Chapter 1
Petitefeeme: Ladies and gentlemen, I, author extraordinaire, present…(drum's roll for epic dramatic effect)…the second part of The Kokoro Clan!
Kara: Aren't you a tad bit to dramatic?
Petitefeeme: Absolutely not!
Sixteen years old Kara was waiting in front of a kindergarten, engrossed in a medic book.
Her long rich brown hairs were tied in a tight braid, golden highlight shining through them, falling in the hollow of her hips.
She was wearing light green haori wrapped tightly around her waist by a dark orange slash and dark blue, almost black pants reaching her knees.
She also had high white stocking and dark green ninja shoes. Her headband was still loosely tied around her neck.
The girl heard her name being called and her dark green eyes turned from her book to see a little girl with bright coppery hairs and intense blue/green eyes running to her, her arms outstretched and a grin illuminating her excited face.
Smiling, Kara put back her book to receive properly three years old Hanaka in her arms.
"How was your day sweetie?" The girl asked tenderly, straightening with the little girl in her arms.
"Today was Amiya-chan's birthday and we ate a huge vanilla cake!" exclaimed happily the little girl, emphasising how huge the cake was with her arms.
"I understand now why you are so hyper." Joked lightly Kara "And why you have chocolate mousse around your mouth."
The girl cleaned Hanaka before letting her babble on her day, listening a bit distractedly and nodding from time to time wordlessly.
They soon arrived home and Kara greeted Seisui and Hikage with Hanaka before entering the gates.
An hour later Kara was enjoying a lemon flavoured green tea with some home made biscuits, still reading her book while Hanaka was playing happily on a swing, singing a nursery song.
Her mind drifted to everything that happened during those two years and almost half.
Hanaka had grown pretty well. Kara was amazed to discover that her little girl had a knack for weapon throwing, her throws always accurate (she suspected Tenten to secretly train her when she was babysitting her).
The coppery haired girl had also a sharp mind, a genetical trait to all the women of the Kokoro clan. Like Kara she loved to read for hours with a warm drink and something to nibble on.
She also had a strong sense of justice inherited from her time with Naruto, and trait Kara was proud of (though she still didn't know how the boy was able to influence a one years old toddler).
Unfortunately, she could be as energetic as the blond.
Since Naruto's absence Kara and Sasuke formed a team with Kakashi.
Sasuke had easily climbed the ranks to jounin, and though Kara was only a chuunin, she was a jounin medic and the only one who could take a mission with the two without losing her sanity or enter fangirl mode.
Sasuke had trained a lot with Kakashi, becoming stronger (and lazier) rapidly. He even recently began training with Anko to learn how to summon snake (an idea of Kakashi. Since Sasuke was targeted by Orochimaru it would be a good thing for him to learn some of his techniques to know how to counter attack). The funny thing with the Uchiha was that Hanaka had the boy wrapped around her little finger.
Each time Kara let her teamate babysit the little girl Sasuke would spoil her, not being able to say no to her puppy pout, a weapon common to all women and girls alike (though that some of them used it better than others, namely Hanaka). Even if he tried to keep his cool, uncaring face he couldn't help but take the green and blue eyed girl in his arms each time she would look at him with those tearing eyes.
Of course Kara also became a lot stronger since the time she said goodbye to her brother figure at Konoha's gates. Her genjutsu training with Shizune improved her capacity to detect illusions and she was working on her own technique to weave her own.
She still had her taijutsu spars with Hinata, though the girl lately had been very busy with clan affairs.
She had brought up her mastery over water bending to a level she knew a few had attained and was still climbing up. She was very proud of her achievements in this area.
She also opened the wind, soul and heart seals. She did quick progresses with wind techniques, was pretty good with heart techniques and was still working on soul ones, the jutsus connected with it being extremely difficult and dangerous.
She also learned some doton and katon jutsus in a more traditional way, the scrolls and books in the house's hidden library helping a great lot. She also begged Sasuke to help her with her katon jutsus and fortunately he accepted in exchange of a few taijutsu spars (they were still on equal level in that category and Sasuke's pride had taken a blow when he realized he couldn't beat her in hand to hand combat).
She also wanted to learn some raiton jutsus, but even the scrolls in her family library on that were rare and it was a difficult task. She was thinking about asking Kakashi for help.
She was also very proud of her level of mastery with seals, the scrolls and books in the hidden library helping lot.
Over the years she had become really good friend with Tenten, creating a bond between her, she and Hinata.
The girl now was a chuunin like them and Kara agreed to help her with genjutsu and ninjutsu techniques.
Tenten was ashamed when she realized after the chuunin exam that her only talent was with weapons. She had wanted to enlarge her variety of attacks and after one year trying to do it alone had asked Kara and Hinata for help.
From here the three girls began helping each other mutually, creating the now unbreakable friendship bond they had.
With their help Tenten discovered her affiliation for doton jutsus and Kara was able to help her by teaching her techniques she had herself learned. The girls also helped her greatly with genjutsu, Kara even asking Shizune permission to bring the girl with her from time to time.
But Tenten's strong point would always be weapons. She was more than really good at it. Her capacity to use anything and everything as a lethal thing amazed more than one.
Hinata and Kara became more than close after Naruto's departure. They were seeing each other now as sisters more than friends.
Naruto kept his promise and wrote several letters to Kara over the years, each time inquiring about her, Hanaka and Hinata's health.
Kara found it really cute how Hinata would blush each time she read those lines.
The shy girl over the years had grown a lot mentally speaking, assuming more her role as clan heir.
She was now more determined to make her dream of a united Hyuuga clan a reality, fighting senile council men and prejudice with her head held high and proud and a smile on her lips.
