A/N: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I do NOT own Naruto, understood?!
All I own is my insane story plot, got it?! Good. On with the story
BTW. This chapter is dedicated for Cute23Flower.
Why? Because she so deserves it and because I'm the author.
"I don't like him!" She suddenly said out loud her thoughts.
Hanabi who is sitting on the edge of her bed was jolted a little bit. She was surprised of Hinata's sudden outburst. Ever since she returned home with a tear stained face she had kept to herself in her room. Sitting on her bed and hugging her knees close to her chest, not saying a single word.
"Of course you do! You're only saying that!" She beamed back at her sister after she recovered from her little shock.
I really don't like him… She said that to herself over and over again, like it was some sort of a charm. Hanabi is just a child only 13, on top of that she doesn't know what it really feels like to be betrothed to somebody you don't like when you like someone else.
"Ohhhhhh!" Hanabi suddenly shrieked pulling a little on her hair.
Hinata immediately looked at her sister. Trying to find out what caused her sudden distress.
"You're so unbelievable! And you're my sister and yet you don't believe!!! Heck, you're probably thinking that I don't know what I'm babbling about! That I'm just a freakin' stupid child!!! Arrrrgggh! You're deathly mistaken!!! I know exactly what I'm talking about!!!" She said in a childish anger of being regarded as a child
Hinata was taken back by Hanabi's sudden outburst. She knows that she was wrong to think that Hanabi's just a child because she knows very well that she's mature compared to other kids her age but still, her outburst proved that she is still immature in certain things. Like crossing out her point in a matter.
"Imoto-chan, watch your language. A child from the Hyuuga clan shouldn't speak in such manner…" She said afterwards.
Perhaps Hinata wasn't so good in combat stuffs back then that was pounded to an heir of the Hyuuga. But other things that an heir should learned, she had successfully learned them all. The tea ceremony, music, ancient instruments, literature and speech, okay maybe a little too polite but still the point is, on things she had done very well, Hanabi is having a hard time dealing with. She looked at the still panting girl because of her outburst. She realized that their interests and strengths are a very opposite from each other.
"Okay, I'm sorry oneechan. It's just that I really think you two look good together and I have this feeling you two are meant to be. I can't explain. You two just look good together with the shimmering afternoon lake and gods Hinata-neechan! How can you not like him?! He's soooooo H--" Whatever she was going to say, she didn't finish for Hinata cut her in.
She was horror stricken with embarrassment that her face instantly turned a vibrant color of red which would put a tomato in shame. She hurriedly rushed to her sister in a blink and hold onto her shoulders, shaking her.
"Were you listening to our conversation throughout?!!! Answer me Hanabi! Hayaku!!!" She said frantically shaking the poor girl.
Hanabi grasped her sister hand on her shoulder. She applied a bit of pressure in her fingers and suddenly Hinata stopped shaking her. She sealed some of her tenketsu so it would be numb for a couple of minutes and she hoped that time would be enough for her to calm down.
"Jesus Hinata! If that's what you're worrying about let me tell you I didn't listened through out the entire ordeal." She looked at her sister and she seemed to be listening to her with full attention so she continued.
"I was worried with you running-off, so I decided to go look for you and it so happened I came across you and Sasuke. It looks like he had just found you and he was only looking at you even though it seems like his mind is on a distant place or something, that's when I realized you two look good together. When things started getting a little rough, I high tailed, okay? Cause I wasn't sure that I can hold myself if he upset you more and I may end-up hitting him and father would go maniacal in punishing me for 'such crude behavior.'" She said the last part mimicking their father and she saw her smile a bit.
"I'm sorry for getting all worked-up… I'm sorry if I scared you." She said sincerely
"You better be! For a moment there, I thought I'll die of rocking baby syndrome." She said jokingly and they both laughed
"Thank you very much, Hanabi-chan. I know you're trying to cheer me up and I'm very thankful but I just want to think on my own, okay?" She said with the look of sadness creeping back at her face…
"Umm. Okay, if you say so… Oyasumi nasai…" She said quietly as she leaves her room.
Now it was only her in her room. She lay in her bed facing the ceiling and thinking over and over again her recent encounter with Sasuke.
