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Hinata had freed Neji from the curse seal. He would not know about it until much later. Sitting in her room, with the scrolls her mother had left her, she smiled. Touching the beautiful handwriting, she remembered faintly the way her mother held her writing instruments with such grace. She remembered her mother kissing her in the center of her forehead and telling her to remember where the scrolls were because they were the key to saving all she held dear. Hinata had remembered this occurrence shortly after the elders meeting when she had been in utmost despair at her situation.
She sat on her bed and thought about what had happened earlier in the meeting of the elders. The elders had decreed that she was to be married soon. At the age of 20, she was past the time for it to happen they had bluntly announced. They had even gone so far as to claim that with the continuing instability of the village it would have to be soon. They had not said to whom she was to marry. When Hinata had thought to argue they had used Neji as her whipping boy. Activating the curse seal, they made the proud Jounin pant and pale with his shoulders hunched in agony. His fingers clenched to the sides of his head. Hinata had quickly acquiesced and left the room shortly after.
Hinata had gotten the scrolls from their hidden place in her mother's garden. The scrolls, concealed in a way that the Byakugan was useless in its detection, were only detectable by moonlight, once a year. Hinata had wondered about this at first but had found the reasoning explained to her quickly enough. The scrolls had told her of a place she could go where no one would be able to find her while she read.
Hinata had quickly found the spot and had read the night away. Not once thinking about the ramifications of her actions, Hinata had studied and learned the teachings of the scrolls. She had learned the way to hide from both the Byakugan and the Sharingan. She also now knew how to deactivate both when dealing with opponents and how to remove and activate various seals. A different scroll had explained how Byakugan users could do scrolls to relay messages to someone's brain, and transportation.
Something Hinata found most useful was one scroll explaining the different types of users of the Byakugan. Most were like Neji and her father, who used their Byakugan in the tradition sense. Others like her were rarer. They did not fight because they wanted to but because it was necessary. These users, to all around them, seemed to have no real strength. The users, however, were the only ones who could call upon both the powers of the Byakugan and the Sharingan in times of peril for Konoha.
The scrolls had gone on to describe the ways she could fight. They laid emphasize on the fact that the techniques could only be used by one who could wield both the Byakugan and it's cousin the Sharingan. This meant respecting the natures of both being towards the sun and fanning the flames. Hinata knew a riddle when it she saw one. Thinking, she spent time on the meaning of towards the sun and fanning the flames. She had let her mind ponder the situation so long she became aware of the sun shining into her eyes when inspiration struck.
"Fanning the sun towards the flames" Hinata almost shouted realizing that to use the skills the scroll outlined she would need to be able to get the sun to reflect to make fire. "This is going to be difficult." Hinata realized because she could manipulate water well with her current skills. "How am I supposed to be able to use fire which is the opposite of water?" Hinata despaired but somewhere in the back of her head, she realized that the water had been unwilling to allow her to manipulate it at first. Taking heart from the realization, she remembered that she had left her home in the middle of the night and it was now dawn.
Hurrying she returned home and managed to convince herself that no one would notice her absence. She had just walked by her father's study when he called for her. Hinata turned, squared her shoulders and entered her father's domain. The resulting interrogation only strengthened Hinata's resolve.
Taking a deep breath Hinata placed the scrolls in her bag. The seal that would transport to her new location she placed on the floor. She had no idea where the scroll was suppose to take her. All she knew was that it would transport her to its partner scroll and then from there she had to find the essences of the Hokage. Legends said the essences had the power to be the bringers of peace or ultimate destruction. Hinata had to take the chance to find them; otherwise, she would never be able to break free of her family or save her village and her friends.
Thinking about her friends, Hinata smiled sadly. Naruto was away with Jiraya who was trying to keep him safe from Akatsuki and make him strong enough to defeat them. Sasuke managed to defeat Itachi but was still under Orochimaru's thumb. Sakura was one of the strongest medical nin since Tsunade herself. Shikamaru and Shino were special Jounin. Choji and Ino had become chuunin and taught at the academy. Kiba had become a hunting nin. Lee surprised everyone by becoming an ANBU captain.
Hinata had barely managed to become a chuunin the second time around. Attacks against the village were becoming more frequent and shinobi were dying faster every day. The Hokage, Tsunade was at her wits end on how to keep it all together.
Hinata nodded her head with resolve to start on her self-proposed mission. She had told Tsunade about her goals but had placed a seal so that the Hokage would not recall the conversation until Hinata left the village. Hinata glanced around her room one last time before she stepped on the seal and vanished.
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