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Take my hands,
We will both face the new beginning
CHAPTER 2: WITH YOU?
"Naruto-kun"
The cerulean-eyed ninja froze as he heard his name. Slowly, he faced the person who called him. He can't afford to see any of his friends right now, cause he knew there's no explanation for what he is about to do.
"H…hinata-chan!" Shocked, Naruto's eyes widened while looking at her. "What are you doing here? Where are Kiba and the others?"
"I…I left them. I want to….to go with Naruto-kun…." Hinata was blood red in color and was staring at the ground.
"Huh?" Looking at Hinata, Naruto started to laugh softly. "I'm not going anywhere….just…just taking a walk….that's all…."
"…"
"I'll go back later" Naruto added as he saw Hinata's strange look at him and smiled bitterly.
Hinata bravely looked up to meet the eyes of the person she have been looking from afar long before she can remember. The said genin was not able to look back as he somehow knew that the truth was no secret from her.
"....you can't....gomen..." saying this he started to walk to towards his so called 'destination'.
one step
two steps
three steps
four, five....
"N....NARUTO!!!!!"
Then he heard for the first time Hinata screamed so loud and called is name like that.
"I.....I....WANT TO GO WITH NARUTO!!!!"
"Hinata-chan....I am so happy that I have met you....form the first to the last time you....you where always been there for me....even when I always think that I was alone....I know...I know but I have denied that and thought that I was alone...Arigato ne....Hinata"
"Gomen....Naruto-kun....demo....atashiwa
Out of nowhere unimaginary amount of chakra surrounded Naruto. Hinata was stunned and can not move. Naruto slowly turned around to meet the konoichi's eyes. Naruto's azure eyes turned bloody red, eyes that were so merciless and the atmosphere around him was so different.
The rain fell down
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Naruto's POV
'What the hell!'
'let me talk to her'
'You can't!'
"do you want her to leave?"
'But...but'
He suddenly felt a strange force coming from him. It was not like the Kyuubi's chakra leaking during his fight. Still he's sure it was the demon's not his. Before he knew it he was already in his inner world and has no connection to what is happening outside.
"H...Hinata-chan...Gomen...."
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Hinata tumbled down on her feet as the chakra was to strong for her body to handle. She doesn't know what to do but to look at those piercing eyes that was intently looking at her.
"Na…Naruto-kun?"
"hyuuga, leave....you can't do anything."The person in front of her said. She felt a chill on her spine as she listens to the voice that seems to come form the ground.
"Iya!!!"
"you'll fight me?"
"I...I will!" She said as she tries to stand from her spot.
"do you think that you can defeat me?!!!"
Not answering back she prepared herself for the up coming battle. Win or lose she won't leave Naruto.
"interesting...."
"...."
"you don't seemed too surprise..."
"Anatawa Kyuubi....des ne...The youkai that lives inside Naruto..."Hinata whispered.
"with me inside of Naruto, He's strong....he doesn't need anyone...."
Rain was already pouring hard.
Soaked wet and looking intently to the 'person' in front of her. "That's not true! It is you he doesn't need. But he needs his friends..."
"dont make me laught. what do you think are his friends? you? them? what can you do for him?"
"We ARE his friends! We'll protect him!"
"protect? with that weak powers of yours? what have you done when the akastsuki as you call them was trailing him? where you able to save him? wasen't it I who helped him? I repeat, he does not need you....leave weakling...."
The Kyuubi let a small amount of his chakra hit Hinata. She was thrown a few meters away and collided with a tree trunk and was not able to move. Slowly, she forces herself to stand again and fight but she felt herself unable to do so and fell down the ground.
'I'm so weak....so weak...why do I have to be so weak?' She thought as she looked up in the dark sky to face the rain. Tears flowed joining with the water that rolled down her face.
"Hinata..."
"Kurenai-sensei!!" Hinata said as she walks towards her sensei.
"Are you alright?" Worried the red haired Nin asked.
"Ummm...hai!! The doctor said that it will take some time before my injuries in the battle with Neji will heal." Hinata said softly as she sat at the bed.
"Hinata...ummm."
"? ummm what is it sensei?" Hinata asked as she saw that her sensei was like hesitating to say something.
