Third Person, First Person:
Summary: Hinata kills herself, eleven chapters, each of the characters views on their side of the story. Last chapter will have what really happened. For Brian, my brother. You'd better read this! –grr--
Chapter one: Neji
Disclaimer: Iso do own Naruto. He is mine. Yep... that Naruto, he can't be more owned by me. It's not possible to own a person more than I own Naruto. Ok, I'm lying.... Don't sue me.
I never expected it to be this way. I didn't even know that she was considering it. But there she was, floating there in the bath tub. Blood and water mingled together. Her eyes, so blank and white, staring blankly up at the ceiling.
I didn't know whether I should first throw up or cry, but both happened.
"HIASHI SAMA!" I screamed.
"Neji san?" he said blankly, waling over to me, and then when he saw the tub, he pushed me aside and ran over to her dead body.
"No... NO! Hinata!" he began crying, holding her dead body to his, and stroking her wet hair.
"Hinata..." he said again. I let the tears fall freely, not afraid to show them.
"N-Neji... do you know of anything that might've... caused this?" Hiashi asked. I shook my head, trying to think.
((Flash back 1))
Three days before the suicide:
"Neji nii-san?" Hinata came up to me, "May I ask you for something?"
I looked up, annoyed at being disturbed from my rest.
"Ask away, while you're at it, force me to clean your house, train you, and baby sit your sister," I spat. Her eyes welled up.
"I just w-wanted some advice," she said, and bent her head down. She turned and walked away.
"On what?" I called after her.
"N-never mind." She muttered. I shrugged it off, and got back to sleeping.
((Flash Back 2))
Two days before the suicide:
She came in the room, her face angry.
"Hinata?" I asked. She glared at me. It didn't happen often, but I had known not to mess with my cousin when she was angry.
"What!?" she asked, "Am I bothering you?" she spat.
"No, I want to know what's bothering you, nee-chan." I told her. She scoffed,
"You sure didn't care when it would have actually helped!" she yelled sternly.
"G-gomen..." I apologized.
"What ever," she muttered.
"What ever happened Hinata..." she interrupted,
"...I know, it was destiny." She sneered. I sighed, and got up, leaving her alone.
"HEY!" she yelled, I looked back at her, raising one eyebrow.
"While your avoiding me, you may as well wallow in your little pool of misery because your dad died seven years ago!" she mocked.
"Ok, I will!" I said sternly.
I left the living room and went to my own room. What was bothering her?
((Change POV, Naruto, first person))
The phone rang. I ignored it, watching the ramen noodles slowly soften. The message machine caught. A shaky voice said,
"Naruto... its Neji. Hinata is dead. She killed herself. I know you two talked like, two days ago, you have to tell me what happened. Call me back. The number is (985) 1234-567 (made up #). --BEEP--"
Hinata... dead. Suicide. Why? Why? I took the ramen off the stove and subconsciously stirred in the powder as my mind wandered back to a few days ago.
((Flash back))
Two days before Hinata's suicide.
"Hinata chan! Guess what! GUESS WHAT!" I was so excited to tell someone, I knew Hinata would be so happy for me.
"Eh? What Naruto Kun?" she asked. He smiled widely.
"Sakura got over Sasuke! And she and I are now dating!"
"... Naruto, I'm... happy for you," she smiled, tears welling up in her eyes.
'Oh that's sweet, she's so happy for me, she's crying,' I thought. She turned around and started to walk away, but then she turned back to him.
"I thought maybe you would get over her, and finally stop being so... thick. You know that if Sasuke ever gets a little BIT of ice chiseled away from his heart, she'll go straight on back to him," she whispered.
"... You're wrong," I said.
"I'm not... Naruto, you're blind! You always notice the people that hate you, never the people that love you!"
"Hinata..." I stepped closer to her, she turned.
"G-get away from me," she told me. I blinked.
"Hinata, you are too much of a friend to like... in that way."
"So is Sakura," she muttered angrily.
"Not as much of a friend as you are, you'll always be there for me. If Sakura dumps me, I'll have your shoulder to cry on,"
"Oh, aren't I lucky?" she said, and then walked away.
Was it just me, or had she seemed sad even before I told her...?
((End Flash back))
I grabbed the phone and pounded in the number.
"Hyuuga," Neji's voice answered.
"It's Naruto,"
"Good. Um, please meet me somewhere..."
"If we meet at a restaurant, you have to buy me food." I told him.
"Hinata is dead. I think we have a little more important thing to worry about than your stomach."
"Right. Then we probably shouldn't meet a restaurant, then."
"Just... go to the academy." He ordered.
"Ok!" Naruto said, and threw down the phone. He put his ramen into a cup, and then head out the door.
"Naruto. You talked with Hinata a couple days ago, right?"
"Yeah. She seemed sad before I talked to her, she seemed sadder afterwards," I told him.
"Nice choice of vocabulary. Sadder?" Neji said. Then he cleared his throat, "What did you guys talk about?"
I told him the flash back you just read. Or that you skipped over... anyways, he found out what had happened.
"Do you know who she had seen that day?" Neji's voice was a hurried rush.
"Umm, Shino and Kiba? Akamaru too, probably,"
"Thank you." He stood up.
"I wanna' come with you. I feel responsible." I told him. He glared at me, but then sighed.
"Ok."
We walked for a bit until I asked,
"I thought you disliked Hinata. Yet, you're the one who's trying to figure out why she killed herself..."
"I thought it was my fault that she did it. And I didn't dislike Hinata; everyone assumed I did because I beat her up once."
"Sorry," I said. We stayed silent, walking to Kiba's house.
"I'm starting to doubt fate," he said finally, "Maybe, if I had just talked to her before it happened or if had noticed that she hadn't come out of the bathroom yet..." his voice was shaking. I didn't know what to say. For once in my life I was quiet. I stared uncomfortably at the ground; Neji was staring there as well. I knew the look in his face, the look people get when their trying not to cry. I stepped closer to him and hugged him.
"...It's not your fault Hinata died. We'll find out why she killed herself. It's nobody's fault and everyone's fault." I said. I was talking complete bullshit. I didn't know what I was saying, and on top of that I was confusing myself. He stayed silent, standing there rigid and uncomfortable.
"I should probably let go..." I said, looking up at his face. He nodded.
We continued walking. I was really only doing this so I could make myself feel good. If other people had made her depressed, it means that it wasn't completely my fault.
Yeah, this is for my brother. He's my role model, and he hates fan fiction. He gave me a guideline I had to follow in order for him to read my fanfic. So, yeah, hope you enjoyed this Brian. Those of you who aren't Brian, please review and tell me if I should continue this. Pairings MAY turn out to be Neji/Naru.... Maybe.
