A/N Hello, it is Kanelbullen here. I just wanted to tell you that originally this story belongs to Hinatareid1325. I was just asked to adopt it, which I gladly did. However, the plotline will follow it what she planned and therefore I have no credits for that and besides she wrote the story from chapter 1-6. I start from the 7th chapter
Hinata took a ragged breath, releasing it into the cool morning air. Her hair was messy and her clothes were ruffled and wrinkled as if she had been sleeping in them. Her pale eyes were paler than usual as was her face. Bags clouded the surface beneath her eyelids, seemingly showing that she had sleeping only rarely. Her joyful expression that she normally wore was gone as was the childish aura she was always surrounded by. Her two best friends were gone as well. They were both eight feet beneath the surface of the ground she was currently hunched over.
In the distance a masked man was stalking her, watching her fall apart when she thought no one was looking. He scanned her face, trying to make out the slightest detail possible, but out of nowhere, tears welled up in her eyes and made their way down her round face. He'd seen this girl constantly every time he'd made his way over to this side of Konoha, she stayed here all day leaning against the burial rock staring at the sky, it sometimes frightened him the way she looked so blank, her eyes like lavender holes that led to nothing. His old teammate would sometimes join her and they would talk for a few minutes and it would fall silent. The masked man stopped walking and sat down dangled his legs off the side of the branch and watched her closely. His old teammate walked toward the girl and sat beside her. He said something, because she opened her mouth and spoke back, standing up, he made his way to a tree closer to the pair and plopped down, he didn't like being nosy.
"Would you like to meet Obito and Rin, Hinata-chan?" He watched his teammate with curiosity in his eyes. He watched her smile brighten when Kakashi mentioned his name and the girl who turned him into what he was.
"Yes Kakashi-sensei, it would be and honor." His eyes followed the pair to his and Rin's tombstones, which were both side by side.
"Hinata, I'd like you to meet Rin, and Obito." He motioned toward thin air and bowed at the girl who'd loved the jounin until the very end. He watched her long blue hair fall in front of her eyes as she bowed politely to where his ghost should've been. Her smile as bright as his old crushes was. She did the same thing with 'Rin' and giggled.
"Kakashi-senpai?" He turned to her questioningly.
"What were they like? Rin and Obito?" She tugged at the edge of her jounin vest hoping she hadn't offended him. The masked man chuckled lightly, this girl was acting like Rin would've she had asked that question.
"Well, Rin. I guess you could say she was just like you but a bit more open to her crush," He chuckled at the thought of his old friend acting flustered like Hinata used to be around Naruto, but ever since Kiba and Shino died, she'd been avoiding everyone, especially the blonde. "How is that going by the way, you and that idiot, you seem to be avoiding him like the plague."
"I have realized that my feelings for him are not what I thought they were, I've noticed that the only feelings I have for him now is all just admiration," Hinata paused and giggled "and he doesn't have the upper-hand when it comes to being smart,"
"Haha, your very right on that. It's probably all the ramen he eats, he lives off of the stuff practically," He paused for a moment and let the picture of his old rival cloud his mind. "And Obito, he was a replica of Naruto, except he was a lot smarter, and had a better taste in style. Wore goggles, orange and blue, spiked black, almost blue hair," He paused when she smiled again "If Obito was here with us, he'd probably be flirting with you in every way possible. He liked girls like you," Obito smirked under his orange mask, he was tempted to jump down there now, and talk to his old teammate and this girl he said that was like his long dead love.
"If you were born when we were, you'd probably like him, he needed someone to love him, but his life was cut short, his parents focused on his siblings more than him, he was the weakling in their eyes. But I know, deep down that he would've done something great for this village, if we hadn't been ambushed by those ninja,"
Her eyes lowered and she looked at her hands. "I can relate to him very much. My father never really cared about me either. Hanabi-san will always be his favorite. I'm just a minor distraction to him and that's all that I will ever be in his eyes.."
It stayed quiet for a mere four minutes and Hinata remembered the conversation she and her sensei had a few days ago. "Madara Uchiha was the one who replicated you and killed her? Rin?" She bit her lip and looked up at him with a confused look lacing her eyes.
"Yes, and we're still trying to figure out why,"
It took Obito a few minutes to process his words before he shot up and rushed out of the forest, not realizing the limb that had been snapped as he took off.
"Did you hear something?" Kakashi spoke, not quite sure who would be out here so early.
Hinata looked at him and nodded. Activating her byakugan, she scanned the area and spotted a huge amount of chakra, flaring around in a tall body, her eyes widened as it disappeared quickly as she saw it.
"I just saw a large mass of chakra but it disappeared!" She spoke loudly, standing up. He joined her on his feet and looked toward the area Hinata had looked a few moments before, wondering in his mind if it was something they needed to worry about, it could've been a jounin academy teacher running after a student. He finally decided that they'd be better safe than sorry.
"You need to go and report this to Tsunade-sama, come back here to me when she gives you orders, I'll try to be of help."
"Hai, Kakashi-san," Hinata took off at a sprint toward the Hokage's tower. Not stopping until she reached the office door.
"Come in!" The busty Hokage's voice rang through the door as she opened it, panting from her long run there.
"What is it Hinata-chan?" The blonde's loud voice directed at the Hyuga heir.
"Kakashi and I were speaking at the memorial about his teammates and.." She put her hands on her knee's trying to pull oxygen into her lungs. "When I mentioned Madara and Rin Nohara's death, there was a noise behind us and it was running from our direction like they were in a hurry. I used by byakugan and there was a huge flare of chakra, and I couldn't recognize who ever it was,"
"Alright that seems very suspicious. I want you to gather up some of the other jounin and head to where you saw him last, we might be able to get evidence or clue's as to who this person was and why he took off so suddenly," She held up her painted finger motioning her to stop while she took a long drag from her sake bottle "and I want you to lead the team, you have worked very hard and you are one of my strongest jounin as of now, now go and gather your team and when you get info, come to me."
The Hyuga fell in a stupor as she felt the imaginary butterflies getting caught in a war inside her stomach after getting that praise from the Hokage herself, she almost forgot her task at hand, she quickly collected herself and bowed. "Hai, Tsunade-sama,"
She took off and headed back to where she left the copycat ninja waiting for her return.
