Sweets: I DON'T OWN NARUTO
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Chapter 2
Hinata opened her eyes wearily. The sun was not out that day. The dark clouds of rain and wind covered it and made sure it was well hidden. The birds were quiet and the steady drip...drip...drip...of rain came tumbling down her window.
'What a night.' she thought, stretching out and looking around her nearly empty room.
Dreams...Hinata's fantasy world of dreams...slowly, she slipped back into them, attempting to remember the nice, beautiful ones and trying so hard to forget the ones that were painful. The ones that hurt were always the ones that stuck to her memory like glue.
Curling into a tight fetal position, Hinata closed her eyes and thought against her will.
Naruto was there, kissing another girl. Neji had betrayed her. Sakura had mocked her. Sasuke had beat her. Kiba had deserted her. Shino had disappeared.
They had all appeared and killed her...hurt her...humiliated her...tortured her...broke her...shamed her...mocked her...
It was a slow, painful death, she had to endure listening to them mock her the whole time. She remembered the tears, the screaming, the sadness...the pain...
'Snap out of it.' she thought abruptly, her hands forming fists.
"Hinata-sama?" a voice asked through the door.
Neji. The betrayer of my dreams.
'But this isn't your dreams.' she reminded herself.
Slowly, at the pace of a snail, Hinata opened the door and came face to face with her older cousin. He looked at her strangely.
"Are you feeling well, Hinata-sama?" he questioned, feeling her forehead.
She looked at him, dazed. Her eyes were glazed over and her mind was spinning.
"Fine." she answered, swaying on the spot.
"You don't look fine." Neji said as he caught her as she gently collapsed on him.
"Really! I'm fine. Just dizzy, that's all." Hinata said softly as she made sure she could stand on her own two feet again.
Neji looked at her, shrugged and said,
"The Inuzuka and the Aburame are here. You slept late." he pointed to a clock inside he bedroom.
10:50 A.M.
This didn't seem to really compute with Hinata who looked at the clock stupidly. Neji waved at hand in her face.
"Hellooo? Hinata-sama? You in there?"
He poked her forehead and Hinata began to function again. Her eye's widened and she gave a jolt. She dashed into her room crying,
"I'M SOO LATE!"
Neji shook his head and threw her a pair of black shorts and a black tank with a mesh top over it along with her oversized jacket. He said,
"Get going, or you'll be even later."
She nodded, closed the door, threw on her clothes and ran past Neji even thought she still felt unstable. She skid to a halt in front of her friends, panting. Her mind was swirling and she really didn't feel good.
'What is this! What's wrong with me!' she thought, panicking as heat rose inside of her fragil body. She knew what this was: a fever.
'I can't let them know I'm sick. I'll just be a burden...' she thought, leaning on the side of the house.
"H-Hinata-chan?" Kiba's voice brought her out of her trance.
"Eh..?" she asked quietly.
"You never sleep late. Is something wrong?" Shino asked quietly.
"N-No. Gomen. I just feel...weird." she grinned sheepishly at her two friends.
"What! Are you ok?" Kiba started as he felt her forehead for a temperature, exactly like Neji. Speaking of him...
Neji came up behind her. He looked at them questioningly.
"You're still here?" he asked, looking at Shino.
"I don't know if we should train today..." Shino muttered.
"I'm fine! Really! I'm...seriously...fine..." Hinata swayed again, but steadied herself before she fell over again.
She took two uneasy steps and before anyone knew it, was out the door, walking toward the training fields. Neji, Kiba and Shino watched her walk off.
"Keep an eye on her for me." Neji said as he looked after his cousin in a concerned way.
"Right..." Kiba said, feeling a little lost.
"Don't have her do anything to difficult. I really don't want her to collapse." Neji added and shook his head as Hinata promptly walked into the post that held the Hyuuga nameplates on them.
She rubbed her head and much to everyone's surprise, she got up, used the post as a support and kept on walking.
"I don't know if that would be possible." Shino's soft voice echoed.
"Why?"
"Well, that girl has gotten as stubborn as Naruto!" Kiba laughed, petting Akamaru.