"I...I am really proud of you Hinata....you have change...I can see that you are becoming stronger each and every time."
"Ahhmmm....Arigato sensei....I have always wanted to become strong and...." she blushed and was unable to continue.
"I know that you want to be recognized by someone....right? I know you will be able to become strong and be of help to this person..." Kurenai said fondly to the genin.
"Arigato..."
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Since the first time Hinata have seen Naruto....that time...
"Hinata!!!! What are you doing lying there at the floor? Stand up and fight!!!!" Said her father, trying hard not to cry she started to stand and face her father's angry face.
Looking at her 8 year old daughter in the situation he sighs "Is this all you can do? Why can you not do anything right? You are not even match with Neji from the branch family..."
"Atasi..."
"Enough!!!!! This ends of our practice for today!!!!" Irritated her father said and left her on the training ground behind their house.
"Demo...Atashiwa...I still can fight...." She softly whispered that her father that was walking away didn't hear.
That after noon she was roaming around the city as she pondered to what her father have told her. 'Reji of the branch family was always compared to her by her father. She was very curious that today she found herself snooping around the branch family house.
She was dressed with a cape to avoid her being seen by anyone. Approaching the house she felt that someone was to come out of the front gate made her run to the side of the house and in accident made her bump with a person.
Looking closely the person she bumped to be kind of the same age as her. It was a boy and basing to his eyes it was from the Huuga family. 'He might be from the branch family?' she thought as she has not seen the face on the main house.
"Are you alright?" Said the boy as he helped her stand. Unaccustomed to be with a man so near her she jerked the man's hand off her and stand on her own.
"Ahhh sorry...did I scare you?"
"Iee"
And from the front door a group of people came out and started to come her way. She started to panic afraid to be caught snooping at the area. But to her surprise the group of people came near the boy.
"There you are master Neji....we have been looking for you!" Said the person. "Do you know? I just came from the main house and I heard that the eldest of the sisters there was really good for nothing!!! You know you should have been the successor of the family rather than that girl!" He continued.
With no strength to hear the other statement that the man will say again she run as far as she could go. Her heart was at pain; her eyes were filled with tears as she run and run until she found herself in a nearby forest. She didn't care if they were looking for her. She couldn't care less. She was a failure...Everyone think so...even her very own father.
Crying on her own she heard that someone is coming. Afraid that she will be found by some of her fathers men she hid herself at the bushes near her. Silence prevailed some time before suddenly heard a bright and cheerful voice.
"What are you doing there? Are you playing alone? What to play with me?" Asked the boy. As she looked at the person she was welcomed by a warm and cheerful smile that made her calm. Unable to hold back the tears she suddenly cried and made the person confused on how to make her stop.
After a brief moment the girl stopped cry made the golden haired boy relived. "Ummm....Are…are you alright already?" Asked the boy to the slightly sobbing girl.
"Sniff...sniffs...Hai...sorry for troubling you..."
"No!!! It's ok!!! Anyway I don't have anything to do now...hehehe its good you stopped crying..." silence "Ummm I don't know what you're problem is but...don't you think crying always is tiring? I have been crying for a long time but even I cry no one will really be there to comfort me....hehehehe....but you know you can be stronger because you know your weakness for me I will became the Hokage and make everyone see what I can really do!!!" The boy said as he gave her again this bright and warm smile that made her smile.
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But after that the boy suddenly dashed away saying that they meet again tomorrow because it was already late. From then on she has stopped crying instead she started to try harder. But she never saw the kid again on the place that he said but as she first gone to school she has known that the boy who was said to be so talkative and noisy was the boy that helped him.
Thought she wanted to talk to him, she was to shy to and besides he might have forgotten about it. It was already years since that event but for her it was just like yesterday. Because of that she was just satisfied being there in arms length and watch him from a distance.
"Is it not...not enough for me to stay?" whispered Hinata as she moved to stand from her fall. "You don't have to go alone Naruto-kun...You don't have to...." She said as she silently dragged her weakening feet towards Naruto who was intently looking at her.
"....Do you wish to die? The force that I have use to you should be enough to make you understand that you are not needed....Your weak...so weak... you wouldn't be of help to Naruto in any way...
