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"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

-Gautama Buddha

Hanabi was lost. She was utterly and devastatingly lost. Now that she was the heiress of the clan what was she to do? Her whole life she had looked up to big sister Hinata only to beat her in a spar. She hated to be the one that caused her kind and gentle sister pain.

'But this is my fate, and you can't change your fate.' she thought bitterly. It was her fate to become the head of the clan and for Hinata to be tossed aside, as a failure. Even if she was kind and gent-'No, I must stay focused on the present. It's Hinata's destiny to be a failure and for me to take over as the head of the clan.' She thought, somberly.

Not only that, but father didn't even congratulate her, much less show any form of happiness for her now that she was the heiress. He only focused on the wrongdoings of Hinata, talking about how she was "Five years your senior." Making it seem like Hanabi only won because of Hinata's wrongdoings and not her own strength. 'I don't even want to be the Hyūga h-'

Bang! Bang! Bang!

She was broken from her thoughts by a loud banging noise. She looked up to see a boy about her own age pounding his fists into a tree close by. He hadn't noticed her yet, 'which isn't surprising considering the racket he's making.' she thought, annoyed. She had come here to be alone in her thoughts. Now she couldn't even focus with that loud banging. She huffed loudly and crossed her arms. She looked up at him only to notice his hands had blood on them. Probably from hitting the tree for too long and too hard. 'Idiot, training hard won't help you change your fate.' she thought Disapprovingly.

He kept going for a while, not showing any sign of stopping soon. It was amazing how he could still go on, Hanabi could tell most of his chakra was used up. 'Any sane person would stop and go home by now.' Hanabi thought curiously.

Hanabi just sat there and watched him. He kept going with all his strength even now. When she realized what she was doing and decided to clear her throat to get his attention, rather than he notice her and she be accused of...well gawking. "Ahem." He continued to pound his fists into the tree, Hanabi tried again louder, "Ahem!" This time he glanced over at her.

There wasn't anything that special about him in her opinion. He had light olive skin, and messy hair black as coal that stuck up on every end. The only thing that caught her eye was his deep diamond-like turquoise eyes. Though it wasn't the rare color that caught her attention, it was the glint in his eyes. All of the times she had looked into her sister's eyes, they always looked tortured and dead inside. There was an empty hollowness about them. But he had something in his eyes her sister didn't. Hanabi couldn't place her finger on what though.

Hanabi looked down. She noticed he was wearing ninja attire. 'He looks way too young to be a ninja?' Hanabi thought, questioningly.

When Hanabi realized he wasn't going to say something she stuck out her hand "Hi, I'm Hanabi, who are you?" She said with a bit of a forced smile, making sure to be on her guard. Even if she could probably beat him with one blow, she needed to stay alert. She remembered watching her father scorning Hinata "Never let your guard down, the moment you do your opponent will strike."

"I'm Shrey," he said, snapping her out of her memories as he shook her hand. He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to intrude, I didn't notice someone else was here."

"It's fine." She said a little coldly.

"Well, now I'll know for next time."

"Next time?" She said quizzically, raising an eyebrow.

"You know, when I come back to train." He said nonchalantly as if he didn't just say he had claimed her safe spot. Hers. 'This is my spot! Who does he think he is?!'

"Hey I was here first, find some other place." She said crossing her arms.

But he was already walking away towards the village. 'That little-'

"Hey! I was talking to you! Come back here!" She yelled after him.

He looked at her over his shoulder and winked. For a second Hanabi thought she saw one of his eyes flash yellow. She blinked and it was gone. 'I must be pretty out of it to start seeing things.'

He turned back and raised his arm to acknowledge that he heard her.

"See ya around."

'Ughhhnhh!' Hanabi stomped her foot. Who did he think he was just walking away from her. He was so annoying. Although she did have to admit that he was interesting.

She looked up at the sun to check the time. She better get back before father notices she was gone.

When she got home she slipped through the door as quietly as she could. She wasn't sure if father would approve of her being out.

She headed outside to go train, but when she got to the door she saw big sister Hinata training. 'Wow. Big sister Hinata is really putting her all into it.' Her sister just kept punching and punching. Her knuckles were even starting to swell from the strength she was putting into the punches. Hanabi felt as though there was a new glint in her sister's eyes. Suddenly the glint disappeared. She stopped abruptly and wiped her eyes with her sleeve. Hanabi thought she could see tears in her eyes.

A wave of guilt washed through her. She turned away from Hinata and went back upstairs. 'I don't feel like training now anyway.'

She decided instead to just fall asleep. As she dozed off she couldn't stop thinking of her sister training. There was just something about her that was different-only Hanabi couldn't figure out what. 'Her knuckles were even swelling...Just like that boy from before.' Her thoughts turned to the turquoise eyed boy she met at her spot.

'What a strange person. An idiot too. Oh, and don't forget rude.' She thought as she remembered him walking away in the middle of their conversation.

'What an idiot,' She thought as she dozed off.