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Chapter 1
The Sleeping Spell of The Rain
Raining. It was raining again. The soft pitter-patter of the light spring rain is what woke Hyuga Hinata up that morning.
She stirred for a moment under her warm covers before she took a deep breath and opened her eyes. She was met with the sight shadows; it was still to dark to see her white walls. She rolled over on her right side to face the other side of her room. What first got her attention was the fact than there was no light coming from her window, then the clock, 5:04am.
She groaned. She sat up, yawned, scratch and rubbed her eyes. Her mind went to auto pilot mode. She got up on her shaky weak morning legs, waked over to her bathroom and took a shower. After which she washed her face, brush her teeth, and stared to brush her hair. At this point she dropped out of auto pilot mode, sighed, tied her hair up, threw on her bathrobe and left her bathroom. Hinata went to her bed and plopped down face first into her pillow.
'I don't have to get up early any more.' She thought to herself, 'Any normal person would be glad, but I liked helping out at the hospital and learning some healing jutsus. But Tou-san won't allow it.' She sigh into the pillow before going back to sleep.
When she woke up again, it was still raining. Turning her head she looked at her clock, 6:12. That was a little better, but it was still early.
Ever since Naruto left again two years ago (After he was gone for three years came back for a few months then left again) she was working, well helping (she wasn't getting paid), at the hospital.
Now, the way she started working at the hospital had to do with Naruto, and like lots of stuff to do with Naruto, it was strange. When he had came back from the three years he spent training, he kept getting himself hurt. From a badly placed kunai, a LOT of shuikens, some chop sticks (with the ramen), and, in her opinion, the strangest place for a frog to be. Each time she had went to visit him, but could not get herself past the door to his hospital room.
He always recovered quickly.
During one of her 'visiting Naruto-kun's hospital door' trips, where she was standing in front of the said door, it had opened. And a nurse walked out. Oh man, she had thought that was going to be Naruto! Her relief was short lived; following the nurse out was Naruto. He spotted her in a flash.
"Hinata! What are you doing here? I haven't seen you in ages! Well… I did see you like a month ago but you were passed out, I don't think that counts." He had said as he gave her a foxy grin.
"I-I-I-." Was as far as her voice could take her. She was crimson, and her fingers where poking at each other.
"Are you here to see someone? Or is it you? Hey, are you ok? You look red. Do you have a fever? Let me check." He put his hand on her forehead "You do feel hot."
At that point she had just made a new deep shade of red. A little longer and she would pass out.
The nurse took pity on her "Naruto, she's helping out here. With you getting hurt EVERY five minutes, we needed a little more help around here."
Naruto removed his hand from her head and looked at Hinata "You're helping out around here now?" He said as he tipped his head to one side.
She did not know what to say; did the nurse really think she was helping out at the hospital? It was either say yes or tell him she came to see him.
"Y-yes." She squeaked out.
" That's awesome! I'll get to see more of you!" He gave her a one armed hug, in which she passed out.
After she woke up she went and volunteered there. She did not like the idea of lying to Naruto. So, like Naruto had guessed, they saw a lot more of each other. Soon he had started to come just to see her.
Only her stutter died down a bit, her blush never did
They had met for lunch too (ramen, what else.). This went on for two month before he left to train, or so what she was told by the Hokage when she could not find Naruto one day. She was sad that he did not tell her bye, but she figured, maybe he could not.
After that she kept working there.
Her schedule was this;
5:00 am; Wake up, wash, get dressed.
6:00 am; Grab some breakfast, say bye to Neji-niisan
6:20 am: Dash off to the hospital. She had timed herself to see how fast she could get the hospital (which is on the other side of Konoha). Her best time was 16.34 seconds running with no chakar, 7.09 seconds with.
6:21am-12: 00pm: Work. From cleaning, to playing with the kids.
12:01-12:30pm Eat lunch. Sometimes at Ichiraku ramen stand (She had her reasons).
Now the rest of her day depended on if she had any missions later on in the day. If she did she would go and do it, sometimes leave for a week. If not she would train until nine, go home, eat dinner, say good night to Neji-niisan, go to her room and seek out. Then she would work on her chakra size and control with water.
Hinata liked to practice in a cave outside the village that held a good size waterfall in side it and had a hole in the roof that let moon light in. She would get home around midnight and go to sleep dreaming of her Naruto-kun.
It when on like this for two years; until her father felt that it was a waste of her time and made the hospital refuse her help. She was mad but there was nothing she could do.
So today she was going to see the Hokage and see if she could do anything. Hinata knew Tsunade-sama hated her father, so she would most likely help her out. Or maybe she could ask her to teach her some healing technique. At the hospital the medic nins only taught her how to heal small cuts, bruises, and to be able to detected some types of poisons. Her father had stopped her before they could teach her anything else. He told her that she was supposed to learn how to cause pain, not take it away.
Her relationship with her father for a while did get better. When she had passed the chunin exams, life at her home was bearable, but when she failed the jonin exams both times, things got worse again.
