I'll Never Own Naruto

Warrning: this story will have violence, foul language (of a sort), and maybe even a lemon or two (I will let you know if one is in a chapter as well as when it begins and ends so you can skip it if your offended by such things or to young to read.)

This story is set durring act 1 of the series sometime after the Hidden Star Village storyline. This is an alternate take on what could have happened in the series. Naruto and Hinata are both 13 at this time.

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Team 8 was returning from their latest mission and they were glad it was over. It had turned out to be even more complicated than need be. The mission was simple: simply escort a diplomat from the Fire Daimyo to the Hidden Grass village for a special treaty signing but it turned out that he was a spie who had been sent to gather intel on both the Hidden Leaf and Grass villages by some unkown third party. Team 8 was able to deal with the man and helped to avoid any possible war from breaking out between the two lands.

Kurenai noticed that Hinata was destracted for some reason, though she felt it was not because of the actual mission it self. She decided to ask the young kunoichi what was bothering her. "Hinata, what seems to be wrong? You're even more reserved than usual today?" Kurenai asked the young girl beside her. At hearing her sensei's voice, Hinata's whole body jumped in surrprise as she looked over and said "N-nothing is w-wrong, Kuenai-sensei." Now she knew something was up. In recent month's, Hinata would only ever stutter when Naruto was around. Kurenai chuckled to herself on that. She needed to make a mental note to work with the young girl in the future to help her get over her fears and finally confess to the boy so she would later not look back on her life and regret not telling him sooner.

"I can tell you what the problem is sensei." Kiba said as he came up along Kurenai's opposite side.

"Kiba, please. T-there's no need to t-talk about it." Hinata quickly said in a pleading voice.

"Normally I would agree with you Hinata, but if there is a problem then I need to here it." Kurenai said.

Hinata nodded as she looked down with a small blush appearing on her cheek's. "So Kiba, I assume this would have something to do with Naruto? I wonder what it could be considering he isn't with us." Kiba smiled at her and said "Well, when you gave us that one day to look around and check out the festival that was being held in the Grass village, the three of us stumbled on some fortune teller's tent, so me and Shino decided that Hinata should go in and find out what the future holds for her and Naruto."

Shino came up besides Kiba and said "It was Kiba's idea. We managed to get her in there and she exited about fifteen minutes later. Understandably, she has decided to not tell us what was said even though Kiba has tried his hardest to get her to."

"And judging from the way she's been acting since then, she either got bad news or got some really good news and is wondering what to do with the information she was given." Kiba added. "I mean, when she came out at first, she seemed to act like she is now. But when I asked her what happen, she didn't say anything. She just walked away though I'm sure I noticed a smile cross her face and maybe even a blush. So I'm not quite sure what she was told." Kurenai now wondered what could have been said that would make Hinata both happy and sad at the same time. Hinata, meanwhile, was thinking back to that moment.

(flash back)

Hinata entered the fortune teller's tent and was expecting to see an elderly woman or some kind of gypsy but was surrprised to see a girl no older than she was. The red head looked at her and smiled. "I see I have yet another vict....I mean guest. Please come in and tell me what you want told." Hinata nodded as she sat down before the girl. "I'm guessing that you aren't here by your own free will but rather here because some friends forced you right?" Hinata looked at the girl in surrprise before nodding.

The girl laughed before saying "I thought so and just so you know, the reason I know this was because I heard one of them from the outside saying as much. So, am I right to assume you want a love fortune told?" Hinata didn't need to say a word, her blush was more than enough to answer the question. "Judging from your reaction, I'd say you got yourself one heck of a crush and your to shy to tell him." Again, Hinata didn't speak but just simply nodded. "Ok then, tell me his name and if you have one, a picture of him if possible." Hinata looked away for a moment before returning her gaze to the girl before her and saying "H-his name is N-naruto Uzumaki." she then reached into the right breast pocket of her coat and pulled out a picture of Naruto she always had on her just in case she needed insperation or was just needing to see his face.

The girl took the picture from Hinata, examined it for a moment before smiling and saying "He's really cute. Maybe I should look him up and see if he'd like a date with me?" The look of shock and fear crossed Hinata's face as she grabbed the picture back and held it protectively as if it was Naruto himself. The girl laughed and said "I'm joking, don't worry. I can tell he really means alot to you. So, lets see what the future holds now shall we."

Hinata breathed a sigh of relief as the girl placed her hands on the crystal ball before her. After a moment, Hinata noticed a glow that was illuminating the inside of the tent. But the glow wasen't coming from the crystal ball, but from the girls eyes. After about a minute, the glowing faded and the girl looked at her and said "Well, that was interesting." Hinata looked at her confused. "W-what do you m-mean?" she asked as abit of fear started to form within her. Does this mean her chance with Naruto will never happen?

