A/N: HAHA! I wrote the whole chapter! And scratched it! So I wrote a new one! AHAH! My computer has 86 cases of FUCKING SPYWARE! SO now I'm on my mom's computer, which has spell check! So you wont have to deal with my bad spelling!
This chapter has a lot to do with Hinata's family issues, I've kind of taken them to a whole new level though…. Enjoy!
ON WIT DA FIC!
Don't own Naruto, should own Naruto
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Chapter 11: Oh My God!
With Naruto and Hinata...
The two walked down the old staircase, the sound of the creaking stairs echoed all around them in the silence. When they finally reached the basement, it was as dirty as the junkyard across the street from Naruto's apartment.
"So, what do you want to start first?" Naruto looked over at Hinata who was still coming down the stairs.
"Uh...um..."
The Hyuuga stepped on the last step, but slipped, "Ah!" Naruto moved fast and caught her.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
She lifted her head up from his chest and jumped away, she was so close to her love, Naruto. "Y-yes, I-I-I'm fine. T-thank you." The indigo-haired girl blushed.
"Good." The blonde looked around the room. "So, where do you want to start?"
"U-uh, I-I-I don't, maybe...u-um...we c-could." She hated herself for not being able to say anything now, he'd asked her for her opinion, and she couldn't even say anything. She took a deep breath, "I'm sorry. I hate it when I-I-I stut-stutter like t-that. I d-don't mean to." Hinata looked down at her feet.
"No problem! It's not your fault." He smiled his big foxy smile at her.
"T-thank you." She kept her head down facing the ground.
"So which do you want to do? Move the empty boxes, or try to get to the boxes to do the box thing."
"U-um, we s-should try to get to t-the boxes first." She felt worse now that she didn't have the courage to not stutter for him, or at least look at him.
"See! You only stuttered three times around me! That's a first! You're getting better!" He grinned again at her.
She smiled, lifting her head up to look him in the face.
He smiled back, "You look really pretty when you smile, you should smile more often, I like it when you do!"
Her pale face turned so red it glowed! 'Did he just say I was... pretty...'
"Let get working! I'm starved and the faster we work, the faster I'll be able to go to the store and pick up some ramen! I wish I had a job! Damn it!" Naruto looked like a sad puppy (and we all can imagine how cute that looks!) as he skulked over to the pile of junk in front of the boxes.
"Naruto-kun!" The light bulb over Hinata's head lit up. (not literally) "M-my family has a l-large house, maybe I co-could see if they n-need and e-extra hand around t-the house for some p-pay!"
"Really!" Naruto's face lit up. "Thank you so much Hinata! I owe you one!" He was absolutely so excited that he picked her up and hugged her! (GASP!)
'Naruto-kun's so close... to me...' The world to her went black and her body went limp in Naruto's arms, startling him.
"Hinata! Are you okay?" He let go of her. Her limp body collapsed on the hard floor. "Shit! Oh my god! She's dead! AHHHHHHHHH!" He jumped down next to her, checking her pulse. "Feuf! Not dead! Oh Kami, I can't take her to nurse Rin! I'm already a screw-up! If everyone sees Hinata like this I'm gonna die! So I'll keep her down here and she'll have to wake up soon! Perfect!" He picked her up bridal-style and laid her down on some gymnast mats. "Please Hinata, wake up soon."
Naruto turned around and started working on the chore. Taking glances at Hinata every few seconds.
A while had passed and Naruto had finished cleaning and sat next to Hinata, staring at her to see if there were any signs of conciseness.
Her eyelids flickered open a small bit, but was no noticed by Naruto. She looked up at his worried face, she looked around to see everything clean and the entire basement finished, Naruto had done it all by himself.
"N-Naruto-kun..." She whispered, catching the Uzumaki off guard. A huge smile came across his tan face.
"Hinata! You're alive! I thought you had died on me!"
"No, I-I just fainted again." She looked upset again.
"What's up? You look sad now."
"N-no, I'm okay, I-I promise. Thank you for d-doing all the chores. I-I'd of liked to help, b-but I couldn't, I'm sorry." She sighed. "I'd b-better get home, m-my father may b-be getting angry." She slid off the mat to her feet. "T-thank you Naruto-kun for h-helping me. I'll r-remember to ask my father about t-the job for you."
