Daughter of Murderers

He watched her, his wife, as she cradled their new baby girl. The child was the spitting image of her mother. Itachi hoped she inherited his brains at the very least. The child had done something neither of them had expected. She had inherited both the Sharingan and the Byakugan. One eye was white while the other was black. She was surely going to grow up to be an extraordinary being.

He laughed to himself as he thought what the people in the Leaf village would say if the heard that Itachi Uchiha not only married Hinata Hyuuga but that they had a child together. Maybe if she had left tge village any other way, their reactions would have been ones of shock but after what she did before she left, they probably would've said that she and he deserved each other.

The day Hinata had left her village she had no plans of doing so. She actually thought it was going to be one of the happiest days of her life. It was her 18th birthday. Everyone was excited about the party that was gonna be held at her home later. Even her father was in a good mood. No one understood his happiness till later on that evening. During the party.

The party was fantastic but it was drawing to an end. Her father said something about wanting to give Hinata her present in front of everybody and then that would be it; the party would be over.

He called everyone's attention and stood on the platform he had put in his living room for the event. He called Hinata up on the platform too. He said the gift he had for Hinata wasn't a material object and it was a present more for the entire clan than for Hinata. And then he gave her his 'gift'.

As he spoke Hinata gasped in surprise. The elders of the clan nodded and murmured in agreement with his words. Hanabi stared at her father in shock and Neji never felt so disgusted of his uncle in his entire life. Tsunade had the urge to jump up on the platform and beat the crap out of him while Naruto eyes flickered red. Sakura, Ino and Tenten tensed up like boards, Kiba began to shake with fury and Shino started cursing at the top of his lungs. Everyone else was just plain speechless.

Right there, in front of the entire village, he disowned her. He banned anyone else in his clan of ever acknowledging her. They weren't to help her with anything. If they found her dying, they were to leave her. Hanabi was the new heir. She was going to get marked before she left. The only thing she was going to keep were her things, her gifts and 10,000 yen. She was to leave the compound before dawn. And the party was done.

Kiba, Shino and Naruto all made towards the platform as if they were gonna do something they were regret if Hinata's father was still breathing afterwards but the man wasn't stupid. He knew Hinata's 'friends' would get angry if he did what he did.

What exactly did they think the security was for?

Everyone who was not a Hyuuga was 'escorted' off the compound. Hinata just stood on the platform, with her head bowed and her body shaking. Everyone had thought she was crying like they expected but truth was something in Hinata snapped. She wasn't shaking from tears but from anger. So, he disowned her at last, did he? In front of the entire village too? Because he thought her weak? That was it.

In the morning, no one could explain what happened or how. Maybe the entire clan got more wasted than people thought. Maybe Hyuuga's slept deeper than the dead. Maybe Hinata had help. All anyone was sure of when Hanabi eventually stumbled into the hospital, looking like a porcelain doll splattered in red and brown paint, was that Hyuuga Hinata was long gone.

The Hokage came first. Tsunade gave condolences and apologies and made promises neither of them believed.

Sakura was her nurse and would check up on her every hour, even when she wasn't on shift.

She got lots of flowers from Kiba and Shino but they never came. So one day, Hanabi asked Ino - who would deliever them - why that was, and it turned out they had gone after Hinata as soon as they had heard.

Tenten and Rock Lee came and cried a lot because yes, Neji was gone too.

Naruto came and sat with her and would speak about things happening in the village and not cover her in tears or drown her in apologizes. He'd bring her ramen because 'hospital food is bad and they should feel bad for feeding you that swill'. He would get quiet when she asked about Hinata but would answer best as he could. And one day when Hanabi wondered aloud why he didn't go after her sister as well, he frowned, held her hand and said it was because it would mean leaving her alone.

And after about two weeks, when the hospital had discharged her and Naruto and Sakura were off making sure her stuff made it to her new apartment, Sasuke Uchiha was waiting for her.

The look he had on his face was one Hanabi had grown accustomed to. It was saddness and pity and regret they couldn't help. She had grown tired of that look. Sympathy annoyed her. No one knew what she was going through. How could -

And then Hanabi remembered… He knew exactly what she was going through. He went through it so many years ago.

And suddenly, it all fell away. The wall she had built to not grieve or cry came crashing down. She grabbed at his waist and cried into his chest. And he hugged her tight before lifting her and carrying her to her new home.

After Itachi heard about what Hinata did, he went looking for her. He found her outside the Rain, looking for all the world like a puppy who had done something wrong but didn't know how to fix it.

He simply walked over to her and stood there. She wasn't surprised to see him there. She had heard him coming when he was still a good distance away; he hadn't bothered with being sneaky.

She understood his presence at once. Whatever his reason was and whatever her reason was for what they had done, in the eyes of everyone else they were the same. Murderers.

She just sat where she was and stared him in the eyes. He stared back. They stayed like that for some time and when he was finally ready to leave, he turned and walked away and she followed.

Eventually after a few years of each other's companionship they fell in love and got married in a small village that was barely inhibited, disguised as some other couple they had seen. And now...

Itachi walked over to Hinata and their little girl. Her name was Hitacha, a combination of their names Hinata had thought of. At first Itachi wasn't too sure about the name but after a week or two it had grown on him. Hitacha. It suited her. She had half of them both already, why not half their names too?

The baby looked up at him with her strange eyes and smiled at him. Hinata looked up and smiled at him too.

"No more worrying about whether or not Hitacha will inherit your brains. She already knows who her dad is." She told him.

"Was there any ever doubt?" He asked.

"No, but that didn't stop you from worrying anyway."

Chapter End

AN: This story is under revision. 1/18/16