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Impossible, a word that has never once been used by Konoha's Number One Unpredictable Shinobi, Naruto Uzumaki, a boy who dreamed of being Hokage. Time after time he was doubted, criticized, shunned, hated, and underestimated by the masses of his own village. Yet even though seemingly nobody believed in the child he never once let that stop him. He never stopped believing in himself, even when he failed to conjure up the most basic of ninjutsu.
Many people who witnessed this began to ask themselves, "Just where had this strength, this confidence, and this determination come from? Why would a boy, who was despised right down to the very core fight for the ones who hurt him, who oppressed him, who tried to attack him even?" Many had come up with conclusions be they the truth or far from it but only one person knew the answer outright.
A stark contrast to the boy, Naruto Uzumaki was a girl who used the word impossible in her everyday life. A girl who was to be the perfect heiress to the most prestigious clan in Konohagakure, and possibly the world, Hinata Hyuga. The girl's dream was surprisingly simple for an heiress, to be a Kunoichi as strong as her father, the man who was been widely acclaimed as the strongest to be born to the Hyuga, yet be as kind as her mother, a woman who Hinata loved more than anything in the world.
While she did not recieve the hatred and the doubts of the villagers, the girl was ultimately failing at her goal. Her father had very high expectations and very harsh standards that in his eyes Hinata was not meeting. When her mother had passed away there was noone to console her when she failed. When she failed time and time again she began to associate herself with the word, as if it was her middle name. Soon even the most trivial of goals seemed impossible to the young girl and she slumped even further into a lack of self confidence. The girl became known as a dissapointment and she was soon forgotten, swept aside to enroll in the academy deemed no longer worthy to be taught by fellow Hyuga.
So if the girl had given up despite her birth and what was expected of her, why would an orphan with no parents, no expectations, and certainly no love have such confidence in his own abilities, to keep trying even when failure was almost certain? She like many other people asked herself questions of this nature. At first it was curiousity that drove her to know. Everytime she tried to look, her attendant Ko would just lightly smile and tell her not to associate herself with the boy. She remembered how he proclaimed to the world he was going to be Hokage one day, and she also remembered when he fought those bullies for her.
But no matter what she saw she still never understood why, why it was that the boy was trying so desperately hard to suceed. Why we never seemed to give up when it was hopeless was a concept completely lost to her. On a day she felt unusually bold, she left the clan compound without a word to anyone, not even Ko and headed straight to the training ground she knew she would find the boy practicing his aim with a kunai knife. She remembered how he horribly missed the target the other day in class and she knew he would be out here throwing kunai knives at the post.
The boy was exhausted, he had obviously been at it for more than a a few hours but it wasn't stopping him from trying again. However he noticed that someone was watching and saw the girl staring at him with the most serious expression. He recoginized her as his classmate and felt the urge to frown. She took a deep breath, feeling that her courage was disappearing quickly but she had to know.
"Why?" she asked so softly the boy almost didn't hear her. "Why do you keep trying if you're going to fail?" It wasn't that Hinata disliked Naruto, if anything she felt bad for him because of what he was trying to do. However nothing in the world could prepare her for his response.
He smiled, he smiled genuinely as he tossed the kunai at the post without even looking. Hinata could only stare in shock as it hit the target dead in the center. She wasn't even able to comprehend what just happened, she almost felt the need for him to explain what she felt was impossible. "Because, I learned a very long time ago three very important words." he spoke quite calmly despite his usual demeanor. "Jiji taught me that when I feel I can't keep going, just remember, 'Nothing is Impossible'." Naruto answered as Hinata suddenly found herself staring at Naruto, or more importantly, his smile. She found herself feeling hope, that maybe she could do the same thing.
It was from that very day something changed within the young girl, a small spark that started a flame, a desire to be better and to do the impossible. She never would have thought that all it would take to turn around her seemingly hopeless life was a simple smile.
But however despite the courage she had gained from the boy that day, it wasn't enough to change herself completely. Something else had developed between the words exchanged between the two that day, a feeling that while may have pushed her into dreaming of the impossible yet also struck fear into her very heart. At first it was simple well-wishing because he helped her turn her life around. Then it grew into worry for his well-being when he stayed up late training himself into the ground. The feeling grew further when she started to do everything in her power to make sure he had a good opinion of her. Left uncontrolled, the feeling bore deep into her soul until she had started to believe in his dreams and became willing to sacrifice herself for him at every turn. She desired to see him smiling all the time, she was sad when he was made fun of in class, she cried when she saw the look on his face when other kids would walk away with their parents. She wanted to stand by him, hold his hand for eternity to make sure he never felt like he was alone.
