Two Fakes don't make a Right
It was early in the morning, the birds chirping lightly outside her window when a polite knock at the door woke her; she attempted to blink away the sleep but it proved to be futile. Neji already awake and ready for the day invited himself in, walking silently across the wooden paneled floor to sit at the edge of the bed, gently he shook her only to get a groan, chuckling he persisted.
"Come on, Hinata, your getting lazier and lazier everyday."
"Five more minutes." Was her only response, he smiled despite himself.
"Remember you have training today? Your teammates said they'd be at the training grounds at eight o' clock this morning. I have a meeting with your father so I must apologize, I' am going have to skip out on lunch today, we'll go training tomorrow at seven am sharp, if your late, next time it will be at dawn." And with that he left his little cousin to her devices.
Slowly but surly she rose, stretching out all the kinks in her body, throwing the blankets off to the chilled morning air and trudged along to her personal bathroom. Turning on the hot shower she jumped in and let the water take away the aches, let the shampoo untangle her hair and let the soap clean the dirt and grime. Brushing her teeth, she looked into the mirror only to be met by a reflection she didn't quite like.
Her pale lavender eyes were rare and awfully odd, a very reflection of all her emotions, her skin soft and paler than the moon, such frail and delicate features were never meant to be shinobi. Hinata could see all the weaknesses her father appointed to every single day. Sighing she erased all those thoughts and moved on to her hair, she wasn't quite sure what to do with it but leave the long tresses down so just slipping into her usual attire and headed down stairs for breakfast.
At the bottom of the steps her sister stood rigid and stiff, her eyes wide in shock worry automatically shot through Hinata's body.
"Hanabi, are you alright? What's wrong?" Hanabi just looked at her sister for a long second and smiled reaching out and held Hinata in a long hug erasing all of her alarm.
"Good morning, Hinata! I hope you slept well because I heard your meeting up with Shino and Kiba today, he's so loud!" Hanabi babbled until they reached the kitchen. "I don't know how you have so much patients for people like him, Hinata, you're a saint so what you making me today?" Hinata laughed at her sister's chatter while starting to pull out utensils.
"What's my magic word?" Hanabi pouted her lips and batted her watery eyes, "Pretty please, my bestest sister in the world!"
"You had me at 'pretty please' Miss Sweet talker."
"So other than meeting up with your team, what else are you doing today?" Hanabi watched as Hinata started whipping some eggs.
"I' am not to sure, I want to stop by at the market and get some more grocery's, maybe go to the library."
"Geez, Hinata, you really need to get out more, go on a date!" Hanabi's sudden idea had her bouncing in her seat, Hinata was a little flustered by the idea.
"N-no I don't think s-so, I-I don't think a-anyone would wa-nt to g-go on a d-d-d..." She couldn't even finish the sentence, Hanabi started to laugh.
"Come on Hinata any boy in Konoha would be damn lucky to go on a date with you and they know it."
Hinata just finished up their omelets, she could feel her face heating up, she would love to believe Hanabi, but she knew better. She looked back at her sister, Hanabi so charming and energetic, it's been a while since they spent time like this. But their time was cut short when their father walked in, looking passively at Hinata.
"You have training today, you should be going now." She bowed respectfully 'Not even a good morning'.
"Y-yes father, I umm m-made an extra omelet if y-you would like one."
"You have to stop with this bothersome stutter, its pitiable, girl." Hinata bowed and mumbled an apology, she left without saying another word, Hanabi watched her wistfully.
Hinata grabbed her weaponry pouch and tied her headband loosely around her neck, while walking out she decided it was about time she got new sandals, hers were looking like they were about to fall apart at any moment.
On her way there, Hinata couldn't help but think of her father, he didn't even want to say her name, she felt an already broken heart, break just a little more. She'll just put it behind her and move on, she didn't have any time to be feeling sorry for herself, did her no good. Arriving at the training grounds she realized she was more than a little late, hoping Kurenai sensei wouldn't mind.
She reached their usual spot but couldn't see any sign of them in the training grounds maybe she got the time wrong. Hinata seated herself under a tree and waited, hearing a rustle she looked up and squeaked in surprise
"Yo." Sitting on a branch, Kakashi was innocently reading his book.
"Kakashi-sensei! I' am s-sorry, I didn't see y-you." He peeked down at her anxious expression, a dark blush already tainting her cheeks a smirk forming under his mask, she was just too much fun. He jumped down to kneel next to her.
"You kept me waiting, Hinata, what took you so long?" He tilted his head, the way that he looked and the way he said her name had her heart beating rapidly, seeing that he ever so innocently inched closer wasn't helping matters either.
"I' am s-sorry Kakashi s-sensei, I-I d-didn't realize y-you were w-waiting for m-me, I-I didn't m-mean t-to, I w-would have c-came s-sooner." A smile suddenly broke out under his mask, chuckling at her bashfulness; he leaned back onto the trunk of the tree and looked down at her fidgeting form, she looked right at him and tried to look stern, which made his smile even wider 'how cute' his thought was cut off when she lightly smacked him on the shoulder.
"You mustn't t-tease me like that, Kakashi-sensei!" In regardless of what she just said, she looked up at him with a small smile, he was glad to have that sadness out of her eyes for just a little while.
"So what have I-I done to have the Kakashi sensei w-waiting for m-me?"
"Oh! I almost forgot, Kurenai has sent me to deliver a message, that her and Kiba have been called to the Hokage's office, Shino has to stay and work with his father so they send their deepest apologies for not making it." His tone sounded very bored.