"She-she has?" Neji looked at them, confused.
"Yeah. Ever wonder why we return home earlier then her? It's because she's still training her butt off at the grounds. I don't know how many times she's kicked that stupid post. One time she even broke it." Kiba added.
Neji's eyes went wide.
"S-She broke it? The training post on the right? That was her work!"
"Yup. We said something that upset her and she really did a number on it."
"What did you say?" Neji asked, quite curious at this point.
"Shino remembers better then me." Kiba said, as they turned to the Aburame.
There was a silence and then he spoke.
"If I remember correctly, Kiba told her to give up and I told her to go home and rest..."
Flashback/
"HINATA LET'S GO!" Kiba shouted and waved to her. Shino stood behind him, his hands in his deep pockets, watching the girl as she hit the post over and over.
"Not-not yet." she panted, going around it.
"JUST GIVE UP ALREADY!" Kiba walked over to her and attempted to drag her away from the sparring post.
"Get off me, Kiba-kun!" she cried and pushed him off. He stumbled back and looked to Shino for help.
"Go home, Hinata." He said, walking over.
"No!" was the exahusted reply that he got.
The boys both sighed, cleary tired.
"C'mon. I already ate dinner and you're still here?" Kiba said in disbelief. "It's 9:30 at night!"
"Go home." Shino said again, his deep voice echoing in the night.
When neither of them got a response, Kiba asked,
"Why do you train so hard? Why do you always push yourself to the limit? Your hands are bloody and your face is pale. Go home before you kill over."
Hinata only proceeded to hit the post harder, performing random routines she had made up, just to make a dent on it.
"I train so hard because I want to be someone. I want to show my father and my family I'm someone they can count on, that they can be proud of me. One day, I'll free the Branch House and one day, I'll be recognized." she answered.
Silence.
"Hinata. You aren't Naruto." Shino said quietly.
Tears began to form in Hinata's eyes and she began to really push herself.
"I-don't-CARE!"
With one final blow, she split the training post cleanly in two and stood up straight. Her hands were bloody and she was deathly pale.
She collapsed.
End Flashback/
"Oh yes. I remember that. You carried her home." Neji said, scratching the back of his head. He was surprised she had mentioned the Branch House.
One day, I'll free the Branch House and one day, I'll be recognized.
They nodded and sighed. Neji looked out. Hinata had managed to get out of the Hyuuga household and was probably walking to the training grounds.
"She's really improved." Shino said quietly.
Kiba nodded in agreement.
"So please, before she kills herself trying to get recognition, give her a compliment or something." Kiba stated scratching Akamaru's head.
"Alright. I'll see what I can do." Neji said, sighing. "You better go after her." he added.
"Yeah."
The two boys left a confused, concerned, and a 'deep in thought' Neji in the wake as they walked off after their sick teammate. Neji stumbled back into the house and finally sat down on the wood floor.
"Well, that girl has gotten as stubborn as Naruto!" Kiba laughed, petting Akamaru.
"She-she has?" Neji looked at them, confused.
"Yeah. Ever wonder why we return home earlier then her? It's because she's still training her butt off at the grounds. I don't know how many times she's kicked that stupid post. One time she even broke it." Kiba added.
"WHERE IS SHE!" Kiba wondered frantically.
Both of them were at the training grounds, expecting to tell Hinata off for doing strenous work,but when they got there she had disappeared.
"Did we miss her on the way?" Shino wonder aloud, looking around.
"Was she abducted?" Kiba asked.
Silence.
"HINATA WAS KIDNAPPED!"
"WOOF, WOOF!"
"SHUT UP, AKAMARU! HINATA'S BEEN KIDNAPPED!"
"Both of you, shut up."
It was not Shino, but a red haired, icy blue eyed boy who spoke from the top of a training post.
"S-Sabuko no G-Gaara..." Kiba stuttered.
"Where's Hinata?" Shino asked in a dangerously low voice.
"She's safe with me." Gaara said simply.
"Where-"
But before Kiba could ask his question, Gaara vanished in a flash of sand leaving them temporarily blinded.
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Sweets: CH 2...it was very...in depth... well to me.
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