Hello people Cece's back! (audience just stare blankly, crickets chirp) I know you're all out there. Well, I had the urge to do something family based so here it is (audience scream and throw chairs and tables at me, me screaming in terror running out of the way)

This is basically how despite his coldness towards Hinata, Hiashi does care and worry about her like every other father. Also, it was his birthday this week, on the 8th. Bits of humour added. Read and review.

Thoughts of a Hyuga Father:

Prelude

Hiashi knew fatherhood wasn't going to be easy as fighting a whole village, giving the curse seal mark to the whole of the branch family, fighting his father to claim his position as leader whilst making a sandwich. Okay, maybe that's not easy but he managed it. How you ask? Well, when Hiashi was in his prime he was considered a prodigy, this interested the whole of Sound so, obviously, they attacked. On the same day, and the same time, someone had found out how to get rid of the curse mark and, inconveniently, he had to take care of this problem and put them back on. Also, at the exact same time Hiashi was scheduled to fight his father to see if he deserved to be the next leader. He also made a sandwich at that moment. But why did he make a sandwich you ask also? A man can be hungry, can't he?...

When Hiashi first found out his wife was pregnant he asked- actually demanded while activating his Byakugan- who the father was. It wasn't until he had beaten up every male ninja- surprisingly, including Genin- he calmed down and listened to his wife. He had to make a public apology afterwards.

When Hinata was born, Hiashi knew that he had to protect her. Whenever she cried at night he would be there to break the intruder in half, make him cry blood and pull his lungs and heart out through his nose... There was never an intruder...actually, one time there was an intruder but Hiashi was too delirious from lack of sleep he mistook the Oto-nin for Hinata and tried to give the poor ninja a diaper change. Too this day all Oto-nin think Hiashi plays for both teams... or has a skeleton in his closet and being married to a woman is all a charade.

By the time Hinata was one she had learnt how to walk. Good thing, huh? Nope, nada, no, N.O. spells NO! And here's a logical explanation to this problem. Children are naturally curios. If Hinata couldn't walk she wouldn't be able to move about freely and get very far. But since she is a child and can, unfortunately, walk and can run, it wasn't surprising that she went missing one day. Hiashi being a clever and patient man decided to race across the village, asking anyone if they saw Hinata whilst waving a kunai in front of their face if they took too long to answer. It took him 2 hours to give up asking around and remember what the Byakugan can do...maybe, clever and patient aren't the right words...In the end it turned out that she was in a pan under the sink.

Terrible two. Two words that mean a phase which children go through when they're, um well, two. All toddlers go through this and that doesn't excuse the Hyuga Heiress. Eating was always a problem for Hiashi in the morning, since he was forced to wake up at the same time as Hinata which was very early. Every morning he had to restrain himself from sleeping at the table. On one particular day though, Hiashi had closed his eyes for one second- or maybe it was for a minute- and when said Hyuga opened his eyes and took a sip of his tea he was greeted to the great, soothing, delicious taste of-SALT! (insert Hyuga leader spitting out his tea, maid claiming she didn't put salt in his tea and Hiashi throwing her out of the compound, claiming that she is mad) When he looked over at Hinata he swore he saw her grin.

When Hinata was three it was time to train her and take his nephew, Neji, under his wing for a bit. But add a jealous, younger brother with a grudge watching the training session; it was definitely not going to go smoothly. Hiashi wished he didn't have to go through with it since he knew his brother despised him (and possibly despised his daughter too) which might lead to him attacking either of them. His suspicions quickly came true. The first training session with his beloved daughter and he manages to traumatize her for life by activating the curse mark seal. He was sure she would have nightmares and be shaking in fear every time he lifted his hand. His wife going to murder him (!), but in his defense, HE wasn't the one in the wrong, if his younger brother wasn't a brat it wouldn't have come down to it. Maybe he could escape death with family counselling.

Hinata had now reached the age of four and had found multiple escape routes to the garden and a whole in the fence leading to three paths to God-know-where. On Tuesday, 26th of April, Hinata had disappeared... again. Hiashi learning from past mistakes looked under the sink at first and greeted to a spider the size of a baby. After killing the baby- I mean spider- he activated his Byakugan and saw his daughter go through a flap behind her bed, into the garden, escaping through another flap in the fence and take a path...leading to the cliffs. When Hiashi got to the cliffs, Hinata was on seated at the ledge, playing with a butterfly. Moving closer to his beloved daughter, the ledge cracked. Hinata was saved, somehow, but Hiashi was later that day admitted into hospital.

Five is a curious age. So when Hanabi was conceived, young Hinata asked her father the dreaded question that all young children ask. HOW. DID. HER. BROTHER. OR. SISTER. GET. INSIDE. HER. MOTHER'S. STOMACH? After choking on his food and coughing hysterically, Hiashi told his daughter the safest answer he could give without traumatizing her and getting a, now, hormonal pregnant woman angry at him. The answer: HIS WIFE, HINA, ATE A BABY WHICH WOULD DEVELOP INISDE HINA AND COME OUT 9 MONTHS LATER. But poor Hinata fainted at the word baby due to visual images of her okaa-san 'the baby eater', eating babies, popping up into her fragile mind and didn't hear the rest of the explanation.

