AN: Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed. No, I was not aware that Naruto's parents names were announced in the manga. I don't read Japanese and here in America we only are up to the fight with Tsunade/Oroch/Naruto/Kabuto… you know the one. So, yes. If I find a need to say their names I will use the correct ones, unlike my last fanfic. But it still turned out ok… right? Right?... hello……


Chapter 1: Ideology of a Child


"Hinata, lets play tag! You're it!"

"Ok!"

A small indigo haired girl held her hand next to her face as she ran behind a blonde child her age, like if she removed it and people saw her face they wouldn't like her anymore. The most shy child of the Hyuga clan, Hinata, was playing tag. She was chasing a young boy with bright yellow hair who evaded her for a minute before "allowing" Hinata to tag him. Really, she just surprised him.

"Naruto, you're it."

"Ah… I'm tired…" Naruto lay back on the grass outside the Hyuga complex. They had been playing for hours as their parents prepared for the next day. Hinata's third birthday. Hinata laid out next to him and they watched the clouds pass over. Naruto's birthday had not been a big event. Really, no one except Hinata and her parents had celebrated at all. Hiashi-sama had given him a kunai set and promised to teach him how to throw them. Hinati… okaa-san as she told him to call her or else she would take his kunai away… had given him a new set of clothes. Naruto smiled at the memory. It was orange. Hiashi-sama said it hurt his eyes. Hinata had complemented him and giggled. Naruto had run around the entire complex, showing every person in it his wonderful new orange ninja suit. He had been practicing with his kunai for two months now and could hit the middle of the target… most of the time. Hiashi would often show up and give him pointers. Naruto was sure that he would grow up to be a great ninja like Hiashi-sama.

"Ano… Naruto?"

"Yeah, Hinata?"

"I heard that some man was coming to town tomorrow from another land."

"Oh yeah! I heard that too! It's too bad we can't go see him. I bet he is a great shinobi!"

"Naruto?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you want to be a shinobi?"

"Hai. I want to be a great ninja more then anything… I want to take the old man's job when I get older."

"You want to be the Hokage?"

"Is that what he is? All I was told was that he is the best ninja in the village. I am going to be the best someday, just you wait."

"Um… Ok! I know you will be! I'll be a shinobi too and help!"

"Thanks, Hinata." Naruto gave a huge smile to Hinata, his best friend since he could remember, and she smiled back. They often talked about what they wanted to do when they were older. Naruto seemed to change what he wanted to be by the day. But this was the first time he had ever done anything about his wishes. He was getting good with his kunai, even after having them for only a few months.

The Hyuga clan believed in training a child as soon as they could focus even the slightest ounce of chakra, and with the Byakugan they were perfectly capable of seeing exactly when that was. As it turned out, most children had at least some grasp of chakra by their third birthday. It became tradition over the years to begin training in clan techniques, or in Naruto's case with weapons, when they turned three.

"Hinata-sama?" Both kids looked over from their spot on the ground to look at the kid at the door. He wasn't much older then they were, just a little taller with brown hair that was longer then Hinata's. Naruto giggled, the boy looked shocked.

"What? Naruto, are you still laughing at my hair?" Naruto was on his back in fits of laughter. Every time Neji saw Naruto, Naruto would start to laugh because Neji's hair was longer than Hinata's. He couldn't help it. Hiashi-sama's was longer, but Neji was only about 5 and his kimono was almost identical to a girl's.

"Gomen… Neji-onii-san…" Neji wasn't her actual brother, but her cousin. Still, he was as overprotective as any brother could be. Naruto stopped laughing and motioned for Neji to join them under the sky.

"Hinata-sama, your mother wants to see you. I wish I could stay and watchthe clouds, but I still have chores to do." Neji walked away and Hinata rose up from the grass. Neji always seemed to have chores. Naruto didn't know why, he only had a few chores to do every day compared to Neji.

"Naruto…"

"I'll wait here and practice throwing kunai." Naruto twirled his kunai on his finger. Hinata watched with amazement as he made it balance on one finger before he threw it into a bamboo shoot that was on the other side of the small courtyard. It bisected it neatly. It was a simple trick that most genin could do, but Naruto was very proud of his skill.

"Wow… Naruto you really are going to be the best ninja ever!" With that, Hinata left to find her mother. Naruto blushed at her comment before he went to grab his kunai out of the bamboo plant. It was stuck. He pulled and pulled until he was standing on the bamboo and using both hands and feet. He finally freed it and stepped off of the bamboo, only to have it snap up and hit his chin, sending him flying into a wall. He got up a moment later rubbing his injured jaw.

