Hello! I'm Lavender Wallflower and this is my first fanfiction story. Therefore, I hope you enjoy.
P.S. I have rewritten this first chapter because some information is inconsistent and unnecessary; also, I forgot to add a crucial detail that is very important for the future chapters.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Chapter 1
Out in a clearing stood a young girl, about 13, wearing a pink Chinese shirt, black cargo pants, black trainers, and her chocolate brown hair in two buns. She was tapping her foot on the grassy ground impatiently.
'Hinata, where the hell are you?' she thought. "When you get here I'm going to kill you!" she said aloud not noticing someone walked up behind her.
"Tenten, isn't that a little too harsh?" the other girl said. "I mean," she continued while looking down at her blue digital watch, "I'm only what? A couple minutes late?" the new girl looked up at her friend, very light lavender eyes sparkling with mischief, ear length midnight blue hair with longer bangs framing her face, blowing in the spring breeze.
"Try two hours Hinata Hyuuga!" her browned eyed friend yelled. Hinata winced at the volume of her friends' angry voice.
"I'm sorry Tenten really," Hinata said with her head hung low.
"Sigh, its ok Hinata. Sorry I yelled," Tenten replied. Hinata quickly perked up.
"It's ok Tenten," she said. Tenten just smiled.
"So you ready?" Tenten asked.
"Yep."
"Got your video camera?"
"Always," Hinata said as she lifted the left side of her tan jacket a bit to reveal a lavender belt on top of her blue jeans, with a black pouch attached to the belt hoop. She pulled out a small hand-sized black video camera that had the initials H.H in lavender and a blue topaz in the shape of a teardrop next to the initials.
"Awesome, new video camera?" Tenten asked.
"Yeah, my dad just got it for me, that's why I was late." Hinata replied.
"Hinata, you're so lucky you're rich," Tenten said as she grabbed the camera and tried to find out how to work it. After a while, "GAAH! How the fucken hell do you work this freaken machine!"
"Tenten seriously you gotta stop swearing it's not lady like."
"Hinata it's the 20th century. Women are police officers, they're in the army, and they can freaken swear as much as they want. We're in 2004 not 1704, I'm a modern girl; I can take care of myself. I don't mind a little help now and again of course but I don't depend on it." Tenten said as she strangled the camera.
"Well I guess that that's why my nii-san likes you. You're independent," Hinata said. Tenten stopped a blush on her face thinking about Hinata's 'brother', who by blood is really Hinata's cousin, who she, Tenten, is madly in love with.
"Hello Tenten? Anyone home?" Hinata said as she tapped on Tentens' head. "Man, Tenten, you're more of an airhead than Ino Yamanaka."
"Huh? What? I mean yes …. Wait. NO, I AM NOT! HOW DARE YOU COMPARE ME TO THAT DUMB BLONDE! …. Fuck! How the hell do you work this stupid machine?" Tenten shouted again jumping mad. Hinata sweat dropped.
"Here," she said and took away the video cam before Tenten could injure it or herself. "You just press the red button on the top, open it up and viola, it's on and recording." Hinata finished and pointed the camera at Tenten. From the small screen, Hinata could see Tenten with her hand balled in fists and muttering profanities about technology. Another sweat drop.
"Ok… let's go to Heaven's Lake and video tape the butterflies," Hinata said and walked toward a worn path surrounded by thick oak trees. Tenten, now back to normal, followed. After a couple of minutes, the girls could see some light coming through a couple of tall bushes. As they were about to step out they heard 2 voices already out by the lake.
"Hm, wonder who it is," Tenten said and pulled aside a part of the bush so they could see better. They first saw a girl their age, with bubble gum pink shoulder length hair, green eyes, and wearing a red dress that reached mid thigh, with black tights that reached her knees underneath, and red trainers.
"What's Sakura doing here?" Tenten asked Hinata. She shrugged as she held up the video camera by her neck until she saw the other person.
"Naruto-kun?" Hinata whispered. It was true the other person was none other than Naruto Uzumaki Hinata's crush since they were probably in pre-school He had spiky blonde hair, that seemed to never have had a brush go through it, cerulean eyes, and he strangest thing was that he had 3 whisker like scars on each cheek. Today he was wearing an orange shirt with a red spiral in the front, a sleeveless black jacket, black pants and trainers.