"I' am s-sorry you had t-to go through so m-much t-trouble for m-me, thank y-you." She looked down and started to twirl the grass between her fingers.
"No trouble at all, in fact I' am meeting up with Naruto and Sakura here today, for old time's sake."
"Oh okay, I will leave you to it than." She got up and silently made her way down to the river, watching her, he couldn't help but want to follow.
At the waters edge she took off her sandals and her pants to expose some dark shorts, her jacket replaced with a small white t-shirt, she tossed her headband lazily to the ground. Carefully, she focused her chakra to her feet and stepped on top of the water. There she stood tall with the Hyuuga traditional gentle fist, concentrating she brought chakra to her palms, creating a light blue glow.
Taking a deep breath, she thrust her left palm forward automatically her right palm came down and formed an upper cut, abruptly she dodged and danced away from her imaginary opponent. She stopped and lowered herself; bringing the chakra to her fingertips she created a ribbon of water, slowly she cascaded it up along her body, barely touching her sensitive skin, like velvet. The glossy water seemed apart of her, each poised movement, the water followed and elegantly danced along with her.
Unbeknown to Hinata, four sets of curious eyes were watching her.
"Kakashi-sensei, you shouldn't be spying on people! This is wrong."
"Sakura, don't give me that, I' am spying on her no less than you are." That only earned him a smack over the head, she looked over to Naruto, who was only drooling, Sakura rolled her eyes and looked a little past him to the quiet person next to him.
"Sai, please tell me you think this is wrong?" She thought nothing was out of the ordinary until she looked at his eyes, there was a strange emotion stirring within them, he wouldn't look away from the girl below.
"Sai, are you listening to me?"
"This is the most sensual thing I have ever seen, who is this girl?" Sai was in awe.
"That's Hinata Hyuuga, the Heiress to the Hyuuga clan, she's a little different, really shy and timid, poor girl doesn't have much confidence in herself." Sai looked away when he heard the sadness in Sakura's voice; she only stared along to the Hyuuga girl with a sort of longing this only made him confused but he didn't have a chance to ask anything, Naruto seemed to wake from his daze.
"Yeah, but she's kind of weird too." Three sets of eyes suddenly glared at his cluelessness.
"Naruto, you idiot!" He got a bash over the head to.
They all froze when she stopped, the ribbon of water seemed to take a life of its own, surrounding her body and suddenly with a flick of her wrist, the water lashed into the air with a loud snap, a water whip.
"Wow, she's amazing!" Sakura very tempted to run down and praise the girl.
"That's an astounding amount of chakra control she's got." Kakashi watched as Sai slowly slithered out of their hiding spot and over towards Hinata.
"You are quite talented, Miss Hyuuga, never have I seen anything so graceful." He watched curiously as he shoulders stiffened and a dark blush covered her cheeks, he has seen her before, but for some reason he felt like he was looking at her for the first time, her eyes a pale lavender, brimmed perfectly with thick lashes, he so badly wanted to touch her smooth skin and her lips looked so tender 'delicate' instinctively came to mind.
"You're utterly beautiful, I apologize my name is Sai, we haven't been properly introduced." Sai felt strange, this girl had him in some sort of spell.
"Th-thank y-you, Sai…I…I"
Hinata felt dizzy, she felt her face heating up even more, never before has anyone called her beautiful and by no means did she expect it from this enigmatic boy, she looked into his dark eyes, they usually held no expression but now holding so many different emotions that were directed right at her, it was almost over whelming. Looking at his eyes, they were sharp and shadowy, his hair just as dark, his skin almost paler than hers a stunning boy on shore with his warm gaze upon her.
Surprising both of them, Sai stepped out onto the water with Hinata, his movements slow and cat like, the world seemed to slow down; his only destination was only a few steps away, her shy gaze watching his every movement, he stopped just a few inches away, Sai being a whole head taller than her had to look down only to find that she was looking everywhere else but him, he didn't want that.
"Hinata…" her name rolled off his tongue so naturally, bringing a finger to her chin, he gently tilted her face to look at him, in her eyes was uncertainty but she made no move to stop him. Hinata didn't know what to do, she wasn't sure what he was doing, her nerves were telling her to stop and run away, but something else entirely demanded her to stay, something in his eyes were so passionate, made her feel so warm and extraordinary.
Gradually he brought his thumb to her cheek bone and gently stroked his way down to her jaw line there he stopped, hesitantly, he touched her bottom lip, tenderly adding pressure as her eyes fluttered shut. His every nerve were hyper aware of her presence, of their closeness, how she slightly leaned closer to him. The need to taste her was so strong it threatened to over whelm him, his instincts leaning him closer, her warm breath reaching his own lips, she pressed herself closer to his chest, she was so soft…..
"Hey, what are you guys doing?"
They both gasped and fell into the cold water, she squeaked and he turned and glared at the apposing grinning blonde on shore, beside him Sakura and Kakashi just staring in shock, Sakura turned and smacked Naruto over the head.
"Naruto, you idiot should have just left them alone!" it turned into a full out beating while Sai helped Hinata out of the water; she picked up her things and looked up to the mysterious boy.
"I-it was r-really nice m-meeting you Sai." She smiled playfully, his answering smile came naturally, and it felt so real. He watched as she scurried home, he turned and looked at the jounin.
"What just happened, Kakashi-sensei?" He looked down at his student and shook his head chuckling.
"Oh I' am sure you'll find out soon, Sai."
