I do not own anything of Naruto or the characters, those are all someone elses...Who's, well I don't know! But i'm borrowing the characters...without permission...Muhhahaha o.0

Also I might wanna add I don't know all the correct terms and stuff for their techniques, so i'll just describe, like for the "beyukenguien..." --See what I mean, i'll just say "She focused her chakra to her eyes allowing her perfect vison." Or something like that Kk?

Chapter One: Not so little anymore...

Hinata looked at the clock, 2:30 am, man what she would give for a tea right about know. Looking over to her little sister she took the thermometer and read it, 98.2 finally that fever was coming down! She kissed her sweet sister's forhead and walked out of the room and walked silently into her fathers and tried to stifle a yawn as she approached the bed. Her father too was getting better as his face wasn't so red and feverish. After taking his temperature and seeing he was well again she tip-toed out of the door and closed it. "Gawd I am so tired, but there still is so much to do! I can't just go to bed, I have to check on my last 'patient' geeze how did this bug not get me too?" Walking down the hallway she opened the door and walked in with her candle she had been dragging with her everywhere. Walking to the bed she noticed Neji sleeping peacfully, his fever hadn't been so bad as her Father's and Sister's but she insisted he stayed in bed. He of course fought about this and after a good pillow fight Neji was in bed, and stayed there as Hinata instructed. Since she ran out of thermometers she used the back of her hand and as she felt her own head a sleepy voice spoke to her.

"You know Hinata, most people would have let them sleep it off, you've been up for almost three days now, don't you think you should sleep?"

Deciding she would sit, she sat down on the edge of his bed and smiled tiredly. "Neji, I would have to get up in an hour anyways because I agreed to help Shino with his bug hunt this morning, it's for his mother and I am not about to ditch him. You go back to sleep, okay? I'll be fine"

And with that she stood up and walked out of the room, closing the door behind her. It was true her few days were taking their toll and she was running off of tea and adrenalin now. Walking to her room she packed for the small task this early morning and walked downstairs dressed and prepared to go, after downing a cup of tea and a few crackers she walked out of the kitchen right into a maid that she was very fond of.

The maid bowed and spoke questionly, "Miss Hinata shouldn't you sleep? You havn't shut your eyes for three days not even the maids have stayed up that long."

"Tauny it will be okay, I have to go though, watch over them will you? Espically Father, he wasn't as low as the other two yet." Tauny nodded and walked into the kitchen. Sighing Hinata walked out the door and started walking to the meeting point where she was suppose to meet Shino. As she walked she yawned and noticed something rather odd, the clouds were all very heavy and the air was perfect for rain. "If I get a cold because of a sudden rainfall i'm going to regret this." After a while she came to the tree they were to meet and and she sat down with a sigh, followed quickly by another yawn. Leaning against the tree she closed her eyes and started to drift away, finally Hinata would get some sleep.

A rough shake of the shoulder told her otherwise, "Hinata, thanks for coming, we better go before the rain comes, it's suppose to be a huge thunderstorm." Nodding she was only half aware of what he was saying, but she followed along, and helped him out as much as possible. After many hours thunder could be heard so they took a break and Shino looked at his collection. "Oh gawd, I would love some tea right now, i'm so sleepy, this isn't fair...Haha I put this on myself now i'm arguing about it to myself. I must be going crazy."

"So, did you get what you wanted Shino? We have been going at it for a while now." Out of all the people Shino was one of the few she was shy around, maybe it was the fact he never talked, he just thought. He also didn't have a million people all over him all the time, with him it was pretty relaxed, and Hinata was exhausted.

"Yes, one of my favourite beetles, unfortunetly my old one was needed so I came out to find a new one."

Silence passed and they began to walk back, on the way they said nothing but said everything at the same time. With some other people they would be gossiping or telling jokes, maybe they would talk to about what they had just done or their most extreme mission. Shino and Hinata were as silent as graves but they both smiled. (Well Hinata smirked and Shino, who knows the guys coat wont let us see his mouth... o.0) it was like they were saying all that with the silence.

After the walk they came into the now busy town of shops opening and adults getting ready for the day, Hinata and Shino said their farwells and Hinata decided to stop and grab a few grocieries for her house. Walking to the stand that looked the most prepared she started picking out food like a mother would, selecting a few apples, stopping, putting one back and picking up another. She paid the man and walked along, the sky dangerously dark but yet, no rain. Taking her usual route she walked down the alley that opened just before the street that turned into her house. Thinking about the grocieries and other things she didn't notice the glint of string that tightened as she came closer. In one motion she tripped and fell forwards on her hands and knees then looking up she saw her apples rolling away, annoyed at herself she crawled forwards a bit and picked up the first two then as she reached for the third a hand reached down and picked it up smoothly. Looking up Hinata saw one person she really didnt wanna see today. An older boy who had a knack for picking on her, he was a bit older and very crude, and Hinata hated him, even more than Neji.

