Konnichiwa!
Summary: Two ninjas. One an outcast. The other a failure. Hinata, a failed medical ninja looking for a place in the world runs away. Naruto, a outcast looking for a family escapes. Couples: NaruHina NejiTen and some others
Here is the first chapter for it. This is going to be EXTREMELY long so hope on it!
The Land Behind Konoha
at 7:00 pm
The sun had already passed pleasantly over the horizon as the sunset formed. Sunlight leaked over the hills as it descended into its sleep for the day to let the moon spring up.
The trees' leaves blew along with the peaceful wind around the hills. The wind blew silently but some say that if you went to the top peak of the hill you could hear voices in the wind.
He looked over at the sunset forming and sighed. The people. Would they miss him when he was gone? He thought not. An outcast. That's what he was.
He did realize that from now on he would be on his own. As if he really was a monster. Shunned from society. Was it what he wanted? To be shunned since birth or to run away and start a new life.
A few weeks ago he had picked B: start a new life.
He cradled the backpack in his arms. It contained the only items he had. Unfortunately, he hadn't been blessed with fortune like the Hyuuga clan that lived atop the hill at the far right of the village.
The items he did have were basic things that he had used to live on the streets: Ramen, an extra set of clothes, and a basin that he had used to take baths in when he found water. He also had some bedding with him.
The only food he ever had was ramen. When he had money from helping the people at the many Ramen shops in the village, he used it to visit the old man at his favorite ramen shop.
Now even he, the only family he had, shunned him away.
He knew nowhere to go then so escaping was the only way to find a place in the world. He had also found out recently what was REALLY inside of him.
It was on his 16th birthday and it finally "talked" to him.
Kyuubi was "its" name. The nine-tailed fox as the villagers said before they fled to their houses. Of course he didn't think it was that dangerous since it "talked" to him.
But evidently it was.
He never had a friend either. When he went to school, no one talked to him. They all had heard from their parents to stay away from him because of his fox.
He remembered Sakura and Sasuke. His two teamates. They were a team for about a week until Sasuke went to Orochimaru. Sakura, heart broken went across the world to train with Tsunade.
He didn't even meet anyone on the other teams. They had broke up too quickly. Jiriaya, the third of the legendary sannin, offered to take in him as Sakura and Sasuke had been taken in by his teammates but he refused.
After that, Jiriaya went to help Tsunade and he was left alone. Then that same day he decided to go and find a place for just him. That was about a month ago.
He had prepared for a month. Gathering up his belongings and all the ninja tools he had in a backpack took a long time. He had earned about 1,000 yen. Hardly enough to live on for the rest of his life.
How could a 16 year old live on what he had?
He expected to go and find his lost love Sakura and live with her but he probably wouldn't find her across the world. He expected to go and find his best friend Sasuke but he'd probably kill him on the spot.
No companions. No food. No money. No shelter.
He reached into the backpack and pulled out a gold watch. The bottom of it was old and worn but the top looked brand new. The paint peeled of on the sides but he thought it was perfect.
It belonged to his father and mother. The 4th Hokage and his wife had brought it for 300 yen and gave it to him when he was first born. He knew that they knew they were going to die.
Somehow, he believed, that this was how his fate was decided.
To die alone in a forest filled with hungry animals after he ran away?
Evidently.
He sighed.
"Why me?" he asked the silence.
Why me,he thought,Why was I the only one that had a bad enough life that I had to leave the village?
Is it even possible to survive at this point? Plus, its winter in the area and it started snowing yesterday while he was packing.
He looked up at the falling flakes in the sky. He wished he could float into the sky as they did. Unfortunately, he couldn't because he was only a mere human unlike the precipitation.
He shivered. The snow was colder than he thought it was. It was also supposed to softer than he thought but it was harder than what he heard about it.
The snow hit his face as it pelted down more. He winced. It was really starting to hurt him. He figured that he should find shelter in something abandoned for the day and start tomorrow.
He looked around. In front of him was nothing but snow and trees. In the back of him was Konoha in the distance....and snow. On his sides were snow and something unknown in the distance.
He squinted. It looked something like a rundown shack.
Surely, enough it was a shack. A small shack with yellow paint over it. The windows around it were crushed in. The glass covered the floor of it. The roof of it was leaning to the side. It was pretty ugly.
He placed his hand on the side of the shack and traced it to the back. The wall had cracks in it. The snow had piled itself up in the cracks of the wall.
You could faintly see dried-up blood caked into the cracks with the snow. The bright redness of it had melted away with the snow and you could see a small puddle of blood mixed with snow on the ground.
As knocked-up as it was, it would become his new home for the next years of his life probably. The only shelter he had was this rundown shack in the snow.