"I don't think so...Naruto-kun...Naruto-kun do you hear me!!! I'll go with you!!!" She screamed as she never done before with the last of her strength and feinted.
The rain stopped so was everything...walking towards Hinata, Kyuubi sigh.
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Naruto was so restless that he was walking back and forth in his inner self making him unable to feel that Kyuubi was already besides him. Coughing she made her presence known to the other. He was somehow awe to see Kyuubi in a human form and not only a human form but a woman's human form. It was his first time to see her like that.
She was in a red kimono that was only until above the knee that have a print of fox in it. She was also wearing a long red ribbon that holds her long red hair in place. Her eyes were golden in color that has a very sharp look. In all, she was exotically beautiful in her own right. He also notices that she has a very strong and powerful aura around her.
Somehow Naruto feel awkward for some reason. Cleaning his trough he begun to speak but was stopped by the sigh of the other. Looking at Kyuubi he saw that she just passed by him and walked towards a certain Sakura tree. Naruto suddenly was aware of his surroundings and noted that the place was different from the 1st time he went there. Looking around he became aware of the place.
The complex maze which was before like a sewer became a meadow, an endless meadow that there was a clear blue sky above him. He also mentally noted that there was a single, yes a single Sakura tree that was standing proudly in the middle of the place. All in all it was very beautiful and calming place to be.
Looking at the tree he saw Kyuubi jumped up to one of the thick branch of the said tree and positioned herself and closed her eyes. There was no conversation between them for a moment men he heard her sigh and opened her eyes.
"what are you still doing here?" She said monotone
"I..."
"go...I have done my part....the rest is up to you." She said cutting what Naruto intended to say.
"I...I understand" He said quietly and was about to leave when he heard Kyuubi said something that made him look back but suddenly everything went blurry and when his vision returned he was lying in the soft moistly ground.
As he stud up he saw Hinata sitting near a tree sleeping. Walking towards her he knelt down besides the sleeping person and looked gently at her. Wiping the dirt in her face he whispered, "Arigato Hinata"
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'Warm...' Hinata thought as she warped herself more with the warm thing that was besides her. Unconsciously hearing the crackling sound that the fire has made. Suddenly remembering everything that happened between Naruto and her a moment ago she suddenly jerked up realizing that Naruto might have left her already.
Looking around she analyzed the place. She was in the forest and in front of her was a small glowing fire that gave her warmth in the chill of the night. The half moon was also hanging brightly in the dark cloudless and starless night that made it more beautiful. Looking around she suddenly felt something move beside her that made her jump on the other side.
"You're awake Hinata-chan..." Said the voice that Hinata will never forget.
"Na...Naruto-kun!!!" She whispered and before she could stop herself she started sobbing that made Naruto alarm.
"Hi...Hinata-chan? Are… are you alright?" Worriedly Naruto came near the girl that was now crying.
"I...I'm sorry for what I and Kyuubi did...but..."
"It's not that Naruto-kun...I...I thought you already left me behind and went alone...I'm just happy and relived that your here."
"Ummm...Hinata-chan...Do you really want to come... with me?" Uncertain Naruto asked for conformation before making his decision.
"Hai!!! I'll go with you!!!"
"Hinata...Arigato..." He whispered. He was happy that Hinata will be able to come but at the same time Sad and Scared because there is no certainty to what might happen in the future.
"Naruto-kun....We'll come back to Konoha right? Someday?"
"Hai....That's one thing I'm sure with." He said as he smiled and looked at the moon above.
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"I'll be harder from now on Naruto..." Kyuubi said as she looked up at the bright blue sky.
I reach out for the darkness
Try to walk alone, I was afraid
Afraid to lose, the person who's close
I ran away, far away
A journey of no end, nor happiness
I stopped but not look back
I will face this alone
A vast emptiness around me
No light nor Warmth
I stayed still and feel the
Loneliness and coldness
But as I look beyond
I saw you
Waiting for me
For you will go, go with me
Hands stretched out for me to take
For both of us will face the darkness
The new beginning
midnightsonta: I included this poem (if you can call it that....) here....somehow I just feel putting it...Heheheh....I'm not good at making like this but this is the best I can do T.T I titled it Not Alone....