Keyote: "Man, I thought she had gotten better since the time skip? Shows what I know"
Last Chapter, I refered to Yoroi as Yaoi. I'm sorry about that. But you must admit, it is funny to call him that. And just for the record, I don't like Yaoi stories. Naruto and Sasuke together gives me the creeps.
The results of the Hanabi poll is in, the verdict: At a count of 20 yes to 4 no, Hanabi will be coming to live with them after the Tsunade arc concludes. As for her relationship with Naruto, at a count of 16 to 8, Hanabi and Naruto are to be brother and sister in their relationship. Though to be fair to those who voted for them to be more, I will have one little fluffy moment between the two. Don't worry though, it will be an accident and will be meant as a joke for you all to laugh at. So get ready Naruto for another girl in your life, one who's going to make it hell.
Now for the Kiba poll. Should Kiba either 1. Give up chasing Hinata and become Naruto and Hinata's friend or 2. Should he ditch the village and eventually join the Akatsuki during the act 2/Shippuden stories to get revenge for being constantly regected? The poll will remain open until Jan.3,2009.
Yes, I know its a shorter voting time than the Hanabi poll had, but the reason is because I'll be releasing a one-shot story that day that might get made into a longer story based on the votes. I will talk more about it when the time comes, but I'll tell you this much. The one-shot/possible series starts during the Bikochu mission and ask what would have happened if Hinata had not arrived when she did and Naruto used the Kyuubi's power to escape the beeswax cocoon and attack the enemy bug user's and Hinata arrived to see Naruto's secret revealed, her reaction, and Naruto running away thinking that she'll hate him now.
The Christmas story that I'm doing will be called "Under a Mistletoe". It will be out on Dec.24 or 25 (if I'm not done by end of 24). The story happens a little over two months after Her Sanctuary. The story is broken up into three parts. The first part will be set at Ino's home for a little get together, pt.2 is about Naruto and Hinata alone at their place with some sweet moments between the two, and pt.3 is a dream they both share about...well, can't tell ya yet. But it is about them.
Also, on Dec.21 yesterday, I released a one-shot story I have been working on for about 4 months on and off again. I was luckly able to salvage it from that notepad incident thank god. If you are a true NaruHina fan and/or supporter, you owe it to yourself to read it. I hope you all like it as I'm really proud of it. The title of the story is "Our Secret" and it is be rated T.
For those who have read it or will be reading it, I will tell you that there will be a sequel made sometime next year. It will be rated M so I can use the lemon I originally did for Our Secret (unless anyone wants me to release an M rated version of Our Secret with the lemon restored to the story). What I need to ask of you is this: should the story either continue after Naruto returns from his training journey and deal with their friends, families, and whole village finding out or should something happen during two and a half year journey that makes Naruto and Hinata need to meet up somewhere in secret to do you know what to be able to stay together?
Since this is the last chapter before christmas, I'd like to say umm Merry Christmas or whatever holiday you may celebrate. The next chapter should be out Friday or Saturday.
Most of the fights in this chapter that are the same in canon, I'm going to skip over and just announce the winners for both time and need.
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Chpt.11: A Reason to Win
"Hinata vs Sasuke." said Hyate for the next match.
'Oh no, poor Hinata' thought Ino as she looked at her friend. She could tell Hinata was very nervous and Naruto was trying to reasure her. Both Chouji and Shino didn't know what to think.
"Hinata, look at me." Naruto said. Hinata did as he asked. "You can do this. I believe in you. I know Sasuke seems tough, but remeber he's a spoiled brat who was always handed everything he wanted. You on the other hand have worked hard to get where you are now. Just believe in yourself and you will win, believe it." The two hugged as both Asuma and Shikamaru smiled. Naruto always found away to get her confidense up. "Thank you Naruto. Your right, I will win." said Hinata as she started torwards the arena floor.
'Well, that idiot Kiba made us look bad, but at least Sasuke will redeem our team though I wish Hinata wasn't the one who had to fight him. He's going to be too brutal with her and she really dosen't deserve what she's about to get.' Kakashi was currious about how this will play out. As he walk torwards the arena floor, Sasuke smirked at the situation. 'So Danzo really did rig the fight to get me to fight her. Well, whatever. If crushing her and getting Naruto to get all darkside is what he wants, then I'll do it. Plus, I'd love to make Naruto's little whore scream for me.'
