A/N: I did this in my blue Cattleya notebook in class so it's kind of crappy... ummm... a HinaRu pairing (Rukawa X O.C.) this is still in progress, so... blah... just R&R please!! Hinata's family tree is in my website... (Her tragic past) you'll find the address if you click on my penname up there. ^^ Please visit it so you would understand the story more!!



"Never, Ever and Forever"

Hinata almost went insane because of her tragic past. She would have been in the mental hospital if not for a little raven-haired boy that helped her a long time ago... his name, was Kaede.



-Prelude-



*Flashback*

"Hey kid, why are you crying?"

"..." The little girl said nothing, she just continued crying.

"..." He stared at the weeping girl intently and sat beside her.

"All of them are." She started, but didn't continue.

"Are...?" The boy asked.

"Dead..." She replied.

"Who are dead?"

"My... family... my brother and sister... my mother..."

"What about your dad?" He asked, quite concerned.

"I don't have a father." She replied coldly.

"I'm... sorry... but I'll be here to help you!" He smiled.

She smiled... a smile sweeter than the sweetest rose. She smiled a smile she could never forget. She smiled for the first time ever.

*End flashback*

'I wonder where he is now...' The present fourteen-year-old Hinata thought while she tossed in bed one night... like all of the other nights, she was thinking of him. That little boy she met exactly nine years ago.

It was her birthday when she ran away... her fifth birthday... also when she found her mother's dead body on the ground. 'Suicide...' She thought. 'She killed herself...' 'Was it because of me?' 'Or my brother?' 'He died too... I won't forget that...' 'Damn tuberculosis...' "Perfect birthday..." she sarcastically told herself.

*Flashback*

"Do you really have to go?" A crying girl asked.

"My dad told me so..."

"Why?" She said through her tears.

"He says it's for his new job in Tokyo..."

"But... you're my best friend!"

"You're my best friend, too... if I move, I'll never smile again." He said as he held her hand.

"I'll miss you..."

"I... I... I love you..." he blushed and ran away after saying those three last words that Hinata ever heard from him.

*End flashback*

'That was just after a year I had met him.' 'Exactly three hundred sixty four days... again, perfect birthday...' 'Now, its my birthday, once more... I wonder what will happen to me this year?' 'At least I've moved already... away from all my memories of that boy... I even forgot his name now... new house... new school... new life...'

'Too bad I never got to say I loved him too.'

Those were Hinata's last thoughts before she finally fell asleep.