When Hanabi was born, Hinata asked her father while entering the delivery room; where did her okaa-san get the baby so she could eat it? Trying to avoid the incident 9 months earlier, Hiashi told Hinata, a delivery man delivers babies, to the women who ordered the baby, who would then have to eat the baby which would then take 9 months to digest and take out. Unlike last time, it was Hiashi who fainted, when he entered the delivery room due to things he really shouldn't have seen (cough) lots of blood...and the afterbirth aka the placenta (cough)

Seven? What did the Hyuga heiress do this time...well she wet herself during a family meal. Sadly, feudal lords attended as well. Hinata was innocently sitting next to her father whilst being told how cute she was, how much she had grown, blah blah blah, with cheek pinching included when all of a sudden, nature called. Not wanting to be rude and just leave, she decided to inform her father who was busy talking to a grown-up. Having been told not to interrupt grown-ups talking to each other, poor, poor Hinata sat there waiting for the conversation to end. You can guess what happened next.

When little ninjas turn eight they join the academy, and it was now the time Hinata joined as well. The orientation happened to surprisingly go well...until she lost her lunch...not her packed lunch...she didn't even have a packed lunch to begin with...it was the lunch that had settled in her stomach and decided to make its' reappearance...all over the Uchiha brats head. Hiashi's point of view: I smirked at this. Damn Uchihas we Hyugas were in Konoha first and there precious sharingan ('supposedly') came from the BYAKUGAN. And the BYAKUGAN doesn't make us blind and further more... end Hiashi's point of view, he'll go on and on if we don't stop him.

The next three years nothing really happened with the Hyuga heiress worth mentioning, except the fact he pretty much ignored her more than ever...not that he completely payed attention to her in the past, all these memories are the parts of her life he can just barely remember.

When she was around twelve, Hinata had finally graduated and was put into a cell of three for missions who would sometimes go on their own or with their sensei. In other words, when her sensei wasn't going on the mission his daughter would be ALONE with TWO BOYS! Hiashi didn't trust them...especially the dog boy. He was, in Hiashi's eyes, a BAD influence and trouble for his innocent daughter. Hiashi didn't like this, didn't like it indeed.

A while after her thirteenth birthday it was obvious that Hinata was growing up and that finally became apparent when his mother-less daughter, blushing a shade darker than the darkest shade of red, opened his bedroom door in the middle of the night with glossy eyes. Taking in the fact that she was close to crying, Hiashi, being the concerned parent he was, asked, 'Why did you wake me up?'...caring and lovely isn't he. Spluttering out an incoherent sentence quickly he gathered that she woke up, saw blood on her trousers that he just noticed and doesn't know what's happening. Gathering his thoughts he tried to think of the reason for this, and then it hit him, as if the Hokage Mountain heads had crumbled and he just so happened to be walking next to them and then the fifth punched him into the ground... she's having her PERIOD! Hinata suddenly didn't seem so little anymore to him.

Stumbling over a diary belonging to his eldest fourteen year old daughter Hiashi never expected to read the words 'I miss Naruto, but I must become stronger for him until he returns.' Who was this Naruto? Where is he? Will she notice if he never came back and was reported dead by unknown reasons? It only took a few pages of his daughter talking non-stop about Naruto for his questions to be answered... all he needed to do was slip it back to where he found it without being noticed but Hanabi happened to walk past and see him...smooth Hiashi, really smooth.

Without a mother, Hinata had to learn many things on her own, but personal things were alien to her. Hiashi being the 'greatest father in the world' (that was sarcasm) decided to explain the 'facts of life' (e.g. sex and the 'body') but ironically started to stutter like her and fainted when he reached the word 'breasts', stuttering all the way, in the sentence, 'When females reach a certain age parts of them grow and get bigger, attracting males, like their bre-'.

No father wants to see their daughters grow up, especially when boys get hormonal at the tender age of sixteen, when they are less obsessed with training and give their little angels more attention, so the day Hinata turned sixteen, he wasn't surprised to find suitors outside his door asking for his permission to ask Hinata out. Sadly, for them they were sent home with lists of injuries.

Hiashi wasn't blind. He had the byakugan for goodness sake! So during his private sessions with Neji he wasn't surprised with his daughter's teammate's reaction to Hinata standing, fresh from the shower in a tight towel, showing curves and all... Okay they just stood there, listening to her apologise about forgetting there was training, but in Hiashi's defence he didn't trust the dog boy anyway and didn't know what the bug boy was thinking or looking at...he could be UNDRESSING her with his eyes! He had a rage fit after all three of them left, poor Neji was his victim.

Letting his little girl go was probably the hardest thing he had ever done. Looking at the two before him he realised two things...HE WANTED TO KILL NARUTO! and HE WOULD NOT LIVE PAST EIGHTEEN YEARS! Okay maybe he didn't really let her go at that second, it took being held back by the whole Hyuga family and being talked into realising that dating the 'future Hokage' wasn't all bad and that she's eighteen and not eight. After calming down he dismissed them, with a 'hurt my daughter and I will hurt you so bad that the Kyuubi and the fourth will feel it' he decided that if his daughter was happy to date and possibly later in life marry him, he'd be happy for her and possibly tell her one day that despite his actions towards her in the past he has always loved her, but for now he's got one more girl left and he won't let go without a fight.

Cece: Wow, this took me ages to write and so I was five days late for Hiashi-kun's b'day but I'm happy with what I produced. Review please.

Peace!

Edit (14/1/08): I got the weirdest urge to do a sequel of Hinata's dates with Naruto and their wedding. Not sure though, I might write it so look out.

Edit (10/2/08): Edited and corrected this, finally got a chance to re-read it.