As the two took up positions, Hayate informed them of the rules and began the fight. Sasuke sent several shuriken flying at Hinata, who blocked them with a kunai. Sasuke to the opportunity to rush in and kick her back. She recovered but Sasuke was in front of her again, sending a fist aimed at her face. She dodged as her Byakugan activated and she pressed her fingers into his wrist. He jumped away, trying to rub the numness he now felt in his wrist away. Close combat wasn't a good idea at this time so he instead opted for longe range.
Several quick hands signs followed by "Fire style: Fire Ball jutsu" and a large ball of fire shot torwards Hinata. Ino yelled for her to dodge, then noticed that Naruto was smiling. She looked back to Hinata, wondering why. Making several quick hand signs herself, Hinata yells "Water style: Water Wall jutsu" and a large water wall shot up before her and took the attack. The blast covered the field in a thick fog for several moments. Sasuke took that moment to activate his Sharingan. Is it activated, he felt a stab of pain from the curse mark. He needed to end this quickly before he looses control.
Just as the fog was clear enough for him to make out Hinata and go on the attack again, she made the first move. "Water style: Water Dragon jutsu" A massive water dragon emerged and slammed into Sasuke, sending him flying back. "Woah, I can't believe Hinata is winning." Chouji exclaims, he new she was strong but this was unexpected. Shino nodded in agreement. "Naruto, how is Hinata using water jutsu in here?" asked Ino. "Well, she is a water type naturally, and at her current level of ability, she can take the water moloculs from the air and use them for her elemental justu." Naruto tells her.
Ino looks back at Hinata and yells "Your amazing Hinata. Show that jerk why girls rule." Hinata looks back at her friends and smiles. Naruto was right, she can do this. Sasuke picked himself up and was getting angry. He needed to distract her so he could move in and finish this. He lauched another fireball and Hinata once again created a water wall to defend herself while she pulled out another Kunai and prepared for the next attack. Just the, Sasuke appeared before her and kicked her into the air. After delivering a kick to the back, he landed another to her stomach causing her to smash into the ground.
He landed besides her and smirked. "Now to finish..." he was stopped mid sentence when Hinata dissapeared in a puff of smoke. 'A shadow clone?' he thought as tne kunai the clone dropped transformed into the real Hinata. Sasuke tried to move but it was to late. "Its over for you Uchiha. Protective 8 Trigrams, 64 Palm." she yelled as she started moving her hands before her creating a ever moving chakra web that shot out and slammed into Sasuke, sending him flying into the wall. When he didn't move, Hinata turned to Hayate.
"As it would appear Sasuke is out for the count, the winner is..." he din't finish as a wave of dark chakra filled the room. Several glowing markings appeared on Sasuke's body as he started to laugh. He vanished and reappeared before Hinata. Before she could react, he grabbed her by the kneck and lifted her up. He through a curse empowered punch into her stomach, causing her to cry out and start coughing up blood. Sasuke told Hayate to call the match in favor of him or the next punch will be to her heart and would kill her.
Asuma was holding Naruto back who was yelling to be let go, Hinata needed help. Sakura was scared as she had yet to tell Kakashi about what had happened for Sasuke's sake and now... Hayate looked back at the third who only nodded in hopes to get this under control. "Fine, the winner is Sasuke." The Uchiha smiled and said "Well Hinata, this was fun. And so to will this." He turned her around and before anyone could make a move, he slammed his super charged fist into her back causing her to scream in pain as a sound of bones snapping could be heard.
"HINATA" Naruto screamed as he wrenched himself from Asuma and shot down into the arena and charged Sasuke. "Let her go you bastard." he yelled. Sasuke just smiled and tossed her limb body to him before blast of pain hit him and he fell unconcious.
Naruto caught Hinata and held her close to him. Asuma, Shikamaru, and team 8 joined him along with Hayate and the 3rd. Sakura told Kakashi about what had happened in the forest and he went down, grabbed Sasuke and took him some where private to seal the curse mark. As he left, he told Sakura that they were going to have a talk later about when to bring up important stuff like this.
The med team arrived and a scan of Hinata revealed massive damage was done to her spinal cord, all her ribs were broken, and she had internal bleeding. They needed to get her to the opperating room now if she was to surrvive. Naruto started to follow when Asuma stopped him. "Naruto, where are you going? You still have your match to fight." "Like I care about some stupid title now. Hinata needs me and that's were I'm going to be." He start's to move again and Asuma stops him again.
