a burden."
Words were harder than usually and the tears went up in the white eyes of the young girl.
"you will return. .?"
He addressed a last glance, a sad smile and he left.

Hinata cried much, hidden in the forest. Later, she learned that all the clan of Uchiwa had been massacred. She felt a little guilty. She could have guessed that he would test his force before leaving. . But somehow. the Uchiwa was also those which had learned him how to kill without scruples. she also, ideally, should be able of it, but she was too sensitive to hurt the others.

Hinata didn't return any more in the forest. She turned away from night and silence. She did all to forget him. She turned towards the blue sky and the sun, towards the noise, the laughter and the innocence of another child of same age. she thought of having succeeded in choking her feelings for Itachi.

End of flash back