"I heard you the first time." I laughed and smile as Naoto joined me on my bench.
"You know Aoi and the others are having a fit cause you left the hospital with out telling anyone." I laughed and sat back on the bench staring at the clouds through the green covered tree branches.
"You don't care do you? And you want to let me know what so Kami damn funny?" I turn to him and give him the biggest smile and he looks surprised.
"I'm happy Naoto-kun. Even if its this peaceful here for this moment only it made me happy." Naoto looked at me weirdly before sighing.
"Appearances can be deceiving Hinata-chan. You've been in a coma for four and a half months and a lot has changed. People come here everyday wanting refuge and we give it but we are running out of room. Samurai and Shinobi and the rest of the lands are breathing down are necks. Its only a matter of time before our luck runs out. You weren't here the first time they crushed the rebellion." Naoto looked so sad and tired. I stand up and I hold my hand out to him and he takes it with out even a second thought.
"It's going to be ok, trust me. I'm sorry you had to bare this weight alone but I'm here now so we will bare it together. No matter what comes our way we will over come it because we have something to fight for, our freedom. So just take in the moment my friend and enjoy it and remember what your fighting for and that your never alone."
Naoto smiles and laughs quietly at me before standing up.
"Well said Hinata-sama." I look over Naoto's broad shoulders to see Moshi and the others looking at us.
"So lets have a meeting and figure some things out and maybe the burden will be a little bit lighter?" I smile at everyone and everyone agrees except Aoi.
"You are still on bed rest Hinata-chan! Do expect me to let you just throw out all the progress you have been making? Absolutely not!" Instead of fighting her I just laugh and tell her we will have the meeting in my hospital room tomorrow morning. She doesn't like it but she knows it's the best she will get out of me. So I head back to my room escorted by Naoto, Aoi, Moshi and the others. My escorts make a path for me through the crowd and everyone stops to see what the commotion is. I stop and go the side to meet some of the people who have come to our village.
"Good morning. How are you liking the village?" I bow to the man and he bows back quickly looking shocked.
"Good. Thank you." I smile at him and turn to the next person.
"Good morning are you having any problems that I can help you with?" The older woman narrows her eyes.
"What can a child like you do for me?" I look deeply into her eyes and answer her the best I could.
"Listen and learn from you." The older woman blinked.
"Your generation is covered in blood and greed so what do you know about listening and learning?" Her voice was bitter and I knew why.
"Your right. I hardly remember a time where I wasn't fighting for something and even now I fight. I fight samurai from walking the landing unbound by any law and I stand in front of my own kind because of it. So your right I'm covered in blood because I fight for you and every person who comes here for a better life. What I hear is a cry for help and I learned what would happen if I ignored it." The older woman nodded her head and bowed.
"Who are you?" I smiled at her and raised my head.
"Hinata Hyuuga." Her eyes widened and she bowed deeper but I held her up.
"I am just a Shinobi who is fighting in this war, not some mythical being." Then I bowed to her. I moved on to the next person and then the next person till I needed my rest and was sent back to the hospital.
"Wakey wakey Hinata-chan!" I opened my eyes to see the smiling face of Emi who pulled me out of bed to dress me.
"You know I could get dressed myself you know."
"Nope, I wouldn't you to strain yourself besides I want your opinion on something." I roll my eyes and sit back down on my bed.
"Do I get a choice?" She laughs and says no.
"Hinata-chan did you have a sister?" I looked at the now guilty looking Emi.
"Hai she was five years younger then me and we weren't really close." Emi frowned at me.
"Hinata-chan that's terrible! You should have looked out for her, don't you think that was selfish of you!" I sighed and rubbed my tired eyes.
"I was forbidden to go near her as my family feared my weakness would spread like a disease. So in order to cement that my younger sister would never want to be near me they taught her to hate me. Sometimes with that much hate it destroys everything." Emi looked stricken.
"I'm so sorry I didn't know. You never talk about your life before us so I mean I had no idea-" I cut her apologies off with a wave of my hand.
"It is in the past and they are all dead so do not worry over something like that. You want my opinion on something so just say it." Emi nodded and fiddled with one of the many flower arrangements in my room.
"I have fallen in love with someone." I raise my eyebrow at her wondering where I come in.
"Though I did not mean to because he is so off limits. I couldn't help it after all the time I spent with him and got to know him. See I know somebody else who has been in love with him since like forever and I don't want to lose her. Is he even worth it? Maybe I should forget him…but I can't. I feel so bad and so guilty but I love him." She looked to me and I wished she didn't ask me about this topic.
I thought about Naruto and Sakura at this moment and I wondered if this is what Sakura felt like. Did she seek advice from someone else? Did she listen or did she do what her heart told her to do?
"Emi-chan in life you are going to hurt people whether you mean to or not but love does not come along everyday. The question is what are you going to risk in order to hold on to that love. I can't tell you what to do Emi because I don't know either. That is something you have to decide for yourself." She sighed and plopped herself on the chair pouting a me.
"That's what I thought you say. Hinata-chan have you ever been in love?" I smiled at her and started eating my breakfast.
"Oh come on! I told you about me so it's only fair you tell me about you! I promise I will keep it to myself." Somehow I knew she would never stop picking at me so I decided to tell her.
"Twice. The first guy I had been dating for awhile and we were out on a mission and so we split up. I went to catch a wayward rogue Shinobi and Naruto and my best friend Sakura went to catch the other three. It was raining and I was an idiot, instead of finding shelter I went to find them, I found them alright. In the back of my mind I knew about them I just didn't want to believe that they could do that to me. Everyone in the village knew and because they didn't want me to get hurt so they didn't tell me but then they all started avoiding me. I felt like I didn't belong in that stupid village so I left the mission and disappeared for two weeks."
Emi looked pissed off.
"What a jackass. Your best friend? Yeesh I hope the second guy turned out better." I laughed at her before I started telling her about Sasuke.
"Well the night before I returned home I had been living in a cave. There was a really bad storm and so low and behold Sasuke showed up. Sasuke egged me about Naruto and Sakura but on the other hand he made a fire and gave me some of his food. By the time he found me I was so frozen that I felt nothing anymore and I was doubting that I could go on. He sat beside me then and shared his body heat and where he touched me I felt like I was on fire. So in my greed I wanted more and so I took it, well we both took what we wanted maybe more then we intended. In one night I had given him everything yet I still walked away in the morning." I was in la la land so when Emi smacked my on the head I jumped.
"What was that for?" She rolled her eyes and smacked me again.
"Why the hell did you leave him?"
"I went back to the village and when I arrived I was accused of giving information to the enemy so my Hokage stripped away my Shinobi rights and I left the village only to come back."
"Why didn't you leave to be with this Sasuke guy?" She said it like it was the most logical thing in the world.
" I stayed because they asked me to help them and I couldn't ignore them. Sasuke was the enemy and I was standing in his way of getting the revenge he always wanted. Even now we are on different sides as he fights with Kakashi and I fight for…"
"Us." I shrug my shoulders and continue eating my breakfast. The silence is broken by Naoto coming in with an arm full of paperwork. He looks up and is surprised to see Emi.
"I thought Mai was taking care Hinata-chan and you were finishing up the paperwork from the river incident?" I studied Emi and watched the dreamy look she got on her face as Naoto waited for an answer from her. I sighed knowing there was drama ahead of me if Emi was in love with the guy her sister was also in love with.
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