"Naruto, if you go now, all you'll be able to do is just sit and wait. Besides, Hinata would want you to stay and win your match for her. And if you really want to get Sasuke back for this, then you'll have to remain in the fight, right?"
Naruto sighed as he looked back. "Fine. But once my match is done, I'm free to go to her, deal?" Asuma nooded as they all returned to the stands. Ino stood by Naruto with her hand on his shoulder. Sakura walked over and appalogized for what Sauke did and told them about the curse seal. "Sakura, even if the power he had was from that curse, his mind was still his own. So the next time you see him, tell him that when we fight, I'm going to df to him what he did to Hinata." It was then that the next fight was announced.
"Shikamaru vs Kin"
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Kakashi had taken Sasuke into a private room to place a seal over the curse mark. Orochimaru had shown up and informed him of his desire to have the power of the Byakugan and promised that one day, Sasuke would come to him in search of power. He left without incident.
Shikmaru managed to win his fight with Kin by using his shadow possession jutsu on her and having her hit her head against the wall.
Next up was Tenten vs Temari. Though Tenten unleased an attack consisting of thousands of kunai and shuriken against her opponent, Temari proved her own abilities by using her giant fan and wind chakra to negate all of they attacks and take the final win.
Next was Chouji vs Dosu. Chouji tried to end things quickly against his opponent so Naruto's fight could come sooner, but Dosu and his sound attacks were more than Chouji could handle.
Kankuro was up next against Kabuto and Yoroi's teammate (sorry, can't remeber his name) and won easily with his puppet Crow.
Shino vs Zaku was up next. Zaku got in some pretty good hits and looked to be taking the win easily, but Shino was just playing him and with the help of his insect's, Zaku would never have full use of his hands ever again.
Next up was Ino vs Sakura. Sakura was fighting for the pride of her team while Ino was fighting for the honor of a friend. It was a fierce clash that ultimately ended with a double knock out.
Next up was Lee vs Gaara. At first, Lee's attacks seemed to do little to the sand ninja as Gaara's sand would automaticle rise up and protect him. Guy gave Lee permission to remove his training weights and reveal his true power. With that done, Lee was able to land hit after hit, but nothing would keep Gaara down. with no other option and with Guy's permission, Lee opened 5 of the eight inner gates and gave Gaara the single bigest beating of his life. But even after all that, Garra still wouldn't fall. Unable to move cause of his attack, Lee was now completely vunerable.
Gaara used his sand to crush Lee's left arm and leg and was about to do the same to the rest of him but was stopped by Guy who couldn't see his pupil suffer anymore. Gaara won the fight.
Naruto felt bad for Lee, but he was also growing more and more angry at the wait for his turn. He was about to turn and just forget about what Asuma said when...
"And now for the final match, Naruto for Neji." said Hayate to everyone present. As Naruto made his way to the arena, his thought was only on one thing 'About damn time. I'm going to finish this quickly so I can go to her.'
The two came face to face in the arena. Hyate gave thrm permission to begin. However, Neji started to speak before Naruto could move. "If you are smart, you'll drop out right now. Otherwise, I wont be responcible for what happens to you."
Naruto growled at the very thought of quitting. "Oh yeah, and why is that, mister big shot?" Neji snorted at that remark.
"It's simple. You are inferior to me in every way. I am well aware of your status among the academy students. You were once called dead last. It may be hard to except, but you must understand that we are all born with a destiney to fulfill, a fate we can not escape. The world is made up of two people, the geniouses and the failures. You, I can tell, are of the latter. The same goes for Hinata too."
A dangerous look came into Naruto's eyes. "And what do YOU know about Hinata, Neji?" he made sure the venom in his voice was evident when he said "Neji". Neji smiled and stated "I know she was a loser like you. It was just luck that saved her from being branded with the curse seal. She should have know better than to take on a genious like Sasuke. Not that I like Sasuke mind you, but in my opinion, she got what she desevered. What ever her current medical condition, it was fated to happen. And besides, Hinata is a Hyuga so I know more about her than you can even imagine."
"That's all total bull and you know it." Naruto shouted. "You say you know her better than me? Who was it she's been living with for the last few years, huh? Me, that's who. And none of her family ever once came to see her. She has shared with me more than you can imagine. And as for Sasuke, if he hadn't used that weird power, she would have won and you know it. You talk of fate and destiney and how you should except what happens. Well, not me pal. I've always gone against the flow of the current and in doing so, I've become much stronger than I ever would've become going with the flow."
