Chapter 2

Here is a new chapter, I promise to better myself with the updates, you can expect one every week, Im sorry! I hope this story is not crap so please review so I know!!!:D

After the meeting.

The last Uchiha was wandering through the streets of Konoha for the first time in years as a free man, well as free as you can be when you have to have a guard following you around constantly. He turned his head a little bit to the side to see that his old sensei was still following him while reading his orange perverted book. He kept walking through the streets of Konoha, passing the academy which was one of the few places in Konoha he actually still felt a small connection to. He remembered sitting in one of the bigger trees hiding from fangirls and thinking about how to become a stronger ninja to finally beat his brother.

He continued walking through the streets, his thought back to his brother and all events that had shaped him, making him the man he was today. He realised that if it weren't for his brother then he would not be in the situation he is in right now. While he though this he looked back at the man following him again, and remembered the odd scene that had displayed itself in the Hokage's tower less then an hour ago.

"Sasuke-teme" the dobe spoke. That one moment just froze for him while just looking up at his former best friend. Sasuke was vaguely aware of that Sakura had just fainted and a girl looking oddly familiar was now worrying about his old team mate. After a few seconds that seemed like eternity Tsunade seemed to start moving again and pulled Naruto roughly out of her office, he saw that the pink-haired kunoichi had just been carried away by one of the guards who were always present at the office.

Tsunade closed the door behind her, which left the Uchiha in the office all by himself. He looked around the room and thought it mildly surprising that they trusted him to be alone in there, he knew there were a lot of important documents to Konoha in that room, and he was half-seriously pondering whether or not he should take a look, but realised that that might just destroy the whole 'coming-to-Konoha-to-gain-back-trust-and-restore-my-family-thing.'

While looking out the window with only a superficial interest, he saw the entire market place of Konoha, he saw the kids running around the streets and the newly made genin playing with their kunai uncarefully. Surprisingly everything he saw, seemed so oddly... normal. He wasn't really used to living a normal life anymore, or ever really. As a kid he had always done everything to please his father, he had been under unusual pressure which only the highest clans in Konoha expose their children to. After the massacre he had lived the rest of his life to kill the person responsible. And what now?

He had only just started reminiscing about what he would do with his life when suddenly a cloud of grey smoke appeared in front of him. Since he had been a ninja all his life, his instinct quickly stepped in, he started searching for a kunai, but to his dismay he noticed he didn't have it in the usual place. Then he realised that it had been taken away from him when the ANBU arrested him. 'Well I'll just have to go the real ninja way' he quickly thought to himself when he readied himself to start a fight.

It was a quiet odd train of thought, he was, after all in the Hokage's office, no one knew he was there except for the ANBU, Tsunade and his old team-mates. Why would someone just appear in the office, randomly attacking? Well, it was only natural for Sasuke to react this way, after all he had been on the run for more then 4 years, always protecting his back. He turned to face the man now standing in front of him.

"Yo" his old sensei greeted with his small wave and famous eye-crinkle. "Hn" Sasuke smirked, laughing (internally of course) at the fact that his sensei looked the exact same way as when he left all those years ago, while he quickly relaxed his muscles that had unconsciously tensed in defence. He noticed that Kakashi even had his always present 'adult' novel with him, only this time it was the newest edition of the book the most perverted ninja of Konoha wrote.

They did not have time to interact more then their short acknowledgement, not that they would have anyway, before the door opened again and Tsunade stepped back into her office with a slight smile on her face..

"Ah! Kakashi, glad you could join us, I have a task for you!" She stated immediately after noticing the copy-nin, while walking towards her desk and sitting on the chair belonging to it. After hearing about the 'task' both men were midly surprised (though not showing it of course) that she would choose Hatake for such a job.

"Your task will be to guard the Uchiha here, all the time. He will have to live in your apartment of course, which is only natural." After hearing this, Hatake just nodded, accepting the orders. "You will not let him out of your sight without getting a replacement first, and this will go on until the village considers you someone worth trusting" She spoke to Sasuke who didn't show any recognition of hearing her. After seeing this Kakashi muttered something that sounded suspisciously much like "troublesme", but Tsunade just dismissed it while wearing a grin on her face.

"Now, any further questions?"

"if the village deems me trustworthy, will I be able to return as an active shinobi?" Sasuke silently asked.

"I don't see why not, but it might take a while before you will be deemed completely trustworthy to represent Konoha as a ninja, we have a reputation you know? Now, if there is nothign further, the two of you are dismissed." She stated, while turning her gaze onto her desk, staring at some document that she was made sign. With this last order, the two men left the office, the younger trailing behind the older, neither speaking a word.

Which is what lead to the two men walking through the streets of Konoha in silence, on their way to Kakashi's apartment.

While walking Sasuke was deeply engrossed in the same thoughts he had had in Tsunade's office, about what he was going to do now he was back, of course he had one goal in life left, to continue the Uchiha bloodline, but even he knew that there was no such hurry and he could not live the rest of his life just trying to reproduce constantly.

Because he continued to ponder about what he was going to do he almost missed the fact that Kakashi had stopped, it wasn't until Kakashi said his name he realised that they had arrived.

They were standing still in front of a four-story high, grey building. The building looked a bit shabby, and he silently wished that the inside looked better.

