Note: I don't own Naruto.
Note: Some of the things here may conflict with the facts of the actual anime, but in this universe things like Sasuke and Naruto's fight and Tsunade's return and Sarutobi still being alive were all under different circumstances. I'm basically doing the story my way. Please bare with me.
Stop! Do not read this story if you have not read Naruto&Hinata: True Strength Revealed. Or you will not understand some of the story.
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(A/N)
A man dressed like paul revere is galloping on a horse through the streets of Konohagakure ringing a bell.
" The fillers are coming! The fillers are coming!" He shouted
He continued to ride through the town. " The fillers are coming!" he continued to shout.
Many of the townsfolk in the streets dropped their bags and picked up their childen running into their homes and locking their doors.
(A/N) You may have noticed somethings are different. I was going to do a filler that focused on Lee for only a chap or two. But considering how much negative crap I got from people about that, I decided to skip straight to Hinata's little bit of filler. Maybe Lee's filler I'll do in another fic or something.
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Hinata was seen sweating profusely as she was fending off someone's attacks. Hinata then quickly ducked then swooped in and struck the chakra pool of her opponent. (camera spans up to show another Hinata.) The clone disipated into the air. Hinata got up and looked up at the sky.
"Training is just not the same wihout Naruto-kun here." She thought.
It had been 5 days since Naruto's exile.
" Yo ! Hinata-chan..." Kiba said as he Akamaru and Shino were walking up.
" Kiba-kun, Shino-kun..." Hinata said walking up to them.
" It's early, and you're already training?" Kiba asked.
Hinata blushed and shrugged. "Gomen, Kiba-kun, I woke up early today and decided to get some training in."
" Well any way, let's get started." Kiba said.
The team the began their regular training schedule.
Later...
Kiba was chasing after Akamaru in the trees while Shino used his bugs to hover above the ground. Meanwhile Kurenai and Hinata took a break. Kurenai saw the sweat dripping down Hinata's face.
" Really been training hard today haven't you?" Kurenai asked.
Hinata nodded. Kurenai noticed the that Hinata was deep in thought and she was pretty sure what about. She in a motherly fashion put her hand on Hinata's shoulder.
" Are you ok?" Kurenai asked.
Hinata looked up at her and nodded assuredly "mm-hmm".
Kurenai didn't really believe her though. Still she did not want to pry.
" Hinata..." Kurenai said, still having her hand on Hinata's shoulder. " I want you to know you can always talk to me. It's not good to bare a burden alone."
Hinata looked down at the ground.
" It's funny..." Hinata said as Kurenai listened. " When I tied with Neji at the tournament..showing I was at his level, I thought I was really strong...like Neji."
Hinata then nodded her head no. " No, I was wrong...I'm still weak. If maybe I were strong enough to beat Itachi, Naruto-kun might still be..."
Kurenai then tightened her grip on Hinata. " Hinata...don't think like that. What happened happened and couldn't be avoided. Don't blame yourself for that." Kurenai said.
Hinata nodded "Still though... Naruto-kun promised me we'd see eachother again and I promised Naruto-kun that I'd get stronger. I know he'll fulfill his promise, so I'm going to fulfill mine."
Hinata looked up at her sensei. " I promised..." she said with a half-hearted smile.
Kurenai was happy to hear Hinata was pushing forward, this whole exile was taking one of the biggest tolls on her.
" Hinata, how about we get back to training." Kurenai said.
Hinata smiled " yup."
Later Hinata decided to go visit with her grandfather. She reached the entrance way. As she was about to go in, another figure appeared who seemed to be leaving the complex. Hinata gasped hitting the breaks on her fast paced walk. Before her was her former father Hiashi Hyuuga. The two stood there, not saying a word to eachother. Realizing this moment was awkward to say the least, Hinata stepped aside and bowed to Hiashi. Hiashi acknowledged her bow with a nod of his head. As the two walked their seperate paths they both simaltaneously stopped. Hiashi stopped because he felt he should say something and Hinata stopped because somehow she believed he was about to say something. However the two simply continued on their paths. Toba Hyuuga heard the footsteps of his eldest granddaughter.
" Hinata, is that you?" Toba asked.
" Hai Ojii-san." Hinata said.