"Are you just going to keep yapping, or are we going to do this?" Neji asked. Naruto nodded as he shot forward and sent several kunai shooting torwards Neji. Neji sent his own to counter them. He and Naruto came to blows as Neji's gentle fist style collided with Naruto's stron fist style. Neji tried to sweep Naruto's leg, but Naruto jumped and spinned in mid air, grabbing Neji's leg, and pulling it out from under him. Naruto then tried to knee Neji in the stomach, but Neji pulled out just in time and sent a kick of his own into Naruto's face, sending him across the room.
'Strange, he's better than I thought he'd be. Still, if this is the best he can do, I'll still win easily.' Naruto stood up and decided to use that combination, even if he hadn't perfected it yet. "Sorry Naruto, but now is the time for me to stop playing. Byakugan." Neji yelled as he activated his blood limit. Naruto, too activated his "Reikigan." Neji could now see Naruto's chakra network and was actually impressed. For someone who was the laughing stock of the academy, he had a massive amount of chakra in his system.
Through the Reikigan, Naruto could perseive Neji's aura. He had learned that at certain times, you could tell what a person was about to do by the flow of their aura. But something was different. In addition to his aura, Naruto could also see several nodes on his body. He was confused for a second, then he remebered. 'Those must be the aura points.' If he remeber correctly, sending a certain amount of chakra into a aura point could result in interesting things happening depending on which point you hit. He racked his brain over what does what when Neji attacked.
Neji started striking at Naruto, who just barely dodged though he could still feel the chakra from the attacks slightly affecting him. For safety, he drew his kendo sword. Neji smiled and told him that won't help because "You are within range of my attack. 8 trigrams, 64 palm." He started to strike at Naruto who blocked each with his sword just barely but each hit caused cracks to appear. When Neji sent the final strike, he shattered the sword and hit Naruto in the chest and sent him flying again.
As Naruto picked himself up, cough up blood in the process, Neji watched with amusment. "I'm impressed. You managed to block all but one of my attacks. Even I thought that impossible. But I promise it won't work again." Naruto looked at him breathing heaviley. The sound of Ino and Chouji's cheering for him made him smile. "well, what can I say. With how my life was early on, you find you learn to do alot if stuff other's would never expect from you." Neji scowld and said "And what would you know of a hard life, failure?"
"More than you know. Hinata told me about what happened with your dad. In aways, its kinda my fault as I'm the one who killed the ninja that tried to kidnappe Hinata and your father was the one given up to the Cloud Village as payment. I know the feeling of being alone in the world, better than anyone. But I'm happy to say I found people to fill up my life now so I won't be alone ever again and its for them I will win." Neji became enraged "So it was your fault I had to loose my father. If you hadn't interfered, he'd still be alive and Hinata would have been saved before they would have defiled her."
Neji shot at Naruto preparing anothe 8 trigram attack. As he closed in, Naruto remebered which aura node he needed to hit for this to work, he just had to time it right. Neji arrived and started hitting him with all his anger "2 palm, 4 palm, 8 palm, 16 palm, 32 palm, 8 trigrams 64 palm" he yelled as he hit the final point on Naruto who fell to the ground. Confident in his victory, he turned to the Hyate and told him to call it, Naruto would need medical help. Just then, Neji's whole body went rigid. He started coughing up blood as he fell to his knee's. 'What the hell's happening to me?' he thought.
To his even greater surrprise, Naruto stood up, a little shaken but overal fine. "Wondering what happened Neji, I'll tell you. As you started to hit me, I pressed my index finger here" indicating a spot along his right rib cage. "I was able to send chakra into this point. Your Byakugan may be called the all seeing eye, but it can't see everything. I hit an aura point. To be more specific, the point that allows me to transfer any injury I recieve to the person I'm touching as long as I'm touch that person. So when you used 64 palm on me, all the chakra point blocking was happening to you instead. That's why you feel the way you do. Your own attack has defeated you. I'm just going to add the icing to this cake."
He jumps back and tosses a kunai into the air while saying "Kunai Shadow clone jutsu: Black Metal Rain." the single Kunai turned into 50 and landed on the ground all around Neji. "And now, Wind Style: Rapid Twister" he yelled as he started to spin around creating a cyclone inside the tower. Everyone had to grab onto something to keep from being blown away as the cyclone enveloped both Neji and the 50 cloned Kunai. Stuck within the center, Neji could do nothing but indure the pain as kunai after kunai shot past him, leaving cuts all across his body. After a minute, Naruto stopped and Neji hit the ground hard.
