Behind These Eyes

Summary: On Ino's 16th birthday, she gets a surprise that she will never forget that willl change the lives of her and of those around her

Yawn…. A girl, age of now 16 of today, awoke to see the sun outside. She leaned over her bed and saw the time on her beeping digital clock.

8:00

I thought I set my alarm for ten she thought to herself mumbling the same thing out loud in a discrete manner getting up from the tossed blankets that lie upon her bed. Yawn…. Why was my alarm set for eight again? She thought to herself numbly, for she was still tired and needed a shower. She stretched her arms above her head, getting ready for the day ahead of her. Since it was her birthday and all, she was excused for practice with Choji and Shikamaru, and later, she'll have a party with the rest of the group. "Can't wait to see what happens today,' she said to herself with a cheeky grin, finally waking up for the day, and getting into the shower, forgetting the fact she woke two hours earlier than she wanted.

When she exited the bathroom, she was in a simple purple tank top and purple skirt, with bandages underneath them like she wore as a kid, though much larger to accommodate with her new body. The bandages didn't cover her waist now, and she showed an awful lot of skin. If it was any other day, her father would probably go berserk, but since today was special, he had let it go. She went into her room, and sat in from of her drawer with a mirror attached to it and started brushing her hair with a simply green and brown brush, courtesy of Shikamaru, after…..three days of nagging him for a present. . "Today is my birthday…" she sung happily to herself brushing her long golden strands of hair. She looked back at her clock and saw that it was 9:30.

"Honey!" A male voice from down the stairs of her room called out. "You have a visitor coming in," He called out not bothering to mention who it was. Probably Forehead-Girl wishing me a happy birthday She quickly opened the door before looking to see who it was and replied "Hey Forehead, what did you get me?" She said in a playful tone, not meant to be taken seriously. "I'm just…" as she opened her eyes, she saw who she hadn't thought of seeing. "Hyu-yu-yuuga-san" She said quickly bowing her head in apology, realizing her called the great man of the Hyuuga clan, Hyuuga Hiashi, Forehead.

Ahem He coughed briefly. "May I come in?" He asked in a stern, but not commanding voice. "O-of course Hyuuga-san," She said quickly allowing him in and let him sit on the drawer chair as she sat at her bed. "So…What do you need?" She asked in a polite voice, knowing stories about how evil he can be from Hinata, she wanted to be on his best behavior. "Please take off your shirt," He asked.

Three….Two….One…..SLAP!

Being polite was one thing. Stripping for a 40 year old man was another. She sat back on her bed as the man of which she stuttered to was on the chair, eyes closed, and a big red slap mark on his face. Surprisingly to her though, is that he did nothing to stop it. "Why didn't you stop it?" She asked him curiously. "Shouldn't you be able to easly block something like that?" He simply replied, " Because it wouldn't be wise to hurt the person who could be important to the Hyuuga clan."

Wait a second….what? She just blank for a minute there, soaking that in. "Important….to the Hyuuga clan?" She asked with much disbelief. Her father had told her many times. That the Hyuuga clan was a very precious clan to Konoha, and was one of the main clans that made Konoha strong. How can she, coming from the Yamanaka family. not even a clan, have to any importance to the Hyuugas. "Maybe I should explain myself," Hiashi said to Ino, his eyes still closed, then opening to receive a blank stare, like he was retelling an old memory.

"You know that in order to keep the Byakugan inside the Hyuuga clan, we must mate inside our own clan correct?" He asked her, as her listened carefully to his story. "I was assigned a partner, a Hyuugan named Hyuuga Hanako. She was assigned to me, for she showed the strongest progress in the Hyuuga clan, and I was the heir to the rightful chair. Though, there was one problem with the assigned marriage," he said like looking into a distant future. "She loved another man outside of the clan. It was a forbidden love, and I couldn't do anything to stop it, and we had to stay together. A few weeks later, I found out she slept with another man, and a Byakugan found another living person inside her body. The father couldn't have had been me, for we had not have slept together yet. We soon found out that it was a man named Yamanaka Inoichi." He said this time looking into the eyes of Ino, as she looked with shock in her eyes. "But Mother…" She said as he continued. "As soon as this was found out, since she had a living member of the Hyuuga clan inside of her, with traces of the Byakugan, she could not have been killed, but disowned by the clan. The child would have had to have been born and sealed of his or her Hyuuga blood, going on the life as an average child. The mother would have to live on the streets until the child was birthed, where she would die." He said adding on. "A month after Hanako was disowned, I was assigned another wife, by the name of Hyuuga Haruko, Hinata's mother." He said as she relized that Hinata had never spoken of her mother before, and neither did they asked about her.

"And this is where you come in," He said to her straight in the eye. "You, Yamanaka Ino, are The heir to the Hyuuga clan, being born with the blood of a main house member, and begin older than Hinata." He said sternly, as Ino's eyes spread wide open. "Haven't you ever wonder why you have no pupils? Haven't you ever wondered why your power seems so limited?" He asked to her. "Because you are half Hyuugan. Most of the power you gained with the Hyuuga blood was sealed on the kanji on your back reading 'Fate'." He said and she looked towards her back, remembering seeing a tattoo for the word 'Fate' and always wondered why she had it. "With the seeling of the Hyuuga blood, Your eyes lost the white that would have come with the Byakugan. Your dormant power is sealed up, thanks to the blood of the main house being sealed up. You can become more powerful. In you choose to become the heir to the clan and release the seal."

"Daddy? Why is there a kanji for the word Fate on my back?" A young little girl, the age of about seven asked her father. "It was placed there when you were a child. It means that someday you'll become a beautiful princess and become very famous. Its fate that you will you know," He said to her with a smile on his face, and a child with a grin as big as Naruto's. Oh how true it was.
I hope this is good for a first chapter. My friend gave me the idea of Ino coming from the Hyuuga clan because of her pupil-less eyes, and that's how I got here. I think it's a really interesting concept for Ino, from a family that's not widely knows to be part of the Hyuuga clan as the heir. Good thing she's older than Hinata too, or else I would have some trouble.

Remember, a positive comment is better than a flame and a flame is better than not leaving anything at all so just voice your opinions. Oh, and if I need to fix anything, just tell me, and if you watch the CN version, don't tell me that it's spelled 'Hyuga' not 'Hyuuga' because 'Hyuuga' is the original spelling of the surname.