- ◊ (8: Dawn Sophie Nadia) ◊ -
∆ (Spring Country) ∆ - ¤ (4PM) ¤ - Φ (Hinata) Φ
A/N: Characters that are OC are pronounced Dawn So-fee Naw-de-ah and Tay-ah. I don't own Naruto! I do want to though.
We are just arriving in Spring Country, formally known as Snow Country years ago. I'm not sure what changed it, besides the weather. It's much more pleasant then when I came here to train though; even the winter in Spring Country is pretty cold. Well… it's been 2 hours since we left.
"Hinata, we're in Snow Country!" Naruto yelled excitedly.
"Yeah, have you been here before?" I asked him.
"Of course I have, I'm the one who made Snow Country into Spring Country." I nodded. "So why are we here?"
"We're going to train you." I answered him. "I had a very good teacher here, they'll be sure to take you in and train you. As long as you want to be stronger. I will learn the same way, only more advanced since I've been through this all before."
"Really, when?" He asked.
"About 4 years ago, before I trained with Tsunade-sama, she said that this person would help me gain everything I needed, and she's the real reason behind my personality change. She'll be sure to help you out."
"Cool, can we go in?" He asked me. I nodded as we walked into the village. Everyone waved to me as I waved back. "Wow, you're well known here. I can't wait to meet your awesome teacher."
"I wonder how they're doing now." I said. I walked over to a girl of about 20 adorned in a bright pink Kimono and a white sash. She was one of my teacher's followers. I hugged the girl.
"Hina-chan! It's wonderful to see you again. Your clothing however, is lacking." She said. I nodded. I signaled Naruto to follow and we went into a large store behind the others. She tossed me a pink kimono and a box which I caught.
"He'll need the typical stuff." I said pointing to Naruto.
"A Male!" She said, jumping back! She was about to run away.
"It's fine. Just toss him the outfit. Naruto-kun this is Tea-chan. Tea-chan, this is Naruto-kun, likewise." She sighed. "Give him a chance Tea-chan. Like you gave me."
"I give all females a chance. Males, not so likely. She is not going to be pleased, Hina-chan. You know how she feels about males." Tea-chan didn't like males, that much is obvious.
"I know, but he's special. We need assistance, well he does. I need improvement and advancement." She smiled at me and glared at Naruto. She showed up the dressing rooms. I took off my other clothes and very carefully slipped on the pink kimono and put my hair up as was customary here.
"OW, Hinata! OW! Hinata! OW. Man! OW! Hinata! OW!" Naruto had been yelling most likely or arguing with Tea-chan thus she smacked him with her metal fan.
"Naruto, quiet." I said calmly walking out of the dressing room and Naruto just stared at me. I blushed and then she was about to hit him with a fan over the head, I pinned it to the wall behind her. "That won't be necessary Tea-chan." She sighed, unpinning her fan.
"Then come along." She said shaking her head. Naruto was wearing an outfit of traditional Japanese culture in a fitting, orange. I walked ahead beside her. "I can't believe you'd bring a male here Hina-chan. You know better. You were number one here and are still number one, you left us after one short year to return home, which we respected and when you visit to improve, you bring a male! A male! Not just a normal male but also an obnoxious loud disrespectful male! What's wrong with you?" She rebuked quietly.
"Tea-chan, it's really none of your business but as my friend I have to say that Naruto-kun is a good friend of mine, a very good one." She looked at me. "Yes, I'm just the same Tea-chan. I've only been changed by her lessons, I haven't changed since then."
"I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. He's against everyone of what we've been taught, and you bring him here. If she rebukes you…"
"I don't care, I'm seeking help, assistance, improvement, and caring. If she is the same as they day I left she wouldn't turn down me, or him." Tea-chan shook her head.
"I hope you didn't travel all this way for nothing Hina-chan. Well, we're here, good-luck." I nodded and we walked up to a large dojo. Naruto jumped over to my side.
