ANOTHER WORLD

CHAPTER 10

BY BLACKMAMUTH

Hinata entered the meeting room, where usually the village council meetings took place. It was a nice room in the third floor of the village administration building. The walls were decorated with pictures of the previous hokages, and a big table with the leaf symbol engraved on it filled most of the room.

There were some of konoha traditional dishes served on it, the dishes were steaming, and looked delicious. There were three people already seated in the table, apparently waiting for her, but she couldn't recognize them, because they were giving their back to the door. That told her that they weren't shinobis. No self respecting shinobi would sit giving his blind spot to a door. Only a hyuuga and their 360º degree vision would do that… Well, perhaps Naruto would do that too…

There was also a pair of jounin ranked shinobis guarding the room, she the warmness enveloping her body. One of them was Naruto, who was obviously staring at the dishes in the table, he was drooling. Hinata felt a little pity for him. She knew how Naruto liked food, and staying in presence of some of the best delicacies konoha had to offer without being allowed to taste them, would be a cruel torture.

Thee other Konoha shinobi was chouji. If naruto was drooling at the food, Chouji was downright eating it with his eyes. The poor man looked like a sad puppy that had his favourite treat denied. Hinata promised herself to give him a bag of cookies that she stored in her desk.

She took seat in the hokage seat, and finally discovered who the guest was. The son of the fire daimyo and his wife. The future leaders of fire country and principal income source of the leaf. After all, more than half of shinobi missions that konoha had been requested by the fire daimyo and his administration. If someone of the ruling family of konoha were to stay on the leaf, they had to treat them on the highest respect. She still remembered the bad situation that the sand passed those years ago when the wind daimyo started giving his missions to konoha, the direct consequence of that was the drastic funding shortage that the sand suffered, and the obvious decrease of their ninja power as a village in the long run.

She reviewed all those politics in her head. Having the future daimyos in Konoha was something to worry about…

The future daimyos were just married, and by the looks of it, happily married. The son of the daimyo was a young man in his late twenties, and he showed signs that he will become bald in the near future.

His wife did not resemble his mother; indeed, the daimyo wife was a fat woman, who always used too much makeup. She was always in company of a big brown cat Named Tora, who had the habit too flee her mistress, hugs and pitiful life regularly. (Not that she minded, it was a regular source of income, and D ranked missions for the village.

But the woman in the table was the total opposite of that woman. She was a beautiful redhead; she wore a violet kimono, with a spiral pattern in gold. She was very calm too, which was somewhat strange, because when people entered a ninja village, always seemed to stay very alert, like waiting for an attack. A foolish fear, really, murdering your clients wasn't a good thing for business.

The third occupant of the table was a little girl. She was wearing exactly the same kimono than her mother, and she had green eyes and short red hair. She was looking at her with wide eyes, absorbing every movement she made.

She seated without saying anything. Being raised as the heir of the most important, powerful and influential clan of the leaf, she had an excellent education in manners and etiquette.

And the little girl asked her mother in a loud voice. "MOM, MOM! Is that Hyuuga Hinata, Hokage of the hidden leaf?" She said while analyzing her.

The young woman seemed horrified, that outburst from her daughter broke a pair of important etiquette rules. The woman whispered to the little girl," yes, dear, but please, behave, this is a formal meeting, you don't want your father too look bad in front of your grandfather?"

Normal people would have missed the whispers between mother and daughter, but Hinata was not normal people, she was a shinobi, and even if she couldn't hear (which she could) what the woman said, she could have read her lips.

The little girl looked again at her, analyzing her features. Her face in deep concentration. After a few seconds, she seemed to have reached a conclusion, and relaxed her features and shouted." SHE ISN'T THE LEGENDARY HYUUGA HINATA! SHE'S TOO SHORT, THE TRUE HINATA SAMA IS TWO METERS TALL, AND COULD KILL FASTER THAN YOU COULD SAY "HELLO"! THAT WEIRDO CAN'T BE HINATA-SAMA!"

Everyone in the room sweatdropped. Hinata could see a pissed off Naruto in the corner of her eye, clearly annoyed at the outburst of the little girl.

The two other adults of the table looked now scandalized, and they were nearly panicking. Well, Hinata could understand them. No one in his right mind insults a kage in front of him. She smiled at the little girl; effectively dispelling the fears that their parents had that she had taken offence for the outburst of the girl.

"Hitomi-kun, apologize immediately to Hokage-sama" the man finally said. It was evident in his voice, that he was extremely angry at her child, and that she was going to get a piece of his mind when they finished the dinner.

The little girl answered his father "but papa! She can't be the legendary Hinata-sama, can't you see? She doesn't look like she could defeat those akatsuki that you told me!.

Hinata was standing in the gentle fist stance in front of three figures covered in black cloaks with red clouds. Without warning, those three charged at her, and a second before they made contact with her, she spinned, performing a flawless kaiten, and throwing the three enemies away from her. In a heartbeat, she stopped, and charged at them, still flying because of her kaiten. She shouted 1024 points of hakke. And she moved faster than she previously believed possible, sealing their charka points even before they meet the ground.

The man snapped. "ENOUGH!" "she is Hyuuga Hinata, sixth hokage of Konoha, legendary medic nin, head of the hyuuga house, the one who stopped the Akatsuki, the one who made possible the peace negotiations with the rock country, and a handful of other situations. And you insult her in her home? Are you INSANE?" The man was red with fury, glaring angrily at his daughter.

Hinata answered"I don't mind, Mr.Hokami, really". The man seemed to calm, but he still glared at the little girl, who was trying to disappear in her chair, knowing that she overstepped her limits.

Hinata tried to change the conversation, to save the little girl attention. So she asked "how is it that you are visiting the leaf? I thought that your family usually avoided visiting the leaf, when we usually deal with your security minister"

The man ignored her, he was still busy glaring at the little Hitomi, if you looked at the little frightened girl, it was obviously that she got the point, and that she was going to shut up for the rest of the meal, so her mother, trying to defuse the potential scandalous situation, she said:"oh, we are here in representation of the daimyo, to attend this afternoon event, the marriage of the fifth Hokage and the toad sannin Jiraya."

Hinata looked at the women, the new information she received, entering her mind. Yes, she always knew that those two liked each other, but never acted on it. Seeing those two together were finally good news, these two had seen more than their share of pain and suffering. A sudden image entered her mind.

She was a little younger, in the icharaku ramen with naruto at her side. They were holding hands, and Naruto was paying more attention to her than his ramen. There were the rest of the rookie nine waiting to hear what she was going to say. It was unusual, in the other timeline, she dreaded speaking in public, it terrified her, but in there, she could see herself speaking normally! Well, not normally, she could see herself looking at Naruto to her side in reassurance, and a hint of nervousness in her voice, but speaking in public was out of character to her!

She then said: "the plan is the following; we will tell Tsunade that Jiraya has something to tell her, and we will point her to chouji family restaurant…

The dinner continued without incidents, well, the only incident was chouji using his ninja skills without the guests noticing anything to steal and eat half the meal. But since it was really abundant, no one noticed it.

Suddenly, a noise was heard, and the doors opened wide with a loud crack. In there was an angry Uchiha Sasuke, who, silently, approached her, he wore a konoha police commander uniform, and his jounin flak jacket in top of it. His mastered sharingan was activated and glaring at her. He stopped in front of her and asked, in a cold voice that was obviously showing his barely contained anger, "Hokage-sama, why are you having my wife followed?"