"…yeah… greatest ninja ever."


"Hinata! Have a seat." Hinata ran up to her mother, who was sitting in a circle with many other Hyuga women. She gave her a big hug before sitting next to her. She leaned her head against the warm, inviting side of her mother, glad that it partially hid her from the other ladies around her. Hinata was not known for being very outgoing with anyone other than her family.

"Hinata…" A woman sitting across from her mother spoke to her. Hinata barely recognized her. "Are you excited for your birthday?"

"Hai." Hinata blushed and hid slightly behind her mother.

"Well, I would hope so. Tomorrow isn't just her birthday, but the day she gets announced clan heir."

"And it is the day we get to announce to you who your betrothed is."

"Betrothed?" Hinata still hid her face almost completely behind her mother, but the word was new to her so she poked it a little farther out. Her mother bent down into her vision.

"Betrothing is when a boy and a girl get promised to marry each other. Before you were born there was a boy already picked out for you by your father and I."

"M…marry, like you and otou-san?"

"Hai."

"I… don't want to get married…" Hinata didn't want much at all, but her okaa-san and otou-san never had time to play almost at all and playing was one of the few things Hinata wanted to do. Marriage seemed to imply less play time in her young mind, and that meant that she did not want to get married.

"No no no. You won't get married for a long time. You just get to find out who it is tomorrow." The old women sitting across from Hinata were giggling like school girls. Hinata giggled a little too. Just to relieve herself of the tension. At least she would be able to play for a while more.

"Hinata, who do you want it to be?" Hinata wasn't ready for that question. She didn't have any idea who she wanted to be… betrothed to.

"Um… I don't know… gomen…"

"Don't ask her who! Then she will start thinking about it and might be disappointed by who it really is!"

"Oh, don't worry. She will have a full thirteen years to get used to the idea. Her betrothed will only have about one."

"Nani?" Hinata was confused by the conversation.

"Oh, you see. The Hyuga's have a tradition. The woman gets to find out who she is betrothed to at a young age and then gets a chance to win her betrothed's love on her own, without the law. You aren't allowed, under clan law, to tell anything to the one you are betrothed to until you turn 15. If she succeeds in winning his love then they are bound for a happy and long marriage, like your parents!"

"If she doesn't get it… well, they still get married…"

"But it won't be as happy as it could have been."

"It is a Hyuga woman's highest duty to get her betrothed to fall in love with her!"

"Right! It is tradition!" Hinata stared at the overjoyed and very… enthusiastic… women shouting random babble about how they fell in love with their husbands. Hinata mother wrapped her arm around her daughter's should and whispered in her ear.

"Don't worry, Hinata. You don't have anything to worry about."

"Arigato, okaa-san. May I go back and watch the clouds with Naruto?" Hinata's mother gave a small look as if she was about to laugh, but contained it to a small smile.

"Sure, we will just finish up here."


Naruto was still practicing with his kunai. He was trying something new. First, he would throw one up in the air and hit it with another, then throw another into the one that just hit the last one, then catch the first kunai and throw it to hit the third and so on. It was astounding and funny to watch. On one hand, here was a three year old kid playing with very sharp ninja tools and making them do things most chunin couldn't. On the other hand, it was a three year old running around the field with his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth, desperately trying to catch the last kunai without slicing his hand open. Many branch members would just stare at the boy while doing their chores. Hinati was completely unaware of Naruto's trick or he would likely have been punished for doing something so reckless. Naruto was completely unaware that anyone was watching him. Hiashi was actually in his office using his Byakugan to stare in wonder at the feat Naruto had never learned from him. This kid could be everything his father was and more! Hinata ran into the court to see Naruto doing his juggling trick and gasped.

"Naruto… that's amazing!"

"What?" Naruto glanced over at the amazed girl and smiled… not realizing that he was supposed to be catching the next kunai. The one that landed in his hand a moment later. Literally, in his hand. Through the palm and out the back. Naruto just looked at it for a little bit, wondering why he wasn't screaming in pain. He saw Hinata go from a look of wonder to a look of horror and her already pale face became completely white as she passed out. Hiashi, though, had seen that the kunai was going to hit and before his daughter hit the ground he had caught her. Naruto stared at the father figure in awe. It had looked like he had just appeared where he was. Naruto, with his arm still in midair, smiled at Hiashi.

