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Ch.3

Shining Armor

*Naruto*

"And then I told him, 'you stupid perv! Stop peeking in the bath house and take me home already!'" I fell onto my back laughing, remembering the look on my adopted fathers face. His gleeful red burned face with its funny long red tattoos from his eyes nearly to his chin blending in perfectly. A hat with parts from a bush glued to it that didn't even cover his long spiky white hair as all those girls in the bath house threw things at him.

"It was so funny!" I sat back up spreading my arms wide for emphasis. Hinata laughed, a red blush on her pale face from hearing about Jiraiya. Her long hair rested about her, and her tiny hand lay on her lips to stifle her little giggles. She had always been a really innocent girl.

"He's a perv." Sasuke looked me over as if I might have caught some deadly virus.

"Hey!"

"That actually sounds like...fun?" Gaara looked at me, his green eyes a little confused at my wild stories. Red hair shifting in the breeze.

Yeah, I had been all over the world by know. I had left here, traveled Japan, gone to China and other parts of Asia, spent a long while in America exploring too, went to Europe, saw the pyramids. And all the time pervy-jiisan was teaching me how to fight. I had learned a knew style from each and every place I had been.

"So, what about all of you!" I turned to Sasuke, my self proclaimed moody brother with his slightly longer chicken butt hair and cool black eyes. "Teme, did you learn any new moves? You said we could fight!"

"Do you know the term, jet lag?" He smirked. "I'm tired dobe, not everyone has your stupid unending energy."

"I t-think it's c-cool." Hinata whispered, giving me a tentative grin on her small face. I grinned for her, but honestly, she looked like she might pass out soon. It kind of scared me.

"Thanks Hinata!" She smiled at me with a rosy blush.

"Well, I'll be living here with Temari and Kankuro." Gaara supplied me.

"Really?" Sasuke only raised his eye brow.

Gaara nodded, his green eyes pleased. "Yeah, she gets custody over us."

"And you're living here to Teme?"

He sighed. "Yes. Let's say...I'm also living under law." He loked at Gaara. "A minor without an adult, it's much better then living with a snake."

"He's a snake!"

"No you idiot!"

"Wuss!"

"Retard!"

"Chicken girly!"

"Sissy!"

"Sasu-GAY!"

Sasuke opened his mouth to say something else when Hinata fell on her back, holding her stomach with tears falling out of her squeezed tight eyes as she laughed at us. We watched as she rolled on the ground, her chest heaving up and down with each laugh. I found my self reminded of pervy-jiisans job and the questionable books he wrote. Then I felt my face heat up.

Idiot! That's Hinata! H-I-N-A-T-A!

"T-that's funny." She sat back up and wiped away her tears. "I've r-really m-m-missed that."

I felt a little sad at that. Poor Hinata. "What about you? Everyone at school cool with ya?" Then it dawned on me. "Oh no! I have to go to school!"

"You have to go." Gaara told me.

"Not like the dobe can pass anyways." I glared at Sasuke and his ever present 'I'm-such-a-cool-boy' attitude.

"I h-have to go." Hinata stuttered out, a shadow looming over my body. I looked up to see Hinata standing above me, but when I looked in her eyes, those beautiful lavender eyes, I wanted to scream 'imposter!' Because those sad empty eyes and that fake smile did not belong to little Hinata. She turned her gaze away from me eyes and looked off in the distant.

"Why?" I whined playfully. She giggled and I sighed at it's happy tingling sound.

"I p-p-promised Kurenai-sensei th-hat I w-ould help her with h-her garden." She blushed and looked away biting her lip. "I'll s-see you a-all at sch-ool." Then she turned with a whoosh and her hair flew out behind her as she gave us one last side glance. "I r-really missed y'all."

And then we just watched her walk away. And from the stiff way she walked, I knew she was in pain. After all the fighting lessons I had with Jiraiya I had learned how people held themselves when hiding pain.

"She lied." Gaara mumbled, he looked struck by that. Green eyes glistening as if they wanted to cry. I wonder if I had such a stupid look on my face like him. Were my own blue eyes ready to spill? Sasuke, even him and his cold calm black eyes seemed taken aback by her lie.

We never lied to each other. Never. After we had spilled out all our dark secrets, lying just didn't seem right. Sure we all knew how to lie, sure we had lied to any and every adult, but never ever to one another. It was as if she had just slapped us. Plus, Hinata was a horrible liar, she always bit her lip when she did.

"Why?"

"Hinata wouldn't lie to us."

"She just did idiot."

"She's hiding something," Gaara turned his wise green eyes on us, "something she doesn't want us to know."

"Her dad is probably still beating her, did you see the way she walked away?" Sasuke looked at his hands sadly.

"The look in her eyes," Gaara noted, looking off at Hinata's distant figure diapering into the greens of Konoha like a sprite, "they were dead."

"Fine!" I stood up, "I'll go ask!"

"No dobe!" Sasuke glared at me with a hatred I couldn't fathom in his eyes. I sat back down numbly and he mumbled an apology. He looked away, once again eyes cool and calm. His anger wasn't placed at me.

"We'll figure it out." Gaara leaned back into the tall tree and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I swear."

"And if he's hurt her that bad," I growled, "I'll beat him so bad he'll have to eat out of a straw." I wanted to run out to the cops and scream for help. But Hiashi, after the Uchiha deaths, had taken over the police unit. Now it was Hyugas. It was up to us to find out what was wrong.