"Who was she Hinata?" He was hit in the back of the head. "OW! What's wrong with her! OW! Man! OW! Leave me alone!" I placed my hand over his mouth as he was hit in the head with a fan, again.
"Naruto-kun, this is a place of training and knowledge you must respect everyone with proper endings as well as keeping your voice down so others can concentrate and improve yourself. Understand?" He nodded, learning to keep you mouth shut.
"Why do they…" I covered his mouth.
"Don't question them; this is a special training dojo. You're lucky I've been here or this would have been a lot harder for you to get back into shape. Keep quite, don't argue and respect them, don't stare, don't ask questions, don't yell, and most importantly don't do anything to insult them."
"Alright, can I ask you a question?" I sighed, and nodded. "Can I call you Hina-chan too?" I shrugged.
"I guess you could. They're the only people who do though. Shortening someone's name is a mean of friendship and honor as well as a respect here, so only do it to people you have met, like Tea-chan and myself, alright?" Naruto nodded.
"I can remember the rules but Hina-chan, but are you sure this is the best place to train?" I nodded as we walked into the building. There were girls in green, pink, dark blue and aqua kimonos. They all turned around, sitting and bowing to me. I bowed back. Naruto then bowed, catching on.
"Hina-chan… is that a… male!" The woman said jumping from the of the class to in front of me. Her name is Dawn Sophie Nadia. She was my instructor, teacher and a mother to me for the year I was here, training with her. No one knows about her beside her students, and me because everyone who trains here are the kunoichi of the village. They don't leave, and you're not allowed to talk about her. Actually she trained with Shizune under Tsunade for a while, who I trained under. She said she wasn't supposed to say a word of it, but she said that she would help me. Tsunade sent me on the mission knowing that her student would be quite helpful to me. "Hai Nadia-chan." I answered.
"You know how I feel about males Hina-chan, you do. I'm sure you do. Why ever would you bring him… here! You know better, you honestly do! Hina-chan, why, why?"
"I seek your help, assistance, training, wisdom, and improvement on the things that you taught me. He has lost what he once had 3 years ago and I need your assistance to bring it back to him to rescue someone important to me."
"For Saku-chan?" She asked.
I nodded. "Nai, Sasuke-kun. Saku-chan's close admirable friend. He has been taken and it is Naruto-kun's job to return him to our home for Saku-chan. Thus, for my job, I have to bring him back but first Sasuke-kun must be returned and Naruto-kun must be stronger. So I ask for your assistance."
"Hina-chan… you know you are important to us. However, how can you expect me to help you? You know…"
"Please Nadia-chan. You're my senior by 7 years, you must assist me in my mission, please Nadia-chan. I know it ow too well but you must help me." I begged her.
"Alright, you know the rules though, right Hina-chan?" I nodded. The students cleared out of the way. "Oi, male!" Naruto looked at her. "Back off, we have something to do." Naruto jumped back.
"Tea-chan, fans please." I called. Tea-chan threw me 3 fans. I caught two of them in one hand, the other in my other hand. I stuffed the extra one in my pocket and took my Jyuuken stance. I opened them up in my hands. "Go!" I called. We charged each other and then she threw kunai, I flicked the fan, and the kunai was neutralized, I side stepped catching it. She smirked at me, jumping at me. I spun around using the fans to flow the chakra even farther outward, hitting her, she sliding across the floor.
I jumped at her; she threw the fan at me like a wind shuriken and brought the fans from my sides up straight up to the ceiling and it feel to the ground. I smiled. A weapon, once it touches the ground can't be used in the fight any longer. Usually you catch your opponent's weapons, but if you don't want them to possibly take it back, you let it drop. She brought out another; you could only have 3 fans. I folded up the fan, sticking it in my pocket with the other, pulling out Shuriken. I only had shuriken in my right hand and the fan in my left. I tossed them at her; she flew them back at me. I used my other hand to flick them up into the ceiling. The ceiling was out of play as well. I took my extra fan and threw it past her; I had attacked chakra to it, taking the other two fans, out of her hands, flying past her onto the ground. She glared at me and I put the other fan down. Now it was close range since I respected her that much more. I pulled out two kunai.
