Lovelyanime: Thank you to all that reviewed in the first chapter. Sorry its been awhile, but like I said I'm still writing my other story 'The kit named Hisoka'. It's kind of a quick chapter I guess, but that's how I write. I didn't edit the whole thing, so some things might be messed up. Hope you'll like it though.

10/30/06

Chapter 2- Promise of Hinata

Hinata ran toward Naruto once he landed on his back. She had no idea what just happened. He was just standing there and the next thing she knew- he was flying backwards with blood gushing out his nose.

"Naruto-kun?" She knelt down and looked him over. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her handkerchief . She grabbed Naruto's head and placed him on her lap, which made her blush slightly. She started to wipe the blood away. He had stopped bleeding after awhile and was now clean. Except now her handkerchief had his blood on it.

She laid his head on the ground and quickly went to a stream nearby. She cleaned it and ringed it out quickly. She wanted to go back to Naruto to make sure he was okay. Perhaps she should take him to the hospital? Maybe someone could help him there?

Hinata ran back to Naruto to find him not awake yet. She knelt down and sighed. He seemed to be okay. She reached started to twirl his hair with her fingers. He was really cute when he was asleep. She bit her lower lip as she looked around. Maybe a kiss before they leave wouldn't hurt. She lowered herself and was a inch away from his face.

'Maybe just on the cheek.' She thought. It wouldn't be right if she did for her first kiss. And his first real one as well. Plus she didn't want to faint after feeling his lips on hers.

She looked at Naruto's peaceful face once more before placing her lips on his whiskered cheek. He felt so warm under her lips. She had to constrain herself not to move to his lips. It wouldn't be right, but it was so tempting. She pulled away after a minute.

She blushed like crazy. She was so glad that he wasn't awake for that. She watched him for minute before he started to stir.

"Ugh…What happened?" He sat up as he rubbed the back of his head.

"N-Naruto-kun, are you a-all right?" Hinata asked. "Y-you had a te-terrible n-nosebleed and fell u-unconscience."

Naruto froze. His face went slightly red as he turned to Hinata. What was she doing here? He really didn't want o see her right now. He has been thinking of her like Ero-sennin and what if he couldn't take it anymore? What if he grabbed her and started to make out with her? Or worse. What if he swept her off her feet and took her to his apartment to do more than make out? She would hate him for being so perverted. Since at this moment the perverted thoughts from earlier came back.

"N-Naruto-kun," She brought him back from his thoughts. "I-I think we sh-should take you to th-the h-hospital."

She timidly grabbed his arm, but he pulled away. He really couldn't take this right now, more pictures kept coming in his head. He stood with his back facing Hinata, trying not to have another nosebleed and faint again.

"That's all right." He spoke. "I'm perfectly fine! Really! So I don't need to go!"

Hinata stood up as well. "I-is something the m-matter Naruto-kun?" She tried to place her hand on his shoulder. But he just took a few steps away from her. Hinata was getting hurt by this and was confused why he was acting so strange.

"Nope! Nothing is the matter!" He tried to sound as cheery as possible.

"Naruto-kun…" She didn't believe him one bit. She knew when he was happy, angry, upset, and annoyed. She knew about his mask of emotions. It could fool everyone in Konoha but her.

"I got to go. Ero-sennin has a new jutsu to teach me." He started to run. He didn't turn to look behind to see the Hyuuga girl. It was to painful for him.

Hinata stood there not really understanding what had just happened. Was he mad at her? Did she do something that made him not want her to help him? Maybe got embarrassed what happened?

"Or he just doesn't like me and doesn't want me near him…" Hinata turned around. She needed to meet up with her teammates. They might get mad if she was late again. She walked away from where Naruto had trained and headed to Team 8 training ground.

"Oi Hinata, what took you so long?" Kiba asked when she arrived.

"G-gomen na sai, I-I just woke up l-late."

"Fine whatever, just don't do it again" was all that Kiba said before they started to train.

Time skip…

It was dark out and the stars were shining bright, no cloud in the sky. The purple haired woman walked up to the gates of Konoha. She didn't look very happy to see it though. In fact, she looked quite pissed as she set her eyes on it.

'Just go see her, go home, maybe go to the bathhouse the next day, and then leave without anyone knowing you're here.' She told herself. She walked to go inside, but the people on guard, that were both junnin, tried to stop her.

"Wait, who are you?" One of them asked. "What is your business here in Konoha?

The woman just ignored him and continued. Both the men went in front of her.

"You're a shinobi from here?" the other asked when he noticed her hitaiate. "I don't think I have ever seen you here before."