"Smooth fall Angel, but as a ninja i'm dissapointed you didn't see that, espically someone with 360ยบ degrees of vision."

"Stop calling me Angel, and give my apple back." Even to Hinata she sounded lame, an apple? Comon she could have done so much better! The boy grabbed her upper arm and pulled her up roughly and smirked as he jerked her forwards, closer to himself. She hit his hand away curtly and glared at him with her clear eyes, she was nervous, she wasn't as strong as she would normally be from her lack of sleep and nutrition. He looked at her, like he was sizing her up and she hated it before she knew what she was doing she spat in his face and shoved him away angerly.

"Piss off!" He glared up at her angry and lept forwards and hook a sharp right to her jaw, she recoiled with an elbow to the back and spun around watching him regain his footing. Turning around and staring at him she put her groceries down and watched him exspectantly. He pulled out two stars and threw them. She dodged them easily but as soon as she thought the danger was over she felt the impact of a shuriken in her shoulder, very close to her heart. Letting out a gasp she pulled it out quickly and threw it right back, hitting him in the thigh. He cursed loudly and turned and started walking away. "Man that was even worse than last time, we just threw a few punches but this time, he ment to hurt me, badly. Even kill me..."

She ran to her door of her house and opened it quickly and shut it behind her. In repition she placed her grocieries away and stalked up into the bathroom, closing the door until it was almost shut. Taking her jacket and shirt off she was left in her fishnet top that had a bra underneath, all black. The cut wasn't too deep but it stun like lemon juice on a papercut. (Man that hurts sooo much I almost cried!) She grabbed the oitment and readied it beside her, grabbing a needle and some medical thread she started sewing up her own wound. Soon she felt the presence of eyes watching her.

"I know your there, what do you want?" To her surprise Neji walked in and relaxed his eyes, the mirror clearly showed her wound.

"Where did you get that Hinata? You know if your father finds out..."

"He wont, unless you tell him, which I have a feeling you wont. Whats your real reason for being here?"

"I saw your fight, what does that guy have against you?" Hinata smiled and said jokingly.

"He and I are pretty much boxing buddies." At this comment Neji walked forwards and turned Hinata around and indicated to her wound.

"He is much more than a boxing buddy if he is using a weapon." Hinata went silent, he had her there, how much longer would she be able to hide the wounds of their encounters?

She turned back around and continued to sew her wound, "Stupid Neji, can't he just mind his own business? Plus, why should he care about my life, he tried to kill me a while back. Though I should thank him because of that I needed to strengthen it with workouts and now I am stronger physically than before."

The day flew by with training and work outs, a few trips to the market which was followed by a hearty chat with a few of her friends. Well, they talked and she laughed and listened. That night she sluggishly made her way up to her bed and sat in her chair and looked at her books she had to study, her father persisted she learn about their family's history and the books weren't exactly a light read. After a few 100 pages she fell asleep on the thick book, a cup of tea untouched by her side, delivered curtusy of her father.

Gaara sat in his room, the sky was pretty promising for an easy get away. He looked over at temari sleeping on the couch with a romance novel and his brother? His brother was why they needed to get out of here, he was making plans with Orochimaru and they were pretty much to use all the towns Ninja's to destroy Konoah and personally there was no reason too. Sure Gaara loved killing as much as he loved himself but it was rediculous to wipe out an entire town for peer pleasure. Okay well so it would be fun, but that was beyond the point. He wasn't about to be used anymore, or his sister. The clock read 12:00 P.m. so he got up and took his sisters book away from her and nudged her away. Soon they were running with a fast speed, usuing their chakra to speed them up. To use the sand to move, yes it's easier but Kankuro was probably waiting for the sense of it to lock onto them and kill them. Hopefully the message got to Konoah and an escort would be halfway there for them, it had been a while since they had been to Konoah and the where abouts decieved them once again. Gaara clenched his hand, that guid had better be there, or he was going to do some murdering of his own. For now he ran, as that was all he could do.

Thanks for reading my first chapter of my fanfiction, I understand to my old readers that it was messy btu i'm doing a fix up job after a very rude awaking from a certain reviewer. To the new people you can review if you want, but just to let you know I always get excited to see reviews. Thanks, enjoy. -Kittz