"Further on, continue." She said. I nodded and jumped at her. She tried to hit me, but I simply dodged, and countered with my own hits. Then I took the kunai to the back of her neck, blunt side and held it there. "I don't." I pulled closer and it flew out of my hand. I jumped back, sighing. There was a limit to kunai and shuriken you could have on you in the dojo. The rest which were in my book bag with Naruto-kun.
She threw all the shuriken and kunai I had, I took out my fan and clapped them together, using a ton of chakra and they hit dead on. She couldn't use a kunai to defend all of those. It was a pathetic move, but it was the best she could do. She laughed as she fell to her feat. "I see you've improved much Hina-chan. Alright, now the other one." I nodded. I picked up my tools and walked over to Naruto-kun.
"Hand me all the kunai you have, as well as shuriken and needles. You can only use chakra to invert the objects, not as force. You can use the 3 fans, this many shuriken, this many kunai and this." I handed him the ribbon that I had tied underneath my other sash.
"How would it be helpful?" He asked.
"I'm not sure but knowing you, it might." He nodded.
"Alright Hina-chan, wish me luck." I nodded as he took the stage. Tucking all his weapons into his pouch. "Alright lady, let's go." Tea-chan smacked him in the back of the head with a fan.
"Respect and quite." I reminded him. He nodded. "That is Lady Nadia, Nadia-chan if you prefer." He nodded.
"Nadia-chan, I might not know what to do and Hina-chan might be a lot smarter and talented than me with limited resources but I have to help my friends, and you're not going to hold me up." Naruto said, a bit quieter than normal.
"I respect that, now forward!" She threw a kunai at him, knowing he had just fans in his hand and he wouldn't be able to use them.
"No problem, I've watched Temari-san do it all the time." He took one fan in both his hands and force chakra from every point in his body, not the fan and swung the fan like a stick, hitting the kunai away. She laughed at his lack of skill. "Hey, I'm not girl Nadia-chan but I have skill."
"Unlikely. Hina-chan is beyond talented. She surpasses her teacher, and that's why she has that ribbon that she gave you. She's surpassed me and I don't think you can surpass her."
"I don't have to surpass her, just you!" He yelled running directly at her. "Take this." He used the fan to jam into her stomach. I closed my eyes… this is not good. When I opened my eyes, she was laying on her back, in blood. "Hina… chan?" Naruto questioned.
"Quite Naruto…" I said as I ran to her side and healed her insides lightly. He handed me my second sash, I tied it around her wound. I along with Tea-chan carried her to her bedroom. Naruto, most likely was kicked out of the building, as would I be. I was at her bed. "I'm sorry. I guess I knew I shouldn't have brought him here, but I needed your help and from all of what you've taught me, you told me never to let anyone down, and I needed him to return to his normal self. I'm sorry Nadia-chan." I said wiping my tears and exiting the dojo, sitting on the stairs. I was surprised to find that Naruto wasn't out here already.
Tea-chan sat next to me. "He's important to you isn't he? Whatever his name is?"
"Naruto-kun is extremely important to me, Tea-chan. Do you remember when I was here and Nadia-chan asked me if I had ever run into someone who tried to teach me the lessons that I had already started learning."
"Yeah I remember, of course I do. You blushed, playing with your hair and fingers and answered. 'Hai... this person made me… stronger… and happier… with myself… I changed… thanks to them.' It was funny how you were back then. But we soon changed that, 4 years ago."
"Yeah, he is that person. The one of extreme importance to me. He only ever cares for other people. He'd gladly give his life for me, or Sakura-chan or Sasuke-kun; actually anybody really. He never gives up and he began changing me, but soon after he changed, he left and I resorted back to my old ways. I lost the confidence and changed had given me."
"Where has he been?"