Hyate looked over Neji and determined he was finished with this fight. Naruto was declared the winner. As the med team came to get Neji, Naruto looked down and said "Neji, I am sorry for your father. I wish I could help him, but I can't. But don't tell me that you would have just stood there and done nothing to save Hinata if you'd have been there that night." Neji didn't respond because he knew it was the truth. He loved his cousin. Even if he could or would never show it, he did love her. Maybe more than he really should.
"Oh and for the record, I do believe in destiney and fate. I do believe we are all born with a destiney to fulfill, with a fate we are meant to have. But I don't believe that they are written in stone. We each have the power to alter our fates and destinies for the better or worse. The question is, are you willing to try. For me, the two types of people aren't the geniouses and failures, but those who except fate and destiney and those who fight it. I choose to fight and if in the end I fail, then so be it. There are plenty of things out there that are worse than deaf."
As Neji was taken to be looked at, he thought on Naruto's words. He had been wrong about Naruto and his fate in the fight. Could it be he was wrong about his path as well. It was something to think about.
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With the fighting now over, the 3rd called all passing Genin to him to begin the 3rd round selection, Naruto decided to stay just a little longer and find out who he was fighting and how long await till he could take Sasuke. "Listen up everyone, first things first. I need each of you to come up here and draw a number from the box and had it off to the person behind me.
Then, while the match ups are being chosen, I'll explain about the third round."
One by one, each genin walked up and took a number until only ine was left and it was handed if to the absent Sasuke. As they waited for the next match ups, the Hokage continued his explanation.
"Now the third round of the Chunin exam will be held in one month from today at the Leaf stadium. The reason for this is so we can send the necessary invitations to any parties such as our Daimyo of the Land of Fire a come and watch. The purpose of this is so you all can start earning recognition for your skills and abilities. Your future prospect's as a ninja could very well be alot easier with enough word of mouth about you being out there. Also, many of you may have used your best technique's to win so a month of training will allow you time to develop a new attack to use against the enemy."
Seeing as how no one appeared to have any questions so far, he continued. "Also, keep in mind that even if you make it all the way and win the 3rd round, there is a chance you may not make Chunin. The reason I say this is because the exam is designed to test to see if you possess both the mind and the power of a chunin. So you could loose your first match and still make it or go all the way and win it all but still stay a genin. All of you could make Chunin or then again, none of you could. It all depends on if you can prove you truly deserve to be made chunin."
Just then, Hyate walked up with the match ups. "cough Ok everyone, this is the 3rd round match ups in order, so listen well.
Round 1: Shino vs Kankuro
Round 2: Shikmaru vs Temari
Round 3: Naruto vs Sasuke
Round 4: Coyote vs Gaara
Round 5: Yoroi vs Dosu"
'Me against Sasuke in the third match, perfect.' Naruto thought as he smiled. With that, the Genin were released to do what was needed to prepare while their sensei's went to meet with the Hokage. Soon, in the Hokage tower, all the Leaf Jonin were gathered about what hadnhappened.
"Ok, the first matter of buisness. Kakashi, what is the current state of Sasuke?" asked the third.
"Well, I managed to place a seal over Orochimaru's curse mark and that should keep Sasuke from usin it for a time. However, if he becomes angry enough, the curse will temporarily over ride the seal and he'll go power mad again."
"Very well, I understand Kakashi. You should know that I am of the same mind as Naruto in believing he was not under the influence of the curse mark with his last attack against Hinata, but it was something he did just to anger Naruto, but as there is no way to prove that yet, I will allow him to continue into the exam for now."
Just then, an Anbuu appeared with a message for the third. After telling him, Sarutobi grew pale and concerned. "Is something the matter father?" asked Asuma.
"Indeed, I have just learned two shocking things. The first is that evidence has been found to indicate the selection computer for the preliminaries was slightly rigged. To be more specific, Hinata and Sasuke's fight was arranged to happen."
Everyone was shocked by this. "Do you have any ideas who could have done this and why?" asked Kurenai.