He traced his hand back to the front.
A door was at the front with a small bell to be used as a doorbell. The door was falling off its hinges letting snow fall in. The winds picked up slightly and blew in more snow through it.
He took a few steps toward it and sighed. He couldn't believe it had come to this.
Pushing the door open, he walked in and placed his backpack on a shelf inside of the shack. It was also falling down but it would be good enough to hold his backpack for the time.
Then he started exploring.
The shack had a small kitchen, two bedrooms, and a bathroom type room.
Inside of the kitchen was a few cabinets and a counter that was made of some kind of wood. The bedrooms contained a dresser in each but nothing else. The bathroom had a sink.
Each room was blocked off with a small door except for the bathroom. It was blocked off with a curtain.
He sighed. It was a rundown shack but it will have to do.
First he moved to the first bedroom. He opened the door and went to the middle of the room. He figured that this would be a good place to set his bedding.
He set the orange, plain, colored bedding on the floor and smoothed it out. He set his favorite pillow at the front. One that had the Kyuubi on the front with an orange background.
Next he moved to the bathroom as he passed the other bedroom. Immediately, he thought about Sakura.
" If I find Sakura she'll have that room. Then me and her can live just like lovers do" he thought.
He blushed as he thought that. Sakura would probably hit him if he told her anything about that with her in love with Sasuke and everything. He wished that he had a true love like Sasuke did.
As he got to the bathroom, he pushed the curtain away and stepped in.
The sink looked plain as did the walls with their bluish color. The color all around was fading and the sink had paint chipping off it showing its original off-white color.
He ignored the ugliness and set the gray basin next to the sink. Tonight he would take a bath after he ate dinner. In his new "house".
After re-decorating his "new" bathroom, he headed up to the kitchen by the door. He had passed it when he first came into the shack but didn't pay any attention to it.
He walked up to the brown cabinets and opened them. A fly flew out and landed on the counter below. He put his nose up in disgust as he opened his backpack once again.
This time he took out about 6 packs of already-made ramen and six cans of tea specially made. All of it was enough food for about six nights of dinner. If he cut one into two then he could also have breakfast.
He sighed. He was doing a lot of that today. After he found shelter he didn't have anything to do so he just sat down and went through his many thoughts.
The sun outside had gone down a long time ago. Darkness filled the inside of the shack so he figured that it was time for dinner and to change into his pajamas.
As he ate though, the stars went down on the day to complete the look of the sky.
He ate slowly. Somehow he thought that this would be his last meal. Although another part of him thought that this was the first of many "meals" and also other things.
He stripped down to the nude later after he ate and filled the basin with water.
He washed himself with the special soap that he had stolen once before. It was a big bar of soap so it wouldn't go away for a long time unless someone else started living with him.
After he was done bathing, he changed into his pajamas and pulled the covers over his head to block out any light that was left around him. After he was done producing water from his eyes, he slowly cried himself to sleep.
He hadn't slept for long though because there was an unknown substance under his bed. He could feel it moving around. A small brown object tickling the bottom of his toes.
He bravely picked it up and held it up to his face.
A dog. That's what he held in his hands.
The small brown dog licked his face. Right where it showed his whisker-type scratches. He closed one eye as he smiled while it kept licking his face.
"I think I'll call you Midnight because I found you in the midnight" he whispered to it.
Midnight licked his face again and wagged its tail. He stared at the small dog and kissed it on the nose. You couldn't call that a first-kiss though even if he didn't have his.
He laid Midnight next to him in his bed.
"Good night, Midnight" he whispered.
Of course the dog didn't answer. If only he could fall asleep though.
He sat up. There were too many things he had to think about before he could have a peaceful sleep. Probably even after that he probably still couldn't go to sleep.
I wonder " he thought. "When will I have another companion?"
"When will I have a companion at all?"
"Sakura is gone somewhere with Tsunade. Sasuke is with Orochimaru. I should have accepted that trip with Jiriaya. Then at least I wouldn't be alone now. Kakashi-sensei is probably somewhere being a pervert and the other teams are probably enjoying themselves right now" he said sadly.
All the other teams were probably together with each other enjoying the third day of winter. Playing in the snow, making snow angels and having snowball fights.
He wanted that.
He wanted to be like all the other ninjas that he never got to meet. Those ninjas got days off to spend with their families. He didn't have a family to spend with.
Those ninjas got days off to spend with their teams or go visit relatives in the other villages. Sasuke always went off to visit Itachi and Sakura went to visit one of her friends from another team.
He never got to meet Itachi or Sakura's "friend" either. They talked about them sometimes. Sasuke always talking bad and Sakura always talking good.
