Ch.1: Chasing after the Sunshine

For a mere second, he woke up in his hospital bed after having Heaven curse mark seal. All he could hear was people running in the isle. He heard them say, "Hinata! Come on, live! Ok, she's alright."

He asked himself before going unconscious, "who's Hinata?" all he could remember about her was that she tried to say something Naruto before the first exam, and that she sat right next to him in the exam. She also was right next to him during the preliminary exam. He recalled her as the only girl who didn't stalk him.

When he woke up again, she was in a bed right next to him. He said to himself, "Isn't she Neji Hyuga's Cousin? How Ironic Neji has long hair and she has short hair."

She finally woke up and looked over, only to see Sasuke staring at her. "It's rude to stare, Uchiha-san."He just turned around, for the first time it was him who was blushing. In his mind, "what the hell am I doing starring at her. She's not important, but why do I want to turn around?"

H: "Thanks Kami-sama, I'm alive after Neji's and my fight."

S: "you fought Neji?"

"Yes I did, and this time I didn't turn away," she said proudly.

He couldn't understand her, 'what type of ninja turns a duel way?' He asked, "What do you mean you 'didn't turn away?"

H: "I usually turn away fights because I'm a burden. I know I'm a burden, even my own father knows I'm a burden. But yesterday, I proved I wasn't."

S: "Hinata…If that's your name, you shouldn't listen to them, you're better than that you think."

She giggled making him blush more turned around and said, "Wow Uchiha-san, you've never seen me train, what makes you say that?"

He turned around towards her and looked in her moon-colored eyes, " That was one of my mother's last quotes she told me before she died."

H: "Gomensai Uchiha-san for what happened. You want to avenge your brother for that, don't you?"

S: Hai. Hinata can you not call me Uchiha-san."

H: Sasuke-san, after you kill your brother, don't you need to revive your clan?"

He had totally forgotten about reviving his clan. He didn't really think much of after getting his sweet revenge. Then a nurse came in and quickly opened the windows. There was a swift breeze that past Hinata and then to Sasuke. In that breeze, he had smelled Hinata's scent. He smelled lavender extract that he minded him of the lavender field inside the Uchiha complex.

S: " Hinata, do you use any lavender products?

H: "Hai, I only receive lavender products that one of the maids make in exchange of helping care of the Hyuga's garden. Why you ask Sasuke-san?"

S: "Let me guess why, your favorite color is Lavender."

H: "It is, it became my favorite color before my mother died, she made a lavender kimono for my 5th birthday. I would wear it all the time until she died. After that my dad scolded me for wearing it, he wanted me at least look like I was boy. Now he doesn't care, he treats me like I was a failure."

S: "Why do you hate your father so much?"

H: " First he always compare me to my younger sister Hanabi, she's barely in the academy and is five years younger than me. He's never satisfied with my training but with everyone else's. Most likely I'll quit the clan when I grow up. I'm tired of being in hell."

S: "What if you could one day quit the clan and live happily somewhere else?"

H: "It would be the best day of my life."

S: "Hinata can I ask you a favor?"

H: "Sure Sasuke-san what is it?"

S: "Could you grow your hair out?"

H: "Sure, may I know why?"

S: "I miss seeing dark long blue hair in the Sunshine."

H: "Sunshine, it's the meaning of my name."

He always had his face toward the darkest. But now he was chasing after the sunshine.