A/N: I never had any intention of writing multiple chapters of this, even after multiple people had asked it of me. However, after reading through it a few more times, I felt a bit unfulfilled, so I'll continue this for a bit and see how far it goes… With any hope, you'll enjoy it as much as you enjoyed the first chapter.

Violet-Eyed Monster

He reached out a hand to her, as if to lead her to safety. She saw his hand as an instrument of pain. She saw his existence as the ultimate tool of destruction. "Stay away from me," she hissed as she backed away from him and into the corner.

"Hinata, please…"

"Don't come any closer. I'm not afraid of you anymore, Uzamaki." The veins around her eyes flared; she had grown strong, and she was not scared to fight anymore.

"Please stop, Hinata-chan…" he implored.

"NO!" She screamed it out of anger. She screamed it out of sadness. She screamed it out of fear. "Do not call me that anymore! Who gave you the right to call me that? You never had the right to call me that!"

He continued to walk toward her. "Hinata, please stop this madness now. I'm sorry"-

"LIAR!" She swiped at a Tenketsu.

Naruto stumbled back a few steps as he felt the blow from her strike. "Dear gods, she's serious," he thought. He had no choice but to fight her if wanted to get through to her. It was the last thing he wanted to do, but he summoned his chakra and prepared for battle.

Without wasting time, Hinata attacked again. Naurto did his best to fend off her anger, but she had a distinct target in mind, and nothing was going to get in her way. He felt her miss her target by mere centimeters. She was aiming for his heart.

"Do you plan on killing me, Hinata? Will that do you any good?" Naruto asked

"You will be gone, never to haunt me again," Hinata spat. "Never to hurt me again," she thought. It was all his fault. Everything was his fault. Once he was gone, she would be free to live again. She screamed and charged at him.

"I HATE YOU!"

---

"I love you…"

Hinata blushed furiously as her blue-eyed lover cooed these three words into her ears. "N…Naruto-kun…" she murmured as she played with her hands. "Please don't." She sat on the swing set where she had watched him wallow in loneliness as children. It was now their place of meeting.

"It is a legacy signed in the blood of my forbearers. I must leave the village for five years and train so that I may one day rise to the head of the Hyuuga house. I won't ask you to wait for me when I return."

He gently took her hands so that she would stop fiddling. "We still have three months before you must leave Hinata-chan. Besides, I would wait for you until the end of time."

Hinata closed her eyes. "Even if it is a lie, just let me live it a little longer," she prayed silently. She opened her eyes and her mouth for a fleeting moment, ready to say something. She closed them again as Naruto closed his lips around hers.

…

"Stay away from Nee-chan!" Neji commanded. The veins around his eyes were flared, and his charka surrounded him like a violent blue inferno.

"I love her, Neji. How dare you accuse me of trying to hurt her," Naruto said angrily. The kyubi's chakra began to erupt from him.

Neji smirked. In a blink of an eye, their fight began. "You're 16-years-old; what do you know of love?" He struck a tenketsu in Naruto's shoulder, but Naruto punched Neji in the stomach, causing him to double over. Neji reeled a bit, but he only laughed and stood again. "I know you, Uzamaki Naruto. You have a heart of gold, and you mean well, but these childish things aren't meant to last. You're naïveté will kill her."

"I'm not being naïve! I know I love her!" Naruto declared. He attacked

"Oh?" Neji asked as he shielded himself from the onslaught. "Then why haven't you proposed to her?" Naruto froze, giving Neji just enough time to force him to the ground. He laughed again. "That's right, Naruto. You won't propose because you don't want to be committed to her. You love her now, but what about in five years' time?"

Suddenly, Neji took a loose stance. Naruto's eyes widened; he recognized the stance from their battle during the chuunin exam. Neji was preparing for the Hakke Rokujuu Yonshou (Sixty Four Hands of the Eight Divinations).

"You know this attack," Neji noticed. He sighed and admitted, "I don't mean to kill you, but this will weaken you a great deal. Rescind your statement, now!"