"Okay, thanks." He was very, very confused right now, women could be so unpredictable. At least she wasn't nearly as bad as Sakura when she was PMSing, Sakura scared him and Sasuke when she was PMSing.(She and Ino would be very scary.) "Wait! Hinata!" She turned around, her eyes were starting to turn red and tearstains were in streams on her pale face. "What's wrong! Please, hold on and tell me what happened, you haven't been acting at all like the Hinata I know." He grabbed her hand and her shoulder, turning her around to face him.
"I-I have to get home. I didn't drive t-to school a-and I am going to b-be in trouble again." She looked at him sadly; she wanted to spend time with Naruto more but didn't think she could let herself live through another beating from her father. "Please, I-I don't want to be h-hurt again." As Hyuuga Hinata blinked, more tears slid out from her white eyes.
He couldn't find another word to say, he didn't have any idea that what she meant by being hurt again was true, she was being beaten by her father, she was punched, cut, bruised, screamed at, and occasionally her wounds were so bad she had to stay home from school. Her little sister Hanabi had no idea what happened to her sister, all she knew was that Hinata cried a lot more.
But no one knew the real reason of her shyness, the reason, the fact that she had no friends or family to be there for her.
He chased after her up the stairs, saying goodbye to Iruka he grabbed he and Hinata's backpacks.
"Boy, kids sure are in a hurry these days!" Iruka laughed.
"Hinata! Please stop running!" Naruto sped up, now he was a few feet behind her, his stamina was better than hers, he'd catch her before she'd get to her house.
She started to slow down; she was only six more blocks away from her house but was exhausted from crying and running.
He'd finally gotten to the same speed as her, not to mention the fact that he had both of their heavy backpacks on his back. "Hinata, stop running!" He panted. "You can't out run me! Stop!"
She gave up and stopped, her feet ached, as did her heart. "N-Naruto-kun…" She stumbled on to the bench.
"Hinata, what did you mean by getting hurt again?" Poor Naruto, left to deal with a crying girl.
"I-I…" She couldn't take it anymore, no one knew about her family issues, the way she was treated, no one knew, but now, she had to tell someone, and Naruto happened to be there for her breakdown, she would tell him. "M-my father" She sobbed as she pulled up the sleeve to her jacket, revealing bruises and scabs of all shapes and sizes. "He… he d-did this…" She pulled her sleeve back down and rolled up the leg of her pants up to her upper thigh where there were more bruises and scratches, some deep into her leg. "It hurts..." She put her hand on a bandage with blood seeping through it, she then sobbed into Naruto's chest, burring her face in his jacket. He was shocked at her wounds but hugged her as he tried to figure it all out.
"I-I'm sorry." She cried. "Y-you shouldn't b-be burdened by m-m-my problems." She held on to him tighter, like if she let go, she'd waste away into nowhere.
Large drops of rain hit Naruto's head, he noticed now that the sky above them way getting darker and rain had begun to teem down on them.
"Hinata…."He pulled her closer to him. "Its okay to be crying, you should have told someone sooner, are you alright?"
She sobbed harder into his chest, "I-I'm sorry Naruto-kun."
"Its okay," He rubbed his hand up and down on her back to try and calm her down. He sighed as he tried to think of what to do with her, he didn't want to take her home to her house if she was abused. He reached into his pocket for his cell phone; his apartment was way too messy for another person to be in it, but he had a solution, to call Sakura.
"Hinata, I don't want to send you home. My house is too dirty for you to stay in, so would it be okay if I call someone who I know will let you stay with them?"
She nodded yes and loosened her grip on Naruto, letting him dial the number.
With Sakura…
Ring Ring…
The pink-haired girl limped towards the phone.
"What do you want Naruto?" Sakura said annoyed.
"Sakura-chan, can you do me a HUGE favor."
She noticed the urgency in his tone of voice and got serious. "Sure, what happened?"
"Can Hinata stay with you?"
"W-what? What happened to her? Is she okay?"
"No, she's not okay and I'll explain what happened when we get there. Thanks, Bye!"
