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Sasuke took her to the training grounds near their house. Hinata was familiar with the place. She and her father trained many times in a place like this.
When they were surrounded by many trees, they stopped. "How about we start by hitting the target?" Sasuke asked. He pointed at the bulls-eye drawn on the tree. He took some kunai out from his side pockets hanging on his waist. "Here Hinata." He handed some over to her.
"Uh." Hinata took the kunai, not really entusiastic. "Thank you."
Sasuke smiled as she took them, excited to start. "Come on. I'll go first." He looked at the bullseye, two feet on the ground. He threw his kunai with much force. "Bulls-eye! Yes!" he shouted with a huge smile on his face, fists in the air. "I've been practicing a lot, so don't be disappointed if you don't hit it. Here, you try." He said pointing to another tree.
Hinata held the kunai, "Uh... okay." She did the same, hitting the target without trouble. As a used- to -be Hyuuga, Hinata had the skill of great accuracy
Sasuke was quite amazed that she also had a bullseye. After all, he practiced alot and she only started. "Um.. great. I guess." He was actually quite disappointed and jealous. Sasuke wanted to teach her a lot, and plus, he was better than a lot of people his age at most things.
Hinata gave a cute smile. "Thanks." She was actually quite enjoying herself. She liked succeeding.
Sasuke, on the other hand, was jealous of her success. "Hm." He wanted to show her that he was better than her. "Hey. How about we spar? Me and you fight."
Hinata got quite nervous. She didn't really like fighting. "I.. um.. uh."
"Come on." Sasuke teased, "You know how to fight, don't you?"
She didn't want to seem weak, even if she didn't like to fight. She agreed, "Okay..." she softly responded.
They both got into their own fighting stance. Hinata as the Hyuuga stance, and Sasuke just got ready to fight.
"Byakuugan." Hinata said, activating her bloodline limit. Her eyes turned white and veins popped out. Frankly, this small girl could look quite scary.
Sasuke studied her movements. He had never seen this bloodline limit before, the keke genkai. He started, running toward Hinata, rushing with a punch.
Compared to the Hyuuga, he was quick. She dodged the attack and moved back a few steps. Hinata did not wish to attack Sasuke. After all, the family took her in.
Attack by attack, Hinata dodged each one. After each dodge, Sasuke's anger grew. The thought of Hinata being stronger than him is impossible. He was an Uchiha. Sasuke's attacks got stronger and faster. Hinata had also grown tired.
In one strong punch, Hinata was hit. She fell to the ground. Pain formed on her cheek, and the side of her lip bled a little.
Sasuke froze, stopping in his tracks. His jealousy was gone, and all he thought about was if she was okay. "Hinata." He quickly went over to her and helped her up. The six year old felt really guilty. After all, he partially hurt her on purpose.
Hinata only smiled, suppressing the pain. "It's okay, it's okay." She assured him, "Really." She rubbed the blood with her hand and her Byakuugan was deactivated. I'm used to it by now. Pain. she thought.
Still, Sasuke felt guilty. This was only caused because of his jealousy. He was relieved that she wasn't mad though. He smiled back at her. "Come on, lets go home.. uh.. Do you need any help? Want me to carry you?"
Hinata giggled, however quickly stopped because her face started to hurt. "I'm fine. I can walk, you didn't hit my legs you know."
"Oh... yeah. I knew that." Sasuke said, embarassed by his idioticy. "Come on then. O-kaa-san will freak when she sees what I've done." He was scared of her reaction.
In a short while, they were back home. Ant the instant Hinata walked in with a bleeding lip and slightly damaged cheek, Mikoto rushed right over. Her face was soon in Mikoto's hands. "Hinata! What happened to you?" she asked.
Sasuke stepped up, apologizing. "Okaa-san. I'm sorry. I went a little overboard with the training again." His expression showed that he really was ashamed.
Mikoto turned over to Sasuke. At the sight of his sad eyes, she patted him on the back. "Sasuke, it's okay. Although you need to calm down when fighting though. Remember, she's like a little sister now, you need to protect her, not harm her." she lectured, "You need to calm down when fighting though. Did you say sorry, Sasuke?"
"Hai, sorry Hinata" I didn't mean to hit you, "Sasuke apologized.
Hinata smiled, especially at Mikoto's words. "It's okay, don't worry." They had no idea how she deeply appreciated how they took her in.
Mikoto smiled at the two. "Okay. Now come on Hinata. Your lip is still bleeding. I need to give you ointment to treat it and a bandaid to stop the bleeding." She took Hintata's hand and went to the bathroom.