"Now I'm really confused, Sakura would never hang out with Naruto," Tenten said.
"Hey Sakura!" Naruto said and spun around the pink-haired girl, named Sakura, and planted a kiss on her lips.
CRASH! Tenten looked to her right where Hinata was suppose to be and the sound had come from, only to see that the video camera was on the ground. That's what caused the crash the video camera hitting the dirt.
"Oh my God. It's still on, dang it Hinata must have recorded everything by accident. Seeing this once has done enough damage," Tenten said as she picked up the video camera. "Damn I don't know how to turn it off. Fuck forget it, first I have to go give Sakura a piece of my mind for what she did," Tenten muttered and turned toward the other two by the lake. 'What the hell' she thought as she saw the scene of Naruto and Sakura before her. 'I think Hinata's going to want to see this' she thought and started recording.
Meanwhile
'Why Naruto-kun? Why did you kiss Sakura!?,' these were some thoughts running through Hinata's head as she ran from the lake to her home in the Hyuuga mansion, tears flowing freely down her pale delicate cheeks. 'Just yesterday you told me you loved me Naruto-kun!'
FLASHBACK
It was Friday and Hinata was waiting for her father to pick her up outside the gates of Konoha Junior High.
'He's always late! Sigh; well he cares enough to pick up Hanabi-chan, Nii-san and me every day.' She thought as a small smile graced her features.
"Hey Hinata!" A loud voice brought her out of her musings.
"Naruto-kun!" the smile left her face to only be replaced by a pink blush on her cheeks and across her nose.
"The one and only." Naruto said with a foxy grin. There was a long pause. "Umm… Hinata?" Hinata turned to him. "I … uh … wanna tell you …. something."
'Why is Naruto-kun stuttering?' Hinata thought. Naruto turned to Hinata an unreadable expression on his face.
"I've liked you for a long time, and now I want to say that I love you," he said with a small genuine smile on his face.
'WHAT! Ok ok … did Naruto-kun just say that he loves me! YESSSS! I should tell him too. Don't faint Hinata and remember to breathe.' She thought.
Naruto-kun …. I-I love you too," she said.
"Y-you d-do?" Naruto said with a dumbfounded look on his face.
"Yeah," she reassured him. BEEP! BEEP! A black Ferrari pulled up.
"Ano … my dad's here. I gotta go, bye Naruto-kun." Hinata said. Out of impulse, she gave him a light kiss on the lips, and got into the backseat of the car. 'Finally I told him I love him. This is the BEST DAY EVER!' she thought. 'Wait I kissed him!" With that thought, Hinata fainted.
FLASHBACK ENDS
By now, Hinata was bursting through the front doors of her mansion. A young teen with long coffee-brown hair in a low ponytail and light grey eyes walked into the living room and saw his baby sister, really cousin, crying and running up the long staircase.
"Hinata what's wrong?" Neji shouted. 'I'll kill whoever hurt my little sister,' he added in his head. Hinata stopped running up the stairs, but didn't look back at him. She just kept her head down, her body shaking with sobs.
"N-n-naru-to-k-kun he… he…," she couldn't finish. Hinata ran up the rest of the stairs, into her room and slammed the door in the process.
"Damn. Did she find out why Naruto really said he loved her?" Neji whispered to himself.
FLASHBACK
"Hn. I'm proud of you Hinata. You finally told that baka that you loved him.' Neji thought as he watched Hinata get into the backseat of her dad's Ferrari. Naruto was still standing there dumbfounded especially since Hinata had kissed him.
"Damn it," he heard Naruto say once the car was out of earshot.
'One why did Naruto say that? And two my uncle and Hinata just left me here they didn't pick me up! …. Whatever I'll just walk home,' Neji thought. Now his focus went back to Naruto who was walking toward a row of bushes a couple of feet away from the school gate,
"Ok you temes I did the dare now give me my bike back!" Naruto shouted pointing at the bushes.
'It's official Naruto is a complete baka,' Neji thought with a sweat drop. 'I mean those are bushes, and what dare did he do – wait … what the hell?' From the bushes Naruto was in front of 6 other older teens came out with a black bike with orange flames. 'What's the Sound Gang doing here?'
"You're right you did the dare, we're fair, Kidomaru give him his bike back," a boy with long white hair, gray hair and sickly pale skin said. Another boy with black hair in a short ponytail, darker skin, and black eyes tossed Naruto his bike.