Inexplicably, she fell in love with the unpredictable child. One could look at this from a logical standpoint and simply nod their heads. It wasn't far-fetched that 'Royalty' like Hinata could fall in love with the wily orphan. Everyone else in her life other than her mother made her feel worthless and like a failure. It was perfectly natural she would began to feel differently. There was also the 'forbidden' part of it that also would seem to attract her to him. She was always told as a child to avoid him and her father openly spoke of the child from time to time with annoyance stretching across his features. It was natural for her to want the person she couldn't have though she may not have seen it that way. There were multiple reasons that could explain her strong emotions for the boy so by all means impossible wasn't the word for it.
However despite these feelings her own courage failed her time after time again when it came to the object of her affections. While Naruto had a very large heart and an undying passion to become strong enough to achieve his dreams, he by all means wasn't intelligent. He didn't know his multiplecation tables, he didn't know the basic history of his village, he didn't have any form to his taijutsu or see anything wrong with it, he didn't know any jutsu outside of the ones taught at the academy, and he most certainly hated the fact he didn't know why every girl he seemed to know was so stuck up on 'Last Uchiha'. Naruto didn't understand what love was or what a family was like, how could he? So when the bashful Hinata kept fainting in his presence or couldn't speak more than two words without becoming a stuttering mess, he naturally didn't know what was causing it.
So he dubbed her as weird or sickly and just moved on from it. The poor heiress saw this as rejection so she began to avoid confrontations with the boy. In her fear, she watched him at a distance as his life progressed. She saw his joy when he mastered new jutsu or perfected his accuracy with kunai and shuriken. She saw his anger when he was kicked out of yet another store and called an 'It' or a 'That'. She saw his sadness when none of the other kids would play with him or when Sakura rejected him with her fists. But most importantly, she saw his desperation when it came to prove himself to his classmates and his embaressment when he ultimately failed once again.
When Naruto Uzumaki needed one friend, one person to be there for him, one person who to tell him that he or she believed in him, Hinata could not step forward. Her fear of rejection blinded her to the truth of the situation so she never stepped forward.
So the story ends here for the two because the boy never realized there was a girl who had believed in him all along and wanted to be with him. Or at least, that was how the story between them was supposed to end.
One day a very unpleasant being known as Fate saw this exchange of one-sided affections and ignorance and frowned upon it. The being shook it's head and decided that this would not do, not on it's watch.
So with some meddling it created an occurance, an event that would transpire that would completely change the course destiny set for the boy and the girl. Taking pride in it's actions, the being watched as time unfolded, revealing an alternate story which would surely lead to a much better ending.
"That's enough for today, tommorow we'll be testing you all on the Bushin no Jutsu in preparation for this year's Graduation Exam. I look forward to seeing them tommorow, dismissed." Iruka had just dismissed the class from another day at the academy. Hinata sighed as she gathered her materials and looked at the boy who changed her world.
Naruto was grinning as he ran out of the classroom loudly proclaiming his long awaited date with Ichiraku Ramen. Hinata started to head out when she overheard Sakura and Ino, the leaders of the Sasuke Uchiha Fan Club.
"But, isn't that a bit harsh?" Sakura whispered not so quietly.
"If you ever want to get Sasuke-kun, you need that idiot off your back. This is the only way." Ino replied waving her finger as she clearly thought her idea was fool-proof.
Hinata had no clue what they were talking about but she honestly didn't care. She disliked both girls due to how they treated Naruto. It amazed her to no end how almost everyone treated the boy when despite all his shortcomings only wanted friends and attention. Sakura Haruno began to speak and Hinata frowned.
It was no secret that Sakura Haruno, the girl rated as number one in the academy was also the widely acclaimed crush of Naruto Uzumaki. It was also no secret how many times she rejected him, using her fists to do so. She ruthlessly beat down the prankster time and time again just to show Sasuke that he meant nothing to her.
"The least she could do stop hitting Naruto-kun." Hinata thought sourly to herself. It saddened her greatly that Naruto kept asking a quite psychotic banshee for a date when it only resulted in him getting hurt every time. Still, she couldn't help but feel jealous. She would give anything to have his attention like that, even her status as clan heiress.
She began to walk out of the class when she heard Sakura say something about Naruto and she froze. "Naruto-kun?" She turned to see Ino nodding her head in approvement to whatever Sakura said.