"He has a horrible problem that he had to overcome. The year after I came here, he had left to retrieve Sakura-Chan's beloved one, Sasuke-kun. He won't return home… until we bring Sasuke-kun back to Sakura-chan. So, I need to help him get stronger, and this is the only place I can turn to. I guess it was a mistake. A huge mistake." She placed her hand on my shoulder and my knee.
"Maybe, maybe not. We won't really know until Nadia-chan wakes up, right? I mean…"
"She is terrified by males, Tea-chan. When Naruto came at her full force and he used our defense weapon, a fan and stuffed it into her stomach, knowing the wind out of her, and could have possibly pierced her heart. I don't think she'll forgive him." I said shaking my head.
"It's alright though. I mean, there is somewhere else you can go to, right? I'm sure they have males in the village that can train him. You can stay here and improve, while he's there."
"Yeah, can you excuse me Tea-chan?" I asked. She nodded and I walked off into the gardens of the beautiful backyard of the dojo. I knelt down smelling the flowers, and tears fell from my eyes. I had made a mistake, hurt my friend, and possibly endangered the life of another (Naruto). Who knows what kind of rules they have against that?
"Hina-chan?" I heard Naruto's voice and I wiped my tears, turning around. I nodded. "I'm sorry, but I couldn't help myself. I was stuck using tools that I didn't know what to do and it all was so difficult. I was trying my best, I was. I wanted to be accepted. In my life, I'm tired of being different. I want a place to fit in."
"I fit in here, but I can't stay here. You can't be where you're accepted or you won't find yourself Naruto. You can learn from people so very different from yourself. I mean, you and I, I learned so much from you. I was shy and could barely say a few words to you while you always talked and had something to say to anyone. You didn't care what others thought, or you choose to ignore it, a better statement."
"It just didn't bother me Hina-chan." I nodded. I stood up, looking at the sky. "Well it seems we're…"
"Staying here. I, in my current condition can't do anything. Especially train the girls. You are. I'll train him personally. Training one person is easier on my body then 40 girls." I turned around to meet the eyes of Dawn. She smiled. "Yeah, you heard me." She threw me a small case. I opened it to find a gold sash. "Make me proud, while I show this male, what it takes to be a kunoichi."
"But Hinata…" Dawn stared at him. "… I'm no kunoichi."
"There is no male or female when it comes to being a ninja, Male. It's all about skill, talent and hard work. I don't know what you've been doing lately, but I'm going to change it all. I'll take him on as a pupil Hina-chan, if you take care of my students. Can you handle that?"
"Of course I can Nadia-chan." I told her.
"I know you can, you just need to believe you can. Go on, you have a kimono to wear, a sash to tie and a million things to teach them. All I have to do is fix everything that he's ever done wrong." I nodded and ran off. I went into her room. I walked in and there was a small black kimono that was embroidered. I pulled the gold sash around me, after putting it on.
I went downstairs. "Let us begin, where we left off. Close your eyes focus on your hand." I said. They quickly made rows and they began to learn everything I could teach them.
∆ (Special Courtyard) ∆ - ¤ (Same Time) ¤ - Φ (Free) Φ
"It has been a while… since I've taught anyone but the best girls trained in the most honorable etiquette imaginable. This shouldn't be too much of a challenge but knowing males, they should be."
"Eh, you! What do you have against guys?" Naruto asked her, yelling.
She sighed. "My name… is Dawn Sophie Nadia. It's not that hard. Lady Nadia, Nadia-chan, Dawn-chan, Sophie-chan, it doesn't matter but I'm not a… you. Manners!" She said to him.
"Nadia-chan, fine, that's what Hina-chan calls you so I'll call you that." She nodded. "So answer me."
"I have nothing against males, they're just so different. I am only a few years older than you are; 25 years old so don't treat me as if I'm old. I'm just more mature. Well… Hina-chan needs me to train you. First we'll teach you how to PROPERLY use a fan. You do NOT stab it into someone's stomach. It's highly dangerous for that person and the most idiotic thing I've seen yet. Never since I started this school when I was your age have I seen anyone think of using a fan as a sword."
