Exclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I repeat…I do not own Naruto. That is all.
When Nightingales Weep:
By The Way 'blah blah'means thoughts
'blah blah' means Kyuubi is speaking or any other animal talking in another's mind
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...GROWLLL…
Hiroshi and Hinata both faced Aname.
"Hehe. Sorry, guess I'm a little hungry." She said scratching the back of her head in embarrassment.
"Well, then lets go eat. It's already dinner time anyway." Hiroshi stated looking at the setting sun.
They were walking down the street to find some place to eat dinner. All of a sudden they heard loud laughter coming from one of the restaurants.
"Well that place looks good. Should we eat there?" Hiroshi asked looking at everyone's face for confirmation. "Okay the Otaku inn it is!" he stated happily.
They walked into the restaurant and sat at one of the empty tables. A waitress came by and gave them some menus eyeing Hiroshi.
"May I help you or do you just have a staring problem?" Aname asked facing the waitress. "Well if you got nothing to say give me a glass of water."
"Yeah me too." Both Hiroshi and Hinata said at the same time.
"Aname if you don't calm down the whole restaurant is going to kick us out." Hiroshi told Aname looking at all the staring customers.
"Yes, well they shouldn't stare." She said searching the menu for something she would like.
A group of people came into the restaurant talking and laughing. Hinata listened carefully and froze.
'That was Neji's voice I heard.'
"Oh shit." Hinata whispered trying not to catch the attention of her team mates, but it didn't work, they still heard her.
"Hinata? Are you okay? Why did you curse all of a sudden?" Hiroshi asked trying to find the reason for her little slip.
"No reason Hiroshi, so shut up and stay still." Hinata whispered heatedly to him trying to keep him from causing too much attention.
"Fine, fine." He sighed turning back around.
That didn't stop Aname from looking. All she saw was a big group of people. She silently gasped, she knew Hinata had white eyes since she was a close friend of hers but so did one of the males in the group. The male had long brown hair held in a low pigtail, with a traditional Jounins vest on. Aname turned to look at Hinata and saw she was trying to hide herself behind her menu.
"Hinata are you trying to hide yourself from that big group of people over there?" she asked pointing to the big group of ninja.
"BAKA. Don't point you'll draw too much attention. If you don't remember we are from the Village of Cloud, almost an enemy to this country. Do you want to cause a disturbance?" Hinata hissed leaving a silent warning in its wake.
Aname rolled her eyes. "Yeah whatever."
The waitress came back with their drinks and set them on the table, little did Aname know she had an evil plan, "Oops." The waitress spilled her drink onto her chest, and it wasn't a small glass of water, the cup was almost half a gallon.
Hinata knew of the short temper Aname had and felt sorry for the waitress. Hiroshi just gulped and scooted away from her.
Everyone in the restaurant saw what had happened and stared snickering at Aname's predicament, even Neji's little group.
If you looked closely you could see the little flames of hatred and embarrassment ignite in her eyes. She rapidly shifted her eyes looking at all the people laughing at her and snapped.
"THAT'S IT! YOU STUPID BITCH NOT ONLY WERE YOU OGLING MY FIANCE YOU FUCKING SPILLED MY DRINK ALL OVER ME! I AM SO PISSED YOU HAVE NO IDEA! NOT ONLY DID I TRAVEL TO THIS GOD FORSAKEN VILLAGE FOR THREE DAYS STRAIGHT, I ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH HINATA'S EMOTIONS! No offence Hinata. I'VE HAD IT! WE'RE LEAVING HIROSHI!" She quickly got out of her chair and dragged Hiroshi with her. Only Hinata was left at the table with everyone staring at her.
Hinata took a sip of her drink and ordered. "I'll have your miso soup and gyoza with green tea." She handed the stunned waitress her menu and took another sip of her water.
After the waitress left to fulfill her meal order the restaurant went back to there normal conversations.
Neji couldn't help but stare at the woman they called "Hinata" He knew that Hinata had died but this women's chakra was too familiar.
