A/N: Yay so some action - well village action is gonna happen now! Whoot ok so anyone who had questions about the earlier chapters feel free to read my notes and if you are still confused then why not just ask? I will probably go back and redo chapters at some point and later on you will also see some first person chapters from all each girls point of view - FUN! But for now we must continue with the story… Muahahahaha! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnndddd GO!
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The three girls glared at the front door as a tall figure obscured by the sunlight stepped in so they only saw a shadow. At once Hitomi and Hiromi activated Byakugan, but Harumi preferred to stick to Shiringan. The man shut the door and stood before the young girls, they were a bit short compared to most… Just like Hinata had been.
The man who had entered was dressed impressively in Kage clothing, the traditional red and white for the Leaf Village. He had spikey blonde hair and ocean blue eyes. Hitomi glared at the man with the veins around her eyes clearly bulging and it almost looked like she had a pupil. Hiromi however began to analyze him for potential threat. Being Kage of a village meant that he would be undoubtly stronger then the three of them combined, which could throw a wrench in their escaping plan.
The man stood staring at them before smiling for a moment, he seemed to be in his early thirties (UGH the original people are so OLD! Like do the math and they really would be around their mid to early thirties… *sniffle* OH MY GOD! HOW OLD DOES THAT MAKE Kakashi? Ok ok I'm done - back to the story.) He stared at the girls for a moment before he started laughing - a rather annoying laugh at that (sorry Naruto).
"Got a problem?" Hitomi hissed out toward the man quickly earning her an elbow in the ribs. Oddly enough the man began to laugh harder.
"Naruto, will you EVER actually act like Kage?" A female voice asked as someone else walked into the room. She was a rather tall and dressed in pink that matched her hair. Her voice was rather annoying to Hitomi but before she could hiss out a remark Harumi stepped on her foot.
Meanwhile the man - Naruto - was sobering up before he smiled and answered, "Believe it?" The woman smiled in reply before shaking her head, finally after sharing their rather odd moment the woman turned toward the three girls who stiffened, "So what do you make of-" she gasped suddenly as she looked at the girls who glared right back. Swinging her head over to Naruto he sort of shrugged and nodded.
"What? When - Where - HOW?" the woman nearly screeched.
"Um politely lower your voice before I have to KICK YOUR -" Hitomi never got to finish as suddenly Harumi had her hand over covering Hitomi's mouth.
"Tomi not now," Hiromi hissed as she continued to glared at the woman - she knew something that the girls didn't and that was not good.
"Huph - Well they certainly don't ACT like her!" The woman grumbled out - it was almost like she was back in the Academy again glaring down Ino only this girl had black hair not blond.
"Wmph, MPH I mphoutta!" Hitomi growled out past her sisters hand - it was suppose to be something along the lines o Why I outta.. Or something like that.
"No they don't but look at their eyes, Byakugan. Or am I mistaken Sakura?" Naruto stated as he withheld a chuckle from Sakura's pouting face - she could be so childish at times and yet it made her even cuter. Harumi noticed that they hadn't noticed her eyes and she quickly deactivated them - it was better to keep some things secret from the enemy.
"Well I KNOW they are hers! I was just saying they don't have the MANNERS she had. I'm sure Hinata would be ashamed!" The woman - Sakura hissed out.
"Who's Hinata?" Harumi asked before she caught herself, this earned her glares from her sister - you never let the enemy in your head. EVER.
The man and the woman looked at Harumi like she had grown a second or third head.
"Maybe they aren't…" Naruto said in a blank tone.
"But the eyes…" Sakura finished his sentence
Harumi tensed and her sisters quickly maneuvered her behind their backs.
"Only the Hyuga clan can pass one Byakugan so that makes them her kids right?" Sakura was almost hysterical now.
"That's true! I mean they obviously aren't Hanabi's kids and they look nothing like Neji so…. Are there any escapee branch members that I don't know about because otherwise they have to be her kids. But she wouldn't let them come here or anywhere without her - Hinata is not the type to abandon them either…." Naruto quickly replied but trailed off thinking.
"Wait, wait, wait! Who's kids do you think we are? I mean honestly what right do YOU have to know more about us then we do!" Hiromi snapped out - finally breaking her controlled silence. Her sisters were shocked to say the least but Hiromi ignored them - she had always wanted to know where she came from and why neither her mother nor her father cared - well ok that wasn't fair since her mother had DIED but.. Her father could have come looking for her…
"Hi-Hiromi's right! Wh-who in the world are you talking about?" Harumi stuttered out. ( aww she's like a mini Hinata almost XD)
"Yeah! Stop talking in code already and spit it out!" Hitomi threw her two cents in as well.
Naruto and Sakura starred at the girls like they had forgotten they were there.
"Wait… you don't know who your parents are?" Sakura asked stupidly - they had already made that point pretty clear.
"Oh great here it comes!" Hitomi hissed sarcastically.
"'Oh the poor little dears!'" Harumi mocked in a high pitched voice.
"'They never knew the warmth of a mother!'" Hiromi joined in adding a bite to her words.
