Behind These Eyes


Five seconds passed by like five hours to her. That instant he said that seamed like an eternity.

If you choose to become the heir to the clan and release the seal

Those words echoed throughout her head. She started to get dizzy and saw two of the spinning objects around her room.

.What…. She thought to herself, finally gaining grasp of the situation at hand. Become…..heir? "B-b-but how? I mean, I'm just Yamanaka Ino. Not Sasuke, nor Shino, not even a Shikamaru! How can I, with powers on such a lower level than to even Shikamaru!" She failed her arms out like a complete idiot, shocked by the information. "I just can't be the girl your talking about. Even though I fit the description, I must have a long-lost sister somewhere, because I know my limit and I am NOT a Hyuuga. Not even close!" She kept rambling on and on about how she couldn't have been the 'Hyuugan heir'. "And then that chicken when I was age five s-" "SILENCE" He yelled sternly. Now I know how Hinata feels all the time. She thought to herself shutting up. "Now, I will be back and noon sharp. Please, use that time to think whether or not you will accept the deal and become the heir. And please, do it for Hinata's sake." He said exiting the door, hearing someone about how she is weak, and even weaker than her little sister.

She heard a loud slam of the door, and assumed it was Hiashi-san. "Honey-dear" A male voice echoed from the downstairs. "I have something to give you," He said, in a fake-like happy voice. He seemed to be imitating a happy voice, for the voice didn't sound like his at all. She said loud enough for her dad to hear as she quickly grabed her brush and did three more swipes. "Hurry, its important." He said from downstairs. "OK!" If you choose to become the heir to the clan and release the sealShe said back putting down the brush and rushed downstairs.

"Yes?" She said, with a fake grin matching her father's knowing something was going to happen. "Please, sit down." He said pulling out one of the kitchen chairs. "Ino-dear, you need to know…. the truth."

The truth? She thoguth to herself, unconsciously leaning forward. "Hear my story out Ino." He said with closed eyes, much like Hiashi did to her. He then opened his eyes like he was going to tell an old story. Not this again She inwardly weeped, for she found out today that when adults do that, its shocking news.

"When I was a child, nearly 12 at the time, I was assigned a gennin team. "Yea dad, I know, I know. With Choji's dad and Shikamaru's dad." She said rolling her eyes. She already heard this story a thousand times by now. "Its different," He said sternly, which was not like him. She listened farther. "That was my second team. My first team was with a woman named Hana Sayuri and a man named Shimizu Ryo. Both skilled ninja in their own field….." He said distinctively sad.

Hana Sayuri….MOTHER! She recalled in her head of her mother's name before the marriage.

"At the time, I was sort of a…prankster you could say. Fooled around in class, spray painted the old Hokage faces, etc. Though, I wasn't that skilled of a ninja." He said, slightly chucking to himself. "I could barely get a bunshin, but with the help of my two teammates, I got stronger and learned the jutsu that is now famous in out family, the Shintenshin no Jutsu (Mind Body Switch technique). We were one of the best teams out there. Romance was the last thing on my mind at the time…well…I can't says that's true. I had a bit of a crush on Sayuri back then." He said as Ino's eyes widened. "I didn't relize though that she hated my guts at the time and only cared for Ryo. I was blinded by love if you wanna call it that." He said shrugging.

"And then there's her," He said slightly pausing closing his eyes, then reopening them to look out in the distance. "Hyuuga Hanako, the girl with a seemingly never-ending crush on me which I never understood. The weird girl that would always blush when looking at me. The girl, who will one day be your mother." He said, now looking into her eyes.

That again…

"Sayuri wasn't your birth mother, only the mother that took care of you. Let me explain what happened." He said taking in another breath of air. "As time went by, I started to rellize that once Ryo left to go join an organization with missing nins, it was just the two of us left. Me and Sayuri. She started to like me more at the time, and I started to like her less. After countless times of being beat with her fist, it sorts of get unappealing. That's when I started to notice Hanako." He said closing his eyes once more to look down at the ground.

"We started to go out one night, after I realized what was going on with her. She was probably the polar opposite of Sayuri. Nice, gentle, and pure of heart. Sayuri was, as I found out, mean, shallow and self-centered. I continued going out with Hanako after that night. We were 14 by that time, and I believed I found the perfect woman for me. That's before I found out she was getting an assigned marriage inside the family. I was shocked by this, only being of the age 16 at the time to be already getting wed. I had to do something about it."

