Part 8-Father…

"These are what I will wear to see my father," She was wearing a v-necked vest with a string vest underneath and a pair of ¾ length trousers that were looser then the ones she usually wore now. She had her kunai holder attached to her right leg; "This is what I wore when I used to train with him… when he had hopes for me…"

"Hinata, don't force yourself to…" He began to say, he wanted to reassure her but he honestly had no idea what to say.

"We should go now…" She smiled, but Kiba and Shino could both tell that she was really depressed.

They left the classroom, once they got to a forest-like area they started moving faster, moving from tree to tree, until they came to the home of the Hyuga clan. She looked around, the way they had come was crawling with guards, branch house Jounin. Figures, unlike almost every main house Hyuga, Hinata didn't like this separation of the branch house and the main house. She hoped there might be a way to dispel the 'bird in a cage' seal, as Neji had called it. He said it represented an inescapable destiny. Hinata hated it; she never really knew anything about it until Neji showed it to Naruto at the Chuunin exam. She didn't like the idea that they could be killed with one hand seal, simply because they were of lower social status than they were. She hated everything about her clan. She hated her byakugun eyes. She didn't really hate her eyes, so much as what they represented…

"There's no other way around it," She turned back to Shino and Kiba, "We're going to have to confront them."

"But they're Jounins!" Kiba looked at her in horror, she couldn't mean fight them

Hinata jumped out of the tree and beckoned to them to follow.

"Who are you?" one of the guards stopped her as she tried to go past

"Do you not recognise me?"

"No." another guard stated, "You have the Hyuga eyes but we don't recognise you, you must be of the branch house."

"I am not"

"We don't believe you," The first guard added, he put his hand to her forehead and lifted up her fringe, "no… no seal!" He was clearly shocked that she didn't have the seal on her forehead

"I told you, I am of the main house."

"Our apologies ma'am," the second guard said as all the guards bowed to her

"D-don't, please stand up…" the power had gone from Hinata's voice, obviously this had thrown her off a bit, "you… you don't need to apologise, you are only doing your job" She started to walk off and was stopped by the guard again,

"Hiashi-sama doesn't allow outsiders"

"He will for me…" She walked away, another guard called out to her as she walked away

"How can you be so sure?"

She carried on walking then stopped. She looked over her shoulder at the guards, "he will… because he is my father…" She walked on a bit and stopped suddenly. Kiba, who wasn't paying attention to where he was going, walked straight into Hinata.

"Idiot…" Shino sighed under his breath

"You two…" Hinata began to say, still with her back to them, "you can go back if you want… this is your final chance to go back…"

"We're not just gonna leave you Hinata!" Kiba shouted, the entire village could probably hear him, "we're here to protect you, so that's what we're gonna do!"

"Indeed," Shino agreed, "of course with him as a bodyguard I doubt it'd be much help…" He mumbled under his breath, forgetting about Kiba's beast mimic

"What was that Shino?"

"Now isn't the time to pick a fight with your comrades Kiba," Shino quickly shrugged off Kiba's threats, which were probably just to lighten the mood

Hinata led them to a dojo and stopped at the door, she listened for a second. There were shouts coming from the inside.

Familiar shouts.

"KILLING INTENT! You have to come at me with killing intent or you'll never beat me!"

Hinata performed a familiar set of hand seals, "Byakugun!" This was probably what she used her byakugun for the most, as well as being able to see chakra and the chakra pathways in a person's body, it could also be used to see through solid objects like wood, metal… people, anything organic, like humans and animals, was harder to see through, but it could be done.

"What do you see?" Shino asked

"Father… Hana-chan…"

"Who's Hana?"

"My sister…" She looked through the wall again, the scene was familiar; she remembered being in that position many times herself. Hanabi lunged at her father, kunai in hand. Hiashi dodged the attack easily but was caught off-guard by another kunai that she had thrown using her chakra.

"Let's go…" she got up and released her byakugun. She walked to the door and slid it open. She looked inside and realised that her sister and father hadn't noticed her, either that or they just didn't care. Shino and Kiba came over and stood either side of Hinata, at which point her father stopped dead in his movements and looked at her.

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A/N-I'm pretty sure there are people who will want to flame me for these next few chapters, please try to refrain yourself