LAST TIME:

Nothing except suddenly they where in front of her house and he finally let go. She silently cursed in her head for living where she did. "Thanks for training with me today I would have died of boredom if you hadn't!" The blond chuckled. Hinata gave a small smile, nodded and quietly said, "Y-your welcome Naruto-San." He grinned again and started to run down the street. She watched him, his golden hair shining against the sun. Then he turned around and yelled, "You should do that more Hinata-Chan!"

Hinata yelled back, "What's that?"

"Smile!" he was gone.

Hinata smiled to herself and went back into her own house and dreamt about her blue eyed crush. Hinata woke up early the next morning and grabbed a new purple jacket and undershirt and fresh kakis. Even if she wore one jacket didn't mean she wore it over and over! There was her old jacket she had worn as a girl, that jacket was special to her. Her mother had given it to her…and it held very good memories, and then there where the bad. She tried not to think of the bad very often it made her sad.

She took a quick shower, usually she would have been in there for hours just enjoying the cool water on her skin. However, today for some reason she was in a hurry to go training. She rushed downstairs, there was Hinabi eating quietly across from her father. Hinabi was the pride and joy in her fathers eye. Hinabi was everything Hinata could not be in his eye. She grabbed a few strawberries and put them into her bag. "Where are you off to in such a hurry?" Her father asked sipping his tea.

"Oh I-I was just heading out to go training." Hinata said apprehensively. He scoffed and slowly sipped his tea, she knew he didn't believe her. He thought she was weak, but she had been getting stronger her father just was too blind to see it. She quietly walked out of the door head hung slightly she didn't want to make eye contact with the glare her father gave her, and the smirk her sister wore.

(Chidori AN: OH HOW EVIL! Tsunade AN: Its their way of life.)

She walked outside and it was almost misty. She looked over to the garden to see Neji coming towards her. Now they weren't the BEST of friends but Hinata and Neji got along well enough these days better then they had when they where younger. Back then…it was hard enough they where on different teams, but her cousin truly back then hated her. "Hello Hinata where are you going?" He asked in that monotone voice he always used. "Oh just to train," Hinata said simply. He gave her a small nod and patted her on the shoulder as he passed by. She touched his arm too and smiled as well. That was their way of saying, 'Be safe.' She headed out the door and started walking towards her training spot.

She loved days like this. When it was misty outside and early in the morning. Hardly a soul was awake so it was mostly quiet. Hinata breathed in deep and slowly let out her breath. She would train for a while at her spot then go to the medic center Konoha had built. Along with every other medic in the village and she learned how to treat wounds and such. Hinata was good at that, not as good as that little prodigy of Tsunade's but still good enough. As she got closer to the falls she noticed a figure sitting there watching intensely. Hinata wondered, 'Who could that be?'

As quietly as she could she snuck over careful as to not make a sound. She wrapped her hand around a few kuni's just in case it was someone she had to fight. She got behind a large oak and activated her Byakugan. It was Naruto! Why was he hear! Hinata's thoughts went a million miles an hour. She peeked again, he was staring intently at the falls as if expecting something to happen. She looked too, there was NOTHING there…then she remembered Naruto asking if someone also came up hear. Maybe that was who he was waiting for! But why?

She watched him a bit longer and he sighed disappointed. He got up and left, she waited till he was completely gone. She quietly slipped into the clearing, and watched her crush head into town. Well whoever it was that he was expecting hear didn't come. She didn't have much time to sit and wonder about it she got undressed and slipped into the cool water. She shivered slightly, then calmly breathed out and closed her eyes. She started to concentrate her chakra and started to rise up onto the water and then she proceeded to dance. It was the dance of her chakra and the water. She did this weekly so she could get perfect control of her chakra, normally she did this only at night but today she was stressed for some reason and this always seemed to calm her down.

After she had finished and was calm she grabbed a towel and got dressed again. She ran back into town towards the medic center. The medic center was always so clean, and some of the residents there where there for life. She learned from much from the Hokage and reading medical books. Of course Sakura was there being well…SAKURA. She hadn't much changed either she was still flat-chested and still had that pink hair and those mischievous green eyes. Sometimes Hinata wished she too had green eyes, so people would stop staring at her abnormal eyes. But it was those very eyes she used to her advantage. She could see things internally that others could not.

Sakura ordered the other younger trainees around, "No, no, no! You don't do that!" or, "That is wrong! YOU IDIOT!" (Chidori AN: I'm sorry Sakura fans…wait…NO I'M NOT! Tsunade AN: She may be Tsunades' protégé in the book but I HATE THAT PINK HAIRED grrr. So YES this will be Anti-Sakura.)