The jonin exams were basic one-on-one fights. You could pass even if you did not win; it was on your level of skill. So killing your opponent did not mean you would pass. Since the exams were private and no outside ninjas were allowed, leaf nin would fight leaf nin.
The reason Hinata failed was because both times she went against her old teammates. First it was Shino; needless to say he won. She did not feel too bad because Kiba failed too.
Then next year came by and lo-and-behold who did she fight but Kiba. She could not bring herself to fight them, just like she can not bring her self to fight her little sister.
She felt that she should be protecting Hanabi, not beating her up. Yes, she could have won with her sister, she was far stronger than anyone knew, all her training paid off. But she just could not hurt anyone one she loved.
The one person who might guess how strong she was would be Naruto. When she had passed out at the hospital he had carried her to a room and put her on one of the beds. When she had woken up he asked her why she was so heavy, that she felt like a ton. (Good thing it was Hinata, any other girl would have made sure that he did not leave the hospital for a few weeks) She blushed and stuttered out that she was wearing weights. He had looked surprised for a moment, but then smiled and told her there was more to her than meets the eye and, to her joy, he would like to find out.
Hinata shook her head to clear her thoughts; she wanted to get out of the house before her family woke up. She went over to her window and opened it. The icy breeze of the rain sent a chill down her spine. Her head was clear and alert.
She smiled. She loved when it rained; it always cast a sleep spell on her family. When she was little the spell had worked on her to, but she started to make herself stay awake so she could walk around her house in peace with out having people tell she was the weakest Hyuga of all time.
She left the window open and got dressed. (Not the smartest thing to do with all the perverts that live there in Konoha) She put on a lavender tank top, with a long sleeve fishnet shirt over it. Baggie black pants that were tight at her waist and butt, but got lose around her legs so you could not tell the shape. The pants had lots of pockets; she put a kunai and shuriken holster on both legs.
Now Hinata being Hinata she did not feel comfortable showing her body curves to just anyone, so she put on a navy blue jacket; long enough that it covered her butt and thick enough that you could not make out the curve of her breasts.
From under her bed she pulled out a big case. Inside were weights that fit into the palm of her hand, they each had forty written on them. She filled ten out of her fourteen pants pockets. And all four of her inside jacket pockets. She now was 560 pounds heavier.
Hinata grabbed her money and zipped it up in her top pants pocket.
She pulled her waist length hair into a ponytail; she let two strands fall lose on the sides of her face. Then picked up her ninja headband and tied it loosely around her neck. Her ninja sandal was the last thing she put on; they were black.
She came out the house and left through the unguarded gates.
The morning sun had made it through the light spring rain. She took another deep breath.
She walked to the Hokage tower. By the time she got there she was soaked, but she did not care. To her dismay and shock, the Hokage was not there (Normally Tsunade-sama would fall asleep at night at her desk, after some sake). The guards told her to try back in a few hours.
'Now what am I going to do? Maybe I should go see Kiba-kun and Shino-kun, they're always up early.'
She found herself first at Kiba house, he was not home. Then she was at Shino's apartment, he also was not home.
She let out a frustrated sigh "Now what am I going to do!" She said to no one.
...
...
Leap, slide, step, leap, slide, step, is what Hinata found herself doing from one random building to the next in the light spring rain as her mind drifted from her.
A little earlier in the day…
Three people walked up to the gates of Konoha; a tall old man with a giant scroll on his back, and white hair, a young man with black hair, black eyes and a scowl on his face, and the last one, also a young man with blonde hair, blue eyes with slits for pupils and whisker mark on his cheeks.
"Finally! We're here! I was getting tired of all this damn rain!" The blond exclaimed while jumping up and down.
"Naruto, you dope, calm down!" The black haired one said in an annoyed tone, being that he was next Naruto when he started to jump around in the mud.
"Come on, teme! Aren't you happy I beat your ass and dragged you back home?" Naruto shot him a joyful grin.
Sasuke turned away and made a sound with his mouth "You didn't beat me. I let you live."
"Your lucky I-" He got cut off by the old man.
"Enough! When we get in, Naruto, Sasuke, I want you two to go and brief the Hokage as to what happen. Understood?"
"Yes Jiraiya-sama" Sasuke said in monotone.
"Hey! Ero-sennin! Where are you going?" Naruto shot him a wary glance.
"I'm going to do some research." Jiraiya responded with a far off look and a perverted grin.
"You know Tsunade-baa-chan is not going to be too happy if you don't go to her first."
"For once Naruto, do what I tell you with out question."
"Yah, yah, but it's your ass on the line if she gets mad. And you know she will."
And with that they went inside. They had no trouble with the guards.
Once inside Jiraiya shot off in the direction of the hot spring. Naruto sigh, it was too early for anyone to be at the springs. He just did not want to face Tsunade.
Naruto let out a low growl, 'Damn BAKA!' Naruto really did not want to be the one to tell baa-chan. With out ero-sennin there, the one most likely to feel Tsunade wrath was him... And he did not like that fact.
They kept walking, going in the direction of the Hokage tower. The rain was letting up a little, and the sun was up.