He quickly examining the building, or as much as he could see from it so far, and he realised he would not really have expected something better from Kakashi. The man was not known for his big preference of luxury and comfort. Rather cheap and simple would fit him. Kakashi had started moving towards the building, pressing the entrance code.

After standing out there for a bit longer, examining his home for the next God-knows-how-long temporary home, he walked through the door being held open for him, walking to a new life.

It was two weeks after the scene in the Hokage's tower, and the news that the Uchiha had returned to Konoha had spread itself through the village within a day. And even though he had been back for a while now, it was all the village could talk about. The girls (especially the ones Hinata's age) just forgot about that he was the traitor of the village and welcomed him with open arms.

They acted like they were 12 again, following him everywhere, poor guy, he had a massive amount of stalkers, and they weren't even getting punished for it!

For most other villagers, even though people started accepting that he was back, he was still a traitor, and many people weren't that forgiving. For the elder he was just a traitor, and the younger men (or boys), were not too happy since many of the girls had lost interest in them now they saw something better.

His most loyal followers (as they liked to call themselves) consisted of almost the same group as the one that had followed him in his academy days, with the leader being no other then his former team mate, Haruno Sakura.

She popularity increased a lot during this time, since most girls considered that she could get them close to him, even though she had the most chance of getting together with him since she was his former team mate and all. She let most people believe what they wanted, not contradicting them when they said that she was very close to the Uchiha due to their team-bond.

She had quickly figured out that this made a few of the more "decent" girl back off, since they weren't ones to be boyfriend-stealers and such. But for most girls this did not matter (to her great frustration), they continued to drool about him shamelessly.

So far none of them had actually gotten any success, nothing had changed from the academy days, they follow him, try to pretty much give themselves to him, while he just shrugges them off as annoynig fangirls he wants nothing to do with.

The thing was that this was giving the Uchiha trouble with some of his fellow ninja, the male ones. Since they did not want to see the girls hurt, and they just wanted him to pick someone, so that they could have the ones he did not pick. Sasuke had to agree that some of them grown up to be very beautiful, not to speak of his old team mate, the cherry blossom. But he also knew that he wanted something less shallow, and that none of that could give him that, so he just dismissed them all as annoying.

Hinata was walking through town, after just having said goodbye to her team mates for the mission, and handing in the latest mission report. It was a A-rank mission, one of the few she had actually had so far, after making it to Jounin only two months ago. Of the rookie nine the only ones being jounin right now were, Shikamaru (he was the one to go first since the rest had to catch up becoming a chuunin), Shino and her.

She was happily surprised when she got the news, and decided to work even harder now that she would take on harder missions, to not risk the lives of her team mates and herself unneccessarily.

After making it jounin she found out that she would be placed on different teams quite often, meaning she would not spend as much time with Shino and Kiba, which saddened her a bit. Therefore she was quite relieved that Shikamaru had made jounin, since she was placed on the same team quite often and it relieved her to be with someone she knew a bit, since she was quite shy around strangers.

Many people were surprised that Hinata became jounin before Sakura or any of the other kunoichi from their year, which hurt her feelings quite badly even though she refused to show it. Tsunade even explained to a few people that even though Sakura was great medic and a strong Kunoichi, Hinata was no less, and even stronger in a few fields.

People just blamed/gave credit to her byukagan for the promotion, but Tsunade and Hinata both knew better that that was not entirely true, she was strong despite her blood line.

While thinking back on her promotion, she started smiling happily and continued walking home to the Hyuuga compound.

When she finally reached home, she entered the kitchen to make dinner together with the cooks. Yes her family had cooks, but she enjoyed cooking so the cook tought her how to make many things, and nowaday she would often help him, or just make something for herself. When she was just being explained how to make the soup a bit thicker, when her father came through the door, which was an odd sight, since he didn't show himself often in the kitchen.

"H-hello F-f-father" Hinata stuttered, even though she got rid of her stutter around most, around her father she could just not help herself, and she quickly looked down at her feet to hide her embarassment.

"Hinata, a main-family member should not be cooking" He reprimanded her while giving her a stern look. "Anyway, we are hosting the annual festive-ball here in two months, I was just notified by Tsunade sama, and it is an excellent opportunity for us to- ", he quickly reprimanded himself from what he was going to say.

"So I wanted to go through what kind of preparations we will need with the kitchen staff." He stated, while everyone started going around. Hinata saw this as her chance to slip away unnoticed, and she quickly went up the stairs to her room. She did not like being around her father more then absolutely required, he was a quite intimidating man after all, even to his relatives and especially to her.

'So the festival will be held here, I wonder who will come?' She quietly thought to herself, getting quite excited when she thought about the fact that she had a reason to go dress shopping. Yes, Hinata was very different from most girls in Konoha, but she couldn't deny that even she had some girly urges sometimes, and dress shopping was definitely one of those.

Im sorry, I know this is not such a long chapter, and nothing has really happened yet, no SasuHina moments yet, next chapter, I promise! This is because I felt I needed some kind of background info. about how things are with Hinata, and also explain Sasukes punishment.

I changed this chapter, for people who read it before and hated it, I hope it became better, let me know what you think, please! R&R

So anyway, this weekend, next update!