Hinata closed the doors to her cabin and turned to face her cousin. "I guess it´s nice to see you again." Hinata said getting a little shy now that she was alone whit him.
"You´re supposed to be dead." Neji said cutting right to the chase. "What? Why would you think that?" Hinata asked starting to understand why he acted the way he did when he saw her.
"You disappeared whit out a trace. For goodness sake Hinata, your father even contacted me for information and help." Hinata seemed confused for a minute. "So they all think I'm dead?" She asked stooping pacing back and forth.
"Yes, all of them even Hanabi and she was sure that you were alive for some time." Hinata looked at the floor pondering for a moment. "Good." She looked up, a little smile on her lips. "If they think I'm dead then I don´t have to worry about them come looking for me."
Neji was shocked all over again, this wasn´t the Hinata he had left whit her family all those years ago, she had been shy, stuttered and never would have dreamed of standing up for herself. But then again the Hinata he remembered would have never ran way and become a pirate.
He smiled a little and nodded, he had underestimated her all this time, if he or anyone had given her the chance she would have excelled in anything. "I'm sorry Hinata, for the way I treated you when we were younger, I was naïve and angry at the world and I took it out on you. Can you ever forgive me?"
Hinata looked at him whit a look that Neji couldn´t read. "But Neji I have nothing to forgive you for. I never blamed you or disliked you for the way you acted. Even if I didn´t speak that much I knew why you did the things you did, and believe me when I say that I understand better that anyone why you felt the need to go and leave everything behind."
Then Neji surprised her by walking up to her and lifting his cuffed hands, slipping them around her he gave her a hug. Something she never would have expected from him, not hesitating she hugged him back and after a moment she tore away saying that she needed to take him back and that she did.
Meanwhile Temari was having a long waited discussion whit her younger brothers. "Don´t you get it? I didn´t want to have an easy life, I didn´t want to be left behind. All I ever wanted was to leave like you two and explore the world but you never gave me the chance to and decided for me what to do." Temari said raising her voice whit every word spoken.
"But why on earth would you want to do that? Why don´t you want to have an easy life? There is no reason for you to want this kind of life." Gaara asked genuinely puzzled by his sister.
"You just don´t get it do you?" She said looking down. "I hate begin cooped up in a house doing nothing but house chores. If I had any say in it I would never ever step a foot in side a house again, I would rather sleep outside in the poring rain. I would pay any price in the world so I would not loose the freedom I have, anything." Temari explained.
"She is too much like us, there is no telling her to go home and be safe." Kankuro said placing a hand on his brother shoulder. "But Temari understand this, we didn´t leave you behind because we didn´t want you around or trying to trap you, we did it because we wanted you to be safe. Whether it is from bandits or starvation, we only wanted what was best for you."
Gaara nodded and walked as close to the bars as the chain let him. "That is why you have to go back home, we can´t be worrying about you all the time." Temari backed away from them shaking her head. "No never, you´ll not take me home no mater what and if you can´t worry about me all the time, then just don´t. I've been fine for the last couple of years whit out you two worrying and I´ll be fine even if that starts."
Then turning on her heel she walked away from them and up on the deck just as Hinata was taking her cousin down to his cell again.