"Wow! Hiashi-sama, that was amazing! Can you teach me how to be that fast? Is Hinata ok?"

"Hinata will be fine, I am wondering about you, though."

"Oh." Naruto looked at his hand again. Blood was running down the tip of the blade sticking out the back of his hand. "I don't know. Should it hurt?"

"Hai."

"Then, no, I don't think I am ok. I feel fine." Naruto pulled the kunai out of his hand and watched in fascination as his hand knit itself back together in less then a minute. Hiashi looked in amazement at it also, noticing the slight red glow that accompanied the healing. Is that… the fox? Naruto was jumping up and down with his own bloody kunai in his other hand before running to grab the other two that had fallen.

"Hiashi-sama, are you sure Hinata is ok? She looked kinda… pale."

"Yes, she will be fine. Naruto… I think she was more… oh, never mind."

"Um… ok! Will you teach me how to be fast now! That was super cool how you were, like, not there and then, POOF, you were there! You just appeared! That…"

"Naruto."

"Hai, Hiashi-sama."

"I will teach you a way to get faster, if you want. It will be the other part of your birthday present now that you have done so well with your kunai."

"Really? Arigato!" Naruto ran up and hugged his adopted father. Hiashi smiled. He needed a break from the preparations for the celebration anyway.


"Naruto, did you know that you are betrothed."

"Does that mean I am going to be an awesome, super-cool ninja like you when I grow up? Then yeah!"

"No, Naruto. It means that you are already promised to be married to a person."

"NANI?"

Hiashi and Naruto were walking down one of the many roads of Konoha. This one was lined with shops and various stalls selling who-knows-what to whoever was interested. Naruto was almost skipping as he walked beside Hiashi. Luckily he only recieved a few glares from the people around, which Hiashi responded to with his own glare. Naruto didn't seem to notice any of them, but continued on his merry way. It wasn't everyday he got to leave the clan complex. Hiashi sighed more from the simplicity of the people around him than at Naruto's outburst. How they forgot the words of the Fourth so easily, he would never understand.

"Yes, there is already a person out there that you are destined to marry."

"Like you and okaa-san?"

"Hai."

"Wow… who is it?"

"Well, I can tell you whenever I feel like, now that you are three…"

"Well?"

"First, you must know the rules. The Hyuga's have a tradition. The man gets to find out who his betrothed is at a young age, while the woman doesn't get to know until later, and then gets a chance to win his betrothed's love on his own, without the law. You aren't allowed, under clan law, to tell anyone you are betrothed until you turn 15. If he succeeds in winning her love then they are bound for a happy and long marriage."

"What if…"

"You still get married."

"Oh…"

"So, do you want to know?"

"…Hai."

"Ok, you are betrothed to… Neji!"

"NANI!" Naruto tripped and fell flat on his face. Hiashi laughed a rare laugh.

"I am just kidding, Naruto. You are betrothed to Hinata."

"Oh…" Naruto jumped back to his feet with a smile. "Well… ok! Hinata is better then Neji any day of the week! Even if his hair is longer…"

"Alright Naruto, we are here. No more talking about… you know what." Hiashi stopped walking in front of a small shop with a kunai piercing a shurikin for a sign. It said one word, "Weapons". Naruto walked in behind Hiashi and his mouth dropped. He had never seen so many sharp and pointy things in his short life. He thought kunai were the epitome of all sharp objects ninjas use, but he saw so many things that ranged in size from smaller than his pinky finger to larger then his whole body. A man with dark brown hair was cleaning a giant shurikin with oil and cloth, making Naruto watch the shine. He looked up and saw Hiashi and Naruto. He glanced at Naruto a second longer then Naruto thought was necessary, but he smiled at the boy a second later.

"Hiashi-sama! What can I do for you?"

"I need a set of chakra weights."

"Really? I hardly think that you need them… are they for the kid there?" Hiashi gave a small glare to the man that Naruto didn't catch.

"Relax, Hiashi. I knew the Fourth, made his special kunai here. I trust him." Hiashi visibly relaxed. Naruto had no idea what was going on.

"Yes, they are for him."

"Getting him started early, eh?"

"Hai."

"Well, I have a starter set right here… but I might have something a little better in the back."

"Better?"

"Yeah, where the normal weights can take either real weights or chakra, these new ones I just got can change their weight automatically. As soon as he gets used to a weight, they automatically raise the weight. He won't even know how much he is wearing."

"I'll take them."

"Great! I'll just put it on your bill." The man with dark brown hair walked to the back and pulled out a box. He handed it to Hiashi.