Toba wondered if Hinata had run into Hiashi outside.
Later, Toba and Hinata were having tea together.
" Hinata, how are you doing so far?" Toba asked.
" Oh, I am holding up well so far Ojii-san, I have been training with my team today."
Toba looked at his granddaughter. " I understand you and Hanabi had a little spat the other day."
(((((Flashback))))))
Iruka had to see the school council on an issue with the school evacuation procedure and lucky Hinata got to deal with the class today with the thoughts of Naruto's exile still weighing heavily on her mind.
" Hi everyone, well Iruka-sensei had to see the school council so I'll be helping out until he gets back." Hinata said.
" That doesen't mean we have to listen to you." Hanabi said.
Hinata took a deep breath trying to keep calm. But it was apparent with the recent events she was in no mood to deal with crap today.
" Hanabi-sama please, Iruka-sensei will be back soon. Then we will continue the day with his lecture." Hinata said.
Hanabi crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.
" Ok guys, you're probably gonna hate me but..." Hinata started.
" Already do." Hanabi butted in.
Hinata again ignored the comment." Well anyway class, Iruka-sensei left a quiz to do before he comes back.
The whole class groaned.
" I know, gomen. But it shouldn't be too hard." Hinata said.
Hinata handed the quiz to all the students in the front row as they passed the copies behind them.
" Why should we take this quiz just because you say so?" Hanabi said.
" Hanabi-sama...this is Iruka-sensei's quiz. I am just handing it out to you." Hinata said, getting irritated.
" Well my mom says you're a joke, and I don't have to listen to you." Hanabi said.
Hinata turned her head to Hanabi. " Well your mother isn't here right now, is she?" she said.
Now Hanabi has gotten away with saying some outlandish stuff to Hinata her whole life. But what she said next was not going to go unpunished.
" Neither is yours." Hanabi said.
Hinata spun around glaring daggers at Hanabi.Hanabi had never seen this look in Hinata's eyes before, what ever it was it terrified her. The class gasped at Hanabi's comment and was scared how Hinata was going to react. Hinata came up the stairs to Hanabi's desk and glared at her former sister face to face. Hinata then raised her hand high in the air. The entire class thought she was going to slap Hanabi. Konohamaru in fact fell back from his chair with his arms flailing. Hanabi let out a small yelp as Hinata's hand came down. Much to everyone's shock, Hinata's hand simply came down on the quiz sheet as Hinata ripped it off Hanabi's desk.
" Fine, you don't want to take it you don't have to. But this will probably mean a zero for you." Hinata said walking back down the steps.
Hinata then opened a drawer to the desk, put the sheet in there then slammed it shut.
" Hanabi-sama, please go wait out in the hallway until everyone else is done with the quiz." Hinata said sternly.
Not wanting to endure Hinata's deathful glare again, Hanabi slowly got out from her seat and shakily walked to the hallway.
Hinata took a deep breath and regained herself.
" Sorry about that class. Does anyone need a pencil?" Hinata said.
" I need one Hinata-chan." Moegi said putting her hand in the air.
Hinata got a stack of pencils and came up to deliver one to Moegi.
" Do you want me to call you Hinata-chan or Hinata-sensei?" Moegi asked with a smile on her face.
" You may call me -chan if you like." Hinata said back in her soft spoken tone.
" Hai." Moegi said.
" That was sooooo cool! That'll teach her a lesson!" Moegi thought about Hanabi.
(((((((((End Flashback)))))))))
Hinata was a bit embarrassed.
" I apologise Ojii-san, I did not mean to react that way." Hinata said.
Toba chuckled. " Hanabi should have known better than to give you lip and should have just taken the quiz. I bet you put the fear of God in her. "
The former Hyuuga and the Hyuuga elder continued their conversation.
Later...
Ayame had just finished taking off a pot of ramen. It was very slow at Ichikaru's. In fact there wasn't anybody at the ramen shop.
"(sigh)...slow today. By now he would be in here slurping away." she said.
It had been a few days since Naruto's exile from Konohagakure. Since then Ichikaru hasn't seen as much business as they usually do, considering Naruto was their oldest and best customer.
Ayame remembered back to when she first let Naruto eat at the ramen shop.