"Well, it's hard to say. From what I gather, the reason you have yet to tell him is because you fear he'll reject you correct? And that he currently has an interest in another girl, yes?" Hinata nodds at both as her heart starts to sink into depression, thinking she'll never get her chance. "But I see there is another reason for your inability to come out and tell him." Hinata now looked at her confused. What else could possibly be the problem? "I sensed that a long time agom something you did hurt Naruto and your inability to tell him how you feel could originate from this event. That a sense of shame and self loathing towards yourself because of this event may also be at work here."

"What do you mean. I've never done anything to hurt Naruto unless your refering to my inability to talk to him and ask him to be my friend during our acadmey days?" Hinata found herself tearing up at this confession. Looking back, it was a regret of her's that she had been so shy and timid back then that she couldn't approach him even though she did care for him during those day's. She knew how lonely he must have been but still did nothing. It was no wonder he never noticed how she felt, who would want to notice a person who actually cared but did nothing to show it, instead keeping a distance and watching the one she cared and admired most suffer and now reaching out to comfort and befriend him.

"Maybe that could be it. But I think that there could be more to it than that. I get the impression that something else happened that you can no longer remember. Don't ask me what though, I'm not not sure but I have a felling somethind did happen between you two that you can't remember. But enough about your past, you came to here about your future. From what I can tell, you have little time left to tell him how you feel before you'll lose your chance forever." Hinata looked scared at the thought of that and asked "How m-much time?"

"I really don't know. All I can say is you don't have much left. If he really is the one you care about the most and if being with him is what you want, then the next time you see him you better tell him. Don't fear is reaction, just do it. It is possible he might say no, but what if he says yes. What if he would always say yes to you? If that is the case, then the longer you wait then the less time you both will have together in this life. And you should also know that you will have to make several choices here soon and what choices you make will determine your future with him as well as your own future in general."

Hinata thinks on this before nodding. "I see. Thank you for telling me this." She gets up and bows and turns to leave before asking "Will he return my feelings?" The girl says "Possibly. I can tell you that he does care for you but the longer you wait, the more likely he will reject you. And by the way, my name's Shelendria. So, will you tell him when you next see him"
Hinata nodds and says "I will. I just need to use the time I have till then to find my courage." And with that, Hinata exit's to rejoin her teammates. "I wonder if it's really courage you need in order to tell him Hinata, or is it the guilt you subconciously feel over what you did all those years ago?" Shelendria wonder's.

(flash back end)

Hinata was still trying to find her courage and resolve in this matter. Now that the were heading back home, she knew she didn't have much time left to find the courage to tell him, but her confidense in herself was starting to waver. "Guys, we may have trouble." Shino's voice pulled her from her thoughts. "What do you mean Shino?" asked Kurenai. "Not far ahead of us is a man standing in the middle of a bridge. My friends tell me he is a danger." "Well, I guess thinking that we had seen all the action we were going to see on this trip was wrong, huh sensei?" Kiba asked as he pulled out a kunai.

"Ok everyone, be prepared for a possible fight." Kurenai order as she herself prepared a weapon. They soon emergered from the tree line and landed on the bridge. The man before them was wearing black pants and shirt, a blood red trench coat and had long blood red hair with black highlights. He had tanned skin and his eyes had this yellowish tint on the irises. He looked at Team 8 and smiled. "So my first victim's of the day have arrived. I was getting bored." "Who are you and what do you want with us?" asked Kurenai as she brought her kunai to the ready.

The man smiles as he says "I'm am Heiser of the Unending. It is not you or your kids I want, but another. I will simply us you all to entertain myself with until the guest of honor arrives." He stopps and looks behind himself and smiles. He returns his gaze to Kurenai and her team and says "Well, he is making good time. He should be here in a few minutes. Till then, please entertain me just a little."

Heiser extends his right arm forward before yelling "Troqua" and a beam of black energy erupts fro his hand. Team 8 barely dodges the attack as it sails passed them, hitting a tree and vaporizing it. "What the hell? Come on Akamaru, let's show this guy what we can do." Kiba yells as he gives his canine companion a food pellet, causing his fur to turn red. Akamaru jumps atop Kiba as they perform their man/beast clone technique. "Let's do it boy, Beast Mimicry: Fang Over Fang." Kiba yells as he and the transformed Akamaru begin to spin rapidly at the enemy.

"Kiba, wait." Kurenai yells but it is to late. Heiser sees them coming and grins. "What are they thinking? An attack like that won't work on me." Just as the attack is about to land, Heiser jumps over them and yells "Revada" causing a blue pulse to emit from his hands, hitting Kiba and Akamaru snding both slamming into the ground and knocking them out. Just then, Shino appears besides Heiser and unleashes his insect's on the man. At first it appears the battle is over as Shino's bugs completely cover his body until they all fsll to the ground dead.