Mikoto cleaned up the blood of her lip and then applied the ointment on the side of Hinata's lip. She put a bandaid for her also. Much to Hinata's surprise, she didn't feel any pain. "Alright Hinata, you're all set. You can go play now." Mikoto said.
"Thank you." Hinata appreciated everything they've done. Though, she wasn't comfortable with calling her 'Okaa-san' yet. The little girl excitedly exited the room, hurrying to look for Sasuke again.
She scurried around the place, finding Sasuke with Itachi. Sasuke was asking to learn some new moves while Itachi bluntly refused, putting it off till later.
"Oniisan! Come on, you always tell me you're busy. Teach me a new move!" Sasuke whined to his big brother.
"Because I am actually busy. I'll teach you some other time. Ask father.." Itachi responded, his gaze turned to Hinata. "Or go play with Hinata."
Sasuke huffed, "Fine! And we'll have lots of fun!" he said, trying to make his brother jealous that he refused to play with him. He went over to Hinata, taking her out of the room.
"Hinata, you wanna go to the park?" He asked.
Her head nodded happily, "H-hai!"
Sasuke smiled, taking her arm leading her to the park which was quite far.
In moments time, she was in a place filled with plants and flowers. A beautiful scenery.
A smiled formed quickly, "Amazing. It's beautiful!"
"My mom helped plant all this, pretty cool, right? Lets play here." He led Hinata into the park and they both sat, landing right on the grass.
"Let's play tag!" Hinata suggested, even it was only the two of them, in a big place like this, it would still be fun.
Sasuke nodded and pointed to her, "You're it!" he shouted and started running around. He circled around some people leisuring around the park, using them as obstacles to his advantage. It made it even harder for her to catch him, he had great speed.
"No fair!" she shouted out, still chasing after him. As Sasuke was moving left and right, quickly, she darted at him. Unfortunatly she crashed into another kid, a boy who looked her age.
"Watch where you're going!" he yelled at her. Then, he pushed her onto the floor. Hinata hit the floor and whimpered. "Are you blind? Is that why you have those freaky little eyes?" the boy laughed.
Sasuke stopped running and turned around hearing Hintata's whimper. Right in front of him, a boy was picking on her and making fun of her. Within seconds, he got angry. He ran over there quickly, jumping and taking down the boy onto the floor.
"Don't pick on Hinata!" he shouted, he started to become protective. The boy was pinned to the ground and several punches were thrown.
Hinata looked up when she heard a fighting going on. Sasuke, was hurting the kid, he was protecting her. She rushed over to them quickly. Hinata knew that Sasuke had anger problems, she knew from her fight with him. "Sasuke!" she used her hands to pull him off the kid.
At the touch of Hinata's grasp, he stopped and stood up, allowing the kid to move. "Next time you pick on Hinata, I won't hold back!" The boy, now beaten, rushed out of his sight crying for his mother.
Sasuke's eyes turned to Hinata, "Are you okay?"
She nodded, "H-hai. I'm fine. Thank you, Sasuke."
He smiled, "No problem. Want to go home now?" he asked. When she nodded, he took her back to the Uchiha's place.
When they came back, Mikoto hurried them to wash up, for it was time for dinner. They both went into the bathroom, fighting for the sink to wash their hands. Splashes were made and soon, water was thrown. Laughter went on. In time, they were both wet. Sasuke and Hinata went down together, uneager to face Mikoto, knowing that she would be unhappy with their wet clothes.
"Sasuke, Hinata! I told you to wash up! Meaning wash your hands for dinner, not take a bath with your clothes on!" she scolded when she came upon the sight.
"Sorry." They both said in unison, heads down low.
Mikoto shook her head in disapproval. "Go take a bath now, both of you. There's two bathroom, each of you take one." She led them to their bathroom, setting everything up and taking them in.
Sasuke finished first, coming down for dinner, sitting in his seat. Hinata took a little longer. Though, a short while after Sasuke went down, she finished and they ate dinner together.
After that, it was time for bed. She slept in the same place as before.
Hinata was placed in bed and tucked in by Mikoto. However, this night was not pleasant for her. In the middle of the night, she awoke scared and wandered around the house. She saw a light, which was the kitchen and followed it. There, Itachi was sitting, munching on a night time snack. His eyes turned to her, face showing no emotion. "Why are you up so late?" he asked.
The small girl sniffled, "I had a bad dream."