"Eh, it was useless as a fan. I tried remember, I did try thought it was as useful as smacking it with my hand, without the blood though. I didn't have time to learn, just time to act. It's self defense."
"Well we'll learn to use that natural defense into something truly productive, okay?" Naruto nodded. "I throw a kunai and I want you to channel your chakra through your arms into your hands and out onto the fan. Then, I want you to wave you hand as you were telling someone to stop." He nodded taking the fan Hina-chan had given him. She threw the kunai and he jumped forward, tossing the fan forward at her, she ducked and stuck both hands in front of her. "No, you start with your hand gripping the fan as so. Spread out your four fingers on the top of the fan with your thumb on the bottom. Then move it from your left shoulder across your body, forcing you chakra out of only your finger tips through the fan."
"I can handle that." He did it and he ducked, the kunai hit the wall behind him. "I messed up, but I know I did it right."
"Vertical, that's how you wave a fan, always vertical. Like a straight line. So the main part of the fan that pushes is moving is facing the opposite way by the end of your movement. Understand?" She asked.
"Yeah, but why is using a fan useful?" He asked.
"Hina-chan does. Not often because she can use her hands perfectly just like fans, as well as, she has perfect chakra control. It takes much longer to master that. Now try again." She threw a kunai that he waved off.
"That was sweet, thanks a ton!"
"We have barely begun, a single kunai, who throws just one. Your movements are sloppy, but successfully unpredictable. That's good. We'll have to work on your footwork though."
They spent a long while perfecting the usefulness of the move to defend attacks from any angle, and more than one kunai but it was becoming troublesome. He also had been hit by many kunai. By the end of the day, he was extremely tired. They sat down at the fountain; she turned to him.
"So how long have you and Hina-chan been traveling?"
"A few hours before we arrived here. We were staying at a house in Sound where our friend was captured before we came. Our friends are still there practicing back there." She nodded.
"You two seem to be getting along well."
"Hina-chan, gets along easily with everything. She used to have a condition where she blushed when you talked to her, and then she'd faint or she'd never get to say what she was trying to, just playing with her fingers and hair."
"Ah, I see."
"Yeah but when she came to take me home I was so surprised and happy about how much she had changed, 6 years really changes people, she's a stronger person, physically and she over came her condition too. She's a good leader and really kind and smart but she's always been like that. Yeah, she's also extremely pretty. Wait… you won't tell her all this stuff, will you?"
"Of course not." She said with a smile. "Well I'm sure you guys will be happy together one day." Naruto nodded. "You'll be here awhile so suggest that you get accustomed to what we wear, how we act, what we do and most importantly our rules."
"Hina-chan told me all the rules. So why do we wear these clothes?"
"The girls wear it for traditionalism (it's a real word, who knew?). As well as the clothing helps the ebb and flow of their movements when using a fan, kunai, shuriken and what not. It's what real world kunoichi wear. No one expects girls in these outfits to be kunoichi, would you? All their gear is stored in many pockets and places within the kimono for easy attacks, as kunoichi did many years ago."
"So why don't you like having males around?" Naruto asked her, again.
"They're much harder to deal with. Girls, usually… talk less, are more polite, are quieter, have better manners and etiquette and are easier to teach. I taught, in one year, to Hina-chan, everything that it takes usually 4 years for anyone else, even myself, to learn. She only had that much time. I can even barely get you through the basics so that's all I can but through this, you'll get back everything you had before. After dinner, I want you to run and exercise along with all the other trainees."
"So what did you give Hina-chan?"
"It's a gold sash, that along with a black kimono, like the items I'm wearing means the highest level of honor, surpassing the teacher, or being as strong as the teacher. You need to be quieter, more attentive and more in tune. The only things you're lacking are control and muscle which we can easily give you with is strict training and lessons in, at basic level, one month."
"One month?"