"Sorry my boy, I guess I'm poison to them." Heiser says as he lunges forward, punching Shino in the stomachnand causing him to collapse to the ground unconsious. Kurenai looks at the man, wondering who he is and what could she and Hinata could possible do to win. It had been her recomendation to the third that she wanted a team of trackers to train, but now she realized the mistake in that as none of her team was an exceptional fighter and that was now costing them. Kiba was the closest thing they had to a brawler, but his attacks were more closer to being like a blunt object as opposed to a sharp one. Shino was good at attacking from all sides with his insect's, but not some much with actual damage. And Hinata was just to kind hearted and caring to be a real fighting force. And she herself was good at illusions and not hand to hand combat.

As she started making hand sighs, she swore if they made it out of this, she would start requesting a real fighter be allowed to accompany her team from now on for safety. She sent the man into a Genjutsu, hoping to distract him enough to hit him, but just as she got to him, he suddenly grabbed her neck and lifted her off the ground. "Kurenai-sensei." Hinata yelled as she started to move in to help. "No Hinata, don't come any closer. Run." Kurenai ordered. "How noble of you my dear, trying to save her life. To bad I can't allow anyone to live who sees me." And with that, Heiser head-butts Kurenai and tosses her into a nearbye tree just passed the bridge.

As he starts to walk torwards Hinata, the young girl is unsure of what to do. This man just beat her entire team without even breaking a sweat and now he was coming for her. As she starts to back away to try to run, thoughts of Naruto pop into her head. 'No, I can't run and abandon my team. Naruto would never forgive me for that. If I want him to notice me, I have to stay and fight. After all, I can't back down and run away. It would tarnish his nindo, the same nindo I have chosen to follow. I won't tarnish our way of the ninja.' And with that, Hinata activates her Byakugan and charges her opponent.

She attempts to strike at his chest, but Heiser dodges her attack. Hinata continues her string of attacks against him but to no avail. He finally grabs her wrist mid thrust and says "Is that all you got. Your even more pathetic than the other's." He then thrust his palm into her chest, sending her flying back almost to the other side of the bridge. She pulls herself up, ready to try again when she notices him pointing his index and middle fingers at her. He smiles and says "Goodbye, little girl. Azan." The moment he says Azan, a beam of purple colored light shoots from his finger's, aimed right at her heart. Unable to move from fear, Hinata closes her eyes and prepares to welcome death. Her only regret is never telling Naruto how she truly feels. 'Naruto. I'm sorry I never told you. Goodbye, I love you.' she thinks to herself as a tear slides down her cheek.

"HINATA!" a voice cries out from nowhere. 'What, that voice was...that was Naruto.' Hinata thinks as she suddenly finds herself being pushed onto the ground. No sooner does she hit the ground, she here's a cry of pain as the sound of the attack hits, but not her. Just as suddenly as it began, it's over. At first, Hinata is wondering what happened. She finally opens her eyes and looks around. She quickly notices a pair of orange pants with a leg to each side of her. Tears of joy start falling from her eyes. Some how, Naruto came and saved her. She's about to thank the boy she has loved since forever as he stands over her till she notices something that causes her to pale. A small stream of blood is falling onto her coat and pants.

"Naruto?" she asked confused. She looks up to see where the blood could be coming from and freezes as her eyes come to rest on his chest. At the center of his chest is a small golf ball sized hole with blood slowly pooring out. "N-naruto?" she ask again, fear and terror beginning to fill her very being. She looks to his face to find him very pale, his eyes have lost their light, and a small trickle of blood coming from his mouth. "H-hinata, are.....you......all.....right?" he barely manages to say above a wisper before his eyes roll into the back of his head as he collapses to the ground. Hinata, with almost super human spees, is up and catches him and cradles him to her body.

"Naruto? Naruto? No, this can't be happening." She wimpers as her tears of pain and sorrow and loss start gushing out.

"NNNNNAAAAARRRRRUUUUUTTTTTTOOOOO!" she screams as her heart shatters into dust.

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Next time: Loss

A/N: The character of Heiser is from one of my two BIG original story prodjects called Resonance Lore. He is one of the really big bad guys in that story. He speaks with a German accent, but since I don't know know to type out how a German accent is sappose to be like this except for vat instead of what, I just left his way of speaking normal. If any of you know how a German accent for what he is saying sounds, then please say it that way in your head to get his speech right.

I have said this before and I will say it again. Once I start a story, I will always finish it unless I die, or become physically unable to do so (like I get my hands chopped off or something). However, how often I update this story at present will be based on how many reviews I get since my priorities currently are on Precious Bonds first and You're Not Alone act 1 second with time being taken to do the one shot stories of Our Secret pt.2 Passion and pt.3 Miracle. Once Precious Bonds is done (sometime in Feb. I think) and I begin to work on it's sequel, I will devote more time to this one.

Until then, I'll update as often as I can. Till then, later.