The woman sighed. She wanted to beat these guys to a pulp for bothering and being so nosey in her business. But if she beat them, someone will come along, find them unconscience and goes tell the hokage. Then the hokage would tell everyone to go and search for her. Like she said before, she really didn't want people to know she's here.

"Like you, no one never remembers me because they always forget." She placed her hands on the guards heads and forced her chakra into their brains. The two tried to get away but she wouldn't let go. Then, they just stopped moving like they were frozen. She then stopped her chakra and removed her hands.(1)

"I hope you two have a good night." She said as she walked off.

'Thank you sensei for teaching me that,' She thought.

The two men stood there in a daze for a minute. They soon started to move and their heads were pounding.

"What the hell is going on?" One of them asked, rubbing his head. Why does my head hurt like hell?"

"I don't know. All I remember we were on duty and talking about the new volume of Icha Icha Paradise and…It's kind of a blank." The other said, rubbing his head as well.

"Whatever, lets just forget it."

She jumped from rooftop to rooftop. She headed towards the Hyuuga compound where she would find her friend. She smiled sadly just thinking about it. But when she would get there, she wouldn't have a long visit.

"Hina-chan, I'm almost there." She said under her breath.

She saw the compound and quickened her pace by adding chakra to her feet. She jumped on top of the Hyuuga wall and looked around for anyone. Surprisingly, there was no on out. Every time she was here, there would be at least four people watching out for anyone trying to sneak in. She thought it was odd, but brushed it off as she jumped off the wall and ran.

'Almost there,' She looked around and found it.

She stopped running and stared at the gravestones. She looked at them all until she found one in particular.

"Hina-chan…"

Meanwhile…

Hinata returned home and wanted to go to sleep. She had used a lot of chakra and needed rest. As she walked toward her room her stomach growled. She rubbed it and remembered she hadn't eaten since breakfast. So she turned around and headed toward the kitchen. She could grab a plate of something and eat it in her room.

"Hinata-sama," She heard a voice behind her.

She turned around to see Neji. But something was wrong with him. She could tell by the tone in his voice and the way he looked at her.

"Nji-nii-san, i-is something the m-matter?" She asked.

"Your farther would like to speak to you in the training room." He walked off without another word.

Hinata watched her cousin walk away from her. She went to see her father to see what was the matter. She opened the door to the room and saw the elders, everyone from the main branch and last was her farther. She went inside and sat across from her farther.

She bowed slightly. "I-is there something w-wrong otou-san?"

"Hai, I need to tell you something" he said in a cold voice.

"Wh-what is it?"

"You are no longer aloud to live here."

She looked up at him shocked. "Wh-why is that?"

"You are not part of this clan as from now on."

"B-but I d-don't u-understand. I h-have gotten stronger and I am e-even a-able beat H-Hanabi-chan."

"That is true, but you are still do not deserve to be the head of the clan, in fact you do not even deserve to be in this clan or my daughter. Neji should be gathering your things right now. Once he gives them to you, leave the compound immediately."

"But please give me another chance." She said with out a stutter. She bit her lower lip, trying not to let her tears fall.

"If I do that, I will put a seal on you. You have two options. One: you will be put into the side branch and still be able to be in this clan. Or two: leave and you will not receive the same seal as Neji."

"…I…will see Neji-nii-san now." She stood and turned around to leave.

A elderly man who sat next to Haishi sighed. 'It is for the best.' He said in his head. He remembered that he had talked to a girl years ago, telling him to do this…

FLASHBACK

"Reiya!" A young man yelled. He saw a woman his age standing in front of a stream. "You said everything would be fine! No one would get hurt! You lied dammit!"

The woman turned around to see the man walking up to her. "What do you want Hatsui?"

"You said we would be able to leave without anyone knowing we left! But they found us and look what happened!" He continued to yell as he got closer.

"I told you that they wouldn't have noticed Hina-chan and I. But you are the heir to that damn clan. Of course they would have seen you leaving."

"Don't you dare say this is my fault when this was your idea!"

She didn't respond.

"I loved her and they killed her! It's because of you!"

"But it was her choice."

"But you kept urging her to do it! You wouldn't leave her alone about it until she agreed! It was your fault!"

She just stared at him before she formed her hand into a fist and brought it to his stomach. He flew and hit his back on a tree. She ran to him and pushed him against the tree with a kunai in her hand. She put it on his throat.

"Just shut your fuck'n mouth!" She yelled.

He kept quiet, trying to ignore the pain in his gut and back.

"You think you're the only one who cared and loved her! But you're wrong! She was my friend-my only family! I have no one else while you will just go and find someone new to screw around with!" Tears started to fall down her face. "She was the reason why I was able to go to the academy! The reason why I become a kunoichi, I got friends, it was because of her why I thought I actually had a place in this world! Do you really think I would force her to do something like this she didn't want to do after everything she did for me?"