"That's what I said." He sighed, but nodded. To get those things the first time, it had taken him years but to loose them, it took him 3 years and to return them to him, a month. He sighed; Hinata probably figured it like this. "Don't worry, you'll need to practice all your normal stuff with Hina-chan but besides that, you will train with me daily. Later in the month when I have healed I may switch with Hina-chan but for the most part, this is how it will be."
"Thanks for everything Nadia-chan. Can I eat, you have any ramen?"
"Ramen? Of course we do." He hugged her. "You ask a lot of questions, and learn much from them, that's good."
"Yeah I do, but thank you. I miss ramen so much. Hina-chan brought me some but it wasn't enough so she had to improvise making food for me, but it wasn't the same. Thank you."
"I'm glad she is taking care of you." Lady Nadia answered.
"I guess I have to thank you for helping Hina-chan out whenever she was here. She's different then when I left, like I told you."
"Of course she is. We helped her correct her, condition, as you say as well as improve upon the genjutsu that she had been taught as well as the chakra control and chakra use she had. Her teachers before did extremely well but they didn't have the kind of training we had." Lady Nadia said.
"Yeah, Hinata is awesome." She stared at him. "Hina-chan, sorry."
"Respect is a key and sign of nobility; you will be noticed and respected beyond what you'd thing you would just for being respectful and humble. Manners and Etiquette are key factors. If you can learn these things, you will be better off than before. However, when you show these things to even your enemy, there is your fault. Hina-chan showed fear and manners to her enemy which is why she lost. She was weak in spirit so we had to change it. She's now a brilliant leader and showing everyone what she is truly made of. She is thoroughly stronger, inside and out." Lady Nadia expressed.
"Thanks for helping her though. I don't think I would have ever noticed her if it wasn't for her new behavior, she was always hiding and being quite with her condition, so I never got to truly know her. I just knew that everyone was hard on her and she had a confidence problem. But you helped her change that. So thanks."
"I'm sure Hina-chan thanks me the same every time she thinks back as well." Naruto nodded. "She's trained under many people; her main sensei: Kurenai-san, cousin: Neji-san, teammates, my student: Shizune, myself, and your hokage: Tsunade-sama so she is well trained, very well trained in all aspects. It only took her 6 years to arrive where she is today." He nodded as they went inside where, as predicted, Hinata had asked the cooks to make real ramen for Naruto.
"Hina-chan, we're going to need a month." Naruto told Hinata. She nodded.
"I figured it wouldn't be just a few days. No one can relearn everything easily; it takes a lot of hard work. I also have things to learn while I'm here as well after all." Naruto nodded as they sat down.
"A month isn't that long of a time, if you think about a lifetime.?" Lady Nadia said.
"So Lady Nadia, have you ever had a boyfriend?" Hinata stopped eating to look at him.
"Yes, but that was maybe 10 years ago, when I was your age. He's probably around Konoha somewhere nowadays. I'm not sure. That was a while ago though. I've been here since then though."
"Really?" Hinata asked.
"So why are you so against guys now?"
"For the same reasons I keep telling you, they're impossible, clueless, have poor manners, and are annoying, crazy and extremely loud." Hinata giggled at her words. "I see you agree."
"Wait, when were you in Konoha?" Naruto asked.
"I was in Konoha almost 20 years ago. I left a bit earlier than Tsunade. Soon meeting up with her where she taught me a few techniques, soon after I began to teach here. She left and she had a depressing outlook on life then. I didn't think she would ever return."
"I know. I had to bring her back!" Naruto yelled. Hinata and Dawn turned to him. "Sorry. Yeah she was a pain to bring back. She wanted to leave and do stuff outside of Konoha. She just gambled away a ton of money and drank."
"I see she's the same. How about… I help you retrieve the boy, Sasuke-kun was it?" Hinata nodded. "And then you… take me back to Konoha with you. It's been a while since I've seen my teacher."
"And your students?"