"After you do this Forehead, I guaruntee you he won't even come within an inch of you ever again." Ino replied. Now Hinata was curious, she definetely knew Naruto was the topic of their discussion, but she began to wonder.
"What could she mean by that?" Hinata pondered. While she was all for Naruto never asking Sakura for another date ever again, she didn't like the sound of that comment. She tried to listen further but it was for naught as they began to fight over the Uchiha again and she decided to walk away. She didn't quite know what they were planning but it couldn't be any good.
"I just hope whatever it is doesn't hurt Naruto-kun...hasn't he been through enough?"
She was walking home when she saw Naruto shoved out of another store. She saw tears building up in his eyes before he furiously wiped them with his hands.
"I'm not a 'that' or a 'thing'! I'm Uzumaki Naruto and one day I'm gonna be Hokage!" he yelled out at the the clerk.
"Don't show your face around here again brat!" and with that the door slammed. People had stopped what they were doing to stare, some with hate and others disaprovingly. Naruto looked all around him before losing his temper.
"What the hell are you all staring at? What did I ever do to you?" he asked as he was running on an emotional high. People just began to shake their head and turn away.
Hinata wanted so badly to go over to him and tell off everyone. She wanted to take those steps with all of her heart. But her mind kept telling her that she couldn't do it, she was too scared of how he would react. So like every other time she stood still as he bolted off in the opposite direction, alone as usual. She frowned and continued walking home.
"Good afternoon Hinata-sama." her attendant Ko greeted with a smile and a small bow. Hinata bowed lightly as well.
"G-good afternoon Ko." she responded quietly. They walked through the hallways of the compound towards he bedroom before he took his leave and left Hinata to herself. Hinata stared at her window before sighing and getting ready for her inevitable spar in front of her father. There was a knock at her door.
"Hinata-sama," a cold voice came from the door, "Hiashi-sama requires your presence." She knew from the cold tone it was Neji, her prodigy cousin that was a member of the branch family.
Hinata hated her relationship with her cousin. She remembered when she was very little when she met Neji Hyuga. He used to be the nicest cousin anyone could ever ask for. But one day he suddenly started being ruthlessly cold, putting her down every opportunity he got. She supposed she deserved it since she knew why.
One day when Hinata was very little Hinata became three years old. It was on the same day Kumo had declared a peace treaty with Konoha and everyone was estatic. That very same night she was kidnapped and her father killed the kidnapper. It turned out to be a Kumo nin that had been in charge of the treaty. Kumo was angry and threatened to declare war if Hiashi's dead body was not delivered to them. To protect their Byakugan, the famed doujutsu of the Hyuga, Hiashi's younger twin brother, Hizashi was offered in his place since he was branded with the Caged Bird Seal. Hizashi was Neji's father and ever since then Neji had been bitter towards the Main Family, especially Hinata.
"Arigato Neji-nii-san." Hinata replied. She heard him walk away before heading out the door. She frowned knowing it was just going to be another day in the Hyuga Household.
"Hinata, you have disappointed me again. If you do not start to show improvement I will have you branded in favor of your younger sister, is that clear?" her father said coldly. Her father, Hiashi Hyuga was the head of the Main Family and also the head of the clan. He is said to be the strongest Hyuga ever produced, said to master levels of Jyuken thought to be impossible by many. Like many fathers, he expects much out of his children. Though because of his prestige as head of the family, his expectations were very high and right now he was not pleased with his daughters inability to be even slightly proficient in their family's style of taijutsu.
Hinata long since grew used to the coldness of the man she began to feel wasn't much of a father to her and no longer allowed it to make her cry. But little by little it wore on her already wavering self-confidence and she always thought little of herself after he spoke to her.
"H-hai Tou-sama." Hinata meekly answered. Hiashi looked at his eldest daughter for a second before shaking his head and walking off. Hinata took a deep breath and just headed back to her room. She pulled up her sleeves and began to apply salves to her bruises and cuts. She silently thanked her mother for showing her how to do this. she felt she never would have survived training with her family if not for her ability to make healing ointment.
She silently pulled up the covers to her bed and put herself under them, deciding to forget about dinner that night. She soon fell asleep hoping for the next day to be a better one, with dreams of her favorite blonde.
That's the end of the first chapter, hopefully this doesn't end up like most of my stories. Forgotten and unfinished ^_^ Well please review as I am aspiring to improve and would love to hear your opinions.