"Thanks. How is your daughter?"

"Just fine. She just learned how to use her third type of weapon."

"Hey, sir! I can throw kunai!"

"Really? Hiashi gave you a set?"

"Yeah! And I am pretty good, too. Hinata said so."

"Really? How accurate are you?"

"Accur…acru…what?" Hiashi sighed.

"He juggles them…"

"Really?" The man looked impressed.

"By throwing one at another and catching them one it hits in midair." Then his jaw dropped.

"WHAT? At his age?"

"Yeah, except for one time Hinata distracted me and it went through my hand!"

"WHAT? Hiashi?"

"Yeah, and Hinata passed out and I bled a little."

"Hiashi… what are you teaching this kid?"

"He taught himself everything, except for proper throwing technique. I taught that."

"Wow…" The man took a seat on a stool and slumped over in thought.

"Yeah, and one day I am going to be… wait… what did Hinata call him… oh, yeah… I am going to be Hokage one day, just you wait." The two men just stared at the grinning three year old, one in amazement at the fact he could juggle kunai like that, the other in amazement that the kid already knew what he wanted to be. Just like his old man.

"Hiashi-sama, can we get back so I can try these weights on?"

"Hai." They walked out leaving the owner of the shop with his jaw on the floor.


"Alright, Naruto. Now, you will first move slower then normal, to all of our benefits, then as you eventually get used to the weight it will increase. I will start you off at 5 pounds per limb."

"Wow, thanks Hiashi-sama!"

"Now go play with Hinata, and no more hitting yourself with kunai."

"Hai!" Naruto ran to the door of the room with his new weights on, just slightly slower then his regular self. Hinata was waiting for him in the courtyard. Hinati walked up behind her husband and embraced him.

"I guess you told him…"

"Hai."

"You know, Hyuga traditions are funny."

"Yeah, but it always turns out better when they both try to win the other's affections without knowing that the other actually knows…"

"I know. It worked for us, at least."


The next day came and Naruto had woken up Hinata at three in the morning and he dragged her behind him as he woke every person in the Hyuga clan to tell them it was her birthday. Besides that minor incident that ended with a very sleepy Hinata collapsing into her mother's arms and a very energetic Naruto doing exercises until six in the morning, the day began like any other. Hinati, Hiashi, Naruto, and Hinata all sat at a small table and ate breakfast. Because it was Hinata's special day, she got to choose what to eat for breakfast. Naruto jumped up and shouted.

"RAMEN!"

"Naruto, this isn't your choice! It is Hinata's decision." Naruto sat down with a pout on his face. On his birthday they had eaten ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Hiashi remembered that day in agony.

"Um… ramen." Hinati sighed at her daughter while Naruto jumped up with a cry of victory.

After the… interesting breakfast, Hinata was taken to the clan counsel chambers. She held her father's hand as she walked in to meet the elders. Naruto decided he was bored, so he went off to practice with his kunai. Hinati waited at the door.

"Lady Hinata, welcome to the counsel chambers. Hiashi-sama, I hope we can get our business done quickly so we can begin the party."

"That is my wish as well." Hiashi led Hinata into the middle of the circular chamber and then went to stand behind her.

"Lady Hinata, today is your third birthday. Congratulations."

"Arigato…"

"Lady Hinata, we have brought you here to test you to see if you are capable of being a suitable heir to this clan's position of leadership at the time you turn 16."

"This is really just a formality that came about after having one heir born without the Byakugan. Please, Lady Hinata, open your eyes wide." Hinata did as she was told and opened her pearl-like eyes as wide as she could. One of the counsel members in front of her did something she had only seen done a few times by her father. The veins around his eyes bulged outwards and his eyes became kind of scary. Only a few seconds later he smiled and the veins around his eyes receded.

"Very good. It appears that we have a suitable heir. Does the counsel agree?"

"Hai."

"Unanimously?"

"Hai."

"Very good. This counsel decision cannot be revoked. Hinata Hyuga, you are herby declared clan heiress and will be considered as such until a reevaluation to be done on your 16th birthday. Until that time, under no circumstances can your title be revoked."

"Congratulations, Lady Hinata."

"Arigato!" Hinata felt her hand enveloped in her fathers and gave a cute little wave to the counsel members, one of which waved back. They didn't all have sticks up their respectable asses. Hinati stood at the door as it opened.

"Well?" Hiashi smiled at his wife and her worry.

"Hai."

"Oh, Hinata! That's great!"