Hinata was a top nurse like Sakura, and had trainees too. However, she didn't order hers around…or anything to that matter. In fact it was quite the opposite…they ordered HER around. Maybe that was why the trainees called Sakura the "Pink Dragon". Of course Sakura had her calm moments, but most of the time she was very high strung and ordered others around. Sakura also torched Hinata whenever she could. She made the shy Koichi do what she didn't want to do. Hinata didn't complain. She didn't tell anyone, why bother? So she just did as she was told.

Tsunade was better, she would tell them they where wrong show them why and give them a good job smile. She had softened up ever since she and Jiryia had decided to date. She also had stopped drinking as hard and gambling as much. Hinata smiled as she watched The Hokage go about her business. She was happy her Hokage was happy. She went back to her business as per usual going to her usual rooms, and giving the normal shots and medicines, and healing procedures.

It was about dinner time when she was able to leave and the next nurse came in. She got into her clothes again and went outside. Hinata sighed softly, it was like every other day she had. She got up, trained, went to learn how to be a healer, got dinner and either headed strait home or sat on the swing for a while and then go home. She always took the same routes…everything was always the SAME. Kiba would try to woo her, Sakura would always scream at her trainees, and chase after Sauske when she had TWO boys after HER. Excluding Kiba she really didn't have anyone after her! She hung her head slightly, kept her eyes to the ground and kept going. She walked slowly on her usual route to her usual restaurant. She got the usual and put the dinner into a box and left. Yeah…what a usual day.

All except seeing Naruto at her training spot. She wondered if that too would become a norm to her. Seeing her crush looking for something that was not coming. She kept her eyes still firmly on the ground. There was no need to look up. She had walked this route enough times, that she could almost swear there was a small ditch where she walked. She turned off and headed towards the academy. The sky was clear tonight and she could not see a cloud as far as she looked.

She walked towards the tree, towards her swing. Only someone was in that very said swing. Naruto Uzamaki. AGAIN! This time she could not hide herself. He saw her and gave her a big grin, "Hey nice to see you again Hinata-Chan!" Naruto chimed he waved and she slowly lifted her hand back in a small wave.

'Oh man!' Hinata thought to herself as she approached the blond.

"H-hello Naruto-San it nice to see you too." Hinata said bowing slightly.

"Why don't you join me Hinata-Chan?" He said leading over the rope and patting to the grass next to him. Hinata pondered it for only a moment but tentatively walked over. "Mmmh! That smells great Hinata-San!" Naruto said sniffing her food. "Y-you want to share N-Naruto-San?" Hinata said lifting her box towards him.

"Thanks Hinata-San!" Naruto said grinning ear to ear. Hinata chuckled a bit. He hoped off from the swing and sat next to Hinata still smiling. She handed him some chopsticks and she started shifting threw her pack to see if she had any extra, she didn't. Naruto saw this and chuckled.

"We'll just share then!" Naruto said laughing. Hinata blushed really bad, and against her pale complexion there was no hiding her blush. So she just turned and nodded her head. Naruto started to stuff his face, then said "So why are you hear?"

"Huh? Oh…um, I-I always come hear to think." Hinata said looking at her feet. Naruto's cheeks where puffed up from food he swallowed, "Really?"

"Yeah," She said wrapping her arms around her knees and brining them up to her chest. They both went quiet, Naruto pushed the box towards Hinata. She picked it up and started to eat quietly, "W-why are you hear Naruto-San?" She asked box still in hand.

Naruto laid down and stared up at the sky. "Same reason, to think" he said looking to the sky. Hinata looked up too, she saw a shooting star. "H-hey a shooting star!" She said pointing to it.

"Ooo! Cool lets make a wish!" Naruto said sitting up. "I wish to get Sakura to like me!" Naruto said closing his eyes.

A pained look came across her face while his eyes where closed. It always came back to her. Always, always, always! How she really disliked Sakura right about now. He opened his eyes and looked at her, she quickly put on a smile. It was painful to put on that smile. "What do you wish?" He said with that same smile. She thought about it…what did she wish for? Death to Sakura? Maybe…no…she knew what she wanted. It was the boy sitting next to her, looking clueless as ever. No, she couldn't bring herself to say that aloud.

So she giggled and said with a small smile while looking towards the sky, "I already have everything I could wish for. I don't know what I can wish for!" She didn't see it, but the blond slightly blushed at what she said. She got up and started towards the exit. He stood up, "You got to wish for something Hinata-Chan! That's how stars work! You have to wish for something!"

She turned around, sadly smiled and said, "Okay…then I wish I could be stronger, so I wouldn't run away anymore." With that she ran away from him, towards her home, she took one look back and there was no one there. She walked into her house and took off her shoes. She went upstairs and went into her room. Where she took of her coat and leaned against her door, sobbing. She was crying because she could not be strong enough to say what she wanted. She could never be strong enough. She took out a kuni and stared at herself in the reflection in it. She shook as she placed the knife to her skin. She looked again into the mirror and stopped herself. She started sobbing, why couldn't she be stronger? WHY? She sank to the floor dropping the kunai and fell asleep crying.