Chapter 1: Arrival
I walked down a dirt path, heavy rain pouring down onto my head and slippery mud was beneath my feet. Each step was agony, my whole body ached, and my stomach was calling out for me to feed it. I had been walking for three days straight, no resting as I had the goal of getting to Konoha as fast as possible. The letters my dad left me had said that if I ever got in trouble that I should get to Konoha as quick as I could and request help from the ninjas of the hidden leaf. I did not take those words lightly as they had been my complete and utter focus for the last three days. Now I was just a couple hindered feet from my goal, the gates of Konoha.
I reached the gate and was quickly meet by two guards but as they approached me I fell to the ground, I lost consciousness. When I awoke I was laying on a hospital bed, it seemed that I had been changed out of the traditional robes that I had been wearing and put into a hospital gown. When I glanced to my left I saw my robes neatly folded and the backpack I had been carrying sitting on a night stand beside my bed. As soon as I saw the back pack I scrambled to grab it and opened it, I felt the IV in my arm tug a little as I reached for the backpack, but the content of the bag was way more important than any physical pain I could feel. When I opened the bag, I saw a mass number of letters and endless pages of writing, easily enough to be accouple books of writing but on separated pages. I let out a loud sigh of relief as I saw that none of the letters had been taken from my bag.
My movement must have caught the attention of a nearby nurse as I saw her glance into my room from the hallway and then quickly walk away. After a few moments the nurse returned with a tray that had a fresh meal on it and with a man walking close behind her. The man was decently tall, had black hair that was done up into a weird hair style that had his hair in a sort of upward ponytail and he had a small amount of facial hair on his chin. He also had very relaxed features and a head band with the symbol of the hidden leaf on it tied on his arm.
The nurse handed me the tray, I thanked her and quickly began to eat to satisfy my burning hunger. I began to eat and didn't even notice that the nurse had taken the Iv out of my arm. As I ate the man grabbed a chair that had been at the other side of the room and placed it next to my bed and tat down in it. The nurse said something quietly to the man and left the room leaving me and the stranger alone. I continued to eat trying to ignore the man that was staring at me but after a minute he started to speak. "Hey, I'm Shikamaru Nara a ninja of the hidden leaf, last night you came to our gates dishevelled and distraught, not even able to stay awake. I am here to find out who you are and why you came here. Would you be able to tell me that?".
For a moment I just stared at Nara as it was a name I had seen many times in my father's letters, but it was odd to actually see the people my father had written about in real life. I also took a moment to try and come up with a fake name. I could tell Nara the truth about everything in my life except for my real name and who my father was, in my fathers letters he said that if I was ever to reveal my true identity within the walls of the hidden leaf village it could have very negative consequences, so I was inclined to believe his writings. "I'm Konata, I come from a farming family that lacks a family name. I lived in a small farming village in the land of the water with my mother, my father pasted away before I was born. My village was attacked by a group of rouge nin. They burned down the village took our harvest and killed with out discrimination, I had to watch my mother …" It was hard to continue talking but I took a moment to collect my self and continued talking while holding back tears. "I had to watch them kill my mother".
Nara just stared at me for a moment with unmoving eyes. "How did you escape?"
"I was the only one in my village to have any form of ninja training. I have basic chakra control and fighting ability, but nothing compared to the rogues that attacked my village. I tried to save people, but I failed and after watching my mother die I just ran like a coward. I went back to my home got a few things important to me and fled for the hidden leaf. That's pretty much my story"
Nara stared at me with a blank expression "Pretty believable but why did you come to the hidden leaf? There are many other villages in the land of water that you could have gone to why come all the way here?". Nara leaned in closer to me almost like he was trying to pressure me for an answer.
"Around eighteen years ago our village was attacked by rogue nin but it was saved by ninjas of the hidden leaf that happened to be passing by. My mother said that if I ever needed help I should come here." I felt very uncomfortable under Nara's gaze, I didn't know if I should feel scared, but I decided to silently wait for Nara's response.
"All right I believe you. I will send a squad out to your village just show me where it is on a map and I will insure it is investigated. In the mean time I will give you a small apartment and allowance to get by. You will have temporary citizenship here but if we find anything untrue about your story or if you make any violent moves against the village you will be removed or detained. Do you agree to this?"
"Yes I do thank you for your generosity" I gave a slight bow from siting position in the bed.
"One last thing, we have yet to search your backpack may I search it?" as soon as Nara even mention the backpack I grabbed it and held it close to my chest.
"I'd prefer if you didn't" I said in a slightly angry tone "The content of this bag is very important and personal to me"
"if you don't let me search the bag then I can't let you stay in the village as you may be a possible threat. Can I ask what's in the bag? Come on kid don't make this a drag." Nara said in a curious voice.
I started weighting my options in my head. Was keeping the letters in the bag a secret worth getting removed from the village. If Nara read the letters in my bag it could reveal who my father is and who I am which could get me in me a terrible situation. "My bag is full of my father's writings, its all I managed to save from my home and it is all I have of my father please don't take them from me.". I opened the bag showing that it was filled to the brimmed with paper and letters.