"Well that was fun what are we going to do now Kimimaro?" Kidomaru asked the white haired boy.
"We leave," Kimimaro said in monotone.
"Wait you losers," a girl with red hair, dark skin, and black eyes said. "I want to know what Naruto-baka is planning to do with the girl."
"What are you talking about Tayuya-teme?" Naruto shouted to the girl.
"What did you call me? You little no good son of a bitch punk ass retard!" Tayuya shouted.
"Tayuya stop swearing it's not proper for a lady," a large boy with dark skin and an orange mohawk calmly said.
"Shut up Jirobo you fat bastard!" she yelled, again.
"Ignore those idiots," another boy with pale blue hair, pale skin, and a red bead necklace around his neck said.
"Yes but we would like the answer to the question right Sakon?" the boy said to another boy that looked the same, except he didn't have a red bead necklace.
"Yes Ukon we would," replied Sakon.
"Why the hell do you guys care?" Naruto said.
"Well Naruto-baka you wouldn't want to break her heart." Tayuya said with a smirk. Neji was so entranced with the scene in front of him he did not notice Tayuya pull out a tape recorder and hold it by her side.
"Yeah the reason we chose her for you to tell that you loved her was because we knew that she loved you," Kidomaru explained. Naruto stayed quiet.
"Messing with the heart is the best type of torture," Kimimaro said voice devoid of emotion.
"Naruto-baka if you aren't gonna get with Hinata can I have her?" Sakon asked while licking his blue painted lips.
'What the hell? Does that freak think that my baby cousin/sister is an object?' Neji thought angrily.
"I don't love her, do whatever you want I don't care," Naruto said emotionlessly.
"Great then," Sakon said. Naruto started walking away and mounted his bike.
"Oh and Naruto," Sakon said. Naruto turned to face him. "No take backs." Naruto turned his head to the road ahead and rode home.
'If that sicko comes anywhere near Hinata I'm going to kill him!' Neji angrily thought. With that, he turned and started walking home. 'I'm sorry Hinata but I can't tell you this, not ever.'
FLASHBACK ENDS
"Naruto I'm going to kill you right now!" Neji loudly whispered to himself. He started walking toward the door.
"Neji-nii-san!" a small voice rang through the mansion followed by an 8-year-old girl with the same light grey eyes and shoulder length brown hair. "Nii-san will you play with me?"
"I'm sorry Hanabi-chan but I'm busy," Neji said and reached for the doorknob.
"Please, please, please, pretty please with a cherry on top."
"No sorry I have to go."
"Only for three hours nii-san."
"One hour."
"Two," Hanabi said with the ice-cold Hyuuga voice.
'Dang there's no winning now!' "Fine Hanabi-chan I'll play with you for only two hours." 'Then I'll go kill Naruto.' Neji thought.
Meanwhile Upstairs
'Great first the love of my life kisses one of my best friends, the day after he told me he loved me, and now my Dad tells me that he's sending me to America so I can study the Hyuuga business since I'm the true heir! Can't this day get any better!?' Hinata thought bitterly as she fell on her bed, burying her face in her tear stained pillow, whishing that this whole day was just a bad dream.
2 Hours Later
Knock! Knock! "Tenten-chan?" Neji asked as he opened the Hyuuga mansion doors.
"Hi, Neji-kun! Is Hinata home? I checked everywhere else and couldn't find her."
"Yeah about 2 hours ago she came home crying saying something about Naruto," Neji said. "What exactly happened?" 'Like I care I'm still going to pound him for what he did yesterday.'
"It's just that unfortunately we both saw Naruto kissing Sakura. Hinata got upset, ran off, and dropped her video camera," Tenten said holding out the video camera. "And to make things worse she accidently recorded everything, but I got something to show her that I taped that I think will make her feel better and I brought someone over to explain a few things." With that Tenten pulled on someone's arm causing the person to stumble out of their hiding place behind the small trees beside the door.
"So can we both come in?" Tenten asked.
"Yeah just fix this whole mess before it gets worse," Neji said and led Tenten and the other person to Hinata's door.
"Hinata?" Neji said as he stepped inside the lavender colored room. Hinata was lying on her side on her bed facing the window completely still. "Hinata there's someone here to see you."
