Living as a ninja was hard , especially when you were constantly reminded that you were not a good one. Such was the case of Hyuuga Hinata. She was the heiress of a powerful clan, a clan in which the members were known for their heartlessness and cruelty. Unlike them, however, Hinata was kind and soft, which is why she was seen as a weak type of person in the eyes of her family. It was not easy for her, and the rejection that she had to endure made her feel like dirt when in reality, she was strong, beautiful, smart . . . Our story begins in the Hyuuga residence, long after Hinata has accepted her family's opinion of her. . .
"Hinata!!!!" A loud scream roared in the often quiet house.
"Y-yes, fa-ther ?" a small voice answered.
"Why are you slacking? - I want to see you train, you little piece of shit!!!! God, if only looks could kill . . ."
"Ye-yes, fa-fa-father," she whispered, while silently she prayed that one day that harsh look would become one of love and understanding.
After hearing her father, she ran to the training grounds and started training.
The truth is, Hinata was not slacking; she was studying medical scrolls that Tsunade-sama had secretly given her since her father would not let her become a medic ninja. Yes, she stills remembers it; it had been the very first thing that she had asked her father. However, her pleadings were to no avail, so she went to Tsunade . . .
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It was a regular day in Tsunade-sama's office: sake … paperwork . . . sake . . . Shizune trying to take the sake away . . . broken furniture…the usual.
"TSUNADE-SAMA!!!!" Shizune cried in distress as she struggled to pry a bottle from her superior's fingers.
"Shizune, give me my sake, or I will KI -" She was interrupted by a banging on the door.
Tsunade stumbled towards the knock, putting on her most menacing look, but her features instantly softened when she saw little Hinata crying her heart on the other side of her door.
"Hinata! What happened?!"
"M-y fa-fa-ther didn't let me become a medic nin," Hinata sniffed. "He-he . . . He sa-a-aid tha-tha-that I could n-never became something beyond the s-s-scum that I already am --" She put her hands over her face to cover her eyes and kept sobbing.
"That Hiashi!!" Tsunade growled, slamming her fist into the wall. She glanced down at
Hinata, sudden fury and liquor making her steadily raise her voice. "Who does he THINK HE IS?! THAT JERK!!"
"LOOK, HINATA," she yelled, pulling the girl inside. Hinata winced at the volume.
"HE CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT!!! SO I'M GONNA TRAIN YOU AND YOU'RE GONNA BE A KICK-ASS MEDIC, OKAY?!"
"Bu-but, what i-if he-he fi-fi-finds out?"
"HINATA . . ." she said boisterously, peering at the Hyuuga.
"I'M THE FREAKIN' HOKAGE HE CAN'T SAY A THING TO ME, CAN HE?!"
Hinata's face lit up instantly, and for once she saw a little bit of light in her dark and lonely world.
"O-o-okay," she said, and gave giving the Hokage a smile that got to the bottom of her old heart, the same smile that Dan had given her long ago.
'Our heiress is actually really good… she has the same talent as Sakura, and who knows . . . maybe even more.' (b/n: I wasn't sure if this was the narrator or Tsunade . . .)
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Hinata was now eighteen years old and has learned things that would impress anyone -- not just as a doctor, but as a ninja and as a person. The sad thing was that no matter how much courage she had built over the last few years or how powerful she was, the fear that her father had instilled in her won't go away. She can only imagine how he might react if he discovered that she was learning non-Hyuuga techniques, and that she defied him by going to Tsunade to ask for something he did not give her permission for, even if it had happened years ago.
But, Hinata's life was not as bad when the night came. You see, the night offers a lot of things for lovers, for thieves, for ninjas . . . And for Hinata, the night was her Gateway to freedom; in the night, no one could see her, and she was not the useless heiress, or a weakling or a failure; she was just shadow, just herself in a deep forest. This allowed her to train in the lake without being noticed. If she fell, cried, laughed, improved, the only one who knew was her. Just her.
Knowing this, she could dance in and with the water. She could practice her attacks and create new ones mixing the Hyuuga art, electricity . . . It was her secret place, the only place where she could be free, free from that world that has made her suffer for all these years.
"Yes, free," murmured Hinata to herself as she danced graciously in the enormous lake.
Until she heard movement. Then steps …
Hinata froze, feeling entirely intruded upon and exposed. In a ridiculously short time, thousands of questions ran through her mind: Who is it? Is it an animal or person? Friend or foe?
Desperation got the best of her. She attacked at the shadow without even activating her Byakugan to see who it was, but it was blocked by a shield of sand.
It was then that she realized who the shadow was and how much trouble this was going to cause.
Ok, this is my first fanfic ever written. I'm not an English speaker, I'm from Chile, so my vocabulary is not that good. I hope you like it! Please, if you have any ideas or you want to make a critic, tell me because I need it …!!!! Thanks XDXDXD