"'Oh how SAD!'" Hitomi emphasized sad in a rather husky pissed off sort of tone.
"'We can't blame them! They don't know any better!'" Hiromi added.
"'Oh the poor, poor little orphans!'" Harumi finished up.
"Well we grew up just fine!" Hiromi hissed using her own voice.
"Thank you," Harumi growled out.
"Very MUCH!" Hitomi rounded it all off.
They had done this a million times now and gotten out of worse situation than this. But they had never gotten this reaction before - both people before them burst out laughing - LAUGHING!
"Are you insane?" Harumi bite out
"Because we'll gladly knock some sense back into you!" Hitomi barked
"Just say the word!" Hiromi finished it off this time.
And people said twin things were weird!
Naruto and Sakura just laughed harder and all three girls were growing more and more ticked off.
"WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?" all three girls shouted at once finally making Naruto and Sakura stop laughing and pay attention to the girls.
"Watch your mouths! Your mother would be ashamed!" Sakura hissed at the girls causing them to flinch. They had always envisioned their mother as strong yet gentle and the mother in their minds would be screaming at them for being so rude to people she might have known… They imagined she was like a fourth copy of them - only taller and of course older.
"How do you know our mother?" Harumi asked in a whisper and her sisters stiffened, they waited with baited breath to hear that answer.
Sakura's eyes softened - the girls in front of her no longer looked like the dangerous little Kunoichi they were, no they looked like scared lost children separated from a mother…a mother they never knew. She glanced at Naruto and saw that he was thinking along the same lines as she was.
"Would…Would you like to hear about her?" Sakura asked awkwardly, "We… What's your last name?"
The girls exchanged a glance and Hiromi nodded, "We have none… our mother "
"Interesting," Naruto said cutting off what ever Sakura was going to say, "We just know who your parents were now… It's getting late. Sakura," he turned to the pink hair woman,
"Please help them get settled in, this will be their new home until we can find out something to do with them. You may speak of Hinata and other villagers but be cautious about what you tell them, tomorrow we give them some freedom and they may explore the village until then they are not permitted to leave the compound. I have assigned ANBU to guard the compound for the night but I put you in charge of the girls… I expect a full report tomorrow morning." And with that he swept out of the house leaving a very pissed off Sakura and three very confused girls watching him.
"Mr. High and mighty! Just because he's the HoKage - Well listen up bub! I knew you when you were just a stupid, worthless, no good, Genin and if you think you can tell me what to do you can kiss my -"
"Um… Sorry to interrupt you but, who was that?" Harumi spoke up as her sisters looked like they wanted to die laughing.
"Oh sorry! That was Naruto Uzimaki, HoKage of Kohana - The Village Hidden in the Leaves. My name is Sakura Uch- Sakura, you can call me Sakura, and according to Mr. High-And-Mighty I'm in charge of your well being as you get settled in, pleasure to make your acquaintance…" Sakura trailed off realizing the girls had never spoken their names other then the rushed shouts that the ANBU had not remembered while fighting them. All they caught was each one started with an 'H'. Thinking about it now it reminded Hinata of how bother hers and Hanabi's names started with "H" Maybe it was a Hyuga thing.
"Har-"
"Our names are not important since we do not plan on staying," Hiromi cut Harumi off as she glared at the woman.
"Uh yeah about that… Naruto has it in his head that you would be happy living here… Sooo…." The situation was growing more and more awkward for Sakura.
"Hinata, our mother… Did she grow up here? Hoe do you know she really is our mother?" Harumi asked as Hitomi clung to her sisters sleeve wanting to hear about her mother. Sure they had made up fairytales about how their mother was strong and beautiful but the truth was something Hitomi had always wanted… A picture, a memory - anything!
"Hinata," Sakura said with a small smile, "You three look a lot like her. I swear when I first saw you," She pointed to Harumi, " I thought I had somehow stepped into the past and Hinata was back again. You look a lot like her when you sleep - I should know considering how many times she had fallen asleep at the hospital after working double shifts," Sakura smiled sadly again thinking back to her first days at the hospital.
Without realizing it all three girls began to cling to every word Sakura spoke.
"May.. Maybe we can stay here for just a little while?" Harumi asked Hiromi with a pleading look.
"Pleas Hiromi!" Hitomi begged her sister and she looked like she might cry, at this moment Sakura established their ranking as a group, the girl in red - Hiromi - was obviously the one who had the final say in things.
Hiromi glared at her sisters but soon cracked and sighed, "Ok, we can stay for a while." The two other girls began to bounce around happily and cried out with joy, "HEY! I have rules!" The three seemed to have forgotten Sakura was in charge of them, "Ok here they are, we can stay and find out what we can of our mother and village life BUT I'm enforcing an eight o'clock curfew - anyone who doesn't tell one of us ahead of time if they are going to be late will stay in the house the next day and I mean it you two. Next no attacking the villagers, I'd rather not fight a village of Shinobi but that doesn't mean you take any crap from them - if they start it I expect you to finish it, just don't kill them Hitomi. Finally no leaving the village without one of us knowing - I don't care if HoKage himself tells you - You. Do. Not. Leave. Sure you can talk to villagers who talk to you but try to keep our life… private. And finally -I beg of you- stay out of trouble!" Hiromi finished with a sigh as her sisters squealed and hugged her.