(((((flashback))))))) Note: I hope you guys aren't getting sick of these flashbacks.
Young Ayame was walking to work with some supplies she needed for her father's ramen bar. Suddenly she saw what seemed to be somebody getting beaten by 3 men outside a restaurant. She gasped when she saw the victim appeared to be a child.
" Hey!!" she shouted dropping her supplies and rushing over to the scene.
She cut in between the boy and his attackers. Raising up her hands to her side as a sign of protection.
" What the hell is wrong with you!? 3 grown men beating up on a boy!" Ayame scowled.
" We told this kid he can't come in, but he won't freaki'n listen!" Shouted one of the men.
Ayame was surprised. " You mean you 3 work in that restaurant?"
"Yes, we told the kid we don't want him in here and he insists on coming in anyway." he said.
" So that justifys you hurting him? you spineless bastards." Ayame said.
" Stupid braud, don't you know who that kid is?" he said.
Ayame turned her head to see the boy on the ground standing back up. He couldn't have been more than 5 or 6. He looked up at Ayame who saw whisker marks on the boy's face.
" He's...it's him." Ayame said to herself.
Naruto looked back at the restaurant workers.
" I bet your food sucks anyway! I'm gonna go eat somewhere better!" Naruto said sticking out his tongue and pulling down his right eyelid.(typical anime gesture)
" Nobody wants you in their restaurant brat. Nobody wants you anywhere." a man said.
Ayame was shocked, regardless of who he is, he didn't deserve to be treated like this.
" Hey boy, what's your name?" Ayame asked.
Naruto looked up at her.
" It's Naruto, why?" he said.
" Naruto, why don't ou come with me ok? I don't like the idea of you being in this area with those big jerks around." Ayame said.
Naruto looked back at the restaurant workers and decided to come with Ayame.
Ayame picked up her groceries as Naruto followed her.
" You should know better next time Naruto, you should have just walked away if those guys looked like they were going to get violent." Ayame said.
" I was hungry! I wanted to just eat there and leave! and look..." Naruto pulled out crumpled bills and loose change. " I even gots money, I could'a paid for it! I just wanted to eat some food. People always do that to me, why? I just tired of not getting let in." he said.
Ayame sympathized with the boy.
" Hey Naruto, I'll make you a deal..."
Naruto looked up at her.
"My father owns a little restaurant, you carry these groceries for me and I'll treat you to a meal there." Ayame offered.
Naruto agreed thanks to a loud growl in his stomach. Naruto gladly held the woman's groceries.
"Hey lady, what's your name?" Little Naruto asked.
" My name's Ayame. I work at a ramen shop."
Naruto looked puzzled." What's ramen?" he asked.
" You've never had ramen?" Ayame asked.
Naruto shook his head no.
" Well, you're in for a treat." she said.
Later Naruto was sitting at the table of Ichikaru's. He looked around to see the fun festive roof flaps adorning the entrance, the seemingly constant rising steam from the back. Suddenly Teuchi came up to Naruto with a bowl.
" Ok Naruto, now be careful, it's hot." Teuchi said.
But as soon as Teuchi said that Naruto was alradey eating the ramen quickly due to his hunger, which he soon found out was a bad idea. Naruto fanned his poor tongue.
" Wada! Wada!" (water) he said, not being able to use his tongue effectively.
" Naruto, he told you!" Ayame said handing Naruto a glass of water.
Later when Naruto was patient enough to let his food cool a bit, he decided this was the best food he had ever eaten. He sat at the table happily eating his meal and the rest...is history.
(((((End Flashback))))))
Ayame snapped out of her daydream when she noticed a group of customers walk in. It was noneother than team 8.
" Yo Ayame-chan." Kiba said.
" Oh hey guys." Ayame responded.
Ayame then took a sympathetic look at Hinata. Ayame knew Hinata had to be feeling low with what happened to Naruto.
" So what'll you guys have?" Ayame asked.
"I'll have shrimp ramen." Shino asked.
" I'll have spicy shrimp ramen." Kiba said.
" Um, I'll just have regular please." Hinata said.
Hinata sat on the end. As the team enjoyed their lunch a young man appearing their age came into the ramen shop. He apparently knew at least one them. He came over by Hinata.