We should have taken her with us long ago. Instead of left her for her father. Why didn't we? I should have dragged her out. What had that monster done to the sweet little girl I knew, who's eyes looked at the sky with hope. He'd gone and replaced her with something almost soulless.

"Hinata come with me! With Sasuke, or Gaara!" I begged her, swinging out my foot angrily. "Someone! Please." I prefer it be me though.

Hinata sat on the other swing beside me and scrunched up her nose and closed her eyes to think. She swung light back and forth, her bangs floating with her. "No."

"Why!" I was afraid for Hinata, that man could kill her. "You don't have a plan like Gaara does to get away, he's going to find support, where's you're if we're gone Hinata? We can't keep you safe if we're gone!" I felt a few tears drop down my cheeks, the high sun burning them off. Hinata I let freely see me cry. "He can only hurt you more and more."

She smiled at me. "I'm g-glad you w-wrory about me Naruto." She blushed and kicked out her legs again. "B-but I can't le-eave Hanabi and Neji beh-hind to suffer."

I sighed in defeat and she stopped swinging, leaning a hand on my arm. "I'll b-be fine Naruto. I w-wont die by him." She grinned at me but it seemed fake. "I'll w-wait for all of y-you." So you can live through pain?

"Then you promise you'll be fine? He wont do anything out of the norm?" Norm was a bruised body that left er wincing and unable to move. I didn't like that either, but what adult would believe me if I went crying to them about Hinata's pain? And Hiashi had the cops under his thumb, Hinata would never be able to tell, nor Sasuke or Gaara. We were left to fight on our own.

"I just hate leaving you here." I looked at her now, straight in her pale eyes that shone with some angelic light.

"L-look, Sasuke and Gaara b-brought ice cream." She waved them over.

"Gaara, how did you get away from you're dad?" He turned to me and raised a non existent eyebrow. Sasuke glanced my way with mild shock.

*Sasuke*

I had relized when I glared at Naruto. I didn't mean to add such venom to it, I could feel it burning my face. Things with me were messed up, but not to such a point where I would take it out on my friends. Especially the boy I considered "borther", he was the most importatnt to me. If Naruto noticed my angry glare, he never told me. Blue eyes so fun loving and optomistic, he would never be able to see me as the hateful child filled with dark mass that I had become in the cae of Orochimaru. And I would hide until he found it. No need promting the inevitable, but I didn't need the questions yet.

Gaara told us how his sister was now a legal minor, she was allowed to live on her own. Like an adult. She won custody over Kankuro and Gaara and now they were living down here. But they didn't use any Suna judge, the judge was from Konoha with a strong sense of right and wrong. Asuma.

"Will Neji take custody of them?" Naruto asked with wide blue eyes. Gaara shrugged lightly.

I scoffed, Neji was a sissy. A prick, stuck up little rich boy. "If he does, then I'll wear a pink dress."

"You really don't think he would?" Gaara asked me.

"No. Have you ever seen him be nice to Hinata?" They both shook their heads. I leaned back on the soft green grass. I kind of just wanted to reminisce out childhood. Like Naruto, I had traveled the world, but on difficult terms. Orochimaru was in league with what someone would call, evil people. He wanted me for the political power I would have over that world since my family once dabbled there to. Even more so, he wanted me for the rumor that Uchiha's are born with strength, mentally, physically, supernaturally. Anything to give him the boost he needed.

Nah, don't think about it. Think about Hinata, she need you. Us. Beside, I'll be living with Naruto and his guardian now. Technically speaking, I'm a runaway.

"Naruto." I sighed. "It'll be hard to get her out and keep her safe."

"I know!" He shot back. "Stupid."

Gaara sighed. "Kids." He grumbled. "What do you suggest then?"

What do I suggest? "Kill Hiashi." They glanced at me. What? When Gaara was younger he would have suggested the same thing! "Fine, be smart, don't rush," I glared at Naruto. This was a skill I had learned from Orochimaru. "and take you're time, learn the situation, asses it. You don't want her coming out more hurt then now."

Naruto nodded enthusasticly. "Okay!" He stood proudly on his feet with the sun shining above him. "Then we'll do it right this time!" He declared, pumping a fist with a thick thonk above his heart.

Gaara turned his head to me. "You know he's really serious about taking Hinata away right?" I nodded, Naruto was an idiot, it was proof right now as he ran in circles declaring his unding faith and promise to what-so-ever was in his mind at the moment, but he had never lied and had always been serious.

"So what do we do know?" Naruto croched between me and Gaara again. "We should follow her ya know? Come on." He waved his hand and waited for us to stand up.

"No." Gaara said cooly.

"Don't pry into her life, wait until she says so." I added.

Naruto looked down pouting like a tiny child squeezing the life out of the grass. "What if she doesn't know any beter?" His gaze was knowing, wise blue eyes, vast sa the sky. As if he had seen to much to possible ever be considered 'kid' again. And maybe, we all had never been that anyways. What if she didn't know any better? Naruto looked out to the distance where Hinata had hobbled off in such a way that screamed she was hidding something.

"Let go to Ichirakus!" He screamed suddenly and dated off.

"He never really changes does he?" Gaara noted, standing slowly.

"Never." And so do we. Becasue as sure as I was that he would down twenty bowlsof ramen, he would then order one for Hinata and sneek over to her house and leave by her window on a special ledge that was just right. And we would help him. Something about us wouldn't ever really change.

But this sick feeling in my gut told me, time would come and we would grow. Thing would change. Before we would ever even know. The time for Konoha Mistfits was gone.

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