Hinata Hyuuga and the 7 Men

Chapter 1

Hello everyone! (: This is Kairi here! Technically, this is not my first time writing on , but my other account… I forgot the password and everything / eep.

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Summary: "Well, you're not the greatest yourself either, you know…" Hinata mumbled as she stumbled along the sticks and branches. "Oh, don't worry. There are 6 more of us. Good luck surviving, princess."

I'll talk to you guys after this chapter, so no worries; I SHALL BE BACK c: Enjoy~ Please don't hate me yet /

-Kairi

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Huff…huff… huff

"I should be...huff…far enough from the castle," Hinata Hyuuga gasped as she dusted off her now torn gown. She had ran for what seemed like hours away from home into a vast abandoned forest. Hinata slowly seated her aching body on a broken trunk nearby, and took deep breaths. Her heart was racing and her head spun quickly. Blisters and cuts had been caked all over her now dirty skin, which was originally a beautiful cream color. Her thin arms were shaking, as she realized exactly how cold she was.

As her heartbeat slowly returned back to normal, Hinata stretched her arms and winced at the sight of all her cuts and bruises.

"I wish father hadn't hit so hard…" Hinata's eyes lowered to the ground, before she jumped up. The Hyuuga guards could be on their way to finding her any second.

"I have to go… I have to go… Before they find me and take me home. I can't go back there," Thoughts began to cloud of Hinata's mind as she limped deeper and deeper into the woods.

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"Where's this noise coming from?" A deep, husky voice quietly muttered. The voice had come from a red-headed man with no eyebrows and a tattoo on plastered on his forehead. He poked his heads left and right from tree to tree, trying to find where a certain noise had come from.

"Ouch…" he heard a quiet voice. That was the noise… was someone here in the forest as well? The man walked slightly closer to the noise, keeping a cautious mind. As he walked closer, he saw a girl covered in blood in multiple areas. She didn't seem to notice him yet.

"Clumsy me… I really need shoes right now. Who walks around in a forest barefoot?" She mumbled to herself as she tried to get up, only to feel a sharp pain hit her. She fell back down.

"Hinata, stupid, stupid Hinata," she scolded herself.

"Who are you?" The man said in a barely-whispered voice (A/N: Let's assume barely-whispered is an actual word). Hinata instantly tensed up and quickly moved her head back to the man's voice. Her eyes widened as she tried to inch away from him.

"P-please don't kill me," Hinata's eyes watered, "Not yet anyways…" she added to herself.

The man stared at her, his expression stoic and unmoved. He continued to stare at her, making her shift uncomfortably. She tried to stand, and this time, she was able to… but barely.

"A-Ano… I'm Hinata. Please don't k-kill me," Hinata repeated as she placed a hand on a nearby tree for body support. Her ankle was excessively bleeding. The man looked down at her ankle, and took a step closer, causing Hinata to flinch. However, she didn't back away.

He bent down to where he was closer to her ankle, and pulled out a black fabric and gently tied it around her ankle in attempt to stop the bleeding. Hinata stayed silent as she stared at the man.

"His hair is really red… I wonder if he dyed it," Hinata thought to herself. "Wait, why am I thinking of hair at a time like this? You're associating with a stranger right now, Hinata. You could get killed any second, or sent back to the castle!"

Before the man could finish, Hinata quickly took a step back and hid her body behind the tree.

"Who are you? Are you one of those stupid guards out to find me?" Hinata shut her eyes and bit her lips. All she heard for about 30 seconds were sounds of birds chirping and other than that, silence. Peeking her eyes open, she wondered if the man had left. Turning back to where she was, she saw that the man hadn't moved. His eyes and facial expression were unreadable. His beautiful cerulean eyes looked up at hers.

"Do you want me to let you bleed out here and die?" He asked, looking down at her ankle, which had created a tiny puddle of blood. Hinata stared at him before she cautiously walked towards him again. He grabbed the fabric that had been loosely tied and continued to help her.

"S-so… who are you?" Hinata asked as he was working. Nothing.

As he finished, he stood up and turned to walk away. Hinata stared after him, before she called out to him.

"Wait! Where are you going?"

The man turned back to her, his striking eyes looking straight at her.

"Unless you want to die, I suggest you come with me," He bluntly said, before adding, "If you trust that I would help you anyways."

Hinata stood, staring at the man. Should she trust him? He did help her with her ankle… But what does that do? Before she could say anything, the man turned around and started to walk away again.

Ugh, okay, whatever Hinata thought as she limped quickly behind the man. They began walking deeper and deeper into the forest, must to Hinata's dismay. But the man seemed to know his way around pretty well, and he may just be her only chance at surviving in the shivering forest.

"Why are you here?" The man asked after they had walked for about 5 minutes. He didn't look at her.

"I'm running away from home. I believe my father might be sending guards to find me, so I came here, in the forest," Hinata replied, as she pulled the skirt of her dress to prevent herself from tripping.

"Hm. Why would anyone care if you ran away, exactly?" He asked coldly.

Hinata frowned. What a …jerk.

"Well, I'm a Hyuuga princess… but only you can know," Hinata quietly said underneath her breath. The man didn't say anything after that.

"Do you believe me?"

The man turned around before glaring at her.

"No, I don't. Find a better lie."

Hinata give a displeasing look at him, though he didn't see. Obviously this guy didn't believe her.

"No, I really am a Hyuuga princess. My dress may be dirty and torn, but it was rather expensive…"

"Your life sounds great." He pointed out as he stepped over a large tree trunk.

Hinata shivered.

"Well, you don't know me, okay?" The man stopped walking and turned around.

"Do I sound like I care about that? You sound like a brat."

"Well, you're not the greatest yourself either, you know…" Hinata mumbled as she stumbled along the sticks and branches. "Oh, don't worry. There are 6 more of us. Good luck surviving, princess."

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-Kairi