She had slowly but surely improved her skills and took more and more responsibilities as clan heir. At first people were sceptic because of her past performances, but she proved them wrong and began fighting against the old traditions (the curse seal being one of the many examples).
Fortunately she wasn't alone anymore. She had Kara, Tenten and now Hanabi and Neji.
Hanabi after watching her sister taking responsibility began to respect her and soon love her for her bravery and gentle ways.
Neji, after Naruto's beating and some talks with Tenten, had become closer to Hinata, finally assuming a brotherly role fitted to the way Hinata was addressing him since they were little.
Hinata was really happy to have some time with the cousin she considered a brother without glares or disgusted frowns anymore.
If anything Neji became even more protective of her.
Kara still laughed since the presumed shy girl incapable of handling clan affairs rose and began criticizing everything, crushing rebelling elders one by one with a witty mind and a sharp tongue. She really wished she could have seen the council faces! They surely had been priceless!
Weirdly enough, with her advices (or perhaps not, Kara wasn't sure) Shisui was finally able to obtain a date and they continued after Hana deemed him 'satisfying to her taste, even though he was still a baka'. They were now boyfriend and girlfriend.
Kara became really friend with Sakura Haruno when the two were appointed to drag Kakashi in the hospital for his check up (the man could be a real child on those matters).
It was epic, but the two girls were able to capture him without beating him… too much. The chase was the cement of their friendship and cooperation.
They were now working under Shizune (who was the head medic of the hospital) in her unit. It was created to take care of the high ranked nins and important wealthy civilians. Shizune didn't deem them mature enough to take care of the nins yet so they were only healing the civilians and playing nurses for the ninjas.
The two girls also helped each other when Sakura discovered her affiliation for katon techniques. Kara taught her techniques and in exchange Sakura helped her to refine her taijutsu technique using chakra enhanced hits like Tsunade.
"Aneki?" asked Hanaka, interrupting Kara's thoughts "Are you going to stay here tonight?"
Kara smiled sadly and picked the little girl in her arms, putting her on her knees.
"I'm sorry dear I have a shift at the hospital this evening." The brown haired girl said, smiling apologetically "But guess who will look after you tonight?"
"Sasuke-oji?" smiled happily Hanaka, getting excited.
The little girl understood long ago that getting babysitted by Sasuke meant a lot of fun.
"Yes." Smiled Kara "How about you prepare your bag?"
An hour later they were knocking on the Uchiha house's door.
"Sasuke-oji!" exclaimed happily Hanaka, running to hug the boy who answered the door.
"I cannot thank you enough for looking after her." Smiled Kara to Sasuke, giving him Hakana's bags "And please this time can you put her to bed before nine o'clock. Last time she was so exhausted the day after that I received a panicked call from her teacher saying she had slept all morning long."
"Hn." simply replied Sasuke, taking the waiting coppery haired girl in his arms.
In Uchiha nese, it meant: 'Don't worry' (Kara was very proud of her achievement in the foreign language).
Kara smiled to him, kissed Hanaka on her cheek and waved the two goodbye before running to get to her shift in time.
"Sakura-chan." She greeted when she entered the changing room.
"Kara-chan!" exclaimed happily the pink haired girl "Just in time."
The brown haired smiled at her.
During the two years and a half Sakura had grown a lot, more mentally than physically.
She still had a petite form and was really thin, which helped her quite a lot because her ennemies always underestimated her…until she punched them, which with her could be the last error of their life.
Her hairs were now reaching her hips (her parents were really traditional and refused that their daughter had anything but long hairs) and most of the time put up in a messy bun or a high ponytail. Since one year she also began to wear high heels (apparently it helped her taijutsu techniques).
Together they changed into their medic uniform and headed to work.
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Kara bolted in the Hyuuga compound, her excitement written on her face.
She finally found the girl she was searching for and ran to her, almost hugging her to death in excitement.
"Hinata-chan!" exclaimed the brown haired girl "I have received a letter from Naruto-kun!"
"Really?" asked the now smiling heiress, getting excited too.
Hinata had also grown a lot since their blond haired friend left. Her soft black hairs were reaching her hips, for now tied in a traditional bun ornated with a bronze comb inlayed with some red jaspers.
She was wearing a red amber coloured kisode fitting her generous forms with dark brown horses embroidered in the fabric, with a yellow amber obi and a lavender slash tying the traditional wearing.
Kara supposed the girl just had a meeting with the clan council.
"Yes." She replied excitedly "And he says he's coming back tomorrow!"
The effect of the news was instantaneous. The heiress immediately turned the shade of a ripe cherry.
"R-R-Real-Real-Really?" she stuttered, playing nervously with her fingers.
"Hm, hn." Smiled happily the brown haired kunoichi, nodding vigorously "I already told Sasuke and Kakashi. Naruto first will go at the Hokkage tower and we will meet him there. I really hope he'll return your feelings Hinata-chan."
Kara realised her mistake however when the Hyuuga heiress fainted and the poor girl had to carry her for a long time before receiving some help from the servants (Hinata had developed the habit of long alone walks in places where almost nobody could find her).
'It's really time for them to declare their love for each other.' Thought exasperatedly the green eyed girl, letting the servants take care of the fainted girl 'I don't know how much longer I'll be able to deal with their foolishness.'
Petitefeeme: I hope you liked this first chapter!
Kara: Don't forget to give them some informations!
Petitefeeme: Alright, alright, geeze! This second part will be loosely based on the Shippuden episode but not by much, so it's okay if you didn't watch them. You just have to now the general timeline.
Kara: In this part the author will not only focus on me, but other character. There will be several different points of views and there are romantic parts too!
Petitefeeme: I'm not really sure about them. It's a first for me to write romantic moments. Don't hesitate to leave reviews to tell me what you think!
Kara: Until next Friday!