He hung up. "Naruto! Don't hang up on me! What Happened!" Click-
"She said you could stay with her," Naruto helped her to her feet. "You don't have to tell her what happened with your dad."
"Thank y-you." She shivered. The rain now pelted out of the sky, drenching them both.
Naruto took off his jacket and put it on her shoulders and took her hand. "Come on, we'd better get you out of the rain fast.
She looked down at her hand in his and blushed, "Okay."
They ran down the streets of Konoha to the Haruno's home. They ran up the stairs to the deck of the apartment complex. He buzzed the doorbell to the Haruno apartment. They heard footprints from behind the door and the door open to reveal a frazzled looking Sakura. "You could have told me that you didn't have a car with you! Come in!" She stepped aside from the door to let them in. Hinata took slow, tired steps in to the home, stumbling from her sleepiness.
"Hinata, I laid out a bed in my room for you, if you want to change into some dry clothes I have some in the second shelf of my dresser, third door to the right is my room." Hinata nodded and walked into Sakura's room to rest.
"What happened to your ankle?" Naruto asked.
"Oh, it's a long story, but tell me first what happened with Hinata?" Sakura sat down on the couch.
Naruto flopped down next to her and sighed. "Her father beats her, she has cuts and bruises everywhere."
Sakura's jade eyes went wide at even the thought of her friend being abused. "What! Oh my god! Where is she hurt?"
"She showed me her arms and legs, but she didn't show me anywhere else on her body." Naruto looked at the ground. "She was acting really weird when she mentioned her father and I ended up chasing her half way around Konoha from school! She eventually stopped running and told me what was going on."
"I'm glad you called me Naruto, I don't want her back at that house either." She looked down the hall to the door to her room. "But don't you think that her father will notice she's not home?"
"I know, that's why I don't want anybody but us to know she's here, or that she's being abused." Naruto stood up. "I'll go check on her."
"I'm going too! She may be changing and you should never barge in on a woman changing clothes!"
He rolled his blue eyes. "Fine, you go first."
Sakura turned the knob and opened the door; Hinata was asleep in her wet clothes on the bed Sakura had put out for her. "Shhh! Lets see if we can get her wet shoes and sweatshirt off of her without waking her up."
Naruto nodded and took off her shoes, they were soaked, so he took off her wet socks and looked up at Sakura who had taken off Hinata's jacket. Hinata wore a black tank top, her left shoulder was black with bruises and her left arm was covered in more bruises and scabs. But across her left shoulder blade was a large open wound, which was bleeding at the middle; it had bled on to her tan jacket, leaving an ugly stain.
"I'll get a bandage." Sakura limped on her crutches out of the room.
Hinata twitched and started to wake up.
"Go back to sleep, everything will be okay, Hinata-chan." He leaned down and gently kissed her on her soft lips. She blushed and fell back to sleep with a weak smile on her pale face.
Sakura limped back into the room with bandages in her hand. She knelt down on the floor and looked at Hinata's shoulder blade and started to wrap the bandage over her injury. She wrapped the bandage from the injury to her shoulder and down to a new injury that she found on Hinata's right ribs and across her back and to her shoulder blade again.
"You'll need to take her to the doctor after school tomorrow, she isn't going tomorrow though so take this key so you can come and pick her up, and take your car this time."
"Okay, I will. Thanks Sakura-chan for letting her stay here. I'll clean out my place so she can stay with me. After all, she's my responsibility now that she isn't going home anymore."
Sakura smiled, 'You sure have grown up since seventh grade Naruto.' "Okay, leave the key once you pick her up tomorrow. And don't forget to clean up your apartment before you bring her there."
"Don't worry! I'll have it clean by tomorrow morning!" The two had left Hinata to sleep and were in the living room. "So now will you tell me what happened to your ankle?"
"Ugh, okay, well me and Sasuke….."
A/N: Okay, clearly I got into the chapter because it wasn't supposed to be this long. If you don't like the fact that Hinata is being abused, oh well, I like it, and it adds more drama, which I like. So next chapter we will start at school with none other than…. KAKASHI! Please review! Ill try to update ASAP!