"Um… ok."

"Now, come with me so we can dress you up for the party."

"Hai!" Hinata loved letting her mother and aides dress her up in the fancy kimonos that her mother always got to wear. She skipped behind her mother as her father watched with pride. She will be a kind leader. Walked away to see what new amazing feet the previous Hokage's son was doing.


"Lady Hinata, are you excited? I know I was excited for today."

"Yeah, it isn't every day that you turn three, you know?"

"Have you found out who you are betrothed to, yet?"

"Oh, I remember that day. It turned out to be this one boy I never even got to meet until a year before the wedding."

"Stop that, you will give the poor girl nightmares!"

"What? I love my husband!"

Hinata was trying not to giggle at the two women that had been in charge of bathing, dressing, and everything else Hinata could think of. They hadn't stopped talking throughout the entire time. Hinata wouldn't have been able to say anything even if she had wanted to. Just as they had finished her hair, Hinati walked in. The maids adressed their mistress as soon as she was seen.

"Oh, Lady Hinati! I can't seem to get one word out of Hinata today."

"Well, if you gave her time to talk…" The other maid lightly tapped the other on the arm.

"I don't talk that much!" Hinati sighed at the two and then directed her attention to her daughter.

"Hinata, are you ready to know who your betrothed is?"

"HAI!" Hinata didn't say anything as the two aides shouted at her okaa-san. She giggled as the two older women blushed in embarasment.

"Hai…"

"It just so happens that you are betrothed to a certain young boy a little older then you. He has blond hair and blue eyes…"

"Naruto?"

"Hai." Hinata still had no idea what to say. What this meant later on was nothing to her now, but she felt a little happiness at knowing who her betrothed was, unlike the aide…

"You mean…" One of the maids looked scared of something, Hinata had no idea what. The maid was instantly in Hinati's cold gaze.

"Hai, don't bring up."

"Hai, Lady Hinati."


Hinata was led out of the room by her mother and was brought into the main hall of the Hyuga complex. There was an enormous amount of people there, from every clan in Konoha… and a few people from cloud. As Hinata entered there was a small amount of applause, followed by everyone going back to talking. Really the party was an excuse for the most powerful clans in Konoha to get together. Hinata found Naruto in the back next to a boy their age with sunglasses. Naruto was talking to him and going on and on about how he was going to be a great ninja when he grew older. The boy, Shino, was from a prestigious clan near the Hyugas. He didn't say almost anything, just nodded at Naruto and Hinata as they talked. They tried to involve him multiple times, but when asked his favorite color he would just stare at them and then answer with one monotone word. "Black…" All his answers were similar. Naruto didn't care, Shino was as close to a friend as he had besides Neji and Hinata, even though they had only met minutes ago.

"Ah, Hiashi-sama, this is the emissary from Cloud that arrived today. He signed the treaty we penned up on the spot, didn't even argue!"

"Really, then why are you still here?"

"Just… sight seeing."

"Really?" Hiashi felt that this man was evil. He knew it by just looking at him. He managed to hold in a shiver when the cloud ninja looked over at his daughter. Naruto noticed the cloud ninja and started laughing and rolling on the ground.

"Hey, mister! Y… your clothes! They're funny!"

"What are you talking about, kid?" The cloud ninja was willing to humor the brat, at least for one night.

"Little… ducks… with… Hearts… hahahaha…!!"

"What?" The cloud emissary tried to look around at his back and then he saw his reflection in a mirror on the wall. He had not wrapped the kimono around his body correctly and his boxers were showing. With little ducks and hearts. Hiashi snickered at the man as he walked out of room with most of the occupants at least giggling.


The party had been a success to everyone's expectations. Naruto had made a new friend, Hinata had turned three, Hiashi and his wife had seen the cloud emissary in all his glory and life was going well. After putting the children to sleep the leaders of the clan went to sleep as well. No one had any idea that the peace would be broken and life changed that night. After midnight a deep fog covered the Hyuga complex. Most of the guards who weren't already asleep became that way after suffering from the strange genjutsu. A shadow slinked over the walls, making no sound as he found the exact room he wanted. He attempted to open the window, but it was locked so he just broke it, trusting his genjutsu to keep everyone asleep. Not knowing that a young boy aspiring to be a ninja couldn't be affected by his weak genjutsu. The same blond haired boy that had pointed out his wardrobe malfunction and happened to sleep in the room next to Hinata's.