"Reiya…"

"Iie!" She pushed the kunai closer to his neck, making his blood come slightly out. "I'm talking! Not you!" She sobbed for a second before continuing. "Hina-chan wanted to leave, not just for herself, but for you and me too! For you so you guys could finally get married and live happily without your clan interfering! And for me…So I can find a place I belong with her by my side…"

The man tried to put his hand on her shoulder, but she just moved away from him. She walked to stare at the water, wiping her tears away.

"Do me a faver… Hina-chan a favor…"

"What is it?" The man named Hatsui asked as he walked to stand by her side.

"When you have a baby girl, a first born, later on, name her Hinata. But if you only have boys, make sure one of them name their first daughter Hinata." She looked at him. "Just for a memory of Hina-chan, please?"

He stared at her and nodded. "I will do that."

"And make sure she is kind and gentle, never wanting to hurt the ones she cares. Not as stuck up as you and the others in the main household."

"I understand."

"And…Make sure she is happy. Make sure she does not go and have the Hyuuga seal on her. If she is unhappy in your clan and everyone calls her weak, please let her be free. Let her be free like Hina-chan always wished she could."

Tears were now coming down his face. "I'll do it. I'll do whatever I can, I promise."

"Good, now when you're all better about this, I want you go and find someone. Someone you want to love and spend the rest of your life with."

He shook his head no. "Now that I can't do. Hina-chan was the only one that I will ever loved. No one can replace her."

The woman looked over at the water, silent tears still running down, and started to chuckle. "I'm sure someone can. If not, it'll make Hina-chan unhappy."

"How is that?"

"The only thing Hina-chan ever wanted was for everyone to be happy. But she's watching us and if she sees you still crying about her death, she will feel like she has failed. But if you find a woman that makes you feel as good as she did, at least close to it, she will know that you will be okay."

"Reiya…I can't…"

"Sure you can."

He stared off to look at the water. "But she was the only one that didn't care who I was, heir or not. She was the one that made me smile, no matter what problem I was having. She didn't care that I was part of the household that put the seal on her. I can't find anyone else."

"For the last damn time, yes you can!" She turned to him and looked pissed. "You can find anyone that'll do that! I'm the one who can't!"

He didn't look at her. He knew that Hinata was Reiya's reason for still being here. He would see the look in her eyes when she saw Hinata and she seemed truly happy. When she would look at everyone else…it wasn't the same. There had been a lot of things Hinata did for Reiya that nobody else did. He was kind of afraid what will happen now since her reason for living is gone.

"Can I be alone please? I was thinking before you came along." She glared at him.

"Hai, I will take my leave." He turned to walk away but stopped. "Arigoto Reiya. If it were not for you I would never have been with Hina-chan. I wouldn't have known what love truly was."

"You both would still be virgins if it wasn't for me, that's for sure."

Hatsui blushed slightly. "A-arigoto for that too."

"Whatever, just get that damn futon out of my house. You know how long it's been there? I want it out."

"I'll try to remember to get it." He started to walk away, but not before he said goodbye.

END OF FLASHBACK

That was the last time he had seen his old friend. He heard she left the village after awhile. He understood. He wished sometimes that Hina-chan and him were able to leave with her. He wondered how life would be if they were successful in their escape.

"I think we should have put the seal on her." Hatsui looked at Haishi. "If we let her go someone might take her eyes. She is the weakest one in the clan so it wouldn't be a hard task for them."

"I'm sure someone will save her in time if it happens." He stood up and headed for the door. "It is that time of year for Reiya to come along. She will probably be there in time if it happens."

End of chapter

(1): In case you want to know exactly what she did, this is it. First Reiya forced chakra around their whole body and they were in her control, so they were unable to move. She also forced chakra in their brain and kinda brainwashed them. After she was done, the men's minds went blank. After a while they would be back to normal not knowing what had happened with a massive headache. It is a great way for escape, but takes a lot of chakra out of her. The only ones who know how to do this is the Reiya and her first sensei.

Lovelyanime: Yeah, I wasn't sure how to do the thing she did with her chakra and that was the best I could come up with. Sorry if it was kind of stupid. Anyway, hope you liked this chapter. I thought of adding of a younger version of Jiraiya at the end of the flashback, but it didn't turn out so good. I hope everyone liked it and review. But if you don't like it, please don't flame me. I'll try to hurry up with the next chapter, okay? Be back soon. Oh! I almost forgot. Happy Halloween everyone!