" Hey Hinata-chan." said the young man.
" Oh, Jin-kun. Hi." Hinata said.
( Jin is just some nameless guy from the group's old academy class.)
" Hey, I just wanna let you know how sorry I am about Naruto. Really sucks, ya know?" Jin said.
" Oh...hai." Hinata said.
" So how are you holding up?" Jin asked.
" Oh, I'm doing fine right now. I'm just trying to push on." Hinata responded.
" Good, that's good, hey if you ever need someone to talk to about it, I'm a good listener."
Jin then strategically put his hand on Hinata's back, trying to make it appear friendly, but looks a little too close for friendship. Kiba, Akamaru and Shino didn't miss the close gesture. Akamaru began to growl slightly at Jin.
" Oh...um...arigato Jin-kun, I'll let you know." Hinata said.
" Ok, great." Jin then looked to Shino and Kiba. " Oh..uhhh Kita, Shibo. Nice seeing you." he said on his way out.
" Kita?" Kiba said.
" Shibo?" Shino said.
" Geeze, Naruto's gone for like not even a week and guys are comi'n on to Hinata-chan." Kiba thought.
" We should get going, we need to train." Shino said.
The team paid for their meal.
" arigato Ayame-chan." Hinata said blushing.
" Later you guys, train hard." Ayame said.
The team were walking in the street when they heard..."Hinata-chan!" the team turned around to see another young acquaintance coming up to them.
" Hey Hinata-chan, you know I figured, since you and Naruto are well...you know...not together anymore...I was kind of wondering..."
" Dude. Seriously...come on." Kiba said. Akamaru barked in agreement.
" Um, arigato, but I really can't right now." Hinata said trying to let the boy down as gently as possible.
" Oh, Ok, no problem I'll catch ya another time." The boy said who then gave Kiba a glare. " alone." he finished.
Kiba extended a claw prompting the young ninja to get lost.
The team then continued down the street. Suddenly yet another would be suitor approached Hinata.
" Hey Hinata-chan, you know my parents are gonna be on a mission this weekend, and I was wondering, with you being single now maybe..."
But the young man was cut off when he felt a kick to the back of his leg. He turned around to see Konohamaru was the culprit, his company consisiting of Moegi and Udon.
" Hey brat, what's yer problem?" said the young man.
" You're my problem. Nobody moves in on Boss's girl while I'm around!" Konohamaru declared.
He was then grabbed by his shirt and picked up off the ground.
" Little shit, I'll teach you to screw with big boy's affa--" But the young man was again cut off he found his wrist in the grasp of Hinata.
" Take your hand off of him, he's just a boy. He's one of the students I work with." Hinata said.
The boy then let go of Konohamaru.
" Arigato for your offer, but no thank you." Hinata said sternly.
" whatever." The young man said walking away.
Hinata turned to Konohamaru.
" Are you ok Konohamaru-kun?" Hinata asked.
" Yea I'm fine, it's a good thing you stopped me when you did. That guy was about to catch a serious beatdown." Konohamaru boasted.
Hinata smiled at Konohamaru, with his personality he seriously could be passed off as Naruto's brother.
" Well, I'm happy you came to aid me. Arigato." Hinata said.
" Anytime Hinata-chan! We'll see you at school tomorrow, ok?" Konohamaru asked.
Hinata nodded.
" Bye Hinata-chan !" Moegi said, waving.
Hinata and her team waved to the ninja in training as they left.
" Hinata-chan!" said a female voice.
" Geez even the girls are after..." Kiba started.
As the team turned around they saw it was in fact Shizune coming up to them.
" Hinata-chan, Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, I'm so glad I caught you. You are needed in the Hokage's chambers." Shizune said.
Hinata bowed and followed Shizune. She turned back to her team.
Later Team 8 arrived in the Hokage's office.
" Hokage-sama." she said also bowing.
" It's good to see you because I have an imprtant mission and I need your talents." Sarutobi said.
The door closes behind them.
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(Time skip period)
Like I said, or threatened anyway. It's a little filler. Don't get mad please. I promise some action in the next chap or two. A writer-nin needs reviews for strength, so help this shinobi out.
