I do not own Naruto. If I did, it would be stick figures, for I am a terrible artist.

A/N: I am going to skip around Part 1. I'm only going to describe The Forest Of Death, Hinata vs. Neji fight, and some Naruhina moments leading up to the Valley Of The End, the Part 1 stuff up until the Valley Of The End fight is going to be sketchily written because skipping around like that isn't healthy for a story, but this one is written so that I have to make it to Part 2 as fast as possible to make the story arc to really start.

"Thoughts"

Prologue

During the test in the forest of death, Hinata had been scared by just the name, her fears had only been justified when during her teams' travels to get an enemies scroll, a large snake had attacked them. She had stood in Jyuuken stance, with Kiba to her left, and Shino to her right. The snake had suddenly ceased its assault when they had formed a stance, and surprisingly on its head had stood a grass ninja.

The grass ninja had licked his lips and spoke, "I've always wanted Byakugan. Thank god I ran into the weaker of the two Hyuuga."

Hinata's eyes had grown wide, as did Shino's and Kiba's. Kiba was the first to speak, "If you want to get to Hinata. You have to go through me and Shino first!" Shino nodded in agreement.

The grass ninja had jumped from the head of the snake, regurgitated a sword, and cut down both Kiba and Shino in what looked like a single strike. He had approached Hinata, who in turn had tried to fight back, only to be left writhing on the ground, two bite marks on her neck and a small symbol which would be known as the cursed mark forming on it.

Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kabuto were running through the forest, both teams having the required amount of scrolls, plus some extra were on their way to the center tower to finish the second phase, when Naruto suddenly stopped.

Sasuke looked at him, "What is it dobe?"

Naruto still stood there, Sakura decided to look where he was staring, and she screamed. Kiba and Shino were covered in blood, but their wounds were taken care of, a giant snake lay decapitated, and Hinata was standing there, a purple aura surrounding her, and strange markings on the left side of her body, she looked over at them, oddly calm, picked up Shino and Kiba, who began to walk past Team 7 and Kabuto. Hinata walked by, her aura bringing all of Team 7 except Kabuto to their knees, the killing intent was too much for them. Kabuto just stared wide eyed at Hinata who calmly took his Heaven and Earth scrolls and send a chakra fueled punch into his stomach. Kabuto coughed up blood, and then was sent flying into the forest.

Sasuke was the first to recover; he activated his Sharingan and demanded answers from Hinata, "Hyuuga. Explain yourself." Hinata turned and looked at him, suddenly she was behind him, Sasuke was on his knees, one of his arms was twisted at an impossible angle and hung limp at his side, the other was in Hinata's hands. She calmly spoke while he remained silence, "Apologize." Was all she said.

Sasuke looked at her defiantly he could barely say, "no" before Hinata had broken the arm she held and kicked him down. Sakura screamed, "Hinata what the hell! How could you do that to Sasuke-kun! He's so strong, you probably cheated or-" she was cut off by the wave of killing intent that threatened to crush her. Hinata stood staring at Sakura, her fists tightened.

Naruto stood there dumbly, just watching, thinking to himself, unable to move, "Is that really Hinata... She always talked about becoming strong, and catching up to us, and... Wait... Is she... Is she talking about Sakura hurting me?" Sure enough it was true, Hinata had just told Sakura to at least tell Naruto that she really didn't like him, and let Naruto move on to people who truly care. She then turned to Naruto. Saw his face filled with conflicting emotions, gave a Sasuke-esque, "Hn." And went to catch up to her team.

"Think Naruto. THINK! You need to calm her down, those marks look weird, and...and she might hurt Sakura-chan!"

Naruto suddenly spoke, "Hinata-chan?" Hinata froze. "Hinata...Chan? He said Hinata-CHAN" The marks faded, and the purple aura dissipated. She turned to Naruto, "Yes Naruto-kun?" Naruto, noting she didn't stutter the whole time, simply said, "Oh, I was just trying to get those marks off your face, you look so much better without them."

Hinata blushed, then looked at Sasuke, "S-s-s-sorry, I don't know what got into me...I-I-I have to go..." She then jumped off to join her team.

Naruto and Sakura hoisted up Sasuke and led him to the center tower, they opened the scrolls, and Iruka popped out, Iruka was about to go through the spiel about the

exams when he noticed Sasuke, he just pointed to the door and poofed away with Sasuke in hand.

That was Chapter 1. If you like it, leave a review. If you hated it and want to flame, leave a review. All of it is going to help me get better at writing. This won't really have Naruhina until the Valley Of The End everything up to that will be normal Naruto, except replace any Sasuke Team 7 drama with Hinata.