"I have my suspision's. I believe Danzo may have had a hand in this as only his men could pull this kind of stunt and get away without being caught in the act. And as for why, obviously is Danzo is behind this, then it was meant to get to Naruto. Danzo has more than expressed his interest in personally training the boy and is not happy the he has been able to find happiness, friends, and has created his own surrogate family with them. Danzo believes Naruto should be a mindless, heartless weapon for the good of all the Leaf Village."
"And Danzo might get his wish, though I'm sure that if that does happen, he'll live to regret it. And what of the other matter?" asked Asuma.
"As you all know, three Genin from the Hidden Light Village from the far north came to be in this Chunin Exam, which should be impossible. The Light village and all who lived there were wiped out during the last great war. Further more, after the Light shinobi Gaf and Peatra left the tower, I had an Anbuu follow them. As he followed, they passed through a tree line and vanished with no indication that they ever even existed. And the message I just recieved confirmed that there has been on Light Jonin walking around the village either. As it stands, Coyote is the only one who is actually here."
"Do you think he's working for Orochimaru?" asked Hyate.
"It's a possibility but I doubt it. There is something about him that says he's not our enemy, but he may not be an ally either. Hyate, I want you to to observe both Coyote and the sand ninja. I get the feeling their up to something as well"
Hyate nodd's.
"Unless there's anything else that needs discussing, then we'll end this meeting so you can go and prepare your students for what is to come."
At the hospital, Naruto was sitting in the waiting room, his hands locked together as he prayed for Hinata. Ino was right by him rubbing his back telling him not to worry. "Hinata's a strong girl thank's to you. She will pull through this, I just know it." Ino said to him as she reached over and kissed his cheeck. He thanked her. Shino, Shikamaru, and Chouji were there as well wondering what they could do to help. Even Sakura had comr to show Naruto her support, though in all honesty, her being there was also because Sasuke wasn't allowed any visitor's right now and Kiba was to annoying to be around cause of his ranting about how he was cheated out of a win. The fact the Naruto had come to help her in the forest had also chaged her opinion about him as well. She felt that maybe he and Hinata would be worth having as friends in her life.
Just then, a doctor came through the large double door's and asked for Naruto who walk up to the doctor along with the other's.
"How is she doctor? How's my Hinata doing?" he asked with a shaky voice. He was trying his best to stay calm and control, but after seeing her die at Myzuki's hand once and him reviving her as well as all those other close calls she's had inher short life, he wondered just how much more would she be expected to experience before she would be free from that crap.
"Well, she's in a critical, but stable condition right now. She will have to remain the the hospital for several weeks to make sure she recover's well. And you, at least, can go see her as she has you listed as her most immediate family. The other's will have to wait till a weeks past before she can have regular visitor's. However, there's something you should know."
"What's that doctor?" he asked getting more nervous.
"Well, we were able to heal most of her injuries, but I'm afraid the damage done to her spine is more than we are currently capable of handling. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but...."
"What, but what docter?" The fear and anger was evident in his voice.
"Hinata is paralyzed from the waste down. I'm afraid she'll never walk again."
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I know what all you Hinata fans are thinking "How in the hell could you do that to poor, sweet Hinata" or something to that affect. Trust me, I'm not happy either as she's my fav Naruto girl and in my top ten Anime/Manga/Game girl character's. The reason this happened though was because I need Naruto to really hate Sasuke both during their coming Chunin fight and the eventual Valley of the End fight. What will be come of Hinata though? I think you know.
Next time: Pervy sage, summoning, partner, test, the sword, and a book.
A/N2: If anyone is thinking that Neji might have romantic feelings torwards Hinata, don't worry, he dosen't. As a child when they first met, he might have felt puppy love for her. But now, or should I say in the future, he and her will become brother and sister in their dealings and relationship. Neji is in love with Tenten, though he's to proud to say it yet and Hinata as only one guy on her brain and heart and thats Naruto and it will be only Naruto.
And to those who have read Our Secret (it does not connect with this stories timeline), you may be wondering about what Jirayai meant when he said he had his own Hinata. I plan on sometime next year, probably late spring or early summer, doing a story called "Jiraiya's Hinata". Since Jiraiya was his generations Naruto, Tsunade was Sakura, and Orochimaru was Sasuke, I believe Jiraiya may have had his own Hinata. A shy, quiet, timid girl who has a monster crush on the guy. It would be the story on how they met, the things that happened between them, and what ultimately became of her and them as a poosible couple. If anyone is interested inreading this story, let me know as it might motivate me to do it sooner, like when I'm finished with Precious Bonds or something.