He got up and walked over to where "Hinata" was sitting. He noticed that she had a cloud Hitai-ite, so that reduced the chances of her being the real thing.
"Konnichiwa, Hinata was it?" He asked in a low voice, dripping with curiosity.
"Yes that is my name. What do you need sir?" Hinata knew very well this was Neji, but she didn't want him to know it was her.
"Gomen but I was just curious as to why you didn't leave with your teammates when they left? "He asked staring at the bandages covering her eyes.
"Why would I leave? I am not going to miss dinner because she threw a fit. I'm hungry so I stayed here, I there a problem with that?" She was getting a bit irritated with all the questions he was asking her.
Neji's curiosity got the best of him. "Byakugan." The veins around his eyes bulged. He gasped, this woman was a Hyuuga.
"H-Hinata-sama?" He was scared of the reaction he would get from her.
Hinata sighed. 'Might as well let him know it's me. He's on to me anyway.'
"Konnichiwa, Neji-niisan." She whispered bowing her head.
His eyes widened. 'Is this really her, it has to be.'
Neji pulled Hinata out of her chair and gave her a bone-crushing hug. 'What's with all the hugs lately?' she asked herself.
"Neji-san…I… can't breathe." Hinata tried to get out her cousin's grip but he wouldn't let go.
"Hinata-sama, I thought you died, we all did, but you're here, alive." Neji doesn't remember being as happy as he was now.
Neji let Hinata go and looked her over. She had grown over the years, she was still a head shorter than him.
"How are you? Where have you been? Are you still a shinobi? Of course you are. Why do you live in the Cloud village?"
Hinata just couldn't hold the smile in when she saw how excited he looked.
"Fine, everywhere, and because there wasn't anywhere else for me to go." Hinata answered all his questions in the order they were asked.
Neji's eyes darkened. He had forgotten for a moment that she was forbidden to her own home.
"Hinata-sama, why don't you come and eat with us?" He asked offering his hand so she could get up.
"I can't let anyone know it's me. But thank you anyway, as soon as I get my food I am going." She looked at his outstretched hand but waved it off.
The waitress came back and very carefully put Hinata's food down. She would hate to see how she would react if she spilled something on her.
Hinata faced the waitress and paid her.
"Well, Neji-san, this is were I leave. I'll see you around." She took her food and lifted her self out of the chair and started walking away. She was halted by Neji's voice.
"We should spar sometime." Neji stared at Hinata's back.
She turned to Neji. "Would like that." And with that she was out the door and onto the busy streets.
Neji stood, looking at the door for a few minutes, smiled, then turned back to his teammates.
Lee had watched the whole encounter between Neji and the stranger at the table alone. He almost choked on his water when he saw Neji pull the unknown woman into his arms. Lee carefully turned towards Ten-ten to see her flushing in anger, he gulped and turned to see the woman had already left and Neji was walking back to the table.
"-Gulp- N-Neji, y-you're s-smiling?" Lee stared at Neji as if he grew another head.
Neji took his seat next to Ten-Ten.
"So, who was she Neji?" Ten-ten couldn't get the image of her boyfriend and another women she didn't know hugging.
Neji turned toward his girlfriend and smiled at how easily she got jealous.
"An old friend."
"An old friend huh? Well why did you hold her so closely?"
Neji looked at Ten-ten and saw her eyes shimmer with unshed tears. He didn't want to hurt her, he had no choice but to tell them who it was.
"Neither of you can tell anyone who that person was, okay?" He looked at both his teammates.
Lee and Ten-ten looked at each other and back at Neji. "Okay."
Neji released a heavy sigh.
"That was Hinata-sama."
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An: Well that was hard, had to go over it a lot and change it because it seemed that Neji was in love with Hinata. And sorry about Aname's burst if that offended anyone, that's just her personality guess. Sorry no Naruto, maybe next time. Well, it's over. How was it? Good or Bad? Review and let me know. By the way thanks for all the reviews. Bye!