Summary:

He saved her. Him saving her is all it took for this infection, this parasite of obsession, jealousy, and... love, to fester deep within her soul.

He should've walked away, shouldn't have saved her. Now he's left in the clutches of this addicting, obsessive love eating away at his sanity.

RTN Universe, Slow-burn

The insults lingered in the air, the small girl beginning to lose her composure, tears spilling out against her will. "Ew, you look creepy." Repeating the same insults. She wondered what she had done wrong to these boys. Quiet, Fragile Hinata would never do a thing to deserve this from anyone. The bullies didn't care though, they just continued to throw out whatever mean words they could come up with in their small minds. "Don't look at me, your eyes are weird!" Wiping her tears she willed herself to stand up straight and be strong, for people like them did not deserve to see her like this.

He watched the whole situation unfold, the way she stood there as they slandered who she was, the way her eyes shook as tears pushed past her eye sockets, the way her will returned to her and she stood tall wiping the tears away. He didn't care that she was getting bullied, he was only intrigued by her lack of defense to the bullies, all she did was stand there not saying a single word. Once she began to stand tall he figured he could stop the whole thing, only because he was bored of course, not because he cared.

Blonde tresses made their way into her view, confusion etching onto her pale features. His backside to her, the bullies began to speak. "Who are you?" He didn't respond, only proceeded to knock them unconscious. Hinata's white orbs grew with surprise as she began to question, "T-t-thank you..." He turned towards her further taking her breath away as she ogled his bright blue irises. "I didn't do this for you, they just annoyed me." His cold tone pricked her. Before she uttered another word, he left, in almost an instant, she could barely see his movements.

Hinata Hyuga, after that incident Hinata slowly began to grow a backbone to never let herself be made a fool like that again. She became aggressive, short tempered, and extremely selfish. Some thought it due to the fact of her being an heiress and her father's extreme coldness towards her. She didn't care for that, she did this for herself, she craved strength and power. She never wanted to feel weak again, of course she still kept tabs on her former savior, she found his name to be Menma Namikaze, son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. He was apart of her graduate year at the academy and she let it be known to all the girls who admired him, that he was hers even if he didn't know it yet.

Menma Namikaze caught himself watching the Hyuga many times after that incident, she had grown as time went by, be it for better or worst, but she was completely different than she was before. At least she was to those around her, for him though, he could see the girl he saved still, she just grew in character to a person he didn't necessarily dislike. He himself was cold, strong, and had an admirable background due to who his parents were, so beginning the academy he gained admirers quite fast, though he lost them just as fast. Of course, he knew the reason why, but he didn't bother with her, as long as she didn't cause him personal problems, he was grateful she could get rid of such nuisances for him.

It was graduation time, everyone in their year was being named a genin finally. Hinata walked up to the front of the class performed the tests needed and passed with flying colors. No one was surprised for she was the Hyuga heiress after all. She sat at her seat boredom washing her features as she waited for everyone to go, of course she felt the pair of eyes burning into her back, but she ignored upon seeing Menma stand up and walk ahead to perform the tests.

Graduation was a quick scene for Hinata, since the only performances to catch her interest were her own and Menma's of course. The classroom emptied quickly with all the happy children impatiently running to tell the good news to their parents, Hinata took her time gathering her things, so she could watch Menma leave. As he walked out, she grabbed her things and finally began to make her way out before she felt someone grab her arm. "Hinata?" She didn't have to turn around to know who it was, she felt him burning holes in her skull all class. "Yes, Sasuke?" She turned her body to face his, he was a bit taller than her, so she raised her head to make eye contact.

Menma always took his time after class to gather his things before meeting his parents outside, today wasn't any different. The fact that he made genin wasn't anything to fuss over, both his parents and himself knew he'd make it, plus he couldn't rush his after-class pass time. Slowly putting his things away as all the kids left class except for a certain indigo haired beauty. He'd never admit it, but he did this on purpose, though they didn't talk, the silence between them was comfortable.

Today though, someone else stayed, Menma stayed the amount of time he normally did. He left not wanting Hinata to realize this was a purposeful act every day. When he turned the corner out of the doorway, he slowed his walk and strained his ears. He heard Hinata begin to leave and be stopped. Once the conversation began inside he stopped his movements to not stray from earshot.

She watched as he directed his eyes to hers, white orbs meeting pitch black. "Would you spar with me sometime?" right as his words left his mouth, she felt a flare in chakra coming from the hallway, it was instant, but she's sure Sasuke felt it too since they both turned towards the hall then back to face one another. Hinata knew who the chakra surge came from. Which only caused a smirk to take place on her face. Sparring with an Uchiha didn't sound like a bad idea, not only that, but feeling that flare up just now she felt it might be beneficial to her to take up his offer, if only to make a certain Namikaze react. "Yeah, just let me know when." she replied the most innocent look morphing her features.

A/N: This is a short chapter just to start this story off, the rest of the chapters will be longer, I just wanted to see how this did, anyways leave feedback please, have a great day!