"Look Hinata, there's nothing I can do for you and there's nothing I can give to you. Maybe divorce after your dad is dead or something cause I'm sure as hell can't stand a crying wife, damn it!"
She remembered those particular words of his that kept on repeating themselves on her mind. She remembered exactly how angry he looked and sounded like as spat those venom laced words at her.
You're so mean…
She tried to get some sleep but sleep was evading her and her own mind is still restless. She strides towards her window and open it wide quietly. She saw the mysterious bright glow of the full moon. She decided to unwind a little, maybe after she would feel better and sleep would finally come. She then proceeded on her destination. Where? She doesn't know where exactly but it seems like her body has an idea where it is.
She reached her destination. The majestic waterfall she once practiced with her Shugohakke Rokujuyon Sho. The same waterfall where Naruto caught her off guard, she's only in her inner garments back then. She would have died in shame if he saw her like that, thanks heaven that night the moon only has a perfect light to make her look like a silhouette.
It is a nice chilly and a bit breezy autumn night. The air seems has the spirit of frost into them but it been so calm, so calm that it soothes her mind and body. She gently approached the lake and concentrated the enough amount of chakra into her feet and stepped fully into the lake's surface.
She let loose of her worries and started dancing gracefully. Arching her back, jumping a bit, twisting and turning around to the night's symphony. She stayed like that for what seems to be an eternity but eternity will never last long… The wondrous symphony of the night was broken by… THE SUN'S SCREAMING?!!!
"WAAAH! SO IT WAS YOU ALL THIS TIME!!!" Wrong. The sun wasn't screaming, it's the ever bright and energetic shinobi, Uzumaki Naruto.
Hinata was so taken by surprised and the sudden outburst from nowhere that she was unable to control her feet's chakra flow. She instantly plummeted down the lake. She has a hard time coping-up with what's happening. One moment she was dancing, the next she heard a loud booing sound and now this, she's falling deeper and deeper into the lake. She heard a distant yelling from the surface but she can't move.
Is this the end of me?
She was thinking like that ready to resign to her early demise when she felt strong arms wrapped around her well-shaped waist. She's beginning to feel her body back now. She felt herself being carried and being laid into the ground.
"Hinata! Hinata!!! Hinata!!!" She recognized the frantical loud voice of Naruto.
She slowly but surely flattered her eyes open. The sight she saw almost made her heart stopped. Uzumaki Naruto, her long time crush has his face coming closer and closer towards her. She blushed tomato raised and in her panic she pushed her so hard, she couldn't believe it was really her who pushed him away, because he was thrown about 5mtrs. to a tree and crushed it only to hit another and another tree. Realizing what she have done she rushed into his side.
"Naruto?! Naruto!!!" She said as she give him little slaps in the face to snap him out of his unconsciousness.
He opened his eyes and saw Hinata who seems who'll cry any minute now. He quickly sat-up and grinned at her sheepishly and scratched the back of his head. He gave forced out laugh but still she looked no better.
"I'm very sorry Naruto-kun, I-I didn't mean to push you like that." She said looking at him with tear glossy eyes.
He takes hold of her shoulders and looked at her with tangible concern in his cerulean eyes.
"It's okay Hinata. I know you didn't mean to do it besides it's my fault in the first place. I shouldn't have shouted like that, Sakura always tells me not to…" He said easing her.
Sakura? I'll never surpass her in his heart…She said woefully to herself.
Naruto noticed that she spaced-out. He used this time to take a look at her. She was way too drenched. Her hair is dripping wet, her clothes are over saturated with water and she was shivering from the cold air.
"Let's go Hina-chan." He said to her as carefully help her to her feet.
"Where are we going Naruto-kun?" She asked meekly as he tugged her by the her hand, blushing on the contact.
"To my place." She stopped in her tracks and he fully faced her.
To his place?!
"Hinata, you're dripping wet and its late autumn. If you wouldn't change into dry clothes soon you'll get a fever or even frost bites…" He said calmly, Hinata never knew Naruto can be like this. She nodded her head and they proceeded to his place.
A/N: So what you people think? Nice enough? Tune in for the next chappy! Thanks for all of the review!