Naruto stopped, sniffed the air, growled, and turned in the direction of Team Seven's old training area. Sasuke followed without question, he knew Naruto knew where he was going.
"It seems your sense of smell is stronger Kit." Kyuubi's voice echoed in Naruto's head.
"So you're up baka kitsune? And are you mutating me again?" Naruto spoke in his mind to Kyuubi.
"One, I don't sleep I just don't feel like getting a headache from talking to you. Two, can't you learn some damn manners brat! And three, and for the last time, I am not mutating you! This happens naturally when you have demon chakra! And you so happen to have FOX demon chakra, so damn it, you're becoming a demon FOX! So deal with it!"
"You don't HAVE a head to get a headache with you know... And how the hell can you tell me becoming a demon is normal!"
"Because it is; demons were here before your kind Kit. You should feel honored."
"Yes. The honor is all mine Kyuubi-sama. I must thank-you very much." He said sarcastically "For MUTATING me!"
"Ahou."
After their verbal fight Naruto began to think back to when he started to change. It was two years ago. First his chakra was out of whack. Either he used to much or not enough and ended up getting hurt. Like the time he was practicing summoning, he did not use enough, and got a tiny little frog, or so he thought since he did not see anything, but then got a weird feeling in his gut. He could not get Kyuubi to shut up for months about him literally having a frog in his throat (It had to get out some how, and it only had two choices. Which would you choose?) Then one day his eyes turned, everything was so bright! He found his hearing and smell was also improved. (He cleaned his apartment to the bone that day. He could not believe how bad it smelt.) That was when Tsunade sent him away to get use his new senses. He had felt bad he did not say good bye to Sakura and Hinata.
Hinata.
He had found himself thinking about her a lot. Maybe to was the fact he did not say bye and they had become good friends before he left. Yeah, that was it, and those dreams meant nothing.
He could hear Kyuubi laughing.
Leap, slide, step, leap, slide, step.
The sound of someone running thought the rain caught his attention. It was not strange for someone to be running in the rain. It was that person was running on the roofs in the rain. The person stopped on a rooftop near him. He did not like it. Just because he was home does not mean he was going to let his guard down. He sniff the air, the smell was familiar. Who was it? He had to find out.
Naruto faced the house on which the person had stopped.
"What's wrong?" Sasuke ask looking where Naruto faced.
"Nothing, just stay here a minute."
Seeing the look on Sasuke's face he added "Please?"
"Fine, just hurry up."
With that he jumped to the roof, with absolutely no sound as he landed. The person was female. Her back was to him. She was staring at rising sun that could be seen on the horizon were the clouds had parted. The sun gave her a glowing outline, and, oh would you look at that, there was a rainbow that arched above her.
It was breath taking, or at least to Naruto it was.
Naruto could tell she had curves with his sharp eyes, and years spent with Jiraiya. He began to walk up to her with. He made no noise. He was almost on her back when she spun around with a kunai in her left hand, about to stab him. He caught her wrist and looked down into girl's eyes. She was about a head shorter than him.
"Hinata?"
Hinata had been jumping around the village for a while when she stopped a looked at the sun, the sun always made her think of Naruto. She was so engrossed that she did not notice someone behind her until the person was almost on her. She grabbed her kunai and spun around; only to have someone grab her wrist and hold it above her. She looked up into bright blue eyes, with… slits?
"N-N-Naruto-kun!"
They stared at each other for a moment. Naruto unconsciously pulled Hinata closer by her wrist, which he still held up above them. Now they were only inches apart. He moved his left hand, took the kunai from hers, and put it in her kunai pouch on her right side. He slipped his hand under her jacket so his hand could rest on her hip. He never left her eyes.
"Well, hello to you to." He let go of her wrist, and made it so both of his hands were on her hips. Hinata just realize that his body was only inches apart from hers. She could feel the heat from his body that added to her own.
"Naruto…"
Then it felt like something in her snap. An explosive heat coursed throughout her body, and then she started to shake, not with fear, but with excitement. She was all too well aware of his hands on her hips.
'This has to be a dream. I am dreaming. Naruto isn't really back, is he? Why is he holding me like this?' She questioned herself. Well if it was a dream, would it be so bad if he moved his hands a little? No! This had to be a dream, because if it is not and he keeps his hand where they are, she might end up doing something. Something that she would not regret.
When Hinata stared to shake, he thought it was out of fear. Did she think he was going to hurt her? He did just show up out of the blue and invaded her personal space. He would find a way to blame it on Jiraiya later, right now he needed to fix things, 'cause he did not even know if she like him like that.
He was about remove his hands when a voice stopped him.
"Hold on Kit"
"HELL NO! You pervert kitsune!"
"Just sniff"
"Wha-"
"Just do it!"
Naruto complied.
He could smell lavenders and lilacs. The slight smell of sweat was there. But there was something over powering those other smells. He did not know what it was, only that it was powerful and it made him want to… pounce? Yes, pounce on Hinata right then and there. To ravish her, to claim her as his- No! He needed to be somewhere… right? Yes with her-
"Naruto! You baka! Just what the hell are you doing up there?"