"A month later, we found out who she was going to be wed with. The heir to the clan Hyuuga Hiashi, a man who graduated around three years above us. The wedding would be in a month, and we had to spend the time with each other as much as we could."

Ino was now leaned over the table to hear the truth be revealed all at once. How…How…HOW! It repeated all throughout her mind. She just had to know more about this and how it relates to her birth.

"Once they were wed, we could not date each other anymore. That's when Sayuri got me on the…rebound. That's what you say now right?"

"Yes Daddy," She replied stopping the story to ask me a question.

"At that time, she grew found of me, wanting to be with me but couldn't, for I was with Hanako. Once my heart was shattered by Hanako leaving me to be with a man in her own family, she opened her arms and let me have comfort with her. I knew from then on, she did love me like I and Hanako did to each other. Even though I could not return the love she gave me, she still did love me and only wanted to see me happy. She told me to sneak away with her and do something special…as a parting gift. It made me happy at that time, and relieved my stress to know that someone loves me and cared for me besides Hanako. I took her advice and set up a plan to meet her a few weeks later."

Soon the two stories were falling in the same timeline. A few weeks after the assigned marriage was when….Oh God….I didn't need to think of that.

"The meeting was set, and I snuck her out of her home to a safe place. A restaurant, just like a casual couple would do. Afterwards, she told me to make the night last like an eternity. She asked me to make love to her, for she did not want that man to be her first. As a parting gift, I could only accept. We made love that night…without using protection. Soon afterwards, I found out she was pregnant…with you. "She was then disowned by the Hyuuga clan, and then came to live with me. Once the baby was born….she…she…she died." He said, tears starting to come down his face. "When you were only about three weeks old, they slaughtered her and placed the seal on your back. Your eyes lost the whiteness and was said that you'd would be extremely weakened in power."

"After that, I was left all alone. A jounin level ninja with a single baby in my hands and a wish to carry out for Hanako. To keep the flower shop that she loved dearly open. She was the one who made the shop, not Sayuri your mother."

She looked to her backside where the door separating the house from the shop was located. So Hanako made it, not mother…

"Sayuri then offered to help me once again. She offered to keep the flower shop running, and raise you like her own. I accepted her offer, not realizing I would soon marry her out of old love from the back of my heart when I was a kid." He slightly chuckled a bit. "Ironic how all the women precious to me all die ain't it honey?" He said with a sad smile.

He must be talking about mother as well…

One year ago, Yamanaka Sayuri died after getting in a new species of plant to inspect for Konoha. Unknowingly, it held poisons hidden in the plant that caused disease and four months later, she perished in a said death for our family, only telling me to 'keep the shop running for your mother'. At the time, I thought she meant herself, but now it makes sense. My birthmother, Hanako, wanted to keep the shop alive. Now my mother that raised me told me the same thing.

"So th-that's how it happened huh?" Ino said slowly, in a shocked manner, her eyes in a squint looking down. "How…how…how come you never told me!" She explained, now looking him in the eyes, making the older look down. "I'm sorry honey, I was planning on telling you sooner or later, but then once Hiashi came in, I knew I had to tell my part." She said, a tear still streaking his face. "I know he asked you be become heir to the clan, and I have no right to stop you. It's your choice to be a Hyuugan or not, and remember. If you do, you will always be a Yamanaka."


Dear Diary,

No, this isn't about Naruto again. I know you liked when I talked about him, but this is a different more important thing. Father said I might not be heir anymore, which means I might be disowned. Father said to me that if I am not fit to be heir by the time I am 16, I will be disowned by the family like Fathers original wife. I wish I can be stronger. I want to become strong. I want to be loved by my father. I want to be in the family still. I don't want to live on the streets. I don't want to live without my family. I want Father to still love me. I want to be loved.

Love,
Hinata


I hope this brought in a bit more detail on Ino's birth, explaining more in detail adding to what Hiashi said in the last chapter. And I will almost always try and put one of these little moments at the end of each chapter, like last chapter explaining Ino's seal, for the next few chapter's it will be about Hinata's feeling in her diary so you can have another look about how things are turning out. I already know how the story will be set out so all I have to do know is get the motivation to actually type it out. Remember Reviews are motivation too D.

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