NiFo-1246 here with my first fanfic!
Im new at this so send all the constructive critisicm you can :D and although this is a NaruHina fic Naruto won't appear til chapter 2
It wasn't fair.
Hinata sat down under the damaged tree for a short break. She looked at the sky and wondered how it seemed so calm when her mind was in such a state.
It was always about them.
She sighed trying to block out those thoughts from her head. Only recently had the whole situation come crashing down on her.
"Hanabi has surpassed you and she's five years your junior, what a disappointment. But that's what you always were Hinata, a disappointment and a failure. The Hyuuga defect."
That's the last thing he said to her before she left the compound. In a bout of anger with the words Hyuuga defect ringing in her ears, she jumped up and let out a small cry as she started to attack the tree. It wasn't fair, but then again nothing ever was when dealing with Hyuuga Hiashi. After Neji had almost killed her, her father only visited her once.
Flashback
"Hinata."
Hinata bolted up from the bed when she heard her father call out to her. She had never imagined he would even visit her. She had lost to a branch member after all. In his eyes she might as well have been killed by that fatal strike Neji was just about to grace her with. She had to shake her head a little to focus on her father.
"Yes, fa-
"Did you even bother to train? How is it that the future heiress lost against a mere branch member? It's bad enough that Hanabi can always manage to beat you when you spar but Neji too? I should not be surprised though. You never did show much promise." He gave her a look of disgust and turned to leave. He paused at the door only to say,
"From now on until I deem fit you are to address me as Hiashi-sama. You are no daughter of mine."
And he left.
End Flashback
She sighed again. She swore to herself that when she was released from the hospital she would train harder than she ever did. She would prove that she was strong and capable of being the heir. Unfortunately there was a horrible surprise waiting at the compound for her.
Flashback
Hinata quietly but swiftly walked through the halls of the compound to the dojo where she would train with her father. It might have been early but she hoped to impress her father by letting him know she was serious about training. She wanted just once for him to say he was proud or that she did a good job. When she opened the door she saw something very surprising; her father was training with Hanabi already. She walked in with a confused expression on her face and if her father or sister saw, they gave no notice.
"Otou-s…I-I mean Hi-Hiashi-sama is Ha-Hanabi to be training with u-us today?"
Hiashi stopped for a brief moment. "Hanabi you may rest for five minutes." He looked over at Hinata and replied "Hinata you are a loss cause. Not only did you lose at the preliminaries, you still cannot manage to beat your younger sister. Due to these events I will no longer waste my time training you. Now leave." Out of the corner of her eye, Hinata thought she saw a frown on her sister's face. She opened her mouth to reply but Hiashi quickly cut her off.
"Get. Out."
End Flashback
From then on Hinata would train day in and day out in a secluded area by herself whenever she didn't have team training or missions. She would practice her chakra control and her jyuuken, but quickly learned she would need a sparring partner for that, preferably a Hyuuga. She knew she would need a skilled person but with her father refusing to train her and focusing on Hanabi that only left one person.
Neji.
He had been watching her for some time now. He saw how she had been abandoned by her father one more than one occasion and he saw the effort she made towards training herself. He hadn't planned to watch her but everything just fell into place. It must have been fate.
…Not that he believed in that anymore. Not since Naruto beat it out of him.
He would never admit it to anyone but even before he almost killed Hinata he hadn't hated her. She was always too nice and innocent. Before the curse seal was placed on him they would play together everyday. He even remembered when he first tried to show her how to do jyuuken.
Flashback
"NEJI-NII!!"
Neji turned around to see a 3-year old Hinata running toward him. He smiled. He had been thinking about showing her something his father had taught him a few days back. When Hinata got to him she was holding her knees panting for air.
"Hinata, can I show you something?"
She looked up and grinned at him.
"Hai!"
And that's how the day went. He showed her the few steps his father showed him. He was showing off a little and with the admiration he saw on her face his ego got a little bigger.
"Neji-nii san?"
"Huh?"
He looked down to see her holding her head down and pushing her two index fingers together with a small tint of pink on her face.
"Could you ma-maybe teach me how to do that?"
End Flashback
He knew that she would be here for a long time so he jumped onto a branch high enough to watch her. She would need to fix that though. If he had been an enemy-nin he could have killed her off by now. He looked at the bright sky with the clouds slowly drifting by and thought back to his training earlier today with his teammates. But as time went by he found himself remembering how he taught Hinata jyuuken.
Flashback
"Okay, now come at me Hinata!"
She was a quick learner he decided. It had only taken an hour for her to get the basic steps down perfectly. It may not have been 33 minutes like him, but he was a genius. Or so his father always told him.
With a set look on her face, her arms out in the jyuuken style she ran at him. He was impressed at her confidence. If she had obtained her Byakugan he might have actually been worried. But they were both too young to learn something like that, as hard as he did try. She was getting closer and he closed his eyes and counted off in his head.
5 ft.
4 ft.
3 ft.
2 f-
THUD.
"..Itai"
He slowly opened his eyes to see what had happened. Somehow Hinata had fell and was now on the ground face down in the dirt. She quickly stood up and brushed the dirt from her clothes. When she was sure there was not a speck of dirt in her clothes she looked towards him and with the widest grin he ever saw said
"I was so close. LET'S DO IT AGAIN!"
He laughed.
End Flashback
Things were going great with them. They were close as family and friends. If she hurt herself he was the first person besides her mother that she ran too. But everything changed the night the Kumo-nin tried to abduct her. The curse seal had been placed on his head that same day and he realized just how different they were. After that night she had withdrawn herself from the world. She no longer grinned and you were lucky if you even saw her smile. Then her mother died giving birth to her little sister Hanabi. She developed a stutter and from then on things only got worse. Her father decided that she would need to start training so she could protect herself. He figured that her father was training her a lot harder than he should because he couldn't handle the death of his wife. He was going to make sure she was okay and try to bring her back to the way that she once was but he now hated her.
It was because of her his father was dead and for that he would never forgive her.
But after Hiashi gave him the scroll his father had written to him before his death, he realized that he willingly gave his life and Hinata was different from the other Main House members. If she became the new head he was certain that the Hyuuga would change in a positive way. So he would help her train. He looked down to see her hitting the tree a lot slower then earlier.
She must be tired. He thought.
She would need to build up her stamina too. It was decided. He would help her. He jumped from the tree and walked away knowing she would not notice. He activated his Byakugan and was highly surprised when he saw her staring at him.
He would train her.
But she would have to ask him first.