"I don't want to see anyone right now nii-san. Send the person away please," Hinata said no emotions in her words.
"No way, you ain't getting rid of me that easily Hinata!" Tenten shouted and burst into the room. Hinata didn't move. "Neji-kun please leave the room this is a girl problem." Tenten said.
"But, what about…?" Neji asked pointing a finger at the empty hallway.
"It's all part of my plan." Tenten said and led Neji out of the room. Before she went back in, she had a hushed conversation with the other person.
"OW!" the other person shouted when Tenten bonked her on the head. Finally, Tenten went back in.
"What do you want Tenten?" Hinata said sadly.
"I want you to sit-up, stop feeling depressed, and watch this," Tenten held out the small tape from the video cam and put it into a larger video tape, and popped it into the VCR in Hinata's room.
"Is that the tape from my video camera?" Hinata asked her voice rising.
"Yeah it is," Tenten replied.
"THEN WHY THE HELL SHOULD I WATCH IT! YOU KNOW I RECORDED that stupid kiss…." Hinata whispered the last part and started crying. She was sitting up now. Tenten got her in a hug.
"Hinata don't worry. It took a while but I managed to erase that part of the video. I recorded something else that I think you may want to see," Tenten said. She let go of Hinata, got the remote, and turned on the TV. The screen had static until Tenten pressed play. Next thing you know Tenten and Hinata are watching Naruto get the crap beat out of him.
In the TV:
"What the hell is wrong with you Naruto?" Sakura screamed as she punched him square in the face. "You know I don't freaken like you. Get it through your thick skull. Get over me I will never like you more than a friend. Why can't you see that Hinata likes you, no she freaken loves you, you idiot!" With that, Sakura tossed Naruto, and he flew right out of the forest. By now, Sakura was breathing hard. The video camera then started getting closer to Sakura.
"Hey Sakura," Tenten said behind the camera.
"Huh? Tenten what are you doing here?" Sakura asked
"Oh nothing. Just recording you beating up Naruto, right after he kissed you, which by the way Hinata saw!" Tenten shouted.
"What! Hinata saw!" Sakura shouted. She grabbed the video camera from Tenten's hand and put it in front of her face.
"Hinata!" she said into the video cam. On the TV, all you could see was her large forehead, eyes, nose, lips, and chin.
"I'm so sorry you had to see that, you know that you and Tenten are my best friends. I will never do anything to hurt you guys. Please forgive me… However, if you don't Hinata then know I'm sorry, and I understand if you never want to be my friend. Let alone see me again. I'm sorry…" by now in the TV Sakura had tears rolling down her face. The screen then turned blue. Meaning someone stopped the video for a while.
"So Hinata what's it gonna be?" Tenten asked. Hinata got up off her bed, went to her vanity, got a brush and started brushing her short tangle mess of hair.
"Hinata?" Tenten asked confused.
"I have to go find Sakura. I have to tell her that I forgive her," Hinata answered still brushing.
"But why?" Tenten asked trying to test how much Hinata really cared for her and Sakura. "She kissed the guy you love that is unforgivable!"
"Tenten! How can you say that? Yes, I love Naruto with all my heart, but I love you two too, you're both like my sisters. Guys are whatever, but girls are forever." Hinata said.
"That's all I needed to hear Hinata," Tenten said as she pulled Hinata into another hug. "Hey Sakura get in here!" she shouted. In a flash Hinata was locked in a tight hug by Sakura, who kept repeating 'I'm so sorry' over and over again.
"Sakura it's ok, I forgive you," Hinata said.
"Thank you, thank you, you're the greatest most forgiving person I've ever met." Sakura said letting go and wiping away her tears.
"So…. Ano…. Is Naruto-kun ok?" Hinata asked. The two other girls fell anime style.
"How the hell can you ask about that jerk?" Sakura shouted.
"You should hate him; he broke your heart Hinata!" Tenten added.
"I love him that's how. Even if he broke my heart I could never hate him," Hinata answered looking out the window.
"Fine, but if he hurts you again I'm gonna kill him," Tenten said.
"Me too," Sakura said.
"Me three," Neji said walking into the room.
"How long have you been listening in Neji?" Sakura asked.
"Only for a while, but I'm her older cousin I have to take care of her." Neji said. 'Even if it means hiding the truth from her.' He thought.
