Summary: A series of one-shots featuring Uchiha Itachi babysitting the Hyuuga Heiress.

The Hyuuga all wore plain black kimono and yukata to the funeral of Hyuuga Youko.

Hyuuga Youko was not only Hiashi and Hizashi's mother, but also the previous Hyuuga Clan Head, in her lifetime, she fought in the first and second Shinobi World Wars and was the third female Hyuuga leader. Her connections were vast and spanned beyond the borders of Hi no Kuni.

Like all children born to rule the Hyuuga, Youko's name contained reference to the Sun, "Child of the Sun."

Hiashi's name meant "Position of the Sun," or "Day time" depending on the translator, and Hinata's name was synonymous with Hyuuga, "Place in the Sun."

All high ranking officials and Clan Leaders were present at the funeral and even the Daimyo of Cha no Kuni and Hi no Kuni.

As it was such an occasion, even Uchiha Itachi wouldn't claim ANBU duties to skip out on the funeral.

Currently, Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto were having polite talk with the Daimyo of Hi no Kuni and scheduling time to talk about matters concerning the Uchiha Clan at a later date.

Itachi then noticed the Hyuuga Heiress.

Unlike other times he's seen the girl, she wasn't blushing, stammering, nervously poking her fingers, or even crying (in fact, he hadn't seen any Hyuuga cry, let alone tear up).

This was quite a surprise, considering the boy standing next to her usually boldly glared daggers at her, though admittedly he never outright showed disrespect to her, he simply glared and shunned.

Perking his interest enough, Itachi excused himself and walked over to the two Hyuuga and said, "My condolences on your loss."

"Tha-thank you for your concern and support at this time Uchiha-san," Hinata whispered.

"Hn," Neji replied.

"I go to class with your brother, Sasuke," Hinata said, slightly surprising the three of them due to her lack of stutter.

"Yes," Itachi said after a pause, "He is with my mother's mother."

"Well," Neji said, cutting off the conversation, "It was nice talking with you."

Itachi didn't pause at the dismissal and found it almost disrespectful... Hopefully the Hyuugas would correct that soon.

What Itachi didn't hear was Neji's next harsh whisper to Hinata, "Don't associate with the Uchihas."

"Neji-nii-san," Hinata whispered back, "Are you showing concern?"

"Hn," Neji reverted back to his icy persona.

Hinata fought back the joy, it was not proper to show happyness or glee at a funeral.

Translation:

Hi no Kuni - Fire Country or Land of Fire (Where Konoha is)

Daimyo - Feudal Lord

Cha no Kuni - Tea Country or Land of Tea