"Neji-nii-san, stop this!" Hinata shrieked. She ran in between the two boys, using her body to shield the fallen Naruto. "I don't know who started this, but both of you will end it now!"

Neji sighed. His eyes returned to normal, and his hands fell back to his side. He turned, but before he left, he said, "I thank you for changing my fate, Naruto. But if you do not heed my warning, I will never forgive you." With that, he disappeared.

Hinata turned to Naruto and crouched before him. "Naruto, what happened between you and Neji?"

Naruto stared into Hinata's violet eyes and was reminded of the other Hyuuga's words.

"You love her now, but what about in five years' time?"

"It was… nothing… just a fight among men," Naruto lied. "We just wanted a manly spar," he tried to laugh.

Hinata sighed. "Men and their testosterone…" she giggled.

Suddenly, Naruto threw his arms around her. "Please, don't leave, Hinata-chan," Naruto begged her. "Stay with me in Konoha. Train with Tsunade and Sakura if you must, but just don't leave me."

Hinata was bewildered. "You… you know I can't stay. That would be going against my entire clan. That would practically be going against the entire village and everything we stand for." She stepped back and looked at him. "Naruto, what's wrong?"

Naruto looked at the ground. He was ashamed of himself. "It is nothing. Let's go, I'm starving!" he said as he tried to liven the mood.

"Ramen, right?" Hinata laughed.

Naruto laughed, too, but with less spirit than Hinata. They both stood and walked toward the restaurant. Neji was wrong, Naruto thought. He would always love Hinata, right?

"You don't have to wait for me, Naruto. What we had was enough, really," Hinata murmured.

"Hinata, I"-

"Please don't say anything. No promises. Five years is a very long time, Naruto. You may find someone else… and I wouldn't hold it against you…" Hinata assured him, and in part, assured herself. "Just… don't forget me. And don't lie to me…"

Naruto held Hinata tightly against his body.

"Sayonara, Naruto-kun." She walked outside the gates of the town.

Naruto watched her as she slowly walked away. "I will wait for you!" he cried to her.

A small tear rolled down her cheek.

…

Naruto started on his third bowl of ramen as he sat alone at the noodle shop in the village. It had been over a year since Hinata had left for her training, and he missed her dearly. He was forbidden to send or receive news. He was tempted to go drinking, but Kakashi was no fun to drink with, Neji would just accost him, and Rock tended to demolish buildings after he had too much to drink.

"Still down about Hinata?" a voice asked from behind him.

Naruto turned around. "Sakura?" he said in surprise.

She took a seat by him. "You know, I don't think she wanted you to be this depressed for five years," she joked.

Naruto slumped, his hand accidentally landing in his soup. "I miss her," he muttered, oblivious to his soaking hand. "You should know how it feels, Sakura. You must have felt this way when"- he caught himself.

Sakura faltered a bit. "When Sasuke left? Yeah, I did. I still do, sometimes," she replied sadly. "I try forget though. I don't think he did it on purpose to hurt us, just like Hinata doesn't want to hurt you."

Naruto glumly stared forward and sucked the broth from his hand.

"Come on, let's get out of here," Sakura suggested brightly.

"Huh?"

"I mean it. Let's go do something fun. Just the two of us."

"Sakura, I don't think…"

"Oh come on. We can either both eat ramen until we die of obesity and heart failure, or we can go enjoy our lives a bit," Sakura insisted.

Naruto blinked. "I can enjoy myself and eat ramen at the same time." Sakura laughed and dragged him out the door.

…

Five years had passed slowly but surely. Naruto had become a much stronger shinobi, a shoe in for hokage when Tsunade passed on. He had lost some of his innocence of the world, but he still retained much of his child-like charm.

Five years to the day, Naruto waited by the village gates, but no one but a few merchants came. He sat there for hours, but none of the Hyuugas passed through.

"Go home, Naruto," Shika said as he passed by the gate for the fifth time. "It's late. They wouldn't travel this late at night." Naruto nodded and returned home.