"Come on Neji-kun you are legally her older brother, so stop calling yourself her your cousin." Tenten said. It was true after the death of Neji's parents, Hinata's dad, Hiashi Hyuuga, adopted him.
"Yeah yeah I gotta go." Neji said and walked out the door. Before the girls started talking, Neji stuck his head in again, "Hinata I suggest you tell Tenten-chan and Sakura the news before it's too late."
"Yeah," Hinata said with a downcast look on her face. With that, Neji left and the three girls sat down on Hinata's bed.
"What's wrong Hinata?" Sakura asked.
"My dad said that since I'm the heir to Hyuuga corp. I have to learn about business. So I have to take classes at another school."
"Well I don't think it's that bad Hinata. I mean sure you're going to another school, but we'll still see each other after school and on the weekends," Tenten said.
"No, we won't, because the other school I have to go to is in America." Hinata responded.
"AMERICA!" Sakura and Tenten shouted.
"Yeah, because most of the Hyuuga corporations are in America, this is my last school year in Konoha." All three girls started crying.
5 minutes later
"Don't w-worry…. I'll come back in 3 years. I'll be with you guys for junior and senior year in Konoha High," Hinata said with a teary smile.
"Yeah we're best friends for life. Nothings gonna change that, not now not ever." Sakura said.
"But we'll have to make most of the time we have now," Tenten said standing up.
"Yeah," Hinata said. She turned toward the TV "Hey what's that?" she asked, as the TV showed the lake, the videotape was still inside.
"Huh? Oh Tenten recorded something else we think you're gonna like," Sakura said. Suddenly the lake had thousands of butterflies flying over it. Hundreds of colors mingled together as they flew around.
"It's beautiful," Hinata said looking in awe.
"It was Sakura's idea," Tenten said.
"Thanks both of you, you're the greatest best friends a girl can ask for," Hinata said as the three hugged.
2 Months Later
It was now the beginning of summer, and the separation of three best friends. The girls were outside of the Hyuuga gates. Hinata already said good-bye to her dad, Hiashi, sister, Hanabi, and brother, Neji.
"Be careful ok Hinata?" Tenten said.
"We'll miss you. Make friends, but don't forget about us," Sakura added.
"I'll never forget about you two. I'll miss you too. Here I got us three a little present." Hinata pulled out three medium sized velvet boxes. She gave Tenten the brown one, gave Sakura the red one and kept the blue one. "On three we open them ok."
"Ok." The girls answered.
"Ok … one …. Two ….two and a half…."
"Hinata!"
"Fine …. Three."
Snap! The boxes were snapped open. In Tenten's box was a white-gold bracelet with green emeralds around and a grey shuriken charm in the middle. Sakura's box had the same bracelet, except with red rubies, and a pink Sakura blossom charm in the middle. Hinata's bracelet was the same except with blue sapphires and an orange sun charm.
'Blue and orange. Hm …. Naruto-kun's favorite colors. Heh, nowadays everything reminds me of him. But I haven't seen him not even in school.' Hinata thought.
"Friendship bracelets?" Tenten asked.
"Yep they're one of a kind; no other bracelets like ours exist." Hinata said putting hers on, Tenten and Sakura doing the same.
"They're beautiful. This calls for a group call," Sakura said pulling Tenten and Hinata into a rib-crushing hug.
HONK! HONK! A black limo pulled up by the girls.
"Well car's here I gotta go now. Bye Tenten, Sakura," Hinata said. "I love you guys."
"Bye Hinata we love you too. Good luck," Tenten and Sakura chorused. Hinata got into the car and waved goodbye from the open window. Her friends waved back. All three kept waving until they couldn't see each other anymore. The car was now riding through the countryside of Konoha. Hinata sat back in the leather backseat. She placed her hands on the side and on her left side, she felt something. "Huh?" she said as she lifted a bouquet of flowers. In the middle side by side were a white cyclamen, and a white gardenia. Purple hyacinths surrounded the two flowers, and white heathers surrounded the purple hyacinths. With the flowers there was also a card, written on it were the words 'Goodbye'.
'I wonder who gave them to me. They're beautiful,' Hinata thought as the car drove down the street away from her home, family, friends and first love.
"Goodbye Hinata. You're better off without me,' a certain blonde haired, blue eyed, whisker scarred teenager thought as he rode his bike back into the city.