Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
She never told anyone, but Hinata wasn't as weak as she seemed. She allowed openings for her opponents to injure her. She chose to fight Neji in the Chunin exams not because she wanted to be fair but because she knew what he could do. She, Hinata Hyuuga, was a masochist.
That is why she wears her bindings a little too tight. Why she bears the brunt of some attacks. Why she fails only to be punished. Why she holds her breathe a little too long.
That is also why she is in this field that could be called a graveyard, only it is the living who is buried, so late at night. She is digging away at the rocks and boulders and dirt with her bare hands as her muscles are pleasantly strained and blood is dripping from under nails.
She often pricks herself with the needle as she slowly sews him together. He curses and lashes out, but she doesn't care. She enjoys it.
And when he stabs her in the chest with his scythe, all she can do is smile.
