OK first off sorry because I didn't update sooner, I have a life so unfortunately have to go college. And thanks for the reviews so far.

I would like to thank Lady Rini for the review. Hinata is my favorite character so I tried to keep her the same the best I could. Don't know much about Hanabi, assuming Hinata becomes heiress, Hanabi will become branch family, enough reason for Hanabi to behave that way. Also thank you for adding my story in your favorites, I'm really honored my lady.

I would also like to thank Constructive Critic Writer, hopefully by the end of the story I would have gotten better.

Thank you everyone who's reading this story, and I hope you like it.

Chapter 3 – Mission

It had already been about two hours since Hinata had her little meeting with her father, at the Hyuuga compound. She was walking, deep in thought in the training grounds. She had her head bowed down, her fingers poking each other held in front of her chest, when she bumped into someone.

Meanwhile, Kakashi Hatake, the Copy Ninja was as usual walking by the training grounds with his head immersed deep into his Icha Icha series. His perverted self showing as he muttered to himself and smiled behind his mask as he read the book,

"He,he, he... naughty, naughty..." Exactly at that point he bumped quite hard into someone, he looked up from his book to see who he had pushed over.

He was surprised to see that it was Hinata, even more surprised to see that she did not blush, or mutter an apology quickly, in fact what he found so unusual about the Hyuuga heiress today, was that she had not moved from her fallen spot, and in fact had stayed there, thinking about whatever she had been thinking to start with.

Kakashi tilted his head to the side and frowned, wondering if she was thinking about Naruto. Had he done something to worry Hinata so much? Or was she thinking about someone else? If so, had she finally gotten over Naruto?

"Hinata? Are you okay?" Kakashi asked concerned. If anything happened to her... He shivered visibly, it would be a very bad idea to get on the wrong side of Lord Hiashi. He knew what Lord Hiashi was capable of, since he had seen it himself and ended up hospitalized for two weeks.

His question pulled Hinata back to reality, she blushed and quickly stood. She bowed and muttered,

"Sorry Kakashi Sensei, I didn't see where I was going..." She trailed off, wondering what the older man would say.

"That's okay, but are you okay? You seem to be thinking deeply about something."

"Uh, um, n-no-o, I me-mean, I'm o-okay a-and I was only thinking, not too-o de-eply." Hinata stuttered nervously. She blushed again, for behaving like an idiot.

"Hmm.. oh well, if you're okay. We wouldn't want our little princess to get hurt, would we?" Kakashi smiled, his visible eye forming an inverted 'U' shape. Hinata blushed, a deep crimson red and smiled, bowing her head again.

Kakashi started to walk, he stopped just past Hinata, and without looking back said,

"Oh, and Hinata? You're wanted at the Hokage's office.......... now." With that he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Now, thought Hinata frantically, I'll never reach there in time. Without thinking any further, Hinata focused all her chakra to the soles of her feet and ran, dodging every obstacle. If her father had seen her then, he would have been proud of her agility.

As she reached the Hokage tower, she slowed down, and ran up the stairs, two at a time. She skidded to a halt in front of the Hokage's office, and waited patiently for the Hokage to call her in.

"Come in." Called a strong, female voice. As Hinata entered, she saw the Hokage sitting by her desk with a serious expression on her face. In front of her, were Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka and Naruto Uzumaki.

She blushed, looking at Naruto. However the usually hyperactive ninja, was very quite. He kept his head bowed, and didn't even greet Hinata. The others seemed to sense this, and all had a sad look on their faces, they missed his loud, brash voice. Even though they would never admit it, his loudness had always kept them cheerful.

"Alright, the reason I called the four of you here, is because you will take part in a C-ranked mission. You may complain but there is nothing to it, this is the final decision, you four are going."

Saying this, Lady Tsunade looked expectantly at Naruto, waiting for him to argue as usual but for once in his life he didn't argue. Tsunade raised her finally arched eyebrow at this, she had never seen Naruto this depressed. Jiraya's death really had affected him.

"Since there is nothing else to discuss, lets move on to the mission. You will go to the town of Hakagure.

So far nine girls have been kidnapped, and there is no obvious suspect. The parents of these nine girls together have asked for this mission.

Shikamaru will lead the team, and you're mission is to see that these nine girls are safely returned to their parents and these kidnappers are caught.

I will give you one week to complete this mission. Now if you have nothing else to say, you will leave this noon. You are dismissed."

Everyone, bowed, and left one by one. Unusually Naruto was the first to leave. Hinata watched Naruto's back sadly. She was about to leave, when the Hokage held her back ,

"Hinata, wait. I need to talk to you."

Thank you all for reading again. Pleasssssssssssssssssssssss review, good or bad, no problemsssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note: I'm not related to Orochimaru.