Sasuke talked about Itachi killing his family so every time he went to "visit" him they fought on and on. Sakura talked about the rival ship her and her "friend" had but were still friends.
He had nothing to talk about during those special times. He listened to every word they said though no matter how stupid, dumb, idiotic, crazy, or manic each was.
There was sometimes when they drove each other crazy though. He had been nicknamed "dobe" by Sasuke and he nicknamed Sasuke "teme". He actually had no idea what "teme" even meant.
One Christmas though, they didn't get on each other's nerves. They actually had fun. Snowballs were thrown everywhere and snow angels covered the snowy ground.
Kurenai-sensei's team was actually supposed to be with them too but they had other things to do. Kakashi-sensei didn't spend Christmas with them. Instead he chose to follow Jiriaya around, begging for another issue of Make-Out Paradise. The perverted series that every kid loathed.
He had come across one issue and had made the mistake of opening it.
Sakura had punished him for it. The issue had been about her evidently. It described her as a "slut undercover" that was looking for someone to "have fun with".
He had been severely punished, too.
Sasuke started giving him dirty looks after that. He always knew that somewhere deep inside of Sasuke that Sasuke liked Sakura as much as he did. He didn't mind though.
He always had the apperance that he was some idiot who didn't know anything. One that didn't think anything through before charging right into something. The people who thought that were wrong.
He had always been the smart one of the group and there were few people that noticed. For example, the little boy and his group that followed him had noticed.
Konohamaru, Udoh, and Moegi. They followed him around the whole week that he was with his squad. Of course they were the only ones that he actually regretted leaving.
They were sweet kids until the day when he told them that he had to leave them. Konohamaru had avoided him the whole day. Udoh ignored him and Moegi ran away from him.
That actually broke his heart.
Even though he had no friends, family, or companions, at least he had a group of little kids that looked up to him as if he was their father. He had nothing now.
Not even his own team could comfort him now.
He looked over at Midnight, sleeping soundly. He never knew a dog could snore until now. It didn't make him feel so lonely now that he had something that reminded him that he wasn't always alone.
Completely alone.
Bang.
A noise outside of his "house" pulled him back into reality. He figured that it was just something like a cat or the snow pelting outside once again in the night.
Bang.
He decided to check it out in case though.
His thoughts were confirmed as he looked down at another brown dog that looked the same as Midnight. As if they were twins are something. Born of the same mother.
As he held it though, he realized that it was as if they were born of the same mother.
"Wow this is really weird. I think I'll call you Sunlight" he said, as he checked if it was a boy or girl.
It was a girl so Sunlight probably would be the best name contrasting to Midnight. Of course though the fur on this puppy was a lighter color than brown. It was even a little yellowish.
He wondered what the little dog would look like if the sunlight reflected off of her golden fur. It would probably look the same as her with her fur being the same color and all.
Bang
"Not another animal" he said, groaning.
He grabbed Sunlight up again and put her near his bedroom. If he was going to die tonight then he should at least save Midnight and Sunlight. They are his only companions from now on.
He opened the door and winced as snow hit his face. He looked down with trouble because the snow was pelting down on him. He gasped as he saw what was down there.
A girl. A very cute girl. She wore light purplish clothes that was a little tight around her but hugged her curves perfectly. He wasn't so sure about her hair. In the dark he couldn't figure out if her hair was blue or purple.
She looked up and met his gaze. They held each others' eyes for a moment before she shivered against the cold snow. He gasped as realization hit him.
Somehow he could tell that she was the same as him. A runaway. But what exactly was she running from when she had a great family and all the money he wish he had?
When he was little he believed that if a Hyuuga ran away they would be executed if anyone ever found them. At least that's what the villagers talked about most of the time.
"Its cold" she said.
"Do you want to come inside?" he said without thinking. He couldn't believe he was doing this.
"Demo...." she said, uncertainly.
Her voice was like a melody he realized. He could listen to her talk all day.
"Come on" he said.
"Thank you." she beamed. "By the way, my name is Hyuuga Hinata"
He gaped. What was a Hyuuga during out here when they were rich and supposed to be in control of the village? Ok they weren't really the rulers like the Hokage but they were second in command.
He did know that one person in the Hyuuga family was supposed to take a spot in the ruling soon. He always thought that it would be the ruler's son or daughter. Apparently not.
"I'm Uzumaki Naruto" he replied.
Naruto then put his hand in Hinata's and led her into the shack. Although this was just a good thing he was doing, Naruto could tell that they would be together forever.
And that is the end of chapter one!
Oh, how I love this couple.
I'm going to enjoy writing this story.
I'm going to do a contest for the rest of the couples. Nejiten and Naruhina are the main ones. (Naruhina is the really main one)
Vote for two of the following:
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