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Ch.6
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*Neji*
I hate to say it, but seeing tiny little Hinata squeezing in to Naruto as if she could disappear with her eyes tightly closed; it saddened me. Made my heart pang with guilt.
"Oh! Hey Neji!" Naruto greeted, casting a confused glance to the cowering girl.
"Hn."
"Hinata," Hanabi stepped up close to Naruto, "We've been worried sick!"
"We kind of figured that," Shikamaru said lazily, "but we brought her here first so Sakura could heal her scrapes and bruises." He gave us a knowing look.
"So someone really shrunk her, turned her into a kid with kami knows what jutsu just for her eyes?" Ino questioned.
I sighed, so many people. But I would have to tell Hiashi this news. "Hinata," I stepped near Hanabi, just a bit away from Naruto, "We need to take you home."
She didn't answer, just nuzzled her little head into Naruto. "Hinata?" He asked, his voice confused and he patted her back awkwardly.
"N-no!" She yelled into his shoulder. I was taken aback. Never, even when Hinata had been a child and as she had grown older, never had she told me or anyone older then her the word 'no', at least not where it was noticeable. And I could never imagine her saying it so loud, so expressive.
Then I became worried. Remembering the sweet shy little girl who grew up into a still sweet and shy girl, but strong in her own right. Would anything that happened to her now, would it affect her and make her different? Would all of this change her?
"Hinata." I said with a tone of forcefulness.
She grabbed onto Naruto. "Hey Neji, you're scaring her." He defended her and Hanabi nudged me.
"We need to take her home Naruto, even better, to Lady Tsunade to see if she's figured anything out!"
Hinata started to bawl, crying out heart reaching tears, her little shoulders shaking like a mighty earthquake. Every one else went quiet as they watched her cry, shocked by her tears.
"N-no!" She yelled. "Y-yow li-lied!" She opened her eyes briefly and I could see the pain and disbelief. "It's b-bad t-t-to l-lie nii-san! I w-want mom-my!"
I almost groaned aloud. This little three year old Hinata could not understand that her mom was dead. Long ago. To her mind, her mom is still here, still fresh, still warm and loving.
"Hey, hey," Naruto bumped her up and down softly, giving a big grin as she looked into his kind blue eyes, her lavender ones wide and big with tears leaking down. "You shouldn't be mean to Neji now Hinata," He whispered, "It's not good, but if you want, I can be mean to him for ya!" He bounced her up a little more, "or I can take you out for some dango, or somewhere else, I'm sure you don't want to play with an old meanie."
She sniffled and slowly a grin spread across her face, as if trying to match his own blinding idiot grin. Hinata nodded her head.
"Naruto!" Sakura scolded, a hand on her forehead exasperated. "At least get her cloths first."
"Does my opinion count in any of this?" I asked mildly, with Naruto, you kind of just learned to give up and let him do his thing. Besides, it did calm Hinata down and she wasn't calling me a liar anymore.
"Not at all." Now I was shocked that it was Hanabi who said it, a small smirk on her lips.
"Well," I sighed, defeated, "Bring her home before the sun sets." I couldn't give Naruto a time becasue he would forget.
"Great! Ya hear that Hinata?" Kiba cheered.
"And," I turned to walk out, "put all the money used on Hinata only," I turned a glare on Naruto and Choji with their fake innocent big eyes, "on the Hyuga tab."
Hanabi turned to follow me out, guessing like I had that Hinata may not want to be near us for a while. Especially when it reminded her of her mom, and hopefully today would have her forget. And then when that mess was done it wouldn't be to hard to distract her, admittedly though it made me feel like a con man for tricking my little cousin.
"Bai bai, n-nii-san." I turned to see Hinata waving at me with that open hand closed palm way little kids had. Her eyes were scared and guilty, she was hoping I wasn't angry at her. I chuckled and waved.
"We'll see you at home."
"Bye Hinata." Hanabi waved.
"k!" She called after us happily, glad that we weren't mad. If only that wasn't her biggest problem.
*Kiba*
"Okay!" Naruto turned around, still jostling little Hinata a big and smiled. "Now what?"
"W-wanna p-p-pway." Hinata whispered into his ear, tugging softly at his shirt with a tiny fist and a cute blush to her small cheeks. Everything about Hinata had been so minimized.
"We need to buy you some cloths first," Ino told her sweetly with a curve to her lips.
"Common boys, or anyone coming," Sakura said, pushing Naruto out, "we're going shopping."