Naruto woke up with a start. He could have swore that he had heard glass breaking. He wasn't scared… not at all…kinda, but he knew Hinata would be so he went over to her room. After all, I am bat-rothed or something to her… He opened the door to see what he did not expect. A shadow stood in Hinata's broken window with a bound and gagged Hinata over his shoulder.

"Hey, let go of Hinata!" Naruto was glad that he slept with his kunai, or he would have been unprepared. The shadow turned to look at him in surprise before leaping out of the window. "Oh, no you don't!" Naruto jumped after him. The shadow was running for a wall, one Naruto had been practicing climbing earlier. The ninja jumped it in one go while Naruto jumped at grabbed for a rock he knew would be there and then pulled himself over it. The shadow was disappearing into the woods, but Naruto ran his fastest to catch up. The kicking and squirming Hinata made it easier to catch up.

"Stop! Where do you think you are taking Hinata?" Naruto threw his kunai at the man's leg, managing to cut into his heel. The man tripped and dropped Hinata, who hit her head and passed out. Naruto charged the ninja with a kunai in his hand.

"Little asshole… who do you think you ARE!" Naruto was backhanded before he got within arms reach of the man and sent flying into a tree. He barely held onto consciousness.


"Did you hear that, Hiashi?"

"…Huh?"

"It sounded like Naruto…"

"M… tired…"

"I am going to go see what the matter is…" Hiashi rolled over and tried to get back to sleep, except in less then a minute his wife came racing back into the room with tears in her eyes. "HIASHI, THEY'RE GONE!"


"What? Did you actually think you could beat me? I am a jonin, kid. You know what that means? It means that I am over twenty years older then you and an elite ninja."

"So? I am going to be an elite ninja some day…"

"Heh… not anymore kid." The ninja threw a shurikin that would have hit Naruto in the eye if he hadn't instinctively blocked it. "Huh? How did you do that?" The ninja then threw a handful of shurikin at Naruto.

Block the vitals! Naruto didn't know what happened, but in a second four shurikin were in the ground and two were in his legs. It hurt. Naruto's arm seemed to move on its own as he threw two sets of two kunai at the ninja. One from each was aimed at the ninja's gut while the other one from each set was aimed in a high arc over his head. The second wave was much faster then the first. The two aimed at the gut of the ninja were blocked, but he had just given the ones thrown up as a mistake. He was surprised when a kunai that had been stopped in midair by the second kunai landed and stuck in his right shoulder. He pulled the kunai out of the flak jacket with a small bit of blood on the tip.

"I… can't believe this kid even managed to draw blood… bastard!" He threw the kunai at Naruto and Naruto managed once again to block in, though it stuck into his foot with his inaccurate block. The ninja pulled out twelve kunai, six in each hand, and threw them at Naruto. This time he managed to block half… but he ended up with both hands pinned to the tree behind him and two more in his upper arms. The last two had hit on his right shoulder and chest. He knew that those were not places he wanted to be hit.

"You know? You actually wounded a jonin… I think you deserve a reward. You stalled me for so long that I probably can't escape with your little friend anymore, but as a gift to you and to her I will only take her eyes and have you watch me remove them."
The Ninja pulled a small contraption from his pouch and walked over to the unconscious Hinata. Naruto managed to watch him pry open her eyelids before he passed out from blood loss and horror at the sharp blades the ninja was intent on pressing into Hinata's eye.


Hinati managed to reach the source of chakra before the rest of the search party even with her severe limp. Though she immediately regretted it. Her daughter was laying in the middle of a small clearing with blood covering her face and upper body. She leaned against a tree but noticed that there was a metal object in her way. She turned to see the horror that was Naruto. Pinned to the tree with six kunai and two shurikin. The rest of the search party had no trouble finding the spot by the screams of anguish coming from the mother of two children.


"Hiashi…"

"Yes!"

"They are both in stable condition…"

"Thank kami!"

"But…"

"Her eyes…"

"Not destroyed… just gone…"

"…"

"Hiashi?"

"Bastard…"


Naruto woke up in a bright white room. He sat up and looked around. His mother was sitting next to his bed, but facing another bed on the other side.

"O…okaa-san?"

"Oh! Naruto! I am so glad you are ok!" Hinati's smile was and Naruto noticed the tears in her eyes.

"O…okaa-san, is Hinata ok?"

"…"

"What's wrong?"

"Naruto… Hinata… can't see…"

"Well duh! No one could see with those bandages on their face."

"No… Naruto… I mean Hinata… won't be able to see… ever…"

"Nani…"