Nara leaned forward and removed one letter from the bag, unfolded it and started to read. "To my child whom has yet to be born I am your father. I just found out that your mother is pregnant yesterday and I am beyond ecstatic that I will be a father soon. Even though you are not born just know that I love you. My work is very dangerous, so anything could happen to me any day so I just need you to know that I care about you." Nara stopped looking at the letter and looked back at me for a moment. He gently placed the letter back in the bag. "I think you're clear, I'm sorry for going through your personal stuff". I felt a massive amount of mental relief as the passage Nara read from never mentioned my name or my fathers name.
"Your robes were washed so I'll give you some time to get changed. I will be back in ten minutes with a map, so you can point out where your village is and then I will bring you to your apartment." With that said Nara got up and left.
As Nara left I got up and got changed into my robes. I walked over to a mirror that was hanging in the other side of the room. My robes were a mix of bright lime green and baby blue that alternated throughout the multiple layers of robes. Many patterns and designs of birds danced across the robes. They were very traditional and formal, but it was all I had as the rouge nin attacked during the middle of our village's harvest festival. I had only recently turned sixteen and stood around five feet, nine inches. I had long blond hair that fell down my back just past my waist. I was rather slim, and my skin tone was rather pale but I did not lack muscle as I had been working on a farm for most of my life giving me decent core and arm strength. My face held rather soft features that also held my green eyes. I blinked a few times, rubbed my eyes and decided for just this moment to remove my green contact lenses and revealed my cream white Hyuga eyes to the world. I hated the contact lenses, but I had to wear them. My father's letters said that if I was found out as a Hyuga then there would be very negative consequences. He never truly wrote about what would happen to me other then mentioning some sort of branding, but he stresses it as something that would change my life forever.
I heard the door start to open and quickly put the contact lenses back on my eyes and looked over to the door as Nara entered the room. Nara held a map in his hand and spread it out on the hospital bed, he then gestured for me to walk over to him. He handed me a pen and asked me to mark my village on the map. I marked the general area of my village and handed the pen back to Nara.
Nara reached into his pocket, pulled out a key and some bills and placed it in my hand. "This is an key to an small apartment that will be yours until you find other housing. You're not under pressure to find your own housing but just know that the apartment is still owned by Konoha. That money should be able to cover some cloths and food for the month. You are free to go around the village, but you are not allowed to leave until we confirm your story. Do you have any questions?"
"I am good to go, thank you for your hospitality I can't thank you enough" I said while bowing to Nara.
"Don't mention it" Nara said quietly. Nara then lead me out of the hospital into the city streets of Konoha. I had lived my whole life in a small farming village, too be on the streets of one of the largest hidden villages was a rather odd experience. I spent the short walk looking for places and people that my father had written about in his letters. I managed to take note of a few key places around the village but didn't recognize anyone. We arrived at the apartment building and Nara escorted me to my room. I opened the door with key to find that the apartment consisted of a main room that was half a living space that had a couch and a coffee table, the other half was a kitchen. It also had a washroom and a small bedroom. The walls were painted in a light red that made the room feel very bright.
"If you need anything else just come to the Hokage's building. It's the big orange building near the back of the village" Nara said as he stood in the doorway. I thanked him again and he left me alone in the apartment. As soon as he left I opened my backpack and took out all the papers that filled the bag and placed them out across the floor and started to organize them based on what they were about. Father had written hundreds of letters for me before I was born as he feared dying before I was born. His fear turned out to be reasonable as he died during the fourth shinobi war. His letters ranged from messages directly to me, describing events in his life or talking about the people in his life. There were hundreds of pages and organizing them into a coherent order took some time. Eventually after looking through all the papers I found the three different papers I was looking for. One page was the story of how my mother and father met, another was about my father's relationship with a man named Rock lee and the last was about a woman named Tenten.
I also looked through the other pages until I found an envelope I as looking for and opened it to find a picture of my mother and father on their wedding day. My mother was wearing long white robes and had her long blonde hair freely flowing behind her. He green eyes were shining beautifully, and she looked extremely cheerful. My father was dressed up in black and grey formal robes. He had his long black hair loose as well and had a black headband covering his forehead. He was staring down at my mother with a caring smile as she clung onto his arm. This was the only photograph of my parents that I managed to save before I left home. It was also some of the only proof that I was my Fathers daughter.
Before I left the apartment, I reread another letter that my father had written that explained what to do if I was ever in trouble. To summarize my father's instructions, he wrote that I should go to the hidden leaf village, don't tell anyone who I am because a Hyuga outside the clan would be taken for integration and would be branded. His next step was to find Lee and Tenten, father wrote that if I told them who I am they would help protect me and keep me safe. From what I've read Lee was a good friend of my father and Tenten was my father's confidante, so they seemed like trustworthy people.