"I like how you run thins kid, and who knows you might just like it here!" Sakura butted in causing them to remember she was still in the room.
Hiromi smiled at her, "Names Hiromi, I'm the second oldest. The one in pink is Harumi, she's oldest but really shy, and that one over there is Hitomi, youngest and has a bad temped. Now where exactly are we and what did he mean until he found out what to do with us?"
"Oh nice to meet you, and well if you are Hinata's kids - we need to run a test to be positive - then you have living relatives in the village you could be sent to live with, though considering you said your last name was Uchiha you might have two families but-"
"You think they can ship us off to live with relatives and expect us to behave like little angels? HA! The moment you try to force us to do something - like call some old man Grandfather - is the moment you have officially lost your mind. We grew up with barely and family - less so later on and there is no way you can expect me to just say, 'Oh look there is somebody who wanted us! Gee that's amazing considering they never tried to find and help mom when she gave birth! Maybe life isn't so bad after all! Oh it's a wonderful life!'" Hitomi laughed out - a rough sarcastic laugh that made Sakura smile slightly.
"I can see your point but don't you want to know if you have cousins?" Sakura pointed out.
"Why? More attachments means it will be harder to leave - especially if something happens to them, I just want to know about my mother…" Harumi said as if it was a fact she read out of a book, "I mean it's not like they are going to say - 'I knew I had cousins out there! Yes more family!' No they'd probably bee all, 'Who the heck are those three?' It's just easier to not to know them." Harumi shrugged and Hiromi bite her lip.
"Where did I go wrong raising you two?" she muttered like some thirty year old woman.
"HEY!" Both Harumi and Hitomi cried before tackling her to the ground, "Take it back!"
The three girls rolled playfully on the ground and tickled poor Hiromi to death, "I-I at-take I-it b-ba-baaaccckkk!" Hiromi gasped out laughing before the mass of girls broke apart and lay there laughing on the floor.
Sakura burst out laughing as well and actually began to cry she was laughing so hard. How had the atmosphere gone from threatening to wonder to so relaxed within the last half hour? These girls were something else.
After a couple of moment Hitomi spoke up in a small voice, "What was Hinata like?" she seemed to be afraid to call this woman her mother until they knew for sure.
Sakura smiled and motion toward the living room to their right where there was a couch, a love seat, and a plushy armchair surrounding a coffee table. Everyone headed in and Sakura placed herself in the armchair while the girls piled onto the couch.
"Well Hinata, her last name was Hyuga -"
"Hey if you write that in Kanji it's the same as her last name!" Hitomi piped up.
"Yeah and it means Sunny Place!" Harumi piped up while Hiromi sat silently taking everything in.
"Yes and yes, now can I finish?" Sakura asked good naturedly and all three girls nodded eagerly. "Well as you three pointed out Hinata was a very sunny sort of person, though when we were in the Academy together I barely noticed she was around. She was rather shy though in her early years. You see she was the heiress of the Hyuga clan but they didn't see her as strong so she was in constant competition with her younger sister, Hanabi, for the title of heiress. Even with that she was always a smiling person, I'll tell you what I know but tomorrow during your freedom why don't you seek out her old team mates? Their names are Kiba and Shino, just ask around and you'll find them easily. Now back to what I know of Hinata…"
Sakura stayed almost all night just talking about Hinata, little things, major events, pretty much everything. The girls watched and listened with silent interest hanging on her every word. They interrupted every now and then and asked a question but as the night went on their eyes began to droop and not even the lure of their mother could keep them awake.
Sakura stopped talking when she saw the cutest scene ever playing out in front of her.
The three min-Hinata's - as she had started calling them- were slumped against each other. Hiromi was in the middle while Harumi and Hitomi clutched at her shirt as if they were five and buried their faces against the curve of her neck. Hiromi had - unconsciously - put her arms around their shoulders and holding them against her. She had her head slightly resting on Harumi's head and was almost smiling in her sleep.
"Awwww!" Sakura cried softly as she folded her hands lovingly. They really did look like Hinata when they slept. Sakura silently crept to a closet in the hall way and pulled out an extra blanket before turning back and gently spreading it over them. She resisted the urge to kiss them on their foreheads knowing that she couldn't get too attached to them. HA! She was acting like they were puppies! Shaking her head she crept out the front door still smiling before motion for the ANBU who were secretly guarding them to her.
"Alright listen up boys if any of you wake those girls up before sunrise I will personally see that you personally get D-rank mission for the next six months and trust me I will know who you are!" Sakura threatened as she glared at the people behind the masks. One ANBU actually shuddered before nodding Sakura was positively scary!
Smiling Sakura headed toward home knowing that her own husband and kids would be worried about her.
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