"Tea-chan can handle it, I'm sure. She's getting very close to being a teacher herself. She's at your Chuunin Level, I would have to say."
"That's good. Well alright then, after you finish training Naruto-kun we'll bring you back to Konoha if you help us retrieve Sasuke-kun."
"Yes, more friends!" Naruto yelled. Hinata and Dawn sighed.
"See, I don't hate boys Hina-chan. They are just so annoying and loud. I've never been afraid of one in my life they're just so annoying. I just want them to go away." Hinata giggled.
"Well we should all go to bed, shouldn't we?" Hinata asked Dawn-chan.
"Yes, we all should. Goodnight Hina-chan. Goodnight Naruto-kun. Remember everyone is awakening at 0600 hours. (6:00am). be ready." Naruto sighed.
"Come along Naruto, it's getting late." Hinata said as he followed them into the guesthouse where they each took a room beside Dawn-Chan's room.
Naruto settled down in his room and he looked out the window to see gardens and many small training areas and such things. He would be here for the next month, training with Hina-chan and Dawn-chan so it was best to get use to this place.
He jumped out of his bed, left his room and knocked on Hinata's door. She opened wearing a light pink silk, sleeping kimono. He focused on her face as not to stare and be hit with yet another fan by the girl, Tea-chan. "Yes Naruto-kun?"
He hugged her suddenly and she blushed. "I wanted to thank you for helping me, standing up for me, and bringing me here. Really, thanks." He said running back into his room. She stood their dumb struck. She walked back into her room.
"Hina-chan, who was that?" Tea-chan asked as she was talking to Hinata, sitting in a chair.
"Naruto-kun, he was thanking me."
"And?" Hinata touched her face. "You're blushing again, Hina-chan."
"I'll be okay."
"You can't go back. Come on, be strong." Hinata nodded.
"Yeah, it was just that his body against mine, it was so warm and different. It always has been. I didn't even faint this time."
"Does he always visit you at this time of night Hina-chan?" Tea-chan asked.
"Of course not!" Hinata yelled at her. "Father and Nii-san would never allow me to have any over after 9. Father would never let Naruto-kun near me if he could help it. Nii-san is more accepting but he doesn't like Naruto either, not much at least. He… just wants me happy but that is definitely unacceptable at home like I believe it is here."
"Definitely here since no guys are allowed here at all. It interferes with training which one of the reasons she teaches only girls is and there are strict rules of conduct. Staying up late like this is usually unacceptable but I wanted to talk to you, it's been too long."
"Yes, it has." Hinata said sitting on her bed.
"So… why won't your dad let him get near you? Your dad sounds like a good man." Tea-chan asked.
"His rules are strict but he doesn't like Naruto because Naruto isn't the kind of people a girl such as I should be around. He judges Naruto on things Naruto himself doesn't have and has never had control over. It's very unfair."
"So you like him?" Tea-chan asked with a smile, happy for his friend despite her opinion on guys.
"Yes, very much so. He's been very helpful when I was younger and trying to be more confident and such. I guess he's the reason I began changing because of his hope in me, to improve and go against what others said about me. He's important to me but because of what he is, not by choice, but by someone else's choice for him, he and I can't be together."
"So… what are you going to do about?" Tea-chan asked.
"What do you mean?"
"The new you, is not just going to sit around and be down about this. The new you, is going to do something about it, am I right?" Tea-chan said excitedly.
"Yes and No. My friends are trying to help give us as much chance to be together as they can but you see… my first and really only dream is to be the first fair and just ruler of my clan, the one that will keep them strong but still good, not cruel like our past rulers have been. If I go against my clan, I loose that, my only chance that I've been working toward the entire time. It's a hard thing to do." Hinata answered.
"Yeah, I see what you mean. I don't have a family that runs things like that because yours is so noble and talented naturally that they don't have need for worry like that. I'm not even the heir, my brother is but I have to be strong. I know you'll figure it out Hina-chan. Night." Hinata nodded as Tea-chan left.