Wanting to follow my father's instructions as fast as possible I grabbed these papers and the wedding picture, folded them up and slide them into my robes. I left the apartment, walked back down to the streets, into the market and started asking around to see if anyone could tell me where I could find Rock Lee and Tenten. As I walked through the market I received many strange looks. It must have been clear that I was a foreigner, but I could not tell if they looked at me with distaste or curiosity. When I asked some street vendors and citizens about the whereabouts of Lee and Tenten they said I could find them on the training fields just on the edge of the village. I made my way to the training grounds and eventually started to hear shouting and the clanging of metal.
When I located the source of the noise I found four people in a large scale fight. In the middle of the fight was a man in a green jump suit with a bowl hair cut that was being attacked by three younger people. One of the teenagers was a young woman that had long black hair that was tied back into one long braid. She was probably around five feet, six and was rather slender with slightly tanned skin and had a village of the hidden leaf headband loosely tied around her neck. Her face had very sharp features, but she had beautiful hazel eyes. She was yielding a large wood and steel bow that had blades on the front of it, so it could be used as a melee weapon and she was using flat tip arrows showing that she was not intending to internal damage the person that she was aiming at. She was wearing a white shirt that had a black whirlpool design in the middle. Over the shirt she wore a baggy red jacket and was wearing black shorts that went down to her knees. She also had a large quiver resting on her back which held many arrows.
Another was a boy that stood very tall around six, two and had corn row style of hair that was tied together by a village of the hidden leaf' headband into a pony tail. He was decently muscular and was wielding a scarf that had many loose threads and on each loose thread was a needle. He used the scarf as a sort of sword, as he swung the scarf around the needles would swirl around in a storm making it a deadly weapon. He also had very dark skin and had light blue eyes. He adorned a black shirt that had a large red x in on it and it looked like the shirt was just one size too big for him. He was wearing what once was a pair of nice dark blue dress pants, but they were covered in large tears and tatters.
The last was a short boy probably only five feet, four inches. He had very pale skin and was wearing a thin frame pair of glasses. He had dyed light blue hair that was very straight and went down to his shoulders. His face was a bit pudgy which made him seem a bit younger than the other two, but it was clear that they were around the same age. He fought with only his fists, but it was obvious he was using a sort of Jutsu as his fists were on fire. With every punch a path of fire followed yet the fire never burnt his hands. He wore what looked like white kendo robes, but they were not done up properly and looked my like he was wearing a cape with sleeves. Underneath the robes he wore a dark purple shirt and tight black pants. He also had a sliver necklace that held a short of red gem on it.
These three teens lead an onslaught against the man in a green jump suit with coronated attacks. I watched the fight for awhile as the fight was oddly mesmerizing as each person in the fight was clearly skilled. I also noticed that on the other side of the fight was a woman sitting in a tree. She had her brown hair up in two twin buns and had chocolate brown eyes. She was wearing baggy white pants and I Chinese style red shirt.
In sudden movement the men in the green jump suit did a massive backflip giving him a large distance from the three teens and yelled "Stop". The three did as they were told and stopped their attacks to listen to him. "It seems we have a visitor" He said turning in my direction and gesturing for me to come closer. I took slow precise steps toward the group trying to be a bit cautious with the strangers.
"Greetings, sorry to interrupt your training but I am looking for Rock Lee and Tenten. Would any of you know where they are" I asked.
"If its Rock Lee you are looking for then your search is over for you have found the fountain of youth as the green beast of Konoha is me" The man in the green jump suit replied while trying to strike a pose but utterly failing.
The girl sitting in the tree jumped down and walked over to us "I'm Tenten, what do you need us for?" She questioned with a curious tone.
"I came to discus an urgent matter with you two, preferably in private. I don't want to interrupt your training, but this is rather important." I said in an overly serious tone.
"Do not worry our session was not going to continue on much longer" Lee said in a cheer voice. "You three did wonderfully, your youth truly shined bright. Take the rest of the day off."
The two boys looked ecstatic at the mention of a day off, high fived each other and started to walk away from us but the girl stayed completely still and just stared at me in awe. This went on for an awkwardly long amount of time as she just stood still staring at me. The boys noticed that the girl wasn't following them and the boy with blue hair tuned around and yelled "Hey Ibuki are you coming". This seemed to shake the girl out of her thunder struck state as she shook her head and started to run to catch up with the boys.
Once the three teens were out of sight Tenten said "What was this important thing you needed to talk to us about".
I looked at Tenten and Lee for a moment and took in a deep breath preparing to reveal my secret. "I am Hinata Hyuga only child of Neji Hyuga"
Hey thanks for reading the story and making it this far I really appreciate it. This chapter may have been a bit confusing but i promise that pretty much every question will be answered in the second chapter. I really appreciate all reviews please tell me what you did and didn't like so far so I can improve my writing. I will try to update this story as much as i can but with work and university i can't give a set schedule for updates. thanks again.