It soon turned out that the girls absolutely adored shopping for Hinata. Little Hinata complied to everything they said and dressed her in, little dresses and skirts and play shorts and shirts. She stood there quietly eyes alight at everything going on, watching Ino and Sakura fret about over the tiny girls cloths that seemed way to cute to exist. I thought I was going to die because of all the pink! Thankfully Hinata didn't seem to like pink either and often crinkled her nose at it. Like Akamaru does when he smells something he doesn't like.
Naruto stood by holding the bags the had loaded him with while we laughed.
"Shut up!" He shouted, embarrassed at holding these pink and purple bags.
"Sure sure," I waved a hand, pointing him out to the other boys, "doesn't he look great holding those bags?" They chuckled.
"When did you go gay?" Naruto questioned me, eyebrows raised in alert.
I gaped. "I'm not gay you stupid idiot!"
"S-Sakura-nee-chan, K-Kiba-nii s-said bawd w-word." Hinata whispered to the pinkett from behind us. We turned around to see what they had found for Hinata to wear and she was just so...so...kami take me now...she was so cute!
It seemed Hinata had put up a fight to wear a jacket, they were like a safety net to her. I learned this a few years back when her back had gotten hurt and me and Shino were fretting about trying to fix it. She clutched her coat to her chest like a teddy bear.
This time Hinata was wearing a white hoodie the top pulled over her head with bunny ears bouncing on the top, flopping over sideways and over the front swaying as she moved. It even had a tiny little puffy cloud at the end of the hoodie! She wore some blue shorts and brand new blue sandals. Her big lavender eyes staring at us so innocently.
"Yeah Kiba," Lee nudged me, "shouldn't say bad words in front of kids. It's very un-youthful."
"Oh." Naruto laughed at me. "Sorry Hinata." She beamed, telling me all was forgiven.
"Hinata!" Naruto told her, dropping the bag much to Sakura and Ino's distaste. "You look...uh, whats the word?"
"Cute?" Shino offered. Never would I thought to hear that word pop out of his mouth. And in such a monotone way! Yeah, nightmare material.
"Yeah! You look cute!" Hinata's grin only seemed to get wider and she rushed away from Sakura's hand and jumped into Naruto who caught her mid air.
"R-really!" She laughed.
Maybe it was shock we were feeling then. Hinata had never acted like that, and of course being anywhere near Naruto had caused her to faint. But then again, if I thought about it, we didn't know Hinata as a kid. And while she was still shy and quiet and blushed really easily, she had more energy. That boundless amount of energy of a puppy. Or a toddler.
Idiot, she is a toddler right now."
I sighed. "You confused?" Shino asked, "You have that confused look Kiba."
I grunted. "Maybe." Hinata was laughing again, sweet and tickling as a chime. Sakura was scolding Naruto as he placed Hinata on his shoulders and she waved a hand down at us from her new height looking like a little bunny.
"Hey," Shikamaru voiced, "have you guys wondered how this might affect her in tottal?"
"How so?" Choji looked at him and we turned to. His brown eyes thoughtful and brow creased.
"The Hinata we know." He then explained. "People are made up of their experiences and memories. Their environments. Or at least that's half of it. Hinata has memories of being shy and looked down upon, not interacting with many people. She knew the consequences of failure at a young age and if I remember right some of the older kids would tease her."
"But, this is different?" Ino had come up into the conversation, Sakura and Naruto right behind her.
"Yes," He waved at Hinata who waved shyly back, "these aren't like her memories. There's people, she being helped, she's being talked to, no one is picking on her. These are all new memories with drastic differences. Don't you wonder if they'll affect her?"
"Oh." Lee's mouth was wide open, now where was that comical fly?
"Well..." I mumbled.
"I don't think it matters." Naruto popped out. "When it happens, it happens, and we'll deal with it." He looked up at Hinata who had a light hold on his blond hair.
"R-right?" She gazed down confused, cheeks puffing out a little as she held her breath and gave as much serious thought over what he was asking. "Ah...rig-ght!"
"Great." He turned and started walking out. "If you busy bodies want to talk, fine by me, we're going to the park!"
"Yay!" Hinata cheered silently. Akamaru ran after then.
"Wait for me!" I followed, rushing to catch up with Naruto.
"Idiots! Don't run off!"
While we were jumping away, I thought I caught a wiff of something strange, before it disappear. Probably just Naruto.
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