The next day, he returned to his post and waited the length of the day, but still none of the violet-eyed shinobis came. He returned to the same place for the next week, yet nothing noteworthy happened. Broken, he returned to his safety, the noodle shop.

"The usual?" the owner asked. Naruto nodded. He snapped apart a pair of chopsticks and started to eat.

"Some things just don't change, huh?"

Naruto whipped around. "Hntta?" he said, his mouth full of noodles.

Before him stood a tall, slender, young woman with long black hair tied into a ponytail. She stood more erect than usual, but her violet eyes still betrayed the remnants of her self-consciousness. "You've grown… Naruto-kun."

"Hinata…" he murmured. She threw her arms around him, and the two held each other tightly.

The two walked around the village, and Hinata greeted old friends as she mused at the changes of her old home. The two talked things that passed in five years and reminisced on the old. Hinata paused and looked around.

"The swing set in front of the school," she noticed. "Where we…" She paused and looked at Naruto. "I…I missed you."

"I missed you, too," he said. He hesitated and added. "I waited for you."

"Naruto…I told you not to…" she tried to scold him. Her words quickly faded as he cupped her chin and kissed her.

…

Hinata gaily strolled through the streets of Konoha while she shopped for the dinner that she was to prepare for her and Naruto that night. She passed by the school and smiled, when she noticed two people by the swings. She crouched behind a bench and tried to take a closer look.

"Byakugan," she called. She gasped.

It was Naruto and Sakura. They were kissing.

Hinata dropped all of her bags and ran home. He had lied to her. He had lied about everything. He didn't love her. He had never loved her. He had always loved Sakura. How could he do this? How could he blatantly lie to her? Worse – how could he kiss another girl in THEIR special spot?

He would soon be arriving. How could she face him? Then she thought, how dare he face her. Her anger began to grow.

She would deal with him tonight.

---

"How could you lie to me like this, Naruto?" She struck him hard. "I would have given you everything!" She struck him again. "I practically gave you everything!" Hinata shrieked.

"Hinata, please listen to me. I know I should have told you about Sakura, but I didn't want to hurt you," Naruto said.

Hinata seethed. "You have hurt me, more than you'll ever know."

"Hinata, just listen to me," Naruto implored. He tackled her to the floor and pinioned her arms to the ground.

She writhed and struggled to break free, but he was still the stronger by far. "Why? So I can hear more of your lies?"

"Because I love you."

She spat in his face. "Big mistake." She disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Naruto's eyes widened. "A shadow clone? When did she …?"

He stood and turned around. Just as he was off balance, he felt Hinata strike him in the chest with her Gentle Fist, sending him flying back into the ground. She took a loose stance and smiled wickedly.

"Neji-nii-san taught me a few things in my five years away. I haven't perfect it as he has, but it will be effective, all the same. I'm sure you'll recognize this move," she said with a smirk. She flew at him, making direct hits at his Tenketsu. "1…2…3…"

Naruto was helpless against the 360° attack. "Gods, what have I done?" he asked himself silently.

"10...11…12…"

"I would wait for you until the end of time…"

"25…26…"

"I love her, Neji. How dare you accuse me of trying to hurt her"

"32…33…34…35…"

"You love her now, but what about in five years' time?"

"39…41…42…43…"

"I will wait for you!"

"50…51…"

"I waited for you."

"64!"

Naruto felt his body slowly soar through the air. "I'm… sorry… Hinata-chan…" He landed on the hard stone floor, and he swore he felt every bone in his body break. He winced and listened as Hinata slowly walked towards his limp body.

"It would be pretty easy to kill you right about now. But you need to become the damn Hokage, and I'm all about living for the good of the village," Hinata spat. She regarded him carefully. "But this is just too easy."

She threw her fist down at his face. Naruto closed his eyes and waited for the impact…

-TBC-

A/N: Will Hinata decimate Naruto? Will he conjure another miracle? Who knows. We'll see in the next chapter… if I even HAVE a next chapter!